There's a restaurant called My Café Latte in Madhapur, Hyderabad, which I pass on the way to work everyday.  This is a place decorated in the style of a movie theatre, and the most eye-catching thing about it (for me atleast) is something that is perched on top of the building —

Yes, that is a model of a Xenomorph (Alien) from the Alien movie quadrilogy!  I've been meaning to take a picture of this ever since I saw it about a month back, and managed to get one yesterday.  I've not actually been inside this place but I'm determined to go there some time, just for the fact that they have an Alien on top of their building!  Here's a closeup if you're not able to make out the creature clearly (everybody say with me now in their best Lance Henriksen voice, "it's a magnificent specimen!") —

Yes, they mostly come at night.  Mostly.  I've been a big fan of the Alien series since the mid-90s, first saw the trilogy on TV — Ridley Scott's Alien is an undisputed classic, so is James Cameron's Aliens (at the time, STAR Movies showed the Director's Cut version), and the underrated Alien³ introduced me to the films of David Fincher.  Alien: Resurrection (generally considered the weakest of the series) was an enjoyable movie too.  A few years later (2004) was when the big crossover movie happened (Paul W S Anderson's AVP: Alien vs Predator), and that was a bit of a disappointment, but still provided some exciting battles between the title creatures (looking forward to AVP2!).

I've also read some of the comics (Aliens vs Predator vs The Terminator!) and though I have not read the Resurrection adaptation, I would like to do so now, as it has artwork by Eduardo Risso (an artist I came to admire after reading Batman: Broken City).

When AVP was about to come out, I did a lot of reading on this stuff and got to know a whole lot of background information about Swiss Surrealist H R Giger (who designed the Alien), both fictional universes, and the comics and movies.

Anyway, all that talk aside, I thought this was something cool to show off.  Now I must go to this place sometime, and see if they have any other interesting decorations inside.  Come to think of it, the model outside actually looks quite creepy.  What if that thing comes to life?  In that case, I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure...