Electronic GOD and his beloved son

I some times wonder if there exists an electronic god, I mean the way ancient greeks or Egyptians used to have. If there exists a god like this then he is damn unhappy with my friend atul, lead character of my previous blog “comp katha”. Either He is angry with him or atul is his most beloved child, put to test every now and then. So we continue where we left in “comp katha”. After the computer was decimated, atul with indomitable spirit , converted his HD to xternal one. He also bought a new lappy.

Till the lappy was delivered in packed box it was all fine. No, no don’t jump to conclusion. This time it wasn’t cracked or anything else. This time the problem was with “partition magic”. Something happened and everything was  ground zero. The OS refused to start. And there was our champ faced with one more battle. Well by evening everything was good. What a fight back.

After that came a bigger problem, this time it was xternal HD. Since it claimed lineal descent from that wrecked comp so it was bound to have problems. What happened was quite elusive. All the data in the HD started disappearing, well this was quite an awe to a metallurgist and a civil engineer.  One of our frnds rohit barnwal, a true devotee of electronic god, enlightened our souls with his profound knowledge. Also he suggested a possible remedy to this problem. Well rohit barnwal is like oracle in matrix and this software, recuva , as I remember proved to be “keymaker”. So atul and recuva were on mission with a vision to recover.

For 2 days in row atul was nowhere to be seen. Finally at the dawn of third day, electronic god smiled and data was back. Yes it was back. Triumphant once again, pumping his small fists in air came out atul. I truly believe that there is an electronic god. 

Movie Review

The film, end of which is predictable from the start. The thrill is about how this end is met. This thrill turns into disgust initially than into boredom due to continuous disgust due to some hopeless storyline. That is what “Rab Ne bana di jodi” brings to you. SRK representing a common man which I don’t think exists in this country right now. And on top of it this common man meets a girl(taani) who meets and marries the boy(SRK) within 10 min in the movie. Actually this quick reel marriage is a forte of Chopra’s after Kabhi Khushi kabhi gam. Very less price is put on marriages. That’s what is shown as the movie progresses. I dunno how but somehow taani is unable to recognize her husband without moustaches (Many husbands across the country must be really worried after this, I guess) when he eventually becomes her dance partner, as a rustically cool guy. I think she must be having some problems in face identifications. And in no time she falls in love and asks him to take her away, marriage has never been a problem anyways. No wait that is not it. Next day somehow god makes her realize that her moustached husband is better. Divine intervention or short term memory loss? And they lived happily ever after.

This movie I think is mockery of sensible movie making. You cannot mend the movie as you want and think that the audience can take anything for SRK. But I must say that they do take. One friend of mine has watched this movie 2 times. No wonder that it had a better start than DDLJ. Acting wise the movie is horrible except for shahrukh. Every situation is created at whim. Lyrics are really bad and it seems that they have been compiled in a hurry, by taking some lines of old songs and rhyming them. Except for 1-2 songs no song is in place.

So what I was thinking that the conditions in which heroine gets married to hero has a probability of about 1%, over that she not recognizing him in his new “avtar” is about 0.01%(I am lenient) and she becoming his dance partner is just comparable to blind date and so the total probability of getting the appropriate girl is almost nil. So we have an answer to a query regarding movie title “rab ne bana di jodi”. Nice name I must say.

I came back and watched “Swades” so that I can still keep my belief in SRK’s movies intact.

Point Of View

This article may be late on the time line. As Mumbai has recovered and running once again, or may be we feel and say so. But what I feel is that this is not a matter of recovering and moving on. I know its always logical to look ahead, but sometimes I feel that the pain of past always makes you cautious about future. And so I write this when the things have cooled down and have reached a state when they are no more front page news.

There are few points I want to make. First of all I totally disagree with the use of this phrase “spirit of Mumbai”. Here I will go back to Mumbai local bomb blasts, when this phrase was used extensively. To a viewer it always conveys that yes the city has recovered and running. But this is never felt by those who have lost dear ones. For them this is mere logical arrangement of words. I feel that we get subjective on the issue. Objectively, rather than talking about spirit we should put forward the pain which is being felt. I never understand that why do we try to focus on happiness so much that we almost ignore the pain. In the process we forget it until it is inflicted once again. This time media was talking not much about spirit but of the aggression in the approach. I felt better. Life moves on and everyone makes peace with this fact sooner or later.

