BreakThrough In Aids Research

BreakThrough In Aids Research

Researchers may finally be on track to fight the AIDS virus by blocking a long-elusive target, an HIV enzyme called integrase. An experimental drug that inhibits the enzyme helped to keep the infection in check in monkeys...(CNN)Go CNN..

Repu em jarigindante.....

Vishal finishes moving the suitcases outside and his parents are already heading out of the jam-packed chennai station.He takes one last glimpse at the unclaimed bag...unable to decide whether to take it and try to find its owner or leave it and mind his own business. He finally decides to take it and try to contact the owner...He gets down from the compartment and starts moving out towards his parents, when he feels someone tap his shoulder. he turns around to see a rough looking guy peering into his face.

Ruf n tuf gaadu : "hello, ee red bag techukunna ammayi edi babu???"
mana Vishal gaadu: "umm..teleeedu, meeru evaru intaki?"

Ruf n Tuf: "Adi maa Cousin chelli bag, i can recognize it sicne i gifted it to her on her bday..so neeku telusa maa amrutha ekkada undo"
Vishal:" podunna kanipinchaledu, so bag teeskuni veltunna...i hope to contact her and give the bag to only her" (he is very suspicious of this ruf lookin character---enti veedi sodhi ani)

Ruf n Tuf : "Ok nuvvu ikkade undu babu , nenu statio anta vetiki vastanu"
Vishal within himself " wat an idiot...dobbi champestunnadu"

Suddenly he hears "Heyy annayya...!"
He turns around to see amrutha rushing to greet our ruf n tuf...Phew....for all this trouble, what a contrast between her and her "big brotha"

Vishal: Hey amrutha, i'm sorry to have taken your bag, i thought i can track you down before i leave and hand it to you"
Amrutha: maremi parvaledu...whats ur name?
Vishal : Vishal...nice meeting you..where were you? did u miss the train?
Amrutha: Miss it? No, I was in the restroom (vedevadandi babu, bathroom ki velte bag nokkese mokamu veedunu!...)
Vishal: uhoh!..sorry about that..sorry sir...i gotta go now anyways..bye bye...
Amrutha: Bye..hope to see u sometime again!
Vishal:...well that wont be happening maaaam..nenu "REPU" US ki veltunnanu.
Amrutha: oh well then, all the best and take care...byebye

They part....each in their own different directions...

Scene 4: Vishals Uncles Place, Chennai, everyone is getting ready to go to airport:
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Vish's Dad: rey passport ,tickets anni jagrathaga pettukunnava??
Vish : yeah dad!....oooooooopsss..wheres my passport pouch?? uhoh....crap, where did i put it now....

Vishal is frantically searching everywhere for it...and by this time everyone in the house comes to know and all hell breaks loose
"veeediki asalu budhi gyanam levu..."
"passport ilanti time lo paresukunte inkenduku panikostavu nuvvu"
"useless fellow...neeku endukura MS chaduvulu, resposibility kooda ledu"

Vishals Cell phone beeps: "Hello?"
"hey this is amrutha"
Vish: "yeah so?...wait a minute how do u know my number?"
amru: "well, it was along with your passport...u had dropped it in an open zip of my bag..."
Vish: "Thanks a lot amrutha...can u plsss tell me where u r , i dont have time, i shall rush over and collect it?"
Amru: "hey cool it man....i'll come to the airport and hand it over there to u"
Vish: "my parents will kill me if they know i will move out of the house without passport.."
Amru: "cawwwmon...be brave and i am just a girl...not a ganster...i will come and give your passport...."
Vish: "phew....see you then...and thanks a million again"


Scene 5: Chennai International Airport
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Vishal is very anxious as the time is running out and amrutha hasnt come to the airport yet. he tried calling her cell but it wudnt go thru. tension is mounting on Vish...and his parents are at their yelling best. At last, after what seemed to be an endless minute, he spots amrutha coming towards him from far. He breaks into a sprint and reaches her. She shows up empty hands. SHOCKKKKKK for our vishal. She has a worried expression on her face....He asks her what the matter is....

