As the video was downloading, I took a few screenshots that shows Karadi going thorugh variety of constipated emotions as shown in the stills below. Have fun watching the video in this link:
The Great Indian Karadi Video
Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Great Indian Karadi Interview
Thanks to my friend Tejus who gave me the link of one of the most hilarious videos on the earth. Its none other than the Great Indian Karadi T.Rajendar who speaks or rather shouts out his opinions in an interview to Indiaglitz. The questions are also put through in such a way to extract the standard comedies from the Karadi.
As the video was downloading, I took a few screenshots that shows Karadi going thorugh variety of constipated emotions as shown in the stills below. Have fun watching the video in this link:
The Great Indian Karadi Video
As the video was downloading, I took a few screenshots that shows Karadi going thorugh variety of constipated emotions as shown in the stills below. Have fun watching the video in this link:
The Great Indian Karadi Video
Monday, April 09, 2007
10 FAQs about me answered...
I am answering here 10 Frequently Asked Questions to me by various people I meet in day to day life. I can use this post atleast for my online friends, when they ask me these questions the next time ;-)
1. What is your actual name?
Almost everyone in my family have two names, one for home and one for official use. So officially I was named "Srinivasan" after my grandfather. But "Karthik" is the name christened by my mother right from my birth so I prefer to be called as Karthik. That’s why I declared myself as KSR in online profiles, so that Karthik gains prominence. People close to me call me Karthik, friends and colleagues call me "Srini" or "KSR".
2. Why on the earth "centumsrini"? Doesn’t that sound like a school kid?
"Centum" for me means the number 100. And 100 in my view denotes completeness, perfection and something at the fullest. Unfortunately the stupidity of marks-based Indian education associated centum with marks in the exams. This is the question I often face from people: “Have you scored any centum in ur acads?” I once again declare that centum is a motivation for me to give my 100% in whatever I do. That’s it.. (And my job as software engineer, made me add one more clause to it, 100% utilize the resources given to you :-D)
3. Why is your Orkut friends count so large? Are you mad to accept all requests?
Yes. I do accept all requests that come in. I don’t believe in the concept of getting acquainted to someone before adding them as a friend and I don’t have a heart to deny requests of people just because I don’t know them (unless it comes from some half naked Brazilian spam). If I had been doing that, I would have missed a lot of online friends I have today. World is huge, life is short, make as many friends as possible before you leave from here ;-)
4. What do you do on the weekends? What do you get by sitting at home?
I am one of the laziest persons in the world and I believe in the concept “Home is where the heaven is”. I am too lazy to go out especially in hot Chennai climate, I cherish my weekends eating mom’s food and sleeping at home.
5. You speak a lot on chat but when it comes to talking in person, u speak very less as if there is nothing left to say. Why is that so?
That’s my negative which I am trying to get over as much as possible. I have spent years of my life in solitude with no one to chat with. May be that has caused this problem. Hope it will be cured soon. :-)
6. Did you watch XYZ show on TV?
I don’t watch TV at all, even though my house has one. Tv shows today are at the heights of stupidity. Changing channels seeking better shows is like choosing between DMK and ADMK to vote for. I hardly watch TV for 10-15 minutes; especially with the CAS in Chennai, I feel even that 10-15 minutes is not worth spending in front of it.
7. Comon, are you crazy? How can one leave a place like Bangalore and come to Chennai? Is it possible that someone cannot like Bangalore?
Chennai is where I lived right from the day I set foot on this earth and I would like to stay here as much as possible in my lifetime. I haven’t had enough of this city till date and yet to explore a lot here. I had my job in Bangalore, stayed there, had a nice time. And when I felt its time to be back in Chennai, I came back. That’s it!!!! And Bangalore is no better than Chennai as everyone claims it to be. Every city has its own share of negatives.
8. Why don’t you exercise everyday and reduce your weight?
I partially answered for this in question 4. Yes I need to work upon this as early as possible before I become prone to any dreadful diseases. I should atleast continue my Yoga practice which I left abruptly after the classes got over.
