Creatures of Esrevinu

Creatures of Esrevinu;

Life evolves differently in different places, based on the stimulus and survival conditions there. You can imagine different universes (Yes, different universes) as different labs where different projects are going on and different products are built. 

The closest brother to our universe has is called Eservinu, most of our laws of physics still holds good but with minor variations. This week I had an opportunity of going there and witness their life form, thanks a do dear friend of mine **Ragij who resides in Eservinu

It was of course all too much to digest so I kept a narrow eye sight and started off with just observing predominant life form there.

n  Roll –o –Pollo

o   It had never occurred to me, but when I watched roll- o-pollo it was rather very clear.  All our automobiles use wheels to move and they seem to be doing pretty good job. So it is kind of weird that none of our organism uses that for locomotion.

o   So Roll-o-pollo has basically 8 legs, only two of which touch ground at any given time. Legs are fashioned around his body to make him look like a wheel. Surrounded by the legs in the centre he has a body with rather large and freaky looking eyes on both side of his face.

o   Watching him walk is quite fun but watching them run is bound to leave you with a jaw dropping expression every time. They start walking quickly putting one leg on ground after another soon they start picking up speed and then curl on retracing their legs so that now no space is visible between their legs and their height seem to drop from its original 120 cm to about 60 cm then curl up like a sphere and just go around crashing from one place to another.

o   They don’t mind colliding against any obstacle and sometime even seem to be able to climb wall I guess because of their sheer pace with which they run.  Anyway it is all quite intriguing, I have received drinks invitation from one guy next time I visit their planet so maybe I will get to know more about them

n  Eearie : Stay with me here now , Earie’s don’t have any sense of voice they can neither listen nor emit sound. They communicate by emitting some kind of light which coincidentally human eyes can’t see .They emit a light in globe surrounding them for general communication like shouting or point to someone and emit light like laser  (or so I have heard) their entire body is made up of receptors so in a sense entire body is a ear. Interestingly they also consume a kind of light for their meal and emit out waste product in form of dark light which smells, I don’t know why light should smell or maybe it is a gas which you can see either it is weird . I have not been exactly able to see how they look because they are always surrounded by some kind of light which they cannot see. Sometime I lay awake at night and think what if they are just intelligent light , and there is nothing in them.  I tried to touch one of them but fortunately a sharp and poking light hit me on my stomach as a warning, turns out they are so inside the light that if you were to put your hand in them it might just melt.  So in essence, I have only seen random structure of lights moving randomly.

n  Integrator: This interesting thing again has no one single specific shape but I have been given to understand they can take up to 306 different shapes with detachable body parts . They are always detaching and reorganize themselves for one thing or other. It looks like a broken robot trying to repair itself with all combinations and failing again and again.  I have absolutely no idea how it communicates or if at .....oops gotta go guys  Now Ragij wants to see creatures of earth and I am going to falter on questions just like he did when he asks me how do trees talk to each other

**Ragij -- Met him on chees site, apparently he was fascinated with the game and soon one thing let to another ..I will apprise you guys about him soon.Ciao !

Weekend

Jobs –

--Not a review only rants

I am not a big Steve Jobs or apple fan (go Google J ) .  So going into the movie I knew I would like movie that much. But then I had same feeling when I went for Social Network and was completely blown by the movie. However Matt Something is no Aaron Sorkin .  Having already seen Pirates of Silicion Valley I had a fair insight about Jobs’s life. What I was hoping was that Jobs would carry on from where pirates left and walk us through his rise and introduction of iPhone.  Which in a way this movie does so while Pirates end with Bill clouding over Steve, Jobs ends with Steve Jobs in full control.

However, Jobs is not able to stay completely true to depicting Steve completely or being entertaining. I think that is where the movie falls short. It would have had more punch if it revealed little known facts about jobs like firing employees without any notice or severance, asking questions like when you lost your virginity in an interview.

 To movie’s credit it does get many things right, Including the game woz and jobs developed for Atari, His denial and finally acceptance of his daughter. I watched Planes just prior to watching jobs. So I enjoyed it, because planes was kind of a drag.  I would recommend watching Pirates over Jobs.

Inferno

I am a Dan Brown fan so to all those say that he is not a good writer, - I don’t care as long as he is entertaining.

However, even his ardent fans wills admit that his formula was getting little old. Langdon gets a call, meets a pretty, intelligent and accomplished girl, and discovers a secret that involves a secret society of kind (NSA, Illuminati, Priori of Sion, and Vatican City.), girl and Langdon try to escape the bad guys while Langdon throws on interesting factoids around. Then a friend who was helping them turns to be the antagonist.

Fortunately, this time even though the story is similar it does not start like in other books. Often the interesting piece of writing in Brown’s book has to do with history of some particular thing and this time it is Dante (as is evident from the book name) and Botticelli’s map of hell which is intriguing enough to make you want to read Dante’s divine comedy . For me though, it was ######### (well I believe it would be tantamount to spoiler so not mentioning it).

