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Jun 30, 2006

Southern most tip of Maldives …

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Hello ...
Had to go to Addu yesterday ...
Great place ...
Never ceases to amaze me ...
After my work there was over ...
I had nothing to do ...
But to wait for my return flight ...
While waiting in a coffee shop ...
I was offered a ride and a tour ...
By a friend who is originally from Addu ...
I had a drive around town ...
The most significant part of the tour ...
Was the time a spent in south most part ...
It turns out ... that this location ...
Is the southern most tip of maldives ...
Meaning when we look out to see ...
From this location ...
Its end of the maldives ...
No more maldives ... or land mass ...
Kinda nice being there ... felt weird ...
Clicked a coupla of pictures as well ...
IMHO ... This location need to be made a feature ...
With a sign board and stuff ...
For others to enjoy ...
Am sure there'll be visitors ...
Who'd not wanna take a picture or two there ...
The southern most tip of maldives ... eh ???
I know I would ...
Laterx ...

Jun 29, 2006

Got myself a portable hard drive …

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Hello …
Its difficult to deny the fact that …
Most of the movies and Tv series we watch …
Are in DivX or similar format …
And this made it necessary for me …
To get myself …a portable external hard drive
I settled for 100 GBs …
Just managed to get it from Bangkok last night …
Lotsa space on it right now …
But am sure its gonna fill up … in a few weeks …
Just like all the other hard drives i have …
But the real reason for the purchase is ...
Data transfer … lots of data … hehe …
And i hope this little thing …
Well serves this purpose well …
So to anyone who wanna gimme anything …
Movies, series, music or the like …
This would be a good time to text me …
And if you are one of those few people …
Who copy stuff off my hard drives …
Smile … hehe …
Peace out …
PS :: thanks Atoll ...

Laterx ...

Jun 26, 2006

There … up in the sky …

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Hello …
Its took some time to download …
But just watched the trailers of …
Superman Returns … and …
Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man’s Chest
Superman returns looks really kewl …
Have been doing some reading on it …
Apparently its a very well made movie …
Quite faithful to both the comic books …
And also the previous Superman movies …
If you’ve not seen the trailer by now …
Download the trailer …
Its a must watch …
I really dig the scene …
In which a bullet hits his eye …
That was kewl … oh yes …
Damn … the whole trailer was kewl …
Bryan Singer knows exactly what we want … hehe …
As for The Dead Mans’s Chest …
Its a summer blockbuster …
From our friend Mr. Jerry Bruckheimer …
The big budget movie dude …
So it should be good i guess … can’t be that bad …
Lotsa eye candy … thats for sure …
Davy Jones the villian looks well made and very real …
But seriously …
Just cant wait for these movies …
Hate the fact that the best i cud do …
In the coming several weeks would be …
A downloaded DivX of a screener DVD …
With selected scenes in black and white …
Sheesh …
That … when the movies has selected scene IMAX …
Double sheesh … sigh …
Laterx ...

Jun 23, 2006

Some more TV series ...

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Hello …
It has been quite a while …
Since I've watched a good tv series …
Or done anything recreational for that matter …
Since my workload curve is on a much need decline … (whew!) …
I thought this could be a good time to catch a few …
So … after a few phone calls and some text messages …
I got myself several GBs worth of new shows …
New… meaning … I've not seen them so far … hehe ..
Due to constraints pertaining to available disk space …
I managed to get these shows this time around …
The Heist …
Grey's Anatomy
Veronica Mars
The L Word
Rome
I've started with Heist … and I'll say … it's a kewl show …
Bank robbing and car chases always look good on tv … hehe
Some tech-talk and gadgets thrown in was ok too …
Story line wasn't bad either … it wasn't zigzagging like Lost …
Will write about the other shows when I start watching them …
May be with this unrelenting rain and the world cup craze …
I should stay indoors and think about an episode marathon …
Wouldn't be a bad way to spend a rainy weekend …
Especially when one is recovering from the damn flu …
Laterx …

