Saturday, December 30, 2006

prince of darkness

Hafya evah been in so much darkness that u cudnt see ur own hands held in front of your face?
A night time experiment, with the assistance of my phone crooning away 'nothing else matters'...

I have nothing more to report abt it...Was not scared of all the darkness...Was at peace...Probably cos I was irritatingly wide awake at 12:15 am and the song was just damn bloody soothing!

Oooooh babel! A movie quite similar to 'crash', an oscar winner if i'm not mistaken...
Imagine some of ur worst nightmares, some of the worst positions u can be in...scared, terrified and helpless...There u have babel! Very rarely do such movies come out and thats probably for the good! Brad Pitt is again quite marvellous...But definitely the story which deserves special mention is that of Rinko Kikuchi, who quite expertly plays the role of a deaf-mute, a subject which has for ever dominated over me, almost...I dono how to react to ppl who are deaf and/or mute, I dono what my feelings are for them...I am at a total loss! Similar were my feelings as I watched her quite masterfully depict the thoughts of a young woman, who is deaf and mute...I wont say more...

Some of the dialogues/scenes are quite harsh and in your face...A must watch for ppl who like movies with some 'stuff' !

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Prank

Dear Diary,

I was recently the victim (no no too harsh a word obviously...), the target rather, of a rather well thought out practical joke...

Dust that coats my hat, is from a dozen towns
Dust from shooting down another dozen clowns (should get this line outta my head...)


The purpose of this blog is for me to have a record of it and for others to enjoy my endurance :)

At approximately 3 pm in the afternoon i receive a call on my phone sayin there is an emergency situation at one of the places where our product has been installed...You see I was acting as 'off hours' support @ work during the holiday period, which extended from 25th Dec to Jan 1st..

Now you mite say, hey! 3 pm definitely isnt 'off hours' is it?! Yep! Introducing u to the bozo, the MTV bakra who fell for the prank hook line and sinker! I was kinda anticipating a call in the holiday period and jumped at the first opportunity...

The details of the call are unimportant here...Mainly because they further expose my stupidity and gullibility, of not having caught on to the fact that the caller was fed some cleverly procured information specifically designed to deceive the callee aka me...

Anyways I bought the fact that there is an emergency and started working on it!! As Griz says, the laptop was out in three seconds!! (commitment to work to be noted here) and before I could think of anything else, I had called somebody else from work to alert them of the emergency and I could feel my body heating up and my pulse quickening...

And then I receive the phone call from the perpetrator, revealing all....The 'mastermind' so to speak...And in the heat of the moment, it still took me a while to realise that it was a prank...Yep thats how caught up I was.......

what a FANTASTIC prank alla??? Especially when its holiday season and u are quite bugged and bored and want to have some FUN!!

Well, was fun atleast, ATLEAST for the people who thought this out and contributed to this brilliant scheme...Am truly honored to have been a part of this and personally thank everyone involved...


Q(uite) E(asily) D(one)

Friday, December 22, 2006

Weird friends

I have weird friends.

One of them scraps me repeatedly, compelling me, reminding me, badgering me to attend our school reunion... And he himself goes outta town on the anointed day....

He also sends attyuttama gross jokes which make me swear fervently to not meet him as much as possible... (hope he is not reading this blog? If you are, hey hows work man?!)

And then we have this precious piece from another one of my acquaintances...Lets call him groovy boy for lack of a reason.... heh

Groovy boy: hehe..maga 28th ninda xms bere..!


murali: whoa
mazzor
enzoy maadi


Groovy boy: crap maga...
metallica kelkondu band hodithayidini ivaga


murali: l..l
rock on brother!

The sign 'l..l' is the ultimate rock symbol btw...no idea what it means, but it signifies rock, metal, cool stuff, pizzas, bloody marys, humming washing machines, and anything thats hip n funky! For the official list of things that it signifies, visit

http://www.liststillincomplete.com/stopclickingthis/nincompoop.php

Groovy boy: ya man..yahooooo. (!?!?!?!?)

