tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44187323896129655172024-03-05T16:50:44.691-05:00Gyaan, Monologue... Whatever you call it !inscriptions of a wanderer !CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-75480024083753473282014-05-28T22:15:00.001-04:002014-05-28T22:31:46.684-04:00Much ado about Mushrooms!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span xmlns="">A lot of people have this question, Is Mushroom a vegetable?</span><br />
<span xmlns="">Some vegetarians even avoid eating mushrooms as they consider it to be a non-vegetarian. </span><br />
<span xmlns="">I can understand why the question arises. They are one of the foods, which can be cooked in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian cooking methods. It's one of those fleshy, thick foods, which is very sumptuous and filling, it provides good amount of protein with very less fat. </span><br />
<span xmlns="">Why I talk about mushrooms, you may ask. Well, it was supposed to be the build up for the mushroom recipe, am about to write about. So let me jump right in.</span><br />
<span xmlns="">I have named it <em>"Mushroom mania"</em> (Just being fancy). It's an Indian style mushroom curry with not much of a twist.</span><br />
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<span xmlns=""><strong>Ingredients:</strong></span><br />
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<li><span xmlns="">Button or portabella mushrooms (Chop each into 4 pieces) – 250 g (about 10-15 mushrooms)</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Medium onion thinly chopped lengthwise – 1</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Medium tomato finely chopped– 1</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Ginger – 1 inch</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Garlic – 4 pods</span></li>
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<li><span xmlns="">Cinnamon stick – ½ inch</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Cloves – 2</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Fennel seeds – ¼ teaspoon </span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Cumin seeds, mustard seeds, urad dhal - ½ teaspoon.</span></li>
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<span xmlns="">Cooking oil - 2 tablespoon</span></div>
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<span xmlns=""><strong>For Flavor/Hotness</strong></span><br />
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<li><span xmlns="">Curry leaves – 8-10 </span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Chili powder – ½ teaspoon</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Pepper powder – 1 teaspoon</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Meat masala – 1 teaspoon</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Salt – to taste.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Chicken broth – 1 cup</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Coriander leaves – handful.</span></li>
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<li><span xmlns="">Mix the mushrooms with pepper and meat masala and marinate it for 15 minutes.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Set the stove on medium heat. In a saucepan, add all the items listed under "for temper" and sauté a bit until the mustard seeds pop. </span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Add the curry leaves, Ginger and Garlic and sauté until the garlic smell goes away.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Add the onions and sauté it until it becomes translucent.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Set the stove to low heat and let the onions cook for at least 5 minutes.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Add tomatoes and mix well; let the tomatoes cook for another 5 minutes and observe that tomatoes are in a semi mashed state</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Add the chili powder and salt, mix well and let it cook for another 2 minutes.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Add the chicken broth, mix well and set the stove to medium heat and bring to boil and let it boil for 5 minutes</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Add the marinated mushrooms, mix well and add coriander leaves on top and boil for 2-3 minutes.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Set the stove on simmer and let it cook for 10 minutes.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">The mushroom curry is ready to eat.</span></li>
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<li><span xmlns="">Chicken broth gives it the additional flavor and also makes mushroom texture to be a bit like chicken and juicy.</span></li>
<li><span xmlns="">Meat Masala can be substituted with garam masala, if you want it hotter.</span></li>
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CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-72687010763306702192012-08-31T15:31:00.000-04:002012-08-31T15:31:31.319-04:00Etiquette for sharing factual information on Facebook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had this post in development for quite a long time now. I believe it's high time i get it out and post it. we live in a world of social media now, you could share every bit of information that you find, to a large number of people immediately. people who don't even know you can share that very information to others and it can get spread like wild fire in a matter of hours.Sharing has created viral medias, sensationalized news issues, even triggered revolution in some countries. so that is a great power for a common man and ...<br />
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<i><b>"With great power comes great responsibility"</b></i> (Quoted in Spiderman by Stan Lee).<br />
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Just because i quoted Spiderman, it doesn't literally mean you need to become a superhero and fight crimes on Facebook.But, <i>Are you being responsible on Facebook while sharing information ? </i>Of course, here i am not talking about your personal information (<i>that's obviously your personal responsibility)</i>, I mean a larger level of sharing factual information. information that could be shared and read by many others,and could have an impact on an individual or a society.<br />
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Here are a few aspects of shared information which I believe is irresponsible and needs to be addressed.<br />
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<b>1. Fake and False Information :</b><br />
There is an enormous amount of False information being shared everyday by a lot of people in form of picture messages, Links and posts. A lot of those are fake facts created by users who just want to get attention to their groups or profiles. These messages and posts vary in topics from sports, politics to even religion. Some of the information I've seen look outright fake and completely false, but still there are plenty of people who share it and spread it, like it's a true fact.<br />
Let me give you some examples I've seen. These were shared by plenty of people, each of these posts had thousands of shares. ( Y<i>ou may disprove me, if I have got it wrong</i>)<br />
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a. <i>Letter from Swiss bank to Indian Government (fake) : </i><br />
This is a picture message that lists out the amount of money, a lot of politicians have in their Swiss bank accounts, It even has the Swiss bank seal on it. However, It's a complete fake document.<br />
Why? - Swiss bank corporation's main feature is that it provides<i> "confidentiality, security and discretion" </i>to all it's account holders. It is completely exempt from extradition laws, which means that any country or government cannot demand information of it's clients or their assets from the bank, neither will the bank provide them(1).<br />
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Common sense question - why would all the politicians hide their black money in Swiss bank if it's going to let out all the details to the government agencies?<br />
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<i>b. "imitinef mercilet" - The cure for blood cancer(misleading) :</i><br />
The message that says this 'cure for cancer' drug is available in Adyar Cancer Institute in Chennai, it's free and contact them for details. False misleading information, It's not a cure for blood cancer, rather a drug (also called <i>Imatinib mesylate</i>) to treat blood cancer and It's not Free. It costs $32,000 for a year(2).<br />
<b><i>Why? </i></b>Cancer research is going on in full scale all around the globe, there are drugs to treat blood cancer, not completely cure it. However, there are certain forms of cancer for which cure has been found, but they have all been a global level news feature. Trust me, when an actual cure for blood cancer comes you'd definitely come to know.<br />
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<i>Common sense</i> - Isn't it very obvious, a cure for cancer is found & it's not in news but it's being spread in form of messages on Facebook?<br />
<i>This is a very sensitive bit of information, by sharing it, you are increasing the hopes of many cancer patients and their relatives. not only that, you are giving unnecessary headache to the cancer institute receptionist.</i><br />
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<i>c. The Rama Sethu (false) :</i><br />
The highly controversial but also a highly false information that's being shared on Facebook. it's a picture message that says "1750000 (1.75 million) year old man made bridge between India and Srilanka built by Lord Rama"<br />
I agree, the bridge does exist. there are satellite images of that particular stretch of Land between the two countries, It's also called "Adam's Bridge". however, the other information that it's 1.75 million years old is totally false.<br />
<b><i>Why ?</i></b> the radio carbon dating and thermoluminescence dating done by Bharatidasan university and GSI(geological survey of India) determined that it ages about 4000 years(3). Secondly, the first ape (Homo erectus) evolved only about 1.2 million years ago, and Humans evolved from apes only about 400,000 years ago. so, It's definitely not man made.<br />
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<i>Common sense</i> - I've went to school, college and even have a masters degree, so I can only believe in facts, I have a completely different perspective about Ramayana and i cannot see this in a religious view, but there are a lot of people who share this based on their blind religious faith, which is a lot more powerful than common sense.<br />
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<b><i>This are just 3 of the obvious examples from a whole lot. There are hundreds of fake,false and misleading information shared on Facebook, in fact there are websites, dedicated to tell the truth about this bad information.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>2."Like/share this pic, Facebook will donate 1 cent for each share"</i></b><br />
I am sure you might have come across 1 or 2 posts like this especially with extremely graphic pictures of babies or animals. this is not only a hoax, you might know Facebook has 950 Million users, they are definitely not going to donate money for every share, they will go bankrupt in hours. Also, the graphic pictures are very uncomfortable to see. Remember you are sharing in a public platform, not everyone has the same level of comfort as you do. many might find it gruesome and disgusting, be courteous to others.<br />
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<i><b>3. Glorifying Celebrities (read actors):</b></i><br />
This is quite a new trend, mainly focused in a smaller region of South India.However, it's a menace. There are tons of pictures and messages shared about certain actors and their so called achievements, and thrashes his competition with vulgar slang/imagery. It is fine, if you are a fan of certain actor and are showing your love for them, but why talk about trash the other actors? they both do the same job of entertaining people. if you don't like his movies, don't watch them or talk about how bad they were. but do not use vulgarity in portraying someone bad.<br />
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Same is true for Sports persons, if you are a fan of one athlete and you think he's better than the other.. show the statistics, records say he's better than him in this aspect. It's Sportive and gives added respect instead of slandering them based on a bias. it's not a mature thing to do.<br />
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<b><i>So what can you share ?</i></b><br />
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There are millions of true, interesting and informative articles,blogs, videos and picture facts of extremely diverse fields available on the Internet. Articles from any legitimate news organizations like CNN, Reuters, TIME, Huffington posts are all fair game. they have a direct reference, which are genuine. even Wikipedia is fine as most articles do contain references. <br />
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Lot of people share Internet memes, Quotes, " if you had this in childhood, you were awesome" pics, movie clips, music videos etc... There's nothing wrong in sharing those pics or messages, as long as it's not hurting anyone. Of course, you cannot satisfy everyone, but at least think about your immediate surroundings before sharing stuff.<br />
If you find any interesting facts of information, you want to share it, There are plenty of sites such as hoax slayer, hoaxorfact etc.. that do tell if the fact is true or fake.<br />
If you are even lazier to do it, there's a simpler tool called 'Google'( I am sure you must have noticed it in the Internet).<br />
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So i request my fellow friends and Facebook users... To SHARE Responsibly.<br />
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Do you Agree with me? please share this blog, Promote responsible sharing. (you can even comment, nothing wrong in it)<br />
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Disagree with me ? Please leave a comment about your views.<br />
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References :<br />
1.<a href="http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Politics/swiss-bank-statement-to-government-of-india.html">Swiss bank document - a hoax</a><br />
2. <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2008/021588s024lbl.pdf">FDA approves imatinib</a><br />
3. <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=17736">Rama Sethu is only 4000 years old</a><br />
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CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-69911100516142239552012-08-24T13:08:00.000-04:002012-08-24T13:08:30.256-04:00Why do Indian Super Heroes Fail ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am a big fan of Comic book characters and superhero movies. I have watched pretty much all the superhero movies from <i>'Superman 1'</i> to the latest '<i>The Dark Knight Rises</i>' and for a long time wondered, if Indian cinema could come up with a good superhero movie, but it has been quite a disappointment.<br />
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About my title question, <i>Why do i ask this question now ?</i><br />
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Well, there's yet another Indian superhero movie coming up in a short while. This time in Tamil called <i>"Mugamoodi"</i> (tamil for Mask) with Jeeva (spelled as Jiiva) as the lead. so i thought i'll talk about the Indian superheros and reasons for their miserable failure in the past. I thought i'll explain this in a comprehensive manner like a origin story ( you know with the intro, background, villains etc).<br />
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First of all, you may ask, why Indian cinema should even care about superheroes. It's simple. cos, we literally created the damn thing... with our epics, the larger than life heroes with actual super powers. The Pandavas are quite similar to the <i>Avengers</i> in some ways... Krishna = Thor, Bheema = Hulk, Arjuna = Hawkeye, Draupathi = black widow??<br />
Ok jokes apart. we still are a culture who have a lot of fantasy,magic and out of world stuff in our literature over a 1000 years, so this superhero thing should be a piece of cake for our movie makers. isn't it? Yet, they Fail miserably.<br />
