old school
will farrell
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
fruits of joy
after a lot of hard work and effort, finally two things have come to fruit.
1. the diya 2004 intro video was shown at the isco festival and we think we got a good applause. it was appreciated and i think it was well worth the effort.
2. the website that ive been wokring on since start of october..the home page is also set. it might be a little complicated to understand what im trying to convey but its nice to see what i can do wihtout with a little hard work and will power.
also this helps in breaking the blogging deadlock that ive had for the last few days.
1. the diya 2004 intro video was shown at the isco festival and we think we got a good applause. it was appreciated and i think it was well worth the effort.
2. the website that ive been wokring on since start of october..the home page is also set. it might be a little complicated to understand what im trying to convey but its nice to see what i can do wihtout with a little hard work and will power.
also this helps in breaking the blogging deadlock that ive had for the last few days.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
isco disco :-)
this time's isco's party promisies to be a good one. all the isco guys are working hard as liek th rpevious panels to make is a bigger success than last times. of course i am also involved closely this time although a week back i dint know that. i am doing the intro video and also the sound for the whole show. that will take some effort. i shud have to coordinate with the artists time and their cd's convert into mp3's etc.so cool, shud be fun. though i must admit the vlsi project has kinda gone into backburner.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Friday, November 12, 2004
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
life as it seems
its been some time since i blogged. nothing intereting is happening. i work at avi, i work at lab, i eat, i sleep,i watch movies, i chat sometimes and thats about it. and oh yeah i develop my new home page. check out the preview page.
unless something really interesting happens till my india trip i dont think ill have much to write. we're planning to make a mbvie about national unity for diya. lets see how that turns up
unless something really interesting happens till my india trip i dont think ill have much to write. we're planning to make a mbvie about national unity for diya. lets see how that turns up
Monday, November 08, 2004
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Monday, November 01, 2004
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Friday, October 29, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
arsenal's 49
arsenal has left a mark on me. considering that 49 is a number that i fancy, i have nevere evn thought that arsenal's run would be stopped at the 49th match. beleive me i wud like to see the 449th match unbeaten. but when they got stopped at 49 they are more of a team i stand and support esp after the way manu players have reacted on the pitch and mr riley(the referee) too. the list and link of the top goal scorers and most appearances are in the link. click on the title.
now this had to be blogged
now this had to be blogged
Monday, October 25, 2004
disappointments
arsenal lost! i feel cheated after reading all the match reports from the sites.esp bbc
and raikkonen-mclaren came 2nd.good news is that the winner(juan pablo) is part of mclaren next season.
and raikkonen-mclaren came 2nd.good news is that the winner(juan pablo) is part of mclaren next season.
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Friday, October 22, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
naa autograph
after a long time i have seen a movie in telugu which seems to make sense and isnt bad. the movie, is of course already in tamil, stars ravi teja and few other actresses. it is basically a story of a person and the memories he has with all these ppl (mostly women ) and how they always seem to get away from him. he however turns out to be for the better thru the experience. iknow only bhoomika in that movie. the others i have nevere seen though they have a quality that makes u turn back once more just to look at the face. not beautiful. bhoomika looks good. but he other two have a look on their face that has been well put up.well done director dude.
:)
a smile on the face coz today we also got the usb core finally on the fpga to work.it has sent us the info. the lock singal was giving us trouble. thankfully we were saved a lot of trouble by not needing to go through the process of simulation in the core.
:)
:)
a smile on the face coz today we also got the usb core finally on the fpga to work.it has sent us the info. the lock singal was giving us trouble. thankfully we were saved a lot of trouble by not needing to go through the process of simulation in the core.
:)
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
MANU v/s ARS
The annual spat between the two best premiership managers in EPL : Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson. I am myself an Arsene(al) Wenger fan. But its fascnitaing and the EPL wudnt be the same without these two fighting and bickering.
quotable quotes
amtrak has their monthly magazine for reading in their trains. while i was travelling on them i got hold of this article which has the title " RE-IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL.... - A reading list for history's other leading minds"
i am going to quote some of the names and thier "motto's"
i am going to quote some of the names and thier "motto's"
- socrates (469-399 BC): answer every question with a question
- confucius (551-479 BC): be humble. learn. don't traust fast talkers.
- leif eriksson aka erik the viking (970-1020AD): vatch out for that iceberg! ( no spelling mistake in the v)
- niccolo machiavelli (1469-1527AD) : sometimes you have to step on a few heads to get to the top
- benjamin franklin (1706-1790): never fly a kite during a lightining storm
- sigmund freud (1856-1939): tell me about your mother, and I'll tell you about you
- mahatma gandhi (1869-1948): fight the good fight - without actually fighting
there you go!what do u think?
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Friday, October 15, 2004
Thursday, October 14, 2004
tv /dvd
we got a tv and dvd now. one of the first things we watched is a yankees-red sox game. and also the third debate in the presdential elections. the tv is an old one and we have to find the cable to fix the dvd and also a place to put these. as of now they are on the floor.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
smoke all you can
keeping up with the tradiotion of travelling in the long weekends, we bewaarz, went to the smoky mountains in north carolina/tenessee.
we went to a lot of places. there were 9 of us. 2 cars . we dorve 550 miles each way
highlights of the trip:
we went to a lot of places. there were 9 of us. 2 cars . we dorve 550 miles each way
highlights of the trip:
- we met anjani on the way back thru lexington,ky
- we got to spend quailty time together and know each other more closely than we wanted probably.
- the lost sea (an underground cave of water abt 4.5 acres in size)intriguing
- ripley's acquarium where we saw fish of evry kind and even got to topuch some of them.
- the drive itself was a frenzy of excitement and anticipation
- me and srikanth have only temp's ( so sailu and vinay had to be with us all the time)
- vinay ran into the door of sailu's car while parking.ramki opened the door while vinay was parking.one of those freaky accidents. luckily we were completely covered thru enterprise
- we took almostr 700 photos. of which i have to go thru and sort and edit and filter etc etc before i can post them.
bewaarz consists of: me, chintu, vinay, sailu, srikanth, surendra, ramki,tilalk, ananth,midhun and inthe future anjani. of these surendra and anjani dint ocme with us. suren coz he was visiting friends in NH and anjnai coz he's in KY busy with assignment.so we visited him instead.
on the whole the trip was a success of sorts like every trip i undertake.
the mountains were amazing to look at. apart from the above stuff we also went hiking , camped in tents , eat from a grill(felafel-veggies and chicken-non-veggeis), dint take bath for 4 days as there are no facilities there.and a lot of stuff like that
update: i have put up the photos using banana album at http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/~sbhimava/my_photos/smoky/index.htm
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
rajiv
meanwhile i stayed at rajiv's place during the trip to springfield. he's over at columbus and we got to see the univ over there. IT IS HUGE. also went to watch the movie sky captain and the world of tomorrow.bogus:(
springfield
ive been to the osc technical symposium over at their springfield office. it was held in the marriot. i learnt a lot of stuff and a lot of interesting ideas were presented by ppl at the lead of their respective fields within the fpga world. venki came with me and vince met us there.
the food was abundant.if nothing , i felt that i eat enough to cover my general fees that i paid at toledo. cray sposnered the event. cray gets money from osc. osc is made of colleges thru ohio. and ut is one of them. and i paid gen.fees at ut. so i paid for the food there indriectly. rather a very bad way of putting it.
:)
the food was abundant.if nothing , i felt that i eat enough to cover my general fees that i paid at toledo. cray sposnered the event. cray gets money from osc. osc is made of colleges thru ohio. and ut is one of them. and i paid gen.fees at ut. so i paid for the food there indriectly. rather a very bad way of putting it.
