Bitty Browser - Cuty !

Take a look. This is not a Picture. Would you be impressed, if this was a Browser. Its a small Browser within your browser window.

Just Click on Open URL, and give any Web or RSS URL. And your page opens up within this browser. How good is that ??


[ctsy - Bitty Browser ]

Today is Friday the 13th. What a deadly combination.

The President of India

I did this strange thing today morning. I started visiting the NIC sites. Browsing through Various Government Departments, this is where i landed in.



I never thought a site so beautiful and informative was even there. Tons of information, loads of photos, audio and video about the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, and the Rashtrapathi himself. With History on due and the Vision Documents on hand, the Site is completely balanced, in giving you information what you look for. You could even mail the President through a form in the site.

Its a JSP Page, and yet works best with Internet Explorer. Take a Peek here.


[All Picture Ctsy - PresidentsOfIndia ]

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is our Presidents full name. He got 30 Doctorates from different Universities.

My, My, My ! Thats why he is a President, and im just another guy.

Firefox has released a Critical Update. Ensure you have Firefox 1.0.4

Yahoo ! has created a news set of eMoticons. They are ABSOLUTELTY COOL.
Check it out ! I like the "Hold On, Im on a Call" emoticon.

Next Level Gaming

The Gaming industry has been on Nitro Boost. PS2 and XBoxes have been sold even in chennai. There are a few PS2 rental play stations in chennai too. I was only wondering the growth.

Take a look at this, new level gaming. Introducing the Real Virtual Car.


[ctsy - BoingBoing ]

You see a person driving a car in a stadium (probably a F1 race track). But only the Stadium part is wrong. The car is Standing still, but the LCD Screen shows animations of the Game. So, he is virtually in a race track, but physically in a car like this.


[ctsy - BoingBoing ]

Virtual Reality, Gentlemen. Beautiful gaming experience.
I wish i play NFS Underground in this car.

PCs for 10,000

**Google is Blogrolling, mates**. And it reads quite some sites, and most of all it reads Yahoo! Search Blog.
Check it out ! www.Google.com/googleblog is now changed to googleblog.blogspot.com, just like everyone else hold their blog on Blogger.

More News. Blogger was down today morning. So all our Blogspot sites were not reached. Dont really know what happened.

Hot News : PCs for Rs. 10,000/-. An ultra-compact desktop computer priced at Rs 10,000 was unveiled by Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal, at New Delhi. Whats more, it is mobile, free to use anywhere desktop. Mobilis, sporting a 7.4 inch VGA LCD screen and several innovative features, including a six-hour battery life, is a state-of-the-art product for users who demand the freedom to work anywhere, anytime.

Read it more on "The Hindu", here

I dont really know, if it is a good sign of bringing down the prices of PCs. Actually, there's nothing like bringin down the prices of PCs.

Have you ever wondered, when in 7 years Hamam's Price has gone up from Rs. 7 to Rs. 11. Thats a growth of about 150 %. But the PC that was costing 45,000 is 19,000. Thats approximately a DOWNFALL of 250 %.

That clearly shows you Two very important things.
1) Iam really weak in Maths.
2) The Price reduction did not come down because of increasing Consumption.

It is only that, even if PCs prices come down (if thats what you call it), there is always a PC costing 45,000. And very clearly thats got more better feature.

The Arguement may be, it is enough to have necessary features. But is that really enough ??
Human minds are ready to accept what is enough, Only they dont know the boundary of enough, so they keep expecting. (I have already warned you, im becoming a philosopher !!).

Whats your stand on this ? Do you really see PCs prices going down, or do you see Lower end PCs getting cheaper, becaus of the introduction of High End PCs (It may sound as if both mean the same..but trust me they dont).

"என் இனிய தமிழ் ப்ளாகர்கேள"
thanks to Adengappa for this new Tamil Unicode tool that allows us to Publish Tamil on Blogs.

Give it a try here

Tomato Sauce and Tony Blair

The following is an article on the link provided by BoingBoing.

"A NEW chilli sauce goes on sale today that is so hot it could KILL.

Ultra-concentrated “16 Million Reserve” is the hottest science can make. The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest pepper and 8,000 times more fiery than Tabasco. Diners must sign a disclaimer recommending “protective gloves and eye wear” — but even sweating testers in safety gear were blinded by tears for 30 minutes.

Just 999 bottles of it are on sale at £105 each.

Medical experts fear it could kill asthmatics or hospitalise a user who touches a sensitive part of the body afterwards. Creator Blair Lazar, 35, specialises in “extreme food” in New Jersey, US.
After trying it, he said: “It’s like having your tongue hit with a hammer. Man, it hurt.” The sauce is named after its score on the chilli heat measure, the Scoville Unit. "

Off-beat, Avyukta hits 4000 today. The last 1000 came on really fast.

Tony Blair becomes the Prime Minister of The Great Britain for the Third Time in a row. Dont you think it is something wonderful. Bush did not come to Presidentship for the second time with Grace... but Tony Blair has. What sort of belief would the country have for the man, that it trusts its Governance to him for the third time in a row.

Hats-off to Tony Blair. The Silent Worker.

www.keerthivasan.com launched
its got nothing interesting yet, except a good flash layout.

Manathil Urudhi Vendum

The most respected man in my mental territory - Mahakavi Barathiyar.

Starting monday with his poem, nothing is much better as this.
I have highlighted, the lines I take for myself. These three lines, and i can succeed.


[ctsy - Barathiyar Kavithaigal]

Have a nice week ahead of you.

Gods Own Machine

The All new Mercedes Benz M-Class. Wanna Test ride ?


[ctsy - MB - USA ]

Its not as impressive as Honda Activa, so ill stick to it. (oh my Gawd !)

Perspective Vision

I am a regular browser of cartoon sites, and few of them amuse me with beautiful thoughts. take a look at this one.


[ctsy - CartoonStock - KES series by Kevin Smith ]

Picophone - Good Try

Ironies are the part of life (im becoming a philosopher, day by day, phew !). I only remember Anbe Sivam's conversation between Kamal and r.Madhavan.

r. Madhavan - "even if we are ready to pay, we dont get facilities. Thats India for you !!!"
kamal - "as long as you people think, that you can pay whatever, and get whatever, THAT WILL BE INDIA FOR YOU ".

Good one, huh ! The point is, we have high speed connections, and yet we dont have a very satisfying software to have Voice Chat. Many times i think "Voice Chat is an equivalently costly to Telephone calls, only it makes us think its cheap". Reason, in voice chat - we assume it is cheaper, so we talk for a very long time, even though we do not have anything to talk about. And that virtually brings the cost closer to brief telephone calls.

But last week, me and my uncle discovered a better way of communication. PICOPHONE.


[ctsy - Vitez ]

It is a Amazingly Small application, that helps you dial an IP and talk to remote, in a much much Clear way. The audio would be Crystal Clear. Main reason being, there is no Audio Server in between. Picophone existed long back, but then, only now i got Broadband.

Get more information and Downloads here

BTW, did you know, my mom started a Blog.. she said if you could blog, then any one could
Check it out, here

Indian Technology goes proud

Read the Business article on the

Thiagarajan's trail-blazing invention!

[ctsy - Rediff In ]

makes us proud.

Speed Up the Web

Minds are always greedy. Arent they. Even though you have High speed Internet connection, you would prefer web pages getting downloaded even faster. To say, you want other pages getting downloaded at the speed of Google returning the search results. Have you ever imagined that way ?

Well, even if you have not, please accept Googles next beta product - Google Web Accelerator - GWA.

This gets installed on your browser (IE and Firefox 1.0+, nice to see more on Firefox) and chaches the pages you see, and later on refering pages, gives you chached + current information on the page. Also sometimes does the Pre-fetch of pages, so that the moment you type the URL, the desired page zaps up at hilarious speed.


[ctsy - Google Labs ]

Unfortunately, im not able to experience that, as even after installing this one, i dont seem to find any significant difference. I guess this would be a product with quite some bugs, as some of them already showed up. Let me wait and see the results.

We need to give some time for every good thing to happen.

Hitachi DZ-MV730A Camcorder (aka) Wow !

Hitachi DZ-MV730A DVD Handycam Camcorder - you know why its a wow. It burns DVD, what you see via viewfinder. It records directly onto a DVD-R.

Thats approximately $870. (hold on, im counting....).

(ok, im done.. I cant buy it,.).


[ctsy - Hitachi dvdcam ]

I have wondered if buying a Handycam would be wiser than buying a Digicam (Still). Im more amused by Still images, than boring and wierd home videos asking people to smile and "Say Something" talks. I admit, it would be of gerat use, and a treasure rather at some occassions. But for most of them, i guess a Digicam would do.

BTW, people who want this DVD Cam, here is the specification.

