Its been long, long since my last blog, much longer than the 9 months (Feb 2009-Nov 2009) it almost feels like a different person . My last blog was during my graduation days when i was nurturing the dreams of going to US for Ms in Chemical Engineering. My last blog was when i had a plan, i could tell where would i be and what would i be doing 10 yrs from then , my last blog was when people predicted it would take atleast 3-4 years for the world economy would recover,my last blog was when it was easier to download porn, a lot has changed, sucked into the corporate dirt life , sensex shows erratic but positive signs of recovery,MS in US dream fading away slowly and a new dream taking birth gradually,. Those who know me might know what all has changed ,those who dont, just remember a lot has changed.
but i guess change is constant in life isnt it ? or is it , how come one mans every heart beat resonates in billions of people-like it has been for the last 20 years , how come one mans success is still the success of a billion people-like it has been for the last 20 years, how come no amount of success,compliments,money -no matter how hard they try- serve has surrogate food to satiate a mans hunger to Win - for 20 years, how is it that for long many talents have come and gone from the team but none of them could half win as much of admiration from opposition as this man has,How is it that man of such stature still faces endless criticism for giving his team mates work for their pay.... I gave up on blogging, i realised my patience and concentration levels are not qualified for regular blogging. I am now, only because i am still in the hangover of witnessing one of the best ODI innings every by any soul who walked on the 22 yards surface , and i wanted to salute that ONE MAN who hasnt changed, who brings a different dimension all together to the old adage " Change is good " , some people are so good that change is bad for them and they need to be able enough to guard the whole universe whose working principle itself is Change. I wanted to pay my tributes to my childhood hero , and again childhood has passed but the hero still continues to be the childhood hero for the majority of the nation. Change is good,but not with Sachin . I am going to hazard an exaggerated generalization- Tendulkar is probably the Single most admired adored and respected person in this nation-across all creeds and religion...Heres to the reason why i watch cricket " SAACHIN SAACHIN"
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Blog
Its been around 6 months since i blogged,not because i dint want to ,just the Indian in me holds me back from starting anything unless you are really sure it is going to be the best of its kind, that people should always like what i write and hence i should write for people to like it . Sick of all this i have decided that it is time for "Change" as the rest of the world is vying. I am writing this cuz i really wanted to , i promised myself that i wudnt care if most of you who read will even feel the topic to be of any intellectual value or if the writing is crispy and funny , so let me see how well do i stick to it .
My 1st movie review( by this i dont really mean a critical analysis, just my experience of watching it)
1)Luck by chance- Unlucky by choice.
Why did i choose this movie ? by chance.
Was it any good?
It is not a movie you will like if you chose to not think or atleast be aware of the bollywood beyond what we see on the screen, which is not a bad choice with most movies, but not this one, cuz the moment you make that choice the movie is painstakingly slow,with the most predictable story line ,which to my surprise hasnt been made into a movie till now, with not much of song and dance either with a not so beautiful heroine and a hero who doesnt really fit the character he plays and hence makes it diff to relate to. I dont really think a lot when i go for a movie, atleast not when that is my second movie on the trot, i am not much aware of the bollywood beyond what i see on the screen either, so i dint get the jokes which required me to think, and forget abuot the ones which were hidden under the carpet and were meant for those under the carpet(read bollywood enthuists). So any other day i would have liked it . Its not that bad, i would advice watch it once it is on DVD or on the NET. Two actors make the movie worth watch only for their performances if not for anything else- Konkana Sen and Rishi Kapoor, watch it for them, the fact that Konkana isnt really a stunner looks wise i think always works in her favour heh she doesnt really has to worry about how she looks, all the shot requires is her to show the right emotion. The music is good and it has same real nice camera work but only in parts.
And because we are always crazy about numbers , i would rate it 2.5/5.
Watch it on DVD or a really good theater with good seats or atleast some color around to stare at.
My 1st movie review( by this i dont really mean a critical analysis, just my experience of watching it)
1)Luck by chance- Unlucky by choice.
Why did i choose this movie ? by chance.
Was it any good?
