Out of the dark, comes the who???

One month ago, there was a video one of my friends had uploaded into his pod,that all the others seemed very much interested in.Only later did i come to know that it was the trailer of a movie that was supposed to be releasing some twenty days from that day(which was a week ago!!!).Yet,when i heard the movie name i wasn't really interested in anything about it.After all,it was the movie of the super hero i never really liked,let alone the others in the cast.Now after all these days i realize i couldn't have been more mistaken.Because,today morning i got to see the movie along with three friends of mine(two of them were seeing it for the second time,and yet they were on the edge of their seats right through).And that really did make me interested in THE BATMAN.I wouldn't really call it a Super Hero movie though .Guess,what I'd call it??? A Super Villain movie(You must see Ledger saying 'Why so serious' with a wicked smile in his face to get what i mean!!!) .After all that my friend had said about his performance this past week,it really amazes me how a man can appear to be so casual when giving one of the greatest performances ever(Unfortunately his last too!!).Let's hope he gets the Oscar for his 'swan song' of a performance.But,of course he has given good performance earlier which,however would be no match to this.Okay,let's forget the Joker(i really can't).Every one in this cast was really awesome ,playing their part to perfection.I don't want to spoil the story by telling it here,but those who are curious can always ask wiki!!!And to complete the title now,Outta of the dark comes the KNIGHT(i really hope he keeps coming and Joker too!!!)

The Devil's alternative

'Shche ne vmerla ukraina'

Translated into English,this means 'The Ukraine will live again".What this has to do with my post here,I'll tell you as this post goes.I have been reading 'The Devil's Alternative' by Fredrick Forsyth for nearly three months now,the extent can be explained due to the fact that i was having my college internal exams and the semester exams during this time.But,i started reading it more seriously once my exams had concluded,after May 28th that is.Today i finished it and i felt that Forsyth is one who suited my taste of books.

The story actually can not be summed up in two lines,i guess.It actually starts of with the finding of a castaway,who is later found to be an Ukranian freedom fighter by one of the important characters Andrew drake,by a ship captain.Both of them form a group of four,the other two being the freedom fighter,Kaminsky's friends from Ukraine. They together plan to make some damage to the Russian economy.Meanwhile,Russia faces famine because of a small mistake by two or three officers and badly needs some help from the West.Maxim rudin,the chief of politburo(the governing body of Russia),wants to ask the american president Mathews his help whereas his own comrade,Vishnayev wants to go to war and invade from Europe the food supplies they badly needed.Each of them have their own supporters and Rudin hangs on with his support leading 8 to 4...Somewhere else,the British agent in Russia comes to know of these secrets deep in the heart of the politburo from his youth lover,Valentina.He indirectly lets the American president know whatever he comes to know from his love.The Ukrainians succeed in their ploy of killing Yury Ivanenko,the chief of KGB,and want to make this public once the two Ukrainians who did this are safe in Israel.In another part of the world,the largest tanker ship with a capacity of 100 million tonnes of oil,the FREYA is being built.The Americans and Russians decide to sign the Treaty of Dublin so that Russia gets its badly needed food supply from America.The two killers,who still haven't made their deed public, are arrested for a flight kidnapping charge they committed in their desperation to leave Russia.Maxim rudin comes to know that these two were no ordinary killers and realizes the danger in leaving them free and decides to kill them in the jails of east berlin,were they are being held.Andrew Drake forms another group of seven and decides to do something to get the two prisoners free.He,along with his members,hijack the Freya,which is near the Dutch port to deliver its million tons of oil and makes his demands and threats.Finally,the Americans and the Europeans fail to come up with a plan while Adam Munro has something in mind.He lets the British prime minister,American president and the Politburo chief to know his plan and gets Rudin's assent.Successfully,FREYA is left unscathed and the Ukrainians are killed in their escape and no one in the whole world knew what deed they committed.The story ends with a twist relating to Valentina,which if i mentioned here will spoil the thrill to the reader.

I initially wondered how this many pieces could fit into the same story,but now i must admit,it is the thing which made me love this book.

FINALLY!!!!

Nearly a month of boredom,twenty five days of the 'so called' hard work,some hundred hours of sleep in between,two weeks of anxiety and headache and pressure,and a week of utter nonsense.Finally it's over.It's time to give out a sigh of relief.The consequences,or the results,to be more precise can be thought of later,at least in my case.I am sure most of you figure out what am talking about.But if you haven't done still,it's about my recently concluded annual exam in college(no semester pattern for the first years).What else???Super Kings manage to inch through into the final four in the Indian premier league,but largely due to the excellent start they got in the tournament.Thankfully, i need not worry about killing time in these holidays because of the ongoing IPL and the upcoming EURO 08.And coming to Euro,i am really impressed with the Portuguese line up,which has 'DECO NANI CARVALHO RICARDO' among the others.Wondering why i haven't mentioned the 'so called' player of the decade 'CRistiano Ronaldo'??Well,i loathe him.Anyways now that he's the Portuguese skipper,i must only hope that he does well.The Other sides which my bets are on are GERMANY and NETHERLANDS and of course France and Italy have always done well in this stage.Let us see what happens..
And i got to watch "THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM" starring Jet li and Jackie chan among others.I liked the movie and was amazed by the stunt sequences in the film.But the story line could have been a bit more realistic..

