How does it feel

when you know you are going to flunk a course and still it doesn't hit you, though the eventuality has sunk in?
How does it feel to not feel?

Definitely not like Dexter.

It feels GODLY! ;P

PS: I hope that by god's grace the class cut off steeps to an all time low and I pass the course. And mind it, I am usually better. :D

Update : I passed the course comfortably. :)

CAM PAN

I wasn't aware that 'Nagin' by Decibel started making its rounds almost a year ago. I saw it a while back and wanted to share it with another friend so I buzzed him on gtalk and what happened next was this:

Vinay: woh suna hai kya

nagin by decibel

ASN: ob.. bahut purana hai

Vinay: oh! i didnt know that..

ASN: aur tu duniya ka sabse bada m***rc**d hai

Vinay: whenever you get shit like that pass it on

kyun be hara*i ?

kya kiya maine ?

ASN: it used to come on channel v.. pichle december me, channel v some rock contest etc

Vinay: oh!

ASN: kya kiya tune? saala m***rc**d

(By now I was getting all worked up, now what have I done ? What is it that I haven't told him ? Have I not informed him about the job offer I have got? I was confident that I had, then what was it ?)

Vinay: bol bhaai kya kiya

Silence..

ASN: i lost a life in pacman

Vinay: heeee he eh eheee

trippp

ASN: teri wajah se.. abhi message karna tha kya

Vinay: wogays!

sorry boss

carry on

Renaissance

Every now and then you find movies that beg to differ from the pattern. They start a new genre all together, and redefine the ways the movie experiences are meant to be.

This movie is not one among those. It is their grand daddy!

This movie changes the way people perceive when they watch something. The art work is godly and the way the motions have been conceptualized and eventually implemented are mind blowing. Take it from me, you will not pause the movie to do something else during the movie. You just cannot. But you may pause, a large number of times, to appreciate the art, to appreciate the way the sequences have been put together, to appreciate every inch of black and every half inch of white. And you will definitely pause, to stop, and stare at the screen in awe.

I might have made it sound like I was doing a piece as if I was Pablo Francisco. But this movie definitely deserves and calls for all the attention.

And when I say that I say that out of experience. I had not slept the previous night, and it was already 12 midnight when I decided to try this movie, and my eyes were totally weary. For the next one hour forty minutes, I could barely blink.

As an aside, the plot gives you the feel of a regular sci fi, but everything else just steals the show. So the plot eventually does not matter.

A user comment on IMDB -
''First things first, this movie is achingly beautiful. A someone who works on 3D CG films as a lighter/compositor, the visuals blew me away. Every second I was stunned by what was on screen.''

Watch the trailer if you have the time right now -


Unfortunately, I do not see this movie coming to Indian screens any time. So if you want to watch it, get a dvd and make sure that you watch it on a really nice screen and really good speakers. TRUST me, you will find it worth your time.

Psyche is out! Psycho is in!

For the record,
the old one :

Time for a new header,


Text by Czar, and Graphic design by Vatsap.

Surprise!

Life is full of surprises. Some times the surprises are pleasant and makes one happy, and the remaining ones are shocking/unpleasant/uncalled for. In general, life is full of surprises.

It would be nice to know that a friend got rewarded for nothing, but it would be more depressing to know that a friend got nothing in return for all the time and effort put in. What is common to both? - the surprise element.

Some how this particular phase of being in final year is really depressing. I hope it passes soon.

Ambition

The chat I had with a friend of mine went something like this :

Him (U): mama, something ive been dreaming abt for the whole day

Czar (C): hmmm ..

don buy the hummer though

U: :P

C: just buy the bike

U: will run it on hydrogen
:P

and go around the world

C: ha ha ha

trip

:)

then ll join you in the bike :)

U: enjai

sureaa!

C: sure..

U: :D

C: gnite..

Jigsaw

Ladies and gentlemen (though I have always wondered why 'ladies' comes first! probably because of the saying 'ladies first', but then, why ladies first?), this is to inform you that I completed the 'one thousand pieces' jigsaw puzzle that I was doing for quite some time now.

When I switch off the lights it glows, and I am sure that my first experience of dozing off looking at the moon light reflecting off the sea surface on the completed puzzle is going to be amazing.

In fact it is 335 am. I hope I wake up for lunch.

Rasam

Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Rasam is a drink best served haawt!

Right now

I feel like shooting someone through the cheek and see through the gory hole that the bullet made.

Dream Joke

Well, it is not really a Dream (adjective sense) Joke, But yes! it is indeed a dream joke in the literal sense. I thought of this in my dream just before waking up this morning, which was ten minutes ago.

By the way, Vatsap was on the dream too. We were traveling in a train together.

Anyway, here it goes :

I had to take a leak desperately, and the train was at a station. All this while the train had been moving really slow and had been irritating all the passengers. Vatsap, and I had to reach our destination faster, but there weren't any means to achieve the same.