Jun 22, 2006

Camera Tossing …

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Hello ...
I've always been fascinated by good photographs ...
But I am not a professional photographer ...
And I don't ever wanna be ... I dunno ...
I just like learning a bit more about cameras ...
And how I can manipulate my pictures ... for the better ...
By messing with the controls ...
I've had some success up until now ... hehe ...
But yes, the learning curve is a bit steep ... hehe ...
I was just browsing around some photo blogs ...
When I stumbled upon this ...
Its seems that ...
A new craze has hit the digital photography world ...
Camera Tossing ...
This is the 'art' of throwing your digicam in the air ...
While it's taking pictures ...
In order to get some beautifully abstract shots ...
The best photos are being blogged here ...
This may be a new fad in self portraiture ...
They may be crazy to toss their cameras into the air ...
But the shots that come out r great ... hehe ...
They make excellent desktop backgrounds ... hehe ..
Check it out ...
Just make sure u catch your camera ...
When it comes rushing down ...
To meet the ground ... hehe ...
Awesome !!!
Laterx ...

I’ve put Captcha on the Comments …

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Hello ...
When I checked my mail this morning ...
I was greeted by a lot of e-mails ...
It was my blog e-mailing me ...
Due to new comments being posted ...
Most of them were spam ...
Some didn't even make sense ...
I dunno why anyone would wanna send these to me ...
Anyway, in the hope of controlling this annoyance ...
i've put captcha on the comments ...
A captcha image shows a random string ...
Which the user has to type to submit the comment ...
This is a simple things to do for humans ...
But a very hard problem for computers ...
Which have to use character recognition ...
Especially, because the displayed string is ...
A little bit messed up ... hehe ... skewed ... hehe
Hope this will limit the spam i get ...
I apologize for the any inconvenience ...
this may cause real guys who comment ...
Please bear with me for this ...
Laterx ...

Jun 21, 2006

Movie Business …

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Hello there ...
So i was thinking the other day ...
We are all involved in burrowing and lending movies ...
If we have seen a movie ...
We want our friends to see the movie too ...
Sometimes, just for the pleasure of discussion ...
Whatever the reason may be ... the fact remains that ...
We do give out movies to our friends ...
We do get movies from our friends ...
Its a symbiotic and ongoing relationship ...
Operating on simple and straightforward principles ...
I give what i have ... u give what u have ... okiez ... ???
Consider the following scenarios ...
- Scenario A -
Person A :: Bro, do u've a movie ... ?
Person B :: Yeah, i Guess i do. Have u seen ABC movie ...?
Person A :: No, i don't think i have. Is it any good? Can i burrow it for a day?
Person B :: Yeah, OK. we'll go to my place after this coffee.
Person A and B both go to Person B's place and pick up the movie. Person A returns the movie to Person B the next day.
Now ... isn't that perfect ...
I know ... real life experiences can't be as perfect ...
Things happen ... stuff comes up ...
priorities get rearranged ... things get delayed ...
All sorts of things can happen ...
and most probably ... as Murphy's law says ...
"if something can wrong ...
it will go wrong ...
at worst possible moment ..."
But do you think it warrants the following scenario ...
- Scenario B -
Person A :: Bro, do u've a movie ... ?
Person B :: Yes i do ... but u still havnt return the movie i gave u last week ...
Person A :: Yeah eh ? i guess i havn't ... been busy ... i'll return it tonight ...
One week Later ...
Person B :: Bro, when r u going return my movie ...
Person A :: Movie ... ? What movie ...? U dint gimme no movie ... ?!?! ..
I've been a movie fan ... for a very long time ...
And I've burrowed movies ... and I've given out movies ...
I've operated on both extremes of the spectrum ...
I've experienced both scenarios ... in much more severe patterns ...
So i ask u ... how do we do this ...
Can we get responsible ...
Can we have respect for other people's stuff ... and time ...
In the times we live in now ...
with to-do-lists in phones n stuff ...
reminders in every PC we've access to ...
Its very not that hard to go by scenario A...
What say you ... ???
And ofcoz ... now that DivX n USB Hard drives are so common ...
There is no 2 way transactions ...
Makes it a lot easier ... eh ?

