I had wanted to put this up long back. I practically lost this file. But better late than never. So here is the compilation of the joker's dialogues that feature in the movie "Dark Knight"(2008). Enjoy!
Grumpy: I’m bettin’ The Joker told you to kill me soon as we loaded the cash.
The Joker: No, no. I kill the bus driver.
Grumpy: Bus driver? What bus driver?
The Joker: Oh, and by the way, the suit, it wasn’t cheap. You oughta know, you bought it.
Gotham National Bank Manager: The criminals in this town used to believe in things. Honor. Respect. Look at you! What do you believe in? What do you believe in!
The Joker: I believe whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you… stranger.
The Joker:Ha ha ha..hoo hoo.. ha ha.. And I thought my jokes were bad…
The Joker: I know what you’re afraid of. I know why you choose to have your little “group therapy sessions” in broad daylight.
The Joker: The Batman.
To read more, click here.
cheers,
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Festember 2009
Funda:
I hate to write this part. But when i utter the word Festember, 99.99999% people react in the following manner: "Ah???!!! whats that???"
So to all those who dont know what Festember is, it has a very simple funda. Its just the so called cul-fest of NIT-Trichy. The dates were 17th Sept-20th Sept.
The content:
My friends and i had a prolonged discussion on whether or not to take pains to go to trichy and attend festember about ten days before the event went underway. Train tickets would be a problem. So if by any chance we were actually going there it was by the bus. And getting a bus on a friday night before a three day weekend to trichy is-to put it simply-a herculean task.
We were indeed getting mixed responses about the event. The "driving force" was the presence of friends over there and an exposure of events conducted by other colleges. The drawback was-the events were not supposed to be good, the quality of participation poor, and not to forget, the travelling and the wastage of a full weekend.
read more
I hate to write this part. But when i utter the word Festember, 99.99999% people react in the following manner: "Ah???!!! whats that???"
So to all those who dont know what Festember is, it has a very simple funda. Its just the so called cul-fest of NIT-Trichy. The dates were 17th Sept-20th Sept.
The content:
My friends and i had a prolonged discussion on whether or not to take pains to go to trichy and attend festember about ten days before the event went underway. Train tickets would be a problem. So if by any chance we were actually going there it was by the bus. And getting a bus on a friday night before a three day weekend to trichy is-to put it simply-a herculean task.
We were indeed getting mixed responses about the event. The "driving force" was the presence of friends over there and an exposure of events conducted by other colleges. The drawback was-the events were not supposed to be good, the quality of participation poor, and not to forget, the travelling and the wastage of a full weekend.
read more
Financial Entropy
Entropy:
Definition: Entropy is the quantitative measure of disorder in a system. The concept comes out of thermodynamics, which deals with the transfer of heat energy within a system. Instead of talking about some form of "absolute entropy," physicists generally talk about the change in entropy that takes place in a specific thermodynamic process.
-physics.about.com
Thus goes the famous definition of a famous thermodynamic function. I tried to "extend" this concept to the financial world using the feeble knowledge of economics that i posses.
A completely "ordered" system in terms of economics, or the idealised system can be considered as one in which every individual has the same financial potential. Each earns the same, can spend the same, and can invest the same amount. All financial powers are identical.
A completely disordered system is one in which no individual has the same financial potential. They differ by atleast one financial unit.
So, is a scenario possible where every individual possesses equal financial potential, is a "perfect idealised system" possible?
Intuition says, "its not spontaneous, but its worth trying out". My point is, its not even worth striving for.
Imagine a world where the prime minister earns an equal income as you. So both of you will have the same meal everyday and will go through the same transport mechanism everyday. Sounds cool right?? But that only leads to huge security uncertainity. So ultimately, to protect the PM's life, money will be spent on security. This money is not actually "earned" by the PM but he somehow spends it. So, this implies that his "financial power" has increased out of nowhere.(the assumption here is that the govt funds form a sink-any amount of money can be deposited and any amount can be spent).