Anyway, I could not tolerate the pressure anymore, and since I was not supposed to use the toilets on the train when the train was stationary, I got down to relieve myself and so did Vatsap.

The leak had just begun, the train started moving. Both of us had to rush back, but that would mean we had to hold back lot of fluids in our bladders. Vatsap said, 'Dude! let us make a dash later, but right now let us just get done with this'.

Then it struck me, the moment of enlightenment. It was like all the principles I had ever learnt in my life were coming to focus and were about to be utilized in real life and I was about to be the medium. I was jubilant, excited, and truly happy.

I replied, 'Dude! Let us hold back and get back in the train. When the train leaves the station, and we realize it is really slow, let us take a leak then.'

I could see 'Why the fuck?' expression on his face. Before he could actually say it, I gave him the answer:

'The train will go faster due to reduction in mass of the system you see. Conservation of momentum.'

PS: I know there are flaws in the whole thing, but then what the heck! It was a brilliant dream. And I bet, if somebody had seen my smiling face during my sleep, they would have thought for sure that I was nuts.

PPS: This is the third class of my BTech Project guide's course I have missed in a row. I was doing work pertaining to the project late into the night and hence couldn't wake up in time. But then, that is not a justification good enough for a score of three. Lord save me!

Time &(is) Money

Today has been quite wonderful, though I have not really done anything productive. I got up pretty late in the morning emphasizing to myself that today I will be heading home for a brilliant four day vacation. Throughout the day I kept telling myself that its all right, I should resume all work once I come back from my deepavali trip home. The day went by and it was time to head to the station.

All was well and two hours before the scheduled departure time of the train, I left my room. The institute battery operated bus was right there on time and I reached the main gate in no time with Prasanna who had joined me at GC. Once there, the search for an autorickshaw began. The first auto rickshaw driver we encountered demanded a sum of Rs 180/- for the ride to the station. It appeared outrageous to us, and we did not even bother arguing and bargaining with him. Like hunks trying to prove their studness, both of us walked away from those autos standing at the main gate and looked forward to the autos on the road.

Five minutes went by, no sign of an auto. Then we saw the first auto from far and were really hopeful about the whole thing. The moment it was fifty metres from us, we noticed that it was already engaged. 'Ah! we will get one soon' was the thought we wanted to bring in our minds.

Another ten minutes went by and our patience was running out. By now, a bunch of juniors who had reached the main gate almost the same time as us had already walked away in the direction of the station hoping to get an auto on their way forward. This irritated us even more, as we did not know which was a better decision, ours or theirs. No success for another ten minutes did not really help the situation. Just before we were about to give up and do something ridiculous, an auto stopped by.

The moment the driver said, 'Yes sir!' when asked 'Sir station?', there was a huge relief and I was in no mood to let this relief leave me. It has been quite some time that I have gone home for a respectable stay. The last time I went home, I met my parents for a span of an hour en route to Malaysia for the Gourami Business Challenge. Now that a lot of things have come my way in the last one month, and I have had no time to share my experiences with people back home, I was in no mood to miss my train. I had to reach home at any cost.

I asked, 'Yevlo sir?'. In English, that would translate to, 'How much sir?' and snap came the reply, '180 kudungaa sir'. My eyebrows flickered for a moment, but then before I could say anything, he continued speaking and said, 'Sir, it takes a lot of time to reach the station in this traffic'. Before any further talk, we had tacitly agreed on the amount and were on our way to the station.

All the way to the station I kept thinking that now, no more is the fare based on the distance. It is based on time. Or thats what it effectively translates to. In a broad sense I might have realized in life that time is money, but today was different. I could in fact relate to the very specific nature of the statement that is a philosophy in itself. These are the first instances of transportation fares moving on time and not on distance I have witnessed in person. I am sure that such things are being seen across the world.

I think I should spend some time thinking about what would be the implications if every factor earned its revenues or benefits, in the broadest terms, based on the time it spent on the work.

Vague to some, but this realization has been profound to me.

PS: This post was composed on the night of 7th Nov, 2007.
@Vatsap : This was written on a train. :)

Update:
This is more of a thing that I had forgotten to mention. Thanks to Prasanna's comment, I was reminded. Basically, Prasanna and I had this strong realization that the driver was The Chosen One. We were speculating that I might end up missing the train as we were anticipating lot of traffic at the peak hour and our experience assured us that our speculation would be more or less true. It took the auto driver 25 minutes flat, in peak hour traffic, to take us to the railway station. He was The One. Period.

Gourami Business Challenge : Places

I have tried a different slide show package this time, Flickrshow. I gave up on the previous Java script as it was giving lot of trouble, and my dear friends who are really good at all, also almost lost their patience, and I was in no mood to put them through more trouble.