படித்ததில் பிடித்தது -2

அருகில் நீ
எதிரில் மழை
யார் சொல்வதை முதலில் கேட்க?

இந்த வார ஆனந்த விகடனில் இதை படித்தேன். எழுதியவர் பெயர் "ஏகாதசி".
படித்த பின் மனதில் கொஞ்ச நேரம் வசந்தம்.

Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru - Review

There was a persistent kuru kuru in my mind to watch Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru from the start of the Chennai International Film Festival '09. It was screened at the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce theater today. I have to say the film made my day and will continue to give me pleasant thoughts whenever i think about it- that qualifies it to occupy a position in my favorite movies' list.

Arjun and Archana, completely out of phase with each other- Arjun is a go-cool freak while Archana is a perfectionist- work in an Ad agency bossed by the ever-pleasing Mouli. Their perishing company fortunately gets a big offer from Johnson&Johnson. The baby they use for the ad is found to be a kidnapped one and had been abandoned by the lady who kidnapped it. When the client force them to get the contract from the kid's parents for the project to materialize, fate puts them close together on a mission to find its parents; their conflicting characteristics churn out humorous sequences that are fresh and impressive. The delegates of the Film festival-that includes me too- found themselves laughing their hearts out honestly after having been forced to utter spells of guffaws for remotely funny parts in Russian and Slovak films. Selection of foreign films haven't been that great for these three days with just 2 out of 8 movies i watched giving me satisfaction.

Back to T4. The incredible part of the movie is the maintenance of high-energy throughout the 120 and odd minutes. I was, in a pessimistic way, waiting for a moment when the film's pace would falter and fit the usual "Interesting till the first half, sluggish in the second" category. But No.! The scenes were natural. Even minor roles have their parts played expertly. Thats an evident indication of the sincerity factor gone into the film. Even in the Guruvayoorappan serial that i greatly admire, the tamil characters would have been played by malayalam people uttering, "avan vanthuchu! Naan beli kuduthachu" and shit. A let-go syndrome. T4 doesn't have that either. Even the one who plays Mouli's wife shows expression and concern that betray her motherly attitude toward Arjun-played well by Ajmal. This is the result of every part of a system functioning well, finding its role equally important.

After the end, i saw many in the theater still sitting on their seats watching the credits and savoring the pleasure the film stimulated. An age old instinct of getting up at the sight of climax suppressed. Nandhini JS, the Director clearly is passionate about Cinema and filmmaking.. A gold medal winner in her film institute days i gather. There was a vague smell of Kanda Naal Mudhal and Mozhi which is natural as Nandhini comes from Prakash Raj's production house- worked as the assistant director of Priya.V in KNM. The film has its negatives too- certain events that could have propped into much serious consequences in reality have been washed out with humor-for instance the kidnapping sequences- She should perhaps work on improving the naturalness retaining the freshness of her narrative style and humor.

What irritates me are the reviews i read about the movie, especially in rediff where the reviewer was probably making out with his girl friend most of the time. Such bad reviews might have made the film fail at the box office-I don't know about its success or failure. But i wish she scripts a lot more of such good energetic films.

