Ramoji Trip

Well !! Surely there is nothing which can beat the Shimla Trip .. but this trip to Ramoji Film City also holds its place among the tops. A very memorable trip. Another example of my utter laziness. rest of the content of this post is shamlessly taken from Kunal's blog Space Of Kunal :) 28 of us went for a trip to Ramoji Film City. Abhinav, Vidit, Piyush, Adi, Parry, Majji, Pushpam, Kunal, Maddy, Khare, Pankaj, Parivesh, Ranta, Tiwary, Dixit, Deadly, Bapu, Jayaram, Sam, AU, Akhil, Bhargava, Kaka, Raheja, Shetty, Sushant, Malik and Me. Whew, that was a long list!! Took minutes to remember all 28 people..

Instead of a detailed blog here is the story in pictures..


The trip starts.. Waiting for Dixit in front of Kamal's home..


Majji was flooding us with his intolerable PJs..
Majji guide always led us on to the wrong way throughout the trip.


Still in bus, Kunal and me.


Vidit, Abhinav, Jayaram, Shetty, Raheja, AU etc are up there, trying to reach the sky


Adi, Dixit, Pushpam and Parivesh await their turn to touch the sky..


Vidit and Me, with Vidit saying yyuuyui !!


A scared Tiwary and the photographer - Kunal


Pushpam did a nice job as Monalisa.. :))


Kunal is wanted...


Now even Majji is wanted..


Almost half the group (13/28)


Piyush, Bapu, Ranta, Kunal, Daedly and Khare


On the slope in front of Hawa-Mahal.
Now it is more then half the group, 15 of us.


Rocky, Me, Pushpam, Abhinav, Aditya and Parivesh
An artistic touch...


Woman on top !!!


Bapu enjoying ...


Can you belive it, Kunal is holding on Parivesh !!!


The roll, discovered by Majji.
Tiwary rolling while Majj offers a helping hand.


Malik falling off the bull...


And Bhargava trying to take the neck of the bull with him..


After some agonizing 30-40 secs, even Kunal fall off... But gg


The rain dance...


Beneath the rainbow !!!


Bapu, Majji, Pushpam, Adi, Abhinav and Me - all rocking...


Shetty, Raheja, Vidit, Sam, Sushant, AU, Kaka, Rnata, Malik


The monkey in us coming to the front..
Kunal, Maddy, Abhinav and Tiwary


Parivesh, me, Pushpam and Majji
Copy Cats or Copy Monkeys ??


Kunal!


Adi!


And Bapu..


The Sun-fountain. Kunal, Pushpam, Adi and Dixit.


Notice the white speck in center of the photograph ??
Thats Adi copying the statue !!


Parivesh, Abhinav and Kunal - Still on the fountain


The line - Adi, Parivesh, Kunal, Dixit, Pushpam, Bapu and Abhinav


The circle - Adi, Parivesh, Dixit, Abhinav, Pushpam, Kunal, Bapu.


The semi-circle - Pushpam, Parivesh, Abhinav, Adi, Kunal, Bapu, Pankaj


Playing Snakes and Ladders... Tiwary, kunal, Ranta and Pankaj


The rain dance... Part II


Pankaj, Abhinav, Tiwary, Parry, Bapu, Adi and Ranta on the floor


Aftermath of the rain-dance..


Jan 15th, 9:55 pm

Nerd test ...

Well!! Seems I am becoming a geek ... just see the results ..

Happy New Year

to me ofcourse.. this is my blog isn't it :) any way just joking ... a very happy and prosperous new year to all those who have accidently come to this page. Thinking about the last year filles me with some of very good memories. It was a kind of dream fulfillment year for me. Earlier in the 6th semester (January to June) I got a good chance to know the work culture of IT industry in the form of internship at Computer Associates India Ltd. I earned my first salary also, officially I finished my honours project (thanx to pankaj), did my best for Felicity and Farewell, got my first experience of social service with NSS. In the seventh semester (July to November) I became class representative as a side effect of which I become the studement parliament member also, did some voluntary work for campus placements, got placed in Oracle and worked as an tutor for first years. Well this semester was little disappointing for me in terms of Academics. I was about to fail in some courses due to the recent attendence rule of our institute but due to the latest modifications in the rule I ended with Ds. The year ended with a happier note as our gang went for a trip to Shimla. We enjoyed a lot. It was a wonderful and unforgettable experience with the mountains. I am leaving the details for my next post. There were many new things from the cyber space which I would like to write here. I started blogging and got addicted towards reading and writing blogs, Got invitations to make an Orkut and Gmail account both of which have revolutionalized the internet. Talking about the college. We became the seniormost UG Students. Got to see many new teachers and also the departure of our beloved Physics teacher Dr Naidu :), we experienced the trauma caused by the new attedence rule and at the same time enjoyed many events like Felicity, Freshers Day, Birthday of IIIT, The R&D Showcase and many others. The College opened many new research labs like communication lab and Robotics lab. We got to see the new CVIT and also the work for new Data Engineering lab started. IIIT got its share of publicity another time and OUTLOOK magazine praised the work done by LTRC. Many known faces left the campus making the room for many new faces to come. Though we gave the farewell to our seniors but it was looking like it is our own farewell. From that day onwards I get very sad and emotional whenever I think that this is my last year at college and in this June itself we will leave the campus and its very possible that some of us will never meet ever in life.

