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watching movies in the reverse

Ive started this new experiment on how you would feel about movies if you watched them in the reverse.. Ive just got started . Please leave your comments on other movies that you would like to be included in this space

THE KARATE KID:
When watched backwards - A movie about a brave guy who turns into a wimp and moves back to new Jersey.



JAWS:
When watched backwards - A movie about a shark that repeatedly throws up people until they open up a beach for swimmers.


MEMENTO:
When watched backwards - A movie that finally makes sense.

COMMANDO:
When watched backwards - A movie about a retired commando who hands over his daughter to the bad guys, fights in world war 3, and the gets her back.

Kung Fu Panda:
When watched backwards - A movie about the dragon warrior , unlearning the art of Kung fu, Bouncing up the thousand ladders repeatedly , fighting Tai-Lan who after beating up the panda goes and locks himself up in the ostentatiously guarded prison. The panda then goes back to making noodles for his dad.

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There i go again...

What we know as intellectual truth, is that also not a perfect rhythm of the relationship of facts that produce a sense of convincingness to a person who somehow feels that he knows the truth? … We believe any fact to be true because of a harmony, a rhythm in reason, the process of which analyzable by the logic of mathematics. “

- Rabindranath Tagore

Song_Review:Beautiful-Akon

Rarely does a song come by that makes your ears cock up and take notice. beautiful is one of those songs. To all those of you who thought that Akon couldn't out do his 'I wanna love you' or 'Lonely' , this song comes out as a bolt from the blue. The song has followed in the same footsteps as I wanna love you, but this time, It is less vulgar(At least , It doesn't have Akon singing I wanna f**k you!)
The flow is smooth and subtle and the background instruments couldn't get better(Again! Akon, May out do this one more time and I take no responsibility for the long term authenticity of the above statement). The song features kardinal Offishal(Where did this guy learn to spell?)and a guest appearence by the Mozart of Madras- ARR himself.
In spite of the lewd lyrics rendered to this piece by Offishal(Thanks a lot dude, this is just what we needed in a romantic love song),The song still maintains a high level of a good feel.
Beautiful - The song is beautiful in all aspects

Interna? naana?

Well, This was the reaction of a lot of my class mates to the shocking news about vangal and I getting interned at a company in Madras against the backdrop of the Global Economic recession.
We knew it was too good to be true. For starters, it was not a job that was in the remotest of senses-ENJOYABLE. Let me give you an idea of my job Description - I read, I copy, I paste , I provide citations. My day at the office typically starts around 9:30 and my colleagues find my working style rather amusing.I practically work between trips to the water cooler.
The way i work? Copy, Read, Paste, Water cooler,Copy, Read, Paste, Water cooler, Copy,Water cooler, Paste , Duplicate, Read Ashwin anna's blog, Water cooler, Read Umesh's blog, lunch,Logical puzzles,Copy, Paste, water cooler and so on......
The job got so monotonous, that for the first time in my life, I heard of job drop outs. True, about 8 guys from the same college as I quit almost unconditionally after the second week. It was during the last day of the second week that something miraculous happened- -my boss- asks me to work on web Development. it sounded like a sine wave at 19,999Hz.(The highest frequency a human can hear - I still remember my physics and Ive got good reason for it too..)
the first module that I was supposed to work on- It was for judging the popularity of the published content. And guess what that was called ------Radioactivity. It used the same principal. Posts which are actively viewed gain heat, Posts which are passive get colder. You might say, that was a my high point for me at my intern. Just the next day, My boss walks in
on me and sees me playing around with one of the modules on the site development platform. He says that it is an important part of the website and asks me to do it top-notch ....... Again 19999Hz, . Im not sure if my ears can take it any more.
Ive got one more week to finish the modules assigned to me , and Im confident that I will have completed it by tomorrow. Who knows what the next week has in store?

The curious case of Lok Sabha Elections

India, they say say is the largest Democracy. The classical definition - a government by the people , for the people and of the people ; has earned itself a double entendre - over the years it has come to mean- buy the people(with poll time freebies),far(away from) the people and off the people.
Elections are the time when Indian politicians go berserk for votes, giving you anything ranging from free colour TVs to ten grand for a vote. Not to mention a sudden surge of Interest in world affairs - All of a sudden, all parties want to put an end to the genocidal struggle between the SL army and the LTTE. Miss J was all over the media promising to put an end to the war and formation of a new eelam for "the safety of tamils".No, Thank you maam, the one that is already present seems to be causing enough trouble already.
Elections are the time when politicians- those who are entrusted with the task of running a country turn into some wild motto confused group of national dealers.For instance, a notified dignitary, Prakash Karat didnt take so much as a sniff into the SL issue. but with the alliance cooking up , we saw him at the Marina, heralding the cause like hed been doing it for years.
Elections are also the time when politicians become overtly modest.It is an eyewash process that the politicians contesting elections are declaring their assets. It is really makes me angry to see their assets declared at peanuts.