• Recording format: DVD-RAM / DVD-R
• Imaging device: 680K Pixel CCD
• Recording mode: 16:9 widescreen recording for both DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs
• Zoom: 16x optical / 240x digital zoom
• LCD: 2.5 inch LCD monitor can operate as a light
• Analog conversion: External AV input for recording analog sources to DVD
• Video recording: DVD-RAM: approximately 40-120 minutes of MPEG-2. DVD-R: approximately 20-60 minutes of MPEG video
• Digital Still Photos: DVD-RAM: records nearly 2,000 JPEG 640 x 480 resolution. DVD-R: approximately 220 JPEG images 640 x 480 resolutions
• Image stabilization: Yes, electronic image stabilizer for video
• Low light shooting: 0.3 lux in low light mode
• Focus: Auto and manual focus
• White balance: Auto and manual white balance
• Exposure: Auto and manual exposure
• Viewfinder: .2 inch color viewfinder
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 3 3/8 x 2 x 4 13/16 inches
• Weight with battery: Approximately 1 pound 2 ounces
• Supplied accessories: 700ML 1hr battery, AC adapter / charger, special S-video and composite AV cable, shoulder strap, lens cap

Tell me if you buy one !

Mile sur mera tumhara

Forget A. R. Rahman's Vande Mataram. Forget Lata Mangeshkar's Vande Mataram. "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara... To Sur Bane Hamara" composed by the great Bhimshen Joshi, a masterpiece lost in time, is perhaps the best of songs in national integration genre. I would say this was the best footage ever aired by our good old Doordharshan. I wonder what's stopping them from airing it nowadays. I stumbled upon this link on the web. Some cool desi grads from MIT have composed their own version of this national integration song. Well, this was sung in every official language of India. Now, thats true national integration- A. R. Rahman's Vande Mataram has only a few components to it... Song was shot in Rajasthan and Kerala, and composer and technical team were from Tamil Nadu. Well, this beautiful version is shot all over India with all Indian languages!

Doordharshan could do a revival of national integration theme by airing this song again. I don't think the original version is available anywhere on the net. However, the cool MIT Indian grads have composed their own version for Deepavali celebrations. Just check this out...
http://web.mit.edu/anoop/www/msur/msurscreen.mpg

A low end version of the same is available on this page:
http://www.mit.edu/~kapoor/mile_sur_small.wmv

If anyone has any contacts with DD, I would request them to make efforts to air the original song again! DD could pull off some popularity ratings with the current political scenario, heh, heh, heh...

The DaVinci Key

The world is waiting for Dan Brown's next-up. "The Solomon Key" is almost a sequel of The DaVinci Code (shortly called TDVC). Brown says that the cover Illustration of TDVC is the key for his next book - The Solomon Key. The book again features "Robert Langdon" a professor from the Harvard University. The Langdon charater is the trump card for Dan Brown, as he does this act of overriding emotions on the user, using the thoughts of Langdon.

What I mean is, superimposing the thoughts of Robert Langdon in a way that it becomes our thought, and the story moves fast. Thats been Dan Browns key, all the way to success. The Solomon Key is expected to release February 2006. This book is on the Freemasons, that means a lot of American leaders are in trouble. Well, Conspiracy is my favourite topic. I wish Dan Brown was in Chennai and wrote stories about DMK and ADMK. I also wish Dan Brown wrote about Netaji and Nehru.



[ctsy - Amazon ]

There's already a book on the speculations of the "Solomon Key". It is called the Davinci in America, by Greg Taylor. Will give it a read and let you know whats it all about.

The Next Best thing

Everyone has a dream. Someday, they will find it close to reality. And when it is practically achievable, It is no more a dream. So, in the empty space, where the dream was, comes another Dream. The Next Best Thing...

I once had a dream of buying a bike [Bajaj Pulsar] . Unfortunately for me, when i saw my dream coming closer to reality, i had this Dream Accident (Yuk !). And then, i was forced to have more practical dreams (is this an Oxymoron - Practical Dreams !!). And today i take delivery of a new Black Honda Activa - with a Honda Key-chain ( im more amused at smaller things, than bigger ones). Today my dream vaccum is filled with Honda Accord.

Life is always about this. The Next Best thing that you can achieve and acquire. If you ask yourself, why you earn money... you have this answer in mind. "I want to get the next best thing to....", well somethings.

May be your dream is a better computer, high speed DSL, high quality sound.
Or you own a old bike, you want a new one. Or you aspire for a Car.
You have a house, you want a more spacious one, with a Home theatre provision.
You are now a Team Lead, and you want to become the Project Manager.

In reality, you just give it to time, to do things for you. You know, the more practically achievable your dream is, then Time will take care. If the wait is Honest, then the Next Best thing will always show up to you.

Only if your dream is not just the next best thing, but it is about the "Close to Impossible" event, like a Software Engineer of a company dreaming of a Vice president - Delivery in a Software Organaization, then it needs tremendous prayers to Hardwork, and planning. Of course there are a lot of things that will account here, like "Elements of Uncertainity". But the equation works for 90% of the people.

(Consistant Hardwork * Persistant efforts) - Elements of Uncertainity = Unbelievable Success.

May look like a Crazy immature "yet another useless euqation". But this is what i believe in.

So, i dont want to have Unbelievable success.

I just believe and dream on the Next Best Thing.

Swingin in Joy

To me, I have my own definitions of richness. Inspite of the definitions being foolish, i persist in Holding them. If you are showing me a Rich Man's house, I wont accept the owner "Really Rich" if the house did not have a Swing. Oonjal - Unjal, thats what they call it in Tamil.

As always, the best ways I can remain Idle are these. Watching an Elephant, Sitting in a Railway Station for hours, Two legs waggling on a stream of water (I did this once in Srirangam.. it was heaven), and Swingin on a Oonjal.


[ctsy - Google Images ]

It is sheer pleasure, sitting on a Oonjal, and having a conversation. My Uncles house has one big Swing in a room, and thats my fave-room. Me, my Paatti and my uncle , had many conversations there. It is like the Swing is the fourth person listening.

Im planning to have one at my home (to make myself rich, you know !!).

See, Im still a kid at mind. Thats why i write Mainframe Programs ;)

Anniyan Music Out ! - Clean Bold

[ctsy - nowRunning ]

Seems Harris Jeyaraj did not accept any other movies, just for concentrating on Anniyan. I was hearing carefully, to find out - which song did he really concentrate on !!

Im not worth giving comments on the music, as I've not got the original CD yet. Im only the common MP3 grabber. Still, i guess i can express comments.

Anniyan music is just another music, with NOTHING special in it. Not even better than Saamy. "Kadhal Yaanai" is a sure hit. But the other songs are just a "Same kind of thing" songs.

"Iyengar Veettu" is one song im repeatedly playing.. as it has the carnatic classic ("Jagadhananda Kaarakaa.." - a thyagaraja krithi).

Hope the concenteration of Harris was on the Re-recording.

Photographer ! Vote

Many blogs have been on praise about Sharadh Aksar, and his photographs. Certainly, he is worth all that. Stunning photos with brilliant colors. Check out www.Sharadhaksar.com .

BTW, he is also competing in the Photographer of the year 2005. Cast your vote for Sharad Askar, or any other photographer of interes. Check out the photos, and Ensoy.

Here's one of Sharad's photo i like the most.


[ctsy - Sharad ]

Hey, did you know. With GMail memory count increasing everyday, it would reach 3GB on January 1st 2006.

Discover Beauty

K700i was the search for. My friend is desperate in finding out a new cell to suit his flair. Thats when i got to see the new Nokia phone. Nokia 8800 is the phone, and it is got some good features that come with all Nokia phones, and most of all, its that kind of Pull Down dial pad. I've always liked and impressed by the Phone that Neo Anderson is couriered in the movie Matrix. That model is now outdated, but remains good. Yet, I have not taken off my eyes from my dream phone 9500 Communicator. A time will come, Wont it ?

Yahoo - Advantage

With Yahoo very close to giving 1GB email for everyone, the chances of GMail conquering the world is ruled out (thats my opinion / prediction). Why is simple.

Many of the eMail users are still stuck with Yahoo and even Hotmail. Most people hesitate to migrate to someother email service, on the bargain of more technology. GMail, despite offering Unbelievable great services, has one set-back. LATE. It has been very late, for GMail to have been introduced. Of course, the advent of GMail has made Yahoo rethink of its services. And quite amazingly, Yahoo has brought in all the concepts (or atleast most of them) of GMail into itself.

Talking of memory, Yahoo played safe, and worked out its capabilities and now decided to take on Head to head with Google.

Yahoo's Blog service is already a Hit in its Beta stage. Also looks like Flickr is bought by Yahoo. I smell Google flavour here...do you ?

So, here we have two tight competitors, Yahoo and Google. Both fighting for supremacy, and thus offering us more and more services. It is the public thats enjoying.

Rarely we see, public getting benefitted. Well, thats not good.. isnt it.

[ctsy - Yahoo ]

The theory of "Why Did I not ..."

Earlier this day, I was on Kiruba's page. And read through how Kiruba Shankar got an Air-conditioner, and how he could have got it even cheaper, for as much as Rs. 5000 difference.

In another instance, i find my friend regreting for buying 6610 in a premature stage, and now the Improved version of 6610 - 6610i with camera and other stuffs cost pretty much cheaper that what was got for 6610.

