Ballat

Destiny

2009-12-27T14:31:00.018+05:30

Hello everyone. Aren't you surprised and wondered when you saw an update from Ballat after one and a half months? Well yeah, even now, its not Shankar who is writing this post, its someone else. This place once saw many posts flowing freely from his pens ,but where's Shankar and what happened to him? He is busy. Zynga (Creators of Farmville, Mafia world, Cafe world) is keeping him engaged. (He is going to kill me the moment he read this ). Shankz asked me to inform you all that he will be back to the blogging world soon, yeah real soon I guess.

Wondering who is writing this post? Its me Shruti (Hits and Misses), who came here to dust off and clean this place which remained uninhabited for a long time. Jokes apart. So why am I here? What am I doing in Shankar's blog? Remember guys? I am one of the author for this blog who writes 55 Fiction. Yeah am here for the same. So everyone in this blogging world must have heard or read a 55Fiction somewhere. Its just a Micro-fiction where the entire effect of the story is captured and wrote in just 55 words or less. So ready to read my fiction? Here you go..

Unlike her home, this place had everything she needed. A smiling face bent down: her new Mummy. She buried her fears and smiled back. She missed her Ma's soft tender face. She had to forget Her and love these people now. Ma had detailed her everything, carefully after the accident they had both died in.

With Love,

Image Courtesy :Google Images.

If I were a baby again

2009-11-07T19:59:00.001+05:30

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 4; the fourth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

When I chose this topic for Blog-a-ton 4, I thought it’s going to be a great fun to write about this topic “If I Were a Baby Again”. But it’s really difficult than I imagined and writing from a child's perspective of viewing this world is highly impossible for me. Now I feel heavier topics are way better than these lighter ones. These kinds of topics certainly need a lot of creativity and I feel a 10 year old would do it in a better way than what do.

If I were a baby again…..There are certain things which I wanted to know or feel.

How it feels being inside a mother’s womb? How my mom feels when I kick her from inside the womb or bang my heads to the walls of the womb. And those are the only moments where a mom smiles, even though she feels the pain inside.

I want to see…How happy my parents are when they invite me to this world… And how do they feel when I stand on my own legs for the first time…

I just enquired to my mom about my earl days and my behaviour while I was a kid. She said with a smile “you are very calm… You neither cry nor smile. You always bore a weird look which scares others. But on the other end “you are so rude and adamant. You won’t even drink milk. Every kid takes milk from their mom for minimum 6 months. But you were so adamant and had milk only for 3 months.”

So If I were a child again, I assure you mom that I won’t be such a rude and adamant child.

I really hated toys when I was a kid. My dad buys me new toys every week. But I would break them within a day or two. But still he would buy me new toys every week. Sorry dad… I should have preserved all those toys (atleast for remembrance). Dad, I will surely preserve all the toys if I were a baby again.

I always like to rest my head over my mom’s shoulders. She often scolds me for doing that now-a-days “you are 21 and you still want to sleep over my shoulders?” God please give me those days back where I can rest my head over my mom’s shoulders and her hands tapping at my back for making me to sleep.

There is another pleasure being a kid. When I was a small baby, many girls used to kiss me again and again. Oh my god… Will I get those pleasures again? I wish to become a baby again. And girls beware If I were a baby again I would kiss you back for sure.

And last but not the least…

If I were a baby again, I would put myself behind wheels right from the age of 8 or 9. Then I would start karting and one day I would drive for Ferrari F1. I wish I were a baby again…

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A single question……

2009-11-03T21:34:00.001+05:30

After a short sabbatical from blogging…Here I am with a new form of fiction.(A new form for my blog.) Its a 77 fiction. I tried writing a 55. But couldn't restrict myself to 55 words. So came up with this 77 fiction.

77 Fiction is a form of micro fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of seventy-seven words.Most 77 Fiction works are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited time.

Arun returned home very sadly….

His mom exclaimed “What happened to the interview son?”

Arun replied “They asked me a question for which I could not answer”

Mom: “Why Arun? Did they ask something which you haven't learnt?”

Arun:Mom… They asked me a question for which I cannot answer “YES” through out my life time..

Mom: What was that question for which you cannot answer the whole life?

Arun replied “Have you got your recommendation letter?”

Guys this is my second attempt… Will try to improve soon in this form of genre..

Destiny-A 55 Fiction…

2009-10-22T11:29:00.001+05:30

55 Fiction is a form of micro fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words.Most 55 Fiction works are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited time.

Sitting in the flight jack thought about that evening’s pooja will be outstanding for this Diwali.
Though he was a Christian by birth, he loved diwali,the day destined to meet all his friends.

He was leaving Sumatra to India for this re-union.
The next morning at Delhi he saw the newspaper..
“Earthquake razes Sumatra..”

A Love story…….

2009-10-20T14:24:00.001+05:30

She-My Girl:

It was a very pleasant evening. The pleasant breeze and the sun setting down spreading its last vibrant colours of orange and red over the sky, captivated my heart. But soon I was distracted from this view. I quickly turned back to see what unhinged me.

I witnessed a smile which is worth millions of dollars. My eyes forgot to blink the moment I witnessed her smile.

I witnessed a pair of eyes which penetrated deeply inside me and started caressing me.

It was the eyes and smile of a girl. What could be more appealing and more pleasing than a women’s smile?

I was looking at her with my eyes wide open as if I have seen a beautiful mermaid. But she saw me as if she was seeing an alien.

That is the day...the evening... I fell in love with her... even without knowing I was in love.

I felt like my heart was beating 210 times a minute. I wanted to say Hi, but I felt like my lips were glued and couldn’t speak a word.

Her smile...Her eyes pulled me like an electron attracting a proton. I wanted to see her each and every moment and felt like spending my entire life with her.

Is this so called love? Would everyone feel the same when they fall in love?

Everything was new to me. I felt like a child, who screams to seek the attention of its mother … Without knowing the directions and the way destiny is churning up my path, I started my journey blindly.

For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the phrase…

“Love is blind”

Happy Days:

After several pathetic and comic attempts, at-last she started considering me as a human. Soon we liked each other and we were in love.

2 happy and beautiful years passed. These 2 years, I never thought about anything else other than her. But soon things changed. There is a life ahead and I had to prove myself as a responsible person.

I wanted to meet her at the same spot where I met her for the first time. As-usual I was admiring the sun-set and she came, her face full of smile which was much brighter than sun’s rays.

But I was thoroughly struggling between the burden of responsibility and charm of romance. I told her about my work and busy schedule ahead. Her smile faded away instantly. But she clearly understood my situation and replied “I will wait for you.” Saying this she turned and started walking away.

She never asked me how long it will take to complete my work and when I would be back.

Few months passed….

The work in which I was involved was completed and I proved myself. So the time has come for me to get back to my girl. I called her and she planned for a movie the following day. I said ok and cheerfully headed towards my home.

Love Lost:

As soon as I reached my home I got a phone call. It was my boss.

BOSS: Hey… Your project was a great success and I have arranged a meeting with the clients. So make yourselves available.

Me: I had no other option except to say “Ok. Boss…”

I called back to my girl and said “I have one last meeting tomorrow. So let’s postpone our date to day after tomorrow dear. I am very sorry”… I thought she would start scolding me.. But the cute girl replied “No problem honey…I would take another friend of mine tomorrow. But make yourselves available day after at least”.

The official meeting ended quickly to my surprise. So I thought of calling her to the movie. But I had certain group of friends, who always wanted a party after every success. I explained my situation, but it reached deaf ears. As a part of celebration they first took me to a Cinema theatre. Irony was that my girl friend was standing right there ahead of me with her friend.

This is where things started getting worse. She thought I lied to her and never gave a chance to explain. Subsequently what ever happened after took her away from me. There was certain misunderstanding and everything went wrong.

Several months passed in this manner. I called her and pleaded for giving me one last chance to prove everything was wrong and I am still the same as I was before. She nodded.

With a beautiful bouquet and with her favourite chocolate in my hands I was waiting for her. Her face was dull and was shocked to see her in that state. Her face clearly portrayed the feeling of how much she missed me. I hugged her and said I am always yours. Tears found the way out of her eyes. I spent a few hours with her and her face was bright all over again with glowing smile.

It was 9pm. We stood at a corner of a street and it’s time for her to go. I said bye… she nodded. I turned away from her and started walking. I was thinking about how special she was to me and how good the life is with her.

Suddenly I heard a scream. I stood still for a moment and realized it’s her voice. I turned back. There was no one in my vicinity. I hurried back to where I left her.

As soon as I reached the place I saw her a few yards away… After seeing her every part of my body started trembling. I didn’t know what to do. There was no one in the street. It was deserted. I couldn’t utter a word as my lips were glued again. Oh my god… Did I hurry to see her in this condition? Her face was still bright. But they were not covered with smiles anymore. All I could see is the red blood all over her face and body. I reached her without knowing what to do. My trembling hands took her head and she had the glimpse of me for one last time. I could clearly see the tears from her eyes and the tears lost its way over the blood around her face.

I carried her myself crying, trembling and praying to god to give her back to me. All my efforts went in vain, when I realized half way that she is no more. She was still seeing me and the pair of eyes penetrated inside me to bring the tears out of my eyes. I slowly closed her eyes and I lost my love.

“EVER HAS IT BEEN THAT LOVE KNOWS NOT ITS OWN DEPTH UNTIL THE HOURS OF SEPERATION.”

Now I am standing at the place where everything started hoping to see her again. The pleasant breeze and the sun setting down spreading its last vibrant colours of orange and red over the sky, captivated my heart. But there is no one to unhinge me now. It was hard for me to realize the fact that she was no more. She stayed in my eyes forever, and we together enjoyed the beauty of sunset through my eyes. According to the world I lost my love. But still her love and she herself remain in my heart forever.

Image courtesy: http://www.brookhills.org/

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Diwali Clicks!!!

2009-10-18T19:06:00.001+05:30

Hey guys.. I guess most of you had a great diwali.

My Diwali celebrations started of really well. But the way things ended were really bad. One of the aerial displays shot at my face directly. Other than that my diwali was great. One of my friends bought a new Digital Camera. So we spent most of our day behind the camera checking out its various features such as fireworks and motion capture.

We captured many aerial displays. But none of them had the resemblance of a cracker and it looked very weird. Here are some captures.

We tried to capture something but it ended up something. I think I am little pathetic behind the cam. But will soon improve within next diwali and provide you some nice pictures.

Once again wishing everyone a very happy Diwali.

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Conversation with Ghost!!

2009-10-14T01:12:00.001+05:30

Curiosity killed the cat...

I am always curious regarding the existence of ghost. I had never made a research about the existence of god.

This post has nothing to do with the existence of ghost. So don’t think it’s a crap. May be you will enjoy it or you might feel bored. But do remember to put up your views. Both criticism and appreciations are invited.

Few months back, I read some ghost stories and was reading various articles regarding the existence of ghost. I am very much interested in paranormal sciences and my curiosity led me to do more research regarding its existence.

It was a usual summer night and the time was half past 11. I found a very interesting article written by Donald Tyson, who is very renowned researcher in supernatural and paranormal sciences. The article was about the existence and proof of ghost in earth. How they come... why they come... Are they harmful? All the answers were in the article. With a great interest I finished reading the article. But still I was not much clear about the ideas and concepts as they were beyond science.

My heart said Ghost do exist… But my intellect shot back some questions to my heart... Those questions had no proper solution.

When many persons can see ghost why can’t I? Why no ghosts find me even though I sleep alone in a dark room which totally void of any form of light?

As soon as the world war started between my intellect and heart…

Hush….. There was silence… the power went off. Oh... My!! That was a bit scary as I was thinking about all these. It was really hot and I was sitting before my computer. I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of current. I was very eager to do more research on the existence of ghost.

Suddenly I felt like everything was turning cold around me. I felt the cool breeze slashing through my body. But the windows were closed and there was no chance for the breeze to enter.

Soon my room was getting colder and I asked to myself “Why is it so cold over here? There is no power. Air conditioner is not working but still it’s cold as if the temperature has gone down below 14 degrees.”

That’s because I am here… A reply came…

“Who is that??” I asked to myself again... Did anyone speak to me? Or is it my thinking?

Once again the strange voice spoke “Whenever I go to some place, the place becomes cold. Don’t you remember you just studied few minutes back?”

What the hell?!!! Who’s that? Then suddenly Donald Tyson’s lines struck me.

“Ghost appears in places where the light is poor, when the air is still and quiet. And things turn cold when the ghosts are near you”

Oh my god!!! Is this a ghost? Did I hear it really? (Or) Are they just hallucinations? While thinking about this once again the strange voice spoke…

“I think you were just wondering about the existence of ghost and asked to yourself about why you haven’t seen ghost so far? “

Now I understood these are not just hallucinations. I could hear the strange broken voice. I started trembling not out of cold, but out of fear. I never dared to open my mouth again. But still it was difficult to understand… where they real or not? Am I getting psychologically affected?

With great difficulty and out of great fear I spoke with my trembling voice “Who are you? How do you know about all these? Why are you here?”

The voice replied “I am here because you wanted to see me and know about my existence...”

I had no answer.

Me: Where are you from?

Ghost: I am from a different world and I do not belong here. Both our worlds overlap with each other and I get to meet humans whenever the separation between two worlds becomes thin.

Me: So…Are you going to harm me? Or Kill me?

Ghost: I am not harmful to human beings until I want to harm them.

Me: Is it true that you can move through walls? How come it is possible?

Ghost: Yes. I can move through walls. According to me your world is just a 3d image. So I can move through anything.

Me: So does that mean you cannot touch objects?

Ghost: There are some exceptions. Some ghost can appear like real humans with bones and flesh. And some can touch objects and haunt humans too. If ghosts want to haunt someone we can be as distracting and threatening.

So don’t ever question the presence of our world in future.

Suddenly the cold I felt was gone. Everything became normal.

I shouted and screamed out of fear..

I woke up from my bed screaming.

My mom and dad heard my scream. I guess my neighbours too.

My mom hurried towards my bed and asked what happened dear?

I replied it was just a bad dream. That night I never slept again as these stories were haunting me again and again. I promised to myself that I should not read such things in future and started spending time with my play station.

But the promise didn't last long….

Last week…..

I was standing at a bus stop where two ladies were conversing. I guess the son of one of the ladies died and the reason of the death was quite weird. She was explaining the whole story to the other lady. It seems her son used to work for a BPO and will return everyday to home around 11:30 pm or 12’o clock midnight. It seems there is a graveyard not far away from their residence. The guy, who usually returns home within 12 never turned up until 1. He was carried home unconscious by some workers at around 1:30 that night. When her mom enquired about this to the workers, one of them replied “He was lying unconscious near the grave yard”.

After this incident happened it seems his behaviour was quite weird and subsequently he hanged himself to death a few days later.

I was shocked and once again the curiosity which was sleeping inside me was awaken. The same night I started searching for haunted places in the world and once again started doing my research.

But still I am not sure about why that guy died and the existence of ghost remains uncertain until I see it or unless it is scientifically proved.

Image Courtesy:

http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/

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Play to donate Rice!!!

2009-10-12T21:00:00.001+05:30

First of all my sincere thanks to dmanji and his blog. Just now I visited dimanji’s blog and this cause grabbed my attention.

“Play and Donate Rice”

I immediately visited the site and saw what kind of game it is. We can play the game in various subjects. Instead of saying a game it would be more appropriate if we call it as a quiz.

This quiz has various subjects. Each individual can choose any subject from English vocabulary to arts.

Each correct answer is worth 10 grains. Every correct answer of yours is going to help a child in this world. The various subjects are as shown below.

ART

Famous Paintings

CHEMISTRY

Chemical Symbols (Basic)

Chemical Symbols (Full List)

ENGLISH

English Grammar

English Vocabulary

GEOGRAPHY

Identify Countries on the Map

World Capitals

LANGUAGE LEARNING

French

German

Italian

Spanish

MATH

Basic Math (Pre-Algebra)

Multiplication Table

If you are asking what you are going to gain from this event. I guess it helps in developing your knowledge. Those who want to develop their vocabulary can do it. If you are interested in arts go for it. And those who are born genius, you guys can play it for fun. I guess everyone (including me) spends more time on finding date of the day and other facebook quizzes..Farmville etc….

So..I guess we can spend 2 minutes for answering 10 questions which would yield 100 grains for starving children.

You might have a question within your mind.. How far this going to be true? How our answers can help in generating grains for children?

For such questions you can refer to FAQ section of website. If you are not satisfied with the explanation in FAQ section…

I guess we are not going to lose much by just answering those simple questions..

So.. what for you are waiting… Click the link below to start playing..

PLAY TO DONATE

If you really like to donate some money.. You can visit the link below… Our 1$ can feed 4 children. FROM HUNGER TO HOPE..

WORLD HUNGER RELIEF 2009

My sincere thanks to everyone who contributed some time in reading this and for those who are going to play and donate some grains.

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Tagged Again…

2009-10-08T16:20:00.002+05:30

Ashwini tagged me for these 2 tags. Tags are back again after long time……

TAG #01 : Innocent… or Guilty?

RULE 1- You can only say Guilty or Innocent.

RULE 2- Copy and paste this into your notes , delete my answers, type in your answers and tag to your friends to answer this.

Asked someone to marry you? Innocent.
Ever kissed someone of the same sex? Guilty.
Danced on a table in a bar? Innocent.
Ever told a lie? Guilty.
Had feelings for someone whom you can’t have back? Guilty.
Kissed a picture? Guilty.
Slept in until 5 PM? Guilty.
Fallen asleep at work/school? Guilty.
Held a snake? Guilty( A dead snake).
Been suspended from school? Innocent.
Worked at a fast food restaurant? Innocent.
Stolen from a store? Guilty(I used to steal a lot of cricket and wrestling cards at the age of 13. I like them a lot. There is a funny incident which I will share in the next post hopefully about how I stole things and its consequences).
Been fired from a job? Innocent.
Done something you regret? Guilty (I really do lot of things which I regret to do..I whole heartedly regret those..)
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? Innocent. (Would never laugh or speak to someone when I am eating or drinking).
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Innocent.
Kissed in the rain? Innocent .
Sat on a roof top? Guilty.
Kissed someone you shouldn’t? Guilty.
Sang in the shower? Innocent.
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? Guilty.
Shaved your head? Innocent.
Had a boxing membership? Innocent.
Made a girlfriend cry? Guilty (If you ask this question to my X, She would react “Has there been a day he made me to smile?”)
Been in a band? Innocent.
Shot a gun? Guilty( While I was in NCC)
Donated Blood? Guilty.
Eaten alligator meat? Innocent.
Eaten cheesecake? Guilty.
Still love someone you shouldn’t? Guilty.
Have/had a tattoo? Innocent.
Liked someone, but will never tell who? Guilty.
Been too honest? Guilty.
Ruined a surprise? Guilty ( I ruined a surprise party once)
Ate in a restaurant and got really bloated that you couldn’t walk afterwards? Guilty( this happens most of the time)
Erased someone in your friends list? Guilty. (Erased many)
Dressed in a woman’s clothes (if you’re a guy) or man’s clothes (if you’re a girl)? Guilty (My cousin sister wanted me to wear her clothes when I was a kid. I had long hairs that time and was really looking like a girl after I wore her clothes)
Joined a pageant? Innocent.
Been told that you’re handsome or beautiful by someone who totally meant what they said? Guilty.
Had communication with your ex? Guilty.
Got totally drunk on the night before exam? Innocent.
Got totally angry that you cried so hard? Innocent.

