NaLa paaka

food -> sakkre holge, kooTu, saaru, puliyogare.
heard the word mansion atleast ten times :)
met lots of people : deepa and other members of infy... folks from sasken..
so the eat part went off well and so did the eye ..

monday report ..

veerappan na kondi haaki bittru ..
is it a political move ?? or were the police helpless ( I mean cudnt capture him ) ..
or did veerappan decided.. 'madu illve madi ' ( i do not know the tamil equivalent )
i heard lotsa tams are frustrated abt it .. become mad ..

and am seeing so many kannadigas .. hysterical . all the norhties too know him .. due to bangalore band ( rajkumar kidnap case )

makkla ..innen smaachara ..
sudeepan mane oota ashotndu tindra ?? no ones blogging ..

waiting for sunday's report....

allo makLa....report maaDi.....what happened yesterday? Did Richie live upto his promise? Eat? Eye? Wink?

I am eye-down in stinking stuff.....

will update more after your updates.......

Sehwag

Too cooL.....We needed that...
Keep it up :-)

Dravid is not excusable this time.
Harakiri.
I dunno whats wrong with all da senior players.

But I have my doubts of winning this test :'-(
Let's see.

Dance raja dance

Today no garba or dandiya for me :-))

I wont go there.Thats it. It is kinda indirect or blurry, controlled innuendo or worse,
a mating signal and definitely not my cup of tea.

Why?

Because I never was impressed with the Radha & Krishna and the ancient
romance and dance theory.I dont want to fake a dandiya freak.
That would be personally uncooL.

Although I loved the song "Radha kaise na Jale" , I loved the color and the dance,
I can never have a vicarious feeling of tying a band kind of thing on my forehead
and wearing a gejje on my foot and dancing with 2 sticks.
No way!I will suck that way.

But I was impressed with the Gopika Stree theory... :-)
Stealing the clothes and voyeuring away to glory.

Thats not me and I dont like the Mehendi ki Raath and all the gossip.
I infact hate that.

But one dance I would really wanna do is tap dancing,
Or the totally fantasy filled AXE EFFECT ad dance.

Or with a girl (if i were a great dancer) then salsa!
I hate Ballroom dancing too.

filming ..

hehe .. casiona plot is very very local .. ( in USA )

the casino plot is old ..agreed .but where ..hollywood ..
not in bollywood .. I am looking for a local Inidian blockbuster .. :))

I tell u its not even Oceans Eleven ..No one would have heard about Lady killers .. in India ..

Things which make money need not be a highly cerebral one .. isnt it ..
I dont mind having a Wal-mart , compared to Google ..

what say ?? the dream is to make money .. and lotsa them ..

Teju great story .. super .. aagi idhe mama ..
I think I had another flick based on you .. sometime back .. remember .. :))
so we have two approved by the script writer ..
and one local idea down the drains ...

sudeepa get some time out ..we shall sell scripts .. ;-)

sudeepa .. nimma aramane gruhapravesha ..miss aagotte .. boohooooohhhh
sumanth keep your word abt the GRUB

Talking abt filming.....

I just read how the Matrix like slow motion shots are done.
(The shot where the camera appears to rotate around Keanu Reeves
as he bends to dodge bullets).

Okay the first surprising thing is this :-
THEY DONT USE MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS!

The second surprising thing is this :-
They use STILL CAMERAS. Yeah they do (echo twice).

Around 40 STILL cameras are placed around the subject in a circle,
(like Keanu Reeves or Shah Rukh Khan in Main Hoon Na).

Then when the director yells action , the cameras start firing
photograph sequentially (like traversing a circular linked list).

Then the stills are copied to a film and voila we have the
matrix like shot.

Talk about using physics!

I heard that there are digital motion cameras which are as good as
as conventional film cameras!
Not your camcorder home video cameras.

And distribution costs of a reel is reduced to
peanuts cos' it is as easy as writing a CD.

Star Wars (the most recent one) used a sony digital motion camera (see the link below).
Look at this

Canon permits some good features even though my camera is a very small one :-)
I shot a panoramic image of 12 photos and stitched them into a single 2.79 MB
jpeg file and it looks horrible.

More on this later ....

man!

that was really good....

I will try to work on this and let you know abt the first draft.
But as the golden saying goes we need TIME to do this :-(
May we can try this.

But the feel of the movie is dangerously adult.
In the sense this is an intellectual drama.....
I have an ending for this movie:-

Sudeep ends up cured for this one however the psychologist
is badly affected by all this.