Even My computer with all High-tech stuffs would cost a lot cheaper now, than what was purchased in September 2004. The time difference is not too much. But in a short span of time, the product is much improved and cheaper.

And only thing we could do is be ignorant. Or regret.


[ctsy - Byerly.org ]

Why did I not wait and Buy ? Should have waited for some more time...
Why did I not consult and search ? I should have got that one instead of this,.
Why did I not be careful ? I could have got it a lot cheaper

Do you have answers ?

First Walk !

After nearly 4 months of Limps and lags, I took a first walk to Students Xerox to have my Project Document bound. See, Education makes a man walk, and makes the walk proud.


[ctsy - Kian ]

Probably will become Keerthi Walker like Jonny Walker.

**** New Photos of Vettaiyadu Vilayadu on www.IndiaGlitz.com ****

Tonns of Commitments

Whoa ! I just thought of the beautiful friday that woke up along with me. But then, i scheduled all the programs i've thought of doind in these three days. Oh, my God. I could not accomodate all those in the confined days. I wanted more hours in days.

Seven Commitments and each very big. Let me check how ill fare this big task.

Just to give you a glimpse of how pressurized Iam, here goes.

I need to submit the project report for my Correspondance M. S on Sunday (Dead Target !)
And Im yet to decide on what project to do. I have a project to make. Thats 1 of Seven.

BINGO !

Search what you Searched for

What is the maximum thing you can search for, is the list of all the things you already searched. Google is attempting to remember all that you searched, and the list helps you on a flavoured search, where Google is personally going to reccommend you searches and results based on your Search History. My, My, My !

Thats like having a personal assistant, and asking him to record things out. This feature is enabled via your Google account, so your search list available wherever you search (I mean it is mobile).

"My Search History will record everything a searcher does while using Google. Users will note the amount of time they spend on Google, where they went, the amount of time they spend on each document found through Google, the last time they visited a web document, and where they went after visiting a web document.Users who sign up for the service will learn a lot about how they use Google. In turn, Google will learn a lot about every user as well." - stepforth


[ctsy - My Avyukta ]

But it will be really nice if someone gave me a software to find my missing toothbrush.

Creativity Max !

Yet another forward. But this one was worth watching. Take a look.


[ctsy - Raghu ]

Benedict and Shailendra

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI - the new head of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics


[ctsy - BBC ]


Avyukta Hits 3000. Hurray ! Thats a big thing for me, atleast.

Ladies and gentlemen, Please Welcome Shailendra Rao, a Chemical Engineer pursuing his higher education in Canada, who has wished to contribute on Avyukta. He has one sister in the US, and a brother in a different state of US, and he in Canada. And this guy roams across all these places at regular intervals. Lucky Shailendra. Im struggling to go to even my native ( Mayiladuthurai ).

My passport would expire in two more years. And so far, i have not taken more than a four Jet Airways trip back and forth from Bombay. I Wish I'd use it atleast twice before my passport expires.

Talking of Passport expiration, US is rejecting passports with 20 years Validity and insists on having a 10 year validity Passport. ( I read this somewhere, but im NOT Sure of the Authenticity of this information. Someone Confirm).

I received 2 emails, both containing Rajnikanth's Introduction in Chandramukhi. Looks like it has been taken on a Cellphone Camera. Very poor clarity. But who needs that all. Seeing your THALAIVAR with one leg on Air, and exhibiting style (and the sounds of fans, and the rain of roses inside the theatre is also seen). WoW ! Wish i'd see the movie soon.

Entering the world of blogs...

I welcome myself to the exotic analysis of the totally unimportant issues around us. For those who dont know me (I guess that would be 99% of the junta), I am Shailendra- keerthi's school buddy. In case you folks didn't know we used to call keethivasan "Keats", after the famous English poet John Keats of the 1800s. He used to write the most insane poems and literary "masterpieces" and we will give our last rites to it. He was right however, in recognizing his own talent. Coz rightfully, he was chosen as the best writer in our batch.

Anyway, here I am. And I will be contributing to this space on a regular basis hopefully. It takes some time to get acquainted with the world of blogging as this is my first blog ever. So errors and shortcomings are expected to be pardoned. But however nonsensical or trivial the blogs might be, it is the truth and that is the whole beauty of creating and viewing blogs. And I will contribute fleeting and ongoing thoughts from my beautiful mind.

As Keerthi would agree, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

I thank Keats for giving me the opportunity to blog in his space, and well, here I am.

Signed, Shailendra Rao

Somethings Money Cant buy

Its always a pleasure watching advertisements. The ones with really good creativity. MasterCard ads are a real feast for a "Wow ! I Like it" person. Here's one.


[ctsy - n-Kreative.com ]

How many people's life have you touched. I have always felt, that if I could give a person a Consoling smile, a warm hug and ease his tension or fear then we have touched his life. We could make a difference in everyone's life. And they could - in ours. I know it sounds really artificial, but then Think about it.

If you can stop a tear,
If you can bring a smile on a face,
If you can soothe one's feelings,
If you can throw a hand for another hand to take grip of
Then you have touched a life.

How many minds have you touched ?

We ran short of, er.. well Runs !

India Lost. Or can I say, One Pakistan Team won Eleven Indian Cricketers.


[ctsy - Hey, This one's my own]

Umpires were waving all the time, Horizontally Indicating Fours all through the Pakistan Innings. And when India came in, they were re-aligned to vertical, Calling OUT Indian batsmen for the next assault.

Mhmm! This doesnt look good. The Indian Team, in India, has not done justice. They had all chances of leveling the series, in the Last and the prior match. I dont have much to say about this.

Good Music !!

I was going through one of those FTP sites, downloading rarest-of-rare musical bits from AR Rahman. From Leo-Coffee to Swades, all BGMs and Theme musics are collected and generously shared (Whoops !). That was when I came across something called Vanessa Mae. With Broadband working, I wanted to try it out. And now im wondering, I would have missed a great music if I had ignored that particular MP3. Amazing Rahman, though it was familiar to most of his own songs, "The Raga's Dance" (One of 10 songs in the Album) is simply amazing.


[Ctsy - Sony Music ]

Vanessa has made quite some albums, and this one "Choreography", features one AR Rahman song composed. If you get a chance, dont try to skip it. It is worth a hear.

By the way I heard Set top Boxes are going to be removed from existance (in chennai). Someone tell me the good news.

Mumbai Xpress - a Big Let Down

Before even attampting to write something in the name of a Review, let me give you a statutory warning. Kamalhaasan made a few promises before the movie got released. What were they ?

• Mumbai Xpress will be a non-stop Laugh-a-Riot movie.
• I promise a complete family entertainer, with no Vulgar scenes in it.

Precisely, Kamal has kept up his promise from Title-Start to Title End. Congratulations Kamal. But does that alone make a hit ? Well, many of the Hardcore Kamal fans including me, tasted tea-dust after a cup of great tea. Mumbai Xpress could have been a lot better than is now.

There is a Kidnap plot, and how the plot changes it plan, and what goes wrong after Kamal gets into the plan is the entire movie's story. "When Crime meets confusion" is the caption of Mumbai Xpress, and cant be more approporiate than that. Pasupathy (Kothala Thevar) plays a amazingly comical role of a villain - comedy villain, and to me He is the Hero of the first part. Talking of first part, there can be no other movie so great and fast and so very interesting than Mumbai Xpress.

Obviously there is a mismatch in the kidnap, and a unexpected ransom amount is paid for, and what Kamal does with it, makes you roll on floors. (well, it did me).

Kamal, particularly in this movie, has shown everyone in the movie as corrupted ones. Everyone, including his Sister is on for money and are pretending to be good to Kamal. Kamal, should have underlined about this and said more about this. (i was expecting a message like that). Very cleverly underplayed on songs. You wont see any song on screen, in full, except the Vande Matharam song (even this is changed to some other song. Cautious !!).

I saw the movie on Sathyam - Digital Projection. Well, i cant appreciate it though, but i saw a few long shots very poorly rendered. I dont know why. Kamal's stunts in the movie are quite amazing, and i can understand the pain taken and sincerity in it. But as someone said on their blogs, the movie certainly missed Crazy Mohan.

Laughter is certain for all the time you watch the movie. But you will be shocked when the movie ends. I was expecting an ending that was still to come, but Kamal said "Thats all for Rs. 60 , Thanks for coming !!!". BAD ENDING.

The movie is full, i mean, lots of scenes, and lots of points worth mentioning. But will do it as a discussion. If you are yet to watch the movie, go ahead and place yourself on laughter therapy in some of the theatres, and come back.

I want to talk about Pussan Talk

I have a program to make !

This happens to me only very few times in my life. Unexpected Happiness/ Surprises.
"6:45 - New Year - Kamal - Mumbai Express - Me and Dad - Sathyam"

If that sentence made sense to you, well :) imagine my happy face.
I would update you tonight, about the movie.

By the way, Mumbai Express posters and Hoardings are damaged, torn and painted over with dirty colors. This is cheap fight. Brutal. Behave yourself Mr. Whoever you are !!

