MAD MAD WORLD ..

Scenario 1

An IIM graduate is recruited by a US MNC company for business analyst position..
he meets an ex-outsourcing company chap as his colleague who has 4 years work-ex in outsourcing company(infy wipro tcs etc etc) and joined US-MNC because his company to return to india

Scenario 2

A Top-tech school Master in Comp Sci guy is rejected by Amazon after the 7th round interview.
An SE from an outsourcing company gets his onsite chance without even knowing the abc's of UNIX (ls -l command) :D .. data mining is a far-fetched concept..

Scenario 3

A guy with 3-4 years work-ex in SAP (ERP/CRM) working as an onsite co-ord is replaced by a fresh IIM grad as onsite grad without any previous experience ..

Scenario 4
An IIM grad is hired as a PM - on technical experience whatsoever .. however people with 6 years work-ex inside the company are not promoted ...

there are innumerable scenarios like these ..

I leave a US onsite 2 years .. for an MBA ..to gain knowledge as I find my job borring .. but at the end of the day I have to come back to work.. what will I settle for ?? Will I have the tenacity to carry on debt for a long-time ?? Will I compromise for an oridary IT post, or will chase my dream (which I obviously do not know :) ??)

What will Richie do ?? What will laks, sudeepa, hebbar do ??
What will all the people who have their legs in two different boats do ??
Is teju happy after is M-tech adventures (leaving behind yahoo shares) .. back to terrawiz ..? How is Akshay ? How is Archana ??
how is Kummi doing ??
hows Dhi only one ??
How about the US dreamchasers ?? Raghu, Harsha, satya, kartic, shayam, sod, sibin..
are they happy with extra bucks, extra debts, with corn-flakes and tropicana jucie instead of idli-vada
How about guys jumping domains ?? from mech to IT ? or IT to finance ?? (lv, suri)


Is it perfectly all right to continue a normal life?? Is it not borring ??
why do we search for adventures ?? Is it really exiciting ??

Are we insane in a rational way ? or are we irrationally sane ??

there is chaos everywhere ..
if u look at it optimistically there is sense everywhere ..
does umpteen non-sensical moves packaged and projected in a sensical way makes sense ??

Is this the effect of accounting exam due on Sunday ?? or the mba effect ??

I think mba just is a 2 month experience till now .. it cant have such a profound effect .. I have been questioning myself from 1st pu about various aspects of life .. before that I just did things .. read, play, eat, sleep, never thought ..
ever since i started thinking my life has become miserable .. or more +vely meaningful .. I discover more questions .. and a very few answers.. I started reading parva .. well that shows that life is a trade.. ( but I am still not convinced ).. evreyone trades something or the other.. passion, compassion, love, hate, good, evil .. thats the author's view again ...

let me get back to accounting .. :D ..

ps:- do ignore the grammatical and spelling mistakes ..no time/enthu to review .. this applies only if u happen to read this blog ..:)

dont worry I am perfectly alright :) .. have had some wonderful food and sleep and life is very much normal .. squash, friends, movies .. money ..

Rescuing - The adda

The owner, Neo had a very good vision when creating this blog .. 5 friends to share their experiences, day in and day out ..

Now, this blog has not been updated for a while .. and its a pity ..
I really am apologetic, as I am one of the reasons for this dismal state..

Richie, Gnaani and teju are mincing words on their own blog..
I am trying the same on my assignments and exams :D ...

and sudeep probably on Linux x.x.x .. using C/ assembly code ..

Lets get back folks .. on ADDA ..

'baa baaro baaro ranadheera '
'baa baara preetiya saradara'

hehe

Saddam Hussain sentenced

Saddam Hussain is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraq's highest judicial body. Watch the video here.

None of the big leaders like Bush or Blair made a comment/statement. They left this tough job to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. The jackals.

Departed Rating :: * * * + 1/2

I liked the story of "The Departed". But it is not your conventional gangster movie (like Goodfellas which was directed by Scorcese, before) and all the actors have done a great job. By great job, I mean, there is one scene where the gangster boss, Jack Nicholson, gets angry. That really shook me! Leo DiCaprio shines(I'm seeing a pattern here. He was good in Ganags of NY, he was even better in The Aviator and he is really damn good in The Departed) and Jack Nicholson is brilliant (as usual) and Matt Damon plays a dishonest police cop with a facade which seems believable.

The movie starts wout with a memorable quote by Jack Nicholson which goes something like this :-

I don't wanna be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.

The synopsys is pretty complicated. There are no sub-plots as such, but the basic plot is pretty convoluted.

There are two men who are on the opposite sides of the law in the other side. That is, there is a "gangster-spy" in the polic department and a "police-spy" in the gangster department. The police know that they have a spy in their midst, and same is the case with the gangsters, who know that there is a cop.The rest is upto you to figure out.

The movie has an undeniable Scorcese touch to it. The blood, the rage , the violence and the reliance on top actors for the delivery of the script.

But there is one mistake (from my POV). The film runs overtime after the highdrama climax.Whatever, a good movie to catch if you have some time during your weekend.

DOnt go to The Forum Multiplexes. You WONT get the tickets and everytime I end up getting disappointed.I managed to get in Innovative Multiplex. From now on, I will start anti-advertising for Forum! hahah...

Marty's back

I personally loved GoodFellas and Taxidriver.I was stunned by Leonardo DiCaprio's acting in the "Aviator".

There were already great reviews about the latest offering by Martin Scorcese(dont mind the spelling, if it's wrong) by Venky and some other US folks.

So I am going to watch the Departed this week, for sure.

Leonardo DiCaprio is getting better day by day. I have high expectations on this movie.

Halloween

A tribute to the dead , namma ooralli PAKSHA anta karitare, some people celbrate 'titi', and some people do worship their elders on one of the deepavali days.. this is how we celebrated at the HKUST

Cisco is coming to Bangalore

And the point is that it is a Corporate headquarters!. Not a development centre.


Now Cisco plans on consolidating its operations in a new campus and locating one of its top US executives there--Wim Elfrink, the senior vice-president for customer advocacy, who reports directly to CEO John Chambers. This is the first time that a major US technology company has established a corporate headquarters in India, and it's yet another sign of the growing importance of India on the world technology map.

Check this out.

And other on the tech campuses part, Google is opening an office in proper NY. I think it will cost millions of dollars!!!