உன்னை போல் ஒருவன் - மினி அலசல்

Trailerகளைப் பார்த்த போது frame-by-frame liftஓ என்று mild ஆக ஒரு doubt எழுந்தது. பலர் "A Wednesday" பார்த்திருப்பார்கள். இருந்தும் எல்லா இடங்களிலிருந்தும் உ.போ.ஒருவனுக்கு நல்ல response. "WATCH UPO!! NOW!!" - ஒரு ஆர்குட் tagline அலறியது. கமல் மேல் நம்பிக்கை வைத்து சங்கம் Cinemasஉக்கு கிளம்பினேன்..
ரொம்ப disappointing. ஆரம்பத்தில் இருந்த பயம் ஊர்ஜிதமானது. அட்ட காப்பி. சுட்ட காப்பி. சின்ன சின்ன உதிரி சீன்களைக் கூட விட்டு வைக்க வில்லை. "டேய்! பிள்ளையார் சுழியக் கூடவாடா காப்பி அடிப்ப?!"- விவேக் காமெடி ஞாபகம் வருகிறது. சிரிக்க தான் மனதில்லை. பிள்ளையார் சுழி, பார்டர், செமி கோலன் எல்லாம் perfectஆக காப்பி அடித்திருக்கிறார்கள் சரி.! முக்கியமாக எடுத்திருக்க வேண்டிய இடத்தில் கோட்டை விட்டு originalityஐ புகுத்துகிறேன் என்று சொல்லி சொதப்பி இருக்கிறார் கமல்.
"A Wednesday"இன் Common Manஐ செலுத்தியது பயம், "எவனோ என் சாவை நிச்சயிக்கிறானே!!" என்ற கோவம், அரசாங்கம் கையைப் பிசைந்து கொண்டு நிற்கிறதே என்ற எரிச்சல் . எந்த ஒரு common manஉக்கும் வரும் எண்ணங்கள் இன்னும் intenseஆக இருக்கிறது இந்த Common Man நசீருக்கு.
"இதெல்லாம் ஏன்?" கமிஷனர் கேட்கிற போது அவற்றை வெளிக் காட்டும் பகுதி தான் நசீர், கமல் இருவருக்கும் தங்கள் நடிப்புத் திறனை வெளிக்கொண்டுவர திரைக்கதை அனுமதிக்கிற பகுதி. மற்றபடி படம் காட்டு வேகத்தில் பயணிக்கிறது. நின்று நடிக்க சமயம் இல்லை எவருக்கும் (மோஹன் லாலை நடிக்க வைத்தது கமிஷனர் பதவிக்கு முக்யத்துவம் தருவதற்கே. நடிப்பதற்கு stuff உள்ள role போல தெரியவில்லை.) அப்படி வெளிக்காட்ட வேண்டிய கட்சிகளில் நசீர் மின்னுகிறார். கமலின் நடிபபு எப்போதும் போல் awesome என்றாலும், அவர் கூறும் காரணங்களான "குஜராத்தில் ஒரு பெண்ணை அம்மணமாக ஓட விட்டு.... " என்று போகும் வசனங்கள் இவன் common manஆ? சமூகப் போராளியா என்று குழம்ப வைக்கிறது. 'உன்னை போல் ஒருவனின்' definitionஐ மீறுகிறது. உண்மை என்னவென்றால் நாம்(தமிழகம்) தீவிரவாதத்தால் பெரிதாக பாதிக்கப் படுவதில்லை. டிவி சேனல்களில் பார்த்து தெரிந்து கொள்வதோடு சரி. பார்த்துவிட்டு தூங்கப் போகும் முன் கொஞ்சம் தேச பக்தி, தீவிரவாதிகள் மேல் கொஞ்சம் எரிச்சல். அடுத்த நாள் எப்போதும் போல், "பால் வந்தாச்சா உமா?". மும்பையில் அப்படி இல்லை. தீவிரவாதத்தால் அவ்வப்போது பாதிக்கப் பட்டுக் கொண்டே இருக்கின்றனர் அங்குள்ளோர். அந்த common manவேறு. இங்குள்ள common man வேறு. எனவே "A Wednesday" இன் கருவை மட்டும் எடுத்துக் கொண்டு, இங்குள்ள பொது ஜனத்தின் பிரச்சனைகளில் முக்கியமான அதே நேரத்தில் horror-friendly ஆன ஒரு விஷயத்தை எடுத்து கொண்டிருந்தால் இந்த flaws வர வாய்ப்பிருந்திருக்காது. "The more ethnic it is, the more universal it gets", என்று கமலே கூறியுள்ளார். (உதாரணத்திற்கு மதுரையில் ரெகுலராக நடக்கும் வெட்டு குத்துகளால் பாதிக்க படும் ஒரு common manஐ மையமாக எடுத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கலாம்.) இதற்கெல்லாம் கொஞ்சம் ஹோம்-வொர்க் செய்திருக்க வேண்டும்.
அவசரமாக ஹிட் தேவை பட்டதோ என்னவோ, சுயமாக எதுவும் பெரிதாக செய்யாமல் ஹிந்தி பட backgroundஇல் தமிழ் நடிகர்களை உலவ விட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். இரா.முருகன் (உ.போ.ஒ வசன கர்த்தா) ஜூ.வியிலோ ஆ.வியிலோ சொன்னார், திரைக்கதை இருபத்து நாட்களில் முடிந்தது என்று. தெரியுது! :-x
மோஹன் லால் லக்ஷ்மி இடையே நடக்கும் cold war; "இந்த Systems எல்லாம் பயங்கர பழசு! 'அபிவாதயே!' சொல்லிட்டு ஆரம்பிக்கறேன்" போன்ற சில வசனங்கள் ஆறுதல் அளிக்கும் வித்யாசங்கள் . ஹும்!
original வெர்ஷனை பார்க்காதவர்களுக்கு நிச்சயம் பிடிக்கும்; பார்த்து கமல் மேல் பெரிதாக ஈர்ப்பு இல்லாதவர்கள் "சொன்னேன்ல?!" என்பார்கள். Original வெர்ஷனை பார்த்து கமல் மேல் நம்பிக்கையும் எதிர்பார்ப்பும் வைத்திருந்த "என்னை போல் ஒருவனுக்கு" இது ரொம்ப பெரிய disappointment.

Random Haiku- 7

நடை திறந்தாயிற்று..
காத்திருத்தல் தொடர்கிறது -
தீபாராதனை தட்டிற்கு

Waiting for the Mahatma - R.K.Narayan (1955)

Mini-Reviews just for movies? No for books too. Those are my first love. Since I am too forgetful, a quick review about the books i read will serve to bring back fresh thought floods about it.

Waiting for the Mahatma - I read this for the second time. Good books can be read a million times and still it will continue to offer us something new.
Sriram is just like me- a lazy idiot with total lack of self-motivation. Throughout his twenty years, he knew and faced nothing other than his Granny, Kanni's shop sweets and kabir street in malgudi. Inside the comfort zone all the time. He sets his eyes on Bharati ,a busy bee who has completely sacrificed her life to the service of the Mahatma when she goes about the street asking for donations and immediately falls in love with her. Things begin to get interesting when Mahatma himself visits Malgudi and Bharati introduces Sriram to him.
The excellent part of this book is how well RKN has melded Gandhi into the story's framework. Introducing fictional characters in historical situations is common- Sujatha had handled such a thing in 'Ratham orey niram' expertly. But making a famous personality as one of the characters in a book is rare, i think. And RKN has done a beautiful job of it. The simplicity and humor of the Great man has been portrayed well. From what i have read and contemplated about the Mahatma, i can say RKN has completely absorbed his character. A flawless work. Another remarkable thing about RKN narration is its impartiality. Throughout this book you could read views praising and opposing Gandhi's principles. Yet there wouldn't be a single spot where you could smell the author's inclination. That's very difficult to achieve. I especially liked the emotional dilemma Sriram undergo seeing people too busy with their own apparently trivial matters, not concerned about Gandhi's sacrifices to uplift them. When he sees a crowd heatedly arguing about a playful boy hanging upside down from a tree, he gets upset.
An excerpt:
"The country was engaged in a struggle for survival; in a flash there passed before his mind Gandhi, his spinning wheel, the hours he spent in walking, thinking and mortifying himself in various ways, his imprisonment, and all this seemed suddenly pointless, seeing the kind of people for whom it was intended. He suddenly felt unhappy. All his own activity seemed to him meaningless. He might as well return to the cosy isolation of Kabhir street...."