On Your Mark ! Get Set ! G........

The Final day - Today. Tomorrow Rajinikanth will know his future. Kamal will know his fate. Vijay will fix his Salary. And I will be in the Queue, buying tickets for anyone of them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Wave your Flags for Super Star's Chandramukhi, Dr. Kamalhaasan's Mumbai Xpress and Ilaya Thalapathi Vijay's Sachin (They have put the spelling as Sachein).


[ctsy - BCHE ]

The trailer of Mumbai Xpress is out on www.MumbaiXpress.com (no E for Xpress).And it looks like a thorough Comedy, one of Crazy Mohan's "AAL Maarattam". Wish Crazy Mohan comes out of that stuff (even though i like each and one of his creations).

Kamalhaasan and Gautham join for a Hunt Game. "Vettaiaadu - Vilayadu" is the name of the next movie, you start expecting (besides Gajini). Kamal, Gautham Menon, Jeeva and Harris Jeyaraj. "Vettayadu Vilayadu is said to be a racy thriller in which Kamal plays his age and the first half is set in New York, second half in Chennai and the climax in a remote village in Tamilnadu. The shooting will start from April 23."

We can always wait. Cant we ?

Fast and the Furious

The fastest person from Coimbatore, and the Most Furious person Honble Chief Minister had a meeting down the pit stop. And a promise made, that made me smile. God, if this could really happen.


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If Formula One could happen in Chennai, its a very big Gift in Disguise. Atleast I dont have to feel agonized about Conditional Access System. Michael Schumaker will Touch the chennai soil, wow, Amazing. We should let him drive through the Nelson Manickam Road and Duraisamy Subway. Guess, he would quit driving for ever. We can name it Formula Chennai.

Im posting this Blog from Fedora Linux, and Boy what a speed it gives. BSNL is back to normal speed, and especially when i tried connecting from Linux, amazing tunnel you have in front. Just keep drivng....

Two days to Mumbai Express and Chandramukhi. Sachin is also on track and a stir is on.
Boy, this is going to be a nail biting finish.

Blog On MSN !

We all know we have a MSN Spaces, that lets us have Blog on MSN. Many had mixed opinions about comparing Blogger and MSN. Take a look at the integration of MSN Spaces with MSN Messenger.


[ctsy - Avyukta ]

This looks to be a decent feature. Well, i really do not know, how many of my contacts are really active on MSN. I myself am not !!

Check out "Thalaivar's Power !!!". The Titan of Tamil Cinema has Blasted off the ticket counters.


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Have to check out whats the status of Mumbai Express. ! Hope Kamal reserved a seat for me. He has Promised entertainment for my family. Guess that includes Tickets ;)

Happy Monday

Aplologies

I have a random habit of giving Proper credits to people, who have made photos, that feature on this Blog. I got a mail from Jeff, a good photographer, demanding credits. I was ashamed of being very mannerless. I opened an apology for Jeff.

It is really very important, that the right credits go to the right person. Now on, i intend to credit the person's name/ site below the picture. And a start measure, is back to Jeff.


[ctsy : Jeff Philips ]

I wonder whats Rajini and Kamal thinking on this saturday. I dont mind a dinner.

Disappointment - a part of Daily Routine

These days, somewhere between the day, I consume a certain quantity of Disappointment. I know disappointments come, when you expect more out of things. But, hey. You cant change me. !!

Yesterday's disappointment was BSNL DataOne. Yesterdays answer was polite. So was today's but the answer was shocking. "Sorry Sir, You can browse only Indian domains, and others you will only get on Monday.". Why should i pay for a Monthly service, thats got a 5 day Downtime. I plan to take it higher, and find an answer.

Talking of disappointment, I remember a favourite quote of mine. "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.". That was said by Rabindranath Tagore.

There was an interesting movie I saw, whose name i dont remember. The story goes like, Kids who are going to be born are standing in a queue. One by one, they leave heaven, and they are born in some hospitals. But one kid, doesnt want to be born, (I know im doing a mistake in past tense, cat help!) because he thinks that the world is full of miseries. Because of this non-birth (!!) the whole world has a show-stopper in babies being born. So, now the Gods convince how beautiful the world is, and later he inclines to be born.

Its really difficult being God. Someone want my job ?

BSNL Back in Form

My Broadband connection is Down, for some reason. The Helpline was very polite and gave a Crystalline answer. "Sir, We are down till 10 O Clock. Please try connecting later after that time.". Thats fine. !

Hey, I had a wonderful story to talk about. Read Ahead !!

Two very good friends were walking down a thin path in the middle of the jungle. It was a hot day, and both of them were extremely tired. They were on a wildlife expedition, and they had been walking almost continuously for six hours. They were carrying burdensome back-packs, and were wearing tough and heavy hiking-shoes. Suddenly one of them spotted a bear running towards them. The bear was huge, and looked extremely angry. Terrified, the two men started running, and the bear, no doubt very hungry, gave them chase.

Suddenly, one of the men stopped. He quickly took out a pair of light running-shoes from his back-pack, bent down, and put them on. Then he resumed running.

All this while, the other man was looking at him. Nonplussed, he asked him, "That beast has got a stride double ours, and it's only a matter of time before we end up as his mid-day meal. Do you really expect to outrun him simply by putting on a pair of running-shoes?"

"But my dear friend, don't you see, I don't have to outrun the bear", replied the first man, almost casually. "I just have to outrun you."

Whoops ! Very lateral !

Hail Dhoni !

He Tops news overnight. From No One, to a Super Hero.
From Man to God, on a Single match. Only possible in Cricket.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahendra Singh Dhoni also kalled as Dhoni.


First Match, Against Pakistan, In India and a Spectacular 148.
Dhoni, is all set for the bright future. And he has already cut open the Express Highway.

You might need his profile.

Full Name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born: 7 July 1981, Ranchi, Bihar (Even this guy is older than me..Shucks !)
Major Teams: Jharkhand, India.
Also Known As: Mahi
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Other: Wicketkeeper

Guess Dhoni means Sound. Or is it Dwani ?
Whats in a name, if Talent is on the Bat.

It was thoroughly a Celebration. Battle won by the Gods. I heard fireworks till night.
The Big religion is on the hype again. Its amusing to see the Winning pictures of India.



Im the only reason, India won this match. Otherwise, if I had played in this match.....

I hear Horns of Mumbai Express

The Distant Sound of the train coming. Though people hear it, and it is subtle truth that a train is coming, Still people look out, for where the train is coming, by leaning outside the platform. Thats because there's a Child in everyone of us. Everyone likes watching a Railway station (empty or full), Elephant, Moving Water, Monkeys or Monkey, Stars, Distant Ship and many more. There is a saying "Within every Old Man, there is a Young man wondering What the hell happened...?".

I heard such a Train sound in the Distance. Mumbai Express music is what i mean. 6 songs in all including Vande Matharam and a Theme song. Why are all movies now having Theme Song ? Both Sachin and Mumbai Express have Theme Songs, both Unimpressive (for now).



Look at the Picture of Mumbai Express (this is My Adobe Photoshop product). Somehow or other, Kamalhaasan impresses with his touch of humour. May be the person on top is an important character in the movie, because there are already 2 songs talking of Monkey Business. Let me hear the songs one more time, may be i will like it this time.

Welcome Rain in Chennai

Sunday evening, Drizzling. Its always nice to hear a word with a ZZ sound. But the Rain Drops were even melodious to hear.

Hope it sustains,
and Keeps the earth Wet,
and keeps May without Sweat . (Wow ! Im getting better day by day ! Someone give me award, or soemthing. ;) ).

April Up and Running. All countdowns towards Mumbai Express and Chandramukhi. Who will win, place your bets. "Anju Vachcha Paththu. Paththu vachcha Iruvadhu !! Vaa Vadhyare !". I have my own doubts on Mumbai Express. And im impressed by the Silence and Simplicity of Chandramukhi. (Strange, coz im a Kamal Fan).



Hey, I found a new Font. Tell me how do you like it.


The font is called Scriptain. Check it out.

Nyways, Have a Bright week ahead.

Pope John Paul II is dead

The Pope was very old, even before i was born.

He was appointed in 1978 as Pope, and i was born only 1982. Pope is the most superior position in the Catholics, like what Kanchi Peetam is for Hindus. Vatican as you know is the smallest, and yet powerful country in the world. Well, we cant call it a country though, as its just the size of Teynampet and Alwarpet put together. But Teynampet and Alwarpet are not as powerful as the Vatican, and not just Rich even. Vatican could be richer than India is.

Now, that the Pope is dead. Our Condolenses. He was a good man, in the press. I have seen his interviews or messages. He had a Honest tone, in finding peace in everyday life. Let his Holy Soul rest in Subtle peace.

Next up ! Pope elections. I feel strange here, looks like Angels and Demons is live in action.

GMail Unlimited

You should already know, that GMail and Unlimited are synonymous. But Google keeps adding the surprise packets into unlimited, and makes us awe-spire.

This time, its again the storage. It has lifted the maximum storage limit level. I mean they have completely lifted it off, meaning you can virtually store your Hard disk even on it.

