One forgotten crazy poem..

After being in cold storage for more than 7 years in an old book stuffed into a rack,
for some reason I felt like putting this crazy poem out, written during 4mar2005-8mar2005:

The eyes yearn to see
but never a quark of light bother to spark a bit.
Looks like a breathing space,
but closer up proves to be
a dreaded asphyxiation
Intense thoughts flood the mind,
and leave deep gorges of despair behind.
As we try to recover,
bitter past rises up like a deadly phoenix.
At a distance I could sense
the sweetness of a beehive but
closer, its seldom melliferous.
Churning of a large melange
of ideas only result in fiery devils of failure.
The destiny seems to lie
in a cacophony of the infinite loop of utter confusion.
Hardly esoteric is the
thorny path of rescipisense from the runnel path,
Strewn with sharpest of spines,
strewn with deepest of ditches,
We can see the way ahead.
Then came the calefacient breeze
from the ecumenical spirit.
The first wave of ultimate grace gushed in,
encased with the non-ephemeral
power of a supernova in a silent serenity.
The lucent veracity of this lane pulled everything in,
and all the obstacles were a meldot
before the vast lucency of wisdom.
The real melieu is welcoming all,
about to sprint with zeal,
prepared to be embedded in eternity,
jumped into the all pervasive spirit,
indicating the beginning of true "we",
away from the miasma of the unreal,
away from the multitudinous mortals,
away from the ubits of temporary pleasure,
embellished with gems of brightest hope,
that was THE GENESIS of life!

The above lines could make an abstract idea for a movie I ve always dreamt about that deals with the fight of a person against all odds to come up trumps with great energy!

With love.. Anil

A day with htc rhyme...

Any change from the routine will take some time to get used to. Same thing has happpened to me on tuesday when I spent a day without my xperia and had the chance to test and load the new htc rhyme with some apps.
At first look, the rhyme looks beautiful. The phone feels solid when holding and makes us feel good. Even the xperia x10 mini has a very good design for a phone of its size, and htc has done a good job of fitting all the features in a thin frame, but the user interface (of htc sense 3.5 skin over android 2.3.5) looks little confusing initially. The Xperia on the other hand felt very easy to use with shortcuts at the right places and despite its size, they have managed to create a fantastic and practical UI. No wonder they have won the european design prize when it was launched in 2010. HTC Rhyme on the other hand has a very different UI, which can be modified by using external launchers like Go Launcher.
Changing from a 2.55 inch screen to a 3.7 inch screen will not be so seamless. I miss the comfort of controlling the complete phone with just one hand and others wouldnt even know that I have a phone in my palms! It can easily be hidden from others! Anyway, having a large screen phone will have these adjustments to be made initially, but later on we get accustomed to it.
On the user interface front, I just hope HTC Sense is a bit clearer and straight forward. There was no lag because of the Sense UI, but accessing and creating some important shortcuts was not easy. On the xperia, it was so easy, all I had to do is add a widget to the home screen and just touch the icons. Forexample, its just one touch to change the phone to vibrating to silent mode, thanks to a very useful power control widget. But this is not so easy on the HTC Rhyme. Anyway, this can be changed by using GO Launcher or some other launchers.

And regarding the options before I finalized on HTC Rhyme, I had a look at the Sony Xperia U as a potential alternative, but it misses some key features that I need: no expandable memory. Talking about sony phones, I really dont understand why dont sony use its successfull brands like Walkman, playstation, cybershot all in one single device! It would be a fantastic phone if it can give the complete experience of sony's technologies within a reasonable and justified price. Another complaint is about the updates which were a case of too less and too late. My Xperia 10 mini is unfortunately stuck on 2.1 and I dont think 2.3 would be posible for a phone with 800MHz, and 128MB internal memory. Other phones like galaxy y which have similar features received 2.3 update long back and they do work well.
May be its got to do with the heavy skin of sony ericcson(Timescape UI, etc..).

With love.. Anil

Creative Kit: Enhancements at your tips!

Today, I have used the Creative Kit feature of Google Plus to great effect. Though I knew about this feature a few months back, its only today that the complete features of this online tool came to the fore!
Basically, using this tool, you can add really nice little edits, effects, decorations and text to your images!
The best part of it is that you don't need to download anything to do all this editing! So for those who feel that they don't have Photoshop to touch up the photos, they can check out this tool!
And the performance is also very smooth with not much waiting. This brings to the fore the complete strengths of HTML5 and javascript. Amazing!

With love.. Anil

Drenched...(memories of 2007 rains!)

Recently two days back there was a gentle rain in Bangalore and I was travelling at that time. In the fresh scent of earth, it brought back the memories of the rain in Mumbai in 2007 and the poem I wrote then! Here is that poem:

Drenched...

A billion drops of a dream in each,
Countless thunders of roaring desires,
Infinite energy of gushing streams,
Titillating music of splashing water drops,
Drenched I was in all the above.

In the genesis of invigorating scent of earth,
of melliferous feel of nature's spa,
of swinging in a spell of scenic beauty,
of getting lost in a flood of eternal serenity,
Drenched, I was...

Chilling winds that can even soften a martinet,
Lightening that mocks a photoshoot by rain God,
A melange of elements so pure and spontaneous...
I was drenched in all the above...

Streamed live from heaven's height,
The show did take a temporary break,
But the extravaganza still continues to haunt.
Yes, got drenched, got inspired!!!

Anil Reddy

A Narnian Morning!

This morning, after a walk, I watched Narnia(part1), that never stops amusing me! It takes us to another dream world that everyone can enjoy! For me, nothing can match watching a Narnia or a Lord of Rings or a Spiderman or an Avatar on a projector with 5000:1 contrast ratio with sony or a bose home theater system! That has been and remains one of the things I desire for!
Another movie that made my day was "superman returns" whose action scenes are incredible even after watching several times!

With love.. Anil