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His team mates fondly call him 'the TIGER' for his inherent battling qualities and the cricketing experts have been long wondering how this run machine with the fussiest of techniques which contradicts any coaching manual, has never ceased to roar!

Hailing from Guyana this fragile looking bloke is better known for frustrating oppositions of the highest standards! Chanders is one of the few players to have gone 1000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket. He has done this three times, and is the only player to have done so more than once. Its natural for any opposition to cede watching someone occupy the crease for such immeasurably long periods!


This is the man to whom the team often looks to and he's been ceaselessly happy to bury himself at the crease to rescue his team out of peril.
With his colleagues failing far too frequently,
he often runs out of partners... but never has he frowned to wage a lone battle...

His stance and technique have long baffled his counterparts and here's the great McGrath citing his team's difficulties with Chanders:
"You're waiting for him to face up, and he already is... Warney wanted to go out to square leg and bowl to him from there. It obviously works for Shiv. He's a class player and the position he gets himself in to play the ball, there's no problem there. But it's a little off-putting running in to bowl at someone standing front-on with the bat behind their shoulder."


If your into the notion that this guy's fit only for tests gobbling up as many overs as possible, wait a minute.... hes capable of shifting gears at ease! His last ball six against Sri Lanka (precisely 10 runs of the last 2 balls) will remain etched in history... His small blitzkriegs at the final stages of the innings are testimony to his versatility! He has been the lynchpin of the team and has earned great respect for his inspirational performances!
Shiv kissing the pitch following each of his centuries is a sight to behold!

Standing tall amidst ruins, he lends spirits to the distant hopes of a Windies resurrection! Even the legendary commentator Tony Cozier quotes Chanders as "the most immovable object in the game at present"




Wat else proof do u want of the fighting abilities of the Tiger! Lying numb on the ground after a thunderbolt from lee... a few moments later celebrating an inspirational century! Hats off Shiv... Nothing more could be asked of you!







No words can praise this fragile little man's perpetual services towards Windies cricket! Hope he continues to inspire!

Hi visitors of 4freaks this time the game tat i am about to review is Prince Of Persia-The Sands Of Time.......

Hearing the name u would have got some idea tat this game will be based on some magical tale, sure it does!!!This game is presented by Ubisoft and u got to say the company gives good gameplay to its name!!! This breathtaking 3D sequel to creator Jordan Mechner's classic titles(WELL HE IS THE CREATOR!!!) is very faithful to its predecessors and simultaneously new and innovative in remarkably creative ways. It bears some resemblance to other outstanding adventure games such as Ico and yes, even Zelda, but mostly it's a spectacular extension, in, fact, the evolution of the Prince of Persia franchise. It's also one of the very best titles of the year 2003.

It was almost 20 years ago that the original Prince of Persia shipped and dazzled players. Here is a smart and stylized action-adventure game during a period of relatively primitive, shallow software. This title featured elegant and challenging environmental puzzles, deadly traps, brutal swordplay and astonishing acrobatics. It had an intriguing premise, a Persian Prince on a quest to rescue his princess(Well its "A Princess" and not his princess!!!) from the evil Vizier Jaffar and with only an hour to do it time clock counted down to zero during the entire quest. Fun and intuitive, it defined a genre and became a classic.

Ubi Soft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the 3D grandson of the original, is every bit as clever, as well made, as wholly entertaining and enjoyable. This long-in-development sequel not only retains the established play mechanics and charm of its 2D predecessor, but it actually betters them by a considerable amount. A commendable accomplishment given that the first is considered by many to be one of the greatest videogames ever created(Its coz of its great and stunning puzzles and gameplay!). The title features a very intelligent, thoughtful presentation. Prince's story is told through a variety of crisp, ambient full-motion video cut-scenes and witty in-game dialogue. The character talks to himself, yes, and he even acknowledges this oddity sometimes, which is amusing. This direct method of storytelling works tremendously well because it never breaks us from the action. Plus, because the story often unravels from the very lips of our hero, we always know what he's thinking and feeling and it makes him more real and more likable.