A few days back, I happened to see the declaration from two politicians in some Tamil web site where the value of the Honda City is 1.2 Lakhs and Land Rover is 1.2 Lakhs. Similarly Vaiko has declared the land value at Saidapet, Chennai around 9 Lakhs. Even many of the national leaders declaring that they don't even have a car. I would be happy to buy them all at the quoted prices and they can even keep the change.This is the height of making mockery of our constitution which is a century old.
Now im confused , with such a fleet of outstanding politicians, I cant decide who is the wiser. i think my vote should go to the youngest budding politian - PAPPU RAJ:-)

Do you know how I got these scars?

Lets put a smile across that face of yours:-)

The when?Midday (GMT+0530)
The where?Far away from Gotham city
The Who?Joker Jr.

This is a tribute to perhaps one of the greatest actors of all time -
Heath Ledger and also to my favourite character on screen-The Joker.
I remember watching my first Batman movie-"Batman" ; in which Jack
Nicholson so amazingly portrays the character of the Joker. Now we
know where the Joker got his charm from.
While the annoying little kids around me had their stupid
heads filled up with ideas of 'Oooh!I want to be Batman' and 'I wanna
be Robin',I still remember the way their faces used to go askew when i
told them 'Someday, Im going to be the Joker'. To the rest of the
world, the joker is a psychopathic,
mass-murdering,apathetic,schizophrenic clown with a smile to kill.
To me, he is the hero, the protagonist of the entire Batman series.Why,
he is easily the very reason Batman exists.
No offense to all you Batman lovers out there, but to me,
Batman sounds like a guy who just had a laryngectomy.Why does he have
to such a gruff voice anyway? Doesn't he know?(s)Laughter is the best
medicine? Anyway, here's the list of Dialogues that i liked best from 'The Dark Knight'.
Joker:Do you know how i got these scars?
Joker:Very poor choice of words.
Joker:Its all part of the plan
Batman: Then you're gonna love me
Joker: How about a magic trick?
Joker:Its simple. We kill the batman.
Joker: If you re good at something, never do it for free.
Joker: Half.
Joker: Why so serious?

And undoubtedly, the best among these is:'Do you know how I got these scars?' And it gets even better when he accounts for the scars, with different answers every time. How,how,how did someone as romantic and good looking portray this diabolic character with such panache? The answer is that it was not just another good looking guy, It was Heath LEDGER.A lot of good actors lived in their character. But Ledger walked that extra mile - to die in his character.Ledger, you brought out the Joker in all of us.May the tyranny you unleashed over Gotham city never settle.May chaos rule.
Joker-Rest in peace
Batman-Rest in pieces:-)

First things first--the title for the blog and how it was born

To be honest, I am not an avid blogger and my blogging odyssey has just begun. I take utmost inspiration to vent out all my feelings and emotions (on this electronic space that google so graciously offers to human kind) from a senior and a junior of mine-Vineeth and Umesh(in that order, respectively)-Two very serious people who have played the blogging game for a long time now, and if you want to read some really good stuff, It would undoubtedly be in your best interest to close what you're reading right away, get started with theirs and then come back here and decide for yourself how bad this literary junk of mine really is.

If you are - however, still reading this blog, first of all I must congratulate you on your exemplary endurance.Thank you for being such a great audience.

I reckon most of you might have watched 'A BEAUTIFUL MIND' one of my favourite movies of all time - in which Russell Crowe brilliantly portrays the delicate and intricate character of Pf.John Nash, the founder of Game Theory and the one who revolutionized the field of Governing dynamics. For those of you geeks who missed it, It would help you to know what game theory is about.

Adam Smith once said 'In competition,Individual ambition serves the common good'.Nash and three of his friends are at the bar one night when all of a sudden , they find themselves in the company of a bevy of beauties-a blonde and four brunettes(Its all right guys , stay with me)
The Guys argue over how they should approach the girls and that is when one of them cites Adam Smith's 'Individual ambition serves the common good'. And this uis where Nash sees a turn around in Governing Dynamics. He foresees that if they all follow Smith, and go for the blonde, they cancel out each other and therefore, none of them gets the blonde. Then after being turned down, when they approach the brunettes, THEY TURN THE GUYS DOWN AGAIN because no one likes to be second choice.

But if the guys all decide not to satisfy their individual ambitions and they do whats best for themselves, and the group, they approach the brunettes first and volla, every geek finds a girl for himself.And hence, the title- Gals, Geeks and Game theory. I trust that you would have liked this at least a teeny weeny bit and Im in hopes that you will like the blogs that are yet to be published.