B-Factor

I generally love posting tagged entries, this is one such. One main advantage of this tagged blogging is, when you run out of topics, it will easily add your post count . Here is one such

1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
Santhosh Subramaniam

2. What book are you reading?
“Hypnosis for a Change”

3. Favorite board game?
Othello

4. Favorite magazine?
Frozen Thoughts

5. Favorite smells?
Lime, Rose, Petrol

6. Favorite sounds?
Flute, when it rains, sear

7. Worst feeling in the world?
when someone takes your place

8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
Week day :Today Office
Week End: we gota party

9. Favorite fast food place?
any pani poori shop

10. Future child’s name?
Madhumitha

11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d….?
I would spend it like water

12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
No

13. Storms - cool or scary?
cool

14. Favorite drink?
Strawberry milkshake

15. Finish this statement, “If I had the time I would….”?
Sleep

16. Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
Ofcourse

17. If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
Nopee

18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?
not much

19. Favorite sports to watch?
nothin specific

20. One nice thing about the person who sent this to you?
She is very matured, calm, composed and lovable.

21. What’s under your bed?
Guitar

22. Would you like to be born as yourself again?
Ofcourse YES

23. Morning person, or night owl?
it depends

24. Over easy, or sunny side up?
over easy

25. Favorite place to relax?
Beach

26. Favorite pie?
Love everything

27. Favorite ice cream flavor?
Black Forest

28. Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
Havent tagged anyone

Offlate we hear lot about blossoming Integrated  Townships, but how healthy are they? In  this world of nuclear family, Integrated  Townships isolate people from the society. Townships promises convenience, improved quality of life and great comfortability. But are these good enough to move out of the city and out of the society.

They offer Schools, Colleges, hospitals, gyms play areas etc etc, if you think little deep, you will know that you are surrendering your choices. Hardly you will have 2-3 schools inside a township, similarly 2-3 supermarkets and almost everything is narrowed down, you are left with no or very few choices and you end up using the services that are offered rather than what you actually want. One main disadvantage of this township is 90% of them are far away from the city, 30 km from the heart of the city, if at all you want anything that is not there in your township you have to travel 30 kms. These integrated townships are targeted towards IT people, at least in India it is so, which is a big blow, all non -IT people residing in face a hard toiled life. Take for example you ought to buy something which is not available in the supermarket(s) which the township builder deployed, now either you have to live without it or go and get it from somewhere.

Leave aside material stuffs, which you somehow manage with or without, coming to the social aspect. Already we are moving towards isolation, we are detaching ourselves from being social, by being social i don mean partying in night clubs and bars, that is increasing and it is very evident. But socializing with people, with relatives, where do we stand in that? These townships will make things worse, say you have to go to temple, do they have? say you need to go to a specialist doctor, say you need to go and visit an orphanage, say you need to hang out with nature(again, artificial lakes doesn’t count). Like this we can ad upon.

Apart from all these things, one main thing that makes me hate this concept of Integrated Township is STATUS and EQUALITY. At any given Township, only upper and middle class people can be found, even the lower middle class people can hardly afford it, thou they manage to afford a living there, other expenses like schoolings, day-to-day affairs are hard to meet. Leaving the Upper strata of the society, they hardly/never mingle with middle class people. But upper-middle class and lower-middle class people mingle a lot among themselves and with lower class people, say in school/activities/sports we can see them together, consider a 100acre township, where all the people reside will be of the same strata, so that social mingling will be missing, this missing harmony will be a great loss to a society and also for the country. And that too for a country like India, where it is a mix and match of everyone. This is really a bad sign, Township makes living like a tour, which will definitely  makes you feel away from home. Who will bridge this Gap?

Vysr, a Web 2.0 startup was launched yesterday in Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco. Vysr launched RoamAbout - a browser plugin in the Keynote address at Web 2.0 expo, which allows the user to roam about the web with their social networks and enhances the browser experience with live discussions, chatting rooms etc. Vysr gives the next generation browsing experience with its web centric innovative product.

Here are few press notes about RoamAbout

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=151615&

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9925036-2.html

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080422/0389058.html

http://www.optionsxpress.com/quote_market_overview.asp?story=%7B3E04BD4C-3C03-4B60-AA11-0FB10FFB68D5%7D

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/04/22/3400805.htm

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/04/22/vysr-lands-$2-million-%2526quot%3Buser-centric%2526quot%3B-browser-application

http://www.techmeme.com/080422/p15#a080422p15

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/22/roamabout-browser-plugin-brings-web-services-to-any-page/

http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/22/close-those-browser-tabs-vysr-offers-platform-for-a-user-centric-web/

Life is cute,in every other way
We just miss to enjoy its beauty as we sway,
sometimes things go out of your hands
sometimes it pains, sometimes it hurt

Our prayers may seem unanswered,
But it isn’t, its just the way we think
Our wishes may go unfulfilled,
But that isn’t the end of it.

