Who criticizes all she sees?
Yes, e'en would analyse a sneeze!
Who hugs and loves her own disease?
Yes, Virgo
Who puts you off with promise gay,
and keeps you waiting half the day?
Who compromises all the way?
Sweet Libra
Who keeps an arrow in his bow,
And if you prod him,
lets it go?
A fervent friend, a subtle foe
–— Scorpio
Who loves the dim, religious light?
Who always keeps a star in sight?
An optimist, both gay and bright
–—Sagittarius
Who climbs and schemes for wealth and place?
And mourns his brothers
fall from grace–
But takes what's due, in any case
—Safe Capricorn
Who gives to all a helping hand,
But bows his head to no command
–And higher laws doth understand?
Inventor, genius, superman
—Aquarius
Who prays and serves,
and prays some more?
And feeds the beggar at the door
–And weeps o'er loves lost long before?
—Poor Pisces
Who works from morn to set of Sun,
And never likes to be outdone?
Whose walk is almost like a run?
Who, Aries
Who smiles through life –
except when crossed?
Who knows, or thinks he knows the most?
Who loves good things: baked,boiled or roast?
Oh, Taurus
Who is fond of life and jest and pleasure?
Who vacillates and changes ever?
Who loves attention without measure?
—Why Gemini
Who changes like a changeful season?
Holds fast and let's go without reason?
Who is there that can give adhesion
To Cancer
Who praises all his kindred do?
Expects his friends to praise them too
—And cannot see their senseless view?
Ah, Leo
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Friday, 22 August 2008
Domabaem
Little boy : "Singing in the field of reeds
you sad little cuckoo bird
u sad little bird
my pure, strawberry love"
Father : "You are doing it wrong...sing it like this ...My pure...strawberry love..."
Little Boy : "Dad , what is pure love?"
Father : "hmm it's a love which is pure"
Little boy : "what does that mean?
Father : "It's when you love one person for the rest of your life.
Little boy : "Why is that like strawberry love?"
Father : "Ahhh...just sing the darn song !
( Eng subtitles from a South Korean Movie "Domabaem" )
Tirukaka Kurukuru Kantapia Saurus , name of a pet lizard from the same movie :)
you sad little cuckoo bird
u sad little bird
my pure, strawberry love"
Father : "You are doing it wrong...sing it like this ...My pure...strawberry love..."
Little Boy : "Dad , what is pure love?"
Father : "hmm it's a love which is pure"
Little boy : "what does that mean?
Father : "It's when you love one person for the rest of your life.
Little boy : "Why is that like strawberry love?"
Father : "Ahhh...just sing the darn song !
( Eng subtitles from a South Korean Movie "Domabaem" )
Tirukaka Kurukuru Kantapia Saurus , name of a pet lizard from the same movie :)
Monday, 11 August 2008
flick ! flick !
More movies watched, including many Korean ones ;
- Holiday
- A Good Year
- Becoming Jane
- 200 Pounds Beauty ( Korean) Rating - 11 tissues
- Who Slept with Her ( Korean )
- 100 days with Mr Arrogant ( Korean )
- Scent of Love ( Korean) - A beautiful movie...
- White Valentine ( Korean ) - SSSSAAAADDDD not at all recommended !
- He was cool ( Korean )
- Seducing Mr.Perfect ( Korean) - a romantic comedy and a good time-pass and no tissues ...yeeeaaaah !
- A Millionaire's First Love ( Korean )
- Wuthering Heights
- Innocent Steps ( Korean)
- Romance of their Own ( Korean )
- Innocent Steps ( Korean)
- Love so divine ( Korean)
- The Art of Seduction ( Korean , and it's not as corny as it sounds...its comedy )
- Everybody has Secrets ( Korean)
- Love me, Love my Money ( Korean )
- Untold Scandal ( Korean ) based on Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons or Dangerous Acquaintances) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782
- Perfect Couple ( Korean )
- My Tutor Friend ( Korean )
- My Tutor Friend 2 ( Korean)
- Love Phobia ( Korean )
- My Boyfriend is Type B ( Korean )
- Love me if you Dare ( French )
- Queens ( Spanish)
- A Knight's Tale
- Love in Magic ( Korean)
- Monster in law
- A Room with a View
- Four Weddings & A funeral
Here's a quote from , Scent of Love ,which I liked ;
"People always say love is this love is that but this is what I think - Love should include a will to responsibility for your actions. Being overwhelmed with passion like a sudden fever is not to my taste"
Mun Hie-jae from the Korean film Scent of Love (or Scent of Chrysanthemums)
Many of the Korean movies definitely have three things in common , the longing for the first snow ( which is nice , I totally agree with that...I too love the first snow ! ) .... the second thing , the case of one of the lead having a terminal illness ...why do they have so many tragic stories ? I am running out of tissues now ! And this one beats all logic out of me...how can every single one of them have this sequence ??? that is , the female lead getting drunk and the guy carrying her ( piggyback )all the way to her place even if he has a Lexus 460 or a really cook bike !
