Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Movie Review

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd?”

For those who have not yet experienced how exactly it feels like to hold back to something that once changed your life. How exactly beauty turns out to be the ugliest form of truth you’ve known. How a man desperately tries to catch something he gave up with his own will. How once, you left, and never turned back could change the story of your life entirely. This movie completely justifies the fact that this life is all about the choices that we make. 

It was hard to accept and take it for a truth that something could go as terribly wrong with something as pure as the sky. You know, ending exactly where you started. This movie has so less, yet so much to offer to you as it progresses. And of course, perspective. One could see exactly how a man, after looking back at what he is losing, desperately tries to fight back. Just to be able to keep bits of it. Once when you hated every bit of it, now you are ready to be happy with even a speck of it. And no matter how hard you try, things just fall back to their place somehow.  

“This is the day we met. You were down by the surf. I could just make you out in the distance.

I remember being drawn to you even then. I thought, ''Wow, how odd. I'm drawn to someone's back. You were in that orange sweat shirt that I would come to know so well... and even hate, eventually. At the time I thought, ''How cool! An orange sweatshirt.''

Hi. 

I saw you sitting over here... By yourself, And I thought, ''Thank God. Someone normal who doesn't know how to interact at these things either. Yeah. I don't ever know what to say.

I'm Clementine. Can I borrow a piece of your chicken?

And then you just took it... Without waiting for an answer. It was so intimate, like we were already lovers. 

I'm Joel.

Hi, Joel. So, no jokes about my name.

You mean like--- Oh, my darling, oh, my darling…Oh, my darling Clementine -Huckleberry Hound, that sort of thing?

Yeah. Like that.

Oh, no jokes. No jokes. One of my favourite things when I was a kid was my Huckleberry Hound doll.

Oh. I think your name is magical.

This is it, Joel. It's gonna be gone soon. 

I know.

What do we do? 

Enjoy it.”

You’re simply gonna love that morning with the “thankyou” note and the attention turner doctor too. And as it progresses, make sure you don’t forget what just happened. And let me know how you feel when it ends.

~Caveman

NOW SHOWING - SOMEHOW... A MOVIE

NOW SHOWING - SOMEHOW… A MOVIE.

(Anonymous)

Why is it that the readers mostly end up hating a movie based on the novels they love? While I sit around with people and discuss their favourite novels and their movie adaptations, if there’s something that does come around at any point is, ‘Didn’t they just screw the novel up!’

This surely isn’t about the already known story being watched again, for if a friend tells me of an incident of how a random guy ended up embarrassing  himself, I would love to watch the video. In any case, there are movies we play over and again. When I am introduced to a character and described of how they behave, there aren’t many actors who can act on screen in a way our mind make those characters do. A little of anything over and there we go with our hands up.  

Doesn’t it feel more of like a betrayal to squeeze the five hundred page of gold into a three hour of something? (Why don’t they name it - somehow… a movie?) If Tom comes out screaming, ‘I saw the best murder ever planned,’ there won’t be much of something that would tell him of what went inside the murderer through all this.

Visuals dominate the world, yet the words are more powerful. Even I end up spending more time on watching things than reading them. And coming back to what the point was - why is it that the readers mostly end up hating a movie based on the novels they love? There’s a world that a reader makes of his own while reading, and any disturbance to that reality does disturb him. Nevermind, thats an anonymous reader speaking.

What Is Being Written...

WHAT IS BEING WRITTEN...

(Lakshay Raja)

This page might have started of as a thought disposal room, or a place to burp your emotions out, in a hope to be heard by some; in any case, its not the same anymore. 

As we roamed around, asking people to join in, in a hope to get some words rightly placed together, enough to have some meaning out of them; what we did see was atleast a terabyte of experience loaded and tagged ‘bullshit’. Of all what is being going around, or what your cells make out of what is being presented, your observations need to be spread out if you feel there’s a slight chance of them being a little different. 

Have you been writing? In a diary that a publisher would love to get his hands on for anything? Keep waiting.

