an Innocent Life

well a couple of days back , Orkut launched the application facility. Perhaps this much awaited move was a play to attract back a lot of people who seem to be quitting Orkut for Facebook. i know quite a lot of them who have already done this and some more are mulling abut deleting their Orkut account. I on the other hand am existent on both the networks for the apparent purpose that is networking. for a good bunch of my internet challenged friends, Orkut is the only link that they have to the world wide web. hence the need to retain my account.

one thing Orkut has done is that you dont need to invite more people to join apps u add- a fact that Facebook apps keep poking you with. Everytime you add a new app it asks you to invite a certain number of friends which effectively drains all the enthusiasm that you had. also it would be a nightmare going through the list of 400 odd people. Deleting apps is also easier in Orkut. just go to manage and delete them. The only problem will be that many people will ad all types of apps possible thus slowing down Orkut-the servers are busy missing their donuts. which is why i  have actually decided to clean out my Facebook profile of most of the apps and just keep the basic one up. Coming Soon.

One more thing that i wanted to write about is that there are some pretty crazy things going on out there in the networking /adworld. Advertising of other social networks like Bigadda and Ibibo appears on Orkut and Facebook. some type of ambush marketing?

Also highly irritating is the invite spam that you get when one of your friend joins up with some network or other. you can only get rid of them by signing up for the respective network or putting up a spam filter for those mails.Lucky for me most of those invites are directed to my old nowadays dormant Rediff account.

The war continues…..

i came across this list in The Week and decided to write it as part of my music posts.

The List.

London Tech Music School which has taught some of the members of Top bands held a poll and the list was a result of it. the top 25 apparently but going through it one would find a lot of music and Bands missing while there are apparent favorites in there too.

Some of my favourites arent included like no Santana and no Eric Clapton either. Smoke on the water takes Top honours( a fave) and Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes is the latest band/riff in( i havnt heard the original yet, only covers). Some of my faves like Sweet Child of Mine, Under the Bridge, Highway to hell are in. the list is not something that would make everyone happy.

Perhaps someday i would finally be able to play most of those songs. right now learning the second lead of Hotel California. Heyy! that isnt on the list either!!

there i was channel surfing while having breakfast and decided to check out the local movie channel. there was a hindi movie playing ( just started) which i recognized as “Manorama Six Feet Under” i had wanted to watch it cause i had heard that it was a different type of movie. true, it is a non-mainstream movie. the main protagonist is Satyaveer(Abhay Deol) is a down on his luck junior engineer . he used to be a writer whose first work “Manorama” sold barely 200 copies which was why he lost interest.

the movie opens portaying him in a bored life in a small rajasthani town , married with a kid, from where he sees no escape. one day a woman appears and asks him to play detective akin to his book’s creation “detective Raghu”. Satyaveer is pending enquiry regarding a bribe that he took and hence jumps at the idea of making some money rs 20,000 to be exact. so he takes up the assignment and his life spirals out of control. the woman dies ( murdered , he says) , he gets beaten up by thugs and his marriage gets rocky. what happens after this? how the plot unfolds? watch it

i liked the way the movie was picturised , directed. the dialogues where good although the rajasthani dialect is at times difficult to understand but everything is explained so not much ambiguity is left( there still is some ) The story flows smoothly , is a bit slow at times. It incorporates the nuances of small town life and politics. i loved the detailing.

by the way , it appears that this is a remake of a Hollywood movie “Chinatown” starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Roman Polanski.

Well..there’s a lot of Being Tagged going around and well i got Tagged again by Karthik this time round..this however is a bit different. It just asks you to show the links of the People on the Web who you feel are quite Fun to Know!!!

i was thinking of doing this anyway so now i also got an excuse….so the people who i tag here do have the option of tagging other’s if they feel like it ( coz the last time round there were no takers for it )

Karthik : One of the People who have been an inspiration to me(kinda ) . He had a blog when he joined my class and well at that time i had just been playing around with the idea of setting up one myself at that time. I did set one up in due time and the result is in front of you..Karthik will remain the Guy who keeps me updated with the Latest Tech news and also is quite fun to chat with during all those Boring classes in College!!!! Here’s to all the meaningless as well as meaningful ideas we built along with the rest of the Guys during Classes… Cheers!!! gawd, am gonna miss you next year

Sindhu: This girl is the other one due to whom i started blogging(bumped into her due to me being a bit too curious :P) ) i Find her to be quite fun to be around..talkative is what she is and i dont mind coz people tell im too..a nice person to talk to and chill out with ..she for some reason seems to be always having crazy ideas ..some call her a geek( a lot of people actually ) and she loves Noodles and seems to be really active be it offline or online ..anyways Rock on!!!

Equi(Bhagavathi) : well i call her Equi( for some reason….) , now here’s someone i came across since i found her Blogger name intelligent and then i got kinda hooked onto her writing style..its quite melancholic and introspective. And someone who keeps sending the most interesting retorts to my messages. Some day i guess ill meet her but for now im glad that i came to know her.

Ajan : well this guy is just an awesome dude..i kinda relate a lot with him. Guys who seem to be as crazy as him dont actually read books( intelligent ones ..i mean :P) so thats something unique. Initially he didnt seem to blog very much and then suddenly now he’s writing a lot , a lot..might be something to do with the reason that he’s finally free from VTU!!! he seems to me to be quite a carefree and “where’s the party ??” guy to me..and well this is enough i guess

Adi (Advitiya): well this girl’s blog was one of the first blogs that i had started frequently early on when i started blogging..”harry potter meets Ekta kapoor” is one of my favorite posts of her’s. lately she seem s to be blogging a lot less…a harry potter fan completely!! also likes Johnny Depp!!! she’s one heck of a person and a lovely Blogger !!! me Hopes you ‘ll blog more k

Shruthi : this gurl’s writing is one of the newest of the newer ones that i really love!!!! just love the lucidity(both the posts and poems)!!!! well i find that she’s kinda multi-talented. She seems to be quite sure of what she wants from life. and for now thats all i can say….

Ram: a very versatile guy and i just love his “Rampi says…” . i came across his blog sometime in January when i started using Google reader( now i find it easier to go to the small bunch of blogs) and had subscribed to him and then i kinda forgot about him until last month!!!

Well these are the ones that i can actually write a lot about!! the others i havnt been talking to much ..so until then i wont be able to write much..so Sorry you guys

Thanq!!!

Happy Friendship Day!!!! ÇΗÉÈ®Š

P.S.

1. if you are not happy with this tell me…if you are happy tag others and spread the love.
2. the views expressed are of the author’s itself and he’s not responsible if they seem to resemble the truth or not.
3. thank you for coping with my blog.