ITs 3 Am !!

Yes it is..nd im still awake enuf...to write a blog. Dunno frm when this habit of sitting late into night came into me..but it just came..   so now what im doing? well i was downloading the mp3 of the film dev d..nd at dis time it is unlimited download on net.. nd just came to know that results of an entrance exam had been declared..shit!.. they had said everywhere that it would only come out by 9th may nd its here now!.. for good the site's down now...the last thing i need to c before sleep is an EXAM RESULT . yeh there was a splendid real madrid vs barcelona match. It really looked like a sunderland vs barcelona match but.. barcelona all over real's defence. seemed they were enjoying messi's movements! :P... 6 - 2 ....is that a result one normally see's for a match btw championship contenders?? ..nd without casilas' bloody brilliant saves..it could have been 10 - 2..well..barcelona do play devastating football at times..hope dey dont perform like THIS against chelsea.. nd den..,,

kk...leme stop here...going sleepless doesnt do any good ...so lemme hit the pillows right away..

So.. huh!..finally wrote the IIT JEE exams today.. . many consider it the ultimatum of all the xams in the country. It's almost lyk a lottery for life. You crack it , or get cracked . Yes, i too had the dream (..nd still have ) of makin it into iit, but trust me it's hell preparin for it. This yrs paper..in my opinion wuz purely constructed.. The first one wuz quite easy nd most were like cbse sorta questions .. but the 2nd one was quite of a high standard .. I think the thing lackin in this yr's paper wuz the range of the portions asked from.. many marks were concentrated on some partic. topic. But anywayz its IIT JEE nd ur supposed to be expecting the worst! nd talking abt the way i have done it... i wud say i put in a 75 pc effort.. cudve done it a lil bit btr..lyk i made silly errors as i always do. nd im expectin the score to be somewer around 200.. i hope... . anyways the next one AIEEE is my final resort.. It's now do or die situation.. An NIT is the least thing you need to go to for decent engineering studies...or dats wat everybody says.. whatever.. I have to put all my efforts on it.. It's the one last chance now.. so again i ought to do the same old boring thing i have been doing for a dozen of years... STUDY. All this just for my love of cars nd machines.. There's absoutely nothing else which cud inspire me for this. btw. BRAWN GP is seeming pretty dangerous. Hope FERRARI catch up quickly..

Today is the eve of another Christmas, and my last one as a school student. So nothing big about it.
Describing my life these days would be like quite boring to u as well as me, because that's how things are going. Day by day work is keeping on increasing. More worksheets on the table, more portions to complete. Its just a race against time now. And now entrance classes are there almost everyday, atleast 3 hrs. Last week I made a blunder in the AIEEE form by pasting a photo without my name getting imprinted on it, which was supposed to be, and then we had to buy another form from chennai. So 500 rs to gaya. And rather UNFORTUNATELY , I have begun to feel the old hunger to watch movies . I had quite controlled the tendency for a long time. But now its hitting back . I ve already watched 2 this week and dunno for how many more i'm going to waste my time. Its very strange . Really. The determination i had for studies suddenly has gone down in a couple of weeks. Im again feeling very lazy to work any more!. And at a dangerous time too. I know i really cant afford time to slip away now, but once i start with the books, i just keep falling asleep!. I got to do something on this from tomorrow. Really cant let this happen for more time.


AND Then about the Mumbai Terror Attacks, about which i havnt put my thoughts on the blog yet.
3 days. Some 10 terrorists. Capturing one entire city. That too, The financial capital of the nation. In a city of such importance, how could this have possibly happened. I mean, if we cant protect MUMBAI , how the heck can we say the rest of INDIA is safe?
The incident was terribly unfortunate and my deepest condolences to all those who died in the attack , and the martyrs of the NSG, navy , police and other security forces. It was really brave from their part to encounter such heavily armed terrorists.
And what does India do immediately on Pakistan? Put the blame on them. "hey look its you who nurtured these terrorists and caused this damage " . Why dont we just think about the severe lapses in the seccurity of our country first. If the same had happened in the US the FBI would have arrived at the scene in about 10 mins. What happens in India. It takes hours for some well armed forces to reach the spot. And the ones who reached first, THE POLICE could not do anything, why? They had just hand held pistols!. And to fight these Ak 47's with Pistols, what madness is this? The FBI would have had even better equipments. Well the country really needs to wake. For a country with one of the biggest armies in the world, we need to make sure that even the police is given the best possible equipment. And the setting up of a an agency to fight terror at the 1st symptom, is the NEED OF THE HOUR. We cant just go on blaming some one else for this. Terrorism wont stop suddenly if pakistan takes out all the groups there. It is still growing. And what we have to do is to make our nation protected to the core from these inhuman acts. So thinking about security matters over fighting with pakistan. Only the second step is to destroy the terror outfits. For this we have to do research and set up secret intelligence agencies to find out and root out the epicentres of terror.

