The Kolkota Mint opened bookings for this coin in August last year. I sent an order on 6.9.2011 and received the set on 23.4.2012. But I had forgotten that I had also ordered for the Rs 5 proof coin with the same order, that arrived on 12.5.2012. This is the first probably that the mint is supplying a coin in a box, except unlike the highly sophisticated boxes that US Mint or any other mint packs their coins in, this box were very crude and home made one at a time. Note the image of Rabindranath Tagore on the inside top cover, it is not even cut true, and also not pasted true. In the end we take what we get.

The Kolkota Mint opened bookings for this coin in August last year. I sent an order on 6.9.2011 and received the sets on 23.4.2012.

The Mumbai Mint opened bookings for this coin in January last year. I sent an order on 24.1.2011 and received the sets on 4.4.2011. For the first time ever the India Govt Mint has used a plastic sheet to insert the coin capsules, as compared to the home made folder thing they had before. The sleeve is of cardboard and strangely opens at the bottom instead of being sealed.

Google Earth and updated images of Mangalore. Got to see it just by chance today. For now just the airport, the rest is still the same old imagery.

www.canarasprings.in www.canarasprings.co.in www.canarasprings.com

For some reason this entry and this entry keeps getting lots of spam comments, and mostly Russian.

We took the girls to see Kung Fu Panda 2 yesterday evening. A thoroughly enjoyable movie which we and the girls just loved. I will still vote KFP1 the better movie I had given it 5 stars. All the voice stars from the previous movie star in this one too, except the new villain is voiced by Gary Oldman.

We saw Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides yesterday evening with Sneha. I had seen Pirates 1 on DVD and had liked it a lot, and so had seen Pirates 2 at the just started Adlabs [now Big Cinema], the sound and the screen was simply awesome and so had loved this movie too. Pirates 3 had a rubbish review and so I watched it on DVD only find that I would have preferred watching it on the large screen. And so nowadays I do not read reviews [especially after Sawariya had got rosy reviews] to watch a movie.

That being the case even though On Stranger Tide has apparently got rubbish reviews we watched it and enjoyed it. Depp thankfully is still there, but the absence of Bloom and Knightly weren't felt much at all. Cruz has done a decent job of filling in the female lead, and the movie goes along just like the other three, with the same thundering background score, lavish backdrops and Caribbean scenes [except that this time they shot in Hawaii, but doesn't really matter;-)].

If you dig around you will find a plot somewhere, but it doesn't really matter. As in the previous 3, this too is full paisa vasool. And oh, both Suchitra and Sneha liked it too.