My grandmother

AWESOM-O 4000

Racism :401

My tax dollars:406

South park: 411

There is a thing in my pocket

Gamyam

It just happened to watch this movie "Gamyam" couple of days back. One of my friend insisted me to watch this for couple of scenes. The movie was released very long time back and I presumed this movie is just a routine masala movie with some commercial elements. It happened because I have watched couple of worst movies like "Visakha Express", "Anasuya", which were released in the same time when this movie 'Gamyam' released. Of course 'Gamyam' movie is not a different one, but atleast for couple of scenes it is worth to watch.

1. Hotel scene: The way the communist points the gun to the goon after firing couple of bullets. (also back-ground music)
"meelo manchi fire vundi.. danni correct ga vadukondi" (Telugu)

2. Communist dialogues in the forest.
"Poraadalankunna roje vadilesnina praanalivi comrade, vaati gurunchi digulu ledu..
prasninche vaallam manam, taletti nilabade vaallam manam, ikkada endukunnam, janam loki veldam comrade" (Telugu)

3. One beautiful song by Sujatha "Samayama.. Chalinchake..bidiyama.. talonchake".

5..4..3..2..1.., and finally

In a dramatic fashion actor Chiranjeevi launched his political party as "Praja Raajyam (people's state) in Tirupathi. Although the party flag is very much appealing with fresh ideas, but Chiranjeevi's speech is not well received as most of the gathered people are just desperate to see him. Also, his speech is well scripted like in a movie, will not appeal to the masses if it continues.

"Ganji telusu... Benzi telusu" :)

Srinivas

The Dark Knight

[scene :1]
"Wanna know how I got these scars? My father was....a drinker. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. Turns to me and he says "Why so serious?" Comes at me with the knife,"Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth. "Let’s put a smile on that face!" And..... Why so serious?"

[scene :2]
"Well, hello, beautiful. You must be Harvey's squeeze, hmm? And you *are* beautiful. You look nervous. Is it the scars? You want to know how I got 'em? Come here. Hey! Look at me. So I had a wife, beautiful, like you, who tells me I worry too much. Who tells me I ought to smile more. Who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks... look at me! One day, they carve her face. And we have no money for surgeries. She can't take it. I just want to see her smile again, hmm? I just want her to know that I don't care about the scars. So... I stick a razor in my mouth and do this... ...to myself. And you know what? She can't stand the sight of me! She leaves. Now I see the funny side. Now I'm always smiling!"

[scene :3], this is terrific one!!!

"Do I really look like a man with a plan, Harvey? I don't have a plan. The mob has plans, the cops have plans. You know what I am, Harvey? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught one. I just DO things. I'm a wrench in the gears. I hate plans. Yours, theirs, everyone's. Maroni has plans, Gordon has plans. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I am not a schemer. I show schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So when I say that what happened to you and your girlfriend wasnt personal, you know I'M telling the truth. It's a schemer who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I do best-I took your plan and turned it on itself. Look what I have done to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple bullets. Nobody panics when the expected people get killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot or a truckload of soldiers will get blown up, nobody panics. But when I say one little old mayor will die, everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos, Harvey? It's fair."

Fresh lemons

Few days back I went to my mothers workplace (she is working as a teacher), Ethipothala, Near Nagarjuna Sagar. It is well known as Ethipothala Jalapatham (waterfalls). It's good to visit that place but not to stay there. My point is it's not impossible to stay there but you should have some energy to stay. This summer is quite horrible and I faced the real heat and I am totally sick within one day.

I had visited this place quite few times before. But after a long period, more than 3 years I went to see how the things are changed. To my expectations nothing is changed much.

This place (Ethipothala) is located 7miles from the nearest town Macherla and around 14-15 kms from Nagarjuna Sagar. Most people call it as 7th mile.

People used to come to this place for visiting water falls otherwise they wouldn't even halt for water also because of its scarcity. Only 500-600 people are living around here and out of this 250-350 are children and staying there for primary education (0-7th). Not stricly for education; especially for food. Since their daily earnings couldn't compensate for children needs, most people leave their children at these schools. Those who are under severe poverty line they are not interested to welcome their children during vacation period or after school period. So some times few children are not happy with the summer holidays. It's very very sad. I can relate the same thing of mine as how I used to react for summer holidays.

Coming back to the point, the school I mentioned is a Tribal welfare school; a school for tribals. State government is spending Rs.18 per day for each student including every thing. Most of the appointed teachers will run away from this kind of places. Anyway, I would like to mention one situation.

