Anneliese Michel...(1952-1976)

I happen to be a very strong believer in spirits, ghosts, heaven, hell, demons and strongly believe in the fact that they influence life in a lotta ways. although im supposed to be a man of science and supposed to always look at the scientific aproach towards anything....i still strongly believe in the above mentioned "things".

There are firm reasons for my belief which i don really wish to share. some of u ppl might know what im talkin about but i have enough of personal reasons to believe in the existence in the paranormal world. a loved one will never leave u forever even after his or her death and u can be absolutely sure he or her is always there. i also feel disturbed spirits can never rest until whatever they wanted is totally accomplished.

I went for this movie today...The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Most of u guys would have probably seen "The Exorcist" or probably "Exorcist-The Beginning". Although this movie was mostly the same thing. i.e:the devil possessing a girl and a preis tries to drive it away and stuff......There was one particular line that flashed before and after the movie that made me quite curious.

"BASED ON A TRUE STORY"

Walkin outta the theatre...i was actually wonderin how the whole thing could actually happen to a young girl in real life. Thats when i decided to study a bit on the facts. Thats when i discovered, Anneliese Michel. The young girl from Bavaria, Germany.

She was a normal girl who led a normal life until one day when she was 16. She felt there were forces acting on her...that didn't let her call for help and paralysed her. She was considered Epileptic and was admitted to a hospital. The "attacks" didn't stop. She began seeing Demonic Faces in her daily prayers and was slowly being taken over. since none of the medical attention she was getting seemed to help, her parents decided to perform an exorcism on her. By this time, anneliese started eating spiders and coal since the demons didn't let her eat normal food. after all this, the church finally agreed to conduct the exorcism on her. During these exorcisms, she revealed that it wasn't one, but six demons were inside her. Lucifer, Nero, Cain, Judas, Legion and Belial. All the exorcisms were audio taped and they also recorded the demons arguing with eah other as to who would stay in her body and who wouldn't.Anneliese talked about wanting to die in order to save the souls of others. She stopped eating, rejected all medical help, and relied solely upon the priests to deliver her from the demons she believed were attacking her. Her knees ruptured after about 600 exorcisms due to the genuflections she had to do(kneeling down on the floor in prayer). She suffered from malnutrition and didn't even have strength to walk but during the exorcisms, she would sometimes need to be tied up in chains as there were sudden bursts of violence leading to her destroying pictures of christ and crucifixes in the house. She eventually died out of starvation during one of the exorcisms.

All this makes one helluva fiction story. but it ain't one. Believe it or not...it happened. It happened way before any of us were even born which is why nobody even knows about it. Whether or not she was possessed by demons is open to debate, but nothing can diminish the tragedy of her passing.Her grave became, and remains, a place of pilgrimage and religious importance to those who believe that the brave girl lost her life fighting the forces of darkness.

While The Exorcism of Emily Rose bears the legend "based on a true story," respect must be given to the actual people and events on which the story is taken. Audiences should not forget, while they are being entertained, that no matter what their beliefs, Anneliese Michel, the real "Emily Rose," was no fictional character.

A request. please click on the Anneliese Michel link and read the whole story.

Im in love!!!

Well i finally got my phone about 2 days back. Did quite a lotta research on a whole truckload of phones and finally decided on the MOTOROLA SLVR L7. (click on the link for info) What can i say? the phone.........ROCKS!!!!!! im in love with it!!! it actually jus released less then a week ago and i check it out at the tata open when one of my friends had it. so after extensive browsing i finally decided to go for it!! its super sleek...got gr8 looks and style. it comes with a 128mb memory card which is very useful...its got a very good still camera and a decent video camera.The prob with the phone is dat its sooo thin...i cant even feel it in my pocket!!! its actually a candybar version of the motorazr except the fact that this one had expandable memory and a good mp3 player too. Motorola has improved the user interface a lot which was what held them back cause their phones were a bit complicated to use compare to the nokia. all that's changed now and i got used to the whole thing in less than a day! another useful thing about the phone is dat it can be connected to the comp with the provided data cable and the phone can be operated thru the comp..i.e:sendin and recieving messages...phonebook...etc. there's loads of more stuff that im discoverin and so overall...im in love!!! great phone...great stuff...

Tidbit:One HUGE relief...my classmates dont borrow my phone and keep it with them the whole day as they used to do when my N-Gage was around....Phew!!!

Never mess with the WAR MIDGET!!!

Your Monster Profile

War Midget You Feast On: Peanut Butter You Lurk Around In: Olive Gardens You Especially Like to Torment: Emo Kids

What's Your Monster Name?

Found this monster name generator on Vikram's blog...went to the site and expected to get something like "the lochness demon" or the "headless scarecrow" but sheesh...this is what i got. What an embarassment!!!

A Happy Ending!