9. How is your job going on?
To put it short and to be frank, it simply sucks. Because the software job sucks anyday. And my reply would have been the same whatever organization I am working for. I opted for Software job only for the sake of money and I even gave up all ideas of higher studies. That’s the only decision I regret for even today, but till I change over to an entirely different profession (which is not possible in near future) I would hang on to the principle “Work is Worship” :P
10. What is there to be a fan of Vijay? Are you stupid?
Throughout my life, I have liked what others around me dislike. In other words, my favorites had always been different from normal people. I like Sushmita more than Ash, Tennis more than Cricket, Ganguly more than Sachin, Trisha more than Asin, Vidhyasagar more than Rahman, Chennai more than Bangalore…. This also falls on similar lines. Anyways, I have no regrets of being a Vijay fan. From an ardent Vijay hater in late teens to an ardent fan today, it has been a great metamorphosis and I haven’t lost anything because of this. Infact, I had gained a lot of good friends online because of this trait.
And a final FAQ which I ask myself most times:
What is the purpose of writing this blog? You have written more than one hundred posts till date… Who is gonna read it anyway?? :-D
My inner self answers: “Atleast you get a place to vent out your thoughts and feelings. Tomorrow if someone wants to know about you completely, they can know you in and out reading this blog. And in the worst case also, 10 years down the line you can read through this for yourself and observe how much you have changed over with time” :-D
1. What is your actual name?
Almost everyone in my family have two names, one for home and one for official use. So officially I was named "Srinivasan" after my grandfather. But "Karthik" is the name christened by my mother right from my birth so I prefer to be called as Karthik. That’s why I declared myself as KSR in online profiles, so that Karthik gains prominence. People close to me call me Karthik, friends and colleagues call me "Srini" or "KSR".
2. Why on the earth "centumsrini"? Doesn’t that sound like a school kid?
"Centum" for me means the number 100. And 100 in my view denotes completeness, perfection and something at the fullest. Unfortunately the stupidity of marks-based Indian education associated centum with marks in the exams. This is the question I often face from people: “Have you scored any centum in ur acads?” I once again declare that centum is a motivation for me to give my 100% in whatever I do. That’s it.. (And my job as software engineer, made me add one more clause to it, 100% utilize the resources given to you :-D)
3. Why is your Orkut friends count so large? Are you mad to accept all requests?
Yes. I do accept all requests that come in. I don’t believe in the concept of getting acquainted to someone before adding them as a friend and I don’t have a heart to deny requests of people just because I don’t know them (unless it comes from some half naked Brazilian spam). If I had been doing that, I would have missed a lot of online friends I have today. World is huge, life is short, make as many friends as possible before you leave from here ;-)
4. What do you do on the weekends? What do you get by sitting at home?
I am one of the laziest persons in the world and I believe in the concept “Home is where the heaven is”. I am too lazy to go out especially in hot Chennai climate, I cherish my weekends eating mom’s food and sleeping at home.
5. You speak a lot on chat but when it comes to talking in person, u speak very less as if there is nothing left to say. Why is that so?
That’s my negative which I am trying to get over as much as possible. I have spent years of my life in solitude with no one to chat with. May be that has caused this problem. Hope it will be cured soon. :-)
6. Did you watch XYZ show on TV?
I don’t watch TV at all, even though my house has one. Tv shows today are at the heights of stupidity. Changing channels seeking better shows is like choosing between DMK and ADMK to vote for. I hardly watch TV for 10-15 minutes; especially with the CAS in Chennai, I feel even that 10-15 minutes is not worth spending in front of it.
7. Comon, are you crazy? How can one leave a place like Bangalore and come to Chennai? Is it possible that someone cannot like Bangalore?
Chennai is where I lived right from the day I set foot on this earth and I would like to stay here as much as possible in my lifetime. I haven’t had enough of this city till date and yet to explore a lot here. I had my job in Bangalore, stayed there, had a nice time. And when I felt its time to be back in Chennai, I came back. That’s it!!!! And Bangalore is no better than Chennai as everyone claims it to be. Every city has its own share of negatives.