Googleplex in newyork

I don't know how this post is gonna end, but it is definitely gonna start with what is happening at work.....To some extent it is adrenaline, fun etc....But since it is huuuge, you end up losing energy by the end of the day , too tired even to turn on the stereo as you drive through the madness of a 8:45 dry and cold night of Bangalore. I dont want to remind myself of details and get a gut-wrenching feeling.

Okay.Stop.

Met rajaneesh on the weekend and he quoted a memorable truth:-

It is not what or how much hardwork you do at work, but it is how important the work is to the higher ups, which guarantee visibility. Example, you may be doing a trivial thing but that trivial thing might be very important.

And we saw "Don" the movie. Don is good, but waaaaaay to sophisticated and heavily inspired by Hollywood flicks. I would prefer the lambu and great looking Amitabh Bachchan in a Mafatlal suit looking damn smart, in some car chase in UP in India than SRK sitting in Paris/Malayasia.The Don of the yesteryears had a clunky charm, but this new Don is really very sophisticated. Zeenat Aman in the nurse outfit looked oh-so-gorgeous and Priyanka Chopra is okay.But Kareena Kapoor is really wasted, and she has not taken her looks seriously for this movie, and cant look like a vamp with oomph owing to weight problems.Ish Koppikar looks very un-Indian with the makeup, but some loose outfits could have been avoided. On the acting frontier, except for SRK, well chuck it. Screenplay is definitely good and a very good job of an adaptation.And Farhan Akhtar is a good auteur but he cannot understand the pulse of Bollywood. Period.

Meanwhile, I also checked out a restaurant called "Herbs and Spices" near Innovative Multiplex. It is an old British Officer's house turned into a restaurant (well it is more like a farmhouse, with some anglo-indians playing good jazz music). Very limited choice for veggies, but it was good continental food, there.

Goose @ Herbs and Spices 


And I have to pull up my socks. This is a very important thing. (For memory).

Apart from that, today is Kannada Rajyotsava , yellarigu hardhika shubhashayagaLu.This is also a holiday at Bangalore.

And yeah, for regular blog readers, once the work thingy gets going smooth, I will be as regular as ever :-)

Suri's office 


Kumar at Bangalore, last week : He has that IIT look, isnt it ?  

visit to HK...

Hey guys,

Y dont u all plan for a trip to HK ?? It will be awesome .. Sudeep, Avi, Chilli, Teju, Hebbar, laks etc etc ..

I have freaking 10 days of holidays starting Dec 22nd .. we can have a blast ..
Its a wonderful place.. we can go to China also .. and Macau, the Vegas of east ..

cheers
GD

What a wonderful world !

Check out this video, guys......

The irony is so strong and such a contrast.
The lyrics and the song is soooo simple, but the visuals are so ironic.

You got to check out the creativity of Youtubers in this song :-

What a wonderful world - by Loius Armstrong

exams ..

i have two exams to write this week, and I am not enthu about it .. the only good part is the exams carry only 45% ..that means I cant fail unless ..................

I remember my exam days back in engineering,
--the 15 day marathon,
--xerox notes, from malleshwaram, hanumanthnagar and bsk 3rd stage,
--long nights at tejus place ( long because of discussions .. politics , life, career, girls ..everything except studies) ..
--chakku troubling us by call at 11:30 pm and psyching us out by claiming he had completed
--teju's tea and kummi's biscuits
--morning breakfast by teju's mom
-- sleeping the whole day just to wake up for another night
-- the gathering at sudeep's palce at 8 in the morning for the final sharing and ofcos filter coffee :)
-- nair not coming into the exam hall inspite he being on campus ..last minute cramming
-- chilli's record breaking exam writing 2.25 hours max
-- followed by early exits from Avinash (peer pressure), Harsha and Carren
-- Nair bothering swati for answers
-- Tejaswi's recording breaking additional papers, matched equally by Sumanth
-- Discussions following exam and Avinash caliming the question wasnt there
-- sudeep misinterpreting (minimum 2 from first section as atleast 2 from first section)
-- me copying a major step in Eng mech derivation from NAIR
-- lokesh always saying 'adhu neen andikondange easy illa' and HM bashing him up ..
-- juice after the exam at Anand's juice counter
-- occassional beats
-- Dil Chahta hai after one of the exams .. (me satya teju and naga) and sudeep not participating bcos its a hindi moive
-- Maiya colleting notes for the next exam alreay
-- Carren using the F word incessantly accusing all the question paper setters as bastards ..
-- Sandeep micro managed chits and Nair photo-copying a chit - truly innovative .. though not using it to any advantage (I think internal times)
-- Me not studying half of Computer architecture and pysching out the last minute ..and maiya explaining pentium architecture..

and the list goes on and on and on

ohh .. My handicapped stage and climing 2 stories for writing exams and Sumanth picking/dropping me from home (thank u richie) ..

Memorable ..

Don Remake ?

Everybody is keen to pull down the remake of Don. But my sis gave a good review for it and I am eager to watch this movie. It seems that it doesnt follow the old movie completely and I have predicted the ending. I want to verify it!

I will write a review as soon as I see it.

Meanwhile

I had this dream, today morning. Most of my dreams are nonsensical and it features me falling from a tall cliff or rocks with hands spread out or I being attacked by a dog with razor sharp teeth. But this one was a Hollywood movie with soldiers and all that.I wont get into the details.But I could interpret this stupid dream.(For my memory's sake)

Ridiculous....Thats all I can say.

UPDATE :: My guess is correct! Hehehe Farhan Akhtar that was a good one...But it was easy....hehehe

DTM (Dont touch me)

The DTM experience has been humbling.

It has humbled me and made a tomato soup out of me.

I am stripped of all my pride....Ufff....Lord, I hope it gets completed as soon as possible.

The Volvo burns

Bangaloreans are notorious for burning buses. Is this a behaviour restricted only to India?

: A speeding BMTC Volvo bus ran amok, ploughed through a crowded bus shelter near the HAL Helicopter Division on the busy Airport Road and knocked down an autorickshaw and two bikes, leaving two dead and 20 injured on Tuesday afternoon. An irate mob torched the killer bus, a bike and hurled stones on a police jeep and brought life to a halt for hours.

People stand on the bus bays and a running bus stops in the middle of a road because he doesnt want to risk losing the road by actually stopping in the bus bay. As a result :-

Lots of jams at bus bays

And one Volvo zooms into a bus bay (where people are standing) and just rolls its wheels on 18 of them.Sad news.

