Of Ronins and Identities

Soon after the aptitude thingy was done, I came home and slept it off.Then I started out to KR's house by 8 at night.Other demons such as Ananth, Shivi and Spang also enjoined at KR's and we saw two movies : Ronin and Identity.

Ronin:

Ronin was a total action packed, all business and this-guy-betraying-that-guy kind of movie.The movie starts off in France, where Sam joins with a group of unknown people, for completing the task of getting a metal case from someone.The group which Sam joins consists of Vincent, Dierdre, Gregor and Spence.All of them are independently chosen and sent for the operation except that they conglomerate at a place in France and get to know each other just before the operation.Their first operation however, is to get a bag of guns from some party, which they pull off successfully after some sharp shooting and cool driving.They get the information through Dierdre( FYI:a woman) for this deal and the next operation of retrieving that mysterious steel case from some stupid villain.Sam's way of going about the whole operation is what is the most interesting.He has a charm and grace about him and the way in which he does those manouvres, to prove his mettle and gain others' confidence.

After meticulous planning, they pull off the operation successfully.Just then one of their own, Gregor deceives them of the case and tries to make the bucks by working the deal directly with the Russian Mikhi, himself. We'll leave it here and its for you to find out more about the movie by watching it, for I don't want to spoil it for ya.



Robert De Niro as Sam amazes on screen with his acting.In Tamil I'd say "weightttu" for that role of his.Jean Reno as Vincent is also pretty impressive.Then there is Natascha McElhone playing Dierdre who is a babe, but her babe-ish potentials haven't been put to use on screen.But still the average viewer is able to realize that she can sizzle and has great potential for out-of-the-pool roles and other such roles.Stellan Skarsgard as Gregor and Sean Bean as Spence play their parts well enough to merit a mention.The movie is famous for its car-chase sequence which keeps you on the edge of your seats.Its beautiful choreographed through the narrow streets and tunnels of Paris.The director John Frankenheimer being a former racing driver has specialised in the car chase scenes, and has shot them with maximum authenticity.The term 'Ronin' however, is a reference to the masterless samurais who were active during the feudal period.They commited hara-kiri(or disembowelment), which in this movie is referred to a Seppuku or ritual suicide.Though no one comits suicide, the title is intended to denote the masterless agents in this movie.

Identity:



The next movie has an intriguing title.The movie simply is to be seen at night 2:30 (morning actually), obviously without lights, room closed, and if possible with a generally spooky friend.This movie if seen alone, might cause you to piss down your pants or aggravate hidden psychic instincts.I won't tell you anything at all about the movie here.You have to see it, get intrigued, rewind see scenes, scratch your head, rewind, scratch, rewind, scratch, realize and immediately run to the toilet to piss.If you're living alone there are chances the next victim might be you, as in the movie one by one of the victims get killed.Hehe, enticing ain't it? Well see for yourself with the above guidelines followed without fail.
PS:Watch out for Amanda Peet(decent woman in photo).Whoa!!

Attitude not aptitude determines an aptitude test!

Yesterday the NIIT conducted their 2nd National IT Aptitude Test.Guess what, it was a total farce and the whole aptitude test was conducted in a sloppy manner.The venue : Loyola College
Time : 10:00 a.m.As usual I was up early by around 9:30 a.m. and reached Loyola by 10 a.m. at the dot.I was fearing the aptitude test might have started and that I might be running in late.But as Chennai is the Late City, so being the attitude of every Chennaiite, NIIT guys too found it easy adopting that attitude.

The test was conducted at Bertram Hall in the campus and since I had been there previously for another test I knew the place well and guided two other victims of the test to that place.There they made me change positions more than Pamela would do for her photoshoot.All in all a whopping 45 or 50 had turned up for the test.The way things were going I knew it was totally dopey.The only respite from the heat was a chick dressed in dark green salwar with those half-arms.She beloged to the clan of NIIT dumbos.Man she sure was dumb; to be proved with instances later.So these guys had their formal introduction start after grouping everyone to one side of the hall, on the pretext of providing good auditory experience.Bullshit!! The dumb chick started reading out the introduction, and I could hear a dozen farts in the wind.Then they realized the apparent fallacy in their proceedings and tried a better way, the obvious way - mic.The dumb chick started reeling off about how NIIT conducted the 1st test and teh overwhelming response obtained this year.There I was witnessing the overwhelming response with myself a major contributing factor.After sometime she thought it would be nice of her to get off the stage(i.e. long after I thought so).They started distributing the question papers and answer coding sheet and a plain sheet for working and did some 8908 verifications on my hall-ticket, only me!(May be they were suspicious of that heroic look in my photo.Added to that the photo was on the print-out.You're asking WTF is a print-out doing there? Dude thats the hall ticket.Control!!)And then we started writing or rather shading into those circles as and how we each wished.

Now this question paper was sure dopey, for it had some 3890 identifiable flaws.As and when they would identify a flaw, they would send the dumb chick to announce over the mic and she would politely ask us to correct it.For instance:

Dumb chick: Attention, there is a mistake in page 3 in question no.12.

Now when you'd say question no.12 in page 3, everybody has the sense to look into question no.12 in page 3.Allright? But look what the chick does.