Emotions????

Sometimes, somethings are better left unsaid.Take a look at this...

The Eyes

Actually,i was bored with 'i did this-i did that' sorta posts and thought I'd try something a bit emotional this time.I had plenty of time to try though,thanks to my so called STUDY HOLIDAYS.I am not sure if it is a good try though....

"Life,was full of questions for him.He always kept wondering,why he was here.The answers kept coming,but their defects, even better. He never talked much,always questioning himself,'why this?' and 'why that?'.It all changed one day,when he found the answers for his infinite queries.The day,which he thought,defined the purpose of his life.Even now,after this many years,he wonders 'how could two white ellipses with circles within them,mean so much' to him.Everything changed that day.Whenever,he wanted to be heard,he was;Whenever,he wanted to be understood,he was.when,he wanted a reply,he got one.
Today,nearly 6 decades later,as he looked into those eyes again,but for one last time,he saw all those moments of joy and sorrow;he thought of the happiness they had shared and the sadness they had divided between themselves,tears of mixed emotions that they had shed.And yet,after these many years,it amazed him how much he loved those eyes of her.As he started to drift into eternity,as he contemplated that this was the last time he would see them,he realized that those were faster than his by seconds....."

RAhMaNiA???!!!!!!

It's Sunday evening and i am looking at Ishanth Sharma running in to bowl his first over in the match against Deccan chargers and on any other day i would've been glued to my seat without bothering about what's going on outside the 21 inches,but today isn't any other day,for some reason.I think about the next day ie. about the semester practical exams which i am scheduled to have and my casual attitude towards it.Things aren't going to get any better as far as my preparations are concerned and there is a reason behind it.I look at the clock and it's time for me to make a move.I get up,get started and catch the bus to my destination along with my mom.I get down and move inside just to see what lies ahead in the day:the place is crowded to the core and people are jostling with each other to get in.Now i am in and have to wait till it starts.In the mean time the no. of people keeps increasing and no one really cares if he/she has a place to sit or not.Now it's nearly time and after some Booms in the stage,Vijay athiraj comes running in and does what an anchor usually does when in Chennai,but the people are like "c'mon we're not here to see you, so please move on!!!!!",and finally he does.The One we are waiting for , makes his way to the center of the stage in his usual calm n composed manner and there he is.A.R Rahman is standing right before us,some 50 metre from me and addresses chennai in his lovable mother tongue.While many of us in the crowd are still wondering how someone that great could be this simple,he starts off the proceedings with his own number from Azhagiya Tamizh magan.From then on everything is in fast forward and a number of hit songs of his are sung by himself and many other renowned artists like Hariharan, Madhushree,Karthik,Nithyashree,Neethi Raman(this girl really amazed me with her dual talents),Shankar Mahadevan,Javed ali.The Concert finally comes to an end with 'vande matharam' and it is nearly 10.30 when i am out of the place.On my way back I wonder,'Is this what people call RahMania????'....

The BEautiful game At its BEst..

After trying hard not to dedicate a complete post to Soccer esp. premiership, i have to accept ma failure.Because now that we're reaching the business end of the season,the beautiful game is at its best.So i tell this,football maniacs go on,but others please think twice before doing so.Coming back to the point,I was never in ma life this much associated with this premiership (along with the champions league that is)thing ,but now it doesn't allow me to read nor sleep.I've been long breaking my head whether to be a BLue* or a Red*,but now i must take a decision.Because,both of them are in the semis of Uefa and go on head to head twice in the weeks to come.And this weekend we have a cracker of a contest between League leaders ManU and Arsene wenger's Gunners which could go a long way in deciding who the Champions are.And things aren't looking bad in Champion's league either.Three of the four teams in the semis i will support without any problems with the exception being ManU.But i really liked the way they played against Roma after their skipper's successful comeback after 13 months.I really liked the way Giggs came running n gave him the Traditional arm band which was waiting to go back into its real master's arms.
With the stage set for a number of cracking contests,ManU and Chelsea will be on their Quest for eternal glory this season,now that a FA cup victory is ruled out for both the teams.But now i have decided who am gonna support though:the side which will try n reach its fourth final in five years under rafa.Anything for Steven G.