"Psychology", in general is regarded as a Hi-Fi subject
for indian cinema.

But we can keep the general public in mind before we start writing this.

This is real good stuff!
Great idea pal :-)

late night postings....

Its 4am. Two of my lab-mates are sleeping on the floor. Two more are watching Home-Alone #4. I am typing this. I can see my bag, my toothbrush and toothpaste, my kettle, mug, waterbottle, headphones, stray change on the table. I am not particularly sleepy, but have no josh to study, inspite of having a study plan. I have an algorithms class at 930 tomorrow. So, I know that I have to sleep somewhat early if I dont want to miss the class. I am also thinking of watching some pourne. My pourne identity needs to be revived.

Navratri is here, or so they tell me. The first gharba/dandiya was held today, and we folks went in a little late, and could just catch the public as they were coming out. The feel of a college fest is on. The institute seems to be geared up towards one thing, and one thing only...the college fest. With a fresher-college-fest-orientation conducted in the biggest hall in the institute, one can imagine....

Zeedy, the casino robbing theme is old. I mean, its older than the woods. Think of some other plot idea. I have an idea: Sudeep is a compulsive obsessive something. Could be anything. And to overcome this, he starts attending therapy sessions with psychoanalyst. There is no deep reason behind his situation, he is a normal person with a normal problem, and is attracted to the shrink. The shrink senses this, and has a moral conflict of sorts.....whether to send him to someone else (her husband is a shrink too), or treat him inspite of his obvious attraction towards her.....all this is shown through some wonderful direction and very well thought out dialogues. She chooses the second option.....and we see her trying to help him out.....and along the way, the audience starts suspecting that she is not being professional, and contrary to her earlier promise, is now guiding her unsuspecting patient into a quasi-intellectual-sexual relationship with her; all as a part of her treatment.

At this point, we can either make Sudeep diabolical, ie. he can see that she is falling for him, and so, he goes for it all out....or we can make him a good patient who just happened to have a testosterone shot before starting therapy. The therapist's husbands angle, and his being a shrink, I havent yet explored......And no clue about the ending and further twists as well....But this idea could dwell on some awesome dialogue......not like the shrink-talk you see in Ally McBeal, some real cool mind-play and meta(anticipatory)-thinking, some really tense erotic moments, drama, maybe suspense, and with tons of scope for a mindblowing ending.....

What say?

Name of duty

Rumours are true.
No more UT, and that too just when i was getting good at it :) . Orders from higher up.
The 11:00 constraint is only for the one team till now.
Wouldn't miss the sunday function.. and shall gobble/ogle in the name of zeeds/bert

The plot of the casino is tried and tested. A bunch of MIT students did just that.
search for "MIT blackjack", and we spent our time in undergrad reading transducers!

ECCENTRICITY

illa andre life tumba borr ansotte .. dont u feel so ..

right now modifying my tables , rather getting modified, primary key change madokke DBA na kela beku .. mainframe alli .. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I wanted to watch 'gone with the wind' .got the dvd too .. but cudnt watch it .. :((
been to LA .. dint meet satya or kartic .. revisited universal studios ..

sudeepa .. need to get into movies .. yen antiya ..

okay theres a plot for local bollywood / kollywood with a hollywood touch ..

imagine ... a group of artists given a chance to perform in LV's biggest casino .. say MIRAGE ..
a group on cons replace this group and try to rob .. the casino and getting back some dollars to India .. shudnt be Oceans 11 .. yen antira ??

decided to take gmat too .. preperation should begin anytime ..
barla sigona .

black tea....

got myself an electric kettle, a box of Lipton Yellow Label teabags, and lo! I can brew my own tea in the lab, anytime I want......

Sudeep's writing continues to be amusing....he is talking about bows and arrows now.......I wish he knew about them when he himself was target practice during his last days as a part of FYI.........I so wish I could've been in Bangalore this Sunday; didn't want to miss this one big event. Makla, do go there and make sure you at least eat some of mine and GD's quota of food.

Futile efforts at studying have been going on. I seem to be doing this the exact same way as I used to work: wait till deadlines mount....and then, give an average performance under pressure. I have to work on this trait of mine.......NOW! ......That bit of self-analysis aside, life has been good. Attended a Scrabble workshop yesterday, conducted by an alumnus, who has won international level tournaments. Spoke about bingos, board tracking, challenges, word play, anagramming, and other strategies......I couldn't stay for the games that began after the strategy session......will play with some Scrabble Club folks soon....