Prince, as it turns out, is real hero(not the real one!!!). He wants to please his father. And it's this ambition that starts all of the trouble. The game begins in medieval Persia shortly after the Prince and the king have defeated the Maharajah and looted his palace. When the Prince takes a mysterious dagger he accidentally unleashes the Sands of Time, an evil force that infests the kingdom and transforms its inhabitants into demonic beings(On the word Of the Vazir~~~Minister of the Prince's Father~~~he does this). The character's quest is, ultimately, to set right his own stupid mistake and reverse the dark magic. No easy task.The quest seems just as insurmountable from a purely gameplay perspective. Prince will travel through the entirety of the palace, a huge, hulking thing that stretches up, down, and all around. He'll use his wits, his acrobatics, and his sword, avoid traps and kill enemies, engage in high-rise platforming, balance on beams and swing on poles, climb and hang, dangle and flip, shimmy and slide, run, summersault and fight, fall and rewind, slow time and… fall in love? Well, he does meet a beautiful princess along the way and an intriguing sub-story unfolds. As to just what happens, our lips are sealed(in one moment their's too!).

It's this phenomenal sense of freedom that surrounds movement and the way in which it can be used to interact with the wholly giant, but still linear 3D world that makes the experience so exceptional. Prince can run across a wall, reach its end, jump from it onto a ladder, slide down to a ledge, shimmy across it, leap outward onto a post and then to a pole, swing and flip outward, bounce back and forth between two structures, land swiftly on the ground and keep running, and the entire amazing sequence can be executed easily and with little practice.Meanwhile, malfunctioned processes in other games feel smooth and intuitive in this one. Just as Lara Croft struggles to move a crate, Prince can easily push it in any direction. Just as Kain can only shimmy to the end of a corner, Ubisoft's warrior can go around it and continue onward. It's all so good that it makes almost everything else out there feel archaic and wrong.As ever, the puzzles in Sands of Time are always environmental based and usually involve getting Prince from Point A to Point B. It's important to remember that Point A might be the ground floor and Point B the highest palace peak. There are some thrilling challenges in place and a great degree of satisfaction gained upon successfully completing them.The puzzles, sometimes downright intense, are almost always logical; they make sense. And because of that they can be understood and solved in a logical manner, which again is refreshing when so many adventure games throw logic directly out of the window~~eg. , Resident Evil. Prince might be required to move a series of mirrors around a room to reflect beams of light in a particular path or he might simply have to figure out how to get across an abyss without dying. Both are engaging for different reasons, neither less important. The puzzle elements seamlessly mingle with the control and are perfectly brilliant throughout the entire adventure.

Prince can get through most of the game in slow motion and even rewind time. These two abilities arrive as welcomed additions to the original title, which often forced us into unavoidably dangerous situations and then made us retry again and again after failing. In Sands of Time if the hero accidentally takes a fall to his death, all we need to do is hold the rewind button and the unfortunate mistake can be rewound on the fly only stipulation being that we haven't wasted all of our Sand power. The Prince can find and refill this magic sand throughout the world. This addition makes what could be a frustrating experience far less so, and it also allows us to be more daring and more experimental in our methods of puzzle solving and platforming.

Well the game ofcourse has good graphics, excellent screenplay, harder enemies, good story mode, etc.And also the game has mindblowing puzzles which are little bit easier but u find it more difficult to find it later on the game.....Well

tats wat is needed!!!

U WOULD CERTAINLY FEEL VERY BAD AFTER PLAYING THIS GAME COZ U WONDER WHY U HAVEN COME ACROSS THIS ALL ALONG!!!!!!!!!!

And there is gr8 news to all the POP fans coz a film based on the game is about to be released next year!!!! Jordan Mechnar has written the story in order to please the film viewers and not take it into a gaming type of film!!!Well awaitin the movie tat is produced by WALT DISNEY!!!!

TO THIS GAME I FIND NO GLITCHES AND DISADVANTAGES..........and FIND ALMOST ALL ASPECTS AS A ADVANTAGEOUS ONE!!!!

MY Rating accordin to the gameplay: 9/10

See u soon with another review!!!!

Bladezz

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Heres a contribution from 4freaks to mark the occasion of World Anti Tobacco Day (31st May)!







So........

The world is changing everyday and we got to change accordingly. We have Personal computers and Personal assistants. Now we have a different Personal gadget- The singe seat Helicopter. Mama would have shown you a helicopter in air, when you are a child and you just go dumbstruck seeing that. But its now time that you buy your kids, a chopper.

GEN Corporation of Japan has developed the GEN H-4, a compact single seat chopper. It weighs 75 Kg. It has four 125 cc engines and it’s able to fly for 30 minutes with a maximum speed of 90 km/hr. It has 2 sets of coaxial, contra-rotating rotors- this eliminates the use of the tail rotor. You can park it anywhere and don’t need license to drive it. The developers say that you need only 2 hours to learn to drive this chopper.

