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Amazing kid...

Hey, I just got this new video from one of my friend.(courtesy:anupama). This kid is amazing and the best i liked about this chap his fingers were awesomely rolling like the dancers on the skates.. what a talent...if beethoven had seen him playing his fur elise, he wud have loved it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVc2tHCdLQ Video Description "When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." -- Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted by Bettina von Arnin, letter to Goethe, 1810 "...And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. —John F. Kennedy (eligarf)" kalakare da chotu...i salute you for your

Chuck and Wilson....

Hi, I have been collecting DVDs of few great movies and adding them to my personal collection ( I like to see the all-time top 100 movies and read the all-time best sellers during my lifetime) and in this blog i would like to describe about one such movie which is all-time classic. By the title of my blog, most of you would have picked the title of the movie. Yes indeed it is "Cast Away". Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland who works for FedEx, who is struck by a disaster and a dramatic escape only to have the most traumatic stay in the islands. The beauty of the director and the actor, they have beautifully pictured the way the man who forces himself to live and win the situation. The way Chuck searches for drinking water, creates fire to eat his fish, builds the shelter, calculates the ropes required to march on is awesome. Wilson (the volleyball) plays a crucial role and in fact plays the role of mute listener (equivalent of K balachander's use of irumbal thatha in edhir neec

Countdown and Calypso...

This would be my first world cup after '83 when kapil's devils came back with the prudential's and i still remember the celebrations back home when "jaggu mama" woke me up said india has won. I was a kid aged 5 then, but still that was the best victories which reminds me as though i had won (In fact, that marked the beginning of Cricket as the religion which had its origin in india). Here in the so-called mecca of cricket at lords, i don't see the same celebrations/fever which we have for the cricket world cup. Cricket to me is one of the "C which i liked and has been inherited from the "gora log" next to janu's coffee and cinema. Date 06 feb 1985, i still remember we (ofcourse in the company of ram) really bugged my father AVR during the world series (remember ravi shastri got an audi car...), finally came in Mr BPL to our home. I lost my first teeth, injury on the forehead, ram's broken thumb all still linger in my memory. Cricket in t

Are we not fortunate ??...

I am writing this article with heavy heart, as i have been contemplating the purpose of life for more than a week before writing this piece. I was watching TV the other day (rarely i see TV these days except for comedy soaps viz., friends/scrubs etc), there was a program on extra-ordinary people and to my irony they were showing a documentary on the people who are literally not grown on ages for very long time. I was not able to digest that girls and boys who were shown that series were not grown as full-fledged as we are, but their growth was struck by some syndrome (i am not going into the medicine/biology here). But the greatest shock to me, was a lady (a mother) had both the kids which are afflicted by the syndrome. The best part of it was the children were accepted as normal in their schools, but still the kids have the anxiety (which is very much visible in their watered eyes...) that they could not live their lives as others (probably like us)... Though we might have suspicions/

iPhone

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Innovation is to apple is what invention was to edison. I was completely amazed by the pics of iPhone which were published in apple's website. Though the sleek design resmbles me of Nokia N-series, the user-interface and touch screen display would provide the competitive edge similar to the case of ipods and other Mp3 players. The use of safari browser indicates another classic feature in this handheld stuff. I am waiting for the release to check my company releases this version as well. /Lakshman i have provided few sample pics. you can also check this is apple site.