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Canon Lide 100

2009-09-26T12:44:00.000-07:00

Got a canon lide 100 scanner finally. Started scanning old photos. Should have bought it earlier, too many photos. I doubt I will be able to finish scanning all old photos in the few remaining vacation days.

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Vacation begins

2009-09-10T10:30:00.001-07:00

Long overdue annual vacation finally begins today.

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iPod Touch

2009-09-04T22:38:00.001-07:00

iPod Touch.

Simply the best piece of hardware available currently. It's a pc/mac in your pocket.
From listening to music to doing almost everything else you can do on your pc/mac, it's the ultimate mobile device for those without an iPhone.

A gun is only as useful as the number of bullets you carry in it.
An iPod is fully utilized only with the proper apps you load onto it. Most people do not know how to fully utilise an ipod touch.
The apple app store gives an amazing array of software that let's you utilize your iPod touch to the max.
In subseqent posts I will review and suggest apps that you should have on your iPod touch.

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VOIP

2009-09-03T13:15:00.001-07:00

Voip is cool.

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Blogpress software

2009-08-22T13:49:00.000-07:00

Bought the blog press app from iTunes store today. Lemme see how much I'm gonna use this app.

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Shadow Walker

2009-07-06T23:29:00.000-07:00

One who walks the line between light and dark, with no ties to either side. With no morals or emotions clouding their judgment, a Shadow Walker is able to accomplish tasks and solve problems in the most efficient and logical way.

A long break later...

2009-07-06T08:59:00.001-07:00

After a long long time... I finally return to my blog. Though not an avid blogger myself, i do wish that i could post blogs more often. However i feel that somehow blogs have lost their charm and people prefer social networks like orkut, facebook, myspace etc...
Anyways, here's hoping that i will be posting blogs more often (interesting ones i mean)

Grafitto - 10 October 2007

2007-10-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

Today is yesterday's tomorrow.

Use Morange

2007-09-29T02:32:00.000-07:00

Hey! I have been using this neat little software on my mobile... called Morange. Its pretty cool. Let me tell u a little bit about the software...
MORANGE is a mobile application software that works on most Java phones. Like installing an operating system on an computer, with it suddenly you are empowered with more features on your mobile device which are beyond your imagination. For example, push email, remote desktop access, push RSS, instant messaging etc - MORANGE combines the world's finest and first-ever intergrated mobile experience in just one application.
For more detailed information on all the things that Morange can do..
visit... http://www.morange.com/morange/whatisMORANGE.html

Morange

2007-09-29T02:31:00.000-07:00

The Angrez... [movie]

2006-11-29T00:58:00.000-08:00

The Angrez...

The old city awakens to its morning trade - Ismail bhai and his gang start the day at the local chai shop. The air is legit with gossip, babble and rigmaroles of bravery. For people for whom vests aren't just underwear, and being Dubai returned is the height of ambition, life is a treat to be savored - along with free chai and Osmania Biscuit.

Sridhar Rao's The Angrez takes you on a soiree through the glittering gallis of Lad Bazaar, Chudi Bazaar, Afzalgunj and Madina, and jiffs you across the elite Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills and everything that's hi-tech. For here, the very old meets the very new, and you get plenty of reason to fall in love with the city all over again.

The Angrez is about the very local flavor, the one that resides on the right side of the Charminar. It also dabbles with the other side of the Hyderabadi mirror, where there are people who slog their life in tiny cubicles so that they can rev up their lifestyles - that 1/100th of their time that they spend out of office. Then there are The Angrez, who draw to the city like moths - and burn their fingers.

Rochak (Ganesh Venkatraman) and Pranay (Kuntaa Nikkil) are freshly returned NRIs who are testing Hyderabadi waters for resettlement, as well as for eligible wives. They find a receptive host in cousin Ramesh, and an equally accommodating friend in Prasad, whose office they join for getting a lowdown on the city's biz.

In the city, the NRIs are hot - as potential husband material, as ransom exchange policy, or as plain bakras. Life for Pranay and Rochak was just spicing up, with cool Hyderabadi chhokris, patent biryani, and sizzling pub-life putting a skip in their gait.

Their Hyderabadi sojourn is a new learning all along. Pranay and Rochak encounter paradoxes in most mundane of experiences - the acclaimed mirchi ka saalan sets their palate on fire, mini-skirt clad girls tow their parents' line in matters of love, and relatives hobnob with gangsters for a piece of their NRI wallets.

While these two friends were chalking out itineraries to make-out with the city's chicks, cousin Ramesh was colluding with Mama, the typical master of the Hyderabadi underbelly, for their kidnapping for ransom. Mama and his goondas take the assignment as a Bonalu prasadam, and the big plan is set in motion.

As if doing 100 sit-ups to appease the gods at Ganesha pooja, and churning out 500 bucks for a plate of biryani was not enough, Pranay and Rochak are caught on the wrong foot, and that too in the old city. Innocuous as they may be, English words sometimes tend to be misinterpreted - especially if the audience is Ismail Bhai's gang of smartypants.

What started as a harmless spat under the Charminar, becomes an issue worth dying for - Ismail Bhai's izzat can only be restored by the angrezaan's head, hair, clothes, shoes, or whatever that can be had with ease. Sniffing out the trail of the culprits, the gang makes a foray, first into their Banjara Hills residence and then at their hi-tech office.