Amrutha: "Vishal , I have some very very Bad news"
Vishal : oh my god, Now what?????
Amrutha: I cant give you your passport now
Vishal : Whaaaaat???

To be continued......

The Boy and the Girl....

Hello all, had a busy day..anways lets get on with the story..

Vishal:The Flashback:
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Vishal is from a rich family in hyderabad.he is the kind of person who never has to worry even a single day about money or material possesions. Vishals parents are doctoes and he decided to break the tradition by becoming a computer engineer. He is in his final year of engineering now ,almost on the verge of going to USA> he is a very smart and intelligent guy....mostly keeps to himself. he has a very small but close circle of friends and takes no compromise in enjoying life to the fullest. he is the only son but his parents havent spared him when he did anything wrong. he therefore was brought up in a disciplined environment. he had a high school crush on SRIDEVI and a one-sided crush later down the line on a girl called madhumita who is still his classmate and a close friend. Currently they remain good friends. Madhu is all set to leave to England to continue her graduate studies at the University of Cambridge.

Amrutha:The Flashback:
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Amrutha is also from a rich family and her father is the CEO of a big firm in Secunderabad.Her mother has died unfortunately, when amrutha was a kid. So she was a independent child right from a small age and she had grown up to be a very strong and determined woman. And to add to her good looks, she was extremely intelligent. Her aim in life was to become a photographer for Discovery Channel's most highly rated Photoshoot program. To get that offer was not only lucrative but required the individual to be highly motivated, challenging and brave. She just liked the thought of danger. She had attended the required exams and had now received an interview call with the Discovery people.

Scene 3: Secunderabad Railway Station,Monday Evening:
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Charminar Express is on Platform no:2, ready to depart at its usual 6.10pm. Amrutha is rushing into the station to attend her interview in chennai. She wanted to take a few pictures on her train journey that she wanted to add to her profile and present it to the discover people at chennai.Vishal is casually standing on the platform,..he had already checked into his compartment and was waiting for the train to leave. he was going to chennai to catch his flight on Cathay Pacific....to fly to the USA.His friends had already left and he was the last one to go and join them.His parents were inside the compartment and he was standing outside, trying to get one last breath of the dirty,hot air of Secunderabad..before he left it for a long long time.....
The train pulls out of the station and starts it journey to chennai.Vishal comes inside and takes his seat by the window...and gazes out at the slowly disappearing suburbs of Hyderabad.Suddenly a beautiful girl (Amrutha) rushes into their section of the compartment and takes up the unclaimed seat opposite to our vishal....she throws in her luggage under the seats and crashes down on the berth....For a moment their eyes meet.......nothing happens, Vishal turns his gaze back to the Hyderabad suburbs and Amrutha picks a novel to read.........

It is almost 1 am when charminar express pulls into the Vijayawada Station. Amrutha is feeling a bit thirsty and she has run out of water...so she silently hops down the train and goes to buy some "butttrrraaaaaamilkkkk".Vishal is awakened by the noises in the station and he removes his walkman and goes to the door and stands in the doorway.Then he comes back inside and goes to his berth. He is about to get back to sleep when he finds that the young lady sitting opposite to him isnt there. He goes back to sleep. The train arrives next morning in chennai..and vishal is busy moving his big suitcases outside to get to the porters...he notices amruthas baggage lying unmoved....and she is nowhere to be seen..!

Lets continue this tomorrow....the story will move at a very fast pace from tomrow...so keep urselves up to date;-P

An Interesting Story...Part 1

If i were given the chance of making a movie out of a routine love story, well i would do it in the indian filmi style but give it twists and turns in my own style...and of course, a very special ending.....i use some filmi things here and there, like scene,song,fight etc..just to give a virtual movie effect while moving the story forward...remember, i am not telling a story, i am rather making a movie here,...my style...;-P

Story telling time....so lets start right away:

Titled : Repu...the tomorrow!
Idea : San Red
ScreenPlay : SS
Direction : Moneyratnam
Producer : Myself
Music : AR Beethoven

