The Prestige - movie review

This is a movie about two magicians played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. A story of friendship turning to rivalry and which turns to vengence! I went to see this movie for the reason that, it was from the director of momento and batman begins. The movie is good and definately worth watching once.

Scarlett Johansson has a worth while role in the movie! The only drawback in the movie is when Tesla box comes into the picture. Other wise, the performance, screenplay and editing is all flawless. So my verdict, go see it!

I saw prestige on friday and another movie called The Departed yesterday. Though the ratings for the movie were good, i din like the movie much. The movie has a similiar story line to that of kuridhi punal by kamal hassan. Undercover cop gets into a mafia gang and the gang is trying all means to find out about the rat! The movie is nothing great considering that it has Matt damon and jack nicolson. My verdict watch it if you have nothing else to see

Yesterday we all had a small get together for diwali, it was fun. It was fun playing with the kids. But poor them, they dont get a chance to fire crackers here! I bet they will be afraid to play with them when they go back to india.

Hope everyone had a safe diwali! subha i owe you the tag, i will write one soon

Watch this and enjoy! these guys rock, its called the Yogi B n Nachathira Feat Lock Up - Madai Thiranthu

weirdo me

I have been tagged by marutham, its been a long time that I wrote a tag. Well the tag game is back and I am back with a tag story. The tag is about few weird things about me. I reckon everyone has their own weird side and here is mine.

CAR SINGER: you would have heard of bathroom singer! Now what is this car singer?? Well perusa onum illa. I like to sing when I am driving alone. one crazy habit! I know if I turn the speakers off, I would myself stop singing as my voice is pathetic but anyways..

COMIC LOVER: There is nothing weird about this, other than the fact that, i still love to read comics and watch cartoon. If anyone out there is like me, then you tube and google videos rock. I saw tintin in tibet in google videos.

POORI HATER: yeah! I hate those pooris! I cant just stand them, I used to like them when I was a kid, but I dunno when I started hating those things. Poori dripping oil, my god! I cant even imagine.

Shoe lace: This might sound totally non sensical, but I cant tie my lace which will hold itself for more than an hour, I dont know what happens to the stupid thing. After a preset time, the stupid thing unties itself. So atleast 5-6 times in a day I tie my lace… thats sad!

Maths : Guys at college know that I was pathetic in maths, what they dont know is at times I can really silly with simple ones. Like 11 in binary is eleven or 70 + 29 is 89, even now I do these mistakes.

Absent minded: I was never like this, but these days I am turning into one big time. The list includes, trying to call my own cell number from cell itself, ends up listening to my unread voice mail. Taking exactly the wrong freeway (North instead of south) and realizing after a while.

I am tagging sp, nawaz

limited or no connectivity

Disclaimer : Computer Related

I dont know how many of you have had this problem? Yesterday i had this problem in home laptop. I could'nt connect to my wireless router. It kept giving me this error.At first i thought it could be the problem with the router. What happens at times is, as we dont turn off our router for days together, it would require a simple restart. I tried that but in vein.

Then i saw that, this message (limited or no connectivity) i was recieving when my system was trying populate it ipaddress, i mean thru DHCP. So now i thought DHCP server in the router was not working properly.

So i assigned a static Ip in the subnet as that of my router and DNS as my router and tried again, this time it was wierd, i was able to ping my router but nothing beyond it. So this eliminated the problem with my wireless card.

I tried repairing the network connection, tried restarting the laptop but all measures failed. Was wondering if i had re install my OS, that would be tedious.

So when i googled from my friends system, i found that, the culprit could be some spyware. My firewall program (ZONE ALARM) had run a scheduled check previous night and had found handfull of spywares, and some sites said, while removing the spywares some of them corrupt the TCP/IP stack.

So, that could be a posibility and luckily i found this tool

I must say that this is a must have tool! work fine and if you are worried that, its altering ur registry you can also, take a snap shot of ur registry with this, in case u want to revert back.

Second Life

Has anyone heard of this site before? Its been around for a while... This site is more like a game, its basicaly your virtual life!! Rather than me telling you about it. You check it for yourself!

