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Who better to fill this space than the Queen of Hearts, Devastatingly Beautiful,Pristinely Perfect, Phenomenal looker,Ravishing Rai


Ash is the only Indian lady to have a Wax-Figurine at Madame Tussauds..

Ash was the only Indian lady on the cover page of Time Magazine..

"Aishwarya Rai gets the sort of web adulation that even Britney Spears might
envy"
- Time Magazine

Ash has about 18000 websites & millions of fans all around the world..

Julia Roberts praised her as The most beautiful women in the world...

Ash was invited to the Commonwealth Games & was given honor as the special
guest..

Ash gets 2 films offered on an average a day

"Ash is well-known in many countries where they have not heard of cricketing
God Sachin Tendulkar"
-Le Nouvel Observateur

"Ash is a beauty with lot of brains"...
-Ben Kingsley

"Who is the most beautiful woman in the world? Her name is Aishwarya Rai, and she is an actress living and working in Bombay, India."
-Bob Simon,CBS' 60-Minutes

Aishwarya was miss world 1994, was voted 7th(prev.) & 9th (currently) most beautiful women in the world in a poll...she is brand ambassador of Loreal, Longines, Nakshatra, Lux among others,the highest paid lady in bollywood & highest tax paying Indian lady too.



Calvin's Corner:Alter Ego



Movie Corner

Letters From Iwo Jima(2006):Review

Far from a mirror image of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, which contained scenes of the battle of Iwo Jima seen exclusively from the U.S. perspective, the "Japanese" half of Clint Eastwood's Iwo diptych is exactly the kind of film FLAGS' detractors were hoping for: a conventional war narrative, expertly told, powerfully acted and filled with moments of brutal truth, savage grace and old-fashioned hokum. Iwo Jima, 1945: General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) arrives on the grim Pacific island knowing it's only a matter of time before U.S. forces storm Iwo Jima in an attempt to destroy the airstrips blocking an all-out aerial assault on the Japanese mainland. General Kuribayashi is joined by the dashing Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), a champion equestrian who competed alongside the Americans in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Gentlemen warriors both, they sip wine and bemoan this age of mechanized warfare and the mindless, dehumanizing nationalism gripping their beloved homeland. Much to the dismay of officers overseeing the fortification of Iwo's black-sand beaches, General Kuribayashi orders an immediate halt to all the trench-digging. The beach will fall to the Americans no matter what, he argues; the battle for the island will have to be fought from under Iwo Jima. By the time the massive U.S. armada is spotted on the horizon, more than 18 miles of tunnels have been dug under Iwo's crust and throughout Mount Suribachi, the volcanic mass anchoring the island (and atop which the American flag would soon be raised). Stationed deep within Suribachi are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a humble baker, and Shimizu (Ryo Kase), a member of the infamous Kempeitai, the Gestapo-style police force whom Saigo suspects has been sent to spy on his fellow soldiers. Once Suribachi falls, however, Saigo is bound to Shimizu as they attempt to escape not just the Americans but also the rogue Japanese officer (Shido Nakamura) demanding that they suicide. While it lacks the theoretical complexity and timely importance of FLAGS, LETTERS is a significant development in the genre: No American war film, let alone one made during a time of war, ever embedded itself so deeply in the enemy camp. Even TORA! TORA! TORA! relied on Japanese filmmakers to tell the "other side" of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Eastwood and screenwriter Iris Yamashita based the film on Japanese source material — a cache of unsent letters found deep within the tunnels — and it's a hugely sympathetic effort that challenges the usual portrayal of Iwo's defenders as bloodthirsty fanatics. Tellingly, Eastwood offers a very different version of a FLAGS scenario in which a young Marine is yanked off the battlefield and sadistically tortured to death. Here, a seriously wounded U.S. soldier is pulled into a cave and tenderly nursed by Lt. Colonel Nishi, and the act of mercy leads to the film's strongest moment. As Nishi translates aloud the dying soldier's final letter from home, the Japanese soldiers draw closer, each hanging on every word as if it had been written by his own mother. In a magical instant, all that separates two nations at war disappears. This is sentimentality of the best kind, a touching display of male bonding amid terror and aching loneliness worthy of Howard Hawks at his finest.




Facts of The Day:

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT Formula 1 CARS:-

01. An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components,which means if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!


02. Formula 1 cars have over a kilometer of cable, linked to about 100 sensors and actuators which monitor and control many parts of the car.


03. An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!!!!


04. F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up; on the other hand we expect our engines to last for a decent 20 years on an average and they quite faithfully DO....thats the extent to which the poor engines are pushed to perform...


05. When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph !!!


06. An average F1 driver looses about 4 kg of weight after just an hour((Yeah thats
right!!!) of racing due to the prolonged exposure to high G-Forces and temperatures.