Chokher Baali

I had always heard about the greatness of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore... my first encouter with his literatue was in schools ... but at that time somehow I didn't feel the beauty of his literature.. this latest encounter with Choker Baali was really mind blowing... For the first time I realized what are masterpieces and Masters.. I mean if we consider the time when he wrote this novel we can just imagine how broad and mature minded he was. And the way he has handled this sensitive issue of a young widow and her feelings... And It will be very rude of me I don't praise the director of Chokher Baali... Mr Rituparno Ghosh.. what a tremendous job he has done... Probably there couldn't have been any one else who would have done a better job... I am going to see all of his movies now... Well !! If I start writing about the actors and acting ... I will have to write for another one hour.. so I won't touch that part here ... except that all the charaters were beautifully placed and the acting of all the actors especiall Aish and Rima Sen's was marvellous.. The only thing that I found somewhat very different and unusual was the ending of the movie.. may be Rabindranath wanted to relate with the Bangal division... but it was kind of unusual ... especially when everything was settled, a typical indian viewer like me was thinking that Vinodini and Bihari will get married ... Well !! Can't say ... probably this is the diffence in the mentality of a legend like Gurudev and someone like me ...

Which OS are U ??

Just filled up this questionaire .. and see what I ended with ... Very bad for me .. I was expecting a Red Hat Linux ... If you also want to know which OS you are just click on the above image.

Parichay

Veer-Zaara

I think its time to write my own review of this movie... especially after pankaj forwarded me this link. I think Sourabh had lots of expectation with the movie and it always happens when U expect a lot from something and finally it doesn't appear as you had wanted. Contrary to the view expressed in the above link. This movie is not at all pathetic. It is a typical Yash Chopra movie. Full of emotional scenes (we boyz don't like it becoz boys dont cry) and songs. Well it was nearly 6 hrs for me (that includes movie time + travel time + time spent in fixing Jaya's bike's flat tyre) and it was not a complete waste. We/I hadn't much expectation from the movie and at many points the movie fared better than we had thought, in fact we enjoyed it. Ya Shahrukh is not a versatile actor like Aamir. But he can do justice to some roles, like the ones which he gets with Chopras or Johars and it was a Chopra movie. So this was a kind of tailor made role for Shahrukh and I can't picture any one else in that particular role. Its same like that I can't picture any one else in Shahrukh's role in KKHH and as far as I think he has done his best. About music. Certainly if Sourabh Nanda doesn't like the music of Veer-zara he shouldn't listen to hindi music. Come on you have got Lata Mangheshkar singing on Javed Akhtar's lyrics which are composed in Madan Mohan's tunes ... what else you want to listen... Probably he is tired with the way the songs are presented... but every song is unique and very melodious... and don't blame that it had lots of songs .. becoz this is supposed to be a musical and infact all yash chopra movies are musicals, probably you don't know how to appreciate musicals. Story was not that impressive .. in fact at many point I thought whether I am watching Gadar, but it was ok. Not a tragedy like usual love stories (the likes of Heer Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet ...) I think the director didn't stress on the Indo Pak issue or the Hindu Muslim issue because he knew that we have got bored with this and he wanted to think us, of that miniscus probablity of one indian boy and one pakistani girl falling in love. This was something different from regular movies otherwise it is always the same old Hindu/Muslim confilict or Indo-Pak masala. I mean can't we increase the level of our thinking. Ab't the line : "Tumhaare mulk mein saare bete aise hi hote hain kya" "Woh to nahin bata sakta... lekin saari maaein aapke jaisi hi hoti hain" Well in my opinion it was the best dialogue of the movie. Some Plus Points of the movie: 1. Yash Chopra (I think I am biased towards his movies) 2. Madan Mohan (Most melodious tunes) 3. Lata Mangeshkar (simpley rules our hearts) 4. Javed Akhtar (Has given life to the music of Madan mohan) 5. Preity (Zaara looks superb) 6. Amitabh Bachchan (He has a cameo ... but he has proved once again that he is Amitabh) 7. Divya Datta (The sabbo: will remind U of sweet and naughty village girl) 8. Picturisation of all the scenes are perfect 8. All the guest appearances are gr8 (Zohra Sehgal, Amitabh, Hema Malini, Certainly there were some things in the story which were hard to digest like the 22yrs of imprisonment of Shahrukh (all the time I was calculating the dates) and also the make up of Shahrukh and Preity Zinta sucks.

Yahoooo!!!!

Exams are over .. masti time is back ..

End Sems Starting ..

With Economics exam tomorrow... got to study a lot ..

The Fountain Head

Just finished reading this novel. Written by Ayn Rand, this one is very different from the other novels which I used to read earlier.. I mean much better then of the Sheldon's, Ludlum's, King's etc This novel talks about Heroics and cowards .. the concept of purity and impurity of soul... the selfishness and selflessness ... and is a heroic attempt to save heroism from second handers ... This is story of an Architect for whom his work is his God and his religion... and all through the book he alone fights with the world to save his religion/Profession which has already been polluted by the intellectually deprived once. Surely it is one of the best novels I have read so far.. I have become fond of the writer and looking forward to read her another novel "The Atlas Shrugged" -- ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›