windows media

why is windows media player playing a VOB file I had better than VLC???

like a kid in a candy store....

i was looking so hard for 2 videos online.. stuff in tv that i had watched in my younger days.. and i found one this weekend and it made me go back to the good old days...
one was an animation series that i used to watch on AXN (the action channel).. technology and animation that awed me... am so glad somebody else also liked it enough to post it online..
the second one... i'm still looking for it.. it's a series called 'animate your world'.. it used to come on cartoon network (i used to watch cartoon 24x7 when i was a kid.. god knows why.. i was totally happy..).. the video i'm talking about is not a 30-minute series.. it would be just for a minute or 2.. and it would be really thought-provoking (for kids and some older kids).. stuff like: 'its ok to make a mistake', 'think different' and lots of other stuff... i'm still not able to find it online.. but if i find it i would be one happy girl..

big bang theory...

i was watching episodes of season 1 and 2 for like the 4th time when i realized that there were some bloopers..

- in the dumpling paradox episode, penny plays halo 3 with sheldon, leonard and raj. but according to sheldon, halo night is wednesday night but penny wakes up in their apartment the next morning saying that its 'saturday' morning..

- rajesh actually talks in the first season in some episodes when penny is around.. esp the same halo night episode, he says something like 'oh sure.. cut the indian in half.. there are a billion more where he came from'...

n whats the deal with the name 'Rajesh Koothrapalli'... sounds like a telugu name but he lives with his family in delhi... and he also sings hindi lorees...

btw sheldon (jim parsons) rocks! i'm gonna build a fan site for him someday..

read this somewhere....

they say you will only change when the pain of remaining the
same is greater than the pain of changing...

impairment...

more often than not we resent some of our actions because we didn't think it through, or for that matter even think... a long time back i guess most of the indian people were very much concerned about this fact... drinking or tobacco was frowned upon since they were likely to impair judgement... even onions, garlic, drum sticks were all banned... interesting..

Kaminey

watched it last weekend... was really good.. priyanka chopra did superbly as a normal girl, enjoying her role every bit.. shahid kapur also shone.. the story is ok.. a little but not too violent... really funny in some places...

songs were the attention-grabbing feature... 'dhan te nan' was the best, followed by 'raat ke dhai baje' and then 'fatak'.. awesome choreography.. liked it a lot.. vishal bhardwaj has done a good job again..

memory associations...

memory associations are like soft links.... the target can be changed in time.. :D

unwritten

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten.....

natasha bedingfield - unwritten... like the music... love the lyrics :)

to be or not to be [choosy]....

watching tv flipping through the numerous channels i was getting bored of most of the stuff being telecast... i'm sure everyone must have felt this at one time or another.. i thought about the time when i was younger and we only had 2 channels in Doordarshan.. DD1 and DD2! and whatever program they decide to show i was watching it! the minute i was back from school.. i loved some.. others not so much... but i watched them all.. and when there was cable there was more channel surfing.. strange trend..

it led me to wonder... the more the options that we have, the less likelier it is to find something that we like! and the question: 'are we choosy because of the existence of so many choices?? or were all these options created because we were choosy??' !! i mean even in coffee shops you can customize a drink to infinity! 'non-fat no-whip 108 degrees with a shot of french vanilla'...

so if we take away all the choices and give only 2 (regular/decaf) does that mean people will go for one of these without thinking twice? it makes me think about all the choices we make... would be an interesting social experiment..

to finding yourself (your fragrance?)

from Arziyan (Delhi 6)... one of my fav songs in that movie...

Ohhh ek khushbu aati thi,
Oh ek khushbu aati thi,
Main bhatakta jaata tha,
Reshmi si maaya thi,
Aur main taktaa jaata tha,

Jab teri gali aaya, sach tabhi nazar aaya
Mujh mein hi woh khushbu thi,
Jisse tune milwaya
Maula maula maula mere maula

parents and kids...

a person i know was telling me about his daughter... as to how she is at the right age for traveling (she's not too crabby) and how he is going to enjoy the vacation with his family.. he said that he was enjoying every minute of this age when his daughter 'still liked them, and thought that they [her parents] knew something'...

hmm... profound statement.. do kids really stop liking parents when they grow up... sure they learn a lot more, and know more than parents after a certain age (discounting some life's lessons that parents know thru experience)... i think its ok for parents to not know everything.. kids will be ok with it...

as to not liking them... well understanding might be lacking... if each were more open to the others ideas, and paid some attention and made an effort to understand the other might that solve the problem??