Guilty for just 25/42…. OMG…. I am INNOCENT…

TAG #02 : How DUMB are you?
The more [x]’ s the “dumber” you are.

[] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were talking
[] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were NOT talking
[] You have ran into a glass/screen door
[x] You have jumped out of a moving vehicle
[x] You have thought of something funny while walking by yourself
[x] Laughed, then watched people give you weird looks
[] You have run into a tree/bush.
[] You know that it IS possible to lick your elbow
[] You have tried to lick your elbow… a few times
[] You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle Twinkle Little star have the same rhythm.
[] You just tried to sing them.

So far: 3

[] You have tripped on your shoelace and fallen.
[] You have choked on your own spit .
[] You have seen the Matrix and still don’t get it.
[] You’ve never seen the Matrix.
[] You type only with two fingers.
[] You have accidentally caught something on fire
[] You tried to drink out of a straw, but it went into your nose/eyes.
[] You have caught yourself drooling.
[x] You have fallen asleep in class and fell outta your chair

So far: 4

[x] Sometimes you just stop thinking (most of the time I wont think about anything)
[x] You are telling a story and forget what you were talking about
[] People often shake their heads and walk away from you
[] You are often told to use your “inside voice”.
[] You use your fingers to do simple math
[] You have eaten a bug
[] You are taking this test when you should be doing something more important
[] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and didn’t realize it
[x] You’ve looked all over for something and realized it was in your hand
[x] You have ran around naked in your house.( Hey..hey… while I was a kid… I used to run naked..)

So far: 8

[] You repost bulletins because you are scared that what they say will happen to you if you don’t.
[x] You break a lot of things.
[] Your friends know not to use big words around you.
[] You tilt your head when you’re confused
[x] You have fallen out of your chair before
[] When you’re lying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture of the ceiling or wall
[] The word “ummmmm” is used many times a day.

TOTAL: 10

Even I am (10/37)*100 = 27.02% DUMB !

I tag Bharathi, Raji, Swetha, Venky and all others who like to do this tag….

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A NEW BEGINNING

2009-10-06T21:41:00.010+05:30

Hi everyone! This is my first experience as a guest blogger. Shankar, one of my very close friends requested me a week before to write one 55Fiction every month.

What is 55 Fiction? 55Fiction is a form of micro-fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of 55words. Most of 55 Fiction are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited time. So here goes my 55Fiction.

A NEW BEGINNING

She had always thought it won't happen to her. Nine months are over and she was far gone to decide. She was excited after knowing it was growing within her and she wasn't afraid. He came and told her that everything was set. That day, enveloped by nausea, she delivered her 55 Fiction as Guest Author.

So tell me, how is this? Liked it eh?

With Love,

Image Courtesy : Google Images

P.S: This is purely a fiction. I envisioned 9 days (The no. of days since shankar asked me to write for his blog ) as 9 months to bring in the dramatized effect.

Reduce the Loading time of your blog…

2009-10-05T22:18:00.001+05:30

The loading time of your blog is very important factor in attracting visitors of your blog. My previous blog template had lots of css,java scripts,sliders..due to which my blog's loading time was poor and soon many started complaining about it. So now I shifted to a new template. Still I am fond of those java scripts and Gadgets which results in very poor loading time of my blog. So is there any remedy for this? So how to balance between performance and java scripts,css etc… I searched Google for the solution and asusual Google didn't disappoint me. I don't know whether you all know the solution for this.But I really like to share this info with you all. It might help atleast one of my visitors. There is a solution for this. You can compress your css and java scripts which gives better loading time for your blog.

So how to do it? Its not a difficult process at all. Don't think you have to work with codes,HTML etc.. English is enough for this. Now before trying this please download your full template to ur system’s Hard disk. If you don't have a clue of how to do it..

GOTO BLOGGER DASHBOARD->LAYOUT->EDIT HTML and click on DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE.

There are lots of css compressors available online.However I recommend you to go for this link-> CSS COMPRESSOR.

Now you are in EDIT HTML… press CTRL+F to search for <b:skin>. Remember to check EXPAND WIDGET TEMPLATES.

Copy all the contents between <b:skin> and </b:skin>.

Visit the above link I gave you.

Select NORMAL for compression mode.

For Comments Handling.. select DONT STRIP ANY COMMENTS

Now after copying the contents between the above specified tags and paste in the space specified there. After pasting click COMPRESS IT.

That's it… Your code has been compressed. Now copy back the code and paste it between <b:skin> and </b:skin>. Remember to delete the old uncompressed code,before doing so. See and Feel the difference.

I wont say that your blog would now load within 5 seconds like a miracle. Suppose if your blog takes 20 seconds to load completely. This will reduce in the range of 10-12 seconds.

Hope this is useful. Now if your blog is taking more time to load,don't keep changing your template instead compress your Css and java scripts.

And sorry guys if you already know this and if I have wasted to your precious time. Hope this is useful for those who don't know much about these css and compressions.

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The Indian Dream

2009-10-03T00:13:00.001+05:30

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 3; the third edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

Blog-a-Ton is back. The topic is THE INDIAN DREAM..

I never thought I would be writing this post on behalf of Blog-a-ton. I have my exams tomorrow,still I am sitting here wondering what to write. But I don't want to sight exam as a reason for not participating in this online marathon for bloggers. I should have prepared myself in the past weeks, but couldn't do it because of my commitment with another website and in providing a new look to my personal blog. So sorry guys if this post disappoints you. Participating is more important. So here is a short compilation of my dream about my India.

Clean INDIA..

Green INDIA..

Pollution free INDIA…

This is the first and foremost of my dreams about India. Clean and Green India.

Let farmers DIG happily..

Let researches set foot in MOON..

Let our citizens be employers providing employability to the whole world.

Let the quality of institutions develop to such an extent that the whole world should turn up to India for education.

Let our films win Oscars…

Let our country be No.1 in everything we do.. (apart from Aids and Corruption… for which we hold top ranks…)

Let builders house a Formula 1 track..

But how these things are possible?

ERADICATE

Corruption…

Recommendation…

Capitation….

Community Categorisation…

PROMOTE:

Education…

Awareness…

Last but not the Least..

Will this happen???

1 INR = 45 U.S.D…

Sorry guys. I could not elaborate on things as I don't have much time. Hope every other post for this blog-a-ton would do.

The fellow Blog-a-Tonics who took part in this Blog-a-Ton and links to their respective posts can be checked here. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

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New Look…!!!New Author….!!!

2009-10-02T01:25:00.001+05:30

Atlast here is my new template. Sorry I couldn't add the header for which I asked your suggestions. And this template for sure cannot replace the looks of my old one. The glitzy sliders, which attracts everyone at their first sight is no more available. But there are other issues to be dealt with too. There has to be a compromise and balance between looks and performance.So this time I tried to concentrate in decreasing the loading time of my blog neglecting the looks. I don't know how many of you like this template. So you can pour in your suggestions. But please don't say to change the entire template. It has consumed all my time.

Further this is not a single persons work. However I invite minor suggestions like fonts,size etc. I have to thank some of my friends who were really helped me and suggested me about the good and bad at each step. I sincerely thank my friends Venky, Shruthi, Karthi for being a part in successfully creating this template.

I sincerely thank EVO, a very good designer who helped me with SEO and page elements column. He prepared the page elements as I wanted and imagined. I just mailed him about the changes I need and within 2 hours the design was ready.

Once again I invite suggestions regarding fonts and its sizes and possibly whatever change that can be made within layout. I still have to add some widgets.

And I am happy to announce a new author to my blog. You all know her probably. I think everyone in my network follows her blog too. So again I am happy to announce that Shruthi one of my very close friends will be the guest author of my blog and I am very happy to announce that in future you all can see 55 fictions in my blog too. A person cannot be good in everything and cannot satisfy everyone. I tried writing 55’s. But every attempt ended in failure. So I recruited shruthi to write 55 fictions for my blog. I asked her to write a 55 fiction each month,starting from OCT 1. My friendship with Shruthi is a very weird one. We both studied at same school. She is put up at a place which is hardly 5 mins from my home. But till date I haven't seen her. And also Venky.. His place is hardly 2-3 mins from my home. Till now I haven't met him in person. But I am very happy to say that I got some great friends through this blog.Some too close… Some too far…. and this blog has given me a greater exposure to outside world. Last but not least, this blog has done things which I wouldn't have imagined in my life time.

And sorry for those intensedebate comment form. I had problems with the blogger comment form especially the picture display.So I have added this intense debate comment form. Please let me know if you genuinely have any problem with the comment form. After confirmation from venky and after trying it in all browsers, I think this comment form is compatible with all browsers. Do let me know if any problem exists.

So thank you all again. Waiting for your valuable suggestions.

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Disappointment!!!

2009-09-27T23:48:00.001+05:30

This has been one of the worst weekends. Now-a-days I usually sit before the TV for watching 3 programmes.

Barclays Premier league

Formula 1

Cricket

SATURDAY:

Disappointment no 1:

My first disappointment was at Saturday evening. It was a fine evening until…. I saw both the Ferrari's Failed to qualify in a good position for the Singapore Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen managed only 13th fastest and Fisichella who gave the glory for Force India, managed only 18th. It was a great disappointment as Kimi failed to qualify within top 10.

Disappointment no 2:

It was not over. There was blow after blow. Second came when Pakistan managed to score more than 300 against India.

Disappointment no 3:

It was Barclays premier league..Chelsea against Wigan.. It was very disappointing to see Chelsea losing 3-1 to Wigan. Chelsea won all league matches before this game. 6 continuous wins and alas… The winning streak ended. The Blues were shattered. Heart broken.I switched back to watch India’s match.

Disappointment no 4:

About 45 min later.. Little master gave a flop show when he was caught out.. I expected a century from the little master, but he apparently failed. He just got for 8 runs.

Disappointment no 5:

Few hours later… OMG.. India lost to Pakistan. India were bowled out for 248.. All went bad when the GREAT WALL of our team was broken by our Great “Bajji”. Good innings from Dravid. It was a great disappointment.

SUNDAY:

Oh…Thank god.. Only one disappointment on Sunday. Once again Ferrari failed miserably to score a point at the Singapore Grand prix. That’s not so disappointing actually..Because the result was expected. But the greatest disappointment is LEWIS HAMILTON took P1.

Actually wanted to write a review about our teams wonderful display at the Champions trophy. But not in a good mood to write.Lets have our fingers crossed for the match against Aussies.. GO INDIA GO…

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Who Am I???

2009-09-25T01:25:00.001+05:30

Who am I? What for I am born and what am I going to do in this world? Sometimes when I am alone and when I deeply think about myself, a series of questions strikes me inside my head...

Who am I?

Am I good son to my parents??

I feel like I have never made my parents happy. Right from the age of 5, my mom asks me to study well. But till now I haven’t bothered to listen to her words. I shout at her when the food she prepared is not tasty. But till now I never understood the pain of standing in kitchen and cooking. Am I a good son to my mom??

Am I a good friend??

Sometimes my friends ask me for help. I do help those most often. But sometimes there comes situations during which I am forced to say NO. My friends like me a lot... While there are some who hates me too… Why can’t I be a good friend to everyone?? Why can’t I help everyone when they need me?

Am I a good student??

Lectures, Have I ever listened to them in my life time? Teachers scold me and also punish me for not listening. But I didn’t realize they are punishing me for my own good. I never bothered to respect their words. Am I a good student to my teachers??

Am I a good Citizen?

Till date.. what I have done for my mother country? Why am I so selfish to think about myself? Why I am Self-centric? Why can’t I think out of box and make a difference?

Am I a good Lover?

Whenever she called me I ignored her. I spent most of my time in cricket, racing and other games. Did I satisfy her at least once? Did I do whatever she asked me to do? I couldn’t manage to keep my eyes off other beautiful girls, even when she was sitting alongside me. I never failed to express the beauty of everything around me. But I miserably failed to express the beauty of life when she was with me. Am I a good lover?

And the questions go on… For everything the answer remains no. Till now I haven’t found out who I am and what role god has assigned me in the game of life….

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Issues

2009-09-21T13:28:00.001+05:30

Recently there are lots of issues with my blog and some of my FB’s are complaining about the page load time of my blog. I know that my blog takes a long time to load and its mainly due to the css of sliders and other stuffs. I tried editing the template and removing some of the widgets. I removed some unwanted widgets too. But still it takes a long time to load.

So after searching for a new template and after trying out some,I am fed up. There is no good template which matches our expectation. I searched lots of websites,lots of templates and Finally I gave up the Hunt for a new template.

But now I started working on creating my new template. Its lot tougher than I expected. I have worked on it for past 4 to 5 days.But till now I have been successful in giving a 3 column layout for my new template.

I am very bad in choosing colour combinations. So i asked for help from my few friends to choose the colour for headers. Some of my friends helped me with their Ideas but I still don't know whether they are good and which one to select. So I leave it to you friends for choosing the header. Photoshop is really cool and interesting. But it often makes me to scratch my head. Its more complex for a rookie like me.

Some headers have title.But Others don't have.So you guys have to help me out. Help me out in choosing the headers, so that I can successfully create a template. Select the one which you like the most from the above headers. If you are not satisfied with anything,give me your own colour combination. I need two colours. The top one and for the bottom links colour. Please suggest the colour combination in the comment box in case if you feel none of the above is good.

Which Header Is Good?

So probably considering the rate at which I am working on creating a template, I think it will take another month to complete the entire template. Fell free to give your own suggestions about What a good template should have?Is the read more hack necessary? Do you like the sliders? or you think sliders are not important? Thanks a lot in advance.

Rajnikanth-Is he the Real Superstar?

2009-09-18T23:55:00.001+05:30

These are my personal views upon superstar and his films…So superstar fans if you think this topic is offending ur beliefs..You can quit at this point.Actually in Tamil nadu this topic creates more controversy and chaos than the topic about existence of god. And my FB’s from North India and those who are not familiar with Tamil movies,very sorry for writing about such an unfamiliar topic and Tamil movies.

“Superstar yaarunu keta chinna kozhandaiyum sollum.”

Even a small child knows who the superstar of Tamil cinema is… But do everyone feels the same as they grow up and mature?

When I was young I too idolised him as a superstar. But if you ask me now,will I say the same?

My answer is a big NO….

What can you find in the superstar movies?

Rajnikanth films usually are of same category… A two and half hour pure entertainer..

Analysis About Rajnikanth movies:

Every film starts with an Introduction song.. Where the hero is perfect in everything,the hero never makes any mistakes and he pour lots of advices to the general public.

I should accept he is the Style Samrat. A man who can capture hearts with his unique style.

So as I said before every movie starts with a introduction song.He appears to be a normal ma,n but actually he is a superman who can do everything and who is talented in doing everything. Let it be love, stunts.He is the best.

He has special types of guns.His gun can fly,go and shoot the bad guy and comes back to his hands. So without any trouble and without aiming,he can shoot a person from where he is standing..Regardless of where the target is. Wow…Incredible right?? Is he a Superstar or a Superman?

In all his films..He is either a rich man or a poor man. He has never done the role of a common man. If he is rich,he becomes poor half way and then becomes rich again within a short period of time(maybe in a single song).

In other case he would have been rich in flashbacks(may be his father or ancestors)..which he realises half way and the remaining film lies with whether he is rich or poor in the end.

There are even some incredible concepts in his films.. In one film “Arunachalam” He should spend 30 crores in 30 days for claiming his remaining property from going into bad hands.

Next in line comes another great film.. Where our superstar is an Atheist.But our superstar accidently meets the god himself. God teaches him a powerful mantra,which he can use for seven times.. The rest of film lies with how and for what purposes he uses the mantra. And he apparently wastes few times in testing it..

Is he educating the society by passing some good message through the film? There is nothing wrong if he never passes a message to the society and provide a two and half hour entertainment. But he should not teach something wrong to the society. Don't you agree?I am speaking about the concept of Hawala. I think most of our people were unaware about the concept hawala until he utilized this concept in a film. Such Illegal concepts should not be preached.Especially by rajnikanth as he is considered as something great by our fellow people over here.

I accept that he provides a great form of entertainment.But where is the reality? where is the quality?

Is he acting in such kind of films from the start of his career? Was he accepted as the superstar in his very first film? The answer is NO. Then at what point of time he started acting such kind of movies? What made him to act in movies which makes no difference and which has no quality or reality?

Rajnikanth Before:

Rajnikanth actually started acting as co-artist and as a villain.Especially along with kamal Haasan. His earlier films had some quality and he established himself as a good actor.

His good films includes “Aarilirundhu aruvadhu varai”..(From 6 to 60 years) Where he plays a role of a young man who sacrifices his whole life for the sake of his siblings. The story is about a man’s life from 6 years to 60 years. The film mostly characterises human relationship and bonding. Such an excellent movie it is to watch. And another notable film is “SRI RAGHAVENDRA”, where he portrays the character of lord Raghavendra. Is he the same superstar who acted in such good and quality movies?

The Turning Point:

I guess doing such quality movies didn't earn him the required fan base and Image. The turning point came when he acted “BADSHAAH”. The film was a huge hit and created a great image. So inorder to maintain his image and fan base,he started acting in similar kind of movies and apparently his films started lacking the quality.

Apart from all the above, all Rajnikanth movies have some good ingredients too. But what I feel is the lacking quality and reality has shadowed the good ingredients.

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A Costly Mistake: Epilogue

2009-09-15T17:01:00.001+05:30

First my apologies for taking such a long time to post the final edition of this series. If you have forgotten (or) if you haven't read the first two parts..you can do so from the below links

Part I

Part II

After travelling for half an hour,we reached a place which was very dark.There were no street lights.There was a fly over,but the auto driver took a different route which was below the Fly over.It was extremely dark and there was no other living being in the vicinity. The auto suddenly stopped.

This scene made me a bit frightening. I asked to myself “Where the Hell am I? Am I heading towards Delhi? Why did the auto stop at this place?” Oh… My god.. I knew I was in some sort of trouble.

I looked around. Even the driver left me..He said “I will be back in few min..” ..Everything was dark. My heart started beating at 210 times a min. I just took my seat inside the auto and started thinking. My first thought was about my mom. A series of question aroused….

What happens If i die in this same place?

Will they bury me? or burn me to ashes?

How will my mom and dad find me once I am buried or burnt?

What my parents will think about my friend for being so careless?

How can my mom live without me?

While thinking about these.. I heard some distant footsteps. I quickly collected some stones and covered it using the file within which I had my certificates. I heard the footsteps more clearly as they were approaching me. Suddenly 5 to 6 peoples appeared before me.Everyone looked like rogues. very tall and stout. One man hurried towards and asked “Where you want to go?Delhi?” I said yes. On hearing my answer everyone started laughing at me. I don't know why. They spoke in some language I guess it might be Urdu or something else. I couldn't understand even a single word.

