Scary Short film

Well, this is not actually a short film... but kinda video about MichaelJackson's ghost seen in his house.  Weak hearted people are warned not to watch this video.  Others enjoy watching it.  While watching it, observe carefully otherwise you will miss the ghost.

(SK, thanks for your comment on the other short film.. I hope you liked this video... நெக்ஸ்ட் மீட் பண்றேன் :)


சத்தியமா நான் பயந்திட்டேன்பா... அவ்வ்வ்வவ்வ்வ்....

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அப்படியே ஷாக் ஆயிட்டேன்..

என்னனு எழுதிறது இந்த கொடுமைய?  அப்படியே ஷாக் ஆயிட்டேன்!



தல என்னமா இங்கிலிபீஸ் பிச்சி உதர்றாரு





வாடா என் மச்சி வாழைக்கா பஜ்ஜி.. செம fight

Speedup Videos with ByWifi

ByWifi (Video Accelerator)


Nowadays lot of video sharing sites have come up and there are couple which are very popular and widely used for eg.  Youtube, Dailymotion.  I use YouTube regularly to view trailers, jokes, some missed television shows and short films.  Internet bandwidth had improved in the recent days and 2mbps connections are available as common connection speed.  However, when you watch videos in the above said internet video sharing sites, the video loads up very slowly and will not uses the maximum speed available.  This is due to the restriction done at the site which restricts the speed per connection so that many users can connect at a time and all get respectable speed.  But sometimes, this is annoying for anybody who has 2mbps connection and see that video loads up like a crap 128kbps connection. 
This is where "ByWifi" comes to play.  After installation, ByWifi automatically detects web videos and establishes multiple connections to the video file and improves the video loading time to almost 10 times faster.  I have BSNL 2mbps connection at home and with ByWifi I can watch youTube videos without any lagging.
You can download this free software from here.

Avatar and Moon -- Movie reviews

I saw two movies this weekend and both of them are really good.  One is James Cameron's Avatar.  Second one is Duncan Jones's "Moon". Let's see few things about those movies here.

Avatar (2009)

Yesterday, I went to see the recent hit flick "Avatar" in Devi Theatre.   It was amazing.  It was really worth the wait of 15 years.  I only wish James Cameron don't take more gaps for each time and give us more good news in future.  Though you know that the movie is full of CGI work, you can hardly they are CGI.  Those Navis are visualized made up very well.  In the entire movie, I can see the extreme imagination of the team and how well they have designed in detail about each thing in the movie.  Be it the mammoth dragon with two eyes or the spectacular horse which have noses in the neck or the flashy trees or the bonding between the navi and the animals through some hair root.  Its really faboulous.  Sentiment or romance are really mixed well.  That's what I liked very much in the movie.  I think that is the secret of success in Cameron's movies.  Even in Titanic, more than the graphics work in the movie, the much talked about the movie is the romance in their movie.
Do not miss the chance to see this movie.
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Moon (2009)

Moon.. this is a low-budget sci-fi drama about a guy who is working in a lunar station at moon alone for 3 years and hoping to go back to earth soon to see his wife and infant girl baby.  The main part of the his job is send the collected lunar helium loads back to Earth.  One day he gets into an accident in the vehicle and later he wakes up in the station to find one more guy in the station who exactly look like him!  They both fight each other in the beginning but later get along and find the truth about the mission secrets.  Once we know the "truth" (just to hold the suspense, I am not going to expose it), you kind of feel sad and cant stop thinking about the ending.  There isn't any spectacular graphics like Avatar but this is a really good movie.
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Secret Window (2004)