I'm back again bloggin!!..almost after quite a long period of 10 months or so.. well so much has happened and changed during dis time...and as a student, i've quite turned into my studies bit seriously...well.. it started after i joined the talent sindia coaching centre in vytilla. i developed an interest in studying, thanks to the one nd only nandakumar sir.. and by chance if he sees dis blog im gona get fired very badly!!

So ill be short and to the point....actually dis is d most crunch time of my school life and even my career..i shudnt be bloggin now..but i jus want to write down abt dis situation...which i hopefully wont have to face again..
The first thing is about school...I quite changed a lot during d last 5 -6 months...almost stopped hangin out wid frnds...started listenin in classes... stopped to an extent my usual 11th type fooling around during classes.... but it has given me a lot of satisfaction i shud say... i mean...i dont like being like dis but in dis year and in dis situation..it helps...im now able to put my complete focus on to my studies...dont get much distractions...nd im able to spend more time on it...my rankings in talents have considerably increased...and im doing quite good dere...got in to the intensive batch...nd im terribly wanting a seat into an iit or an nit...jus for d sake of dose nxt 4 yrs..if i get into a gud colg...i can have d best time of my life der..else....oh...
rely i cant hang onto dis kerala any more...i gota go sumwer else...so i rely want an iit or nit seat...nd from wat i heard from evrybody studying in these normally considered "PLACES FOR NERDS " , they are actually not so..they r the best places for njoying the colg life too........

So dats wats hooking me onto entrance coaching....OF COURSE THAT HOOK HAS GOT ME INTO ANOTHER BIG PROBLEM....

Im starting to flunk in school!!!
ivnt flunkd for d last 12 yrs nd im doin it now!!... wat a time...nd dat too in maths...my fav subject!!.. jus cant blieve it..so im in d midst of dat confusion btw skool nd ntrance now...gota sort it out quickly...wait!...my physix exam is next...havnt startd studying!!...
den ill post more things l8r...

PERIOD

Taare Zameen Par...

This is yet another review..of the most wonderful film that I saw this year...a perfect christmas gift for any movie aficionado..Taare Zameen Par...the directorial debut of MY favorite actor Aamir khan.....an absolutely mind blowing movie to watch..it just brings out all the deepest emotions in ur heart..even without u getting to know..Truly saying..this must be the first ever movie during which i actually CRIED...and i thinkanyone else would surely do...some of the scenes are just soo touching...but the magic isthat u wont realise u r getting emotional until those tears roll down..u'll know y i said this...jus check out this film...u wont argue..im sure of that..
The plot is simple though..a normal 9 year old child named ISHAAN..who sees the world throughhis own eyes...and it doesnt consist of any school or any text book or anything else...but his imagination is miles longer than any other child of his age...Suffering from DYSLEXIA..he has severe learning and writing disablities..and no one understands this fault in him..making him just a lazy couch who's just born for failures...
Fed up with frequent complaints from teachers and some threat of him being expelled from his school...ISHAAN's parents have no alternative but to send him to a boarding school...here is where the film actually picks up from an ordinary movie...the boy begins to feel the lackor parental love...his depression takes him too far to be an angry young boy who is not interested into anything in life...till..... a man arrives to change his life and the way the others look at it...forever... Here enters the character of Ram Chandra Nikumbh...a newly appointed art teacher in ISHAAN's school(played by Aamir Khan)...being a dyslexic himself in his childhood...Nikumbh really understands the emotions going inside Ishaan'sinnocent mind...he visits his house one day...and after having talks with his parents...he makes himunderstand why Ishaan is the way he is..and also unearthes an extraordinary talent in this boy...PAINTING...
His pictures are made of imagination that cannot be found in any normal child of his age...They are astonishingly creative and massively deep in emotions... the teacher takes these pictures to the principal of the boarding school...and convinces him abt this superior talent Ishan has...the head seems confused enough but then finally gives nikumbh to give the child a time of six months to pass his 3rd grade...without any intermediate exams or classes...Nikumbh takes this time to make Ishan rediscover himself..understand what he's got in him..and teacheshim language in a disctinctively artistic way...
The end result....Ishan becomes hero from zero...he wins the painting competition held in school forall the students and teachers...with a picture that looks quite BRILLIANT on screen(wonder who drew itactually)..And the scene where this boy slowly comes down the steps to take his prize and cries out to hug his teacher..is an absolute tear dropper...the film ends with Ishan's parents finally coming to know their brilliant childand get surprised by the way he improved his grade in all the subjects...they come to take him back home..getting inside the car...he cudnt hide his love for his art teacher....he runs out frm the car to Aamir...and...that's the final scene...an end to a movie i wudn't regret watching 10 timess.....
The best thing of this film is by..far...the 8 year old ISHAN (played by Darsheel Safary)...all his mannerisms and way of talking...jus takes us bak to those lovely times...and although suffering fromdyslexia....in all his scenes v wud jus love him more n more for his sweeeet behaviour...DARSHEEL HAS JUST DONE A BLINDING JOB!!Morover...AAMIR KHAN has proved his versatility...this is jus an unbelievable debut film from him..no one cud have expected more....
hmm...well....this film may jus put together the brains of all those parents..who just bully their young kids forexcelling in academics....forgetting that life is not about learning things by heart...it is by exploring the world...by opening one's mind to the world of dreams...
AND FOR DYSLEXIA..i THink the film portrays the disorder superbly...it's jus something kids suffer in their early life...it's not at all an indicator of their capabilities...and all those names said in the movie..ALBERT EINSTEIN,ABHISHEK BACHCHAN,THOMAS EDISON....all these are REAL examples of dyslexic people..althougha stupid crowd in the theatre cudn't stop laughing at 'wat they thought were' jus silly lies!
SO dont keep waiting...jus go to d theatre..or get da DVD..or watevr else..jus make sure u dont miss out on this one...and dont hold up ur tears...jus let them go...cuz always listen to wat ur heart says...