8. Why don’t you exercise everyday and reduce your weight?
I partially answered for this in question 4. Yes I need to work upon this as early as possible before I become prone to any dreadful diseases. I should atleast continue my Yoga practice which I left abruptly after the classes got over.
9. How is your job going on?
To put it short and to be frank, it simply sucks. Because the software job sucks anyday. And my reply would have been the same whatever organization I am working for. I opted for Software job only for the sake of money and I even gave up all ideas of higher studies. That’s the only decision I regret for even today, but till I change over to an entirely different profession (which is not possible in near future) I would hang on to the principle “Work is Worship” :P
10. What is there to be a fan of Vijay? Are you stupid?
Throughout my life, I have liked what others around me dislike. In other words, my favorites had always been different from normal people. I like Sushmita more than Ash, Tennis more than Cricket, Ganguly more than Sachin, Trisha more than Asin, Vidhyasagar more than Rahman, Chennai more than Bangalore…. This also falls on similar lines. Anyways, I have no regrets of being a Vijay fan. From an ardent Vijay hater in late teens to an ardent fan today, it has been a great metamorphosis and I haven’t lost anything because of this. Infact, I had gained a lot of good friends online because of this trait.
And a final FAQ which I ask myself most times:
What is the purpose of writing this blog? You have written more than one hundred posts till date… Who is gonna read it anyway?? :-D
My inner self answers: “Atleast you get a place to vent out your thoughts and feelings. Tomorrow if someone wants to know about you completely, they can know you in and out reading this blog. And in the worst case also, 10 years down the line you can read through this for yourself and observe how much you have changed over with time” :-D
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Sivaji - The Boss : Audio Review
Nothing could be bigger than this in Tamil Cinema. AVM’s Production, Super Star Rajinikanth, director Shankar and A.R.Rahman’s music. Sivaji is definitely the biggest film in Tamil Cinema. The audio of such a huge film has been released on April 2nd. I expected a lot from this audio, feeling this should be the best, but it sounds just good to me and nothing more.
I rate the songs normally based on how good they sound in FM radio played in my bus. :-D Trust me, many songs I hated have become my favorites after I listened to them in my bus, so that’s my benchmark. :-P
I am writing about the songs in the order of my favorites. And for the claim that Rahman’s music is slow poison and all that, I am writing this review after listening to the songs lots of times in past 3 days.
Vaaji Vaaji – Hariharan, Madhushree
This I would say is the best song of the album and clearly shows Rahman is still around and is not gone as some critics claim. The music, lyrics, chorus and lead vocals are simply excellent. Hariharan is awesome with his energy of rendition while Madhushree is just okay. Though this is much better than dozens of songs where she had muttered and whined in a horrible voice doing a massacre of Tamil, I still feel Sujatha or Sadhana Sargam would have done more justice to this song. Nevertheless, a great song. “Poombaavaai Aambal Aambal; Punnagayo Mowval Mowval” piece is superb.
Sahana Saaral – Udit Narayan, Chinmayi
My next favourite, a brilliant song with its own share of negatives. There is a saying in Tamil “Korangu kaila poomalai”. That is what Rahman has done by making Udit Narayan sing this song. But for Udit Narayan’s voice this would have been a fantastic song. One cannot blame Udit Narayan, only Rahman is responsible for this. Is there lack of good singers in Tamil? Why give such a wonderful song to Udit, who in an attempt to get Tamil pronunciation right and sing in a high scale messes up with both. It looks like he is moaning with pain. Chinmayi on the other hand is awesome and saves the song entirely. Nothing so great about the lyrics. Part of the prelude music is exactly the same as the one in “Kalyaana Then Nila” from Mounam Sammadham.