Friday, 8 August 2008
Badaboom Badabing Beijing !
That was one spectacular opening ceremony ! And that was also some show of strength by the Dragon !
The Elephant seems to have such a long way to catch up !
Sporadic n seriously not so serious ramblings !
My friend says he feels that "something's wrong" !
I feel somewhere something is always wrong ..if its not wrong for one, it would be wrong for the other !
It's 08-08-08 today ...
India's Population hit 1,111,111,111 before 08-08-08... thats WRONG enough I guess...
And according to the International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau, the total population of the World, projected to 08/08/08 at 17:06 GMT (EST+5) is
6,715,451,502 ( arent we getting heavier each day ...we should all go on a diet ! Poor Atlas !)
It's thundering and lightning here and thats kinda scary for me ... I have always been scared of thunders.My Prof had to cancel the extra lecture half-way because I cdnt stop screaming everytime I heard the thunder ! ( well every one is allowed one or two quirks and idiosyncrasies! :P )
I feel somewhere something is always wrong ..if its not wrong for one, it would be wrong for the other !
It's 08-08-08 today ...
India's Population hit 1,111,111,111 before 08-08-08... thats WRONG enough I guess...
And according to the International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau, the total population of the World, projected to 08/08/08 at 17:06 GMT (EST+5) is
6,715,451,502 ( arent we getting heavier each day ...we should all go on a diet ! Poor Atlas !)
It's thundering and lightning here and thats kinda scary for me ... I have always been scared of thunders.My Prof had to cancel the extra lecture half-way because I cdnt stop screaming everytime I heard the thunder ! ( well every one is allowed one or two quirks and idiosyncrasies! :P )
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Of Slangs & Jargons
British
- AC/DC- Bisexual
- Adam and Eve- Believe , I don't Adam and Eve it !
- Apples and pears- stairs ( remember the song "To My Valentine"... If apples were pears and peaches were plums and the rose had a different name...if tigers were bears and fingers were thumbs ...I'd love you just the same ...oh! those teenage years :P)
- brass monkey- very cold (weather or the air temperature)
- Steel monkeys- This is where not being a sissy comes in. Steel monkeys as they are affectionately called, have to walk the steel girders in order to put the steel beams in place. They walk the beams a hundred feet in the air. One false step and it’s like trying to fly with one wing.
- MP3Jingn. the live mixing or playing of recorded music in a dance club or other public space using a portable digital audio device such as an Apple iPod
- ambimouseterous- Able to use a mouse with either hand.
- airplane rule: n. “Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane.” By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really good basket
- alpha geek: n.
[from animal ethologists' alpha male] The most technically accomplished or skillful person in some implied context. “Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek here.” - address harvester: n.
A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses. Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling address directories. Most, unfortunately, are run by miscreants compiling address lists to spam. Address harvesters can be foiled by a teergrube. - Bad and Wrong: adj.
[Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly executed - Blue Screen of Death: n.
[common] This term is closely related to the older Black Screen of Death but much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows, misbehaving applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated BSOD.) The following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest, seems to have predated popular use of the term:
????????Windows?NT?crashed.????????I?am?the?Blue?Screen?of?Death????????No?one?hears?your?screams.
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Zippity Doo Dah!
Spent the day reading 23 documents on Indo-EU pact and European Foreign Policy ! phew !
I am sweating Clean Development Mechanism and WTO legislations at the moment !
As far as the movie count goes , I chewed upon some cool movies too ... Dan in Real Life , A Few Good Men, 21, Young People *Bleep*ing, Stranger Than Fiction , Good Luck Chuck, American Gangster etc ...