One of Gandhi's grave mistakes is to assume the society to be a simple system. He expected everyone to develop self control and have their actions mapped according to the satyagrahic blue print. He did succeed to a large extent in bringing about and maintaining this before independence but associated events that led partition broke the threshold.. BIGTIME.!
Sriram's emotional conflict is an example.
The only reservation i have about RKN's style is a sense of superficiality in the narration, just like Sujatha's. Writers like Balakumaran and Baldacci to some extent go to the depth of the characters' mind revealing the entire thought process while Sujatha and RKN prefer to give just a few wisps of thoughts. (Why Bharati likes such a loser still makes me wonder- of course with a slight pleasure that i stand a chance too. :D ) Indeed the above excerpt is an exception, a fine one at that.

Random Haiku - 6

மின்சாரம் திரும்பியதும்
மீண்டும் அநாதையானது -
மொட்டை மாடி

A Wednesday- A Review

Lot of movies in the "unseen movies" folder of my External-HDD. Didn't get around to watch any due to my lethargy. That's the height of joblessness. No urge to do even things that are 'normally' considered enjoyments. You should push yourselves to do it. Hmm.. You wouldn't understand. It's like trying to understand a modern art piece. You either get it instantly or you keep staring at it dumbfounded.
There is this guy named Shrinivas in an orkut community who regularly gives a brief review of films he watches in a related thread of that community. A horrible movie buff not leaving anything from japanese to russian. A huge tarkovsky fan- I watched Tarkovsky's "The Mirror" and my brain cells paused functioning for a few hours not sure how they should react. Following him, i'm planning to post mini-reviews of movies i watch from now on.

"A Wednesday".
Plot - A bomb threat call to the commissioner. Four terrorists in captive are the part of the bargain and... an unexpected twist. An all-round good movie. A no-nonsense one. Performance of Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah are flawless; the latter with his cool composed demeanor presents a formidable picture as a terrorist suspect, rather than the ones screaming their heads off in most other films. Cinematography is great. Reminded me of our "Momentary Respite" days. MR was a short film Gokul and myself worked on. I am sort of obsessed with trains and railway stations which was one of the main spots the camera focussed on in this movie. That building top also presented a magnificent sight with Naseeruddin calmly sipping tea from the flask watching the buzzing city beneath.
The one thing that upset me about the film is the huge hollywood influence. One person in the middle of few tens of real-serious guys relentlessly typing on their keyoards. "Let's get back to work guys!!", he'd shout as the camera goes up..
A college drop out internet freak wearing a cap turned back is a must; i didn't mention about his chewing gum right? Anyway talking to his gf infront of the commissioner is too much. The sudden mood shift after Naseeruddin- The common man- gives his speech is so cinematic.
The climax scene where Anupam and Naseeruddin shake hands reminded me of the meeting of Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer); Goose bumps for no reason.
As a whole (i hate typing this but i am forced to go with the conventions of review writing), its a nice thriller with less shit; Good cinematography and sensibility in the screenplay;
Waiting to see how Kamal fares up in the thamizh version.

Interesting Excerpts-2:-> தொட்டால் தொடரும் -பட்டுக்கோட்டை பிரபாகர்

பட்டுக்கோட்டை பிரபாகரின் "தொட்டால் தொடரும்"- ரொம்ப காலம் கழித்து படிக்கிற தமிழ் நாவல் . சுஜாதா ஒரு முறை பரிந்துரைத்த ஞாபகம், சமீபத்தில் படித்த அவரது சிறுகதை ஒன்று; இரண்டும் ரங்கா லெண்டிங் லைப்ரரி இல் ப.ப rack பக்கம் என்னை செலுத்தியது. Random ஆக கையில் மாட்டியது தொ.தொ.
ப.ப-தொ.தொ.. அட! (இது தான் இவரின் முதல் நாவல் என்று பிறகு தான் தெரிந்தது. இன்னொரு அட!)
பட்டுக்கோட்டை பிரபாகரின் நடை refreshing ஆக இருக்கிறது. உரையாடல்களில் சிரத்தை தெரிகிறது. சுஜாதா வின் hand-waving ரகத்தையும் சேராமல் அதே சமயம் பாலகுமாரன் போல வள-வள என்று பல பக்கங்களுக்கு ஒரே விஷயத்தை விவாதிக்காமல் புது விதமாக உள்ளது. இந்த நாவலில் வசந்தி-ஸ்ரீராம் உரையாடல்கள் பலவும் ரசிக்க வைத்தன . அதில் என்னை கவர்ந்த ஒன்றை இங்கு ப்ளாக் செய்கிறேன்.
வசந்தி-ஸ்ரீராம் முக்கிய பாத்திரங்கள்.. வயது:- நாவல் முடிவில் திருமணம் செய்து கொள்கிற வயது. இந்த பகுதியில், they are getting acquainted, என்ற அளவில் உங்களுக்கு புரிந்தால் போதும்.
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"என்கிட்டே பேசிக்கிட்டிருக்கறதிலே உங்களுக்கு எதுவும் இடைஞ்சல் இல்லையே?.."

"இல்லை"

"ஒரு அந்நிய ஆம்பிளை கிட்டே தனியா பேசிக்கிட்டிருக்கோமேனு நினைக்கறீங்களா"

"இல்லை. மனுஷங்களோட தராதரம் தெரியும். தவிர, என்னை எனக்கு தெரியும்"

"உங்க பதில்ல, என்னை எனக்குத் தெரியும்ங்கிற வார்த்தைகள்ல ஒரு அழகு இருக்குங்க... அது எனக்குப் பிடிச்சிருக்கு. அழகைப் பத்தி என்னை நினைக்கறீங்க.?"

"எதோட அழகை?"

"எதெதில அழகிருக்கு?"