:)
Monday, October 04, 2004
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Saturday, October 02, 2004
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Monday, September 27, 2004
Friday, September 24, 2004
vitruvian-man
thanks to mr. surendra atkuri for finding me the name of this photograph. it has haunted me for a long time now. i have spent oodles of time googling for this picture trying terms such as " man in circle, man with hands" etc.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
2 fast 2 furious
40 days and 40 nights
50 first dates
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
Alien (1979)
American Pie 2 (2001)
American Wedding (2003)
The Animal (2001)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Bandits (2001)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Bend It Like Beckham (2003)
Birthday Girl (2002)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Cats & Dogs (2001)
The Cell (2000)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Daredevil (2003)
Desperado (1995)
Die Another Day (2002)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Gladiator (2000)
Godzilla
Gothika (2003)
The Guru (2003)
Harry Potter And the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Holes (2003)
Hollow Man (2000)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Ice Age (2002)
Identity (2003)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Italian Job (2003)
Johnny English (2003)
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
The Lion King (1994)
The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Memento (2001)
Men in Black II (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
Mystic River (2003)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Original Sin (2001)
The Others (2001)
Panic Room (2002)
Paycheck (2003)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Red Dragon (2002)
Resident Evil (2002)
The Ring (2002)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Road to Perdition (2002)
The Rundown (2003)
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Save the Last Dance (2001)
Scary Movie (2000)
Serendipity (2001)
Shawshank Redemption
Shrek (2001)
Shrek 2 (2004)
Signs (2002)
Snatch (2001)
Solaris (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spy Kids
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Swordfish (2001)
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Training Day (2001)
The Tuxedo (2002)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Walking Tall (2004)
What Women Want (2000)
Windtalkers (2002)
Woman on Top (2000)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
XXX (2002)
Zoolander (2001)
40 days and 40 nights
50 first dates
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
Alien (1979)
American Pie 2 (2001)
American Wedding (2003)
The Animal (2001)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Bandits (2001)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Bend It Like Beckham (2003)
Birthday Girl (2002)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Cats & Dogs (2001)
The Cell (2000)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Daredevil (2003)
Desperado (1995)
Die Another Day (2002)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Gladiator (2000)
Godzilla
Gothika (2003)
The Guru (2003)
Harry Potter And the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Holes (2003)
Hollow Man (2000)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Ice Age (2002)
Identity (2003)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Italian Job (2003)
Johnny English (2003)
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
The Lion King (1994)
The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Memento (2001)
Men in Black II (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
Mystic River (2003)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Original Sin (2001)
The Others (2001)
Panic Room (2002)
Paycheck (2003)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Red Dragon (2002)
Resident Evil (2002)
The Ring (2002)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Road to Perdition (2002)
The Rundown (2003)
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Save the Last Dance (2001)
Scary Movie (2000)
Serendipity (2001)
Shawshank Redemption
Shrek (2001)
Shrek 2 (2004)
Signs (2002)
Snatch (2001)
Solaris (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spy Kids
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Swordfish (2001)
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Training Day (2001)
The Tuxedo (2002)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Walking Tall (2004)
What Women Want (2000)
Windtalkers (2002)
Woman on Top (2000)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
XXX (2002)
Zoolander (2001)
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
trip?
the last week hasnt seem much activity in me. just regular stuff. we played a cricket match during the weekend. the isco tournament. we lost big time. i picked up two wickets and i think chintu also picked up a wicket. i was the man left not out. but i had scored 6 till then. i am still, proud of that achievement. maybe thinking back i should have opened or come one down. nobody wanted to stay. it was easy hitting coz they gave us huge gaps in the field to exploit. i felt like how rahul dravid feels.wag the tail and eat the snail.
i am planning an india trip in december. i started looking late so i dont know if i got the best deal. but i think i got the best deal now.currently.1500$ for a trip from Detroit to hyd and back on emirates with a stop-over at dubai while returning doesnt seem too bad. i know ppl who have bought it for a higher price and ppl who have bought it for a lower price but with a lower airline. this flight wont have any long delays and waiting at any place.not much at least. hopefully everything passes off cool. i book tickets this afternoon. "tickets" meaning anjani is also coming. i almost persuaded chintu in to coming, but he changed his mind last night.
i am planning an india trip in december. i started looking late so i dont know if i got the best deal. but i think i got the best deal now.currently.1500$ for a trip from Detroit to hyd and back on emirates with a stop-over at dubai while returning doesnt seem too bad. i know ppl who have bought it for a higher price and ppl who have bought it for a lower price but with a lower airline. this flight wont have any long delays and waiting at any place.not much at least. hopefully everything passes off cool. i book tickets this afternoon. "tickets" meaning anjani is also coming. i almost persuaded chintu in to coming, but he changed his mind last night.
Monday, September 13, 2004
third twin
third twin...a story by ken follet..i like the earthquake book of his better...where a guy tries to simulate earthquakes in florida. this one is abt gentics and clones. how a guy is cloned and he has different look-alike brothers(8 of them) each of whom is different in character. from faultless guys to majot murderers. the story dragged on a little. i stopped atlas shrugged so that i can finish and return fountainhead.
fountainhead also seems boring once you know the thing abt ayn rand and her style of wrting. sure the story is different and myabe it keeps u glued to it. but that is true of every book i read. this one disappointed me since i was so looking forward to this. it is in the same style as atlas shrugged.i repeat this point to stress on it. i havent finshed it yet, but hopefully it ends better than it starts.
fountainhead also seems boring once you know the thing abt ayn rand and her style of wrting. sure the story is different and myabe it keeps u glued to it. but that is true of every book i read. this one disappointed me since i was so looking forward to this. it is in the same style as atlas shrugged.i repeat this point to stress on it. i havent finshed it yet, but hopefully it ends better than it starts.
balaji...pittsburg balaji!
this trip was the simple reason that i wanted to tick pittburg off my checklist of places seen and visited. its a nice city. the downtown is clean and mug-free. the crowd is friendly and the day we went (sept 11) , there was a festival of some kind going on. the temples are a little away from the city itself. the sv temple is at pitt hills abt 40 min away from the city and the sai baba temple is another 20 min from this temple. the food was ok. nohting special.at least on that day. the crowd was not huge either. considering its a saturday.
going to a temple and getting archana done makes you recall the things like gothram etc. i was in a fix reg that. mom used to say "kucchusa". thatha had once said "kutchusa", i think. i seem to have mixed both and said a mumble-jumble like "kutcchusa". also i dint know my nakshatram(birth-star). though i vaguely recall mine being something prominent, maybe "alpha-centauri" though in telugu.(just a joke).
there were 5 of us. me,chintu, saily and midhun. and one frinds of rahul's called pradeep. the drive was abt 4 hrs. i shudve gotten my license done by now. poor sailu had to drive all the way.
eventless trip but not boring. the one thing kind of bother was money in cash. we ran out of cash and though we all had credit cards, none of the rest on the way wud accept that. so we were planning on drawing some from the atm when i realised that i had a 100$ from the time i had brought it to the us. from the india. we used that. no point getting charged at the atm for non-local bank usage.
going to a temple and getting archana done makes you recall the things like gothram etc. i was in a fix reg that. mom used to say "kucchusa". thatha had once said "kutchusa", i think. i seem to have mixed both and said a mumble-jumble like "kutcchusa". also i dint know my nakshatram(birth-star). though i vaguely recall mine being something prominent, maybe "alpha-centauri" though in telugu.(just a joke).
there were 5 of us. me,chintu, saily and midhun. and one frinds of rahul's called pradeep. the drive was abt 4 hrs. i shudve gotten my license done by now. poor sailu had to drive all the way.
eventless trip but not boring. the one thing kind of bother was money in cash. we ran out of cash and though we all had credit cards, none of the rest on the way wud accept that. so we were planning on drawing some from the atm when i realised that i had a 100$ from the time i had brought it to the us. from the india. we used that. no point getting charged at the atm for non-local bank usage.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
pawan kalyan down! down!
to make a mistake once is forgivable. to make it twice is unforgivable. i made the mistake of going to a telugu movie without reading reviews and listening to friends again. this one was by pawan kalyan(though he got someone else's name on the director title). there is no doubt abt it. i thought i cudnt give a more scathing review to a movie after last week's debacle "arjun". but i have to exceed my extremes and still fall short of this movie's crude level. there was a barely bearable 40 minutesin bewtween which had comic relief for the audince. that part was by the villain and his uncle.
there is no story. if there is one, it is hidden by so many things that watching citizen kane again would make more sense.
but what can i do. i have to call telugu my mother tongue and i'm proud of it. make no mistake. but to call telugu movies my own, from my own, for my own, by own ppl is not very pride-giving. i am embarassed to say so. but its the truth. this is what olga once told me abt telugu movies: "i heard that telugu movies are cheesy." true for all the post 90's movies.
even the most hard-core fans of pawan kalyan will/have not forgive this mistake. again calling it a mistake is an understatement of the infinite magnitude.
next day we left for pittsburg.
there is no story. if there is one, it is hidden by so many things that watching citizen kane again would make more sense.
but what can i do. i have to call telugu my mother tongue and i'm proud of it. make no mistake. but to call telugu movies my own, from my own, for my own, by own ppl is not very pride-giving. i am embarassed to say so. but its the truth. this is what olga once told me abt telugu movies: "i heard that telugu movies are cheesy." true for all the post 90's movies.
even the most hard-core fans of pawan kalyan will/have not forgive this mistake. again calling it a mistake is an understatement of the infinite magnitude.