I checked my mobile.Still no signal and the time was half past 9… Then one man who was on his late 50’s came near me. He threw his arm around my shoulder and pulled me. He said “Come I will take you to Delhi”. His attire and outfits clearly depicted he is a Muslim. His Voice was flat and rude. He said something in urdu..I was not able to understand fully, but with some words I assumed myself what he said.. He told me that “we have to walk for 5 min from here and then I will drop you near Delhi”. I had no other option except to go with him.

The others left the place laughing and singing loudly,as if they have achieved something. We started walking and he was still holding my shoulders very firmly. He asked me the place which I belonged to and I said I am from Chennai. And I started saying my usual Hindi dialogue to him “Maaf kijiye… mujhe Hindi thoda he malum hai..” To my surprise he started speaking in English.. He said “My name is Azad khan”.. He also said he knows English very little.

To my surprise He was a very nice man and took me to his place. He somehow managed to speak in English. After reaching his place, He escorted me to his auto and soon we started moving towards Delhi.I asked him about why the auto stopped there.. and what’s all this about… He replied politely with a smirk that the auto in which I came had no license for entering Delhi.So they asked the Muslim bhai to take me to Delhi. He dropped me at Indaprastha around 10:15 pm. As conversed before he asked me 180rs… But I was so happy and relieved to reach that place and I gave him 200rs. I soon got the metro train and thought about what and all happened in a single day. I laughed at myself.. thinking about death for this small issue. This Incident had a great impact on me to such an extent that I forgot totally about the interview I attended. I soon reached Bharahkambha Road where my friend was waiting for me.

THE END…..

And I wish all the aspiring Engineers of India. Today is Engineers day….

HAPPY ENGINEERS DAY..

Its our responsibility to take India to various heights interms of technology and Innovation…

September 15 every year is celebrated as Engineers day in India. Its a tribute to the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir M.VISHWESWARAIH, CIVIL ENGINEER.He was the wizard of engineering. He was also called the precursor of economic planning in India.

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Awards!!!!

2009-09-14T20:57:00.001+05:30

Hey guys

I was out of town last week. So couldn't write much after BLOG-A-TON.

First my hearty wishes and congrats to IP.Great going buddy. I somehow managed to get a single vote this time.This result for me is very similar to the result of BLOG-A-TON 1. Now I think I have to considerably improve my style of writing to get votes in future. And thanks a lot Raji… For voting.

Now there are other reasons to celebrate… 5 awards in the past 4 days. Thanks a lot to all my blogging friends.. When I logged into my blogger account today morning I was surprised to see message from IP.. The pundit has an award for me… It feels great to get an ward from Pundit.. It seems he loves my blog(Don't know whether its true or not..) Thanks a lot IP.

Another Award from IP. I didn't notice this before..Thanks a lot IP..for such good awards…

I share this Blog Buddies award with

RSV

Swetha

Priyan

Venky

Another message from devils workshop clearly depicted that another gem was added to my crown. Thanks a lot Swetha.. for the Honest scrap award.

The third one from Raji. She gave me the Stylish blogger award. I thank you again for the award. She requests me to post often. I will try to do it Raji. I am so lazy now-a-days. I am also writing for another website. Typing throughout a day makes me sick. But i will try my best to keep this blog alive.

The fourth one was a complete surprise. There was no message about this award. When I visited his blog, I saw many awards were presented to everyone. It was really nice to see the various awards given to various persons. But atlast there was one award,which according to him was very apt for my blog. Thanks a lot Bharathi. It feels really good to receive award from fellow Bloggers.

Now I am certified Honest blogger. Actually speaking the fact,I am not such honest. On seeing one of my posts,Some bloggers said I am very honest. To keep up my reputation and maintain the same image, I continued the same.. And ended up as a certified honest blogger. So thanks a lot guys.

I share this STLYISH BLOGGER AWARD WITH

The above 5 bloggers are best in their style of writing. Especially I have to specify about pawan. Let it be his psycho series or poems.He is cool and best..

Who deserves the vote???

2009-09-09T01:07:00.001+05:30

I guess everyone might have seen my last post which was published on behalf of BLOG-A-TON, the online marathon for bloggers….Where we decide and we write.

BLOG-A-TON 2 was a great success. Nearly 30 bloggers participated and wrote for a single topic-TEACHERS Aaj Kal…

Asusual I forgot the date and some how manage to write a post at the last few moments and posted it. The final phase of blog-a-ton is the voting phase,where all the participants votes for the best post and the person who gets the maximum number of votes is the winner.

Will you believe if I say writing a post is easier than selecting the right person who deserves the single vote? Yes it is… I felt it really difficult to select a single post out of the 30(approximate)…

I first read ashwini’s post.She was new to blog-a-ton and so I wanted to check her post very first. I was amazed to see such a nice post. At the same instant I commented and I decided I should cast my vote to ashwini. To be frank I liked the pictures of the post than the way she expressed it.The pictures clearly reflected about the teachers of this age.Especially the kalinga war picture. So I decided to vote for ashwini.

Then as soon as I logged in my blogger account I saw half a dozen post with title “Teachers Aaj Kal” or “Teachers now an then”. So I decided to check everyone’s and comment before voting for ashwini.

I reached Bharathi’s. His post are quite natural and true. Let it be 200 words or 2000 words… It will be very interesting till the end. As soon as I read his post,I was in a great dilemma…Whether to vote for bharathi or ashwini.Both are equally good. I especially liked the attitude of bharathi. He never wanted to win blog-a-ton and never cares about the votes. But he wanted his message to reach the society(i.e.) to fellow bloggers… I liked his post a lot and I thought now I have to short list between two. whether its bharathi or ashwini?

Then I clicked on “A rose is a rose is a Rose”. It was shilpa’s blog. She was the winner of blog-a-ton and I expected a lot from her. You know they always say when you expect so much it will lead to disappointment. But in this case it was false.She was at her best. I think before writing the post,she might have taught her son “Differentiate between” answers. And straight away she implemented the same for Blog-a-ton. It was a classic post I have to say. The differentiation was uniquely constructed with nice pictures and beautiful quotes exactly in opposition to each other. Now its between three…SHILPA…BHARATHI..ASHWINI..

Next came Vipul ’s. This time vipul ’s father wrote for blog-a-ton as a guest blogger. I feel that only a teacher or a professor can best describe about this topic. Because only a teacher truly knows the difficulties involved in being a teacher and how today's teacher differs from yesteryear’s. And Vipul’ s father was no exception. His post was amazing and I guess vipul made him to write for blog-a-ton inorder to win blog-a-ton 2.(just kidding;-))..

And so the list added on…

Pawan… who differentiated very well between teachers during his school days and college days..

Shruthi.. who justified the post with amazing quotes and a very different 55f…

Ranee.. narrated the topic with a beautiful and touching story..

Pra…IP…Guria…Dhiman…. Rajee…..the list went on…..Each one’s post was very good and It really became very tough to vote. I asked vipul to open up the option by which “A person can vote for themselves”. A better way to solve the above problem. Another reason is that mine would not manage even a single vote. Atleast let me tick my own counter.

Further this voting system is an acid test for my friendship too. Shruthi and Bharathi are my two good friends over here.. So as a good friend I have to vote for my friends right.. But is this the place to show my friendship?

Pawan commented that my post was really good and he will vote for me if he didn't come across any other interesting post. So how can I repay the courtesy to him? Should I vote him back?

Now who really deserves the single vote(4 cheers)? Lucky, time has been extended so that I can think for some time.. And may be my Fellow bloggers can help me to sort out..

If you want to participate in future events of BLOG-A-TON,Please click here.

I am very happy that some of my blogging friends have joined BLOG-A-TON after seeing my post. So indirectly my post has been a source of inspiration for some of my friends over here.

I got one super cool award..from Shruthi….Thanks a lot shruthi….for the award..

These are the rules for the award:

Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Blogging Friends.
Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to This post which explains The Award.
Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List.
Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.

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Teachers:Aajkal..

2009-09-05T19:42:00.001+05:30

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 2, the second edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

This time the topic deals with teachers of yesteryear and teachers of today. I am not sure about the teachers of yesteryear. How they teach?are they good or bad? etc..etc… But the fact is let it be yesteryear or let it be today… There are teachers who are really good,who treats teaching as a service to the society and on the other side there are also some teachers who merely work for money.They treat teaching as another profession and teach for the sake of earning money.

So in this post I will share about the different types of teachers I have seen so far in my life.

Teachers: I first would like to discuss how many teachers can teach,assist or help in mastering the various concepts of the studies. Let it be ABCD that we study in LKG or the complex engineering and medicine concepts. How many teachers can really teach in a way so that every student in their class can understand? How many teachers can honestly clear the doubts of students in their class?

From my personal experience I can hardly say 5 or 6 teachers have done that so far. A teacher should take a class in such a way that each and every student of his class should be eager to listen to the concepts. Especially the students who talks or sleeps during class.The teaching should be very lively and interesting. But most of the teachers today are not able to control the class. They remain as a mere complainers that students are always sleeping in my class.. Some say “the students never listen to my lectures. They are keep on chatting during the lecture hours.” But they never think about why the students or not listening and they cannot understand the fact that they cannot convey the message properly to the students. And as a result of that the students lose interest in their class.

I see those teachers as mere losers. They cannot teach properly and beg the students by asking “atleast give respect to our age.” My college lecturers are hardly four to five years elder to us. Most of them have just completed their ME. They joined as a lecturer as they didnt get any good job. They don't know how to take a lecture. How to make it interesting.. And they don't even try to improve and remain mere complainers.

On the other hand there is one experienced teacher. No teacher comes to our class for the second time. They teach for one semester and never turn back the next semester. They say we are such bad students.

But two experienced and good staffs took class for us for continuously 3 to 4 semesters. I can call them here the yesteryear teachers. Their ages would have crossed 70 and their experience in the field of teaching is more than my own age. Both the staffs liked our class very much. We don't chat or give any trouble to these two staffs as they keep us tightly packed with various good and lively concepts. Their way of explaining things have been so good and Only those two staffs can control our class with the power of teaching. Even the worst student in our class remains silent and listen to whatever those staffs say and teach. They often say “I don't understand this. Your class and you guys really good during my session and its weird when other teachers complain about your class as ungoverned and worst class.

So I feel, If a student fails in a subject its not the failure of the student.Its rather the failure of the staff who took that subject.

Young Lover:

I think this is a very rare case. And this wont happen everywhere(I think so..). I was in my second year of college. I am Electrical student. I had one beautiful friend who did her computer science engineering.She was a close friend of mine. Many boys were crazy after her,I don't know why. And many proposed to her,gave letters etc..etc.. But is it wrong? Giving a love letter during collage days is not such a bad thing.

But it was very weird when one of the lecturers of my college ran behind her for over a month and ended up giving a love letter. That too his wife works in same college too. How weird it is. The girl cried a lot and she never came to college for over a month until that lecturer was suspended from college. This really is very bad. How a teacher can give a love letter to her own student? That too if he is a bachelor,then atleast we can consider. He is married and still needs another girl.

Do we have to respect such kind of teachers? Is this what a teacher does?

According to me I give respect to a person according to his/her deeds and not based on his/her age. I completely hate such kind of teachers.

Invigilators:

What should a invigilator do? Take care of the hall during examination and should protect students from involving in mal-practice. What today teachers do??(especially male staffs)

Usually during our exams, We wait for the right time to copy.lol… not me. I wait for the time to show answers to others.I accept I will copy during my internal tests, But not during universities.Do you know when the right time is?

Its when a male staff is invigilator and when a female staff crosses the examination hall. The staff immediately starts chatting with the female staff and that's the best time we get to copy . Both the staffs will be very intimate and involved while speaking to each other, as if they are talking about inventing a new type of machine. And the male staff would often turn to class and starts creating scene by shouting “If I see anyone copying,i dare say you will be suspended from college. I think you know very well that I am very strict”. He just creates scene and wants to impress the fellow female staffs.

Are they qualified to be called as teachers?

Killers:

This does not mean teachers kills students.. They directly or indirectly responsible for spoiling the life’s of various students.And this happens more often in our mother country.

17 year old girl in her XII standard died in school due to severe asthma attack.
One boy drowned in swimming pool and died. Incompetency of the coach and lack of good coach is suspected as primary reason.
A 10 year old girl died in school due to severe punishment.This took place somewhere near Kolkata.

There are lots of such similar incidents happening in our day to day life. The primary reason is that teachers don't do teaching as a service.But they only do it as a profession. Teachers work only for money and income. That's their primary goal. They never consider child's safety and future.

Saviours:

So far everything was like against the teachers. So do I have a grudge against today's teachers? No way. I wouldn't have got so much success and marks without teachers. Each and every teacher in my department helped me and I vow them a lot. I was affected Jaundice last year and I was not able to attend college for four months. I missed all classes and never did any lab sessions. I thought I cannot write the exam that semester due to lack of attendance. So as a matter of fact I thought I would get 9 backlogs(as i had 9 papers at that sem).I was really worried about my condition. But my HOD called me to college and personally advised me to start studying while I was at me home. He encouraged me a lot and said “I know you don't listen to classes and you can write exams without attending.I will take care of your attendance and with your past records, all the teachers agreed to help you with attendance.So its high time for you to start preparing for exams.Don't let me down and keep up my name.”

All the teachers helped me with the attendance and they allowed me to write the exam. And luckily I cleared all papers those sem and my HOD was really happy to hear that.

MATHA PITHA GURU DEIVAM…Do they deserve a position ahead of god?

As I said before Some teachers value teaching while most of them don't. Most of the teachers consider teaching as only a profession and only very few does it as a service.

I think yesteryear teachers must have considered teaching as a service and very few considered it as profession. So they deserve the position ahead of god.

But Considering Today’s teachers… Most of them value it as profession and very few as service. So do they still deserve a position ahead of god?

My Best Teacher:

I end up this post by telling this world about my favourite and best teacher. According to me EXPERIENCE is the best teacher. None can teach us as good as what Experience does and none can make such an impact in our heart so that we don't forget the lessons teach by experience for rest of our lives.

Ofcourse there are lots of books which can teach us how to survive in this competitive world but only experience teaches the value of life and how to cherish it.

The fellow Blog-a-Tonics who took part in this Blog-a-Ton are Vipul, Rajalakshmi, Dhiman, Ranee[1], [2], [3] , Avada, Indian Pundit, Sojo, Aneet, Pramathesh, Aativas, Sid, Pra, Ajinkya, Lakshmi, Govind, Shilpa, Bharathi, Mytuppence, Azad, Pawan, Pankaja, Saimanohar, Guria, Shruti, Vishnu,Nasrajan and Richa. Click on their respective names to read their posts on Teachers : Aaj Kal. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

Brand Tag!!!!

2009-09-04T10:32:00.001+05:30

I was tagged by Shilpaa for this brand tag.

Numerous brands move us in our day to day life. I think brands are like relationships. Do you maintain a good friendship brand? Are you loyal and caring in your brand relationship?

Take any day in your life and chart out the brands you have used.

Let me start my brands from electronics!!!

When it comes to electronics..I always prefer this one… As for me Sony is second to none in Electronics.

At my home you can find Sony 32” LCD….

Playstation 2.(after i earned enough will be shifting to playstation 3)

Sony Ericsson

Sony Digital camera.

Apple I-pod

This connects me…with the world…

Nokia 5130 xpress music

Without this I cannot write this post… and You cannot see this one..

My pc….

Hewlett Packard

I had this laptop… my brother’s.. before buying this pc…

Dell Inspiron

Running without this is a nightmare…

Reebok

Hot Mexican flavoured Cheese burger… my favourite….

Burger Man

Yummy pizzas from Pizza hut…….

This takes me distinctly ahead of everyone in road…..

This is a little bit outdated product..I am having the same watch for over for more than three years.. high time to change…How about fast track??

Weekends are hell without these channels… I either watch Barclays premier league or formula one racing…

Will mostly get good offers from this brand. Often gives buy 2 get 1 free…

Levis is best….

Connects me with WWW……apart from social networking sites…Thanks to Google…

Seedhi bhat..No bakhwaas… CLEAR HAI…

Sprite for my bike……Shell..I actually use Bharath petroleum..But since my brother is working for this concern now..He wants me to use his own company’s product…marketing the products of his own company….

I think that's all of now…

I tag..Ashwini,shruthi,bharathi,Vipul(tag hater..who does a tag.. actually without doing it…..), My new bro from the world of blogging RSV… IP,Suga,pawan,priyan,swetha….

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Formula 1- Is it entertainment or a sport?

2009-09-01T10:50:00.001+05:30

"F1 is not purely sports. It is entertainment and this venture by JKSP is a commercial initiative," said a ministry source. F1 will not have an impact on Indian sports "in terms of either participation, broad-basing or promotion of excellence".

"The proposed F1 race does not satisfy conditions which focus on human endeavour for excelling in competition with others, keeping in view the whole sports movement from Olympics downwards,"

The above statement was given by the ministry of sports when JPSK sports proposed to build a formula one racing track in India. This statement had a huge impact on the world of motorsports.

I wont say formula 1 is not an entertainment. But how the ministry can say its not a sport. Do they really mean what they say? On what basis they classify between a sport and an entertainment?

Every sport has entertainment as its ingredient. Cricket, Soccer,basketball,baseball,Badminton,tennis and the list goes on. And formula 1 is no different. Lets see the reasons why Indian ministry rejected the venture.

Formula 1 is not a sport,its an entertainment
Formula 1 is a very costly sport
Formula 1 is not in Olympics
Much crowd wont turn up to watch the sport

The above four are the premier reasons given by ministry.

The first point.It seems our ministry wont encourage entertainment in our country.

Lets take cricket. Test cricket,One day International and 20-20. How much crowd will turn up to watch a test cricket when compared to T20? Test cricket is really good form of sport.It tests the skill,ability and energy of a player. And one day cricket is also acceptable because its played for a whole day and to an extent the player can prove his skill and ability.

Lets come to t20. A shorter form of cricket,purely commercial.In this form of cricket you just have to sustain for four hours to get lots of money. It is more entertaining and cool to watch the ball flying over stands.

When they say T20 is a sport. Why not Formula 1? This shorter form of cricket is no match to the high level of engineering,competency,skill,will power of formula one racing.

If you are watching formula one races,you might have seen a Advertisement.I have mentioned this previously before in one of my posts.

Imagine yourself being subjected to a G-force of 5G’s. (Don't know what's a G-force? for example: When we sneeze or cough we experience a G-force of about 2G’s.Then Imagine how 5G’s would be… G-force is nothing but the measure of gravitational force)

Imagine yourself being in a 50 degree C pressure cooker.

Imagine your Heart beating 210 times a minute.

This is what a Formula one driver goes through.Every formula one driver loses around 1 to 2 kgs when they drive a one and half an hour race. Now would you still call t20 as a sport and formula one as a mere entertainer?

Lets analyze the next case… Formula one is a costly sport…. I do accept it is a costly sport and loads of money are involved in it.

But I really wont accept if ministry says they don't have money to spend. When BCCI can spend a lot for giving incentives and apartments as gift to Indian players, why not the Indian ministry spend on formula 1.

Third case is the most stupid one. Formula one is not in Olympics. According to our ministry other than sports played in India and the sports in Olympics, every other sport is an entertainment and not purely a Sport.

