Desperate to see the sun in the east...

This post comes out of my own experiences and my current research which is to complete a big task: to make - my eyes open; my brain back to normal, at least around 7:00 am. These are the tips which could make this succeed sometimes.

• Avoid a timepiece alarm which stops just by a push on the top button.
• Use your mobile phone alarm; also don’t use the Alarm option as it is just for setting only one time. Use remainders so that you can set for 6:45, 6:50 and 6:55 like that as many as you want, depending on the ferocity of your sleep.
• Usage of the most annoying tune like (manmade rasa or ambulance alarm) for alarm is a wise option.
• Place the mobile in a non reachable position from you bed, I mean a little far from your bed.
• Place some chocolates or some eatables near your alarm which could try its best out of your brain.
• Put the most interesting download of yours which could make you to go and see its status; switch on the TV immediately before turning off the ringing alarm.
• Don’t use curtains to avoid sunlight; your bed could be positioned for direct sunlight.
• Setting the fan at full speed and using the insufficient blanket is also good if your morning whether is cool.

These are some of the tips that am trying to survive at 7:00 am, if you have something tell me the secret and please don’t tell anything about late hours coz it’s the time software engineer’s brain is at peak… Bye for now…

New Tamil Nadu Censor board

This is just to waste time - mine and yours too, just thought of what should be done by the Censor board to make Tamil film industry better.

• Ban the following directors : perarasu, ramanarayanan, TR, Vikraman
• Ban the following actors playing chubby youths: Cap10 Vijayakanth, Rajini, TR..
• Ban the following music directors: Deva, Srikanth deva, Iman, SA Rajkumar..
• Ban actor Vijay, if he doesn’t play 2 consecutive films not as a local B grade fellow (teekadai master, poriki, cycle kadaikaran, auto workshop koolie).
• Ban actor Ajith if he doesn’t use his brain in choosing forthcoming 2 consecutive films.
• Ban cap10 if he does anything in film industry.
• Ban the whole TR family from entering to safe guard Tamil film industry and the job of cinema professionals.
• Ban so called comedians like Satyan, madhanbabu and supporting actors like overacting sreeman and great actors like ramesh..
  
• Ban actor/Director Seran if he plays any sort of modern character.
• Ban the actors if played in movies with age, less than 10 yrs of their real age.
• Do censorship only if the film comes with tag - masala home entertainment.
• Only 5 films per year can be allowed having new Heroes and heroines.
• Ban films having very low budget like ramanarayanan’s and TR’s, if low should be considered as short films or documentaries.
• Ban films having very high budget unnecessarily like sivaji, lovebirds, ratchagan, spending more just for songs and waste fight sequences.
• Ban the directors if their 3 consecutive films appear same – e.g.: Shankar, same mass strategy; bala, same psychic heroes..
• Ban the producers trying to impact on direction screenplay of the film.
• Allow all kind of gore scenes and offensive things usage if really required for the film.
• Instead of having subtitles like “Smoking / Acquiring liquor is injurious to health” in smoking scenes, “This scene has no logic, this is just for the sake of fun” can be put in very worst no-logic scenes, like collapsing one tower to collapse the n/w connection of whole mobile n/w in a city; famous current shock scene by cap10;
• Remove the funny and useless tax reduction on Tamil names for the films.
• Strictly Ban Telegu remakes.

If the above things are done I am sure there would be only some 10 movies per year but that is what the viewers has to see, and eventually their taste may improve . The above is just for the sake of fun, it is clear to everyone, who wants a change in Tamil films, that ‘all depends on the viewers taste; nothing won’t change until their taste remain the same.

Fish rain and Toad explosion

A week before I was seeing the latest film from Nicholas Cage “The Next”. Its quite good with its own style of showing the hero’s powers. Not only Jessica got attracted by the different facts that hero tells but also me, as he told about the fish raining. As I got this bad habit of analyzing confirming info bits which I get, so as I did for fish raining.

