Movies!

Some movies I don't know why... stay in our mind. I have almost always watched movies when ever I am in tournaments... after I got my laptop! Movies are wonderful especially when we are so very upset and down and out! Some movies make us happy, some spoil our mood, some wake us up, some movies we are forced to watch along with our friends, some movies we watch for movies' sake! Whatever happens, there's none without movies! Here are some of my memorable movies starting from my recent favourites...
1) Blades of Glory
2) The Pursuit of HappYness

3) Jab We Met
4) Rocky Balboa
5) Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
6) Padayappa
7) Anniyan
8) Lord of the Rings trilogy
9) My Name is Khan
10) The Secret

Until next time... Watch these! Not all movies made are bad!

ak :)

Carbon!

This interesting incident happened in the recently concluded Manali International Rating Tournament!
This was one of those tournaments where the players had to pin their own scoresheets. It's a boring job to do! (For the non chess-players, scoresheets are used to record moves; one copy for us and one for the official use. Take two sheets, insert a carbon in between and pin it - that was the job)
There was this box full of carbons, to its side, a box of scoresheets. Scoresheets were all the same. I picked the first two!
For the carbons though, the case was different. First I picked one, then found it torn at one end...
Then I picked another, it was not satisfactory.
I picked another, but the next one looked good. I settled for the third one!

There's always one more thing that's better than what we have! Human beings are never satisfied!

ak :)

Challenge!

Hi all... :)
This semester (6th) of mine started a bit late than usual owing to the Tamil Nadu General Elections. I was left with nothing to do but to write. Not to mention, I missed my State Open Championship held at a walking distance from my house. It hurts!!!
Having scored just around the Seventies in all the previous semesters except the first one, I was pretty sure I will be somewhere around that this time around too. But then, a thought occurred to me. Why not give this one a try? During study holidays, I played a tournament but then, all that I could do was just be a spectator to the State Open. In a nutshell, I was left with the Semester in hand. I remembered reading... 'Be the best in what you are' somewhere in my useless 12th Grade. These lines rang in my mind again and again for 3 times. I took my books...
Everything else seemed to fall in place...
1. PD was ok
2. Artificial Intelligence was marvellous
3. DBMS was a real toughie, with lots to study. I managed it pretty well
and the last three also!

:)

Cheers!
ak