What, how, when, why, who and where influence me a lot!
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.
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!! ??? !!!!
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!!)
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! :)
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?
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!
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.
I am currently reading this book called "THE WORLD IS FLAT",by Thomas.L.Friedman.It is a book which talks about GLOBALISATION.
There was this aspect,that struck me.The author has a suggestion for all the Developing countries in this world.He says-Like how we have something called Alcoholic Anonymous(A.C),we should be having something called -Developing Countries Anonymous(D.A.C).He says,each country should be BRUTALLY HONEST while introspecting.(Very beautiful!!)
The book is presented really well, but all I could think about was,the parts about INDIA.He analyses the state of many of the Developing countries,in which he talks about India. He says -
"On the Chinese streest,there's no rule of law,but the roads are well paved;there are no potholes,and the streetlights all work.On the Indian streets,by contrast,no one ever reapirs the streetlights,the roads are full of ruts,but the police are sticklers for the rules.You need license to open a lemonade stand on the Indian streets.Luckily the local cops can be bribed."It's extremely saddening to know,this BITTER truth.
Lux recently celebrated 75 years of their brand.They wanted to make it special so they roped in Sharukh Khan to do a commercial for them.Well,he is the second male model for Lux.Paul Newman being the first one!
The recent most commercial with SRK,done by J Walter Thompson,in which Khan talks about "beauty secrets" sitting in a bath-tub with petals.I can understand that HLL wanted to do something really different.But why a male model?? Is it some kind of a MS thing???....!!!! The best part is,he doesn't use the soap in the ad.Which makes the ad very different???!!!!???
About the history,the word Lux was derived from 'LUXURY'.There had been a number of stars who have modeled for Lux.The first Indian model was Leela Chitnis.And then comes the host of stars like Hema Malini,Sridevi,Juhi Chawla,Kareena and....... so on.
The interesting fact is, a star from South-India too has modeled for Lux! It's none other than Jayalalithaa!!!
Recently a Marauder's Map was released.Oh well..it has nothing to do with the Hogwarts!
MapsFounded in 1864,"this" started as a paper industry near "this" river in Finland. A Finnish engineer,Fredrik Idestam.In his initial years, he wasn't well-versed in this,so he acquired the technology from Germans.He learnt it all by convincing the workers of the manufacturing plant to show him the details.
When he came back to Finland, he created his own paper manufacturing plant.In 1867, he was awarded the Bronze Medal for his wood pulp invention in the Paris Wood Exposition.After this everyone knew "this", so he started putting "this" brand on all products. And when the company started offering some new products after a few years, he was still putting "this" brand on all of them.
Later on, "this" joined hands with two other companies called Finnish Rubber Works (FRW) and Finnish Cable Works.So paper, rubber and cables were sold under "this" brand.
But currently,"this" is famous for "Connecting People"?????????????!!!!!
Yeah...this post is the result of the training that I am currently undergoing.A little bit of curiosity to learn more about Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).As usual,googled a bit.Got loads of information regarding EJB.
Was also trying the Image search,when I landed up with this picture for EJB!
Hooooraaay!!Atlaast played a game of Pool today.Found the game really interesting,and it involved lots of concentration.And to top it all,it was FUN.
Basically games like Pool,Snooker, all these belong to the Billiards Family.And the game of Pool,was initially played as as off-track game,in the race courses.This is because lots of money was "pooled" in.Hence the name Pool.
The stick with which the game is played is called the cue stick.About the balls,there is one white ball called the cue ball,and the rest are the object balls.In the object balls,there are two sets,solid colored and striped ones.The angle at which the cue stick is held and the player's posture counts a lot.Believe me! This is what I learnt.Thanks to Buffy-buffy,Dipsy and Spidey!
I watched this movie,How to steal a million yesterday! Celebrating my weekend.And I am sure I chose the best way to celebrate.Lovely movie.
This movie is directed by William Wyler,the guy who directed Roman Holiday.This movie was supposed to be a 'sequel-types' to Roman Holiday.And Gregory Peck was to play the lead.
Audrey Hepburn and Peter'O Toole have done a fantastic job.This movie's highlight is,it has very simple dialogues but believe me,beautiful ones.The chemistry between them is really really cute.Both of them STEAL the show.
This article is not about the musical band but a Hindu Sage called Narada.More popularly known as Kalahapriya, Kalaham meaning fight.He loves starting fights between people.Hence the phrase "naradar velai"!
Did you know that,Narada is a very great musician???
As the legend goes,Saint Thyagaraja was blessed by Narada.And he even composed a krithi called "Narada Muni" in praise of Narada. For those who have attended atleast one Carnatic Kutcheri, you would have noticed the musicians singing raagam.Not so ardent listeners would term it as-"Tha ra na".Its nothing but a dedication to the Greatest Musician "Narada".indicating the syllables in his name.
That's why instead of singing a raagam in terms of "aa" (which of course they do) but its mostly "tha-ra-na"!