next day we left for pittsburg.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
non~book time
its been some time since ive written abt a book. two reasons. 1. i havent had much time to read books and write the review.2. i have been reading ayn rand's atlas shrugged. so it will take some time to finsih it. i have read it before so its not a surprise to my brain but it still revolutionizes thinking. ali hasnt read it yet and i recommended it to him just for the sake of reading somehting unconventional. i also ordered foutnain head form ohiolink for further 'ayn rand'-ing.
i will be going to pittsburg for the weekend. it shud be nice to see what i have been talking abt for some time. we'll be going to the temples there and also the city if possible. they have a good downtown and it shud be fun just walking there. i'll take a lof of photos i promise, if i can still hang onto mihir's digicam. also apologies to thise who are waiting for the cedar point photos. i think ill go to mihir's house and collect it from him(the cable).
in other very pleasant news, i received my cd from amazon.com from cdwarehouse. the cd copsts only 2.99 and the shipping costed me around 2$. so i got the title ive craving for more than 5 years ultimately.it has been worth the wait. though im kinda disppointed. but i think the disappoinment is from all the anticipation, kind of. i expected this disappointment before i even ordered the cd.
i will be going to pittsburg for the weekend. it shud be nice to see what i have been talking abt for some time. we'll be going to the temples there and also the city if possible. they have a good downtown and it shud be fun just walking there. i'll take a lof of photos i promise, if i can still hang onto mihir's digicam. also apologies to thise who are waiting for the cedar point photos. i think ill go to mihir's house and collect it from him(the cable).
in other very pleasant news, i received my cd from amazon.com from cdwarehouse. the cd copsts only 2.99 and the shipping costed me around 2$. so i got the title ive craving for more than 5 years ultimately.it has been worth the wait. though im kinda disppointed. but i think the disappoinment is from all the anticipation, kind of. i expected this disappointment before i even ordered the cd.
Monday, September 06, 2004
Sunday, September 05, 2004
cedar pointed?
we went to cedar point yesterday. the rides were amazing. just the thrill of going through was worth every dollar. we took about 6-7 rides. more importantly,we went through the main rides. the top thrill dragster, the millenium force were easily the most mind-numbing and thrill giving rides. the mantis was another very new style ride. you are actually standing through the ride. i will put up the photos as soon as i get them.
the dragster takes you to a height of 450 ft in about 3.5 seconds and drops you in a lesser time.that feeling cannot be described in words.
just click on the cedar point link to see what i mean.
we went to the rides on a bus. about 30 of us including chinkus.it was fun
the dragster takes you to a height of 450 ft in about 3.5 seconds and drops you in a lesser time.that feeling cannot be described in words.
just click on the cedar point link to see what i mean.
we went to the rides on a bus. about 30 of us including chinkus.it was fun
arjun?
i saw the movie 'arjun' in the novi center in detroit suburbs. it was a lousy movie save for a few jokes scattered around. the humour was also provided by the villain. people were actally laughing at the hero for his superhuman ability to fly-kick more than 3 people at once. the cinema could have been bearable if the fight sequences were more realistic. this is supposed to be one of telugu cinemas' most awaited movies of the year and a lot has been spent on the making.this is the state of tollywood. while movies like yuva are being conceived in tamil we are lagging behind in originality.
i think actually they built a temple for the movie. it is a replica of the madurai temple. so the ppl living around atleast now have a temple. what saving grace!
mahesh babu was as usual the guy with a girl's voice. the heroine supposed to be wasnt in the movie for more than a dozen minutes. the hero's sister was played by keerthi reddy. she did a better job.
the best actor in this movie is prakash raj. he plays the villain.prakash raj is the best man around telugu cinema. he is more movies than i have ever seen in the recent times. he plays the father or brother or villain in every alternate movie.
thoughout the movie the hero's name is never said except at the end when he announces his name.if it was supposed to have saved the movie from the fallacies it has commited earlier, it fails miserably.
so much for arjun.
while tamil movies are bad and lousy, at least their industry is making a conscious effort to make better and original movies. our industry is lacking the very basic essence of a original movie. even the so called hits like 'manmadhudu' have some sequences lifted off from the 'holly' or 'bolly' woods.
enough bad-mouthing for today.
in other news, i have decided to make a list of the movies i have seen through the recent years and those i can remember. i am contemplating as to how i should divide those categories
options:
1. language-wise: english , telugu, tamil, hindi
2. genre: action, drama, telugu (ha, ha: now u see my state of mind abt telugu movies)
3. date-wise: as per the year i have seen
4. list: just a long list with no distinction.
x---x---x
i think actually they built a temple for the movie. it is a replica of the madurai temple. so the ppl living around atleast now have a temple. what saving grace!
mahesh babu was as usual the guy with a girl's voice. the heroine supposed to be wasnt in the movie for more than a dozen minutes. the hero's sister was played by keerthi reddy. she did a better job.
the best actor in this movie is prakash raj. he plays the villain.prakash raj is the best man around telugu cinema. he is more movies than i have ever seen in the recent times. he plays the father or brother or villain in every alternate movie.
thoughout the movie the hero's name is never said except at the end when he announces his name.if it was supposed to have saved the movie from the fallacies it has commited earlier, it fails miserably.
so much for arjun.
while tamil movies are bad and lousy, at least their industry is making a conscious effort to make better and original movies. our industry is lacking the very basic essence of a original movie. even the so called hits like 'manmadhudu' have some sequences lifted off from the 'holly' or 'bolly' woods.
enough bad-mouthing for today.
in other news, i have decided to make a list of the movies i have seen through the recent years and those i can remember. i am contemplating as to how i should divide those categories
options:
1. language-wise: english , telugu, tamil, hindi
2. genre: action, drama, telugu (ha, ha: now u see my state of mind abt telugu movies)
3. date-wise: as per the year i have seen
4. list: just a long list with no distinction.
x---x---x
Thursday, September 02, 2004
sing a song
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.aspThese guys made an awesome website. you can actually hear ur song being played when u type the lyrics
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Ind. Day part2
Roni sent the link for the other photos of the independance day.. I am in a few of them too. Im wearing a black jurta with an orange scarf around my neck.
Link:http://www.tfas.net/parade04/
Link:http://www.tfas.net/parade04/
Monday, August 30, 2004
got a job :-)
its not what i wanted. it'll keep me up atleast. im a student associate worker at cyber-fresh for avi food systems. or simply put i work in a cafeteria. it wud be nice if i got a pay raise since i worked there in fall last year too. but im not comlpaining. not yet atleast.
vinay is back today.
ravi left yesterday.
the roommate situation has continued to to be very dyanamic.
though ithink we have a solution here.
me, vinay, vijay and chintu. back to the old drawing board. 4 telugu hyderabadi guys.
im gonna be attending the part time job fair in a few days to prey on any unsuspecting employers who are naive enough to offer me a job.
wow. my typing has improved and i make lesser spelling mistakes now.
on that good note....
vinay is back today.
ravi left yesterday.
the roommate situation has continued to to be very dyanamic.
though ithink we have a solution here.
me, vinay, vijay and chintu. back to the old drawing board. 4 telugu hyderabadi guys.
im gonna be attending the part time job fair in a few days to prey on any unsuspecting employers who are naive enough to offer me a job.
wow. my typing has improved and i make lesser spelling mistakes now.
on that good note....
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
jobs?jobs??jobs???
i have spent the last 2 days (apart from registering for the thesis) on searching for jobs.on campus jobs. i have applied to 4-5 places. i will be applying to some more. somhow i feel i wont get the jobs i want. there is always avi where i could work. im sure michelle would accomodate me. theres a job fair on the 1st of spet..maybe that day will be a better one.wish me all the best.