During my stay at school I came to know that one student studying 7th standard is getting married. The warden has taken a written letter from the student mentioning that she is not interested in getting married and wants to study further. I am not aware of the after effects as I had to come back to my work place. But I felt terribly bad about it. I can do something on it. Strictly I can stop it. But after that the situation will not be in my hands. Because, the student may not study further as there are no nearby schools after 7th standard. So, some how they could manage and they will do what they wish for. I can go crazy about this. But not able to do it. Because still marriage is treated as a big burden for women. This is not a rare event. The society and strictly I can say dowry created all this kind of nonsense. "Make hay while the sun shines".

Another important point is in my childhood I always tell to my mother that you should teach well and some one in your teaching period should be in high profile. Even though I was taught by my mother I could not reach high profile. That's a separate thing.

Now I realized. It's not easy to become a teacher especially for primary education. If I wanted to become a teacher I hardly can stay and teach for couple of months. Not more than that. I had taught some elementary maths with realistic examples and asked them work out the same kind of problems. I forced them work out within seconds. But didn't work. Even though the problems are of same kind, it is not worth to expect the result immediately. A lot of patience is required to educate children.

BTW, fresh and good lemons will be available here.

sweet is sweet for all

If some thing is good to me it should be and must be good to all. I could not resist in doing so.

I prefer big MOUSE

The latest technology trend is to fit every thing in the world in our pockets. Not every thing that comes into tiny will please us. The iPhone, iPod shuffle, Asus EEE PC, Sony ericsson P1i, and some new models of Nokia Music editions are all very tiny and the fact is they are little bit difficult to use. Even though iPhone has brilliant features, it's hard to use it for browsing, reading, and for video applications. Unless there are high speed wi-fi hot spots, these gadgets are not worthful to carry along. Also, it is crazy to use these when there are desktops and laptops in homes. Almost in every home with internet we can find a desktop or a laptop.

Better prefer big one to small one.

Selling brand names

Some times people fell into brand name. I am one of them. This movie "Visakha Express" (Telugu movie falls into this category. Not on the director, not on the producer, only on the name "Chandra Sekhar yeleti" (Screen play), pulled me to watch this movie. Quite some time back, I had to watch one crap movie "Ram", because of music director "Yuvan Shankar Raja". It is very natural that if we feel good about some one, whatever he does, whatever he speaks, wherever his presence, makes us to accept even though the things are hard to believe.

If I had to tell you about this movie "Visakha Express", simply it is crap. Crap, Crap, Crap. Not only this one, these days I was become frustrated and getting anger after watching these movies: "Vaana" (Telugu, remake of "Mungaru male" Kannada) and "Pourudu" (Telugu), and "1408" . Also few good ones are there "There will be blood" , "Ratatouille", "Atonement " , and "Manorma Six feet under".

Modeling

I recently encountered one process control topic "Model Predictive Control or simply MPC" as most of my time is to do research on modeling and simulation. Since it was not taught in any of my control systems courses, I am quite fascinated to know more about this.

The underlying concept comes from human intuition. As most of control theories come from real implementations such as PID, MPC also falls into the same basket.

The below image tells very nicely about MPC idea. (Image taken from Model Predictive Control, by E. F Camacho, Carlos Bordons )


It is very simple. Suppose, if you are driving a car it is very obvious that you know the path at least couple of meters ahead of you. That information is well enough you to how to drive your vehicle. In mathematical terms, the future control action needs the prediction of the target path (or prediction of the future errors), in contrast to PI control, where the control action needs past errors.

Of course I am not an expert to explain more about this, but quite interested to show off my interest in this field. Majority of industrial process use this theory in some manner and DMC (Dynamic matrix control, by Cutler, Ramakar, 1980) is the widely used Model predictive control.

Doesn't matter

There are several ways to convince others. There is an old saying "Saama beda dana dando payam", which says one can win over others by doing some trade-offs. I recently watched one movie "Okkadunnadu" (Telugu) in which the director projected the lead actor in a very strong desperate role to get his work done. On the other side of the movie, the opposite character tries to convince every one for his heart transplant. This movie creates shivers in every ones heart. The movie shows that it is not very hard to convince others. Also, it also underlines the fact that it is always good to listen to your own heart.

As a matter of fact no one loses, no one gains. Only the way we lead does matter.