"அது அவங்கவங்க மனசுக்கு மாறுபடும்"

"உங்க மனசுக்கு பட்ட அழகுகளை சொல்லுங்களேன்"

"காலை மலர், கண்ணடிக்கிற பட்டாம் பூச்சி, பெண்களின் கண், மழை நாளின் வானவில், தொலைதூரத்தில் ஓடும் ரயில்..." (My god! Google Indic. I love you!)

"இதெல்லாம் மட்டும்தான் அழகா..? கண்கள் நமக்கு உணர்த்தற விஷயங்களா சொன்னீங்க .. இதிலேயே இன்னும் விரிவா போனா கண்கள் மூளைக்கு உணர்த்தி மூளை ஒரு அர்த்தம் கொடுதுக்கறப்போ, புதிய அழகுகள் தெரியும்"

"இப்பதான் ஆர்டிஸ்ட்டா லட்சணமா சுத்தமா புரியாத விதத்தில பேசறிங்க.."

"என்ன புரியலை..? அதோ, நான் கழட்டி போட்ட செருப்புகளைப் பாருங்க. எதேச்சையா ரெண்டும் அமைஞ்சிருக்கிற விதத்தைப் பாருங்க.. ஒண்ணு, காதலன் , ஒண்ணு காதலி, ரெண்டும் கிஸ் பண்ணிகிட்ருக்கற மாதிரி இல்ல? பார்வையிலே இந்த அர்த்தம் கிடைக்காது. இதை மூளை தான் கற்பிச்சுக்கணும். அப்போ இந்த செருப்புகளோட காட்சியே அழகாகத்தான் தெரியும்."

அவனை பிரமிப்பாய் பார்த்தாள் வசந்தி.

"காலைல பேப்பர் 'சர்'னு கதவுக்கடியிலே ஊர்ந்து வந்து, பிரிஞ்சு விழறதிலே ஒரு கவிதையே இருக்கு. காலண்டர்ல காகிதங்கள் துடிக்கறதிலே ஒரு அவசரம் இருக்கு. எண்ணெய் பேப்பர்ல ஒட்டி இருக்கிற கொசு ஒரு சோகத்தை சொல்லுது. இப்படி எல்லாமே எனக்கு ஒரு அர்த்தத்தைச் சொல்லுதுங்க. சும்மா சொல்லுங்க என்னை நினைக்கறீங்க இந்த நிமிஷம். சரியான 'செமி'ன்னா?.. "

"அய்யய்யோ! அப்படி எல்லாம் இல்லைங்க. நீங்க சொன்னதைக் கேட்டப்புறம், உங்க ஓவியம் எல்லாம் பார்க்கணும்னு ஆர்வமா இருக்கு."

"வெல்கம். ஆனா, இப்ப வேணாம். ரூமைக் கொஞ்சம் சுத்தம் பண்ணிட்டு நானே கூப்பிடறேன்", என்று எழுந்தான் ஸ்ரீராம்.
~~

இவர்களின் மற்றொரு உரையாடல் என்னை இன்னும் கவர்ந்தது; சில not-so-acceptable கருத்துகள் உள்ளதால் அதை ப்ளாக் செய்ய வேண்டாமென படுகிறது. அதில் "Dadaism" என்ற 1920களில் Zurichஇல் உருவான ஒரு conceptஐ ஸ்ரீராம் மூலம் அறிமுகப்படுத்துகிறார் பட்டுக்கோட்டை. ரகளையான ஒரு தத்துவம் இந்த "Dadaism". சம்ப்ரதாயதுக்குட்பட்டு செய்யப்படும் கலை இலக்கியங்களை எட்டி உதை என்கிறது இது. உதாரணத்திற்கு, இந்த ப்ளாக் தலைப்பை "Interesting Excerpts" என்பதற்கு பதில் தமிழுக்கு ஏற்ப "புத்தக துகள்" என்று வைக்கலாம் என்று முதலில் தோன்றியது. " 'புத்தகத்துகளா'? எதோ சரியில்லையே.! அசிங்கமா கலாய்ச்சுடுவாங்க" என்று பயந்து "Interesting Excerpts"இற்கே திரும்பினேன். இப்படிப்பட்ட ஒருத்தனை-என்னைத் தான்!- ஒரு Dadaist புழுவைப் பார்ப்பது போல பார்ப்பான். என்ன கண்றாவி மனதில் தோன்றினாலும் அதை அப்பட்டமாக எழுத வேண்டும், வரைய வேண்டும், பாட வேண்டும். பிறரின் ரசனை, பார்வை, morals இதை எல்லாம் பற்றி கவலை பட கூடாது. 'மரபுகளின் மண்டையை பிள' என்ற Dadaism, இன்றைய Modern art, Neo-musical styles ஆகியவற்றுக்கு முப்பாட்டனாகத் திகழ்கிறது. சாங் ரெக்கார்டிங் இன் போது ஏதோ காரணத்தால் சித்ரா மளுக்கென சிரித்துவிட்டால், இளையராஜா காச்-மூச்சென திட்டி மறுபடி பாடச் சொல்லுவார். ரஹ்மான் ஒரு மினி-தாதாயிஸ்ட். அதையும் ஒரு புன்சிரிப்போடு சேர்த்துக்கொள்வார். இப்படி ரசிக்கத்தக்க பல மரபு-மீறல்களை இவர் இசையில் கேட்க முடியும். நண்பன் ஒருவனது இந்த ப்ளாகும் தாதாயிசத்தை தழுவி எழுதப் படுவதாகத் தோன்றுகிறது.

மேலே விடாமல் 'கர கர'
தாகம் வேறு
டி.வி.திரையில் ட்யூப் லைட்
பேரபோலா பாத்தில் கொசு
ஒரு வார அவஸ்தையோ?
தூக்கம் வருகிறது!