The dialogues in the last movie reminded me of the play I acted in, for the Black History Month , at the American Information Resource Centre. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, it was surely one of the best plays I did ( Perhaps, second to the adaptation of the French Absurdist play Amédée which we did for the University Arts Festival ).
I played the part of Levee , naturally the coolest character with the funniest & punchiest of lines ;)
Here's the plot summary from wikipedia....
In a Chicago based recording studio, Ma Rainey's band players, Cutler (trombone), Toledo (piano), Slow Drag (double-bass) and Levee (trumpet) turn up to record a new album of her songs. As they wait for her to arrive they banter, tell stories, joke, philosophise and argue. As the play unfolds it becomes clear that the tension is between the young hot-headed trumpeter Levee who has dreams of having his own band and veteran players Cutler and Toledo.
By the time Ma Rainey does turn up in full regalia and entourage in tow the recording schedule is badly behind, throwing the white producers Sturdyvant and Irvin into more and more irate disarray. Ma's insistence that her stuttering nephew Sylvester should do the voice intro to the title song causes more havoc. As the band waits for various technical problems to be resolved the conflict between Levee and Cutler reaches boiling point and violence ensues. Finally, when Levee is simultaneously fired from the band by Ma for his insubordination and then rejected by Sturdyvant who had offered to record his songs his anger becomes too much and he stabs Toledo, killing him, thus destroying any possibility of a future for himself.
Some of Levee's lines from the play....
"I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice."
" Ain't nothing gonna happen to Levee. Levee ain't gonna let nothing happen to him. Now, I'm gonna say it again. I asked the gal her name. That's all I done. And if that's being a fool, then you looking at the biggest fool in the world...'cause I sure as hell asked her."
" I don't need nobody to tell me nothing"
" Life ain't shit. You can put it in a papery bag and carry it around with you. it ain't got no balls. Now, death ... death got some style! Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born! Thats how bad death is ! But you can rule over life. Life ain't nothing."
"Nigger talking about life is fair. And ain't got a pot to piss in"
Niggers got a right to be dissatisfied. Is you gonna be satisfied with a bone somebody done throwed you when you see them eating the whole hog?"
"I'm Levee. Just me. I ain't no imitation nothing !
"Levee got to be Levee! And he don't need nobody messing with him about the while man - cause you don't know nothig about me. You don't know Levee. You don't know nothing about what kind of blood I got ! What kind of heart I got beating here . I was eight years old when I watched a gang of while mens come to my daddy's house and have to do with my mama any way they wanted."
I am sweating Clean Development Mechanism and WTO legislations at the moment !
As far as the movie count goes , I chewed upon some cool movies too ... Dan in Real Life , A Few Good Men, 21, Young People *Bleep*ing, Stranger Than Fiction , Good Luck Chuck, American Gangster etc ...
The dialogues in the last movie reminded me of the play I acted in, for the Black History Month , at the American Information Resource Centre. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, it was surely one of the best plays I did ( Perhaps, second to the adaptation of the French Absurdist play Amédée which we did for the University Arts Festival ).
I played the part of Levee , naturally the coolest character with the funniest & punchiest of lines ;)
Here's the plot summary from wikipedia....
In a Chicago based recording studio, Ma Rainey's band players, Cutler (trombone), Toledo (piano), Slow Drag (double-bass) and Levee (trumpet) turn up to record a new album of her songs. As they wait for her to arrive they banter, tell stories, joke, philosophise and argue. As the play unfolds it becomes clear that the tension is between the young hot-headed trumpeter Levee who has dreams of having his own band and veteran players Cutler and Toledo.
By the time Ma Rainey does turn up in full regalia and entourage in tow the recording schedule is badly behind, throwing the white producers Sturdyvant and Irvin into more and more irate disarray. Ma's insistence that her stuttering nephew Sylvester should do the voice intro to the title song causes more havoc. As the band waits for various technical problems to be resolved the conflict between Levee and Cutler reaches boiling point and violence ensues. Finally, when Levee is simultaneously fired from the band by Ma for his insubordination and then rejected by Sturdyvant who had offered to record his songs his anger becomes too much and he stabs Toledo, killing him, thus destroying any possibility of a future for himself.