 Verdict:   The Lost Symbol < Inferno << Angel’s and Demons.

Always be Happy ??

People say happiness comes from within, it might be true. But let us look at other side of the coin also.

Imagine you win a lottery of 300 million dollar you will be super happy that moment, that day, next day, next week, next month, and next year but after that you will probably be less happy. It is because no matter what you get in life; your mind will always want to return to state of being at rest or its original position. In essence it is similar to principle of minimum energy.

It is therefore not that easy to always be happy because there is something working actively against it.It doesn't seem to be true for being sad though. You can be sad throughout your life and never be able to come to original state.(Depression )

Another analogy we can take is, when an electron absorbs photon, its energy level increases and electron jumps to higher orbit. But after some time it would release that photon and go back to its original orbit. Similarly we get excited temporarily but come back to our original state soon. 

Again I could not find a parallel for sadness.

So, to people who say you should always be happy. My reply – Nah ..my default state is of melancholy and I think something or other would always bring me there .

As usual, it seems less structured on paper than it did on my mind .But - meh

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It is matter of perception, I can look at my life as 

Without any major deviations or unfortunate incidents/events, I might be able to afford things I like to eat, books that I want to read for quite some time ( exceptions being if I get diabetes or lose my eye or something )  without doing physical labor or necessarily having a very hard life. So all in all it doesn't seem a bad a life to lead

On the other hand, I sometimes have profound sadness that without any major deviations I would never amount to anything, I would be a lowly computer operator /engineer who would become obsolete after few years and would not have achieved anything in my life. I mean if someone asked me what was the greatest thing you ever did, I still might not be able to come up with anything . So it doesn't seem to be a very good life . Also, I can think I have had best of life already, eating whatever I want ( well not exactly coz am veg ) , drinking whatever I want, ordering pizza whenever I want . I think my life can only go downhill from here ..

So there you have it a good and not so good life to lead. 

Chennai Express

Chennai Express

           I am suffering from bout of depression these days so trying to distract myself by writing something. Unable to figure out what to write, I decided to rant about the movies I saw on weekend

Now I would call this a review except I am more interested in rambling about it randomly rather than making a genuine attempt of reviewing it.

Spoiler Alert

I would mention spoiler alert here, However I feel if you have ever seen any hindi movie you already know the story so need of mentioning the alert.

About the movie:

                I think if you are alive and stay in Hindi speaking part of India then you pretty much know the story and events that happen in movie either by subconsciously deducing it from the trailer or by name or just by gut feeling.

                As for story (for lack of better word L) Its goes like this : Boy meets a girl on train. Girl is being kidnapped or rather brought back to her hometown by her father’s goon. Father obviously wants girl to get married to a political ally (another local don) to increase his power. Girl being in hindi movie had to run away from house. Now that she is being brought back, she figures it is probably best to lie to her dad that she wants to get married to this random stranger she met on train.  On account of language barrier, unavailability of google translator and it being hindi movie, guy gets involved in all mess and before he know he has to fight a guy twice his size to marry a girl whom he doesn't want to . Anyway story goes on likes this for a while till they realize they are nearing movie end time and then decide to fall in love and stay happily for ever.

Movies reminds me of son of sardar, jab we met and may be 100 other movies and ‘2 states’ and ‘Anything for you ma’am’ book it has some not so novel elements from all these literature

Now let’s go to my favorite Q&A session

Q: How is it different from 1000’s of other movies we have seen

A: Well it is not actually, but usually we see guy ending up in closely knit Punjabi family with overprotective father and brothers (a la jab we met, son of sardar ) this time it is closely knit Tamil family with overprotective father and brothers . Just like in son of sardar family is pretty fond of violence .

Q: How does Shahrukh khan perform?

A: His performance is actually quite terrible, in a sense that he does not look his part and always reminds you of him being baadshah of bollywood. But self deprecating humor makes it works. There is some satisfaction in seeing a very, rich successful guy in hapless, helpful and funny situations.

Q:  Deepika ?

A: She plays a tamilian and therefore people going to see her sexy long legs can give it a miss.

Q:  Is it a funny movie?

A: I did laugh couple of times in first half of the movie ( I paid 12$ for it , better try to get as many laughs as possible ). Second half was more of a drag.

Q: Overall, Is it an entertaining movie?

A: Nothing new, but not as bad as recent SRK movies.

Q: Highlight of the movie

A: No mention of USA,London,Europe,Australia.. (Finally something desi J )

 North vs South (Actually it is West vs south of India but whatever) is not something we see daily in hindi movies. It might be nice idea to actually have movies which people throughout the country can identify with; south style fights scenes, bollywood actors and lame humor.

What else ?