So ultimately, the ideal world only leads to destabilization. Say the cost of a vegetable is made higher. Since everyone has the same potential, no one will buy it and hence the vegetable's cost is automatically lowered causing considerable loss to those who tried to sell the vegetable and those who cultivated it successfully. Meanwhile, there will be a huge demand for vegetables with lower prices causing abrupt changes in the economy of such vegetables and corresponding changes in their production industries(which in the case here is agriculture). Similar problems arise everywhere.
Nature only tries to increase the entropy. So when you create an idealised system, it becomes unstable, as entropy is stored up. A small disturbance and the system breaks down to chaos.
So, will it be worth a try??I guess not. But what can be done is, drilling in a sense of satisfaction in everyone's mind. This might seem a "retrogative" idea. But what is the ultimate cause for all problems is, as Buddha put it, desire. So as long as there are people wishing for more, none will be sufficient.(the grass is always greener on the other side).In my view the Chinese govt has done a decent job towards achieving this state.
And i do propose, to create an open environment, where anyone can progress and where anyone will not have a problem if they stagnate in the same financial position. Such a system is "create-able" and as i view it is the most stable ideal system that can be brought about.(The US, though on track, is far from reaching this state).
Hoping I can do something towards creating such an environment in India and elsewhere.
cheers,
Definition: Entropy is the quantitative measure of disorder in a system. The concept comes out of thermodynamics, which deals with the transfer of heat energy within a system. Instead of talking about some form of "absolute entropy," physicists generally talk about the change in entropy that takes place in a specific thermodynamic process.
-physics.about.com
Thus goes the famous definition of a famous thermodynamic function. I tried to "extend" this concept to the financial world using the feeble knowledge of economics that i posses.
A completely "ordered" system in terms of economics, or the idealised system can be considered as one in which every individual has the same financial potential. Each earns the same, can spend the same, and can invest the same amount. All financial powers are identical.
A completely disordered system is one in which no individual has the same financial potential. They differ by atleast one financial unit.
So, is a scenario possible where every individual possesses equal financial potential, is a "perfect idealised system" possible?
Intuition says, "its not spontaneous, but its worth trying out". My point is, its not even worth striving for.
Imagine a world where the prime minister earns an equal income as you. So both of you will have the same meal everyday and will go through the same transport mechanism everyday. Sounds cool right?? But that only leads to huge security uncertainity. So ultimately, to protect the PM's life, money will be spent on security. This money is not actually "earned" by the PM but he somehow spends it. So, this implies that his "financial power" has increased out of nowhere.(the assumption here is that the govt funds form a sink-any amount of money can be deposited and any amount can be spent).
So ultimately, the ideal world only leads to destabilization. Say the cost of a vegetable is made higher. Since everyone has the same potential, no one will buy it and hence the vegetable's cost is automatically lowered causing considerable loss to those who tried to sell the vegetable and those who cultivated it successfully. Meanwhile, there will be a huge demand for vegetables with lower prices causing abrupt changes in the economy of such vegetables and corresponding changes in their production industries(which in the case here is agriculture). Similar problems arise everywhere.
Nature only tries to increase the entropy. So when you create an idealised system, it becomes unstable, as entropy is stored up. A small disturbance and the system breaks down to chaos.
So, will it be worth a try??I guess not. But what can be done is, drilling in a sense of satisfaction in everyone's mind. This might seem a "retrogative" idea. But what is the ultimate cause for all problems is, as Buddha put it, desire. So as long as there are people wishing for more, none will be sufficient.(the grass is always greener on the other side).In my view the Chinese govt has done a decent job towards achieving this state.
And i do propose, to create an open environment, where anyone can progress and where anyone will not have a problem if they stagnate in the same financial position. Such a system is "create-able" and as i view it is the most stable ideal system that can be brought about.(The US, though on track, is far from reaching this state).
Hoping I can do something towards creating such an environment in India and elsewhere.
cheers,
Monday, September 7, 2009
Why Kandhasamy doesnt work
This was a very bad experience of mine. Having spent one hundred and twenty bucks to get a plush seat at the satyam cinemas and hammering myself to squeeze out three hours(plus two for travelling) during the middle of a horrible week only added salt to the wound. Here is my outline..
