Kasappu Inippu - Review

 I'm not so much of a critic and was never an ardent fan of Short films. Ive seen many but only a few have amused me. Having the Lead Character as my team-lead at work, I was invited for a Short Film Preview screening in AVM Studios." Kasappu Inippu (Bitter-Sweet) " as it is named, is a story comparing two couples and the way they handle problems in Love.Beautifully crafted in terms of Screenplay, the film which runs for about 10 mins, starts in a coffee shop, with the first couple parting each other which is then followed by the second couple handling their problems casually. Both the couple have done exceedingly well, in terms of acting and was so lively. I'm not so much into Technical stuffs on Films but the camera angles and editing were perfect adding emotions and an overall feel. It was a feel good movie which doesn't say a lot about the dos and dont's of Love though portrays a situation which everyone feels on . when asked on    what was the inspiration for the making, the director replied that, he was inspired b the words of a famous cartoonist; during hard times when a happy moment arrives, we overlook the happiness and would be dragged into the sadness that exists, and that's Bitter-Sweet. 

Managing Apps

I have become a real appaholic since I got the Iphone 4 and daily free apps makes me spoilt for choice. One wrong move or decision on not downloading that app that time, may result in lifelong regrets.. So everyday I get some time before starting for office and my webbrowser gets filled with tabs of various app-blogs and gizmo sites. Pity that some say the truth while some dont. when you search for those apps in the indian market, it says otherwise. Having an app in the US appstore for free and not in India.. Now THATS racism.

Idiots Idiots Idiots

 I witnessed this Incident a couple of months back. It was the Last day of my exams and I was returning home with two of my friends along with the driver driving the car. On taking a detour thinking we could avoid the 8 O'clock Traffic we ended up in a Stand-still Traffic Jam. We saw a Benz crawling to the side of us and came to a halt. Chauffeur driven, It had a guy in French Beard at the back. Probably in his forties this guy was in his formal shirt tucked in his pants and should definitely be one of the Chennai millionaires. He got down from his car, and was cursing "Idiots,Idiots,Idiots". Obviously I was quite startled. I began cursing him  myself, thinking this is the problem with rich men. They blame People for the miseries happening to them but wont take a step forward to resolve. But to my surprise, I found him diverting and controlling the traffic a few cars ahead. Its not everyday you see someone rich controlling traffic on Chennai roads .I was really surprised and felt quite guilty for my presumption . Even though his car got way and passed the traffic, he asked the driver to wait for him on the side of the road and left the place only after the Traffic was manageable. Now that's some true social responsibility.

The night I saw Her..

When the night fell and the loomy darkness wrapping up  I drove my way to beach all alone.. It was the day where my mood swings were at their peak and i wanted a break.. parking the car in the usual space.. I sat at the bench far from anyone nearby and was fumbling my mobile discovering new apps which i had downloaded long before but havent opened since.. It was this breeze which made me turn towards her..  she was in a  pink and black dark skirt with a top which i dun remember what color or pattern t was.. her hair swaying to the tunes of the wind..she was crossing the road looking on both the sides and for a second, i swear, she glanced a look at me.. forgot where i was and the thought that it was so obvious she knew i was staring at her like an idiot.. and there she went.. jus like the girls who u rarely stop to stare but they give u a look of dun-look-at-me-pervert!.. she was in my mind for the next fifteen minutes or so and i was still sitting there dumbfounded, staring at the direction where she went.. when i got over the chill breeze and t went late, i decided to leave.. getting into the car, i turned to reverse.. jus when I turned back to the front, there she was.. crossing the road again.. more beautiful  glowing under the light from my headlamps.. came back to senses coz of the honking of  idiots at the back, i accelerated slowly front jus to see her getting into an alto.. OH god.. never felt that an alto could be so beautiful..

Remember the Tazos?

Last week while returning from office, I had this conversation with my friends in the car.. It went from the TV serials we have now which have been aired, since we were at school, to the amazing cartoon shows we watched when we were kids. As the talk shifted to collectibles which we had from the basic pencilbox show-offs, to the pencils which had shifting nib-points, we came across the infamous craze for Tazos during those days.It was the time when 'Lay's' stepped into India and they had this brilliant strategy of giving a Tazo with every bag of potato chips.and the strategy definitely worked.
 The Tazo's was the only true 'collectibles' we had during those days. These round UFO shaped discs beared some cartoon characters in them and some points which was how the tazos and their uniqueness were identified. The rarer the charachter the higher was the tazos worth. Basically the tazo's were meant to be played by having one perpendicular over the other and realeasing one from the other, which when released would fly in a parabolic manner. It also had some short building slots, which when connected can be built into shapes or structures. But none bought a tazo for the purpose of flinging it dumb or constructing weird towers.Tazos were valued more than money and I remember seeing people exchanging around twenty to fifty tazo's for a single rare one. Shops were targeted based on how many rare tazos kids got from them. Some even go for long drives just because his friend got a rare tazo from a shop which was fifteen kilometers away. There were many names for the Tazo's too.. maybe it depended upon region to region varying. the glow-in-the-dark ones were called radium tazo's and there were tazo's with a character similar to Felix the cat which was called as 'Birla' tazo's which was the rarest among all.. we kids those times used to look up at a guy who had more than five or seven of those tazo's with respect and awesomeness.. :)
  It went Viral throughout the Country that at a particular point schools started to ban the usage of tazo's.But out of a sudden the tazo craze went down suddenly to a level that the chips company stopped giving freebies with their bags.and that was the end of it.though many other products came out with similar stuff, nothing was able to even compare with the round plastic discs. ;)

mayakkam yenna

After a long time.. a movie which satisfied me from the beginning till the end.. a feel good movie which had all the ingredients of a modern Tamil film. people critisized the song " kadhal-yen-kadhal" for being so rude on girls with obscene lyrics but its a Tamil film which after a long time puts the heroine on the front seat. the first half focused on how a guy struggles with his passion and career,in the nasty world out there, even though he has a talent. the lead, watches his talent being stolen by a reputed guy and is so helpless having an emotional trauma on the other side. the second half, on the other hand, is completely upon richa. You really doubt that this is her debut. both the leads do a wonderful task when it comes to acting. amazing melange of expressions and actions on every frame.the picturisation of the songs were different but not so appealing. many criticise the screenplay to be lengthy which is quite true, but those gaps are filled by the emotions of the leads. even the supporting actors, do their roles amazingly well. suits the tag well.. "Follow your Heart".. on the whole a must watch.

The tcs story so far... :p

joined TCS a week ago and the initial days of the ILP was good.. a bit of fun and learning combined, along with a sense of being a professional indeed, changes the whole way of life, in which i was quite a few days back.. of course ive seen similar kind of corporate behavior in polaris where i was an intern for a month, but still, a feeling of having a company to be called as mine, and being a part of it is something special. that too, when your company is at the top, it feels to have got the best of all worlds. seems like they have enrolled me into the stream of mainframe, which i am quite happy with coz its a new language or stream to learn, which is totally new to me as it has not even been touched even in the last four years of engineering. people say, learning and teaching of mainframe based subjects are tough as not many people or companies around the world have a mainframe with them and offer services. at the same time, skilled mainframe programmers are also scarce to find upon.
          about the ilp, well.. its quite fun, with the group im in, coz even the guys from other college doesn seem to be so nerdy type.seems well be split into groups of six in the oncoming sessions, in order to do projects and other team based works on ilp. quite exciting actually.well.. people inside TCS say, ILP is the best part of our career. hope its true and the experience gets better..