Well, it is written! Isn't it? at 10:03 PM

Slumdog has done it again! Importantly A.R.Rehman and Resul Pookutty has done it.The film, set in the slums of Mumbai (Bombay), won eight awards in total, including gongs for best adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound mixing, film editing, best original score, best song, best Derector, and Best film. Here are the acceptance speeches by Oscar winning Indians.

Resul Pookutty along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp: (Sound Mixing)
This is unbelievable. We can't believe this. Ladies and gentlemen... sorry... I share the stage with two magicians, you know, who created the very ordinary sounds of Bombay, the cacophony of Bombay, into a soul-stirring, artful resonance called Slumdog Millionaire.
I come from a country and a civilization that given the universal word. That word is preceded by silence, followed by more silence. That word is "Om." So I dedicate this award to my country. Thank you, Academy, this is not just a sound award, this is history being handed over to me. My sincere and deepest gratitude to my teachers, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, Paul Ritchie, Pravesh... and everybody who has contributed to this film, Glenn Freemantle and all the sound mixers. I dedicate this to you guys. Thank you, Academy. Thank you very much.

A.R. Rahman: (Best Music Score)

Before coming, I was excited and terrified. The last time I felt like that was during my marriage. There's a dialogue from a Hindi film called "Mere paas ma hai," which means "I have nothing but I have a mother," so mother's here, her blessings are there with me. I am grateful for her to have come all the way. And I want to thank the Academy for being so kind, all the jury members. I want to thank Sam Schwartz, I/D PR, all the crew of Slumdog, Mr. Gulzar, Raqueeb Alam, Blaaze, my musicians in Chennai and Mumbai. And I want to tell something in Tamil, which says, which I normally say after every award which is... "God is great." Thank you.

A.R. Rahman:(Best Song, written by Gulzar)
I just want to thank again the whole crew of Slumdog Millionaire, especially Danny Boyle for giving such a great opportunity. And the whole, all the people from Mumbai. The essence of the film which is about optimism and the power of hope in the lives, and all my life I had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I'm here. God bless.

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Dev D at 10:47 AM

Warning! Its not a movie to go with the parents for its bold narration and sexuallly explicit content/dialouges.



This is a kind of movie people rate either too high or too low (0-1 or 4-5 on scale of 5) depending on the reviewer. I will give it 4 on 5. Why? For the way the director handled a story which is well know to everyone in India. Also for the way he used real life incidents like DPS MMS scandal, BMW hit and run case to elevate the story. Like the new age cricket, its the new age Bollywood cinema. This is a kind of movie which can act as ice- Breaker, for more bold movies to come.

The story is almost same as the traditional Devdas. Dev has a childhood lover Paro. Dev leaves for London for his studies, but keeps in touch with her.Later, He returns back to India. Meets Paro. Misunderstands Paro. He tries to keep her away and cheats her. Later he realizes his mistake but his ego doesn't let him confess. She got pissed of and she marries someone else.In frustration he ruins his life slowly with Vodka and Coke.

Enter Lenni, the rich school girl. She features in an MMS scandal, and got rejected even by her own family. With no other option left for her, she fell into prostitution trap and changes her name to Chanda. The drunken Dev meets her, and starts liking her, meanwhile also get drug addicted. He finds himself in a position where he is not sure whom he loves.Rest of story is about who he chooses.

The movie doesn't have a saperate comedy track, but makes up with witty and bold dialogues. The songs in movie mostly come in background and blends well with the story.

The director Anurag Kashyap deserves credit for the way he showed the suffering of Dev (Abhay Deol) in a whole new way(Immersing his head in a bucket of water and breathing out blood. Yes! Sounds horrible but looks great on the silver screen).

While the film has bold narration, to its credit, somewhere the it missed connection with the characters, the only downside.

What people say & what they mean at 7:48 AM

While aimlessly browsing i came across this very interesting article.

While people say something on youy face, they mean something else in their mind. Here are some of them.


You are cool : You know to mind your own business. You better continue to mind your business.

You are a good learner : You have lot to learn, my boy! What have you been doing all these years?!

You have good business knowledge : Learn atleast one technology, for God's sake, you good for nothing!

You are big hearted : What else can I tell about you? I better not comment about your brains!

You are easy going : Grow up, my boy! Take some responsilities !

You are hardworking (When it comes from your manager) : I expect you at office next weekend. We have agreed for weekend support.

You have a good sense of humour : I am fed up. I will not laugh on any of your stinking Jokes.

You are a quiet guy : Idiot!

You are caring : Mind your own business. I don't need your suggestions!

You have a very different perspective : I could never understand you. Are you a weirdo or something?

You are creative : Stop day dreaming and do whatever your lead says.

You understand people : Why do you allow people shit on you?!

WINDOWS 7 at 10:46 AM

Windows 7, the next Microsoft OS, is aimed at the normal users of computer. It promises to have much faster boot time (although it took same time right as my XP, Maybe since its in beta phase). My first impression is much better than i had with VISTA.

The Interface. The Aero interface is now much improved than in Vista, and, interestingly it runs on even older Intel GMA chips (which were precluded in Vista)

Windows Explorer now includes a desktop sideshow that changes the desktop background in a designated amount of time. The OS also features new apps like sticky notes, XPS viewer, Snipping tool.

Calculator features two new modes Programmer and Statistics. Paint interface revamed, and many more visual upgrades for several common things.

A variety of new keyboard shortcuts have been introduced.

• Win+P shows an "external display options" selector that gives the user the choice of showing the desktop on only the computer's screen, only the external display, on both at the same time (mirroring), or on both displays with independent desktops (extending).
• Win+Space operates as a keyboard shortcut for Aero Peek.
• Win+Up and Win+Down are new shortcuts for Maximize and Restore/Minimize.
• Win+Left and Win+Right snap the current window to the left or right half of the current display.
• Win+Shift+Left and Win+Shift+Right move the current window to the left or right display.
• Win+T provides keyboard focus to the taskbar, then cycles the keyboard focus through taskbar items. Win+1 through Win+5 provide immediate shortcuts to the first five taskbar items.
• Win+G displays all the Gadgets above other windows.
• Win+ + and Win+ - zoom the desktop in and out.

The Windows Taskbar has seen its most significant revision since its introduction in Windows 95. The taskbar is 10 pixels taller than in Windows Vista to accommodate a new larger default icon
size, though a smaller taskbar size is available. Running applications are denoted by a border frame around the icon, while applications can be pinned to the taskbar, so that shortcuts to them appear when they are not running. Within this border, a color effect (dependent on the predominant RGB value of the icon) that follows the mouse also indicates the opened status of the application. The taskbar is also transparent.

In order to take advantages of the capabilities and unique performance characteristics of solid-state drives, Windows 7 will turn off Windows Disk Defragmentor and will make use of a new SSD TRIM command to more aggressively erase deleted data so that it won't need to be done later when new data is written to the same block. Windows 7 will also format a partition on an SSD differently from a mechanical hard disk drive.

Windows 7 incorporates support for Microsoft Virtual PC's Virtual Hard Disk file format. VHD files can be mounted as drives, created, and booted from.

There are many other features originating in Windows 7, including advancements in touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, and kernel improvements.

With performance and features improving so much, you cant expect it to run on low end machines. Here the minimum requirements.