The + points:
1.Vikram-this guy's underplay is sensational. Breathes life into one hell of a crap movie. But this is an implicit minus point as well. Why did an actor of his calibre choose such a dumb project?
2.Mexico-the locations choosen in this swine flu land were wonderful. Pure eye candy.
The - points:
1.You can watch Batman Begins, Spiderman, Anniyan, Sivaji, Gentleman, etc, etc etc movies one at a time. Surely you cant watch all of them at the same time. Which is what kandhasamy desperately tries to do
2.Devi Sri Prasad-He has indeed run out of the telegu tunes of the 70s and 80s to provide hit rehashes. So, he opts for remixing his own copied tunes and other shit tunes in recent telegu movies. As a result all the songs hurt the ear. My advice: Devi, please retire!!!!!!
3.Lyrics-WTF!!!!I guess the director, trying to act as a means of communication/trying to write his own lyrics, interchanged his script pad with the lyrics pad. As a result all the songs are like dialogues. EKSI
4.Shreya-Pack her!!!Seriously i have seen enough of this "guy-calling-herself-girl's" hips and boobs and ass. Its too boring. And seriously i dont think she knows enough belly dance to try and match Shakira. Bad move!!
5.Vadivelu-EKSI to him too. I dont call this "KAAMEDI"...anyone who does so??
6.Prabhu-A bad choice by Prabhu to act in this movie. Seriously, he is shown as a stupid genius. Which cop in our country has enough rights to launch an investigation into the "power of God" suspecting some malpractice???Logic missing??
7.Villain number 1-Aashish vidyarthi as the PPP is shown to be too intelligent a villain for tamizh cinema. He figures out the real identity of our so called "super hero" in just two frames!!!!!!EKSI(again)
8.Villain number 2-Shear dumb villain to be the richest man to be in TN. When vikram breaks this guy's bus with a single sledge hammer, this guy-in his panties(the undies didnt fit him..so i call them panties :P) doesnt even bother to put on his clothes.
9.Stunts-Seriously Vijay's 2km jump in kuruvi was more logical than these guys' so called team work. Dont tell me you can setup a wired network capable of withstanding a guy's weight in an agricultural field without anyone noticing.
10.Cinematography-Too shaky(pun unindented) and too unsteady.
11.Art work-You dont call plates of aluminium piled together as art. Eg: the police station in which vadivelu is investigated
12.Romance-Fck it. Its more artificial than Yaarukku Yaaro stepnie.
13.2nd half-Mexico was not needed at all. But atleast it provided some good locales that is hard to see in a lifetime
14.Director-well..he is the epitome of everything bad this movie has to offer. My advice-Shankar was eight films old when he took Sivaji-and he had 7 hits in the list!!!
My advice to the director: You could have as well used up the 40crore-or so, money, pooled to making this bull shit, towards adopting villages and improving them. Sheer waste of time and money.
Moral:never trust big budget movies. This applies to all heroes.
cheers,
The + points:
1.Vikram-this guy's underplay is sensational. Breathes life into one hell of a crap movie. But this is an implicit minus point as well. Why did an actor of his calibre choose such a dumb project?
2.Mexico-the locations choosen in this swine flu land were wonderful. Pure eye candy.
The - points:
1.You can watch Batman Begins, Spiderman, Anniyan, Sivaji, Gentleman, etc, etc etc movies one at a time. Surely you cant watch all of them at the same time. Which is what kandhasamy desperately tries to do
2.Devi Sri Prasad-He has indeed run out of the telegu tunes of the 70s and 80s to provide hit rehashes. So, he opts for remixing his own copied tunes and other shit tunes in recent telegu movies. As a result all the songs hurt the ear. My advice: Devi, please retire!!!!!!
3.Lyrics-WTF!!!!I guess the director, trying to act as a means of communication/trying to write his own lyrics, interchanged his script pad with the lyrics pad. As a result all the songs are like dialogues. EKSI
4.Shreya-Pack her!!!Seriously i have seen enough of this "guy-calling-herself-girl's" hips and boobs and ass. Its too boring. And seriously i dont think she knows enough belly dance to try and match Shakira. Bad move!!