அடியேன் எழுதிய Dadaist 'கவிதை'.

மண்டை காயாமல் மேலும் தெரிந்து கொள்ள அவா உள்ளவர்கள் கூகுளை தொடர்பு கொள்ளவும் .

P.S: உங்களுக்கு தோன்றுகிற தாதாயிச "கவிதைகளை" comment sectionஇல் பதிவு செய்யவும். குலுக்கல் முறையில் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப் படுகிறவர்களுக்கு தாதாயிச 'வழக்கப்' படி பட்டா கத்தி ஒன்று பரிசாக வழங்கப்படும்.! வழங்கும் போது ஒரு urgeஇல் சரக்கென குத்தவும் வாய்ப்புண்டு; தாதாயிசம் "பேஷாக செய்" என்கிறது! Anyway, தைரியமாக எழுதவும்.

Random Haiku- 5

மத போதகர்களாய்
மாறிக் கொண்டிருக்கின்றன -
மலைப்பாறைகள்

GTalk Discussion:-> Life, homosexuality, reigion, science,.. what not!

The transcript of the Gtalk chat i had with Gokul a.k.a Black Light. We have this kind of arguments regularly and i thought this one, as a representative, needs to be blogged so that a few interested readers can go through the entire length and comment -one possible honest comment i expect is "Well. You two prove that argument is just an exchange of ignorance!". One thing with the chat transcripts is that there are a lot of spelling mistakes and occasional grammatical slips. To hell with grammar and spelling.! Read it along with those so that the essence is unspoilt!
(Don't worry if you don't understand the initial exchanges. Happy journey!)

BLACK: hi

me: hi im posting it as a new topic

typing

BLACK: deleted?

ok.. go on

9:15 PM me: right

ten mins

BLACK: so you can delete, post but cant edit!

k

me: ya. weird

BLACK: i can edit i guess

9:19 PM me: i have explained my idea. about 6, 7 lines

so just send ur idea too

ill add it

BLACK: you know my ideas... add it

9:20 PM me: No.. There should be no discrepancies like the one u did

BLACK: infact i have said it a 1000 times

ipost my views feom that

9:21 PM me: there?

BLACK: yes

me: suddenly went offline?

BLACK: invisible aagitaen.. he h eh

me: ok ill send u the new draft. you replace the present post with that expanding upon ur idea

BLACK: okie

send

9:24 PM me: sent

to ur email

9:25 PM BLACK: no editingrequired i guess

is that okay for you

me: expand upon ur view of love if needed

I just made clear my view, which was wrongly stated

I didn't say love has sex at its base

9:26 PM BLACK: i'll add seeing others interpretation

me: roger

BLACK: love has sex at its base now... you claimed it

me: when?

9:27 PM read my part carefully

BLACK: ;love' nowadays... remember!?

me: That doesn't mean Love always has sex at its base

9:28 PM BLACK: the word is too general i guess

me: Many people love sex doesn't mean love is constrained to sex alone

BLACK: first we need to draw lines exactly

its too common a word like faith

9:29 PM but classify... you get religion, god, science.... blimey

me: I think the definition of " a mad inexplicable permanent attraction towards some X" is ok. Kind of rigorous

9:30 PM BLACK: rigorous... but too generous

me: Gandhi loved Truth. Einstein loved nature and the rigid laws it followed.

9:31 PM It has to be general. Just because a majority Love persons from the opp.sex doesnt mean Love's definition shd be changed

9:32 PM BLACK: not asking for renaming but for inter classification

else that word cn be mis leading

me: ya. lets wait for others' views on this

post pannittaya?

9:33 PM BLACK: posted ;)

me: yup saw

9:34 PM BLACK: any correction?

cat online

me: how do u say that

invisible?

BLACK: he is in top of my list

more than that he replied ;)

9:35 PM *smile

err

me: oh.. vanthuttana

BLACK: i am still amused about homosexual theories

9:36 PM have you watched 12 angry men film

me: Life's a fucking freak. Homosexuality is one of the examples

No.. you did?

9:37 PM BLACK: is life a fucking freak or we just end up fucking as we cant dig out enough facts

yep... very good film

me: facts just help you make out the laws

Homo pathiya?

BLACK: no... its about how men yiel to their doubts

9:38 PM me: Life sees to that it breaks any convention built upon it

BLACK: we form life

not the other way round

me: ada i think i should add this to my orkut prifile status

we aren't independent of the laws sir

BLACK: which one?

9:39 PM me: Life sees to that it breaks any convention built upon it

mathavanga lines ellam use panrathilla

BLACK: we made laws & they have boundaries upon which they fail

poi

me: we dont make laws. We observe them

BLACK: you used sujatha's

9:40 PM no.. we name our observations as laws to aid our future experiments

me: not without mentioning it :D

BLACK: they dont wait for your credits

me: No. Newton didn't ask nature to use F=ma. Einstein didn't ask her to warp the space around matter and energy

They were all observations

9:41 PM BLACK: they didnt ask it... but they observed

thts wat i am saying too... you observe & note that your observations can be wrong or incomplete

me: right

BLACK: i can be wrong

9:42 PM you can be too

me: Not wrong. They are confined to limits. Need to be refined.

9:43 PM BLACK: refined till what? we dont know the limit

me: ya. we don't know. that doesnt mean the lives of all those men who worked sincerely for it due to their Love for it were flawed.

9:44 PM ok whats ur stand on homosexuality?

9:45 PM BLACK: they arent flawed nor their love went worthless (but many went unnoticed though!) i just doubt whether we have a doubtless conclusion..

9:46 PM homosexuality exists & that cant be denied...

