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Cycovision
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Happy Diwali everyone! 
I'm really excited, my GF and I are off to the travel agents later today to book our flights to India. We're going in December for three months this time, I can't wait
Looks like we're going to be spending a few days in Mumbai this time, we've never been out of the airport before so I was wondering if anyone can recommend some good places to visit? Good bars and restaurants? cheap (but comfortable!) hotels?
Thanks guys 
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Evil Eye
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Happy Diwali everyone 
saw the movie Don yesterday, it was 
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sanjcher
Joined: Feb 26, 2005
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i saw alvida naa kehna  
saw the Black Dahlia, that wasnt too good either. hope 'the departed' is better, which i'l see today and also gridiron gang too
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dr_thug
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Hi Cycovision,Happy Diwali and a early Hearty Welcome to India.
am sure one of our Mumbaikars here in SEIR will help u out.
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asfaq
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hi ppl.. jus saw don !! pertty boring movie.. but we turned it into a comedy but passing comments all thru the movie !! lol !! kareena looks hot tho
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sanjcher
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dang no one in eher today
k here are some funny vids regarding 'SMELL tech support'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDBBZyhrSH8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSsRmNjzQCk&mode=related&search=
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*Jojo*
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Gooooooooooood Sundae Morning ! 7:31 am !
Hi Sanj !
The FINAL leg of the F1-2006 race will be in a couple of hours from now, brace yourselves mates . . . will Schumy make it 
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Some F1 news:
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Raikkonen to end McLaren's Finnish era
21 October 2006
After five seasons, 11 pole positions and nine wins, this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix will be Kimi Raikkonen’s last race outing for McLaren. Next season Raikkonen will head to Maranello to join Felipe Massa at Ferrari as Michael Schumacher’s replacement. But how will the Finn’s time at McLaren be remembered?
Raikkonen caught McLaren’s attention during his debut season with Sauber in 2001. A karting graduate, he had won the British Renault series in 2000 and after several successful Sauber tests unexpectedly landed a race drive with the Swiss team. Given he had only made 23 single-seater race starts prior to his Grand Prix debut, many questioned the FIA’s wisdom in granting such an inexperienced driver a Super License. From the outset, however, Raikkonen’s pace and consistency won favour and before the year was out he had scored nine championship points and the admiration of the paddock.
With Mika Hakkinen about to retire, McLaren boss Ron Dennis was on the look out for a driver capable of replacing the two-time world champion, and swiftly signed up Raikkonen on a lengthy five-year contract. Dennis had enjoyed a particularly close and fruitful relationship with Hakkinen, so it came as no surprise that he selected another Scandinavian to take the place of his original ‘Flying Finn’. But would Raikkonen really be able to fill Hakkinen’s shoes?
Dennis’s high hopes boosted the young driver’s confidence and his first season with the team was a considerable success. Neither he nor team mate David Coulthard won a race but Raikkonen scored four podium finishes and 24 championship points, despite 10 retirements. Although Coulthard - a McLaren veteran of six years - ended the season with almost double the points of his less experienced partner, Raikkonen outclassed the Scot in qualifying and singled himself out as a future contender.
In 2003, Raikkonen enjoyed his first taste of victory in Malaysia. The win was shored up by a further ten podiums and he ended the season just two points shy of upsetting Michael Schumacher’s run of drivers’ titles. It seemed that Raikkonen was indeed the new Hakkinen. But reliability problems hit the team in 2004 and made for a disappointing season. In the three opening races, Raikkonen suffered successive retirements but a pole position at Silverstone and a dominant victory in the Belgian Grand Prix reaffirmed his ability and put the fading Coulthard still further in the shade.
The Scot’s exit in 2005 marked the arrival of Juan Pablo Montoya at McLaren, but like Coulthard before him, the Colombian would generally fail to match Raikkonen’s form. After a bleak start to the season, again marred by poor reliability, the team gradually gained momentum and Raikkonen ultimately enjoyed five poles, five podiums and seven wins. But despite the team’s domination of the latter races, Renault and Fernando Alonso retained the edge in the title chase, leaving the Finn to finish runner-up for a second time in three years.
It was a bitter blow for Raikkonen and perhaps no coincidence that soon after rumours began to surface of a possible move to Ferrari. His partying away from the cockpit - increasingly seized upon by the media - never quite seemed to gel with the grey formality of McLaren and, with Fernando Alonso confirmed by the team for 2007, many began predicting that Raikkonen future may indeed lie elsewhere.
Not that the speculation affected his driving, which this season has remained as determined and consistent as ever. Montoya’s unscheduled exit and Pedro de la Rosa’s swift promotion in July did little to ruffle Raikkonen’s feathers and he has scored in every race he has finished. However, he has also retired six times and - with his Ferrari deal now safely confirmed - lies only fifth in the drivers’ championship. This weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix is his last chance to go out on a high for McLaren, but the team’s recent form suggests it’s unlikely.