Surya Movies!

I was just googling about Surya.. it was sad to see that there are not many websites dedicated to him or listing his recent or to be released movies... :D
so i'm going to try to make a compilation of his movies to start with, and am really looking forward to his next one...

i found an imdb entry after looking for a long time.. it should have been the first one in the list!! ;)

ok.. found a fan site after some looong search...
http://www.suryafansclub.com/filmography/surya-filmography/
some cool photos there... movies... hmm ayan wasn't that good.. didn't like it.. so next movies:

aadhavan - k.s ravikumar, surya and nayantara... should be time pass... estimated for release sometime this year...

singam - same director as vel (haven't seen that one - so can't comment), cop movie, should be good to see surya in cop uniform again..

mugamoodi - not too much info yet

ratha charithra - RGV movie!! wow! looking forward to this :)

formula for bypassing trouble....

read this quote today....

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's
as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for
you'll see a lot of it and you had better be on speaking terms with it.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

liked it... by trouble of course i think he means trouble that we come across in our life that we can't control.. things that happen to us...

there's another sort of trouble which we cause to ourselves by the choices we make.. if those choices were made because we didn't have enough information, we can make better choices in the future based on our experience.. so its good..

if the choices were made because we didn't think, then we live with the consequences and/or choose to think before we make choices the next time..

my book review

i remember i wrote a book review for my school newsletter years back n i was trying to trace it... here it is:

Book Review — ‘Something Fresh’

For those who have read Wodehouse, ‘Blandings Castle’
needs no introduction. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse –
‘Plum’ as he is known affectionately – was one of the
greatest and most prolific of authors of humor novels and
short stories and plays. One of his fictional creations was
‘Blandings Castle’ – a place which was always the center
of action, the hustle and bustle of activity, where young
sundered hearts were sent on exile if they fell in love
with matches who the elders did not find suitable, where
the visitors bumped into relations they would rather
avoid, and yet where peace reigned as far as their host
Lord Emsworth was concerned.

The story of ‘Something Fresh’ (U.S Title: Something
New) however begins in a cul-de-sac in London, where
Ashe Marson finds himself cooped up, restless and unsatisfied
with his life as an author of ‘Gridley Quayle, Investigator’
a monthly series of detective stories. His thirst for
adventure, spurred on by the encouragement from a
young lady Ms. Joan Valentine staying in the same establishment,
leads him to accept a job as a valet to an
American millionaire who wants Ashe to steal back a
‘Scarab’ from the house of his host and father of his future
son-in-law Freddie Threepwood. Like all American
millionaires in Wodehouse’s creations, Mr. Peters suffers
from chronic dyspepsia and an extremely short-temper.

The plot becomes thicker, when Ashe finds himself accompanied
by Ms. Valentine herself apparently as the
parlor maid of Ms. Peters. They set upon a journey to
Blandings Castle, where Ashe is startled by the confoundedly
complex system of hierarchy among the servants of
the castle. When he manages to survive Beach, the butler
there are many things he has to conquer before the
scarab is within his reach. Rupert Baxter, the efficient
personal secretary of Clarence, the ninth Earl of
Emsworth, proves himself to be a pain in the neck to
Ashe as he does everything in his capacity to stop Ashe’s
plans of purloining the curio.

The other guests of the castle, meanwhile, ignored by
their host and having no means of amusement yearn for
a break in their dreary lives, when nothing less than a
shooting incident in the middle of the night presents itself
when the first daring attempt of Ashe is foiled by the
watchful Baxter. The rest of the story is about the totally
unpredictable series of events which lead to the displacement
of the much-sought after scarab to its rightful
place.

Wodehouse has reduced readers to convulsions of laughter
with his subtle and profound humor. ‘Something
Fresh’ is among the first books that introduce the life at
Blandings, the absent-minded and potty Lord Emsworth,
the blundering Freddie and the peaceful village and inhabitants
of Market Blandings, which will continue to hold
the special place it does in a Wodehousean’s heart.

indestructible....

was watching the movie 'X-men Origins: Wolverine' last friday night.. i loved this dialogue that came in the movie... it more or less goes like this: 'to make you indestructible we are first going to have to destroy you'.. of course they meant that to make wolverine indestructible by adding adamantium to his exoskeleton they would have to tunnel into his bones.. but it means a lot more when u think about it..

the harrowing experiences that we go through actually make us stronger.. we have to get destroyed at least once or twice before we become indestructible.. :) then if i think about this towards the end we r going to be the strongest and the calmest coz we have seen everything... right? :D