| My life |
[21 Nov 2005|04:45am] |
Its time to take stock of my life....in the past two weeks. Let me list out the things that I have done ......which would be the same as the movies that I have watched.
TELUGU
1.Oka Oorilo
2.Nuvvostante Nevuddante
3.Nuvve Nuvve
4.Nuvve Kavali
5.Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu
6.Nuvvu Naaku Nacchav
7.Shiva
8.Manmadhudu
9.Simhadri
10.Naaga
11.Adi
12.Kushi
13.Sontham
14.Bunny
15.Gangotri
16.Arya
17.Amma Naana O Tamil Ammai
18.Venky
19.Idiot
20.Bhageeratha
21.Samudram
22.O Chinadana
23.Balu
24.Toliprema
25.Indra
26.Tagore
27.Sogasu Chooda Tarama
28.Soggadu
29.Chatrapathi
30.Okkadu
31.Athanokkade
32.Athadu
33.Naani
...........May be a few more....cant quite remember.
TAMIL
1.Ghajini
2.Adhu Oru Kana Kaala
ENGLISH
1.Flightplan
2.RedEye
3.Venom
Wow.That's a LOT of movies for two weeks. Guess sitting down and listing down really puts things in perspective. 38 films each an average of 2 hrs:45 min means I have watched almost eight hours of movies per day which is about 16 times the work I did on my project. That's depresssing.........Any suggestions for getting out of depression. Movies!?
For now let me have a good morning's sleep over it and think about it.
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| Friend and Friend-alike |
[13 Nov 2005|04:28pm] |
It is said that there exist seven people in the world who look alike. Which means six others who look like you. I wonder how many people are there who think alike. There must be many because thats how we get all the 'isms' - thoughts of a group of people thinking similarly. That gets me to the next question - How many others exist who look and think alike?
I was watching a video from BloodHound Gang (had never heard of them before I watched this video). As soon as the lead singer came on I dont know why I felt that he looked similar to a friend of mine. Although there is no actual similarity feature by feature, somehow all the features put together stuck me as familiar. By the time the video ended I was convinced that I had discovered a look-think alike of my friend. My friend and others might entirely disagree with me.....But this is MY blog isn't it? So lets continue with MY thoughts.
I thought let me find out some more about this guy to validate my instinctive conclusions. I found an interview with the singer, Jimmy Pop, parts of which I am reproducing here :
*****Start of article/interview
Frontman Jimmy Pop has repeatedly been called homophobic, misogynistic, and racist. For the most part, his inability to take anything seriously has made such accusations roll off him like butter from a heated pan. In conversation, Pop is witty and affable, enthusiastically shrugging off probing questions with dirty one-liners. But he's also surprisingly candid, openly discussing his hedonistic exploits, sexual pursuits, and personal inadequacies.
drDrew.com: You write pretty raunchy, borderline offensive stuff that has pissed off some civil rights groups.
JP: The whole goal is to just make my friends laugh and to try to have a good time. If you go through our records we're as hard on ourselves as we are on anybody else. We do address stereotypes about all kinds of people, but there are little truths to every stereotype, and that's what makes the stuff funny, whether it's about how inadequate I am in bed or something else.
drDrew.com: You're inadequate in bed?
JP: I think the reason why I like to [perform oral sex on] girls has to do with the fact that I don't last very long [in bed]. If I can get them going like a San Francisco trolley, and then jump on it like Rerun in the beginning of What's Happening, then I'm all set.
drDrew.com: You write for a gay magazine called Homosex. Why?
JP: People in Europe thought I was homophobic, so I started writing for it. These gay magazines are much more real because if you read Penthouse or Hustler, the girls are all going, "Oh my pussy's so hot. I'm so wet for you." No girls really talk like that. But with gay magazines you've got guys who think with their dicks writing for people who think with their dicks. It's perfect. So, I've been doing these articles about the heterosexual life for Homosex. Our bassist Evil Jared is gonna pose for the magazine. They wanted me to do it, but I'm not terribly well endowed.
drDrew.com: How are you with the ladies?
JP: It's funny because we were playing Milwaukee today, and the girl working the ticket booth was really cute. Here we are, we've sold five million records or whatever, and I couldn't go up and talk to her. I sent somebody else over and they said, "My friend likes you." I'm not very good with the girls unless I'm really drunk. Then I'm okay.
drDrew.com: Describe your first sexual experience?
JP: It was with my first long-term girlfriend. I was 16, and it wasn't that bad. It wasn't a horror story or anything like that. I don't think she enjoyed [oral sex], but it was my first time doing that. I always used to practice on my Subway sandwich, but I didn't have it down by the time I actually did it.
drDrew.com: Any tips?
JP: If you find a girl that has an almost non-existant clitoris, then you should lick the alphabet, like Sam Kinison said. But if she has one, then you're pretty much all set. I would definitely say I'm a master.
*****End of interview
I am sure differences exist like the complete lack of sexual experience(self employment doest count) of my friend. But that can be explained by geographical influences. But the 'dirty' thoughts are very similar.
