When it comes to travel, there is always more than one place I have to be !
Posted by Guhan | Filed under thoughts
I have had a fair share of travel, personally and professionally. I love traveling and seeing new places. But I have come to realize that when it comes to travel, there is always some other place I have to be at the same time.
This week, kicks off another travel and events bonanza !! First I head out to IISc Bangalore today evening for the Hack U kick off there. I am going to talk about how “Every resource on the web is a data source”. I get back late night, and have a early morning flight to Hyderabad, to start off the University Hack day at IIIT H . Its going to be 3 days of innovation, talks, discussions, ideas, creativity and coding fun. I get back on 24th and will have to decide between going to Mysore for a event and going to Chennai to attend 2 weddings. The coming weekend, I head out to Nandi Hills for a company off-site aimed at making better leaders out of the members of the group :-) Immediately after getting back, I need to be in Mysore to play the first match of the 1st division league cricket match. The weekend after that, I need to choose between going to another company off-site or to another friends wedding in Calicut. The 2nd week of Feb, I head off to Delhi to speak at the Techshare India 2010 Barrier break conference. During the same time, I need to decide whether to head off for a day to Ludhiana to attend another good friends wedding!
There are a couple of training sessions in office which I need to juggle in between all of this, ton of deliverables for the project I am working on, a couple of design proposals to make and couple of dinners to go out with my wife :-)
This is not the first time this is happening, last time I traveled to USA on business, I was forced to decide between attending a conference there and attending a close friends wedding back home. When I was in Jordan on business, I almost missed my dads 60th Birthday celebrations, managed to land up in Mysore a day before the event.
May be its just coincidence or may be its just that I notice these things more when there are many things to do and places to be.
Guess all this will just help me improve my time management and delegation skills. Experience ++
Wish me luck
A new ‘Avatar’ for movie going experience ?
Posted by Guhan | Filed under movies
I managed to see the paid preview show of James Cameron’s much talked about, much hyped mega budget movie ‘Avatar’ and I was not Disappointed. As the protagonist says when he tries out his ‘Avatar’, “This is great!”, I had the exact same excitement. The movie is a visual treat. 3D movie experience has been given a whole new meaning. Most of the 3D or 4D movies I have seen the illusion being used to scare the audience. For the first time, I have seen a movie which has used technology to take the audience on a journey through fantastic landscapes and immense scale of an imaginary land.
But more I think about it, the movie is a bit too long and the story isnt special like ‘Terminator’ or the ‘Matrix’ movies.
I was glad it moved away from the cliche “Aliens attack helpless humans” SciFi formula. It the year 2154 when Humans are the more powerful and arrogant race, looking to plunder a peace loving world.
The movie is a technical breakthrough. It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message complete with a Pig headed Military head (no prizes for guessing !! ).
All the hype about the new language is lost in the visuals of the movie. As a matter of fact, the length of the movie and mediocre story line is also completely covered up by the sheer magnitude and brilliance of story telling and movie wizardry. Gamers will relate to the visuals and would like being in control of a character in Pandora.
“Avatar” stretches the bounds of the cinematic imagination. It shows us something we’ve never seen before: an entire alien world, a new and complex ecosystem rendered in three dimensions with dazzling fluidity and detail.
I am going to watch it again for sure, and I am definitely a fan of ‘Avatar’
