Invisiblity

long time back in my school days we were craze about a TV show called Invisible Man... this show is all about a man who uses some magic chemical that makes him invisible and he uses his special power of invisiblity to help others... that was a great imagination by the director during that time... and this show kindled my dreams lot of time in which i was becoming invisible and doin lot of crazy things... but as time changes and technology advances now recently i came across an article which says that a research team in Purdue university has designed a optical cloaking device which makes things invisible to visible spectrum for single frequency / wavelenght which they are now trying to expand for all the frequencies / wavelengths... if they achieve sucess in this then my child hood imaginations would become true.. assume what if this becomes a product... i believe soon some company will come forward and fund this project or even take over this team to build this powerfull device making humans invisible and sell it for huge amount... too much of fundoo imaginations coming into my mind as i write this... assume cloning is also achieved completely.... then we can see multiple versions of a single person.. this is in one direction and and with invisiblity we can see no versions of existing persons... this is in opposite direction... and to add more fuel to my imaginations.. if we can achieve cloning then within few years we can achieve cloning persons with more power like people having multiple hands / legs / eyes... and with more than one heart too.... this leads to another topic of preventing death for humans... which I believe can be acheived with the current progress in technology...ooops... this is going way beyond limits.... i hv to stop my imagination now... lets get back to the real world ....
more details about this cloaking is avaiilable in http://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2007a/070402ShalaevCloaking.html

work - life balance

ha ha... what am i talking about.. this is the recent fancy words ( or infact reasons ) most of the IT engineers are using in their day to day life i.e work life ;-)... what exactly work-life balance means... in my company too lot of initatives are taken from top management teams to ensure the employees enjoys a good work life balance... i m wondering why & how this trend has started ?? if we look into the previous generation jobs - for the fact my Dad was working as a Draftsman in Indian Railways ( central government job )... he enjoyed a great work-life balance without much knowledge on that.. this is because of the regular work timing and the less work pressure he had and the most important thing the self - discipline he maintained in the work.. but the current generation jobs are putting lot of pressure on us and forces us to work more than the regular work timings... and the flexi timing concept which is suppose to help us is making our lifes worse... this flexi timing concept induces the thought that we can come in any time & leave out any time... which automatically makes us to come and go late... as the work pressure increases we tend to come early but going late remains the same.... :-(
i hv seen people in my present ( previous jobs too ) who use to strech more than 12 hours ( even 18 hours too ) in front of the dumb idiot box ( hope u know wat i m refering )..
so to conclude its us who destroyed our work life balance and again its us who are trying to restore it back... to enjoy a good work life balance we need to maintain a self disciple.. we need to understand our work pressure and plan accordingly... never compromise on the personal side... :-O

Proud moment

Today our country's space agency ISRO has acheived a major milestone by launching its indegineous launch vehicle with foriegn payload ( which only very few other countries has done ).. yes what u read is true.. India has launched its PSLV - C8 with an italian satellite and our own satellite into the orbit.. thought it has already launched a few other foriegn satellites with its launch vehicle previously those all were of small ones with limited scope and functionalities.... but this one is more than a regular satelite with tons of functionalities which made a break-thru in our space programmes.. ISRO got a great aplause from the entire nation.. not to mention thou from our President too... who is a major inspiration for such events...

the entire article featuring this launch is availble in the link
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200704231611.htm

Tamil Cinema - current trend

the current tamil cinema field is going through a down time.. this is tough to believe but thats the truth . this is clearly visible from the new releases that happened for this tamil new year.. usually in a calendar year , the tamil new year is celebrated as a auspicious date for movie releases.. this is the trend i was seeing from my child hood days... but what happened this time... no big movies... infact the number of movies released for this most celebrated event is too less compared to the numbers in the past few years... lot of movies with big budget and senior hero's are in the line up - few to name... sivaji , dasavatharam , bhema , billa , etc..
hope after the release of these movies the current trend in the tamil movies will change... and to worse the situation , the remake trend is picking up too well now the almost 50 % of the movies we see these days are either dubbed directly or re-made in tamil from other languages... and with stars like Vijay and Jeyam Ravi ( Remake Ravi ) opting for remakes compared to own productions , lot others are following the same... lets hope this changes soon and we see more originality in these people and in our movies....

Sivaji - Update

by this time everyone wld hv heard the songs of SIVAJI... hope everyone likes it as i do... specifically the lyrics of the first song ( i believe its the intro for thalaivar ).. suriyano chandirano... thats my current ring tone in my new moto rokr e6...it really rocks with this ring tone :-)... now with the songs , lot of screensavers and wallpapers of the super star and the movie stills are available in the net.. for all those digital fans its definitely a big treat...
now most of the magazines are showing their creativity by publishing its own version of 'SIVAJI PUNCH' dialogs.. some of them are too comical as the original punch song in the movie... the smaller one among the 7 songs...

recently i saw Arunachalam in sun-tv , a good recap of our thalaivar's style and puch dialogs... with shankar's team we can expect more than that in this movie...

the latest update is that the movie is going to be released in mid of May..
the re-recording is almost completed. the sivaji countdown has begun...

more updates about the movie can be found at its original blog
http://www.rajini-in-sivaji.com/