Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Just what I wanted to say - 2
Hey! Looks like you are a new visitor, you may want to subscribe to my Lens RSS feed. Or my shared links Convex RSSThanks for visiting!I have always enjoyed watching movies alone. Does not mean that I do not enjoy in groups, of course I enjoy in groups too. But when I say [...]
Comments - Posted in Blogmela, Movie talk, Thoughts by Rk
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Microsoft Surface - hot off the press
Playing chess the virtual way.
More videos here. Bill Gates shows Surface. Official site with demos
More than the touch screen (which we had already seen earlier) what impressed me was the way the devices interact. Placing a credit card would enable to make payment from it, placing a camera would get those pictures, communicating with phones/music [...]
Comments - Posted in Tech, Videos by Rk
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Just what I wanted to say - 1
Many times, I feel so good when I read something that is so close to what I would have said otherwise. I will link to certain such items.
Last few days/months, I felt I am spending too much time online, and too much online-time is spent at Orkut, Chatting, Reader, Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, Desipundit, Blogbharti, Indianpad, [...]
Comments - Posted in Blogging, Blogmela, Thoughts by Rk
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Bhoomi Jaatre
Fireflies Music Festival:
Attended the whole night music festival. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was good to get a chance to look at and hear various instruments – one standing tall at 7-8 feet, another instrument whose playing is declining. The different varieties of music – jazz , bawl, nadaswaram, classical, western classical, qawwali etc were [...]
Comments - Posted in Weekend by Rk
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Heegadre Hege
Posts of other few events I attended would follow.
Heegadre hege - A play.:
This is a funny play formed after putting together 3 different stories of T. Sunandamma. One talks about the Kannada vs English, one dream about winning the lottery, another about the life of writers, life after retirement. All make us look at [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Mocha
Courtesy
A visit to Mocha: It was a plan come true after almost 1 year. When the office was near to the place, we planned several times but none materialised. Finally, had to change the company (no, not the meaning that strikes first) and it finally worked out.
We went around 10 to the place. The [...]
Comments - Posted in Fun, General, Weekend by Rk
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Bheja Fry
Classic ! Vinay Pathak gives a lifetime performance in the role of –Bharat Bushan. He is a budding singer- who loves himself and his talents . Thadani(Rajat kapoor) is a music industry guy whose Friday night dinners are like Indian idol first round – making fun of people – but in this he along [...]
Comments - Posted in Movie Reviews, Movie talk, Reviews by Rk
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Blogging Quotes!
People think publishing is a business, but it’s a casino.
[via India Uncut]
“A blog isn’t a publication. It’s a person.”
[via Emergic]
And my favorite :
Blogging too is an act of love - the heart posted awaiting comment.- Falstaff, here
Comments - Posted in Blogging, Quote by Rk
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Vertigo
“Kelo rasika” is a non-profit team of volunteers interested in making good art reach the people. They have several programmes like “poetry reading”, “screening movies” etc. Suchitra Film Academy is partnering with them for some events. One such event of screening of Alfred Hitchcock movies, I attended to see ‘Vertigo’. I have heard about the [...]
Comments - Posted in Movie Reviews, Movie talk by Rk
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Rangashankara - Sankramana
This was an awesome play, one of the best ones I have seen. This is a Hindi play translated to Kannada and directed by S.Surendranath - director of “Nodi swami navirode heege” movie. The play also marks the return (or debut ??) of Girija Lokesh to stage after many years.
Its quite easy to see [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Duniya
Warning - Spoilers: Story and Ending revealed.
Story:
The story, in a broad sense, is like any other gangster movie which has this protagonist who is forced into the underworld due to poverty/helplessness etc. Like Jogi, this movie also has two threads running in parallel – or even more than Jogi here the emotional line is quite [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Movie Reviews by Rk
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Mungaru Male
Yes, its more than 100 days since the release and almost everything that had to be said about the movie must have been said. But should that be a reason to stop me from writing on my blog ? ( After all its my blog and there are few regular readers, who too will skip [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Movie Reviews, Movie talk by Rk
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Mauli Dave - 2
Many (like here) are of the opinion that she might be good at only item songs. My opinion will be biased Anyways below is the song which is little musical. Also don’t forget she has done a Bhajan album too.
Mauli, with her brother Omkar had her first Bhajan album (CD) titled “Prabhu Tare [...]
Comments - Posted in General, Videos by Rk
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Chennai Life
Ever since I went to Chennai, I constantly faced questions about my relocation - How is the place, how hot is the weather, how is the crowd, how am I able to manage the language problem, how are the people.
In the beginning, I was almost unable to give good answers. Then I made a habit [...]
Comments - Posted in Life, The days that were by Rk
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Trivial
Today I met an interesting person. He smiled to me as if we have known for years and talked to me quite nicely. I was asked my background details - to an extent about what my mother does, whether the house is rented or owned - the kind of details people normally don’t ask on [...]
Comments - Posted in General by Rk
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Mauli Dave
This girl totally rocks. Her voice, body-language, variation of voice, selection of songs. Sure finalist and may be a winner too.
More info was found here.
* She was finalist in ‘Boogie Woogie, Chalo America’. dance competition organized by Sony TV in the year 2003.
* In August, 2006, during participation in NRI Antakshari [...]
Comments - Posted in General, Videos by Rk
Monday, May 21st, 2007
How to announce your death to the world using Wordpress
I have been thinking about the blogs getting orphaned after the owner’s death. Am sure, readers do not have any type of personal contact with most of the bloggers they read. So they would not come to know about any sad happening. They might keep checking on the site or the empty feed might remain [...]
Comments - Posted in Blogging, Fun by Rk
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Blogging updates!
Few more posts lined up. New theme.
Tighter comment control - if you have commented and it does not show up,let me know.
Wanted to try my hand at designing a theme - but it looks quite tough and would take a lot of time. So giving it up now.
Want to re-order and change the categories [...]
Comments - Posted in Site design by Rk
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
What the hell is wrong with Google Reader - Blogspot
Few blogs from blogspot in my reader have not been showing the updates for the last 3 or more months. Is it because of blogspot migration to new interface ? I don’t know. Blogger update resulted in either marking the old posts as new or not updating the feed at all.
For a person who doesn’t [...]
Comments - Posted in Blogging, Links by Rk
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Sendoff!
Using quotes for any occassion has become my favorite activity. So I wrote this for my last mail!
Hi,
Was wondering “Where is the good in goodbye? (Meredith Willson)” but found solace in the thought “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. (Carol Sobieski)” and looking forward to [...]
Comments - Posted in General, The days that were by Rk
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Rant
Managing the task between reading blogs and writing a post has become an impossible task for me. I tend to use up all the time reading one instead of writing anything. Is that laziness ?
Anyways, for not posting last few months, as if anyone is bothered to know, but anyways, is not because I [...]