Read the story here

It seems

my best behaviorial skill is that I am very polite (according to my manager).....

Unbelievable :-)

&^%@#%@#%@^#%@%#@%$%@##$

Ink Pen

When I was little, ball point pens were NOT to be used for classes 5th standard to 9th standard.

A hero pen was 30Rs. and was very popular. There were two types of inkpens. The ones which had a nib like this and the hero pens which had a nib like this.

We used to play with the BRIL inkbottles and our hands , books, shorts were full of blue or black ink stains.

And there were was one game. It was about dropping blots of ink on a paper and folding the paper and producing patterns.

I remembered this game because of a very well made video based on the same fact.
Really creative video.Check it out here

Itna sannata kyon hain bhai ?

yello yellaru ? Yaaru patthe ne illa ????

Yenu illwa matadakke ?

I was also very busy this week...Hadnt checked the blog, dont have anything to write except writing boring docs and code and excel sheets....It looks like the next few weeks will still continue to be reallly boring from atleast my side.....

A very strategic acquisition.

Google buys Youtube.
A very good step. Google doing things really right.

House of the rising sun

This song is an American folk song .

I never knew American Histroy was old as having a "folk song". But I love this song so much.

But from 200 years from now, when we'll all be gone, this will become a folk blog. This will be folk literature. I love to be a part of a folklore, am I alone , in this aspect ?

And guess what ? The folk song has "jeans" mentioned in it.
It is abt a prostitute repenting about going to the "House of the Rising Sun"
And House of the Rising Sun is a euphemism for a Brothel.

It is kick ass, especially the Jimi Hendrix version. Some vodka in a dim lit club will make a memorable weekend.....

However, the version of the British version by the "Animals" is really very good, you can check it out. You can check the voice of the lead singer. Really effortless vocals.

Here is the song for you guys to enjoy!!!

Dengue

It seems the count of dengue is gradually increasing [1]

And the epidemic is spreading in AIIMS (the famous medical institute in Delhi).

If the epidemic breaks in the hospital itself (without any control), perhaps it is a source of great concern.

It is not that I am lazy. As a matter of fact I am not lazy. Some people are out of their heads....

And I need to lower my optimism.I am way too optimistic....I dont want to be known as an idiot.

I need a break and a kitkat.

:-( Life sucks (atleast today it is sucking like hell).

What do the VCs want ?

I found an article which asserts my belief that VCs (atleast in the Silicon Valley, USA) are not a bunch of people who just want to see their monies double in the next three years, but it is also about passion in technology and need and necessity of good products.

The good VCs are full of ideas and you can easily make out from this article.

The ideas are mindblowing.....I dont know how they get these sorts of ideas.

Let's dance li'l stranger

I just LOVE this video (made by mixing an old FRENCH film ) with a song by the band "Nouvelle Vague".

The video just blends perfectly with the song and the female voice is very naughty......

Very very dreamy and romantic.


Check out the video with your speakers on here

What the hell ???!!!!

Does Salman Khan want to create a career harakiri ...It seems this is his latest picture where he plays the female form of Kalki avatar.



Okay, I am dazed by this image. I am SURE that this movie will be a hit. Will Salman Khan remove his shirt in the movie ? That is an interesting question.

Bandh Update

I had just been out to check whats happening on the roads because of the bandh.
The Bandh seems to have generated a lukewarm response.

For people living outside Bangalore, The bundh is being organised to protest against the Centre’s stand on the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute. It is because of the Belgaum dispute.

It seems development of North Karnataka towns like Belgaum and Gokak have been eclipsed because all the money has gone into South of Karnataka like Bangalore , Mandya, Mysore development.

Hmmm....I really dont know much on this issue, so I dont have an opinion on this.

But instead of stalling business and life and crippling day to day activites by organizing bandhs, they can think of a better way.

Oh, by the way, Cable TV is playing ONLY KANNADA.

How?

The people in my class

Deaf Leopards

I am still laughing.

Well actually I came across a site which posted Funny lyrics (Some of them were actually not heard properly). Some of them are HIlarious !!!!!

Check them Out :-

REM - Losing my Religion
The real lyrics were:
That's me in the corner,
That's me in the spotlight.

But I misheard them as:
Let's pee in the corner,
Let's pee in the spotlight.

Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

The real lyrics were:
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contaigous
Here we are now entertain us

But I misheard them as:
With the salad its less dangerous
Here we are now with potatoes
With a mars bar, and potatoes
And some salad and potatoes

Michelle , Ma belle - The Beatles

The real lyrics were:
Michelle ma belle,
sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble,
tres bien ensemble.

But I misheard them as:
Michelle ma belle,
some say monkeys play piano well,
play piano well.

You can check out all the fun here.

i AM BACK

"i" is a miniscule - thats me , AM BACK - is a big phenomenon, I such a lazy ass, I truly deserve an applause to get back here...

the title is inspired by Arnold :) we have two austrians in our class and one of our profs always tries to make pun of Austrians by referring to Arnold. Others do by referring Austria as German sub-continent.

the Indians are collectively called the Indian-mafia.. not sure about y and they kick-ass make fun of our Bollywood movies ..


in short.. the last month I have met some crazy guys and am having fun..

i am confused what I should write about .. u guys certainly do not want to hear about MBA shittt and my world is just my campus now ..

i AM BACK

"i" is a miniscule - thats me , AM BACK - is a big phenomenon, I such a lazy ass, I truly deserve an applause to get back here...

the title is inspired by Arnold :) we have two austrians in our class and one of our profs always tries to make pun of Austrians by referring to Arnold. Others do by referring Austria as German sub-continent.

the Indians are collectively called the Indian-mafia.. not sure about y and they kick-ass make fun of our Bollywood movies ..

A chinese friend of mine says that, the only correct news on the paper is the date .. that was really funny ..

in short.. the last month I have met some crazy guys and am having fun..

i am confused what I should write about .. u guys certainly do not want to hear about MBA shittt and my world is just my campus now ..

i AM BACK

"i" is a miniscule - thats me , AM BACK - is a big phenomenon, I such a lazy ass, I truly deserve an applause to get back here...

the title is inspired by Arnold :) we have two austrians in our class and one of our profs always tries to make pun of Austrians by referring to Arnold. Others do by referring Austria as German sub-continent.

the Indians are collectively called the Indian-mafia.. not sure about y and they kick-ass make fun of our Bollywood movies ..