Let me first introduce you to our Indigenous superheros..<br />
1.<i> Indian Superman </i>- yes, to my wonder.. there was an Indian superman played by Puneet issar (same guy who played bheema in mahabharata tv series)<br />
2. <i>Toofan</i> - Big B's first movie about an Indian superhero.<br />
3. <i>Shahenshah</i> - Another Amitabh bachchan movie about a Batman style vigilante.<br />
4.<i> Ajooba</i> - the Big B's third take on an Indian superhero. Even after his two failures, he really gave it a shot at it.<br />
5.<i> Shaktimaan</i> - Indian Television's First and only Superhero. <br />
6.<i> Drona </i>- It was now time for the Small B to take a stab at the superhero genre.<br />
7. <i>Krrish</i> - Hrithik roshan's masked vigilante, was the Odd one out, why, cos it was a super hit.<br />
8. <i>Ra.One</i> - SRK's incredibly horrible self proclaimed superhero movie (there are many reasons why it should not be one).<br />
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Although, many said Rajnikanth's <i>Endhiran </i>(robot) was a superhero blockbuster. i wouldn't agree.<i> Endhiran</i> was a science fiction, not a superhero movie.!<br />
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Out of 8 Superhero characters only 2 managed to get some name and fame. <i>Shaktimaan</i> was very famous at the time it aired, but it looks like a hilarious spoof of the superhero genre, if you watch it now. (I found it the same way as a kid as well, never liked him) but the other one, <i>Krrish</i> managed to score good points with a fantastic casting and a original character with some decent script(the movie was a bit ripped off from '<i>Paycheck</i>').<br />
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I used to think, Indian cinema didnt have the money and technology to create good superhero movies, but after movies like <i>Endhiran</i> and <i>Ra.One</i>, which were far technologically advanced i knew things have changed, we have the resources and budget to produce a superhero blockbuster. so that's not the problem here. then what could possibly be stopping Indian Cinema from producing a decent superhero character?<br />
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There are 3 possible reasons, i would like to put forward.<br />
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<b>1. Conviction:</b><br />
In the Movie, '<i>The Avengers'</i>. Agent Coulson says to Loki before his death that he'd never win because he lacked Conviction. This fits perfectly for our Indian superheroes. they lack conviction, a sense of purpose like their American counterparts. <i>Batman</i> fights against street crime since his parents were killed by it.<i> Superman</i> has lost his home planet, so he tries to save his foster home from being destroyed by evil, <i>Spiderman</i> realizes that 'with great power comes great responsibility' and fights crime than earning money with it in spite of being a poor college student.<br />
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Our Indian superheroes on the other hand, Lack it. the sense of purpose for becoming a greater power. Our superheroes merely seek revenge for their personal sufferings.<i> Toofan</i> takes revenge on his father's killers. <i>Krisshh </i>fights the bad guy cos his father was held hostage by him. <i>Shahenshah</i> is a Cop who cannot handle the responsibility of being a cop, yet fight crime in disguise and<i> G.one</i> is a Video game character (enough said).<br />
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<i>Batman, Spiderman Iron man </i>etc, get their Conviction from personal sufferings, but it turns into a larger purpose where as our Indegenous ones fail to convert the revenge into a larger purpose of saving the world.<br />
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<b>2. Larger than Life Average Heroes:</b><br />
Our Indian movies always portray a larger than life hero who can Fight without any prior learning experience, smash 10-15 baddies in a single punch, speak punch dialogues, which is a non violent way of killing bad guys or even make a Train behave like your pet puppy (this scene from a telugu movie is epic, if you haven't seen it yet, it's a shame; search "balakrishna train scene" in youtube and watch epic awesomeness)<br />
Even the greatest superheroes can't do the things an average day to day life hero does in Indian movies. So when a average hero can do it in civilian clothes, why need a costume, fancy name and powers. that's just unnecessary expense rite?<br />
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<b>3. Originality:</b><br />
<i>G.One</i> (from Ra.One) is a video game character who's sole purpose is to protect a kid from evil villain.. It's<i> 'Terminator 2'</i> without the futuristic feel and Arnie's style. <i>Toofan</i> is basically batman someone who takes revenge on the people who kill his father.<i> Shaktimaan</i> is a complete ripoff of Superman except he's that not an alien. Heck, i dont even know what<i> Drona's</i> story is. it's that bad.<br />
It's probably the main reason for the failures. Lack of a genuine script. The Ripoffs in the name of so called Inspirations are just ruining the essence of being a superhero. why can't they come up with a fresh script and origins instead of being a mere ripoff of the american comic book characters in a silly way.<br />
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It's not as hard as it seems to create an Indigenous superhero. we have a plethora of mythological characters, stories, and ideas, which could be adapted to make a bad ass superhero. yet, we fail to do so.<br />
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<i><b>Why?</b></i><br />
<i><b>Lack of Creativity?</b></i><br />
<i><b>Laziness?</b></i><br />
<i><b>Movie Makers Addicted to ripping off from originals?</b></i><br />
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I don't know, I wonder if we can even get any justification for that from our film fraternity. I just hope at least Mysskin and Jiiva give us a Good Indian Superhero with the upcoming movie <i>"Mugamoodi" !</i><br />
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Do you agree with my post? or have something else to say? either way, please leave your comments below !<br />
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CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-52439890480011201012012-06-23T23:54:00.006-04:002012-06-23T23:55:00.758-04:0020 Days and it's Experiences.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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20 days to India. It's a pity that visiting home should be called a vacation,
when you now live in far off land of the United States. It was a short and
sweet vacation to my home - Chennai. The 20 days flew as fast as it could, but I
managed to enjoy and savor a lot of experiences in that brief period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some of those experiences with you. Here are 20 experiences in those beautiful
20 days in India in no particular order!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Zyoptix </b><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Laser surgery</b> - It's a surgery done on the eye to correct refractive powers;
basically you do not need to wear power glasses to see after this surgery. I
had this procedure done for the same reason, I wanted to wear sunglasses. A
fascination that started in childhood watching</span> Rajnikanth <span style="background-color: white;">use them in style. So No more power glasses for me. I
can show off with sun glasses and have already got a Ray Ban to start with.
(p.s. the operation was super scary)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Air Tickets solve
Dilemma</b> - A few months back, my mom and sis moved to Bangalore from Chennai.
Dad got promoted and moved to Ahmadabad. So I was confused on where to
have the family meet, whether in Chennai, Bangalore or Ahmadabad. The air
tickets solved the question; Chennai had the cheapest tickets and well,
rightfully so. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>London Dreams
</b>- During my flight to India, I had a 10 hour transit at London</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Heathrow<span style="background-color: white;">. Online
research said that I could go out into the city with a 24 hour visa, if I had a
transit of 6+ hours. So I was all excited to visit London as well...
Unfortunately, it didn't happen. so I ended up sitting for 10 hours in</span> Heathrow<span style="background-color: white;">, it didn't help my case that even Chennai Super kings
lost the</span> IPL <span style="background-color: white;">final that day.. A
Day of broken dreams... :(</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>A surprise welcome</b> - We had a new member in
our family about a year back, a Dog named "Sugar". A Fierce and
daunting hunter dog, who was once small, cute and cuddly. He had grown into
this gigantic form, which’s feared by everyone. I was visiting after 2 years
and we hadn't met at all. I was a bit scared about the meet as I had heard a
lot of him over phone from mom and sis that he's very fierce and uncontrollable
but it was completely the opposite when I met him. He behaved as if he knew me
since his birth that was the friendliest welcome from a big beast. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>College Friends </b>- I
met my college friends on two occasions. A hand full of them only could make it
to the meet, but it was a very nice short meet. It has been 5 years since we
parted ways from college; everyone is in a different walk of life now. No one
is really doing what we expected, we would achieve after college but it was
interesting to see that the same old friendship remained pretty fresh. And yes,
it's been five years and still people wouldn't stop talking about
certain things... :P</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>School
Buddies</b> - If college seemed a long time ago, School is ancient times. Yet, I
managed to meet 3 of my school friends, 3 very close friends.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Prem<span style="background-color: white;">,</span> Harshal <span style="background-color: white;">and Raj</span> mohan<span style="background-color: white;">.
The meet with each of them was short, we didn't really have time to talk about
all those lost years but it was really nice catching up with them and their
lives without having to use</span> facebook!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>A Friendship through comments</b> -</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Sinduja<span style="background-color: white;">. A fellow Left</span> Hander <span style="background-color: white;">and a dear friend! She got introduced to me through a
mutual friend. Our friendship and communication is only through comments in our
blogs and on </span>Facebook<span style="background-color: white;">, yet she's a
friend with whom I share a high level of Intellectual compatibility (yes, we
are very smart!), both online and in person. Even</span> <span style="background-color: white;">though I knew her for more than 2 years, I had met her
only once before this trip. (This time I met her twice! so it's in increments
with every India visit!)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">When we met for the first time, she was going to start her
studies in journalism; I was almost done with my masters and was in verge of
starting my job search. I told her that, "the next time we meet, we'd both
have completed what we are starting now, and would be in good jobs". Guess
what... It came true! When I met her this time, she completed her studies
and started a job, and I had worked almost 1 year in my current job.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Fights that will be
missed</b> - My Sister 'Sasi' and I share a close bond. Our sibling fights make it
a lot stronger. During those 20 days, we had so many of those fights, some
silly, some serious ones too. I really regret that the fighting opportunities
have become very scarce since I left to USA. I do advise her occasionally (as I
am the elder responsible one you see...) but it ends up in a fight. I even
tried to advise her about her Masters studies before I left for my flight, and
it did end up in a fight... What else do you expect?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b> Cousins who are not Kids anymore </b>- I am the
eldest grandson on both sides of my family, so I am used to seeing all younger
cousins as small kids. Only this time, I realized that the kids have grown up a
lot and were not actually kids but are in their late teens. All but one of my
cousins on both sides of my family are done with school and are in college now.
(one more reason to feel old at 26)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Anna</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b> Nagar </b><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Destroyed</b> - my hometown of Anna</span> Nagar <span style="background-color: white;">was not the way I am used to know. It had changed so
much due to the metro rail project and flyover constructions. The Anna</span> nagar <span style="background-color: white;">main road and</span> shanthi <span style="background-color: white;">colony road have become one ways. there's no</span> thirumangalam <span style="background-color: white;">signal and commuting from my house had become a
complicated thing as I had to travel extra 2</span> kms <span style="background-color: white;">in and out of small streets to reach the main
road... am little satisfied that I got to see the famous Anna Arch before it's
being demolished to make way for a flyover there.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Weddings Attended</b> - I managed to attend 2
weddings out of 4 that I was invited to. One of those was in Chennai and the
other all the way far in Nagpur. The one in Chennai was a bit of surprise, as I
came to know of the wedding only a few days before I left to India. the wedding
itself was a surprise as the bridegroom, my college friend had a unique talent
to become a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> God man <span style="background-color: white;">(aka swami</span> selvananda<span style="background-color: white;">) but who knew, he'd marry the same</span> athai ponnu <span style="background-color: white;">(aunt's daughter) he used to talk about in college
several years ago.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The other wedding in Nagpur was for my Friend from</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> UConn<span style="background-color: white;">, one of the
reasons he left America was to get married to his longtime girlfriend, and I
was glad I could make it to his wedding and represent our</span> UConn <span style="background-color: white;">group from USA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Weddings that I
couldn't attend</b> - Unfortunately, I couldn't attend 2 weddings for which I was
invited. Due to some unexpected family commitments and lack of time. I
apologize to</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Karthik <span style="background-color: white;">S, I wish I could have attended his wedding, as I knew
about it for a long time and planned for it, but</span> couldn’t <span style="background-color: white;">make it at last moment. I also couldn't make
it to my good friend</span> Jerlin's <span style="background-color: white;">wedding
as well as it was close to my last days in</span> Chennai,<span style="background-color: white;"> so I</span> couldn’t <span style="background-color: white;">find time to go for it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Mumbai <span style="background-color: white;">- Nagpur Adventure and</span> Trichy </b><span style="background-color: white;"><b>trip</b>- It was quite a travel adventure as I had gone on
this trip after my eye surgery, I had a bit blurred vision and was wearing a
thick black glasses all the time(so nearly blind). It was quite a miracle that I
went so far and came back without getting in harm’s way. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Short trip in Car to</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Trichy <span style="background-color: white;">and back to visit my Grandma, and families of my dad's
siblings. It was sweet that all were overjoyed to see me. As</span> I’ve <span style="background-color: white;">said before. I really wish I had more time to spend
there as well.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A very dear friend and well wisher whom I known for a long time now...
