I’m pretty crabby today. I absolutely despise the cold and snow. I’m in
just one of those moods where everything and everyone annoys me.
I absolutely hate being in a bad mood, which makes my already sour
mood even worse. I want to scream, I want to yell, I want to pound
someone.. But no.. I can't do any of these..
Today, I’m just thinking that there are some things that are beyond my
understanding. For instance, why do people insist on taking up the
entire sidewalk? They sway to and fro causing you to be stuck behind
them, or they are pulling a suitcase behind them, which also gets in the
way. Or, they don’t know where the hell they are going, probably don’t
know how the hell they got here, and get in everyone’s way trying to
figure how to pull their heads outta this. I’m sorry, but if you need to
figure out which way is up or down, step off to the side and get out of
the way! Then there are those extremely rude people that walk 4 across,
and not one of them makes an effort to move even an inch! They are so
self-absorbed that they wouldn’t care if they caused a person to get hit
by a bus because they ran them off the sidewalk!
What I also can not stand sometimes is people who do not have a mind
of their own. I am beyond sick of hearing people say, “Oh, I voted for
Obama because he talks nice and everyone else likes him.” (I seriously
heard several people say this). "Who cares what he stands for, at least
he talks pretty." Give me a break ya!! You know what, Hitler was also
a great public speaker.. I wonder if those numbskulls would vote for
him if he were a candidate. I can’t respect people who vote for
someone they know nothing about, but just want to go with the crowd.
Now, if you voted for Obama because you agree with him on forming
a citizen’s army, nationwide healthcare, and spreading the wealth
then I can respect you. And there's this other 'elite' class of fools who
vote for a candidate based on how she looks!! Jollu ku oru alave illaya???
One such 'hot' candidate for the post of the VP, referred to Africa as a
country in a press conference. Even my nephew would know what
Africa is!!!
Enough of politics!! I am about ready to throw up from politics and the
news! I just wish I could hop into my car and drive to nowhere in
particular, just go wherever the road takes me. Into a jungle maybe..
where there's noone to irritate me. Me me n me alone.. I am going to
do that one day, but I need a car for that first!! To buy a car, I need
money. To get money, I ve to find a job after my MS. But my whole
problem is, I am just too annoyed to work towards anything anymore!!
And even as I type this, my comp irritates me as well. Already, the net
speeds at my place are pathetic!! Here's a something that you all may
not know. Microsoft reserves 20% of your bandwidth for its own
mysterious purposes. You keep thinking its servicing your request, but
it only stealthily does what it wants. Unless you pay attention, you
wouldn't even realise it!! God knows.. One day it might solely do its
own work and not even bother about you!!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
baby i'm addicted
I dont remember from when I fell in love with her, but I know its quite
a long time. The first time I saw her, it was in a party, she was in a red
and white outfit. I was totally amazed at seeing her..what a sleek n
slender body. Man.. anyone would fall for her!! But I always had that
initial fear before starting anything like this. I didn't even know if it was
right. A friend of mine introduced her to me. It was the same week that
I met her again. This time, she was in a maroon costume. This time, I
wasn't so scared of her. I spent a lot of time with her that day. The
more I got to know her, the stranger I felt.
As I began to know her better, I realised that it wasn't just the looks, that
drew me towards her. It was the very air that she carried around her
that attracted me. I even remembering sneaking out of classes to be
with her. In a few weeks, we had become so close that I almost never
went anywhere without her. She always stayed close to my heart.
Soon my liking for her became an obsession. This started on the day
I saw her in a new form. Something was different about her today.
Even as a held her in my hands I could feel it. In a few minutes,
I was all over her and she was totally into me. She filled me with
ecstacy completely. I was in the heavens during the whole thing.
Never before had I experienced this. She took me real high and then
back just in under an hour. So thinking, I decided that we should do
it more often.
From then on, there was no stopping me. Parks, rooftops, my car...
I did it at many places. I was soooooo into her that I would give up
anything to be with her. Who knows.. I might even die for her..
I was entirely dependent on her. She was the driving force behind me.
Nothing would ever run everyday without those magic moments
with her in the morning. No job would run smoothly without deriving
some rapture out of her in the quiet afternoons.But of course, the
night times were the best!! The entire room would smell of her..
But soon she started giving me pain. That which used to give me
pleasure once was pricking me now. But I was helpless. She may
have lots of people to turn to, I had noone else. I wanted to tell
her 'sabko to chhod dee.. siva tum', just like SRK says in the movie Don.
I also realised that I cannot be holding on to her forever. I have to
let go off her someday, before she eats me up completely. Yet, I never
felt like letting her go. I wanted to be with her always. And now that she's
gone, i jus wanna be with her.. I remember this song which goes..
'hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me..' I held her, she thrilled me.
I kissed her, now shes killing me!! Entering in the rehab center,
all I can say is.. 'baby.. i am addicted.. am outta control'...
SMOKIN.... somebody.. stop me.. ;)
a long time. The first time I saw her, it was in a party, she was in a red
and white outfit. I was totally amazed at seeing her..what a sleek n
slender body. Man.. anyone would fall for her!! But I always had that
initial fear before starting anything like this. I didn't even know if it was
right. A friend of mine introduced her to me. It was the same week that
I met her again. This time, she was in a maroon costume. This time, I
wasn't so scared of her. I spent a lot of time with her that day. The
more I got to know her, the stranger I felt.
As I began to know her better, I realised that it wasn't just the looks, that
drew me towards her. It was the very air that she carried around her
that attracted me. I even remembering sneaking out of classes to be
with her. In a few weeks, we had become so close that I almost never
went anywhere without her. She always stayed close to my heart.
Soon my liking for her became an obsession. This started on the day
I saw her in a new form. Something was different about her today.
Even as a held her in my hands I could feel it. In a few minutes,
I was all over her and she was totally into me. She filled me with
ecstacy completely. I was in the heavens during the whole thing.
Never before had I experienced this. She took me real high and then
back just in under an hour. So thinking, I decided that we should do
it more often.
From then on, there was no stopping me. Parks, rooftops, my car...
I did it at many places. I was soooooo into her that I would give up
anything to be with her. Who knows.. I might even die for her..
I was entirely dependent on her. She was the driving force behind me.
Nothing would ever run everyday without those magic moments
with her in the morning. No job would run smoothly without deriving
some rapture out of her in the quiet afternoons.But of course, the
night times were the best!! The entire room would smell of her..
But soon she started giving me pain. That which used to give me
pleasure once was pricking me now. But I was helpless. She may
have lots of people to turn to, I had noone else. I wanted to tell
her 'sabko to chhod dee.. siva tum', just like SRK says in the movie Don.
I also realised that I cannot be holding on to her forever. I have to
let go off her someday, before she eats me up completely. Yet, I never
felt like letting her go. I wanted to be with her always. And now that she's
gone, i jus wanna be with her.. I remember this song which goes..
'hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me..' I held her, she thrilled me.
I kissed her, now shes killing me!! Entering in the rehab center,
all I can say is.. 'baby.. i am addicted.. am outta control'...
SMOKIN.... somebody.. stop me.. ;)
Monday, December 1, 2008
nfs undercover - an honest review
I am a pretty big fan of the need for speed series, right from nfs (the one
that runs in DOS, 1995). I enjoyed nfs carbon a while back. I briefly tried
pro-street, but felt that the nfs concept was dead in it. If this weren't a
failure, why would EA go back to the illegal street-racing theme for
nfs undercover??
So how is nfs undercover?? It is a load of utter crap!!! If you are thinking
of spending money on it, please don't. If you are thinking of pirating it,
please don't. Save yourself the time and effort and play Burnout instead.
I have been trying to find something I like in this edition of nfs.. really
tough i say.. Lets start with the graphics. Undercover sports a new
graphics engine. Things look like a pile of cow-dung with graffiti spray
paint on it. If you have never seen a car racing game, it will blow your
socks off. For the rest of us, its an annoying game!! It looks plastic!!
It looks fake!! Its crammed with specular highlights, blurs and lotsa
gaudy crap!! Its so bright that you can barely see your car, leave alone
the road in front. It blows effects onto your face at a speed that even
an eagle can't catch up. Why all this.. even the GPS map is shiny..
you cant see where you are headed because the map also has a glare!!
Everything in the game seems to be painted with the brightest,
obnoxious shade available within the laws of physics.
Ramarajan getup e paravaa illai nu thonum!!
Despite all this shock n awe, the game is ugly. Buildings look like they ve
been built by a 5 year old using some lego kit. Everything looks plastic..
as if they ve all been downloaded from some free website with 3d studio
max models.
And now, about the physics and handling. There's none!! The very first
nfs had better sense of these. Cars are as responsive as bricks. The Lotus
Elise, which is a very nimble and aggressive car in reality, handles like a
Ford Mustang. It takes eons to accelerate, has an awful tendency to skid
and oversteer. I have seen wet soaps thrown in the shower that had better
handling than most cars. I guess the upside is that the Mustang handles
better in the game than real life. Now, I know that nfs had ditched the
concept of racing simulation long ago and had concentrated on arcade
style racing instead, but why does that have to mean physics from an
early 90's arcade game?? Just let an opponent bang you from the back,
and he will drag you wherever he goes.
