American History X

I recently saw a movie named ‘American History X’,which is a very good movie relating to the serious issue went on in 1980s and 1990s America . Nazism is topic discussed .Edward Norton(Derek Vinyard) Played a part of a Neo-Nazi .His Character potrays how he was dragged into the underground group when his father(Russ),a firefighter was killed by the black who was the drug dealer while fighting fire.The story revolves around a family on which his brother Danny is influenced by Derek after a dinnertime discussion which is very important in this movie and Danny launches his racist diatribe. That night, three black men park in front of the Vinyard house and break into Derek's car. His younger brother, Danny, hears them and informs Derek, telling him that a black man was stealing his car. Derek shoots one of the men, killing him, and wounds a second. The third escapes in their car. Derek kills the wounded man by ordering him to place his mouth on the curb and then stomps on the back of his head.

While Danny Was very much influenced by this and starts to write a paper on this issue. Derek is sentenced to three years in prison, charged with voluntary manslaughter.During this imprisonment he seeks a Aryan brotherhood for shelter.His white supremacist angry with his actions gang rape him. Derek makes the acquaintance of a black inmate named Lamont. Although he originally scorns Lamont, he gradually warms to him and after being raped, he sees that Lamont is his only friend and abandons the gang.Then Derek will be realesed on a payrole due to the former honor of his English Teacher Sweeney. The confession seems to prompt a change in Danny. They walk home and begin to change their ways, ripping down all their Neo-nazi posters and regalia on the bedroom wall. After showering, Derek looks at the Swastika on his chest, and puts a hand over it, showing how he has indeed changed. The next morning, Danny walks into his high school bathroom with his report on his brother, and is fatally shot several times in the chest. The gunman, a black youth, was previously involved in an altercation with Danny, when Danny stood up for a young white male being harassed by the black youth. Derek runs in and embraces his brother's body, crying uncontrollably. The film ends with shots of the beach at sunset, and Danny reciting the last lines of his essay he was going to turn in, a quote originally said by Abraham Lincoln.

It was a touching movie which had violence mixed with sentiments with all the happenings in America. Controversy developed over the film when director Tony Kaye attempted to remove his name from the credits, preferring to use the pseudonym Will Bryan the man who really wrote the film. The film is also controversial for it's violence and vulgarity.Do Watch the movie.The acting of Edward Norton is too good.

An article about blogs on Outlook Money

Hi,
frenzzzzzzz,there is an article about the current trend in blogs in the November edition of Outlook Money.Blogs now have become a full time job of making huge money through writting posts about a website, a product etc.,
What you need to earn money through blogs is a computer,an internet connection,a bit literacy to start blogging.Among a ocean of blogs in net only a very few are read,respected and talked about.To create,sustain a steady flow of traffic to your blogs

1. Make your content unique
2. Update regularly
3. Subscribe to RSS
4. Link to other bloggers
5. Keywords

Making money from your blogs can be done by textual,advertising,banners,widgets and other kinds of multimedia oriented blogs.There are many ways of getting Money.They are

1. Contextual advertising
2. Direct advertising
3. Affiliate Programmes
4. Content Syndication
5. PayPerPost

Blogging is not just about money,you can draw attention to issues in dat-today life.This all true-blooded bloggers would agree is the highest form of using the blog space.

Dragons with Wings - Existed?

Dragons remain fixtures in fantasy books, though portrayals of their nature differ.Contrary to most old folklore and literature J. R. R. Tolkien's dragons are very intelligent and can cast spells over mortals.These books greatly show the mind of a Dragon as well as their capabilties.These ideas were originally existed in the past.Proofs of it has been found in fossils in european countries.These proofs reveal that these dragons had wings for flight!!!!!!.Many may rise questions about whether these really existed.....yes they are.....how? here comes the answer....
Dragons inhale hydrogen in the atmosphere and store it in their hunches like bags which are placed in their chests.When they try to fly they exhale hydrogen.As we all know Hydrogen is the lightest element,it helps the dragon to fly when they use their wings.Also dragons is famous for their spitting fire.The jaws of the dragons are rich in platinum which when combine with the hydrogen emits fire.The dragons also cannot spit fire when in flight due to use of hydrogen for flight.Research is being done on this topic for the past 6 months...No one knows about the extinction of these dragons.

Another Double!!!!!!!!!

A double!!!!!!!