this lady has become so busy that I had to wait 3 hours sitting alone in a Cafe
below her office to get her appointment for a lunch... was it worth ? Yes, of
course. This girl's dynamite, she says things to me, that no one else will even
dare. I wish I had spent more time with her, but as I said before, she's too
busy and on top of it, she's married now. [Aah... I couldn't make it to her
wedding as well... :(]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>The American side
of me</b> - I found that I had become a bit more Americanized than
before. Not that</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I’ve <span style="background-color: white;">got any American attitude. I was bothered that a doctor’s
appointment at 9 am, was not on time and I had to wait one and half hours to
meet the doctor. I stopped correctly at the stop line at red light, when
everyone around me sped away. I waited in line for my turn where people did not
bother about a line being there. The above things are not bad; they are
good manners, yet in India. It’s ridiculed. I noticed that I had consciously changed;
I couldn't change to my Indian ways, unless I tried hard. It felt
quite weird not being able to act Indian in India.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Dude Where's my Flight? </b>- This funny incident
happened in the London airport during my return to US. I had a transit and had
to go from terminal 4 to terminal 3 to catch my flight to Chicago. The Airline
which will not be named, made a funny mess, they couldn't track where
the flight was parked for about 45 minutes, then later found out where it was. So
they boarded all the passengers in buses and took us to the airplane... Guess
what, the flight was parked in Terminal 4. So it was not a big deal when the
Airline lost one of my Checked in</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Luggage<span style="background-color: white;">, as they seem to lose their airplanes. !</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Driving in Chennai</b> - During my earlier visits
to Chennai, I did not find it much difficult to drive the car, as I had not
driven a car in USA, this time though was really different, as I have been
driving in USA for a while now. I had a tough time operating the indicators as
it's on the right side in India. I kept switching on the wipers, whenever I had
to make a turn. Otherwise, I had a great thrill driving in Indian roads. After
coming back, American roads seem to be boring and routine.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Parents</b> - It's very true that no matter how
old you become, you are still a child to your parents. I saw that with mine as
well. They were very caring and protecting me like a child. When we were having
a leisure discussion regarding my wedding and my parents were quite unprepared
on how to go about it as they didn't really come to realize it. Well, I know
they will soon learn the tactics of it and move forward. It’s only a matter of
time.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Lost in thoughts</b> - a recent obsession of mine,
I observe the dynamics in an organized work place. How people go about in their
work, the system, how the work flows within it and maybe how it can be
improved. I had a really good time analyzing each detail in a variety of public
systems such as airports, airline crews, buses, police, traffic, hotels...
etc... I can see in plain sight that there's a lot of scope
for improvement in efficiency and labor in all of those systems, alas
I wonder what's stopping them from making those changes and I wish I could be
in such power authority to make changes.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Identity crisis </b>- I still have an Identity
crisis within me, a dilemma whether to stay in USA or go back to India. The
India trip doesn't really help much. It increases the crisis in me. I
am on a balanced pedestal now; I wish I find an anchor on one side which would
pull one of the sides strongly, so that I can decide. I wish I find that anchor
soon.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yes, this is a small, humble tribute to the musical genius, isaigiani Ilayaraja. I know it's not something new. this man has die hard fans all over the world and has mesmerized millions of people all around the world. There are many sites and blogs that praise his work in music.<br />
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before going into the post, I'd like to say this. - I have not learnt any form of music or instrument. my view on music is only by the way, the music or song makes me feel at that moment. I have written this post based on such observations only. if you do not agree with any of my comments , please pardon me.<br />
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So I am going to present this post in form of different emotions i felt while listening to Raja sir's music and how i could relate to each one of them. most of the music, I've chosen are either BGM's or instrumentals, just to make a small point that when music is so powerful, lyrics is not even needed.<br />
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1. Happiness - The Background score from the Movie 'Johnny' starring Rajnikanth is the best to illustrate this emotion. the music is highly mesmerizing that it brings a smile on your face, irrespective of what your mood was at that time. it's a brilliant use of the classical western violin and piano. the tempo of the score increases and decreases in such smooth pattern that your mind also sways to it without control.<br />
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2. Celebration - The music i chose was the theme music from movie 'Punnagai Mannan', the music is performed with a feel of 80s Techno, but it brings out the mood perfectly. Especially, the last piece of the score, where the Violin takes over, it's magnificent. Some would say, this piece personifies love, yes, it does, but it's a celebration of love. I'd say, play this music when ever you feel like celebrating. it's worth it.<br />
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3. Passion - if you have to choose a song to play in the background while making love to someone, this would probably be on the very top. the music even comes in such a situation in the movie, 'Hey Ram'. the song is a beautiful soothing song, just listening to the piano music makes your mind relax and gives a pleasant feeling. the instrumental version of the song can be used as a meditation music or a piece of music to listen before sleep, it will give you a relaxed mind before a good sleep. such is the power of this masterpiece.</div>
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tit-bit : the movie's music was already composed by another music director,scenes were shot, later due to fall out between the director and music director, the songs had to be recomposed, Ilayaraja stepped in and composed a new set of songs without the need of the songs being re shot. he made a masterpiece to match the movie scenes that were shot already.. only Raja can do it.</div>
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4. Lust - I would not actually call it lust, but it's a bit between sensuality and Lust. you decide which way it falls. the song from the lesser known Rajni movie "Valli" has a very beautiful instrumental beginning, the music starts with a beautiful guitar solo, which drags you into the song and then binds you with the music to go along with swarnalatha's voice, you stay within the song's bounds as it lingers in your mind for a long time after. Ilayaraja is the only person in Indian cinema who knows to use the violin to it's best. listen to the violin piece in this song, it's smooth and used with accurate precision at various points of the song.</div>
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5.Sadness - there's a general notion that 'sadness' is the easiest to touch of human emotions, almost every human can relate themselves to some kind of sadness, but if done wrong, it will end up being a comedy. Ilayaraja has created one such masterpiece, which can affect people deeply with sadness. anyone who listens to this piece of music will have some sort of sad memory creep into their mind. the music affects our senses so sharply, that shedding tears for this music isn't a quality of faint hearts.</div>
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this music masterpiece is also a very good example of Ilayaraja's mastery with Violin. none of the Indian music greats have used violin as perfectly as this maestro.</div>
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6. Euphoria - This piece of music is another master piece with excellent use of the Violin, but in a completely different situation. the music here is full of excitement, ecstatic jumping bundle of joy. the pace of the violin in this situation gives a heart pumping tune, you can't just listen to this music without getting a little bit of adrenaline rush. Compare both violin music, see the diversity of music by the same instrument.</div>
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7. Love - Imagine a situation where two people who are romantically attracted to each other but haven't told each other about their feelings, Meet. during that time, Play this song by the time, the song's intro music hits a brief pause before the lyrics start, either one of them will confess their feelings to the other. this song has such impact with it's music, in fact, it's used as BGM in lot of movies these days for love references. the entire song has good flow of music, combined with good singing, it's a delight to listen, every single time.</div>
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There are a lot of songs and music, i have left out many of them, as a lot of music by ilayaraja falls under good emotional music, In fact, i could illustrate 2-3 songs per emotion listed her. it's a vast variety from the Raja of music.! some of the honorable mentions - 'kanmani anbodu' - guna, 'thenpandi cheemayile' - nayagan, ' thalapathy title theme' , 'mouna ragam title theme', 'Potu vacha oru vatta nila' - Idhayam, 'en iniya pon nilave' - moodu pani.</div>
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</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-27403658176684227702012-04-14T22:40:00.002-04:002012-04-14T22:40:52.805-04:00Indian TV shows back in the day.. (90s)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Indian television media in recent times has become very
pathetic. They are focused only on making money in the easy and fast way. No preference
given to shows which could impart knowledge and provide a pleasant viewing experience. I went through a listing through some
regional and national TV channels to see what kind of good innovative programs
they offer and it was not at all surprising that almost entire line up was a spin off
of the American or European version of the same show. American idol is Indian
Idol, Who wants to be a millionaire is Kaun banega crorepathi, big brother is
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If national TV was like this, the regional language channels
are even worse. All the Suns, geminis , vijays.. all channels are so engrossed
in telecasting Mega serials with story lines about illicit relationships and
revenge within families. None of the serials have a positive outlook at all. </div>
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Where has the creativity gone? Why are there no genuinely
Indian made shows which are good, where are our creative minds... Why do we
have to wait for USA to make a innovative show and then copy it ?</div>
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There used to be some genuinely creative shows back in the
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Here’s some of the awesome shows I’ve seen on
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It was a show based on the stories of the Arabian
nights. It was a Sunday morning treat. The show had a very simple premise of
story telling and it was executed very well with limited technology and simple
graphics. The show might seem funny now, when you see all ancient graphics, but
it was quite the sensation to watch in my childhood.</div>
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This was an ancient king time show with
sorcery, magic and romance. This show also was a Sunday morning extravaganza
for me. There was a time when I could sing the entire title song of
chandrakantha. I hardly remember the synopsis of the show but it was a creative
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It’s probably one of the most run TV shows
in Indian history. The creators of the show were geniuses. Converting an epic
into a television show is not a simple task. they also had the best intro for
any show during that time. The old sage’s voice over with a outline of his body
and a spinning chakra, that time was a breathtaking shot in Television.</div>
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The plot is a big one..the Indian Epic by
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A Tamil comedy based on a newly married
couple and the problems they face in day to day life with their parents,
relatives and work. It was one of the most hilarious tamil comedies in tv. Simple,
sweet and funny is how I’d describe this show.</div>
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A emotional drama featuring a middle class
family and their lives after a tragedy. I remember it being a start off for
many of the current stars in cinema such as Prakash raj. I remember a scene
from this show where the youngest daughter of the family is given up for
adoption and she’s asked to sing a song, the daughter doesn’t know she’s going to
go and she sings beautifully, the mother who watches it cries uncontrollably
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An Indian cultural show, which featured
different artists and musicians from all around India. The show also showcased
a lot of Indian arts, customs and cultures which were largely unknown to the
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The best Tamil TV show I’ve seen by far. The
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featured good characters who brought the mysterious feel to the show all
through it. Each episode used to have a startling intro and a even more
gripping end. The title song gave quite the scare to me, when ever I watched
the show. I used to avoid watching the title for a while, as the dog in it,
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The show had the horror thriller feel to
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mysterious, everyone in my family used to try predicting the turn of events in
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</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-85180523204327489182012-03-08T12:16:00.000-05:002012-03-08T12:16:31.540-05:00chef-d'oeuvre of Food !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been an avid foodie for my entire life and it's really surprising that i am writing my first post on food only now. I am a "Live to Eat" person, although for a long time, i looked like i could "Eat more to live". we can't really put a time stamp on how long we have been eating food, since it's the only way our body gets nutrition, but the variety of foods that we consume has evolved a lot over years. In fact, we first start consuming food directly to our stomach and later, start with our mouths.<br />
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so talking about evolution of food, I've had so much diversity in foods, from mother's milk as a tiny baby to the egg omelet i ate for breakfast today morning. there's a enormous variety of foods i have come across, I've even learnt to cook for myself (that's been about 8 years now !!), and enjoyed a lot of different cuisines back home and in USA. here are some of my food favorites, in order of the time they are eaten in a day.<br />
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<li>Coffee and Milk go together best, when made with Indian coffee powder. All other coffee powders from places like Brazil, Colombia are good only as black coffee.(chicory does the trick)</li>
<li>During school and college days, when i had idli, dosa ready for breakfast, i used to skip it most times. but now, when you have to stick to a bread and omelet or pancakes, you end up craving for such good foods in the morning.</li>
<li>Pongal, is probably the best breakfast to have, closely followed by Dosa. esp. with sambar and coconut chutney.</li>
<li>The only thing i miss about attending Indian weddings, is the umpteen number of items on a enormous banana leaf.A normal hindu wedding, a complete vegetarian bliss has a list like this... pickle, sweet, avial, poriyal, applam, vadai, kootu,pulav, plain rice, sambar, kara-kulambu, rasam, curd( i skip it), payasam. A typical Indian christian marriage is a mixed combination and would have item list that goes like pickle, sweet, poriyal, karthrika kootu,thayir pachadi, appalam, dry chicken curry, lamb biryani, plain rice, chicken kulambu, payasam.A Muslim marriage is a complete meat fest with list like chicken drumstick, thayir pachadi chicken fry, chicken biryani, lamb biryani, plain rice, chicken kulambu, lamb gravy, lamb soup, and occasional sweet. (writing about all these dishes makes me drool, I want to attend a wedding somewhere soon).</li>
<li>Dhal/Sambar has a potent magic in it, you hate the food first when it's eaten in a routinely manner. but after a lot of meat for quite a long time, one day you have sambar. it feels like the greatest food ever.</li>
<li>Sea foods are hands down, the best of Non-Vegetarian items. best of sea foods is the Fish. a well made fish is excellent in any type of cuisine. best fish is the Vanjaram (not able to find it in USA till now, sad face) closely followed by salmon. Shrimps, prawns and scallops make the united 2nd place.</li>
<li>Sushi is probably my least preferred option of eating fish, but i had a rare occasion where i ate a lot of different types of sushi for almost 1.5 hours at a sushi bar.</li>
<li>Indo-Chinese food (Indian way of making Chinese food) is tastes much better than the actual Chinese food. </li>
<li>The best of American cuisine is the Steak. if you eat Beef, then you'd definitely agree. I've had the opportunity only to try the sirloin and T-bone Steak, but would like to try them all. </li>
<li>Mexican foods like burritos, tacos and chalupas have become a staple of my weekly foods, they are cheap to get and taste very good. </li>
<li>most of the times, i get confused between French and Italian cuisine. for some reason, i find both to be similar, when they are not. french cuisine has really fancy names, their sweet dishes seemed great, not the same with the savory. whereas Italian, has really good savory dishes. I hope you know about pizza and pasta.</li>
<li>I found Middle eastern cuisine to be the small brother of Indian cuisine with pretty similar taste and spices. some of the best Road side Diner foods are shwarma, gyros and kebabs.</li>
<li>Traditional Indian sweets never had Chocolate as one of their ingredients, i wonder how sweets would have been, if chocolate was introduced a lot earlier in India.</li>
<li>speaking of Indian sweets, each state has a unique variety of sweets, each and every single one tastes of heaven. my favorite is the Mysore pak (esp. hot, right of the cooking vessel)and gulab jamun.</li>
<li>Western Desserts are not so far behind, and heavily indulge on chocolate for me. cos, i hate strawberries(which is the predominant fruit in desserts here). Chocolate delicacies includes Cakes, puddings, donuts, ice cream, milk shakes etc...</li>
<li>Butterscotch is the only flavor of ice cream, i might choose if there's no chocolate flavor available.</li>
<li>A good meal is not complete without a drink. I've been a quite a aesthete of global drinks, the french wines, Russian vodka, Scottish whiskey, Mexican tequila and German beers. I am not a big fan of wine, but certainly can manage the other global commodities.</li>
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</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-82536330255535075902012-02-09T17:10:00.001-05:002012-02-09T17:10:46.940-05:00Twenty Six on 26th.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Best food ever, any day anytime. . Esp. Mom Made.</div>
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Not Music. I like listening to different
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– I read, write and enjoy them. Blogs
are the source of interesting news, views and comments. It’s a lot better than
sensational news.</div>
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– I get dumbfounded with sarcasm, I really can’t get it. Not bad as Sheldon, I can
talk sarcastically.</div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><b>Conversation</b>
– I like to talk about anything, everything. Sometimes forget to care if the
other person is interested in it.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Cooking</b>
–especially experimental cooking, love to try new foods too.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Painting </b>–
not the type you do on a canvas, I like to paint walls, windows etc... I have a
wish to paint an entire house.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Patterns </b>–
I see patterns in everything around me, every single event is connected to
another by some pattern or another. It’s sort of an obsession for me.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Twists</b>
- movies, books, TV series, anywhere they have a twist in the story. I just
love it.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Software</b>
– I like learning to work a new application, software... Not the coding part...
