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Friday, September 29, 2023

Men, Women & Children

 When we watch movies made across the world one thing that we realize is human emotions remains the same. We are flawed people always looking for ways to be better. We keep failing but we don't stop. Some do stop but they are exceptions.

Up in the Air by Jason Reitman is a movie which we can watch again and again. It captured the human emotions beautifully we can relate to all the characters. Now on the same lines Men, Women & Children is a movie based on realism where we see people who are trying to better but we fail for various reasons.

The intentions are good but the way it is expressed most of the time is not right and it causes so much pain. 

To escape from reality people try various avenues but none can give permanent peace of mind. We realize that only after the mistake. But important point is we realize. Does it mean we won't commit the mistake again? No we repeat the same mistakes. But the good part is always screaming within our head.

Sometimes the unanswered prayers or things we didn't get to buy or do are blessings in disguise.

Sunday, September 03, 2023

MicroSD not detected

 I was playing using and all of a sudden the phone stopped detecting the music stored within the microsd card. Upon checking further the phone totally stopped recognizing the sd card altogether. The main problem in such situations is we do not know what we had stored in that card and what we are going to miss. This has happened a lot with portable hard disks and this was my first with a sd card.

I switched the card to another phone and even there the card was recognized. I tried another card in my phone and it got detected. When I tried the card using an adaptor in a PC it got detected.

Now without knowing what is causing the issue, I was confused about buying a new card. What if that card is also not detected?

Still I thought since it is anyway recognizing the other card, I went ahead and enquired the cost of a new microSD card with higher storage capacity. I noticed there is atleast 100 to 150 rs difference between what is shown online and a shop, that too the shop was considered to sell for cheap prices.

I came back and then did some search and since it was getting detected in PC, thought of formatting the card as suggested by few.

I unchecked the quick format option and it took almost 30 mins for a 64GB card to be formatted. I backed up the content before formatting.

After formatting inserted the card into mobile and "Voila ! It worked !!"

I still do not know what caused the problem but formatting fixed it.

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Fireproof 2008

 I actually loved this movie. Everything was perfect. Yes there is religion in it and it plays an important part. It might put off some people but even if you keep that aside it makes a good movie. It was pleasant to see friendly supporting people all around. The movies also shows people who gossip/cheat so it does cover both sides of the coin but it does it nicely. The movie also shows it is not easy and we need to put in the effort to be good and there will be lot of things which will takes back to our old life. If we persevere that's when we see there is whole new life out there.

The world has always been selling there is nothing wrong in being promiscuous, lusting on something and it has materialized life. We are o used to that and feel everything is ok and nothing is wrong. But material things never brings happiness and sometimes it might be too late before we realize it.

We need more such movies which are pleasant to watch.

Monday, May 29, 2023

Gallipoli

 For the first 30 to 45 minutes I was wondering if I am watching the movie which I actually read about. Because the first half of the movie is not about war. You see the harsh and beautiful Australian outback and an athlete. Mel Gibson is introduced only after few minutes into the film and Mark Lee plays a more prominent role than Gibson.

The last 15 to 20 minutes the movie gets serious and we can actually feel the tension of war. The ending will definitely get through us. Many movies have captured the futility of war. Whoever wins humanity loses. It definitely gets to us when we think about so many innocent young men have lost their lives in the name of war which is more of ego battle between leaders. Even The Bible is full of wars.

It is proven again and again war will not solve problems but still we resort to war. While we as human have  lot of other challenges in front of us we ignore all that and choose to fight with each other.

The movie only stresses that point and it does that beautifully.

Friday, May 26, 2023

Chennai to Mysore - Day 4

This was the last day for us and our train was at 2100 Hrs. So we had an entire day to ourselves. The check out time at the hotel was at 1200 Hrs. So the kids made on last visit to the pool and we finished our breakfast. We packed our bags, vacated the room and left the bags at the hotel. 

We visited St.Philomena's Church first. It had European influence and reminded me of Cathedrals in Cologne. You have to enter the Church through the front door and exit through the back of the church. The problem is we left our footwear at the front and its quite a distance you have to walk from the back to the front. It was a hot day and we had to run through the hot floor to grab our footwear. We had to do it twice as we exited first without checking out certain sections inside the Church. We were not aware of the fact that you can only exit through the back door.

After that we went to Kauvery shop and did some shopping. We bought Sandal soaps, key chains, talcum powders etc. We still had lot of time to spare so we went to a Mall and spent some time there and finished our lunch there.

I had learnt that my school teacher is living in Mysore and we paid a visit to her house in the evening. While return to the Hotel we went to Mahalakshmi sweets and bought sweets to take back home. Then we returned back to the hotel collected our bags and went to the railway station around 1900 hrs.

We bought packed food for dinner and the train started exactly at 2100 hrs for Chennai. The problem with the return train journey is people get into reserved compartments and they ask you to adjust by squeezing in. It includes even educated people. Till Bangalore even the reserved compartments can get crowded.

We met a nice friend Naveen during this journey and he helped us with the travel during the last 3 days. We travelled all around in his auto and that made the entire travel part comfortable.

A Simple Plan and Just Mercy