Love at first sight....

This will be last post for this year...yeah and this comes with a message too....Do not jump to conclusions...
[Via email from my brother Karthik]

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Rat aboard!!

First it was fog and then it was and then it was blood sucking ministers or a over-enthusiastic (read over idotic) techie gave a hoax bomb scare call to delay the flight...but this is really hilarious....

A rat managed to delay an Air India flight by almost 24 hours on Tuesday

Now just imagine how heroic the rat would have felt when it just heard that the the Boeing has been halted because of its presence...could have felt higher than the fog, the ministers or the Techie!!...So Rats off....;-)
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Barbarians aren't they?

If you just thought that we are in a civilised society, that you had good laws to protect you against miscreants and antisocial elements and if you are still experiencing that feeling of insouciance just see how barbaric things can get...

A Pakistani court has ordered that two men have their ears and noses cut off, as punishment for doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them.

On one hand it is barbaric to what the two men did to the lady, that too for expressing her free will....the Law is even more barbaric. However, one argument that my friend gave to the "eye for an eye" policy is that, by exercising that you are treating the law breaker with the same set of rules that they laid down for the other. I cannot counter that point. I just hope that just things dont  happen. I dont know if the punishment will set an example or not ....But atleast it might create a fear in the mind of the people who plan to do such cowardly acts

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Gas Gas every where....

This piece was really irresistibly funny....

A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia Thursday when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe, officials said

Well i think for a moment the Sow felt as a celebrity for having been able to mobilize 15 firefighters and 2 firetrucks. Reminds of the dialog "Sameer, hawa ka ek johnka" from "hum dil de chuke sanam"

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NANO to NONO? True or False?

Personally i like TATA. They are doing the country proud...
However, after reading this  and then this....makes me wonder are they building vehicles or fire machines?

Delhi government on Monday imposed a hefty fine of Rs four crore on Tata Motors for "not properly" maintaining the low-floor buses it manufactured, after six of them caught fire in a span of three weeks.

And then

The Nano, the world's cheapest car, appears to have developed a technical snag. Three cases have been reported of the car developing short circuit near the combination switch in the car's steering column, igniting small fires.

Seriously TATA please fix up the mess and don't let others point a finger at you!!

Unique methods

I would like to give it to Dr.Watsa for his uncanny wit and incredible replies..
Check out his recent answer to a question...

My boyfriend has a unique method of
masturbation. He tends to put his finger in his mouth and then in his
anus. Is it safe? Will he catch any kind of infection?

Is he planning to join the circus? Maybe it's safe, but certainly unsafe if he reversed his action.

Could stop laughing...Kudos Dr.Watsa...Check out the original link here.

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Cartoon of the Week !!

This is what i call "Wishful Thinking" or even...a super optimistic thought....

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Travelogue- Hogenkal falls

Recently my friends and I visited Hogenekal falls. This is a waterfall about 200 odd kms from Bangalore. There are 2 different routes to reach the place. One via the highway (Nice Corridor) and other one which goes through the interior of villages. I suggest you take the smaller route in case you are leaving very early since it is really picturesque. However, the roads in this route are in a bad shape.
We left at 6.45 from Bangalore via the shorter route. After a quick breakfast at Hosur, we proceeded. The atmosphere was wonderful. At the Karnataka TN border you have to shell out about 500 bucks. 250 official 250 unofficial. After travelling for about 2.5 hours you will reach a slight Ghat section.

After giving some poses and looking worse than the monkeys sitting around, we decided it was better to proceed towards the final destination. The curvy roads are a great fun especially if you are nature lover. Next thing i remember was some Tamil mumbo jumbo and a black arm reaching out as if it would just strangle me....I woke up from my slumber to be told that we are entering the Forest area and we have to pay 20 bucks for the ticket...and 20 bucks for something else which did not provide us with a bill. Soon after paying another 20 bucks to enter the Hogenekal area we encountered this dude who started telling us about the boat ride and prices etc. We had hardly caught a breather but our dude was explaining us everything...After 20 minutes and overcoming of the initial shock I realized that we would have to shell out 300 bucks per head for a whole day boat ride.
Well let me explain....There are two major falls in Hogenekal one on the Karnataka side and other on TN side. Both on River Cavery. The area where these falls are is known as Dharmapuri (TN). There are a few small islands on the River. The current is very strong at some points and its quite deep at these points. There are round boats which are technically "Coracle". Each of these Coracles will be able to carry about 7 people excluding the navigator. They will take around on the coracles, let you take the pics of the waterfalls...Our boatman was also ( apparently) a hobby phographer...and clicked tons of photo's of our...in various poses some of them were grotesque to say the least :P.
Then after visit to one falls ( the one on TN side) we were taken to a spot where the water was no deeper than 4 feet and we could enjoy in the water. If you have some aching muscles, you can get massages done here...(using oils which you have never heard of!!). After spending a good one hour in the water with lot fun we had a lunch consisting of fish, rice and sambar. Well the food is cooked on the banks, in pots darker than anything you have seen on firewood by people who have not heard of hygiene in their life...but guys the food rocks. I enjoyed every bit of the sambar with extra chilli. Carrying your own pack of water is good idea as the packaged water is expensive and not authentic. The Karnataka side of the falls is a bit smaller but looks equally good. You can see a lot of salmons's trying to swim upstream and getting caught in the nets places by the local folks.


Over all the place is a real good one to be. Things to remember are

• Carry Water with you if you dont want to shell out lot of bucks
• Try to negotiate a lot....You should be able to get yourself the whole 3-4 hours journey come enjoyment for less than 200 bucks. But do this if you have sufficient people...Its fair that way since the guy has to carry the coracle on his back at many places and will spend all the time with you. 
• Carry an extra pair of clothes, you can enjoy the water ( it is really fast and you can have a great time...even though you do not know to swim).
• Carry a lot of small change you will have to give 10 bucks for this 20 bucks for that...etc. Btw, the coracle ride will cost you 20bucks per head separately for something...i could not understand for what
• Take a good camera...You can get some really nice shots..not like the overexposed ones you find here. 
• Start early before there is too much crowd...so that you can return early too :-D...before the Bangalore traffic threatens to kill you.
  

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The dilemma of life!!

