Well, I'd like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas.  I did a little drawing to celebrate the occasion too, but it isn't exactly what you might have had in mind!  You see, I remembered reading this blog post a year ago, which talked about the best Christmas movie ever.  Want to know what it is?  Die Hard!  Go read the article, the author had some interesting points to justify his choice.  Well, Die Hard being an awesome movie and all, I decided to use that for a small Christmas card —

This was a quick drawing done in ballpoint pen and coloured with GIMP.  I got some reference pics of Bruce Willis as John McClane from Google and used those for this picture.  By the way, the original drawing on paper had his "Yippee-ki-yay" line on it too, but I removed it for the final version!  And speaking of Die Hard, have a look at this video if you haven't seen it already.  It's the hugely popular Die Hard song by Guyz Nite.

Varun also has an interesting post up on his blog for Christmas — he actually baked a cake yesterday!  So the process of making a cake is described with some photos too.  Here is the post.

That is me above, enjoying one of those cakes he made with a nice big mug of tea.  Also watched a bit of Die Hard yesterday.  You can click the picture to see a larger version.  By the way I've now upgraded my Ubuntu Linux installation to the latest version, 7.10, called "Gutsy Gibbon".  Apart from the updates to the various programs that it comes with, it has some very nice glossy and sleek visual effects.  I am also using Pidgin, which is an instant messaging tool that allows me to use my Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Live and Google Talk accounts simultaneously.