Archive for May, 2007

IIT divas rocking performance… Aha, nice try!!

Monday, May 28th, 2007

“IIT divas rocking performance” the mail said. And the URL read “IIT divas rocking performance a fest , awesome performance! sure can give Shakira a run for their money:)”. Got the mail forward from two different persons. Am sure in a couple of days and will get it from other sources also. The song is too good. But the video is not outstanding (of course, no one can appreciate such performances after watching Alizee’s live performances’ videos), but considering (for now) that the performance is by a non-celebrity, people (and me too) appreciated it.

As some of you might be knowing, its difficult to decieve “the googling machine of Deepak” (For those who dont know, I google about anything and everything, just to have the pleasure of reading about stuff around in the world). It turns out that the lady in the video is neither a IITian, neither a student, neither an Indian, neither a non-celebrity….. She is a famous singer from Pakistan, called Annie.

Looks like http://www.youtopia.in/ wants some quick publicity and trying it this way. Nice Try.

Any how I thank youtopia for shouting out about this song. Here is the youtube video of the live performance :

And the original video :

Lyrics can be found at : http://www.banglacommunity.com/showthread.php?p=20893

Let me know if you like the song too.

Innovative Multiplex… “Innovative” by name

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Last week I (along with Raveendra and Sudipta) visited Innovative Multiplex, here in Bangalore, to watch Spider Man 3. Its in outskirt region of marathahalli. A painful process to reach there. Assuming the auto rickshaw’s meter was not tampered, it is about 20KM from our campus. Looks like it is targeted at IT and BPO crowd staying around, whose offices are located in White Field. And so obviously it would be overpriced and ticket for a monday matinee costed 170 rs. (Dunno whether weekend rates are same or not)

The sound system was excellent, one can experience it during the chase scenes. But size of the screen was very small, even for a normal movie, forget about a super hero movie. Never watch any super hero movie here.

The movie is equally disappointing. No plot. The black suit thing is a joke. I think it is inserted just to get some non-zero increase in merchandise sale. (Here is a related post about stupid spiderman merchandise. The spidey tooth brush and spidey neck tie are funny). Just well executed chases and ultra rich graphic work. Lets call it Hollywood version of Dhoom-2 (which served the only purpose of telling prospective producers, “how not to make a movie”).

Here are a few pics of the visit:

Innovative Multiplex

Spider Man @ Innovative Multiplex

Raveendra Holla Karkada
Holla doing some serious study on the way back.

Rubik’s and all of his cousin’s cubes

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

I have been bitten by Rubik’s bug, thanks to The Great Indian Rubik’s Challenge. I have won the challenge, by the way (was lazy to log it into the blog). I have read about Rubik’s Revenge and Professor’s Cube in the past, but today I discovered that there is more of this madness. See this video to see some more types of cubes, I mean pyramids and etc.

All Of My Twisty Puzzles - Watch more funny videos here