Can't wait to show the video to my friend and friends. The video would also clarify the repeated emphasis on oral things.
And btw the song is: Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
The title structure rings any bells?
Jimmy Pop
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| Two stories : one thread |
[04 Oct 2005|05:00pm] |
I recently(yesterday night) came accross two blog entries. These belonged to two very different people, one of whom I know and the other one I know of. Yet these two entries carried a common thread : of going through some kind of identity crisis after coming to IIT and finally being able to find their own self after quite a lengthy period of personal turmoil.
The first fellow is a person I have known for quite sometime, one of the most brilliant people I have met. He tells his story here.
The other fellow personifies what you would call as 'eccentric'. An overachiever by any standard he is, what people who did not know him personally at IIT call as, a 'shady' character. You can get to know him here. You are warned though that this a very (very) long entry (albeit a fascinating one).
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| THE SCENE |
[23 Sep 2005|04:12am] |
I watched eleven episodes of a series called The Scene. It was AMAZING! It may be the first internet series ( i.e The Series has not been telecast on any channel or network or DVD but has been made available directly on the web)that I have heard of and definitely the first one I have seen.
The basic premise of the series is as follows:
We all have come accorss movies available for free download on BitTorrent and similar such sites. I personally have downloaded some of these myself. Mind you, these are not those shady, grainy looking pirated copies(done with a camera in cinema halls) usually available in the VCD store but very high quality DVD rips.
Although these movies are available in many P2P sites they can all be traced back to a few topsites which put up these files the first. These sites usually have groups competing with each for releasing the latest movies and stuff for free. Members of these groups usually do this as a hobby and not for money. They have a source, like somebody at a studio or DVD manufacturing plant who provides them with the initial copy which they then rip, encode and put it up on the site for the rest of the world. This whole setup is called the scene in their lingo.
This series(fictional, although I think it is semi-real) is about one such group, its members, their internal dynamics, the lure of money, the DVD bootlegger mafia etc. And true to the story-line the makers have released the series itself on the P2P websites for free.
What makes the series SO INCREDIBLE is the way in which it has been presented. The entire episodes are just one computer screen of a particular member and his interactions with the rest of the group through chat. It is like actually watching the computer screen of that person. The entire story is told so thrillingly through this technique that you have to see it to believe it. Here's a screen shot of an episode
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The series is not yet concluded. Twelfth episode has been just released. If you are interested in downloading and watching this visit here
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[22 Sep 2005|01:36pm] |
Received one of those forwards again. You know, one of those half-jest half-serious statements about what women want their men to do and blah blah.
It would have been funny if it were not so real. I watched quite a few Oprah episodes where she literally whips up a frenzy among her audience, which laugh, cry, clap, gush and dance at her whim, quoting some of these inane pop psychology books as TRUTH.
Here are samples of the mail I received( A woman's 50 rules for men)
6.The correct answer to "Do I look fat?" is never, ever "Yes."
7.Ditto for "Is she prettier than me?"
14.None of your ex-girlfriends were ever nicer, prettier, or better in bed.
15.Her cooking is excellent.
44.Remember Valentine's Day, and any cheesy "anniversary" she so-names.
48.Don't bad-mouth her family/friends/job -- even if she does.
We all have studied in our schools a method of creating partical vaccuum. You know, heat a container till it steams up, close it with a lid, allow it to cool down and the steam liquifies and creates a partial vaccuum.
I came up with a method of my own to create vaccuum. Here it goes :
I write to Oprah.com repeatedly requesting for an audience pass. My nationality and my unwavering enthusiasm convinces them to invite me to one of their shows. I take a 'girlfriend' to the show.
AND in the middle of the show I say loudly to my 'girlfriend' :
"You know, your friends are really stupid. Why did they advise you to wear this dress? Dont they know that this dress makes you look fatter than you already are? May be it would fit perfectly that pretty woman sitting in front of you. But not you."
And the collective GASP from the audience sucks in all the air CREATING A PERFECT VACCUUM!
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| Been a long time since I updated...... |
[05 Sep 2005|08:36pm] |
Teacher's day today. I am where I am now thanks(to some extent?) to all the teachers right from my school. Looking back, there will always be many things to complain about the schools but almost as surely there will always be some teachers who would have made a lasting impression. To all such great teachers....Respect!
I am not much musically inclined. But I do have very strong liking for some songs which vary from classical to rock to remixes. One of my favourite songs is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. Today is the birthday of the group's uttery charsimatic, energetic and tragic lead singer, writer Freddie Mercury. Freddie whose real name is Farrokh Bulsara was a Parsee who spent his initial formative years in a residential school near Mumbai in India. Freddie died in 1991 of AIDS and the Bohemian Rhapsody written in 1975 by Freddie somehow foretells his tragic early death. As we claim as our own with many of the Nobel prize winners, who neither were residing in India nor were Indian citizens, I do not know why nobody has spoken of Freddie as being India's greatest rock star!
