Lots of ideas brewing up...but meanwhile, here's a really amazing ad i liked...kudos to AIRTEL for putting it so beautifully...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
"REALITY" Strikes!!!
The question is not about whether its all a fabricated show as many claim…..And considering the predictions and the result of the recently concluded “Star Singer” this may or may not be true…Oops…think I started this all wrong…After a lot of pondering on what to write about it struck me…its time I put forth my views on the melodramatic mega serials which are out in their new form – the so-called reality shows…As I said, its not abt whether we’re just getting ripped over here with regard to the competition…Lets leav that part for later…Lets take a run through history…It all began with “Sthree”, with its famous “Sthree oru janmam” (Woman one life) title song…And then it was followed by …..hmm….oh ya sthree again….If I remember right there were around three versions of “Sthree” and its variations…Well and good for the channel I guess coz it took up around 4 years to get those women issues cleared!!
I had the bad luck to see some episodes of these monotonously “varying” MEGA-serials in different channels…The modes of torture and intricate planning employed by the characters can be found only in 3 places as of my present count – Indian serials,World War 2 camps and the Al-Qaeda hideouts…So there they were, the women of the country ,stuck to the TV(called idiot box for a reason), watching as “real-life” characters - depicted as the next-door girl or guy - plot to poison their siblings,jump off cliffs and exchange babies!!!!Ofcourse, according to the producers and the advertisers these are everyday happenings in an Indian family’s life… Larger than life(Larger being an understatement) can be equivalent to real life only in the country of Rajnikanth and Mohanlal…..
P.S - I got nothing against those guys...its just co-incidence and the "hard to take in" action scenes which keep reminding me of Rajnikanth
Soon the writers started running out of evil plots and thus we come to the latest incarnation of mega-serials------the reality shows…….We’ve got dance,songs and wat not….It wouldn’t hav mattered and would hav been considered as an amazing talent hunt if it weren’t for the time and the melodrama it takes….Every household now has their own favorite singer,dancer,actor and I’m not talkin about the movies here…Its like an all new EPL – Entertainment Premier League….And when they ended 2007, I sighed with relief but now its bak…Longer and more dramatic the all new 2008 series!!!!!Half the people in the state know about “sangathi”,”plans” and nearly everyones a music critic now….Ofcourse its an entertainer..There are singers and songs(pathetic at time even to my amateur musical ears),dancers and dances(ditto) and over acting “actors”..There’s always a cute girl with a mic,atleast one really irritating judge and more who think they’re really funny..Best of all -we’ve got people crying and faintin on stage..The tension could give a guy heart attack!!What more could a viewer ask for…
Never knew television could be the medium to make half the population sadists…Entertainment at the sake of participant elimination and insulting is definitely fun…And to top it all they’ve got the really irritating and plagiarized background scores for highlighting the depression….Well hav a blast people…Looks like THIS is REALITY!!!!
Shanker
I had the bad luck to see some episodes of these monotonously “varying” MEGA-serials in different channels…The modes of torture and intricate planning employed by the characters can be found only in 3 places as of my present count – Indian serials,World War 2 camps and the Al-Qaeda hideouts…So there they were, the women of the country ,stuck to the TV(called idiot box for a reason), watching as “real-life” characters - depicted as the next-door girl or guy - plot to poison their siblings,jump off cliffs and exchange babies!!!!Ofcourse, according to the producers and the advertisers these are everyday happenings in an Indian family’s life… Larger than life(Larger being an understatement) can be equivalent to real life only in the country of Rajnikanth and Mohanlal…..
P.S - I got nothing against those guys...its just co-incidence and the "hard to take in" action scenes which keep reminding me of Rajnikanth
Soon the writers started running out of evil plots and thus we come to the latest incarnation of mega-serials------the reality shows…….We’ve got dance,songs and wat not….It wouldn’t hav mattered and would hav been considered as an amazing talent hunt if it weren’t for the time and the melodrama it takes….Every household now has their own favorite singer,dancer,actor and I’m not talkin about the movies here…Its like an all new EPL – Entertainment Premier League….And when they ended 2007, I sighed with relief but now its bak…Longer and more dramatic the all new 2008 series!!!!!Half the people in the state know about “sangathi”,”plans” and nearly everyones a music critic now….Ofcourse its an entertainer..There are singers and songs(pathetic at time even to my amateur musical ears),dancers and dances(ditto) and over acting “actors”..There’s always a cute girl with a mic,atleast one really irritating judge and more who think they’re really funny..Best of all -we’ve got people crying and faintin on stage..The tension could give a guy heart attack!!What more could a viewer ask for…
Never knew television could be the medium to make half the population sadists…Entertainment at the sake of participant elimination and insulting is definitely fun…And to top it all they’ve got the really irritating and plagiarized background scores for highlighting the depression….Well hav a blast people…Looks like THIS is REALITY!!!!
