Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Fact 5



1.    RCB colours are inspired from shakthiman.

This is pretty obvious, they have the same stripes, base colour and Vijay Mallya dresses up very similar  to the mad scientist DR. Jackal (pronounced jackaaalll, This guy used to say “power” at the drop of a hat). Rumour has it that after the middle finger incident, Shakthiman landed next this Kholi fellow and advised him not to do it again. This was followed by a penitent “sorry shakthimaan” from Kholi. It is also said that Gayle is a suryavanshi and in his previous life, meditated with shakthiman’s grampa in the forests of karadunga in Meluha. In time He found Meluha pretty boring and moved to West Indies. In all fairness though,Indomitable that he is, I don’t think Gayle has seen meira kumar smile, KXIP could’ve brought her along with Pretty and they’d be leading the table now.

2.    Meira kumar’s scary

At a time when she’s running for presidential seat, this would seem like paid news. No.... not really..... This woman..... she’s really scary. I’m not exaggerating. I’ve watched her on LS TV.For those of you who have no idea about LS TV; Lok sabha TV is a Doordharshan channel that captures the best reality show in India, the Indian parliament, in its pristine beauty. Anyway, I digress here; I shall proceed to the topic in discussion. Collect various mug shots of her and make a slide show with these in movie maker. Use fade out and fade in options only. Use a suitable soundtrack. A sound track with the wind howling through trees should do. If you still think u have seen better, get those shots where she’s smiling; the ones with her teeth showing. Evil dead will be a tickle after this.

3.    Ghosts are sadistic

They are, they are. Apparently souls with unsatisfied desires become ghosts. They torment people guys and girls alike. If you are a hot babe, the lecherous ghost lets you run around in a bikini while it follows with hands raised (similar to the ones in Scooby doo). Ghosts having low confidence levels come over to kollywood and torment Raghava Lawrence. Ghosts are easily irritated by scooby doo though, it’s analogous to a successful guy listening to someone say “behind every successful man there’s a woman”;there's always a man behind every ghost.
There are some ghosts that seem to have a heart. But no! They are devious . They help a random middle class couple get together; get married. After this the ghosts hang/float around with other dudes with some popcorn and watch as the couple move into an apartment, have problems with apartment associations, apartment kids, their kids, school fees.etc. Insidious I say!  And what is to be said if the female contracts cancer and the guy dies of a heart attack on being informed of it. Diabolic ghosts! 

4.    Jumping is the best solution:

Talking of death, jumping is the best method for suicide. Not jumping from 2nd or 3rd floor,jumping from the skies. Why? I always base it on movie experiences, they reflect our society like no other
     Action: Heroine consumes a lot of sleeping pills to abort a bad marriage
     Result: She is rescued by the hero or is saved by a well wisher after being rushed into the ICU at top speed in a stretcher. The heroine actually likes this part; imagine being pushed through the corridor at top speed..... weeeeeee
     Action: Heroine walks along a railway track to smash into an oncoming train.
     Result: This is a tedious process. You have to keep walking and the train, in most cases, never reaches you though the horn and the lights always seem to be moving towards you. This situation can be best understood by imagining the train to be a lazy cow, just mooing and grazing around the track, taking two steps at a time. Eventually you get really pissed off and u walk back home. If at all a train does come at you, some Random guy will jump in and die before you or save you. Disappointing end, either way.
    Action: Hanging
    Result: This has a pretty good success rate but you do die painfully and stand a chance of becoming a ghoul later.
      
JUMPING!
Take to the skies in a biplane (don’t go too high u might die early due to pressure diff). Jump off at the right height without a chute; perform acrobatic stunts, experience weightlessness, feel the adrenalin rush and finally for the last 100m align your body head first like a homing missile and BAM. You’ve got your death with heights of ecstasy. Brilliant?


   The worst form of dying, as most would agree, would be slipping in your bathroom and banging your head against random things. Sad and nude.