What follows is a hilarious series of incidents - Ismail Bhai and his gang's peekaboo with the angrezaan is an absolute craze. The ensuing fracas with Mama and his gang, and a brush with romance culminate the movie. And the life, the Hyderabadi style, goes on.

Kuntaa Nikkil and Ganesh Venkatraman, as the desi Americans who are trying to return to their roots, are credible if not outright ticklish. The real calorie-burners are Ismail Bhai and his gangsters - with their itra ki botlaan and badle ki baantaan. M Sridhar Rao’s take on living in the city of the nawabs hits right at the bull's eye. His use of Telugu, Urdu and English in a delectable potpourri, adds additional twang to the flick.

But you won't need any language to decipher this one - humor, flavored with nuances of the city, is contagious on its own merit.

Ghazala Rizvi (http://www.fullhyd.com/scripts/profiles.php3?section=MoviesArchives&name=The+Angrez&ID=3383)

2007 Calender

2006-11-29T00:34:00.000-08:00

Click on the calender for a larger version...
This is an English - Arabic calender i designed.

My recent Pics...

2006-11-28T01:32:00.000-08:00

I took these photos myself using a digital cam...

Animation series

2006-02-21T10:35:00.000-08:00

Started work on my animation series today. It so happens, that it is not as easy as i thought it was. Anyways... now that it has begun, im gonna see this thing through. i just hope that it doesn't take took long.

It was disheartening when i read that a team of university students took slightly more than a year to make a 4 .5 minute 2D animated movie. Anyways... i hope to do better than that. But considering the fact that right now im a one man team, this project is gonna take a long time.

Anyways, good luck to me...

The story begins...

2006-01-30T01:34:00.000-08:00

Aaaahhh..... Finally after a lot of procastination i have started writing my book... havent fixed a name for the book yet... but i have given a temp name... FULL CIRCLE. oh! BTW its a sci-fi story. so readers be ready for some wild imagination. Given below is a small part of the story... i dont plan to put the whole thing online as of now... so, go ahead... enjoy the beggining and leave your valuable comments.

FULL CIRCLE

Chapter 1

A million years had passed since man first landed on the moon…

Many things had changed since then. Man as we know, no longer exists as just flesh and blood.

The great battle between man and machines for supremacy had raged on for decades. Destruction had rained heavily on the humans and humanity was on the brink of being wiped out completely. It was during these dark and desperate times, in an effort to end the war that humans finally decided that the only way forward would be to merge with the machines. A truce was called… and on the shores of the Asgan Sea on the planet Karen IV, the great pact between man and machines was made. A massive project was started the likes of which was never seen before. Every human on every planet was merged with machines. The successful completion of which would create a new breed. The Uber Humans. There was resistance along the way. But they were squashed by the might of the newly formed galactic armada. Finally after nearly a century of work the man-machine merger was complete. Bioengineering and Nanotechnology had helped humans achieve their wildest dreams. Any weaknesses we had no longer remained. Every human being was now a flawless creation of modern science.

Well, thats all for now folks.... pls do leave your comments.

LAMBORGINI MURCIELAGO.

2006-01-15T03:48:00.000-08:00

This was the post i was supposed to put up on Jan1st... never got around to putting it though. So here it is today...

Today (Jan 1) was an interesting day… today was NEW YEAR (2006)… my parents wedding anniversary and my brother’s birthday and today was also the day I was offered a job in an ad agency. But all that took a backseat when I walked into a car showroom and my eyes almost popped at the sight in front of me. A Black LAMBORGINI MURCIELAGO. With a price tag of 1 million Riyals, it is the most expensive car I’ve ever laid hands and eyes on (in real life…). Anybody who hasn’t seen a black LAMBORGINI MURCIELAGO would not know or understand how I felt, even if I try to explain… that is unless you have seen one yourself.
Now im back home… but the image of the car still lingers in my mind. I think I’ll go to bed now. Better the dream world than the real world. Good Night world.

Pencil Sketches - 2

2005-12-07T04:45:00.000-08:00

A scene from a village barber shop...

This is another one of my unfinished sketches...

Grandma and grandson makin butter the old fashioned way...

Elephant and mahout...

Some of the good sketches have been sold... and i didn't take snaps of those. Well... i didnt have a cam back then...

Pencil Sketches - 1

2005-12-07T02:28:00.000-08:00

These are some of the sketches i've done quite some time back... since i didnt have access to a scanner... i used my cam to take photos of the sketches...

Avril Lavigne... (Left)

This is an incomplete sketch.

The Background has yet to be finished

A Reproduction of M.C. Escher's work...( below)

New Church @ Tangy

2005-12-06T08:10:00.000-08:00

Here it is people... The Brand New Church at good old Tangy...

Check out the size of this one... Its Bigger, Brighter and better than the old one (obviously)

There was Quite a crowd at the opening ceremony...

The new Twin Towers of tangy...

The Entrance Just before the procession Entered the New Church

The Main Hall... Its really Huge... and colorful...

Left Side of the Main Hall...

Right side of the main hall...

Thats all for now guys...

The Good Samaritan Ward

2005-12-06T05:57:00.000-08:00

Wondering who this is??? Its none other than good old Bimal... a.k.a John Muscreen.

well he has had a slipped backdisc problem...
He is currently in The Good Samaritan Ward Rm 15, Benziger hospital, Kollam.

Dont worry guys its not as serious as it looks and he is not permenantly chained to the bed.
He was joking and walking around when i went to visit him. These pics were taken just before i left.