Superman Returns - Brandon Routh / Hrithik Roshan

So my favorite movie Superman Returns...

With Brandon Routh, who resembles Christopher Reeve remarkably.

Although I think Hrithik Roshan will make a better Superman. At least that's what I would have done had I owned WB.

"O Podu" ... Section 49 ‘O’ of the Election rules 1961

“O Podu” is a social awareness movement.


“O PODU’ means “cast the vote”. Voting is both the right and duty of the people. Another objective of our movement is to make people aware of their constitutional right to cast their vote under section 49 ‘O’.

It is a unique feature of our Indian constitution that it has provided the legal right to the voter to reject all the candidates. Section 49 ‘O’ of the Election rules 1961, has empowered the voter with this right. This section has conferred the right to the voter to inform the booth officer, after the indelible ink mark has been marked, that the voter does not want to vote for any of the candidates. The section requires the booth officer to record the voter’s choice of 49 ‘O’.

http://www.keetru.com/ohpodu/english.html

THE CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS RULES, 1961

God and Science

I thought this was interesting (even though I don't agree with either of them 100%). Nevertheless , I learned something from it.

I wonder...

Scientists question paranormal behaviors saying that until unless they can be observed, measured and repeated, it cannot be accepted and therefore it is not True.

Scientists speak in support of Darwins Evolution theory.

Shouldn't they wait, until they observe the evolution of one species to another, measure and repeat it ?

What the Bleep Do We Know?

Last night Dixita and I watched the movie/documentary 'What the Bleep Do We Know?'.

I heard a lot about this movie and the hype around it.
Finally got to watch it last night. It was a good movie. But it was over-hyped in my opinion.
It was good in the sense there were lot of things that I was able to understand and learn. But there were many gray areas with inadequate explanation.

I think anyone who is interested in spirituality, quantum physics, or have questions like 'Who are we?', 'Who is God?' et cetera, should watch this movie.

Holy Cow!

Digits that we recognize as "arabic" were brought to Earth by our teachers from Thiaoouba...

This is kinda spooky!

Google Pages

Alright, today I got an authorization from Google, to use their yet another beta product, "Google Pages".

Right now, google pages, don't offer much. It's very primitive. Let's see where it goes from here.

http://vimaln.googlepages.com/

Parallel parking

Do you find it tough to parallel park(like me hehe)?

Well, this is how you do it.

The picture on the left is nuclear reactor dome. A potential place where nuclear weapons are made.

The picture on the right is siva lingam. A symbol of Lord Siva, the God of Destruction.

Anyway, I just learned about 'Diminished Value'.

Our ancestors?

Looks like the theory of meteors carrying seeds of life, as mentioned in one of my earlier blogs, dated April 25, 2005, might win. Read this , dated March 5, 2006 and be amazed.

Did nothing significant this weekend. Just posted some blogs in my Touring Talkies and SHRL

Hey hey, Sivaji Stills have started to come out.

What can happen on the eighth of this month, that can be a precursor to a change or change a lot of things happening around the world?

They did not know what to do. They were losing power and time was running out. They had to do something to establish their supremacy and bring things under their control. They needed something, which was radical, and was already a proven success.

My one liner(Hollywooders) or பண்ச் டயலாக்(கோலிஉட்டர்)

பணம் சேர்த்தா இந்த ஜென்மத்துக்கு தான் பயன்படும்.
புண்ணியம் சேர்த்தா அடுத்த ஜென்மத்துக்கும் பயன்படும்.

This mystery has been baffling me for a long time, I decided to create a new blog on this.

http://naadi-jothidam.blogspot.com/

Kushboo summoned in case relating to rape, murder of child

http://news.webindia123.com/

"The case against Kushboo pertained to suppression of facts with regard to the alleged molestation and killing of the girl in a five star hotel last year.

The incident allegedly occurred during a party in a five-star hotel and the parents and hotel management had hushed up the issue.

It came to light when Kushboo reportedly mentioned the incident in an interview last year, saying that it still haunted her."

Allright, now Kushboo has had seen a crime against a girl and did not report it.
So much for 'Women Empowerment'!

'Survival of the fittest'.

I think it's actually 'Survival of the smartest'

weekend-2 movies-priyasaki, oru naal oru kanavu
visit downtown christmas lighting
relaxing

And it continues...

http://o3.indiatimes.com/amjadkmaruf

India and development

This is my first blog on India, after visiting it after two and a half years.

My first take, whoever said India is developed or developing fast, Iam gonna kick him.

India is nowhere near a developed nation and still not a developing nation. India is more like a under-developed country.

Iam not bashing India, but Iam just talking ground reality here.

Just because every Tom, Dick and Harry has a cell phone, doesn't make a country a developed/developing country.
Just because a few individuals in a couple of sectors(read IT & BPO) make lot of money, doesn't make a country a developed/developing country.

The above 2 are the major things that has happened in India. Maybe a few restaurants here and there.

These things don't make a country developed.

Then what does?

Only when the society and the infrastructure is developed, a country can be called developed.

I did not see the above in India, or should I say at least in Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode, Mettur and Podanur(basically the places I visited).

I went to Melmaruvathur temple from Chennai. It's a toll road. That road (I heard that it goes just few kilometers after Melmaruvathur) is really awesome. It's almost as good as any good highway in Europe and US. What was amazing was, I saw women folks cleaning the highway sweeping the dirt in many places. This is really a good sight. One, it gives employment opportunities to many, particularly women, and two, the highways are clean.
Whoever visualized, conceptualized and executed this project, "Thanks. Excellent job".

But the road after that, huh.
I couldn't get a train ticket and I ended up travelling in KPN bus from Chennai to Coimbatore. Oh what a nightmare ride. The roads were so pathetic. Many places it looked like a 'Otthai adi paathai'. Full of pot holes and bumps. It took me 2 days to recover from the neck, shoulder and back pain.

The bus got flat tire twice. I was late to coimbatore by 4 hours.
The second flat tire, those guys didn't have a spare and we had to take the bus to a tire shop and got the tire fixed.

Almost all the places were very dirty, with garbage scattered all over the places. I believe this is one more reason why the rain waters did not drain properly, as the drainage were all clogged with garbage. Had it been clean, the waters must have drained fast.

Again, Iam not bashing India that its dirty. All Iam saying is, if we want to becomed a developed nation, these are the things that we have to be fixing.

Tourists from other parts of the world love to visit India. One of the major complains that they have is the lack of clean surroundings.

Every individual has to be part of this. What's the point when a software engineer, making 2 lakhs a month and driving a Ford, dumps garbage in streets and public places?

Traffic and following road signs and stop lights....ya...our cities will ask "Are you kidding?"
Need not say more.

I think people are making more money, their standard of living has improved but they seem to be selfish. The attitude seems to be "I don't care" when it comes to doing something back to the society.

With the population exploding due to rapid urbanization, until unless the people also become responsible and follow rules and regulations, the government really can't do much.

Until unless we get the attitude that this is the place where we live, and we have to take care of it, it's going to be tough.