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Its always a matter a comparison. Who is doing good, and which is the better one. It applies the same to the many ‘woods we have, the nearest to us being TamilWood and Tollywood.

The tamil film industry is said to be blessed with visionary artists/directors/production units and musicians and they do take their respect. Tollywood lagged behind for a long time and is always in a never-ending loop to try and excel before the neighbors.

I would say our industry fared well  in bridging this gap last one and half year or so, and we the audience, always expecting and encouraging variety and freshness. Thanks to the many efforts went behind. Why not ! If Tollywood makes around 100 movies a year, each one of us watch at least 30 of them (a movie buff goes way far!)

I won’t go beyond last year or so to just list the good ones that I can think of, but it doesn’t mean we only started having good movies last year only.(Except for the first one below, rest are not ordered in any specific way. They are purely random )

The first obvious item of the list is Magadheera, “the Grand Movie of Tollywood”. SS Rajamouli is simply the best director around. You watch Veer (a disaster hindi movie), Invictus (english movie on Rugby) to compare the international standards that he tries to bring. I can keep writing on him and his work and comparing and more, in one line, he is one of the visionaries Tollywood is hungry of.

Arundhati is another movie which has high risked production. Sheer love towards cinema made this possible ! Thanks to the producer (ShyamPrasad Reddy)

Movies of Ravi Babu are always to be watched out for, though some times he fails to bring in good stuff. Yet, the experimenting and the freshness he takes us to is to be appreciated. (Amaravathi and Anasuya)

Sekhar Kammula and his school of movie making has already won accolades. Hope he keeps up and adds himself to the visionary directors. (Happy Days, Leader)

Krishh is one director whom I am very much confident about his ability to deliver superb content, though he just made one movie so far (Gamyam). This movie has profound impact on my life! I rate it the one of the all time best movies (though its little too much, still I stand to it)

I want to mention about the movie ‘Katha’, I don’t know what reviews might have written about this, but if you have not watched yet, just do that! It has got tremendous creative work gone into it. (They are the followers of the great Alfred Hitchcock)

Chandra Sekar yeleti’s Prayanam is to be mentioned for sure. (though I personally don’t adore this movie)

There are some low profile and other flop movies, which tried to get away from the routine movies we see almost every time. Though they were not successful, yet their effort is to be recognized. Kudos to them and all the very best. (Ride, Manorama, Kavya’s Diary and importantly Baanam)

Asta Chemma is an IIM styled movie, it got lots of new stuff while still maintaining the nativity. I like it to the core. Hope you all do feel the same!

Apart from the above special movies, I do still want to mention other good movies like Kick (though routine, it is still different in many respects), Ullasamga Utsahamga (pure and colorful movie devoid the hero!)  and Sukumar’s beautiful direction! Sukumar is one who again should go in the list of the visionaries. He got brains. Hope he does more and more good movies.

Other terrific directors like Gunasekhar, Puri Jagannath, Seenu Vaitla are good for us. We take pride in their identity !

Music direction is next. We want music. We want our music to be popular, we want it to be listened most. After all, its music !!!!

Mani Sharma is a genius at work with his variations, consistency and excellent sound engineering and re-recording. I watch (or rather, listen) movies for his sound tracks. The very demand for his music in Tamil movies, and in Bollywood recently (thanks to RGV!) proves his caliber. I simply love Mani. Go Mani.

Other than ‘direction’, the trend setting talented minds which totally stand out starts with Sri Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry and Trivikram. They changed the scope of the telugu industry once for all, and they still continue to do that. Our most beloved respects to them.

One artist is very very special from the last one-two years. Suddenly, we started going to movies only to see him. As soon as he comes on the screen, the theater goes gala. He got a face which you can’t forget once you see!  You get stomach pain laughing and laughing. He turns the movies single handedly. The guiness book record holder, Padma Sri Brahmanandam (alias bramhi, movie comedian).

I definitely might have omitted some important names, please fill them up for me! and my apologies for my omission.

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This is my situation at office.