Monday, August 23, 2004
college..fall 2004
college starts tomorrow....or rather today....it s already 12..im chatting with mom
i have to get my courses changed. i had to take an independent research under dr.heuring (thanks for the help, amy) coz dr.j wasnt in college on friday. now, today i have to hope dr j turns up and signs a form for me to add thesis and drop the research.
amy helped me alot. heck, she even knows my last name and email by heart by now.
vijay is my roomate. she shifted in today.
i watched patch adams yesterday. i had already seen it once long back. some scenes were hear rendering. i dont know what's hapenning. either i'm watching good movies and enjoying all of them OR im beginnign to like verey movie i see without any like or taste.
and all the books too. they have kinda bland now. i wud enjoy a book otherwise.but now all the books also seem to have the same principle. and there is no differnece. maybe i shud read stuff liek ayn rand and stop all the thrillers/suspense/spy/regular kind of novles genre.
and with toast to that thought...signing off
i have to get my courses changed. i had to take an independent research under dr.heuring (thanks for the help, amy) coz dr.j wasnt in college on friday. now, today i have to hope dr j turns up and signs a form for me to add thesis and drop the research.
amy helped me alot. heck, she even knows my last name and email by heart by now.
vijay is my roomate. she shifted in today.
i watched patch adams yesterday. i had already seen it once long back. some scenes were hear rendering. i dont know what's hapenning. either i'm watching good movies and enjoying all of them OR im beginnign to like verey movie i see without any like or taste.
and all the books too. they have kinda bland now. i wud enjoy a book otherwise.but now all the books also seem to have the same principle. and there is no differnece. maybe i shud read stuff liek ayn rand and stop all the thrillers/suspense/spy/regular kind of novles genre.
and with toast to that thought...signing off
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
red dragon
after this frighful movie, the picture in my mind about hannibal lecter is complete. edward norton plays a wonderful role in this compilation. he is one of lecter's victims i realsie. i had thought mason verger was the only one. i am going thru the case files of dr lecter. brilliantly conceived. truly gruesome.matches jack the ripper or evene exceeds him in his cruelty.
this is one of the best movies in the category of grossness+violence+horror in a sense.im ogingback to toled oon thursady
this is one of the best movies in the category of grossness+violence+horror in a sense.im ogingback to toled oon thursady
houses in america
american houses have the starngest tendency. they are made of wood. that is not what makes them peculia. the wood is saggy after a few years under the sun,rain,snow etc:the natural elements.. this causes the houses to creak. when i first landed here,it usedto give the creeps. all the furntire creaks. the stairs groan under the heavy weight of ppl walking. they give out strange noises one per step. the beds...the beds are the worst. everytime i sleep in the guest room of roni's house. evrydamn time i spend an uncomfrtable night dreaming of creaking noises. add to that effect the affect of horror movies like the red dragon which im watching now,or movie like the cell (*ing j.lo) which has abnoramlly abnormal scenes in it. i am happy after i finish with the nite.
Monday, August 16, 2004
smithtown
i am in smithtown. in roni mama's place. the weekend and today monday. i am aiming to get back to toledo atleast or the sake of plyaing doom3. in other news, i cleaned the swimming pool and and also the news that the shcolarship for the masters has been granted. thanks venky for the help and support thruough out this period.
i am thinking abt going back on the wed and recaing tol early morning next day.
till then i will enjoy this place, the big tv,movies, f1, premiership soccer.
talking of soccer, ars was amazing in their dmeolition of everton.also news of chelsea beating manu has been helpful. somehoe though chelski has the better chance of winning i feel the more challenging opponents will be manu. arsenal has the teeam i can be proud of. ppl were supporting manu and real during ars's tough period. i kept saying watch and see. now u can see the height ars have reached. the thing missing is a cl. we stand a good chanc in the next 5 years.
go gunners!go gooners
i am thinking abt going back on the wed and recaing tol early morning next day.
till then i will enjoy this place, the big tv,movies, f1, premiership soccer.
talking of soccer, ars was amazing in their dmeolition of everton.also news of chelsea beating manu has been helpful. somehoe though chelski has the better chance of winning i feel the more challenging opponents will be manu. arsenal has the teeam i can be proud of. ppl were supporting manu and real during ars's tough period. i kept saying watch and see. now u can see the height ars have reached. the thing missing is a cl. we stand a good chanc in the next 5 years.
go gunners!go gooners
Sunday, August 15, 2004
independance day
i spent india's indepednce day in new york city. i was in the parade with the telugu association. i went along with vijaya aunty.when i was told there would be a float i thought the float would be on water. i dint think it was the parade type float used during such days. stupid me! the day was an experience. i spent the day meeting new people and doing new stuff. we walked with the float and telugu community. i got to see ar rehman, dino morea and miss india-america(not that they are significant ,except for arr). we walked right past them and only then i realised that was arr. like every genius, he was simple and i could have easily not spotted him. he reminds me of sachin. he is in every aspect like sachin. quite, humble,freak geniuses in their own respect etc.
the streets of ny were blocked on the 42nd street.thats an importnat street. there's gct, chrysler. i was told that for evry ethnic country this kind of thing is done. ther was also a intl food festival going on. unfortuntetly , i found that out only after i had already eaten subway.
the streets were aligned with ppl and it was an unforgettable experience. once in a life this ishud be done. a couple of things which struck me as strange. no flag hoisting. probably that wud be coz we are in a different country. and also while we were chanting slognas in praise of our motherland and state, there was also chanting for god bless america. while i do not wish any harm to the country or the denizens of usa,i think that was wrong and wud have been nice if avoided. the day belongs to india and it shud be in total harmony for the same.but they are small incidents.
IMP: IF ANYONE SAW ME ON TV WRITE BACK.THERE WERE A LOT OF CAMERAS SHOOTING AND I WAS IN A FAVROABLE POSITION FOR SUCH SHOTS.
the streets of ny were blocked on the 42nd street.thats an importnat street. there's gct, chrysler. i was told that for evry ethnic country this kind of thing is done. ther was also a intl food festival going on. unfortuntetly , i found that out only after i had already eaten subway.
the streets were aligned with ppl and it was an unforgettable experience. once in a life this ishud be done. a couple of things which struck me as strange. no flag hoisting. probably that wud be coz we are in a different country. and also while we were chanting slognas in praise of our motherland and state, there was also chanting for god bless america. while i do not wish any harm to the country or the denizens of usa,i think that was wrong and wud have been nice if avoided. the day belongs to india and it shud be in total harmony for the same.but they are small incidents.
IMP: IF ANYONE SAW ME ON TV WRITE BACK.THERE WERE A LOT OF CAMERAS SHOOTING AND I WAS IN A FAVROABLE POSITION FOR SUCH SHOTS.
Friday, August 13, 2004
LAST DAY AT IIC
woo hoo!!
back to toledo by next weekend
guess what im doing till then: vacation @ roni mama's house
i.e . grasscutting,lawn mowing,weedpulling...:((
naw...jus kiddin' man..shud be fun
happy independence day: aug 15th
i mite get to go on a float
im done here
back to toledo by next weekend
guess what im doing till then: vacation @ roni mama's house
i.e . grasscutting,lawn mowing,weedpulling...:((
naw...jus kiddin' man..shud be fun
happy independence day: aug 15th
i mite get to go on a float
im done here
Monday, August 09, 2004
india
as the monday dies away, i have less than week at iic. i will finish my internship this friday. i told my boss and somehow he was of the impression that i wud be here till the month end. i told him its not so. spoke to mom today. thye renetd a versa this weekend and took rk and family out to shilparamam and gatchbowli stadium and dinner at home. mom asked abt when i wud come home to india. its a big question and it will take me time to decide. i will have to go late dec or more like early jan i guess.that is if i decide to go. dr.j has to give me permission.and then india! here i come!
suri and ramki and ananth have already booked their trips. others have dome so too.
suri and ramki and ananth have already booked their trips. others have dome so too.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
gratitude
this is the acknowledgement from vince flynn's third option. it is very nice.
quote
it is extremely gratufying to make a living doing somehting that you love.it is even more so when you are surrounded by ppl you like, trust and respect. thank you for making me so happy.
unquote
the prelude also is worth wirintg abt here:
quote
avr americans are too busy living their lives to look beyond the headlines and wonder what secrest these ppl may have taken to their graves. among those in teh know eyebrows may have raised and aeven a few question asked, but ultimately a bling eye is turned and life goes on. to seek answersfro mthisdark community is a very dangerous thing. it is the world of covertoperations, a very real but unseen part of teh govt's foreign and sometimes domestic polic. it is bigger than any one person. it is the t3rd option and it is one that is not always used by wise adn honorable men.
quote
it is extremely gratufying to make a living doing somehting that you love.it is even more so when you are surrounded by ppl you like, trust and respect. thank you for making me so happy.
unquote
the prelude also is worth wirintg abt here:
quote
avr americans are too busy living their lives to look beyond the headlines and wonder what secrest these ppl may have taken to their graves. among those in teh know eyebrows may have raised and aeven a few question asked, but ultimately a bling eye is turned and life goes on. to seek answersfro mthisdark community is a very dangerous thing. it is the world of covertoperations, a very real but unseen part of teh govt's foreign and sometimes domestic polic. it is bigger than any one person. it is the t3rd option and it is one that is not always used by wise adn honorable men.