MAFIA- the game

Nothing to worry about...,this is just about a PC GAME!!
Okay..those who are interested please go on reading..

EASILY One of the best games i have played till date, playing this game is THRILL at it's peak. REALITY is something that adds that extra bit of interest in any kind of visual entertainment. And with that case, this is ULTIMATE REALITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE at it's very best...
Every minute detail is incredibly realistic.
The story of this game is based in the 1920's and 30's, which was the time of the high rising of the greatest EMPIRE OF CRIME, the MAFIA..

let's check out their brief history taken from wiki

[ The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian and Southern Italian emigration. In America, the Mafia often refers to Italian American organized crime in general, rather than just Sicilian American organized crime. According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory..."

Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of positive attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."

Many Sicilians did not regard these men as criminals but as role models and protectors, given that the state appeared to offer no protection for the poor and weak. As late as the 1950s, the funeral epitaph of the legendary boss of Villalba, Calogero Vizzini, stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love." Here, "mafia" means something like pride, honor, or even social responsibility: an attitude, not an organization. Likewise, in 1925, the former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso, because that word meant honorable, noble, generous.]

This game tells the story of two MAFIA dons of the imaginary city of LOST HEAVEN. The first is DON SALIERI.. a poor man who had to work his way to the top through the hardest difficulties in life...but he is highly regarded with the people for his good deeds to the poor.
The second don is DON MORELLO...a ruthless CRIMINAL who aims at nothing other than to earn money.. ToGETHER..these DONS control almost the whole city

Our HERO..Thomas(a.k.a TOMMY)..enters the scenario as a taxi driver who helps two of SALIERI's men to escape from the hands of enemy gangsters. Unfortunately, he has to pay the price for it one fine day as the gangsters come and demoslish his taxi. Tommy has nowhere to go and ends up in need of help from SALIERI himself. There begins the rise of a fiery mafioso, TOMMY.

As the levels progress, the DON becomes almost like a godfather to TOMMY. He starts to get involved in BIG deals of the DON. SALIERI'S right hand, his Consigliere( advisor ) is FRANK, a european. There exists a MAFIA law called Omertà which implies “the categorical prohibition of cooperation with state authorities or reliance on its services, even when one has been victim of a crime.” FRANK is made to disobey this law under a critical circumstance of kidnapping of his wife and children. TOMMY, on a mission to eliminate this betrayer of OMERTA, feels pity of his family and asks him to escape to a remote location somewhere in europe.

