I can be sure now that there is actually someone who cares to read my blog posts! The reason being, as I was bragging about Chennai being like an oven in  my last post…. the rains have finally arrived here and it has become really cooler now!   Google is showing that the current tmperature in Chennai is 24 degree Celsius… I am thinking its lower than that though… but still… after being used to the normal weather conditions over here… 24 is really very cool!

Ok, so to start with my adventures for the day…. I will just give a prelude to the upcoming events! I haven’t watched any latest movie in a theatre since Kaminey and it has been more than 2 months now…. and yes! 2 months is really a long time for me to stay away from a  theatre! So, finally a new movie ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani’ (APKGK) was releasing on this friday and as it was raining and my college server has gone down, I can’t sit in college and sitting in my room is very boring too! One of my friends, Varun was with me yesterday so I asked him whether we go to the movie, but taking a ticket costing Rs.120 was a bad idea, so we cancelled the idea.

And just for the information, in Chennai, there is this very wierd rule about movie tickets… its like, if you go for the ticket early morning somewhere from 6am-9am, in any theatre, the first row seats can be booked for Rs.10 only! ….YES!!…Rs.10!… considering the fact that even a Samosa-Pav costs Rs.7 these days (fact contributed by one of my friends named Punit Shenoy!), a movie for Rs.10 is a frickin-great deal!

Thinking about this, we later planned of going to INOX at Chennai Citi Centre early morning the next day and get ourselves tickets for Rs.10! By the way, its not always necessary to stay in line early morning for Rs.10, if you have some contacts, you can get the same tickets later during the day at a bit higher price of Rs.30-50 per ticket! But, as I lost my ‘contacts’ recently after not being there much often, we thought of rather going early morning and getting ourselves the tickets ‘legally!’ And later Saurabh also agreed on joining us for the morning trip. So everything was planned and I have very good experiences with most of my recent plans being uber-flop!   Anyways, I was waiting for this one now!

Saturday, 7th Nov ‘09 morning 5:15am:

Varun calls me to wake me up and I somehow manage to get up and recieve the call (big achievement as I had slept at nearly about 3am being busy playing Audiosurf! ) I later call Saurabh and unbelievably he too gets up! (yeah, and FYI, Saurabh has a reputation of usually getting up after 12pm!) After waking him up, I go back to sleep again!

About 5.45am:

Varun comes and rings my doorbell at 5.30 and is finally successfull in waking me up. I brush my teeth and we leave.

Outside, its raining from past afternoon and everything is damn wet and cool outside. Equipped with our raincoats, we both need a coffee first and wait for Saurabh to come. Saurabh arrives at our meeting spot (without any kind of protection against rain! ) And we start walking from Triplicane to Citi Centre in continuous drizzle!

About 6.15am:

Reached Citi Centre with our hands shivering in cold water! The queue has already started for the tickets and we go and join in. Waiting for our turn, thinking….“Humara number kab aayega!” There is some crowd at that place and mostly it can be seen clearly the crowd is mainly of the ‘contacts’ I was talking about!

As our turn comes, we were opting for a 12.30pm show but as all the tickets were already gone, we had to opt for a 9.10am show instead. Finally got the tickets for 9.10am show for APKGK!

About 7.15am:

We succeeded in getting the tickets for the early morning show and now had a question of where to go to pass the time. Thought of going back to our respective rooms and coming back but then we would have to run back in a hurry so we decided to stay there and pass time.

About 8.45am:

Waiting in the lobby for the movie to start. We were actually surprised at the number of people who had turned up for the morning show. I would rather be sleeping than attending a early morning 9am movie show for a ticket worth Rs.120! So here we were, amidst a group of movie goers who had turned up all ready and fresh and we were there without having a bath, in our raincoats! (and Saurabh was all wet in the rain!)

About 9.15am:

The movie starts. Sat throughout the movie with my windcheater on as it was very cold in there in the AC and we had just come back from roaming around in rain.

About the movie, yeah.. it was sort of time pass. Some  places were very boring and extended for no reason and a few of the gags and jokes were fun to watch. Anyways, whatever the case, KATRINA KAIF was looking gorgeous than ever… and that was enough reason for me to watch the movie!

About 12pm:

Come out from the movie hall and Citi Centre finally after feeling all-out-of-place over there.

We were waiting some time for a bus but later thought of going back walking as we were already wet in the rain and didn’t care much about clothes getting dirty or anything else! So started walking back to Triplicane from Citi Centre.

Reached the Marina Beach and thought of going to the beach now!

About 12.45pm:

On Marina Beach, Varun and Saurabh were having fun in the waves and I was the carry-bag for their valuables as I opted to stay out of the waves!

The best thing was that even though it was about 1.00pm in afternoon, the weather seemed like it was just early morning 7am or so!