Going to cinema

For people abroad it is a comman excuse for seeing a movie online is that, the movie has not released in a theater near by. So? you download a movie and watch it?? No thats not the way! i am not being a saint here and not that i have not done that. Yes! i used to do but these days i feel it is not a very good thing to do...

Why do some sites even do it... my point here is atleast dont upload the movie for atleast 30 - 45 days. Recently i noticed that some movies were online almost the very next day... that is not fair at all!

Point number one..this is not fair and point number two... the movie loses its quality and why should we do that? and for people who make it a point to watch movies online it is nothing less to stealing. Try to refrain from doing that!

anyways saw munnabhai in the big screen yesterday and it is a ok kind of movie, yes it has lived upto the expectations to some extent. My verdict is go watch it!
ghandhi-diri ... haan lage raho munnabhai

on the debris

on the wtc debris these indian building stand! confused what i am talkin about. Read this article. Certainly not a feel good factor for me.

Read this

Paper again

I hope this one is real...unlike mooligai petrol

thalavar retires

An emotional Michael Schumacher admitted to being "overwhelmed" when he announced his retirement plans moments after his victory.

Others carried or dragged away the wounded. Many of the wounded were taken away on handcarts. - cnn

vinayagar poojai

all home made! 1.Kolakatai 2.vadai 3.pongal 4.sambhar 5.rasam 6.sundal

Sony psp

My latest gadget - psp

This thing rocks

1.games -awesome

2.Movies- The clarity is amazing

3.mp3

4.pictures

5.Wireless browsing

cons

UMD disk..but yes its nice... never was a fan of iPOD and never will be

----- I heard that there was a minor stint with the ISP's blocking blog sites... whats going on guys...its our only source of entertainment these days. trust me i get to know a lot of happenings from blogs than newspaper sites. So please dont deny us our entertainment n news...

The amount of time that i browse at home is getting lesser these days. Its more like work eat sleep...oru vidhathula naladhudhaan...else willl be vetti browsin all the time.

Gopalan i still owe u the tag. Will definately write it soon..

hey guys n girls just out of curiosity ...

how many support love marriage n how many not ?

arranged love marriage?

Yahoo answers! and what does it answer for the above question? One person has to say this

arranged marriage - murder ||| love marriage - suicide

arranged love marriage - allowing someone kill you... lol!

posts are brief and am not writing that frequently... nothing suspicious, just been too lazy... will start writing soon...

UTAH

i wanted to write about my UTAH trip a while ago but then was too lazy to write. Moreover my blog for some reasons needs to much of editing with respect to HTML, anyways. . .

We ssn'ites had planned for the july 4 weekend to meet in Salt Lake city in utah. I was looking forward for this trip as i was going to meet bharathi after 4 years. The trip was fun and something to remember and cherish.

We all flew from different parts to SLC on 30 jun. (Deepak, ghuru, sai, bharathi, narendran, pradeep , joshua and myself)

bharathi from seattle,deepak from chicago, sai from chicago, narendran from san antonio, ghuru from sunnyvale, pradeep from cedar rapids , me from la and joshua was in slc.

we were there for four days and for the four days it was like in college again. we did white water rafting, ATV, camping and hiking. It was so refresing, thanks a lot guys for making it happen.

.--..--..--..--. I have been tagged by gopalan, will write the tag soon

Clothes and shoes were strewn along the tracks. -BBC

may their souls rest in peace

get direction - india

I forgot to mention about MSN maps in my last post. It is amazing, guess what? I can search route from guindy to avadi in Chennai.

