SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS - HARSHAVARDHAN

Beautiful Barcelona!-The Rome Spectacle

2009-05-29T05:10:00.000-07:00

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!THE CHAMPIONS!
Barca fan forever!

I am back (Billa Style!)

2009-05-22T12:16:00.000-07:00

heyya!
I really have something like a passion for long ,long breaks.So, here I am after (another!) one year hiatus!
I aint really much of a writer,but i do enjoy penning my thoughts every once in a while.the past year has changed a small shift in the way I think i.e the thought process which i suppose will reflect in my writing.
Anyways, I shall post some articles shortly!

DASAVATHARAM - MY VIEWS

2008-06-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

Hi again!

I am in quite a flow,this is my 4th post within a span of 24 hours.I saw the Kamal magnum opus DASAVATHARAM today with a couple of friends and would like to air my views on the movie.

A few things you should know before i start-

1. This post is NOT a spoiler.So those yet to watch can read through this without the slightest fear of me ruining your experience.

2. I am an ardent Kamal fan.

3. I am also a fan of KS Ravikumar.

DASAVATHARAM-the movie has been the cynosure of all for a fair while now,the TV media,the papers,the mass public,everybody just had to talk about it.Quite justified ,I would say!I mean,its a record feat isnt it,one legend essaying TEN different roles,a one of a kind feat in itself,guiness material,etc etc etc.But as we all know,there is nothing quite as damaging as an excess of hype and expectation.Sadly,people get carried away and raise the bar just a notch too high.We tend to expect a little too much from the movie.And hence come out of the cinema halls dissapointed .We would all do well to remember that the primary aim of cinema is to entertain. Even spreading social awareness oughta take a backseat-in MY opinion.

When i walked into the theatre today,that was what i reminded myself-I am here to be entertained and have a great experience...and boy oh boy......did DASA click or what!!

MY OPINION:

K.S.Ravikumar proves yet again that he is a master ENTERTAINER.The film drew my interest from the opening shot ,and didnt let go till the end.Kamal Hasan proves yet again,why he is one of the finest actors on the globe,each and every character-the look,the accent,the body language!fantastic!(though he seems to have put on a bit of weight!);the effort that has been taken by the entire crew just hits out at you in every scene.The storyline is exceptionally good,especially considering the fact that they had to fit in 10 different characters into it,and you can see that its been done very well.I specifically like the sequence of narration.Asin plays her part to a nicety,and the other actors accomplish themselves very well.Though the graphics are overall good,there are specific scenes where improvements could have been possible.Same goes to the make up,but of course,with ten characters,its near impossible to get it right each and every time-so no complaints!

Himesh Reshammiya's songs are fine enough,and work well with the visuals.Devi Sri Prasad has also done a good job on the background score.

Such a film requires utmost efficency in the direction,and KSR keeps up his reputation as one of the most efficient directors around!

Combine the acting genius of Ulaganayagan and the commercial brilliance of K.S.Ravikumar,and we get the 100% sureshot entertainer-called DASAVATHARAM!

FINAL OPINION- A must watch ,this is really entertaining cinema ,and you would be mad not to catch it!

P.S-Having said so much about the entertainment aspect of the movie,you might be led to believe that this is a film with no concept entwined in it,but its not so, am happy to say.There is a lot more to DASA than just fun and entertainment!

ADIOS!

FULL BOIL!

2008-06-20T03:50:00.000-07:00

Errrr,ummm,Just thought I should give it a special mention in my blog-after all,i survived an entire year on this classic delight,that is available at our dhabas,V.Ramudevar hotel(a.k.a SAMFOX),and even in our 'mess'.
For all those uninitiated and ignorant reading this,in our part of the world,FULL BOIL is an egg preparation,quite similar to the Bull's Eye(i.e half boiled),the only difference being that here,the yolk is made to harden ,so that you never have your hands smelling of liquid yolk after digging into it!
It is generally served with a sprinkling of pepper or chilli powder.
2 Full boils constituted 70 % of my lunch this past academic year,while in college,hence I felt obliged to give it a special space in my portal!And its one of my all time favourites!
3 Cheers to the full boil!
P.S-DISCLAIMER-The references to eggs in my recent articles have nothing to do with my marks in the past year!

AND I AM BACK!