Sometimes i feel life is very funny. God gives you things you dont really desire of...and there are times when you do not get the things which you deserve...While i have been cribbing about things all the while a new thought came to me....Is it that because we have something we associate such less importance to it that it really looks unworthy...and when the same thing is present with someone else you say..."Hey, I deserve that but i get some shit!!".
Funny world aint it...or is it our minds that are funny and we blame it on every other thing.....God knows...for now i will go home and check out some movies.....

Pic of the month Dec

I dont know if this passenger normally travelled Coach class or Business class and was driven to Economy due to recession. I just wonder what the guy would have done when the drinks trolley passed by......
For the full story read this
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Funny cartoon

Funny but really true. I have lot my sandals atleast 3 times in the past.
(from the email sent by my sister!!)

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Creating drives from Folders in XP.

This is more of a technical post rather than what you normall find on my blog...
This is a problem i faced in Delphi ( my previous employer) and now with my current one too i have the same problem. The problem is that because of maintenance issues i get only one drive "C:" in my office computer. This means i cannot organize my data into different drives. If there are some tool chains ( like the ones that exist in most companies) which need some things to be in certain drives then you are really gonna have a trouble.

How to solve this?
Thankfully, there is  command in windows called subst which can be used to make a folder look like a virtual drive. This means you can for example have folders like c:\e, c:\f c:\j etc and then write the following commands to make them appear like drives
subst e: c:\e
subst f: c:\f
etc.
Now the best part is most softwares can use these as if they were real drives. I have known only very few softwares which have a problem with this. One of them is Activestate products like (perl, python). You can put these commands in a batch file and put them in your startup folder so that they will map on every login. The easiest way to remove the drives is by using the command below
subst delete e:
Now aint that really cool ;-). I would be putting some computer related stuff on the blog hence forth since i see a lot of people struggling with these simple tasks.

Apparently the problem is solved in Win 7 using some concept of virtual drives. I need to check that out.
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Meatville

Makes me wonder if this is really successful one day would it be easy for one to eat....
The article states that

No one has yet tasted their produce, but it is believed the artificial meat
could be on sale within five years.

I find the idea a bit repelling, because by growing artificial meat we are trying to break some of the rules that mother nature has laid down for us. At the same time i see that the idea is welcomed by animal protection activists and also the vegetarian crowd as well. I know that like anything else this would have its own group of folks who will not like the idea and vehemently oppose it. My only question is how safe this artificial meat would be and are we doing the right thing. Criction in his book prey says and i quote....

"They didn’t understand what they were doing. I’m afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race."

Hope that this is not the case here!!

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The hectic week.

The week that just passed by was a real hectic one to say the least. If i assume Sunday to saturday as a week, then the week began with a visit to the bookfair on palace ground. The last day's of book fairs are always like a double edged sword. On one hand you will find a lot of books at extremely discounted rates, on the other a lot of good books are already taken up. However, there were two interesting things that i found out from the course. First is the website called librarywala.com. This is a library where one can order the book online and it will be delivered at your doorstep. I checked out the prices and they were very reasonable considering that they have a wide range of books starting from fiction, business and self-help. So make sure you go and take a look at the website. Maybe it will help you to satisfy your hunger for new books.  The next wonderful things that i found was about a website called flipkart.com. It is a site from where you can order books and you get very good discounts.
In the following days things were not really very interesting. I was responsible for some interviews and trust me they are not the best things to do during the week. Then the models ( matlab ones) did not seem to work the way i expected them. Even a real hard struggle with them only resulted in some very poor solutions. Saturday however came as a great break. I went to the Open day at Goethe-Institut....I will be doing advertising for Goethe by wearing their shirt ...For which i had to shell out 100 bucks :P.

Anyway hope to see some good interesting results with my model this week so that the coming weeks will be more peaceful :D.

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Dangerous birds?

I had heard that a flock of birds is dangerous for an airplane and a flock of girls dangerous for anyone. ...but i did not know this....

Police said the low-flying bird distracted the man, causing him to veer off a road and drive his French-built Bugatti Veyron into a salt marsh.

That too a Bugatti....what where you thinking dude?

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Its My way or the Highway- Govt

This is what happens when you make a bunch of idiots take decisions.

The Government will not sanction any Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) for an employee who uses personal car or taxi as mode of transport.

Ok...from the first statement I understand that the government is trying to provide some business to the  State/Central Government owned Transport mechanisms. This also means that it believes that these systems are on par or atleast comparable with the private operators. However, the next line shows something else

However, the rule shall not be applicable to employees with a handicap or disability of self or dependent family member.

What does this show!!...That if  I want to travel by JetAirways because it costs me less i should first get my self a disability or bring a physically challenged friend along...WTF!! This is a classic case of solving the wrong problem. The problem is that the sales of tickets in Government carriers is less because they do not offer the value for money ( be it in terms of service quality or comfort). This cannot be solved by forcing people to use it...No!!....Upgrade them, improve them make them attractive...cut down the excessive flab!!

Alas!....Who cares..
Mantriji always insisted on having his aircraft tank full...and would get it fully refuelled everytime it landed. On asking what was the reason...
"The only time you feel you have too much fuel on this worn out planes is when you're on fire"
Good answer mantriji!!

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Tooth Biryani

I always thought that  there are a few ways in which one can die when he flies and none of those risks could be avertible...But this came as a shocker!!

Malad-resident Brijesh Lohia;- it seems;- had reason to be angry: he had allegedly found a tooth implant in the food

I am sure it is not long before you would find a whole denture in the food served. It is appalling to see that the national carrier standards have gone down to new low. Now there are more reasons to avoid eating during the flight apart from the poor taste of the served stuff.

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It happens only in India

It happens only In India..(Not really!!)

Bus in Chennai...Photo from Hindu website....

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Silence

I have been silent on this blog for some time now. I have been going through a lot of pressure & questions in my mind in the past few days which have kept me busy...Apart from the Never ending German classes.
I have also invested some time in continuing my reading of Micheal Chricton's "Travels". However, my success in finishing about 30 pages can be largely attributed to the time i spent reading some pages while i spent time on the toilet seat every morning during the past one week. Also, I have invested money in the markets to some time was spent in reading where to invest and into what should i invest. And finally gave up deciding that whatever i do....I love south and so do my investments. No wonder my profits always look southwards oblivious of the market trend...

