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My day job is to run a chemical plant (metal based liquid catalyst), married with 2 children (14 year old boy who is a juvenile diabetic/cricketer and an 11 year old girl who plays flute in school band), wife is a medical practitioner. Like to spend free time virtually dancing with the waves emitted from my transducers, use light to paint on celluloid, use computer as a communicating tool and for self-improvement, be it a hobby or as a source of knowledge and information of interest. In a nutshell I am an audiophile, serious amateur photographer and a computer freak. I picked up the passion for photography from my mom who took most of my pictures when I was in pampers. I have been doing serious photography (on and off, due to time constraints) since last 15-20 years. My first camera was gift given to me back in 1970. The first SLR I used (borrowed at that time)was a Nikon almost 25 years back and exposed one role of film, to my horror not a single one was exposed properly, in fact not even printable. I was depressed and yet made a commitment to myself that I must learn how to shoot well. That is the reason for my indulgence in trying to manipulate the celluloid by using light (borrowed from nature, from time to time). As for audio, I remember the early years when my father used to play music on his Grundig Radiogram. The equipment with Ivory switches and teak cabinet fascinated me. Looking at the black shiny disks spinning fast and with a needle on top of it producing all the sounds always intrigued me. I had no idea why the system sounded so good; today when I look back I can understand why! It was a one-piece system; everything was almost perfectly matched and had the tubes! I enjoy writing about the things related to my hobbies and I don't hesitate to share whatever I have learnt in the process, because I firmly believe that knowledge if not shared, is good for nothing. . Computer freak, Audiophile, Serious Amateur Photographer and occasional writer (on things related to my three passions. My favourite quote from Reader's Digest ''An ordinary artist is the one who can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become, a better artist is the one who can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be, but, the greatest artist is the one who can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be.''
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Reviewed Mouthshut
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Reviewed Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
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Reviewed Tips on maintaining a Sound System
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Reviewed Philips DVD 963SA
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Reviewed Renaissance of the Celtic Harp - Alan Stivell
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Sade's String of Pearls!
Reviewed The Best of Sade
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Reviewed Buying a Digital Camera
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Titillating your feelings with primal magic!
Reviewed Primal Magic - Strunz Farah
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From Flicker to Flatter!
Reviewed Philips 170S5FB
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Reviewed Choosing a Monitor
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An artist within you!
Reviewed Clicking Good Photographs
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Reviewed Philips ACT7583
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Commented on kspv's review
You covered most of the aspects and did it with easy to follow text for a newbie :)
Commented on own review
Well to be honest the best option is to generally go for the same type of speakers if it is home threatre setup. This will ensure the sensitivities and SPL of speakers to be very well matched. If one goes into details than the other aspects of the speakers are also important like timbre and tonal qu read more...
Its very difficult to say which sub $500 subwoofer I would recommend since I have no idea what you can get in your area, if you can give me a rundown of subs available I can maybe give some advise. As for low end, the main culprit is the Philips 727K that you use in your system, it has a very loo read more...
Commented on mbfarookh's review
...is being subscribed in our household since 60’s, first it was in the name of my father, later it was me and now we get it in my son’s name. Infact, I just picked up the latest edition from the lobby downstairs 10 minutes ago. :) We also order various books from RD Online from Time read more...
Commented on Faerie's review
Your entire review was spot on but my personal favourite part of your review was the last portion where you start of saying 'On a more serious note' that bit I particularly like very much. It's very well put and in my opinion the most important part of you well penned reveiw. I thought I'd drop b read more...
Commented on jai_coer's review
......and the sense of respect you accorded to these faires is comendable. By the way, I have LP's from sixties like Ram aur Shyam, Mere Mehboob etc and Waheeda Rehman was always spelled with a 'W' never with a 'V', I thought I'd just mention that for record. Great review once again. Anis
I cannot agree more with you on that. Anis
Thank you for your very thought provoking comment. I agree it was unlike my usual reveiws. I may have got carried away there :) Life is surely too short and I may not even be here. I will keep that in mind. Thank you again. Anis
Thank you for your frank comments. Allow me to respond to the two points you raised. I think you have read all the comments but may have missed out on a few which deals with the very point in detail. The reason I am able to say is that from the time you rated the reveiw to the time your finally c read more...
Commented on maddyacker's review
....with a great intro. I was totally engrossed in it. You also made an interesting observation when you said 'Everything I do' and 'Papa kehtey hain' have the same chord stucture. I like that. The Corrs were mentioned in the comments and yes I agree that their songs sound better on violins due t read more...
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This is a rare dish which I do not think in time to come will get cold, your dish in my opinion will remain piping hot as long as MS is on the web! Anis
I was so pleased to read your review. This is an ideal way of introducing a product to a first time buyer. You covered almost everything pretty well. I always read reviews and get ideas of what my next review will be about. My next review is not going to be on PDA but something interesting for su read more...
I dont know how many people will realise where your picked the title of this review from. I may be wrong but I will nonetheless go ahead and blurt it out here. The song title is 'That's what friends are for' and this is how it goes Keep smilin' keep shinin' Knowing you can always count on me read more...
We are so to say sailing in the same boat as I also don't know many, many, things and trying to learn everyday. On any given day if I have not had the opportunity to learn something new I feel I have wasted my day. As for writing reveiws, don't write because you are compelled to for any reason, w read more...
You are the only one who said I sounded a lil irate with a few people! You know something? You have the uncanny ability to read between the lines. You are absolutely correct in your assumption I was fuming as far as few members were concerned. Some are very good friends and some I do not know. read more...
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Yes you may use the copyright sign in your reveiws, please be my guest! :) Anis
It is an honour to have comments like yours in my comments section, Thank you very much for the appreciation, I also sincerely hope that it may prove useful for the community on the whole. Thank you again. Anis
You do not have to scream when you say 'I agree with you' and how conveniently you cut and pasted that from my review :) Jokes aside I really appreciate your support as always, you always had agreed to everything and anything that I have written here at MS. that, in itself is a great honour comin read more...
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