Just think how many sports are being played in Olympics and in how many India participates and in how many they are winning medals? And over the period of time there is no improvement regarding the participation of Indians in Olympics. But atleast they have started winning some medals. So this is the most stupidest of the arguments.

The fourth case…Much crowd wont turn up to watch the sport. I think the ministry must be kidding. Google very recently conducted a small survey about which communities have more number of Indians and the communities which involves active participation of our country. And to my surprise Soccer and Formula 1 were among the top ten communities in which there are lots of Indians and they are actively taking part in it. I am proud to say I am one among them.

There are fans for formula one who are ready and willing to go to every country where the race takes place. So huge crowd from other countries might turn up to India for watching the sport. And die hard fans(like me) would turn up to see the Scarlet car shining under the sun light. So this argument is not acceptable too.

And according to me there is a difference between World wrestling entertainment and Formula 1. The former called the entertainer as everything is predetermined and fake in that.The latter involves will power and courage. So formula is absolutely a sport which is much entertaining to those who have the knowledge about the sport and for those who like watching races.

And Indian ministry has the rights to deny the development of Formula 1 in India. But I guess they don't have rights to classify whether It is a sport or an entertainer and that too without a pure knowledge in the sport.

This sport is a great Hit at Singapore and Malaysia. When they can spend for a circuit.. Why not India? The night race at Singapore was great and dramatic one. We have already seen a Indian Formula 1 driver and an Indian Formula one Team. And the racing track in India is absolutely a dream come true.

These are my views upon the issue and ofcourse my views in this topic is biased since I am an ardent fan of formula one racing. I prefer India can spend In formula one racing than spending for the so called Idle mans game.

And Kudos to Vijay Mallya. It was really great to see the tri colour car racing for the pole position and fighting with a Ferrari till the end. Great work from VJ and team. Force India’s Budget is only one third of Ferrari’s Budget. But still it fought with Ferrari in Last race and Ferrari would not have managed without the KERS technology. Force India managed to get second position and they got the first ever points in Formula one after hard fought battle for over 30 races.

I would like to thank Ashwini for her two cute awards and venky for his timeless friendship award…

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A Costly Mistake-Part II

2009-08-24T13:18:00.001+05:30

This is a continuation of “A costly mistake-Part I”. You can read it by clicking HERE.

It was time and the test was about to begin. I could see many officials entering the auditorium with bulks of papers in their hands. They looked like high class professionals and Atlast one of them made his way to the dais with a mike in his hands and started with a welcome note. The welcome note was followed by the Instructions for written exam. Most of the instructions were in Hindi. Majority of the students were from South India and most of them don't know Hindi. I interpreted the instructions to students around me. That's when I realized I can understand Hindi.

“It seems you know Hindi. You can understand a lot better than I expected” A voice spoke from inside my head and this statement brought an instant smile to my face. But it was short lived as the officials started circulating the question paper and answer sheets. We had two hours to complete the paper,which consisted of several aptitude and domain questions. I first took the aptitude paper and it was like a piece of cake. I completed the aptitude paper in half an hour. The domain paper was little bit tricky one. It took me one hour to complete the domain part and still I completed the paper half-an-hour before the scheduled time. I returned my answer sheets back and left the hall.

I met my friend who was eagerly waiting for me and both of us hurried to lunch hall. The lunch was free of cost and we were so happy to see the Buffet system(everything was unlimited in terms of quantity). We had a lots of stuffs to eat and someone tapped me on my shoulders. I turned back and to my surprise it was two of my school mates. They both joined us for lunch. And we had a great lunch and the discussion about the school life brought smile in everyone’s face. Myself and my friends were the last few to leave the lunch hall and we made our way back to the huge auditorium.I completely forgot about the test I wrote and something prickled inside me when I entered the hall. It was half past 1 and the results would be published by 2 o’clock. The half-an-hour was like sitting in a gas stove and something was bothering me continuously. It was 2 and one of the officials made his way to dais and started reading out the names. It was a short list of students. Nearly 300 electrical students appeared for the exam. I had no idea whether I would be selected or not. I never prepared for the exam and I was scolding myself when each name was read. nearly forty to forty five students names were read and I was sitting there with my fingers crossed. My confidence level started deteriorating and the faith over god started surged to the highest point. My counter ticks whenever a name is read and so far the counter read 46.

And suddenly to my surprise the 47 name was “Shankar Narayanan”. I stood up very happily but it ended in sorrow when another guy stood up along with me. He is the other “Shankar Narayanan” who wrote the exam and there was a confusion. Now my confidence overtook faith and I was sure it was me and not the other guy. We both enquired about this to an official and he said “Shankar Narayanan.B” is the one selected. It was none other than me. The selected candidates were escorted to another room and I was the last to enter the room due to the unwanted confusion.

50 electrical and 50 instrumentation students were selected and both my school mates didn't manage to clear the examination. After waiting for several hours, I was asked to appear before the Interview panel at 6pm. Both of my school mates and my friend in Delhi,left the place at 4 o’clock.They assured me that they will come back at 7 and pick me up. All the three left to Delhi and enjoyed going around Delhi and visiting many places like palika bazaar,Bharah kambha road and to several other malls at Delhi.

I appeared before the panel which consisted of three experienced men's. One person was very aged maybe around 60 years. The second was a bit strange,harsh looking man.It was clear that he was on his 50’s. The third was comparatively younger and smarter of the three. After the formal introduction, they asked me three questions. The first two were very easy and I gave very detailed explanation to those questions. Then all the three HR’s discussed about something for few seconds. The third HR shot the final question. It was a bit tricky but I managed some how and I made my way out of the room.

It was 7pm. The interview was over by the time and the results were ready. The results of electrical engineering came first. This time 30 names were read from the 50 selected students. And alas my name didn't make it to the sheets. I could see some students jumping in joy.I felt may be they were better than me. I was a bit confident this time and still I couldn't make it. All the 30 students were asked to assemble separately and the voice continued “You can all go out”. The whole crowd went in silence. He continued “Those other than the names I specified can stay back and get yourselves prepared for next round.” I was shocked and also happy. I couldn't believe what he said. The way they published the results lacked professionalism. It was so unethical and never expected such a good company to react this way.

It was 8pm and I appeared before another panel. The questions this time were general. They asked me whether I am ready to work anywhere in India.And they also tested my Hindi speaking and Understanding ability. To my surprise.. I satisfied there basic criteria in Hindi. That was my biggest achievement through out the Interview process. But it was not over. One last question.. This was my last question for the interview process.

HR said “One last question.. This question decides your future with our concern”

(Was it a technical question? what was the question about? Did I answer correctly? Did I clear the Interview?)

“Are you ready to sign a three years bond with us? You may have to work any where in India… Are you ready for this? If yes you may have to sign immediately and join as soon as possible”

My mind raced through several answers and several faces……

My heart said “just say yes..This is a great opportunity….”

My Intellect said “just think whether its good for you… before you decide..”

The room was very silent and I could hear the sound of air rushing out from the Air-Conditioner. Both the HR watched me anxiously. Still I remained silent. This may sound as an easy question. But it was really difficult for me to answer this question. I never knew why.

Atlast the silence was broken.. I answered “Sir..I need some time to think about it.. I am not sure about my decision and may be I have to consult my parents before taking the decision.”

HR replied.. “ So you are not sure about making your own decisions…Well and good… you may go now..”

I was very sad and made my way out…. I felt like I should have answered yes.

The selected list was read atlast and I am not surprised this time.I know I had made a mistake and I shouldn't have done it. I made my way out. 13 or may be 15 were selected at last.

I was sitting at the corridor. i felt bad for making such a mistake. Suddenly one old man sat besides me and said “ Never get disappointed when didn't get appointed”.. Cheer up… better luck next time.. He said…

I soon left the college and realised that my friend didn't turn up… Oh God!!! without knowing Hindi.. “How I am going to make my way from Noida to Delhi..?” I never know the route.. It was 9 pm…. I called my friend and he said he was at Delhi. He asked me to reach barahkambah road In Delhi within 11,so that we can catch the last train to his home. I was really angry and had no idea of what to do. I walked out of the college and searched for an auto. After a long walk for about 2 kilometers I found one auto and asked him to drop me at Delhi. There were two persons. As soon as i said i want to go to Delhi,One of the two gave a smirk and hissed something on the other ones ears. They two were involved in some sort of discussion and finally said ok. They asked me 200.But I argued and managed to 180. I asked 150,but they didn't accept and due to time constraint and there was no other auto around. Finally they accepted for 180 and started from the place. They took an entirely different route from noida. I clearly know the route by which we came to noida. But he took entirely different route.an opposite one. I was little suspicious about them. After travelling for half an hour,we reached a place which was very dark.There were no street lights.There was a fly over,but the auto driver took a different route which was below the Fly over.It was extremely dark and there was no other living being in the vicinity. The auto suddenly stopped.

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My Formula For Love!!!

2009-08-21T19:16:00.005+05:30

A few days back, I learnt “What Is love?” from one my friends in blogosphere. His name is Bharathi and you can check out his post by clicking here. It was such a nice post and reminded me of my teen age.

This is perhaps the most important memory I have collected.Let’s go to the pensive and take a look at my memory.

I was 13 years old. I was at 8th standard to be precise. It was my first year as a teenager. It was the age when love and infatuation were synonyms and it was the age which gave birth to many crushes.

I was a last bench genius those days (not now… of course…Engineering made me blunt…), very good in maths, very mischievous. I would be punished severely for not allowing others to listen to lectures and classes.

It was one fine morning, which turned bad when I saw my biology teacher entering the class. She hated me completely since I won’t listen to her lectures and instructions. Myself and two other friends of mine would be sitting together at last bench. We were more like Ryan, Hari and Alok of “Five point someone”. Suddenly one of my friends raised a topic. We were a bit excited as the topic was new to us to discuss about. This is how the conversation began...X is my first friend and Y the second one…

X: Hey Shankar!!! Do you know anything about love???

Me: No…. I think we can speak about it a few years later..

X: Why not now? See we have started wearing Full-pants (instead of shorts) to school. we are big boys now… aren't we?

Me: of course..We are… (That's the first year we started wearing Full pants. Till seventh we were asked to wear half pants) so what do you want to know now?

Y: Hey guys!! won’t you listen to what the teacher says? It won’t be nice if we stand out of the class before those beautiful girls. I don't want my image to get spoiled.

X: Hey Shankar..You are good at maths...you score 90 every time and you know each and every formula…

Me: so what? What it has got to do with love?

X: tell me a formula for love...If you are so called good in maths…

Me: formula for love? Let me think…

Y: Guys!! Take a look at the girl in the second row..How gorgeous she is??

Me: shut up!!! Let me think for some time.

(The period ended sooner than I expected. I was thinking for the next three periods for a formula. But I didn't get any proper Idea.

Hurray!! It was lunch period and at least we can talk freely without anyone watching us, atleast for some time.)

X: For how much time you will think? The maths genius cannot even derive a formula???

Me: This is not maths. We can rather call it chemistry.

X: ok. What about the formula? If chemistry then make it as a equation.

Me: Why are you suddenly asking about love?

X: Because yesterday my brother told me that he is in love with a girl!!!

Me: oh…!! So what and all your brother does with his lover?

X: He often speaks to her in phone… all useless topics..

Me: That we also do.. Whenever we speak over in phone we talk about useless things as we do now. Next?

X: They go to movies together.

Me: Hey… we also do the same thing. So there is not much difference between friendship and love!!.

X: No…No…No… There is one main difference…

Me: What’s that??

(After uttering those words my friend looked on his sides to check if someone is listening to our discussions. Suddenly he came closer and kissed me on my cheeks. )

Me: What the hell are you doing? What happened to you?

X: What I did to you now?

Me: you kissed me… idiot….

X: I kissed you only on your cheeks. For that you are scolding me. But my brother kisses his lover on lips..

Me: when you kiss on cheeks, that's called a kiss. But when you kiss on lips?? What’s that called? (See we were so ignorant on that age…)

X: may be lips kiss??

(This is where my another friend, who was just listening to what we spoke enters the conversation)

Y: You dumb fools… Do you know what it is when someone kisses on lips??

(myself and X were puzzled..and looking anxiously at Y for the answer!!!)

Y: If some one kisses the other on the lips,its called s**…

X:really???

Y:Do you think I am joking??

Me: Then let me frame the formula… I have a new formula…I got it..

X: Great…what’s that?

Me: So the lovers do whatever we do… and additionally they do something called S**….

So the Formula is Love= Friendship+s**….. How it is??

X:Disgusting…..s** is something bad. don't use that word.

Me: Then let us search for a good word from dictionary.

( I asked for a dictionary from a girl. We searched for a word which can effectively replace sex. Atlast with great efforts I found a word!!!!)

Me: “Eureka!!!” I yelled.I got it. So the new formula for love is

Love= Friendship + Lust

X: wow.Its great.Now let us spread this to whole class.

Y:Then, What is friendship?? Shankar..

Me: simple… If love=friendship+lust….Then Friendship= love-lust..(This is how engineers refer to problems!!! lol…)

Few Days later….

Teacher: It seems you are studying applied maths?

Me: Ma’m?? I didn't get you???

Teacher: It seems you are deriving formula’s for various unwanted stuffs.

Me: ????

My formula was a Hit.But I got several punishments!! (the after effects of my formula…..)

I was made to stand out of principal’s room for a whole week and had my lunch in staff room along with teachers.

Irony is that, they liked it and some teachers laughed after hearing my formula. But still they punished me.

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8 Marvels - About me!! (Tag)

2009-08-20T13:38:00.002+05:30

I was tagged by Shruthi to do this 8 wonders tag……

But Before going to the tag…..I wanted to share the award I got today from my fellow blogger Ip(Indian Pundit). As I said before he is one of the great pundits and here is the award from him.

I would like to share this award with

Hope everyone else got the award already from Ip,Meghana,pra etc…..

So..Here goes the tag…

8 TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH

Barclays Premier League

UEFA Champions League

All Cricket shows in Star Cricket

Race Day-Formula one

Engine Block

Air crash Investigation

Sach ka saamna

Are you better than a 5th grader?

8 FAVORITE PLACES TO EAT

Sitting at home and eating my mom’s food.

Baskin-Robbins

Pizza Hut

Cake walk

Coffee day

Mocha

Saravana Bhavan

Nirulas

8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY

My blogs image hosting failed.

Wrote two good articles in Electronics Engineering.

Played Fifa 09 as a Manager and won with Chelsea.

searching for a new good template.

read bharathi,shruthi and shilpa’s blog.

converted one film to upload it in my mobile.

Got a reward from Ip.

Recollected my memories about a incident which happened in school.

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO

Working on nuclear power plant

buying a new game for my play station

A success in a very confidential work I am doing now.

change my bike

become a millionaire

to buy a Ferrari

To buy a costly and gorgeous diamond jewellery to my mom

To blog consistently(which I never do these days)

8 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT WINTER

Cool breeze

Cold nights

Holding the hands of your beloved one when its very cold

Sitting in a chat shop and eating something hot

Hot coffee

Eating Ice cream in winters

early morning travel in college bus.

my exams during winter. It will be very difficult to get up early morning and prepare for exams.

8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST

I think most of them knows this

Ferrari

Chelsea

Stamford bridge

A 1000cc bike

Serving for my country

to help others (hope this will never change through out my life time)

staying with mom through out my life

dying with pride and honour

8 THINGS AM PASSIONATE ABOUT

Cricket

Formula one

Ferrari

Soccer

Motors and generators

Blog

Shoes

Mobiles

8 WORDS OR PHRASES I USE OFTEN

Shit

Crap

Idiot

Fuck

Mad

Dear

Excellent

Dude

8 THINGS I LEARNT FROM PAST

I learnt a lots of things from past and experiences.I am a person who actually learns everything from experiences.So I don't want to restrict these to eight.Only one thing I want to say

“I AM WHAT I AM”

8 PLACES I WOULD LOVE TO GO OR VISIT OR SEE

Liverpool

Singapore

Malaysia

Barcelona

Rome

Shimla

Dark forest in Amazon(an adventurous trip)

Cartagena(Spain)

8 THINGS I CURRENTLY NEED OR WANT

A new and good looking template for blogger

A brand new Reebok shoes

Go back to school life in uniform.(those ignorant days are unforgettable)

to see a great entertaining movie

some money to recharge mobile(I spent the money which I had to recharge my mobile)

want the world to turn around like the one in potter and study at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.I would love to be an auror.

Some thrilling incident to happen in this boring life.

play a cricket match with my friends.

I would like to tag everyone who likes and wishes to do this tag.

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Celebrating Independence!!!!

2009-08-14T20:46:00.001+05:30

Hey Guys…

This is the first Independence day I celebrate with my blog and Bloggers..Right from the age of 5 my way of celebrating Independence had been changing and it differs a lot at different stages of life.

From the Age of 5-10..I used to go to school only for the purpose of getting chocolates which were provided at the end of Independence day celebrations in school.

From 10-12 I participated in various dramas,programmes and speech..Those days were real fun as I used to forget many dialogues..But I will manage by speaking my own dialogues which will make the crowd to laugh. And behind the screens I was given punishments for such a behaviour on stage.

But the next stage was a little bit different and fascinating one. At the Age of 13-15 I participated in NCC.I felt really proud to wear the NCC uniform.Mainly because it looked different with all those badges. And since I was the Corporal of my NCC unit I had lots of responsibilities during the Independence day like gathering troops..arranging them in a neat and regular manner. It feels really good when you are commanding others.

At 15 and 16 I was the member of school RSP troop..which was nothing but voluntary services.another similar one like NCC. Those years were great ones too.

But after entering college there was nothing much to celebrate since there were no functions.No NCC or RSP in my college and not even a chocolate to share. So during the college my way of celebration completely changed.I used to pin up the flag over my shirt every year to show everyone that I am proud to be an Indian.But my focus were really upon watching new movies that are releasing on Independence day. My friends would book tickets and we had some few funny and good hours during those days.

Now my college days are over.Lucky I got this blog and bloggers to celebrate with this time. And to my surprise there was an award waiting for me today from my fellow blogger MEGHANA.

I surely have to tell about her blog here. Those who haven't visited her blog please do so.By clicking the name above.Her blog features mostly about our culture,tradition,friendship,God,Saris etc..etc…arranged in a neat template and very inviting to read.I am very happy to receive the award from her.

So there is no fun in celebrating alone…So i want to share this award with my fellow bloggers who deserves this too…So I present this award to the following members..And the winners can put this picture in your blog(as a widget) if you like to do so.

This is the code for the award:

“<a href="http://ballat.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Beautiful Blogger Award" style="border: 0" src="http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/shankar13288/Beautiful-Blogger-Award1.jpg" height="200" width="200"/></a>”

Bharathi – Best political Blogger..For his beautiful views on political grounds

Shilpaa – The analyst.. For her superb and mind blowing analysis on various topics..

Venky- My Top commenter.. This guy has a great passion for commenting.He likes commenting more than writing a post for his own blog.

Ashwini- Die hard Potter fan. Check out her blog..You can find some great post about potter in her blog.I was much impressed to see such a lot of information about harry potter in her blog.