Of late... I have been trying hard to build a cross-platform GUI + Database based software completely in C. Yeah i know!! I sound like a freak...but i wanted to just see how much of C i still can manage after doing about 10 months of "Model based Development". I think i will soon giving up and switching to python, which is not only faster,simpler and cleaner...but also newer to me ensuring that there the ever drooping learning curve gets some positive slope!!. I have something like a good gui in "C" using GTK ....so it is not really too much of aproblem to port it to Python i trust.

And Before i forget....I had been on a team building excursion with my team....It was nice fun with a lot of take home. I always thought i had the right ingredients to make a good leader...but apparently not!!.....I am sure a lot of those who are reading this would just shrug off saying...We always knew that!!....But yes, i gather that there are a few things that i suck at and i should fix those before i can even imagine of taking some responsibility.....

Finally, hairfall has been always my friend....And i think a point of time has come when i should take a decision if i should go completely bald on my own or let nature do this job...However, I have decided to just hang on and continue for a while..

Now that i have found some time and some hope that i might be able to procure a netbook soon, I shall try to write more....
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Deepavali Wishlist

Deepavali the festival of lights is here. It is a great to have a few days of fun and celebration. ( eating of sweets and meeting of friends) . The festival marks perishing of Darkness by light. While all this is great there a few things that irritate the hell outta me during these days!! ( Yeah!!, i know i always complain) So i have put down my 3 point wishlist for Deepavali.....Gods can you grant even one?

• Time It: Bursting crackers is perhaps the only way kids and a whole bunch of adults identify Deepavali. I have a problem that people are free to burst crackers anytime during the Deepavali days. I was harshly woken up today when a neighbour of mine who never wakes up until the sun warms up his butt.....woke up early just to light a loud-sounding cracker and go back to sleep after ensuring that mine was destroyed!!...Why cant we have timings for bursting crackers? This would not only ensure that the pollution window is restricted but also ensure that there are no annoying moments for Elders, Infants etc.
• Place It: Malleshwaram is a zero garbage area. So i see BBMP workers cleaning the roads all the time. It pains me to see that while at one end folks are doing the backbreaking work of cleaning the streets of the mess created by crackers on the other end folks are dirtying the roads again. Why cannot we use large open grounds to burst our crackers. In densely packed localities bursting of crackers is not only a health hazard but also significantly increases the probability of fire mishaps and accidents on the roads when drivers try to avoid the crackers!!. Go out to grounds and celebrate...this way you can see lot more variety of crackers...enjoy the lighting too and ensure that the pollutions is localized. Also it is easier to provide first aid and medication in case there are any mishaps....BBMP can organize this the same way they organize immersion of Idols during Ganesh Chaturthi or Durga Pooja ....Alas who cares?
• Control It : While bursting of crackers cannot be avoided and should not be totally irradiated because that would mean pushing a big part our community to Unemployment. However, the crackers should be made safer, cleaner and better. This means that we should have proper controlling authorities who monitor the quality, monitor the cost and safety issues at the manufacturing areas. 

I have seen the crackers that are used in Germany, when i happened to be there during the Silvester ( New Year) a couple of years back. These things look much better, safer and you really can be sure that you can use them without risking yourself too much.

So Let the festival of lamps bring a lot of light into your homes too....Enjoy Maadi

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Beans

Found this 1X2 beans....and thought will put a pic...

And if you say ..what so special....then my reply...When this can become breaking news...this beans deserves some justice

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Dilbert says

Could not refrain from sharing


Looks like all managers follow Dilbert religiously....especially mine!!
[ Thanks to my friend Divya from status message i got this!!]

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Pic of the Month - Oct

This time the picture of the month is far from funny....

My caption: When even gods were not spared by nature!!
[Image from Hindu website]

When Roles reversed

Roles reversed.....ain't that cool

Drunk poll officer, vigilant citizen and a unique trial

I salute this vigilant citizen...who chose to risk his life and in the end just let the man go with a real lesson for life....However, on the hindsight i feel a couple of tight slaps would have still gone a long way...(Dandam Dashagunam Bhaveth).

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The Ig Nobel award goes to

I should share this....coz i really loved it...the Ig Nobel awards for 2009

Dr Elena Bodnar won for her bra that converts into a pair of gas masks — one for the wearer, the other for a friend.

I am sure a few of our dudes would love some gas leaks of sets of bollywood....especially when Rakhi sawant or Mallika Sherawat is around...In the hope to get a chance to be shaved by them ( when they lent their br...er.. gas-masks!!).
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Deo-dead-rent

This is why guys ....we should not wear deo's the way the show it in the advertisements.

Man became human fireball after deodorant caught fire as he lit barbecue

Anyway, This shows that when you are out of luck even a harmless deo can f**k you....

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Spit and get paid too....

Some of the weirdest things are always out on sale in this world. The morbid details in this report tells us in what deplorable conditions people have to earn a living in some parts of the "Civilized" world.

Tuberculosis sufferers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, were found to be selling samples of their sputum to healthy people to pass off as their own in a scam to gain medical grants.

On one end it shows us to what new lows can "Humans" get down for a few bucks and ironically it also shows us how low the living conditions are for some "Humans". This makes me remember of a woman who had sold her virginity to pay college fees. The dire need for money can definitely force people to take extreme steps. On the funny side of it i think Indians would not have been too concerned in donating their sputum. Apart from Peeing, Indian consider spitting at public places their next right....( and will not give up at any cost!!)
Mantriji narrates this incident that happened with him at a local pub...
I got a call when i was having my third Beer....Since the pub was quite full and i did not want any one to take a swig from my mug....I stuck a post it saying ...."I have spit in my beer".....

When i returned there was a small addendum to the note which read , "I too!!"
( Joke from a old friend!!)

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Miraculous photos for ID cards...

Indians have a real uncanny sense of humor or should i say it is the I-Dont-Care attitude. Just have a look at the photo's dudes sent in when they applied for their Voters-ID card in Mumbai.

And guess this is not the so called "Illiterate" or "Uneducated" dudes who are doing this. What is more shameful is this ...

It’s not just average citizens who are giving back-end election office staff a tough time-a leading Bollywood action star actually sent a photograph of himself wearing a pair of dark sunglasses! He has since been told to send a picture that had a clear view of his face.

Now tell me i am living in a country where dudes are considered smart....

