Spring ,Summer,Fall,Winter and Spring

My movie for the day was - Spring ,Summer,Fall,Winter and Spring - a Korean movie.


A very beautifully made movie!

The movie starts by showing a gate.Well, its not exactly a gate but its more of a main door to a house.The door opens to reveal a house in the middle of an undisturbed lake.The architecture of the house is highly simple and it is entirely made of wood.A Buddhist Monk and a kid live there.
Their day starts with worshipping a statue of Buddha.The statue of Buddha is in the center of the house and on either side of it is a room with no walls. They just have doors.This reveals the 'Self Control' part of a human.This might sound absurd here, but the movie should be defintely seen to understand the hidden philosophy in each frame.

The movie goes onto show us how a man evolves across the seasons. It talks about CHANGE in the most beautiful manner.Well, we have all read about evolution, that's more like giving a physical view to it. But this movie talks about the mind and its orientation.
The desires,the seeking,the yearning,the decisions,the impulse,the thoughts,the anger,the learnings - each one of them is an epic. Ki-duk Kim has done a brilliant job by capturing all of these.

The beauty of the movie is, none of the character have names! And about the rating - I would call it a 'Must Watch'.

~~~Fedora~~~

Currently using Fedora!! Fedora is nothing but a felt hat. Red Hat Linux uses the Shadowman with a hat as its logo. And hence the name for this open source OS too.
Fedora's logo has an interesting funda!!

The Synonym

Currently reading The Picutre of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, where I came across the description of Lord Henry's house. It goes like this -

"a very charming room,with its high-panelled wainscoating of olive-stained oak,its cream coloured frieze.."

Opened OED to find out what the word 'frieze' meant. And I understood!(?) the synonym in its entirety.

- Part of entablature between architrave and cornice!

Ha!

Words!

An Acronym is a word that is formed with the initial letters of the word.But I came across something called a Backronym. A word is said to be a backronym if it started as an acronym and later got an expanded version! Well,an example would make it more clear -SOS was a backronym. But it later came to be known as 'Save Our Souls' / 'Save Our Ship'.

The word Backronym is a Portmanteau!The word Portmanteau was coined by Lewis Caroll. To define a portmanteau, it is a word that is formed by combining the sounds and the meanings of different words. Ha, would you believe if were to tell you that TomKat actually stood for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? (Spare me geeks!Please.....)

If a word is either an acronym/a backronym and also has a meaning related to the words it is made up of,is called an Apronym. Apronym is a portmanteau of Appropriate Acronym! A famous example is - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for LSD.Well, this falls under the acronym category.The one in the backronym category is - INFINITY, wherein it stands for Increment Numbers Forever -It's Nuts, I tell You!

It's origin!

On a typical Saturday, Needham would watch 10 films back to back. In a year, he’d screen 1,100. Not surprisingly, he began to lose track of which films he’d seen and which he hadn’t. So, at age 23, he started a personal database to keep a log that also could be printed out for his friends to take to the video store. “It’s a terribly geeky thing to do, but it turned out all right in the end,” says Needham.

That's how it started!

Nerdy!!

Took up this test on NerdTests.

Cha(i)nged???

Blank Noise Project

My topic is no different from Deepti's."Is there any girl who lives who has not been harassed on the roads? " Yes....show me one female.... It is a very difficult life.Life is NOT easy for a woman to lead a day without getting psyched out by such incidents.

I have had many bitter experiences..... never have I reached my bus-stop in the morning without hearing "the so called appreciations" from the vetti (highly) people on the road.The worst is the PTC bus travel.My travelling in the bus made me realise as to why God has given us elbows. And people out here wanna know y we women prefer weearing HIGH HEELS or stilletoes??? Well....to jus STAMP them. But that doesn't deter such heads from teasing.The worst thing is THE WOMEN are a target for dignified too. It is extremely painful to undergo such harassment.
Is anyone spared at all? Right from a school going kid to an old woman.... none of them are spared. That's beacause.. she is a WOMAN.Where is the EMPOWERMENT everybody is talking about??
Why should we suffer so much? Is it a curse to be born as a woman? Even a person who had committed a sin will just suffer for a period of time. NOT THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.

The picture depicts the OPTIMISM in us! that keeps us going!Rather the entire WORLD going!.


It is still......
WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN,IS SAVAGE and not....
WOMAN!!! WITHOUT HER,MAN IS SAVAGE.

What are you?

Well, this isn't any kind of an analysis as to what kind of a person you are.But rather it is, what kind of FOOD you eat rather or the one that you are passionate about.

The most commonly heard terms being Vegetarian and a non-Vegetarian! A Vegetarian may consume dairy and egg products.Veganism is a more stricter form.Vegans even avoid products that were tested on animals.On the other hand an Ovo-Vegetarian does not consume meat or dairy products but eggs.Fuitarians eat only the fuits of plants.They form the subset of Vegans.

But there is another classification called the KUKKADETARIANS!! Well, these people eat Chicken for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner too!!!
Probably here are people WHO'LL COUNT THEIR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH!! ;)
(But me is curious to know the etymology of the word.Pour in your creative explanations.)

Johari!!

Johari window!!its a tool intended that serves in understanding people's interpersonal communication and relationships.The concept was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham, who combined their first names to create the name of the tool.A Nohari window is the inversion of the Johari window, and is a collection of negative personality traits instead of positive.

And yeah.......here goes mine!

Arena (known to self and others) adaptable, friendly, happy, patient, trustworthy	Blind Spot (known only to others) able, accepting, bold, brave, calm, cheerful, clever, complex, confident, dignified, energetic, extroverted, independent, ingenious, knowledgable, mature, modest, observant, relaxed, self-assertive, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, witty
