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Google’s Googly – Dano

Dano– the new version of blogger will be out in few days. Arnab Nandi of TimePass Town was reviewing Dano and he was inviting co-authors to review it. And now along with him, I am also reviewing it here.

This blog is an exclusive one which was created and maintained in Dano. It is a cool interface especially for me who has been blogging with Blogger Basic for more than a year. I had felt at time to switch to other interfaces but I kept tight hoping Blogger being the a sure leader in this blogging world would come out with a much better version.

After Google took over Blogger this is the first significant change happening. I had felt other important changes in terms of speed and less downtime after Google‘s presence. This is specially a Google’s Googly for other competitors and would clearly set blogger ahead in the race.

Any one who wants to review Dano, checkout with Arnab.

Do you believe this or have you encountered this. This morning when I was listening to a song from ‘Mughavari’ which was released during 2000, I went back in time and felt like I was still working in Citibank. Had a similar feeling which I had 3 years back and felt like I will start, go pickup my Hreo Puch and travel all the way to Shakti Towers in Mont Road. But currently I ride a splendor and go just the opposite direction of Mount Road.

It is slightly tough for me to describe that moment but I remember having such experiences happening before even with a smell of books and houses. I have no clue what they call this in pshcology but this memory travelback fascinates me as our brain has capabilities of such complex operations and it can actually make you travel back in time for a moment.

My friend suggested it to be a Deja Vu experience. Is that so?

My sister’s engagement went fine. I was extremely happy to back here in chennai for this function. It’s fun to have people visiting you on these occasions but what happened to us was a disaster. Until 12 noon on friday we were just 5 of us in our house and everything seems to be in place perfectly. Relatives started coming in like my athai, athimber and their grandsons. By 12:30 it seemed to Iraq invaded by US and it was chaos. Chaos is not the word and all that hungama got over only the next day after nichayathartham(engagement). Keys were thrown around, toys were split open and all the remote controls were used as artificial telephones by those kids and it was like US using tomahawks on my house. After everyone left we had to clean the house and found things misplaced, broken and missing. We are still rebuilding iraq. errr…..my house.

I also a had a role to play in the engagement. I was shooting a bit of this function in handycam fixed with a 1000 watt bulb and gayu was looking at me furiously. 😉

A long gap and hey I’m back. Currently in chennai and having a nice time going around in my hero honda amidst the fight for fuel due to the lorry strike. Wow!! Feels so nice to be in India.

Had a boring flight in Lufthansa. I think the most boring journey is the flight. Every other means of transport has more space to move around. The over heated panner and palak makes me sick. I actually didn’t eat anything throught the flight. I was explicitly avoiding the food and the hostess had a doubt that I was infected with SARS due to my constant cough. What a horrible look she gave me.

When she was giving away the dinner we were over the arabian sea, I went in to restroom to avoid saying no to the food. And when I came back, she was gone but the uncle said, “Hey you missed the food, but never worry, I got a extra one for you from the hostess”. Being good is also harmful. He was convinced that Saddam was a poor chap and Bush had a leftover-revenge from the previous birth for which he is fighting Saddam down.

Coffee with salt:

Dead Man Walking made me think dead. Last night at 11:30, I was so engrossed in the movie that I added salt to my coffee and stirred it well. I took it to my reclining seat and when my taste buds were expecting a lovely coffee, they tasted salty. Yucky!. All I could do was to laugh aloud. I was expecting to make this mistake since I had salt and sugar in two similar looking jars. It happened with the help of Susan Sarandon.

This was supposedly my 5th time of watching Dead Man Walking and it never had dull moments. Susan Sarandon engrosses you with her versatile performance. What an amazing actress she is. Full of expressions and a non-clandestine smile that makes you call her the best-of-the-best.

For people wondering whether Dead Man Walking refers something metaphorically, it is a no. It just refers to what the people on death row are called as they take that final walk towards their execution chamber. But the title is so intense that it stands to be one of the aptly titled film of times. Above all it’s the theme about capital punishment and the content of this movie that moves you and drags you to the edge of tears. No movie spoilers here. So if you haven’t watched it yet, pick up the DvD and watch it rightaway. I couldn’t see the Sean Penn in the movie. All I could see was his character, Mathew Poncelet. A performance which was as realistic and simple as Kamalhassan in Mahanadhi.

I looking forward to read this screenplay and anyone of you, who had come across it, please let me know where it is available. David Robbins who has scored the background score has used a lot of Indian vocals and Hindustani tunes. So be prepared to hear tablas, sitars and veenas playing all around the movie. I think it is a well-adapted movie from the original book written by Sister Helen Prejean. Tim Robbins (the guy who starred in The Shawshank Redemption), the director takes the credit for bringing, the dead man walking, ALIVE.

At the end, as Bruce Springsteen sang Dead Man Walkin’ with his all-time-best vocals, I sat unmoved physically.