Saturday, October 18, 2008

Russel Peters Show

Wow i laughed my ass out at this concert :) :)!!!!! The most awesome and cool comedian i have ever seen and heard. Thanks to Bangalore Mirror paper which provided news of him comin to Bangalore on 18th. The day i saw his ad asked Rahul and booked the tickets online without a credit card(thanks to Joe ;)).
I have almost seen all his concerts and have thoroughly enjoyed it. He cracks jokes on the spot. The best part is that he cracks jokes on people present at his show and also most of his jokes are new.
We reached Chowdaiah hall around 5.30, but the show started half an hour late( around 6.30), not a seat was empty. I sat in Row-X which was quite faar off from the stage. The show began with a faaaaaaaat guy(forgot his name) comin on stage. He was sooo fat that everyone wondered what this guy ate!! He was Russel's friend(Canadian) who was visiting India for the first time. His voice was more clear than Russel's!! His jokes were about traffic at Blore, himself(How he managed to drink 15 bowls of cabbage soup and knock a small girl unconscious haha) and advantages fat ppl had over thin ones.
Finally Russel came on stage. As usual he started askin the ppl in the front row their names and makin fun of them. He particularly made fun of a person called 'Nandu' and also a 12 yr old kid called 'Kiran' (who had come to this show with his parents lol). There were 4 guys who came late for the show and were searchin seats right in front of him and one fat guy among them was targeted for his jokes.
His jokes were new ones, most of them abt Indian ppl, he started with y he dint like to call the new names for cities like Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, followed it by a 'Monkey kid' whom he met at the mall and 2 guys catchin hands with one another and walkin like gay ppl lol. He then started about how hairy we were and the need to trim body hair hahaha and followed by balls jokes which made the whole crowd laugh n laugh.
He also spoke abt how dumb Bush was and the election b/w Obama n Mcgain. He then spoke about his retard school and sign language which was used for identifyin different races of ppl, how america had to explain to Iraq b4 attackin them and also y india, china and canada were not in football world cup(which i had heard of b4 :P).
He ended the show around 7.45 with his famous line "Be a man", but as we wanted more he came back again to do somthin which he had done earlier. He did his famous "Somebody Gonna Get Hurt Real Bad, Somebody!!) which i can hear any number of times and finally after a huge standing ovation left the stage around 8.
Me n Rahul thorughly enjoyed the show n also the birds in the hall(Wow!!!). The thing about Russel is his facial expressions, his ability to spk like ppl of different countries (espicially Indian and Chinese ascents are daaammmn funny) and on the spot jokes which are superb. I would goto his show again on 25th if i get passes(free this time :P).
My Sat eve was made, thanks to Russel :):)

Softwares

I always hav and would continue to prefer Windows OS's over any others as they r easy to use :P, i use and found a bunch of such softwares:

Video Players:
After using VLC Player for a long time i was searching for a player which could even play RM Formats, found these players which does'nt even ask for manual installation of codecs and also sound quality it gives is amazing:

  • GOM player:



GOM Player is a visually appealing video player with very interesting features and which, above all, solves any problem you may have with codecs.
Languages: English
  • GOM Player supports the following formats:

    GOM, AVI, DivX, ASF, ASX, WM, WMX, WMP, WMV, WVX, MPEG, MPG, MPE, M1V, M2V, DAT, VOB, MP4, 3GP, K3G, LMP4, SKM, DMSKM, RMVB, RM, OGM, MKV, IFO, DMB, OGG, AC3, XviD, H.263

    OS requirements for GOM Player: Windows XP,Vista

You can download this player at http://gom-player.en.softonic.com/download.

  • KM Player:




Another player which i found amazing was KM player, this also plays all the above formats and works fine with XP and vista.
Download link for this player is http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/download.

Both these are freeware :) and also these have features like if u have som movie files under the same folder and play one of them, these players pick up the others automatically and plays them for u which i think cool :).

There are also other players like Real Alternative, Total Video player and BS Player which i dint like as much as these players.

File Encoders(Converters):
I was lookin for a file converter which could encode most of the file formats. Found this Universal encoder called SUPER.
This tool is pretty fast and also can encode full length movies. Has almost all the neccessary codecs builtin.
Supported input source file formats are:-

Image Sequence: jpg, pgm, png, ppm (with sequentially numbered-ONLY filenames) having the same filename numbered-ONLY format.

Video format: 3gp/3g2(Nokia,Siemens,Sony,Ericsson), amv, asf, avi(DivX,H263,H263+,H264,XviD,MPEG4,MSmpeg4...), dat, drv-msfli, flc, flv, m2ts, mkv, mpg(MPEG-I,MPEG-II,VCD,SVCD), mov(H263,H264,MPEG4,SVQ..), mp4(H263,H264,MPEG4..), nsv, ogg, qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str(Old Play Station), swf(Flash), ts(HDTV), tmf, ty+, viv, vob, wmv.

Audio format: aac, ac3, amr, mmf, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma
Download link for this software and all the details can be found at this website: http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html This is also a freeware :)


Introduction

Hey guys i started bloggin again after a looong time as i m findin a lota time now :P. For ppl who dont knw me, i m from Bangalore who once upon a time was a TT champ(until last year :P), finished my engineering this year from BMS College(the best coll at blore according to me :)) and started workin at a company called EFI(which i guess most of u wouldnt have heard of it :P)