Une Femme Est Une Femme


(A Woman Is A Woman)


1961

Godard has a field day in A Woman is a Woman. What better genre to employ Godard’s influence of Brechtian theory than a musical! The sheer rhythm of the movie is enough to give it the instant classic status and the quirky humor just adds to the effect. More than being a novel attempt, the film seems like a celebration of the New Wave with references and homage to the biggies of the 50’s. And the wild child he is, Godard doesn’t miss out on opportunities to glorify himself too! (Émile says at one point, “I don’t know if this is a comedy or a tragedy, but it’s a masterpiece“)

The film flows like a dew drop on a leaf with each moment topping the previous. “Expect the unexpected” would make a great tagline for the film as Godard intentionally disorients us from any predictions. And the effect works for sure. We see Angela tossing up an omelet and gathering it after a small talk. She enters a magic chamber and gets her costume changed like that. Godard seems to elicit the craziness, or rather the magic of the medium employing such that not only break movie traditions as we know them but also add to the radiance of the film. Godard uses blue and red colours aptly but is nowhere close to what he would do with them in his later films.

Godard, at times, interrupts key conversations with sounds and at others, interrupts sound with conversations. So, one doesn’t follow the story line closely which is precisely what Godard wants. As a result, you can’t help but enjoy the individual and “present” moments of the film for what they are rather than connecting their relevance with the past or analyzing the direction towards the future. Anna Karina at her charming best and one can see why Godard was so smitten. It is a treat watching her dance and a restrained Belmondo accompanying her.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONSIEUR GODARD!

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Continuing with my last post on childhood, I realized I have more tales to tell. This time it is about my little sister poo. Living life on her own terms, dancing, dressing up, partying, Harry Potter, to watch Vaaranam Aayiram and permission (mine) to join orkut are the only top concerns she has at the moment. Studies of course form the last in her list of ‘must-dos’ and you can find my mom and her going crazy over her studying schedules or rather the lack of it when exams are around. Makes a funny scene if you choose to ignore a bit of pity for my struggling mom!

She has grown up to be the loved, pampered girl of the house, thanks to being the youngest! And so you can imagine how spoilt she would be too. You’re assured to lose your sanity with her. But neither my parents nor we were very kind to her when she got into mischief. When she deserved to be whacked, she got it right on time.

All three of us have a weakness for chocolates and chocolate drinks. Since she had attacks of severe wheezing and coughs when young, she was banned from having chocolates and ice creams for a few years. The only form of chocolate that anybody got at home was the ‘boost’ or ‘bournvita’ or ‘Milo’ that we used get with milk. No no, don’t take sympathy on her as yet.

So when everyone at home would be busy with some work or asleep in the afternoons, she’d quietly tiptoe into the kitchen, climb the shelves and take out the bottle of chocolate powder and start eating it. When she’s contented, she’d replace it as quietly as she came and everything would be fine. But when she breaks a bottle, she’d run into one of our rooms and sit silently with some toy or colors. This girl’s by nature a total chatter-box. She keeps talking blah blah all the time and when she’s quiet or missing, it can mean only two things- she’s either sick or she’s conspiring something. My mom knows this. The moment she finds her sitting in a corner, she’d know that something’s up and the minute she walks into the kitchen, poo would start crying from the room saying she wasn’t responsible for the bottle and that it fell down and broke on its own and she’d create a big scene! My mom would burst out laughing.

Clever girl isn’t she? Remind her about it today and she turns coy and gives you a ‘oh! Was it me?’ look.

      

I shud say i am really bad at remembering my dreams.Each morning i get up i would have a vague remembrance of what i dreamt last night.But the dream i had last night is the height of craziness .I gotta write abt it. And so i ran straight to my laptop as soon as i got up to write down my dream .


Before i tell u wht really happened in my dream , there is a flash-back i need to mention here. Infact a fact about me and topcoder. I would be the guy who had missed the most of the topcoder matches in the world and i would have really wierd reasons to miss each time . Yesterday was once such occasion whn i was in chennai and had planned to come back home before evening on time for my SRM 428. But then the BSNL Broad Band at my area was down and there was no net connection for us for the whole day .My dad called me up and told me this thing and here u see i had another wierd reason to miss the TC match.So i continued to go for my purchase of hard disk(yeah i got an another new hard disk).And came back home around 8 in the night .

Yeah now coming back to the dream .Before i narrate i dont intend to use this story for the next Mr Bean movie . I seriously mean tht :P. So I was sleeping (ofcourse :P) and then suddenly i am in my school ground , with my laptop and a magical green colour ethernet wire hanging from sky and then i was in the TC applet . I was like yippeee i made it to the SRM 428. And there were couple of friends around me . Now here are the questions tht i got .

The 250 problem was ” Given an integer , print the integer three times .”


Sorry i cudnt help it .But seriously my dreams are out of my control , and i dont have any intention of having a ques like tht anywhere. And the funny part is i submitted the question and ended up with 383 points. God knows why. Well if u think thts it ..wait a sec .The 500 one is the big funny one.

You are not gonna beleive this but suddenly i got transported to a new room with a very very long table on it .. And then on the table was some wierd sort of setup .Some thing like being done for a science exhibition. And people were sitting all around at different parts of the table. Now suddenly the laptop comes into my hand and i see the 500 pt question . “Explain the setup before You “.


Are u alive ??? Yeah i got a theory question in my Topcoder SRM in my dream . Can u imagine how terrible it is ? And the more funnier part of this is actually wht the setup is, as i had figured out in my dream .