A chinese friend of mine says that, the only correct news on the paper is the date .. that was really funny ..

in short.. the last month I have met some crazy guys and am having fun..

i am confused what I should write about .. u guys certainly do not want to hear about MBA shittt and my world is just my campus now ..

Over the air

Well, as far as I know, there are 6 radio stations in Bangalore. And for the moment, it looks good. But can a broadcasting business pay off ?

I liked all the siz radio stations and it makes driving , a pleasure (abt 70% of the time).

Here are the radio stations :-

102.9 - Vividh Bharathi/ Aakashwaani or whatever
The old legacy style programming and presentation continues and sometimes it is good. But I seriously doubt, who will listen to Raitharige Salahe kind of programs in the city

101.3 - FM Rainbow
Predominantly Kannada and Hindi songs.It is miles better than 102.9. The signal strength is weak and the Radio Jockey programming is very mediocre. But I guess , it caters to the older folk. I am not saying that I am very young. hehehe.

98.3 - Radio Mirchi
The RJ's try to speak some form of Yuppie Kannada and I hate that...I can imitate some of them...Although a lot of money has been invested in this channel it is going down because of the RJs. They are not that good.

94.3 - Radio One
I like this channel because of a right amount of Kannada and Hindi songs.Kannada is definitely given a good coverage here (in the programming and the RJing) and I feel the RJs are good (but not as good as Radio City),

91.0 - Radio City
They have the best RJs no doubt abt that. Bangalore's oldest Privately owned Radio station.But the ads are very frequent.THey play Hindi , Kannada and English songs.English songs in the night.The interviews are all very well planned.

91.9 - Radio Indigo, MY FAVORITE!
Only English! The whole channel is only english
They dont use words like "sakkath" or "soni kudi" or "praaji" or whatever! The RJs are pretty experienced.

But I am not sure whether this radio station will survive....Nobody will feel like advertising abt "Kaveri Silks Emporium" in a channel where the latest Mark Knopfler single is being released. By the way , they also have a good website. Check it out here.

Ramblin' Woman

FADE IN:
A huge biker drives a Harley Davidson at a constant speed on a seemingly endless road . The biker is in black leathers and wears a huge helmet with a black glass .

BIKER
(NARRATING)
It is the fifth day of August.
Just five years ago on the same day, I married Angela.
She was like my chopper.
"Smooth" is the word... I could see the sun in her eyes on the day of my marriage.

The wind howls, and the sound of the Harley fills the air.

BIKER
(NARRATING)
My marriage with Angela didnt last long. I loved her.She loved me.She hated my temper and carelessness.I thought she was crazy.After she left me, I shaved my head and took my chopper and rode straight away, down South....... I hoped nothing would go wrong again.

BIKER
(NARRATING)
Old Barney told me to do things in MY WAY.I thought abt old dead Barney's words seriously for the first time.I wanted to go on long rides ...To understand lives , people and the roads.And ofcourse, for the kicks.


BACKGROUND MUSIC : A Jazz musician mutters in the background.

The day fades into a night.The biker disappears into the darkness.

EXT. SOMEWHERE DOWN SOUTH - NIGHT

GEORGE, a STURDY MAN in his thirties walks with his head facing the ground.He sees a Harley Davidson bike and he asks for a hitch.

The BIKER (from the prev scene) stops the bike.

GEORGE
Thanks mate. My name is George.You going to New Orleans ?

The BIKER doesnt speak.The biker just nods a "yes".

George feels his pockets, to take some money out.

GEORGE
I dont have money mate. I am a pig farmer and I sold my pigs. Debt is horrible thing.I just need some help.Can you drop me at New Orleans, please ?

BIKER
Money aint necessary mate.Come along.

GEORGE
I can give you my blanket , The cold is devilish.We can rig up a tent nearby.

BIKER
Not necessary. Just jump along buddy.I will drive to Orleans in the night.

George gets on the bike and the biker starts. There is no wind and the night is really calm.

A beautiful night.

GEORGE
Whats your story, mate ?Looks like you are travelling for the kicks ?

BIKER
Well, it is the same old story. My wife left me.

GEORGE
Hahaha...So why you goin' to New Orleans buddy.

BIKER
I will be in time for the Mardi Gras Carnival .i've heard they have a real good time there, now ......

(PAUSE)

BIKER
Why did you sell your pigs, mate ?

GEORGE
Well...Thats a big lesson I learnt. As a pig farmer, I have noticed that there are two types of pigs. The little piggies which wriggle in the dirt and the bigger piggies who give loans to farmers like us. I got tricked by the bigger piggies.So I had to sell my little piggies.

BIKER
Thats true. Everywhere, there are a lot of "pigs".

GEORGE
By the way, do you take coke ?Marijuana? I have got it tucked up from Mexico.

BIKER
I dig that sh*t !!! I knew you were not an ordinary guy!It's been a while since I have doped.

BIKER
Where have you kept the dope?

GEORGE
In my bag.

BIKER
(NARRATE)
Old habits just die hard. I wanted to take my acid trip , right there

BIKER
(TO GEORGE)
I'll stop my chopper and we will have it.

BIKER
(NARRATE)
And thats how, GEORGE and I got down. I cant forget that night.Little did I know that it was George's last day in this world.

A LOUD BANG! of a gunshot is heard.

EXT. NEXT MORNING - DAY

George is dead with a shot on his forehead as the biker,standing, wearing his helmet, says a prayer in front of George.

BIKER
(NARRATE)
I had to kill George.He was a pig.I found Angela's photo in his wallet. I couldnt control my temper.I hated the man who snatched the woman from me without my knowledge.

BIKER
(NARRATE)
I also found out that she lived somewhere nearby.

BIKER
(NARRATE)
Suddenly I no longer felt like going to New Orleans.I drove back to say Angela , I loved her.

EXT. ANGELA's HOUSE - DAY

Angela is a pretty blonde who is just perfect.

Well. Not quite.

She sits facing the PHOTO of a red-haired woman, RACHEL with tears in eyes.

The biker enters and removes her helmet.

The biker is a WOMAN. She is Rachel.

ANGELA
How have you been, Rachel ?

Angela notices Rachel's shaved head.

ANGELA
You look different.

BIKER/RACHEL
I have been quite well.

(PAUSE)

BIKER/RACHEL
But I killed your "George".

Angela is stunned.

ANGELA
How did you know George ?

BIKER/RACHEL
He found me.

There is silence.

ANGELA
Are you going to kill me ?

BIKER/RACHEL
No.

