Here I’m again… trying to start blogging for I guess the gazillionth time. Hope it lasts longer this time round. A friend of mine from college insisted that I start again. So here we go…

Currently playing in iTunes: Yellow by Coldplay

Was jus browsing TIME and found this article which had a list of 100 Best All-TIME films and Soundtracks and was
thrilled to see Roja in it.

Roja:Though he is renowned as the preeminent composer of modern Bollywood, A.R.Rahman was born and still works in Madras, 1,000 miles south of Bombay. His Tamil compatriot, the writer-director Mani Ratnam, yanked him out of jingle-writing to compose his first full score for Roja (The Rose) the tale of a woman whose lover is kidnapped by terrorists.

Through this grim political parable, Rahman laced some spectacular melodies that not only serve the drama, they create their own[EM]as in the duet ballads “Yeh Haseen Vadiyan” and “Roja Jaaneman,” which first are grounded in recitative, then suddenly ascend into celestial melody.

This astonishing debut work parades Rahman’s gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman. He plays with reggae and jungle rhythms, fiddles with Broadway-style orchestrations, runs cool variations on Morricone’s scores for Italian
westerns.

Source: Time

technorati tags: Roja, A.R.Rehman, Mani Ratnam

This is an article published in the Information Week Magazine about the growing IT industry in India. It is really thought provoking. It talks about the kind of grads the engineering colleges in India are churning out, their ability to work and stuff.

Click Here To Read The Article

For about a week I have been reading ‘The Tristan Betrayal’ by ‘Robert Ludlum‘ (FYI author of The Bourne Identity and Supremacy) and when it came down to the climax, the main character in the book, Metcalfe was not able to protect his love from the soviets and they execute her….it was very emotional and I started tearing…and I never realised that I could do so jus by reading a book.

So I have a question: How protective should one be with someone they love the most?

My day started off at the Helpdesk with a caller who was like “My internet is not working” duh!!! After all thats what everyone calls for.

So I start troubleshooting by asking her to open the RESNET(RESidential NETwork) page. Generally, ppl have to run a wizard which checks if their system has all the latest patches from Micro$oft and that they r virus free so that they dont cause any harm to the the university network. So I tell her to click on the link there to download the wizard and she was like “I dont see any link here” I jus see a screen it says click next.” Such a dumbo…she was referring to the screenshot of the wizard posted there. Had her clear her temp files and cookies and guess wat…she was able to open Yahoo! now…so much for my net is not working.
Next caller….calls up and says I installed Mcafee antivirus(given by our univ) and now my internet explorer and windows media player are not working…big deal..so what should I do?…all the students in the univ are using it and we have no reports whatsoever of the AV software breaking up IE….So she says whole of yesterday I have been calling up Microsoft and Dell and they refer back to each other….guess she got the RU Screw*…lol. So they couldn’t solve her problem and she called us. She sounded very annoyed and so was I cos she said that she needs to check the bus schedule while listening to music !!! She was telling me over and over what the M$ and Dell guys asked her to do and I kept telling her that our s/w wouldn’t have done that (She was running XP Home with SP2)….anyways I ask her to restart in safe mode and voila…they both work…so I tell her to uninstall McAfee…as soon as she did that both IE and WMP worked…so I thought maybe its McAfee thats causing the problems and I had her install Clamwin AV and guess what…they broke down again….so told her thats its a problem with her systgem and asked her to uninstall Clam AV…and SHE HUNG UP ON ME X-(

All the other callers were fine. Anyways I am done with work now….need to deposit my paychecks and get back home..