There’s an ocean of websites out there. The chance of a blog standing out is even less than the diary being found. If fifty of us write under our respective columns, yet on a same website, labelled differently, there is a way better chance of us being read. Or being watched. (Why not the videos?) 

BROBITTS - BROadcast your BITS of work; for what is being written, must not be left unread.

Microsoft Band 2

Microsoft Band 2 : Everything You Need To Know

Microsoft has redesigned it’s fitness-focused band which is loaded up with new features and sensors. The Band 2 features a streamlined look which is finished with a curved display , gorilla glass 4 and a better touch experience packed with two days of battery life.

Its impressive set of features includes GPS, better heart rate sensor , step , sleep tracking ,calorie tracking , cortana integration and smart notification alerts. The new device includes a barometer to measure atmospheric pressure and keep track of your altitude during those long hikes. Also now Band 2  includes readings for VO2 Max, a key metric for fitness buffs looking to measure their maximum oxygen intake, which typically requires expensive equipment and a long monitoring session to calculate.

As for notifications and smart alerts , Band 2 supports a broader range of apps , Facebook , Twitter , Starbucks , Uber are a few mentioned in the event.

Preorders starts today and The new Band will go on sale at the end of October for US$249.99 in the United States. Details of international availability has not yet been released yet. Microsoft Band 2 works with smartphones running Android, iOS and Windows.

ALPHABET

GOOGLE'S NEW PARENT COMPANY: ALPHABET

(Mayank)

It is official , Google has morphed into a company called Alphabet, which is basically a parent  corporate company that houses subsidiaries like Google, Nest Labs, Google X, Calico, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google Life Sciences. The structural improvements are intended to shed all of its research projects from core Google company.

Alphabet will be run by Google co-founder Larry Page and each of its businesses will have its own chief executive. Google will be having the same number of shares of Alphabet of which shares of  Class C Capital Stock and shares of Alphabet Class A Common Stock will continue to be traded under the same ticker symbols under GOOG and GOOGL.

Investors are glad with this move for it would give them a greater visibility into financial performance of Google’s core business which was Larry’s aim in the first place.

iPhone RELEASE DATE - INDIA

iPhone RELEASE DATE - INDIA

(Chitvan)

Here’s something up for Indian apple iphone fans! The release date of the new iPhone has officially been announced by the apple India; right, the much awaited apple product would be hitting the Indian stores on 16th October 2015. 

The largest Indian mobile retailer - The Mobile Store is accepting pre-bookings for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus at Rs. 2000 with EMI option starting from October 2, 2015, while the other electronics store Reliance Digital offers a pre book at a subsequent low price of Rs. 1000.

The new iPhone offers three variants of 16gb, 64gb and 128gb. Although the pice has yet not been confirmed for the Indian market, the iPhone 6S is expected to start at a price range of about fifty five thousand, while you gotta pay around ten thousand more for the 6S plus.

As per the source, the sales of the new iPhone will began at the midnight of 15th October. So no surprise seeing those huge queues outside the electronic retailers at the midnight. After all, the only thing that’s changed is everything.

THE UPCOMING HONDA B-RV

THE UPCOMING HONDA B-RV

(Chitvan)

The rising demand of the SUV segment in India has got Honda up for yet another notable launch - Honda B-RV, a mid SUV that shares its core with Honda’s compact crossover C-RV. 

The GAIKINDO Indonesia International Auto Show 2015 marked the launch of this much awaited beast. The first look of B-RV in India can be seen in Auto-expo 2016.

The familiar 1.5 litre i-Dtec and 1.5 litre i-Vtec engine, like its other peak sitters like Honda City powers the car and produces an apposite 100 bhp for the diesel variant, with a possibility of the update. It will have the similar wheel base that we have seen in Honda Mobilio. 

Being late in the mid - SUV segment got the company to add the additional features to make it stand out to its competitors like Creta and Terrano. This includes the four wheel drive option that hasn’t been seen yet in the segment.

