Tamil:
I have very few to list in tamil movies as, it takes more than the ordinary masala to get me impressed. Some of the out of box movies that I have watched this year is

Dasavatharam

The legendary actor kamal stars in 10 differnt roles and stuns everyone with his performance. The story was a little complicated, but if you dont want to digg deep, you will know the story.

Ellam Avan Seyal

top tamil movie of 2008

 

Unexpectedly good/gr8 movie. I dont have anything say about the hero or the star cast. But the story line was brilliantly put. If you cut down the unnessary comic scenes and 2 murders the movie rocks. The plot and the twist is extraordinary. Would like to mention it is a malayalam movie “Chinthamani kola Case” remake.

OnlineNIC registered at least 663 domain names that were identical or very similar to Verizon trademarks, such as myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com, 123verizonphones.com and verizononline.com.

The court concluded that OnlineNIC registered these names in bad faith in an effort to lure Verizon customers to the sites. Verizon was awarded $50,000 per domain name, the largest ever judgment in a cybersquatting case, Verizon said.

“This case should send a clear message and serve to deter cybersquatters who continue to run businesses for the primary purpose of misleading consumers,” Sarah Deutsch, Verizon vice president and associate general counsel, said in a statement. “Verizon intends to continue to take all steps necessary to protect our brand and consumers from Internet frauds and abuses.”

No lawyers or representatives from OnlineNIC appeared in court to defend themselves.

 

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a bellybutton.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

9. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

10. The average housefly lives for one month.

11. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

12. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

13. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

14. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

15. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

A chess board designed with a lot of animals.

The Indian Moghul style chess board.

Crusade chess pieces

Mosquitoes have teeth.

The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs — it will let you go instantly.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

The average person laughs 15 times a day.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

Movie : Kalloori
Music : Joshua Sridhar
Singer : Harini Sudhakar, Haricharan
Lyrix : Na.Muthukumar

 un arugil varugayil
uLLae ore paravasam
unnalae thOzhanae
naan illai en vasam

un arugil varugayil
uLLae ore paravasam
unnalae thOzhanae
naan illai en vasam

un paerai kaetkaiyilae
urchagam vazhi vidudhae
un nizhalai thaediyae
en iravum thodarudhu indru

eppodhu maarinaen
engae naan meerinaen
en nenjai kaetkiraen
badhil sollidu nee

un arugil varugayil
uLLae ore paravasam
unnalae thOzhanae
naan illai en vasam

un arugil varugayil
uLLae ore paravasam
unnalae thOzhanae
naan illai en vasam

un kangaL meedhu
oru poottu vaithu pootum pOdhum
un idhayam thaaNdi veLiyae varumae
peNNae
nee payaNam pOgum paadhai
vendaam endru sollumpOdhum
un kaalgaL varumae
varuvadhai
thaduthida mudiyaadhu

en udaL en manam en kural ellaam
indru pudhidhaaga uru maarum
nanbargaL paesum varthaigaL ellam
kaadhil nuzhaiyaamal veLiyaerum

idhu anbaal varugira avasthaigaLa
illai un mael varugira aasaigaLa
idhu varai saertha inbam thunbangaLai
unnudan pagirndhida thudikkiraen
idhu enna idhu enna
pudhu mayakkam
iravodu pagalodu
enai erikkum

kanavinil dhinam dhinam
poothidum pookkaLai
kaigaLil parithida mudindhiduma
edhir edhir paesida thayangidum vaarthaigaL
sonnaal adhu purindhiduma
kadavuLin iruppidam
kaadhalin ragasiyam
irandaiyum arindhida mudindhiduma
idam poruL yaevalum
idhayathin thaavalum
indrae mella meeriduma

un kangaL paarkum dhisaiyOdu
kaaraNam indri thirigindraen
undhan paarvai endhan meedhu vizha
yaedho naanum kaathiruppaen

veLiyae sonnal ragasiyamaai
en nenjil unarthugiraai neeyae
sollamal naan maraithaalum
en kaNNin manigaL ennai kaati vidum

 

 

 

Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk accross because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to a her lifted her in his alms and left her on the other side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery.
In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, “Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman ?”
The elder monk answered “yes, brother”.
Then the younger monk asks again, ” but then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the roadside ?”
The elder monk smiled at him and told him ” I left her on the other side of the road, but you are still carrying her “

ON BECOMING HUMAN

To be human is to recognize the cultural perspectives that bind us to a tribe, sect, religion, or nation, and to rise above them. It is to feel the pain of the dispossessed, the downtrodden, the refugee, the slave, the starving child.