There is a problem when searching routes in India, poor thing doesnt know the names of small roads and hence says take left/right on the "local road", still this thing is coool and not to mention the amazing picture quality of "birds view" of places in US.

msnMaps

Desi version of Amazon? Claims to have a lot of titles! Old and new books for sale online. Check it for yourself

Daily News and Analysis is Mumbai based site and targets youth. Section to voice yourself and the news is exactly what I want, unlike what I wrote in Tsunami post

Want to send family in India photo? This is a nice site, but I was told the courier at times gets delayed, but the prices are catchy

mp3

Now that I have more than a gig space in my mobile, I have started listening to music more than before. The songs that I listen repeatedly are :

1. Fanaa (Mere haath mein, chand sifarish, chanda chamke)

2. Krrish( Main hoon wo aasman, pyar ki ek kahani)

3. Rang de basanti ( loose control, khalbali)

4. Patiyal (kane vittu kan imaigal)

5. Swadesh (yeh jo des hai tera)

6. vetayadu vilayadu ( karka karka, partha mudhal naale)

7. Parijatham (onai kandanae)

8. Bluffmaster (bure bure boro, say na say na)

9. Gajini (sutrum vizhi sudarae, ranghola)

10. kaka kaka( uyirin uyirae )

11. Indian ( pachai kiligal, telephone manipol)

12. Johny (aasaiyai katrula thoodu)

13. Mila thirandhadhu kadhuvu (ora sanam )

14. Nizhalgal (poo kadhavae )

15. Boys – all the songs

16. Ayudha eluthu ( yakai thiri, oru unmai sonal )

17. Alaipayudhey (pachai nirame)

Almost all of the above mp3 can be downloaded from here

when tsunami strikes

I guess I already wrote something similar to this before, but time and again I get frustrated by the media and n number of news channels show casing biased news. Yes! Today the media in India has grown into a power which is capable of challenging people whom it was not able to a few years back, but on the flip side, coverage is becoming more and more biased, either political affiliation or geographical boundaries.

Remember tsunami, when a calamity of that scale occurs, what people expect is medias’ unbiased coverage. Two leading private channels in Tamilnadu were more focused on the political affiliation than the issue at hand.

Political parties however diverse their ideas be, should have come together to bring immediate relief to the victims. Political parties and media are just capitalizing the needs of day worker, the proof being, a govt. being elected just because it promised color tv. I am not against any party here, but just imagine how the party catapulted itself.

Man there are other basic needs, leave uninterrupted power supply, I dont know how many villages even have electricity, and metro city like Chennai doesnt have enough water!

Now coming back, what has happened to the people once the cameras were packed? What happened to the relocation and promised relief measures? May be its the hyenas time to cash in the situation!

Time for contractors to take control of the situation, tenders being given to the favored ones and no one knows about it! Now all this happens in Tamilnadu and just three days after tsunami struck, I read times of India and the main headlines was about a issue in Pakistan. Headlines is fine, I was not able to read news about tsunami in its entire first page! I had to select "states" page and in that "chennai" and there I found a news about this. Why this discrimination? Are they running short of reporters? Was this news not important for the people there?

I open Hindustan times, just to see a UK model posing for a photograph in the first page. Hmm thousands of lives have been lost and this paper is celebrating with model fotos.

All these things just increase my hatred towards media and other ignorant Indians.

audio blog

this thing is awesome! u dont have to sit n type... just call the number, record and refresh ur blog!

but the only drawback is, the number that they have given is a US number, so guys in india i guess will have to wait some more time before this happends there too! thnx to sp

Fanaa Review

Fanaa! First half of the movie is nice! though u would feel that you have seen a similar scene before. I liked the movie for its shaayari n modest emotions. There is one particular shaayar in which amir goes ' kahin kudh ki nazar na lag jaye, allah ne appko nazar hi nahi di'

kajol is blind in the movie n amir soluraaru 'un kanne un melai patudunu kaduvul unuku kanu paarvai tharala'

[+] kajols’ acting (good to see in her true form)

[+] Amir, he has performed with ease

[+] Subhaan allah song

[-] Second half has a bit of unwanted masala

[-] Second half looked a bit senseless

If u like n understand the shaayars' then probably this is a must watch!

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For the long weekend had been to Yosemite! it’s a nice place, giant trees, fresh air , fresh water… the trip was refreshing and gave us a much needed break.

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Was wondering if it is good to be selfish ??? I have not been able to be like that!!! But some people survive being one! it is all the more disturbing when you get affected Probably I should learn how to say a 'NO' or show my disgust right in front of the person, Whenever I wanted to do this, always I would wonder what if the other person gets hurted! hmm anyways

gabdain of andhra....

i couldnt control myself....