Sahara Pookal – Vijay Yesudas, Gomathi Sri
This is a pathos version of the above song. Superb again. Vijay Yesudas is undeniably the singer of the year with a lot of hits to his credit and he showcases his brilliance in this song too. It makes me wonder even after hearing this voice, what made Rahman credit the other version of this song to Udit Narayan. Vijay Yesudas would have been really the best choice for the other version too. The song has just a pallavi followed by “Maale Manivanna” Thiruppavai verse rendered by Gomathi Sri. Her voice is not childish as mentioned in the Rediff review. On the contrary, it sounds too matured, that I wonder if it will be filmed on a middle aged Iyengar maami in the film :-P
Balleilakka – SPB, Raihanah
The typical Rajinikanth intro song, this time the super star will mouth great lines about Traditional Tamil culture rather than lines of inspiration. Nicely written song and executed with great music, who else can complete the loop other than SPB? Proving yet again he is the best to render intro songs for the superstar, he sings with such an energy that would put even the youngest singers to shame. Raihanah provides the required vocal support. I cannot help myself from getting reminded of “Devuda Devuda” from Chandramukhi every time I listen to this song. If picturised well, this would be the song of this year.
If all songs are good, then why did I say the album is just good? Here comes the list of disappointments.
Athiradee – A.R. Rahman, Sayanora
This is a peppy dance number. It stars off well, just starts off, after that its total disaster with respect to lyrics and Rahman’s unnecessary heavy throated rendition. I feel any other singer like Ranjith would have done a better job. It has reference to many of Rajini’s previous movie titles. The retro style Guitar strains in the interludes are nice and the female lead Sayanora(Philips) has done a great job. There are no lyrics in the song infact, it is just a string of lots of words put together. Wishing the song should be visual delight atleast.
The Boss - Blaaze, Naresh Iyer & Raqueeb Alam
The theme song that sounds like “Paatshaala” from Rang De Basanti. The lyrics are nothing but the punch dialogues of Rajini, which might appear in the film too. But they does not sound like Rajini’s punches, but more like those of T.Rajendar. There is nothing wrong with the vocals or music in this song. Its all great. But the lyrics which are supposed to be soul of this theme song are so stupid and awkward.
Oru Koodai Sunlight - Rags, Blaaze, Tanvi & Suresh Peters
The famous song that did rounds as promos with the lead pair sporting all awkward makeup and hairstyles. It carries the great message on “Karuupu and Sevappu” that is a part of all recent Rajini film songs. Other than the Spanish lines, techno beats, “Style” chorus and the singing by Tanvi, there is nothing much to write about this song. Why the hell is the song written in horrible Tamil if it has to sound so westernized? And even then, why such horrible male voices are chosen to sing the song?? Only Shankar and Rahman can answer. Its not singing, to be harsh, it sounds like shouting from a constipated person.
Overall, this is a good album, but I would rate it as the last among Shankar’s music albums till date. My rating would be 7.5/10.
P.S: For anti-piracy activists, I am yet to grab an audio CD of my own. Will get it this weekend, the review is based on numerous hearings of the songs from various FM stations of Chennai. I don’t have a pirated copy of the songs in my PC. ;-)
I rate the songs normally based on how good they sound in FM radio played in my bus. :-D Trust me, many songs I hated have become my favorites after I listened to them in my bus, so that’s my benchmark. :-PI am writing about the songs in the order of my favorites. And for the claim that Rahman’s music is slow poison and all that, I am writing this review after listening to the songs lots of times in past 3 days.
Vaaji Vaaji – Hariharan, Madhushree
This I would say is the best song of the album and clearly shows Rahman is still around and is not gone as some critics claim. The music, lyrics, chorus and lead vocals are simply excellent. Hariharan is awesome with his energy of rendition while Madhushree is just okay. Though this is much better than dozens of songs where she had muttered and whined in a horrible voice doing a massacre of Tamil, I still feel Sujatha or Sadhana Sargam would have done more justice to this song. Nevertheless, a great song. “Poombaavaai Aambal Aambal; Punnagayo Mowval Mowval” piece is superb.