07. At 550kg an F1 car is less than half the weight of a Maruti-800.


08. In an F1 car the engine typically revs up to 18000 rpm,(the
piston travelling up and down 300 times a second!!) where ass cars like
the palio, maruti 800,indica rev only up to 6000 rpm at max,which is still 3 times
slower.


09. The brake discs in an F1 car have an operating temperature of
approx 1000 Degree Centigrade and they attain that temp while
braking before almost every turn...that is why they r not made of steel
but from carbon fibre which is much more harder and resistant to wear
and tear and most of all has a higher melting point.


10. If a water hose were to blow off, the complete cooling system
would empty in just over a second.


11. Gear cogs are used only for one race, and are replaced regularly to prevent failure,
as they are subjected to very high degrees of stress.


12. To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and
added down-force can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds
than F1 cars travel on the track.


13. Without aerodynamic down-force, high-performance racing cars have
sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160
kph. They usually race at over 300 kph.


14. The amount of aerodynamic down-force produced by the front and
rear wings and the car under body is amazing. Once the car is
travelling over 160 kph, an F1 car can generate enough down-force to
equal it's own weight. That means it could actually hold itself to the
CEILING of a tunnel and drive UPSIDE down!


15. In a street course race like the Monaco Grand prix, the
down-force provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before
the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down
to prevent this from happening!


16. The re fuelers used in F1 can supply 12 litres of fuel per
second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of
an average 50 litre family car.They use the same refueling rigs
used on US military helicopters today.


17. TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3
seconds. It took me 8 sec to read above point (no.16).


18. Race car tyres don't have air in them like normal car tyres.
Most racing tyres have nitrogen in the tyres because nitrogen has a
more consistent pressure compared to normal air. Air typically
contains varying amounts of water vapour in it, which affects its expansion
and contraction as a function of temperature, making the tyre pressure
unpredictable.


19. During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5
kg in weight due to wear.


20. Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are
designed to last 90 - 120 km (That's Khandala and back from Mumbai).


21. A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best
grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water
boils at 100 C remember?)


Pic of The Day




Humor Me


BOY : May I hold your hand?
GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy.

GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me!
BOY : You love me...

GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring??
BOY : Sure, what's your phone number??

GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest.
BOY : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple

GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever.
BOY : Don't you ever want to improve??

BOY : I love you and I could die for you!
GIRL : How soon??

BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you!
GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there??



....... And finally,the Quote of The Day:


I DO NOT FEEL OBLIGED TO BELIEVE THAT THE SAME GOD WHO HAS ENDOWED US WITH SENSE, REASONS, AND INTELLECT HAS INTENDED US TO FORGO THEIR USE.

–GALILEO GALILEI

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Best of 2007 Part I

The Music That Was...............



Though the year 2007 had been a disappointing one for the Tollywood movie enthusiasts,with so many a Mega-Budget venture falling flat at the box-office, the same isn't exactly true for the Music lovers though. Similar to the case with the movies,2007 marked an year of gargantuan growth for small-time to less-than Highest paid music directors. Harris Jayaraj, who already made a mark in Telugu with Cheli,Gharshana,Vaasu & Ghajini had been having a wonderful time with a straight hit(Munna) & 2 dubbed hits Neevalle Neevalle,Raghavan. Though Rahman's work in Sivaji & Nuvvu Nenu Prema is commendable, it's not really upto the mark,what with charging a mammoth fee of Rs.7 crore(you read it right,that's his price tag now a days) for a movie like Nuvvu Nenu Prema which can just boast of 2 beautiful songs(Though both are extraordinary,). His fans wonder whether the best of Rahman is a thing of the past. The regular biggies Mani Sharma,Keeravani,Koti seem to be running out of copied tunes of late(Let's wish them better luck in 2008,God show them more English,Arabic,German & Celtic tunes that go un-noticed when re-created). Devi Sri Prasad has done a fine job in Aata and Shankardada Zindabad, only that his music could not save the fate of the second re-made installment of Munnabhai(God knows how many more are gonna be re-made Amen!..)


The man who stole the whole show is undoubtedly-unanimously(if there's any such adjective)Mickey J Meyer,the Graduate from Trinity College Of Music, London also coincidently the third Music Director down South to have completed the coveted 7- year course after Maestro Ilaiyaraja & Godly A.R.Rahman. Though nobody seemed to notice his presence as music director in the award-winning feature Pothe-Poni(featuring Sindhu Tolani,Siva Balaji(2005),I wonder how many even noticed the presence of the film,),his beautiful scores for the movie Xth Class did turn some heads.When he began 2007 with another small time feature Notebook,his track Ee Galilo,more soothing than any balm ever known, had taken passionate music lovers by storm, not a wonder that his next album Happy Days had released to the much-awaited anticipation of a new genre of music lovers(add to that the Elegance & Finesse of Shekar Kammula and you know too,now even better why it was an album worth waiting for,one I was forced to buy the original rather than download).For us to remember, in time to come, let me summarize some of the songs we loved hearing to time and again in 2007.


