Slumdog Millionaire - A bare attempt of utopia with an ostentatious show!

The movie starts with a cheesy question 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' and ends with its equally cheesy answer like a Shakespeare's quote and cartoonish endings. In this miserable, shitty economic slack of time, people obviously tend to dream of such Aesop's fables and sit on top of cloud 9 as of to become a millionaire just by tracing back your past life experiences. Ha! Sounds paradoxical? Tell me honestly how many of you spend lives pinning after a gal who you knew only for a month at eight. Still worse is the director's cut to sympathize a protoganist Jamal Malik with neither conceit, apprehension nor any eccentricities, who has no real purpose in life other than to be trampled on and ignored by the society. And ha please stop comparing Magnolia and Slumdog. Magnolia was messy but damn practical when compared to Slumdog. An apt first name for a piece of hollow, pointless movie by Danny Boyle.
Fact to repent for is The Academy thinks the movie is a grandiloquent one and awards a bunch of gold plated britannium statuettes! Grow up people! I know you guys have seen far better movies like Shawshank Redemption, Forest Gump, Godfather, Taree Zameen Par, Rang de Basanthi and so many to name.

October 21 - Anti-Piracy Day

"Even PIRATES, before they attack another ship, hoist a Black flag"

Global Anti-Piracy Day, October 21st of 2008, is a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in 48 countries across 5 continents to combat the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software. In what we could be seen as the anti-thesis of 'speak like a pirate' day, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation.

Microsoft claims that "software piracy and counterfeiting cost the U.S. economy more than
$8 billion US in 2007 — roughly the equivalent of paying for the entire
National School Lunch Program"

Lets educate ourselves about innovation and the high costs of piracy.

Serendipity

In my earlier post long long back though, I spoke a lot on my fascination in atoms, molecules, compounds and surprisingly today I'm here as a final year post graduate techie in computer applications. Well guys that's a long long story to narrate. This post is just to inform you that I have decided to write stuffs on tech articles, updates and my opinion about it, music in particular "rock", movies and other stuffs. Have fun reading and do post comments.

Gone are those days..

As a child, flying caught my imagination. I wanted to be a pilot but it died as I grew. One of my Physical Training instructors in Junior School happened to be a Retired Commissioned Officer and he used to gabble the thrills and voracious adventures of wars and battlefields he had encountered. Unfortunately, in my eighth grade I had to wear spectacles and my epitome, my P.T instructor remained so, the fact that I could never be in the battlefield with glasses on. I had to let go my decision with a heavy heart.

It was during that time when I used to go to school because I had to go to school when ‘Chemistry’ caught my attention. My teacher said “The smallest unit in any living or non-living thing in this entire universe is an Atom and Chemistry is the study of elements and compounds that exist in nature and also study of those elements and compounds that are derived from nature”. These words are still fresh in my memory; I don’t know why but something instigated in me a new desire to learn ‘Chemistry’.

As I learnt more what fascinated me was that Chemistry was life in itself! From a simple double-helical DNA to the complex human being, Chemistry laced everything perfectly. The more I experimented in Chemistry, more were the equations that I had to understand. The more I understood, more were the analysis that I had to do. “Carbon, perhaps the most versatile of all elements was present from coal to diamonds to plastics” she said. I learnt that polythene (polymer of ethylene), that is so widely used (over 60 million tons every year), was a result of discovery in an experiment that went wrong in the late 1890’s.

I made peace with my “Army Desire” by joining National Cadet Corps (NCC), an extra-curricular activity which in turn has a curriculum. I trained myself in Firing Self Loading Rifles (SLR) to Sten guns to Heavy Machine Guns (HMG). I did Obstacles crossing, group strategy tasks, night marching, map reading, to navigate towards destinations on foot with just a compass in hand. I used to run several kilometers with sand bags on, crawl, roll all around the campus, and cycle close to one hundred and fifty kilometers. The training inculcated to me was tough, very tough indeed. I participated in more than a dozen of camps that taught me the synergy of teamwork, pleasure and empathy. The last camp in Delhi was to dance in front of our Hon. Pres. Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam where I along with the crew did a fisherman folk dance.

In other times, when I did not do Chemistry or NCC, I spent time with my aquarium which is a home to ‘Oscars’, the South American fish that behaves more like a dog. True was the fact that I neither had time to freak out nor watch movies. My schedule was packed right from attending Chemistry classes from the dawn to do Admin work at NCC till dusk.

Gone are those days..

Really cherish those moments!!!