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Transformers - Revenge of the fallen characters

Posted by: lara / Category: Media, Movies - 2009, Movies I loved watching

The Good Guys - AUTOBOTS

Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime

Bumble Bee

bumble_bee

Jazz

The bad guys - Decepticons

Frenzy Decepticon

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23 Jun

3-D technology to preserve Ancient Treasures

Posted by: lara / Category: Pages of my Diary

The beginning model of the Parthenon

For Bernard Maybeck’s Palace of Fine Arts — the current home of San Francisco’s Exploratorium

the Incan site of Machu Picchu circa 1570, is based on existing archaeological research

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20 May

IMAX Experience - Wonderful day

Posted by: lara / Category: Movies I loved watching

IMAX or Image Maximum is specifically designed to deliver the World’s MOST IMMERSIVE MOVIE EXPERIENCE. It’s like making the audience feel as if they are a part in the movie or they are in the movie. Star Trek generates 5.3 million in IMAX,

Configure customized movie screen
Feel the view maximized
Aura revolutionary projection system
Crystal clear images enhanced
Calibrate powerful digital speakers
Laser aligned sounds perfected
Prepare audience for maximum impact

IMAX 3D delivers the most immersive 3D movie experience ever created, enabling images to leap off screen and into the laps of the audience, further enhancing the feeling of being IN the movie.

We have just 2 theatres currently in India, with the largest IMAX Dome screen in the world in Big Cinemas IMAX Mumbai, with a screen area of 1,180 m² (12,700 sq ft). The screen size varies, sometimes it may be in the size of a football stadium.
The other IMAX theatre is at Prasad IMAX multiplex theatres, Hyderabad, India. There are nearly 320 theatres worldwide. In the next five years IMAX corporations have plans to open IMAX all over India in 10 destinations.

Forget these details let’s move on to my experience. We went to Hyderabad on a hot summer day for our colleague’s marriage. The marriage got over in the morning and we had to chill out in the afternoon and spend time away from sun and entertaining too… One of our friend, Satya suggested us for the IMAX theatres at Prasads. We were (or at least I was a) complete amateurs in hearing the word IMAX. Rather it’s the first time for me. Never even knew that such kind of theatre experience existed. We booked through our friend’s brother (we were 12 members) very kind enough to show us around the city. We went an hour ahead before the movie could start, because the Prasads is not only a multiplex theatre but also a shopping complex / fun place to hang out.
Before the movie we visited the DARK HOUSE, typical Halloween type with complete darkness and zombies and ghost models suddenly popping out in darkness. It was great fun, though the models didn’t scare me much, my colleagues did that job. We were the loudest team of the day I should tell.

Then the most awaited moment came, the actual movie experience.

I was spellbound the moment I stepped in to the theatre, the first surprise was the hugeness of the screen. My goodness it was like an auditorium in an enlarged manner. We got to sit in the 10th row I believe. Initially we were explained about the IMAX theatres, some technical details, we were given a 3D glass, and played a preview of how a IMAX 3D experience would be. Scenes from the movie, Finding Nemo ( I don’t remember much the other movies), but I remember each time the shark came out of the sea weeds and popped right into my nose, I was yelling at the top of my voice.

It took me some time, to get used with the experience before I could stop my hysteric shouting’s. My Colleagues were trying to calm me down, saying that I am over reacting.

Then the actual movie started. It was “THE POLAR EXPRESS 3D”. Watching a movie in IMAX for the first time itself is too much to take over an afternoon. To top it watching a 3D movie was a life time experience. Just relished nourished and cherished the evening with the IMAX experience.

That day always tops one of my most unforgettable days.

imax prasads Hyderabad

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18 May

What a blockbuster Sunday Night

Posted by: lara / Category: Movies I loved watching

It was a really dull day when it started. Parents were out of station. I had to stay back at my Mom’s place to take care of our three sweet pie pets lara, Sona and Dan. Felt a little lonely. Nothing good was happening in the idiot box.
No one called; my hubby called once and said that he will call back only late evening.

Spent some time taking small naps at regular intervals unnecessarily.

Watched some crapped Tamil movies.

Block buster sunday night

But the evening turned out to be a great time. Nothing much, the idiot box suddenly started casting some good stuff that I like.
I usually browse through the English movie channels as the movies are much shorter time span than the Tamil movies, and you also don’t have to put up with too much crap at the same time. It’s all simple concepts directed beautifully.
The first movie that caught my eye as I browsed through was “The Messengers”, any movie gets only 2-3 minutes maximum to impress me while browsing the channels. But once impressed I stay glued. The first time when I browsed it did not interest me much, but when I was cruising again, the movie has reached the almost climax, and immediately got me glued. I started watching from where the main character Jess finds about the family that disappeared, was not a co incidence but something terrible has happened to them. With the help of her boy friend they get to the nearest store, and find out that the family has been missing for 5 years where the mother and the two children get killed. The killer still survives and he is none other than the chief farmer whom his father has appointed to look after their sun flower farms.

The unusual circumstances that happen around the house are crows keep flying around. Blood stain on walls. The small boy Ben (who is mute caused by an accident) and his sister Jess sees spirits of the missing family.

At the end the killer claims that the newly moved in family is his family and they will never leave him. And to be with them he hunts them down. But at the end, he is pulled in to a sand pit by the dead family. Everything turns normal as the killer dies denoting that now the spirits are free.

