TK #129

Id both and give pop culture reference.

Answers: Julia Child and Julie Powell. Julie and Julia - The movie.

TK #128

Identify the movie. The hero uses two names in the movie: X and Y. On a totally different account unrelated to the movie, X is the inventor of Y. X and Y? 

Answer: Nacho Libre Y- Nacho X- Ignacio. The characters were named in honour of the inventor of Nachos, Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya

TK #127

X was founded as a restaurant by Parampalli Yajnanarayana Maiya and his brothers in the year 1924.In the mid 1970s when India was under emergency, a Food Control Act was introduced which mandated that food was to be sold at very low prices. This move made it difficult for X to maintain high standards in its restaurant business and forced it to diversify into the instant food business. X also claims to have invented Y, a delicious dish. During World War II, when rice which is the staple item used in ___1___ was in short supply, they experimented in making __1__ using ___2___ and created Y. X and Y? 




Answer: X- MTR Y- Rava Idly

TK #126

Part 1: The following are examples of the X effect. Id X and put funda why it is named so. 

• The Apu trilogy films of Satyajit Ray, which were flops in India before they were given prizes in western countries and re-evaluated as classics in India.
• The popularity in India of movements like those of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and ISKCON based on their popularity in the west.
• The exalted status of the Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism, where, although it was always highly regarded, it gained its current prominence only following Western attempts to identify a single canonical "Hindu Bible".

Part 2: Once you have figured out what X is, how will this lady below connect to X?

Answer: X is Pizza Effect. The lady is Margherita of Savoy. For more info read this

S.M.A.R.T Goals for 2011

Who would have thought corporate life would haunt me enough to write a post titled "S.M.A.R.T Goals"?! But here it is! For the uninitiated, S.M.A.R.T is a mnemonic used in performance management. Well, that is all I know about S.M.A.R.T  and hence, I smartly provide a wiki link for the same. However, there is an alternate expansion for S.M.A.R.T according to ISO Document No. 999 and my goals for 2011 are solely based on it and nothing else. The alternate expansion for S.M.A.R.T is and I quote document No. 999:

"S - Senseless, M- Mundane, A - Awful, R - Ridiculous, T - Terrific "

So here are my S.M.A.R.T goals:

Goal #1 Become a Liverpool football player

Goal Description: Get the book called " How to Play Flawless Football in 16 Days" by Greek God Kyrgiakos. Mug all rules and instructions in the book and go for Liverpool selections. Since the book promises that no one has failed to become a top class player after reading it, I confidently say I will become a Liverpool player. 

Back page of  "How to Play Flawless Football in 16 Days"
featuring the most successful player thanks to the book.

Degree of Difficulty: Very Easy.

Goal #2: Become a Comic Artist.
Goal Description: Instead of describing it in words, I shall exhibit my skill (or the lack of it) with my own comic called CKSD: A web comic of debauchery and poor humor.

"Human waste is injurious to health. Sharks' is better than human's" by Fish School Headmaster

Degree of Difficulty: Demanding

Goal #3: Date a Sheila or Munni.

Goal Description: A picture is worth a gazillion words.

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooo!

Degree of Difficulty: Very Demanding

Goal #4: Talk to TR on Kural TV

Goal Description: More of a dream than a goal. Imagine the pleasure you  get when Sir TR challenge ah talks with his ultimate, unimaginable,spontaneous punch dialogs.  

Sir TR challenge ah talking. 

Degree of Difficulty: Cannot be Measured.

Goal  #5:  Resurrect Dr. Vijay's career.
Goal Description: I am planning to remake the cult classic Karagatakaran with Dr. Vijay and Namitha in the lead. I sincerely hope the remake will be a super hit and Ilayathalapathy will be back to his best.

Dr. Vijay in Karagatakaran photo shoot. Costume courtesy: Ramarajan

Degree of Difficulty: Very very very very Difficult.

Anyone performing pagan worship or playing with Voodoo dolls to hinder my progress will be subjected to severe punishment which will range from watching a Liverpool match to listening to Justin Beiber sing for a good 24 hours.

TK #125

1. Identify the sorcerer's name and who he has been modeled after. 

2. This video is based on whose work? 

PS: I have uploaded the full video. Watch it if interested. For the question only 1 min will do. 

Answer: This is Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia. Sorcerer's name is Yen Sid (Disney in reverse) modeled after Disney himself. Based on Goethe's  Der Zauberlehrling

Cracked by Rohit, Avinash,Nithin, Deepak and half cracks by Pinko,Mod,Arjun,Govind,Chan,Sen Krish &Guru.

TK#124

Shown below is the cover of an anime film (Y) based on a manga of the same name by X. The manga itself is loosely based on a cult classic movie of the same name by Z. However, X claimed that he was inspired only by a still image from Z's movie and X hadn't even seen the classic movie when he created the manga. X,Y & Z?

Answer: X- Osamu Tezuka : Y - Metropolis : Z- Fritz Lang

Cracked by Pinko, Mod, Chan, Comedy,Sticky and Arjun.