Dumb Chick:A train starts at 1:20 p.m. at Delhi and ends its journey at 4:30 p.m. at Surat.Another train starts at 5:20 p.m. at Jalandhar and ends its journey at 9:00 p.m. at Delhi.What is the ratio of speeds of the two trains?.....Okay?.....A train starts at 1:20 p.m. at Delhi and ends its journey at 4:30 p.m. at Surat.Another train starts at 5:20 p.m. at Jalandhar and ends its journey at 9:00 p.m. at Delhi.What is the ratio of speeds of the two trains?.....Okay?....Here please cut Surat, its not Surat its Jalandhar.

She was trained at NIIT to repeat questions twice.Poor girl.Insatnce number 25:

Dumb Chick:Attention there is a mistake in question no. 45 in page 7.

We still somehow have the physical tenacity to turn to page 7 and look at question no.45 and read it.But our dumb chick sticks to her basics and delivers the goods:

Dumb Chick:(can't remember any question so..) I am a girl who is supposed to be working for NIIT and I am trained to compere this farce and I am trying my best to attract the attention of all you males by wearing a sleeveless salwar in dark yellow colour.What is my purpose here?...Okay?....I am a girl who is supposed to be working for NIIT and I am trained to compere this farce and I am trying my best to attract the attention of all you males by wearing a sleeveless salwar in dark yellow colour.What is my purpose here?...Okay?....Here please the colour is not yellow, its green.

So once again we rectify the mistake and proceed.I try hard to concentrate and do the problems, but this chick would just then come up with a mistake, much for the delight of my eyes but least for my nerves.Then there is this guy who promptly says "Time up".WTF dude, you've messsed up with your question paper and now its fuckin time up for you ehh?? So I tried and explained him the restraint of time with the intent found in the previous sentence and he gave me some time.

So after completing the "2nd National IT Aptitude(or attitude, still wondering) Test" I came out and had a nice hot soup and a cold coffee at Loyola's famous coffee shop in the campus.I don't quite know whats the name of the shop for its filled with lines like "The Fresh Coffee..." or something such.Testing times these are, really!!

PS: During the introductory speech the dumb chick said "....you people are one among the 1.5 lakh students taking the test at over 300 venues..." LOL, she sure doesn't know how many zeros accompany a lakh...Or may be the joke was unintended??!!

Feeling Incredible

A biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggg "Hi" to all of you guys in the blogosphere.Its been quite a long time since I have made a post.I was dying to make posts but a turn of an untoward incident knotted my hands invisibly.But now I am back and it feels great to type out my mind in this space provided.

There have been a lot of changes at Blogspot since I made the last '16 things' post.One significant change is the introduction of the 'Recover post' option for people who feel bugged and feel like they have just listened to a corny joke from me.This option is to enable bloggers to "Re-cover" their post just in case people didn't read them.I was obviously joking and hell, find it out for yourself if you want to know what that option is there for.Another thing that caught my eye was the topic in the 'Blogger News' section about 'Bloggercising'.The news reads as follows:

"Not sure if you knew this already or not but we've got a couple different styles of Blogger tee shirts in the Googlestore. One of them looks like an old gym shirt—good for doing exercising between posts. Highly recommended for active bloggers.
– Biz "

WTF was that news for, is what I don't understand.And the last change is that I was finally able to upload my mirror-cracking pic in blogspot.Alright alright now shut that giggle up.So if you're checking my profile next time at Blogger, beware....Forewarned is forearmed.

So after the enough of gala time that I was having for the past three months, with the much cherished memories of exams and all, I landed at Shivi's house at Adyar yesterday and later shifted to KR's after dinner at Dhabba Express I was dabbling with KR's comp.Our man played some (looney) tunes in his guitar and showed me his new composition.It was good, to be honest.Any new solo that KR has composed has been bearable, not decomposable.Now I don't know how good it really is, cos me is no expert in scales and soloing part of guitar.I just like to listen to the strum of it and the reverberation it produces.So how looney the tune was - I don't know.But I'll stop talking about guitars right away for, otherwise I will want to stick the finger at myself. So we won't take that risk.

Then our man suggested that we watch Godfellas.But I was not in mood for gangsta-movies and so I said no straight away.Then we settled it that we'd watch The Incredibles.Now I thought it might be some corny animation movie.But no, this wasn't like that.It did have the corny theme - Superheroes save the day.But only this movie can make you laugh, if not atleast giggle for the expressions siphoned out of the otherwise inanimate characrters.Man, they were so real.You couldn't find a flaw or a hitch anywhere.Flawless! You can see the shadows, the dust going up when Dash runs in the forest, the frustration in Bob Parr/Mr.Incredible's face, the coyness in Vi's face, the concern in Helen Parr/Elastigirl's face, the naughty-schoolboyishness in Dash's face and the wickedness in Buddy/Syndrome's face, brilliant waterfalls, and oh-so-incredible locations and the unforgettable expressions brought out in Jack-Jack's face.Every detail is THERE baby, and you end up feeling sad at the end of the movie that these guys don't exist for real.I won't tell you the story, cos the movie ought to be seen.The movie, as most animation movies are made was produced by PIXAR, the mother of animation movies.PIXAR, if I remember right, were the first ones to provide a breakthrough in the medical field by developing 3-D aspect of animation, due to which bones and lots of other important stuff could be analysed in the human body.Guess, this is what developed concepts of CT-scan and MRI and such other FART scans.



Just had a ball of a time watching the movie and replayed some parts today morning and enjoyed them with the same animation.This movie is kick-ass-incredible.

After dilly-dallying my start of travel back home for some time, by noon I started off from KR's place and reached home.Man, one heck of a week.Just wanted to post.Feeling incredible.Enjoy & Think!