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Technical fools

I wonder if people are outright stupid or is humanity becoming more dumber by use of technology which it cannot handle well....
Proof 1:

The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) in Adelaide says it is worrying that two girls lost in a stormwater drain raised the alert on a social networking site rather than ringing triple-0.

And if youthought that was one extreme here is the other one
Proof 2:

Apparently wanting to travel light, he did not take the victim’s computer, but he did use it. To check his Facebook page. And he forgot to log off.

While it is great to make best use of technology, Using it to prove your stupidity is something really unique.....As they say...

"You can make anything foolproof....because fools are ingenious"

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How "Not" to fail!!

A wonderful set of slides which talk about what you should and what you should not if you really mean business...

How To Fail: 25 Secrets Learned through Failure

View more presentations from Taylor Davidson.
There is so much to learn.....

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Conception Discount

Well the world is full of weird offers in order to woo customers. Walk on Brigade road on a busy Sunday after noon and you will see ridiculous banners like buy 1 get 2 free
and so on. Also offers and incentives have been used time and again to get people do something. For example, reduced rates if you copulate and conceive during your hotel stay...

Couples will be rewarded with a $300 ‘Conception Credit’ if they can prove
that their baby was conceived while they were staying at the hotel

or extra marks at your school examinations if your parents vote.
Some offers are out of desperation like the one JET is offering now by giving you 50% fare cuts. 
The most interesting part of the whole thing is that we all know that no offer comes free...there are always some catches which we either fail to notice or they do not matter to us. As long as you feel that the offer is worth it i guess one should
While all this is true, I have always believed in the quote that
" The buyer never buys costly and the seller never sells cheap"
So....at the end of the day what matters is if you are convinced that you got a good deal.....

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Shoe throwing Hero!!

No wonder there were so many instances of people throwing their shoes. However, most unfortunate is that a majority of them missed their targets by a whisker. Nevertheless, the story here tells you why. 

A new four-bedroom home has been built by his former boss. A new car – and the promise of many more – awaits. ....
"One Iraqi who lived in Morocco called to offer to send his daughter to be Muntazer's wife," said editor Abdul Hamid al-Saij.

I guess after this the expectations of the blokes who imitated Mr. Muntazer have gone up. Imagine if people can offer you so much for throwing a shoe and missing it....What might have been the reward for throwing a stone and not missing it.....
That would truly be called...."Killing two birds with one stone..." what say.....

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No Comments!!

This picture speaks for itself...i can imagine it happening!!

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Google says

I shall only give the link here. Rest is self explanatory. Yeah the best one is below

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Swine flu - Eye Opener!!

Thanks to the media hype in our organization the HR department pressed the panic button when some suspected Swine Flu or H1N1 case was reported. It went to such an extent that immediately some awareness programs where put in place and Employees were with symptoms were asked to take a few days off.
The awareness program that took place yesterday was an eye opener ....and this article is for all those who are still worried about the SwineFlu.

• Swine Flu or H1N1 as we know it today doesn't spread by eating Pork. It is called so because the virus was created inside a pig. The virus mutates very fast.
• Swine Flu doesn't transmit through air. It however, does transmit itself from body fluids. When one sneezes a lot of his mucus is thrown out in the form of very fine particles which can be inhaled by someone like you and me. So do not believe if someone says that AC environment promotes the H1N1 spread.
• It is not fatal by itself. No flu is. However, if one is suffering with other problems then flu definitely can be a killer. Saying that H1N1 killed a person suffering from multiple disorders is like saying the guy who hit the last run won the match for you !!.
• However, Flu could be fatal in case of infants. It is pretty clear that infants cannot tell you when their nose is blocked, when their throat is irritated etc. Also, their lungs are smaller and have lesser resistance to bacteria and viruses. Therefore for infants it is better to stay at home ( they are not smart enough to cover their noses when someone sneezes near them).
• The ways in which the virus spreads -  Mouth, Nose and eye. 
• Use of Tamiflu for normal flu might lead to new virus strains which are resistant to Tamiflu. These might mutate with the H1N1 to give rise to variants which are totally resistant. ( It is already so in some places outside India)
• 7 days is the timeframe in which you should be able to get rid of the virus from your system ( 21 days for infants) if you take proper precautions. Note that only advanced stages of the infection demand to be treated with Tamiflu. Stage 1 and 2 can be handled by taking normal Antibiotics like Paracetamol. Stage 1 and Stage 2 are basically days 1-3 and days 4-5. A decent medications and clean environment during these days will ensure that the body builds enough resistance to fight the virus and you dont need to go to Tamiflu which is the ultimate medicine.
  

Finally, Do not panic. It is not really something we should be so sacred about because it is not really a killer by itself. It is as dangerous as any other flu, only difference is that it becomes more resistant from days 5 onwards ( if untreated) and is more dangerous in case of infants.

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Pic of the Month - Sep(2)

This is a real one as the site claims. I am sure folks must have laughed their guts out!!....

The couple had set the timer on their camera while posing at a lakeside in a national park in Canada.
Just as they were about to be captured on camera the cheeky squirrel popped up in the foreground and stole the show

"Photo Photo pe likha hai ....Aane wale ka naam" - Deepak

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Pic Of the Month - Sep (1)

Well cool one from web for this month's Pic. I will try to dig some of my older emails to get a better one

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Insurance claim - How?

Experience teaches you more than what you can get from any book (or blog post) and recently after my bike and a speeding Skoda decided to get a bit cosy, leaving my bike with a bent forks and split fender I was forced to claim insurance and get the damn thing fixed.
So this post is for those who want to know what happens and how it happens when you claim insurance.

First off have a good look at your vehicle and estimate what parts are completely screwed. In some cases you can decide and in others you cannot so just get a rough estimate.
Second go to the vendor from where you got the vehicle only those guys will fix your vehicle well the rest will screw it up even further. In my case i went to Kiviraj bajaj and they spoilt my bike all the more ( My bike came from Kalyani Bajaj).
Once you go to the vendor, inform him that you want to do an Insurance claim and ask him to tell you the rough estimates of how much it is going to cost. The moment you say you will claim insurance, the folks will tell you all kinds of things that are wrong with you vehicle. Since, you have done an estimate yourself you can judge if they are bluffing. In case of bikes, they will always say that the fork is bent and the handlebar is twisted ....so be careful.
Next thing that you need to do is ask for the claim form and fill it up. Call your insurance folks and register the claim. The claim form will ask you for details like accident time, place vehicle make and other details which you should provide correctly.Submit all this with copies of your license, RC book and copy of premium paid details.