About 1.30pm:

Finally after this long trip, we were back to our respective rooms….. all drenched! Super-tired from the long walk from morning 5.30am, we finally come back.

 

So, this was it..!!

Our early morning crazy trip to the movie was over at last.

It would surely be one of my most memorable movie-going experiences for sure!!

PS: And yeah, by the way, the total money spent on this adventure was only Rs.15 per head!

Moral of the story:

Just like the beautiful Asin says in every Mirinda advertisement, “Life mein thodi pagalpanti bhi jaruri hai!!”

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Back to my blog and its currently 01.54am right now. Just when I was thinking of going to sleep and thought of updating something on my blog later, I remembered the famous words from Kabirdas

Kal kare so Aaj kar, Aaj kare so Ab!

Pal mein pralay aayegi, to bahuri karoge kab??

And finally, I have landed my self back in front of my computer screen. (Actually, nothing like that, it is just that I thought of updating my blog recently and I observed that I keep on postponing it and then the topic is stale to put it up!!)

So rather, the Kabirdas’ saying turns into

Aaj kare so Kal kar, Kal kare so Parso!

Itni bhi kya jaldi hai, Jeena hai jab Barso!

Anyways, I’ll start my topic for which I am here before I forget. So, for the past few months, I had got a new fad and thought of growing my hair long. Actually, from my school life till now, I was sort of a guy with decent short hair and never did I care about growing my hair. This time I thought about giving it a try and doing something wierd with my hairstyle. And I finally did.

Thus I started with my long-hair programme simply by not getting a haircut for a long time and then as usual, my hair not being very soft or silky or straight, got messy and tangled. Then one more experiment to do with my hair, I straightened it in some saloon in Mumbai during my vacation and it was somewhat managable again.

Back to college, after vacations, everyone found something different with me and got various comments for my new style. The hair kept on growing and I didn’t have a thought of shortening it yet.

After few days, due to the wonderful oven where I stay in called Chennai, where it didn’t care to rain yet (except on the day when we were to have our Freshers’ Day function and the rain delayed it and on another day when I planned to go to the beach with a friend and we got drenched there), it was starting to get irritating now. But still, thanks to the working condition of the air-conditioners in my college, I didn’t care about that too.

Now the hair is pretty long and first it used to come into my eyes, now it started getting into my mouth! The haircare(nothing special that I did for it, but still..) took me longer to get ready every morning and by evening my hair was looking wierder than before!

Actually no one here in Chennai cared for my haircut as they know me for a less amount of time than my school friends do. So to add to that, one of my very best friend from my school days had started cursing me the day she saw my hair was longer than usual. Every time I got into some conversation with her, I would get a “abe tu pehle apne baal kata…bahut ganda lag raha hai” dialogue from her! And never did I think of listening to her though!

Anyways, finally one day (thats just yesterday!), I thought that I can’t manage this stuff any more and I am going for a haircut finally! So, as this was my 2nd attempt to try out a saloon in Chennai, and considering that my first attempt was a disaster which ended up in me looking wierder than before a year back, I thought the best bait would be some costly-looking types saloon where I hoped that I could make them understand better that I want a decent look and not  wierd one! Thus I ended up in a very costly-type saloon and had a costly haircut and yeah this time I am not looking wierd(or rather wierder! ).

Hence, this is how finally “mere 5-6 mahine ki mehnat” was chopped of in a matter of minutes and I was left with a “halka halka” feeling on my head!

Moral Of the Story:

I bow down to those ladies who maintain their long hair (and yeah most of you do look gorgeous with it )

So this stint with my hairstyling made me realise “Saala baal badhane ke liye bhi kya kya papad belne padte hai!!”

As always, I have once again left my blog unattended for quite a while now. Actually speaking, had many things to write about in over here and had a lot of free time too but whenever I sat in front of my computer and thought of logging in, my mood to write was gone.

Anyways, one of my very good friends, Ryan Paul is a new entrant into the blogging world and looking at his new blog, even I finally thought of updating mine. Thanks to Ryan for that!

So, after I last updated this place, I was mostly busy with the completion of 2nd year of my college and later I was busy doing nothing much during the vacations. Yeah, got a very long and much needed vacation from college at the end of July which was supposed to be over by the last week of August but the college reopening got post poned and got a few more days of holidays and finally I was back to college on the 7th of Sept.

I agree that the vacation was much needed and the time I got to enjoy was also good enough but the problem was that my vacation started in end-July when all my friends were once again busy with their daily college life. So, the only thing that I missed much this time was roaming around with my friends. Actually can’t say that I missed a lot because, I did got many opportunities to meet up with my friends but still I would have expected for more.