I don’t understand computer coding.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Driving </b>–
An enthusiasm for driving the car, not to race. The subconscious driving- It’s a pleasure in itself, going on the road,
turning, accelerating, slowing and stopping, all in swift motion, without
really giving your full attention to it.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Writing</b>
– I like writing something or other... Although I guess I am still an amateur writer,
one day I wish to publish a book.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Helping
hand</b>– basically helping people. I can never say NO to anyone. I do enjoy
helping people, at times go out of the way to help them even when some people
take advantage of me.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Resourcefulness
</b>- I have come to consider that my biggest skill might be resourcefulness; I
can provide an answer to almost every question asked me. It’s not like I know
everything. I just know how to link things together to find it.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>ZOOs/Aquariums</b>
– I like going to a zoo, it’s where I can see different animals, even if it’s
not their natural environment, it’s the only place I can see them without any
hassle.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Walking </b>–
it’s sort of like a family trait. I prefer walking to places at short distances
sometimes even longer distances than taking the car. It’s always a good feeling
when I walk.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b> Walking in the Rain</b> – this is a special
once in a while thing. When I feel like walking in rain, I just do it, other
times I hate getting wet in rain. Wonder why.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->19.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Balloons </b>–
Call me childish, but I have a fascination about balloons, esp. variety of colors.
I bring them home when I get one.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->20.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Puzzles,
cross words, word search</b> – enjoy them, once started; I cannot stop without
completing it.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->21.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Experimentation
</b>– I find it intriguing to perform “try at home” sort of physical, chemical
and social experimentation apart from cooking, it’s a good hobby, inspired from
myth busters.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->22.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Twins </b>–
for various reasons, I sort of have craze towards Identical twins… movies, TV
shows or real life, when I see twins. I get excited.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->23.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Visual
Media</b> – I follow 10 different TV shows and at least 3 movies in a 7 day
week. Visual media is the best form of entertainment.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->24.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Technology
</b>– I am in awe of today’s technology. If I had a chance, I’d buy them all
and try it out.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->25.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Cars </b>–
like any other man, I too love cars. One day I want to build a car from
scratch.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->26.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Sleep</b>
– who doesn’t love sleeping..?</div>
</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-86854761995146256092012-01-26T16:14:00.000-05:002012-01-26T16:15:31.204-05:00The Career that could have been...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ever had people saying stuff to you like, <i>‘you would have been perfect in a ” X” job, that’s a perfect profession for
your skills, interests and passion, why don’t you try to pursue that instead of
sitting in that dumb job of yours..!!’ </i>I am sure most of you did come
across this type of people and their talks.</div>
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I am not saying they are being wrong to say those things, it
could be true that some of your innate skills may suit another career better than
the one you have now, but this kind of talk by certain people slams a thought
into your mind, whether you chose the right profession/ career, even if you
were feeling happy about your current job, you still wonder how it would be
with a different career. </div>
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Well I have been there, done that and here’s my list of jobs
that some of my friends, family, relatives and acquaintances thought that I
would have excelled. Of course, just for fun… I have rated them out of ten, with
my view of why or how well I would have fared in that career in reality.</div>
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<i>Here we go.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lawyer <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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According to movies and TV shows, it’s
probably the next best thing to a cop or spy. The reason why some people told
me, I should have become a lawyer is simply because I argue a lot and
occasionally catch some valuable points, which others over look in a
conversation. I can imagine myself as a
lawyer, at least like the ones I see on TV, wearing a super fit suit to court,
flirting with fellow female lawyers, lady judges and not to mention, some
detective work on the side on my cases and find out the real criminal in the
last moment and free the innocent.</div>
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<i>Rating
on reality 4/10 <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Why:</i>
BAR exams, it’s not about the content to learn; it’s just that I generally suck
in exams.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Radio
Jockey (RJ)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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This is also a very cool profession. RJs in
general are sort of hipsters who talk about all sorts of crap on radio and get
away with. All you need is a good voice – Check. And ability to talk nonstop
nonsense (double check). Why people thought I could be an RJ, it’s only because
I can create controversies in matter of sentences (people love getting me
beaten up) and obviously the efficiency to talk a lot of crap.</div>
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<i>Rating
on reality – 7/10 <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>why :</i>
I had a shot at this career once way back in college, did auditions for radio
one FM in Chennai and made it till the 3<sup>rd</sup> round, unfortunately, I
wasn’t good enough to make it on Air.. Sigh..!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Journalist <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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This is the career that makes a serious
impact on the general public, if done correctly. You could take a simple cause
and make it a raging debate among people, or just squish a big issue with your
pen and paper. I am actually thankful, that some of my friends even thought I
could be a journalist, they thought I had a good general knowledge, a social
outlook and a firm point of view, which are some important characteristics of a
journalist.</div>
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<i>Rating
on Reality: 8/10<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Why: </i> I admire people who are good journalists, the
minds that portray the news are greater than the ones who make it, since it’s
these minds that take an event and make it a history. I would like to be a part
of that circle of people too, someday... Someway..!</div>
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<b>4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> <b>
</b></span></b><b>Writer/screen
writer :<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Realistically, this is a very good career
for me. I have interest in writing and I enjoy telling stories. In fact a lot
of my conversations involve me telling a fictional story as an example to help
others understand the matter better. I can cook up stories in a jiffy and make
them quite convincing with time. This is why, the suggestion. </div>
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<i>Rating
on Reality: 9/10<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Why</i>:
I have the intent to write a book, but my experiences are not enough to finish
what I want to write. This is a career, I am sure I could be successful. Maybe someday,
I will write a best seller which eventually will be made into a movie, or maybe
directly write for a movie.</div>
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<b>5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> <b>
</b></span></b><b>Administrator/Leader/Politician?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Basically, a position of power,
responsibility, risks and decision making. This is career suggestion had mixed
reviews from different people, some thought I was a natural leader and others thought
I sucked at it, well. Some thought I was a very good manager while others
thought was I was too much in control and a tyrant who says “it’s not my job”.
It’s like any leadership position; </div>
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<i>Rating
on Reality 7/10<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Why:</i>
I personally like assuming responsibility, taking decisions and handling risks,
but in order to be a good leader, you need good subordinates to trust your
decisions and follow it.</div>
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<b>6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> <b>
</b></span></b><b>Teacher:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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A Profession suggested to me by many of my
teachers. An honor, I would say. I remember well, a teacher telling me, you
have a good sense of knowledge, patience and the teaching skills required to
become a great teacher someday. He also said being me left handed helped more,
as writing left handed on the board was
easier for children to follow. It is a valued profession, but by the way we as
students treated teachers these days. I wonder if I would want to be one.</div>
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<i>Rating
on Reality: 9/10<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Why:</i>
I can easily see myself being a teacher, I come from a family of teachers too, and
both sides of my grandparents and a lot of my relatives are teachers. I have
taught a lot of my friends in class, before exams and elsewhere on different
topics. So I am a teacher in life, if
not by profession.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p> </div>
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<i>Some
career predictions that may never come true.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span>It was immediately after I completed high school,
a famous astrologer predicted that I would become a doctor, and I should choose
surgery as my specialization. I haven’t even gotten close to a medical facility
still now.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span>My finger are long and slender for relatively
small hands, some predicted that I will become a famous painter. It could be
true, I haven’t really tried my hand at painting, although, I draw really well,
if I put my heart and mind to it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span>A quite a few, thought I would become a good
left arm spinner and a one down batsman in cricket, but I really didn’t get
that bright to be even recognized as a player in street cricket.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span>Apparently, I have a very convincing phone
voice, so one friend of mine, said I’d become a very successful call center
employee or a phone sex operator... :P</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What do you
think? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Would I make
a hiring cut in any of the above professions?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-67259755324029040022012-01-11T17:14:00.003-05:002012-01-11T17:16:03.815-05:00My Ambitious Post !!<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Its 11 days into 2012, well if Mayans had it right, we’d have exactly 1 year to live on this planet (the D day is dec 21<sup>st</sup>.. duh) . I do not believe that world might end in 2012, but that doesn’t give me an excuse to think about what I might need to accomplish, given that after 1 year from today, I would not have a planet. Unless I am superman who escapes from krypton as a baby, I would have no home. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Just for fun on a serious note, I thought of some things I might want to accomplish in this 1 year of time and wanted to share it with all of you. Who knows some of you may be playing a part in this quest of mine. Ok so here it goes…</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i>Get in touch with all of my friends, whom I haven’t really been in contact or at least sort them out.<o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">This one is straight out of the box, there’s almost 4 different phases of life I have been thru… school, college, USA, University, job. and had different set of friends in each of the phase. It’s come to a point where I get super confused relating to a friend. I met this school friend recently, he was talking of a lot of people from my 12<sup>th</sup> STD, and I had no clue who’s who just with names. Esp. some generic Indian names, I have a friend each in every phase. Although, some of the faces had really stuck in my memory like a crush or gorgeous looks, I couldn’t figure out what their name was. This is a good thing to start off, sort out friends thro face book, get in touch with some old friends, and know about what’s happened in their life in this long gap. Who knows at my age, many of them might be married with kids too.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i>Stay away from Internet a.k.a Go outside and spend some time.<o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">This one is tough, it’s horrendous actually. I don’t know how it’s like outside of USA, but here, Internet is like food, you can survive without it but barely. There are times, where you look it up online for outside weather instead of looking out the window. You can easily sit in a single place for a whole day and know, learn and do all the stuff in the world. Which I have done quite a lot in last 3 years. So this year, I want to go out do a lot of outdoor activities and spend less time on the Net and lesser time on facebook. It’s a tough deal but I hope I can pull it off.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i>Move a bit toward the crazier side <o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">I have always been a bit conservative in terms of enjoyment and mischief, my frequency to night clubs, parties, getting drunk shitfaced, sleeping around, smoking etc is very less, close to a finger count, till now. In short, I am not living on the edge. Well, I am responsible enough to know I might trip and fall off the edge some time, but supposedly that’s not cool enough. So I thought maybe this is the year to show off that I could also be a bit on the crazier side. I will try, but this one I can’t guarantee that I will succeed.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i>Make an impact <o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">I know for a fact that I have some talent, I am very resourceful, creative and a sharp intuitive learner who can create a big change. But I am just not applying it properly in my path of life and probably wasting my time. This year should be the year where I impact big, if not in a big level, at least the people around me, should know the value of me through my talents.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b><i>Relationships, dating… etc… <o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">This one is a lot tougher than any of the stuff on my list. Even staying away from the Internet could be a piece of cake compared to this. So why is it tough, you might ask, well... currently, there’s NO girl in my life, which’s even slightly tilted towards a romantic angle. Added to it, all of the ones I know are either dating, committed, engaged, married or have kids. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Meeting a new girl is even worse, cos with just a Hi, they immediately think that every single guy is the next in line to hit on them. So when making friends has this silly issue, how to move forward looking for a relationship… so as I see it. You can’t try to cross a bridge, which doesn’t exist. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">In spite of all the negativity in my words, I am still confident, 2012 is the year, I find the Right one.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><i>Anyways, I hope I have a good 2012 ahead, Mayan theory or not, I have to live through 365 days of this year. So I will try to relish each day as if it was my first day of the rest of my life.