It is not a movie you will like if you chose to not think or atleast be aware of the bollywood beyond what we see on the screen, which is not a bad choice with most movies, but not this one, cuz the moment you make that choice the movie is painstakingly slow,with the most predictable story line ,which to my surprise hasnt been made into a movie till now, with not much of song and dance either with a not so beautiful heroine and a hero who doesnt really fit the character he plays and hence makes it diff to relate to. I dont really think a lot when i go for a movie, atleast not when that is my second movie on the trot, i am not much aware of the bollywood beyond what i see on the screen either, so i dint get the jokes which required me to think, and forget abuot the ones which were hidden under the carpet and were meant for those under the carpet(read bollywood enthuists). So any other day i would have liked it . Its not that bad, i would advice watch it once it is on DVD or on the NET. Two actors make the movie worth watch only for their performances if not for anything else- Konkana Sen and Rishi Kapoor, watch it for them, the fact that Konkana isnt really a stunner looks wise i think always works in her favour heh she doesnt really has to worry about how she looks, all the shot requires is her to show the right emotion. The music is good and it has same real nice camera work but only in parts.
And because we are always crazy about numbers , i would rate it 2.5/5.
Watch it on DVD or a really good theater with good seats or atleast some color around to stare at.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
I may have toefl today
The time is 6:44 am, havnt seen that in a while on a clock, and the day, 12th june , the year , 2008,the place , Hyderabad, and by now if not anything i would have atleast got you thinking "i hope this idiot has a point to make" ,and for those of you for whom it actually matters, cuz you think you are investing your time to go through all this crap, you always have the liberty to go all out at me in your comments , because as the smarter of you would have realised i really dont have any point to make ,its just that i have 3 more hours for my toefl exam and i have nothing else to do and ya , all you bastuds wish me best of luck, and thnx again for reading all the crap i wrote till now hehe.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The lost world
I am a firm believer of the evolution theory, that the fittest survive and that nature gets the weaker ones to adapt , make changes, to become the fittest to survive, and in some cases, just eliminates them. I would like to believe that nature always worked its ways to get in the highest number of species survive, putting in huge dinosaurs was probably not as good an idea and hence were corrected,there was the predator and there was the pray which always out numbered the predators , there are the claws, the teeth, the trunks , the horns and all artillery required for them to survive in equilibrium with its environment, climate and other species around. It always taught the animals ways to deal with threats around, from time to time . The porcupines were too easy a target, it gave them spikes, the tortoise was way too slow and easy and according to the Japanese, tasty, and it gave them a shell and a not so delicious look, the fish found it too easy to breed and increase in numbers , it put in the kingfishers and other big fishes, so if there is anyone who always had the answers , it was nature, one doesn't see its plans taking shape in his lifespan, it takes generations , but it does take place , slowly but surely , making this world a better place to live in for not just humans but for the millions of other species there are. The biggest threat to this peace is us , humans. What if nature has already made its plans to solve this crisis , what if the answers are on their way , what if more and more animals become man eating, what if even the cockroaches in your house carry venom along, what if the dangerous mosquito bite becomes vital, what if dogs aren't friendly with humans anymore , the cats are more ferocious and bigger to be scared of humans anymore, the birds get way too violent to think of them as food, fish get longer teeth and once you put your leg into a pond , rest assured, you should get your skeleton back, hopefully. Domestic cows get sharper horns and would never let you come close to it , leave alone sucking its milk out, new species which only feed on humans come out, small worms which look harmless get into your flesh and start eating you from inside and before you realise you have lost too much meat to be still alive , what if the small ants which bite us once in a while start sucking our blood out way beyond their body weight and their bite doesnt even pirk anymore , the watermelons are black inside, the oranges without the juice , the vegitables and fruits a lot more acidic than what our tongues can survive, now microbes which can kill from a distance , what if having sex and breeding was the last thing one would want to do and worse more what if sex kills ( has it has already in AIDS)and what if the only edible stuff around was human flesh.
haha dont even try to ask me why the heck did i write this, i have nooo idea, waayyyy tooo jobless till 3 pm daily. lets just say , ' i am preparing for my gre exam'
haha dont even try to ask me why the heck did i write this, i have nooo idea, waayyyy tooo jobless till 3 pm daily. lets just say , ' i am preparing for my gre exam'
Sunday, May 4, 2008
ADvertiseMEnts
Ok this is like a sit down comedy, see i already started of with a pj, and hopefully that should be it, anyways this is a comic take on a few of the advertisements i have seen recently which kind of puzzled me .