2008-06-19T11:45:00.000-07:00

Hello Junta!
So i return to ramble after a one year hiatus,a year that flew by in a blur,a year that saw me scale new heights and sink to new lows,a year that happened to give me tremendous insight into my own psyche,and others' as well,a year that brought out some virtues from within me ,i had no idea existed.A few questions answered-
WHY DIDNT I BLOG FOR A YEAR?-
Sheer laziness!As much as I would like to say "Writer's Block",I am not really keen on putting it across as a reason,as the year gone by has been too eventful for that!The truth is , I barely ever came online while in college,and during the (now very frequent) weekend retreats,my craving for inactivity after a hectic week got the better of me.
WHAT WAS I DOING FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR?-
What an average nitt male species does on a standard day-waking up ten minutes before class,and scurrying in atleast ten minutes late past a grumbling prof, maintain an all knowing look with an occasional nod of the head while actually pondering about what to have for breakfast at snacky(or the more recent "staff " canteen(wonder why they call it so,the students far outnumber the "staff"))
,at the ten ten break walk off to snacky/SC for that long awaited breakfast -I think you get the reason why i barely ever have breakfast at the mess(incidentally,the breakfast is the only thing that can enter your system without you encountering NEWTON's Third Law within yourself!);Well ,its simply because i dont wake up in time!
Anyway,coming back to the point,I walk off to snacky (actually ,the entire Chemical Department lives off Snacky at ten ten),take out that last note,and amidst a massive ruckus about the billing section,force my way through(rather,find a friend already in front,pass him the note and say,"Machan yenakkum da!"),eat my regular chicken puff and chocolate pastry and make it to the 10.30 class-just about in time.
Then I survive through the next two sessions ,head off to the mess for lunch,where after fifteen minutes of a hard battle of "push and shove your plate",i emerge from a mad crowd,victorious and holding my very own hard earned-eggs!
After lunch,mostly its a half day ,which invariably means SIESTA,else,i rush back after lunch,and start up with my records and observations-ya you got it,its the lab sessions,from where i out by five.Having lab in the afternoons is a real pain in the neck,trust me!
Evening is the fun part.Thats when you pursue all or some of the various extracurricular delights the place has to offer.I personally prefer a session of basketball over anything else!
And now,after sweating it out,I return(not to mention ,its via the juice shop,we fondly call JUICY),freshen up,and head for dinner,which is mostly anywhere but the mess,I am sad to say-I really had a problem this year with the mess,unlike the 1st year.
Nighttime ,when the good life really starts,I do not need to describe the fun and frolic that comes with hostel life!
and the final question.....
HOW COME I AM BLOGGING AGAIN?-
Because I am bored.Because I can.Because I am 'in the mood' again ,after an entire year.
ADIOS PEOPLE!CYA SOON!

The Wayfarer

2008-06-19T11:33:00.001-07:00

Wayfarer am I,

Through paths often trodden.

Whither i seek to go,

Is a tale long ago forgotten.

Through joy and through strife,

Hither have i come.

Through joy and through strife,

Again shall i go.

I know not what i was made for,

I know not god's magnificent ideas.

I know not what lies ahead,

For this poor traveller on life's road.

So I move on along the path,

Pondering my joys,my strife.

For wayfarer am I,

On the miraculous path of life.

my ramblings-nitt physics lab!

2007-04-08T06:06:00.001-07:00

Here is an article that has been in the pipeline for ages now .but its only now that i hav been pushed to the brink,to such high levels of frustration(and of course,joblessness!d'uh!) that i finally sit down to pen down my noble views on the physics lab at nitt.this might seem to some of u readers like the lamest of topics that i can come up with,but believe me,if u have had the same kind of bizarrely comic trauma that i manage to experience nearly every practical session,you will be giving me a treat for penning down these views!
well,one of my frnds,who happens to b one of my partners in the lab,stated a law a few days ago which goes like-
"if there is a worst apparatus available in the physics lab,then harshavardhan shall end up with it!"
when this law(stupid as it might seem) was made,i had completed 5 experiments in the list of 8 , out of which i handpicked defective apparatus 3 times,a majority.i scoffed a bit when my frnd stated this law ,and so, determined to pick up a proper apparatus for a change,i arrived for the next week's practical ten minutes early,before any of my batchmates!and i looked carefully at the four choices i had ,finally settling down with what i felt was easily the best of the lot!...surprise surprise,i found out then that the law holds good whether i get to choose an apparatus or i get landed with one when i cum late!!......!yup!once again,i proved that i have the knack of ending up with the only apparatus which is faulty!!....i struggled for for a long time trying to see if i could manage with it,then realising that it was a lost cause,i asked for a change in apparatus!luckily,i got a replacement!i was elated,thank god!finally i can start the damn thing and get it done with quickly!........and yet again,the law held sway!!!.......a second faulty apparatus!!!(just how this happens to me every time i dont know!).....and as my dear frnd who formulated the law a few days before gave an empathetic smile,i couldnt help smile ....perhaps in comic resignation and acceptance of my wierd ability!!eventually,owing to the fact that it was the very last apparatus available, that i had proved to b faulty,i was made to team up with my friend!salvation at last.!
so thats our physics lab!i would call it a lucky day and send a love letter to emma watson if my apparatus works without a snag!till then,the letter stays in my room,waiting to b posted!!

a bout of nostalgia!