la troisième option
the third option
finished in 2 days. this is a classical cia - fbi - individual terrorist hunter kind of story. it is by vince flynn. a less known author.i had enjoyed the book in a way. it makes light reading for the fact that it is not overly complicated.it might even give an insight into the working of the cia and the govt.
the hero is mitch rapp. he is a terroist hunter operating for the cia only informally. the team orion. the cia has complete deniability if he gets caught. the director of the cia plays an old guy who is a mastermind (he has cancer and is dying though). the refreshing quality is that the hero does not find the ultimate mole in the book. the author leaves it in a hanging way. the hero knows how to get to the rogue senator,but has to chose to do it.
the third option is named so coz it is the only way out when diplomacy fails and military action is not an option. hence the third option.covert mission to kill the terrorists or the perpetrators.
there are other charaters who are vital but are not very noteworthy for this review. like the person who is taking over the directorship from cancer affected. there is mitch's girlfreind, her best friend and her husband , mitch's best friend scott coleman etc etc. the president is also involved in this op very openly. the main objective was to kill saddam's weapon supplier. he is killed and then micth's help tries to kill him. the story is basically trying to find who and why!
so much for the story.it is on the lines of a tom clancy..maybe the detail isn't on guns and the op but on the talk.
on other news....
today we went to see some houses for ramam and then we went to taco bell for lunch. i like their mexican pizza and that's what i ordered.
tomm work starts agina after the long weekend i had. this will be my last week at iic. im planning to go to roni's place after the stint here. rama atta also invited me to their place for thanksgiving or xmas. i have to see abt that .
college starts on 21st. that is another concern. i have to regiuster for 9hrs thesis. amy gaertner hasnt agreed to my taking 7 theses and 2 reseacrch. i have to take 2 independant study next sem, or maybe a computer course or two.
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finished in 2 days. this is a classical cia - fbi - individual terrorist hunter kind of story. it is by vince flynn. a less known author.i had enjoyed the book in a way. it makes light reading for the fact that it is not overly complicated.it might even give an insight into the working of the cia and the govt.
the hero is mitch rapp. he is a terroist hunter operating for the cia only informally. the team orion. the cia has complete deniability if he gets caught. the director of the cia plays an old guy who is a mastermind (he has cancer and is dying though). the refreshing quality is that the hero does not find the ultimate mole in the book. the author leaves it in a hanging way. the hero knows how to get to the rogue senator,but has to chose to do it.
the third option is named so coz it is the only way out when diplomacy fails and military action is not an option. hence the third option.covert mission to kill the terrorists or the perpetrators.
there are other charaters who are vital but are not very noteworthy for this review. like the person who is taking over the directorship from cancer affected. there is mitch's girlfreind, her best friend and her husband , mitch's best friend scott coleman etc etc. the president is also involved in this op very openly. the main objective was to kill saddam's weapon supplier. he is killed and then micth's help tries to kill him. the story is basically trying to find who and why!
so much for the story.it is on the lines of a tom clancy..maybe the detail isn't on guns and the op but on the talk.
on other news....
today we went to see some houses for ramam and then we went to taco bell for lunch. i like their mexican pizza and that's what i ordered.
tomm work starts agina after the long weekend i had. this will be my last week at iic. im planning to go to roni's place after the stint here. rama atta also invited me to their place for thanksgiving or xmas. i have to see abt that .
college starts on 21st. that is another concern. i have to regiuster for 9hrs thesis. amy gaertner hasnt agreed to my taking 7 theses and 2 reseacrch. i have to take 2 independant study next sem, or maybe a computer course or two.
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
bowdoin park
rama atta, ramesh mama, harsha,deepti and veena had come over during the weekend. it was fun spending time with them. we went for a picnic at the bowdoin park. it has a nice view of the hudson valley river. we all played frisbee for some time and then harsha and me played for some more time getting the art almost to perfection. we watched a couple of movies later that day . munna bhai mbbs and gothika. munna was funny while gothika was run of the mill.only thing abt gothika is it has linkin park's behind blue eyes as ost.
today i watched cody banks2. it was not a very good movie. though the heroine who must be 16-17 was a cameron diaz lookalike. she cud be baby spice also for all u know.
photo of hannah spearitt who plays emily in cb2
today i watched cody banks2. it was not a very good movie. though the heroine who must be 16-17 was a cameron diaz lookalike. she cud be baby spice also for all u know.
photo of hannah spearitt who plays emily in cb2
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
anniversary
a few days back amar wrote that he had completed 2 years in the us. well...today i have completed 1 year in the us. i cant believe it. more importantly it means, that i have been away from india for a year now. wow.. its very difficult... missing india... only when we are denied of something we learn its value..
home cooking
mom/dad
brothers
friends (though i made new friends here)
indian atmosphere in general
home cooking
mom/dad
brothers
friends (though i made new friends here)
indian atmosphere in general
Monday, August 02, 2004
sick
last night i was sick. i had a lot of chills and shivers. i haven't felt that sick since 2 -3 years back when i had a fever. i was wondering i had to do get treatment. it is kinda worrying thinking abt the costs , procedures etc for something as simple as a fever or even anyhting major. there's quality definately..but .... there is that but ..i cant explain it.
i was actually checking up on malaria and the symtoms and causes excactly matched what i was feeling etc.
look at this site
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/malinfo.htm
well i feel good enough now to write this . i have not had any chills or fever. it was all like a bad dream. which for all i know it could have been. i always get these chills only at night.i dont know why.
i was actually checking up on malaria and the symtoms and causes excactly matched what i was feeling etc.
look at this site
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/malinfo.htm
well i feel good enough now to write this . i have not had any chills or fever. it was all like a bad dream. which for all i know it could have been. i always get these chills only at night.i dont know why.
Sunday, August 01, 2004
the weeeeknd
the last two days have seen me experience a lot of things i had always wanted to do. some of them were as good or even better than expected, while a few ( i must add very few) have been disappointing.
the most disappointing was the loss of india in the cricket match against sri lanka for the asia cup. a strtling fact out of this is that india has lost 10 of the 13 finals it has reached in the last 3 years. that is a very prominent statistic. maybe a more appropriate word is startling. it means india has reached the finals .,...so it did well to reach the finals..but is hasnt been able to provide the final thrust needed to win... its as if the energy is exhausted for that final thrust from being spent at the pre-stages.
apart from this, arsenal drew with ajax. both are excellent teams. ajax wud be the team most close to arsenal in my opinion. they are similar to arsenal. arsenal continues to not lose even if does not win. so the streak is still there.though it will argued by rohit. he still manu is the best..it clearly is not alone at the top.
coming to the more important things and things which are more related to me directly. i went to hershey park a theme park in hershey, pennsylvania (wow, thats tough to spell..maybe i spelt it rong) for the weekend. it is a huge park. it has lots of rides for ppl of all ages. it is a nice place and the weather which was threatening all week to spoil our fun decided to postpone its inclementiveness. this does sound like an ad for hershey. i will post pics in a few days. the roller cosaters were amazing. ther is one called the sooperdooperlooper. ucant expect how it feels like just from the name. it is all that is says it is. otherwise i enjoyed a lot of rides with sindhuri. anirrudh , sindhuri and me, all of us cud go on a few rides and we all enjoyed it. the music express and the one which round within a round comes immediately to mind.
i finished reading rising sun by michael crichton. im ist say thought politically based, it does have excellent abse to it.i enjoyed reading it throughly.
by the way, hershey park is from teh makers of hershey chocolates...so we spent today in the chocolate world.that was quite an experience too.
one of the fuuny features of today was i forgot get my belt for the trip. i was weraing loose trousers and i was roaming around 500 ppl with pants loose and me holding onto them for the day.
now i gotta get ready for the week
im ready for it
the most disappointing was the loss of india in the cricket match against sri lanka for the asia cup. a strtling fact out of this is that india has lost 10 of the 13 finals it has reached in the last 3 years. that is a very prominent statistic. maybe a more appropriate word is startling. it means india has reached the finals .,...so it did well to reach the finals..but is hasnt been able to provide the final thrust needed to win... its as if the energy is exhausted for that final thrust from being spent at the pre-stages.
apart from this, arsenal drew with ajax. both are excellent teams. ajax wud be the team most close to arsenal in my opinion. they are similar to arsenal. arsenal continues to not lose even if does not win. so the streak is still there.though it will argued by rohit. he still manu is the best..it clearly is not alone at the top.
