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Sep 18, 2008

Yennai Theriyuma - Music Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Featured, Movies, Music 2 comments

Achu is the music director and he has pleasantly surprised me with this very impressive score on debut. Achu is from the Rehman music school and I am sure his mentor must have been very impressed with his students first outing.
Enna Matromo (Karthik and Bombay Jayashree)
A very plesant song with very good lyrics. Karthik has [...]


Sep 18, 2008

Naan Aval Adhu - Music Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Featured, Movies, Music 2 comments

‘Naan Aval Adhu’ features four music directors –G.V. Prakash, R.P. Patnaik, Dharan and Prasanna Shekar. ‘Naan Aval Adhu’, a horror thriller, has Madhavan and Sada as the lead actors It also stars Shamitha Shetty. The film is directed by Kona Venkat and produced by Gaurav Sharma for Storm Pictures.This is a remake of the [...]


Sep 17, 2008

Chevrolet Volt - Wired.com

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Events and News, Featured No comments

General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt this morning, revealing a car that is much sleeker than the angular concept we saw almost two years ago. It’s the strongest evidence yet that the range-extended electric car is on track to appear in showrooms by the end of 2010, and a good sign that GM may stick [...]


Sep 17, 2008

How to react when an employee loses his cool ?

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Deep into My Mind, Programming Concepts, Technical Articles No comments

I was reading an interesting article in CNN and here are excerpts which I found to be very useful.
How to react when an employee loses his cool ?
The author refers a lot to David Wolf, PhD , Author of a new book called Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living (Mandala Publishing, $14.95).
1. Blank [...]


Aug 20, 2008

What you won’t see in the coming weeks Olympic coverage

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty No comments

There’s a lot to celebrate about the Summer Olympics in China: The many nations of the world put politics aside and come together in peace so that the greatest human athletes on Earth can compete.
But there’s an ugly side for animals living in the Olympic host country, a side that you won’t see in this [...]


Aug 7, 2008

Rewrite convention and optimize your code for maintainability

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Java, Programming Concepts, Technical Articles 1 comment

The vast majority of programmers end up having to maintain code written by someone else. I was reading this article in javaworld.com and it really was in line with my thought process.
The original source is here : http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2008/jw-07-harmful-idioms.html
Four harmful Java idioms, and how to fix them
Rewrite convention and optimize your code for maintainability
By John O’Hanley, [...]


Jul 22, 2008

How Animals Wind Up in Labs

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty No comments

Companion Animals
Many dogs and cats used in laboratory experiments come from companies that breed animals for research purposes. Others were once trusting companions who simply got lost–or stolen–from their families.
* Pound Seizure
Animal shelters in certain states are required to turn over homeless dogs to government-run [...]


Jul 20, 2008

Sathyam - Music review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Featured, Movies, Music 7 comments

This is the 25′th movie for Harris Jeyaraj . There is a lot of hype created in the media about this movie starring Vishal and Nayanthara.I can safely say that Harris has stuck to his formula and has not deviated even a millimeter from his comfort zone.All the songs have this ” I have heard [...]


Jul 16, 2008

Saroja - Music Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Featured, Movies, Music 1 comment

Yuvan Shankar Raja is known for his peppy beats and high pitch vocals. Saroja is no different. This is one of the much anticipated music releases of 2008 as the music of Chennai 600028 was a roaring success.
Dosth Bada Dosth (Haricharan, Naveen, Rahul Nambiar )
Haricharan leads this talented bunch of singers to sing this peppy [...]


Jul 11, 2008

Sakarakatti - Music Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Featured, Music 12 comments

After a brief break Rehman is back with Sakarakatti. Valee, Muthukumar and Vijay have written the lyrics for this movie. Rehman has performed this score after two very successful films in Hindi. There are 6 songs in this movie.
Taxi Taxi (Benny Dayal, Blaaze, Viviane Chaix and Javed Ali)
A fast paced number. Benny Dayal is soon [...]