Secret Window (2004) is a psychological thriller movie, starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. It was written and directed by David Koepp, based on the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King.
I like Johny Depp since I saw "Edward the scissor hands". When I read about this movie in some blog, I wanted to watch this film because the movie is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel.  I have seen the other adaptations of Stephen King's novels like "The Shining", "Silver Bullet", "Shawshank Redemption", "The X Files", "1408", "The Mist" etc.  Like most of his work, this film is also of horror/mystery genre.  So I watched this movie yesterday and I really liked it.
Story: Johny Depp is a writer staying alone in a house in woods.  He is in the middle of divorce.  One day a strange man walks in and accuse Depp for plagiarism (stealing somebody's story) who then starts haunting him for "justice.".  Depp tries to prove that his story was the original but could not do it.  The stranger burns his house and kills couple of friends known to Depp and Depp soon fall into web of strange things.  Depp has also a mysterious past which haunts him once in a while.  Why the stranger is haunting him and what happens to Depp is nicely unfolded in the last 15 minutes with good horror touch. 
The background score is good and Depp's acting is as usual--splendid.  I felt that the director (David Koepp) did not use the locale that much.  Depp's house is surrounded by a superb riverside and forest but not used in this movie.  Most of the scenes happens inside his house only.  Anyway, I guessed the suspense correctly half-way may be because I have seen couple of similar films (The Fight Club, The American Psycho).  But the way the story was adapted to the screen version is nice. 

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Ataque de Panico (Amazing Short film)

Again another short film.  There is a surprise story, success story pinned with this.  This short film is awesome and has got stunning visual effects.  This short film is about giant robots and mass flyingsaucer-like aircrafts invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. I could not believe this film was made on a budget of $300.  Is really those CGI are that cheap? Then why couldn't these indian directors spend hell lot of money but still gives some shitty graphics (for eg. Little John)? 
Anyway, lets put them all behind and watch this movie.  Before that, as I mentioned in the beginning there was a surprise waiting for this producer (Mr. Fede Alvarez's) after he uploaded this movie.  He uploaded this film to YouTube on a Thursday and on Monday his inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios.  He has been offered a $30m contract to make a Hollywood film.  The movie Mr Alvarez has been asked to produce is a sci-fi film to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina. He says he intends to start from scratch and develop a new story for the project.  By the quality of the short film, I think we can expect another "Avatar".  (should all sci-fi film destory some cities? no constructive screenplay can be made to a sci-fi background??)

Enjoy this video..

Funny Short Film

Everybody who live in flats will accept the fact that getting good neighbours is really a gift.  Atleast, that never happened to me.  In some houses, neighbours wont even talk to each other for years!!  I guess once in a while tolerance level is tested by the neighbours and we fight with them because we don't get along well with them since the beginning. Go ahead and watch this funny short film about two neighbours who make each other life miserable.  Enjoy!!

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ccleaner - best crap cleaner

 was taking backup of my PC today and thought I should share about "ccleaner".  Daily we browse lot of stuff from internet which creates temporary files.  These files are meant to be really "temporary" and need to be deleted automatically when you close the page that created those temp files.  Best example is youtube video.  When you watch a youtube video, it creates a temporary file in your temporary files location (type %TEMP% in Start>Run.. dialog to go to that location) which is actually the container for the video playing in browser..  Once you close the page that played the video, automatically the temporary file download for the video should get deleted.  Sometimes, these temp files are not automatically deleted and they grow day-by-day. 
Ultimately, PC performance gets affected or in worst case, the total hard disk space is consumed and you get a warning about low disk space!  Until then, some people never care to delete these files manually.  However, in many occasions, I used to clear these files.  There are two reasons; (1) I don't want my backup of C: partition take more space.  That is eventually waste and takes more time during backup or restore.  (2) System performance is improved. 
Enough of my story!! With this nifty tool "CCleaner", the job is lot easier.

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.  It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
After installing you can change the settings in CCleaner to run it automatically during every startup.  You can download the latest version from here.

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Upcoming Movies == Stills

There are quite a few movies expected to release shortly.  Some of them have already created so much hype..  I am particularly looking forward to see "Avatar" by James Cameron and "Goa" by VenkatPrabhu.  Couple of tamil movies releasing this weekend.  Vijay's Vettaikaran and "Avatar" releasing on Friday and Nakul's "Kanthakottai" releasing on Saturday.  Vettaikaaran has already created waves(?) since SunTV is airing its trailer every few minutes.  Let's see who wins the race.

Stills from these movies:

GOA:




Avatar:






Vettaikaaran:









Kanthakottai:

Terminator Salvation (2009) -- Movie Review

I did not see any english movie this week (I saw one malayalam family drama starring Jayaram -- Bhagyadevatha).  So, I am writing this review bit about the movie I saw last week.