9:47 PM me: Its like getting to the roots of an infinitely giant tree. Some might find a few branches. Then another will come and say that the braches found out till now actually originated from a bigger node. This will continue. A parent branch will be found and the journey towards the roots will continue

Thats not a stand. Its a fact

9:48 PM i asked abt ur stand

BLACK: my stand is that i dont encourage it.. it doesnt solve any purpose

9:49 PM now dont say that nothing exists for a purpose

me: The journey is guided by an unfaltering faith that several branches found till now, though appear unrelated and chaotic, will one day be found to originate from the same node.

9:50 PM There is no absolute purpose. It's just our superiority complex that makes us say so.

BLACK: i can live only for this minute

its our superiority cmplx makes us think that we are on the right path & tht we would find the parent node.

;)

9:51 PM me: It'd really be irritating to a guy seriously running behind his ladylove that there is no purpose achieved by this act of his'.

9:52 PM BLACK: it gives him pleasure... many run behind gods.. wats the purpose?

me: No. It's their strong faith in her. Not superiority complex

exactly. Nothing

BLACK: no.. they think that god is partial to them.. for instance they depicted god so that he look like men

9:53 PM the theory is simple

men feel thta they are next to god in this universe

me: Im not talking about religious people. Physicists rather

9:54 PM BLACK: physics & religion are almost same thing travelling in 2 diffrnt paths

me: "men feel thta they are next to god in this universe" How does that prove that life has a purpose?

BLACK: same insanity... same never ending search & faith.. all the same

me: There is a difference. One rebukes asking doubts. The other is completely based on doubts.

9:55 PM So insanity is life's purpose?

BLACK: i dont know whether it has a purpose... but i have a doubt tht it might have... you cant deny

the path is different but the search is almost the same

9:56 PM be it origin of living things or extra terrestrial things

me: "be it origin of living things or extra terrestrial things" wat?

:O

9:57 PM BLACK: yes... many religions try to define the origin of lide... for instance the bible

*life

me: They invent stupid theories

Physics frankly agrees "I don't know"

BLACK: dont say that all scientific theories are factual

9:58 PM me: Once a experimental fact negates a theory, its thrown out. Religion try to sink in an existing theory and brush off facts against it

BLACK: thts the problem... physics says i dont know, but i will for sure... religion says that i know enough... both makes not much diff

9:59 PM why dont ants observe man & write theories... or do they do so?

me: Religion is arrogant and ignorant. Science is truthful doubtful .

BLACK: truthfull ?

me: ya

why?

10:00 PM BLACK: its doubtful for sure but the extent of truth is undefined

infact science too is arogant in a way.. you throw a theory once it fails an expt..

10:01 PM me: A theory has inherent limitations. When it fails even within the specified limts, it is thrown out

10:02 PM Of course; Do you want theories to be preserved and facts to be thrown out?

BLACK: again limits... do you notice

me: yes. As i said its a journey to find the roots. It can never end

10:03 PM BLACK: we are bound to limits.... pathetically we fail even to predict within our limits... finding the roots is not a possibility at all then

me: It's the journey that matters. Not the destiny

BLACK: i am not a pessimist... but still i dont understand why men thinks that they are the end of evolution!

10:04 PM me: "God doesn't want you to win. He wants you to try" - Mother Teresa

cha enna line la

BLACK: if you are running in the wrong track, you;ll never reach the desti... i think we are runnin in circles

nice line... i love her a lot ;_)

me: One line la life ap pathi enna superb aana comment

10:05 PM BLACK: ;)

me: Truth reveals itself to the keen seeker. So It will correct you.

BLACK: you need to note the environment in which she said it

10:06 PM "Truth reveals itself to the keen seeker. So It will correct you." thts funny

me: It holds good for everything. Wonderful generalization. Its as powerful a theory about Life as GR is about reference frames

Why is it funny?

BLACK: truth is everywher, but it is us who has the limits & imperrfections

10:07 PM keen seeker... ha ha ha

me: We can break limits and be perfect. We choose not to

why?

keen seeker la enna comedy

10:08 PM BLACK: not that we chose not to... but i think it isnt necessary... we can live like tht dumb apes

2000 years of keen seekers the earth has seen... but none can say what earth is!

me: Nothing is absolutely necessary.

10:09 PM BLACK: so we are falling into a line

me: We are approaching the roots. We didn;t sit idle for all those 200 uears

I have always been saying there is no purpose. You denied it

10:10 PM 2000

BLACK: science, religion, love, uh homosexuality, etc... can entertain our era... but nothing more

me: Entertain? bad usage of word!

BLACK: i meanwat i said

10:11 PM ENTERTAIN

or say LUST

me: Love!

BLACK: now i go mute.. i dont doubt it.

10:12 PM BTW, i never said tht we dont have purpose... i doubt whether we are not practsing our purpose

or even unaware of it

me: oh.. Whats our purpose?

BLACK: unaware of it

10:13 PM would you say newton loved his works?

me: There can be no absolute purpose for a system comprising of entities having autonomy yet unaware of their purpose.

10:14 PM Sure.. He hated publicity it bought him

Wanted to get back to thinking physics again

BLACK: there are 1000 different things in your processor... wat they do?

me: processors dont have autonomy!

BLACK: do we have?

10:15 PM me: Ya. As Dumbledore said "we have choices."

BLACK: they have their limits & data tables to chose from... so we are... our DB is big though

but nstilll not big enough

10:16 PM we have choices... get it! just 'choices' to choose from

me: they cant choose from the data tables. They are programmed to choose a particular value under certain conditions. Thats why they say no program can produce a perfectly random number.