The other area where B-RV gives an answer to its rivals is the seating capacity. Where most of the cars in this segment are five seater, B-RV stands apart with an additional row of seat. This makes this compact SUV a 7 seater with the seats as that of the Mobilio.

Coming to the key element that decides the success or failure of a car in tough indian market, the price. Honda B-RV is expected to hit the indian market at a price range of between 10.2-12.4 lacs.

Its quite possible of the Honda B-RV having the similar variants as that of city, so lets wait to see another success story from Honda after its very own City.

BEING BLIND TO WHAT?

BEING BLIND TO WHAT?

(Lakshay Raja)

Andrew is eighteen and has been kept in a dark room for almost a month. He vaguely remembers him being the star in his high school, before he was brought into the room he is in now.

The room resides sixty others. Andrew is not physically tortured, he has barely been touched. But what he says or how he thinks or behaves is contradicted by the others every single time. Andrew doubts if he has ever been right. Andrew struggles to live. 

In the early 1950’s began CIA’s illegal mind control program, ‘Project MKUltra’ that went on for more than twenty years before being halted. 

Ted Kaczynski (sounds familiar?), a child prodigy was among twenty two students of Howard who were the research subject for the experiment. The subjects were shown some images and were asked to write down their thoughts of how they see the picture. The subjects were also to write their beliefs and aspirations. And as the experimentalists had predicted, Kaczynski was close to the best.

Later, Kaczynski was called for the test results. His ideas were read and laughed out. Ted was belittled based on his report. The experiment on Kaczynski went on for three more years. 

Ted Kaczynski is serving an eight year sentence in a maximum security prison.Soon after graduating from Harvard, Ted settled down for a simple life, away from the access to even electricity. Between 1978 and 1995, he engaged in a nationwide bombing campaign, ultimately killing a total of three people and injuring 23 others.

Project MKUltra was more of a dummy scenario of what happens in most of the classrooms and workplaces. Andrew’s dark room is a corner in his classroom where he sits.

Contradicting on what a person says every single time, just to get the taste of dominance or discarding ‘his’ beliefs for you feel your ideas are more refined is like taking away a possible discovery or an idol from the world. 

There’s an Andrew around you, being dragged into the dark room. Guess who should be the firewall? If there’s something in a person that bothers you, well, do I need to say more?

Irrational Fear

IRRATIONAL FEAR

(Lakshay Raja)

A caveman would fear more of his survival than his son not being what he thought of. A lost shepherd might sacrifice on killing his sheep for the rainfall from the heaven. And a teen with everything would burn his cigarettes up in a fear of his girl being with someone else. 

Nine months old Albert feared nothing. Nothing until he was introduced to the irrational fear. As the part of a case study, Albert was exposed to a white rat, briefly and for the first time. Albert showed no fear and went on playing with the little rat, poking and blocking around its paths. There was no past memory or any story his little brain could think of to arose any rational fear. 

Later, experimentalists went on making a loud noise with the hammer on a steel at the back of Albert, every-time Albert touched the white rat. Little Albert responded by crying and showing fear. Albert feared for the first time and his brain had probably something to make him aware of the danger around him. 

Irrational fear is a state that makes us react unknowingly. Of all the things we see, observe or hear, it generates thoughts that hop around until they get something to relate with. The easiest way to get a reaction out of someone is working over the irrational fears; the way media works. So if I overhear a conversation related to a serial killer on a bus and a news channel throws a related story as a news, it would get both my attention and reaction. But that is a different story.

Try not to pause yourself doing any activity just to let your thoughts wander around the past happenings. That might bring in anxiety or end up in a phobia of something. Growing up in a household you feel is not stable and constant makes you prone to seeing the world as a fearful place. 

The hammer at your back would bang all the time. Just don’t stop playing with that white rat. 

The case study doesn’t show how the white rat reacted. 

I am Albert and I am on a date with my love. The hammer at my back is banging. If I end up not being witty, if I end up crying, my white rat would leave. 

The white rat doesn’t react over the hammer, the white rat has its own disturbances.

The white rat has his own irrational fears.