Terminator Salvation (2009) -- Review

Story:
In 2003, in the Longview State Correctional Facility, the criminal Marcus Wright that is in the death row is convinced by the cancerous Dr. Serena Kogan to donate his body to her research and he accepts. In 2018, after an unsuccessful attack to a Skynet facility, only John Connor survives, but he discovers that Skynet is developing the powerful new model T-800. Out of the blue, Marcus appears naked and with amnesia in the location. Marcus befriends the teenager Kyle Reese and the girl Star that help him to survive to lethal machines and they travel together in a Jeep. Meanwhile the resistance discovers a signal that might turn-off the machines and John offers to test it. When Kyle is captured by a machine and brought to the Skynet headquarter, Marcus decides to help the youngster and heads to Skynet; on the way, he saves Blair Williams that suggests him to meet John Connor first. But Marcus steps on a mine and is submitted to a surgery, when a secret about his origins is disclosed.

Review:
I hope many must have seen the first two of this sequel (Terminator and  Terminator2 - The Judgement day).  I really liked the second part of this sequel.  There were many interesting things in that part.  First, there was a tremendous improvement in the world of CGI and it was nicely used in this movie.  Second, for obvious reasons, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Who can forget the macho man coming naked and saying in the very first intro scene "I need your bike, your dress and your glasses.".
James Cameron directed the first two movies and Terminator Salvation was directed by Joseph McGinty(McG).  I don't think he has done any Sci-fi movie earlier.  He had directed the Charlie's Angels sequels.  That explains it.  No Arnold, no big improvements in CGI, no fascinating story line either.  Only thing that is helpful (if it does) is Christian Bale (The Dark Knight, American Psycho).
Sure, there are couple of scenes that was done spectacularly with CGI's help (one bike-chasing-bale scene.).  Otherwise, nothing more to it.  I was kind of hoping for a good finish but got disappointed.
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Neighbours

There are lot of political dramas happening in the country and even out of the country about the INDO-PAK, INDO-CHINA, INDO-SL stands and talks.  Though nothing helped that much, it has been really one of the biggest problems for our country.  Here is one quick joke related to this fact..

God was in the process of creating the universe.
And he was explaining to his subordinates

'Look everything should be in balance.
For example, after every 10 deer there should be a lion.

Look here my fellow angels, here is the country of the United States .
I have blessed them with prosperity and money.
But at the same time I have given them insecurity and tension....

And here is Africa .
I have given them beautiful nature.
But at the same time, I have given them climatic extremes.

And here is South America .
I have given them lots of forests.
But at the same time, I have given them lesser land so that they would
have to cut off the forests...

So you see fellows, everything should be in balance.

One of the angels asked...

'God, what is this extremely beautiful country here?'

God said........ 'Ahah...that is the crown piece of all.

' INDIA ',

My most precious creation.

It has understanding and friendly People.
Sparkling streams and serene mountains.
A culture which speaks of the great tradition that they live.
Technologically brilliant and with a heart of gold...

The angel was quite surprised:
'But god you said everything should be in balance.'

God replied --
'Look at the Neighbors, I gave them.'

Murudeshwar Temple

It is friday, so, ஏதாவது பக்தி மயமா எழுதணும்.  அப்டீன்னா சண்டே குஜால்சா எழுதுவியான்னு கேக்க கூடாது..
Murudeshwar..It is one of the place I long to visit for a very long time.  Wonderful Siva temple at sea shore with very high temple gopuram.  The big statue of Sivan is actually located on a small hill called Kanduka Giri so the sea on three sides surrounds the temple towering on the  hill.  The Murudeshwar temple has a history that dates back to a few centuries. A small temple existed here for generations. A recent attraction is the Lord Shiva idol erected beside the temple. The idol towers 123 feet into the sky and is the tallest Shiva idol in the world.

How to reach here:
Road: 500 km from Bangalore on the Hassan - Mangalore - Udupi - Kundapur route, 470 km from Bangalore on the Shimoga - Kollur route, From Kollur it is 60 kms.
Rail: The Konkan Railways Train plying on the Mangalore - Goa - Mumbai route makes a stop at Murudeshwar and other express trains too.
Air: The nearest airports are Mangalore (165kms) and Goa (220kms).