After the rescue operations and also during the time they were carried, people have talked about the fact that where was Raj Thackeray. Good point to make but then again I have a simple argument which is impartial. Why do we refer to this person every now and then. Do this reference make his deeds worse, or weren’t they that bad before. I rather say that we should not even take his name at all. I think it’s a dishonour to the seriousness of what happened if we take its reference to justify how bad was his actions.

Lastly I want to say that this tragedy has hit national consciousness. And I feel that it should be remembered till the date when it really starts becoming faint in memory just because that no such event occurred after it. I admire USA for ensuring that there is no major tragedy after 9/11. You always feel safe in your own house and it’s a matter of concern when you are unsure that you may not live the next moment. Dont forget that we were hurt badly.

Season so far

 

This season has been wonderful till now. Wonderful for many reasons, the rise of hull in the top notch with some outstanding performances, the frustrations suffered by big four in some matches. The comebacks(which obviously frustrated me) by scousers and sudden rise of spirit in Tottenham due to harry redknapp. But the events in past few weeks have made me to write this blog and do some analysis.

 

I was just going through some blogs and found out that in that great treble winning season united dropped off some 11 points in December. This means that till now we have fared better. We have played 2 matches till now and two more are remaining in this month. One is away against stoke and next is home against boro. Also the strain is now showing off on title contenders.

 

I think that gunners are out of this season and now should look to save there champ league spot. With a dreaded inconsistency they are moving ahead. This weekend they are hosting Liverpool. It has been a delightful inconsistency though. Beating Chelsea at Stamford bridge, then giving away the advantage with a loss to villa. They drew against boro this weekend. So with a bright hope in my heart I think there is an upset coming up for scousers.

 

Blues must be feeling blue. After recovering from loss to arse they came back against Bolton. Then were held to a draw, I would rather say they held West Ham to a draw. It was a really nice result for united. Chelsea is perfect example of the fact that “character” of the team is never defined by its star studded line-up, unlike Hull who has shown a brilliant character this season. They have exhibited some classic team-play this season.

 

Liverpool, I thought was showing great signs in the beginning of the season with that good comeback win against boro. But again I must say that it was too early to say something.

 

All in all I am emphasizing on one basic point. Lack of consistency in big four this season. Last year while talking to a friend I was discussing that the number of points dropped in Spanish league are more but this season I am witnessing the same in EPL. Though it hasn’t hurt united anyway, in fact we are at advantage with a week  in which we won manchester derby and closed on the gap. I will say that heat will start showing up after Christmas when injuries and fatigue will hit. Hope that at that time we are at our best. I think the championship is wide open and your guess may be as good as mine. Lets see.

 

 

AD NON-sense

From past few days I am watching TV a lot. Thanks to some refreshing performance from Indian cricket  team. And due to it I have watched some ad, some boring ads I would rather say, many times to my utter dismay. As the result this blog of mine comes out just to mock those fart add.

This add was taken off after it aired for some days. Ariel add in which, Indian Bowling spearhead, Zaheer Khan does some household work for his grandma during which “achaar” stains get on his tee and grandma washes off those stains, thanks to ariel. It seems as if Zaheer has been kicked out of team and instead of having mud-stains on his tee he having every other stain than that. I think this thought finally struck to guyz there and they just silently withdrew it. Coincidently zaheer was bowling and batting as well, for team and it seemed that grandma had called Shreesanth for household work. Wont be a surprise if tomorrow we have ariel add featuring S.Shreesanth in the same role.

Then comes “Hero Honda Pleasure” ad featuring Priyanka Chopra. This is how it goes. Priyanka is eating “gol-gappe “on a shop and suddenly she realizes that she has to hurry to get back home. While driving back she notices her brother sitting with his gf and then somehow both reach home simultaneously and she gives the obvious reason of being with bro. Parents who are really worried about their girls giving excuses would never opt for pleasure, I assert. There is a tag line to it “why shld boyz have all the fun” and I am still thinking that how is that related to the moped. I mean is fun related to ride the moped or is it about giving some good excuses. May be some deep thoughts.

There has been a flood of Insurance ads on tv. Kotak, HDFC, ICICI and many others are putting there hearts out to make you believe that you it is very necessary to insure your life because the frequency of bomb blasts have increased and you may be the victim some day. Almost every such add has never made any sense for getting life insured with the company and in fact some of them are so boring that I have decided completely against it.