BIKER
(NARRATE)
I had to do some explaning to Rachel.And I stayed there for a long time...


Was listening to some songs (Les Beatles) and I came up with this write-up. Just want to dedicate it to my oldest arch-rival, VHS. This is very much her style and influenzed by her "football and goalie" story which she put up in the "Blossoms" magazine.

Tired of blogging non-stop

I will see you all after a week.

I think the future is 3D Desktop

I had a look at the snapshots of the Windows Vista Desktop Environment called "Aero".Aero is a 3D desktop environment with transparent rendering.I also had a look at Sun's "Project Looking glass".

The question which is currently hitting me, is , can a 3D desktop Environment be a hit.

For me, the answer is a resounding YES.

This can be explained by a very simple analogy. Although the 2-D DOS (like Dave, Prince of Persia) games have their own fan-following for their simplicity, they were gradually replaced by the 3-D games.

Wolf-3d was one of the first 3-D games with a lot of demand for "graphics card" and memory during those days. But it changed the course of gamer programming, gaming engine, and 3D software started to demand hardware changes, which resulted in graphics card revolution of sorts.

A 3D desktop environment will be a delight to work on. I hope it will be affordable for companies and homes.So , your desktop will look like a bookshelf, with "books" and each window being a "book".

I found two desktop environments , through forwards, of Windows Aero Desktop Environment and the other one, being the Sun MicroSystems 3D environment. I personally liked the screenshots of the Sun Microsystems environment.

I dunno if the Linux KDE guys have taken such an initiative for rendering 3D environment on linux.

Windows Vista snapshot Couldnt find many snapshots of Aero, though

The unbelievable software and snapshots of Project Looking Glass!

Have a look at the movie clip also!

V for Vendetta

MS Radio Access Capabilities sucked my blood for one week and after a frustrating struggle , I discover the nasty bug and emerge victorious

Not mine.....But it has come out well

EXT. ROAD - NIGHT

Divya and Rajani (two pretty women in late twenties) keep walking briskly. They look kinda scared, as they walk really quickly.

DIVYA
Is he still following us ?

Rajani quickly turns back to see to hear quick footsteps.

RAJANI
Yes. he is following us.

DIVYA
Our luck is really rotten. The apartment is atleast 15 minutes and there is no bloody soul on this road.

RAJANI
We can find someone near the Whiskey bar. Will we face the guy and deal with him. We are two against one.

DIVYA
No. He was asking weird questions all the way during our journey in the train.

RAJANI
Did you look at his eyes. They looked really creepy and like blackholes.

DIVYA
Oh gud lord! Help us.

RAJANI
Now shut up and keep walking fast.

DIVYA
Actually when he was talking to me , he kept spraying spit everywhere and it was flowing his cheeks. That really freaked me out.

RAJANI
Now shut up and dont scare the hell out of me....

DIVYA
Gimme your mobile. I will call Ajit.

Rajani opens her handbag. No mobile! Divya looks at the bag in dismay.

DIVYA
Madam....You continue to be forgetful all your life. I am going to change my roommate NEXT MONTH.

RAJANI
Shut up. I might have forgotten my mobile a couple of times. You just need a small reason to explode against me.

DIVYA
Look, if we keep quarelling like bitches, the fool will catch up with us.

As they continue to walk, they see the lights of the bar.

DIVYA
Thank gawd!! The bar is still open. We may find some kinda help there.

A BLACK SANTRO is parked in front of the bar.

RAJANI
Hey! Thats your friend Sujith's car. Right ?

DIVYA reads out the registration number aloud.

DIVYA
M1064 - Thats him.

RAJANI
That guy...You had once considered going out with him right ?

DIVYA
Yes. He'd been rather persistent and I'd been put off....But he still had a bit of a crush on me and he mails once awhile and goes totally senti. I feel confident he would help.

RAJANI
Great! Some help for us.

DIVYA
I am gonna act like a damsel in distress and probably have to tolerate frequent phonecalls for a month or two. Thats okay.

EXT. BAR - NIGHT

Sujith (late twenties) is totally drunk with two of his pals as he heads for his car.

SUJITH
Bye guys! May the force be with you.

RAJANI and DIVYA stand near his car. Sujith is surprised. Suddenly the slur escapes him and he is fully alert.

SUJITH
Divya ? What are you doing here ?

DIVYA
Sujith, How are you ? Can you do me a favour. There's somebody tailing me. Can you sort him out?

SUJITH
Where is he ? What does he look like ?

Suddenly a big shriek is heard. A real howl like a werewolf.The footsteps sound hard and frequent.

DIVYA
Thats him. He has been following us throughout.

SUJITH
We will try.

DIVYA
Thanks a lot. Sujith, our place is just a few roads away from here. We have had a real nasty time. We will catchya later. Bye and thanks.

SUJITH
Bye.

SUJITH gears himself up and talks to his pals as Divya and Rajani almost start running.

As Divya tries to cross the next road, she is hit by a car.

BLACK OUT.

We FADE IN :

to a

INT. HOSPITAL DAY.

The nurse sits besides the bed as Divya opens her eyes.

DIVYA
What happened?

NURSE
You're very lucky. You've got a few broken ribs and a bit of concussion but other than that you're alright.

DIVYA
Where is Rajani ? And what happened to Sujith ? What happened to the man who was following us ?

NURSE
Rajani is in the police station. It seems an attack took place outside a whiskey bar on the same evening as your accident. A group of drunken men set upon a passer-by who had a weak heart. During the onslaught the man with the weak heart died. The man who is dead had your friend's mobile phone.

DIVYA becomes unconscious again.

A post on a rainy saturday

From yesterday I have started attending a "training". Rather I should call it a course.
It is good and I discovered the following yesterday :-

a) Student life is the golden life in one's phase of life.

b) The instructor being a PhD , asserted my judgements of a guy who does a PhD. Dedicated, passionate abt learning being the pluses and maverick , absent minded and recluse being the minuses.

c) I simply agree to disagree on his views (A typical PhD's thoughts abt life and society). I had judged most PhDs are very un-conventional.

d) I was trying to get the pronunciation of his surname. The strlen() of his surname was 20 letters and ended with a -kar.

I discovered the following today

a) I was wrong abt generalising abt PhDs and infact he is a very pleasant man with a good sense of humor and he actually tries to mingle with us .And he was a hit with us today after he started talking tech. Yesterday was an introduction class and he talked abt life etc.

b)Student life is a golden phase but it is really very difficult to sit for classes on saturdays.