I was talking to a few ex-colleagues today, and they tell me the Unreal Tournament has been called off at office. And now, people are expected to be at their desks by 11. Stand in line for lunch, take coffee breaks during coffee breaks, give sado-masochistic control to one's manager.....etc etc..... Whats happening ?!?!?!?

Meanwhile,

here, I am so very pre-occupied that I keep
forgetting that I am developing a very important
software for empowering the next generation's high tech
needs.

Argh! forget the next generation.


I heard Kummi has gone Munnar with a few guys
to enjoy himself....Wonder whether the bugger is back or not?

There is a Dandia dance this friday at office....
I have decided to carry sticks to the office that day.
One in each hand. Folk dance is a great idea.
The word "Folk" rhymes really well with one of my favorite words.
It is so cloudy today and the mood is perfect for everyone at office
to go home early and everyone are happy about it.
But everybody are actually sad because it is still 3:20.

Today I am shooting darts at evry female i am glancing and I
am NOT ashamed abt staring as I used to be earlier!

Bow and arrrow games are good for health and other things.

Now,

the world's greatest software (written by sudeep_rg)
has started to get up and started running.

It is one helluva lousy browser for a mobile fone
which hangs when we try to read a html/wml page.

Because it is very fast, there are many bugs, rather, "disasters".
But according to the author,ALL Bugs are trivial so that should
not at all be a problem.Bugs are always there.

So a conversation with my mgr is presented in ascii text :-

MGR:-
(looking at 10 sheets of C-code)
What the heck is this ?

SUDEEP:-
What?

MGR:-
I mean there is a bug

SUDEEP:-
(shocked)
Where ?

sudeep is shown a true feature-level bug.sudeep
wants to escape now :-) like a true software engineer.
he clears his throat and....

It is not a bug.It is one functionality of the project.

MGR:-
(AMUSED)
Ohhhhh....Okay.

MGR:-
Did you see the presidential debate on TV.

SUDEEP:-
Yeah.

MGR:-
What was your opinion abt Bush? Dont you think his answers
were not at all reasonable.

SUDEEP:-
Heck no.I discovered the basic truth.

MGR :-
What is the basic truth?

SUDEEP:-
After a responsibility is given to you,
It is very easy to ask a question but very difficult to give an answer

My manager marvelled at my glorious observation, however his praise was suspicious
about what i was trying to say.

Maybe he can use the above dialog to his higher up.

More movies...

Ok, I want to make this my last post on movies. Here is a list of all the good movies I have watched after coming here, and also a list of all the bad ones.....

( in order)

- Before Sunset
- Kill Bill(s)
- LA Confidential
- The fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain
- Memento
- Usual Suspects
- Pulp Fiction
- Gandhi
- Pyaasa (Gurudutt)
- Roman Holiday
- A Beautiful Mind.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- North by Northwest
- Collateral
- Bowling for Columbine
- Farenheit 911

The could-have-been-avoided movies...

- Face/Off
- 10 things I hate about you
- Girl next door
- How to lose a guy in 10 days
- Sweet November
- Bruce Almighty

The still-to-watch movies...

- The Insider
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Snatch
- Reservoir Dogs
- Raqueim for a Dream
- Schindler's List
- The Shining
- Taxi Driver
- Dr Strangelove
- Full Metal Jacket
- Goodfellas
- more....

Gentlemen of the jury, thats it about movies for now.......for sometime to come......

agre

took another agre paper, got about 50/80 . So if i can better that
score a bit by nov, the apps should go well.
Have begun reading the Asimov Foundation series. The 1st book wasn't much
of page-turner. Hopefully the robot series is better.
Have decided not to take GATE this time :)

Romance

I might have rambled to you folks about this, but lemme do it again.....

I had been to visit Akshay in Mysore during 4th or 5th semester, and had seen this movie called Before Sunrise on TV there. The movie has stayed with me all these years, cuz of the way romance is depicted in it. Its a movie about two young people (do they all have to be young? well, here it really makes sense that they are young, I will get to that) who meet on a train. The young American needs to spend a day in Vienna before he catches a plane back home. He invites over the beautiful Parisian to spend a day with him in Vienna, and then continue her journey back to Paris. The movie that starts from this point is just about dialogue, and viewpoints of two different people, and a subtle attraction that everyone feels to a strange attractive person. Its a very sweet movie, and it had been around my mind......