I think only in India you can throw any bullshit at audience with some good celebrities in it. Here come this airtel where “ I miss you, it hurts” is uttered by saif and recorded by shahrukh. On the other side the voice seems as if recorded while he was in loo. OMG in her good minds any gf would outright dump any bf after such idiotic voice mail. Anyways kareena takes it with a smile. I think she could have acted otherwise if it was shahid.

The coincidence was perfect. During matches Australia was committing blunders and during break it seemed that Sprite, after nice stint with “dikhwo par na jaao, apni akal lagao” ads was up with a trash “ghumo ghumao” thing. A bunch of boys start running out of what seems a delhi metro and till you realize whats happening the add is over.

If anyone reading this is in consent with me, than plz rank these ads, bad to worst…..

Frustration

From past one month I was busy with a task given to me. First task assigned to me after coming to TATA. I was pretty excited not because it was my first task but because it was first time I ws doing something related to core metallurgy with energetic involvement. The topic was rolling in which I had earned, rather I was mercifully given C+ grade. But this time I had some different kind of enthusiasm in me. I was going to library in search of the topic, scanning research papers and what not.

This was how I was preparing. Then came the day of competition. And I tell you I fared really bad, a at least on the day on which competition ended. There was a clause of cost optimisation in it, and my cost was almost 3 times the others. I was upset not because others were ahead of me, I have learned to bear this pretty well during my college life. I was upset because I knew everything but again at d-day I didn’t deliver, again I insist that these were my thoughts on the day competition ended. After 2 days the results were declared and to my utter surprise I was third closest from tata steel with the world rank 30^th on the list, though my product was as such far more in cost. Actually others had committed a basic mistake, for which the instructions were already mentioned. So there samples were rejected. Now at least I was contented on one thing that I stuck to what I thought was right and it was right. But I was very frustrated indeed about not delivering the result which I believe was in my reach. I mulled over it for next one day that I could have done this and that. But I tell you this is the worst situation you are into because inside it bites that you could do it and outside you just cant explain anyone because everyone else just look at result.

I think since it was my first task in some core work so success must have eluded me. Also as usual there was some learning  too. Nice experience overall . But yes the untold frustration is probably the best and the worst thing you have.  

Comp Katha

And finally the day had arrived. Yes the day on which all the apprehensions were to be answered. The day of “truth”.  Finally atul’s computer was on its way to gt-hostel  from courier office. Only he knew the pain of waiting. I was given opportunity to carry the unassembled babe to room 139. They were 4 brown boxes of varying size having so many things from HD movies, to infinite songs and all the fond memories. With all the excitement he, like a king proud with some new honour announces some benefits to his subjects, “temporarily” announced the donation of his altec lansing speakers to me. Wow I said. They were immediately put to use with full bass and treble.

My winamp had completed its 5^th song, when first news came. The moniter had a crack in it and later we realized that the crack went through the an IC due to which it was irreparable. That came as a shock but anyways you got to stay optimistic . Basant’s comp wasn’t working, so moniter was arranged. Also it was realized that the speaker cord was missing (to my agony), so it was my first and last playlist on altec lansing. Then came one more news, more like  “breaking news” of news channels and atul, much like confident Police team of aarushi murder case was very sure of the cause of CPU failure. The “confidence” which I posses daily had somehow taken hold of atul today.  We immediately went to computer peripherals shop and there the CPU was declared “brought dead” with some motherboard failure.

So atul, being very fond of movies followed a line from Shawshank redemption, “remember Red, Hope is a good thing, probably the best thing and no good thing ever dies”. He came back and brought his external hard disk to transfer data to my comp, I dunno why but may be he had some idea. To his utmost dismay the xternal HD wasn’t functioning. Now there were some signs of disappointment which were like Joey saying “Oh god, why ur doing this to us”. The frustration which he was resisting whole day took charge. I sympathized as much as possible but it looked much funnier to me. He took of his comp’s HD and took both the HD for casing and came back victorious.

This all started at about 2 in afternoon and by 6 in evening the computer about  which atul was boastful for the lowest courier charges of just 200 bucks was now a piece of rumble which couldn’t even fetch that courier amount. We observed 2 min silence in the memory of the dead comp so that its soul may rest in peace.  Later that evening thr was a party in which atul(and me) boozed, may be to forget the pain, of altec lansing in my case. May god bestow vanity upon him!!