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-58742446126315880122011-12-14T15:50:00.001-05:002011-12-14T15:53:31.145-05:00For the Greater Evil Part-2<p class="MsoNormal">This post continues from where I left off in the first post… as a recap, the fight between good and evil has been portrayed in all forms known to man and throughout history there were incidents and people whom were seen as good but were really evil. So here’s the second part.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]--><span class="apple-style-span"><b>Bible </b></span><span class="apple-style-span">- Moses spends 40 days and nights in mount sinai to get the 'ten commandments' from god, only to break them after watching his tribe worship a calf and behaving unruly like hippies, so he orders the killing of 3000 people who were involved. wait, wasn't that ten commandments supposed to help the unruly people to lead a good life? why kill them instead of giving the commandments to them?</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Present day Genocides:</b> The same American govt, who condemned the genocide and supported relief movements in Darfur, Sudan, has not opened its mouth on a same genocide of people in Sri Lanka. So even human life is valued only in places of interest.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Caste System in India:</b> The priests and monks who spent all their lives reading Vedas, preaching chants, and doing duties to god’s statue all day inside a big temple were considered the highest caste, Told the lowest caste of the Farmers, who spent their entire day out in hot sun, working in mud and rain to cultivate crops and provide food to everyone to stay outside of the temples as they would disrupt the sanctity of it. Wasn’t helping others considered godliness?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Mahatma Gandhi:</b> Gandhi protested against racism, when he was thrown out of a train compartment in South Africa. It was about giving separate rights to brown people (Indians) so they are not mixed or misidentified with black people. So wasn’t that Racist anyway? </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Opposition politicians (any country) :</b> Posing as a “Do Gooder” by exposing corruption in the ruling government, when all they want to do is the same corruption once they get power. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Religion:</b> the ultimate power that controls people in the name of God, created to do good to people under a common faith, but a much greater evil in showing hatred toward another faith.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> there’s a lot more history out there which I have not touched in these two posts. these are only a few examples put together to tells a message...!</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">There’s no pure good or evil.. there’s always impurities within both. It only depends on the degree to which you become impure, that makes us either of the two.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">As Always, Likes and comments, dislikes and critic accepted..!</p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-27541019765140053332011-11-22T15:49:00.002-05:002011-11-22T15:50:17.371-05:00En intha Kolaveri di (why this kolaveri - tamil translation)<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">I have attempted to translate the english words in the song to day to day tamil in sync with the tune.. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Comments and criticism appreciated..!</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Pasangale, naan paatu padren</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Rasam paatu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Uthikita paatu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">shruti seri</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">apadiye irukatum</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri..di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Thoorathila la nilavu nilavu </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">nilavin neramo velupu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">velai nirathu iravu iravu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">iravin niramo karupu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">en intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">en intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">vellai meni-ponnu ponnu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">ponnin nenjo karupu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">kannum kannum pathu pathu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">varumkalam irundu pochu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">maama kuripu eduthuko</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">apdiye kaila vathiyam eduthuko</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">pa pa paan pa pa paan pa pa paa pa pa paan</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">sariya vaasi</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">nallathu maama</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">arambikalam 1 2 3 4</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">aaha ena oru maatram maama</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">seri maama ipo ragam matram</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">handla glass</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">tamil matrume... </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">kaila kinnam</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Kinathil baanam</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Kannula valiyuthu neer u</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Galiyana valkai</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ponnu vandhu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Valkai pinnai pochu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Kadhal kadhal</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Oh en kadhal</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Nee katite maavu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Maadu maadu paasu maadu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ipo nee inga venum</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Kadavule naan ingu sagirene</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ava magilchiya epadi</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Intha paatu rasa pasangalukaga</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Nammaku ille vaipu</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">En intha kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">---------------</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Terms:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Rasam - South indian SOUP</p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-28885775329919133832011-11-21T16:29:00.001-05:002011-11-21T16:31:22.229-05:00For the Greater Evil...!<p class="MsoNormal">Since the dawn of civilization, there’s been a split classification in humans irrespective of any other classifications that followed it. It’s not being Male or female..! It’s a much bigger one, it includes gods as well.. It’s being good or evil. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Have you people ever realized, that there are good people who are evil in some ways, but have been portrayed to us as a epitome of Goodness?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a few of the interesting cases through mythology and history, which posed a question about the Good people a.k.a Heroes, Here’s some instances of Good guys being evil (and evil people being good).. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">You decide who’s the greater evil (or good) of them.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Adam and Eve - was it Satan who persuaded eve to eat the apple or the god who put the damn evil tree in middle of Eden in the first place.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Ramayana – Is it RAVANA, who went by the rules of that era where’ having multiple wives and marrying another man’s wife, after kingdom’s been conquered’ was common or RAMA, who destroyed an entire kingdom and killed innocent people, because his wife was kidnapped?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Ramayana again – is it RAVANA, who after kidnapping seetha waited for her permission to touch her or RAMA, who asked his wife to walk through fire in doubt of her purity and after being proven pure, sent his pregnant wife to forest alone.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Mahabharata – is it Dhuryodhana, who gave a part of his kingdom to his friend to make a peasant into a King, or Krishna, who let his friend’s teen son (abimanyu) die in battlefield.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Mahabharata – is it the Pandavas, who won the war by sabotaging the art of the war or Gauravas who lost it for playing fair.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->WW2 – Germany for trying to prove race dominance to the world by genocide or USA, who showed world dominance by destroying 2 cities with Atomic bombs.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">There are many more from where these came from, a bit of digging would reveal a lot more about the Heroes and Villains, after all history is written by Winners.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I will soon follow up this post with some other interesting instances. Till then, Think about it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Likers – Thanks... <span style="font-family:Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</span> (comments appreciated)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Haters – Pick a number or comment below.. <span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings">J</span></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-38419253141681352172011-11-05T00:58:00.000-04:002011-11-05T00:59:28.407-04:0010 Reasons why “Velayutham” is Awesome..!! ( In fluent Sarcasm<p class="MsoNormal">1.<span style="text-indent: -24px; font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: -24px; ">Velayudham is one step ahead of Ra.one, having a Character from a video game (Assassin’s creed) in real cinema. Who’s a real superhero, as bullets are no match for his speed and skills.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->The Sister sentiment in this movie beats “pasamalar” to pulp. Every brother out there should try to be like this one.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->The Hero is so strong willed (Impotent ??), he doesn’t have the slightest erection even after drinking a whole glass of Indian Viagra and a hot Hansika motwani lying next to him showing her navel.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Speaking of Hansika, that girl is so talented, she hides in plain sight as a proper Tamil village girl. I couldn’t even find 1 difference. Genelia perfectly fits the role of a free lance journalist who has enough money to run a TV station from her bedroom.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Genelia has proved once and for all, that even childish motivational talks can bring out the lion in a man. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->The Terrorists and gundas, who have access to bombs like it’s a bun in a local tea shop, could only buy knifes, swords and a few Guns only.. Sadly economic recession has hit them too. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->This movie is a technological eye opener, I didn’t know that an IPod cable could connect to a big LCD screen and a shirt cam, which is accessed thru a USB drive can focus in different angles, including the wearers face. Damn almost forgot the big one... It showed me that Trains had Disc Brakes for sudden stops.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->The director has created such a brilliant screen play, such unpredictable twists in story like the Love scene, villain’s intro and ultimate twist with pandiyaraj’s character as police constable.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->Ra.one and endhiran both can’t match the magnificence in the last scene, where all thousands of people converge to make Vijay’s face and kill the main villain. (Note: the Villain (minister) really looks like a pure Tamil guy, not even a single glimpse of teluguness) </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]-->10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span><!--[endif]-->The movie is loosely based on the 1941 movie “meet John Doe”, Remake Raja has lent his golden touch to the movie that the director of the original would drown in his tears of joy.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><o:p> </o:p></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-64514634731143180932011-10-31T14:31:00.001-04:002011-10-31T14:32:48.652-04:00A Bitter Cold Vacation at Storrs<p class="MsoNormal"><i>A look back at my 3 day Ruined vacation at Storrs. It happened to be the first time I went back since I moved out to Chicago before 5 months.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>I have listed it from worst to the best.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Things that went wrong</span><o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Chicago to Boston flight:</b> <i>the weekend started off with a 3 hr delay of the Flight to Boston, which was re-routed to providence for 2 hours because of some landing difficulties in Logan airport. It resulted in a 3 hr delay, so Reached Logan at 8 pm instead of 5 pm and in turn reached Storrs at 10 pm. Entire Thursday was over.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Work from home<i>:</i></b><i> I planned to work half day from Storrs on Friday (7 am to 1 pm CST). This did not go well because of 2 reasons: I forgot my VPN connecting hardware and laptop charger in office. Both were essential for my laptop to work. I figured out a solution for VPN but couldn’t find a charger in time. </i><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"><span>L</span></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Busy schedules on Friday:</b> <i>in my entire 3 year stay in CT, this was the first time; I saw that people were busy on a Friday afternoon. Things had changed drastically. Whoever, I called didn’t pick up the phone or were busy doing something.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Unexpected Heavy SNOW<i>:</i></b><i> the super villain of my ruined weekend. It freakin’ snowed the entire Saturday, making life difficult for everyone and delay/ruin all my plans of meeting people.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Power Outage:</b><i> the Super Villain’s Super weapon. Power went off at 2 am on Sunday morning and did not come back until I left Storrs at 2 am Monday morning. Still not sure if they got power back.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>People<i>:</i></b><i> I planned this trip basically to meet everyone I knew at UCONN and Storrs. Unfortunately, once I went there and only realized I hardly knew anyone there now. So many new faces. The old ones were probably tired of seeing my face over and over again, that some of them didn’t even meet me in these 3 days.</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; "><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Things that could have been worse</span><o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Transportation:</b><i> Luckily, I decided to get a rental car this time to go around to places. It proved worthy (even though I ended up spending a bit more than I expected) else, I would have been stranded in one place depending on others to take me to places.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Diwali Function:</b><i> as I mentioned before, I thought I knew a lot of people, going to Diwali function made me realize one thing... <u>I was an </u></i><b><u>Outsider</u></b><i><u> now.</u> It was proved as soon as I entered the hall, with a $20 price for ticket (first time in 4 yrs, I paid for a Diwali ticket). It continued for next 1 hr where I scarcely found anyone I knew among the crowd that came in. <o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><i>Things had changed everyone I knew had a different group now. I was not in anyone’s circles anymore, but fortunately, everyone whom I knew talked to me for at least a chit-chat enquiring about things, which is way better than being the loner in a crowd.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><b>Power Outage:</b><i> even though the apartments had lost power, the University campus had power. So it became a savior for my phone as a charging point and a place for meeting some friends. I can’t imagine that Sunday without the Campus. Yes, things would have been much worse without it.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; "><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Things that went right</span><o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i>I have finally learnt that even I can </i><b><u>“Let go”.