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Goa Bike Trip - Bikomaniacs 2014 - Part 1 Build Up

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live” – Charles Bukowski. Normal, routine, monotonous – these words themselves sound and smell of boredom! Taking breaks, deviating from normal routines – rejuvenate. Pushing hard not only applies to professional hard work; it fits naturally into adventurous activities too; pushing hard to re-invent oneself. There is a different world waiting for you to explore. Sometimes these trips, breaks -change your perception about life. Would change the way you live, forever.                                                                                                                                                                                                For most of us 24 hours have become insufficient, to earn money to meet our basic needs; don’t get time to explore beyond. We just work, work and work. There is a huge difference between existing and living. Many times I feel we just exist, don’t live. If

Dead Man Walking

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 Surprisingly this is the first Hollywood movie I am reviewing. That too it came after a suggestion  from my friend Shankar.  Perhaps two reasons for this…     -As I expressed in one of my previous reviews, I don’t like big budget mindless action movies. Majority of Hollywood is filled with stuffs like: Sci-fi movies, big war movies, movies with beefed up insects, animals, and humans (e.g. Hulk), dinosaurs, anacondas (Ophidiophobic!), crocodiles and sharks. I develop severe anaphylactic reaction when I see movies like that!    -Nonetheless, let me confess, I do watch lots of Hollywood movies. My recent favorite list: Captain Phillips, Hurt locker, Zero dark thirty, Mud, Gravity and Argo. I don’t write about them because, these movies are popular and my idea is to introduce less known films to my friends. Dead Man Walking : This movie talks about the death sentence. All started with a heated discussion regarding death penalty in our whatsApp GMKMC 91 group, whe