Cybernet has released ZPC 9000- CPU is completely inside keyboard. It uses 120 watt power supply whereas the ordinary PC uses 250-280 watts. This might change the current trend which uses a big box. PC rates may come down making it available for all groups of people. Its a kind of laptop but it doesn't have a monitor. But it can be connected to any monitor.

Features:

• Intel Pentium 4 HT processor(3.2 GHz)
• 1GB Ethernet LAN
• 2-Button touchpad
• CD-RW/DVD
• Removable hard drive
• 2GB of DDR-400MHz Memory
• 7-in-1 Card Reader

Arun Sarin, 53, the Chief executive of Vodafone- Britain’s much respected company has decided to step down this July. He has been in power for 5 years. He was solely responsible for acquiring the Hutchison Essar in India. Vodafone in India is one of the country’s leading companies in mobile networks. It is believed that share holders have lost hope on him, which made him take the decision. He was also the CEO of Vodafone United States and Asian Pacific region from June 1999 to April 2000. It is known that he was announced the most powerful person in Britain last April. The company recorded a prodigious growth from 12 crores to 26 crores under him. Victoria Kalov is expected to take up his job.

Hi guys its been a very long time since i have posted a post, so here it is another post of a game tat i have played. Well and by the way the university exams have been keepin all four of us a little away from blogging, so, only a few posts have been posted for nearly 2months.Well todays posts is abt the game called Project-IGI.Its FPS game(For non-gamers pls read this post!!!)

Well this game is pretty simple but not as simple as it looks in the first phase. Coz u will drop into a zone of enemies from where ur task is to steal a truck and safely get out of the entered compound. U wont be given preparation of any kind so u have remember all keys of impotant usage like use, binoculars, reload etc. No help sign will be displayed makin it tough for a opener!!!!But on the game the game seems quite nice and interesting to play coz u get on goin only with clues in and around ur area..

In Project IGI, you play the role of former British SAS agent David Jones. Mr. Jones is now a freelance operative who's into some pretty major, as the acronym states, infiltration jobs. The game centers around the capture of an arms dealer named Priboi, who has been selling bombs of the nuclear variety. The story isn't particularly great, nothing that hasn't been done before in any James Bond, or other spy movies. It was well put together, each progressive level brings you more information in a sort of follow the clue sort of path. The longer u play the game the longer u respect it and longer u will love it.The great parts of the game come wen u engage enemys in stealth and wen everybody is alerted!!!!

In this game you r given a wide range of weapons special gadgets to help u like the binoculars spotting enemies the well illustrated guidance map with great statistics such as showin real time movement of enemies so tat u can make ur move accordingly!!!The best weapons for long range shots ofcourse is the Sniper, for medium range its the AK-47, Minimi and Silenced MP5 and for short range its the Jackhammer and Shot Gun. Each mission comes with its own briefing session, mingled with your common action-movie oriented conversation. Occasionally, you get new instructions during a mission. Unfortunately, they are given to you as text during a heated firefight!!!!!Thankfully you can go through logs to find out what was said. Not all of the briefings are like this!!!They actually are supported with audio and visual data.

Some of the other extra features of the game are the intelligent AI enemies. They often try to sound the alarm and call more troops for a heating battle. Even tanks are designed so well u wont find it tat easy to get past them!!!!More over many missions including the first and last one has enemy cameras to detect motion of the player.If it sees the player then it beeps for few seconds and then sounds or activates the alarm after which u must try to turn the alarm off. If alarm is not turned off then infinite no of enemies emerge. Another key aspect of the game is the Hacking!!!!!With this hacking u can turn off cameras for few minutes and take them out and u can also reactivate the enemy's sentry guns to our control!!!!For hacking a camera or a sentry gun u have find the correct computer which controls the specific device.

So therefore this game gives u total entertaiment with action and a lot of stealth too!


Advantages:
*Almost everything from weapons to missions including the tanks and the AI(Artificial Intelligent computer enemies)

Disadvantages:
*U cant save the game as u like!!!!!U just have to complete the mission with a given life bar and ofcourse with the help of some medisyringes in the game, inorder to save you have to complete the whole mission!!! So if u fail in the last step u must start again the same mission!!!

Rating according to my view abt the game:8.3/10

Will be reviewing more......
Bladezz

Well, all this happened during our tour in college. It was an amazing and a thrilling incident for us. We just want to share with you people the story of how we fought death. Read it and just be thrilled!!!