The next movie that came up was “The Illusionist”, I wanted to watch this movie for a long time, because they have been telecasting the trailer over and over again, which impressed me a lot. “Forbidden Love”, “Illusionist”, so it falls in my genre of movies “Love”, “Horror”. I missed the first 20 minutes of the movie, but later got glued to the movie. I was really taken aback by the twist in the ending. Such an unexpected climax and I cherished it.

Following that was the movie “1408″, I was not at all impressed by the Title, because it did not suggest anything. Later when I saw the trailer it fell into one of my genre.

Now days I am really getting bored of this genre, because it is either a Psycho thriller claiming that it is based on a true story or everyone turning out to be zombies. But I intended to see the movie because I didn’t see any one killing others or zombie faces.

Finally it turned out to be the best movie of the day and a great horror movie that I hadn’t watched in recent times. Though there were little loose ends, it still made me stay glued to the movie.

It definitely turned out to be a blockbuster Sunday Night. But as I am now in my 7th month of pregnancy, I am on and off warned by my hubby not to watch horror movies at these times. He was very worried when I told him that I watched three horror movies at a stretch. But I really found it thrilling Come on my baby is going to be a brave person, maybe he now gets used to the genre of movies already what his mother watches. We both enjoyed the evening.

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11 May

Thank you Boss

Posted by: lara / Category: Fun in Office

We just had a grandeur function our Office Annual day Functions. Genie 2009.

What made it special to me and why I thank my boss, is he gave me an wonderful opportunity to sing the song I love the most, among 300+ audience. The song is not famous, but it is a good song, good lyrics, good music. And I had a chance to promote this less famous song. Soon I will post the video of this song, which I sang

Till then check out my previous post on this song:

http://www.yourlara.com/tag/arai-305il-kadavul

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28 Apr

Squats - more difficult exercise than you think.

Posted by: lara / Category: Health

Squats for a couple of minutes could make your face go flush. It is one of the difficult exercises. Try singing a song or just talk during squats if you still don’t believe this.

Squats are a very metabolically demanding exercise because a lot of muscle mass. It actually creates a lot of lactic acid. Lactic acid is again a bi product of anabolic metabolism

Squats - more difficult exercise than you think.

, your body requires a lot of energy to keep doing squats continuously; it creates a lot of lactic acid. Lactic acid disassociates into Carbon di oxide and water. And the increase in CO2 in the body makes you breathe more. So doing squats is not a aerobic exercise which makes you more lose more oxygen. But it makes you get rid of these waste products. So any heavy exercises like push-ups, chin-ups and squats which uses a lot of muscle mass makes you breathe a lot.

Do it the right way:

Go down slowly.

Make sure your knees do not cross the tip of your toes.

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15 Apr

Jupiter - The Bid Daddy

Posted by: lara / Category: Nature, Universe

Why do we call Jupiter the big guy, Our protector. Well for so many reasons, he is 11 times bigger than earth. If you want to imagine the mass of Jupitor you would have to take a 1000 earths and stuff it into Jupitor. The only planet that’s visible to the naked eye. To complete a day it takes 9.9 earth days. And 11.86 years to make one orbit around the sun. Its mostly composed of Ammonia and Hydrogen, so you cant expect anyone to have landed on this planet.
That’s a lot of tech terms available in wikipedia.

What facinates me personally about Jupitor is a differnt story. Every time I watch this in the Universe Serires of “Discover Channel” or read about it, the facination just stumps me.

Giant Red Eye

This great storm other named as the Giant Red Eye is a unique feature of Jupitor. Would you believe it was formed in 1655 and still not out. I like him.
The color red is due to the sulphur particles.
The Giant Eye has a Junior Oval BA also known as the Red Spot Jr.

Since the guy is big, he has 12 natural satellites going around him.
One of the main moon that impressed me a lot is Europa (because of his Europe like climatic conditions.
It has frozen-ice upper crust and is estimated to have liquid ocean beneath the solid crust. And oohhh that’s right where there is water there will be life.

So scientists are planning a lot of expeditions to land on the moon and research it for any form of extra-territrial being existence. We got company. We could also say “If this guy cools down”, it could be our next home to earth, where you can go for ice fishing.
So when you are facing a Doomsday you may want to move here.

Death X is the brain child of a scientist in Stone Aerospace. He is currently experimenting Death X a highly sophisticated swimming whose real name is ENDURANCE. Will land on the ice and will travel in search of life.
A highly suitable ROBOT to survey Europa.
More observations to be conducted are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)#Spacecraft_proposals_and_cancellations

On July 16-22 1944 the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This first observed solar objects collision in space. This one incident provided a lot of insight as how Jupiter acts as a space debris collector, just reducing space Debris in the solar system.

Collision of Comet Shoemaker - levy 9 with Jupiter

This Giant of the Solar system has something to say us. He roars like a LION, whispers and whistles. One of the Astronaut / Scientist put it very beautifully.
“Planets or the universe don’t give up their secrets easily and that is what keeps us going back to them.”Jupiter is the king of many questions that holds our scientist to them. ”

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05 Apr

Congratulations Winners! Femina Miss India 2009

Posted by: lara / Category: Media

Congratulations to the Femina Miss India 2009 crowned beauties. Starting from left

Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2009 is Ekta Chaudhury.
Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2009 is Shriya Kishore.
Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2009 is Pooja Chopra.