10:17 PM BLACK: BTW mail me this chat of ours

me: I am thinking of blogging it :D

BLACK: thts bad ;(

10:18 PM there is certain amount of repeatedness in the decision people make on a given conditions... do you agree?

say prob of 0.5 ;(

me: Sure. But still there is free will. Processors dont have it

10:20 PM BLACK: not free will exactly... given a condition, our brain follows its database rules... it gives priorities to the datas stored. for instance, the data einstein said would have a higher priority than the ine given by your friend & it chooses only from the data... wen the data bcms insufficient, we chuck out erroneous o/p, sometimes called as freewill

10:21 PM there is a programmed way our brain works

get data - analyze- o/p

me: That means there's absolute destiny

10:22 PM BLACK: full stop makes a sentence complete ;)

me: so?

BLACK: it wat makes it beautiful too

10:23 PM so there is a point towards everything is moving, in earthly terms.. evolving

me: so u think fate exists!

BLACK: i doubt it... but freewill doesnt exist

me: Thats self contradictory!

BLACK: if you name the design as fate, uh! then it exists

10:24 PM how?

only either f them can live... is that you are gonna say?

me: If there is no free will, then the system should have a pre-determined outcome

BLACK: so?

10:25 PM me: So if you say no to free will, then the system is headed in one direction alone!

After observing her for years i can say for sure that she is the last person you could expect to go in a pointed way! :D

She's a goddamn freak

10:26 PM BLACK: thats where i get too confused... we are given choices, but they are limited.. we are anologous to a programmed PC.

or we want her to move in a freaky manner!!!

10:27 PM me: No.. Its just an observation.

BLACK: or preoccupied to take that she can even travell towards a single end point!!!

me: like observing a baby doing something silly and then you find yourself getting attracted to her doing that same silly thing

10:28 PM BLACK: might be we are observing her just for a brief time span... better if we could ask ants or amoeba!

me: Time and space mean nothing

10:29 PM BLACK: ]still you didnt answer to my question; why most of the men believe that evolution took place jut to create them as the end!!

me: Lets get back. What's your stand?

Because they are stupid.

10:30 PM There is no end of evolution.

We still evolve

BLACK: infinity came, wen we shrinked our limits...

then why scientists are in a hurry that they are the brightest species on earth & tht they can solve the misteries of nature!

10:32 PM me: Solving the mysteries don't make them a special creation. Even if we find the GUT, nature wouldn't give a damn. The law is same for both HIV and Harish.

The discussion continued... Consequence of joblessness. Hail Recession!

Static friction and motion.

This is the first so-called technical post i am posting in this blog. I started this blog to capture my thoughts regularly and register it in cyberspace so that the future-parth might look at it at some other or same part of the world. Hence this is basically like a bunch of letters to my future which is also open to others. Physics is bound to occupy a significant portion in my letters. Feel free to question or criticize any part. Or you might also like to click that red hot button at the top right corner. A wise decision, i'd say.
How do we walk? How does an automobile move?
Though one might be tempted to say its the force and 'power' of the engine, the actual force that propels a vehicle or a cheetah on the trail of a deer is friction. This is because for a system comprising the entire accelerating vehicle, the only external unbalanced force on flat surface is friction. And Newton dictates that only an external force can accelerate a rigid body. Friction propelling a vehicle.!! I got over this stunning fact an year ago-just in my third year BE, after two years of getting awarded an A in Engineering Mechanics- i already mentioned this. Another interesting thing i realized was that you can apply The Three divine laws for any part of a body or object. You are the designer of the system by choosing its boundaries. Just consider the crank shaft as the system and you would see the piston's force is an external one. Consider the engine as a whole and you may safely dispose off the complex interactions as "Ah. They are all silly internal forces. The engine's COM wouldn't budge". Nature sees to that it follows the Laws faithfully in all the systems you might think of defining. There is no preferred system. If you go deep into physics, you would repeatedly encounter this "There is no preferred x". That's one of her main attractions. An inherent impartiality. Of course there are limitations to Newtonian mechanics-quantum and relativity say hi then- yet a large part of the sense experiences are beautifully explained by Newton.


Now i was confronted with another doubt. A force has to do work to increase the Kinetic energy of the body right? If static friction is what is propelling the vehicle, it has to do work. But work cannot be done if the point of application doesn't move. Since it is static friction, there is no movement of the contact point. Hell.! I raised this question as a related one in a Physicsforums thread. Doc Al's explanation and subsequent contemplation led me to an interesting scenario which i am describing here; which is also there in that thread.
Imagine two hemispheres joined together loosely; the upper and lower hemispheres are connected by long strings. So initially the strings are flaccid. Now the conjoined hemispheres- are placed on a surface with a hemispherical cup to accommodate the lower hemisphere. Now an explosive placed inside the sphere is triggered. The lower part cannot move initially and the upper part alone shoots up wholly due to the internal force of the explosive. As for the application of newton's laws goes, the system's COM accelerates due to the normal force from the surface. Since work done requires the movement of the point of application, it is done only by the internal force increasing the KE of the upper hemisphere. Then the moving upper hemisphere pulls the lower one through the string which is also an internal force. This is what happens while walking too, i think.
So work needn't be done by the external force to increase the KE of a body. I was wrong in thinking so. It just needs to exist. When you crouch and jump, the normal force-the only unbalanced external force- merely prevents your legs from going into the surface while allowing-or shall we say remain a spectator to- the upward motion of the part of the body above the knees that results from the work done by the muscles-internal force-. Then after a few moments, your feet also rises up because the part of the body already hoisted up will now pull the feet too which didn't initially agree to join it-Again. internal force-.
Friction acts like a bridge to convert the wheels' rotational energy to the vehicle's total kinetic energy; i.e., allowing internal forces to do work on one part of the system while preventing it from doing the same on the other. This is the critical point and the fruit of my contemplation. The reason for today's happiness. A good night kiss from her.!