Forget your vehicle for a few days from then. It can be from 1 week in case of two wheelers to 2-3 weeks in case of four wheelers based on how much damage is done to your vehicle. The insurance company will call you up a couple of times to know in which garage is the vehicle etc. They will do a survey and then give the OK for the repairs to be done. Once the vehicle is ready you will have to pay up the bill and get your vehicle.
Then begins the wait for the SMS saying that the cheque for the insurance claim has been processed. This cheque should reach you in a few days.

Usually, if the vehicle repair bill is about X don't expect to get more than 2/3 of  X as insurance claim since a lot of parts will undergo depreciation and hence they are not considered for 100% reimbursements. Also depending on the age of the vehicle the insurance amount reimbursed will be lower.

While i wish that you never run into a situation where you would have to claim the insurance, I hope this blog post helps you in case you have to claim it.

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Where Statues live and People Die.

I fail to see where our culture figures in this  heroic stunt by the Maharastra government? Some days back there was a great furor created over the unveiling of the statues of Tiruvalluver in Bangalore. It is quite absurd to see the such gross misuse of public money. While people are dying everyday because of lack of medication, food and shelter our government feels, it is a great way of promotion of our culture by making new statutes.

“He is not a dead hero. He is alive in the minds of people who love Maharashtra,” added Awhad.

Yeah, right.... if he is alive in our minds then why do we need him in the sea that too at such a high price tag. In India apparently for everything a statue works as a solution. If you want to make your movie popular erect a statue, if you want to commemorate someone's life or death erect a statue. The human infatuation for erection...I mean erection of statues has reached a new high with the erection of the statue of the first Swine Flu victim in Mexico. 

Then there are some statues of people who are living but portrayed as dead in their bronze-iron versions. Of course, when it is not your money that is at stake you might as well get statues of all your family members put up ( even may be your family dog), however grotesque the sculpture might turn out to be......

Finally, by doing all this we are atleast doing the avian population in India a favor. We give them a new place to empty their bowels...instead of doing it on our heads....

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It's all in the game

The only question i have after reading this is .....

Badminton Association of India (BAI) officials reportedly forgot to e-mail her entry to the organisers on time.

Would this have happened to Cricket in India and for any sport anywhere else????

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World of languages

I have been taking some German language training for some time now. I also know a few other languages like Konkani which is also my mother tongue, Kannada, Hindi and English ofcourse. I also got a chance to taste a bit of Japanese as a foreign language and Bengali as the local language when i worked for TCS Kolkata. Also i have some exposure to tulu (being able to talk bits and pieces here and there!!). So having being acquainted with about half a dozen languages makes me wonder sometimes, " How does man ( women too!!) express the same thing in so many different ways". It is quite amazing to see how we all think in different languages the same thing or atleast similar things and coexist as a society. Also, what is more wonderful is that how each of these languages are complex or simple in their own ways.
                     For example German, i would call it as a language full of exceptions ( Read this from Mark Twain!!). There are as many exceptions as there are rule. But then i think this is applicable for many other languages including English!!....However, we do not realize this so much. If you take Chinese or Urdu here even the way the language is written is different from how many other languages are written ( top to bottom and right to left respectively). What could be the origin and the ideas behind the evolution behind these various form of representation of the Human ideas? However, some languages do not have a script of their own for example my mother tougue Konkani borrows the script from which ever script the speaker is most familiar with.
                     Next comes regarding the sounds in a language. Can one language represent all possible sounds in a faithful manner? Well this is definitely not true because i know a lot of sounds in Malayalam which i dont think i will be ever able to replicate forget writing them in anyway expect in Malayalam. The best part is that in every language there is some of the vocabalary is always cognate to some other language, usaully the one which is spoken in a geographical neighbor land. I remember when i learnt English not much significance was given to phonetics (You can see that from my pathetic accent of English!!) However, these days many schools are using the phonetics as the basis for teaching rather than using a for apple and b for ball types!!...
Nevertheless, I think it is a nice time-pass to learn a new language. Apparently, it helps in keeping ones brains tuned. So as long as it is fun i think it makes sense for one to learn a language in his free time. It is so sad and silly to see people fighting over language and preference of one language over the other....Each language is unique and has its own beauty..


 

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Pic of the month - August

This time too the wonder mail with the wonder photo came from Rohit Dude.
 
Not bad!!....One bottom ke saath ek free....Looks like Kishore Biyani really got a deal

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I want to get over with this!!

I do not know how to handle this. But then i have decided to let this matter just finish.....I hate doing this anymore.
First i get the bike fixed in Kivraj. He says he doesn't have the Mudguard and fixes rest of the things like fork bend etc. I say Ok anyway, I do not like the Kiviraj Bajaj work on my bike ( They did not even fix the mirror that was loose!!). I go to Kalyani Bajaj the dealer who sold me the vehicle. He inspects the vehicle, says that i can claim insurance and give me a bill of 5k out of which about 1.5K i have to bear. WTF!!. Why do i need to pay so much even though i have done nothing. I just feel so frustrated.....and guess what he says, the fork is still bent!!....Now whom to believe and whom not to. This situtation is so hopeless!!....

I have started to trust that ...

" Agar kismat hai Gandu to kya karega Pandu!!"

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Goat rules!!

Friday last week i almost saw the left hand of death when a Skoda did a Shilpa Shetty with my bike. From then I am until now begging and running behind the "Total Environment" guy who did this to me and my bike for the compensation.
Wonder what is so special in this goat that it gets this special privilege ....."When he one hits the goat the driver is thrashed....How I wish i could thrash the fellow who did this to me....Or should i say that human's acted like animals to show their concern for the animal....I wonder!!

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"Walk when you Talk!!"

Perhaps after reading this article we might be able to appreciate the

"Walk when you talk"

slogan being sent out by Idea....

People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the
sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too.

Imagine one day, PETA sues you for not having taken your dog for a walk which led to his high obesity. From the looks of it i am sure people would soon want phones & TV remotes that can charge on their own. Well then no one needs to bother to even walk to the charging station.
On a serious note it is quite essential for us to look at this problem in a much more serious perspective because only then we can ensure that our future generations can be healthy ( I am saying that looking down and my paunch and trying to hide it by doing some tummy tucking in !! Shame on me!!).
Man somehow is perhaps the only animal which has the knack of destroying himself and the nature at almost the same time and at surprisingly alarming rates.
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The Kisser and the Kissee!!