We were to Meenmutty falls on the 5^th of March where exactly this incident happened. People were having there best time at the falls. Besides Rajasekar and VJ were involved in measuring the depth with a stick (Note: They are professional swimmers). They found it to be very deep and had informed people. Unfortunately Navaneeth and me didn’t get it into our ears. Praveen, who is fond of waters rushed in posing for snaps. Navaneeth too joined. I was surprised to see Navaneeth in water. That reminded me the fun we had with Navaneeth at Marina swimming pool. They were in hip level deep, in the waters. Sriram (Bladezz) was handling the camera. He didn’t join us in the waters, just because of an incident at the same swimming pool. I came late and I got pulled in, to enjoy the beautiful falls. The area was rocky and slippery at places because of the algae. I changed my clothes and jumped in to join the three- Navaneeth, Rajasekar and Praveen. We were holding our shoulders together, unaware of the coming incident!!! Bladezz was to capture a video of us. He couldn’t get a correct position, so we were to move backwards as he (Bladezz) didn’t have space to move backwards. We were in a water level which was just below our chest. I was having Praveen on my left; Navaneeth on right who in turn had Rajasekar on his right. Bladezz was ready to start capturing us. Just at that time Praveen slightly tightened his grip on me. He was giving a close pose but I mistook him to play with me. I remembered what Praveen and Emerson and Rajasekar do to me when I am in the swimming pool. They usually lift me up and throw in the water. Wanting to release myself from his hold, I moved back inviting death not only to me but to other 3 too!!! When I moved back I didn’t found any ground or support to place my feet. The rock on which we were standing dropped suddenly by 90 degrees. I lost my balance and jus fell backwards into the water. Knowing that I was in danger I tried to hold Praveen and Navaneeth for support but unfortunately I pulled both of them into the waters. Navaneeth pulled in Rajasekar, result – we 4 were in the water. The place were we fell was around 8-9 feet deep. I and Navaneeth don’t know swimming. We four were struggling in the waters. Rajasekar somehow made it to the bank. He was safe now. Meanwhile Navaneeth had only 2 things going through his mind. He said if he was to die it was at this instant and if he was to get out of water then it was only with Praveen’s help. Navaneeth held Praveen tightly and attempted to come to the surface. But he slipped down. The second time he was on his shoulders but couldn’t make it. Praveen was struggling inside bearing himself and Navaneeth. Navaneeth gulped in water 5 times and he was just lucky enough to make it to the banks putting Praveen into more deep water. Then Praveen showed himself up and was safe. People said that he was very much scared of the incident after he was out. Though being a good swimmer he himself couldn’t make the situation better, because he was in water for nearly 10 seconds, bearing Navaneeth and the force of the water.

They were safe and people were glad but they just realized that I was still in water. I was pulled in by the water to a deeper place. Nutti had explained me the rules of Buoyancy after the tour. According to it, a person who falls in water can come to the surface just 3 times. Well I too came to the surface 3 times. I was in a horizontal position when I fell. The place where I slightly got control of myself was very deep-I could sense that. The first time I was surfaced I saw Navaneeth and the others on the banks, but unfortunately they didn’t see me. Aashik and Kishore had seen my head and they rushed in for help. The second time I came up I couldn’t see anything. Aashik said he saw my fingers this time. The water was light green when seen from inside. I went again into the water and tried to show my head to people for help, but it went in vain as only finger tips was visible. This time I was going down deeper than the second time and the water was turning dark. I didn’t know what to do at that moment. I closed my eyes just to drive any fear. I believed very strongly that I would be safe somehow. That gave some confidence and energy which really helped me that time. A few seconds later I felt the ground. I just realized that I was in deep trouble in the water. The place was surely some 12-15 feet deep. I was trying to surface but that was the 3^rd time, so I didn’t have any difficulty in moving up. But bad luck assisted me this time too. I was pulled again into water just before surfacing. Meanwhile my friends didn’t know where exactly I was in water. I was going deeper again. I touched the ground once again. This time I felt it more than 2 seconds. This urged me up. I thought I had to do some thing to save myself. I tried to push myself up, and I did come up. My junior in college, Jagdish, gave reasons for it. He said if a person in water had held his breath and if he waved his hand in the vertical direction (action), then the reaction would bring him up. Now back to the incident- I knew I was going up. I realized that this was my last chance. It made me lose hope slightly. Meanwhile my lungs were contracting pleading me to breathe in something. But I resisted it. That was a hard battle I had fought in my life. It was paining you know. My eyes went open wide in water because of that. When I was nearing the surface I saw a brown thing floating in the green water. I realized I was near the rock with the dead tree. I worked to reach the branch and caught it. It happened to be most happiest moment in my life.

