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Birthday!!!

I turned 21 yeaterday... and like I say, it ain't that different from 20... age is but a state of mind! Parents, Gran, Ahish and Kav, Bhat, BG, Sreeji, Shadab were there... and thanks to everybody for all the wishes!!! :D.. Missed lee!!! Spent a substantial amount of time replying to the msgs today ;) The RCB-KKR match was great fun too... Saw SRK!!! Rilee waved at us, so did a couple others!!! Anyway, tried to do a pilot of the up coming 'Big trivia'(football), but turned out to be a New horizon trivia game... went on upto 3 am!!! Awesome memories from the back benches those were!!! NHPS rocks!!! ... It's given me all my awesome buddies( Sreeji's part horizonite [convert :P])!!! Will always always LOVE that place!!!... Wanted to say all this yesterday, but was drainded!!! Cheers!!!

Mark Zuckerberg

T he Oscar nominated movie , The Social Network, has generated a lot of interest in the man behind the ‘face’(book), Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s my take on the whiz kid and his brain child. When I read that the Time Magazine had chosen Zuckerberg as the person of the yr’ 2010 ahead of Julian Assange, I was quite surprised, especially coming as it did right in the midst of the WikiLeaks storm. And I won’t claim that I was much in agreement with Time or it’s readers… The reason being, wasn’t Wikileaks’ fearless whistle blower act of far greater social relevance? But the movie, which portrays it’s protagonist in black, white as well as the many different hues of gray, provoked me to peer deeper into the making of Facebook, and so I resorted to ‘Google’, the only encyclopedia known to my generation! Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, born 14 th May, 1984, caught my attention thanks to the following : As stated by Jesse Eisenberg who essays Mark’s character in the movie, Zuckerberg wanted, “to take...