Jun 18, 2006

24 day 5 … finale …

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Hello …
as i wrote here … i was into watching this show …
Just saw the finale of 24 day 5
It was well worth it … the show rocks …
Good cast … good acting … lotsa action …
Whenever I hear the impending clock …
The count to 60 … I drop my shoulders …
And anticipate the download of the next episode …
I've never waited for a show as much as this …
Not since ninja turtles … and may be thundercats …
But that was when we were kids … eh? Hehe …
Here are some things I noticed about 24 …
1) Jack Bauer is indestructible and indispensable …
He is a true super hero in every sense imaginable…
Great guy …
2) It says, that our sulky Chloe …
has a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science …
From University of California (Davis) …
I say if anyone else of her academic equivalents …
Can do stuff that she does … I'll be damned …
3) Chloe can do almost anything by opening a protocol …
or messing with a protocol from division …
4) L.A. is the epicenter of all terrorist activity …
relating to planet earth … I dunno why …
5) L.A. is not much larger a city than MalĂ© …
Jack can be anywhere in L.A. in just a few minutes …
6) The President of the United States (POTUS) …
is seldom in the Whitehouse … he is very busy …
7) Every screen we ever see has an overly kewl interface …
Ultra-modern or may be futuristic … I like it …
Available satellites are of abundance to CTU …
They can have a satellite to allow jack thru a door …
Or to tailgate a car … that's not very comforting … hehe …
9) Jack needs everybody to trust him …
I don't have time explain it to you right now…
please trust me … I need you to trust me …
10) He doesn't have much time either … none whatsoever …
- I don't have time for this right now…
- 10 seconds is too late … I want it done *now*…
11) Jack's cell phone has no off button …
he is available any minute any hour …
12) Jack doesn't need food or drinks …
I've never seen him having a meal or enjoying a drink …
And in spite of all those I have written above ..
I have sat thru 5 seasons of the show …
Each and every action packed minute of it …
To put that in perspective …
That's five whole days of TV …
And I think I qualify to be called a fan …
And to have the CTU ringtone on my cell … hehe …
It's a great show … really entertaining stuff …
Cant wait till January next year …
When Jack will be back to kick some bad ass …
Season six is gonna be awesome !!!
Laterx ...

Jun 12, 2006

The da vinci code …

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Hello ...
the code ... decode ...
i wanted to watch this movie for 3 reasons ..
one - i've read the book ... survived the hype ...
two - it had a good cast ... except Alfred Molina ...
three - it was touted as summer blockbuster ...
just finished watching the movie ...
The Da Vinci Code ... good name, eh ???
and i want to say this ...
"for us ... people who insist that ...
the movie is never as good as the book ...
our case just got stronger..."
its not a bad movie ...
but here are somethings i noticed ...
- lotsa changes compared to the book ...
- no chemistry between the two leads ...
- its too damn long ...
- Paul Bettany as Silas is really good ...
- Tom Hank's hair is funny ... hehehe ...
if you haven't watched the movie ... watch it ...
it might help if you read the book before watching ...
yeah one more thing ...
as you may have noticed ...
i've made it a point not to write about ...
all the movies that i manage to see ...
but for this movie ...
i had to bend that rule a bit ...
seek the truth ...
and learn to respect the ladies ... : P
the fairer gender deserves it ...
hope this post has not spoiled it ...
for the lot who has not watched it yet ...
cant wait to see MI-3 ... hehehe ...
Laterx ...

Jun 11, 2006

Felled … (sigh) !!!

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After a long day at work …
Was walking towards a coffee shop …
Along Ameer Ahmed Magu …
I saw an uprooted tree trunk …
Amidst a flood lit construction site …
It not unusual to see a tree being felled …
But this was different …
Allow me to be a bit nostalgic here …
This was the tree that we all remember …
The huge mango tree(s?) in Velaanaage …
The same tree that we saw each day …
On the way or way back from …
School … work … or a coffee …
Or a segued ride thru male …
I dunno why … but I suddenly felt weird …
Seeing the huge tree uprooted … obliterated …
And being loaded on to a big truck … piece by piece …
Kinda had taken for granted that …
That this tree would be there for us … forever …
Reminding us of our childhood …
Reminding us of the afternoons we spent …
Throwing sticks and shoes up at the mangoes …
To make one or two fall … just one more …
The precipitous walls and trunks we used to climb …
Kinda feel funny now… seeing no tree there … no more …
And when you look at lane that was shaded by the tree …
You can feel the lack of that tree … so incongruously …
It was kind of a landmark or something v don't you think ???
Guess nothing last for ever v some not even for a lifetime …
Guess it's a price we've to pay … for development …
Another one hits the dust … and so it goes …

Jun 2, 2006

Sleep is a gift from God

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Hello ...
Do u ever have one of those days that just suck ???
Laterx ...