Google SMS India 9773300000

Google is now providing a 10 digit mobile number for easy to search and serve various helpful services using mobile in a quick and economical way in India.

For e.g.: Just SMS your PNR number of railway ticket on this mobile number and instantaneously you will get your ticket's current status along with all other journey related details.

Or just send 'reliance quote' and you will get what you were looking for.

The number is 9773300000. No need to prefix 0 or +91.

Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Check out the various other services like cricket scores, horoscopes, facts, movies, news, flight status, local information and so on:

http://www.google.co.in/mobile/default/sms/

Happy 2009

Hello Friends,

May this new year bring many opportunities your way, to explore every joy of life and may your resolutions for the days ahead stay firm, turning all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.

Wish you and your family a very Happy and Prosperous New Year (2009).

Have Fun and Keep Rocking ;-)

Google Zeitgeist 2008

Zeitgeist is German word which simply means: "spirit of the age", spirit of a specific period of history, cultural and intellectual characteristics or mood of a particular era; trend of a specific generation.

I am avid follower of Google Zeitgeist, seemingly its becoming my hobby now a days. It assist me to determine what are people looking for across the World, how an event/activity influences certain citizens of a nation and so on. Google has recently came up with its zeitgeist list of 2008. Though Barack Obama won the US election but Sarah Palin is the one leading 'Fastest Rising' section on Google Zeitgeist's global list.

Coming to India, Katrina Kaif is leading all the way in India specific list. She is appearing in every major section like Fastest Rising, Most Popular, Top searches on Mobile and leading in Top Bollywood Celebrities.

Among all the best entertaining part is Top 'how to' searches in India, Here is a snippet:
Excluding point 5, 7 and 8, I really got impressed with our Desi Bandhu's search precedences :). Reducing (1) weight along with Gaining (6) weight are our top priorities.

You can find full list here.

70% Addicted

After long time this Friday I am free relatively (what a funny useful word which I used today for random works with manager). So I was doing random browsing, reading friends blogs as usual and ended up taking this quiz where Kris scored 80%.

Though I am not a regular blogger but it resulted into my addiction of 70% to blogging arena.

70%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?


By the way another funny thing got my attention there is that you can make your result anything by just putting any number after score in this link.

http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/blog_addiction?score=120 (It will result in 120% ;-))

By the way that 70% is actual result after answering all the 14 questions.

Rocking All the Way

Last time I featured Taare Zameen Par in this blog as I liked it very much and this time its Rock On!!. Written and Directed by Abhishek Kapoor, Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. In first thought lyrics are undigestible but then it flows very well with the movie and strengthens the grip. And yeah these lyrics are unbelievably written by Javed Akhtar and mostly sung by Farhan Akhtar.

Its a story of college friends, flashing between 10 yrs back where they wanted to make it big with their musical band 'Magik' and current situation where they all are somewhat settled with pseudo careers due to after effects of 10 yrs back with concealed desire and eventual fate of making it again.

It was always an experience to watch Farhan Akhtar's movie like Dil Chahta Hain and Lakshya. This time also Farhan as Adi makes an acting impact in his debut movie along with well known TV actress Prachi Desai(Sakshi). Arjun Rampal(Joe) is quite good in performing a helpless guy stuck with 360 degree situational problems. Koel Pourie(Devika) and Luke Kenny(Rob) are balancing good with their part. Purab Kohli(KD) is too good with young at heart performance. Shahana Goswami(Joe's wife) comes out with an outstanding performance throughout the movie.

The story is very predictable at each moment but still keeps an anticipating grip altogether with good performances and direction. Aashiqui's song on Garba night to collect money for instruments and Purab Kohli's jolly dance creates hilarious waves. The good things are no unwanted scenes, no dumb incidents, no exotic locales, no cleavages, no grand affairs or flamboyance which keeps it down to earth and realistic.

Beginning to end, its a Rocking movie.

P.S.: Best Part: "Do not download the music" Buy the CD.