</u></b><i> </i><span style="font-family: Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-char-type: symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"><span>J</span></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i>I had my first experience driving in rain and snow conditions in the USA. Esp. at high speeds in a highway and it went all fine without any trouble.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i>I drove at graveyard time amidst big scary trucks to reach airport on time for return, another new experience.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i>I made 8 new Friends, some I already knew on Face book but met them for first time.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i>A realization that <b>“No matter what changes, there are still some people with whom you can re-live past experiences”.</b><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i>A reason to smile that I am remembered even now by many, for a lot of simple things/help I had done in the past.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-61217616185665435342011-10-11T00:21:00.004-04:002011-10-11T00:25:40.434-04:00Some one tell me a solution..!!<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s been 3 months since I relocated to Chicago, with my job. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">And I am have been to a lot of places, seen what needs to be seen here and explored the entire North Chicago suburbs. But am still New here... you might ask why?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">There’s only one reason. Friends… </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Not just any Friend, but Friends who you can go out... spend time... basically hang out. I haven’t even made one friend like that here. Everyone I know here, I knew them pretty much before I came here. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">So why have I not made friends? I don’t know the answer. <span> </span>Here’s a list of things anyone would normally do in a new place to get friends and their results with my experience.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Friends from past or mutual friends (thro another friend): This is the best source for getting new friends, in a way, cos you already know someone or a friend through another friend.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">2 of the 3 people I knew here moved out to elsewhere, when I came here. I did meet the third one but he’s busy with his own life. The Mutual friends I got through my past friends, well they have their own group of friends and social life etc... I see that on FB all the time. . It’s very hard to break into a new group, also I guess it would be little uncomfortable for them with a new person around, hence do not consider me I guess… (Depends on their flexibility and timings too). – TIMING FAIL</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Work Place Friends: all of the people I work with are family types. Married with 2-3 kids. If hanging out with a pair is called third wheel, what’s it called for hanging out with a Family? Spare wheel? - <span> </span>MAJOR FAIL</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Meeting new friends at Bars/public events: I have to admit, I still haven’t figured out how they do it in movies, where you find people who are alone in bars and public places. Because, I do not seem to find anyone like that. I tried going out to a bar/public event in OKTOBERFEST, alcohol plus public, seemed like a really good place to make new friends. Well I was partially wrong. I did make 3 new friends; unfortunately, they were college students from Michigan on visit here. So no scope on hang out again..! – PARTIAL FAIL</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dating Sites: The modern way of making friends, dating sites. This should work out rite. Its simple Fill out the damn questionnaire for almost 2 hours, upload pics, write about you, be cheesy and manly at same time. Then message girls, even if not for dating, you’d get friends. Simple rite?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">No. not at all… I did join a dating site; I literally messaged every single girl around a 10 mile radius. (Why NO guys, u might ask... <span> </span>Men seeking Men is Gay!) . They could reply, not interested in your friendship or such... or they could at least REPLY. <span> </span>– Medium FAIL</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">(Note: I did make a slight progress, 2 girls became FB friends with me.)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Malls and Theaters: If you cannot get a friend in a bar… what are the chances in a Movie theater, esp. in USA… I went to about 1 movie almost every weekend. So far, I have hardly seen 4-5 people in theaters and they are couples, who have come to theater, just to keep snogging. Those things not only disgust you, but also increase your Irritation about being single.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">And, when you come to a point, when you think Screw new friends, I’ll stick to my old buddies, people whom I’ve known before from my previous location, they know me, they will be there for me.. Become all senti and all with it... it turns out, half the people don’t even care, even to call once in awhile, or at least Pick up the call once in a life time. The other half, get reminded of me and Call me only when there’s something required of me. They call me multiple times in a day, talk for hours, until I am needed, and forget me once it’s done.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I realized that of all the friends, I have made in the past 4 years here in USA, there’s no one, who has at least visited me once, called me often without asking any questions or help or considered me as a part of their life<span> </span>and said, ‘Am their best friend’. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">So tell me. <span> </span>How the F do you make new friends?<span> </span>I honestly don’t know, I have never come across such a problem. A relationship is difficult I agree... even a friendship is so tough?? What has the world come to? Or am I doing something wrong? Is there something I am missing here? I don’t get it. Simply don’t get it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>(This is a Just a Simple rant, any resemblance to many or some of my friends may or may not be co-incidental sometimes true, but it is not intended to hurt anyone. If Hurt, I apologize)</b></i></p><p></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-88354361250602899882011-07-20T22:18:00.003-04:002011-07-20T22:54:56.416-04:00Love, Relationships and Mathematics.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">It's a very complicated title, ain't it? Love and Mathematics? Seems like they both are extremes rite? But I think I have found a bit of similarity between them... a bit of similarity in predicting a wee bit of relationships and possibly LOVE... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">Follow the article for more details.</span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div>Have you ever come across widgets and websites, such as Love calculator, love test etc. there are plenty available in the web and mobile apps. They are basically a mathematical algorithm that matches you and your partner's name, date of birth information and gives you a calculated output. These apps are only for fun purposes, nothing serious about it, but these Love widgets are the main aspect of my article here.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">When, I was bored with nothing to do last weekend, while browsing online, I hit upon one such app called the 'Love guru'. This app like any other gets you and your partner's NAMES and gives out a little bit detailed percentage output in 4 categories - Love, work, sex and interests along with a overall score and a Letter grade.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">As I said before, I was bored and for passing time, I played with it, using names of my friends and family, whom I know are in relationships or married... For my amusement and surprise, it turned out that people who are in relationship for at least 3 years or more had an overall score of minimum 75% with a grade of B+ and above.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">The most surprising fact was that there were no exceptions. I would have tried a sample set of 25 plus couples I know of, and everyone scored high. In fact, some of them scored even higher like 90% and A+. </span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">I even tried a sample of couples, who were in relationship and failed. Their score as expected fell below an average of 65% with a grade of C and below.</span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">I was so intrigued with the results, that I started entering names of famous celebrities and fictional couples like Romeo & Juliet, Laila & Majnu, Brad & Angelina etc... I used a sample set of 25 couples here too. Many of them, including some animal characters and an Inter-galatical couple in Jake & Neytiri from Avatar, Scored the same level as the real ones, but this category had some exceptions. For example, Ron & Hermione from harry potter, Failed miserably. </span></p></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">So mathematically speaking... Does this imply that there is a connection between the name and relationships of people? Meaning, certain names go along better than others or is it just a well designed application/algorithm?</span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">There's a bit of science behind this name connection. In Indian Arranged marriages, when horoscopes are matched, one of the Parameters is the Name; they look for matching names too. Astrology is accepted as a science. So if scientifically accepted; could this name compatibility calculating algorithm be used as a potential date matching tool?</span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">But after all, that’s said and done, when it comes to the conclusion...</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">LOVE, it's really complicated... if Love and Relationships were as simple as calculating it mathematically, No one would be Single… who knows, maybe no one would be in relationships either.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div>Try it yourself; Even if it isn't science, it’s definitely fun.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> Who knows... You could be one of those 25 plus couples.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; "><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">P.S. I am sure; you have a Question, if I tried this app for personal use. In fact YES, I did try matching my name with some potential girls, whom I would like to date. But unfortunately, my name being the different, unique and badass name of all... the matches barely crossed 60% with maximum being 68% and a grade of C.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></p></div></span>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-83911315760414507672011-06-23T23:43:00.001-04:002011-06-23T23:44:28.900-04:0025 Random thoughts from a 25 year old Left Hander With a Right Brain.<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Never get too curious with anything, it will hurt you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Nobody forgets anything unless they get amnesia.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">If you have an Idea and get it past your friends, you'll succeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">You can never escape dogs; one misses you, the other bites.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Beginners luck is very important, without it, you quit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">No matter how rich you are, you can’t buy trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Long distance always works with Friendship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">When you don’t know something, it’s always better to Google it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">When you lose something, first look right beside you or below you, before turning the entire house upside down.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Please mess your room as much as possible, because you get the greatest sense of achievement when you have cleaned it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Chocolate is a very good first aid for broken hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">12.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Friends can be missed, not misplaced.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">13.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Choosing a field of study in college is useless; you are going to work in a different field only.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">14.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Sports are never for fun, when you consider it fun, you don’t get to play.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">15.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Awesome is much overrated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">16.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">A flip of a coin can decide almost any complicated issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; 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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">18.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Never have role models or idols, you will lose your originality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">19.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">If you find anything more interesting than Girls, you are Gay.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">20.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Killing time is would be a suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; 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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">22.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Talking half hour occasionally to someone you hate, can improve your empathy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">23.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">Time doesn’t heal, people do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">24.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">When you are LEFT handed, you are always against the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">25.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:black">If you can let go of someone, you have conquered LOVE.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma; color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-39479603368770053242010-12-16T22:33:00.012-05:002010-12-17T00:02:42.585-05:00Can't Wait Anymore !<span style="font-style:italic;"><br />“Oh wait”,<br />“Hold on”,<br />“Please wait in the line”,<br />“Sorry for the delay”,<br />“Your call is very important to us, please wait"</span><br /><br />Ever heard of these lines anywhere. These are everyday language, used for only one purpose <span style="font-weight:bold;">“the wait”</span><br /><br />Every other day or night, you either wait for someone or make others wait for you. It happens all the time, waiting for someone definitely irritates anyone, well it’s not much of a disturbance when you make others wait (few exceptions here n there) but ultimately, waiting is a damn boring thing to do, its kills a lot of things, like patience, sanity and mood, but time always survives the kill and in turn taunts at us by moving at a very slow pace. The slowest of sloths will appear to be fast during the period of wait.<br /><br />There are various degrees and situations of the wait. I have tried to categorize it into 6 types. There may be more to add to the taxonomy but am sure these are major cases.<br /><br />I’ve also given them a degree of wait on a score of 5. This tells you the level of wait, a human soul can bear on a regular basis.<br /><br />Without further adieu,<br /><br />Here are real life situations of 'the wait'<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1. The call</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrrBBR9inI/AAAAAAAAEOw/H4-gNOjN_E0/s1600/wait%2B1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrrBBR9inI/AAAAAAAAEOw/H4-gNOjN_E0/s200/wait%2B1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551507893443725938" /></a><br /><br /> You would have definitely been in this situation at least a dozen times or more in your life. You might have experienced in a job interview, hospitals, banks, or even in an airport, where a system is followed. Here there’s no simply waiting, You give your most attention to the person on the radio or intercom; spend a little to a lot of minutes focused with sharp hearing sense that could beat a dog at that point of time. You wait and wait with sweat and tears not to miss the call of your name, number or a flight. Then your adrenaline kicks in, like it’s the end of the world and you run for it. Most times, it’s very clumsy and you tend to irritate fellow waiters who didn't get the call.