The 80’s Workout Music Playlist

As usual, trying to psych myself to go the the gym and burn those calories, I always end up spending a good hour or so trying to get a nice playlist together. This time I thought I would dive into the eighties and see if I could come up with something fun that would get me going. So here are some suggestions, but please feel free to throw in some of your ideas as well!

The Warmup

1. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
2. Don’t You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
3. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

Pumping Iron

1. Shout - Tears for Fears
2. Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
3. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
4. Missionary Man - Eurythmics
5. Beat It - Michael Jackson
6. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
7. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

Cardio

1. I Melt With You - Modern English
2. Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
3. I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
4. New Sensation - INXS
5. Footloose - Kenny Loggins

Cooldown

1. Breakout - Swing Out Sister
2. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
3. Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung

Let me know what you think. Any suggestions??

Singh is King!

Check out this cartoon on http://mumbaikar.com. It is brilliant. Singh is truly the King now!!

Mumbaikar.com.

DIRECTV HD: Flinsons

A nice and simple ad to bring home the concept of HD TV in the US. Sometimes its the simplest executions that are the best.

Advertising Agency: La Facultad, Quito-Ecuador
Creative Directors: Diego Jarrín, Germán Andrade
Creative Team: Sebastián Villagómez, Santiago Zumárraga, Xavier Prado, Andrés Freile
Illustrator: Sebastián Villagómez
Published: March 2009

Happy Mothers Day

Facebook page of World Leaders

This is a brilliant facebook mockup page by Sage Stossel. Love the end with the Clintons

Facebook group for World Leaders

http://www.theatlantic.com/a/facebookhumor.mhtml

What’s new on mumbaikar.com

When you build a site these days you can’t risk being an island. We have to play well with others, which means build technologies and frameworks that help our site connect with other sites. We have been working hard behind the scenes on a few technologies for mumbaikar.com and some very helpful content as well.

• Citizen Watch - not the brand, but a citizen lookout where people like you and me who live in Mumbai can keep a lookout and report on what’s happening around you. We hope that this will eventually lead to us mumbaikars becoming more vigilant
• Twitter - Come be a part of our conversation on twitter. Click on this link: http://twitter.com/amchimumbai
• Wordpress Plugin - We have built a little plugin that will help our registered bloggers cross post directly from their worpress site. In fact this post was written on deetox.com on wordpress and posted to Mumbaikar.com. If you would like to be part of the testing group and are a blogger please click the “Become a Blogger” link.

Over the comng few weeks we will be adding lots of new features and posts about our city that will help it to become an indispensable resource for Mumbaikars.

Cheers!

Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai

This article seems to have created quite the shit storm. Although I was born and raised in Dubai, I do share his sentiments. This is not the Dubai I knew and remember fondly. It has lost its way, especially over the last 8 years. I remember as a kid growing up here the fun and innocence of this place. All that is lost now it the pursuit of money. I just hope the recession will shake things up and let the city return to its roots.

Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai.

Etisalat iPhone plans don’t make sense

So I called up the Etisalat 101 helpdesk to find out if I could subscribe to an iPhone plan without the iPhone since I already have one. And the lady on the helpdesk said it is “impossible”.

Now bear in my mind, I have an original O2 iPhone from the UK and I also have a Vodafone India iPhone account where i didn’t need to buy a new phone since I already have one, so the same logic should apply here as well right? Wrong!

Etisalat forces you to buy a new phone because their systems or contracts don’t accommodate for this. So by doing this they just created a barrier to entry. Think of all those Jailbroken phones that people have who would prefer to move on to the proper packages.

Here is the real kicker, I have a postpaid unlimited 10GB data plan, which is cheaper than their most expensive data plan and has more bandwidth. I don’t know which moron created that pricing matrix but you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realise that it makes no sense.

iPhone Trek Pics

There were times when I felt really lazy whipping out the SLR, so the iPhone was the closest thing at hand. Surprisingly, with a little iPhoto touch up, these have a unique charm of their own. You never know when a good photograph will come by, so it was handy with the iPhone.

Hopefully with the new iPhone which I presume will be out in June or July they will up the megapixels and the quality a bit more, along with video capabilities. Thank god for the 4 track app I purchased, got a lot of interesting street sounds and singing from the local Rajasthani musicians

The Last Leg

After a fairly eventful two weeks of backpacking, the trip is now coming to an end. Decided to pamper myself a bit by checking into The Park Hotel off Connaught place. I could really do with fresh bedsheets and a fluffy mattress! Hope it lives up to the billing.