My Picks of 2010

Technology/Industry

• Best Applications : Singapore iPhone Maps and SG Buses
• Best emerging product : Tablets ( iPad ofcourse ;) )
• Flop application/framework : Mobicents! ( !@#$)
• Emerging Concept : Domain Specific DSL, way to go!
• Best Blog Post : Subscriber Created VAS ( He he !)
• Best I learned/ing : Scala(Contd), DSL
• Regret : All is Well!!!

 
Politics

• Political Incident of the year: Wikileaks
• Best Politician : Rahul Ghandi (Promising young leader)
• Worst Politician : Awarded, but anonymity kept since many know it!!!

Sports

• Sporting Incident : Shocking AFL drawn, never imagined!
• Best Sportsman : Sachin - Cricket ( Rock Solid )
• Best Sportswoman : Serena Williams
• Worst sporting incident : Tiring three days' eleven hours Wimbledon match :)
  

Entertainment (Tamil)

VTV : Best Film for many!

• Best Tamil Song : Anbil Avan (Vinnay Thandi Varuvaya)
• Best Male Singer : Benny Dayal(Omana Penne)
  
• Best Female Singer : Harini (Pookal Pookum Tharunam)
• Dialogue : Manthira Punnagai 
• Song Lyrics :  
• Vairamuththu (Kandai Aninchava kondai sarinchchathum vanda sarasaram pochchu) 
• Arivumathy (Intha Mounaththai naan unara eththanai vaarththai kadanthu vanthen)
• Best Actress : Emy Jackson (Madraspattinam)
• Rest of ALL the awards go to  :Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya(What an honest attempt!)

Entertainment (English)

• Best Song :Hold My Hand MJ and Akon (MJ fans, watch "This is it" again, you will be heart broken for sure)
• Best Female Singer : Taylor Swift - Speak Now( Classic Guitar and Her voice combo!)
  
• Best Male Singer : Now Awarded
• Best Movie : Inception (Any doubt?)
• Biggest Flop :  Salt (Even Anjelina cannot cure ! )
• Best Actor : Leonardo Dicaprio  ( Shutter Island )
• Best Actress : Not Awarded

 
Novels/Contemporaries/Biographies Read this year

• The Kite Runner(Khaled Kosseini)
  
• Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumba Lahiri)
• Five Point Someone (Chetan Bagat)
• Tipping Point (Malcom Gladwell)
• Sujatha Short Stories Volume2 (Sujatha)

Places Visited

• KL, Malaysia 
• Desaru, Malaysia
• Melbourne, Australia
• Perth, Australia
• Jaffna, Sri Lanka
• Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Delhi, India
• Kathmandu, Nepal
• Pokara, Nepal

Man of the year : Assange 

• To see my 2009 picks Check Here
• To see my 2008 picks Check Here