I got this link in wikipedia which is about Raining animals, seems fish is the most common one while frogs comes second. There has been several scientific conclusions for these rare occurrences, some of them:

• The frog rain is because, the frogs might have been taken by tornado or waterspouts to a large altitude and made to fall after some time.
• There has been another conclusion for raining of fishes which managed to alive – the eggs are taken to the clouds by strong wind and hatched there and back to the ground as tiny fishes.
• One more theory states that these fishes are from underground fresh water and never exposed to light that they are blind.

When reading these facts, I saw one more interesting fact about exploding animals. Yes in northern Germany toads used to explode because of a strange disease. The toads used to swell up to 3.5 times its size and propelled by the explosion to 3.2 meters. It has been concluded it is due to unknown virus or fungus in the pond they lived.

And finally after my complete analyzing of these facts I concluded

that the temple elephants can’t be rained as they don’t hatch from eggs and they can’t be lifted by heavy winds, but it can explode by some virus or fungus. So better stay at least 2 meters away from our temple elephants.

Joku pa joku.. ok, see u in next post..

whats He doing

Man On Fire Vs Sivaji

One more recent film I saw is ‘Man on fire’ , actually this is a old block buster from the pair Tony Scott (Director) and Denzil Washington (Actor) whose recent one is ‘Déjà vu’. Simply superb, no word to say. No big complex screenplay, no big complex actions, no big extraordinary acting, not a beautiful charisma hero, not a big budget movie, but the film has a magic, it has a good story and it is presented in a very good manner. Just think about the pathetic sivaji. I wonder why rajini don’t take the similar kind of movies like Man on fire or Deja vu. Won’t the fans accept the real aged rajini? Is it really required and good to see the old man pathetically running in fast beat songs? Do tamil fans really require a heroine for rajini film with glamour, which is abundant in all tamil films. Let him use his styles with a suitable role, sivaji is really a big hyped disaster. It has been a deadlock with fans and film makers, only big shots like rajini or sankar can change this. Pokiri or Sivakasi can’t be with fixed storyline or no-logic scenes or heroines to survive. But sivaji could have been. Sankar is fit for album making; I would consider sivaji as an album. All the songs are done in a grand and good way. I would like the dvd of sivaji only with the 5 songs, may be some styles of rajini as bonus track. I would pray God, that rajini should not be given any college student role in future because it is not amazing if he plays it.Lets wait till our people get tired of 1 hero, 1 villain, 5 songs, 5 sentiments, 5 fights, 5 comedy scenes films…

Am Not DEAD

I am tired of waiting for broadband connection from bsnl. So back for blogging. I got shifted from southern Bangalore to north east outer area of Bangalore as my company did. All my things including my body got shifted except my blood - broadband connection. So stopped blogging partially believing the 2 months promise of bsnl dumbs. Luckily less than million fans for my blog no request mails for my blog continuation, but some relief expressions from my friends. So here it goes..

Still wasting the golden time by seeing films and seasons and now often seeing some Nat Geo or History or Discovery documentaries too.. So as usual let me talk abt the recent films I saw. The most recent is ‘Premonition’ yesterday. First I hesitated as it got low rating in imdb of 5.5/10 and worst rotten tomatoes rating too. But its really good and I wonder why it got worst rating. I bet 80% of Tamil audience won’t understand to enjoy it. Even I need to see it once more to enjoy it more. The screenplay could have been better as you can forecast some of the scenes but it is really a complex screenplay, I don’t know how to change it but it would have been better if it is changed. Lots to say but enough for now, see u in next post.

The ultimate joke of the year.

In an interview when vijayakanth is asked, whether he had seen sivaji, he replied without hesitation - "i only see good english films".

Thanks Cap10 for making me coming back...

24 years old system

It has been exactly 24 years since this chemical system got exposed to the world and this got the capability of writing this post. ok fine too much intro..Yes, Today is my birthday. I dont know wat to do this day except giving one piece of sweet or chocolate to all the members in my team or only taking few close friends to a nearby resturaunt and try to make the credit card balance hit its limit or visiting temple asking god to make my life smoother until death.. But i didn't do any of the above, because i thought i have a valid reason for not celebrating my B'day :- Poor people can celebrate this geting 1 rupee candy coz they are not going to have new dress or candy whenever they want, and riches can celebrate because they can shell out money and may be they will have more friends expecting to shell out for them.

