Three idiots watched '3 idiots'

It was bhogi yesterday - the day before pongal when most of the residents in Tamil Nadu go berserk and burn up everything they see. Who cares what the Copenhagen summit was for? I had class yesterday, just one hour. While the lazy me made me even lazier, the sincere me forced me to college. I somehow made it to college just on time only to know that the class got cancelled. Ya, I did become frustrated. In fact, all three of us. Three idiots who came to college to attend just one hour. There is a limit to sincerity, I thought. So, a normal teenager has no other option other than a movie, isn't it? :P

Now, about 3 idiots. A good entertainer. But, I really don't find any element that should make anyone go crazy and say I can watch it for thousand times also. Of course, there are many things I liked about the film. The flow of ideas, jokes, dialogues and picturisation.

At the same time, there were some stupid scenes and logical lapses as well. The movie sort of trivialized some very serious issues - for example, the delivery of Pia's sister. That was stupid. And so was taking Raju's father to the hospital on Pia's bike. Aamir, who usually portrays reality in his films, has given not much thought to it this time. I feel that the chilled out mood was too heavy and cloying that even the supposed-to-be emotional scenes were not so emotional. The idea of revamping the educational system was not effectively communicated. Such an idea that has a powerful impact on the society should have a better script and screenplay to reach people effectively.

Whatever it is, I appreciate the entire crew for their efforts. The choice of actors is perfect. My favourite character of the movie is Virus, only because it has been beautifully carved by Boman Irani. If you have any reason to watch the movie for the second time, it should be only this - for Boman Irani.

Single line: Aal izz naat well.

The magic of Chetan Bhagat

Few novels take you to unimaginable worlds, few impart knowledge, few make you feel why you ever chose to read them and few make you think about them for weeks together and smile, when in solitude. because they have a correlation with your life somewhere. Writing a novel is different from writing an interesting novel. Only in few novels do you put yourself in the place of the main character and read on.
Chetan Bhagat has this gift of writing novels that can reach people faster and falls under the category of writers who write for pleasure, unlike others who write for booker or pulitzer. I certainly agree that his style of writing doesn't have a rich vocabulary or an impeccable grammar. But, who cares! Do you go to a theater with an expectation of learning something from the movie that you are going to watch? It's just to entertain you, to make you feel lighter, to de-stress you. Same is the case with novels. After all, reading is for pleasure. And, I bet my shoes, every boy who reads his novel will enjoy it, especially his latest release - 2 states.
His success can also be attributed to the story line. It's real. There is no need of creating a story from scratch. It's already there. You just have to add gloss to it. And when the story by itself is interesting, your work becomes simpler. So, I think Chetan is lucky in that aspect.
Something very strange about his new novel is that, the story is old, plain, very much guessable and yet interesting. It might be because of IIMA or because of Chennai or because of Ananya. I don't know. Might be the magic of Chetan Bhagat.......

P.S : I feel this isn't a well written post. Chetan deserves more. Will edit it, if needed.

Risking my holidays

Risk Management and Risk Analytics. Well, those are what I have been reading about for a couple of days now. It's good to learn management concepts and even better when you are interested in them. I am blown off totally. Finance is HUGE. I began to feel complacent about my achivevement when I finished reading(and understanding) Financial Risk Management, Dun & Bradstreet, but later felt too small on seeing two heavy loads of books again on Financial Risk Management in the D&B TU library.
It's been just two days since I joined here as an intern but have had quite a significant number of realizations.
* You can be on a Fazer or even on a Hayabusa but you would hate driving if you travel once from Virugambakkam to Kandanchavadi (for those who wonder what these are, they are places in Chennai)
* Even if you vow not to go by bike to office and take a bus, an AC bus, you can still hate travel because you'll be late - late by 1 hour. Murphy's law struck again
* Check the font options before you take a printout, else, you could waste a dozen papers when you are not permitted to take even a single printout without informing the IT department
* Hot chocolate sucks at cafeteria. Black coffee is way better
* Don't ever go with the expectation of meeting good-looking girls. They'll be found everywhere except where you are
* Always stick to what you know best. Don't eat rice with spoons just because others do it. One mistake and you could mix payasam with rice.