1) Newyork Max life insurance
This Ad starts off with the wife coming back home and calling out for , some times annoying loudly , her husband, then she finds him lying on an easy chair in an all so clichéd ' is he dead? ' position so eventually she finds out that the lazy bastard was crashing with his ipod on and she is relieved he wasnt actually dead, and the narrator goes on with how unexpected things can happen and blah and blah.
So now wats the whole point of the ad, does he mean if that idiot had insured his life she wudnt feel that bad? she will actually be happy she has to cook just for herself and she wont have to shout out his name all so annoyingly everytime she is back from her office? ok so if he did actually insure his life, everyday after she returns back will she be like " you ain't dead yet? " ....
2)Another MAx newyork child education insurance or something
This one is another gem, it starts off with a flashback where in a little girl losses a game of musical chairs and starts weeping and her father like all fathers, be it those with max insurance or not , starts wiping off the tears off her cheeks and BOOM!!! a few years later we have our baby loser all grown up and ready to fly fighter jets and commerical aeroplanes, now all this melodrama is supported by the dumbest of narrations in recent times where the girl promises her father, " so what if i lost a game of musical chairs when i was 5 i am gonna fly one day " so unless ur father has ur future secured you are not allowed to lose musical chairs, and even if you do happen to lose it , it is a necessary obligation on your part to become a pilot one day, ahh i wish i lost, ahh i wish i played the game in the 1st place. anyway pjs aside , even from a pure business point of view, come on guys shudnt you be convincing the dad 1st to get wateve crappy insurance u are selling, talk to him or talk through him 1st of all , and anyway where do all these bloody american companies pick it up that all indians are emotional fools so even if u are doing business do it emotionally?
3) Havells wires that dont catch fire , and ad that doesnt make sense
Again another foreign brand who tries to hit on the emotional fool indian concept. hey come on guys, accepted we are a little more sensitive and emotional than most other asians or any part of the world, but you want to use that to sell wires too? come on , and anyway for those who dont recall this particular ad or havent yet seen it , i am talking about that havells fire proof wire ads where in the mother is cooking with her bare hands on a hot pan , the son who is trying to mug sees this and is disturbed by all the suffering and wants to bring this to an end , and all this is happening at a construction site with tonnes of havells wires lying around just in case you know, so the son makes a handle for his mom using havell wires which dont catch fire and the family live happily ever after . are these guys actually teasing us at being sensitive? anyway the ad has some good background music and the taking as such isnt all bad, just what they are trying to sell is too trivial, may be some1 can use the same ad for something more appropriate .
Havells actually has some very decent ads except for this one, that havell fans ad with the burglar and that fatty tied on to a chair, the new bigili ko bachav ad these are pretty decent.
4) Almost all the ads featuring amitabh specially dairly milk
And there are these certain section of the companies which believe that as long as you have a star starring in your ad you dont really have to make sense while trying to sell your product , seriously if u can burn a crore and more on roping in the star to star in your ad what do you lose in spending a little more on the creative director of your ad , that dairy milk ad where amitabhs soul is so in desperation for a dairy milk that it gets into a girl to get one . ahh this is definatly the dumbest of all star ads recently . if you really wanted that girl to make the deal , talk and you just wanted amitabhs soul why pay him crores? hehe , dont you want him to act in your ad?
5) Kent water purifier - its all in the family
This stars the deol family , isha and her sis i suppose and their mom. there are a series of dumb ads on offer from kent.
1stly the one where isha and her sis are playing squash and suppose when a flirt comes across generously getting them some water after a tiresome work out , these girls then look at him and then look at each other and reject his generosity saying they only drink kent mineral water, now wat if he said " yes these are kent water purifier purified water " or the next time the guy comes along with a kent water purifier time hehe so both of them will go out with him, have water and have a lot more kent purified stuff? if thats the msg then its an intelligent ad, the next time you meet the deol sisters and you want to ask them out , get along a kent water purifier with you. and there are a couple more in this series of ads i think, cant rem any of them now .
