This is something I wanted to do for a long time. But could not make it till last night. Finally I am here with my first iMovie video. But life was not that simple to get it done. I had a tough night learning and fighting with the features of iMovie to get what exactly I wanted. Could not find it helpful while editing the audio for it. Thanks to Chandan, he helped me with this by introducing me to Audacity . Also since I was trying to edit an mp3, I had to download LAME MP3 encoder along with audacity. Yah I know, I know, it is going to be little technical. But that is just to express my emotions. I am really happy that I made it finally. Still long way to go. Wait n watch, there are a lot to come yet.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
500
I am not a frequent blogger. But truly speaking that is what I would like to be. So many things I want to write, I want to tell others, but somehow doesn't happen. Here is another video which made me think for a while that how we take our life, luxury and amenities for granted and just do stupidest things with the precious thing - money. Please put a little pause on your fast moving life and think through it.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Dark Side of indian media
Something which made me think about the power of media and its actual (mis)use... It is an interview of P. Sainath
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Reverse Bungee Jumping Accident at Banerghatta Road, Bangalore - A Lesson I Learned
I like adventure sports. Whenever I get time, I try to go out for various adventurous activities - trekking, moon light mountain biking, night trekking & rock climbing, parasailing blah blah... The latest addition to that list (which I want to be endless) is BUNGEE JUMPING. This is something I wanted to do for a long time and when I got the news that it is happening in Bangalore my adrenaline became high. I was thrilled, here comes the opportunity. I called up friends, mailed them. Finally found 6 more interested fellows and went for bungee jumping, yapeee. It was organized by HeadRush adventure sport organizers at paint ball arena, near Banerghatta Road. We reached there at around 11 a.m. The place was crowded by the participants. There was long queue for registration. We managed to get our registration done and were informed that our turn would be at around 4.30 p.m. When I looked around I was little worried about the arrangement. I was expecting proper cushions or air bags covering the ground below the place where bungee jumping was happening. This is how I saw it happening in any other places. Otherwise it generally happens on the top of a lake or swimming pool. But there was only a small net fixed by some bamboo sticks which hardly solves any purpose. They have another crane which was used for reverse bungee jumping. The difference between bungee and reverse bungee is in case of bungee you will be jumping from a crane or tower.
In case of reverse the participant will be thrown from ground and you go up and then come down.
To my surprise for reverse bungee there was no net at all. Also I did not see any sort of medical kits or ambulance or emergency vehicle. I was not comfortable at all seeing all these, was getting an weird feeling that something was not right. But still my thrill had taken over my worries and I was all set to do bungee. We had to spend the whole day before our turn, so went to a resort close by. There we had good fun, did swimming, played TT, Badminton, carom etc and had a good lunch and then we went back to the place. When we reached there we heard that the bungee jumping had been cancelled. A severe accident happened just before we reached there. One fellow was doing the reverse bungee and his strap and hooks in the jacket got broken while he was coming down and he fall fat on the ground from a height of around 80 - 100 feet. The poor fellow was from Chennai. Sadly there was no help came from the organizers as they did not even have any equipment to handle such an emergency situation. Later few participants helped him and brought him to nearby hospital. Later at night I heard the news that he was no more. May his soul rest in peace. The sad part was when we asked the organizers why it was cancelled, they told us that, it was because of some technical problem. We heard about this accident from the other people present there. I was so surprised that, even after such a bad thing happened because of the organizers' negligence, there was a considerable effort from them to hide the fact and pretending as if nothing happened. When we did the registration, we had to sign a form stating that I am doing all these on my own wish etc etc. Everybody signed that and put there life to the organizers' hand, trusted them. But it seems they were least bothered to take care to participants' lives. They were more busy to collect money and get the forms signed by people. I did not realize that they will go to such extreme by ignoring the safety concerns just to increase the profits. So here is my take on this, from now on whenever I will go for such event, first and the most important thing I would check is, how the organizers ensure the safety of the participants and what are measures they have taken to handle the emergency situation. This would lead to the next item in my checklist. Since in such activities you have to put your life in the hand of others (literally) and you have to trust them, I will ensure that whether they are really worth for that, are they really trustworthy? You have to draw line conciously between having fun and madness. Otherwise even the safest adventure like this (according to the statistics) could be fatal.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Ignite Bangalore 2
Time for me to talk. Its IGNITE BANGALORE 2. I am going to talk there about some of my usual crazy thoughts :) . I hope it would be lots of fun filled event and I cant avoid that from my life :D. So hope to see you there. Details you can get in the above link.
The previous events' videos are here:
http://igniteboulder.com/
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/09/ignite-boston-4----videos-uplo.html
http://ignite.oreilly.com/see-it.html
Presentations from Ignite Bangalore 1:
http://www.slideshare.net/psridharp/ignite-bangalore-sridhar-pabbisetty-presentation http://www.slideshare.net/ruongo/presentation-by-rupa-patil-at-ignite-bangalore-november-2008-presentation
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