First it was Richard Gere and now the temple priest here. Apparently Ms. Shetty's cheeks seem to have a magnetic effect on men. However, I am sure when we have a serial kisser in Bollywood (read Imraan Hasmi), then how how can the females be left....so we have a serial kissee...??? ( I made up that word!!).
                 
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Ubuntu Automount failure

This is a new discovery that i made the hard way. This happened because i use the same set of plugins for Firefox between Windows and Ubuntu. The reason i do this is coz very frequently i switch between the two OS's for various reasons. I have posted here how to do this. However, as it is clear it needs that your C: in windows is automounted in Ubuntu on startup. This is pretty simple and for those of you who like to use the GUI more than the commandline i suggest use of pysdm. You can find more info regarding this here.

However, the problem that happened was that for some reason i had hibernated the Windows partition when during last session. When i opened the Ubuntu partition later i find that the automouting of C: failed and this led to my firefox failing to load because the symlink was now broken. This happens, because when windows hibernates the drive is in a dirty state and this makes the Ubuntu NOT mount the drive. This is true for NTFS & i am not sure if the same is applicable for fat32. More info is available here.

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When I ran into a Skoda

OK. I have graduated today to a new high. I had my first accident on my XCD. Thanks to a asshole who was driving his (bosses) Skoda thinking that it were a Ferrari. I ran into this Chez beauty from the side. The bike lost its mud guard, forks and a bit of its engine & I lost my good new bike, My safety record and a day of German class and Work. The disaster is that i couldn't understand how to handle the god damn situation. However,  As of now i lie in the house with a swollen leg, a slighly damaged left arm and a hugely damaged heart. ( For losing my safety record and second for losing the pristine condition of my bike!!).

However, the post is not to tell you about my woes but to tell you something that happened earlier that morning. When i was leaving my house, I hit the wall ( just a hit by the side when i was looking elsewhere). My Mom asked me to come back into the house and sit for sometime and go. Some kind of superstition. I did not go back coz i not willing to just go back sit for while and then get late to my German class. And guess what happens just after some 30 mins from then. I run into a Skoda....btw, I was not at fault. Brake marks on the street could tell you that I had braked as hard as possible to avoid the collision.  This observation some times makes me wonder if the Nature always tries to warn us about what is going to come forth and is trying to tell us to be careful. In Alchemist ( by Paulo Coelho) he talks about how nature shows us signs and signals that we are unable to read & intrepret ( Language of the World). I dont know what to call this but this makes me believe that there are some unknown forces or laws that we still dont understand well, which try to help us and warn us about things. I feel the same when i hear about serendipity based Inventions....Guys someone or something is out there who is helping us. Maybe invisible and may be showing you something right now!!

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Can Force India be the F1 Champs ?

" Force India yesterday won for the first time the coveted Formula One Racing, thanks to recession & frustration."

After BMW , Honda  and many others ( read Toyota, Renault) I would not be surprised to see this headline some day. However, I know that wherever Indians are involved there is a very good possibility even if the race consists of a single racer we might come second. Jokes apart, I think the lack of bigwigs like Honda, BMW and perhaps others will not only deprive F1 fans from the thrill of seeing their favorite teams contest but also would lead to a negative outlook towards the sport itself. I am still surprised to see the F1 management is still not doing much. Is this the end of the sport...only time can tell

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What is our greatest achievement?

The article here talks about "What perhaps is Mankind's greatest achievement". There have been various answers to this one starting from the Wheel to fire and the best one being video-games. However, the last sentence in the article made a lot of sense to me

One hopeful businessman in Italy told us, perhaps prematurely: "Peace, I'd say peace. That would be the greatest achievement for all."

I will agree with this gentleman for that is one thing we are lacking in the world today. A world free from fear where righteousness and hardwork rule rather than a world full of corruption & backstabbing. After all it is happiness that we all yearn for at the end of the day. But, then we all know our brains have been developed in such a way that we always try to compete with one another. Healthy competition is good however, every competition turns ugly at some point of time. If you have any better things that you feel are man's best achievement do let me know.
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Zardari & The SMS

Pakistan is known for making stupid remarks be it at National level or at International level. This has given stand up comedians enough material on their hands to keep their audiences happy. However, Pak doesn't want that to happen for long as reported here.....

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced last week that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked to trace SMS (or text messages) and e-mails that "slander the political leadership of the country" under the vague Cyber Crimes Act.

Two parts of article make we laugh out loud...

...the government would seek Interpol assistance in deporting foreign offenders.

Dude, WTF. Are you really serious that you are expecting countries to deport people who take your president's name. What more does he need to become more unpopular. And the best part is what your own folks are telling

"We now draft the text in such a way that Zardari's name is not mentioned and yet everyone who receives it knows the joke is about Zardari," laughed Bashir.

First understand what is the difference between SMS and MMS then ask your folks to track down the offenders.. Perhaps if Pak tries to use its resources to do something more fruitful rather than bombing neighbouring countries & Tracking SMSes then it might increase Mr. Zardari's popularity ( or notority!!)
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Income Tax Filing - 09-10

 Till last year, or so to say last assessment year (This is Assessment year  09-10. ), I would just fill in whatever i was asked to by the Consultant in our company and then by end of July he would provide me with an acknowledgement form which said that all my tax returns related issues where taken care of. The best part of the whole process was that it was free becuase of which i never ever bothered to delve deeper into it. This year i am in a different firm and these blokes dont have any arrangement with some tax consulatant to provide us with this assistance. The guy who does come to my office to help us with the tax filing procedure charges 300 bucks...I thought that this i will do it myself and started to look out for a DO-IT-YOURSELF tax filing guide. I did not have to look far because the Income-Tax website provides a very comprehensive list of faq's & Tutorials which make filing your tax a peice of cake. It took me about 5 minutes that ITR-I was the one that i needed to use. You will have to register on the website to file the returns. This is a bit tricky because the server undergoes routine maintainance & will not allow registration during those hours....(However, the error messages are totally non intutive and incorrect that it throws up during these hours!!).