5.Vadivelu-EKSI to him too. I dont call this "KAAMEDI"...anyone who does so??
6.Prabhu-A bad choice by Prabhu to act in this movie. Seriously, he is shown as a stupid genius. Which cop in our country has enough rights to launch an investigation into the "power of God" suspecting some malpractice???Logic missing??
7.Villain number 1-Aashish vidyarthi as the PPP is shown to be too intelligent a villain for tamizh cinema. He figures out the real identity of our so called "super hero" in just two frames!!!!!!EKSI(again)
8.Villain number 2-Shear dumb villain to be the richest man to be in TN. When vikram breaks this guy's bus with a single sledge hammer, this guy-in his panties(the undies didnt fit him..so i call them panties :P) doesnt even bother to put on his clothes.
9.Stunts-Seriously Vijay's 2km jump in kuruvi was more logical than these guys' so called team work. Dont tell me you can setup a wired network capable of withstanding a guy's weight in an agricultural field without anyone noticing.
10.Cinematography-Too shaky(pun unindented) and too unsteady.
11.Art work-You dont call plates of aluminium piled together as art. Eg: the police station in which vadivelu is investigated
12.Romance-Fck it. Its more artificial than Yaarukku Yaaro stepnie.
13.2nd half-Mexico was not needed at all. But atleast it provided some good locales that is hard to see in a lifetime
14.Director-well..he is the epitome of everything bad this movie has to offer. My advice-Shankar was eight films old when he took Sivaji-and he had 7 hits in the list!!!
My advice to the director: You could have as well used up the 40crore-or so, money, pooled to making this bull shit, towards adopting villages and improving them. Sheer waste of time and money.
Moral:never trust big budget movies. This applies to all heroes.
cheers,
A Faint glimmer of hope
Funda:
The basic funda behind this post is that-i had attended the "aspiring co-ords meet" for Saarang-2010 and a number of depts had called for coordinators there. One such dept was the newsletter dept. In the application form that i had to fill in order to apply for the newsletter coordship, the question was-"Connect in about 300 words--ACM,JJ,Lays,Pluto,Pratibha patil,election,Saras,IITM,chinky chicks,42". Yup, the question was vague indeed and it was the first time that i had tried to write an article of this kind. The article didnt fetch me the coordship-but i didnt want it to be lost in the oblivion because it was the first time that i had attempted something like it. Here is the article-christened forever in cyber space. :D.
Feedbacks strongly welcomed for this article.
Article:
Fine evenings at IITM are hard to comeby, but I did get one on August 12,2009. A calm evening because I had spent the entire afternoon seeing LOTR 3. The movie really exhausted me. Wonder how people managed to retain high concentration levels during that epic. I was munching a packet of Lays(Spanish Tango flavour) and was browsing through the net when I received a post on gtalk from my friend who lives in Saras. He asked me to come there to discuss “our prospects for doing something useful this shaastra”. So, while leaving the hostel I saw an IP saying “ACM* today at 10”. Oh!!! So soon!!!
I rushed to the CLT at 9 30(for obvious reasons), but found a placard saying-“ACM cancelled”. So I returned to my room(not knowing that it was the one stuck for last week) and started listening to the nice melodies from the movie JJ. Ten minutes later one of my neighbours came rushing to my room saying “macha, we have ACM today!!”. So I packed my comp and reached CLT by 9 56 and luckily found a seat in the middle. Just before the show was about to start came a group of semi-hot 2nd year MA girls. Something has to be done to IITs, to improve the quality of girls here. It desperately reminded me of some awesome chinky chicks I saw at Singapore during the summer(ya…agree Bangkok is way better, but Singapore is not bad either).And Pratibha patil’s famous statement of “creating exclusive IITs for girls” came to my mind. I cursed her one more time adding to the infinite number of times I have done that in the past year.
