oh..it's over :(

The vacation is over. :(

Here is a glimpse of my life during last few days.

I will update about it soon.

BRB

Every time I go home, there is a nagging fear of losing something behind that haunts me. They are not just a figment of my imagination. Some of them have proven to be true. A costly truth, to say the least.
Still, it can not deter me from taking a break from it all and go back to where I came from. This is one more such chance.

Yipppppeeeeeeee
I am going home.

Miss you all.

And I will be back with loads of Indori namkeens and stories. :)

gyarah kahaniyan

Summarizing my last two evenings in a simple mathemagical equation:
gyarah kahaniyan = dus kahaniyan + aaja nachle

Dus Kahaniyan is a brave attempt to say the least. Frankly speaking it did not live up to my expectations. I imagined it a Indian attempt of love actually or babel. Though the stories are some of the best you have heard [and watched] in recent times, no linking amongst them is bit of a uneasy factor. Box office has tagged this movie as a flop. It was bound to be. No masala to sell here. I feel this movie is a link between out-and-out commercial crap and over-the-head crossover cinema. And that makes it special. Content and execution are top notch and that surely makes it stand out in the lot.
Good work guys. Keep it up.

Aaja Nachle is another proof of Madhuri's brilliance. She rocks and she dances. And nobody can do it better than her. Watch if for Madhuri. Storyline is loose. At end of three hours you will realize that there is nothing that you did not expect. Swades meets Chak De India. There are light moments throughout the movie. Time pass assured. Laila Majnoo show is something you have never seen in your life. It's enjoyable to core. Madhuri's dance is the icing on cake. She has grace and persona that none of the current heroins in bollywood can boast of. Would love to see more of you Madhuri. Keep dancing.
And to those of you who tagged it as woman oriented movies, fish off. Just that lead actor is a girl does not make a woman oriented movie.

the good game has begin...

The good game has begin.

I was browsing through some of my old posts and this one caught my attention: To win all, you need to risk all.

This is what I needed at this moment. Last few days have been mixed bag in terms of experience. The pursuit gave me an indication of things to come. I second it after spending my last few days doing nothing. I have had my lows and highs. For no reason at all. Or were they indeed the reasons. I will never know. It's just impulse of the moment. And I know that I have to let it pass by.

One thing I have learnt from it all is that risk is unavoidable. If you dream, you need to dare of breaking the mould. I am doing what I think is right. I may be wrong, but I want to learn it firsthand. To cut above the rest needs risk. Mediocrity leads you nowhere.

programming maxims

Rob Pike offers the following "rules" in Notes on Programming in C as programming maxims, though they can be easily viewed as points of a Unix philosophy:^{[citation needed]}

• Rule 1: You cannot tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so do not try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.
• Rule 2: Measure. Do not tune for speed until you have measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
• Rule 3: Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)
• Rule 4: Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they are much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.
• Rule 5: Data dominates. If you have chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
• Rule 6: There is no Rule 6.

Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate C. A. R. Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Ken Thompson rephrased Pike's rules 3 and 4 as "When in doubt, use brute force." Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls also has a chapter on the same design principle. Rule 5 is often shortened to "write stupid code that uses smart data", and is an instance of the guideline "If your datastructures are good enough, the algorithm to manipulate them should be trivial." Rule 6 is merely a humorous reference to Monty Python's Bruces sketch. In C strings, the last byte of the string is null, thus indicating the length of the string.

ps: Taken from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

fri sat sun mon

Fri: Not much work as usual. Was thinking of leaving early from office and try my luck at attending any Bangalore Habba event. But as it turned out to be, I ended up being at home. This year, somehow, I did not go to even a single event in Bangalore Habba. Strange and sad, but that's the way it is. :)

Sat: Lazy morning followed by a visit to Spar. First hypermarket of it's kind in Bangalore. And it impressed me. Lot of variety and competitive prices. Not much crowded like Big Bazaars. And to top it all - nice and fresh vegetables and fruits. You should try it out at least once if you are in Bangalore. Chitchatting post lunch and then evening at a friend's place. Nice homely food enjoyed with nice homely people.

[Forgot that it is Saurabh's Bday]

Sun: Again a lazy morning. Bachche log exam ke liye chale gaye. Arpit came home and told that it was Saurabh's Bday today. shucks... Checked on orkut. Went straight to cake shop. Bought cake. Bachche came home. Wished Saurabh then had lunch. Movie with a friend. Ice-cream and pani-puri followed. Bought yoyo for Sarthak. Came home and left for Saurabh's dinner treat. China Pearl again. Hogged like anything. Reach home at 10:30, ChakDe on cable. Watched ChakDe. Had Cake cutting and Happy Bday singing program at 11:15. Ate cake and then directly off to my bed.
What a day!!!

Mon: OMG. It's lazy morning again. Got up late. Was in two minds about taking my bike. Somehow decided against it. Was late for the bus so took an auto to catch the bus. No issues. Came to work. Breakfast. Some work.
Going for lunch now...

That's all....

i miss you kiddo...

I really do...

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal - Avoidable

Let me try to keep it very objective:

What works:
1. Title song. Nice catchy tune and good lyrics.
2. ManUnited dressing room and views from Old Trafford stadium.
3. N/A

What does not work:
1. Story (or the absence of it).
2. Shoddy camera work (it's slow and dull. Frames do not have continuity. Watch anyone play FIFA 2005, you will get to see better action)
3. Obsessively chauvinistic south Asian references. (Mr Chocolate man - there is more to game than racism.)
4. No characters. A football movie can not be made with just 2 players. I would like to ask the directory if he actually thought even name of the 16 players. They are just no-one.
5. Side stories. Bipasha-john romance, Arshad-wife's fights, Sardar's wife, John's mom - too many untold stories. They pop up from nowhere and just make it worse.
6. Songs - Pathetic pathetic pathetic...

It is more boring that watching a goal less draw in Durand Cup.
I really don't think this movie was made to bask on glory of Chak De India. Aug 10th to Nov 23rd is too less a time to make a movie in bollywood. But may be it is the case, the product has no quality.

Avoid yaar.

ps: My worst disappointment with this movie is the fact that AK has written dialogue for it. It's disappointing stuff AK. You certainly can do much better than this.