World cup semifinals-2007

May be Australia is like the character 'vali', when someone plays against them , half of the opponents power goes to them.What a pathetic match for South Africa,then that's cricket, and unpredictable. But how Australia is maintaining this consistency, extraordinary team work,practice.Anyone in discipline can learn from them, its not a game, its a profession and they are doing there job flawlessly. Can the Lankans beat them....even then, what the heck? They have won all the matches in the world cup, the true champions

Swiss army knife

Today at around 10:00 p.m., the cooler stopped working, analyzing the reason , simple, the wires has come out of the plug(is it the right term, what u call the plastic with two pins , in each we connect one wire).Now I have to open the 'plug' to fix the wire, for that I need a small star screw driver, I had one,but left in chennai two days ago, rightly remembered the all purpose Swiss knife-My cousin,uma, after her trip to from Switzerland gave me one
(doubtfully opened it for the first time).Surprisingly, one knife's side helped me as a screw driver, within minutes the cooler is running!
Swiss knife is handy and great design!

Paruthi veeran- "padaipuu"

Amir can retire-this is what I hv been telling to people after seeing the movie.
This comment is from the fact that, for a creative person, if he has produced one best piece of art, he feels fulfillment. Amir may differ in this, he may have something better(i am eagerly waiting!).
Perseverance, hardwork, creativity...the director has all.
The director has really lived the character, simple things like:
Scene: when the girl falls into the well, the boys shouts for help first time, then the second time-his reaction and dilemma, 'whether to wait' or jump to save, he half finishes the words and jumps.
The mixing of comedy at the critical and serious places(Editor -kudos!)
The comedian is brilliant and natural,
'his comments to the policeman after loosing the money in cards'
Though the songs are not going to be evergreen, they Are merged in to the movie.
There is a sense of vulgarity in speech and picture, but that is natural and appropriate, removing them will give a big dent.
Of course there are some cinematic scenes, like the fight sequence (could hv been better)
The crew: to each one of them this is great team effort and there is lot to learn from the project, one misstep and the commercial aspect would hv been at risk. A well balanced movie of commercialization and art.
This movie will not get an Oscars: but people like Amir don't need one, they already have something more in them.
Climax not suitable for children and soft minded people.

Blogging from train.

Train
Around 5:20 senthil<adecco japan> called, reached
Balhrshah around 5:30,signal is ok.
Reached "vijayawada junction" at 0:05 on 2-3-07.
The whole day was good, finished the book 'java virual machine specification", which I wanted to read for the past 4-5 years.
Break fast,lunch and dinner from pantry, and few Teas- costed Rs.125.
Reached chennai at 7:00 a.m.

Airtel signal

Received this "Airtel welcomes you to MP & CG." at 8:00 am.
But the signal went down , it is 10:00 now, stopped at 'Itarsi', the signal is good.