5.    One sings really well in the bathroom:

This thought would have occurred at least once to a bathroom singer. here's "why". 
This is because the acoustics of the bathroom are designed in such a way that the reverberations and resonance produced in the bathroom gives your voice that ethereal, otherworldly feel. You can actually whistle the X files theme and make it sound pretty scary if you have access to a bathroom of the right size. The other thing that aid bathroom singers, especially the ones who find their calling in carnatic music is the temperature of water. If the water is very hot, u can touch high notes with real ease. During winters, you’d have such command over your ghamakhas that you’d think you have just achieved the pinnacle of proficiency . For rock addicts there’s nothing like a hand shower hose to transport one to the screaming stage.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Thor

A heavenly hunk banished from his home lands on earth. He comes across a scientist babe.He's shirtless, She's cute. He likes her, she likes him , they fall in love and live happily separated for the greater good of something that is beyond my comprehension.Just to make things a little more spectacular , random fight sequences are staged with a fire breathing "arch enemy" who might be more at home in an iron man movie.

Throughout this rigmarole there was this nagging question:Why in gods name did a Norse god land up in new Mexico after being banished from Asgard ? why not Chennai marina beach?  Do gods , these days, impressed by "yes we can" send/banish their children to chase the American dream? (the south Indian version can have Thor carrying some qty. of  Bengal gram, rice and mango pickle from Asgard).Anyway,I sat there pondering over this while this guy was jumping about, fighting. Is it because of babes in bikinis? or is it Salma Hayek? Natalie Portman? Megan Fox? inexplicable stuff, this.
Also, while watching Thor, I learnt that Norse mythology is magnanimous.It is very accommodating and embraces everyone. There was a Chinese guy, a negro and a hot brunette among Thor's "Norse" friends.Maybe, In a few years time, the rising Indian strength in the US would show up and Hollywood would have to make way for a few Indians along with the random Chinese and Negros and Latinos that these epic movies need to have; just to represent.

So,Given that most of Hollywood's worldly and otherworldly events are going to take place in America, In the coming years, I expect Charlie's angels to feature a "Laxmi"  along with Lucy.The avengers and the justice league may include an Indian warrior princess in their force and Asgard for some weird reason will have Thor, a negro dude ,a Chinese chum and an Indian dost. To top it all Batman may learn kalaripayattu under some appukuttan in the backwaters of Kerala in the next series.
On the other side, val mickey might script a Ramayana set in Rhode island with scarlet as Sita . Karthik cross with his father Shiva over the "other banana", might land up in Kansas on a Harley Davidson.He might find his girl Vallie (portrayed by Portman) here and fall in love. Mahabharata might have bar fights set to Hans Zimmer.Even If all the adrenalin runs out of our system, we might still get Rom-coms with Ryan Gosling or Gerald Butler romancing Rumbaa or Tilotaaama.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Technical discussions.



As an employee of a technical firm in the core sector, a person faces a lot of challenges, initially. There are many assumptions, thumb rules, screw rules, left hand clockwise rules, counter clock wise rules, codes, guides, provisions, exceptions and  their revisions and finally the previous versions of the same document that ought to be referred before one can come to a conclusion on a given problem . As knowledge is both infinite and relative, everyone has an opinion on a given result. Generally the final output depends hugely on your ability to convince everyone that you are more or less right even though there might be some glitches here and there.


The English used here, as requested by the client, has been suitably modified to authentically represent an office environment.Special care has also been taken NOT to capitalize appropriate words in an effort maintain the tone at an informal level. The hierarchy of these characters are apparent; hence, clarifications are not furnished. This will be attached with the next revision of this post as an appendix if the client insists.


Curtain rises


Enter A, B, PM


Project Manager: the client has asked for a beverage that tastes well. You just prepare some document. Take two days and don’t waste too much time on it. Ok??

A: what beverage??

PM: That’s easy..  You just look up something and prepare some beverage and close the issue.. Don’t take much time. See this is not that important ya... you just prepare some beverage na…

A:  But .. sir…. Ok sir I’ll do it

A solemnly walks back to his seat.

A(soliloquy): What do I prepare?? All I learnt was how to boil water… and that too was not taught properly..