IP- The great pundit of India.. I give this award to him for his latest post about India.

Vipul- The reflector .. For his great reflections and reviews about various topics.

Pawan-The poet.. His poems were always a nightmare for me….

Sugandha- Creative Blogger…. She is indeed very creative..

Shruthi- Do you ever want to know what is a fiction(55 fiction)??? visit her blog….

Nandhini- Curious Blogger….From Dubai…I was much impressed with her “A booby trap of sorts” post…very funny one….

Pranksy Gang- Fantasy Blogger…. She can be called my fantasy mate. we share same taste in the world of fantasy. A lots of eye candy pictures in her blog.. And her “recent crush” picture gets updated all the time…

And Happy Independence Day to everyone around here…..Celebrate with Beautiful Blogger Award.

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And there is something more which I did for the world on this nice occasion(As an Indian)…I got a mail from Bright Planet and there was a attachment…its shown below…

PROUD TO SAY “MY BLOG FIGHTS CLIMATE CHANGE”…Thanks to Brighter Planet…

My Name Starts With “S” Tag!!!

2009-08-13T18:56:00.001+05:30

I was tagged by Dhiman..My new blog friend…..Thanks dhiman for the tag…This is really interesting one and little difficult one too.Have to think a bit before writing…

Tag Rules: It’s harder than it looks!(Mind It). Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag your friends. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real… nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question. Have Fun!!

And those of you who have names starting with “S”… should not write the same answer which i wrote…

1. What is your name: Shankar….

2. A four Letter Word: Sure..

3. A boy’s Name: Shiva

4. A girl’s Name: Shivani..

5. An occupation: Service engineer.

6. A colour: Saffron(present in Indian Flag),Silver,Sea green

7. Something you wear: Shorts (This one was pretty easy….. lucky my name starts with ‘s’…)

8. A food: Schezwan noodles,Schezwan fried rice etc..etc…

9. Something found in the bathroom: Soap

10. A place: Seattle…

11. A reason for being late: Stuck in traffic jam..

12. Something you shout: Shit…!!

13. A movie title: Sleepless in Seattle.

14. Something you drink: Soda…(actually hate this one..)

15. A musical group: Spirit

16. An animal: Sheep

17. A Street name: Shenoy street

18. A type of car: Scuderia Ferrari(Yey!!!!…My Favourite)

19. A song title: Show me the meaning of being lonely(Back street Boys)

20. A verb: Start..

I am tagging Bharathi,Shruthi,Shilpaa,Maya,Pra,Sugandha,vipul,venky,pranksy,pawan,Priyan,Ip,Avada Kedavra(I didn't know your name till now..Hope will know ur name from this tag),nandhini and all my friends and visitors of my blog….whoever like this tag can take up….

I really want to see bharathi’s answers..so bharathi make it asap…

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A Costly Mistake….Part I

2009-08-12T17:11:00.002+05:30

The Known Stranger:

It was half past twelve. The sky was dark and the chill air was whipping through each and every part of my body. It was a tense moment and my hand which was holding the bat was shivering. I could see the Winners Cup glowing with the aid of reflections from the flood lights around the ground.There was absolute silence for a minute. Even the commentator stood silent and I could see my team members waiting eagerly to uplift the Golden trophy.The opponents were busy setting up the field. Everyone came closer and only one person was standing out of the circle in deep fine leg. The path through which the team reached the finals of the tournament was not an easy one. So it was the final moment.There was only a single ball which separated me and my team from the glory. A do or die situation. One ball remaining, two runs to get.

Suddenly someone tapped me on my hands.Everything went dark. A voice spoke “Its time..Shankar”. The voice was not a familiar one to me and I couldn't recognise who spoke to me. I felt like both my eyelids were stitched together and it was too heavy to open.With great difficulty,after a few seconds I opened my eyes and realised it was just a dream. I saw a man who I guess was on his early fifty’s. He was short, half-bald and a bit skinny.But I couldn't see the face clearly. I quickly reached for my spectacles and got it over my nose. Now I could recognise the man who spoiled my sleep and dream. It was my friends father. He turned back to me and said “Good morning…get yourselves ready..Its half past four..”. Half past four??oh my god!! I had never got up so early in my life time..Not even during my exams..

I got up half-heartedly and my eyes were swollen. I hardly slept for two-three hours that night as I was chatting with my friend about Delhi,What is good about it and what is bad about it. It was 5:15 am when I got myself prepared for the Interview and I saw my friend still sleeping in his bed. Atlast his mobile alarm went up and his father started yelling him for getting up so late. He brushed his teeth and took a book in his hand which I recognised as “Men are from mars and Women are from Venus”. Without my approval he took my I-pod and said to me “Lets start buddy..Its already late….”.

From Delhi To Noida:

His house was located at Tilak Nagar. So we had to make a 2 to 3 hours travel to go to Noida. We took the Delhi metro at 6:15am.I thought the train might not be much crowded as it was early morning and I was pretty much looking forward to get a seat so that I could get some sleep. But It was not as I expected..It was much crowded as it would be in peak hours. And the 25 minutes journey was really painful to me. My friend was keep on asking me questions from electrical, but I was not ready to answer and kept silent.We reached Barahkambha Road around 22 minutes later. My friend enquired about the easiest and shortest way to get to Noida.

We caught a bus to Noida and once again I had to stand for another one hour journey. This journey made me sick and I felt like returning back to my friends home.I was not in a mood to attend the interview.I thought of giving up and returning to Delhi. The bus in which we travelled suddenly stopped. When asked about the problem the conductor told “TYRE PUNCTURED BHAYYA”. After lots of difficulties I reached the place of Interview at 8:45am. 15 minutes late from the scheduled time. However the written test started at 9:15 am only. I could see some familiar Tamil faces..I recognised them immediately as they travelled with me from Chennai to Delhi.

The atmosphere around the college:

The place of Interview was actually a college which was owned by the same management which owned the company, for which I was asked to attend the Interview. My friend made his way to waiting room along with my I-pod and his book.He warned me to get myself out at the end of first round. I felt pity for him because he had to wait for me the whole day in a room.

As I said before it was an engineering college along with Integrated management courses. The college was really a huge one with lots of space to play.The site of girls playing basketball and Badminton was very inviting and my bad mood that day cheered up.It was pleasant with lots of plants along the sides of the pathway,which lead to a large building with a black board placed before it.It consisted of the names and registration number of all candidates appearing for the exam. I found mine and noted down my registration number. I was given directions by one of the security to the place where where I have to write the exam.

While entering I felt like the steps were at the centre and the room extended on both sides of it.It was exactly as I thought except that the hall exceeded my expectations. It was a huge auditorium constructed in a semi-circular fashion. The beautiful thing about the construction is while you are in your first step of the stairs you can only view the roof of the auditorium and while reaching the last one you can see a semi-circular dais straight ahead of you. On both the sides you can see black coloured seating's. A writing pad was provided to each person.Electrical students were escorted to left side of the hall and Instrumentation students to right side of the hall.

I made my way to the left side of the hall. There were rest rooms and toilets to the both left and right ends of the hall. The floors were made of marbles which were sandal coloured and I could see my face winking back at me through the floors. The walls resembled or looked liked they were made of woods. And there were large hangings which reminded me the last scene of Hp and the sorcerers stone,where the Gryffindor,slytherin etc..etc.. hangings were seen. The lights also were also of the same colour which added beauty to the place and It gave me a impression of being in a theatre and not an exam hall.

So it was time and the test was about to begin. I could see many officials entering the auditorium with bulks of papers in their hands. They looked like high class professionals and atlast one of them made his way to the dais with a mike in his hands and began his speech.

TO BE CONTINUED……..

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FN:This post, I wanted to write two weeks before…. Sorry for the delay……And my apologies if it was too boring to read…

Jhatpat Tag!!!!

2009-08-11T11:38:00.002+05:30

Got another tag from shilpa….But still I don't know what's a Jhatpat(The Title).. Lucky the questions are in English for me to answer…

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.

The nearest book is the “ELECTRICAL MACHINES” . which says“For achieving this, the armature must move from position 1 to position 2 very quickly”.

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can & catch air?

My Wallet….

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?

Chelsea Vs Manchester United F.A.Community shield match….and my Favourites THE BLUES(Chelsea) won the game.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is?

As soon as I read the question my eyes directly spotted the clock in my room….So i am sure that the time is 10:40am

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?

As i said before the time is 10:40 am…

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?

My mom scolding me that I am so lazy and not helping her in buying stationary things for her…

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?

Today morning…..Got a DD….

8. Before you started this Q&As, what did you look at?

My Facebook account and Shilpaa’s Blog…

9. What are you wearing?

A T-shirt with quotes… “MEN DONT TRY TO DRIVE WOMEN CRAZY.. IT JUST COMES TO THEM NATURALLY”and Shorts..

10. When did you last laugh?

Yesterday night while sleeping… I had no clue of this..I came to know when my father enquired about this to me today morning. My father commented “Its high time for him to meet the doctor…”

11. What is on the walls of the room you are in?

Wall mounted A/C… A few laminated pictures of gods.. Wall clock with an oscillating pendulum….

12. Seen anything weird lately?

Yup..I saw myself in mirror.. Last week I was sick and that made me to lose few pounds..now very skinny with spectacles… This made me feel very weird..

13. What do you think of this quiz?

Hope this is not a Facebook kind of quiz… most of which is a crap…

14. What is the last film you saw?

Dead or Alive in star movies… Nice entertainer…. The film is about three women's..One is a princess,second a thief and third, the Wrestler… All the three participate in a fighting competition “DEAD or ALIVE”. The story deals is about what are the obstacles they face on their way to victory in the competition and who wins at last.

15. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?

I would buy the BMW formula one team… I am very sad that they are making their exit from formula one due to lack of funds.So i will buy the team and ask Schumacher to drive for my team.

16. Tell me something about you that I dunno!

I have answered this question in my previous tags… I guess everyone knows everything about me..

17. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

I would change the whole world Itself..Green planet…Eco Friendly…

18. Do you like to Dance?

yes..I would like to..But I don't know how to….

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?

Ashwini

20. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call her?

Ashwin

21. Would you ever consider living abroad?

No way… India is my country….Live for my country..serve for my country… I never want to be a person who goes to other countries for studying,earning and later complain that I am racially abused…

22. What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?

why did you come here??… Heaven became hell as a result of your arrival..so go back to world….And i would be reborn again…

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Avada Kedavra I tag you..Both for this post and my last post.."My Life In Numbers...."

Nandhini You have been tagged for my last post "My life in Numbers"

I am tagging Venky and Pranksy gang.... For both this tag and my last one "my life in numbers"

My Life In Numbers!!!

2009-08-10T15:58:00.002+05:30

I am Back after a small break.. Thanks to shilpa and Bharathi who reminded me that I haven't blogged for a week.And I welcome one of my friends to the world of blogosphere….SHRUTHI…..

So here is a tag from Shilpaa…..
If Life could be defined in numbers, this is what my life (some aspects of it!!) would look like…
Here I go…1-10 and My Life in Numbers!!

This is the position in which I bat for my cricket team.

Two famous sportsman whom I consider as my Ideal match:
Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Schumacher

Three persons without whom life is meaningless….Dad,mom and bro…

Four things to do Before I die:
Watching a Barclays Premier league match at Stamford Bridge
To drive a Ferrari.
Sky Diving.
Become an expert blogger.

Five things which are most important for me….

My PC

Mobile

Internet

I-pod

TV.

Six sports which I like and love to play:
Formula one
Cricket
Soccer
Badminton
Table Tennis
Tennis

My favourite number…..can say my lucky number too……

The number of hours I sleep…
The number of hours I used to spend time in college each day…

Nine films which I can see again and again and again…

Independence day

Crash

Pursuit of happiness

Saving Private Ryan

Chak de India

Taare zameen par

Rang De Basanti

Indiana Jones

The Godfather

The number of friends in blogosphere
Bharathi
Shilpaa
Lavanya
Vipul Grover
Venky
Shubhayan
Pawan
Sugandha Gupta
Avada Kedavra
Nandhini

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Technorati Tags: Tag,numbers,life

I am tagging: Avada Kedavra,Venky(manky),Nandhini... hope you three didnt do this tag earlier...

Friendship Day Wishes!!!!

2009-08-02T19:22:00.001+05:30

First I wish all my friends & fellow bloggers in this network a “Very Happy Friendship Day”.

But very sorry I don't know to write any poems.. Actually I tried,but its a great flop…So never mind..Hope there are fellow bloggers here who can write poems about friendship too. I guess pawan or vipul could do it…A few quotes always comes to mind when I think about friendship…Ofcourse they are not my original ones.But they come to my mind whenever I think of friends and Friendship…

“Life is Partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose”.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed”.

A life without a friend is unimaginable. Let it be any stage of life, can anyone exist without any friends? or friendship?

The most important thing is Friendship don't know cast,creed,status or anything. And ofcourse my life is no different. A life without friends can be compared to a pen without ink. Its useless..

And the friends I got over the past few months with this blog..they are also very special too…These friends are ofcourse a step ahead I have to say.Because I haven't seen them before. And they Haven’t seen Shankar too… But still they praise me,appreciate me,teach me,criticize me and they also have read the pages of my life. But they never expect anything in return.This is the world where even close relations expect something in return. But these friends who do not expect anything should be given a note..And I dedicate this post to all my friends in this world..Once again wishing you

“A Very Happy Friendship Day”

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The Cream and Scum Of Blogging

2009-08-01T11:59:00.001+05:30

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 1, the first edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

The Idea of Blog-a-ton was originally proposed by Vipul Grover. I am proud that I am part of such a community. Thanks to Vipul and IndiBlogger. Further the topic which I proposed was chosen as the finalised one for Blog-a-ton. A few weeks back, I asked vipul to announce the topic well ahead of the date so that I can prepare myself to write about the topic. The topic was announced a few days back. To be exact I had six full days to prepare and write about this topic. But did I prepare? No…Not at all.

Each day I said to myself there are still six days….five days and kept on counting and suddenly the day arrived. Its August 1st today and I haven't even prepared or written a line about it. Then there was a second thought, ofcourse its the topic which I myself proposed. So should not be a difficult task for me to write about it.But actually its lot difficult than I thought.

So the topic is Cream and scum of Blogging. Its now nearly three months since I started blogging. I am still a kid in the world of Blogosphere. When it comes to blogging there are hell a lot of things to write about…especially about the cream of blogging.

First and foremost there has been a great difference in the way I express my thoughts now a days. You can compare my first few post and the posts which I write now a days. I wont say that I am an expert in expressing my thoughts, but the narration level has increased say atleast by one percent.

Most of the my topics are really biased ones. The opinions are single sided. I would have written everything from my point of view. But some topics generate good debates and gives me the overall picture of how to see and analyze things. By the end of the day I could see things differently with different perspectives. And all the credits goes to my readers. A blog cannot be successful without readers and comments. Comments are such an essential thing when it comes to blogging. A little appreciation, a little criticism, the different perspectives of different persons cumulatively gives a whole new picture of the problem or controversy.

The next cream is the network,friends and fellow bloggers. When I started blogging there was no one to follow me. No friends and no comments. And blogging was hopeless. Then from Indiblogger I got few good friends and I have to say, they are the best. Most of my topics are not so interesting to read, but still my FB’s says its a nice write up. There comments were really encouraging at every point of time. Getting such a nice set of friends is really great thing. And if you rate my blog with the other blogs in my network I am sure mine will be found right at the bottom of the table.

And further my fellow bloggers say I am one of the honest bloggers around. So always I have to keep up to my name and the small reputation I have. So if you are a blogger you have to work your way upwards and never look back. So day by day blogging improves everything around you..the way you think..the way you express..the way you react…

And lastly I learnt a bit of HTML while editing the looks of my blog. I started liking HTML a lot and so often I spend time in editing the looks of my blog.So blog has helped in learning a lot of things from English to computers.

And I have to say about the tags which really helps in expressing ourselves in few words or a single line.

And there is always a positive and negative for all the things in the world. If you take a magnet, you have a north pole and opposing south pole. Similarly we have both positive and negative for blogging too. Here we call those negatives as scum.

The greatest and the worst scum is the addiction to blogging. You get very quickly addicted to it once you get good and encouraging comments.It takes all your time and the worst thing is you wont have a clue that you have wasted so much of time in blogging.So beware of this scum. When I write a new post I spend most of my time nearly two to three hours in it. And you know a few weeks back I spent hell a lot of time in editing the looks of my blog instead of preparing for my interview. And I never knew it took so much time in doing it until I completed my work.

The fellow Blog-a-Tonics who took part in this Blog-a-Ton are Arjuna, Saimanohar, Dhiman, Vipul Grover, Avdi, Daisy Blue, Sid 'Ravan' Kabe, Shilpa Garg, Bharathi, Ranee, Ranee again and Pawan.Click on their respective names to read their posts on The Cream and Scum of Blogging.To be part of the next edition of this online marathon, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

Technorati Tags: Blog-a-ton,blogging,positives,negatives

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The Red Baron Is Here…

2009-07-30T19:59:00.002+05:30

What else can be more inviting for a formula1 fan like me?

When I read the newspaper today for a moment I reacted a like a kid on watching a cartoon show. I enjoyed each and every word of the news. And even I kept reading it for four or five times again and again. I was completely clueless of my behaviour towards the news. I jumped in the air like I have won a world cup for India.

The news was that Michael Schumacher the greatest legend of the Formula one world racing is back.After Felipe Massa’s Injury Doctor’s confirmed Massa wont return to racing until next season.

Schumacher who haven't driven a Formula one car since his retirement in 2006 announced today that he will be driving for Ferrari for the remaining races of this season.

The 40 year old has already won Seven world Championships with 91 grandprix wins.He has been one of the Highest paid sportsmen of his days and now he is the highest paid mentor for Ferrari. He is also the member of United nations for drivers safety.

His name can make millions of crowds to assemble in grandstands with the scarlet flags along with the symbol of prancing horse flying everywhere in the air.

Now Michael Schumacher will drive along with Kimi Raikkonen for the rest of the season. He has to undergo rigorous training as driving a formula one car is not a joke or an easy thing to do.

Wow.I am excited to the core and I am waiting for the day to see Schumacher back in track. I am sure huge crowd will turn out to see his race. Even though I am not confident with his driving skills now,I still support him and I am still a hardcore fan of him. What more can we expect from a forty year old??Lets see… Hail Schumi….Hail Ferrari…

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Technorati Tags: Ferrari,michael,michael schumacher,schumacher,schumacher is back,formula one,sports,european grand prix

The Unpleasant Journey

2009-07-29T20:13:00.002+05:30

After having a week’s trip to Delhi and a one day trip to Tirupathi, I am here now in home. I thought I could enjoy my days ahead with good food at home(as for now). But things turned bad on Monday eve.First a little headache and then cold and within a hours time I got fever. Within the next few hours I could feel the heat of my body temperature rising above normal.

The irony is that I had a Trip to tirupathi the next day. And having such a temperature and a day in tirupathi is not a joke as huge crowds turn out there and once we are inside temple we cannot come out without visiting lord venkateshwara.

