TAKEN the movie

I have heard my dad say that he would even sell his head to keep me good forever but its not worthy enough for that. He would say this when I was young and whenever I let him down with my then not so good academics. I don’t know how serious he was but after this movie I realize how far a father would go for his kid.

Liam Neeson is a retired secret service man. His wife divorced him hating his working style and the limited time he spends with his family and married a rich guy and their daughter lives with her mother. The girl get kidnapped by women traffickers in Paris.


The way he gets his daughter form those dangerous guys makes it an awesome action movie. A must watch action movie and really keeps you tight in your seats till the end.

Garrulous Gopal

Dr. T.V.Gopal is our faculty for UID( user interdace design). He is a senior faculty in our department and is said to be equally knowledgeable by a few, though the common opinion is that he is more a crack pot. He has authored books including TN state board’s higher secondary books for computer science.


Today we had our 10th lecture hour by this great man. But we still have not a basic idea of what the subject is all about and haven’t taken a line of notes as whatever he was telling us is not worth noting down or they don’t need noting down as everything is some sort of a fairy tale of how computers emerged or how important user interface is.

To give an example let me give you a micro briefed version of one of his stories, “I was traveling in train to Bangalore. It was 1998 and it’s the Kargil War time. Everywhere people are speaking about the war. I was also caught in the euphoria of Indian army’s advances. As soon as I got into my room in the hotel there, I switched on the TV and was skimming through channels by pressing the ‘+’ marked button near channels, looking for some channel where I ll get some news on the war. I suddenly realized that I went past by 4 channels after the channel I really needed. So I wanted to come back. As I have jumped 3 or 4 channels I was pressing the ‘-‘ button quickly in quick succession 2 or 3 times. Suddenly the channels kept changing continuously whatever I did it didn’t stop. I was panicked and I called for help. Then a hotel official walked in and enquired what happened I narrated the entire story to him and he said ‘Don’t worry sir you are not the first person to encounter such a problem. Many doesn’t know that if we press the ‘-‘ button twice in quick succession TV goes into ch-scan mode.” The point he wanted to make after more than 15mins of narration of this story with emphasis on his, euphoria, his urgency etc etc is that usually in Indian remote controls there is no such mechanism and the user interface should have been made in a commonly perceived way.

He has emphasized on this point with more than a dozen stories like this with each story lasting for more than 15mins.

At least in the last couple of lectures he started to speak about evolution of computers and the important role that user interface played in it.

I was just trying to be optimistic and I thought as a computer engineer I must know this and tried my best to give my ear to the history of computers. Shannon’s contributions and Bool’s theory were not bad a story.

Hope he doesn’t mind if I write these stories in the exam paper. Hey believe it or not seniors are betting that they scored good marks by writing better long stories than these in the exam papers.

Fave Movies II (WAR Spl)

There are many movies based on war and specific battles. The ones about world war are more and are good. Nevertheless there are numerous movies that are extremely good, touching, interesting and thrilling on various wars and battles.

We ‘ve Soldiers

The movie based on Vietnam war. Politicians have various reasons for a war but soldiers have only one that they fight if they are asked to. The movie is about a particular regime of US army which is one of the very few successful regimes in the viet war. The movie is highly realistic and it provokes even brutal minds to rethink about the concept of war. A must watch movie. An embodiment of commandership by Mel Gibson “I will be the first one to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off.”

Saving Private Ryan

5 sons of a mother are sent to Europe during the WWII as part of the US army to various parts. 4 of them are killed during various battles and the top officials decide at least to give that mother her only living son so they decide to get him back home. THe rescue team joins the reluctant Ryan to complete the mission he is involved in. Ryan crying at the war cemetry is really touching. Tom Hanks the rescue mission chief proved his typic maestro actor’s skills.

Pearl Harbor

Dec,7 1941 ‘a date which will live in infamy’. More than 1000 casualties by the Japanese cruel air strike on Pearl Harbor. The portrayal of America’s entry into WWII and its retaliation on Japan. National passion mixed with friendship and love. “This is going to be a suicide mission”.


Enemy at the Gates

There are many movies on US army and other allied forces in WWII this movie is in the red perspective. The portrayal of a Russian WWII hero. A mix of patriotism, romance,tragedy of war and finally victory.
‘Stand-off between two opposing snipers during the Battle of Stalingrad.’

The Guns of Navarone

An ideal commando mission kind of movie based on WWII. ‘Who’s side is turkey going to be?’ the billion dollar question will be answered by the existence of these guns. A handful of experts packed to finish these guns of to ease Turkey joining the allies. The dilemma between country and friendship, sacrifice, betrayal, personal emotions above all this patriotism.

Sssaaaaaraaannnngg

I was having a nap when my friend H knocked my door and asked me to come with him to Saarang the notorious IITM fest, to meet his chat friend.
I wouldn’t say I m numb to teen disorders but still I didn’t expect Priyanka or Aish there, it’s obvious that his friend would be nothing better than horrible, but still, I just thought this is my last year living in this vicinity and I should at least now visit this thing and more than that I was expecting to make at least 2 QSAs(QQuest Student Ambassador).

We walked all the way to IITM speaking about the ‘Bang in the Bush’ stories of IIT M and then we caught the Saarang special bus, reached the centre of the fest. As soon as we got down I started feeling like a World War II combat flight pilot, hunting colors flying around. I was bawling at H look 11’o clock pink, look back, 6’o clock lavender, 4’o clock yellow…



After 3 calls we finally had an idea of where we are going to meet H’s friends ‘Sifani’ this is what he was telling me. We were directed to a canteen and only when we got near we found out it’s ‘Tifany’. Anyways both these names are weird, so never mind.

