Grand canyon in Madras

Marina Beach. Except where I expect sand in the faraway distance from my view, I see water. Water has moved on to beach road. Earth quake. And I see a canyon as grand as Grand Canyon, right next to the beach road.  As  people are floating and struggling with water, K - a college friend who lives in Singapore and  who I havent met after college and I are walking along.

I wonder what would we call it though - a canyon? Can we still call it a beach? Deep in the recess of the canyon I could still see Sea Water. But South India isnt suppose to get an earthquake - we are old plate, I wonder. Seismologist say we are all overreacting - south india wont face earthquakes - this is just one off case.

Some dream!

That one line in that one beatle song

I can almost imagine a popular Indian blogger writing, "Do these guys know him? .Then why do they write as if they have known him personally. ..... ".  And so on. 

Facebook is on a RIP Steve jobs loop.
A friend  who was having a very very bad day, asked why steve jobs why not the said friend.

It isnt even surprise. We have read about persistent health issues starting way back in 2003 to liver transplant in 2009 and his stepping down a month and a half ago. 

Outpouring of grief from friends and family( mine - not his!) does seem strange, When I think about it logically.

My own emotions seems  ineffable. 

Steve jobs is that famous successful person who made me realize as much as I adored these successful people (exclusively the geeky ones), in real life they might be so hard to deal with. that they wouldnt even make it to the close circle of friends. Infact, that person who I found so annoying at work has the same fire these succesful people have.

I mean who fires some one in an elevator? What would be to work in a place like that? Did all the apple employees ensure through GPS tracking system that they never encountered him anywhere leave alone an elevator?

But this decade has been about IPOD, IPHONE, IPAD  - I am not happy about my IPAD, I am rooting for the kindle fire model. I wish IPOD was cloud based. So, yes I have few improvements I would like.

But then again, as Steve jobs spoke out once, apple didnt really do a market research to find out this is what customers want,.... So you can't go out and ask people, you know, what the next big [thing.] There's a great quote by Henry Ford, right? He said, 'If I'd have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me "A faster horse." ' 

:) Didnt I just talk about how IPAD doesnt appeal to me because I am used to looking for faster processors? 

But this decade of 2010's isnt going to be the same.

That person with that sort of vision isnt born every decade. 

And no one literally no one can ever put that vision in an eye pleasing contoured aluminum shell  and sell it through an ad set to song by the French-Israeli indie folk singer. - that eclectic mix - That is all Steve Jobs. 

World will miss you.

PS: Ofcourse, there is a lesson. That you dont need to be the one with standard skillset of excellent engineering skills, rather best of the skill - any skill from calligraphy to musical taste to aesthetic sense to marketing ability - Your personality in whole as long as it is as good as Steve job's :)

Iphone4s upsets friends

So, when Apple announced only Iphone4s rather didnt annouce Iphone5, loads of my friends were upset - not because they were looking forward to buy it but rather the impact on Apple stock which they all seem to own. - I am just amazed how many people I know own apple stock - is it like a passport these days?

Today, I shouldnt have to work. After all it is Saraswathi puja.

Inevitable ending of any internet discussion by Indians

You can start with pink/white Idli/dosa discussion on safety pin but IEIDBI law states that any discussion by Indians anywhere on the internet from 9/11, angelina jolie, jackie chan, to the moon to water why, even abracabradra will end with "you darky south indian - you racist Naarth Indian - southindiansdontspeakhindieventhoughtheyknowhowtospeak - we want separate nation - who wants you anyway - guysweareallonecountrymycatisnorthindianbutmydogissouthindian..........................................................................".

How about paying me - facebook, google and whoever you are ?

Obviously, my browsing infos are extremely important for you - I am ofcourse para vetti oppicer(yes goundamani patented title) but for some reason my reading of film gossip, randomly googling people, my wikipedia entries about pandyan kingdom. googling and drooling at food recipes in the hope that i cook them ... . all such random stuff - are all details you want to collect.

Fine, I can send you a daily report - in the format you desire but just pay me, you  evil snoopy big corporation.

 - an innocent snooper.

Ps: Here is the link that triggered this post - Apparently facebook collects info from you after you have logged out.

Delhi belly, Zindagi na milegi dobara

Considering I came back from India only two weeks ago, that is a lot of movies, right? Oh well, the advantages of being single. 

Delhi Belly

Out and out Funny. Well edited which is important when it comes to movie like this. Watching the movie took my thoughts on  a different track - about movies like Oram poo and other well made funny tamil movies. Those movies would never get the reach of this movie just because they are regional  in a south indian language. So on for even writers. Curse of regional language I suppose. Sigh.

Delhi belly though is a good movie. The adult dialogues, totally not out of place for the characters and the space they live in, isnt really required to make it funny. I guess the marketing made it out to be sort of an usp of the movie - - I didnt care either way. So on for the bit of toilet  humor, just a bit. I dont enjoy it much in american movies which revel on comedies based on gross subjects - but that is just me. (most Indian girls, as well?)  The gross part is only bit of the movie and not as much like say a 40 year old virgin.

Oh, hold your breadth, I watched the movie entirely in hindi( film was supposed to be 40% english and they had dubbed those portions). That sucks. 

And also much to everyone's surprise or even shock, Imran khan acts well. Porcelain skin, cute face and acts well - what more would a woman want?

ZNMD

I loved Zoya for Luck by chance. But I also thought she would be a one film wonder. It was one of those films which had shades of brilliance - the seduction scene was so subtle - so many good scenes but overall it missed a wholesomeness - it didnt maintain the same emotional overtone. There have been other directors like that and they have all had just one film. So didnt think Zoya would have any more future either.

In ZNMD, surpirsingly, zoya doesnt have that problem. She is still a brilliant director. Even for a simple movie like this, bits of story like hrithik's last breakup, hrithik and farhan's fight, it is revealed as the movies goes in bit of conversation here and there. But I am bored nevertheless. All these life changing inspiration, doesnt cut any ice with me now that I have well, lived life a bit. Overall the film isnt too sincere I suppose with those anyway. Also these south mumbai guys with 12000 euro bags is pretty boring.

Hrithik is the only reason this movie could be as big a hit as it is. The movie isnt bad( Personally, I was bored but that could just be me) But movies of this genre would usually make half the money. But I am starting to like Hrithik. He is a good actor and with diverse roles he has started to do of late compared to his earlier exclusive super hero movies, it is easy to observe that. 

Katrina Kaif - uff.... let me admit I am a bit annoyed that this girl doesnt even appear for more than 30% in any of the movies that she acts in but they all turn out to be hits - is she really lucky or is her white skin obsessed (granted the features are good too) fans are so fanatical to flock to theatres for that 30% appearance? On top of this, all she has in this movie, a smile, always. I suppose an happy princess. 

Those supposedly life altering dialogues she utters to Hrithik lose their meaning with that so happy smile on her face. I want really wipe that smile of the face and make her feel .. errr some emotion - surely the woman might have little bit more ambition in life than standing in movies? 

Kalki appears a little more than katrina and is good. And so is rest of the cast.