Clicking on the links will allow you to save the songs directly to your Hard Disk(just in case you don't happen to have some of them)




1.Evvaru Nuvvu - Rajubhai Music:- Yuvan Shankar Raja


2.Sahara Poovai Poocheno - Sivaji Music:- A.R.Rahman


3.Hoyna - Aata Music:- Devi Sri Prasad


4.Bhoogolomantha - Shankardada Zindabad Music :- Devi Sri Prasad


5.Happy Days(Rock) - You-Know-What Music :- Mickey J Meyer


6.Happy Days - You-Know-What Music :- Mickey J Meyer


7.Aata - Aata Music :- Devi Sri Prasad


8.Aakasha Ganga - Vaana Music :- Kamalakar


9.Ora Kannulatho - Deva Music :- Yuvan Shankar Raja


10.Sahana Shwaase - Sivaji Music :- A.R.Rahman


11.Ye Cheekati/Sayonara - Happy Days Music :- Mickey J Meyer


12.Disturb Cheyyaku - Athidhi Music :- Mani Sharma


13.Vaisakha Vennela - Neevalle Neevalle Music :- Harris Jayaraj


14.Gudilo Devudu - Lakshyam Music :- Mani Sharma


15.Newyork Nagaram - Nuvvu Nenu Prema Music :- A.R.Rahman


16.Preminche Prema - Nuvvu Nenu Prema Music :- A.R.Rahman


17.Manasa Nuvvunde Chotu - Munna Music :- Harris Jayaraj


18.June Pothe - Neevalle Neevalle Music :- Harris Jayaraj


19.Neevalle Neevalle - Neevalle Neevalle Music :- Harris Jayaraj


20.Modaleenadu - Neevalle Neevalle Music :- Harris Jayaraj


21.Vennelave Vendi - Raghavan Music :- Harris Jayaraj


22.Hrudayame - Raghavan Music :- Harris Jayaraj


23.Ee Galilo - Notebook Music :- Mickey J Meyer


24.Choosa Choosa - Nava Vasantham Music :- S.A.Raj Kumar


25.Kanya Raasi - Dubai Seenu Music :- Mani Sharma




First things first,I hope no one out there is ready to pick a fight with me for not including/over-looking their favourite tracks.Let me clarify that this is a track-listing compiled purely by me the ONLY source of which is My itunes library play count.And yeah, I do have to admit that when I began, I thought over of a Top-10,which later breached the 15-mark and then the 20-mark but at 25 I had to call a halt.Also, I won't deny the fact that there are quite some others who are good enough to stay in this list,but have been removed for the sake of convenience,like Happy Days for instance,whose other 4 Tracks are as much in the Top - 25(and the songs now stand at 5th and 6th places only after I'd reset their play count when they touched 120-higher than any other song) but have been omitted with the exception of the 3 I love moost, to make way for the others.Among other such ommisions is also Neevalle Neevalle whose every song vies with the others for a place here(again the same logic applied dude).If anyone still feels there are some songs seriously left out you may well IM me or leave your comment about the track,which may well be incorporated in a list of Don't Miss Me Too tracks later as a follow-up to this post.



P.S. Password for some of the rar files www.doregama.com

A Goal, A Platform


The other day I was checking out a IIIrd year guy Gaurav from my college whose blog was a miniature all-in-all ranging from Google Adsense ads for children to cracked softwares and guides to hacking, not to mention a whole arsenal of multimedia tools and download links for at least 500 videos,mp3s and movies. Well if someone could, why not me? Why not at least try? Given the rich wealth of information,gaming & entertainment available on the net,with the advent of new advertising solutions and thanks to a mushrooming multitude of site-promoting tactics,we often end up browsing hours on an end and still finding ourselves not far away from where we actually started(Be grateful if you hadn't had to spend half the time closing pop-ups!),only God knows whether what you end up in the end is EXACTLY what you wanted in the beginning.Forgive my penchant for loong sentences.As it appears,those who know where to find what hardly tend to share the info with others for reason no one knows but only one everyone can guess;Hey kiddos stop being so snobbish,it's not a classroom you're in where helping someone understand a problem may increase his chance of beating you in the Term papers.


If you're still wondering what this' all about may be you should go back & re-read the whole paragraph.So I've started this blog to educate people about all things related to Computers & Internet(That i know of,obviously),share links,gossip,reviews,latest forums and to act as a platform for mutual benefit of all.Hope I made myself clearer than Miruvor(What???).Regarding the other end I expect a very honest feedback from readers as to the content or the style in which the blog is presented.Apart from that you guyz can come up with suggestions yourself,request links to be placed in the blog,who knows someday we may have viewership enough to even promote links and websites!!You may comment openly in the blog or scrap me on Orkut or IM me on Google/Yahoo (rahuliit2003).


And that's for now,hoping to see you soon enough with the planned series "Best of 2007".

BBye Cya again dear palanthir.