coming to the more important things and things which are more related to me directly. i went to hershey park a theme park in hershey, pennsylvania (wow, thats tough to spell..maybe i spelt it rong) for the weekend. it is a huge park. it has lots of rides for ppl of all ages. it is a nice place and the weather which was threatening all week to spoil our fun decided to postpone its inclementiveness. this does sound like an ad for hershey. i will post pics in a few days. the roller cosaters were amazing. ther is one called the sooperdooperlooper. ucant expect how it feels like just from the name. it is all that is says it is. otherwise i enjoyed a lot of rides with sindhuri. anirrudh , sindhuri and me, all of us cud go on a few rides and we all enjoyed it. the music express and the one which round within a round comes immediately to mind.
i finished reading rising sun by michael crichton. im ist say thought politically based, it does have excellent abse to it.i enjoyed reading it throughly.
by the way, hershey park is from teh makers of hershey chocolates...so we spent today in the chocolate world.that was quite an experience too.
one of the fuuny features of today was i forgot get my belt for the trip. i was weraing loose trousers and i was roaming around 500 ppl with pants loose and me holding onto them for the day.
now i gotta get ready for the week
im ready for it
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Monday, July 26, 2004
aménagement
landscaping
i spent the weekend at roni's palce. abha is in india, so it was just the 4 of us. we spent sat lazning around and sunday we did alittle work on the front yard. the part of the yard near the drive way had a lot of weeds. roni use weedkiller to kill those a week back. we pulled out the weeds and then put grass seeds in and then top soil. i learnt a lot abt landscaping.
we went out to a mexican restuarant for dinner.i had the chili cheese releno(i think!). it was heavy and i am burping and belching today thru out.
roni dropped me at office directly in the morning today.it was a 3-3.5 hr drive. he will be one tired uncle after sleeping at 3 and getting up at 5 and playing golf the whole evening today with his office pals. atleast for that sake i hope his ranking improves. he missed a couple of rounds in between when he was in india, so he dropped from 2 to 5.
i spent the weekend at roni's palce. abha is in india, so it was just the 4 of us. we spent sat lazning around and sunday we did alittle work on the front yard. the part of the yard near the drive way had a lot of weeds. roni use weedkiller to kill those a week back. we pulled out the weeds and then put grass seeds in and then top soil. i learnt a lot abt landscaping.
we went out to a mexican restuarant for dinner.i had the chili cheese releno(i think!). it was heavy and i am burping and belching today thru out.
roni dropped me at office directly in the morning today.it was a 3-3.5 hr drive. he will be one tired uncle after sleeping at 3 and getting up at 5 and playing golf the whole evening today with his office pals. atleast for that sake i hope his ranking improves. he missed a couple of rounds in between when he was in india, so he dropped from 2 to 5.
Sunday, July 25, 2004
le grand vol de train
"the gr8 train robbery"
i finished reading this book on the subway ride to ny city. ppl were looking strangely at me. i dint realise why till i looked at the cover of the book. it was just coiinceidence that i was reading a train robbery book on a train. no wonder they were a little aghast.
this is one of the best michael crichton's i've ever read. it has absolute best last chapter. it is like lotr. the last chapter is worth the whole book. in this chapter the master criminal explains the way he carries out the robbery. and he also tells the whole world that he is about to escape and does so. it must've made a good movie. i am hoping to see it in the next few months.
the plot is to rob the train containgin 12000 £ .the key is to obtain 4 keys put at diff places. the objective is attained with great precision and care. the way obtained is also explained in great detail. the book makes a nice reading.i enjoyed it thoroughly.the master criminal in this, we can draw a parallel from sherlock holmes. though in a negative connotation.
i must've made quite an impression on the train while reading the last chapter.
:)
i finished reading this book on the subway ride to ny city. ppl were looking strangely at me. i dint realise why till i looked at the cover of the book. it was just coiinceidence that i was reading a train robbery book on a train. no wonder they were a little aghast.
this is one of the best michael crichton's i've ever read. it has absolute best last chapter. it is like lotr. the last chapter is worth the whole book. in this chapter the master criminal explains the way he carries out the robbery. and he also tells the whole world that he is about to escape and does so. it must've made a good movie. i am hoping to see it in the next few months.
the plot is to rob the train containgin 12000 £ .the key is to obtain 4 keys put at diff places. the objective is attained with great precision and care. the way obtained is also explained in great detail. the book makes a nice reading.i enjoyed it thoroughly.the master criminal in this, we can draw a parallel from sherlock holmes. though in a negative connotation.
i must've made quite an impression on the train while reading the last chapter.
:)
Saturday, July 24, 2004
the subway
yesterday after work i had taken the train to new york city and from there to roni's house. the new york city downtown i.e manhattan is connected by a subway(an underground rail service) called the shuttle. of course,i wasn't aware of it. shuttle ,in india, means a bus shuttle. so when a few wel;l informed passengers told me to take the shuttle and point downwards,i misunderstood as to there being a kind of bus service underground. when i found out that i had to take the train to get to penn station,i did take it.only i wound up in times square. by a stroke of luck i heard someone say that there would be another shuttle which takes me to penn. i ran and caught it. i was getting late for my 6:50 train to smithtown. after getting a little wet i reach penn station to find out the time is 6:49 and i was at the entrance. that wud sound as gud news if i had a ticket on me. i got on the train in a flash,running down the escalators and all a la filmi style. i did buy a ticket onboard.
every time i'm in ny, travelling alone, something happens.
first time roni drops me at jfk airport and my flight is overbooked. they(north west airlines) put me in a cab without my lugguage and i am rushed to la guardia with a weird lookin' lady. she was tatooed all over and she was pierced all over too. by the time i got over that shock i realise i mite be late for that flight too. i reach safely, call my ride from detroit to toledo and everything is fine.
the next time i take greyhound to ny city and spend the day site seeing: empire state building mostly. as im abt to take a train to white plains(roni's office), a latino dude bumps in to me. he makes hell of a noise abt me bumping into him and walking away. he made me stand in the middle of the road with abt 200ppl watching shout back at him that he was as much in fault as i was , if there was a fault ever. we resolved the issue with each of apologizing to one another and leaving. i think he dint want trouble with cops over such a matter.neither did i,but my concern was more on missing my train.
and now this.
i wonder what will happen should i ever get a job in manhattan.
GOD SAVE NYC.
every time i'm in ny, travelling alone, something happens.
first time roni drops me at jfk airport and my flight is overbooked. they(north west airlines) put me in a cab without my lugguage and i am rushed to la guardia with a weird lookin' lady. she was tatooed all over and she was pierced all over too. by the time i got over that shock i realise i mite be late for that flight too. i reach safely, call my ride from detroit to toledo and everything is fine.
the next time i take greyhound to ny city and spend the day site seeing: empire state building mostly. as im abt to take a train to white plains(roni's office), a latino dude bumps in to me. he makes hell of a noise abt me bumping into him and walking away. he made me stand in the middle of the road with abt 200ppl watching shout back at him that he was as much in fault as i was , if there was a fault ever. we resolved the issue with each of apologizing to one another and leaving. i think he dint want trouble with cops over such a matter.neither did i,but my concern was more on missing my train.
and now this.
i wonder what will happen should i ever get a job in manhattan.
GOD SAVE NYC.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
la cloche sur le cercueil
"the bell on the coffin"
as i was reading the book "thre gr8 train robbery"(i've lamost completed it..review in a day or two), there was this very peculiar subject that mr crichton broached upon. the novel is based upon the victorian era of the english. when ppl died they were put in a coffin. that is a regular practice. once a 10 year old boy suffered this same tragic fate. ppl assumed he was dead for almst four days. so on the day of his burial at the cemetary, his guardian after putting the first fist of dirt on the coffin got the shock of their life when they could hear the boy shout"why ar eyou burying me?". the health care in those days wasnt the best and doctors assumed he was dead since he dint move for 4 days. but he was in a state of coma ofr those days.
this created quote a wildfire as ppl went back to the cemetary to chekc on thier loved ones..though they were 9 feet under..(or is 8 feet under?).
so a new invention by the ever-so-clever anglias was to put a bell on the outside of the coffin attached to the body inside. so that ever the slightest movement would trigger the bell and cz an alarm. this was a fad and the inventor made a lot of money within london itself.
a slight varaiation of this device was a tube through the coffin for the mortally-challeged to speak through. servants of the rich were made to sit at the cemetary waiting for the buried to speak for a period of almost a month after the death.
the return of the loved one...
the things ppl do for that one last word or sentence...
is life worth it..the agonizing pain..the denial..the suffering...
you betcha....it definately is...though i can't speak from personal experience....
