Long before i read about chaos theory, i was a firm believer that all the events happening in life are somehow related to one another. Yesterday, i was watching ipl2 chennai vs punjab and match was interrupted due to rain. As i had already set this time aside to watch the match, i didn't have anything else to do, so was hopping channels for a while and landed in vijay tvs dance show. One of the participants was portraying the harrowing experiences of tamils in lanka, it really was a good performance, after which the entire cast, people in the studio and the judges were in tears and gave him a standing ovation.
After seeing this, i was wondering why haven't we made any tamil movie about eelam struggle, maniratnam touched it briefly(kannathil muthamittal), but did not do a deep-dive like his film on mumbai riots(bombay),terrorists in kashmir(roja). We do lot of things to register our protest self-immolation,hate speeches,fast until death..why not make a powerful movie on the lines of Schindler's list, the pianist. There are hundreds of movies depicting holocaust, german occupation of poland, all excellent documentaries. This tamil film should capture the real agony, everything including the death of the proud tamil mother who died suckling her kid to safety while drinking only sea water for more than 10 days en route of her escape from lanka to india
There is no dearth of talent in tamil film industry, some one should take it up and show the truth about eelam struggle to the whole world.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
what IT guys do?
If you are one of the guys who wonder, how people in IT spend 9 hours a day in front of a screen, well this chat transcript can help u better
ip : u thr?
neo : s
ip : t
u
neo : ?
ip : v
w
x
y
z
am bored :( , please help
neo : a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
am booooored
ip : he heh
ip : u thr?
neo : s
ip : t
u
neo : ?
ip : v
w
x
y
z
am bored :( , please help
neo : a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
am booooored
ip : he heh
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Pepper spray for self defense
I get incensed with rage and anger, whenever i read news articles about attack on women, in the name of moral policing. A woman has all the right in the world to talk to whoever she wants, dress,drink,smoke whatever she wants as long as it is legal in the country she resides. I really wonder what rights these bastards who are dressed in shirt,jeans(which are not Indian) have to harass woman in the name of Indian culture. We never had these in our culture, all we had was sati, untouchability, child marriage and merciless dumping widows in the banks of Varanasi. Whenever i read about such attacks, i feel like beating up somebody, loose my interest to work and fight with almost everyone from my friends to co-workers..I know that its bad..am working hard to get this rage out of my system, i should channel it in a better way.
Very recently this article The Hindu: attack on women in bangalorefilled me up with anger and a sense of helplessness, and i really thought all girls in this city should be carrying some form of self-defense material. Tazers are not available here, so I made some enquiries about pepper spray and got the contact numbers of few stores selling the same. We travelled there beating all the traffic and bought two of them, for 2 very close friends of mine. Am not saying that its a god product, but its good to carry one, its a 55ml can of chilli extract that is 20 times stronger than the ones we use in kitchen, its highly compressed and when sprayed it spreads out and forms a cloud. I sprayed few drops of it on my palm(which is rough) and i could sense the irritation for few minutes, am sure if its ever sprayed on eyes/lips or other soft tissues the victim will run screaming. Do not ask me if i tasted the extract, but all i can tell u is that it was really really hot.
Now for the price, its little over priced at 499Rs, but i think there should be no compromise when it comes to matters of personal safety. The spray is available at Health and Glow in MG Road.
Very recently this article The Hindu: attack on women in bangalorefilled me up with anger and a sense of helplessness, and i really thought all girls in this city should be carrying some form of self-defense material. Tazers are not available here, so I made some enquiries about pepper spray and got the contact numbers of few stores selling the same. We travelled there beating all the traffic and bought two of them, for 2 very close friends of mine. Am not saying that its a god product, but its good to carry one, its a 55ml can of chilli extract that is 20 times stronger than the ones we use in kitchen, its highly compressed and when sprayed it spreads out and forms a cloud. I sprayed few drops of it on my palm(which is rough) and i could sense the irritation for few minutes, am sure if its ever sprayed on eyes/lips or other soft tissues the victim will run screaming. Do not ask me if i tasted the extract, but all i can tell u is that it was really really hot.
Now for the price, its little over priced at 499Rs, but i think there should be no compromise when it comes to matters of personal safety. The spray is available at Health and Glow in MG Road.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
the fall of mighty KK
This blog is about an incident that happened around 3-4 months back. My girlfriend has a scooty pep, I always hated that vehicle 'coz when we were in Chennai, this pep had got me into a lot of trouble from flat-tyres, engine seizure, battery failure, refusal to start for unknown reasons to days when my girl simply forgets "petrol" is necessary for pep to run. And whenever such problems surfaced i had to drag my ass all the way from NM road to Guindy or Adyar. My ideology is non-geared bikes are for girls and sissies, to me riding a pep was not a "man" thing let alone pillion riding it. So she had challenged to take me as a pillion rider and i was able to hold on to that challenge for more than 4 years until that fateful day. On that day, our team in yahoo was celebrating a successful release over some lunch. Needless to say i was having loads of chicken and barrels of beer. Half way through the lunch, someone told me that most of the stuff were old and badly cooked, I didn't care a damn and wiped everything off my plate. Usually bad food affects me only after a day or two, but on that day the beer had accelerated my digestion and i was not feeling very comfortable even while driving back to office.
