Thought

The pleasure of recognition,which a lot of book authors aim at, is the lowest of aestethic pleasures-By W.Somerset Maugham

How true. Either we try to recognise or we try to dream.

-Venky

Thought

The pleasure of recognition,which a lot of book authors aim at, is the lowest of aestethic pleasures-By W.Somerset Maugham

How true. Either we try to recognise or we try to dream.

-Venky

Personality Test

"Stability results were medium which suggests you average somewhere in between being calm and resilient and being anxious and reactive.

Orderliness results were medium which suggests you are moderately organized, hard working, and reliable while still remaining flexible, efficient, and fun.

Extraversion results were high which suggests you are overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense too often of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity."

This is my personality test result. Most of it I find true. Maybe because they have used nice words;). Would be interesting to find what others think.

Go, you also take the test at http://similarminds.com/

-Venky

Crazy in love

I'm always gonna make you feel
I don't need you as much as I really need you
So you don't use it to your advantage
But you're essential to me
You're the air I breathe
I believe if you ever leave me
I'd probaly have no reason to be
You are the Kim to my Marshall
You're the Slim to my Shady
The Dre to my Eminem
The Alaina to my Hailie
You are the word that I'm lookin for
When I'm tryin to describe how I feel inside
And the right one just won't come to my mind
You're like the pillow that props me up
The beam that supports me
The bitch who never took half
The wife who never divorced me
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Damm! Eminem's rap is amazing man. How much diversity! I liked "You are the word that I'm lookin for When I'm tryin to describe how I feel inside". Brings the soft, romantic side of Shady.

-Venky

Interesting Thought

Famous Nazi theory:

"Where there is no hope, there is peace."

Simple concept really, you fight till you hope, and till then there is unrest.

-Venky

Slim Shady

"You're a fucking Ho and I hope you fucking die
I hope you get to hell and Satan sticks a needle in your eye
I hate your fucking guts you fucking slut I hope you die (diiiiiie)
But please don't get me wrong I'm not bitter I'm mad
It's not that I still love you its not that I want you back
It's just that when I think of you it makes me wanna gag"

This is what he had to say about his Ex-Wife Kim Mathers in one of his songs. Latest news is that they were going to Re-marry. Strange things this guy does!

Cash for Crime?

Over 190 criminals have surrendered (Photos: Prashant Ravi)

A murder takes place every two hours, a rape is committed every six and a bank is looted every day in Bihar, according to police records.

Now a desperate state government is offering 10,000 rupees ($222) to every criminal to turn themselves in.

It is also offering a monthly 'income' of 3,000 rupees ($66) to every criminal who surrenders.

The government's compensation rates for arms depend on the type of weapon given up:

• 25,000 rupees ($555) for a rocket launcher, light machine gun or a rifle

• 15,000 rupees ($333) for AK-47 guns

• 3,000 rupees ($66) for pistols, revolvers, and old rifles.

So far 191 criminals have already surrendered for cash in the districts of Supaul and Madhepura in the presence of Bihar's new chief minister, Nitish Kumar.

Nearly 90 weapons were also turned in for money.

'Sending a message'

But officials are keen to stress that there is no escape for the guilty.

"Surrendering criminals will have to face legal proceedings," senior state police official Anil Kumar Sinha says.

The exercise is just to send a message to the criminals that they should either surrender or the police would hound them out and take their cases to the logical end Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar, who became chief minister in November, believes that cash-for-criminals is a way of shoring up the abysmal law and order situation in the state.

"The exercise is to send a message to the criminals that they should either surrender or the police would hound them out and take their cases to the logical end. The message has begun to yield results," he says.

Mr Kumar should know - in the first 100 days of his rule, there have been 141 kidnappings and 400 murders in the state, according to police.

Bihar has acquired the infamous reputation of being India's kidnapping 'capital' - the police says there have been over 30,000 abductions since 1992.

Opposition politicians, not surprisingly, have criticised the cash-for-criminals scheme.

"Commit crime and surrender - and get a 3,000 rupees salary from the government!", mocks senior Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Shakuni Chaudhuri.

Larger plan

The government, however, says the cash-for-criminals scheme is part of a larger plan to rehabilitate criminals.

Bihar's additional director general of police Abhyanand told the BBC that the state had earmarked 200,000 rupees ($4,444) as a "rehabilitation package" for every criminal who surrendered.

Bihar is India's kidnapping 'capital'

The government will pay a quarter of this money, while the remaining will come in "easy bank loans" to criminals, he says.

It also says the money will be deposited in a bank account held jointly with a family member of the surrendered criminal, and there will be a cap on the maximum withdrawal every month.

The government says it also plans to pay for the primary education of the children of the surrendering criminals.

Observers wonder whether such a scheme would encourage people to take to crime, and then surrender for the lucre.

Police chief Abhyanand says the government will be carefully screening the criminals who surrender to avoid such an eventuality.

"And remember, the surrendering criminals still have to face the courts."

Only time will tell whether this will help in ushering some peace in troubled Bihar.

Acting

Met this guy who studies Film at NID. Got some very interesting insight on Acting. He says, there are two famous ways of Acting.

One is Method Acting, in which the person, literally becomes the character on and off sets. If the character is reclusive or violent etc, he will also become like that. I liked this style. Imagine, in a span of 15-20 years, you can live so many lives.

The second way has no name, but it goes like this. Whatever the scene demands from the actor, for eg: a situation where the Actor's Father is in coma. To get the correct kind of emotions, he would try to remember a situation in his life, where any of his close friends or relatives went through sickness. And the emotion which he felt that time. He will recapture those emotions and will act.

Isn't it cool. This guy also told me about "Dutch Angle" which means tilting the camera by 30 degrees. This is done to create uneasiness in the audience. Homi in "Being Cyrus" has used it a lot of time.

Cool na. Nikhil(Guy's name) would be leaving soon, to US. So would try to know as much as possible bout Films:)

Interesting Facts

1. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
2. A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
3. A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
4. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
5. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
6. Rats and horses can’t vomit.
7. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
8. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
9. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
10. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
11. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
12. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
13. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
14. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
15. Cat’s urine glows under a black-light.
16. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

PS: One more thing on my "To Do" list. Prove fact no. 5 wrong :D

Tagged- :))

1. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
2. Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
3. If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
4. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
5. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
6. Why the man who invests all your money called a broker?
7. If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?
8. Why is it called building when it is already built?
9. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
10. If you're not supposed to drink and drive, then why do bars have parking lots?
11. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
12. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?? Humans ???
13. If working hours are meant for working, then why are you reading this??


PS: Taken from Aalekh's Blog.

Movie shovie haye rabba!!

Was thinking bout the movies that we make and see on Cable.

How many times have we made jokes bout the "Garam Dharam Pajji" giving out his Kutta kamina dialouge. The jumping Jitu. For tamilians, the over acting king "Shivaji Ganeshan".

I dont bout you guys, but I always teased my mom, dad or whoever was of that generation ki, these were the kind of movies that you watched, this is what the audience liked that time!!

Realized it just few days back...we are going through the same phase. Imagine, our children and grandchildren. They will think, we used to see movies like "Julie, Havas, Khwaish, Albela"

Fuck, they would laugh their ass off! Thanks to ppl like Bansali, Nagesh, Homi etc. thodi izzat bachegi ;)