take care and think about this next time you ring a bell
{ding dong}
as i was reading the book "thre gr8 train robbery"(i've lamost completed it..review in a day or two), there was this very peculiar subject that mr crichton broached upon. the novel is based upon the victorian era of the english. when ppl died they were put in a coffin. that is a regular practice. once a 10 year old boy suffered this same tragic fate. ppl assumed he was dead for almst four days. so on the day of his burial at the cemetary, his guardian after putting the first fist of dirt on the coffin got the shock of their life when they could hear the boy shout"why ar eyou burying me?". the health care in those days wasnt the best and doctors assumed he was dead since he dint move for 4 days. but he was in a state of coma ofr those days.
this created quote a wildfire as ppl went back to the cemetary to chekc on thier loved ones..though they were 9 feet under..(or is 8 feet under?).
so a new invention by the ever-so-clever anglias was to put a bell on the outside of the coffin attached to the body inside. so that ever the slightest movement would trigger the bell and cz an alarm. this was a fad and the inventor made a lot of money within london itself.
a slight varaiation of this device was a tube through the coffin for the mortally-challeged to speak through. servants of the rich were made to sit at the cemetary waiting for the buried to speak for a period of almost a month after the death.
the return of the loved one...
the things ppl do for that one last word or sentence...
is life worth it..the agonizing pain..the denial..the suffering...
you betcha....it definately is...though i can't speak from personal experience....
take care and think about this next time you ring a bell
{ding dong}
Saturday, July 17, 2004
partie deux d'homme d'araignée
the highlight of this day is as the title mite conceive spiderman II.
the movie was all i expected, in a good way. yet it disappointed me. the movie lacked that killer punch. the movie had some gud dialogues i wud like to post on the blog.maybe when i get the video. the movie was along the lines of the narration. the start was (titles) was great. they showed the movie spiderman in a cartoonish way. the drawings were great and the upside down kiss (spidey and mjw) - the cartoon version still lingers in the brain. the dress color mjw was wearing is what is striking.
spidey is the loser dude. a lot of sympathy is being created or the driector was trying to create this. then he gives up the show.he's fed up with all.they actiually show him losing his powers. through the movie the villain docock is shown . he's nice guy turned bad turned gud at the end. spidey learns thru aunt and mjw and others that spidey is what is needed. surprisingly peter parker is revealed as spidey. does that warrant a spidey 3. never know. maybe so. at the end doc ock and spidey save the day together. peter ends up with mjw anyways though she's suppsoed to marry an astronaut.surprisingly the freind osbourne is shown with the green goblin outfit.he not wearing it but u read it first here if u see him as the goblin in the sequel.
ppl rate this better than the 1st. well,they are diff in a sense, though i wud rate the 1st better. i like cartoon heroes as the previos post's point. dont misinterpret me. the movie is worth a watch defintely or more than a watch. ill probably end up with the div-x anyways.
the movie was all i expected, in a good way. yet it disappointed me. the movie lacked that killer punch. the movie had some gud dialogues i wud like to post on the blog.maybe when i get the video. the movie was along the lines of the narration. the start was (titles) was great. they showed the movie spiderman in a cartoonish way. the drawings were great and the upside down kiss (spidey and mjw) - the cartoon version still lingers in the brain. the dress color mjw was wearing is what is striking.
spidey is the loser dude. a lot of sympathy is being created or the driector was trying to create this. then he gives up the show.he's fed up with all.they actiually show him losing his powers. through the movie the villain docock is shown . he's nice guy turned bad turned gud at the end. spidey learns thru aunt and mjw and others that spidey is what is needed. surprisingly peter parker is revealed as spidey. does that warrant a spidey 3. never know. maybe so. at the end doc ock and spidey save the day together. peter ends up with mjw anyways though she's suppsoed to marry an astronaut.surprisingly the freind osbourne is shown with the green goblin outfit.he not wearing it but u read it first here if u see him as the goblin in the sequel.
ppl rate this better than the 1st. well,they are diff in a sense, though i wud rate the 1st better. i like cartoon heroes as the previos post's point. dont misinterpret me. the movie is worth a watch defintely or more than a watch. ill probably end up with the div-x anyways.
informaćion
always a lover of information,i am really happy when the advent of news has come tothe forefront. it is really pleasant to see the likes of google giving importance to news. they have used their search capabilities to good effect.( or is it affect?). they google news is dependant on that the most popular news that is being read through the globe is posted ont he news.google.com site. that does mean that the posts are themost popular and not always the most sensible. the avd is that i get to read what the online-world thinks is important.
another source that has appeared through these conquests(mine) of info is the site www.xinhuanet.com. its a chinese site so the content is in chinese.so u'll have to know chinese to read it .ok im just kiddin' they do have a anglais version also. http://www.chinaview.cn/. its a site where you get the most unexpected news. so good some bad.but definately something you wont expect.from chinese site atleast. hey im not against chinku's, but you dont expect news about indian polit5ics on the macro level speculation in that site.
well u have to have them all to make the web.
another source that has appeared through these conquests(mine) of info is the site www.xinhuanet.com. its a chinese site so the content is in chinese.so u'll have to know chinese to read it .ok im just kiddin' they do have a anglais version also. http://www.chinaview.cn/. its a site where you get the most unexpected news. so good some bad.but definately something you wont expect.from chinese site atleast. hey im not against chinku's, but you dont expect news about indian polit5ics on the macro level speculation in that site.
well u have to have them all to make the web.
Friday, July 16, 2004
"enregistreur d'enchaînement".com
the title translates into "web logger".com which can be abbreviated to blogger.com
i am pleasantly pleased to see that blogger.com has made some changes o the way you blog. they have introduced more options in the create window. apart from the regular bold, italics, font, underline, they have the regular word style stuff. for a second, i expected something more. they disappoint me. well, its a start none the less .
actually as i delve through these , i do find some more options. ihave the option to upload to blogger,which was previously avaiable only through hello,their picture program.
UPDATE: google has bought picasa the picture(hello) program i was talking about.
today's blog isnt much large. just saw the new viedoes of thierry henry on the web on nikesoccer.com. he's one amazing athlete.i am losing some sleep on the thought of patrick viera going away from arsenal. though i dont think it will happen.
trying out a few c programs for a change today instead of the regualr java. got my old turbo c compiler running and stuff.checking out my old program is fun. though im sure i lost a few of them when my computer was last upgraded. :( too bad.
my other blog the photoscope hasnt been doing too well as it has not had much attention. maybe thru the weekend. also i got a new slogan for my blogoscope and photoscope.
bad news on the reading scene.no progress at all. while i was surfing i read another blog where la femme was listing the books shes read thru the year. her premise is 52 books in 52 weeks. not bad. shes doing well too. gud luk to her
[[last slogan:Hi...inspired by a friend who was inspired by another ..i have decided to blog... as he said... lets see how long it lasts...]]
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
"proie"
"prey"
the book i had already read once before.i like it.its thumbs up.there are a few very interesting conclusions in this book. a few passages are very enlightening. of course, its a fiction book. but a few passages(if they are not fiction) are very though provoking. the book is a typical crichton.
the hero is jack.he's a computer-bio mix engineer/programmer.he's developed stuff on distrubuted networking and predator-prey kind of algorithm's. his wife works for company called xymos.which makes a special kind of neuronano particels which cause some problems. so jack is called to the fab lab to help since his team designed this code.
when he gets there.everything is suspicious.there's been a leak and a few artificially inteliigent particles have escaped and started reproducing and controlling their own behavous. first he doesnt beleive it. but then the particles/swarm attck him convincing him of their nature to destroy like preadtor on prey.
jack tracks them and dertroys them in a comlicated fasion.when he comes back tothe plnt he realises his wife is the reason for the chaos and she's been infested by a variant of those particels which have co-evolved with julia(his wife) and others in the fab lab. he and a beautiful,cute(the side heroine) mae destroy the lab in a explosive way and the day is saved. avg story if u think abt it.but thought provoking to say the least.
this passge is in particular:
"If you compressed the history of life on earth into 24 hrs,then multicellular organisms appeared in the last 12 hrs,dinosaurs in the last hour, the earliest men in the last forty seconds,and modern man less than a second ago."
or this one
"there's an old question in ai abt whether a program can ever be aware of itself.most programmers will say it was impossible. ppl have tried to do it , and failed.
but ther's a more fundamnetsl version of the question , a philosophical quesiton abt whether any machine can understand its own workinggs.some ppl say that will be impossible too. the machine cant know itself for the same reason you cant bite your own teeht. and it certianly seems to eb impossible: the humanbrain si the most complicated structure in the known universe, but brains still know very little about themselves."