Back at my desk, i realised that i was having a revolving cubicle, dual screen, and even a dual keyboard..Oh..ohhh it had started, i wanted to puke. Knowing the stench beer+chicken can generate i retired into a loo in breakout area. I puked as discreetly as possible without making much noise, there was some relief, and then i puked, puked and puked again. I got really exhausted and all the memories of college farewell came back to haunt me. I couldn't go back to my cube, what if somebody asks me to explain something?? i may end up puking in their face. So i decided to stay in the loo, but was feeling too giddy to stand up. Flushed the toilet, closed the lid and decided to have a nap. No..its not gross for someone who during his college days had slept and rolled over his friends partially digested chicken rice. This place was spotless and clean for me and i had a goooooood nap. I slept for around 20minutes inside a loo in yahoo egl, by doing so it became the second office to be blessed after HCL in Chennai. As soon as I woke up i decided to go home, and called my girlfriend who was working for netapp in the opposite building. She asked me if i was in any position to drive, i don't remember my answer but am sure it prompted her to bring the vehicle I hate. I dint have much choice than to be a pillion rider. She drove the pep and i don't remember a damn thing that happened on our way, which my girl later exploited to her advantage by claiming i appreciated how safe her driving was
Back at her home, i drank lots of water and slept for an hour, without realizing the danger of facing one angry little giant. And when i woke up, she was there for me..
and she made me realize how cruel words can be and how harsh ur best buddies can be..sob..sob. Needless to say i had to apologize repeatedly and was prohibited from being anywhere around 100 yards near shops selling liquor for 2 months.
Back at my desk, i realised that i was having a revolving cubicle, dual screen, and even a dual keyboard..Oh..ohhh it had started, i wanted to puke. Knowing the stench beer+chicken can generate i retired into a loo in breakout area. I puked as discreetly as possible without making much noise, there was some relief, and then i puked, puked and puked again. I got really exhausted and all the memories of college farewell came back to haunt me. I couldn't go back to my cube, what if somebody asks me to explain something?? i may end up puking in their face. So i decided to stay in the loo, but was feeling too giddy to stand up. Flushed the toilet, closed the lid and decided to have a nap. No..its not gross for someone who during his college days had slept and rolled over his friends partially digested chicken rice. This place was spotless and clean for me and i had a goooooood nap. I slept for around 20minutes inside a loo in yahoo egl, by doing so it became the second office to be blessed after HCL in Chennai. As soon as I woke up i decided to go home, and called my girlfriend who was working for netapp in the opposite building. She asked me if i was in any position to drive, i don't remember my answer but am sure it prompted her to bring the vehicle I hate. I dint have much choice than to be a pillion rider. She drove the pep and i don't remember a damn thing that happened on our way, which my girl later exploited to her advantage by claiming i appreciated how safe her driving was
Back at her home, i drank lots of water and slept for an hour, without realizing the danger of facing one angry little giant. And when i woke up, she was there for me..
and she made me realize how cruel words can be and how harsh ur best buddies can be..sob..sob. Needless to say i had to apologize repeatedly and was prohibited from being anywhere around 100 yards near shops selling liquor for 2 months.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
yahoo search - Inquisitor
I thought of blo(ra)gging about stuff i like in yahoo search. I admit that, i was an ardent google user for a long-long-long time, even after joining yahoo's search technology. But three recent innovations(1 acquired) at yahoo made me a big fan of yahoo search. I'll discuss them one-by-one. Nowadays am using yahoo search via inquisitor and am not a wee bit disappointed, the results are as accurate as google. Search is all about GIGO, so am sure yahoo will have plans to prune that and as am working in yahoo i can guarantee that there will be many more innovations coming out of yahoo web search in the near future.
The Inquisitor plugin:
Everytime i use inquisitor i curse myself saying "God why dint i get this idea, it so simple and wellmade". Inquisitor is a plugin available for FF, safari, and ie. I have been using the safari plugin in mac and am pretty impressed. Install this and see the wonders it can do to to your search toolbar on the right-corner of the browser. Inquistor changes ur default search engine to yahoo( u can snap back to google, i'll not explain how). When you type ur quey, a summary of all top results appear in the box, u can read the gist and click the best. The tool has an inbuilt learning algorithm and many more features that can make ur search experience with yahoo better, the more u use it the better it becomes.
How i was dumbstruck by inquisitor
Recently, a southafrican woman singer died during a concert in Italy, so i gave the search term in toolbar as "southafrican woman singer dead", bingo the first result was accurate. Google also gives you the same result, but this is much better, i like it this way, i can skim thru the contents and then decide on the page to visit.
Next i forgot the name "Russell peters", all i knew was that he is an "indian canadian comedian"..Bingo..
The next snap is about a technical query, "cd" is an internal command, so u cannot do "sudo cd" in some versions.

Inquisitor can be found here : Inquisitor
The Inquisitor plugin:
Everytime i use inquisitor i curse myself saying "God why dint i get this idea, it so simple and wellmade". Inquisitor is a plugin available for FF, safari, and ie. I have been using the safari plugin in mac and am pretty impressed. Install this and see the wonders it can do to to your search toolbar on the right-corner of the browser. Inquistor changes ur default search engine to yahoo( u can snap back to google, i'll not explain how). When you type ur quey, a summary of all top results appear in the box, u can read the gist and click the best. The tool has an inbuilt learning algorithm and many more features that can make ur search experience with yahoo better, the more u use it the better it becomes.
How i was dumbstruck by inquisitor
Recently, a southafrican woman singer died during a concert in Italy, so i gave the search term in toolbar as "southafrican woman singer dead", bingo the first result was accurate. Google also gives you the same result, but this is much better, i like it this way, i can skim thru the contents and then decide on the page to visit.
Next i forgot the name "Russell peters", all i knew was that he is an "indian canadian comedian"..Bingo..
The next snap is about a technical query, "cd" is an internal command, so u cannot do "sudo cd" in some versions.

Inquisitor can be found here : Inquisitor
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