So i went on to understand the setup and after minutes of serious and tense observation , I finally figured it out tht it was the setup for A network protocol for Data Link Layer tht i had learnt for my fifth sem . It was the one with positive Acknowledgment . Protocol P3 to be more precise. And so i sadly sat down to write my answer and suddenly the laptop was gone and i had a 2 sheet paper in my hand. I began to scribble in the worst of my hand writing and was nearing the completion whn i suddenly turned the sheet and to my surprise i find somebody else has already written some shit in those last few lines. So i began for a search for my eraser and finally found it and erased the part and finished writing. The last line i had written was


” To improve the protocol efficiency acknowledgements can be piggy packed into data frames” .


I finally i had something to submit and looked to my laptop.. (God knws how i am gonna submit a paper to computer. May be i was supposed to scan it and submit). But wait a sec. I suddenly find my lan wire missing . In the process of searching for my rubber , i lost my LAN wire tht was hanging from the sky and i had no way of submitting the 500 pt theory .And then suddenly power went off and i got up .

So there it is my wierd dream . But from now on , i have made up my mind not to miss any more TC matches whatsoever be the wierd reason .I have no explanation as to why the dream was so so crazy , but i just hope it doesnt come true .

PS : Thank god the dream stopped before i looked into the 1000 ptr. Any crazy ideas welcome

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What is the buzzword now in India? The SENSEX. All that I knew a few weeks back was that the Sensex was at 21000 points, and now it is at 9000 points. What exactly are these points? How are they calculated? What is Sensex? What is happening in the financial world? A quest for answers to these questions helped me in understanding the market scenario. Now when I watch NDTV Profit, I am able to understand what they are speaking about!!!

A small story…

Suppose I buy a hotel, say for 50 lakh Rupees Then I manage the hotel successfully for one year with high profit, say 10 lakh. The profit continues for the next year also. So the establishment can be considered as an investment which gives profit in interest. Now how much is my hotel worth? If I plan to sell, there might be a buyer who might offer 100 lakh, considering the fact that the hotel is already running successfully yielding a profit of 10 lakh, and the profits might increase. So I plan to sell it at 100 lakhs.

There might be 10 buyers willing to buy. But none has 100 lakh. So, I plan to sell ’shares’ in the hotel. I can sell one share at 10 lakh to each of the ten buyers. Or I can divide the ownership into 1000 shares, at 10000 each. Or I can have 500 shares for myself and sell the others. This will help me retain a majority of shares, and remain in control of the hotel establishment. This is the basics of what shares are.

A different scenario. I need to start a hotel. I don’t have money to invest. So I request the public for money. This is called initial public offering. I can sell 1 lakh shares at 50 Rupees each, to get 50 lakh “Rupees immediately. This money I use to build and establish a hotel. The first year I get a profit of 10 lakh. I can do two things with this. I can share the profit with all shareholders, giving a ‘dividend’ of 10 rupees. Or I can save profits for further development of the company, which in turn will increase the company’s value and the share value. A shareholder can then sell his share and get profit (or loss, if the company’s value goes down)

Shares of public companies are bought and sold in stock exchanges. The BSE is the oldest and the largest stock exchange in India. The index that BSE uses is called the Sensex.

Free float market capitalization

An understanding of the Sensex requires the knowledge about ‘free flow market capitalization’. The word ‘capitalization’ or ‘market capitalization’ of a company refers to the ‘net worth’ of the company. This includes the total assets of a company. This is actually equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company.

All shares of a public company will not be available for the public to buy or sell. Some shares might be held by the founders or directors, the government might own some shares, associate companies might own some, and so on. The free float shares refer to the shares that are available for trade in the open market. The free flow market capitalization is the total value of all shares that are available for trade by public.

Specifically, the following categories of holding are generally excluded from the definition of free-float:


• Shares held by founders/directors/ acquirers which has control element


• Shares held by persons/ bodies with “Controlling Interest”


• Shares held by Government as promoter/acquirer


• Holdings through the FDI Route


• Strategic stakes by private corporate bodies/ individuals


• Equity held by associate/group companies (cross-holdings)


• Equity held by Employee Welfare Trusts


• Locked-in shares and shares which would not be sold in the open market in normal course.


The remaining shares come under the free-float category.

Free float factor:

The percentage of free float shares among the total number of shares is calculated for every indexed company, based on the information specified by them regarding their shares. This percentage is rounded off to the higher multiple of 5. The corresponding fraction is the free float factor.

Let 43% of all shares come under the free float category.


43% when rounded off to the nearest multiple of 5 gives 45%


The corresponding factor is 0.45.


The free float factor is 0.45


This free float factor means that only 45% of the total market capitalization of the company will be taken for index calculation.

SENSEX Calculation

Sensex is calculated taking into consideration stock prices of 30 different BSE listed companies. This means that the level of index at any point of time reflects the market value of its 30 component stocks relative to a base period. The year 1978-79 is considered as the base period and the base value has been set to 100 index points.

Sensex value = Current free-float market value of constituents stocks / Index Divisor

The Index Divisor adjusts the original base period of the Sensex to its present level. The Divisor is the only link to the original base period value of the Sensex. This keeps the Sensex comparable over time.

The calculation is ‘claimed’ to be simple, involving basic mathematical concepts of ratios and proportions. If the free-float market capitalisation is Rs 9,00,000 crore and if the Sensex value is 14,500 — then, for a free-float market capitalisation of Rs 9,50,000 crore, the Sensex value will be 15,306.


9,50,000 x 14,500 / 9,00,000 = 15,306 (approx.)

[ Not much is known about the Index Divisor value. The value has not been released publicly, and there are doubts whether the divisor is a true constant or not. As far as I know, the value lies somewhere close to 64. ]

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