Not believing, check your GMail. And check your storage Quota. If your eyes grow wide, GMail has got you.

Double Jeopardy !

If there's something Amusing and Confusing at the same time, there are only two of them.

Software and Law. Let us try a law point. Take Double Jeopardy.

The rule against double jeopardy states that no one should be tried or punished twice for the same offence. This rule protects citizens from oppression by ensuring that the State cannot keep prosecuting a citizen until they are finally convicted. It is a fundamental and ancient rule of law that extends back to the time of the Ancient Greeks.

If ever punished already for a crime that was never commited, the person is allowed to perform that crime in public, and will not be punished again.

You could have seen a movie of the same name "Double Jeopardy", where my favourite Actress, the very beautiful Ashley Judd plays a wife, who is misunderstood to have killed her Husband, and is punished by the American Federal Court of Law. (This sounds better than Indian Penal Court, doesnt it). The when she comes out of prison, she understands her husband is not killed yet. Now, she can kill her husband in front of the Times Square, and just walk away without an arrest, as she had already been imprisoned for the same crime.

Cool ! This is some kind of Prepaid Crime. Be in Jail now, Kill later.

Ganguly Smacked !!

If you were on a IT company, and checking mails every two minutes, whether or not you have mails, then you are certain to have seen the following mail.

"How to Make Maggi when Ganguly is on field"


Pic on Hello !

Here's the procedure, as to how you do it.

Step 1: boil one cup of water.

Step 2: as soon as ganguly goes for batting, put the noodles in the boiled water and put the tastemaker.

Step 3: stir till ganguly is onfield.

Step 4: As soon as ganguly is back in pavilion, your noodles r ready to eat.

Phew ! Life of a celebrity is simply unpredictable. One day, he is portrayed as a Super Hero, and the other day he is the top Jackass. It is quite normal. But Ganguly has gone through this many a too times.

I wonder if Ganguly would survive the next BCCI meet as a caption.

Here's another insult to Ganguly's injury. This was another mail.

What is the next number in the series
21, 12, 12, 1, ...

The answer is 2. Wonder Why ??

These are Ganguly's scores in the recent Test series. :)

Savurav Gone Guly.

More Movies in June

Was just checking up about the new movies coming up in Hollywood. Much to our surprise, most of them are Animated movies. With the growing popularity to Animated movies, looks like Hollywood actors are going to loose their jobs.

Ice Age Part II is coming up. Supposed to be a block buster. Steven Speilberg and Tom Cruise come back again with "War of Worlds". I saw the trailer of this movie. Wow! Could be yet another Independance Day kind of movie. But Spielberg and Cruise can give a flavour to it.

Manoj Night Shyamalan, is sharping his nails for another bite. "Lady in the Water" is his next movie for Warner Bros. But we have to wait longer. Its releasing 2006.

Off beat: A political leader wants all Billboards in Tamilnadu, which have their captions in English to be painted with TAR and to be erased. How arrogant and foolish can he go. I mean there has got to be a stop for this. I dont see any kind of affection in him for the language. He is just creating a Whitepaper about nothing and publicising it.

March 30. Your year ends here. From tomorrow you are fresh. A fresh Tax Payer.

Pay Tax and Hold your Head High ! (this message is issued in public interest alone. not mine)

Nature is not done with its speech Yet.

Japanese have issued a Tsunami Warning yesternight. When we were peacefully sleeping, earth was screaming in your ears.

The quake lasted as long as three minutes, Agence France- Presse cited Indonesia's Meteorological and Geophysics Office as saying. The temblor caused power blackouts on Sumatra.

8.2 rictor - a high magnitude earthquake had kissed one island of the Indonesia. Wonder what disaster is waiting for us.

God save us all.

In the Terminal

God has kept me away from very good movies. Dont really know why. I really felt like i was crying, during the ending scene of the movie. Spielberg cant just awe-spire you, or make you scream with Dinosaurs, but he can make you smile and cry, with the power of emotion.

You may not like the movie, if you are an Entertainment seeker. It is slower than those award winning Malayalam movies. But you will Jump for Victor Navorski (played by Tom Hanks).



The film is about a person, from a country travelling to New York. But as soon as the flight takes off, the country from where Victor travels has been abandoned. United States doesnt accept people from that country. And because that country no longer exist, Victor cannot go back to his home. US officials are very rigid, and they do not let Victor touch the soil of America.

Victor is stranded in the Airport for, Ladies and Gentlemen, believe it or not - 8 months.

And finally what happens, is the heart of the story.

You know, sometimes we feel something deserves Credits fully.

This movie deserves all the good it can get.

Dreaming on Monday morning

Had a dream last night. A very nice dream - something that made me happy and sad at the same time. It is always possible in my life, that happy moments are the ones that I regret the most. Yesternights dream was such a happy moment. Quality dream.

In my dream, I was rich. Only in my dream. Im talking about High Magnitude Richness. All my dream Gadgets, without fail, appeared and danced in front of me. A 8 Mega Pixel Camera, a Royal Red Toyota Corolla, a Plasma Sony Projection TV and a Nokia 9500 Communicator. Imagine a multi-millionaire in the Old age Tamil movies. He comes with a colour-colour Gown and a Pipe in his mouth. Something similar to that.

I hold a Sony Vaio in my hand, and keep typing something. Then I go to a Dining table where delicious food, everything colorful. (I have Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner even in my dreams, kindly excuse). I have a belief that people having Swings (Uunjal) in their houses are rich. So, I get back to typing something on Vaio, sitting on the Swing. Iam always busy, and attending Phone calls on my Nokia Communicator.

Then iam sitting and enjoying all possible movies on my projector TV with a Creative 7.1 Surround Sound system. Home Theatre, Hah !

Dreams are so good for one reason. You can do anything. Anything.

Then i woke up, found everything back to normal. I knew what was reality. But the sweet fragrance of dreams, wow. You know, how i like it.

I get on the Auto back to office, on Monday Morning. All the fragrance of the Dream, dies in the smokes of Nelson Manickam Road.

Reality Sucks.

God's Own Friday

Traditionally, Good Friday occurs between March 20 and April 23 on the Friday before Easter, and commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus.

Why "Good Friday"? No one knows for sure. However, church scholars sometimes point to the very same Eastern Orthodox observance known as Great Friday. Others believe that "good" eventually became a corruption of God, or an old English word meaning "holy."

Today, Christian churches traditionally hold services on Good Friday from noon until 3:00 p.m. to symbolize Jesus' last hours on the cross. In Catholic churches especially this includes The Stations of the Cross, a reenactment of the procession to Mount Calvary where Jesus was crucified.

I personally love it for a simple reason. Even after my 2 months of arrogant sick leave, my company has kindly granted me the freedom of availing a floating holiday. So, what am i doing today ??

No Doubt, downloading "The Ray" from Shareaza a P2P software. Im also hunting for the Hanuman Chalisa MP3 sung by MS Subbulakshmi. Someone who knows the whereabout, please Shout !

Have a nice day. For me, its already a weekend :)

Pakistan Day

In 3 Weeks, i saw 7 friends of mine go to Tirupathi. Now, 2 of my close friends. Even my next door kid, Dachhu is going for a Mottai this weekend. Tirupathi season. Im exploring my possibilities of going. God knows when.

Shocked to hear Rajnikanth is a Pshycriatist in Chandramukhi. I was not able to digest the fact, that he is a BE engineer in Padayappa. Everybody like Rajni only as a common Tamil man. I only hope he hypnotizes the audience this time.

Gemini Ganesan Gone. I liked his voice better than anyother attribute of his. He was gracious on screen. Rest in peace, Mr. Ganesan.

Today is Pakistan Republic Day. They call it "Pakistan Day". Hope they dont have the need to tighten securities on republic day, just like we do every year. Ironic.

On your Roof Top

Another Broadband adventure !

I tried Keyhole, a recently acquired company for Google. This software is a Aerial Photography software, that zooms to the roof top of your house from Space. - Can you believe it, FROM SPACE.



Unfortunately, and quite expectadly this only works for the United States zones. I zoomed upto Chennai.
It showed me locations of Avadi, Ambattur and even Pallavaram, but not Villiwakkam. Damn.

You have a decent Hi-Speed Internet Connection, then you may have to try this for sure. Download Keyhole on your computer, and try to reach your friend in the United States.

Microsoft has its own version of Aerial Photography - Terradata.

Trust me, the Land looks more beautiful from the Sky.
But only as long as you are not falling from the Sky !

Seeing thru Colored Glass

Seeing thru Colored Glass

1. There is a Room 20 X 40. In it stand 8 People. They are looking at a snake which has come by chance to the centre of the room.

2. The inverted image of the 12 Feet Raja Naga, is in the retina. -- The brain doesnt understand what it is.

3. Thalamas identified the signal, which belongs to visual cortex, and sent it.

4. Meantime, the message has been passed on to Amgdala. What to react, Fight of Flight. Which response to take.

5. There was a color glass, called the combination of Value and Belief, and they reacted differently to the same visual signal from the external territory.

