Harry Potter : The Magic is in the Air

Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix released on 13th and I was lucky enough to see it on 15th. As expected the movie is great, awesome locations, awesome digital effects and not to mention the fabulous performance by everyone as expected. The only distinguishing factor was the intelligent editing that was missing in the last two HP movies. The movie has come out very nice, all the relevant parts are intact and less important are curtailed.

Few scenes are really memorable including, Order flying on broomsticks over London, the Fred and George's fireworks sequence to annoy Umbridge, Grawp appearance, and the last fight sequence. I need to specifically mention the last fight sequence which has come out really well and the battle between Voldemort (Oops..... I should say YOU KNOW WHO) and Dumbledore was really stupendous.

In all it is one of the best Potter movies; if you haven’t seen it yet, you are missing something.

All's well that ends well

With Harry Potter movie release on 13th and the last book on 21st, July 2007 is truly a month full of magic. I was excited as everyone was but a little less perhaps, cause when I thought it was a right time to book the tickets, the cinema halls were fully booked. From Thursday till Saturday everything I did, went in vain. There was only one cinema hall where I could get tickets, the "REX" on brigade road.

With a little hope, as I reached there, I was confronted with a long queue of HP fans already present. After waiting for at least half hour a watchman came and told us that the "day" is houseful. All hearts broken, even the last hope shattered. With a heavy heart, I moved out of the premise looking to pass sometime before I head back to home.

Suddenly I remembered that I didn't have breakfast in the morning, my stomach began to sink. I went to the shabby looking restaurant "Coffee House" on MG Road. After having an omelette with toast and a hot cup of coffee, I somehow decide to have a stroll at MG. It had been a long time since I walked around without any specific purpose or need. I saw one book store called "Bookworm" which have used books. I decide to check out the collection, surprisingly it has a huge collection but the book I was looking for was completely new and was not available under "Used" category. I bought Bill Bryons' "A short history of nearly everything".

As I was passing "REX" to catch an auto back home, I decided to take another look and to my amazement they were selling "Front stall" tickets. I called my friends to tell them the "GOOD" news but to my bad luck nobody turned out to be willing to come for the movie. After a lot of deliberation I couldn't resist and I bought the only remaining ticket of "Back Stall".

Alls well that end well.

Living a Life....

In just little more than 3 months I will turn 25. Looking back I see a lot of things I have gone through, some good some bad. More important for me is how enriching has been the last 25 years.

There are many things that human being can do to enrich his life depending upon an individual's interest. How many of them you have done? Ever been on World tour? Ever played sports? Ever acted in a drama? Ever sang a song? Ever danced Salsa? Ever had exotic meals in exotic places? Ever been in Love? There is no dearth. Ever since I gained this conscience, I have always tried to do my best and enjoy every flavor of life.

Nobody who knows me now can ever believe how dull I was when I was in school. I started off in college with a skit. I wrote the dialogs and acted as a politician. I was so successful in my first venture that my seniors and my college-mates started calling me "Neta". Then I moved on to "Dancing”; that was the biggest flop I ever had; backstage had to shut off the music to bring me down from stage. I moved on to "Singing"; had good success in that and also won few prizes in college.

Still I was nowhere in sports; so I started playing soccer when I started the job around three years ago. Now I am learning swimming. I took "Dancing Classes" also and learnt Salsa, Swing and Rock n roll. I did Para-gliding and water scooter in my trip to Goa. There are lot many things pending in the list, including driving, scuba, guitar, horse-riding etc. I know life is short and aspirations are high.

At the end of it; All I want to say to myself is "I have lived my life fully"

Decoding Women......

There might be several explanations, illustrations available on this topic but nobody has approached in such a manner so as to be comprehensible for, so called geeks. So here I am with my version of explanation in a typical electronics engineer way.

After deliberate research and rumination, I concluded that Women are like Analog Circuits and Men are like Digital Circuits. If you would notice certain properties or behavior of the Analog circuits, it is similar to how women behave. Analog circuits are complex, difficult to comprehend and so are women. If one would have noticed, whatever you tell them (input signal) is drastically different from the response you get. You might wonder what she understood, although you were very clear in telling her (like a digital circuit Zero or One) but the response you get is at undefined level (like analog circuit neither Zero nor One). You might have to make a wild guess what she actually means, and here is the catch, you are a goner if you got it wrong (Alas! poor men can understand only One or Zero). Any simulation that men might do themselves is not enough because digital circuit requires infinite resolution to simulate the analog output. So, men try different approaches to identify the output, like reading a book (How does analog circuit behave… etc…) or asking female friends (doing circuit simulations) but when actual results come, its always unexpected. It is remarkable to analyze how the behavior changes or what are the factors that contributes to the unexpected output even after taking so much care. There are several, right from the mood (Temperature), TV serials (RF signals) and friends (interference from neighboring circuits) to minor aliments like happening during the day (residual voltages) etc. These things make it difficult to predict the exact behavior. The best way out is to have an analog circuit which gives fairly predictable output i.e. within a certain range. It’s difficult to find, I agree, I am still searching for the one.