DON Quixotic stuff !!!

DON II was released with much fanfare but it turns out to be 'Much Ado about Nothin'.
It appears to be quixotic stuff. Farhan Akhtar has insulted the establishment of FilmStory Writers. All he has done is a Copy paste of the original and ended up screwing so badly that people are not able to stand even a mention of the remade flick.

The Story of DON II is ditto same as DON I. Which puts you off if ur having great expectations.
Shahrukh has acted coyly and the effort is not worth anybody who has paid a dime wud like to watch. Dialogue delivery is cavalier compared to AMitabh. Overall this showcases why Amitabh still rules and rocks. Shahrukh;s performance is pedestrian compared to AMitabh's performance in the original flick. At the end of the movie. It was obvious.

DON ko pakadna mushkil hi nahin na
mumkin bhi hain.
Waise hi..
DON ka kirdar ada karna mushkil hi
nahin Namumkin bhi hain [;-)]

~P

[MRSNWKMECSTBH] ;-)

Mere Saamne wali khidki mein ek chandsa Tukda baitha hain.
Mere Saamne wali khidki mein ek chandsa Tukda baitha hain. [MRSNWKMECSTRH]
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Afsos ye hain ki woh humse kuch ukhda ukdha rehti hain [ german gal :) ]
Jis roj se dekha hain usko hum blinds draw karna bhool gaye [ i mean german khidkiyaan dost :) ]
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Ab aat peheyr in aakhon mein woh german mukhda rehta hain.
Thand bhi aajkal chali gayi...badal bhi garajkar chale gaye !
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Par uski ek jhalak ko hum husna ke malik taras gaye.... :(
kab pyaas bujhegi aakhoan ki...din raat ye dukhda rehta hain.
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I have modified this padosan song to my discretion :). Basically there is this "Dow Jones" office
next to our Samsung office in Frankfurt. And from our khidki we can see some Cubicles of these DowJoners. And therez this lovely gal whom we all ogle at ( I remmember my friend Sandy :) )
Sometime back she noticed us in the ogling act AND shut the blinds on the windows....

Now we rarely see the chanchal mukhda these days...thats the Dukhda :).

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on Un-Buttoning oneself...

Hey this is not a blog about undressing or something....read on...I promise it will be boring to the hilt ;-).

I am blogging-in @ 5 am in the morning. Was able to solve a linker issue with the counterpart in San Diego. This had consumed my whole night and at dawn it was solved. As I lay typing here my room mate grew extremely restless as he was losing sleep due to my typing(erratic typing rather). Every hour on the hour i used to assure him its gonna take some time only.
Now that the issue is resolved I was wondering about how we cannot leave in this present day world without pressing a few buttons. Be it on the key board or the door bell or the Light switch in your room to your Idiot box control gadget.
Everywhere Buttons seemed to have overtaken Humans.

Can I imagine living without pressing a single button for a whole single day ?
... whoa! is such a thing possible... :) ?

Well our ancestors lived life that way. We certainly need to un-learn our Urban habits and lean into the rural side of humanity and see how less buttons they encounter. I guess the words "Panic Buttons" are more of an urban Legend than a Rural phenomenon. Living in a City imposes these buttons on us, on whom we sometimes take out our anger on. May it be the pedestrian who crossed the street at the nth moment or the Auto which expectedly does an unexpected act.
Buttons get pressed ... well the fact is Buttons are here to stay.

Even as I type this blog. I feel the keyboard buttons twitching and feel that I should go back to the rural living once in a while to enthuse life and stay away from these buttons through which we control our living.
In Retrospect these buttons end up controlling us.

~:)
Prasanna.

MOTD : Right Said Fred

I try not to predict the future. I’m not a big believer in fortune telling. The best way to predict the future is to implement it.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

Aviator - Sequel to Bugsy or how do i put it ?? Bugsy II

I watched Aviator today. yeah its an achivement as I have a hectic sckedule these dayz.

(Yes this is a movie review Ladies n Gentlemen. This is kind of a Writer Review). I had watched one Hollywood Classic Bugsy sometime back. And this movie Aviator seems to be similar in many respects to Bugsy.

The Protagonist happens to be a Baddie with striking Personality and a Great Will power. He dreams Big and the un-imaginable. Meet the Aviator or Benjamin Bugsy as it appears to me.
While Bugsy was based on a True Life incident. Aviator has no parallels in history AFAIK ( or are there any ?? ;-) )well the Story writer it appears did not like the ending of Bugsy. In Bugsy Warren Beatty as the Bad Guy turned Hotelier has a craze for one Woman who ultimately steals all money from him.
Bugsy is a Movie about how Las Vegas was born. The Gambling industry started in the USA.
His hotel Flamingo is supposed to be the biggest Legal Gambling Jaunt ever.
Where Bugsy stops Aviator takes off. I mean Bugsy is resigned to his fate when all hell breaks loose and all the people he ever knew or did not know Turn against him. In Aviator the Story Writer paints his character with some physical disabilitys from the start.The movie proceeds on the same Lines as Bugsy but Deviates at the place Leonardo di caprio is down in the Dumps.

Aviator is about a guy who wants to build a Mighty Airplane which is Fast and Carry what a present day Boeing Jumbo Jet can carry. The film is set in the Post world war II 1947 Era. He also loves one of the leading ladies of his time and She comes to revive him out of his Sorry State of affairs. His Plane project is in trouble once he crash lands a plane in a Civilian area.

But The most amazing part is when the Committee formed to Try him for his crimes is outwitted by the Aviator. This seems to be the highlight of the movie. THis is where Bugsy was having a sad tale. I feel the 'Aviator' is the same wine in new bottle. Just the Ending has changed. Aviator Manages to outwit his rivals and comes out clean. Though Leonardo Di Capio manages to live upto the Aviator character. Somehow his dialogue delivery does not come any close to Warren Beatty.

The Story writer seems to have made a movie by just changing the last few Scenes from Bugsy :)

All said n done...Finally I wud rate the movie 5 on a scale of 10. And as to the Movie Writer. No Marks for him ;-)

~P.

Map file from ELF.

If you want to generate the Map file for a particular ELF file,
with the ARM tool chain use Fromelf tool.
It can be used like below at the command prompt.

$fromelf -text -zvts .elf -o .map


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Salzburg-Austria! It happens to be Mozart's birthplace.