You will have to download a tool to file your returns. The Excel based tool is quite well made and ensures that you do not make any silly mistakes. ( You will need to enable macro's to ensure that they work fine). The Engineer in me tried to look at the code which ofcourse was well protected by a password. There are two versions of the tool one is Excel based for those who have Microsoft Excel installed on their computers. The other version is Adobe's PDF form which can be edited.I did not try that one but i am sure even that will work the same way. Your Form-16 is the source for most of the information that is needed in the form. In case you have some other sources of income you will have to fill that information as well.

The tool output's an XML file which encapuslates all the information that has been entered by you in the Excel sheet. You will have to login into the website (to which by now you would have registered) and then you upload the XML file. You are almost done with filing your return. However, the acknowledgement of having filed the return (ITRV) will be emailed to you in the form of a zip file. On extraction the zip file provides you with a PDF file which is password protected. ( Password = PAN NUMBER+DDMMYYYY(date of birth)). Please note that you will have to enter the password in all lower case ( Took a while to figure this out!!). Take a printout of this and bless it with an autograph of yours & mail it to the address mentioned on the form. That should complete the process of filing for you. Here is a web demo from the website.

So guys & Gals buy yourself a good movie ticket or a good meal for the 300 bucks....and do the tax filing yourself

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Pic of the month - July

This time it was Rohit's mail that got us this nice pic...
I love it.....

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1GB = ?

This is a very hilarious post....

My ask, what is the weight/file ratio? So for example, how many GB's = 6oz? I dread the day I need a dolly to commute to work with my Laptop.

Many thanks to my friend Divya for pointing this out.....First reactions after reading this Wow, best joke "i have heard in recent times..."

Btw, I still believe that "There are not stupid questions, Only answers are stupid"...but this one strongly tries to change my belief.
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Shed it !!

The WTF article i read today is here.

Mr Taylor told them that, by stripping off their clothes, staff could also strip away inhibitions and talk to each other more openly and honestly.

Well that is a cool idea to bring out your honest self. I further suggest that all prisoners & undertrials in jails should not be given any clothing...this would make them honest and they might reveal things that they normally would not have. More so, if even the police officers interrogating them follow the suit. Looks like these days there are a lot of things that are getting achieved by altering or removing in totality some piece of clothing. Wonder if this is implemented in India, then i am sure going to be one of the people who is going to shift nearer to such an office ;-).
And now we also know why our Indian Cricket team captians often remove their shirts....
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Bandra-Worli Sea Link

I really dont give a damn about what they name the bridge. However, the funny remark is in the last paragraph here

Following a demand by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, the bridge will be named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, chief minister Ashok Chavan had announced.

Well I wonder if Mr. Sharad Pawar thinks that he built the brigde with his pocket money which gives him the supreme right to demand something? It is the public money that was used to build the bridge....Why not name it after someone who really symbolizes Mumbai or Maharastra in general.
Ok i will stop...I dont have the right to bore you now...

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China on prowl

My friend Ravi Shankar had an oppurtunity to visit China during one of his client trips. The picture he painted was of a nation that wanted to rule the world, not just by its cheap manufacturing technologies but also in the feild of software and Research. A lot of people always say that Chinese are very good copy-cat's and perhaps they really cant build anything of their own.  However, time and again it has been shown by the communist nation that everyone's notions regarding them are false.The sucess story of the Bejieng Olympics proves this.India lost to China in terms of being a manufacturing hub because of its policies in the mid late 80's and early 90's.  The Chinese government nurtured their companies to ensure that they could manufacture things cheap & good(if not best).
wiki states

"Made in China" is one of the most recognizable labels in the world today due to the large manufacturing industry of the rapidly developing China.

Now, China is emerging as a nation that no more wants to be crippled because of its poor English speaking capability. The report here suggests that China is already overtaking us when it comes to Ph.D's. This will enventually mean that a lot of researche work that is currently being outsourced (or happening) in India will move to China. The report states that less than 1% of the students who finish UG courses take up the doctrate. The reason is quite simple. Most of us are happy with our Software jobs which are easily available ( That includes me!!). However, it is not long before this category of jobs also dries up because there are more and more players getting into the game. India though has a ocean of experience when it comes to software, we have seen China that learns anything very fast ( Even if it is by merely copying!!).
It is time our guys and gals also start looking into the technical area's in depth...else soon we would be going back in time....

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Happiness formula

Who in world told that there is not fixed formula for happiness. This article tells otherwise..

Psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall has devised a formula to pinpoint the day we are all most likely to feel the cheeriest....
The Happiness Formula - O + (N x S) + Cpm/T + He

So next time you have that sad look on your face & dont know how to cheer up, take your calculator and try to get the equation right.
My take on happiness is what i found online...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
                                                                          -Ingrid Bergman

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Pic Of the Month - June

This month the "pic of the month" is a bit late. However, i am happy with what i found. Though this is low resolution snap it is good enough.

Introducing the worlds first three-Engine, 9-wheeled Gasoline,Kerosine ( or anything that can burn) powered vehicle with new diagonal body. It needs 3-drivers and has extreme navigational capacity ( It can take you through the entire town even though you want to go just next door!!).
Available only in one color combination ( Yellow N Black)
Photo: Thanks to CJ from IBN.
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Hybrid Bulldozers are in!!

Heard of Hybrid bulldozers & earth moving equipment....Caterpillar's latest offering D7E is just that.

The D7E's greater fuel economy means lessened greenhouse gas emissions.It meets the EPA's Tier 3 standard regulating nitrogen oxide,hydrocarbons, and particulate matter for nonroad diesel equipment.

A hybrid ( However, not really like we know hybrid cars but better than having nothing :-)) dozer will ensure that we save fuel by running the diesel engines in their maximum efficiency range while the electric motors do the job of moving the earth. Also, there is lesser noise for the driver to put up with, which i am sure will make it a hit among the Dozer drivers.

Cool idea ain't it? Btw, just in case you did not know most of our diesel locomotives use the same method to run.

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Sleep on it

This article on the BBC website proves that my urge to sleep at odd hours during the day is nothing but my inner scientist trying to make some new break through...

The old adage "I'll sleep on it" may have some truth in it, after all.
A study by researchers at the University of California San Diego has
concluded that problems are more likely to be solved after a period of
dreamy (rapid eye movement) sleep.