Insure Your Life!!!!Its Priceless

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Super Bowl XL

Seattle sufferred a crushing loss in Superbowl XL. They didnt play particularly well, but whenever they did, the refs threw a flag and killed their scoring drives. They took 2 touchdowns (both by Darell Jackson) back and called a hold on another completion which would have put us on the one yard line.

The refs screwed up bigtime and so did the league. Maybe the game was fixed to aide the Jerome Bettis homecoming cindrealla story; or they were influenced by Vegas bookmakers - who knows.

Free as a bird

I really like this cartoon a friend sent me. It reminds me of watching birds. They always seem to be having fun, soaring without a care in the world. Life can be simple for us, too,if we keep this attitude. How can God help us, like he does the birds, if we are too afraid to hand over the reigns? Let go of one thing you are worried about today and have faith that your higher power will work out all the kinks. You'll be amazed at how much more peaceful you will feel and how quickly the problem will work itself out. Imagine for a moment that you are free as bird... give yourself a break and let God take over.

ECE Rocked at Munnar

I call this tour 'a roller coaster ride'..........have u ever been on a tour without knowing when its gonna get over......i have been through.....We dont know where we r heading next......it was a pleasant surprise every moment luckily.....many call this tour not a well organised one.....but we took in a positive sense.....here comes the story.....
We started with getting the permission of the HOD, then vice principal,principal.......all these in a haphazard manner with thala k.sriram leading the way getting the nod from vice principal at last....We decided on a date which is 27th september to 2nd of october.....then We decided on the places of hill stations of Munnar,Thekkady etc.,We showed them the itinerary which has to be approved....here comes the first aapu.....they dint allow us for the hill stations...which we pleaded to our fullest potential....they dint allow us....the biggest tragedy is that the computerscience department went for the tour with fullest potential....then we decided to go on a unofficial tour with giving a fake itinerary to the department....tats wat happened....We booked the tickets and luckily we got all the tickets confirmed....we r all overjoyed and we started to prepare ourselves for the as it is the final year....27th september the count down started.....
Here comes the twist,then the government declared bandh on october 1st....so the principal wanted us to be in chennai by 31st september because of the security reasons....We got irritated as tickets has to be cancelled and new tickets has to be booked within two days,otherwise our tour will fade away to just dreams.....we accepted and then we told them tat if the bandh got cancelled.......we shall continue with our original schedule which was to kochi only to the department but we went to munnar as well......so we started on a tour without knowing the itinerary,schedule etc.,the first two days went smoothly and we were enjoying as we know that our tour is going to last for only 2 day.....so we were returning to the coimbatore railway station and we were heading back to chennai on 31st afternoon....we gave the bus driver something(vera enna maal than) to drive slowly so that we miss the train.....but an order came from the supreme court that bandh has been cancelled...We were overjoyed and we started to speak to the vice principal for the extension of the tour....but he replied in negative over the phone for the first time.....next time we talked straight to the principal....he said that he will consult with the vice principal...At last we got the nod from the principal after intense talk from the students side ,but they told us to saty in coimbatore....but again we broke the rule....as it is meant to be broken.....we went to ooty and enjoyed there with two full days there.......so its final year gethu,we proved to be more powerful............

TOTFL...........heard this

Friends,Here is a small test to check your Thamizh proficiency:
Are you ready to take the TOTFL( Test of Thamizh as a Foreign Language)? Joot!
Questions:

1) What do you do with a Gujili?
a) Gujaals b) Gilma c) Gilpans d) Galij

2) What is a Jujubi ?
a) Something sweet b) An easy one c) A tough one d) An Alwaa

3) What is Alwaa?
a) Something you find in Tirunelveli b) What a girlfriend gives when she marries someone else
c) A laddu d) Jujubi

4) What is the respectful way to address a friend?
a) Machi b) Sir c) By name d) Aiya

5) Who is a 'Frooti' ?
a) A studious person b) A sportsman c) The professor d) A soft drink

6) When someone says 'nambittaen', what do they mean?
a) I don't believe you! b) Sure, I believe you c) Are you nuts?? d) I have to catch a bus

7) Who or what is Peter?
a) A tourist b) Someone who talks only in English c) Peter Jones d) Your teacher

8) For which of the following ! events will you say 'Gumbaloda Govinda'?
a) When you go to Tirupati as a group b) When the entire gang has been caught watching 'matter'-padam
c) When you do group studies d) Meeting a Hindi actor

9) What is a 'rupture'?
a) Kadi b) Draabai c) Trouble d) Danger

10) When Someone refering to a woman as 'Seriyana Kattai'?
a) she is genius b) she is lean c) she had looted all guys eyes...
d) she wears wooden chappals.

