Who Am I: September 2005

Saurav the Cat...

Anand had posted a beautiful metaphorical comment in my earlier blog, where he compares Saurav to a fly. But after seeing BCCI's decision to give Saurav yet-another-life, one wonders if Saurav is a cat that has nine lives.

Suderman has a pretty long, descriptive and surprisingly optimistic viewpoint on this whole episode.

Weekend Movie Marathon

Did nothing much this entire weekend other than watching a bunch of movies - Ullam Ketkume on Friday evening, Azhagiya Theeye & Flightplan on Saturday and Virumandi & Vasool Raja MBBS (yet again!) on Sunday.

For the past 2-3 months I wasn't renting DVDs since our BOSE home theater didn't quite work well with our Pioneer DTS/Dolby Receiver & Amplifier. I connected the home theater directly to the DVD player on Friday (since Sujit was away to the east coast) and that worked!

Ullam Ketkume - Watched this one since my brother recommended it. Well I certainly liked Ullam Ketkume for Laila's performance though it had shades of Kajol's role in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

Azhagiya Theeye was a lovely flick. Not sure why I had missed this flick for the past year and a half. It is a simple movie with new faces and has nice humor. Of course, I was happy to see that Prakashraj just had a guest role. One gets the feeling that his acting is becoming repetitive and cliched.

Flightplan - I was very reluctant about watching this one, but just made one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions when Prathi asked me to join him when we met in the DVD shop. Jodie Foster carries the entire movie. While I was getting restless during the first hour of the movie, I was just hanging in there for Jodie. The twist in the tale in the last 30-40 minutes was a pleasant surprise and I came out feeling that the 10 bucks that I spent was worth it. It takes guts to make a movie which is very slow-paced and one that has almost the entire story shot in an unbelivably large plane. I am not sure if it will work in the box-office though.

Virumandi and Vasoolraja MBBS - What will happen when two lazy Kamal fans get together for lunch at home? Well Bharani came over for lunch today and we ended up watching Virumandi and Vasoolraja MBBS. We enjoyed every frame of Virumandi though we both were watching for the n'th time. We watched Vasoolraja just for the Crazy Mohan-Kamal combo.

Still had time to go to the DVD shop this night and rent the Kaakha Kaakha DVD. Haven't watched this since I came to the U.S., so planning to watch it sometime this week.

Me, the Einstein!?!

Got to this site through Suderman's blog. Took the Leaders test and here is revealed, my other identity :-).

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Memento to Ghajini

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Well, it is now almost certain that Surya’s soon-to-be-released movie, Ghajini, is an “ee adichaan kaapi” version of the movie, Memento. Lazygeek had earlier guessed about the same. One hopes that the director does justice to the original which is ranked #22nd in the all-time movies list in IMDB.

Remembering M.S.

No it is not about Microsoft again…

Today is M.S. Subbulakshmi’s birth anniversary and that is just enough for me to dissolve into her melodious songs right through tonight.

MS tries to make software 'expressive' and 'intuitive'

Microsoft Expression™ that was unleashed in PDC 2005 truly and totally rocks! It is absolutely amazing and I can’t just wait to get my hands on it! See it in action.

While Microsoft Expression™ amazes me the new UI for the next version of Microsoft Office is a pleasant surprise. Microsoft says it is making the UI more ‘intuitive’ by rethinking the UI from the user’s perspective rather than the developer’s perspective. Only time will tell whether the users really find the UI ‘intuitive’ – but one thing is for sure; Microsoft has at least got its perspective right.