Shanker
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Hmmm....
Hey…long time no blogging…..well I guess after 3 years of engineerin and life as I live it u kind of get fed up of everything..hehe…really out of topics…startd off with movie criticism, then lyrics assessment and then etc. etc...but then realized didn’t have a mood for writin anything I guess….lol…will get bak to the page after cookin up something…
Adios…
Adios…
Friday, December 07, 2007
CONCEPT of COLORs
K..To begin with…I’d like to claim THIS is an epiphany….Nice word..so I just had to do it….anyway back to the concept..I have to admit that this is not even 5% my thought….But I just liked it so much I had to blog it….Credit goes to Riju Mathew, a junior who surprised me(by just having any idea) with this idea…But all analogies n further ideas putforth are copyrighted by me..
The general idea runs that all the colors n visions in the world are just concepts….For each person what others sees is like their dream…You know he can see it but u just don’t know the exact image he has….Now take this….Consider I was born with a “defect” which makes me see all blue as white(we’ll just take those 2 for now)….So, since the day I started learning colors I’ve been forced to call white what we generally deem as white…For all you know I might be looking at blue(or what is generally deemed blue)….Now this might seem confusing takin an individual case….On a more general basis this condenses to sayin that no one sees the same color….i’ve been callin white what has been taught to me as being white and not because I SEE it so…hows that for a fun revelation??so whoever put names for colors had the privilege of naming what HE saw how he wanted and we just followed suite….so when someone showed me a block and said “this color is white”, it should have been just “This is white”…coz on the whole it seems like color is a very vague concept…but frankly I like the white n blue I see, so I’m happy with it I guess…
The general idea runs that all the colors n visions in the world are just concepts….For each person what others sees is like their dream…You know he can see it but u just don’t know the exact image he has….Now take this….Consider I was born with a “defect” which makes me see all blue as white(we’ll just take those 2 for now)….So, since the day I started learning colors I’ve been forced to call white what we generally deem as white…For all you know I might be looking at blue(or what is generally deemed blue)….Now this might seem confusing takin an individual case….On a more general basis this condenses to sayin that no one sees the same color….i’ve been callin white what has been taught to me as being white and not because I SEE it so…hows that for a fun revelation??so whoever put names for colors had the privilege of naming what HE saw how he wanted and we just followed suite….so when someone showed me a block and said “this color is white”, it should have been just “This is white”…coz on the whole it seems like color is a very vague concept…but frankly I like the white n blue I see, so I’m happy with it I guess…
Sunday, September 23, 2007
OUT OF IDEAS!!!
God!Blogging is tough,,,,I got 2 options..I could just go on about all the trips and fun we have or i could just think of something good to write and catch up with it which i prefer to do... But either way, the fact that in the past few weeks i might be the only one visting my blog is not much of an inspiration...lol...Anyhow just typin some stuff so that i dont lose touch..(in what i wonder!!!)...K anyway...Thanx for reading Shanker
Sd/- Shanker...
Sd/- Shanker...
Monday, August 27, 2007
ABCD effect
Now this one's more interesting. Discovered in the DSP class( for the uninitiated thats Digital Signal Processing), this actually is applicable to most of the subjects since class 1. Lets take an example i like to quote for explaining it. The name came up from the very same analogy. The ABCD effects shows itself i 2 ways.
CASE 1: Consider a Class 2 student who missed the whole of Class 1 implying he has no idea what ABCD...Z is and doesnt even know how to write it. For such a guy/gal(though effect is seen more in the former) , when a teacher writes "CAT" its the same effect as looking at a person drawing a hill. For all he knows there's a curve and a few lines on the board. All he can do is take it down, as it is ,and call it "C-A-T" as he's told.. This is case 1 of how we understand DSP.For all i and many others know X[k] looks good and surprisingly is totally different from x[k] or X(k).So we just take it down and accept it as given and call it as series or transforms....