The tech part :-

It was absolute delight to start talking abt Computer Architecture and Organization. I remembered the good old days of Hamacher. Accumulator. AB, CD, HL registers of the 8085 micrprocessor. Instruction Pipelines and Program Counters. The CARRY , OVERFLOW flags. 2s complement of a number. IEEE Floating point specifications. The Control Unit of the microprocessor, The bus diagram of 8085 and processor clock and instruction cyles, the Memory Mapped IO Concept. The Instruction Decoder and the factors which affect the word size of a computer.

It was a trip down the memory lane back to the 5th and 6th semsters.

I dont know if anyone remembers, there was a sorting algorithm which was a O(N) algorithm for Parallel Processors. The data had to be arranged in a snake-like format and the time was O(N).

Read this to know reasons to switchoff your system. I am convinced that I have to.. and I will do so as soon as I am done with my assignment..ummm..on second thoughts..after I am done with my assignment and downloading a paper that I have to read..and..

Are you an expert with google ?

Nice puzzle.

Guys try this out !

Wonderful home-made video

Hilarious home-made video of "I bet you look good on the dancefloor".
Put on your speakers and laugh like hell !!!

I bet you look good on the dance floor

Bangalore guys, we gotta try something like this and upload it on Youtube ...Anyone interested ?

Diary of a heroic woman

Reader discretion appliable
From an email fwd

This is a copy of the diary written by lady on a cruise ship.
A real heroic woman!!!!!!

Dear Diary,

MONDAY AFTERNOON:
What a wonderful cruise this is going to be. I felt singularly honored today as the Captain asked me to dine at his table tonight.

TUESDAY AFTERNOON:
I spent the entire afternoon on the bridge with the Captain. He explained everything he was doing and told me there are 1262 passengers on board and he is responsible for everyone's comfort, safety and having a good time. He is so charming and invited me to dine at his table, again, tonight.

WEDNESDAY EVENING:
The Captain saw me at the pool this afternoon and invited me, this time, to have dinner in his cabin. The Captain's cabin is very cozy and the dinner was served with the best wines. He made several glorious amorous proposals to me but I stood very firm on my moral convictions.

THURSDAY EVENING:
Tonight the Captain threatened to sink the ship, if I did not give in to his erotic proposals.

FRIDAY MORNING:
I saved 1,262 lives, last night......TWICE

The animal planet guy

CNN reports that the animal planet guy, Steve Irwin is no more, because he got bit by a Ray fish underwater.

He was the totally enthu guy with shorts and always used to capture crocodiles....

Read the story here

Onam celebrations at office

Flower circle at office 

Every year, the Mallus at office(even when I was in Infy) celebrate Onam by decorating this flower circle and wearing white sarees and dhotis....Ofcourse the canteen wallahs prepare some special boiled rice and kheer.....We had that yesterday and it was good.Does Karnakata have a traditional festival (like Onam?)....

Yes we do have Rajyotsava, but the point is i suspect every state in India will have an equivalent of Rajyotsava.


Rajyotsava is a not a festival.It is a state holiday and thats it.And for the moment, we wont wear traditional dresses and prepare sweets at home .We just call the orchestras and exclusively sing songs in Kannada.Maybe we should plan something like that

Is he really that good ?

Prasad puts it in his inimitable style: "My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

Prasad's other management mantra for the Railways has been: "If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick," which he is practicing while running the Railways.

If you are wondering which Prasad I am talking abt , it is none other than Lalu Prasad Yadav.He is invited to IIMA !!!!! to give a lecture....I guess it will be really interesting and entertaining at the same time.

In the process, Indian Railways has become the second-largest PSU profit-earner after the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. Prasad has surprised many by emerging as one of the top performing ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet.

Read the whole article here

Wisdom related post !!!

One day while walking through the wilderness a man stumbled upon a vicious tiger. He ran but soon came to the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, he climbed down a vine and dangled over the fatal precipice. As he hung there, two mice appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine. Suddenly, he noticed on the vine a plump wild strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious!


Lifey hange....

The Northwest Airlines fiasco.....

This is ridiculous!!!! .

Flight travel has become such a security issue thru' out the world.

And we can not blame on "Racism".
It is more a case of "SouthEastAsianPassengerFlightoPhobia".

Poor guys...Really embarassing.

Milan's last day in Sasken.

I dunno whether I will meet him again (I mean our career paths will cross again).

Sudeeprg sits with the headphones on, but thinking really deep.

One of the best PLs I have had !!! After all, tell me a PL who sings classic Rock songs, talks brilliantly and has deep insights on literally everything.

All the best for his education at INSEAD.

His last day at Sasken.

Man!!!
And many talks abt life, rock songs, the drunken revelry at a high star hotel, the conf-calls.....


Milan saab 

I look up at the horizon and look at the world and observe that it is turning....


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: OAM status week 34]
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:11:19 +0530
From: sudeep
To: Milan Jain
References:


Yes man....Even we will miss your insights for sure !!!



Milan Jain wrote:

Thanks a lot Sudeep. I will miss these e-mail discussions we had on all the status and complex issues we dealt with. With you and with the rest of the team...

Its all happening so fast that I cant even accept this change is happening. Well...
_____________________________________________
Milan JAIN, Core PCU, ESN: 6-874-5345
Phone: +91-80-5694 5345, TZ: CET + 3 1/2 Hrs

-----Original Message-----
From: sudeep [mailto:sudeeprg@sasken.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:28 AM
To: Milan Jain
Subject: [Fwd: OAM status week 34]

What a co-incidence :-))))
Oupsssss Milan saaaaab ....one last status before you leave !!!!!!!!

Cheers !!!
Sudeep

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: OAM status week 34
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:41:52 +0530
From: sudeep
To: 'Jean-Marc Pradel' , "Coateval, Yves [CTF:8T00:EXCH]",
"Ait Hmid, Moha [CTF:8K10:EXCH]", lalitha

Hello,

Please find the attached OAM status.

Thanks,
Sudeep
6 874 5651

and the stupid circus continues....

PVC

Yesterday I was visiting the website of the Indian Army and I found the page on Param Vir Chakra very VERY intriguing , inspiring.

The name itself means a lot...Bravest of the brave.



"This world rests on the arms of heroes like a son on those of his sire. He, therefore, that is a hero deserves respect under every circumstance. There is nothing higher in the three worlds than heroism. The hero protects and cherishes all, and things depend upon the hero".