The Persons and the Belief.

Ramanna - Hails from Karnataka.
His Belief - Snake is God.
Value - God should be worshiped
Response - He requires flowers to be offered.

Varadhan - Lost his friend by Snake Bite.
His Belief - Snake is dangerous.
Value - Runaway from fearful stimulus.
Response - He demands an exit request for himself

Kannan Nair -
Belief - Snake is a poisonous beast
Value - To be killed.
Response - requires equipment to kill the snake.

Child -
Belief - any sensation is to be appreciated
Value - play toy
Response - need to play with the snake

Kim Lee - a Korean girl
Belief - Snake is a medical content,
Value - enhances health value
Response - to be caught and made as a soup

Menaka - Blue Cross member
Belief - Animals are no different from Human beings
Value - To be treated with love and compassion
Response - To safeguard snake from any torture

Muniyandi - Snake Charmer
Belief - God which provides food for the family
Value - Bread Winner
Response - To take possession of the snake, to make his earnings

Ibrahim - Leather Merchant
Belief - a fashion statement
Value - expensive commodity
Response - to be skinned alive.

One Snake and Eight Perspectives


Ramanna has married Kim Lee when he was in Korea, on his Onsite venture. After two years of married life, they attended a function, at Chickmangaloor on a Nagapanchami Day (a day auspicious for snakes)
That was a starting point of the mismatch of their Value and Belief

There are only two options.
Divorce or Live with.

What is the third alternative.

Please mail - Omsathguru@yahoo.com

The above Packet was a Routed code from
Eureka Business School
My Uncle's New venture.

Feedback !

Madhav Dasika - Guest Blog

I would have touched many areas in my 4 months of blogging. But not sports. You would know the reason if you have seen me already. Sports and ME would sound more like an Oxymoron. So, here's outsourcing.

Madhav Dasika, is a Team Leader in my office, and a very good friend of mine. He had this different perspective about Idol Worship. The religion, where he thinks this superstition is followed, is called Cricket. Wow, i smell controversial opinions already.

Here's Madhav and his log.

"The Profile of the most admired batsman!!

This is a person who has got maximum number of centuries and still consumes more than 6 overs to reach from 90 to 100. No gifts for guessing.
The most proclaimed and world renowned Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. Very often the saying goes says that we are loosing the matches because we dont have Tendulkar in the side. He is in the news almost all the papers from the day he has an elbow injury till the day he palyed a trophy in Hyderabad.
I saw a program on one of the channels in where the spectators were yelling 'Tendulkar has disappointed us today'. That was the day on which I started wondering when did Tendulkar not disappoint us (if not a surprise atleast). Any big league, it will be potrayed as the star bowler of the opponent team vs Tendulakar. So far I have never seen Tendulkar going against the odds and trying to overcome the *star bowler* of the opposite team except for Henry Olongo of Zimbabwe (and Shoab Akthar of Pakistan in the World Cup)

He is compared to Sir Don Bradman and he is compared to Sunil Gavaskar. I somehow do not understand whether these people also stood more for individual records than a match winning performance. We have seen Dravid playing the wall role, Kaif/Yuvraj/Ganguly and sometimes Agarkar winning the matches for us. But so far I have not seen Tendulkar contributing more than 30-40 runs in any crucial innings (be it be one day or a test match) except for two matches against Australia in which he was a Captain."

-Sg
Madhav Dasika

Whatever !

Adobe Photoshop CS !

Massive downloads. With a very silly feeling of testing the limits of BSNL Dataone, I downloaded Adobe Photoshop Cs. 150 MB.

150 MB is something that never was even in my dream. And now, its more than reality.

150 MB took 1 hour and 20 minutes. But i used to download 15 MB in on hour and some minutes. So, literally 10 times faster.

Enough for me !!

100 MBps Speed - 40 Kbps Download

Blaster at Home ! BSNL Dataone On Avyukta !

Iam experiencing terrific speed and realize the real power of Broadband. Im right now trying to figure out, what are the possible downloads i can load/overload.

Someone Suggest !

Open Source Google

This is a hit news !

Google starts a new Service / Ploy / Strategy / Whole new way of Google. Whatever way you take it. You can now participate in shaping Google, and its technology.

You can download the Open Source , work on it yourself and watch your product, and Gratify your Techno Savvy. I would like to do it, but many of the terms seem confusing. Looks like i will have to be a even matured programmerto even understand terms.

But then, there are Forums for this Open Source you can speak to, and atleast tell your requirements and ideas.

Check code.google.com for more informations

Madhav Does a Guestblog on Monday !!! Someone Wanna fight ?

Want a blog ?

Do you intend to start your blog of your own ? Well, Yahoo has intented to serve for you. Click here to Yahoo 360

But this service, however is not available right now, as it is yet to be in Beta Stage. But Yahoo, I imagine can give you lots of customizations and facilities. Hopefully. So, i you are interested by the innumerous blogs with variety of informations, or if you are fed up with THIS blog (oh No !!) and think you can do it more better., Well then do it today. Start a blog and start seeing the World around you.


[Pic ctsy - Technorati.com]

This, apparently is the growth of the blogs from 2003 to 2004 year end. Thats shows you how many people (including craps like me) have started blogs and tried to change the way of media.

Hey, if you start a Blog, dont forget to inform me.

Crunch - Its already friday. These days just keep coming. Im simply dreaming about the three day holiday thats coming up next week, starting with a literally good friday. (I've got a very interesting news blog for Good Friday ! Check out next week)

Take 3. Action !

My friend gave me a library book - "Thiraikkadhai Ezhuthuvathu Eppadi". How to Write Screenplays, written by Sujatha. Completed half of the book yester-night. Im not going to make movies, no!. But it is worth a read, if you want to make your tastes for cinema better. You can learn how to appreciate good cinema. May be thats not the intention of the book, but thats what i inferred.

A normal person, going to cinema, used to say "Great Movie !!My hero has did it again". But the same person is now matured, and he says,"The movie would have been better, if the editing was done properly". "Cinematography was excellent in Kannathil Muththamittal". "Baba had a useless screenplay".

I cant dare say this is maturity in viewers minds. Most of the people (including me) talk because, they know that terminology. "Sreegar Prasad's editing was great in Dil Chahta Hain", i used to say. But i still dont know whats editing. But then, i can clearly say that a movie was properly edited or not.

All things apart, forget everythig. Just listen to what Rajnikanth says. Whistle and Clap. Get out !!

Broadband - really slow !!

My dataone service is yet to come, even after two months of repeated complaints. But i was shocked when my friends friend applied two days before, and he got the connection today. Talk of envy and agony at the same time.

Envy - I heard this word first time in Onida advertisement. Neighbor's Envy. Owner's Pride.

Many other Brands have this amusing type of Captions to their companies.

HBO - Simply the Best
BBC - Knowing is Everything
CNN - Be the first to know
IBM - Solutions for a small planet
MTV - Enjoy
Honda - The Power of Dreams
Nokia - Connecting people
Pirelli - Power is nothing without control
Emirates - When was the last time you did something for the first time.

You know what's the best caption in this world ??

Avyukta - Welcome to your Senses. !!!!
Gotcha !

Kokku Para Para

Chandramukhi has done pretty decent in terms of songs. Though i like only two of them. I like "Kokku Para Para". My next door kid, Darshan dances for "Devuda Devuda" shaking his hands and legs. God has taught him to dance like that. Wonder how kids learn, and more to amazement, Rajnikanth's songs have a greater impact on kids. Almost all the kids i have seen a little earlier were singing "En Peru Padayappa !!!". Strange.

More Movie Digest : All movies back off their release dates, in co-ordination with Chandramukhi, leaving Chandramukhi the lone runner. Mumbai Express and Anniyan, set to go 10 days later.

Road block in road opposite to Valluvar Kottam. Man, these guys drive us Crazy, literally.

Hey, I've completed Deception Point. Only Digital Fortress is pending for completing all the Dan Brown Stuffs. Deception Point, i personally felt would make a good movie, but because I read Deception point after DaVinci and Angels and Demons, it did not have a good appeal over.

I Strongly recommend you all to read this book - Angels and Demons, after you read DaVinci Code.
Mail me for eBooks. :)

Avyukta has Hit 2000

2000 - Again the number game. I didnt think i will make it to this.

Curiosity Kills the Cat

I dont know why, but i like this Phrase a lot - "Curiosity kills the cat".

I really do not understand why this Phrase got its existance. But i like it. Probably the Cat is too very much curious, just like me. And gets killed everytime it expects something to happen, just like me. During my NIIT days, i was the only guy who completed the SQL Server 7.0 Online test in 20 minutes. The exam was supposed to be going for 1.5 hours. Most of the other guys were not ready to submit, even though they completed in 30 minutes. They were doing something called "Review of answeres", which i completely didnt like. I clicked on submit, and i was the Topper there.

I followed the same process/technique/superstition and clicked Submit in my next Java exam. And nobody got worse than me. I was lowest. I didnt know how to react. Usually this realization comes to most of us, when we get low marks. "Marks and test dont evaluate the knowledge of the person".