Façade (known only to self)	Unknown (known to nobody) caring, dependable, giving, helpful, idealistic, intelligent, introverted, kind, logical, loving, nervous, organised, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, religious, responsive, searching, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, tense, warm, wise

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that Padmavathy is friendly

All Percentages

able (20%) accepting (10%) adaptable (40%) bold (20%) brave (10%) calm (10%) caring (0%) cheerful (20%) clever (10%) complex (10%) confident (20%) dependable (0%) dignified (10%) energetic (20%) extroverted (20%) friendly (60%) giving (0%) happy (20%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (20%) ingenious (10%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgable (30%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (30%) modest (10%) nervous (0%) observant (30%) organised (0%) patient (30%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (10%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (10%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (10%) spontaneous (10%) sympathetic (10%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (20%)

Too looooong a hiatus

Ha.... that was too long a hiatus from this blogging world.

Pathetically And Desperately Dying to keep this blog Yalive!
Well..that was Paddy!! (if the mnemonic was too DUMB)

That was a deperate attempt to frame a mnemonic... :( Can't be as successful as I Am Chairman Of Chrysler Corporation Always!!!

Happiness!!

Me is kind of elated!! I had written an article! And it got published in my office magazine!!:).And yeah.... the best part was, people DID appreciate that! (Not bad na).Well....the article was on the Krithi 'Chakkani Raja'. Rather it was one of my very old posts! Thought will give it a shot and presented them the article!And Lo......it was published!

The magazine also had a few snaps of the year's happenings! There was a New Year Bash, and those snaps were also published.

Well....that's ME!!

Undeterred

Found this pic very interesting and inspiring!

R.E.M.O

Was wanting to blog about this for a very long time.It is about the character that Vikram played in his movie called Anniyan. I din't realise that this character had a wiiiddeee...... and a hhhuuuuuugggeeeee reach.

Once this movie was out, I could see people trying to imitate his sshhhhtyle! Right from the hair color,the hair style, the mod outfits... People imagined themselves to be REMO! And not to forget his famous,rather the punch style - act of 'throwing a kiss'. God... din't think that the character could have such an appeal.

Came across many other situations where the guys called themseleves REMO.They'd even put pics of REMO on their Orkut album (which was just one instance).I was extremely surprised when a colleague of mine added the name REMO to his name (not that he re-christened himself) but he was so crazy about that character,that his official profile had the name REMO followed by his name.

The best part was, I had gone on a trip to an amusemet park. And we were going on this ride called the cable car.
Hey!!!!!It is a beautiful ride!! (but I got bored cos' it was a bit slow).Well I know for a fact that I ain't travelling on the land.Still.....

The car is pitched at a height of 'I don know how many feet' high from the ground.Me and a friend of mine were just observing the design and the shape of the car. When I came across this... Saw the word REMO written there on the glass.

Well......is this what you call the HEIGHTS!! ??? !!!!

Conspiracy..........

Two days back,I just switched on my comp( to KEEP UP my WORD!!):), but there was no display.Thought it might be a cable fault, so changed the cord. And wow! that worked.But it said 'Disk Read Error Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

Cross verified it by trying to boot from a CD. Alas........my HARD DISK..... has gone for a toss :(

Okay,the basic reason why I started writing this post is - MY COMP CONSPIRED AGAINST ME IN KEEPING UP MY RESOULUTION (also without the 1024 X 768.....forgive me for the PJ,(Ahem!!)as long as it is not a p+ij!!)

Suggest!!

God!!!!!.Google guys are sooooo innovative.This time it's the Google Suggest !

AJAX is the technology that is used.The scripting that is used to query the server is the JavaScript.Well....Google had introduced its Suggest on December 10th.But me is coming to know about it only now.Thanks to a friend of mine who was talking to me about it! :)

Python!

Got to learn Python for the week. I was just going through a link related to it where I found that the goal of the developers is to make Python fun to use. And the example code has references to Monty Python!!
Woowww!!Now,this inspires me!!!!

Got excessively inspired and took up this test!

Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?

Addictive!

Ha!! My (sorta) New Year's resolution- Me will blog everyday! :) The day I started blogging, my first post,even today when I read it, sounds damn funny.But today..it's so very different.I have kind of got addicted to blogging.

Never knew that there was a totally different world out here.Learning a lot through blogging.About the people,their ideas...wooowwww!! Human minds are so complicated and so wonderful.I am really amazed by the way ceratin people think and the way they express things!

Wanna Know Y 'INSIDE' is out!!

First it was Hutch painting the town Pink,and now it's INTEL.

Intel is planning to change it's logo,designed by Dennis Carter,it's marketing manager.It is said that the word 'INSIDE' might be OUT! Let's see what they come up with!

Ignonosecond!!

Me is writing this post from a CUBE FARM, trying to calculate the BEVAMETER.

Wondering what this is????Don't bother flipping a dictionary to find out what it is.

Well,these are called the SNIGLETS.It is a word that should be in the dictionary, but isn't!! The guy who invented it was Richard Hall, of The David Letterman Show fame.These are words to define concepts that have no official meaning.So a CUBE FARM is an office filled with cubicles and BEVAMETER is the distance you can lift your beverage from the table before the coaster that is stuck to it falls off.

Found a few Techie Sniglets!!
Zen mail is an e-mail message that arrives without text in the message body.
Crapplet is a poorly written or totally useless Java applet.
Gadaboutag is an orphan HTML tag that's messing up your page.
Animousity is to vigorously click the pointer device because a page is loading too slowly.
Screen spasm occurs as a result of animousity.The pages that try to load simultaneously on your computer screen.

P.S : Ignosecond is seeing yourself about to do something stupid but going ahead with it.But my SNIGLET is Igno'no'second!

My Reason!

Oh well....I bunked office today!