Some of Levee's lines from the play....
"I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice."
" Ain't nothing gonna happen to Levee. Levee ain't gonna let nothing happen to him. Now, I'm gonna say it again. I asked the gal her name. That's all I done. And if that's being a fool, then you looking at the biggest fool in the world...'cause I sure as hell asked her."
" I don't need nobody to tell me nothing"
" Life ain't shit. You can put it in a papery bag and carry it around with you. it ain't got no balls. Now, death ... death got some style! Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born! Thats how bad death is ! But you can rule over life. Life ain't nothing."
"Nigger talking about life is fair. And ain't got a pot to piss in"
Niggers got a right to be dissatisfied. Is you gonna be satisfied with a bone somebody done throwed you when you see them eating the whole hog?"
"I'm Levee. Just me. I ain't no imitation nothing !
"Levee got to be Levee! And he don't need nobody messing with him about the while man - cause you don't know nothig about me. You don't know Levee. You don't know nothing about what kind of blood I got ! What kind of heart I got beating here . I was eight years old when I watched a gang of while mens come to my daddy's house and have to do with my mama any way they wanted."
Sunday, 3 August 2008
On board INS Mumbai :)))))))
Truly ..a once in a lifetime experience. (A very civilized event too, taking into account the Navy Bash which turned into a complete loolapalooza !)
Went hundred miles into the Arabian Sea. We witnessed an airshow with helicopters, chetaks, and fighters ( Sea Harrier, a transonic jet) displaying vertical take offs and landings from INS Viraat ( which is going to be replaced by INS Vikramaditya in 2010)
And then some amazing team exercises with INS Mysore.
Also saw some porpoises but they disappeared before I could click :(
This is all I could upload. Rest were censored by Lt Cdr R, my childhood buddy :P ( This clip is taken on board INS Mumbai and that's INS Viraat at a distance just before the Air Show).
Illuminated Butterflies
Papago Tribe
If anyone desires a wish to come true they must first capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it. Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal the wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who hears and sees all. In gratitude for giving the beautiful butterfly its freedom, the Great Spirit always grants the wish. So, according to legend, by making a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom, the wish will be taken to the heavens and be granted
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Say what you need to say !
Saw two of the most amazing movies ....Shawshank Redemption & The Bucket List
Shawshank Redemption , a story of the power of hope , one of the five things I can't live without !
Here is a John Mayer song from The Bucket List
Take all of your wasted honor.
Every little past frustration.
Take all of your so called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations.
Say what you need to say (x8)
Walkin' like a one man army,
Fightin' with the shadows in your head.
Livin' up the same old moment
Knowin' you'd be better off instead
If you could only...
Say what you need to say (x8)
Have no fear for givin' in.
Have no fear for giving over.
[ Say What You Need To Say
lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much,
than never to say
what you need to say again.
Even if your hands are shaking,
And your faith is broken.
Even as the eyes are closin',
Do it with a heart wide open.(Wide Heart)
Say what you need to say (x7)
Say what you need to,
Say what you need to...
Say what you need to say.
P.S. My fingers are feeling kinda funny now... I guess it's the after effects of dry ice burns
How the hell did that happen ????
Easy peasy japanesey.
Dry ice burns like fire
And I didn't know that !
:P
Shawshank Redemption , a story of the power of hope , one of the five things I can't live without !
Here is a John Mayer song from The Bucket List
Take all of your wasted honor.
Every little past frustration.
Take all of your so called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations.
Say what you need to say (x8)
Walkin' like a one man army,
Fightin' with the shadows in your head.
Livin' up the same old moment
Knowin' you'd be better off instead
If you could only...
Say what you need to say (x8)
Have no fear for givin' in.
Have no fear for giving over.
[ Say What You Need To Say
lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much,
than never to say
what you need to say again.
Even if your hands are shaking,
And your faith is broken.
Even as the eyes are closin',
Do it with a heart wide open.(Wide Heart)
Say what you need to say (x7)
Say what you need to,
Say what you need to...
Say what you need to say.
P.S. My fingers are feeling kinda funny now... I guess it's the after effects of dry ice burns
How the hell did that happen ????
Easy peasy japanesey.
Dry ice burns like fire
And I didn't know that !
:P
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