THE GAME CONTINUES with high thrill...as many more dangerous missions come to TOMMY's hands.
And to the SALIERI's orders, TOMMY even takes care of the killing of DON MORELLO. This awakes a sense of high self esteem in TOMMY for his strength. He and his friend PAULIE make a plan to rob SALIERI's bank! The plans do become reality.

But what follows is the worst part. PAULIE is killed in his own apartment. Then SAM, pretending to protect TOMMY from SALIERI's men, asks him to come to an art gallery. But actually, it had been SAM who had killed PAULIE on the DON's orders and had purposely TRAPPED Tommy.
There begins the final mission of the game, which is a bloody hairy shootout. The final one on one encouter with SAM is the toughest part of the game.

Finishing this, the epilogue of the story starts. TOMMY, after wasting out SAM, immediately flies off. He then goes to the court and starts a case against SALIERI with the help of a lawyer. TOMMY wins the case. SALIERI and his men are put under the bars. TOMMY himself settles into a new life somewhere in SOUTHERN USA. In the last cut scene, TOMMY is visited by two men who with shotguns. THEY JUST SAY ,"Mr.SALIERI has sent you his regards" and SHOOOOTTTTT........................

THERE LIES A HEAVILY BLEEDING TOMMY IN THE GARDEN.....

END of the game, one which truly wouldn't disappoint you.

ORDINARY ROUTINE

wake up at 9, breakfast at 11 30 or 12, lunch at 4!, dinner (timed better) at 9 30, nd finally back to bed the first hour of the next day.

SEEMS WEIRD? well in that case u can call me a weird person cuz this is exactly what i do everyday!...but of course..SADLY... I can't have these LUXURIES once the school reopens again..

I have always felt very proud to confess that SLEEPING is one of my favourite things to do. And with the prediction of the meteorology department that monsoon would start by the final week of may 'UNBELIEVABLY' coming true.. I just thrive to sleep as long as possilble. After those SLEEPLESS, SCORCHING summer nights wen i used to think as far as stripping myself to get atleast some coolness!!(even that wouldn't have worked I feel), the heavenly feeling of escaping under that bed sheet which i use to conceal myself from the world altogether, those dreams which I completely forget the next day morning( I have tried soo much to figure out just 'WHAT DID I DREAM LAST NIGHT??',and i end up without getting even a tiny hint )
Okay then on to what happens after those dreams..



But post-sleep activities are not much better...sometimes i may go again and take a nap at the front room DIVAN!...with a blunt xcuse that i wuz just lying down for a little while..hmm so this is my ORDINARY ROUTINE you shall say..but if I continue to explain further I'm sure u r not goin to bear this for long.

SO let me chalk out something better...
Well..there is this website called ORKUT that is driving teens crazy these days( even i am a GUILTY victim of this). It happened one day that i saw this SERIOUSLY strange JAPANESE man with a friend request for me!!..really i wuz taken aback for 1 sec..MY FAME HAD REACHED EVEN JAPAN??
okay so i let the poor guy have me as a friend, and suddenly he started sending SCRAPS to me!!....and to worsen the scenario...ALL IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE!! Then i thought, if MR.JAPAN(his name is a real tongue twister) is soo much obsessed with using japanese.. then why don't I offer my respect to my own language, MALAYALAM..and so i did...replied him back with a few difficult words like 'KSHEMANWESHANANGAL'(well wishes), 'PRAKRITIDHATTAM'(by nature), 'SAMAKAALIKASAMOOHAVICHAARANGAL'(social thoughts)( dat tym i wuz quite gud at malayalam, esp due to board studies) nd all..ehh..poor guy...

Anyways..that was the end of my contact with MR.JAPAN..havn't heard anything from him after that

SO another hour is spend daily on CHATTING..which is quite a gud time pass if it's with my school friends..nd another 1 or 2 hours would be spend on pc games..

Listening to music is one of my favorite hobbies..so another 1 or 2 hours would be spend for that...

Aannd..not to forget the IDIOT BOX..which is my favourite companion...
The speed at which i surf between the channels is really blinding..that someone sitting beside me would think i have gone nuts!..but THAT is my xperience with the thing..i know xactly wer a watchable channel would come..i can even make what kind of show is going on from a split-second image!

Among other things..hmm...nothin much more..just somehow manage to keep wasting time...going out with friends, riding on the scooter for a while, going to the dvd shop to catch some cool new PIRATED movies,.... DAYS JUST GO ON AND ON LIKE THIS........