<br /><br />The time of wait in this situation is undefined, since it depends on your luck and sometimes logic. Like in job interviews, suppose your name starts with A, then its damn sweet and short wait, but then... if its somewhere in V, W.. Then it’s going to be a long day..! Luck favors when your flight or train arrives on time, you get a free teller at the bank etc...!<br /><br />It’s definitely worth waiting on this one.<br /><br /><b><i>Degree of wait: 3/5</i></b><br /><br /><br /><b>2. The girl</b><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrrTFwO4cI/AAAAAAAAEO4/vfFBsaE0aNg/s1600/wait%2B2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrrTFwO4cI/AAAAAAAAEO4/vfFBsaE0aNg/s200/wait%2B2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551508203882078658" /></a><br /><br /><br /> This is a lifetime full of experience for boys and men, the wait for women to get ready and during shopping. Each and every man would have experienced this wait many times (unless, you were an orphan and gay at same time). This type of wait is the most boring and quite painful wait, a man could experience in his lifetime. It’s a wait that you can never avoid or get out. Women, they take forever to get ready to go out and then if its shopping, it’s a whole days work to get one apparel. They make you wait, ask for your comments now and then, but never agree to what you say, even when it’s complimentary. Then choose something, which another person likes and demands for it.<br /><br />This wait situation is unavoidable and undeniably the torturous wait for a man. But men can survive this by doing a bit of bird watching or little bit of shopping for them.<br /><br />No luck or logic can change this, you got to be there for the lady, if you want her to be with you. It sometimes helps, if you are a free will who donates credit cards and is unlimitedly rich.<br /><br />Not really the worth the wait.<div><br /><b><i>Degree of wait: 2.5/5.</i></b><br /><br /><br /><b>3. The help</b><div><b><br /></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrsnAvE3HI/AAAAAAAAEPg/BOTCyF4qU8A/s1600/wait%2B3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrsnAvE3HI/AAAAAAAAEPg/BOTCyF4qU8A/s200/wait%2B3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551509645644061810" /></a><br /><br /> This situation is likely to be the most dangerous one. It’s basically the wait for an emergency help. When you have met with an accident, held at gun point during a theft, or if your house is on fire etc... All these situations are a matter of life and death and every second is precious. this wait is definitely nerve wrecking and occasionally there's a loss, but definitely no gain, cos you are already in buried in shit before this wait situation occurs.<br /><br />This wait situation is definitely not a frequent one and the experiences are a lifetime story moment. It’s a very anxious and exciting wait you have before emergency arrives.<br /><br />There’s no way that you can escape this wait.</div><div><br /><b><i>Degree of wait: 5/5</i></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>4. The digital</b><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrrz2FDpnI/AAAAAAAAEPI/gZQfnnd0OzI/s1600/wait%2B4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 112px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrrz2FDpnI/AAAAAAAAEPI/gZQfnnd0OzI/s200/wait%2B4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551508766610138738" /></a><br /> Have you ever waited on the phone call trying to call a customer care help line? Then you know what am talking about. The most modern of waits are of the digital world and it’s quite similar to 'the call' situation. A lot of technology was developed in communication for making it faster, easier and to provide minimal wait, but still this wait time can lead to a lot of anger management therapy. Emails, sms, IM, chats... all these digital/online forms of communication are causes for the digital wait.<br /><br />Of course, all Internet users have experienced this... especially in good old days of dial up connection. you wait for 8 minutes for a web page to open up then sending an email would take another 15 minutes but even in this modern era of super fast speeds, things could get little complicated.. for example: when you are in chat with someone, you ask a question and they take forever to reply or they type n type but never send the msg ( happens a lot and chat bar shows " x is typing" ) and later send something irrelevant to the conversation, it’s definitely a reason to get pissed off for the unnecessary wait. Same goes with emails, sms.<br /><br />It’s not worth the wait, unless it’s urgent.</div><div><br /><b><i>Degree of wait: 1/5</i></b><br /><br /><br /><b>5. The leak</b></div><div><b><br /></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrsAHGrDSI/AAAAAAAAEPQ/F_fvtqsAVBI/s1600/wait%2B6.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 151px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrsAHGrDSI/AAAAAAAAEPQ/F_fvtqsAVBI/s200/wait%2B6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551508977338748194" /></a><br /><br /> I am not quite sure how this wait situation affects women, but men surely know what am talking about. Have you ever wanted to go urgent to take a nature's call, leak or plain ol' piss, and had to wait in line since someone else was in the restroom before you. That wait is almost equal to water boarding... cos when the going gets tough, the tough has to get going... else there can be a lot of physical pain and public embarrassment.<br /><br />Definitely a situation where waiting is bad.</div><div><br /><b><i>Degree of wait: 4.5/5</i></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>6. The Love</b><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrsJtL_F4I/AAAAAAAAEPY/KdN5g1WkWAI/s1600/wait%2B5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TQrsJtL_F4I/AAAAAAAAEPY/KdN5g1WkWAI/s200/wait%2B5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551509142180403074" /></a><br /><br /> The topic about waiting is never complete without the wait for love. Since ancient times till near future times, the wait for love has been in the hearts for ages. It has been described in every form of media possible and still to date haunts the minds of millions. This wait is deadly, you express your love for someone or propose for a marriage, and then the time they take to decide, even if it’s seconds, that wait would kill you. Worst, when they take a whole truckload of time. The wait for love situation would be experienced by everyone in need of love. It’s the only wait which can go for an eternal time, without having to know the consequence and the deadliest of all waits, even though it actually kills you in only a few cases.<br /><br />Hey its love, how can I ever say it’s not worth it, it’s totally, completely and 100% worth the wait.<br /><br /><b><i>Degree of wait: 5/5</i></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I am sure everyone would have experienced at least one or all of these excruciating times of wait in your life. There’s always some kinda wait for every one of us.<br /><br />Remember that ‘Time’ isn't punctual every time and there's no gain without a little pain. So the wait is definitely worth, to know the consequence.<br /><br />LIFE, It’s like a murder mystery, you need to wait till the end to know the killer else it becomes boring.<br /><br /><i>If you have any funny, crazy or awkward wait moments in your life, please feel free to express it in the comments section below.</i><br /></div></div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-69018866149315368932010-09-24T00:08:00.003-04:002010-09-24T00:47:38.806-04:00ENDHIRAN - ROBOT - ROBOI probably might be the millionth person on Internet to write something about the hottest, most talked about movie at present... yes. Its Sun pictures kalanidhi maran presents Endhiran starring Superstar Rajnikanth, Aishwarya rai bachan and danny denzongpa, Music by A.R.Rahman and Directed by Shankar.<br /><br />the movie is basically one of the few sci-fi movies in tamil or indian cinema industry as a whole. Its about a scientist who builds a robot to serve humanity, then improves the robot to feel emotions,which turns out to be bad, rest of the movie is usual hollywood type good vs evil fights in mega budget spectacularity shankar's movies usually have.<br /><br />So we have all seen many Hollywood movies that showcase the entire world of robots, their goodness and evil malfunctions. what's special about this Endhiran. well, Romance of a robot with human. thats what Indian movies can do differently.. have a duet song for the robot and make it run around trees and fight for the heroine, Indian Masala as you may call it. Not only that, Its the superstar who's done the lead role, A actor of 60 yrs age, still he's got it in him to perform a younger role that too of a robot and scientist, double action if you call it. I guess no one of his age, performs such roles now. (maybe except for stallone and willis in expendables )<br /><br />The Movie has created a lot of hype in India, mainly due to the marketing strategies of Sun Pictures, who happen to sell even worst movies like Sura to be a big hit. so if endhiran manages to be a decent entertainer, its good enough for it to make Hell lot of money. Imagine, what could happen if the movie was really good. they have already started making money buy selling tickets even for the screening of the movie's theatrical trailer. Rajni's last movie with shankar, Sivaji grossed about Rs.600 crores worldwide, this could very well get them twice or thrice the amount of money than the previous outing. <br /><br />This week, the Movie has seemed to be creating a lot of hype here in USA too. HBO films have distributed the movie in USA and tickets in all major cities have sold out for the first day inspite of a ticket being priced at $30. which is something really big. I guess Rajni films are meant to be seen everywhere on first day first show, no matter how much the tickets cost.<br /><br />Even I plan to watch the movie by first day if possible, if not at least by first weekend, Can't Miss a Rajni movie. I've been a big fan of the superstar, since the time in my mom's womb.<br /><br />Waiting for Endhiran.. Lets see..! definitely will write a review about it soon.CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-29105676434976701742010-08-31T21:58:00.002-04:002010-08-31T21:59:58.887-04:00Being Left Handed !“Wow, are you a left hander..?" It was an Unique attention, I received from my classmates and fellow students in school, not only there but also at marriages, social gatherings, and any place I used my hand, I got this attention of being unique and popular, I liked it a lot because in India, being a left handed person is very rare. It’s not very often that you see someone using the other hand.<br /><br /> I have enjoyed the attention for the sake of being left hander, even though it was genetics which decided this thing and it’s not even a kind of talent that you could be proud about, but in India, being left handed is a cool thing, since people hardly see anyone in day to day life, most people get to see left handed people only on TV esp. only in cricket and other sports. In fact, in my 21 years of my life in Chennai, I came across just 5 left handed people other than me, 3 guys and 2 girls. I noticed that left handed girls are a rare species.<br /><br />The attention is sometimes not so good; many used to feel my use of the hand to be awkward, because they couldn't understand the concept of being left handed. many of my friends had lot of questions and doubts regarding use of the left hand, some were logical, many were stupid... some of the usual questions were " if you use this left hand for eating, which hand do you use for toilet purpose?" (Because in India, left hand is used by right hander’s to wash after toilet), it was a very awkward question to answer, but my answer to all the questions was the same “your right hand is my left and vice versa”.<br /><br />when it comes to elders, esp. the old ones, whenever they see me eating using my left hand, they give me a nasty expression as if I was eating shit and advised me to use my right hand, after hearing a lot of comments like this, I literally avoided going to marriages till I was 15, if it was an important function and I had to go, my mom used to carry a spoon for me, so that I can eat with a spoon, and south Indian marriages had to have banana leaf instead of plates and eating with a spoon on a banana leaf, imagine it.<br /><br />My kindergarten teachers took the left handedness to the next step and like it was an evil thing, they tried to do a kind of exorcism by trying to make me change my writing hand to right hand and as a result of forced training, my brain got little jammed in the neurons and I couldn't talk for a few weeks, then my parents took me to the doctors, did some speech therapy and made me alright back again, but I had a little bit of a stuttering problem for quite some time as a aftermath.<br /><br />It’s also a hard thing with day to day life, because it’s a right handed world out there. My Teachers at school used to assign a desk especially for me, as I could only sit on the extreme left corner, so that I wouldn’t bump into right handers while writing. I had to eat with spoon, because people thought it was gross to eat with left hand. It was an easy task for people to copy from my exam paper as I used to write in an odd position which is easily visible. The use of basic everyday stuffs like scissors, ruler and computer mouse was a tough task and now in USA, driving a car seems to be a little rough task for me since I have to change gears with my right hand.<br /><br />Sometimes I have found it difficult and thought left handedness was a curse, since my right brain is pretty dominant because of left handedness, I am not pretty good at logical or rational subjects, so my math was very bad. History, geography, chemistry and biology were my best subjects in high school, since they are the ones you can actually think and understand in pictures, which the right brain does best. I did top my classes in those subjects but interestingly, I got fond of physics too during my 12th board and managed to top it, physics was the only rational exception, I’ve had but it was All in vain as Math got me down every time. Somehow me n math don’t get along very well... Neither is it good with its teachers.<br /><br />Intuition is a very important function of the right brain, and I am strong in it. My intuitions are 99% correct and I believe in them completely, although occasionally I do get let down by my intuitions, also It is easy to say that I am also a big risk taker because of my dominant right brain. <br /><br />In recent years, I noticed that the dominance of my right brain has increased too much and it’s getting to a stage where it’s more like a master-slave situation. My left side of the body is much more strong and dominant and my right side is totally uncoordinated. I realized that my right side is unbalanced and does not cooperate with the body. My right hand’s reflexes are slower than the left and right leg doesn’t coordinate well. For example, when catching a cricket ball, my right hand delays in reflex, hence I miss the catch and while playing badminton, my right leg doesn’t move as fast as my left leg, so I trip over sometimes while moving sideways. It is a simple defect I noticed, later I found more instances where my right hand wasn’t in my total control.<br /><br />Now, I am trying to see if I can balance out my two sides of the body. It’s a small experiment I am trying to see, if I can possibly make myself get full control of my right side of the body, which in turn might help tune my left brain to make me more rational and intelligent. I’d give details about the progress of my experiment in coming posts. Let’s see if it works..!<br /><br /><br /><br />.CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-69894633608714134572010-07-05T00:29:00.004-04:002010-07-20T21:59:00.260-04:00Sun and the blue sea.During my 40 day vacation in Chennai. There were a lot of beautiful and interesting sights and places visited, the most beautiful place were the beaches... Marina and Bessy, the usual and Tiruvanmyur occasionally. the beaches are always close to my heart, its the only place in the whole world, where peace hits you as soon as your feet touch the sands, the cool breeze and the melodious waves just make you feel so comfortable.<br /><br />So what's even cooler than that... well, its to see the sunrise in the beach, the Majestic hot Sun rising out of the Cold Blue sea, makes me want to compare it to a hot girl rising out of the sea ( like in most movies!), it was like a celestial wonder, even though it occurs everyday that's the only time i got to see this beauty. I got to see this sight and then came along, some added sound and light effects provided by the lightening and thunder with dark black clouds filling up the sky like someone had tipped over a bottle of ink, it was like an end credits to a movie. the lightening bolts were like flashes of a camera which the gods used to take pictures of the earth, the Flash of bright red light against the dark black clouds was a breathtaking richness in color. Thunders are a separate class of sounds, they bring out the fear in you. the loud sound makes your body shiver for a moment, even if you do not fear the thunders, admiring the sunrise and lightening did i realize, there was a storm coming to Chennai... 