Whatever happens at Interlagos on Sunday, Raikkonen’s time with McLaren will ultimately be remembered as one of frustration. After narrowly losing out on the championship twice, he has yet to prove himself the equal of either Schumacher or Alonso - something many believe he is. Others will insist you make your own luck in Formula One racing and that perhaps his poor fortunes with McLaren were as much to do with his driving style as any frailties in the car. Either way, the move to Ferrari signals a fresh start for the Finn - and hopefully the chance for us all to discover just how great he really is.
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So, it's Felipe Massa on the Pole position in Brazil
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Pole and P10 for Ferrari in Brazil
...while McLaren and Toyota outpace the Renaults
21 October 2006
Felipe Massa is on pole position for his home Grand Prix, but qualifying was no cause for celebration for Ferrari, as Michael Schumacher will start only 10th on the grid in his final race - one he must win if he is to stand any chance of leaving with an eighth world title.
All morning, and all through the first two sessions of qualifying, Ferrari seemed a shoe-in for the front row of the grid, as Schumacher and Massa traded fastest times. But when the cars streamed out for the final session, Schumacher’s stammered and banged its way round its sole lap with a fuel feed problem, before heading to the pits where it remained.
“I was lucky to get a tow from Nick (Heidfeld),” Massa said after his lap of 1m 10.680s, “but in any case it was a great lap and it’s fantastic to be on pole at my home GP. The car is just fantastic and the tyres were working really well with sunshine. It was fantastic to see people around waving their hands, to hear them screaming. The Brazilian people are very hot about F1!”
While he celebrated, however, Schumacher had a long face, surely proof that he had not really conceded his drivers’ title hopes at all. The fuel problem ruined his chances, and dropped him immediately to 10th place on the grid.
Between the two Ferraris there are plenty of fast cars, the one driven by his arch-rival, Fernando Alonso, in fourth place after the Spaniard’s best lap of 1m 11.567s for Renault. He is separated from Massa by Kimi Raikkonen, who was very pleased as his McLaren just got better and better and enabled him to lap in 1m 11.299s; and Jarno Trulli who was equally happy with the performance of his Toyota in qualifying third with 1m 11.328s. With Ralf Schumacher seventh on 1m 11.695s, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld (1m 11.882s) and Robert Kubica (1m 12.131s), the battle for fifth place in the constructors’ championship is as hot as that between Renault and Ferrari for overall honours.
After Jenson Button had traction control problems and failed to get through the second session, Rubens Barrichello gave his countrymen something more to cheer by taking fifth place for Honda in 1m 11.619s, just ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella in the second Renault on 1m 11.629s.
It remains to be seen who was running what fuel load, but with Schumacher having to fight through to the front, there is going to be plenty of action in the upper part of the field tomorrow.
Behind the front five rows, Mark Webber will share row six with Pedro de la Rosa. The Williams driver lapped in 1m 11.650s, the McLaren pilot in 1m 11.658s. Nico Rosberg is 13th on 1m 11.679s in the other Williams, with the unhappy Button 14th on 1m 11.742s.
Robert Doornbos was 15th with 1m 12.591s but his Red Bull drops to the back because of his engine penalty, so Tonio Liuzzi will take that position after lapping his Toro Rosso in 1m 12.861s. Team mate Scott Speed will be alongside him, after a mere 0.001s separated them in the first session, the Italian getting through to Q2 at the American’s expense.
Behind them, Christijan Albers is 17th on 1m 13.138s for Spyker MF1, whose other car will share the back row with Doornbos after Tiago Monteiro spun on his first flying lap and failed to record a time. David Coulthard is 18th in his Red Bull on 1m 13.249s, then come the Super Aguris of Takuma Sato (1m 13.269s) and Sakon Yamamoto (1m 13.357s).
So, the scene is set for an epic race, with Massa torn between an understandable desire for victory on his home ground and his wish to help his team mate to retire with yet another championship crown; and Alonso needing to play a sensible game while keeping clear of any threat from Michael. It could hardly be a better script.
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sanjcher
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more dissapointment for schumi, fuel feed problem causiing him to qualify only in 10th  massa on tthe other hand is first for his home grand prix
2nd place is kimi, 3rd trulli  4th alphonso
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*Jojo*
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@sanj - Soooooo . . . . . whatdayathink mate  Alphonso will take the CROWN later as the Driver-of-the-Year  I'm still hoping that Fernando, will experience a technical problem later and retire with 10 laps remaining
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sanjcher
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if alonso gets a DNF, schumi will drive like a madman to win the race. but heck schumi is gonna drive like a madman anyway, lol
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On 2006-10-22 02:31:36, sanjcher wrote:
if alonso gets a DNF, schumi will drive like a madman to win the race. but heck schumi is gonna drive like a madman anyway, lol
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@sanj - Yeah . . . as it will be HIS (Schumy's) LAST hurrah  Do or Die situation for him now
8:37 am !
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sanjcher
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if only ferrari wud make me their security 'advisor' then schumi's title wud be safe n sound
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*Jojo*
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@sanj - Security 'advisor' what will you be securing then . . . the Ferrari: car, bridgestone tires, engine, spoilers, skirts, chins, helmet and over-alls
8:58 am !
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sanjcher
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no, i will be securing the drivers championship for the ferrari driver and also the constructors championship for team scuderia ferrari
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