Yeah and one of the major opportunity when I got a lot of time to meet up with my friends was when there was all this “Swine-Flu” hype going around. The Swine-Flu was spreading and the News Channels were helping to spread the hype much faster. I could see many people around Mumbai travelling around with masks inorder to shoo away the Swine-Flu. The masks were the hot-selling property in the market for those days and I was wondering whether the designer labels would jump into the market with all their flashy, over-priced, swine-flu masks. I guess they had a potential market out there and they missed out on it now.

I am not saying that the disease is not so dangerous and one shouldn’t take care of himself/herself but still the swine-flu era actually was too funny enough experience for me mainly due to all this hype generated around it. The best thing being all my friends getting a week off from their colleges and we could finally meet up and plan for some hanging out.

So that was about it during the vacations, and later came Ganesh Chaturthi and thanks to the post-poning of my college reopening day, I could enjoy it to the full extent at my native

So, that was mostly about my vacations and later I was back to Chennai. But I think this time it was something different. Usually, whenever I will be returning back from my home, there is always a small amount of sad-feeling of leaving the cozy atmosphere there and going back but this time I think I was more excited to be back in Chennai then staying around at my home.

And thus finally, I am back in Chennai now and starting with my “final” year in the college. Currently we will be starting up with a major project as a part of this final year in the college. As usual, I hope to keep posting more about me and my usual stuff over here… but lets se whether this hope is carried forward to reality!!

“AAKHIR UMEED PE DUNIYA KAYAM HAI!!”

Yup I have done it again…..

What?

The same thing of ignoring my blog for a long time.

Anyways, I am posting my short ad-film which I made as a part of my project last semester

I know it has been a long time since it was done and uploaded…..but the thing is that I was damn lazy to log-in to this blog of mine..

Anyways, now I have finally logged in again and as always I expect to check this page out more often…. Lets see!!

WoW! (just an expression…nothing to do with World of Warcraft! ) I am back at my blog second consecutive day!!

Well, I just wanted to post the video of the map for Counter Strike 1.6 made by me as a college work.

This map was made on the Valve Hammer Editor 3.4. Actually it has been a long time since I did this job, but uploaded the video just yesterday.

This map was tested by different people in our college during a Counter Strike tournament called manifest which was held on 30th Jan 2009.

This is the link for the pictures of the tourney.

Enjoy the video and the photos until I am back next time with something else!

Well, thats the question that I might be asking myself if I forget this blog any longer….  This has been the longest break between any two posts on my blog…

I have been thinking of writing something over here for a long time as usual but never actually tried to log-in even So, finally I am here first time after February 2009!

In about five months that I have forgot blogging, many things happened like for instance, Deccan Chargers winning the IPL and India getting out of the T20 World Cup before the semi finals! Manchester United won the Barclays Premier League but lost to Barcelona in the Champions League finals!

Leaving aside the winnings and losings in the world sport, many other things were going on at my side too.. like being busy in my college as usual, either playing or completing some work! ( and yeah, btw, our college lab has improved by leaps and bounds since then… we have got 14, yes 14 new computers with a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT graphic card! Thats kool huh?? )  Yeah and one more thing new is that I have recently completed a short ad film which was given to us as an assignment for our editing module.. Would be uploading it soon, once the final submission is done! To list out more about my college and works, recently started animation and animated my own characters for some specific cycles.. I am thinking of uploading those videos too..

And yes, before I sound as if I am so much busy in studies all this time, I would be stopping here on my college and studies part…. Now, as my last post was on movies, I would get back to that topic now. But the sad thing is no new movies have been releasing recently due to some stupid rift going on in the industry with the multiplex owners So the recent one movie that released and I did see it was 99. Well, to tell about it, I felt the movie was quite interesting one. I didn’t hear any good reviews on it but personally I felt it was a nice story that was merged with the match fixing scandal. Well, about Hollywood,  I saw Fast and Furious 4 and liked it also. But I would anytime rate the first movie on top of any other in that series! One more recent one was The Pink Panther 2. This one was not as entertaining as the first one but still it was nice one. One time watch for sure!

Ok, and one more thing recently I am on Flickr. So, I have been uploading some of my explorations with a camera over there. Actually the reason behing me logging in to my blog today was the same as I was checking out some options on Flickr and came to know that they have some photoblog thingy. Even I exactly dont know what it is but thought of checking it out and I finally logged in to my blog!

Neways, I don’t have anything else useful to write about here so I would be stopping it here.. Hope I get back to my blog soon!

PS: Taking into consideration the fact that Deccan Chargers and Bangalore Royal Challengers were the teams that came up from bottom of the table in IPL’08 to the top of the table in IPL’09, I am keeping high expectations for Mumbai Indians in the next season!! GO MUMBAI!!

So I am back again to my blog and thought of updating it….