Interesting Excerpts-1

In this column, i am going to post interesting excerpts of certain books.
Thinner -Stephen King
The protagonist Billy Halleck, initially obese, begins to lose weight rapidly after a Gypsy curses him for running his car over his daughter. How he manages to find the Gypsy when he finds that things are getting out of control and what happens later are unworthy of mentioning here. Just the usual fiction stuff. Though the book as a whole didn't attract me much, this particular part caught me off-guard. It made me think what life is exactly. I haven't even come remotely close to the answer but who gives a damn for the answer anyway.?! The search is the sexiest part and this excerpt was one of the main reasons that i started the search. I don't think it will ever have an end. Thats the beauty of life.

Now over to SK!
Background: Halleck approaches a physician- Houston, who says his blood tests don't indicate cancer. So what else is the problem, he wonders and asks him..

'You don't understand it,' he said. 'I don't understand it, either. But in this business I see a lot of things I don't understand. A friend of mine who's a neurosurgeon in the city called me in to look at some extraordinary cranial X rays about three years ago. A male student at George Washington University came in to see him because he was having blinding headaches. They sounded like typical migraines to my colleague - the kid fit the personality type to a tee - but you don't want to screw around with that sort of thing because headaches like that are symptomatic of cranial brain tumors even if the patient isn't having phantom olfactory referents -smells like shit, or rotten fruit, or old popcorn, or whatever. So my buddy took a full X-ray series, gave the kid an EEG, sent him to the hospital to have a cerebral axial tomography. Know what they found out?'

Halleck shook his head.

'They found out that the kid, who had stood third in his high-school class and who had been on the dean's list every semester at George Washington University, had almost no brain at all. There was a single twist of cortical tissue running up through the center of his skull - on the X rays my colleague showed me, it looked for all the world like a macrame drape-pull - and that was all. That drape-pull was probably running all of his involuntary functions, everything from breathing and heart rate to orgasm. Just that one rope of brain tissue. The rest of the kid's head was filled with nothing but cerebrospinal fluid. In some way we don't understand, that fluid was doing his thinking. Anyway, he's still excelling in school, still having migraines, and still fitting the migraine personality type. If he doesn't have a heart attack in his twenties or thirties that kills him, they'll start to taper off in his forties.'
Houston pulled the drawer open, took out the cocaine, and took some. He offered it to Halleck. Halleck shook his head.

'Then,' Houston resumed, 'about five years ago I had an old lady come into the office with a lot of pain in her gums. She's died since. If I mentioned the old bitch's name, you'd know it. I took a look in there and Christ Almighty, I couldn't believe it. She'd lost the last of her adult teeth almost ten years before - I mean, this babe was pushing ninety - and here was a bunch of new ones coming up ... five of them in all. No wonder she was having gum pain, Billy! She was growing a third set of teeth. She was teething at eighty-eight years of age.'

'What did you do?' Halleck asked. He was hearing all of this with only a very limited part of his mind - it flowed over him, soothing, like white noise, like Muzak floating down from the ceiling in a discount department store. Most of his mind was still dealing with relief - surely Houston's cocaine must be a poor drug indeed compared to the relief he was feeling. Halleck thought briefly of the old Gypsy with the rotten nose, but the image had lost its darkish, oblique power.

'What did I do?' Houston was asking. 'Christ, what could I do? I wrote her a prescription for a drug that's really nothing more than a high-powered form of Num-Zit, that stuff you put on a baby's gums when it starts to teethe. Before she died, she got three more in - two molars and a canine.

'I've seen other stuff, too, a lot of it. Every doctor sees weird shit he can't explain. But enough of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The fact is, we don't understand very goddamn much about the human metabolism. There are guys like Duncan Hopley ... You know Dunc?'
Halleck nodded. Fairview's chief of police, rouster of Gypsies, who looked like a bush-league Clint Eastwood.

'He eats like every meal was his last one,' Houston said. 'Holy Moses, I never seen such a bear for chow. But his weight sticks right around one-seventy, and because he's six feet tall, that makes him just about right. He's got a souped-up metabolism; he's burning the calories off at twice the pace of, let's say, Yard Stevens.'

Halleck nodded. Yard Stevens owned and operated Heads Up, Fairview's only barber shop. He went maybe three hundred pounds. You looked at him and wondered if his wife tied his shoelaces.

'Yard is roughly the same height as Duncan Hopley,' Houston said, 'but the times I've seen him at lunch, he's just picking at his food. Maybe he's a big closet eater. Could be. But I'd guess not. He's got a hungry face, you know what I mean?'
Billy smiled a little and nodded. He knew. Yard Stevens looked, in his mother's phrase, 'like his food wasn't doing him any good.'

'I'll tell you something else, too - although I s'pose it's tales out of school. Both of those men smoke. Yard Stevens claims a pack of Marlboro Lights a day, which means he probably smokes a pack and a half, maybe two. Duncan claims he smokes two packs of Camels a day, which could mean he's doing three, three and a half. I mean, did you ever see Duncan Hopley without a cigarette in his mouth or in his hand?'
Billy thought about it and shook his head. Meanwhile; Houston had helped himself to another blast. 'Gah, that's enough of that,' he said, and slammed the drawer shut with authority.

'Anyway, there's Yard doing a pack and a half of low-tar cigarettes a day, and there's Duncan doing three packs of black lungers every day - maybe more. But the one who's really inviting lung cancer to come in and eat him up is Yard Stevens. Why? Because his metabolism sucks, and metabolic rate is somehow linked to cancer.

'You have doctors who claim that we can cure cancer when we crack the genetic code. Some kinds of cancer, maybe. But it's never going to be cured completely until we understand metabolism. Which brings us back to Billy Halleck, the Incredible Shrinking Man. Or maybe the Incredible Mass-Reducing Man would be better. Not Mass-Producing; Mass-Reducing.' Houston laughed a strange and rather stupid whinnying laugh, and Billy thought: If that's what coke does to you, maybe I'll stick to Ring-Dings.

'You don't know why I'm losing weight.'

'Nope.' Houston seemed pleased by the fact