Scene--1..Hyderabad!
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Typical Indian bus stop--- milling crowds,people dashing around in every random way possible, 2 wheelers,and amongst all this, people waiting in the bus stop, for the bus to come...The point of interest to us is that this bus stop is just opposite to an engineering college and a MBA institute.You can imagine the type of crowd in the bus stop now. Youthful faces-boys and girls, smiling, hoooting,shouting,laughing,whispering,
smartly dressed according to the latest trends and excitedly bullshitting about every small thing they came across,with their ED drafters in their hands..
Now all of a sudden, as a big solace to the moist, dusty heat, clouds gather..as if they are welcoming something different. A light drizzle starts off...adding dirty trickles to the already dusty roads.everyone now rushes to the bus stop to take shelter. The shelter already is holding twice the number of people it normally gives shade to. The girls and boys are huddling more closer together....and all eyes are inevitably trying to sneak a glance at least once in a while, in one particular direction.....at one particular person...final year MBA student,amrutha.(i wont go into details describing her beauty but take my word for it, i will use someone as beautiful as sonali bendre for this role;-P and we can have a nice rain song with thumping beats at this point...)Finally the overloaded bus comes and everyone gets onto it,most of them hanging out of the doors.

Scene--2:The same Bus stop....
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Vishal from the engineering college-electronics&computers had just got off the bus that amrutha got into. He is well built,a shade darker and square jawed. He has a grim,serious face and carefully crosses the road and enters his institute, ready to spend the rest of the day and the night on a tough programming project.His current aim--"masters in US".


So here begins the story----of 2 young and determined people, who were from different environments and who meet under strange circumstances. Their initial meeting and further incidents will be coming up in tomorrows blog....after that....well, you'll see...you all are in for some fun and surprises....keep guessing...

Attack On Iraq - Attack on Humanity

"Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that Saddam Hussein had "long-established ties" with al Qaeda, an assertion that has been repeatedly challenged by some policy experts and lawmakers" (..more on CNN)--
It is when i read news like this, that i really ponder what happened to the brains of the power holders in the USA. Are they merely trying to find a scapegoat to silently cover up the oil pipeline being dug from Iraq to the Texan Oil fields By Halliburton?...or do they have more than mass destruction and oil fields in their POA?
I was stunned when i saw the news on the morning of September 11, that the world towers had been razed to ground by 2 commercial aircrafts. I was sitting in my class, trying to figure out what Dr.P meant when he said " All the signals are controlled by the Central Processing Unit but Memory can be programmed to take over that task too", when we heard the devastating news. Terrorists had shown to the world that America was as vulnerable as a small helpless child.
Recently, i saw "fahrenheit...9/11" in which they show a video of President Bush trying to act cool but losing it anyways, when he is conveyed the message that the first plane hit the world towers----he decided to go ahead with the photo shoot! My reaction to the news was more in conjunction to a normal,sympathetic person than George W's. He merely sits and waits for a whole 14 min during which, the second plane crashes into the second tower. There was nothing the President or his government could do about it for 3 years after the attacks now, except blame it all on Saddam Hussein?...
Wait a Minute....i thought it was Bin Laden who attacked America....since when did it change to Saddam Hussein? The fact that he is a dictator and a corrupt person is beyond doubt but to what justification does the Bush government stand in repeatedly asserting Saddams name to every terrorist activity that happens on the face of this earth. The opening statements of this blog were made by the vice president himself...a classic example in how they are trying to mislead the people.
Many US soldiers die everyday on the streets of Baghdad and Baqubah....Iraqis themselves are on the roads due to the war. Since they already captured saddam, shouldn't the war end? Why are there as many terrorists as ever, even after saddam has been captured? Maybe if they captured Bin Laden instead (who by the way was given a head start of 2 months by the white house before any search was officially launched on him), the attacks and war would stop?
These questions lead only to more questions and keep on pointing out the fundamental defects in our human system "Greed". The First Sin and the worst of all.....

May all war end, all selfish idiots die and all souls rest in peace...

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