The next second I found that it was only a broken stick. That was the most hardest moment in my life. This time I lost all hope and did nothing to come up. My mind went flashing pictures of my mom, dad and my sisters and friends. Well, I even remembered that we had to catch the train that evening; in time. Well, jokes apart. I realized death was nearing me. I couldn’t resist more. Suddenly I saw a hand pulling me. I thought I had reached the place where I had fall and my friends were trying to save me. But I lost grip and again went down. Again someone pulled me up; this time I realized that it was my friend Rajasekar who had jumped in to rescue me. I hold him round his waist, but the same time I lost my consciousness. Few seconds later I regained it. But I couldn’t see anything because I was having a virtual problem that time. I couldn’t even move. As I dint move, I was floating in water. This scared many lives. They thought that I was dead. Rajasekar struggled hard to take me to the banks. Realizing this Nutti, Navaneeth and Praveen formed a Chain structure in the water. They pulled me and Rajasekar to safety. Nutti laid me in his lap. I sensed all these but I couldn’t see or move that time. The virtual problem I had was that my eyes still felt like its being flushed with water. Nutti and Rajasekar slapped, punched me at the back. People confirmed that I was dead. But the two were still trying out their best on me which made me normal and raise my hand. Wow!!! My friends were relieved seeing me alive(See the pic near). Yes I am alive. Well I still couldn’t believe. Thousand mile smile on my face!!! Well I saw everyone again. Nutti said he got terrified on seeing my eyes. Of course it must be, because 40 seconds in water is not a child’s play you know. I was told that Rajasekar broke the stick he had to measure the depth, and threw it in water to find where I was. Luckily he had thrown the stick where I was exactly in water. When I caught the stick, he got my position and jumped in water and brought me to land. Tons of thanks to you Rajasekar. And thanks to Emerson, Praveen and Rajasekar for teaching me on how to hold breath in water (At the swimming pool). Thanks to Nutti and Navaneeth for their helping hands. Thanks to Amarnath who shed tears for me. Thanks to Aashik and Kishore for rushing in to help despite of their fall. Thanks to all other friends there who must have really prayed for me. I just realized that I said “Hello” to death, but heard it reply back “Bye, my son. Not now. Meet you another time”.

I won’t forget this incident ever in my life. It was a great day to me and others. I was reborn. I realized the importance of swimming that time. Friends please learn swimming because some day somehow it will help u. You might save yourself or save some other life.

Am a great fan of “AJITH” and I want to say his dialogue now – “I am back”.

The first picture shows Rajasekar and the stick he used(Encircled).

The second picture shows where we were standing (Encircled with Red color) and where i was inside water (Encircled with Blue color).

The third picture shows me at the right end realising wat happened while others are seen happy tat i am Back!!!

(Left to Right)- Rajasekar,Emerson,Navaneeth,Prabhakaran(me),Praveen,Nutti,Sriram and Ganesh.

Read our experiences during our tour- College Tour

The most striking feature of this movie is that no time has been wasted in the cliched romance scenes between the protagonist and his lady love... To be precise its hard to notice any female casting in the film (please be clear that Im not a chauvinist but I appreciate the avoidance of unnecessary casting which retards the screenplay!)...

Owen Wilson, playing the lead guy is introduced as a frustrated young Navigator(one who helps the pilot during flight) who wants to quit the navy! A series of interesting events unfold and eventually our hero is more than willing to honor his commitment to the motherland! Though the entire movie is interesting, I was particularly astounded by two scenes .... the first is our hero's escape from the rebels by hiding under dead bodies after falling into a mass grave and the second one is the shot at a deserted factory were mines blow off sequentially after one of Burnette's pursuers steps on the wire!

The creators have tried best to make people aware of the situation prevailing in bosnia... and have also used the movie as a tool to exhibit American might (as all American war movies do)... Though certain parts of the climax are far too unbelievable, the stunning scenes during the course of the movie make up for the minor lapses at the end!

Gene Hackman makes his presence strongly felt with a smooth performance. The locations too are really good!

This flick is surely worth investing your time!