Refer the following Dictionary Of Madras Tamilu to pass in this TOTFL Exam...
Allwa - to cheat
Aatha - Mother
Abase - Loot adiththal
Alppam - A silly/cheap dude
Anna - The elder brother
Anni - Anna's figure
Appeettu - Unsuccessful
Asaththal - Kalakkal
Bajari - A not-so-friendly figure
Bandha - Pillim
Bekku - Fool
Body - Muscular Machi
Chithee - Aunty Figure
Dapsa/Doop - Lie
Desi Gujili - An Indian figure in US
Dhil - Courage
Dhool - Super
Dham - To smoke
Daavu - Site seeing
Dickielona - A friendly game played in Delhi (courtesy: Senthil & Goundamani in the Movie Gentleman)
Damaram - Deaf
Dori - Squint-eyed Figure item - Young/Attractive Lady/Women/Girl
Freeyaavidu - Forget it
Gaali - Appeettu
Gujili - Figure
Guru - Head of the gang
Gujaals - Having fun with Gujilis
Gaanapaattu - Rap song sung by Machis
Galeej - Dirty
Gilli, Goli - Traditional games played in Madras
Goltti - A dude f! rom Andhra
Jakku - An exclamation on seeing a not-so-Takkar figure (see Jil below)
Jollu - Bird watching
Jilpaans - Gujaals
Jute - Escape when caught up by girlfriend's father.
Jujubi - Easy
Jil - An exclamation on seeing a Takkar figure
Jalsa - Same as Gujaals
Kaattaan - Uncivilized/ Rude Machi
Kenai - Idiot
Kikku / Mabbu - Intoxicated/ under influence
Kalakkalls - To cause a flutter
Kanai pakri - Friend of ushar pakri
Kindal - To make Fun
Kaka adikarathu - Putting soaps to someone
K M L - Kedacha Mattum Labam
Kutti - Figure
Kudumba figure - Homeloving Gujli
Kudumba paatu - A song with which machis identify themselves
Kulls - A short machi
Laddu - Allva
Loot adiththal - to steal
Maams - One cool dude
Maanga - Fool
Machi - Maams
Mandai - A sharp guy
Mary - feminine of Peter
Mavu - refer O B.
Nachunu - Bull's eye
Nambitten - I don't believe you
Naattu Katt! ai - A well-built village figure
Naattan - Villager
Naamam - To cheat
Naina - Father (courtesy Telugu)
Kadalai - Machi talking to a Gujili or vice versa
OB- To waste time
Ottal - To make fun of some one
Ondrai anna - Worthless
Pattaani - Machi talking to Machi or Gujli talking to Gujli
Peter Party - Machi trying to show off by talking in hi-fi English
Pathni - A figure who goes around the block
Pakkri - A shrewd dude
Petta - Area
Pisaaththu - Cheap
Pillim - Show-off
Peela - To lie
Rambo - A manly figure
Sister - Often used by Machis while Approaching Figures for the first time
Songi - Lazy
Saanthu pottu - Possibility of getting beaten by a stick (courtesy Movie : Thevar Magan)
Takkar figure - Semma figure
Thanni - Liquor
Thalaivar - Leader
Tin katrathu - Getting into trouble (courtesy Movie: Anjali)
Ushar pakri - Smart pakri
Vennai - Fruit
Weightaana figure - A very attractive/rich figure
Wrong kaatradhu - Acting indifferently

A sendoff to practicals!!!!

When you see a send off u would think of sending off a person you would meet rarely,but its not the case,its about practicals lab session.Its sometime devil sometimes a sweet devil,but today it was a sweet devil for in the VLSI Practicals for me. I got a 8:1 MUX which i have to implement in the XILINX FPGA.Lots happened during my lab session,firstly i got the question paper and calmly resided to my place and started writting.i was in a hurry to finish the exam and go home as i had my GRE exams scheduled on 25th october.
My friend K.Sriram got 4:1 MUX ,he was also very happy about it.Now comes the story must be comic at last.He got his Pendrive into the lab in which he had all the codings written.It was a very simple program,even though he used for the sake of bringing it to the lab.At last we have to take the printout of what we got in the output.Now the madam who is incharge of the lab came and asked me to take the printout in back-to-back sheets as it would reduce the number of papers.To describe her is very difficult.She is fat, black,and has a musical voice(dont imagine Latha Mangeshkar)which she speaks in a sequence which makes even the most attentive students to have dreams of his/her crush..She is so fat that when she stands,her shadow totally covers the whole area which is a blessing in disguise for those who sleeps.Coming to the story, But i have already taken the printouts in seperate sheets.She got irritated and scolded me for this small thing,generally this happens as she wants to show off her prowess to the externals.I remained cool and composed,and this even irritated her.And her next words made me laugh..... "Take printouts again" because the basic purpose of taking printout in a single sheet is spoiled as i have already taken the printout .She got pissed off with me and went away.Then i took the printout again and attached it and my viva voce questions were as usual greek and latin for me.So i came off the lab with rise smile on my face thinking of that female who doesnt even have the basic knowledge of wasting paper.Anyway there is no bugging lab sessions..............