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| kannada bandhavarige |
[31 Jul 2005|12:10am] |
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Nodamma Hudugi Kelamma Sariyagi - Premaloka |
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I came accross an awesome site www.udbhava.com which contains all kinds of kannada music from film songs to devotional , from folk songs to harikathe and many more categories.
But the flipside is that streaming rate has been maxed at 20 Kbps so the quality of sound is compromised. Still a good site to enjoy some great music especially with high speed connection.
Infact I am doing just that right now.........
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[04 Jul 2005|05:58pm] |
Long ago I read a novel by Yendamuri Virendranath( I do not remember the title but i think it was "Rushi").
It tells the story of a young man who falls in love a girl from his college. Too timid to actually propose to her and too much in love with her he becomes a tortured and confused soul. Then he decides to find the true meaning of love and goes off to the mountains of Vindhyas. There he meditates on the concept of love for six years and in the end becomes enlightened.Because of his penance and meditation he gains various siddhis(mystical powers).He comes back to his town and tries to make her fall in love with him through her own volition. This is the basic premise of the story.
More than the actual story it is the new concept of love that Yendamuri gives that is very interesting. The person has to make the girl fall in love with him on her own will. So this means that there are no inducements whatsoever which can be used. If you lavish gifts on someone, talk nicely to them, take them around is it the pure form of love? If someone loves and responds to such things then what is it that they are responding to? If the gifts and sweet talk are stopped do they stop loving you? If they do then were they earlier in love with you? The writer takes it to the extreme by questioning whether there is any need to proclaim your love for someone at all. If you are proclaiming your love then you are doing so with a selfish thought of influencing the person to love you back. If you are truly, unselfishly in love then what do you gain by proclaiming? If you love someone can you do so even if they don't love you back, even if they are in love with someone else or even if they are married to someone else? Many such interesting views are given by the author and it makes for a good thought provoking novel.
What particularly interested me was the question of love and exclusivity.If I am in love with a person should I expect that there exist something between us(not at the physical level only) that is not shared in any other relationship.I think I will make this issue a different entry later.......
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| One night at Gandhibazaar......... |
[23 Jun 2005|09:59am] |
It had stopped drizzling. Light breeze added to the chill. The full moon was hiding behind dark clouds. A street dog had found some warm shelter in front of a closed shop. It lifted its droopy eyes now and then, when a scurrying rodent came too close. Suddenly its ears shot up. The blowing wind brought a distant but distinct sound of whispers. It opened its eyes warily and could see three stealthy silhouettes in the distance. It stood up, very alert, sensing the shadows moving towards it. Grrrrrrr........Bow wow.....It started barking and the three shadows froze......
The Three had planned the attack carefully. They had chosen time of attack at midnight and the place of attack at The-One's residence. They knew The-One had little defence against such a surprise. They sought the help of The-One's-Own but were denied. The-One's-Own would do it differently they were told. Just the three of us they thought. They decided to meet up at the Thunder and proceed from there for the attack. They were near the high walls of The-One's residence when they heard something behind them. The Three turned, all at once, to see a fierce creature moving towards them menacingly. The Three froze.....
The-Shining-One was the first to speak."What the hell do we do now?". The-Golden-One replied,"Let's move slowly towards the entrance of The-One. It is not far. I think we should be able to make it." The-Comic-One said,"I agree, I am so afraid of these *&@#$%^ dogs." The-Golden-One snapped back,"Don't say such things to them. You know they are such good pets." The-Remaining-Two, "Ok..Ok..Let's move."
Meanwhile...The Dog was getting increasingly agitated. WOw-wow-wowwow-owwowwwww It started barking loudly. Fifteen pairs of ears shot up instantly. What sounded like a distant hustling, slowly became a loud rumble as fifteen street dogs, well fed on various Darshini leftovers, came running. "Wuf-woof-grrr-bow-ruff-brrr-wowWuf-woof-grrr-bow-ruff-brrr-wow".........A light went up in some house.....
The Three had slipped through the entrance."Phew...That was close",said The-Comic-One."The-Golden-One's experience with dogs saved the day.....or night is it"said the The-Shining-One."Hahaha" said the The-Golden-One. Slowly they tiptoed to The-One's door... Just then someone shouted "Haakro.. Ikkro Nan makkaLrige....dina bandu baTTe kadeethare."
Phat-Bam-Boom-Kaboom-Dishum.....Amma-Groan-Ayyo-Shrill shout.....Kaboom-Dishum-Chateer-Phateer......
The Three slipped through the crowd and made a dash towards the The-One's door. As they were about to bang the door, someone opened it..............."SURPRISE" shouted The-One's-Own. Thus ended The-Three's surprise attack.
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| Everything has a beginning....... |
[17 Jun 2005|09:30am] |
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Over the past few days I have been told, sometimes not very subtly, to shut up. My friends were getting tired of my obscure humour and I still had so much more to offer. It was then that I decided that both my friends and I should have options. I should have the option to say whatever I want and my friends should have the option of listening to it or not. So I chose the path of blogging. Of course writing isn't the same as telling and reading isn't exactly listening. But I guess we would have to make do with this until, maybe someone comes up with speech blogging...
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