Sahana Saaral – Udit Narayan, Chinmayi
My next favourite, a brilliant song with its own share of negatives. There is a saying in Tamil “Korangu kaila poomalai”. That is what Rahman has done by making Udit Narayan sing this song. But for Udit Narayan’s voice this would have been a fantastic song. One cannot blame Udit Narayan, only Rahman is responsible for this. Is there lack of good singers in Tamil? Why give such a wonderful song to Udit, who in an attempt to get Tamil pronunciation right and sing in a high scale messes up with both. It looks like he is moaning with pain. Chinmayi on the other hand is awesome and saves the song entirely. Nothing so great about the lyrics. Part of the prelude music is exactly the same as the one in “Kalyaana Then Nila” from Mounam Sammadham.
Sahara Pookal – Vijay Yesudas, Gomathi Sri
This is a pathos version of the above song. Superb again. Vijay Yesudas is undeniably the singer of the year with a lot of hits to his credit and he showcases his brilliance in this song too. It makes me wonder even after hearing this voice, what made Rahman credit the other version of this song to Udit Narayan. Vijay Yesudas would have been really the best choice for the other version too. The song has just a pallavi followed by “Maale Manivanna” Thiruppavai verse rendered by Gomathi Sri. Her voice is not childish as mentioned in the Rediff review. On the contrary, it sounds too matured, that I wonder if it will be filmed on a middle aged Iyengar maami in the film :-P
Balleilakka – SPB, Raihanah
The typical Rajinikanth intro song, this time the super star will mouth great lines about Traditional Tamil culture rather than lines of inspiration. Nicely written song and executed with great music, who else can complete the loop other than SPB? Proving yet again he is the best to render intro songs for the superstar, he sings with such an energy that would put even the youngest singers to shame. Raihanah provides the required vocal support. I cannot help myself from getting reminded of “Devuda Devuda” from Chandramukhi every time I listen to this song. If picturised well, this would be the song of this year.
If all songs are good, then why did I say the album is just good? Here comes the list of disappointments.
Athiradee – A.R. Rahman, Sayanora
This is a peppy dance number. It stars off well, just starts off, after that its total disaster with respect to lyrics and Rahman’s unnecessary heavy throated rendition. I feel any other singer like Ranjith would have done a better job. It has reference to many of Rajini’s previous movie titles. The retro style Guitar strains in the interludes are nice and the female lead Sayanora(Philips) has done a great job. There are no lyrics in the song infact, it is just a string of lots of words put together. Wishing the song should be visual delight atleast.
The Boss - Blaaze, Naresh Iyer & Raqueeb Alam
The theme song that sounds like “Paatshaala” from Rang De Basanti. The lyrics are nothing but the punch dialogues of Rajini, which might appear in the film too. But they does not sound like Rajini’s punches, but more like those of T.Rajendar. There is nothing wrong with the vocals or music in this song. Its all great. But the lyrics which are supposed to be soul of this theme song are so stupid and awkward.
Oru Koodai Sunlight - Rags, Blaaze, Tanvi & Suresh Peters
The famous song that did rounds as promos with the lead pair sporting all awkward makeup and hairstyles. It carries the great message on “Karuupu and Sevappu” that is a part of all recent Rajini film songs. Other than the Spanish lines, techno beats, “Style” chorus and the singing by Tanvi, there is nothing much to write about this song. Why the hell is the song written in horrible Tamil if it has to sound so westernized? And even then, why such horrible male voices are chosen to sing the song?? Only Shankar and Rahman can answer. Its not singing, to be harsh, it sounds like shouting from a constipated person.
Overall, this is a good album, but I would rate it as the last among Shankar’s music albums till date. My rating would be 7.5/10.
P.S: For anti-piracy activists, I am yet to grab an audio CD of my own. Will get it this weekend, the review is based on numerous hearings of the songs from various FM stations of Chennai. I don’t have a pirated copy of the songs in my PC. ;-)
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
A friend called Ubuntu
This post is dedicated to Linus Torvalds and one of his greatest admirers.
My system went for a toss last week because of some alleged hard disk problems and my hard disk was sent for diagnosis. That’s when my friend gave me Ubuntu, a version of Linux which I had not used before. My system is running without a hard disk for past 3 days and without me getting the slightest feel of it, thanks to the Ubuntu Live Version CD given by my friend.
