Yes, more fun, less blogging. Nice to write to you all once again my dear eggs.
Guess what I got from my brother? A Nintendo Wii and an Xbox 360 Controller for PC. Actually its his Nintendo Wii, which he decided to give it to me since he's getting an Xbox 360 Elite (which is way cooler than 10 Wiis put together, but his generosity is much appreciated). That should explain what I've been doing for one month without blogging.
Its too late to wish you a happy new year. So what was your new year resolution? I took...none. It's for a pretty simple reason actually. Every time I take a resolution I don't stick with it for more than 3 months...okay, not more than 3 weeks.
Why should I take a resolution on new year anyway? Why should anyone take a resolution on new year anyway? With some Google-ing, I found out that there's a god in Roman mythology named Janus. Now this guy had 2 faces, one to look into the past and one to look into the future. So those Romans dedicated the first month of the year to this guy and made resolutions to make things right so that the two faced god won't punish them for their past deeds.
I also found out that
- Of the 28million taking an oath of self improvement for 2010, a remarkable seven million will have given up – within a week.
- 30% of all resolutions are broken within the first week.
- Recent research shows that while 52% of participants in a resolution study were confident of success with their goals, only 12% actually achieved their goals.
- Men achieved their goal 22% more often when they engaged in goal setting.
- Women succeeded 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends.
If you have also given up on your resolution, I hope the above facts make you feel better. You have 7 million others like you.
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I rarely watch a tamil movie twice. Heck, I rarely watch a tamil movie. Its usually because I can guess most of the story by knowing who's the lead character - especially Vijay movies - man from village goes to town, falls in love, single handedly fights hordes of gangsters, throw in a friend's death in the hands of the villain, a kuthu paatu, and then not so surprisingly, the hero is victorious. Seeing the pattern you can even write a C program for it (gotta try that once).
On the other hand, you can tell whether the movie will do good by watching its trailer. Take Sakkarakatti for example. My friend got epileptic fits after watching the trailer. People knew very well that Aayirathil Oruvan is a rip-off of Indiana Jones, Gladiator, 300 and other half a dozen adventure movies from Hollywood from watching the trailer. And still they complain that the movie is not good. Trailers are a warning to people. They should realize this.
And there will be some other movies with a great trailer, like Aasal. But when you see Ajith's dance in the song Athiri Puthiri (also known as "to-to-doin"), you get dizzy.
So the last tamil movie I saw was Tamil Padam. It made fun of every stereotypical character in tamil cinema. In fact, I liked the movie so much that I saw it twice. The picture on the side is a wallpaper for the movie. You'll get the idea on how the movie will be after looking at it. So no review this time. Just a score.
4.5 stars out of 5.
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Colin McRae DiRT2 as revolutionized racing games. It is one of the first games to support DirectX 11, and the environments look awesome. The car damage is real enough not to get in the way of having fun in the game, but at the same time, gives you a professional feel to driving the cars. Other drivers react to you when you bump their car with yours, appreciate you if you drive well, congratulate on your victory. Racing in many different locations of the world in many different off road races such as rally , rally cross and some fictional type of races too.
DiRT2 has revolutionized racing games, a genre in which EA Games' Need For Speed franchise was on a higher ground. NFS Shift might be good, but its not as good as Codemasters' DiRT2. This time they've really outdone themselves.
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I decided to keep this post short, so that I don't run out of stuff to write about next time. And hopefully next time wont come a month later.
Ciao
