Elay Dhoni

This post is not about cricket. It is an obvious attempt to post something on a long-unused-blog. And also a movie 'review'.

So when did I start writing about movies? When I saw Modhi Vilayadu (For people who ask when I started watching movies: I usually dont watch, agreed, maanatha vaangathinga).

Last thursday we went to Modhi Vilayadu. We: me, glamour, senthil, vinoth, vijay and fraud. At abirami. Glamour, vinoth's treat. Probably the last treat before I leave.

Ok, why I am writing about the movie: The first half is a complete copy of "100 Days with Mr. Arrogant". And nobody seems to have noticed it. The Korean anime screen play - too much, it is an obvious-copy. Other things:

1. There were only about 75 people in the hall. At Abirami. And it hadn't been a full week after the movie launched.

2. The title song was awesome. So was the background behind the title slides. Seriously.

3. Credit slides included credits for 'punches', 'steps' and 'cuts'.

4. Catapult vachchu adikkura thoorathulla hero-voda helicopter parakkum. Theatre-la girl friend oda cinema paarparu. Aana assasins ellorume hero car ootum pothu thaan avara target pannuvanga (assassin should remain anonymous la - logic). Athuvum, beijing-la irunthu vantha professional assassin rendu adi thoorathulla, innoru car la irunthu, view-sight vachchu aim panni thaan suduvaaru (Athuvum miss aagidum).

5. Dont listen or watch the songs too closely.

I am not gonna tell anything about the actors or songs or anything else - I am not into movies, hope somebody else comments on them :). And the movie was ok, inspite of everything.

Thats all. Thanks to glamour and vinoth. Packing off in a few days. Bye.

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Globus crashes Earth

Do not get fooled by the title.

I had several installations of Fedora on my computer, and one of them was named 'Fedora-Earth' in the Grub menu. It was my favourite.

It crashed today when I was trying to install the Globus toolkit.

It contained numerous package installations, served as a Primary Domain Controller, survived me trying to hack it, had numerous kernel modifications, and held the record for the longest surviving OS in my laptop.

It is survived by two of it's disk image copies, Fedora - Green and Fedora - Genie, both created 4 months back.

Let Earth rest in peace.

Long time, no see - BSNL #@!~^

Im back after a long time. And its the same old excuse - BSNL. I haven't got anything that can be called "broadband" for 2.5 months now. The time line:


1 week - phone line was dead
1 week - no internet connection
4 weeks - internet connects every wednesday and thursday (I complain on monday, BSNL "repair"s on tuesday, things stop working on friday, and its no use complaining on week ends)
2 weeks - internet gets disconnected every sixty seconds - I don't know how you technically explain it, but it was exactly multiples of sixty seconds
3 days - surprise, internet works fine
4 days - back to no connection
1 week - I get a 6 KBps connection


Intha kandraavikku naan kaasu vera ketturen. I finally decided to kick BSNL and get a Tata Indicom. BSNL has more resources, sure. Problem is, IT SIMPLY DOESNT WORK. For people who may support BSNL in the comments (Glam): dont, or i'll heck you when I get the chance.


One good thing - I learnt to live outside blogosphere (I never posted anyways, but I was addicted to surfing blogs). Only reason I'm posting now is that theres an "I Too Have A Blog" Category in latecut, and I dont want my blog ending up there. Hail Jegan (and Guru?).

Philosophy in CompSci

I did'nt really believe everything in PhD till I had this conversation with Aravind Narayanan (he's doing a MS at Stan):

madthanu: u r supposed to b busy

Aravind Narayanan: hehe
Aravind Narayanan: supposed is the operative word

madthanu: if u rnt busy
madthanu: y dont u sleep?

Aravind Narayanan: work da
Aravind Narayanan: projects
Aravind Narayanan: assignments
Aravind Narayanan: problem sets
Aravind Narayanan: :(

madthanu: u have all these bt say u rnt busy?

Aravind Narayanan: i have reached a state
Aravind Narayanan: where
Aravind Narayanan: i choose not to be busy
Aravind Narayanan: we have choice!
Aravind Narayanan: freedom!

madthanu: u got into philosophy?

Aravind Narayanan: i don't have an impending deadline

Deepavali Thaththuvam

Famous Quotes - 2

When I asked Aishwarya and Samaya whether the previous post was OK, they started ranting off many funnier quotes they remembered. I had to make them stop.... Here are some of them (I will post some funny dialogues from Vinod next):

"Dei, all these guys are just passisng clouds da - they will come & go, but I am eternal like the blue sky" - Raghuram on Aishwarya's new BFs (Source: Rajesh)

"Naangellam sattaya kazhatina ulla oru salman khan irukkan.... Bayandhuraadha" - Deepak Raja

"Aiyyo enna vitrunga.... Kadavuley enna kaapathupa!!", followed by a series of long kozhi sounds - Rajesh, on SpaceJam in Veega Land

"Itho paaru, nee onnum velai ku pogavendam. na velai ku poren. Nee pesama veetla oru sambar..." - Samaya to Deepak Raja (Ppl were ootifing them together)

"God is really great.. Enna un bus ku varavechu.. Anga Nitin nu oru mama va set up panni.. (sigh) God is really really great..!!" - Deepak Raja

Ajay, SECRETLY giving a ring to Aishwarya (Again, ootified pair) : "Hey, ithu yen ring illa, divya kittendu suttuten... Na thirupiyum lobby la official la propose panren"

"Aadu malai a paakavantha ajay aishwarya va paathu mayangitan!!" - Samaya

Rajesh on how he got hit with a hollow plastic ball: "chinna vayasula intha maari oru SHORP object la idichu...." .... (he was pointing to a blunt bus handle)... "illa illa, itha vida oru SHORP object la idichu, nethi adi vaangiten".... Athula vera, avan chinna vayasula rombha AGGRESSIVEa velayaadinaanam

"Deepak raja thoongi ara mani neram aache!!" - Deepak Raja, in bus, when people were ootifing him (he said that himself)

"Inga naa aamblaya, illa neeya?..." - Ajay to Aishwarya, when they were dancing

If you dont know what 'to ootify' means, just keep watching this blog :)