6) Youngistan. ..... wat?
this ad is so stupid that i really really want to come up with something really funny to parody it and i cant think of anything cool right now, so i leave it to you guys to try and pin this one .
Anyways, if you do find the above funny comment and if you dont find them funny dont bother heh. anyways its not like i dont like ads, i do , infact more often than not i like the ads better than the actual crap they are supposed to interupting . the vodofone ads are cool , a couple of haveels ads are cool. i dont think you will be intreted to know all that, anyways chelo cya , happy summer holidays every1
1) Newyork Max life insurance
This Ad starts off with the wife coming back home and calling out for , some times annoying loudly , her husband, then she finds him lying on an easy chair in an all so clichéd ' is he dead? ' position so eventually she finds out that the lazy bastard was crashing with his ipod on and she is relieved he wasnt actually dead, and the narrator goes on with how unexpected things can happen and blah and blah.
So now wats the whole point of the ad, does he mean if that idiot had insured his life she wudnt feel that bad? she will actually be happy she has to cook just for herself and she wont have to shout out his name all so annoyingly everytime she is back from her office? ok so if he did actually insure his life, everyday after she returns back will she be like " you ain't dead yet? " ....
2)Another MAx newyork child education insurance or something
This one is another gem, it starts off with a flashback where in a little girl losses a game of musical chairs and starts weeping and her father like all fathers, be it those with max insurance or not , starts wiping off the tears off her cheeks and BOOM!!! a few years later we have our baby loser all grown up and ready to fly fighter jets and commerical aeroplanes, now all this melodrama is supported by the dumbest of narrations in recent times where the girl promises her father, " so what if i lost a game of musical chairs when i was 5 i am gonna fly one day " so unless ur father has ur future secured you are not allowed to lose musical chairs, and even if you do happen to lose it , it is a necessary obligation on your part to become a pilot one day, ahh i wish i lost, ahh i wish i played the game in the 1st place. anyway pjs aside , even from a pure business point of view, come on guys shudnt you be convincing the dad 1st to get wateve crappy insurance u are selling, talk to him or talk through him 1st of all , and anyway where do all these bloody american companies pick it up that all indians are emotional fools so even if u are doing business do it emotionally?
3) Havells wires that dont catch fire , and ad that doesnt make sense
Again another foreign brand who tries to hit on the emotional fool indian concept. hey come on guys, accepted we are a little more sensitive and emotional than most other asians or any part of the world, but you want to use that to sell wires too? come on , and anyway for those who dont recall this particular ad or havent yet seen it , i am talking about that havells fire proof wire ads where in the mother is cooking with her bare hands on a hot pan , the son who is trying to mug sees this and is disturbed by all the suffering and wants to bring this to an end , and all this is happening at a construction site with tonnes of havells wires lying around just in case you know, so the son makes a handle for his mom using havell wires which dont catch fire and the family live happily ever after . are these guys actually teasing us at being sensitive? anyway the ad has some good background music and the taking as such isnt all bad, just what they are trying to sell is too trivial, may be some1 can use the same ad for something more appropriate .
Havells actually has some very decent ads except for this one, that havell fans ad with the burglar and that fatty tied on to a chair, the new bigili ko bachav ad these are pretty decent.
4) Almost all the ads featuring amitabh specially dairly milk
And there are these certain section of the companies which believe that as long as you have a star starring in your ad you dont really have to make sense while trying to sell your product , seriously if u can burn a crore and more on roping in the star to star in your ad what do you lose in spending a little more on the creative director of your ad , that dairy milk ad where amitabhs soul is so in desperation for a dairy milk that it gets into a girl to get one . ahh this is definatly the dumbest of all star ads recently . if you really wanted that girl to make the deal , talk and you just wanted amitabhs soul why pay him crores? hehe , dont you want him to act in your ad?
5) Kent water purifier - its all in the family
This stars the deol family , isha and her sis i suppose and their mom. there are a series of dumb ads on offer from kent.