As the title says it all, this one is about the movie which was in talks all the time for its weird type of advertising… from the song ” Emosanal Attyachaar” to the distribution of condoms at their premier!

Finally, the movie has released and just saw it today. Ok then to state the reaction about the movie in short:

” Its the most awesome movie I have seen in recent times.”

To start with, this movie might have got various reactions from people… but personally I think that the people who wouldn’t have liked this film would be the one with a very conservative or orthodox kind of mindset as the frankness of the topics shown in the movie may have offended some people.

I loved this movie as it was a wonderfull interpretation of Devdas in modern times. The complete movie is related to Devdas but still it stands out differently as a different concept. The whole idea of the movie is very much realistic and I think if Devdas was in 2009, he would also have done the same thing! The acting performances by all the actors are outstanding and both the new comers do a lot of justice to their roles!

To top it all, the movie has an excellent camera work and superb sound mixing which makes it a very new kind of narration of the subject. The songs are very thoughfully placed throughout the film which donot let the movie become a bore even thought there are more number of songs than a normal dhinchak kind of hindi film!

But the main mystery in the movie which I couldn’t figure out was; ” Why was there a special thanks to Danny Boyle in the starting credits?” And comparing the movie to a reccently good but over-hyped Slumdog Millionaire, I think Dev D is many times better!

Hence, If you are thinking of watching this movie, do yourself a favour and go watch it as soon as possible. Its worth every penny you pay!

So, this was my review on the film I liked so much that I just thought of writing something about it on my blog and as I end this post, carry on humming the lines:

Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba Tera Pyaar,

Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!!!

Ok, I have finally checked my blog after more than a month and thought of clicking on the Add New Post Link!!

Actually the past month in which i didn’t write about anything was quite a happening one. Actually everyone knows about the 26/11 events in Mumbai! That was a really sad event and my sympathies are with all those who lost their loved ones in this catastrophe. I was in Chennai that time and while the terrorists in Mumbai were busy killing innocent people here, the same job was being done in Tamil Nadu by the rains! End result- people killed and destruction of property at both the places!

Anyways,  the topic must have been discussed about a million times till now everywhere and it will continue to be in news ( until the news channels don’t get anything else to pass their time with ). So I don’t want to waste my lines on it any more explaining how i feel about it and what should be done and all that. ( ‘coz anyhow, how many people read this blog )!

Now, about my past few days…. my college life was having a little ups and downs! I mean, one day in the middle ( rather near the end) of Third semester, my college realises that more than 50% of its students are not eligible for the Second year as they didn’t attend two of the most important days ( which even my college people were not sure about their dates! ) So, the next day, they forget about all this and again no one bothers about it! Again after few days, our college remembers about our assignments which were meant for checking out our complete semesters progress. We get to know about this assignments when there are just 1-2 weeks left in the completion of the semester! Once again our college proves itself ! Finally, we are told about some submission dates for the final submission and at the eleventh hour, we come to know that the dates have been postponed ( or rather the dates given earlier were not the actual ones at all)!

And the irregularities of our college keep on continuing………

And one more reason I took time to update my blog about these events is that I wanted my blog to be clean ( as in free of abuses) so if I had wrote about my college events while they were taking place, the blog would have been half filled with #$#^!% !)

As the year 2008 is on the verge of ending in a matter of few hours, I just hope that the New Year brings with it a lot of hope and happiness for everybody! ( I also hope that I end up writing my blog more often )

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!

Have A Blast!

Once upon a time…. I used to write in this blog. I would try to post all the new happenings in this blog. But now, its all gone… I have forgot that I maintain this blog. I am now checking this blog after about more than a month. This blog is in the danger of extinction..

Actually I am nomore jobless nowadays ( or rather as jobless as i used to be ). I am busy the whole day in some kind of activity ( disturbing someone also counts as an activity ). So thats why I am not getting any time to post and by the way I cannot think of any topics to post.

Now, I think I’ll be trying to post some new things but whenever I think of posting… another thought comes that whatever I am posting…. is it getting read by anyone?? Actually I had one reader of my blog earlier but nowadays he has also forgotten the meaning of a blog. So I think practically my blog is readerless…

But still, I am writing this just for the sake of my time pass so let it be… I think I’ll still be posting stuff, however useless it might seem to anyone accidentally landing on to my blog. Then, lets see if I am successful in keeping my word of upadating the blog once in a while..

Yes our first 3D game is now available for downloading for anyone who might be interested in it.. so here’s the link for it:

LINK

Actually the game was uploaded a few days back but couldn’t post about it here as I was busy ( yeah really busy…not kidding) for the past few days..

Hope so many people download and play this game. And by the way, this .rar file will also be containing its source file. Thus, we have an opensource game