To be human is to break the ties of cultural conformity and group-think, and to use one’s own mind. It is to recognize good and evil, and to choose good. It is to consider with the heart. It is to act with conscience.

To be human is to be courageous. It is to choose the path of compassion, rather than the path of complacency. It is to break the silence, and be an unrelenting advocate of human decency and dignity. It is to sacrifice for what is just.

To be human is to breathe with the rhythm of life, and to recognize our kinship with all forms of life. It is to appreciate every drop of water. It is to feel the warmth of the sun, and to marvel at the beauty and expanse of the night sky. It is to stand in awe of who we are and where we live. It is to see the Earth with the eyes of an astronaut.

To be human is to be aware of our dependence upon the whole of the universe, and of the miracle that we are. It is to open our eyes to the simple and extraordinary beauty that is all about us. It is to live with deep respect for the sacred gift of life. It is to love.

To be human is to seek to find ourselves behind our names. It is to explore the depths and boundaries of our existence. It is to learn from those who have preceded us, and to act with due concern for those who will follow us.

To be human is to plant the seeds of peace, and to nurture them. It is to find peace and make peace. It is to help mend the web of life. It is to be a healer of the planet.

To be human is to say an unconditional No! to warfare, and particularly to the use of weapons of mass destruction. It is to take a firm stand against all who profit from warfare and its preparation.

To be human is not always to succeed, but it is always to learn. It is to move forward despite the obstacles.

We are all born with the potential to become human. How we choose to live will be the measure of our humanness. Civilization does not assure our civility. Nor does being born into the human species assure our humanity. We must each find our own path to becoming human.

BANGLADESH, GENOCIDE IN

Bangladesh’s emergence as a nation in 1971 came at the cost of three million people dead, a quarter of a million women and girls raped, ten million people fled to India, and thirty million people forced to flee their homes.

Pakistan was made up of a province on the west side of India (former Punjab et al.) and on the east side of India (former East Bengal). The army was manned and commanded by people from West Pakistan. Elections for a Constitutional Assembly were held in Pakistan in December 1970. The East Pakistan based Awami League won an outright majority of seats in this Assembly, and planned to write a constitution that would give the majority population of East Pakistan political control of the country. On the evening of March 25, 1971, the military and political elite of West Pakistan with malice aforethought loosed the Army of Pakistan (manned and commanded by West Pakistanis) on the Bengali population of East Pakistan to emasculate the Awami League as a political opponent, to rid the province of East Pakistan of its Hindu population of 10 million persons, and to terrorize the civilian population into complete and permanent submission. This plan of intimidation, brutalization, and extermination of any Bengali who would not accept West Pakistani superiority continued until the West Pakistan military capitulated to the Indian Army on December 16, 1971.

Particularly at risk were known Awami League politicians and their supporters, most of whom, however, went into hiding in the countryside or escaped to India. The armed security and police forces manned by Bengalis were an early target, but many of these also escaped with their weapons to return as guerrillas. Bengali students, professors, and intellectuals were summarily executed. The West Pakistan Army was particularly intent on killing every single Hindu they could find. Slum and squatter areas of the major cities and towns were also obliterated with all their occupants.

All able-bodied young Bengali men were considered freedom fighters. Early on, they were routinely rounded up, tortured, and killed. Very quickly, however, they fled the cities and towns for the guerrilla camps in the countryside and in India. The Army of West Pakistan turned its fury on the women and girls left behind. Girls and women were publicly raped in front of their family members. They were routinely abducted to special camps near army barracks to be gang-raped, brutalized, and killed, or to live with the eternal shame of their violation. Many committed suicide.

As the Bengali guerrilla campaign became more effective against the West Pakistan Army, the Army undertook

Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his work. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaption of this Persian poetry.