I mean where the hell?! does yahoooo fit into a purely energetic l..l based rocking conversation!?!?!?

What if i had started talkin more abt tallica n other stuff?!?! :O

Devre devre....
(curtain falls and the handsome protagonist (aka me) continues mumbling away into the darkness.....)

Monday, December 18, 2006

embolism

Well, I've heard a lot about being an architect of one's own life....Thinking in a particular way.....Taking control of one's life....

And I've went 'hmmmmm' at that...neither thoroughly supporting it nor vehemently disagreeing with it....

But a feeling of sheer helplessness, a feeling of anger(grinding teeth and desire to beat fists on table), a feeling of shock, culminating in a state of numbness

is what I am going to narrate to u about, now....Some of the statements mite be quite blunt, but hey! I'm not exactly famous for mincing my words am I?

You've lived ur life wary of her... You do not even know what she IS, forget about how to react to her and her 'tantrums'.....Is she mentally challenged? No doesnt seem like it.....Is she physically disabled? Certainly not....As you've grown up, you've neither felt the need nor has there been an opportunity for you to actually find out what happened to an approximately 30 year old woman who looks and seems to be fine, but lacks the mental maturity of one! A ten year old is who u are interacting with....A ten year old who throws tantrums and causes u, a 16 yr old to be slightly embarrassed in front of other relatives....

Well, one fine chilly night is the right setting for the story to be recollected and possibly even relived aint it??

Flashback about 28-29 yrs ago, when there was a 1-2 yr old small girl, who had just fallen ill....The place is Benares....And here we have a DOCTOR! the girl's grandfather...The mother and the unfortunate girl, were supposed to travel by train to some other place, where the father would be waiting for them...The mother rightly refuses to travel whilst the baby is suffering from diarrhoea...The Doc grandpa on the other hand, ignores these pleas, saying he doesn't want to incur the wrath of his irate son in law...And so the journey begins....

Thats where the life of Tulasi(I didnt even know her fucking name! Such a beautiful name...her nickname sonu was being used ever since I've known her) took a twist...The diarrhoea becomes more severe and causes dehydration, which directly affects her brain....I'm still too fucking shocked and numbed and sad to make all this bold and create an effect or draw attention...

Her fate was decided for her, by her parents/grandfather/what the fuck!?!?

Did she have a say in her life? No
more fucking importantly, DOES she have a say in her life?! NO
Its not like she needs constant supervision, but she will not grow mentally to make decisions for herself...Her marriage was a hasty decision and hence a disaster...A lot of ppl suffered because of that...

ALL this, because of some stupid ppl deciding for u? Making a wrong call??
Alright maybe it wasnt a stupid shocking decision, but nonetheless A WRONG decision, COMPLETELY out of ur hands? I'd hardly think there are enuf 1-2 yr olds around, who would straighten their diapers, stand tall and categorically refuse to travel by train on account of their delicate disposition....

Inference drawn : Life can fuck you....Ppl and circumstances around you can fuck you....So bad that if u watch ur own life from a third person's point of view, it can be scary sometimes...

If Tulasi is today, given an opportunity to get out of her current state, and know, analyse and think about what happened to her and what could've been without that accident..........i dont even wanna think about her shock....

Fuck I'm too shocked and numbed to say anything more.....Her life....A life....Valuable life?
Gone....

Friday, December 15, 2006

Divine bliss!

Have you ever touched silk? Pure smooth and enchanting?!

Ok good

Have u ever sat down, held ur arms out almost parallel to the ground and touched silk??

Presenting to you, the Hyundai Getz!!

:D

Banthu konegu adrajji! (Came finally, its grandmother!)

Silver colour!! All style, all masth! Was @ work today battling issues of design dilemma,s incomplete logs, irate Team Leads and missing carrom board strikers!!!!! (last one lead to quite a few lol moments, which helped me get thru the day :) ... thanks vooth! )

Little did I know, that I should have left office and headed straight for home! Nonetheless, when I came back and got the preliminary pat-on-the-back punch-on-the-shoulder with my brother over with, he said lets take it for a spin!!