Here is a nice article on Responsible Drinking from Indiana.edu that really worth to share.

Drinking, like eating, or any social activity, has some guidelines to help the participant get more enjoyment out of the activity. Gobbling down half a chocolate cake at a party would not be considered responsible eating or even polite in most cultures. The same goes for drinking. Responsible choices concerning sensible drinking may mean not drinking, such as when a person is sick, taking medications or being the designated driver. Responsible drinking means that you never have to feel sorry for what has happened while you were drinking. Basically, this means not becoming drunk. The following are some hints to help you drink responsibly and derive more enjoyment and pleasure from drinking if you choose to consume alcohol.

HINTS FOR DRINKING

1. Know your limit. If you do not already know how much alcohol you can handle without losing control, try it out one time at home with your parents or friend present. Explain to them what you are attempting to learn. Most people find that no more than a drink an  hour will keep them in control of the situation and avoid drunkenness. Have your parents or fried videotape you while you are attempting to see what happens when you consume more than the recommended one drink per hour.

2. Eat food while you drink. It is particularly good to eat high protein foods such as cheese and peanuts, which help to slow the absorption of alcohol into the circulatory system. Many cultures consume alcohol only with food to prevent various problems.

3. Sip your drink. If you gulp a drink for the effect, you are losing a pleasure of drinking, namely tasting and smelling the various flavors. This is particularly true for wine.

4. Accept a drink only when you really want one. At a party if someone is trying to force another drink on you, ask for ice or drink a non-alcoholic  beverage.

5. Cultivate taste. Choose quality rather than quantity. Learn the names of fine wines, whiskeys, and beers. Learn what beverage goes with what foods.

6. Skip a drink now and then. When at a party, have a nonalcoholic drink between the alcoholic one to keep your blood alcohol concentration down. Space your alcoholic drinks out to keep the desired blood alcohol concentration.

7. When drinking out, if you must drive home, have your drinks with a meal, not afterwards. This allows time for the alcohol to be burned up and for it to be absorbed slowly into the circulatory system.

8. Beware of unfamiliar drinks. Such drinks as zombies and other fruit and rum drinks can be deceiving, as the alcohol is not always detectable, and it is difficult to space them out.

9. Make sure that drinking improves social relationships rather than impairs them. Serve alcohol as an adjunct to an activity rather than as the primary focus. Have a German night party rather than just getting together to drink beer.

10. Appoint a designated driver. Have someone available who will not be drinking and will drive all drinkers home. This is critical if the person has consumed more than one drink per hour.

11. Use alcohol carefully in connection with other drugs.This includes over-the-counter drugs such as sleeping pills and cold or cough medicines. Alcohol should be avoided while taking certain antibiotics, arthritic, anti-depressant, and many other prescription medications. Check with your physician or pharmacy before you drink while on any prescription drug.

12. Respect the rights of individuals who do not wish to drink. It is considered impolite to attempt to get people to drink who do not wish to. They may abstain for religious or medical reasons, because they are recovering alcoholics, or they just may not like the taste and effect it has on them.

13. Avoid drinking mixed drinks on an empty stomach on a hot day. This might produce hypoglycemia, which can cause dizziness, weakness, and mood change.

14. If you know that you will have to drive after consuming alcohol, limit your consumption to no more than one drink an hour. In reality many people who have a drink with a meal have no other option other than to drive home. Consuming NO MORE than one glass of wine, beer or mixed drink with a meal in a hour is generally safe for driving.

15.  Upper limit of drinks for males is 21 and for females is 14 drinks per week. Most studies suggest that these limits are safe for health.  In older individuals moderate drinking  may help prevent against heart disease. This amount, of course, is spread out over a weeks period. This means for males no more than 2-3 drinks and for females 1-2 drinks per day preferably with meals.

HINTS FOR PARTY HOSTING

Most people love to go to parties, and most find that parties are fun to give. The following tips for being a responsible host will give more pleasure to you and your guests.