The presentations began at I(nsti)ST. The projector was kinda weird giving a very “red” display of everything(red enhances aggresiveness-not good at AC halls :P). The cul-secs threw some “PJ”s and profoundly refused to apologise for the “red” projector. Starting with publicity and sales a slurry of presentations began to follow, each one claiming to be the “backbone”, “face”, “lungs”, “kidney” etc. of saarang. Thankfully no dept claimed any part of the human body below the backbone :D. It was evident that the cores wanted to take a dig at one another and also frustrate the audience with even more “PJ”s. In one of the presentations was mentioned the number “42”. I was caught napping as I didn’t have a clue to what it referred. My friend later explained the adage from the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
Then came the Spons, PR and media team. Strangely two coincidences-Lays and JJ :D. The guys were joined by the only girl in the core team as well(What happened to male chauvenism??-but good in a way :D). I found a “faint glimmer of hope”(that explains the title right??)that I too can become a co-ord as they had asked for writing skills :D. So I had fixed it to be one of my choices. Then came Oops, the hospitality core who profoundly explained his becoming a core after losing insti elections(its an appreciable fact).I must thank this guy really-he has indeed helped me a lot.
Facilities, QMS, Security etc. soon followed and the presentation was culminated by web ops dept which offered a refuge to all the maggus. The population of maggus in any saarang team is like pluto occupying the solar system-non existent.
And so I finished off a fine day with the faint hope of becoming a newsletter co-ord.
*-Aspiring Co-ords Meet
The basic funda behind this post is that-i had attended the "aspiring co-ords meet" for Saarang-2010 and a number of depts had called for coordinators there. One such dept was the newsletter dept. In the application form that i had to fill in order to apply for the newsletter coordship, the question was-"Connect in about 300 words--ACM,JJ,Lays,Pluto,Pratibha patil,election,Saras,IITM,chinky chicks,42". Yup, the question was vague indeed and it was the first time that i had tried to write an article of this kind. The article didnt fetch me the coordship-but i didnt want it to be lost in the oblivion because it was the first time that i had attempted something like it. Here is the article-christened forever in cyber space. :D.
Feedbacks strongly welcomed for this article.
Article:
Fine evenings at IITM are hard to comeby, but I did get one on August 12,2009. A calm evening because I had spent the entire afternoon seeing LOTR 3. The movie really exhausted me. Wonder how people managed to retain high concentration levels during that epic. I was munching a packet of Lays(Spanish Tango flavour) and was browsing through the net when I received a post on gtalk from my friend who lives in Saras. He asked me to come there to discuss “our prospects for doing something useful this shaastra”. So, while leaving the hostel I saw an IP saying “ACM* today at 10”. Oh!!! So soon!!!
I rushed to the CLT at 9 30(for obvious reasons), but found a placard saying-“ACM cancelled”. So I returned to my room(not knowing that it was the one stuck for last week) and started listening to the nice melodies from the movie JJ. Ten minutes later one of my neighbours came rushing to my room saying “macha, we have ACM today!!”. So I packed my comp and reached CLT by 9 56 and luckily found a seat in the middle. Just before the show was about to start came a group of semi-hot 2nd year MA girls. Something has to be done to IITs, to improve the quality of girls here. It desperately reminded me of some awesome chinky chicks I saw at Singapore during the summer(ya…agree Bangkok is way better, but Singapore is not bad either).And Pratibha patil’s famous statement of “creating exclusive IITs for girls” came to my mind. I cursed her one more time adding to the infinite number of times I have done that in the past year.
The presentations began at I(nsti)ST. The projector was kinda weird giving a very “red” display of everything(red enhances aggresiveness-not good at AC halls :P). The cul-secs threw some “PJ”s and profoundly refused to apologise for the “red” projector. Starting with publicity and sales a slurry of presentations began to follow, each one claiming to be the “backbone”, “face”, “lungs”, “kidney” etc. of saarang. Thankfully no dept claimed any part of the human body below the backbone :D. It was evident that the cores wanted to take a dig at one another and also frustrate the audience with even more “PJ”s. In one of the presentations was mentioned the number “42”. I was caught napping as I didn’t have a clue to what it referred. My friend later explained the adage from the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
Then came the Spons, PR and media team. Strangely two coincidences-Lays and JJ :D. The guys were joined by the only girl in the core team as well(What happened to male chauvenism??-but good in a way :D). I found a “faint glimmer of hope”(that explains the title right??)that I too can become a co-ord as they had asked for writing skills :D. So I had fixed it to be one of my choices. Then came Oops, the hospitality core who profoundly explained his becoming a core after losing insti elections(its an appreciable fact).I must thank this guy really-he has indeed helped me a lot.
