Habit

June 24, 2008

It is very difficult to give up habit. If you try hard and give up ‘h’, ‘a bit’ remains. Harder still, say you give up ‘a’ even, still ‘bit’ remains. It frustrates to know that even if you succeed in giving up ‘h’, ‘a’ and ‘b’….’it’ remains.

I won’t advise trying even.


Bob Dylan turns 67

June 24, 2008

“I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you, classify you,
Deny, defy or crucify you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you,
Frighten you or uptighten you,
Drag you down or drain you down,
Chain you down or bring you down.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I ain’t lookin’ to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up,
Analyze you, categorize you,
Finalize you or advertise you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don’t want to straight-face you,
Race or chase you, track or trace you,
Or disgrace you or displace you,
Or define you or confine you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don’t want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
Or select you or dissect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don’t want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.”

We don’t care about Pulitzar Prize. You won our hearts. Happy Birthday Bob.


What’s in a name?

June 19, 2008

Fucking (IPA: [fʊkɪŋ]) is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is located 33 kilometres north of Salzburg, four kilometres east of the German border and half an hour by car from the town of Petting, in Bavaria. The name of the village resembles a swear word in English, although it is pronounced differently (“Fook-ing”).

The village is known to have existed as “Fucking” since at least 1070 and is named after a man from the 6th century called Focko. “-ing” is an old Germanic suffix indicating the people of the root word to which it is attached; thus Fucking means “(place of) Focko’s people.” The village has a population of 93.

Fucking’s most famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it, beside which tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. It is a commonly stolen street sign. Significant public funds have been spent on replacing the stolen signs.

In 2004, mainly due to the stolen signs, a vote was held on changing the village’s name, but the residents voted against doing so. In August 2005, the road signs were replaced with theft-resistant signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to prevent further chances of the sign being stolen.


Our Website Stat

June 9, 2008

As of June 9, 2008 GMT 09.15 hrs our site has been visted by 335 people. The ups and downs of the rate at which they visited us (and ups and downs of our hopes, figuratively) is like this:


You Tube suspended us

June 7, 2008

Last 3 June, we woke up to see that our You Tube Channel has been permanently suspended. No reason was offered to us, but understandably it was due to repeated copy-right infringement. It appeared that You Tube allows its users to post copy-righted materials only as long as the users can remain low profile and just take the chance till the time someone says “hey, copy-right infringement!!!!”

Copy-right infringement or whatever you call it, we never thought we are doing anything that is going to take away someone’s credit of creating any financial loss. We didn’t sell others’ creations and we never even put up anything that has a commercial stake here in our website either. It was meant for sharing, the joy and the excitement of it.

We enjoyed our time in You Tube, honestly. We also had a good many subscribers, who loved what we shared. We will miss them.

We will continue to share good movies to our readers and viewers. We are already working on how to do that. For now we have posted two great movies in our Entertainment page. These are full movies so understandably they will take a bit longer to download and our visitors with somewhat slower Internet Connection may have to wait a bit. But please bear with us. We will come back as we are working hard on it. We are trying to create a separate movies channel named ‘myinrendezvous cinema’.

Stay with us folks, lots of fun and exciting stuff coming in near future.


Confession

June 2, 2008

We think we owe people some explanation. In our You Tube Channel we are not accepting friend’s requests. We are neither rejecting them too. This is the situation. We are pretty hard up with time. We are two people who are into many things including our lives, work and families. We wanted to share our thoughts, experiences and our moments of joy in the form of our website and since movies form one huge interest of both of us the idea of You Tube Channel came. We cannot really do justice to friends here in You Tube and there is no point having friends just for sharing video clips.

That is the same reason that we have not yet added any clip as favorite in our channel.

Our actions do not mean we are unfriendly neither they mean we do not find excellent videos in You Tube. Our feelings and experiences are just opposite to that. We just cannot afford to maintain interactions – we are not rude.

We try our best to interact with viewers and subscribers through short messages in comments or personal messages. We love and adore our subscribers and try to help them and grant their requests. When we fail to do so it’s not because we are indifferent, it’s because we are just busy and couldn’t make time. Please write in our blog or comment in our website, You Tube is not meant for that.


What’s wrong men?

June 2, 2008

1700 hrs GMT, our You Tube Channel stats stood at this:

Videos Watched: 3,309
Videos Uploaded: 194
Video Views: 334,333

Channel Views: 10,103
Subscribers: 366

It appears that our channel is more appealing to women. What’s wrong men???


Earthday

May 10, 2008

On 22 April when Northern Hemisphere celebrated the Earth Day, we humbly reconfirmed our concern for environment and everything to do with mother earth. Many has said many things on the occasion, many more will certainly have many more things to say, but at the end of the day we simply feel worried on one thing: Is earth going to be a safe and wonderful place for our kids? And kids of our kids?

None can say it better than Carl Sagan.

(Post dated Thursday, Apr 24, 2008, 10:03 PM)


How to download You Tube Videos in your computer

May 10, 2008

Someone named Nicolaecris asked us in our You Tube Channel for some help. He/she wants to extract a part from the movie The Joy Luck Club.
Well Nicola, in order to do that you have to download the particular part of the movie from our You Tube Channel. Go to this page:
http://www.download3000.com/download_19401.html
Download and install the program named You Tube Google Video Grabber. Don’t worry its free and clean. Once you get the movie use any free video cutter program to extract the necessary part of the video.
Good Luck.

(Post dated Saturday, Apr 12, 2008, 08:30 PM)


Charlton Heston is no more

May 10, 2008
If memory is a kaleidoscope, many fragments of it  come back  with the  visuals of a tall , tanned man  leading  another group of people through a sea. Those were the days of Hollywood block busters and the darkness of movie theaters, smell of Firpo’s cake, and the strange lost romance of Charlton Heston enacting the role of Moses in Ten Commandments.  The world of movies  lost  a legend  when  Charlton Heston  died at his Beverly Hills home 84-years old this Sunday the 6 April 2008.
Back in 2002, he was reported to have Alzheimer’s disease, but the exact cause of his death is not known.

Born as John Charles Carter in Evanston, Illinois, Heston took on his step father’s surname and the name Charlton from his mother’s side.  He was known for his  controversial  and historic roles like Moses and Ben-Hur. He was also deeply involved in politics as he was the President of NRA. He was believed to be instrumental behind making George Bush the President of United States of America. But his views about gun control was highly debated and criticized.
Despite the controversy, this Oscar winning actor’s contribution to world cinema can hardly be questioned.
We mourn the death of Charlton Heston.
(Post dated Monday, Apr 7, 2008, 12:29 PM)