Now, its sequel has come out, Before Sunset. With the same theme, set in Paris, and now, they are both 10 years older.....and whoa, it shows, not on their faces.....but in their thoughts, and how they feel that they have matured since their last conversation in Vienna, and how it all makes sense at a different level now......how they have seen more of life, and how it has affected them......This movie left a superb impression on me (watched the sequel yesterday) and I could somewhat relate to the characters cuz I was with them when they were younger, and when I was younger........and now that I am somewhat older, and they are too, and now their talks about their youth rings a very clear bell in my ears.....as I relate to what they might be feeling.......

Watch both the movies, it might take a romantic like me to rave about them this much, but its still worth it......The best way to watch these two movies is to catch Before Sunrise now, and Before Sunset after a couple of years........

Well,

I am also having a bad day today at work.

But as one great man always says,
things are going to be fine but dont stop trying :-).

I came across this very 2 inspirational articles
from the hacker guru Richard Stallman.That too, while googling.


1) This article in the usenet. The original GNU announcement.
Check out the date of the article.I was three years old
when it was published.It speaks volumes about something
which I lack called PERSERVANCE.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=771%40mit-eddie.UUCP

2)This article on gnu.org

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html

pandemonium

at work ..
I had 2 projects and 2 requests.

1 mini project requires a chagne in table design
1 project has been fixed for defects and has been sent back to QA

1 request on Production now. ( the user has to give a confirmation its working )
1 request has had a partial fix only .. boohooh ..faltered on analysis.

and screwed up in a change management process ..:((

the thing is I suck basically and the reasons I provide are ..

1. Lack of business knowledge
2. Lack of probing skills
3. Lack of ability to conisder others are duds and their solutions too are dumb .. ( this needs to be the biggest culprit )
4. A slight lacking of interest.

solutions.
1. built business knowledge ( would take time )
2. bug everyone , but do not let them know you are bugging them
3. Verify each and every suggestion suggest by others. Investigage .. every analysis and design ( Need time .. night outs )
4. build interest >=200% ..


I might be back in India soon and given a choice I am opting for it December.

LA Confidential nalli agent 000

This can be true.

Lemme explain. We have seen Dr Raj and his awesome agent 000 movies. They are full of incredible plots, "im-plausible" assumptions, seductive vamps, sacrificing friends, moles in the police department who have sold out to the bad guys for just money, bad guys who want to control the whole city, lot of gun fights, agents trailing bad men, and bad men trailing agents, jealousy etc etc.......and we also thought that these movies were extremely silly......

Welcome to LA Confidential.

You throw in some good actors, some realistic fight-shootout sequences, and last, but not the least, a tight script; voila, you have the critically highly acclaimed LA Confidential. So, whats the difference between our Dr Raj flicks and awesome non-special effects movies made in Hollywood? Its just the script. Its the non-chalance of the actors, its the direction....and mostly, its the seriousness.....they dont dilute serious movies with mindless humor, they dont have item numbers, they dont have all the "elements". They just stick to one idea, follow the script, keep it as tight as possible, and deliver the punch. The audience reels back, and applauds. They also curse the Kannada thrillers cuz of Narsimharaju, who has no place in these movies (with all due respects to the great comedian). As for the tight script: after having watched movies like Minchina Ota, I think that its highly possible that there are some great screenwriters amidst us (no pun). But these cool screenwriters just are succumbing to whats "conventionally" expected out of them, and keep doing the conventioan stuff, instead of what they truly feel for (write cool scripts). Now, that statement applies at so many levels......what say Paapu?

Anyways, Watch LA Confidential, its a good movie....just enough double crossing to make you feel bad, but not enough to make you hate the movie for fooling you just for the heck of it (like Sixth Sense).

Now for some boring stuff.....

If you are in a mood, try to see the NP-completeness proof of Hamiltonian Circuit. Creativity is being taken to new heights. Crazy concoctions leading to sublime proofs......I am bowled.

Btw, I have chosen my lab project. The idea is to make search engine results browsing an easier experience, by grouping them under categories. These categories are extracted automatically by looking at the top 200 results for the queries and clustering them based on the search results' snippets that come along with the results. We are planning to use the Google API to invoke the search and get the results page. Construct a Suffix Tree out of the words in the snippets, and then, cluster these suffix trees based on some heuristic that has been proven good. Its a standard text classifciation method. Which we are going to implement. Also involves some "course-conformant" front end PHP work, some CGI scripting to invoke the search etc. But more importantly, has the quasi research angle of the clustering bit.........adhu adhu.....