My mother got really scared about my health and my father started advising what not to do.My father was really worried and he asked me not to sleep at late hours.But till now for the past one year I had never slept before 1 am. My father was pouring advises and repeated advises bored me. This situation reminded me of the time when I was in bed affected by Hepatitis-A.

My mom,dear mom asked me whether I can come to tirupathi.. Actually speaking the fact I was not in a situation to go.But I auspiciously believe that saying no to a temple is a big sin.So I said to my mom “everything will be alright tomorrow morning and I will come with you”.

We started early morning and my condition didn't improve a bit. I told my parents I was alright.But my mom can judge things on seeing my face.She understood I was not in a condition to come. She insisted me to stay back. But I argued “I feel comfortable being with you than staying alone in these kinds of situations”.

We were at Chennai Central Railway Station at 5:45 am to board Sapthagiri Express.To my sorrow my father reserved seats in Ac. I said to myself, “its just a three hours journey,you can manage”.The first two hours were comfortable one as the coach was not much colder.Suddenly after sometime I started trembling.. I felt like the temperature has gone down below zero. I went outside but was not able to stand for long as I was feeling sick. A very tough one hour.

Then to my sorrow there was a huge crowd and I have no option other than standing in line along with my parents and brother. We joined the queue and after 5 hours we came out seeing the lord. The last train from Tirupathi is at 5:20 and we just came out at 4:30.We have to make our way down to Tirupathi station which involves a 40 min journey. As we came down the hill due to pressure my ears started paining. I felt like some one was trying to make his way out of my ears with a sharp needle in hand. I couldn't tolerate the pain and somehow we caught the train at the last moment.

Once again it was A/c coach and I was trembling for whole three hours. The train was late by half an hour. Then we went to a hotel and I just had a cup of milk and I never felt like eating. We returned back to home at 10:30 in the night.

I used to watch a program called “SACH KA SAAMNA” at 10:30 but my father immediately switched off the television urging me to go to bed. And till now my condition has not improved.. But I think I have recovered by say 10 percent.

And I have a Big cricket tournament ahead this weekend. And I am not sure whether i will recover within that time.. And even if I recover I am not sure whether my parents would allow me to play. And I owe my captain a lot.I cannot stay as such in home saying others to play. I am in a pathetic and tough situation through out the week so far.I think it will change.

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Why do they ask for Compensation?

2009-07-27T13:33:00.001+05:30

Wherever we see let it be in newspapers,Interviews and even blogs..we have seen lots of women's who say that they are equal to men and there should not be any gender based bias or distinction.I respect the same and I insist there should be no gender based distinction.
But do they mean what they are saying? I feel that those are mere words and they say it for pride.Why so?
Recently one of my close neighbours,who were good couples accepted to end their relationship mutually.Its their own decision.They officially lodged a divorce notice via court. But mysteriously for getting divorced,the women asked for compensation for living with that guy.She demanded 5 lakh rupees from the guy whom she lived with.What for? After all the guy too lived with the same women and is he asking any compensation for living with her? Now if women feel they are equal to men,Why do they ask for compensation after divorce?

Do men ask for any compensation? Mostly women are also earning now-a-days.So what is the necessity?Do they still feel they are the weaker sex?

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Get Well Soon Felipe!!!

2009-07-27T11:22:00.002+05:30

May 1,1994…

The world saw one of the dangerous accidents ever witnessed in the history of formula 1. One of the greatest legends, Best formula one driver who remained a nightmare for other drivers was killed in an accident during the San Marino grandprix on May 1,1994.His name,Ayrton senna Da Silva. A three time world champion, a great human too.

Before the race, a fellow driver died during the qualifying session.Ayrton senna raised the issue of Safety in formula 1 and formed a committee regarding the safety of formula one drivers. But the legend himself sadly died during the race.

He is the driver who lost his life to prove formula one drivers need safety.

Various electronic systems,tyre barricade and various security and safety systems enhanced after his death.

July 25,2009…

It was 15 years since this happened. Day before yesterday another similar incident took place during the qualifying session of Hungarian grand prix.

The suspension spring from Rubens Barrcihello’s vehicle hit fellow Brazilian Felipe Massa strongly on his head at a speed of 162mph. The impact made a small hole in the helmet and Felipe fractured his skull. He was taken to Budapest military hospital where he underwent surgery. Doctor’s say he is in stable condition,but still in danger.

I think this is high time for Formula one officials to consider safety of drivers and neglect the conflicts and politics running within. Look at the Video… Which shows how the spring hits the helmet of Felipe Massa.

FORZE FELIPE SI AMACON TE……..

You know the bravery of these drivers have to be acknowledged.

I recently saw an add about formula one….The advertisement is about human will power and Formula one.. This is what the Adv. says

Imagine yourself being subjected to a G-force of 5G’s. (Don't know what's a G-force? for example: When we sneeze or cough we experience a G-force of about 2G’s.Then Imagine how 5G’s would be… G-force is nothing but the measure of gravitational force)
Imagine yourself being in a 50 degree C pressure cooker.
Imagine your Heart beating 210 times a minute.

This is what a Formula one driver goes through…HUMAN WILL POWER… HOW AMAZING

Technorati Tags: Felipe massa crash,hungary crash,massa,Ayrton senna crash,Imola,san marino

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ABC Tag!!!

2009-07-26T20:39:00.002+05:30

Hey, I have been tagged by Sugandha Gupta. She wants me to complete this... in 2 days. Quite an interesting tag, I must say. Its the 'ABC Tag'. You get to know the ABC of ME!

Now the rules:

Link the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share the ABCs of you.
Tag 3 people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
Let the 3 tagged people know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
Do not tag the same person repeatedly but try to tag different people, so that there is a big network of bloggers doing this tag!

So, read the ABC of ME...

A – Available/Single? Single But with Experience!!!
B – Best friend? My mom.
C – Cake or Pie? Both.
D – Drink of choice? Sprite...
E – Essential item you use every day?Mobile.
F – Favourite colour? Black.
G – Gummy Bears Or Worms? Gummy Bears….
H – Hometown? Chennai.
I – Indulgence? Ofcourse Blogging.
J – January or February? February..
K – Kids & their names? Huh..I hate kids….
L – Life is incomplete without? Death...
M – Marriage date? waiting for my bro to get married…then Let me decide...
N – Number of siblings? one... elder bro.
O – Oranges or Apples? Apples..Apple a day keeps the doctor away!!! :P
P – Phobias/Fears? Dogs...
Q – Quote for today?The Race is not yet over, Because I haven't Won yet!!!
R – Reason to smile? I smile always!!!
S – Season? All Seasons.
T – Tag 3 People? Meghana,Avada Kedavra,Venky
U – Unknown fact about me? I lie often….
V – Vegetable you don't like? Lady’s Finger…
W – Worst habit? My eyes always searches for good looking girls..whatever I do..wherever I go:-((
X – X-rays you've had? No.I am scared to go...
Y – Your favourite food? Whatever my mom does…
Z – Zodiac sign? Aquarian….. A perfect Aquarian who loves freedom the most….

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Entering Blogosphere Again!!

2009-07-26T14:04:00.002+05:30

Hey..

I am back… I had a hectic trip,but I just found some two or three hours for roaming in Delhi. Let me post about my experience in Delhi tomorrow or day after. It was pretty nice and unique experience. But I didn't find time to roam Delhi and I went to very few places.These were just taken with a 2mpx mobile camera.So you cannot expect much clarity out of it.

Technorati Tags: Pictures,Delhi,Rashtrapathi bhavan

Blogging Prohibited!!

2009-07-18T15:03:00.001+05:30

Oh..my god…. Atlast my happy days are over… I had mixed emotions last month. From one point of view I was happy that I was staying at home happily..very relaxed, away from my engineering books,records everything. On the other hand I was little bit worried that I didn't have nice time,party’s with my friends as I used to have before..

Now the time has come. There is a change. The change from irresponsible boy to responsible man. The week ahead is really going to be very interesting and thrilling. I have a Interview next week in Noida. I have not yet prepared anything. I have no hopes of getting through the Interview.Yet its going to be a great trip.I have to travel alone there. All my friends applied there but only I got the call letter.The irony is that I don't know Hindi other than “ Ek gawn may ek kissan rahuta tha”. I don't know how I am going to manage. So I might not be blogging for next week.

However Microsoft windows live writer has provided one great option. We can set the publish date and the post will be posted on the respected date as specified even though we are away from the blogs.

But I could not write much.Just written a single post and It will be published on the following week when I am away from this blog..

So meet you soon….. after 26th July….

Till then bye from

–Its me Shankar…

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Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince!!!

2009-07-17T12:00:00.003+05:30

Atlast the much awaited Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince is here.. It was my favourite book of the series and was eager to see the film from the moment I read the book last year.

When I entered the theatres I was very excited and happy to watch the film. The scenes, visualisation everything was stunning and I never wanted the film to end. But yet when the film ended I felt a surge of discontent,unhappiness within me. The fact that there was no more Hogwarts and no more Dumbledore was killing me.

The film started with a collapsing bridge in the muggle world and Harry enters his penultimate year in Hogwarts. The mystery becomes deep when harry gets the book of Advanced Potion Making which belongs to The half blood prince.

What's new at Hogwarts this year? Professor Horace Slughorn was appointed as the potions master and Snape to preside over The defence against dark arts.

The first half mostly comprises of hilarious comedy and romance. Let it be comedy or romance the scenes are really entertaining and amusing. Things get dark when Harry collects the memory of Horace which involves an important conversation between him and Tom Riddle about the most dangerous Dark Magic.

The Dark lake was visualised in a great way than one would have imagined.The dark lake scene may be called as the best scene in the film. Apparently the film ends with the Death of the Head Master of Hogwarts.A sad and unhappy ending which you might have ever witnessed in Potter series.

Charming Hermonie:

The best performance of the film can be warded to Emma Watson. She was so charming and Beautiful.Let it be her feelings for Ron or Deep friendship with harry,she is at her best. Especially the scene in which she converses with Harry after seeing the romance of ron with Lavender. She cries and asks harry “Is this the way you felt when Genny kisses Dean, harry?” She was cute through out the film.

Malfoy Manor:

So far we all saw Draco as a mere loser.He was unknown for most part of the last two books.But this time he proves how dangerous he could be.Ron and Harry attended fest and Party’s but Draco remained alone in his dark suit for most part of film. Looking mysterious,angry. But he is seen scared for most of the film and did most of things out of the fear that he would be killed by Dark lord. His performance was notable in this film.

Crazy Lavender:

Her looks makes us uncomfortable.She is not that good or cute. But her actions and her love for won-won makes us laugh.she is annoying at some scenes,but really makes us laugh in the other.Nice characterisation of lavender.

Dumbledore character deserves pity when drinking the liquid to get the horcrux which was under it. And it really makes us feel when Harry atlast says to Hermione that it was a fake and everything was a waste.

Tom Riddle:

This character was one of the greatest highlight of the film. Let it be the young boy and a grown teenage one, the darkness remain in each and every move. you could see a perfect villain look with this character.We have seen Lord Voldemort..But this is Tom Riddle’s first appearance and every one surely call him the perfect villain.

The Difference:

Once again I must say this is not a faithful reproduction of the book.There were some differences and some important missing sequences.

According to book it was Nymphadora,who escorts harry to school after being stuck at Hogwarts express.But in Film its Luna who saves and Harry.Luna disappears after that.She is seen in only other two scenes,Slughorn’s Fest and after Dumbledore’s death.

The battle after the Death of Dumbledore.. action scenes were missing in this film.They desperately missed it.I think the director concentrated on finishing it within time and lost track of the battle sequence.

Bill would be attacked by the werewolf and he would be hospitalised. But in film “was there a character called bill?”

The quidditch match in which Ginny plays a seeker. Absolutely Quidditch was given the least Importance. I thought I would see harry catching the snitch for the last ever time.But It never happened.There was quidditch,but it mostly focussed on Ron and not harry or snitch.

But I should say its really difficult to make a two and half an hour film from a seven hundred page book.

But the director compensated for everything with a nice,hilarious &enjoyable movie.Once again Harry potter never failed to make an impression in hearts of people.

But the fact that No Dumbledore and Hogwarts without Harry,Hermonie,Ron and Dumbledore as its Headmaster makes me feel sad and bad.

My Rating:

8.5/10

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Another reason to celebrate!!!

2009-07-15T19:43:00.002+05:30

So,Its been 2 months and 2 days since I started blogging. In these few days I got some small, small achievements which is very worthy of celebrating. And today there is another reason for me to celebrate.

If you want to know the reason just take a look at the sidebar section.. Can you notice the number of Hits?

Yes..It crossed 1000 today. Not a big achievement, but according to me small achievements cumulatively make it a bigger one in future.

My celebrations started when I saw a small dot appearing over India in cluster maps.

Then there were few comments which encouraged me to stick on to blogging.

Then few members joined my network, some followers, repeated comments,tags etc..etc..

This blog also gave me an opportunity to meet some great personalities too.. Which would have never been possible without this blog.(http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-day-at-raj-bhavan.html)

I also would like to thank IndiBlogger as many of my followers and networks are from IndiBlogger only.

And ofcourse I had few problems in the past week regarding comments and was not in a position to celebrate my 50th post of this blog.But I am sure to celebrate my 100th one.

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4,4,4……4 Tag!!!

2009-07-14T21:24:00.002+05:30

I have been tagged by le embrouille blogueur……

le embrouille blogueur tagged me, with a bunch of questions, all in groups of four… So here goes the questions…

Four places I have lived (not in any particular order):

Chennai

Vijayawada

Bangalore

Delhi

Four T.V shows that I love(d) to watch (not in any particular order):

Friends

Race day

World Cup 99 with Wasim Akram

Air Crash Investigation

Four places that I have been on vacation:

Goa

New Delhi,Agra

Cochin

Ooty

Four of my favourite food items:

Veg. Fried Rice

Butter Non

Cheese Pizza

Doughnut

Four websites that I visit daily:

Orkut

Facebook

Yahoo answers

and Blogs(including mine..)

Four places I would rather be (not in any particular order of preference):

Singapore

Malaysia

New York

ofcourse my city: Chennai

Four things I hope to do before I die..... (not in any particular order):

Working for Ferrari pit crew

Watching a Formula one race in India

Having a chat with Michael Schumacher

Watch a Champions League Final soccer match in Rome

Four novels I wish I was reading for the first time:

Harry Potter By J.K.Rowling

Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown

Angels and Demons By Dan Brown

Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

Four movies that I can watch over and over again:

Harry Potter(all movies)

Taare Zameen par

Chak De India

Independence Day

Four people I believe will respond to this tag:

This is a tough question..restricting to four is a very difficult one, I want every blogger in my network to be tagged.. But only four…. very sorry for others in my network. you can also take up this tag if you like…

I also want to tag shubhayan also,but he just now took my previous tag..So don't want to bother him again. Would be really happy if he takes up this tag…

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Feed Backs Invited!!!

2009-07-13T18:54:00.002+05:30

Yesterday I read one of the post titled “Disgruntled” from one of my good friends in this Blogosphere. I was shocked to see my blog being mentioned in the last paragraph. I wondered what for? Was it to appreciate about my blog? or was it to criticize? the answer for both the question is no… then what for? When I continued reading I found that my fellow friend was disappointed as he was not able to comment for my blog and to his another friends blog…

Oh..my god!!! I said to myself… I am working on my comments for past one week.. Did a lot of things.. changed comment forms, changed java scripts, changed templates…

Everything started last week when one of my friends and top commenter of the blog Lavanya raised a issue stating that she is trying to post a comment in my blog..but she couldn't.I thought she might have not submitted the comment and might be her fault as everyone else was posting comments. Then came another complaint… Pawan commented..” Shankar, i commented in your blog..but was not able to see my comment now… Did you delete my comment?”. After hearing this I understood there is some problem with my comment form. While searching for a method to delete the present comment form and to embed a new comment form I found a new,modern “Intense Debate” comment form with various features. But after I installed I found all my earlier comments were deleted. And my blog is left out with zero comments. I apologized to everyone for this. But I thought everything was alright now.

But the next day Lavanya once again mailed me that she cannot see the comment box itself. I enquired about this two other friends..Shilpa and Venky about the issues. Shilpa said she was able to post her comment only after four unsuccessful tries. Ofcourse I realised everyone cannot be as generous and patient as shilpa to wait and comment even after three unsuccessful tries. So,I decided to change my favourite template.It was a good template and my favourite one.Everyone liked the template and it was so welcoming to my visitors.

So I sat back the whole night before the system and searched for few templates whole night. Added java scripts,Images etc..etc..to give a good look to the template.But still menu work is pending.I thought everything was fine and comments started coming slowly once again.I was relieved until yesterday.

I became extremely sad and felt bad when shubhayan expressed about the new word verification problem while commenting. And once again lavanya was the first one to complain about this. So,once again I thought of changing template. But this time little bit lucky to sort out the issue quickly.Just now while writing this post I received a mail from lavanya stating that she was able to comment now. Huh.I was relieved after one week struggle.But still waiting for a positive reply from subhayan

So…If somebody is having a problem in commenting.. How can they convey to me? If they don't know my id,what do they do? this question ran through my mind and I decided to add a feedback form through which everyone can contact me..about the issues of my blog.. You can find the Feedback form in top menu after Home,posts rss and comments rss.. Please feel free to utilise it and state the issues of my blog. It can be a positive or negative feedback.I would try my level best to settle the issue.

And once again I thank shubhayan,lavanya,shilpaa, pawan and venki for mentioning the issues and help me sort out the issues.

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Technorati Tags: feedback,comments

Wish List!!!

2009-07-12T23:34:00.002+05:30

I was tagged by shilpa a few days before.Wish list? “What do I need to do now?”

Shilpa says So what you need to do is….Show us something you want, but would never spend the money to buy.

A lot of things we wish to buy at different stages of life. So it might be a long list if i specify all those. So let me write about the thing which I wish to buy now, but would never spend to buy it. Rather than saying “but never would spend to buy it” it would be better if i say “I don't have that much money to buy this”.

So you want to know what’s costly wish?? read on..

I wish to buy a Ferrari Formula one car.The scarlet Scuderia Marlboro Ferrari is topping my wish list. But buying that car is not even possible in dreams…

Do you know how much the scuderia is worth?

$443,800,000.

The gorgeous looking attractive car. Would love to take a ride atleast once in my life time. Ferrari’s are one of the giant car manufacturers in the world. They are competing in formula one right from the year 1948.

I am waiting for formula one to be launched in India.I will be going to the race once it is launched and atleast want to see it once in my life time.

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I am tagging:Bharathi,Swetha,Venky,Subhayan,Pawan,Vipul,Sheba,Sumeeth,Lavanya,Shilpaa,le embrouille blogueur,Roshmi,SV

Brawn’s Magic comes to an End…

2009-07-12T21:59:00.002+05:30

Its nearly 8 months since I witnessed an Interesting race after last year’s Brazilian Grand Prix.There are couple of reasons for this.

I finally saw my favourite team in Scarlet's..The so called prancing horse back in Podium.

There were lot of shuffles and fights for the top three positions.

Final and main reason is.. An incompetent Button failed to win the race. So here is a small review about the German GrandPrix at Nurburgring.