Facilities, QMS, Security etc. soon followed and the presentation was culminated by web ops dept which offered a refuge to all the maggus. The population of maggus in any saarang team is like pluto occupying the solar system-non existent.
And so I finished off a fine day with the faint hope of becoming a newsletter co-ord.
*-Aspiring Co-ords Meet
Poll Results-2
Q:Honestly, Do you like this blog?
A:Yes-54%
B:No-0%
C:No opinion-46%
Primarily, I thank all those who voted. Your enthusiasm encourages me to explore further. Also, this poll saw an 83% percent jump in the number of votes polled, which indicates that the number of people who have started reading my posts have increased. For a small time blogger like me, this is surely an achievement. Thanks to all of you.
Secondarily, I would like to encourage all the readers to vote on the polls. It does help in judgments and determining tastes. And that influences to a certain extent the stuff about which i write.
No one voted corresponding to the "no" column of the blog. Its good in a way that atleast from those who voted, no one outrightly rejected my blog. Its bad in the sense that there arises a doubt in my mind whether people actually wanted to poll in a "no" and wanted rather to be a "softer" critic by polling on the "no opinion" column(which has got a whooping percentage of votes to its credit-the least i expected). Personally i am against this "softer" form of criticism. If you dont like it-say it. Atleast you may like the modifications. Also, i want all my leaders to be honest on my blog-while reading, writing comments and polling.
Another mention-do write comments. Blast me if you want to. I am a recipient of constructive criticisms and i take criticism and critics by my stride(i am a very bad critic myself). So i appeal to all my readers to constructively criticise my posts-it helps.
Special Mention-Many people complained about the length of articles on my blog-especially the "Does God exist??" post. My answer is-The post in mention is actually smaller when compared a few of my other posts and its lengthy only on the intellectual scale. Moreover i am a fan of long writing. So all my posts will be longer than the "average" post that you find elsewhere. And regarding the post in mention-i request you to read it fully to get the full impact and then take a decision on whether the time spent on it was useful.FULL READING=>>FULL IMPACT. Please read in full.
Hoping to write more and more..
cheers,
A:Yes-54%
B:No-0%
C:No opinion-46%
Primarily, I thank all those who voted. Your enthusiasm encourages me to explore further. Also, this poll saw an 83% percent jump in the number of votes polled, which indicates that the number of people who have started reading my posts have increased. For a small time blogger like me, this is surely an achievement. Thanks to all of you.
Secondarily, I would like to encourage all the readers to vote on the polls. It does help in judgments and determining tastes. And that influences to a certain extent the stuff about which i write.
No one voted corresponding to the "no" column of the blog. Its good in a way that atleast from those who voted, no one outrightly rejected my blog. Its bad in the sense that there arises a doubt in my mind whether people actually wanted to poll in a "no" and wanted rather to be a "softer" critic by polling on the "no opinion" column(which has got a whooping percentage of votes to its credit-the least i expected). Personally i am against this "softer" form of criticism. If you dont like it-say it. Atleast you may like the modifications. Also, i want all my leaders to be honest on my blog-while reading, writing comments and polling.
Another mention-do write comments. Blast me if you want to. I am a recipient of constructive criticisms and i take criticism and critics by my stride(i am a very bad critic myself). So i appeal to all my readers to constructively criticise my posts-it helps.
Special Mention-Many people complained about the length of articles on my blog-especially the "Does God exist??" post. My answer is-The post in mention is actually smaller when compared a few of my other posts and its lengthy only on the intellectual scale. Moreover i am a fan of long writing. So all my posts will be longer than the "average" post that you find elsewhere. And regarding the post in mention-i request you to read it fully to get the full impact and then take a decision on whether the time spent on it was useful.FULL READING=>>FULL IMPACT. Please read in full.
Hoping to write more and more..
cheers,
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