I dont know if anybody remembers the "Param Vir Chakra" old TV serial which used to come on Doordarshan on Sundays. It was awesome and the song of the TV serial was also amazing.

The stories of each of the soldiers are stories of heroism/sacrifice. Some of the last words are really emotional. I also think , it is an example of leadership by example when I read about the encounter of Rifleman SANJAY KUMAR.


Bleeding profusely from the bullet wounds, he continued the charge towards the bunker. Unhesitant, he then picked up the enemy machine gun and crept towards the second enemy bunker. Three enemy soldiers, taken completely by surprise were killed by him on the spot. Inspired by his dare devil act the rest of the platoon, emotionally charged, assaulted the feature and captured Area Flat Top.

Just check out the recepients of the Param Vir Chakra on this webpage.

KANK review

The movie is bad. I have evaluated on the parameters which Karan Johar considers as his forte.

Casting of Shahrukh
Karan's trump card.

Shahrukh The dude, just has lost it. Was it the same Shahrukh who delivered Baazigar / Darr ? Or even recently, Swades ?

He keeps chewing gum throughout the movie and the damn words wont come out of his mouth properly. Second he looks visibly queasy to carry out a guy who has an extra-marital affair. He lacks Notoriety to that role....

He doesn't dance, in the movie. He just spreads his arms like an eagle and looks at the sky.Shahrukh is a good dancer....He hasnt danced in this movie.

And he plays a football coach....A loser in life...A la Million Dollar baby.But he plays it real badly.

Clothes and appearance

Good job, in my opinion EXCEPT for Amitabh Bachan.Preity looks like a porcelain doll. A little too perfect and very un-indian.

The heroines

Historically, Karan's heroines are good to look, talkative and they wear sarees during traditional dances in Punju style marriages.

Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta are good. I mean, they're good to look at. But, there is so much of them on TV/ads etc. you actually know the person....How many time are you gonna see those people ?

Rani Mukherjee tries to a play a dominatrix!!! ugh...A dominatrix has a whip, I know.But as far as I know, no dominatrix wears a cloth to her eyes.....(They generally wear face masks, if they wanted to conceal their identity).

Amitabh and Abhishek
Karan's ability to bring many people into one movie....

Big B has been harassed (not harnessed) as a jerk, and looks like a mess. I mean no-one can identify such a character...Neither NRIs can identify their baaps looking so damn silly and a UP doodhwala will be thinking "wtf" (in Hindi) looking at Big B....One more piece of info to Big B/ Karan.....There is no use faking ...the world knows about Hugh Hefner and his blondes..THe world knows about Ali G..

Abhishek Bachan has identified himself with bacchanalian parties...He is a cool dude with a coat ALL THE TIME...(and in one scene without his trousers, but he still has a coat)

Direction & script

1. Many, many closeups. This looks like a sitcom, with talking faces. Rani Mukherjee emoting her face has an overally duration of approximately 3 or 4 minutes. Shahrukh also has so many closeups. My question to the director is why should you become so dependent on an actor's emotions. Big mistake.

2. The extra marital affair scene was revealed sloppily to the viewer. Shahrukh and Rani getting a room-key looked awkward. If I were the director, I would have shown Shahrukh opening the room curtains in the morning and a surge of anger/confusion/hesitation in both Shahrukh and Rani, after the previous night's mistake (I use "mistake", to make it Indian).... And noone in an extra marital affair make love slowly... I think there should be fear, instinctive , animal-like and really quick ...Not like a godammn suhaag raat scene.

3. The dinner scene where Amitabh says "good joke" was good.

4. The relationship between Amitabh and Kiron Kher is weird. It is like "I am Amitabh and you are Kiron, and we have to know each other in no time, otherwise the movie wont proceed !!!"

5. Too much of inter-dialog, coud have been avoided. What I mean is :- Consider 2 scenes Scene#1 and Scene #2 which are taking place at the same time.Now the scenes 1 and 2 are switched rapidly, yet the context doesnt change, because the discussion is on the same topic.

6.Repetitive use of dry leaves flying around in the "fall season" of NewYork. If a house is shown in a shot, you can see dry leaves flying around on the isolated road.He has repeated this atleast 5 or six times.

7.The song "Where's the party tonight?" is very reminiscent of "its the time to disco" of Kal Ho Na Ho....Big mistake...and there is Preity Zinta also in that video....

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LAST and the MOST IMPORTANT
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India is tired of Manhattan movies. People can't identify with so much richness.

True it is dreamy, but we are tired of NY , Philadephia etc. If you want dreamy stuff, take us to Florence, Milan, Venice etc....Better make an adventure movie set in Congo or Tanzania or on the banks of Amazon....The world is a big place.

I want this effeminate jerk, Karan Johar, to make a movie EXCLUSIVELY in India...With SRK wearing a Dhoti....Maybe that will never happen.

On the eve

of India's 60th year of Independence and an article of Outlook I am wondering about Mahatma Gandhi.



For a country of India's size, illiteracy and general laxity of the public perhaps shrewd negotiable diplomacy was the need of the day. Even today the huge Indian public has its own diverse problems. There are national issues when we are at war...however at most of the other times, local issues are much more important to an average Indian.

When I say "general laxity" i feel this laxity is because of this prime reason :-

India WAS and India IS VERY diverse , geographically, culturally from one state to another...Thats why the public are were (and even now) more bothered abt local issues on a day-by-day basis.

Each one had his own ideals.Looking at the very diversity, the best option was Civil Disobedience and Gandhiji was instrumental in coming up with the philosophy.
Gandhi was a great leader in many aspects. Moreover what strikes to me is that the philosophy of "Non-Violence" is not "Non-Agression".

Power depends on the co-operation of others. Indifference and non-cooperation makes the enemy lose his cause.If you are violent, you are basically giving motivation. Nonviolence undermines the power of rulers through the deliberate withdrawal of this co-operation.

Finally, the notion of Satya, or truth, is central to the Gandhian conception of nonviolence. Gandhi saw truth as something that is multifaceted and unable to be grasped in its entirety by any one individual. We all carry pieces of the truth, he believed, but we need the pieces of others’ truths in order to pursue the greater truth. This led him to a belief in the inherent worth of dialogue with opponents, and a sincere wish to understand their drives and motivations. On a practical level, willingness to listen to another's point of view is largely dependent on reciprocity. In order to be heard by one's opponents, one must also be prepared to listen.From Wikipedia

And finally this post was written, because of a GREAT AD which I stumbled across while browsing an Italian Telecom company's award winning ad!!!!