My MSc results are about to come, and i already told the above philosophy to my mom twice. Thats called preparing minds to accept the worst, and getting curious at the same time.

God Bless me and my Evaluator.

Whats Mind - Its no matter. Whats Matter - Never Mind !

If you'd been reading "Angels & Demons" you should have come across the term - Anti-Matter. I must be a confused guy, to understand Anti-Matter, without underanding what a matter is. Physicists define matter as something that has mass and comes in different forms: solid, liquid, gaseous. So, anti-matter is supposed to be the opposite of that. What could that be then !!!!

To define Antimatter, you'll have to deal with Paticle Physics. It says, everything in the Universe, has opposites just like Protons and Electrons. For every particle in nature, there is an anti particle - made of antimatter, with identical mass and spin, but with opposite electric charge, baryon number, strangeness, lepton number etc.

Antimatter was predicted by Dirac, based on strange "negative energy" solutions to his equation for an electron.

As per CERN - an European Scientific Research Lab, and as per my reading of Angels and Demons, When Matter and Anti-matter collides, there is a big-bang.

In scientific terms they call it Anhiliation - Matter and Antimatter Anhiliation.

So, the universe should have resulted in such a powerful collision of Matter and Antimatter. This supports our Big-Bang theory.

Phew ! So, many things are yet to be discovered. Still we worry about naming Tamil movies in English !! Damn !

Big Boss on the Charge

Believe it or not. No hypes, no cheap stunts, no big controversies. Chandramukhi, is smoothing its way, out to the world of fans. The simple banners and hoardings, and even simpler outlooks. Simplicity is the Grandest thing, i believe.

take a look at Thalaivar at cruises of action.

[Pic ctsy - www.lazygeek.net]

Wish this movie, brings back the lost smile on Rajni's face.

Whats your flavour ?

Considering many things in life, lets say we priorotise things. In my life i have priorities set, based on the daily life. I dont want to have foresight and then set priorities. Its just priority for my everyday, just like today. What are they.

1. Good food
2. Good food
3. Quality Work (!!!!)
4. Intellectual Informations
5. Good food
6. Sound Sleep

As far as sleep is concerned, quite recently, or exactly after my BONGO accident, i lost it completely.I dont know why, im not getting my normal sleep at all. So, Sleep is quite a big wish in my priority list.

But food, has always dominated in my priorities. I eat anything (vegetarian) good. Hygeine, is one word, i never learnt in school. So, food anywhere, any form and good.

Informations and intellectual informations. Particularly the perspective views. It would interest you even, to think about a normal thing in a different view/ perspective. Its like being someone else's mind. Take this. Sonia Gandhi wanted to forgive all the people who killed her Husband - Rajiv Gandhi. When i read this information, i thought "How greatful of her..". But then, there was another article by Cho. Ramaswamy. "Who is Sonia Gandhi to forgive terrorists. Further, there were many other people killed, Are everyone ready to fogive the brutal act. Why should everyone comply with her...". Different, isnt it.

Start looking at things on a wider angle. You get more clarity on an object, only when it is 360 degrees viewable.

Murphy's laws says "Everyone is Someone's fool". Remember you are a fool in some persons eyes. Same way You are a GURU in someone's thoughts. You are worshipped by someone, and at the sametime someone hates you to the core.

Thats because, we are not the same person to everyone. We exhibit different attitudes to different people.

We are not who we think we are. We are what others think we are.

Confused ?? keerthivasan@gmail.com

How many lakhs do you want ??

Successful weekend. Got the long time waited mobile (no ! not 9500. no gifts yet). Completed the Angels and Demons. Just as i guessed, the villain was exactly the person, nobody would have guessed. Next up - Digital Fortress. Getting to like this. May be Digital Fortress and Deception point, i will read parellely.

And, if you were tempted by the Topic, here goes.

I was giving a read throught Anandha Vikatan (www.Vikatan.com). And this info gave me exactly 500 Tons of temptation, and a long breath. It was about how companies hired the Top level Employees, like M.D.

The companies assign the task to HRD Consultancies, which recruit MDs. These consultants fix their target, and find a person suitable for the job. He is spied upon, and his weakness is found out. Or his necessities are observed. Then they slowly, open up the offer to the MD, to quit the current company and join theirs.

Three levels of temptations. "If you join this company, leaving you current job, i shall pay you 10, Lakhs" - This is called the Golden Hello

"If you join the company, and stay for oe complete year, i shall give you 5 lakhs more" - Golden Handcuffs

"And if you have to quit the company, ,or the company wants to terminate you , on unfortunate reason, i shall give you 15 lakhs" - Golden Parachute.

This is the way MDs are hired.

My dream - This is the way Software Engineers should be hired.
Anybody ?

Movie Search

Do it now . Go to Google, type "Movie: awesome car chase" and hit the search button. You better not be surprised about the result. Google is just capable of anything, and even this.

Movie search, Map search are the hits of February, and have scaled up the intellingence of Google a bit too higher.

Thought Chandramukhi Audio was releasing tomorrow. Hope to hear some better songs..By the way, how is Mayaavi ?

And the Oscar Goes to ...

The Oscars, once upon a time was really admired, and raised a lots of guesses.But nowadays, only after the movie wins the Oscars, we come to know about it.

"Million Dollar Baby" is some movie, i never even heard. And look at the Oscar catches it made..
Click your way to www.oscars.com for more awards.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jamie Foxx
RAY

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Morgan Freeman
MILLION DOLLAR BABY

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Hilary Swank
MILLION DOLLAR BABY

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett
THE AVIATOR

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
THE INCREDIBLES
Brad Bird

ART DIRECTION
THE AVIATOR
Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration)

BEST PICTURE
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg

CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE AVIATOR
Robert Richardson

Someday, my movie will be the best movie in the Oscars.
Best Picture - The Speculations and Conspiracy Buffs - Keerthivasan Rajamani

someday..

Bud Jet !

The Budget is out in the air. And everyone's happy about the slabs going wider, and making the tax burden lesser. But a sudden DAMAAL (no thats not a technical word, just a reaction) on Standard Deduction will compensate the Revenue from tax. All the same. They just balance the equation on both sides. They make sure our benefit is Zero. Thank god, it did not go Negative.

And this new 0.1 % transaction fee, for every Withdrawal of Rs. 10,000 and above is Outrageous. Looks like lots of sectors are opposing this, what is called a Black Money finder scheme. Mr. P. Chidambaram, has formulated this new scheme to bring out the Black money (remember his earlier VDIS). But this is emotionally making the normal people worry.

I have no tax, notsoever. So, no problems. (Should have income to have tax, right !!)

Now Reading

I never had the quality of "Reading" in my blood. But during my Fracture holidays, i had to be doing a lot of reading. From Ponniyin Selvan to DaVinci Code, everything was consumed. After this, a lots of eBooks started filling my Hard Disk. And this is the latest.



The above logo is the name of the book "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. Very similar to DaVinci Code, so far.

Did you carefully observe the logo. It is an Ambigram. It means, the picture reads the same, even if it is read upside down. Tilt your head slightly and try to read it upside down. And what do you see ??

Quite nice, isnt it ? Find more at JohnLangdon.net

Today is Budget day, and P.Chidambaram can rock my purse and bank accounts today. God let taxes die !

Change This

Have you imagined the world around you, as of now. With all technical advances, the news and media rules the world in Eastman Color. It is only what the people involved in the news has to say. What happens to views. We have a very little critics, and thats not the way it is supposed to work. The media is not just supposed to Pen the news. But it should also send Views and Foresights and Personal opinions of people.

ChangeThis is one group that wishes to change the way, the Media works. It is a open Media, where anyone is free to express thoughts. They have Manifestos by people around the world. It allies with Bloggers (like me !) and try to post their news world-wide. This is what they say "If you like the manifesto, Publish it. If you dont, Publish it, and Give your Opposing comments along". This is one way how the media has to grow. News and views.

Try going to www.ChangeThis.com and read various manifestos. Avyukta will be featuring more of these manifestos and views about it every Sunday.

Good read !!

GMail yet?

You should be aware of the new (9 months old) GMail. It is a revolutionary, big-spaced, Javascript-fast, clean and neat eMail application. If you were in any onversation with me anytime now, then you should right now be fed up of this topic. But for others, and others who still dont own a GMail ID yet - here's the good news.

GMail is semi-public right now, and is about to come out of Beta testing anytime this year. Also every GMail user is got 50 invitations to his account which he is free to distribute. However, this is not the way to spread GMail to the public.

If you have no such friend who would invirte you , Hello. Im Keerthivasan Rajamani, and im your new friend. :)

Mail me - keerthivasan at gmail dot com

Otherwise you could yourself go to http://isnoop.net/gmail/ and get your own GMail invite and further get your GMail ID. Go Fast !

Browser Wars - Doesnt seem to End

There was a time when I never knew there could be an alternative to Internet Explorer. Then for a long long time, Netscape Navigator was the only known Browser competing with IE.