A: Hey B tell me ya what I should do.. this PM has asked me to prepare one beverage within two days

B (looks up from his work): hmmm..  You prepare something na… you follow all the standard procedures and do it..

A: what standard procedures…?

B:those are there in our library, you do one thing, you make tea.. We already have back up calculations for all the ingredients and you can always cross check

A: ok…


Exit A,B, PM



Enter A,B


A is working
B is also working
Both of them are seen checking mails for forwards


A(soliloquy) :I find there are too many varieties of tea. I don’t know what to do man.. i'm too bored now... Let me decide on three roses. It offers Strength, taste and flavour, a factor of safety(FOS) of three.  Even if one of them fails I have the other two for back up.


Enter C


Narrator (in PM’s voice): this C  na?? he’s very strong. Very strong in his fundas . he thinks also like he’s really good. He thinks like there’s some holy light glowing behind his head.


C(from behind A and B): Hey what are you doing re?

B: I’m doing some random work.. we’re not like you sir, you will be doing some high level stuff and all.

C(silently relishing the compliment): No re.. not like that and all… just time passing only… what is he doing?

B: he’s making tea… I think so…

C:tea? Nice..(turns) .How are you boiling it ya?

A: 100 deg. For two minutes

C: two minutes a??  (looks around, rolls his eyes) ok you do it .

A(slightly apprehensive of his procedure): why sir ?? it was written in that book that you have to boil it na… if you add milk you might have to boil it more maybe… but with water, it was written that it would be sufficient

C:with milk you need more time??(all knowing patronizing smile lights up his face)

A:I think so sir….. dunno…

C: ok you proceed

B(turns around and faces him):why sir what is the procedure, batake tho jao

C: ok you first tell me ki why you need to boil water in the first place..

A(enthusiastically): to get the essence out of the tea leaves…(yes!!)

C: why can’t we boil milk directly?? We will still get essence na….

A: but economically…..

C: what economically??

A: but it is quicker with water na??

C: what quicker?? I can make tea in two minutes…

A: dunno sir.. why??

B: but sir this boiling temperature changes with altitude na??

A(impulsively):Arrey! what has this got to do with this??

    Both of them look at A , no, they stare at A

   A shrivels under the gaze

C:Hmmm, A , you first you tell me what is boiling??

A:it is the process… by..

C: no no tell me the concept

A(feeling a little worthless by now):what concept sir?? I just know it is a process of water becoming into water vapour due to transfer of heat energy….. and

C:is it? Ok you tell me this What is entropy of a system??

A: hmm randomness??

C: randomness?? Ok you do one thing, you think about this thing.. I’ll tell you later… anyway, what tea are you using??

A : three roses

C:actually if you want to do it correctly means  we should use Tetly only for this, but then it’s ok, this is small work only na??. Plus you also have factor of safety so it should be alright with this.


Enter D


C: (abruptly gets up and walks towards D) hey sir this masala dosa should not be this spicy, there is something wrong with your assumptions.

D :abee yarr its ok na. Client is happy, plus the fundamentals are right na?? there is masala inside dosa.. that’s is all there is to it, hai ki nahi??

C: that’s correct sir, but there’s a small deviation….


Both exit C & D , their voices fade out, discussing.


A(soliloquy) : oh man they are discussing masal dosa, I’m still stuck with tea…

A: hey B how they are making this masal dosa man??

B: that is all complex yaar, you don’t worry about it now.

A: hey btw this “randomness” answer was correct only no??

B: correct ya.. but he will not approve until you say his answer in his exact words. That thing he keeps changing every time you tell him a correct answer

A: ok tell me what to do now… should I start looking up for Tetly tea??

B hey that is not even required for this … he’ll just keep telling you something . you just make this. This is more than sufficient…

A:ok…


A,B exit



Enter A,PM


A: Sir report.

PM: You’ve made tea?? I asked you to make coffee na?

A: sir you said any beverage…

PM: oh. They had sent a mail two days back stating they wanted coffee …  ok you do one thing you just change it.. it is simple only na… you just change it and give it to me.. we’ll send it by tomorrow morning....
A: ok...