A Strange Happening!!!!!!!!

P oornam Viswanathan cleared his throat, controlled his emotions and announced India 's freedom to the outside world in a radi o broadcast. At five thirty on the morning of August 15, 1947, young Viswanathan became the first Indian to make that external broadcast from All India Radio to East Asia .

That moment has stood still in his memory since. Fifty years after that historic event, 76-year-old Viswanathan spoke about those memories and the turbulence of pre-Independent days with Shobha Warrier.

When did you know that you were to broadcast the news of India 's independence?

I was a news reader for All India Radio from 1945 onwards. You can call it a strange coincidence, rather a divine coincidence. When the duty list was announced, my name was scheduled for the night of August 14. The broadcast began at 5.30 in the morning for the East Asian listeners and I was to read the first bulletin. It was my great fortune, I must say. How did I feel then? I felt elated.

Was there a lump in your throat then?

As a news reader I am not supposed to feel any any lump at all. I controlled my feelings till I finished the news bulletin. Later I cried with joy.

Really?

Yes, I cried for two reasons. One , India was free; secondly, I was selected to read the news bulletin announcing India 's independence.

Do you remember the first line?

" India is a free country," was the first sentence. This was followed by repeating Nehru's Tryst with destiny speech.

Did you read Nehru's speech in English or in Tamil?

In Tamil.

What it difficult to translate Nehru's words?

No, no, not at all. For one thing, Nehru spoke in simple words. Gandhiji spoke in yet more simpler words. We had been translating Gandhi ji's prayer speeches regularly. I translated Nehru's speech with great joy and read it with even greater joy.

We have heard that Nehru had tears in his eyes when he made the speech. Those who assembled there also wept. Did you feel the same way when you read the speech in Tamil?

It is true that all those assembled wept with joy. When Nehru himself cried while speaking, what about an ordinary news reader like me? But if I cried while I reading the news, the lines would have smeared. So, I controlled my emotions. I still cherish the moment, a moment that I will never experience again.

Did the bulletin begin with " India is a free country," or the regular, "This is All India Radio..?

Though it was such an important occasion and formal announcements were not required, the listeners needed to know where the broadcast was coming from. So, the "All India Radio" announcement was necessary.

Was that also in Hindi or Tamil?

In 1947, we only said, "All India Radio." Akashwani came only later. So I read, "All India Radio, seythikal vasippathu Poornam Viswanathan...

Question Of Democracy !!!!

Have a look at this

Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP)

Monthly Salary : 12,000

Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000

Office expenditure per month : 14,000

Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 ( eg.For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km)

Daily DA TA during parliament meets : 500/day

Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free (For any number of times)
(All over India )

Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)

Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free

Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units

Local phone call charge : Free up to 1 ,70,000 calls.

TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : 32,00,000 [i.e. 2.66 lakh/month]

TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000

For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years :
8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores)

AND THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THEIR SALARIES…..

This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities.......

And this is the present condition of our country

Think of the great democracy we have.............

STILL Proud to be INDIAN ?

A True Story!!!!!

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman\'s sparse surroundings An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer\'s own son came to the door of the family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman\'s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.

Dance like nobody's watching.

Sing like nobody's listening.

Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

thoughtless scriblings

Nothing is more enjoyable than wasting your time on something that is bound to annoy others..................


here are a collection of many more such typically "profound profferings".......


1)Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience

2)Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much

3)A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.

4)What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

5)Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

6)A lecture is a process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either.

7)In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice; then he made college boards.

8)Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.

9)As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

10)God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

11)I was an atheist.....until i reailised i was god.

12)As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

13)The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

14)Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

the fouteen commandments of life....................

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