1. Plan people movement. Make sure that people can move around and meet each other. If it means putting the sofa in a corner, do so.

2. The bartender. If you plan to have a friend act as “bartender,” make sure that he or she is not an eager pusher who uses the role to put an extra shot in every’s glass or keep filling up half empty cups with more beer.

3. Pace the drinks. Serve drinks at regular, reasonable intervals. A drink-an-hour schedule usually means that good company prevails and you can avoid intoxication. Use small cups for beer drawn out of kegs rather than large ones.

4. Don’t double up. Many mature and wise people count and pace their drinks. If you serve doubles, they will be drinking twice as much as they planned. Doubling up is considered rude.

5. Push the snacks. Make sure that people are eating along with drinking. Have plenty of high quality snacks such as cheese, meats, nuts, etc.

6. Don’t push the drinks. Let the glass be empty before you offer a refill.

7. Serve nonalcoholic beverages also. Remember that many people do not drink and may be on medications or recovering alcoholics.  Make sure that you have something nonalcoholic to drink such as good quality soft drinks, pop, and juice. Non alcoholic wine is great for a formal dinner.

8. Closing the party. Decide, in advance, when you want your party to end. At this time, stop serving alcohol and serve coffee and a substantial snack. This provides some non-drinking time before your guests drive home. Coffee does not “sober up” intoxicated people and neither do cold showers. All you get is a “wide awake and freezing drunk.”

8.Don’t allow intoxicated guests to drive home. If you find that one of your frieds has consumed too much alcohol, let them sleep at your house, have someone else drive them home, or call a taxi. In some communities on special holidays such as New Years even communites offer free taxi services.

Alcohol has been used by most cultures and if you do chose to drink, please do so in a responsible, safe, sensible, and healthy way.

NOTE:  RESPONSIBLE DRINKING OF ALCOHOL IS NOT INJURIOUS TO HEALTH

Does Software sucks? Being a manager is not so easy…

Yuck ! It might really suck. There are more sucking things than those though ! (See the previous post for more information !!)

Are we sucked up by the work ? or with too much work load ? or too much pressure ?
Ya…atleast some of these , to at least some of us.

So, if there is some work that is sucking up, there is someone on top who in the first place, gave us the work. The sucker is here !!

The most sucking thing that can happen is , when you are in loads of sucking work, your colleage comes to you and asks you, why are you looking sucked up ?!!?!

Bad words apart, when we say it sucks.. what doesnt suck ? Every job is like that. Every work is some way or the other tough. We just label few out of some repeatedly heard news or information, and hence the impression.

Neither the sucker who is here till now is not so bad. Being a manager is not so easy. “A manager cannot be nice to his direct reports”. He has to extract work, not in the way he wants, not in the way his direct reports do it , but in the way his manager wants it to be done ! So his manager sucks too !

This is just a heirarchy that causes the work load. Not the work itself. Not the manager himself.

Do we inherently dislike work ? May not be. I personally dont accept this at all. I want to love my work. Enjoy it , take the least pressure and before it gets to suck me, i wanna ’s/f’uck it.

It will be a great opportunity to manage people if you know how to not trouble the relations, and if you remember how you feel when you are in your direct reportees’ place.

Manager-Reportee relation is one beautiful ‘couple’, which if coupled with proper encouragement, a tap on the back for small and insignificant achievements and with freedom/time can make ‘dead’ lines invisible.

I wanna do research on this. Anyone interested in coming along?

For those of you, who didnt have any experience of this sucking, and just presuming that software industry sucks : you are honestly and seriously mistaken. Take a relook. Experience it yourself. Enjoy the enjoyment being a pink collared labour !

Note: edo mind dobbi rasindi andi idanta. Picha lite tesukondi ….

WorthvieW Team.

Top 10 Cruel Things Women Do to Men

10. They don’t pick up the phone

You convinced her to give you her number and you’re feeling good about yourself. Your charm and good looks have obviously made an impression on her. Unfortunately, when you try to call, she doesn’t pick up or, worse yet, she’s given you a fake number. Some women will give you their numbers because it’s easier than trying to tell you why she’s not interested. What’s more, in the age of caller ID, it’s easy for her to avoid your calls. At least the women who give you a made-up number are being more obvious about the fact that they have no intention of talking to you again.