So guys and gals search for that pillow & go to slumber..........................
( Now I realize why my one of my friends who always kept his gmail status as Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....made it big ;-))
Anyway, found this on the net somewhere.
Confucious say: "Man who goes to sleep with sex on mind wakes up with solution in hand."
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Tetris - Silver Jubilee

This article makes me nostalgic.

It has sold more than 70 million copies, been released for nearly every
video-game platform of the past two decades and even been played on the
side of a skyscraper.

I remember always wanting to have a TV Video game as a kid. It was one of the things that i thought would keep me eternally happy. However, as fate would have it i could never own one. However, what i eventually owned was a hand held video game box called the brickgame. There were a few variants of Tetris in this simple monochrome LCD based game box. I loved it and was hooked to it instantly. As Tetris turns 25, i am still very sure it can bring back the same excitement in me when i play it as a 26 year old :-). Btw, I used to play tetris sometime back on my mobile phone.!!

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Where is the Loo, Mate?

I thought of writing in my views after reading this rather funny (and shameful at the same time) narration of the plight of a female journalist.

While one them examined my pass the other kept staring at my abdomen with such intensity that I had just started wondering whether his X-ray vision would be able to tell exactly how full my bladder was and whether I would pass muster so that he would let me enter.

Now the biggest problem is that no one realizes that it is a problem that needs to be addressed. In our male dominated society, very little thought is given to having toilets in the right places and even if we have them then they are usually so bad that not many can use them.

The day everyone of us gets a toilet to use, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress.

The above statement is from Jawaharrlal Nehru. In India most of the places are urinals atleast for men. All that is needed is a smelly corner & you will see that there will some people ready to water the plants. So why bother about the fairer gender. This also applies to places where buses take a break during overnight journey. The drivers stop the buses in places where there are no toilets for men let alone loo's for women. It is not only scary for women to go to dark corners to relieve themselves but also unhygenic. Sadly no one looks at it from that angle. On one of my trips with the office gang to shimoga, the toilets in the railways station almost made me puke. I dont know why we silently ignore this problem.

Thank god In Bangalore there are quite a good number of "Sulabha Shouchalayas". In one of the articles which i read, a "Sulabha Shouchalaya" employee told that he cannot maintain the toilets properly because often there were thieves who would steal the taps in the night. Also, in some of these toilets there is always a scarcity of water. In may foreign countries, there are paid toilets. Somehow, the idea is not well accepted in India where people prefer to empty their bladders in open rather than pay and use the toilet. I wonder in a city where even the begger has a cellphone why is there a paucity suffient sanitation.

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Aussie agression

How long will this continue?

Ashish was reportedly hit by a metal object and the police was called.Ashish was admitted to Alferd Hospital with serious injuries and later discharged.

 In the past couple of weeks the atrocities that have been meant on innocent Indian students in Australia is alarming. The government so far doesn't seem to have done anything concrete ( that is both the Australian Government & their Indian counterparts!!). To save grace after so many days of complete anarchy Kevin Rudd (PM Aussie land!!) has promised that there would be action taken against the guilty. However, the students in the rally which took place in Australia (showing protest against the attacks) went under the police baton.

Ideally, the Australian government should be more worried about such attacks because in the wake of such events most of the student fraternity would strike off Australia from its list of preferred destination for higher education. This would not only impact Australian universities but also have a cascade effect on the society.

Lastly, In India still there are a lot of folks who believe in Tit-for-Tat policy. So do not be surprised if we see attacks happening on Australian nationals in India.
India should get global spotlight on this matter ( which is no more a stray case of racism!!) and mount pressure on Australia to ensure that safety of non-australian students in Australia. The Australian government on its part should ensure that the miscreants ( which i am sure is a very small group, It is not that overnight the Australians started hating us!!) are taken to task. This will really show that Australia is really interested in keeping up this relationship with our country. Of course, in India we ought to ensure that no retaliatory attacks happen against foreign nationals ( Aussies or otherwise).

Mantriji narrated this one.
A british man once went to Australia...
At the immigration the young Aussie officer asked him
"Sir, Do you have any crimminal record"
pat came the reply from the Englishman
" Jesus, I never knew you still require one to visit Australia!!"

Finally, It is for the Aussies to prove that they have left their crimminal ways!!
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Public Paisa Apna jaisa!!

Amit here blogs about the gross misuse of power that our governments do in order to satisfy their needs.

The report says that “it was Pranab Mukherjee who sought that Deepa be made a minister for the sake of Munshi.” If Mr Mukherjee feels such compassion for Mr Das Munshi, he should pay for the treatment out of his own pocket. Why dig into mine?

I totally agree with Amit on the point that ruling governments use their power to twist and turn law. Frankly speaking, as a stupid Indian software professional I pay almost 50% of my income to the government in terms of tax directly or indirectly. Does Pranab Mukherjee think that we are giving taxes for him to ensure that Mr Das Munshi gets his hospital care. The Apathy of the situation is such that when it comes to helping the cyclone hit people in WB it takes Mr.Bhattacharjee more than a week.

The villagers asked the chief minister why he had come to this block so late. "Why is it that the government has not been able to send relief to us even a week after the cyclone struck?"

And to add insult to injury this happens

A television channel carried a report that some relief workers were kept confined in a tin room at Sonakhali for hours by the district administration on the plea of the chief minister's safety, but officials denied the report.

In India anything really goes. Our memory is short, we dont raise our voice to injustice and we always look for our good then what is right..It is frustrating.....and sad both.

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The winged Thief

In India one of the popular methods of knowing one's fortune is by a parrot picking up a card from a stack of cards on which some (supposedly) details what is in store for you in the future.
However, this particular parrot seems to have changed the fortune of a Scotmand in a dramatically and in an off-beat way.

A police spokesman in Te Anau, the nearest town, said the kea had swooped on a brightly colored courier bag containing the man's
passport when the coach made a stop and the driver opened the luggage compartment.

Well, Mr Parrot what will you do with the passport?

My passport is somewhere out there in Fiordland. The kea is probably using it for fraudulent claims or something

Funny isn't it? In India i am sure a case would have been booked against the parrot and then there would be a public prosecutor who would try to to prove that the parrot was underage ( juvenile) and hence could not be booked. Btw, what is the age before which a parrot is considered Juvenile?
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