Connect'09 - a delight

September 10th,11th and 12th of 2009 are the three days I would never forget in my life. It was a top of the world feeling to talk to few people whom I have hitherto seen only on the television. The event started off with Unconference, which basically isn't a conference. I was apparently part of the organising team of the social media department and had not much of work on that day. In fact, Mr Kiruba Shankar, the organiser of Unconference made things very simple and easy. I had a great time working with him. He is an influential figure in the blogging circle and is the CEO of Business blogging and is in the board of directors of wikipedia. Now, doesn't that sound great??? Thanks to Senthil anna. It was he who helped me be a part of the organising team of this conference.

That's our team.

On the 1st day of the main conference I missed the plenary sessions due to my electronic system design laboratory exam, however, made it to the cocktail party and networking dinner in the evening :P.

The second and last day of the conference is when I spent some time with a few members of our team whom I met for the first time only a day before - Srinidhi, Radhika, Anuj, Prashanti and Harish. You know, it is nice to see new people and to make friends with them. Now, coming to the most important part. Where else would I get to network with great corporate giants and IAS officers like Mr S Gopalakrishnan, Mr Gopal Srinivisan, Mr Santhosh Babu, Mr Lakshmi Narayanan, Mr Anil Menon, Mr Mahalingam and many many more? I really pity few friends of mine who missed this opportunity.

A new look, a new name..

Yaaa. This is me, Shivram. No doubt. And this is my blog. Everything is changing and so does my blog. I really didn't know why I named my blog 'Darkness DeMystified' at first although there was a separate post that explained the philosophy behind it. Hey, I am not even 20 man. And I am being too philosophical?? Yuck.

So, here you have for my blog - a new look, a new name and a new kind of old author.

The side effects of boredom

Well, to stay idle for three hours(12 to 3) and then have class from 3 to 4 is among one of the few things I hate. It opens up so many new ways to think devilish and sometimes even to be devilish. But, most of these options are frozen when you are in college. Yes. I am in college now and I am free till 3. So I thought of writing a post and as you can see, I have written it. So, now stop gaping at your screen and go to work.

How a '*' can shatter you dreams...

I tell you, fate is predominantly evil. Just when all things seem to fall in place this factor peeps in, plays its part, smirks at you and flies back. I couldn't continue the saturday story and you'll know why. All of a sudden my craze for an iphone peaked yesterday. I don't know why but it did.

I could see through my heart's eyes my iphone being manufactured.

So immediately I hit the iphone site and was understandably excited when I saw the pricing for 3GS iphones as I knew my father would get me one for this price. As my eyes scanned its features, my hand started feeling its smooth surface(I later realised it was just the mouse).

I could see my iphone getting its final touches and being escorted out of the manufacturing unit.

I was hunting for more and more information on my iphone and each time I found something interesting I jumped out of my seat, combed my hair and came back just to look as impressive as my iphone.

I could see a man cradling my iphone in his hand and taking it to the software section to get the OS and others softwares loaded onto it.

I called my father to my room and showed him this captivating contraption. He was impressed too and I was on cloud nine when he said it was worth buying.

I could see that man bringing my iphone back for packaging.

Just then I noticed a minutest of the minutest star over the price. Although I presumed it to be the same old conditions apply star I scrolled down to the bottom of the webpage to find out what that star meant.

It said - '*Qualified customers only' which means only those who accept to use AT&T network for 2 years will get the gadget for the quoted price. I later found out that it is commonly called the 'on-contract mode of purchase'. If you use the second mode of purchase it costs much too dear.

My iphone slipped off his hand and broke into several pieces - all star shaped.

P.S: Now you know why the saturday story has seen its end??