Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Sweet November
Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron proved they have couples chemistry as husband and wife in "The Devil's Advocate." Here they do the opposites-attract thing with great success and use their charisma to overcome what by all rights should be a script full of romantic clichés.
Reeves plays shallow, ruthless, arrogant ad industry hotshot Nelson Moss, who shows his astronomical self-centeredness in the picture's opening scene. It's early morning and he's having sex with his girlfriend -- until his alarm clock goes off. The second it does, he says "thanks, that was great" before jumping up, walking across his uber-modern high-rent loft, turning on his entire wall of high-tech TVs and brainstorming an ad campaign for a major client.
Theron plays Sara Deever, a San Francisco "free spirit" who has a strange habit of taking in stray men who are psychological fixer-uppers. She moves them into her North Beach apartment for one month, uses her unexplained gift for metaphysical bandaging to set them right, then moves on to the next fella.
When these two meet during a debacle at the Department of Motor Vehicles, Sara immediately sees in Nelson her most challenging project yet and begins hassling him to move out of the Sharper Image condo and into her funky, low-rent walk-up for 30 days.
He, of course, thinks she's nuts. But when he loses a multi-million dollar account (by proposing a highly sexualized campaign for a family-oriented hot dog company), gets fired and his much-neglected girlfriend moves out -- all on the same day -- he succumbs to Sara's badgering. He figures, at least for the moment, he hasn't anything to lose.
Theron is perfectly cast as the effervescent Sara, who seems to have double-dipped in the joie de vivre. She completely inhabits her character's contagious carefree charm, making the audience fall in love with her even faster than Nelson does. Theron provides the character an esoteric depth, giving her man-a-month habit a nagging feeling of desperate compulsion.
She's also the ideal foil for Nelson's funless, judgmental glibness. Sara can so easily and cheerfully slap his ego down that she makes him nervous. She's the kind of grown-up girl who does cartwheels on the beach while he watches with his hands thrust misanthropically in his pockets.
Reeves, who has become much better at picking roles that suit him, fits well into Nelson's supercilious skin. He really turns on the hubris in the scenes that lead to him getting fired. He also does a fine job projecting the unaccustomed abashment Nelson feels when Sara takes charge of his life.
As their month together progresses, his transformation into a stop-and-smell-the-roses guy under her tutelage is altogether quite winning. Too bad he's so unconvincing when it comes time for this movie's "you complete me"-type romantic climax.
But director Pat O'Connor ("Circle of Friends," "Inventing the Abbotts") never lets the movie's hackneyed conventions (Nelson revisiting his unhappy childhood, Sara's gay best friend) steamroll over the magnetism between his stars.
Romance movie protocols are followed (a passionate argument in the rain, a bubble bath for two), but seasoned with a touch of imaginative enthusiasm. Dialogue is amusingly sassy, but not overindulgently clever. O'Connor even keeps the story's fateful, tearjerker plot turn on a short leash, playing the heartstrings obligingly but tenderly.
"Sweet November" (which, by the way, is a remake of a 1968 movie of the same name) may have an obvious story arc. It may, at its core, be a textbook chick flick punctuated by a soundtrack of smoky-voiced girly alt-pop anthems (Enya, Stevie Nicks, Paula Cole, k.d. lang).
But it is sweet. It is eminently romantic, warm and satisfying. And even if Keanu's heart-rending tears in the last reel look suspiciously like special effects, this is a movie likely to inspire the real thing in the softies in the audience. And even we cynics will feel a little warm and fuzzy when the credits roll.
Child Labor
Child labor can be factory work, mining[ or quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents' business, having one's own small business (for example selling food), or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants (where they may also work as waiters). Other children are forced to do tedious and repetitive jobs such as assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. However, rather than in factories and sweatshops, most child labor occurs in the informal sector, "selling on the street, at work in agriculture or hidden away in houses — far from the reach of official labor inspectors and from media scrutiny."
According to UNICEF, there are an estimated 218 million children aged 5 to 17 in child labor worldwide, excluding child domestic labor. The most controversial forms of work include the military use of children as well as child prostitution. Less controversial, and often legal with some restrictions, are work as child actors and child singers, as well as agricultural work outside of the school year (seasonal work).
Friday, September 28, 2007
New Section !!! Entertainment Spot
Directed by Michael Bay and with Steven Spielsberg in the producer's chair, this movie was sure to create waves and so it did!
Based on the famous Transformers franchise, the movie is all about giant machino-robots, cars, jets, tanks and cartoon characters which have an appeal not just for children, but its unorthodox style and a bash of reality has also made a place in the hearts of the mature audiences too.
The plot revolves around two clans of gigantic machines, the transformers, among whom a war re-erupts on earth. Optimus the protagonist ruler of the noble clan, the Autobots, is in search of the Allspark, which is in custody of the villainous clan, the Decepticons. The Allspark has the powers to convert any normal electrical and mechanical appliance into real life Transformers and it is the driving force of all the Transformers.
In the quest of finding the Allspark, the Transformers come to earth in the form of earth vehicles and here starts the battle between the two clans to retrieve the Allspark with the help of humans and secure it in good hands.
It can't be said that the mind boggling action sequences and the special effects make it just the thing as there are some lapses in the storyline which sometimes seems weak and lame. Another thing that I noticed in the movie is that the human characters become insignificant as soon as the machines take over the screen. However, the fun packed humour of the machines seasons the hard line action and makes it more of an entertainer through and through. For all the techno-machine geeks this movie is a real treat and a must watch for those who are looking for some good two hours of excitement and fun!
Courtesy Us Magazine
E-Commerce a gr8 leap
A small percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for "virtual" items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce eventually involves physical items and their transportation in at least some way.
The things are really moving forward i mean che today the jhalak dekhlaja started off damn some gud dances all around and well the nach baliyae is also an awasome show both gives each otha run for the money by the way hmmmm da orkut bandae sook ra galal and yeah a new category wud be setup today here so i guess it wud be fun then ciao !!!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
E-Business The New Buzz
Electronic Business, or "e-Business", may be defined broadly as any business process that relies on an automated information system. Today, this is mostly done with Web-based technologies. The term "e-Business" was coined by Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM.Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers.In practice, e-business is more than just e-commerce. While e-business refers to more strategic focus with an emphasis on the functions that occur using electronic capabilities, e-commerce is a subset of an overall e-business strategy. E-commerce seeks to add revenue streams using the World Wide Web or the Internet to build and enhance relationships with clients and partners and to improve efficiency using the Empty Vessel strategy. Often, e-commerce involves the application of knowledge management systems.E-business involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners. Special technical standards for e-business facilitate the exchange of data between companies. E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes. E-business can be conducted using the Web, the Internet, intranets, extranets, or some combination of these.
By the way the mag thingy is catchin upon fast now i really hav to get down to business at the weekend wishing maself luck ciao
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE
WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace,
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
Monday, September 24, 2007
By the way this adsense thing really has been rocking i'm just two days into it i stil feel i can get more results from it as time goes on this net is really making me go nuts mate its like hell sitting and working on it and whn it doesnot do wat u want it to do u feel like ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR...
Sunday, September 23, 2007
By the way the indian idol finally got to the final thingy today and prashant won it bro wow its like fate few months bak no one knew him now he has a a car, a contract and around 1 karod rupees wow damn pure luck bro!!!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
cricket is going around places these day Pk got to the semi's but hpe they can bring it home !!!
CHAK DAE PAKISTAN !!!!
By the way yaar i irritated a frnd of mine today whom many think jsut talks to much hav i taken over frm her lolx may be a chatter box buuhahahahahahaha