And i do have these silly jokes, to tell my friends instead of the above reason which can make me banged:-

-> Today is not my birthday, its on 1984 and not 2007.
-> According to my star birthday, not today, this same day in 2006.
-> If i give u sweet for my Bday its selfish, coz i want u to take sweet for my function. If i give u sweet on ur bday its wise, coz its meant for u.

As said above as a joke, i am surprised by a cake cuting funtion organised by my team especially by my two friends Ganesh and Saravanan. Going for that, first bday function in my life. Will be back with pics of that...bye

Maroon 5 - It Wont Be Soon Before Long

Maroon 5 – nobody cant forgot them by their top most played songs in the album Songs About Jane and their recent entry in the American idol with their stunning single “Makes Me Wonder”. After 5 years they are back with the album “It Wont Be Soon Before Long”. As usual computer geeks get this earlier before its release, me too one among them ;) Tried to get it in some shares and found after a long search which is now removed. So Don’t waste your time for rapidshare link for this album, 90% no chance. Go simply for torrent.

So how is the album. Almost all the songs doesn’t makes you dislike at first, then slowly u will the best ones though it is bit hard as almost all are good. The Singles “Makes Me Wonder” and “Wake Up Call” are clean hits. If I Never See Your Face Again, Won't Go Home Without You, Goodnight Goodnight, Kiwi, Nothing Lasts Forever all are good. One thing I notice is this has different style and different styles in each songs too not as the songs in “Songs About Jane” having some similar styled songs. Don’t know how music lovers response will be. I just added this splendid album in my itunes library immediately with good My User Ratings !! Check this out ASAP!!

Make Any Movie as Family Movie

So guys, after long time..so a BIG HI to everyone, fine straight to the topic: “Necessity is the Mother of invention”, in this case its Discovery. Yep here is my necessity:

A Software which should skip some selected "time span" from the movies while playing. I don’t want to edit or delete the scenes as it will take lot of time and will reduce the quality of the rip too. And it would be good, if i could just select the portion of the movie (as in adobe premiere ) and tell it to hide, like tat and i can save this settings for this movies as some file (as .srt or .sub file for subtitles) so that i can see the movie censored without affecting the quality of the movie rip.

Ok now the necessity of this necessity : most of the splendid non-indian movies has some pornographic content, mostly unnecessary examples : from godfather, schindler's list, last king of Scotland, the departed, Black book and the list goes on.. which we have to enjoy with our family..

So I posted in many forums to get a solution for this but in vein, and at last with some googling and lil bit of luck which I usually have ;) I got the solution. It is AviSynth. So those who have knowledge on this already with so much relax u can just skip this post, others continue..

I just did this few minutes before, so haven’t tested it extensively. But it seems working, so am just giving you hint:
Download the avisynth software from here.And just install as you like. Now just open a notepad and write this command:

AviSource("C:\Downloads\BBC Supernatural Science - Physical Feats.avi")
Trim(0,100-1) ++ Trim(200+1,0)
Trim(0,500-1) ++ Trim(800+1,0)
Trim(0,1000-1) ++ Trim(2000+1,0)

(OR)

DirectShowSource("C:\Downloads\BBC Supernatural Science - Physical Feats.avi ,fps=24,audio=true)
Trim(0,100-1) ++ Trim(200+1,0)
Trim(0,500-1) ++ Trim(800+1,0)
Trim(0,1000-1) ++ Trim(2000+1,0)

and just save the notepad file with .avs extension. Here the AviSource() or DirectShowSource() are used to open only avi and (avi and mpeg) movies respectively. The Trim command removes the frames provided. In the above example, I have trimmed three portions – frames from 100 to 200 ; 500 to 800 and 1000 to 2000. so this movie will be played without these clippings.

So to run the movies, you just have to open the .avs file in the media player and thats it. If you want to get the frame information, just use this light weight tool which is actually used for encoding purposes – VirtualDub. Just open the movie in this tool and it will display the frame numbers and the timings. So take this frame number and put it in the above code and Enjoy Movies With Your Family!!

Note: The above code trims off the unwanted scenes, you have to decide which one is unwanted ;) hope u understand!!

Be back with something else…Comments and rating always invited. ;)