now that ive finished reading this..i dont know what ill do now..i know..i'll start on the great train robbery.my next book :p
update: after a few days of this post,this comes upFT.com /Management/Science & health
the book i had already read once before.i like it.its thumbs up.there are a few very interesting conclusions in this book. a few passages are very enlightening. of course, its a fiction book. but a few passages(if they are not fiction) are very though provoking. the book is a typical crichton.
the hero is jack.he's a computer-bio mix engineer/programmer.he's developed stuff on distrubuted networking and predator-prey kind of algorithm's. his wife works for company called xymos.which makes a special kind of neuronano particels which cause some problems. so jack is called to the fab lab to help since his team designed this code.
when he gets there.everything is suspicious.there's been a leak and a few artificially inteliigent particles have escaped and started reproducing and controlling their own behavous. first he doesnt beleive it. but then the particles/swarm attck him convincing him of their nature to destroy like preadtor on prey.
jack tracks them and dertroys them in a comlicated fasion.when he comes back tothe plnt he realises his wife is the reason for the chaos and she's been infested by a variant of those particels which have co-evolved with julia(his wife) and others in the fab lab. he and a beautiful,cute(the side heroine) mae destroy the lab in a explosive way and the day is saved. avg story if u think abt it.but thought provoking to say the least.
this passge is in particular:
"If you compressed the history of life on earth into 24 hrs,then multicellular organisms appeared in the last 12 hrs,dinosaurs in the last hour, the earliest men in the last forty seconds,and modern man less than a second ago."
or this one
"there's an old question in ai abt whether a program can ever be aware of itself.most programmers will say it was impossible. ppl have tried to do it , and failed.
but ther's a more fundamnetsl version of the question , a philosophical quesiton abt whether any machine can understand its own workinggs.some ppl say that will be impossible too. the machine cant know itself for the same reason you cant bite your own teeht. and it certianly seems to eb impossible: the humanbrain si the most complicated structure in the known universe, but brains still know very little about themselves."
now that ive finished reading this..i dont know what ill do now..i know..i'll start on the great train robbery.my next book :p
update: after a few days of this post,this comes upFT.com /Management/Science & health
Monday, July 12, 2004
homme d'araignée
yesterday nite, i hooked up(to the net) and checked out the trailers and clippings from spiderman2. i have always been a fan of comics. and iam happy they are creating a sensation again. i do wish superman comes back as well and the others.batman..and they shud be more professional like the spidey series. peter parker(tobey) has been showing up a lot more now, for movie publicity most liekly. he's confirmed he will be making spidey3 with kirsten dunst. it shud start shuting early 2005.meanwhile i cant wait to see this movie.one of the stunts was terrific. the one on the clock tower.if u'veseen the movie u will appreciate it.me having esp already sense it to be the best scene of the movie,unless there's more of "less-clothed" dunst.
On the books scene: i am reading "prey" by crichton.ive read it bfore and rate it average. ill write the review when im done reading it. this weekend was mostly @ home. i spoke to roni m who had gone to india. vijaya a is coming on wednesday.she stayed back to see chintu. chintu is shooting a movie in ladakh,mom tells me. he's going places. iwont be surprised if he starts directing on his own. he reminds me of vikram(columbia) ,sudha a relative, now working for the un. when i worte to him in fall break asking him if he had holdays. he replied,we dont have fall break at the u.n. funny guy(in a gud sense).
one awesome looking blog showed up recently...
http://sacrificezone.blogspot.com/
its like a console terminal..definately worth cheking out.
On the books scene: i am reading "prey" by crichton.ive read it bfore and rate it average. ill write the review when im done reading it. this weekend was mostly @ home. i spoke to roni m who had gone to india. vijaya a is coming on wednesday.she stayed back to see chintu. chintu is shooting a movie in ladakh,mom tells me. he's going places. iwont be surprised if he starts directing on his own. he reminds me of vikram(columbia) ,sudha a relative, now working for the un. when i worte to him in fall break asking him if he had holdays. he replied,we dont have fall break at the u.n. funny guy(in a gud sense).
one awesome looking blog showed up recently...
http://sacrificezone.blogspot.com/
its like a console terminal..definately worth cheking out.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
l'homme terminal
fool that i was. i sat down to write this blog when i looked down memory lane to see when i first wrote my 1st blog. fool that i was..april fool's day...more significantly it was also the day google launches their new email service..gmail..evryone thought it was a google prank..well it dint turn out to be so..did it,gmail invitees?
i keep getting letters from ppl for invites.i give as much as i can. i dont want to make the whole world prestigious.i for onwe like gmail adn evrything google stands for. i am volunteer in their quest for information in their effort to localise the google site in various languages. i have converted some part of the google website into telugu,my native tongue.
i have been to splashdown( a water park, where i lazed around), new jersey(edison, nj temple--i bought a shirt there) and the fireworks in fishkill creek for the long weekend. also and more importantly, i have finished mr.crichton's the terminal man. abt the book:
lets just say its definately crichton not at his best. his other books have had more punch in them. this seems to lack that punch. the story seems run of the mill. of course, i cud be wrong. it was one of his earlier books and he dint have his style of writing yet. also the concept cud be novel at the time of publishing , but not now. i know what wud happen even before half thru the book.
the book is about a guy, harold benson, who has motor epilepsy. he keeps beating ppl up and doesnt remember it. so he goes to this fancy hospital,nsu or nsa(or somthing acronym-ical), where they decide to do a stage three - control his brain thru computer when he has his seizures. unfortunately the computer take control of him instead. he has 40 electrodes in him and the detail of the operation/surgery is noteworthy, if not boring and trite. he escapes kills somemore ppl .also he has a hatred of machines and thinks machines are gonna take over the world. combine the 2 plots and rmapage follows. he kills somemore..and kills somemore. i thingk a total of abt 5-7 ppl are dead and lote more injured ultimately. he gets killed in the end by the heroine . i forgot abt her..there's a heroine who's a psychiatrist.she's all she needs to be.sexy,brainy etc etc
cya harry..ur dead.
update: funnily..even crichton agrees withe me..
What is your least favorite book you have written? Actually, it is TERMINAL MAN. I worked on it for 9 drafts and never felt I got it quite right. I don't to this day know what I would do differently, or what I should have done.
ha ha ha
while lookin for this book's link i founf michael crichton's link
http://www.crichton-official.com
and also sidney sheldon...he's from the male species, not female, for ppl who keep arguing sidney is a girl's name...
http://www.twbookmark.com/features/sidneysheldon/
there's an excerpt from his new book there.
also there was one nice part in this book..i cant remember..i'll come back to it later..]
till then then
i keep getting letters from ppl for invites.i give as much as i can. i dont want to make the whole world prestigious.i for onwe like gmail adn evrything google stands for. i am volunteer in their quest for information in their effort to localise the google site in various languages. i have converted some part of the google website into telugu,my native tongue.
i have been to splashdown( a water park, where i lazed around), new jersey(edison, nj temple--i bought a shirt there) and the fireworks in fishkill creek for the long weekend. also and more importantly, i have finished mr.crichton's the terminal man. abt the book:
lets just say its definately crichton not at his best. his other books have had more punch in them. this seems to lack that punch. the story seems run of the mill. of course, i cud be wrong. it was one of his earlier books and he dint have his style of writing yet. also the concept cud be novel at the time of publishing , but not now. i know what wud happen even before half thru the book.
the book is about a guy, harold benson, who has motor epilepsy. he keeps beating ppl up and doesnt remember it. so he goes to this fancy hospital,nsu or nsa(or somthing acronym-ical), where they decide to do a stage three - control his brain thru computer when he has his seizures. unfortunately the computer take control of him instead. he has 40 electrodes in him and the detail of the operation/surgery is noteworthy, if not boring and trite. he escapes kills somemore ppl .also he has a hatred of machines and thinks machines are gonna take over the world. combine the 2 plots and rmapage follows. he kills somemore..and kills somemore. i thingk a total of abt 5-7 ppl are dead and lote more injured ultimately. he gets killed in the end by the heroine . i forgot abt her..there's a heroine who's a psychiatrist.she's all she needs to be.sexy,brainy etc etc
cya harry..ur dead.
update: funnily..even crichton agrees withe me..
What is your least favorite book you have written? Actually, it is TERMINAL MAN. I worked on it for 9 drafts and never felt I got it quite right. I don't to this day know what I would do differently, or what I should have done.
ha ha ha
while lookin for this book's link i founf michael crichton's link
http://www.crichton-official.com
and also sidney sheldon...he's from the male species, not female, for ppl who keep arguing sidney is a girl's name...
http://www.twbookmark.com/features/sidneysheldon/
there's an excerpt from his new book there.
also there was one nice part in this book..i cant remember..i'll come back to it later..]
till then then
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