Published on May 31, 2007
in India.
I was actually not supposed to be posting this, I had been writing another post but really this is something I had to post. There is a new rule by the Tamil Nadu Government; which makes the wearing of Helmets compulsory for both the rider and the pillion rider. I had been bugging my dad for three-four days to get one before they go out of stock and my dad as usual didn’t even care for what I say. When I came home today and told him that tomorrow is 1st June(when the rule gets into effect) he goes OH!! Then I and my dad went on for search of a helmet.
I should have taken my camera with me, all the stores that sold Helmets were filled with people. Even the ones that are not in the city hub were full of customers and had no Helmets left since many people bought them. My dad I went all the way to T. Nagar(Shopping Heaven Hell). Then we directly went to Satans Pit(Sarvana Stores) there. It seemed they were stocking helmets. The worst part of this tiring exercise of pushing ourselves through the crowd and traffic was that none of the helmets left there fit my head(I have a really big head) and we couldn’t buy a smaller one. It took me around 30 minutes to get past the whole bunch of people standing next to the place they had the helmets. When I at last got out of it, my dad wasn’t convinced that they didnt have bigger ones and stood there till I dragged him out of there.
It was really a pain to get back home as the traffic was killing. So in the end we wasted around 2 hours(7:30 pm to 9:30 pm IST) and came home with nothing. So this means my dad will have to take his car out even when only one other person has to travel with him, waste of Petrol.
The worst thing is that from tomorrow onwards the prices of helmets will reach sky high. These people will just hoard it and try to extract more money from people. Anyways next time I go Helmet hunting I am taking camera with me.
Published on May 22, 2007
in Movie.
As it has been quite a while since the movie has released writing a review would be totally worthless. So I thought why not just write whatever I felt about the movie than making it into a review. I saw Spiderman 3 on last Friday as I was not able to score tickets for the movie for Saturday and Sunday before that.
Continue reading ‘I Watched Spiderman 3′
Published on May 17, 2007
in India and Web.
That was my reaction when I heard about a networking site bigadda(be gadha=be donkey) but it actually meant big adda(big hangout). I went through the site to see what exactly was it and how good exactly was it. I realised that it was just a spruced up version of DesiMartini.com(whose ads has been making rounds of the TV now-a-days.) It was very much similar to Desimartini even the whole look and feel of the site exactly same except for its login page which reminds me somewhat of Hi5.
I checked out the whole site and it seemed kind of dull. It had around 88 members when I had logged in which obviously might have increased by now. Most I mean most are men looking for women. Then 1/4th profiles out of 88 are of women and out of those 1/4th are active. People there can just add people even without the other person knowing about it. It seems that they had added the feature just sometime back so I hadn’t known about it, it’s now quite similar to orkut in terms of friends requests. There are definitely some bugs in it. The image resizer for profile images and album is not at all good compared to the other sites. They have some kind of minimal blog for every account there which is like the usual ones we see on all networking sites. It even has video feature in it which is quite good for a site that new and which is still in its alpha stages. They definitely have lots to improve in it.
From what I have heard from here and there, it seems that the site is owned by reliance. They really want to put their heads in every other thing that they can think of. I actually wanted to know to which reliance brother does this belong, if my guess is right it should belong to the younger brother Anil Ambani. It would make sense since he is the one who has put his money in most of the internet related activities since he owns the Reliance Telecom. I personally don’t think that this site has any big hope until and unless it goes under a radical change in terms of its design and also in terms of its features. It’s trying to compete with Google’s Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace kind of rivals; it definitely need loads more than what it has now.
Published on May 16, 2007
in India.
The incident that happend in the Maharaja SayajiRao Universirty in Vadodara has definitely made a mark. Art has always been considered free from all kinds of restrictions where all the artists can depict whatever their creative minds can spur. But moral policing on Art is not very welcome.
There were protests by some pro-hindu activists and they even harassed the student whose works were on display there and police arrested that student. I have just one question what were outsiders doing in a Fine Arts exam. I mean the students work was not public and even it was just meant for the evaluation by his faculty. There was absolutely no need for any kind of person to interfere with the examination process. MSU shouldn’t have allowed anyone into the Fine Arts exam hall display as it was not meant for public.
Indians have actually forgotten what it means to be civilised. There was no need for the protesters to vandalise the paintings. These people who vandalised those painting don’t actually know how difficult and time consuming art-work is; they didn’t have the civilised mind frame to first report it to the college authorities and have it removed rather than destroying them.
I understand that sometime people’s religious sentiments are hurt but violence is not the only way to get what one wants. We shouldn’t be eager to make violence our weapon, these things show to the world that we are nothing but a group of religious fanatics.
I am using this post to setup my Technorati Profile for this blog here.
I have at last shifted to a new domain and a new hosting. I bought this domain through Deep’s company Web1.in and the hosting is thanks to my admin Harsh and super admin Surya. I have been thinking about it for a long time and I thought, I should do it so here it is. It took me a hell lot of time to setup all the plugins and stuff but my admin(Harsh) was good enough to answer all my questions and queries. So he help me setup the whole blog here. My main domain karthiksn.com will be used to showcase by weird talent in web-designing as I will be designing my own page there.
I have shifted all my old posts to this place and made sure that they were deleted from the earlier place. I am waiting for the great google god to index this site then i will be a bit more happy. I will be posting here regularly so keep coming to watch.
Published on May 8, 2007
in Misc.
I am a very big comic book fan, be it marvel heroes or DC guys, I always liked all those superhero comics. But when you grow up you like to read things that are better but no one can make read works of literature that is something I will read only when I am like around 50 or something. I came across a mature comic book with a weird title “Y: The Last Man”. I had read a bit of its synopsis from wikipedia and was quite a bit interested in the theme of the book. So I went ahead found the comic to read it.
The comic book’s story revolves around the character named Yorick Brown, who is the last man on earth and that is literally, this happens when one day the whole of the world is wiped out of male mammals including humans and animals. The only males to survive this apocalyptic fate are Yorick Brown and his male capuchin monkey. He has no idea why he and his monkey survived whatever that killed all the males of the world but he will find it out soon.
The story’s theme is one of the most famous male fantasies that is to be the only man on earth, but in the comic they deal with what might really happen if all the men were wiped out. It shows how many woman would be troubled and how many of them would want to become leaders and do all that they couldn’t when they were with men. It shows the chaos that would ensue with the genocide of an entire sex. It’s quite mature and not recommended for kids but adults might find it fun to read. The artwork in this comic is superb and the cover art works is one of the nest I have seen. The writer of this story is definitely a brilliant man. The story is all set to end with its 60th comic as written on wikipedia. I hope the ending of such a story be great too.
You won’t always finding me reviewing comics so this is like one of those once in a blue moon stuff.