So Chennai Open's finally over...Jlubicic (pronounced as lubichich)beat reigning champion Moya in jus two sets. Goodbye chennai open for another one year...oh ya...and goodbye good lookin chennai girls who gather there too. Jlubichich actually played his semi-finals just about 5 hours before the finals and was gettin whipped giving a few match points to his opponent but managed to recover in the end...everybody actually thought he was exhausted but he proved each and every one of them wrong...he kicked moya's ass in the second set after a close tie breaker in the first set...he jus kept serving aces consecutively...200kmph...224kmph...221kmph.....all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he was serving like a damn bull!!(understatement)...anyway... its sucha super feelin when one gets to see world class professionals playin the game with their might, endurance and perfection. but actually both the semis were better than the finals cause both the matches were too tooooo close for both the players and eventually only one stood tall. I managed to click some decent pics on the quarter finals and the semi finals but time came for the finals....i turned on the camera....battery dead. damn.nothin more to say about dat.(and don laugh at my stupidity). but overall...the great feeling and enthusiasm i had these days is over and its jus another countdown till the next chennai open which im 100% sure is gonna have better players and better matches....lets wait and see....only time will tell.

On a entirely different note:

im plannin to change my phone...was wonderin of quite a few models...somehow even though i know nokia is simply THE best....i wanna try something else for a change..got too used to nokia...its user interface...and the long faced jerk at the service centre. u guys got any suggestions?? cause im open to anything...i do have one phone on mind...but im doin some research on it all over the web before i make up my mind. so lemme know...Oh wait...i forgot to mention the drool worth new Merc CLS dat was displayed at the chennai open...didn't bother to ask for its price...my mind cant tolerate those levels of shock...and they also had The Mercedes Benz Bicycle on disply!! it lookied so awsome!!! 75,000 bucks!!! dats like 50 times more expensive than a regular cycle...wish they allowed me on a test ride....they wud have waited for all eternity for me to return...he he he....
(by the way....all the pics above and in the previous post can be clicked to enlarge them if u want)

I know this post has been a bit borin...couldn't do much.so to make things fun....click here and check out this video...trust me its hilarious.wait for the whole thing to load first and then watch it again. for the benifit of those who cant understand tamil...Pati means grandma....have fun! peace.

Chennai Open...Day 4

I already missed the first 3 days of the Chennai open thanks to my god damn anatomy internals...exam was over today and i had to go for the matches...went there straight from college...thankfully vikram and akshay bought me tickets...one of akshay's friends had come along too...if i remember right this is my 7th chennai (previously tata) (and gold flake before tata) open...anyway...i walked after the first set was over between Ivan ljubicic and Jiri Vanek...it was a pleasure to watch professional tennis live again after quite some time....Jiri Vanek has been here before... he's a pretty potential player...and Ivan is the top seeded guy this time...9th in the world...i had my camera with me...i have no idea why...but vikram and i took ONLY pictures of all the players serving...serving....and more serving...we were sittin in great seats right near the action...superb views.... i took so many pics and all of them came out ok....Ljubicic won the match eventually after playin pretty casually. Next up was Indian Rohan Bopanna vs Giles Muller....wat a boring match!!!! Giles muller was the guy who beat Roddick in the U.S open last year so we kinda knew wat to expect....he breezed over rohan in jus 2 sets....i have to admit though....Rohan Bopanna's improved a lot....but it wasn't of any use....in this match at least...Then came the lighter side of the tournament that takes place every year...the Mercedes remote control car races between Muller and a lil kid!!! thats actually a lotta fun and its nice to see the players chill out for sometime....i always hoped to be the lucky kid all these years but damn...im not a kid anymore. we then took a lil break and went to check out the stalls in the stadium and went for the usual speed gun test...but of course it wasn't so "usual" this time...There was another star apart from the tennis professionals...Akshay whacked those serves and broke the record of the day...lucky guy...They gave him a certificate and all....couldn't believe it myselff...but the proof's here...so who's gonna argue?
So anyway....after we had our share of laughs...we went back to the match...Paradon Scrichappan vs Marc Giquel.....WHAT----A----MATCH!!!!!!!!!!!both of them seriously battled it out....their groundstrokes were simply superb!!!! Endless rallies and hardly any net play ..Schrichappan's power was kinda dominating the game but in no way was Giquel wimping out...he fought every single point...the match was so good that i didn't even distract myself by takin out the camera to get Giquel's picture...but seriously...that guy's definitely gonna come up...of heck of a talented guy with tons of determination!!! It was a 3 setter and eventually Schrichappan won but hats off to Giquel for the fight....if this is the kinda excitement i experienced on day 4....the quarters...semis...and the finals are gonna rock! cant wait...will talk about tomorrow's matches...obviously tomorrow....

Braille...

It all started yesterday when i was readin an article on Kiruba's Blog. Google celebrated Louis Braille's Birthday by changing their regular Google logo with a braille version of it. i thought it was pretty cool and was very nice of the google guys to come up with something like that. well in case some of u guys aren't aware...braille is the system with which blind people read...it works on the principle of using raised dots which represent alphabets. i've actually once seen a blind kid readin a book in braille and trust me...he was fast! Braille is a wonderful system that's changed a lot in the lives of the blind. its expanded their capabilities and possibilities and thanks to the basis of such systems....blind people even have regular jobs these days. Louis Braille invented this system way back in 1809 and its still being used all over the world even today. After i took some time off to read all about this system and its inventor. I DECIDED TO LEARN BRAILLE TOO. i know that could sound silly but i want to learn this magnificent system. took some time off and managed to get the notes and learnt a few alphabets...my dad said he'll get me a few books written in braille too...im 100% sure even if i master the system i can never do it like them...they are a lot more gifted....talented...determined and ambitious than any of us...May god bless all of them. will update on my learning status later....