9. Use men for free drinks

Some women go out never planning to spend any of their own money on drinks at the bar or club. Instead, they count on their feminine wiles to convince guys to shell out for their libations. Some of these women will take the opportunity of a guy buying a drink for her to begin to get to know him, but others (the cruel and heartless ones) will take that drink, flirt a little and move on to the next sucker with money to burn.

8. Use men as placeholders

Maybe you’ve been in a relationship for a while and you notice that her eye is starting to wander. She’s starting more fights with you or not bothering to fight at all anymore. Her friends get quiet when you walk into a room. She’s avoiding your phone calls. Her things are disappearing from your place. The AM article Breakup Warning Signs talked about all these hints that she’s thinking about putting an end to your relationship and, well, they’re cruel things.If she is a decent person, she’ll just get it over with and dump you already, but if she’s cruel, she’ll hold on to you for a while until somebody new comes along.

These girls don’t like to be alone and without a relationship, so instead of putting you out of your misery and ending it, she’ll string you along until she meets someone to replace you. If she’s really cruel, she’ll start things up with him before she’s finalized the breakup with you.

7. Emotionally manipulate men

Men don’t like to see women cry and some cruel women will take advantage of this fact and use it to get what they want. In general, women are much more emotional than men and it’s easy for some women to use a man’s complete incomprehension of female feelings to get something out of him. A few well-placed tears or a temper tantrum and most men will do anything to get it to stop.

6. Use physical violence

Men are usually raised with the idea that hitting girls is a major no-no. Unfortunately, there are some cruel women who use this aspect of a man’s personality to gain power over him. In the minds of some women, it’s perfectly acceptable to slap a boyfriend across the face when he says something to piss her off. Knowing that he would never hit her back, this type of woman feels like she can inflict any kind physical pain on him without fear of repercussion. A man is also less likely to tell someone about suffering physical violence at the hands of his girlfriend if he believes he’ll be thought of as weak or pathetic.

5. Criticize their men in public

A growing trend in television shows and commercials is that of depicting men as bumbling idiots, while their wives and girlfriends are intelligent, in control and flawless. This may contribute to the real life practice of cruel women who criticize and humiliate their men in public places. Women can get away with this in ways that men would never be allowed to. When a woman pokes fun at her man or even soundly debases him, the group surrounding them is more likely to laugh than to be appalled.

4. They don’t disclose their relationship status

You’ve pulled out all your best moves and you seem to be making progress with the cute girl you’ve just met. When you finally get to the point when you feel you can safely ask for her number, she smiles and says: “I have a boyfriend.” That information would have been nice to have at the beginning of the conversation. It’s certainly not the worst thing a woman could do to a man, but it is annoying when she lets you assume that she’s available so that she can enjoy your flirtation and flattery.

3. They withhold sex

This is a time-tested, and frequently used, cruel thing for women to do to men. For most men, sex is as important as breathing, so withholding it in order to get something she wants or simply to punish her man for his transgressions is a pretty awful thing to do, even if it is effective.

2. They test their men

You’re all ready to go for a night out with your friends, when your girlfriend calls and asks you to change your plans to be with her instead. She doesn’t have any particular reason; she just wants to see you. She knows that you had plans to meet up with the guys, but if you really loved her, you’d come over to her place instead. If her request comes with an “if you really loved me,” then it’s a test. If you choose anything other than immediately rushing to her side, you’re going to fail. This kind of testing in a relationship is indeed cruel and petty.

1. They flirt to inspire jealousy

Maybe she’s feeling underappreciated, maybe you’ve just had a big fight or maybe she just enjoys the tortured look on your face. For whatever reason, girls who flirt obviously with other guys in front of their boyfriends are immature and manipulative.

Source : AskMen.com