Recent Times

As always this blog is dedicated To Mr Parikshit Ram the person whose blog is one place i visit consistently for new topics(along with apro's) more or less because all their posts have a lot of freshness within them , they don't seem dictated.And yet again Parikshit's recent post was superb :) and so impressed was i that i decided what the heck let me write about the current events around me too.
Boozing was a key event recently.Twice i succumbed to its charm once with disastrous results and once it was lots of fun.The first time was when i was out with my team with one of my teamie giving birthday treat.Man that was someday.I did not drink much but most of them were scotch and vodka and almost unadulterated.I think the combination was something that ticked strange things in my mind :) and so eventually with lot of events happening which did not make it a pleasant trip.Before i ramble about my 2nd boozing event let me digress a bit about my work I was doing for few days.
For the first time my PM decided to have a meeting with me.For the uninitiated PM supposedly is the highest hierarchy for a group of related projects in our company.He pointed out that there were some severe modification to be done in the code i wrote , they had changed the directory structure , they decided to introduce multiple threads , they decided to do transaction of the database in one go , and many more.It was utter amount of load and for two days it was incessant work.I did not even go out for my daily routine of playing table tennis or pool.Imagine that!!!! But nevertheless it was great fun and working on some major topics in programming was serious fun.
So that went till saturday when we were supposed to meet at satra's house for a get together for old time' sake.Imagine the fun when satra , deep , me , indra , nishant , pathak all come together.
As expected it was great fun as we kept on pestering satra on and on about his latest love interest . We also made potty call up from usa , called pushkal and prasoon and kept talking nonsense with them.Basically in one way or other the whole wing was there (as i mentioned in one of my post a bunch of moronic people who somehow were together).Amongst the major topic;s were satro,s interesting love affairs.And from that it floated to the huge success prasoon and deep have when it comes to that topic(not exactly love affairs though ).
Now that it comes to all that I must mention a secret.When it comes to girls Iam excruciatingly shy .But then may be thats what girls like about me :).And hence I feel really strange when people call me love guru or womanizer , coz iam neither :).
But then there were some more hilarious moments in the whole night.All things aside it was my first alomost niteout(slept at 4 i think) after kgp times .So it has really been a heck of a time these few days.

Movie bug

Watching movies....sitting in front of something for 2 hrs.Pretty boring if u had asked me 5 years ago.But then Kgp life is special .It teaches u a lot......and one major things i learn t was some movies r downright brilliant ...they r reflections and presentation of great ideas.And that inspires me write this blog...a description of my top 16 movies(16 coz of all the great movies these are which i can watch and watch again)..Of course there will be several movies in the same rank (was real confused :)) )

Rank 16 : Blade Runner - Always big fan of cinematography and presentation.Blade Runner excels in both.And it has that underlying theme of human future and his unsuccessful try to be god.That is indeed something to ponder about. Dialogs are deep ....and it even masks the over simplicity of plot ....but never mind its an amazing amazing movie

Rank 15 : Monty python and the Holy grail - Never knew comedy could be so fun.But this is one movie that incorporates all kinds of comedy and does it with scintillating brilliance from the absurd comedy to the sarcasm to all the underlying references of the society.It is a movie where I couldn't stop my laughter...

Rank 14 : Donnie Darko - No question about it .Its a masterpiece. Combining sci-fi with philosophy is no mean thing.And the acting is outstanding.Add to the fact the whole concept is itself so mind blowing.

Rank 13 : The seven Samurai : I'm no movie critic but i felt that this movie is a perfect one.It really teaches how to make a movie perfectly.Somehow as i watched the movie the silent swordsman among the seven became my favorite especially when he sacrifices his life.I haven't seen a movie with a better plot ..thats for sure..

rank 6 : Of course a big jump 13 to 6 ..That owing to the fact that there are several movies in the same slot each belonging to a different genre and i really could not decide...

Shaw shank Redemption : The movie is full of unquestionable win material and the catch phrase about hope is outstanding.That for was the highlight of the movie,human triumph over all odds is really what many people need when they r in despair and this movie depicts that handsomely.

To kill a mocking bird : Well concepts aside the innocence of the kids when the adults kept on babbling about the case was what makes me rate this movie so so high.It was an experience to watch this masterpiece.

Wild strawberries : Another of bergman's philosophical movie but this time with It dealt with the mystery called life.The sweetness of the movie really blew me away

Spirited Away : Really Miyazaki outshone himself with this masterpiece thats all i can say . So many brilliant themes are dealt in it but with so much simplicity that the movie made me watch all miyazaki movies.

Mononoke Hime : And that brought me to this one.Somehow i can never forget the music and cinematography .It is really outstanding.

And then the salutation to Kubric

2001 a space oddesey : Really what a movie .... The whole philosophy behind it is outstanding .The deep hidden meaning for each and every scene .My god the movie blew me away.

A clock work Orange : Wow one of my favorite topics...Evil ...This movie goes in depth of what is evil And it really answered some brilliant questions.

Rank 2 :
Sin City - Its as if God made this movie.The movie is another name for brilliance if u ask me :)
the narration was actually a high factor for it being so good ...but the acting , the dialogue the cinematography ....It was really a treat to watch this marvelous movie

Pulp Fiction - I would say this is a movie that added a new genre of movies that i could watch..And that is Pulp Fiction genre :).It was so so amazing

Good Bad And ugly : Ohh the music and the final scene it self is good enough to take this movies to spot number 2 as far as iam concerned.The whole beauty of the movie is its simplicity of plot and yet the story keeping us rivetted to the plot.And the acting ...By all means the three stars were outstanding.

Pan's Labyrinth : I heard this one got 20 mins ovation in cannes. But then it deserved it.Fantasy with reality Is some acheivement.But the theme was what made this movie special ....Innocence has a Power evil cannot imagine ...truely thats what the movie was all about...

RanK 1 : Anybody who knows me will easily guess this one . Its LOTR - lord of the rings...and i just included all three of them here :)...But really what a movie ...The whole thing kept me Stunned.And really it was genuinely saddening to know there would be no fourth part :)


And those are the movies that really touched me ....and inspired me .....this is really not a review ...but really a tribute to all the kgp times i spent watching these movies....(actually i was watching one eps of southpark - Imagination land part 3...where kyle says imaginary character like popeye harry potter make more impact on us that many real people...I think the same goes for movies ...and that is my inspiration for this blog :) )..