Saturday, February 28, 2009

Aalst Carnival- Spectacular and Colorful

Aalst Carnival- Spectacular and Colorful It was on 22nd of Feb and when i reached the station, I can already hear and see the sound and sight of big wagons with lot of Dolls, Men in different costumes. The whole city is geared up. The organisation of this Carnival is - There are around 70 wagons or groups which will start in one place and as a procession pass through different streets. The crowd will be on the side roads, enjoying and cheering. It was rich and i can see lot of practice has gone into this making. Each wagon or groups were organised around a theme, there were many themes about Fortis bank, there were themes about fire squads, scouts and there were 2 or 3 themes from India- Bollywood, Hare Rama and Kamasutra. There were Interesting themes like restaurants,market. There were themes in which a bar tender will be serving beer. Brilliant, colorful and well organised. Some of the wagons were huge and large mechanisms, with people in swings, this is as if they were moving a small giant wheel or swinging machines. As the day becomes to fade, they came with full of lights in the wagons and also in their dresses. When the last wagon passed me and as I start waking towards the Station, I already saw men and machine started cleaning the place.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Movie - Technocalyps

Last Week I saw this Movie -Technocalyps. It deals with how technology is going to change our life's, more.. change us as human beings it self's. It talks about the genome project,AI and the space research which is converging and going to bring something dramatically different. And more they predict this to happen by 2030 to 2040. Will the Homo sapiens become extinct? Human beings will evolve into something better than them(why should evolution stop at humans?) If we are half human and Half machine, who are we?

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Federer and Nadal

Australian Open final they meet again.Federer is going for his 14th Grand slam title and he is playing the best opponent in the World. In the first Set after a break it looked like Fed had a upper hand, but as always Nadal comes back breaking again and takes the Set. Federer equals by taking the second one. They are equally poised at 5-5, and dues... two official reviews first favouring Nadal and then Fed. Ad - Nadal and the a cross court, dues.. wow! What a match this , as always , each point is a title point, and they gives thier best. Does the result matters! Both are winners here.