2007-03-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

it takes little these days to make a person go down the streets of nostalgia....especially in the case of someone who to this day keeps his 12th standard skool id card in his purse as a lasting souvenier of some of his treasured moments and to add to this, a collection of old group photos in his hostel room.
on february twenty eight,last wednesday to b precise,weared out after a lab session in the morning and two perenially boring classes,i was obviously in lousy spirits,made more lousy by the fact that electrical class was next......and it was a goddamn double period(well...actually not but my teacher.....ever so 'sincere' and 'enthu' to teach us(or rather finish the syllabus) decided to make it so) . she entered, i groaned,she took the chalk,i moaned......god,what did i do to beget this torture?well seemingly so,but for once god answered to my ramblings,it was then that i noticed the date .....ah february 28...and almost instantly,something struck me.wow ,march 1,the next day, the board exams start!and this was all it took for me to suddenly develop a sheepish grin on my face( in our electrical period,we generally look like we r at a dear frnd's funeral!) as i got transported to exactly one year ago...my last few days as a school student. i remembered the days spent understanding various concepts,the worries of my parents(i m not xactly the studious type.......even on the eve of the exams i played 4 nearly two hours a day ),the teachers , their advice and the endless chats with dear friends....but then how long can ur mind drift on a pointless topic such as exams....so obviously my mind wandered to my days at school.....my early days at primary level as THE SHY BOY,my time at middle skool till 8th as the jovial motormouth(once again i mean humming in class) and a minor flirt(he he cant deny facts can i?),then my final years at ps skool as the sports crazy easy going low scoring friend of all(not a flirt any more!)....my truimphs, my tragedies , every nanobit of old skool memory came back to me at that instant.the comic genius that is my physics teacher,the strict yet fair math teacher ,the bio teachers who by the end of 11th had realised that i m a goner in the subject,my english teacher ,my chem teachers,the parent-teacher meetings(i still dread them) and most of all, the various friends i made, each face cropped up in my mind!my legendary compound fracture of my radius and ulna bones(dats in my rght arm.........see i m not dat bad at bio!lol!) owing to i m proud to say BASKETBALL,the noble tradition of coming late to class and settling on the last bench(its a ritual i follow with all pious sanctity even to this day!lol!),the bharatnatyam and disco combo i did in 3rd grade, my brush with acting in class(4th std,as the prof in"mind ur language" and as "akbar "),my basketball coaching,all those friendly taunts and funny nicknames which are the essence of student life,and of course every students all time favourite.......PT CLASSES.....wow what a life !!only now after coming to coll does one realise the greatness of skool,the teachers who r much greater than wat i hav seen so far at nitt,......and rite now as i am writing this,i am missing all my old frnds.....mayb i m getting really over sentimental......but in the words of my physics teacher(the great shivku) ,"i am least bothered about it rite"?!hope it cud hav lasted forever.....and how cud i not mention this!u may hav guessed.....jus 4 the nostalgic effct,i hav bin listening to summer of 69 and mustafa mustafa while writing this article!!! ........................
and a puzzled teacher looked on for a second at the rare glimpse of a beaming student in her class!
i hav always grumbled abt my time management,but for once,i am sure that i cud not hav made better use of my time!!!dont u agree???

an introduction to yours truly!

2007-02-17T22:45:00.000-08:00

heyya!
this is my first blog ever so well i thought an introduction to yours truly was in order.just the essentials.....i m harshavardhan,currently a chemical engineer in the making at nit trichy,previously a student of p.s.senior(and hence a potential mokkai),a chess player,basketball enthusiast,an ardent follower of western and indian film music and a qualified eccentric..... i mean you just gotta ask my roommates ,they will swear to it!i am in the habit of entertaining bored benchmates with my attempts at making music wid my motormouth(extreme doses lead to earbleeding.........but thats beyond the point) ...but this in the rare instance that i m awake,and being a perennial last bencher(for many many years i m proud to point out!),i m more often than not in virtual zone engagaed in duets with asin or bashing up villains in true captain style!jughead jones is my idol and barring my hefty frame and absence of a crown on my head,many hu know me hav noticed a strong semblance between the teacher and his disciple!hurray!there is a lot more i can say abt myself, but, as a basic intro,these essential points should suffice.welcome to my blogzone!!!