1stly the one where isha and her sis are playing squash and suppose when a flirt comes across generously getting them some water after a tiresome work out , these girls then look at him and then look at each other and reject his generosity saying they only drink kent mineral water, now wat if he said " yes these are kent water purifier purified water " or the next time the guy comes along with a kent water purifier time hehe so both of them will go out with him, have water and have a lot more kent purified stuff? if thats the msg then its an intelligent ad, the next time you meet the deol sisters and you want to ask them out , get along a kent water purifier with you. and there are a couple more in this series of ads i think, cant rem any of them now .
6) Youngistan. ..... wat?
this ad is so stupid that i really really want to come up with something really funny to parody it and i cant think of anything cool right now, so i leave it to you guys to try and pin this one .
Anyways, if you do find the above funny comment and if you dont find them funny dont bother heh. anyways its not like i dont like ads, i do , infact more often than not i like the ads better than the actual crap they are supposed to interupting . the vodofone ads are cool , a couple of haveels ads are cool. i dont think you will be intreted to know all that, anyways chelo cya , happy summer holidays every1
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Who will marry a telugu brahmin
The date is 10th April 2008, supreme court upholds the OBC quota of 27.5 pc reservation in institutes of national importance, or to simplify for the elite-institutes funded by the central government from the tax money of the quotad and unquoatad alike. Now this brings the total percentage of students reserved in these institutes to 49.5 pc , the highest that is possible within the constitution rules , without any amendment. So until the next governing party realises that they are too weak to win votes on their credibility and need some urgent steps to win some more votes by 'uplifting the socially backward classes' the constitution will stay intact and the reservation will stay intact.So that is half the seats in these institutes, and apparently to not 'effect' the open category seats they are going to increase the total number of seats, i fail to understand the math here though, so this is 49.5 pc of what? and by what pc will they increase the total seats anddd what is 'effect' .Anyways lets leave all that aside, i am not here to play karan thapar, and all those who have 'ethical', 'numerical', 'economical','social',and 'common sensical' qualms about the law please go watch the 'Devils Advocate' episode on Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh, he clears all those doubts in it quite enigmatically. I am here to ask our visionary "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" "who will marry a telugu brahmin?" now. By getting your daughter married to some1 with a quota one does not only get a secured future of his daughter but also garuntees a bright future to their children, and what does one get from marrying a brahmin groom? nothing, except the added burden of seeing through their children pass 10, 11,12 and then stay awake with them to get them prepared for , engg, medicine,mba, and by the time they are done with it they have to get him married again, which again as the main point of this blog suggests is tough since who will want to get their daughter married to a telugu brahmin. And for brahmin girls it is even more difficult because they don't even come along with 1C, 2C ...4C packages unlike their more privilaged friends. So this is a cordial request from me to our "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" to please introduce reservation for brahmin girls and guys in marriages starting this fiscal year to save the endangered species from being cut off from the planet completely. please sir do consider it, i actually have few suggestions too to make your job simpler,
1) 22.39 pc all quota 'potential' brides reserved for brahmin guys
2) 27.60 pc all quota 'potential' grooms reserved for brahmin girls
3) 39.23 pc all quota senior citizen grooms reserved for senior citizen brahmin brides
4) 10.7 pc all quota senior citizen brides reserved for senior citizen brahmin grooms
*Senior citizen= above 50 years , and still capable.
And i hope our "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" realises that my efforts are only to bring in social harmony and common well being and nothing else.
(I really dont mean to hurt any1 or be communal or anything, this is just an attempt to have a comic take on the ongoing events, and to those who actually want to know my take on the reservation bill, its as much a political move by a party as any other, i personally do not believe reservation based on caste will serve any purpose but i do believe that not every1 can access the same sources during their priliminary education days and hence may deserve some consideration but that is only on financial basis and not on caste basis. I believe caste based reservation only darkens the very communal boundaries which it aims at erasing and are actually nothing but voting trump cards political parties use)
1) 22.39 pc all quota 'potential' brides reserved for brahmin guys
2) 27.60 pc all quota 'potential' grooms reserved for brahmin girls
3) 39.23 pc all quota senior citizen grooms reserved for senior citizen brahmin brides
4) 10.7 pc all quota senior citizen brides reserved for senior citizen brahmin grooms
*Senior citizen= above 50 years , and still capable.
