My home away from homeTumblr (3.0; @abhiroopbasu)http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/<p>Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 9: The Battle of the Blackwater. </p> <p>Wow.</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23940419285http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23940419285Tue, 29 May 2012 02:09:07 +0800<p>Had to break into my room through the window because I locked myself out.</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23865925776http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23865925776Sun, 27 May 2012 23:49:17 +0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5_v7QrIW0zY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>An awesome proposol through lip-dub. What coordination and execution!</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23853786601http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23853786601Sun, 27 May 2012 17:39:01 +0800videomusichumour<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kf3mOGbd1qkf7oko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Went to buy a poker set and got a little carried away…</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23722156919http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23722156919Fri, 25 May 2012 14:23:09 +0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zeZ8sHsKkkQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><strong>The Great Dictator by <span>Sir Charles Spencer</span><span> </span></strong></p> <p><span></span><span>I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up!</span></p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23626147842http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23626147842Thu, 24 May 2012 04:53:00 +0800charlie chaplincomedyvideospeech<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9283706/Jonathan-Ive-simplicity-isnt-simple.html">Jonathan Ive: simplicity isn't simple - Telegraph</a>: <p>Even Ive hates some of Apple’s UI choices: <span>When I mention the fake stitching, Ive offers a wince but it’s a gesture of sympathy rather than a suggestion that he dislikes such things. At least, that’s how I read it. He refuses to be drawn on the matter, offering a diplomatic reply: “My focus is very much working with the other teams on the product ideas and then developing the hardware and so that’s our focus and that’s our responsibility. In terms of those elements you’re talking about, I’m not really connected to that.”</span></p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23617264509http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23617264509Thu, 24 May 2012 02:09:38 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4eokvP5Zx1qkf7oko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pirates? Extreme “log ride”? I have a sick mind.</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23527196405http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23527196405Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00:57 +0800<a href="http://smove.sg/">Smove | All electric vehicle sharing</a>: <p>Awesome project right on our doorstep! Hopefully there will be more locations soon.</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23417176671http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23417176671Sun, 20 May 2012 23:37:29 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4a9efYDU51qkf7oko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Here we go…</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23363095782http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23363095782Sun, 20 May 2012 02:21:14 +0800<a href="http://www.muwci.tv/">MUWCItv</a>: <p>Just when I get started on work, I find a new way to waste time. Hello MUWCI TV :)</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23283718130http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23283718130Fri, 18 May 2012 17:54:30 +0800<p>No idea sorry. Perhaps contact your service provider?</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23233659742http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23233659742Fri, 18 May 2012 00:38:35 +0800<p><span>generalisimo#1826</span></p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23141801833http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23141801833Wed, 16 May 2012 09:57:45 +0800diablo 3gamebattletag<p>Buy it!</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23121395867http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23121395867Wed, 16 May 2012 05:04:25 +0800<p>Which server should I use for Diablo 3? US, Europe, or Asia?</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23121357816http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23121357816Wed, 16 May 2012 05:03:51 +0800diablo 3servergame<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42z6kQfmV1qkf7oko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I couldn’t sleep. So….</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23118679683http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23118679683Wed, 16 May 2012 04:20:44 +0800diablo 3gamedownload<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-han/so-eduardo-saverin-wants-_b_1513845.html?ref=world">Kirsten Han: So Eduardo Saverin Wants to Be a Singapore Citizen?</a>: <blockquote> <p><span>Some people have pointed out that by putting economic concerns over everything and giving up citizenship on a country that gave him his </span><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/12/what-eduardo-saverin-owes-america-hint-nearly-everything/" target="_hplink">big breaks</a><span>, Saverin has proved himself much more Singaporean than the rest of us. </span></p> </blockquote>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23095178141http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23095178141Tue, 15 May 2012 16:21:04 +0800facebooksaverin<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tali_sharot_the_optimism_bias.html">Tali Sharot: The optimism bias</a>: <blockquote> <p><span>Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel — when we get dumped or we win employee of the month — depends on how we interpret that event.</span></p> </blockquote>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23090860647http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23090860647Tue, 15 May 2012 13:33:05 +0800tedted talkvideo<p>Is there an adversity to a smile in greeting or is it just my face?</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23026694978http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/23026694978Mon, 14 May 2012 14:11:11 +0800<a href="http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/are-singaporeans-too-easily-offended/">Are Singaporeans too easily offended?</a>: <p>Fantastic article.</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/22986920542http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/22986920542Mon, 14 May 2012 03:16:17 +0800<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/obama-gay-marriage_n_1503245.html">Obama Backs Gay Marriage</a>: <p>Bold stuff Obama</p>http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/22767206401http://www.abhiroopbasu.com/post/22767206401Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:27 +0800