Friday, July 12, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Runaway Train
Following the ‘Sky
Fall’ other day, I watched the ‘Runaway Train’ in the weekend at home-theater.
Almost I enjoyed both the films, sky fall sounded like the best James Bond film
ever made or I seen - I am not a James bond fan and haven’t watched many on its
series, but I feel sky fall lives close to perfectness and straightforward. Daniel
Craig performance was really good and he proved to continue to fall in mind as
James Bond. Runaway Train is another interesting movie directed by Andrei
Konchalovsky, the 1985 adventure thriller is based on story of two convicts
escaped from a prison in Alaska, and boards a train that goes out of control.
Manny and Buck,
who escape through a sewer pipe using Buck’s position as laundry collector in
prison, took a freezing cross-country hike to board a train that runaway after
its engineer suffered a heart attack. Only after a collision that badly damage
the lead engine to accelerate to dangerous speed, the convicts aware the
situation and along with Sara, a locomotive hostler on board, they attempt to
stop the train by disconnecting the MU cables, apart the railroad heads
decision to derail the train to avoid major accident. The warden of the prison
chases the train via helicopter to catch the convicts before it collide.
The opening scene
of the train sound marvelous and its progress at great velocity takes on an
ever adventurous train ride across desolated snowy Alaska. Jon Voight as Manny, portray two different faces:
Vicious, while asserting dominance over Buck (Eric Roberts) and hit him hard to
scramble outside the engine and sensible, when decided to face dead by uncouple
the lead engine, leaving Buck and Sara safely behind. Even Rebecca’s part was
very little her expressions were expensive! The music really put on a vibrant
stream when the train moves esp. the final notes on violin or some other
instrument was awesome. Cinematography was another wonder indeed ruled the
scenario!
Monday, July 08, 2013
Firefly
Triggering a light
enough for
invisible particles
enough for
invisible particles
Following its flight
is a real life fantasy
and indeed fun.
is a real life fantasy
and indeed fun.
Footnote:
I had a wonderful time watching the fireflies during my stay in
Thandikudi - a village on the Palani or Kodai Hills, last month. We spent a whole
evening and night without power but had fun time with cousins and cool weather
for comfort, we saw the fireflies flashing around us. I couldn’t remember when I
saw the fireflies early but this time was memorable, having them closer, I wonder
how much wondrous we miss by using spotlights everywhere hiding the magic that happens
in darkness.
We tried to catch them, but they are on their ways across valleys and
ridges, and following them is impossible. So we stayed away admiring the beauty blink in
darkness.
Labels:
beauty,
Environment,
Fun,
haiku,
Hill station,
Nature,
Pleasant,
poem,
wild
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Powershot Sunday - St. Stephen’s Church, Ooty
“St. Stephen's Church in Ooty
is one of the oldest churches in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. Stephen
Rumbold Lushington, the then Governor of Madras, who keenly felt the need for a
church in Ooty exclusively for the British, laid the foundation for the church
on April 23, 1829, to coincide with the birthday of King George IV. St.
Stephen's Church, consecrated by John Matthias Turner, Bishop of Calcutta, on
November 5, 1830 was opened to the public communion on Easter Sunday of April
3, 1831. It came under the Church of South India in 1947.” - Source Wikipedia.
Footnote:
The picture was
taken in 2011 during one of my visit to Nilgiris and I haven’t gone inside the
church, but just shot it while waiting at Ooty collector’s office parking lot
to get permission to drive through Avalanche forest. St Stephen’s Church
is on the road to Mysore from Charring Cross.
Labels:
beauty,
heritage,
Hill station,
History,
India,
Picture,
Pleasant,
PowerShot Sunday
Location:
Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India
Friday, July 05, 2013
Master checkup - an ever undergone trouble!
I took a master health
checkup two days back in a clinic close to our house and suppose to find out that
almost everything is normal except slightly increase in blood sugar and
indication of BP (blood pressure) in ECG. Though the results are not
unfavorable, I had tough time going through one of the test (abdominal ultrasonography)
to which I was instructed to drink plenty of water until my tank get full. It wasn’t
difficult actually to drink more water, but to control without passing urine until
the test complete was quite a struggle and terrible task.
I drank about 1.5
liters of water an hour before we are suppose to be there and as soon we enter
the clinic, the bladder began to urge for a release but there was no symptom of
call for the test. We waited for half an hour; the receptionist doesn’t have an
answer whereas only saying doctor will come soon… wait for five minutes. There were
two more five minutes gone and the doctor hadn’t arrived. I was going through
severe trouble in bladder or abdomen and don’t want to take the risk of mess up
with pants. It was a moment I couldn’t think of anything, lying on the bed next
to the scan instrument, the attendant asked to think about what I like more (to
divert the pissing thought)… I could
only say the hell!
It was I who want
to take the master checkup to confirm everything is fine on basic terms of
health (dealing with MD is a different matter), it’s been a year and a half I took
a similar one, which confess the diabetes and I know someone who is in sitting
position always could invite side effects and with the aid of diabetes anything
is possible. I am trying my best in controlling sugar (don’t believe him, he
ate half a cup of palkova - a sweet made of milk and sugar - two days early to
test) and was regular with medicine and physiotherapy seems to cause an effect only
to sustain.
The abdomen scan
doesn’t last more than five minutes but I was going through immense pressure
enduring urine and I was only back to normal with everlasting pissing. Sigh! Later
I went taking chest X-ray and ECG and following a meeting with doctor and physical
exam, I was advised on certain terms to follow and regular check with BP as he
find it abnormal. I could only think it is because of intense pressure I went
through the abdomen scan had resulted in blood pressure and a mild symptom in
ECG. I know it was worth going through the trouble but I don’t know whom to
blame - the doctor who came late or I drink water early - anyhow there wasn’t
any problem gracefully. J
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