Left leg aage agee..

This movie has really good songs. Have seen songs that teach dance steps as a song sequence in English but this should be a first in mainstream Hindi cinema done in style. It couldn't be more hilarious :)

Peer pressure

I still remember how over hyped the movie Dark Knight(Batman series) was. Even worse, I was furious that it topped the imdb.com charts for many consecutive weeks dethroning my all time favorite Shawshank redemption. It took a long time before common sense prevailed and settled at the #8 spot. The same goes with Aamir Khan's new movie '3 idiots'. So rightly named! I just became the 4th idiot watching it.
I remember during under-graduation, students recommending study books that were too difficult to follow and claim they were excellent books to read and recommend it to fellow students, who would buy it and in turn do the same.

How about magazines that promotes and sells new things/ideas. Is a magazine equivalent to peer pressure? Do we feel tempted to think the way the magazine thinks and buy what the magazine says. I think so. What is your take on it?

Future Designer laptop - ROLLTOP

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Pretty interesting Ted talk

Talks Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify
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Weather on Earth

Weather on Earth is brr...cold! Hope they get something substantial done at the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Here is how Earth, TX currently looks :-)

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More High Speed Photography

More amazing insight to our world in slow motion

Shirt sense

Deciding what shirt to buy has never been my strong point. Imagine sifting through  the hundreds of shirts stacked on the racks. It is easier to decide when they hang the shirt on a hanger at the shop. It sometimes gives an idea on how it might look on me. The best however is to buy shirts displayed on the dummy and this is exactly what I have been doing.. I even bought a few jeans after seeing them on dummies (and ofcourse trying it out). Buying clothes is  5% common sense and 95%  'dummy' sense for me :)

French Fries

Yummy-Yummy. At MaryBrown in Chennai

Yipee yipee Rain rain!!!

Note the dark clouds casting a shadow over the search keyword :-)

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Daredevil

There was no safety net and if i remember correct, no safety string attached either. Another one in chennai by a performing foreign lady artist.

Unicorn and glass art

From the Sony digital camera. Both shots at different malls in Chennai. The unicorn was kind enough to pose for the camera before it flew away:)

Unicorn



Before twilight

meez

Time to break the jinx. That's me at a camera shop taken on my friend's new Samsung Star. I got myself a Sony Cybershot-looks good for point and click. It however doesn't support win2000 and cannot run the installation CD. Its going to be a while before some of the images could be posted.

Hindi Melodrama

There is nothing as beautiful as Hindi melodrama, the main reason I love watching Hindi movies so much. It leaves me with a sense of satisfaction. The sheer energy, color and drama and songs that go in are amazing. Hindi movies is proof that you don't need a real script to make a beautiful movie. It doesn't matter how Sharukhan shifts from his Punjab power attire to macho man and how is wife doesn't recognize this and thinks that they are two separate people! But in the end who cares? Hindi movies aren't about intelligence. It serves its purpose very well- not only take you on an emotional roller coaster but leaves you with a sense of happiness and awakening in the end. The above song is standing testimony of this case.

More news on my computer

I am trying to shake is my laziness. My mouse(at lab) had a problem for nearly 8 months. Sometimes you would have to click 3-4 times unless you are really professional and know the exact spot where the click translates on the monitor. Finally, I went up today and asked for a mouse and got a new fully functional mouse. My Firefox browser crashed yesterday. Tried to uninstall and reinstall but with no success. Finally, shifted to Opera browser. Now, I have a brand new mouse and brand new browser.

After typing all this, i wonder why any of this is going to be of any interest to anyone :-)

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This blogger has become very lazzyyy.

Wedding Entrance :)

The Geek Factor

Well, I actually did an Ms. with some emphasis to research. So, most folks think that I am a geek. My cousin recently asked if I plan on doing a PhD. and I said "yes,hopefully'. Then he says "oh, so when you get married, you and your wife would be seated in adjacent rooms and studying!". That would give some idea what my family perceives about me. Honestly, none of this is true and I am just being stereotyped here :-)

Anyway, this "others proclaimed geek" (me) decided to go for a movie (Transformers 2) with other friends from my department at University. They are all either Ms. or PhD students (read geeks). I booked 15 movie tickets online and we left for the theater in two separate vehicles since we wouldn't fit into one. We arrived a few minutes late at the theater and I distributed the tickets (basically two printouts, one for 8 tickets in one row and the other for 7 tickets in another row). Since we were late, we rushed into the movie hall and started searching for seats. Someone else was seated on the chair corresponding to my seat number, whom I gladly evicted. All looked fine and I was trying to figure out the part of the movie I missed. Then after a few minutes one of my friend came up and complained that all the seats were occupied and he couldn't find a place to sit. I told him that someone might be occupying one of our seats and to get this sorted 4 of us got up and went to the door man with our printouts. The doorman went into the hall and came out after 5 minutes saying that he couldn't sort it out. He looked rather confused. My friend was rather annoyed by this and asked for the Hall supervisor. Another two minutes, the Hall supervisor appears and my friend starts scolding him for the delay and confusion. He didn't yell but has a nice way of getting things across and was pretty good at it. My friend told the supervisor that someone else was occupying our seat and asked him to sort it out.
The supervisor said fine, one of you come along with me, I will point my torch at the person corresponding to each seat number on your tickets and you identify if the person is yours or not. Started with the 1st seat number-yes he is ours, says my friend, so is the 2nd, 3rd..., all the way upto the 14 th and 15 th!
The supervisor comes out and tells us, see I have accounted for each person to the seat number on your tickets, what is the problem? That's when I realized there were 16 of us and not 15 as we presumed. I whispered to my friend (that had scolded the supervisor) that there were 16 of us! He was mum and he wouldn't say another word. Finally, I told the supervisor "We have a problem. We have an extra person"!. He wasn't surprised, he seemed to know. Eventually, one of us who had already watched the movie previously left the hall and visited the mall nearby.
I narrated this to my mom who couldn't stop laughing and she said "all these researchers together couldn't even count right!". Didn't I tell you I was no geek :-)

Slow

My desktop computer has become soooooo slow and has almost run out of space. Haven't done a reinstall in four years and takes a good five minutes to powerup fully. I gave the laptop to my brother. Now, the only thing i seem to need at my fingertips is a keyboard to a fast computer :D I also wouldn't mind faster interfaces like the one Jas uses:)

Viva

Hurray!!! Eventually done with Ms. viva voce. I just learned that its not viva voice but viva voce :)

Dancing Queen