Then came the storm called Opera. The so called Fastest Browser on Earth. There was a reason most of them liked it. The Tabbed Browsing with lots of Colors and Themes, and also easy Pop-up blocking. Image Zoom is one feature ay browser will Lack, and thats the Beauty of Opera. That is, we can Zoom the web page that was loaded, and even the images on the page is Proportionately zoomed. But then, people did not like Opera for one good reason. Javascript was not supported in Opera. With more and more web pages with lots of Javascript developing, The Heaven of Javascript - GMAIL did not work on Opera until its 7.54 version. Opera had to rework its browser to stand the competition.

Netscape, however, could not stand the popularity of IE and could not directly compete with Microsoft. So, it started supporting a fast growing browser company called Mozilla. Mozilla had a browser, a eMail application and a Chat [IRC] application. Mozilla had a great luck, when Google also started supporting Mozilla for the production of the Latest, and my favourite browser - Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox is a classic straight forward browser, and Open-source. Firefox is not fast, not user-friendly as Opera is. But it is primitive and a long time use with it will make you love Firefox.

Opera has now released Opera 8.0 Beta. This one supports GMail and many other Javascripted web pages. [GMail started working from Opera 7.6 Beta, itself].

With Firefox (25 million downloads, so far) and Opera alone in the competition, IE is no where in the picture. Eventhough 70 % of web-users use Internet Explorer browser, this picture is likely to change.

So, what browser are you using, I would reccomend Firefox.

The Day after Tomorrow

Have you seen a movie named "Day After Tomorrow". The Super Special Effects movie is all about the Global Warming. There is an ultimate change in the Weather, and ruins the world in Full.

Are we not seeing something similar. Earthquakes in Indonesia River Beds, and Tsunami in Srilanka India and Indonesia. Freezing killer climate in Jammu and Kashmir - India right now. And the Iran Earthquake yesterday.


[Jammu Snow - Ctsy- Sify.com]

Of course Calamities were happening even earler, but the Frequency of repeat incidents, in a matter of two months have raised questions.

Earth is not a safe place to be [What a Dialogue]. We better go to Mars. I can hear you telling, there is no Oxygen and Water in Mars. If you are in Chennai, you are pretty much in the Martian Environment. No Oxygen , and No Water.

Im going to Mars. Somebody want to Come ?

Of Responsibilities

I was on the Auto to my office, when i saw three kids, peeping out of the gate. They did not have a happy face. They were dressed in uniform, and hopefully waiting for their school van to pick them up to the place called school, which they did not seem to like. Can you imagine the picture ??



I was also not that happy to go to school, except those days, when i was perfectly done with homeworks, and prepared for Tests. As a kid, i thought i had too much responsibilities. How can you do, Physics assignment and Mathematics on the same night, with Metro time, and Metro Priya on the TV (remember those saviour shows ??). But it is only the starting trouble. As soon as I was inside the class-room, with all my soul-mates around me, I would not feel worried anymore.

Primarily because, I would have company. There is always someone who hasnt completed trigonometry.

United We Stand [Outside the class].

All i would be expecting everyday of my school is, "God ! Let today be a holiday ! Somehow...".

It is amusing to think about the past days. The ages of transformation. We learn more out of the school, and a very little inside (Thats just my opinion). Wow, there's much too much to write about schools. Ill save it for future blogs.

Top Ten - the frequent word

Google usually provides Zeitgeist for all its searches. This means, it lists the Top Ten Searches made in the world, so that you will know, what is more popularly searched, or looked for. Since January, Google has been providing the Zeitgeist for India too. Take a look at what Indians search for in Google.

India
Popular Queries of January 2005

1. Tsunami
2. Indian Railways
3. Sania Mirza
4. Trisha
5. Aishwarya Rai
6. Anara Gupta
7. IGNOU
8. Bollywood
9. NDTV
10. Austalian Open

Click here to find out more ...

By the way, who is Anara Gupta ??

Too Late is good for a Cell

After the accident, ive been going to home, as early as 7.00 PM. Yesterday was a bit late, and know what ? My dad and mom furious about being late, and not having made a call. They insist that i have a cell-phone.

I've had mixed feelings about owning a Cellular-Phone. I know it is a useful technology, but i was not deserving to be so busy with it. Besides, no one's going to call me. But then, i told my Dad, "OK dad ! I'll buy one. This is my dream model Nokia - 9500 Communicator !!". "How much does it cost ..." " Rs. 35,000 !" "Good ! Go to hell !"

Next 5 mins we had a nice conversation. Nice it was. Dad said, buy your communicator next year. This year buy a mobile and then give it to me, when you buy the communicator.

So, Im buying my dad's favourite model - Samsung C110 (likely !).

Here's my dream phone


and still dreaming of my Communicator. Somebody willing to gift me :) I will give you my Autograph (WOW)

*** Chennai Marathon Pictures on www.Kiruba.com.
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Tamil Channels on Hollywood

Hope you saw the Terror Peak and Broken Arrow (Buroken Ero in Tamil - so nice, isnt it) on Vijay and Sun TV. Next week is even better. True Lies, in Tamil on Vijay TV. And much much more to come.

This was once my dream, when CAS came to Chennai. Why dont Tamil channels give atleast 2 English movies in a week. And now its a reality. But the fantasy broken at edges. Because, the Channels think they should be screening only Action movies. (Of course, Crimson Tide was no Action Movie). Nyways, something is better than nothing.

Monday morning is nice, after a long time. During my long vacation, little did i care about what day it was. And now, there is a responsibility (how nice to bluff) to wake up early and brush up !

Yesterdays Marathon was a big hit ! Thousands ran the marathon. Hope the culture prolongs.

Constantine - Back from Hell !

Missing a movie like Matrix ?
Here's what you want. Constantine, a new movie thats got all the Matrix stuffs. Mystry and Action and Special Effects like Woo Haa !

More - Keanu Reeves is the Hero or rather the Superhero. And the Heroine is whom you see in the picture, down below. Sorry for not putting the Hero's picture. Cmon guys, it depends on the interest.



Releasing in Satyam Complex. Im planning to go for this movie, even with my broken leg.

By the way, the fast month February has lost most of its days. Its been a very fast month. and just one more week to end it. Wow. I would like all the months to be like Feb. What say ?

Longhorn Hits You Soon

Most of us were thinking of Microsoft Windows 2000, That came after Windows 98. What happened to Windows 97 and Windows 99. After 2000, Microsft started naming its Software in a different way. As you know, the peaceful and more Buggy Windows ME, and the King O/S called the Microsft Windows XP - Professional and Home editions. XP has rocked the world, as much as 98 did. Most of us do not know there was Windows Server 2003. It was a silent news.



By and By, now, Microsoft is up for its next release. Microsoft Longhorn. Longhorn will rename most of the Windows components you use, and have more colour, performance and security. Thats a Microsoft Promise. Longhorn also comes with a 64-Bit edition, to allow the new AMD 64+ users to operare on a 64 Bit Processor environment.

Technorati !

There are Newer Techno Gizmos arriving every second. Well, Hold your breath, and smile to welcome a few Gigantic Diskettes. The higher capacity DVDs are about to be into the market, and may revolutionize the Burma Bazaar DVD shops. How do your like all Harrison Ford movies in a single Disc. Well, its possible with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray technologies. The technical comparison of both these Diskettes are as given below.

	HD-DVD	Blu-Ray	DVD
Storage Capacity (per layer)	15 GB	25 GB	4.4 GB
Launch Date	Sept. 2005	2nd half 2005	Aug. 1997

And Still we have computers coming with Floppy Drives.

Post Valentine's Day

In the coming few years, the Companies will have one week Holiday, Commencing from two days prior to Valentine's day and two days after. You should see the rush in Anna nagar shops, celebrating (but why?) Valentines day. Get 50 % off on your partner's clothings. But you are not just allowed to get only your partner's clothings. Traps are everywhere, and business is always business.

Lots of activities going around Chennai, and most of the metro-politans. Red roses on demand, and SMS messages had a Surge. Bikes flying on roads with partners, who believe they should give cards and realize their love only on the So called auspicious day.

Soon, we have Mother's day and Father's day and Friendship Day, and Thanksgiving Day.
We are almost gone International in celebrating. Gone Really Long !

Sometimes, Shiv Sena is right. (Duh !)

Back to Office

Right after 2 months, Im in office. What a romantic day to resume work !!

Lots of news coming your way. Keep checking.

Dataone on Hold

hello People,

Apologies for non-updations. Was held up with the Fracture thing. Was also waiting for the Broadband connection from BSNL.

I was very impressed by the way, BSNL asked to apply online, but then Iam now regretting it. BSNL asks us to go to the Customer care, and apply from there. anybody using DataOne already, let me know the credibility.

Mumbai express still under production, so cant tell you anything about it (Dhoda !). But there is already a conspiracy about maniratnam's next movie "Aalayam". Check it out.

Hearty wishes for the New year, and pongal. I was watching these festivals pass by, just as i was completely on bed. Nyways, im back to office on Valentines Day. God knows why !

Hope to update Blog regularly, here on.

Greetings
Keerthivasan Rajamani