And i hope our "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" realises that my efforts are only to bring in social harmony and common well being and nothing else.
(I really dont mean to hurt any1 or be communal or anything, this is just an attempt to have a comic take on the ongoing events, and to those who actually want to know my take on the reservation bill, its as much a political move by a party as any other, i personally do not believe reservation based on caste will serve any purpose but i do believe that not every1 can access the same sources during their priliminary education days and hence may deserve some consideration but that is only on financial basis and not on caste basis. I believe caste based reservation only darkens the very communal boundaries which it aims at erasing and are actually nothing but voting trump cards political parties use)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
cleavage is always hotter than what they give way to
no this is about one of my personal experiences, and no there is no justification to the title , i just liked the phrase , i used it .
To all those who have gone through my previous blog-thank you.
All those people who give up on their branch , either because of the branch or more often than not because of their own feeble efforts in making their choice right if not making a right choice start wondering how did it all start ,3/4th deep into the waters already. I really don't want to sound a loser whining about how unfair it has been to me and all , seriously i don't, ya i know my previous blog suggests otherwise.for now though i am not here to whine. So, during one such contemplations the same old question popped up " is it really right to choose what you want to be and do in future based upon your performance in an entrance exam which doesnt even test you in those fields" and just to make things clear, i am putting up this question here just because it makes up for a good debate and on my part i will forward my views on it or atleast try and put things in perspective for may be you guys to give your views.
Personally i think iits at least should have a screening procedure to maintain certain basic standards among its students to keep producing the kind of engineers or people (if 'engineers' sounds way too technical) it has been known to. It also becomes necessary for the students to have that potential in them to survive in a place like this . So i for one think there must definitely be a selective admission into such institutes but it is with how one gets to choose his majors that i lack coherence. Shouldn't one be free enough to choose what to do, wont the best in him come out when put to work under free forces within his concise . But having said that i really doubt if there is an alternative at all to this.Hardly 1 out of 10 during their counselling is even able to make an educated guess as to what should be his major for the next four years and may be beyond. And it is newtons -1th law that if left alone 9 out of 10 would opt for CS and not necessarily because they see themselves as software professionals, so that isn't freedom of choice either. Apparently even the iits have been thinking about this problem and rumour goes that one suggestion they have come up with is to allow students to chose their majors after the 1st year,which is mostly include introductory courses to all the depts. Anyways dont ask my why am i even writing this blog,just a bit too jobless.
To all those who have gone through my previous blog-thank you.
All those people who give up on their branch , either because of the branch or more often than not because of their own feeble efforts in making their choice right if not making a right choice start wondering how did it all start ,3/4th deep into the waters already. I really don't want to sound a loser whining about how unfair it has been to me and all , seriously i don't, ya i know my previous blog suggests otherwise.for now though i am not here to whine. So, during one such contemplations the same old question popped up " is it really right to choose what you want to be and do in future based upon your performance in an entrance exam which doesnt even test you in those fields" and just to make things clear, i am putting up this question here just because it makes up for a good debate and on my part i will forward my views on it or atleast try and put things in perspective for may be you guys to give your views.
Personally i think iits at least should have a screening procedure to maintain certain basic standards among its students to keep producing the kind of engineers or people (if 'engineers' sounds way too technical) it has been known to. It also becomes necessary for the students to have that potential in them to survive in a place like this . So i for one think there must definitely be a selective admission into such institutes but it is with how one gets to choose his majors that i lack coherence. Shouldn't one be free enough to choose what to do, wont the best in him come out when put to work under free forces within his concise . But having said that i really doubt if there is an alternative at all to this.Hardly 1 out of 10 during their counselling is even able to make an educated guess as to what should be his major for the next four years and may be beyond. And it is newtons -1th law that if left alone 9 out of 10 would opt for CS and not necessarily because they see themselves as software professionals, so that isn't freedom of choice either. Apparently even the iits have been thinking about this problem and rumour goes that one suggestion they have come up with is to allow students to chose their majors after the 1st year,which is mostly include introductory courses to all the depts. Anyways dont ask my why am i even writing this blog,just a bit too jobless.
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