Red Bull’s Supremacy:

I was disappointed after the qualifying session to see both the Ferrari's starting 8th and 9th in the grid.The McLaren's new aerodynamic package has done some magic after several poor races. The Red bull’s Charging like a bull towards the championship. Mark Webber proved during the qualifying that their Renault powered Red Bull team is the fastest on track. Right from the start the race was very exciting. Webber and Barrichello locked wheel to wheel with a small clash. The four KERS powered cars Two McLaren and Two Ferrari's charged towards the other cars running without KERS.Hamilton made a great start,passing all the other drivers to get his car at no.1. But before the second turn his wheel punctured and he went right to the back of the grid. Massa made his way from 8th to 4th and Raikkonen from 9th to 6th. Brawn’s Rubens Barrichello took the lead from Webber. Lots of drama’s happened when Webber was given the drive through penalty for hitting barrichello. But things turned when barrichello faced some problems in pit with fuel nozzles. Webber’s stunning courage took him to the pole position followed by his team mate Sebastian Vettel. There was a fight for the last podium position till the end of the race and Massa emerged the winner after a stunning performance.

Poor Strategy From Brawn:

Brawn Gp created a new revolution after stunning performance during the start of the reason.But their Magic started deteriorating half way through the season. Brawn during the early half of the race were fighting effectively for Podium position. But everything went wrong halfway when brawn switched to harder compound tyres very early in the race with nearly twenty nine laps remaining. Let me explain the technical reason of it.The harder compound tyres requires a high track temperature and tyre temperature to perform effectively.But the track temperature was just 11 degree c and rains were expected. So they started loosing pace and struck in midfield when they pitted for the third time. This is the first race of the season in which both Brawn Gp car’s failed to make it to podium.

Notable Performances:

Mark Webber who won his first ever grandprix after making his debut on 2002.

Massa fighting spirit from 8th position to 3rd position.

Fernando Alonso who was driving great with his underperforming car, was the performer of the day.

Striking Differences:

So lets compare the so called champion of the year so far Jenson Button with Double World champion Alonso:

Jenson Button: An incompetent driver who appears to be a champion in a majestic and greatly performing car

Fernando Alonso: A great racer who is struggling with an underperforming car.

Kimi the demon for Force India:

Last year Monaco Gp was a great race and a dream run for Force India. Adrian Sutil was running superbly in a rain interrupted race.He was at P4,when Kimi Raikkonen clashed with Sutil after loosing the grip.

Today’s race witnessed another incident.Sutil was running on 7th after pitting.When he exited the pits kimi charged to get past Sutil. But unexpectedly sutil’s front wing hit raikkonen and finished fifteenth. once again Raikkonen spoiled Force India’s dream of getting points.

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Technorati Tags: german grand prix,nurburgring,formula one,sports,webber,alonso,raikkonen,force India,massa,vettel,race

My day at Raj Bhavan

2009-07-09T20:52:00.002+05:30

It was morning 9am, I got up from bed asusual thinking that this is going to be another boring day of life.Days are really boring as I passed out of college a few days back. And most cruel thing is I have hectic exams ahead this month. But these exams are a little different. These exams ensure my place in one of the better concerns. No more hanging out with friends. It has been lots of days since I saw my friends. Thinking of all these I hated each day that comes ahead. I thought today was no different until I received a beep from my Google talk. Who was that?

It was none other than lakshmi parkavi. Wonder who’s that lakshmi parkavi? She was the founder of HARDUM web portal(the on which I mentioned a few pages before). The message said “Hey Shankar.. lucky you were online now.. just give me your mobile number?” I gave her my number. Then the next moment I heard the Die another day song… It came from my mobile… I took the call. A female voice spoke hurriedly as if she was speaking after running fast for several hours. The voice said “Shankar this is lakshmi.” and she never allowed me to talk. Lakshmi invited me to join the official launch of her website HARDUM. “she just said be there at 10:15 rajbhavan guindy”. I don't know what to say. It was already 9:25. I have to do my shaving,bathing etc..etc.. Further I didn't have my breakfast yet. There was a great dilemma whether to go or not. I thought of lakshmi who took great pains to arrange this event. So I decided to go.

I reached Raj Bhavan at around 10:20 am sharply. Raj Bhavan is the governors place and painted in white it resembled like a gorgeous palace of those days. I waited for lakshmi to come so that I could go inside with invitation. The security was so tight. Soon I was given the invitation and I made my way into the gorgeous palace. After security checks I was inside a hall by the name “Annapoorna Hall”. Inside the hall I noticed the names of previous governors who took charge along with their working period. I read through all those names and found Shri. Surjith Singh barnala was the governor of Tamil nadu for second time. There were also large pictures laminated in fine frames of the presidents of India. The hall was clean with marble floorings. There were doors made of fine polished woods on both sides of the room. There were enough chairs for both press and visitors. I took my seat at second row. I was the first one to reach the room other than few press members who were checking there cameras and video cams before the function. Soon one man entered the hall. He was dressed up with clean white shirt with striped black court. The face was a familiar one,but I couldn't recognise it perfectly. I was just thinking, I knew this person.I have seen him before. “Who is this? who is this” my mind was keep on chanting. Soon many entered the hall. But still I was thinking of who that person was. I was starring at him thinking who he was.. when he suddenly turned back and said “Hi”. I recognised the voice and suddenly I asked “Is that you? Sharath Babu?” He smiled and replied “yes.. I am” I was excited and nervous to see such a huge personality sitting so close to me as a simple man. If you don't know Sharath Babu.. here is a little piece of info about him.

Sharath Babu is a graduate from the prestigious IIM at Ahmedabad. He was offered upto $185,000 per year as salaries. But he declined all those offers and stood for Indian Politics. He was one of the contestants in the election which was held few months back. He also won the MTV Youth Icon award.

Such a great person was sitting within my reach. I smiled at him and shared a few words with him.Then came another surprise.. A tall,fair,middle aged man in his early fifties entered the place. I could recognise the person very easily as he is one of the famous personalities in India.. We can say even to the world..He was none other than Our Universal Hero.. Dr.Padmashri Kamal Haasan, who entered the room silently. Oh. my god… I felt like I was jinxed, Somebody casted a spell on me. He nodded to everyone in the hall. Then honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu made his way to the hall. Then the function started. The website was successfully launched. I saw lakshmi for a second, who felt happy and contented after her hard work for lots of days.

Everyone completes their graduation.Do their MS in great universities in America,Get a job there and settle in life. But this girl,who in her mid 20’s completed her MBA in United Kingdom and came back to India and launched this site. Now she is running her own concern in Chennai. Such kind of persons always deserves encouragement and support.

I feel only few Indians are job providers,but many are still job seekers. Sharath babu’s last few words were regarding this concept. He told everyone to become job providers and not job seekers.Those golden words ever stay in my memory. I thank lakshmi for inviting me and giving me such a nice opportunity. It was different and a nice experience too. But still I wonder why she invited me for the launch. I had never seen her before today. Just one post on my blog about her website gave me such a big opportunity.

So atlast it was a day which I could say to everyone proudly that I met some great personalities in my life.

Technorati Tags: hardum,rajbhavan,governor,sharath babu,kamal haasan,launch

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Right is Wrong here!!!

2009-07-07T19:52:00.002+05:30

July has been hectic so far. The past six days were really busy days,not allowing me to concentrate on my routine works.Now I am back with some breathing space.

I recently came through series of events which raised a question in my heart, “ Being right and fighting for rights is it wrong in our country?” What I feel is, we unnecessarily compromise for small things which are against law and rights.

Last week I went to one super market to assist my mom in buying some household items. We bought all the items that are necessary and stood in a very long queue for billing. Suddenly a quarrel broke between the man who delivers the bill and the customer. I like such kind of controversies and fights.I went forward eagerly to find what’s the issue about. The customer has bought a 7up can. The M.R.P of the product is around 25 rupees. But the can was charged a sum of Rs.40. The customer asked why you are charging 40rs for a product worth25rs, the answer was clean and simple “Tax sir” the official replied. The customer didn't leave, he once again argued for a product worth 25rs you are charging 15rs as tax..which is almost 60% of the product amount. Customer got tensed and asked “Whom are you cheating? Do you think I am illiterate?” there was no reply to this question from the official. No proper bill was provided in the supermarket and when asked for a proper bill, the customer was denied.There was a huge argument and a whole crowd was waiting behind. I thought everyone would support the customer.But the crowd behind started shouting at the customer stating that he was wasting time. One man from the crowd went ahead to the customer and told if you want you buy here,Else go to another shop and buy. The customer got vexed and dropped his item and went back without buying.

Just think,For one can extra 15 rupees is charged. Consider a sum of 20 cans is sold one day.so 20*15=300 rupees in one day. 9000 rupees a month and one lakh and eight thousand rupees a year. Where does this money goes? This huge some goes to the owner as black money.This is for one product alone.Think of how many products sold and how much goes into the pockets of the owners.

A similar incident happened while I was leaving to Coimbatore from Chennai CMBT bus stand. A aquafina water bottle was sold at Rs15 instead of 13rs. So two rupees per bottle. If 100 bottles were sold then 200rs per day,6000rs a month and a huge sum of rs72000 a year.no body asks for bill in these shops. Why are we compromising on all such things? Why don’t we fight back for the right. The irony is that even those who fight against these activities are let down by the society without any support.

Another interesting incident happened while I was returning from Coimbatore. I bought a ticket for a state transport Volvo bus. The scheduled departure is at 8:30 pm. But due to unavailability of conductor, the bus was late by around 2 hrs. One of the women who travelled in the same bus stood against this.She asked for the reason for the delay, but was not responded properly. She wrote a complaint letter and threatened to lodge a complaint against the bus driver and conductor. Further the AC in the bus was not functioning properly. But none of the other passengers failed to sign the complaint letter. One man simply said “Complaining now is of no use.. Will the Ac function properly if we complain now? so no use in complaining”. The passengers couldn't understand the fact that complaining would ensure that such incidents wont happen in future.

Such a poor society. Everything right from small items to big electronic goods or whatever it might be, we seek compromise in everything. Why are we not fighting back? We seek compromise and neglect as we think those are small mistakes.But we should understand the fact that those small mistakes will cumulatively become a big crime.

Stealing one rupee is not a big crime.But stealing 100 one rupee is ofcourse a big crime.

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http://djsbag.blogspot.com

Technorati Tags: Fight,rights,society,issues,country

The Tag Game Continues!!

2009-07-04T15:31:00.002+05:30

Shilpaa has tagged me again. I am now reading “Da Vinci Code” for the fifth time and “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” for the Nth number of time simultaneously. So my schedule is tight and shilpa’s Tag is really helping me to post something daily without spending much time.So here comes the next tag.

People may know you, but how good does anyone ever really know anyone?

Turns out there is a game of Tag going around the blogosphere in which bloggers are sharing five things about themselves that relatively few people know, and then tagging five other bloggers to do it too!

So the 5 things about me that relatively few people know:

I am very lazy fellow. I am lazy to such an extent that whenever my friends call me out for playing I will lie to them saying that “I am busy with my father’s work,I wont be coming today” . Most of the time I would be sitting simply in home or sleeping in my room.
I am very sensitive to issues around me.I would react instantly to certain things. Both success and failures affects me a lot. So whenever i face the above two I would tell myself ‘N’ number of times..
“Success should not go to head and Failures should not go to heart”.
I hate if someone lies to me or if my close friends hide secrets from me. I especially hate lying. If someone is going to lie infront of me, They are going to face the most difficult times. You might ask me are you Gandhi?Have you never lied to anyone? The answer is no. I actually wanted to reduce the number of lies I make to others. So while saying “Don't lie” to everyone,I myself realise that I should not commit a lie to anyone.
I am scared of dogs.
I am good batsmen in both hands.. I can play both as a left handed and right handed batsman.(Sir Gary Sobers was the only other International Batsman to do this).

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Get to know me tag!!

2009-07-03T20:38:00.002+05:30

Once again I was tagged by shilpa. Here's a little 'GET TO KNOW ME' fun game...be a sport and please keep it going.
Here's what you need to do...cut and paste this entire blog (yep...no copyright!) and answer the questions and paste it on your page...at the end name the persons you want to tag and leave a message for the person with your link on his/her guestbook page...
1. How tall are you barefoot?
5'6'' feet
2. Have you ever smoked before?
When I asked my smoking friends,What's the pleasure in smoking? They replied it relieves the pressure. To find out whether it is true I just smoked once. But oops I never liked it.
3. Do you own a gun?
Why should I? I am neither a cop nor a Rogue.
4. If you had a mental disorder, what would it be?
Sorry I am not mentally disordered person. You know patients with disorder wont accept the fact that they are mentally ill.
5. How many letters are in your crush's name?
7
6. What's your favourite silly song?
Silly songs are not my favourites.
7. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Hot tea.
8. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
let me sleep for another 5 min..
9. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
I don't need a weapon to lure opposite sex. May be the opposite sex needs one to lure me..
10. Do you own a knife?
No. My mom never allows me to cut vegetables.
11. Name the last thing you have bought today.
GATE Electrical Engineering book.
12. Name five drinks you regularly drink.
Tea,Coffee,Water,Pepsi,Sprite..
13. What time did you wake up today?
Exactly 1:15pm
14. What song do you want played at your funeral?
Thenpandi Cheemayile from Nayagan
15. What song did you last hear?
Show me the meaning(Back Street Boys)
16. Favourite place to be?
Cricket Ground
17. Least favourite place to be?
Any place which affects my privacy.
18. Do you own slippers?
Of course….
19. Where do you think you'll be in 10 yrs?
Watching a Chelsea soccer match at Stamford Bridge.
20. Do you burn or tan?
Tan…
21. Yellow and blue?
Blue
22. What songs do you sing in the shower?
When ever i start singing my mom shouts “Please stop it..It resembles a bray.” So i never used to sing during showers.
23. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child?
Ghost… My brother used to make me cry with his ghost stories while I was a child.
24. What's in your pockets right now?
My mobile..
25. Last thing that made you laugh?
A scene from a Tamil comedy movie.
26. Best bed sheets you had as a child?
Bed sheets?? I never gave importance to them.
27. Worst injury you've ever had?
The injury i had in my forehead while playing cricket at the age of 10.
28. Do you wish on stars?
No.
29. What were you doing 1 AM last night??
Watching a movie.
30. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment.

What's the use in answering these questions?
I am going to get negative comments from my friends for tagging them continuously.
Better not to tag anyone for another week.

(P.S) I am tagging everyone who reads this post. Sorry for that. You can post it if you like and as per your wish. For the last tag I received both good and negative comments. One nice guy said :Thanks for tagging.. This post made me to relax a bit… The other nice guy said: He wont encourage these childish and kiddish games. So I am not sure about the mentality of others around me. So I decided not to force anyone by tagging.

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Questions Tag!!!

2009-07-02T18:39:00.002+05:30

I was tagged By Shubayan Mukherjee…..
When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
A: Am i getting smarter day by day?
Q: How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?
A: Rs. 50
Q: What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?
A: core…
Q: What is your favourite ring tone on your phone?
A: Die another day-Madonna
Q: Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
A: my mom…
Q: What are you wearing right now?
A: a t-shirt with quote” Nobody is perfect,I am nobody”
Q: Do you label yourself?
A: no..not at all..
Q: Name the brand of the shoes you currently own?
A: Reebok…
Q: Bright or Dark Room?
A: A dark one..
Q: What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?
A: a crazy blogger….
Q: What does your watch look like?
A: A watch….
Q: What were you doing at midnight last night?
A: Playing a night floodlighted cricket tournament..
Q: What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
A: “Why you are not messaging me now-a-days? you are not even replying back to my messages”
Q: What’s a word that you say a lot?
A: Shit….
Q: Who told you he/she loved you last? (Please exclude spouse , family, children)
A: only she told me… no one else..
Q: Last furry thing you touched?
A: ....a teddy bear which i gifted my friend..
Q: Favourite age you have been so far?
A: 19-21…
Q: What was the last thing you said to someone?
A: bye…(to my friend..)
Q: The last song you listened to?
A: Nenjukul peidhidum (from Vaaranam Aayiram)..
Q: Where did you live in 1987?
A: I lived inside my mom….(I was born in 1988 Feb... so probably by considering the date I would have been in the place which would have been more beautiful than any other in this world and the place we can never visit back in our life time..)
Q: Are you jealous of anyone?
A: Jealous of Sachin Tendulkar,Michael Schumacher,Abdul Kalam…
Q: Is anyone jealous of you?
A: My X...
Q: Name three things that you have on you at all times?
A: My mobile… My wallet… My glasses..
Q: What’s your favourite town/city?
A: Chennai..
Q: When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
A: Nearly five to six years back… to my best friend madhumita..
Q: Can you change the oil on a car?
A: no…. no idea..
Q: Your first love/big crush: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
A: The last thing I heard was “she was dumped by her new boy friend.”
Q: Does anything hurt on your body right now?
A: ya..my broken finger in right hand.
Q: What is your current desktop picture?
A: something that might happen to earth on 2012(everyone says like that… not me..)The picture is shown here..(click to get a huge wallpaper..you might like this)
Q: Have you been burnt by love?
A: I don't know what exactly this phrase means…

I am tagging my friends:
Bharathi,Shilpaa,Swetha,Meghana,Lavanya,Psych Babbler,Sheba,Srinath,Subhayan,Kunu,Prithvi,Priyan,Vipul Grover.

HarDum!!!

2009-06-30T10:48:00.005+05:30

Social networking is not new to us. We have seen a lot of networking websites such as Orkut,Facebook,Tagged,MySpace etc. I read today’s Hindu Newspaper. I found a new social networking website. You might think what's new in that. Everything is same. I felt the same way when I read the paper.

The website was created and designed by Harshavardan and Laksmi Parkavi of Chennai..So I entered the site and registered my account.Let me furnish the unique advantages of that site.

First advantage is that Signing up is so easy.It takes only a few seconds to sign up for that site.

We say first impression is the best impression and this easy sign up process created the first and best impression.

Profile creation is simple without asking much details and unnecessary things.

Some features of facebook like wall and twitter has been combined in this site. So we can enjoy the advantages of orkut,facebook,twitter at same place.

We can post our talents like, we can post our good photos, post our blog links,post anything creative and points are awarded for your unique talent. There is also a vote system through which you can vote to others talents.

There is a column called power ideas were you can post your unique ideas. The ideas may be about cookery,science,projects etc..

The most amazing thing which differentiates Hardum from other websites is that you can buy products for free.You can donate free products,You can sell your products and you can even exchange your books and other products from others in your locality.

There are lots of free vouchers too. Do you think its over not all. Here you can search for latest job openings.Apply for the job and post your resume too. This site directly bridges Employers and job seekers.This site also provides the latest news from your Tinsel Town.

I am new to this site and still there is a lot more to explore. The website has just been started and it looks cool.So don't wait.Register Immediately.

http://www.hardum.com

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Technorati Tags: hardum,social networking,buy,sell products,vouchers,freebies,job search,resume

Blogs Behind My Blog

2009-06-29T23:25:00.000+05:30

Hello friends

This post is dedicated to all my friends who have helped me in designing this blog.Also to those who were commenting,appreciating,criticising and keeping track of whatever is happening around in this blog.