Previous instances of me working on Linux was some version of Red Hat as a part of my NIIT course and Knoppix for practicing some scripting during my corporate training period. However I am still somewhat linked with open source as all project work I had done in the past 2 years were on Unix platform.
Back to Ubuntu, I never knew Linux was so stylish, user friendly and powerful, it looks more cool than a windows environment, of course with a greater stability that is inbuilt in Linux. I was back online after 10 days with this and I was even able to connect my digicam and import photos from it through an already available utility(unlike Windows where in it creates a dynamic drive from which I will have to copy the required pics).
I was wondering if I shall continue to work on the same by installing the OS once I get my hard disk up. But anyways, accustomed to working on the cheap windows UIs, I don’t think I will do it now.
Anyways, in future, any day any problem, I have a trusted friend to save me…. Ubuntu rocks!!! :-)
Monday, April 02, 2007
Non stop Non sense
Its all about the cries, yells, shouts and useless talks going on everywhere about Indian cricket team and their poor performance in World Cup. I would say, the disappointment caused for fans is only due to the attitude of fans themselves and nothing else...
The utmost stupidity of giving more importance to cricket than any other sports, considering cricket to be the prestige of India and cricketers as demi gods has all caused this utter disaster for fans' expectations...
As an SMS says and an article in recent magazine quotes, "we are not discussing anyday about the sucess and failures of our satellite launches, about why India cannot win a single gold medal in Olympics inspite being a country of 110 crores". Absolutely!!! We don't even know the names of achievers in many other sports... No one anywhere spoke about Vishwanathan Anand achieving World No. 1 status recently...
All that bothers our people is cricket - India wins it or loses it, whatever be the case. The height of stupidity is when people say "maanatha vaangitaanga" and "shame to our country". Is cricket the deciding factor of India's status in world stage?? What an ignorant talk is this!!!!
Let this loss in world cup be an eye opener for the morons who celebrate cricket as a religion in our country. It is just a game, atleast India has a place in it. We are not even a team in soccer, the much bigger game watched worldwide... So I guess we have lots of better works to do than to sit and analyse why and what made India perform badly.
Using this mad rage of people, FM stations, retired cricket stars and few other junk analysts earn money. Thats all happens everytime. I wish people realise this soon and watch cricket just as a game and not as India's prestige issue. And for God's sake these cricketers are just men and not super heroes!!!! They cannot do whatever ur mind wishes them to do!!!
P.S: The still in the post is for curing people who have landed in local asylum after India's world cup debacle :P
The utmost stupidity of giving more importance to cricket than any other sports, considering cricket to be the prestige of India and cricketers as demi gods has all caused this utter disaster for fans' expectations...
As an SMS says and an article in recent magazine quotes, "we are not discussing anyday about the sucess and failures of our satellite launches, about why India cannot win a single gold medal in Olympics inspite being a country of 110 crores". Absolutely!!! We don't even know the names of achievers in many other sports... No one anywhere spoke about Vishwanathan Anand achieving World No. 1 status recently...
All that bothers our people is cricket - India wins it or loses it, whatever be the case. The height of stupidity is when people say "maanatha vaangitaanga" and "shame to our country". Is cricket the deciding factor of India's status in world stage?? What an ignorant talk is this!!!!
Let this loss in world cup be an eye opener for the morons who celebrate cricket as a religion in our country. It is just a game, atleast India has a place in it. We are not even a team in soccer, the much bigger game watched worldwide... So I guess we have lots of better works to do than to sit and analyse why and what made India perform badly.
Using this mad rage of people, FM stations, retired cricket stars and few other junk analysts earn money. Thats all happens everytime. I wish people realise this soon and watch cricket just as a game and not as India's prestige issue. And for God's sake these cricketers are just men and not super heroes!!!! They cannot do whatever ur mind wishes them to do!!!
P.S: The still in the post is for curing people who have landed in local asylum after India's world cup debacle :P
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