Add to this, the fact that everything that isn't a car whizzes past you at a
million miles per hour. All the menus, transitions look like they ve been
drawn in EGA graphics!! Its ugly as hell.. The menu system is illogical.
You have to start a game before you can change even the basic setting as
resolution. This means, you have to sit through the crappy intro movie and
the stupid intro drive before you can change anything. The icing on top of
the cake is the fact that you cant change your name from 'player' to
anything else!!
This brings me neatly on to the story of the game. If you can imagine a
even dumber version of Fast and the Furious, which personally I cannot.
EA managed to pull it off. They paid a lot of money to maggie q to 'act'
and make it even bigger n real. The full-motion cut scenes are amazingly
stupid and add absolutely nothing to the story. Oh ya.. these scenes cant
be skipped. Because they are sooo cool, you never wanna miss them.
It seemed as if there were 5-6 teams who developed different things in
the game and none of them communicated with each other. They just
made their piece of the cake and some final team just slapped everything
together and sent it for shipping. There's no style, no substance, no
coherence in the game. Nothing holds the concepts together.
Enamo 'dasavatharam' patha mari irunthuthu!!
Nfs Undercover.. this had better remained under the covers!!!
that runs in DOS, 1995). I enjoyed nfs carbon a while back. I briefly tried
pro-street, but felt that the nfs concept was dead in it. If this weren't a
failure, why would EA go back to the illegal street-racing theme for
nfs undercover??
So how is nfs undercover?? It is a load of utter crap!!! If you are thinking
of spending money on it, please don't. If you are thinking of pirating it,
please don't. Save yourself the time and effort and play Burnout instead.
I have been trying to find something I like in this edition of nfs.. really
tough i say.. Lets start with the graphics. Undercover sports a new
graphics engine. Things look like a pile of cow-dung with graffiti spray
paint on it. If you have never seen a car racing game, it will blow your
socks off. For the rest of us, its an annoying game!! It looks plastic!!
It looks fake!! Its crammed with specular highlights, blurs and lotsa
gaudy crap!! Its so bright that you can barely see your car, leave alone
the road in front. It blows effects onto your face at a speed that even
an eagle can't catch up. Why all this.. even the GPS map is shiny..
you cant see where you are headed because the map also has a glare!!
Everything in the game seems to be painted with the brightest,
obnoxious shade available within the laws of physics.
Ramarajan getup e paravaa illai nu thonum!!
Despite all this shock n awe, the game is ugly. Buildings look like they ve
been built by a 5 year old using some lego kit. Everything looks plastic..
as if they ve all been downloaded from some free website with 3d studio
max models.
And now, about the physics and handling. There's none!! The very first
nfs had better sense of these. Cars are as responsive as bricks. The Lotus
Elise, which is a very nimble and aggressive car in reality, handles like a
Ford Mustang. It takes eons to accelerate, has an awful tendency to skid
and oversteer. I have seen wet soaps thrown in the shower that had better
handling than most cars. I guess the upside is that the Mustang handles
better in the game than real life. Now, I know that nfs had ditched the
concept of racing simulation long ago and had concentrated on arcade
style racing instead, but why does that have to mean physics from an
early 90's arcade game?? Just let an opponent bang you from the back,
and he will drag you wherever he goes.
Add to this, the fact that everything that isn't a car whizzes past you at a
million miles per hour. All the menus, transitions look like they ve been
drawn in EGA graphics!! Its ugly as hell.. The menu system is illogical.
You have to start a game before you can change even the basic setting as
resolution. This means, you have to sit through the crappy intro movie and
the stupid intro drive before you can change anything. The icing on top of
the cake is the fact that you cant change your name from 'player' to
anything else!!
This brings me neatly on to the story of the game. If you can imagine a
even dumber version of Fast and the Furious, which personally I cannot.
EA managed to pull it off. They paid a lot of money to maggie q to 'act'
and make it even bigger n real. The full-motion cut scenes are amazingly
stupid and add absolutely nothing to the story. Oh ya.. these scenes cant
be skipped. Because they are sooo cool, you never wanna miss them.
It seemed as if there were 5-6 teams who developed different things in
the game and none of them communicated with each other. They just
made their piece of the cake and some final team just slapped everything
together and sent it for shipping. There's no style, no substance, no
coherence in the game. Nothing holds the concepts together.
Enamo 'dasavatharam' patha mari irunthuthu!!
Nfs Undercover.. this had better remained under the covers!!!
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