ladykillers

tom hanks



man on fire

denzel washington



torque

ice cube

mark williamberg(or something ike that)



around the world in 80 days

jackie chan

penelope-cruz-lookalike

Wowwee! Copied from Arsenal.com

'MR ARSENAL' WINS FAN OF THE MONTH

Arsenal supporter Keith Martin has won the prestigious Barclays Fan of the Month Award for November. Muswell Hill based Keith clocked up an astonishing 4,000 miles last month alone watching his beloved team, and owns a ticket stub and programme for every game he has attended since 1963. Referred to as 'Mr Arsenal' by fellow supporters, 50-year-old Keith never misses a fixture home or away including pre-season, and has followed the Gunners for 40 years all over the world. The only game he has missed was Arsenal v Leeds in 2000, a fixture that coincided with the London Marathon Keith was running for charity to support his father who has Parkinson’s Disease. Needless to say he ran round the 26 mile course as quickly as possible, and managed to get back home and watch the second half.

[ 10 December 2004]

dodgeball

issues

the dps video that has been covered on the news. it makes me kinda sad. the media hype around the incident and the school kis..i repeat kids doing such acts of unwiseness. i always beleieved we(indians) had a sense of ethics while we live in our lives. tell me how different is this from the paris hilton video. this kind of thing is humiliating to the indian public. more shame on the media to have covered such stuff. ndtv has instantly lost a lot of points on thier ethics rating. call me biased, but i think nothing justifies this coverage.not by indiatimes, not by ndtv , not by any other source that has done this, ill have to check what "the hindu" had to say about this. i felt guilty personally when i saw it. i wonder how the parents must feel and not to mention the guilty party themselves.
in better news, suri has left for india by the time i finsh writing this. i have another 5 days to go. i am living on the anticipation. thanks to joe for the drive to the airport(twice in our case).
the irony of life looms large on the spirit of the youth.is this what life is about: the rollercoaster. we surely have some serious thrill issues to be doing this.(riding the coaster)

7 days

(play music from the mask in the background while reading this post)

gayatri joshi: absolutely beautiful

143 and i miss you (telugu)

new ppl

ammayi nacchindi

again, all anew ppl

ammayi nacchindi

again, all new ppl

10 to go

my prev blog had a incomplete itinerary for

SANDEEP BHIMAVARAPU
Reservation code: ETGKEW




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Indiana Jones and the Templs of Doom

Harrison Ford

ar rahman

am rathnam

countdown:13 days to go

although a few ppl back in india have already started the countdown for me to reach there, for me the countdown starts today. dec 1 is a nice day to start. i shud be able to reach hyd by dec16th if i lewave here on the 14th acc to my schedule.
this is my schedule

Emirates


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mani ratnam

sweet home alabama

reese witherspoon



terminal

tom hanks

catherine zeta jones



my big fat greek wedding

all greeks and one non-greek geek



kill cruise

liz hurley

others don't matter

DIYA 2004

old school

will farrell

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.

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.

anand(telugu)

raja

head of state

chris rock

inner space

dennis quaid

meg ryan

martin short

yuva(tamil)

soorya

madhavan

siddharth

esha deol

trisha

meera jasmine

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

mystic river

sean penn

kevin bacon

tim robbin

kill bill

uma thurman



coyote ugly



queen of the damned

aaliyah



mission impossible

tom cruise

ving rhames



muta mesthri

chiru

american desi



matrix revolutions

keanu reeves

carrie anne moss

avunu vallu iddaru ishta paddaru

ravi teja

kalyani



indra

MEGA STAR "chiranjeevi"

sonali bendre

aarti agarwal

totti gang

naresh

prabhu deva

sunil



santhosham

nagarjuna

gracy singh

shreya



andaz apna apna

sallu bhai

amir khan

missamma

bhoomika chawla

shiva

karl marx

75km3
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gandhi
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einstein2
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einstein

einstein
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hitler

hitler
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davinci

davinci
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picture-galileo

picture-galileo
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newton

people/photos

monalisa

brother bear



walking tall

the rock

fahrenheit 9/11

michael moore:director

george w bush: hero/villain

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

snow white and the seven dwarfs

snow white

7 dwarfs : grumpy, sneezy, doc, happy, dopey, bashful and sleepy

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.

First Blood / rambo series

Sylvester Stallone

liar liar

jim carrey

jim carrey

jim carrey

the last samurai

tom cruise

bnch of japs



pirates of the caribbean(3/4 time)

johnny depp

orlando bloom

kiera knightley

nuvvu vastavani

nagarjuna

simran

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.
:)

naa autograph

ravi teja

and 3-4 other actresses

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.

sigmund freud

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"

• 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?

crouching tiger, hidden dragonyun fat chow as li mu bai

michelle yeoh as yu shu lien

zhang ziyi as jen yu



laws of attraction

pierce brosnan as daniel rafferty

julianne moore as audrey woods(she looked absolutely ravishing in this movie)

she looks really nice and young in this movie(suppsedly 35)

rachel leigh cook

the clean face of ms rachel leigh cook. what an amazing face

bookies

nick stahl as toby

lukas haas as casey

johhny galecki as jude

the bets of them all is the heroine rachel lieigh cook as hunter





day after tomorrow

dennis quaid as jack hall

jake gyllenhaal as sam hall

emmy rossum as laura

sela ward as dr.lucy hall

gladiator (for the nth time)

russell crowe

joaquin phoenix

connie nielson

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.

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 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

cheaper by the dozen

steve martin

hillary duff

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 transporter

jason statham

shu qi

francois berleand

matt schluze

sky captain and the world of tomorrow

angelina jolie

jude law

gwyneth paltrow

hart's war

bruce willis

colin farell

gharshana

how to lose a guy in 10 days

kate hudson

matthew McConaughey

unbreakable

cast:bruce willis, samuel jackson

director: m night shyamalan(one of my favorite directors)

draft

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.

my blue friday

cast: steve martin, one of the villains from home alone , a lot of other known faces etc

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

cedar point's dragster

cedar point's dragster

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

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

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

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/

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....

india independance parade...

my photo at the parade

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

charley

that's the tornado called charley coming onto florida.looks scary

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

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.

gratitude

this is the acknowledgement from vince flynn's third option. it is very nice.
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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.
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the prelude also is worth wirintg abt here:
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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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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

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

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.

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