I decided to write one post each day and i fulfilled it successfully for the month of June. This is my 30th post for the month of June and of course I am writing it a day earlier.I am not sure what might happen tomorrow. May be i might be busy with a work or else even I might face my end tomorrow(i.e) death. So I have planned to write my 30th post a day earlier.

Everyone must have come around this saying atleast once in Life.

“Friends and Books should be few and good”.

I started blogging with no prior network or followers. Now after a month and half I have 12 followers to my blog and there are few who visit my blog daily and write their views on my post. I was always jealous when I see blogs with huge networks. But now I am not. I have a very small network,but still the network around me is one of the best. I visit everyone’s blog daily and some have been really inspirational,some informative and there are some blogs which are innovative.So here I take the pleasure to notify some great blogs in my network which are really worth reading. I assure you these are some blogs which makes you to visit and read again and again.

Here I have categorized the blog according to their contents.

Best Informative Blog:

Sky has no limits!!! So Do I?

Author: Sriram. This blog is the best informative blog. It has various information regarding Astrophysics, Creativity,Illusions,Aerodynamics etc..etc.. If you want to have a nice knowledge in science and facts then this is blog is the best one for you. Further if you want to know about anything in science you can comment and you will be responded shortly(or_ you can find a new post about the topic you have queried.

Best Tech Blog:

Tech Explorer

Author: Jaladhi Desai. This is one of the best tech blogs. If you want to know anything about computers,Windows vista,Windows 7. I recommend you this is the best place. I once asked for a little help from a help from this guy regarding designing a favicon for my blog. I wanted to replace my ugly looking orange Blogger Icon into my own style. I just asked this guy to design me with two letters BT. The next day he gave a link to one Icon. I saw and I was surprised it was way better than I imagined. You can look at my gorgeous favicon near the address bar. Only very few offers such helps to members. What is so special about him is, he doesn't know me.I haven't spoken to him before.Just posted a comment in my blog to me and he instantly helped me. In this world no one offers to do even small help to others. But he does it.

Best Blog About Politics:

This section consists of two blogs.

A Naked Opinion By Bharathi Subbarayan

The India Of Today By Shree Venkatraman

If you are interested in politics and Issues then these are the two blogs that you must spend time with. The blog by shree consists of various categories but I mainly categorized it under politics as most of it contents reflected the politics in India.

Best Personal Blogs:
There are several blogs under this category as each one has its own beauty. In these blogs you cannot find any words,sentences paragraphs etc. What you can see is the Imagination and creativity taking the form of words.

Over Cups Of Coffee           By Psych Babbler

A rose is a rose is a rose     By Shilpaa Garg

The World Of An Engineer   By Srinath

Wrahoolz Wramblingz         By Subhayan Mukherjee

Devils Workshop                By Swetha

Newcomer:
So there is a newcomer to my network and to the world of Blogosphere. I welcome Lavanya to the world of blogging. She has been toping my list of commentators for more than a month. She has almost written comments for all my post. And atlast she herself started a blog to express her views. Hope she still write comments to my blog even after starting her own blog.

My Opinion By Lavanya

I thank everyone for being in my network and I hope everyone will stay in touch forever.

Picture Courtesy: blog.zoneforum.com

From Hobby To Passion

2009-06-29T23:23:00.000+05:30

Its been a great Sunday today. My day started of with a great victory in a cricket match in which my team participated. The surprise was that I played a match winning knock today. Few shots which I played surprised the opponents which includes Kevin Peterson's Switch Hit(or) Shot. I received great appreciation from both my team members and opponents. But I fear this could be my last innings this year as I broke one of my fingers while taking a catch. One of my right hand fingers now appears to be bended(or) tilted at an angle of 30 degrees.

So its been one and half months since I started blogging. When I started blogging I felt like I was standing at the centre of an ocean and searching for the shore. I got this strange feeling because I didn't have a single person to guide me and none of my friends used to blog,So my network was zero. There were times when I just used to write a post and sit back the whole day checking whether anyone would comment. I was also a little bit scared of receiving negative or criticising comments. A criticism would really put down the energy of a rookie. Then I started exploring for widgets as my next step. Discovered some great widgets,added them to my blog. I added the Hit Counter for the first time and was anxious to see whether my counter goes up or not. I used to reload the page often and see whether my counter has gone up by at least one point. And slowly it started increasing.

When I started blogging, I was zero in expressing my thoughts. Giving shape to thoughts and imaginations are the most difficult things for me. Days passed as I wasted most of my time thinking and analyzing about the contents.I never knew what to write and ended up writing some posts on my subject electrical engineering with some basic diagrams. Suddenly there was a great surprise,the counter started ticking at a faster rate. Next I added the Cluster map widget. After installing this gadget the counter craze was over.Now I started longing for a tiny red mark to appear on the map. I felt like there was no improvement in my blogging skills and felt like giving up. There were 0 followers, no comments. I wondered why no one is commenting. There was not even piece of encouragement nor criticism. Why the hell am i writing blogs?

Then I started searching for other blogs and wanted to compare my standards with those blogs. Most of the blogs had a large network with large number of comments. When I was surfing through one of the blogs I found one badge “MEMBER OF INDIBLOGGER”. That was the time I realised that there are various communities for bloggers. I registered myself for Indiblogger and became a member too. I received both positive and negative reviews from INDIBLOGGER’s renowned members. I started exploring various blogs,read lots of contents.learnt how people expressed themselves. What are all the contents about which people are writing.

I learnt about editing templates,took my high school HTML book back from shelves and started reloading what ever I read in High School. I joined various other communities,Learnt some blogging tricks and posted about it in this blog. Started writing comments in others blog, started writing in the forum of Indiblogger,reviewed various sites and asked back for reviews.

Then one fine day I saw many read spots on my cluster maps. There were Visitors from US,UK,Canada etc. Comments started pouring. All of a sudden my energy boosted and blogging which I actually started for passing my time turned into a hobby and now became a passion.

Still I am not saying I am an expert blogger and express my thoughts well. But there has been a considerable improvement in my writing skills.

I have created some menu’s in my blog design. Shifted my labels,Blog rolls to menus. And also attached a feedback form, after going through various hacks from fellow bloggers.

After one and half months these are few notable small achievements of my blog:

I got a page rank of 1/10

Ranking 72 in Indiblogger

Got a rating of 7.8 from Blogged

My blog is one of the top50 blogs in Web2rank.

Now I am heading towards 500 hits in my counter.

But there has been a small difference of opinion between myself and My brother. He is a great techie. Always learn new things in management,marine etc..etc.. he has a blog in which he writes about various unknown,unbelievable facts. But I prefer writing my personal things and I always wanted to give shape to my own Imaginations. He always asks me what's the use in writing these blogs? What are you going to gain from writing blogs? I have no other answer to say to him except Self-Satisfaction.

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The 15 Books Tag

2009-06-27T20:56:00.003+05:30

I was tagged by Shilpa Garg for the 15 Books tag:
The rules are:
"Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag up to 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose."

So this is my list of 15 books:

Harry Potter Series By J.K.Rowling

The Joy Of Laziness By Peter Axt/Michaela Axt-Gadermann

A Matter Of Honour By Jeffery Archer

The Dragons Of Eden By Carl Sagan

Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown

Beloved By Toni morrison

Digital Fortress By Dan Brown

Angels And Demons By Dan Brown

Deception Point By Dan Brown

The Lord of the Rings By J.R.R. Tolkien

Gone with the wind By Margaret Mitchell

Nothing Lasts Forever By Sydney Sheldon

Are you Afraid Of Dark By Sydney Sheldon

Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

The Chronicles Of Narnia By C.S.Lewis

I am tagging the following members:

Shilpaa Garg, Srinath, Bharathi, RM, Swetha, Sheba, Gauri Mathur, Kim Sethi, Subhayan Mukherjee, Kunu

Women Biased Society-Global Proof

2009-06-27T00:09:00.002+05:30

This is the continuation of my earlier post-Women Biased Society. Once again I say gone are the days of sati,female infanticide etc..etc…. This is women era and society provides support to women's only. This is a proof.

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Click for bigger picture..

Which Is More Cruel… Racism Or Raping?

2009-06-26T23:57:00.003+05:30

Please answer this poll first and read on!!!!!

Which is More cruel?

From the title itself you can conclude what this post is about. Its about two most cruel things in this world. The two most cruel things which we have to eradicate from this world. When someone asked this question to you.. “Which is more cruel? racism or raping?” I wonder what's going to be the answer.

First lets get on with Racism and Racial Discrimination.

The definition of racial discrimination is contained in Article 1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to which Australia is a party:

"The term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life".

A few days back,may be a few weeks or months, there were racially motivated attacks on Indian students. It lead to a great protest in both Melbourne and Sydney. The protest attracted attention from Medias all over the world. I felt very proud about our unity in protesting against Injustice and Racism. The whole country joined hands against Racism.

This not only happened to our students in Australia,But even our country’s Cricket players faced the same situation from fellow aussies. But irony is that we Indians were also involved in racism against aussie players.

But now lets get into a different issue. Now I have a doubt are we eligible enough to fight against the racism in Australia? Do you think foreigners from other countries are safe in India? I feel our fellow Indians do worse things to our foreigners,which is far more cruel than racism(my personal opinion). So let me prove why foreigners are not safe in India.

A few days back, A 18 year old girl from Britain came to India for teaching small kids. She works for an NGO in India. While returning from work,she was offered lift by two fellow Indians(I am ashamed of calling them as Indians). I think this happened in a place called Palampur. The girl unaware of the consequences ahead got into the cab with those two guys.Then the cruel thing happened,She was molested at first and then was later raped(not once) repeatedly.

But I wonder why no attention was given to this issue by both media and our Indian Government. So shall we deduce that according to our Indian Government Racism is cruel than Raping? Or India is not concerned about foreigners safety? Or Indian government thinks this is the revenge for the act of Racism on Indian Students?

So when we are not able to give any safety to peoples from other countries,How can we expect safety for Indians from other countries? This is not the only incident,various similar incidents have taken place in past and I fear this would continue in future. I really condemn for the above act. The girl from Britain worked for an NGO to help the kids in our country. This is what we give back to her in return.I don't think any punishment or imprisonment would be worth for such an act. I really feel a new law or rule should be enacted against rapist,so that they should never think about rape in future. This is a more serious issue than Racism and it has to be eradicated.

This is a land which abolished Sati,Child marriage,Female Infanticide(to an extent). I firmly believe raping can also be abolished and eradicated from our country.

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This is an Excellent Commercial..Hats off to Aamir Khan!!!

RIP- MICHAEL JACKSON

2009-06-26T13:08:00.002+05:30

Technorati Tags: Michael Jackson,Michael Jackson Dead

Michael Jackson- The best Dancer the world has ever seen,passed away on the morning of June 25, 2009 due to a cardiac arrest. He is referred to as the “King Of Pop”.

His music Videos "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and Thriller were the best among his albums.His stage performances and music videos such as Moonwalk and Robot which involves lot of complicated dancing techniques made him so popular. The magic in his voice attracted and brought crowds at his feet.

He has won multiple Guinness records and he is one of the few artists who have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

However there is also the other side of Michael Jackson. He has involved himself in lot of Child abusing cases. Apart from his personal life, he is considered as one of the greatest legends the world has ever witnessed.

For more info about Jackson Click Here

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From Hero To Zero

2009-06-25T11:14:00.004+05:30

Have you ever wondered how things have changed in the last one year? There has been a tremendous change in almost everything around us. Let it be economy,let it be sports.. there has been a drastic change.

The pictures shown below are funny examples which portrays the reactions of leading companies in world towards recession.

Sports:

Cricket:

Now Lets see the change in sports from last year to this year.

1)Last years ICC Champions T20:India

This Year Failed to Qualify for Semi-finals.

2)The Cricket Legends Australia Ranking Number One in ICC last year.

This Year they face continuous Failures. I never felt like they played this years T20Championship. Knocked out in the first round.

3)Pakistan, I never thought this country would ever play International cricket again after Srilankan players were shot at Pakistan. But they are the T20 Champs this year.

Did anyone notice during the match between Pakistan and Srilanka(finals). One of the spectators waved something towards camera. It was written “India Are You Watching This” . It was really hard to believe India back home and Pakistan going for Title.

Formula One:

Lets get into the World of Formula one. Honda which was one of the Giants in car manufacturers,announced their retirement from Formula one Championship.

Lewis Hamilton and McLaren the Champions of 2008 now struggling at the back of the grid trying to get some points and often lap defeated by Jenson Button.

Brawn GP, Ross Brawn bought the last years Honda team. With Mercedes powered Engine They establish themselves as supreme heroes of Formula One this Year.

Ferrari, The best team formula one has ever witnessed struggles like McLaren this year to get some points. But with their experience and Hard Work they are fighting their way ahead.

Felipe Massa- Last Year proved his supremacy and talent.But lost championship by one point. This year struggling in the middle of the Grid.

Kimi Raikkonen- The champion of 2007 and one of the costliest players in whole world.Earns around 130million$ a year. He is a disaster this year.

From Heroes To Zeroes

From Zeroes To Heroes

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Technorati Tags: Heroes,Jenson Button,sports,Economy,Afridi,Ferrari,Mclaren,Hamilton,Massa,ICC T20,Pakisthan,Dhoni,India

Magic!!!!! Try this!!!

2009-06-23T16:02:00.003+05:30

Pick a card, just one card among the six. Are you done? Just choose one card among the six, I know which card you’ve chosen, don’t believe me? Click here "Reveal The Card".
Is it right..?
Ha Ha Ha.....
Try once again...!!!!!
I can read you any number of times....!!!!!

Click Here For More!!!!

Technorati Tags: magical cards,Mind Reading

Bride Wars

2009-06-23T10:24:00.002+05:30

Very recently I was at satyam cinemas,Chennai to watch a nice movie. I usually prefer Tamil movies. But on that day we decided to go for a nice English or Hindi movie for a change. I am actually a fanatic of action and fantasy movie. I never preferred Drama or comedy movies.

One of my friends said Bride wars is a really good movie. This movie got nice reviews and it’s a must watch movie. So we decided to go to Bride wars.

Bride wars portrays the the story of two best friends who turns enemies when they schedule their wedding on same day. Liv(Kate Hudson) and Emma(Anne Hathaway) are two good friends. The former is a Lawyer and later is a school teacher. Both of them gets engaged in same day and their dream is to get married in Plaza Hotel. They book two different dates,But due to a small mistake from the secretary of Marion St. Claire their wedding gets scheduled on same day. A revolt breaks between the two, when none of the them agrees to change their date of wedding. As an outcome the two best friends becomes two worst enemies. So,Whether both of them turns friends again? Are they getting married on same date? Is the remaining plot.

The film is categorised under comedy,Romance. But only very few scenes(might be two or three) in the film made me laugh. There was no importance given to romance or love,as both the male counterparts were almost absent for most of the film. They just appear in the scenes to agree and nod their heads to the female leads. There were lengthy scenes with more dialogues than necessary which was very distracting and the two friends always shouts excitedly in each and every scene during the first part of the film was awful.

However there are few plus points too. Kate Hudson did her role really well both in comedy and emotional scene. She was the only plus to the film. And Anna Hathaway, She was looking dull through out the film. She actually got a very serious role in this film when compared to Kate. She looks pretty and cute in every other film,but in Bridal Wars she is a disaster when in looks. She looks as if she had not slept for weeks and I felt like she was crying the whole day before enacting the scenes.

I felt even a cruel war film with lots of blood shed would have been better than the Bride wars.

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My Rating: 6/10

Technorati Tags: Bride war,Review,movie,anne hathaway,Kate hudson,Hollywood

Hi5

2009-06-20T00:04:00.003+05:30

BuzzNet Tags: sony,playstation2,Sony bravia,Pc

Hi friends..

These are the five essential things which i use in my day to day life. I named these five things as Hi5..

So the Hi5 includes:

Sony Playstation2

Sony Hdtv

Mobile-Nokia 2600classic

My PC

My I-Pod Shuffle

Sony PlayStation 2:

The play station is absolutely the best of all. My play station really helped me during the worst and most difficult part of my life. My play station is almost two years old now. And Play station 2 is getting outdated at the market. I usually play at least ten hours a day during my holidays. I usually love gaming a lot and many of my friends say I am an expert gamer. I always had that passion for gaming right from the age of 11. Games like NFS Underground,Most Wanted,Cricket 07,Formula one 06,Fifa 09 are my favourites. I used to sit for hours playing and while playing I used to forget the world around me.

I really felt the heat of life during the early 2009 period. I was affected by Hepatitis-A virus and was denied to go to college.My doctor insisted me to remain in house and so my parents never left me out of my house. Further the most unexpected tragedy in my life happened during the same period. My girl friend said she is no more in love with me and broke up without any reason.This happened after our two beautiful years of relationship. This further affected me. Now I felt really lonely.I was away from my friends as I was not going to college and no more love. Now there was no one to whom I can share my sorrows. I never wanted to take my mobile as it was her last gift to me. My health was getting worse as I always used to think about her and my present situation. My close friends advised me as usual, “Just concentrate on things which you like the most,so that you might feel better”. So I was just thinking of what can change me? Studies?? books?? not at all. Then It was this play station which came to my rescue. I took my play station bought new games and started playing 24*7. I played and mastered each and every game I used to play during those times. It changed my world completely. I felt like I was reborn and after three months of great struggle,My blood reports showed that I was completely normal. But once again my happy days with play station ended as my semester exams came right ahead….

My Bravia HDtv:

A life without television is unimaginable now a days. That too technology has developed to such an extent that televisions are used not only for media. I use Televisions for three purposes.One like every human being for watching sports,news,movies,entertainments,commercials etc. Second is my Samsung 17 inches LCD monitor is replaced by my Bravia. Yes, Of course I use my TV as computer’s monitor.I usually have the habit of watching HD and Blue ray movies. So I connect my whole system to my bravia to watch the Hd movies. I bet even a worst movie with good visuals will be a treat to eyes in Blue ray and HD formats.And the third use is of course my TV is the screen for playing games with my play station.

Nokia 2600 Classic & I-Pod:

My mobile,just a simple Nokia 2600 classic always keeps me in touch with my friends. I just now very recently passed out from college,So my mobile is very useful to stay in touch with my friends. But now-a-days we have orkut,facebook etc to keep in touch with everyone.But mobile is always Unique.

Listening to A.R.Rehman,Harris Jeyaraj,Eminem,Back street Boys with my I-pod always turns me on. I usually have the habit of travelling long distances in Buses and trains. My I-pod always makes my journey time a very comfortable and soothing one. There are times where I used to travel 15 to 16hrs in Bus. But with my I-pod these 15hrs just looks like 5 hrs of travel. Thanks to apple for such a creation.

My Pc:

Last but not the least. This one really helps me.I would call this an All-Rounder. Let it be Studies,Profession,Social Networking,Entertainment,Blogging,gaming etc. This always keeps me engaged. I am very sad that my most recent hobby (i.e.) Blogging has replaced my Play station. I never play now a days,as I spend most of my time for blogging. Its really sad to see my Play station packed inside a box.