Every person makes a difference,
thank them for that little difference.
Every second is a new beginning,every second is another first
just stay alert to grab the beginning.

Make hay while sun shines,
but if it doesn’t,start selling the grasses
God will answer your every prayer,
he is not late, but you are not old enough

Don’t weigh people with mind,
rather weigh them with your heart.
Think before you act, but for once
just love before you think.

Life isn’t a timetable, don’t plan everything
Sometimes it is better to leave things
and sometimes take a hold, but
surprise studded life is always sweeter.

Dare to be you,live for others,
but before that live for you first.
Because at your death bed, the only person you are answerable
is the one whom you look in your mirror daily.

Forgiveness, is the most powerful weapon
I have ever seen, don’t carry people in your shoulders
Forgive them and drop them then and there.
Be strong enough to use this weapon.

Smile at everyone, let them think you are mad,
Smile is contagious, they have to do that back.
Live like a kid, don’t carry things in your mind,
laugh at it, cry at it but don’t think about it after that.

Think of your parents, when you cry
Think of your kids, when you hurt.
Living for you, is just one life,
Live for others, its countless

Have friends,no one can make u understand their value
until you realize that of your own.
Have coffee with them, the best thing you can ever experience
Watch rain for an hour,they can only tell
How cute life is.

Thanks Subbu for his suggestion to modify second as every first.

This post a reply to a conversation which I had during a coffee break with a friend of mine.

Gist of the conversation:
First we started with the irritating advertisements that annoys us during Movie Intervals, to name a few

• Saravana stores ad - Shreya - Shreya thinks she is the Venus God
• Prince Jewelery - “en nagaye naan than choose panuven” - it sucks

The list was on and on, we were discussing the reasons why certain ads really a pain in the ass

1. They fail to server the purpose what they are meant for, sometimes we forget the product for which the advertisement is made - Most star studded advertisement, etc
2. Kids are unnecessarily used in the ads, even thou in most of them they arent necessary.
3. Women are exploited in advertisements, why you need a women for a poompuhar baniyan ad? Shaving cream, briefs, vests, male watches, shirtings, suitings and every other thing.
4. Stupid Logic and total irrelevance, just because they signed a star, they try to advertise something with him. Eg. Almost all Dhoni’s advertisements, latest being the one in which he drives his bike and gives a t-shirt to his kid fan. It Stinks (more…)

After a long time, our office GANG, planned up for a movie and we went last Saturday. “RACE”

They could have names it TWIST, every 15 min, there is a twist in this movie, the director is not allowing the movie to travel at all, before even we digest a twist, there is another twist ,he is just twisting it for some reason, may be he would have thought it will be the only thing that can keep audience awake in this MOVIE and he is right to some extent. Nothing is there in the movie other than twist.

Me and Subbu guessed everything expect for the first twist, the Bipasa - Saif one. Other than that, all other characters in this movie will keep giving you some hints about the twists thats gona come, for instance , when Akshay gives the photograph in a envelope to the killer and after looking at the the photo he will ask, who is Bipasa who stands next to Akshay. If you keep aside all the logics and see, RACE is a good movie, provided you are dumb in guess work. They have tried something similar to Dhoom, who knows there might me another sequel, where the dead brother and his pair might come alive with a flash back scene that portrays their escape from that car after being plunged into that temporary VAN or whatever. Twists man. BOLLYWOOD, anything is possible. If you sit and work out all possible combination, only a very few things are missed by the director, everything else is happening in the movie. RACE is a n story cooked up into one, they have made a movie with all the stories that would have been suggested during the movie discussion.

Anil Kapoor, OMG who gave him this COP role, he just sucks. Eating fruits, cracking Poorest JOKES possible, for which only Samira reddy laughs, may be because she considers him as GOD.

On the whole, if you put it in SUN TV style, anyone of this will suit. Choose the best

•  RACE - LOOSE
• RACE - odaathu
• RACE - TWIST
• RACE - poda goyala

It was a real hard week, worked day n night continuously.  Almost didnt had time for anything other than work. Things that i missed this week.

1. Didn’t  even check GMail
2. Didnt read any blogs , not even newspaper.
3. No time to chat
4. No time to blog
5. Didnt read anything.
6. Didnt SLEEP

All work and no play made Bala a dull boy

Hard work pays, it should, awaiting the pay this Monday, since the project is getting this week, things were pretty tight. Awaiting the release. Next week is gona be a great week, lot of new things shaping up. I just hope everything falls my way. Fingers crossed. Hope everything turns out well.