Me asked cautiously, 'when will u let me drive ur car lo?' He, being the munificent, 'big aortic pump'ed guy he is (no no seriously) said 'ya ivatte odsu..' (drive it now only)

I did give him some scary moments, but boy does the steering wheel listen to me?!?!

And I begged the engine to make itself heard to me, but it just wont budge from its soft, regular purring!!

And the panasonic system HAD to play one of the most mellifluous hindi songs made in recent times, 'aao na' from ..... aaaah u fill in da blanks!

Altogether a most sooooooooooooooooooooper experience!
Getz u here Getz u there Getz u everywhere! :)

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Wah wah

Read it twice to phir jaake samajh me aaya saala!

Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.

- William Butler Yeats
(God bless his soul!)

Monday, December 11, 2006

Mur(ph)ly's laws

Ok I've had these things in my hat rack(translates to my head) for a while, so wanted to write it down before it 'fades to black'..... :)

This is something I have experienced/felt strongly quite a bit and my mind has done a 'uh! What just happened there?' or a 'This is way too spooky for it to have happened 4187 times'

Disclaimer : Somebody else mite have already written this elsewhere or can come and claim it in the name of narnia....Well I've got two words for them : "Sure"

There mite be additions to these mental musings....

1. Its only/exactly when you are thinking about something naughty/cunning/wrong/disturbing, that something will happen causing you to not just come back to reality, but come back with a jerk or a bang! (Like you bumping into something, or getting pricked by something sharp or the Toyota Qualis in front of you choosing to brake abruptly and u braking hard and breaking ur bike's indicator!!)


I'm also prepared for the contingency where my unfortunate readers dont get a word of what I am saying......

Take comfort in the fact that there's more sublime crap to come maybe....never stop hoping ;)

Friday, December 08, 2006

If you are you, am I me?

Dear readers,
This is the literal translation of name of the play I went to today!

:D :D
:D :D

The four :Ds have a significance mah frend!

Ever heard of the fabulous hindi movie called angur?
No? Okay you mite have heard of Ulta Palta in Kannada?
No? Okay then Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors?

THERE we go! Thats what the play is based on!
Me telling u the plot of the play won't spoil it at all....Cos the brilliance lies entirely in the adaptation of the plot and the enacting of it! Sheer brilliance I tell u the dialogues and the performance of the cast, which includes notable (may not be to every one of my esteemed readers tho ;) ) names like SKC (Sihi Kahi Chandru), Srinivas Prabhu, Jahangir (of Papa Pandu fame).....


Ok for the uninitiated, the plot is as follows

Two sets of twins (yup, 4 ppl)
Get separated during childbirth, but in pairs (yup, 2 pairs of dissimilar twins...as in AB AB)
And they end up bumping into each other ( and how!?!?) , causing their respective relatives quite a bit of confusion !!

I seriously advice kannada lovers to get a sample of this play
Playing @ rangashankara this weekend and sometime later this month too.....

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

huh?

I prayed, you know?
Did u listen?

Did u want it this way?
Why does it always rain on him?

Down in a hole
Losing my soul
I try to fly
but my wings have been 'so denied'

Help him help himself atleast!?
Ninnishta en bekadru madko hogu....

Maxed out...

Tuesday evening... Slightly bored....

Teammate comes to me n rags with following 'problem' which requires an algorithm.....

Given an array A of numbers (sorted, unsorted, negative ....could be anything) , find the most efficient (focus more on time than on memory) algo to calculate MAX ( A[i] - A[j] ) where i 'is less than' j ( couldn't write the 'less than sign' without a hack, cos blogger didn't allow me to do so....you learn something everyday.......)

Do something better than O(n^2) please....
Of course no solutions like sort the array and then do the calculation n stuff....

Where are the comments, with ur solutions??!?! Flowing like mud around here.....

O.S : I think I have written an algorithm for the above problem....Too lazy to check it for multiple cases.....Cmon Kattu!