CASE 2: Now consider another Class 2 student who did attend Class 1 but didnt understand a thing of what was happening. Meaning if he sees "CAT", he knows there's a "C"(see) , an "A"(ay) and a "T" (tee). But frustratingly for him, the teacher keeps calling it "CAT" when all he can see is "SeeAyTee". And when asked to spell out "BAT" he can find no letter from A -Z which can make it sound like that. Now considering DSP, even if we get X[k],X(k) or x[k], we have no idea what the heck its useful for. Agreed it might mean Fourier Series or Transform but so??? What could we possibly do with it.
CASE 3 : Then there are the perfect students who know their ABCD's , know how it varies and exactly how and where its used. Yup there are examples of such people in DSP(or any class for that matter) too...
Since if you miss anything in Class1 you dont understand most of Class 2, and so on to Class 3...etc. It can be seen from Mathematical Induction, which i picked up from one of those Classes on the way here, that whatever you miss in Class N, is directly the effect of your non-attentiveness in Class M (M<=N).
Anyway cutting the crap ABCD effect can help to classify all the students in a class...If you manage to classify any other group do let me know, so as to expand the ABCD effect.
CASE 1: Consider a Class 2 student who missed the whole of Class 1 implying he has no idea what ABCD...Z is and doesnt even know how to write it. For such a guy/gal(though effect is seen more in the former) , when a teacher writes "CAT" its the same effect as looking at a person drawing a hill. For all he knows there's a curve and a few lines on the board. All he can do is take it down, as it is ,and call it "C-A-T" as he's told.. This is case 1 of how we understand DSP.For all i and many others know X[k] looks good and surprisingly is totally different from x[k] or X(k).So we just take it down and accept it as given and call it as series or transforms....
CASE 2: Now consider another Class 2 student who did attend Class 1 but didnt understand a thing of what was happening. Meaning if he sees "CAT", he knows there's a "C"(see) , an "A"(ay) and a "T" (tee). But frustratingly for him, the teacher keeps calling it "CAT" when all he can see is "SeeAyTee". And when asked to spell out "BAT" he can find no letter from A -Z which can make it sound like that. Now considering DSP, even if we get X[k],X(k) or x[k], we have no idea what the heck its useful for. Agreed it might mean Fourier Series or Transform but so??? What could we possibly do with it.
CASE 3 : Then there are the perfect students who know their ABCD's , know how it varies and exactly how and where its used. Yup there are examples of such people in DSP(or any class for that matter) too...
Since if you miss anything in Class1 you dont understand most of Class 2, and so on to Class 3...etc. It can be seen from Mathematical Induction, which i picked up from one of those Classes on the way here, that whatever you miss in Class N, is directly the effect of your non-attentiveness in Class M (M<=N).
Anyway cutting the crap ABCD effect can help to classify all the students in a class...If you manage to classify any other group do let me know, so as to expand the ABCD effect.
Headache Phenomenon
Lets go with the not so interesting idea first. Aptly named by me(ya..not that humble), the headache phenomenon is something any student <= average in class has witnessed or experience. Ever been caught in class for sleeping, dozing etc.?? Well thats when it hits you. The first thing that comes to your mouth is "Uh...Sir(Madam) headache..."...And an automatic raise of hands to the head. This has become too transparent a trick now. Its time for a change. Try for instance Sinusitis..Works nicely and half the people dont know what exactly is the cause or effect. Or if you aint satisfied with that there's always Google.. Go on get some nice names for headache or cold and WALLAH!! you've got a perfectly opaque escape route from that outward gesture; And if ur lucky enough you can finish that hour sleeping at peace. Anyway this one's just a casual thought and many argue its just my imagination......
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
UPCOMING POSTS.....
Coming soon in a PC/phone near you are my new ideas.... Struck with 2 ideas which i have been able to name as will be shown, these two are the products of extreme boredom and an electronics class to attend... Upcoming are:
1. The HEADACHE Phenomenon
2. The ABCD.. Effect
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1. The HEADACHE Phenomenon
2. The ABCD.. Effect
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Back Again...