'laila' was her beautiful name.<br /><br />I never knew that a storm was approaching, when i had set out early morning to the beach for sunrise sight but it was also a blessing, because i got to get drenched in the mad rain that followed the thunders, it was heavenly with the smell of sand with the first drops of rain gets you into a bliss with nature that you want more of it, so drenching in the rains gets you the most of it. Before the rains, there was a period of heavy gust of winds storming through the beach, carrying as much sand as it could into the air. It was not as much as a sand storm in a desert, but a good prelude to the heavy rain. I got a complete sand bath before i had the rain shower that cleansed me thoroughly, that's when i felt, no matter if you drink it or get drenched in it, water is the elixir of life.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TEZTf6p0opI/AAAAAAAADHc/H6lgp5RhcZU/s1600/2010-06-09+05.35.44.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dInZJFpA3xg/TEZTf6p0opI/AAAAAAAADHc/H6lgp5RhcZU/s320/2010-06-09+05.35.44.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496172203037991570" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Image 1 - the blue skyline and the beach road just a few seconds after sunrise.</span><br /><br /><br />I felt every bit of nature in that single moment, a beautiful sunrise, Cool blue sea, gentle breeze followed by gusts of wind, lightening, thunder and the romantic rains. It's one big moment with mother nature that i would relish my whole life.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx6Zb0y_lZMOKrUVfoeeTSAsHhRAGyyOMf5Gyn_coduMWeRbxWwu_zJUfnV6Cwvdl7VvzG_UiqL8gSKnijRKQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Video 1 - a few seconds capture of the beautiful lightening ripping through the black curtain.</span><br /><br />Even though I enjoyed every bit of the sight and sounds, there were 3 things i missed during that time - A bike, my camera( i did have a cell camera, but a good one is needed) and a cup of coffee. Maybe next time, I'll have all the 3 things plus my love to make the moment complete.<br /><br />Unless of course a Tsunami strikes with it !CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-39193227916413648742010-06-27T20:00:00.000-04:002010-06-27T20:30:02.620-04:00New York – London – Kuwait – Chennai<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">I travelled about 18 hours in flight from New York to Chennai and back to New York in this past one month. Here are the few interesting things I experienced and observed in the flights and airports.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>The JFK international airport is huge and is an architectural masterpiece by the Americans. The terminals are built with less materials and efficient energy saving methods are used. Lots of sunlight and air circulation but the whole complex is a mere skeleton of metal, with glass and fiber. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>The restrooms in JFK airport - a cool innovation with the men’s room. The men’s room urinals have a black spot on them; the spot is a picture of a fly which seems like a real fly is sitting on the urinal. So men try to target the fly to shoo it away from the place. It’s a natural instinct for men. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s a very innovative idea as it prevents spillage of urine outside the urinal and also saves water.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Yes, this is a power driven world, I saw people searching for power in the terminals of the airport. Yes, by power I mean electricity. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There were no plug points to be seen anywhere on the seating areas and people did everything to find one and charge their phones or laptops. A girl decided to sit on the floor right next to a janitor’s closet to charge her laptop as it had a power point next to it. A man had his laptop charging from a cell phone charging point from a distance away and had many people almost trip over by his charger wire. I am no exception as I stood with my phone in the cell phone charging point.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>American vs. British English. Of course, there’s an ocean of difference between the two accents, but I observed the airport staff’s speaking their respective accents and found Americans to be super laidback and cool while the British were majestic and strict. Just by their accented English, the British officials looked commanding and little bit scary.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Arab sheikh! My flight from London to Kuwait had this interesting incident. An Arab sheikh and his wife had boarded the plane in London; they were in their traditional costumes and did not speak English. They sat in the seat in front of us, but funny thing was it was another couple’s seats. No matter what the airhostess would explain, the sheikh never budged to get up from that seat and move to his own. It even lead to the Command officer from airport to come and confront him and threatened him to be debarked, but all in vain. Sheikh did not shake for anything.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Tamil flight! The flight from Kuwait to Chennai had this awesomeness to it. Almost every passenger on the flight was a tamilian. Even the air stewards spoke Tamil, never did I imagine I would see such a sight, it bought me into Chennai even before my flight took off from Kuwait.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>My return flight was at 5.50 am morning. Pretty odd time since I had to reach airport at 3am. The wait at the gate was very boring, so I started messaging all my friends. Luckily one was awake at 4 am and helped me out of boredom by talking to me for a long time. Thanks to that Friend. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>there was a very interesting coincidence in the flight, in the 3 seats of my row, the person sitting on my right was named shiba, and the person on my left was named shibu, with me being Chibi. Our names differed just by a letter pronunciation. Oddly interesting.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>American kids and Indian kids. There were lots of kids in my flight from Kuwait to New York via London, for some reason, kids don’t sleep at all in flights. I had a couple of American kids before me and an Indian kid behind my seat. Interesting thing I observed was the American kid was like a tamed and trained dog, did his parents said and was really obedient and mostly silent; the Indian kid was notoriously loud and kept talking like there was a competition going on. During the flight taxi in London, the American parent kept educating their kid about the aircrafts, different airlines, their tail pics, how plane takes off n stuff... while the kid listened. On the other hand, the Indian kid had tons of questions to her dad, she kept asking him, how does plane fly, why can’t cars fly, why is the tire of plane so small, why does it have a tail, why is the driver of plane called a pilot instead of plane driver. Etc… the dad didn’t have the patience or the time to answer his little one as she fired a lot of questions. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So which of the kids is Smarter? Indian or American?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>The Football world cup fever is in the air too. I heard pilot announcements made updating the ongoing USA- Ghana game during the flight. Sadly, USA lost the game during extra time.</p><p></p>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-48744053520305940892010-05-05T19:08:00.000-04:002010-05-05T20:38:56.236-04:00Shark Snack !Cinema is the epitome of entertainment for past century, ever since Edison invented the movie projector, it has fascinated people. Actors and Actresses being hailed as equals to gods and a powerful source of information and entertainment, sometimes can bring out social changes too. Indian Cinema has been ridiculously big in the world for a long time now. to be specific, Tamil Cinema has been close to my heart for years but recently it has been moving farther away.<div><br /></div><div>I watched two extremely contrasting movies in recent times. Dasavathram for third time and Sura for first time. I was happy to watch the earlier but why did i see the latter. the essence of movie making is the extremities in both these movies, One at the highest end and other at the lowest possible end. Dasavatharam was basically one man's work, the genius Kamal Haasan. The amount of research put into creating a story which is very complicated and making an apt screenplay which is simple and understandable for a layman is marvellous. He has also performed and dubbed in the movie for 10 different characters which have totally different looks and characteristics.</div><div><br /></div><div>the concept of chaos theory was neatly explained in the movie along with so many social messages and beautiful dialogues with plenty of wit and inner meanings which make it a good topic for a great discussion. The first scene of the movie of the 12Th century takes your breath away. the movie was a indeed a good watch.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the other hand, Sura was Horrible, crappy, and plain boring. It was supposed to be vijay's 50Th movie, aren't milestone movies supposed to be a very good one ? i thought so but this one looked like one which is not going to get vijay any more milestones rather some big grindstones on his head. The movie had Nothing in it, century old story, very boring screenplay, plain action and dubbed music, even vadivelu's comedy was stale. I am not talking more about the movie, makes me feel upset for watching such a disaster.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have a lot of questions in my mind though... Didn't this director see any movie or Tamil movie before ? didn't anyone see the movie before it got released ? not even a single soul cried out loud that it was a screw up ? what about the producers are they printing money to spend on filth called movies?</div><div><br /></div><div>then the hero... Vijay. NO way is he going to become the next superstar with these kind of movies, if he's going at this rate churning out things down his back. thinking about being a hero, does he even listen to the story before taking up a movie? does he resent for having given pathetic flops? and my god save 3 idiots remake from Vijay. I don't want to see him disgrace that masterpiece. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't want every movie to be a perfect masterpiece like dasavatharam, but a movie is to provide entertainment, it should be decent enough to deliver it. If the Director had ripped off a good action movie from hollywood and had it remade scene by scene like photocopying that would have been least justice instead of the Sura he's given.</div><div><br /></div><div>Luckily, there are stalwarts like kamal,manirathnam and good directors like bala, murugadoss, shankar and few others who give good movies once in a while. else, Tamil cinema is doomed to become like a Sura puttu (shark snack).</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418732389612965517.post-43636075246720634592010-05-02T20:28:00.001-04:002010-05-02T21:16:28.115-04:00My experiment with sleep !Sleep is a very important activity you do every other night. many do it during the day too. Its one thing which you can actually enjoy doing while you are bored. bored of your mind, have a good sleep, its a good remedy for boredom. Lately, i had experienced this weakness in me. I couldn't sleep well. I was having sleep, but very short ones and it took me ages to get some sleep. the reasons were quite obvious. I was definitely not bored and to make things worse, a lot of thoughts and worries, some unnecessary ones too. <div><br /></div><div>This lack of sleep continued for about a week, i had been getting sleep only for about 2-3 hrs every night and it continued the same way for a week. This was when i decided to take actions. I am a person who sleeps for 8-9 hrs straight normally. Missing a lot of time in sleep made me worry. so i started some experiments to make me sleep better. </div><div><br /></div><div>First, I thought Tiredness may cause sleep. so I decided to get as Tired as possible. I walked a lot, worked a lot and even went to gym and played till i dropped ( literally !!). I got myself so tired that i was lazy to cook stuff for dinner but hunger could cause sleep problems, so i ate my quota of food. then, my experiment failed for 3 days continuously. even though i was very tired and having bit of cramps in my body, i wasn't sleeping well. Interestingly, my sleeplessness had increased in time rather than a decrease i expected. </div><div><br /></div><div>My Roomie suggested that i sleep early, considering that i go to sleep at 12 and do not get sleep till 4 am, if i had slept at 9 or 10 pm, i may get sleep sooner by 1 am at least. So i decided to try it out. I went to sleep at 10.30 pm. It didn't work out well, since it just extended my wake time on bed by an extra 2 hours. so my second experiment also failed.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was getting little bit frustrated about this sleeplessness, and it was starting to show up on my day to day works. so I had another experiment underway, I found that my friend who had severe cold was taking a cold tablet, which had severe Sedative effect that he slept for hours together uncontrollably. So this struck me an idea to try taking that same tablet and see if i can sleep well ( preferably uncontrolled) and also it was a very good alternative to sleeping pills and have no side effects ( since sleep was the side effect ). so during the night, before sleep i took one tablet and went to sleep ( that's what i thought) but didn't sleep, i was lying on bed, turning and twisting in all directions, changing positions, waiting for the drug to take effect, but all it gave me was a dizzy feeling that was close to sleep but not the actual one. so i got up in the middle of night to take another pill, still no effect till morning 5 am then i did sleep for a shocking 2 hours, then woke up at 7 am. This got into my nerves too much that i let out my frustration on a unusual spot - Facebook (that was a very bad idea, looking at the responses i got from people).</div><div><br /></div><div>By now it was about 10 days into sleeplessness. I was turning into a Insomniac as days progressed. I was really worried, because even with a really bad time in my life, i never had a problem with this sleep. So it made me think more about why this was happening to me now. When i had not many problems and when i happened to have found a way to tackle some of my problems at least. </div><div><br /></div><div>An Idea then Flashed in my mind, I don't know if it was a brilliant one, but it changed things. It was an epiphany while looking at a Facebook status. which said " if u can't beat them, better join them." So i realised, when i was trying to get sleep, i was actually trying to beat insomnia. I was forcing myself to do something my mind was not intending to do. so I did my fourth experiment, I spent my whole Friday night without sleep. I planned not to sleep the entire night and the whole next day. I set my mind that i would not try to sleep. keep doing some work or pass time but not sleep. so best way to avoid sleep is to keep yourself busy. Best way to do it was work. hence i spent the entire night in my lab working on an experiment. It takes about 3 hrs for a single person to perform the experiment on their own, so it ate up most of my night time, then i watched a movie a really funny one " The Hangover". By the end of the movie, it was about 5.00 am, I was starting to feel little sleepy. </div><div><br /></div><div>So another way to avoid sleep is to pump up your adrenaline. best way to do it, with just your laptop in front of you was to watch something exciting. It was a tough choice between Action and Horror. I went with Horror, I watched "Hostel" again for a second time, That was one movie i had decided not to watch ever again ever in my life time. so it kept me grossed and engrossed in it till 6.00 am, then i decided to screw it and go outside, as it was sunrise. I had my camera with me, so walked around the campus took some pictures (check out my Facebook page) which came out really well. It was my second time in 2 yrs that i saw the Sunrise. </div><div><br /></div><div>Coming back to the experiment, I successfully avoided sleep on Friday night, and continued this the following Saturday. I had plenty on hand to make myself comfortably busy. Cricket match, Cooking, eating, A evening drive in a friends car and some phone conversations. the Saturday night was ridiculously awesome. I just remember me, lying down on my bed to relax myself as my roomie was asking something to me, after that it was all sleep. I sleep for 11 hrs continuously, It was a very deep sleep that there weren't any dreams. Finally my experiment turned out to be a success. I finally achieved a proper sleep for a night against my insomnia and i hope it continues for good.</div>CHIBIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16984930128166692053noreply@blogger.com1