We were waiting in the canteen for sometime nevertheless got bored of the color hunt. I urged H to ask for what color is his friend’s dress and how many are they. Finally the 5 got there and it was only after 3sms transactions and 5mins we managed to say ‘hi’ to her. The confab lasted only for 2mins and we left the place.

I was obviously annoyed I was hitting him that he wasted 20bugs of my money and I missed a good nap. Withal I was still busy with the color hunt continuing 7’o clock 10’o clock.

We met T one of the good mannered pragmatic geniuses CEG has seen. T commented that "nothing is worthwhile here.."

We also came across my class gals who were extra horrible in their special occasion apparels. Even one of my long time crushes who used to be pretty was scrofulous, wearing a collared woolen kinda t-shirt in the afternoon sun which would suit well in a place like Manali.

While waiting for the bus to take us back to the gate I heard a mediocre color yelling at phone,
“Only desperate guys and girls come here, it’s highly boring, believe me..”

While walking back I was neither regretting the loss of 20 bugs and the nap nor was rejoicing the trip. I just had a smile when I correlated the telephone conversation and my class girls.

We are soldiers and not Toys

“Step by step, heart to heart, left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers”



You should have know that I were the event coordinator for Dalal bull. I don’t know how many know that I ve been having dreams about the event since last year’s Dalal bull. I do only what I like and I do it with utmost sincerity.

The online event went well though with some problems and complaints from cynics as usual. We did our best to give the participants good experience in stock trading. Definitely at least a few of our participants would have made some home work in learning the abcs of sharemarket.

“I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composure
Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders
I ain't never supposed to show it, my crew ain't supposed to know it
Even if it means goin' toe to toe with a Benzino it don't matter
I'd never drag them in battles that I can handle unless I absolutely have to
I'm supposed to set an example”

Everyone in my team did the best they could, esp the swbulls were the best. In the short span of time they did cover all the complex requirements I have asked for. Software development is never easy and even corporate softwares like Mic’s used to have problems. We didn’t have the luxury of beta testing the software this year.

I have seen a good no of leaders and future business admins in Swathi's market analysis team and the team was very well organised with a 3 level hierarchy. Hope these guys have got their hands on share trading.

I am happy that all my team guys and gals played their part very satisfactorily and I hope I have imparted some of my experiences and also hope working in this team gave them good exposure and will help them in some part of their career.

“We still have soldiers that's on the front line
That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders
Never to extort us, strictly to show they support us”

The Quest for Quality

It was a cold Sunday evening. The sky was morphing to a dull grey as she gazed absent mindedly at the stars blinking back at her. Just trying her hand well on a new poetry, yup, and then her mom just interrupted this poet-on-the-make from the gaze. She slammed at her a pair of shirts that were giving away stitches and was saying something like “You better bank on quality than fashion” she left. She never retaliated nor did she listened to her mom(as she often did) but it had made her look back at a nostalgic encounter with a friend, telling her once “Hey nice shirt man! Must be damn high quality” she recalled herself grinning at that and with that her mind was getting engrossed with the word ‘QUALITY’. She got all crazy and went for it. There she made a google search on quality and soon on something like a quality club. This could sound silly… she thought! But have’nt one heard great people do get bizarre at times?

She was flipping past pages, and somehow this dry topic seemed all exhilarating that day. It was then that she noticed a good lot of corporates do patronise this quality club. She found that they maintain the industry sort of hierarchy, team spirit and planning and with some more time of dwelling in quality, she discovered, this is all nothing close to absurdity at all, as one could presume. What seemed crazy a few minutes back, appeared to have a lot of serious stuff to do with. She had acquired a liking for quality clubs and went on to surf the relevant sites. And soon something with substance caught her eyes and she took time off to mess with it.

She learnt that, ANNA UNIVERSITY has a Students Quality Club, that’s been into a great job of inculcating quality not only among students but also industries. After what seemed like half an hour, she logged out and sat back to think over. This club is conducting an event “Q-QUEST” towards the last week of February. The ultimate fest of industry academia interaction.

She was sharing all this with nostalgia about Qquest’08 with me when I called her to tell her about QQuest’09. Hope she finds it much more better and useful this year.

QQuest'09

I don't give a..

I am listenning to this song 'Makes me wonder' from Maroon 5 for a few weeks. The song is good and as any other new good song I came across I had given it too much listenning.

It's not until recently i felt a deep attachment to the song's lyrics. In the light of recent negligence I really feel like shouting this aloud...


"I wake up with blood-shot eyes
Struggled to memorize
The way it felt between your thighs
Pleasure that made you cry
Feels so good to be bad
Not worth the aftermath, after that
After that
Try to get you back

I still don't have the reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder
If I ever gave a f**k about you

Give me something to believe in
Cause I don't believe in you anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to try
(Yeah)
So this is goodbye

God damn my spinning head
Decisions that made my bed
Now I must lay in it
And deal with things I left unsaid
I want to dive into you
Forget what you're going through
I get behind, make your move
Forget about the truth

I still don't have the reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder
If I ever gave a f**k about you

Give me something to believe in
Cause I don't believe in you anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference,
It even makes a difference to try
And you told me how you're feeling
But I don't believe it's true anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to cry
(Oh no)
So this is goodbye

I've been here before
One day I'll wake up
And it won't hurt anymore
You caught me in a lie
I have no alibi
The words you say don't have a meaning
Cause

I still don't have the reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder
If I ever gave a f**k about you
And I...and so this is goodbye

Give me something to believe in
Cause I don't believe in you anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference,
It even makes a difference to try
And you told me how you're feeling
But I don't believe it's true anymore
Anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to cry
(Oh no)
So this is goodbye
So this is goodbye, yeah
(Oh no)
So this is goodbye
So this is goodbye, yeah
(Oh no)So this is goodbye
So this is goodbye, yeah
(Oh no)"