Back to classes atlast, thought this time we'd make a change and start studying a bit...But its true how they put it "Life doesn't give a guy a second chance"....I mean...comon what else can be said if the situatuin is like this : Out of the 6 subjects we got atleast 4 of them require us to be properly acquainted with SS or Signals and Systems and i can guarantee you that its not one of the most enjoyable subjects in our department......
OH!!ya..Speakin of which.Here's a good one..We got 3 electives in our branch this year,2 of which lack faculty...Thats a good one...So now we got just one core elective which by itself is an oxymoron...
Anyway back to this time's subjects there's one which requires about 4 prerequisites all of which dont exactly make me glad i'm in ECE. So with 1 to 4 and 4 to 1 its like one of those complex mappings which seem so trivial compared to whats incoming now.
And then there's another subject in which half-way through the first class i wondered whether i had registered for the right one. You know like one of those instances where you switch on a channel thinking its the news and halfway through, you realise its totally useless crap!!!(Instance courtesy:Deepak Mohan)...
OH!!ya..Speakin of which.Here's a good one..We got 3 electives in our branch this year,2 of which lack faculty...Thats a good one...So now we got just one core elective which by itself is an oxymoron...
Anyway back to this time's subjects there's one which requires about 4 prerequisites all of which dont exactly make me glad i'm in ECE. So with 1 to 4 and 4 to 1 its like one of those complex mappings which seem so trivial compared to whats incoming now.
And then there's another subject in which half-way through the first class i wondered whether i had registered for the right one. You know like one of those instances where you switch on a channel thinking its the news and halfway through, you realise its totally useless crap!!!(Instance courtesy:Deepak Mohan)...
Friday, June 01, 2007
DWELLING ON DIMENSIONS
It has been brought to my notice that one of the laws of mine which always joke around with seems to be something to muse about..So here for the first time in writing and in an attempted maximum clarity is Shanker's Law of Dimensions and Shanker's Time Dimension Theorum
1.Without any scientific or complicated experiments,the first law can be observed to be seen throughout the world.
According to the(my),
Law of Dimensions:- When moving through any dimension a dimension of lower order is also traversed.
For Clarity: When moving in 2-d we know that 2 one-d motions are followed.Hence the x and y axises.Similarly it is observed for 3-d,where three 2-ds and three 1-ds are followed.Anyhow the number of lower dimensions traversed is irrelevant.
So if you will accept the above law from everyday observations,we can derive the Time Dimension Theorum.
2.I do not try to prove whether time is a dimension or not.But assuming that it is, then it can be stated that time cannot be the fourth dimension as is disputed. Follow this..... As mentioned above when any dimension of order n is moved along ,then n-1,n-2 etc are also moved along. Any motion in space or in 1-d cannot take place without a corresponding displacement of time since otherwise concepts of acceleration,velocity etc. will become obsolete. But we can also see that,(not considering any other complex dimensions),we will always move through time(aging,rusting etc..) without a necessary movement in any of the other dimensions.So for simplicity of following a generalized observed tendency it would be sensible and convenient to assume Time as the ZERO-th dimension for future references,or to shift all dimensions above time.
1.Without any scientific or complicated experiments,the first law can be observed to be seen throughout the world.
According to the(my),
Law of Dimensions:- When moving through any dimension a dimension of lower order is also traversed.
For Clarity: When moving in 2-d we know that 2 one-d motions are followed.Hence the x and y axises.Similarly it is observed for 3-d,where three 2-ds and three 1-ds are followed.Anyhow the number of lower dimensions traversed is irrelevant.
So if you will accept the above law from everyday observations,we can derive the Time Dimension Theorum.
2.I do not try to prove whether time is a dimension or not.But assuming that it is, then it can be stated that time cannot be the fourth dimension as is disputed. Follow this..... As mentioned above when any dimension of order n is moved along ,then n-1,n-2 etc are also moved along. Any motion in space or in 1-d cannot take place without a corresponding displacement of time since otherwise concepts of acceleration,velocity etc. will become obsolete. But we can also see that,(not considering any other complex dimensions),we will always move through time(aging,rusting etc..) without a necessary movement in any of the other dimensions.So for simplicity of following a generalized observed tendency it would be sensible and convenient to assume Time as the ZERO-th dimension for future references,or to shift all dimensions above time.
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