You can check the ad, by clicking this link

Sudeep discovers youtube....

I am loving it....It is MUCH better than your music channels....I got a few lovely music videos....One of them was a home made video with a favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "That Smell".....The video was made using clips of "Pulp Fiction"....Really creative.......Check it out guys....

So many events in one day.

Creme de la creme was MJA leaving to a univeristy called "INSEAD".

It was a big surprise to the whole team. He is the founding person of our 20-people strong team and one guy whom our clients hold in very very high esteem. His listening skills are something which I have never seen in my whole life. He listens even to a godammn rock. Whether the rock is speaking bullshit or GPRS Packet Core software. I wish him all the best.

ANd Today....

The roads were empty in the morning.
The team looks empty from my perspective (for the moment,atleast).

It is gonna be a major hit to the team and we need motivation and crisis management.

Today

->One guy leaves to Delhi to start his career at IBM research labs.

->One guy leaves Infosys after a stint of 4 exciting years to Hongkong University.

All the best guys !!!

Life is a long road, keep vrooming.....

Work hours

I always observed that an average Indian spends more time in the office than an average American or an average European. This survey puts the same point.

However, Asians seem to be partially compensating for low purchasing power through longer working hours as they work the longest hours in the world, which is almost 50 days more per year than West Europeans.

People in Delhi work 2,121 hours and are entitled to 15 paid vacations per year; in Mumbai people work 2,205 hours and take holidays on 17 days a year, as against a global average of 1,844 working hours and 20 vacations. Seoul tops the list with 2,317 hours per year or 50.2 hours a week.

The bigger question is Even though we spend more time at work , why are we less productive ? . Hopefully with better ethics and values we can move out of this ineffectiveness..

Man ! What an idea for a resume

I really liked this guy's effort to make his resume.
Very nice. Have your speakers turned on and have flash player on your PC.

:-)

Nice resume

Quote - Unquote..

'I can give John what his bike can't' - Bipasha Basu...

Wowww isnt that wonderfull !!!! Yipeee John whoever will be so happy hearing this one

I do not know who to pity

Bips Basu - Who percieves that bike is her competitor
John Abraham - The beneficiary in the above scenario
The interviewer - who decided to highlight this in bold 24 as the catchy stuff on his/her article
The editor - who approved it

The article is on Times Life - this sunday. I dont know how many of us should read an article which has such a wacky statement

FAITH WITHOUT FANATICISM; LOVE WITHOUT POSSESSING

Stuff from Infy BB. :)


“Faith without fanaticism; Love without possessing” - cannot exist in the material world. Further, if you defined true faith as directly proportional to one’s ability to forgive; and the ability to forgive is inversely proportional to fanaticism, then true faith can never exist because it calls for man to be perfect. And given that man’s basic instincts dwell in greed, jealousy, hate etc., the only faith he can naturally exercise would be material in nature. Material faith is inevitably followed by fanaticism. So when fanaticism increases, forgiveness decreases. Going forward with this hypothesis, it implies that material faith is directly proportional to hate. (this implies that the Material ‘God is Hate” which should not be confused with the version ‘God is Love’ which is representative of True Faith).

Again in the material world, we see that material love almost always possesses. There is a sense of ownership associated with material love. In my mind, I feel this sense of ownership associated with ‘society’s’ version of so-called “true love” (essentially ‘material’ love) is a function of subliminal programming that has occurred through the ages. For example, let’s take a husband-wife relationship or a parent-child relationship. These relationships are primarily dictated, directed and governed by social rules. Consequently, we see that love almost always imposes itself in the guise of “I know what’s best for you; I’m doing this for you etc.” Love as it exists in the world today is hardly ever giving in nature; it takes more than it gives. How many of you have actually seen love that is eternally giving in nature?
We have thus far proved that “True love” is inversely proportional to possessing; and “Material love” (which is what exists in the world today) is directly proportional to possessing.

To summarize - If forgiveness is defined as directly proportional to “true love” and inversely proportional to fanaticism which is directly proportional to material faith; It implies that Material Faith and True Love cannot exist simultaneously in harmony. It also implies that material faith is directly proportional to possessing. Does this mean we are all resigned to live a life hating one another? This could possibly be true because that is what we see in the world today – Hate thriving at an exponential rate. Additionally, since material faith is directly proportional to possessing, we see wars being fought under the guise of faith. Evidence to this fact are the Christian and Muslim crusades of the middle ages. In the modern world, of course, the spin doctors have disguised it to pass off as ‘a war against evil doers; a war against terrorism, terrorist’s holy wars, Islamic jehad etc’. However, this is nothing but a manifestation of material faith being directly proportional to possessing, albeit in various disguises.

Proof:-
Material Faith α Fanaticism 1/α Forgiveness;
Material Faith ≠ True Faith (Premise: Man’s basic nature leads him down the path of material faith. So he is not naturally capable of pursuing “True Faith”. Hence True Faith can never exist in nature!!)
But we said True Faith α Forgiveness. Therefore, we see that Material Faith can never be equal to or directly proportional to Forgiveness.

But Forgiveness α True Love 1/α Possessing
And Forgiveness 1/α Material Love α Possessing
This implies Material Faith ≠ True Love
Instead Material Faith α Material Love α Possessing

Contained in the proof above is wisdom that points to why nations like to wage war; terrorism; origin of pre-nuptial agreements; increase in divorce rates etc. The list is endless.

I am very bad with the array errors. This is the second time I am getting ^##^!@$ with this. :-(

For example, this code wont crash in C on Unix with your gcc and gdb or your windows compilers.



int a[3];
for i = 1 to 35
begin
a[i] = 40;
end



And these kind of things go undetected in Unitary Tests. And in the target compilers, the program just freezes.

Uff....I am really tired of this.Such an embarassment when it is detected at such a late state of life cycle.

Western Classical CD

I just got a Western Classical CD lying at home. It contains compositions of many great composers et al. But the point is :-

Everyone has heard it !!!

I think may of us can recognize many compositions.

Courtesy :-

All the damned cartoons you watch on TV!!

Especially Tom and Jerry has borrowed many , many tunes from the classical compositions. And some "serious" and "agressive compositions" sound like the background music of the fight sequences you see in the Kannada movies....

Well.

So much for my curiousity of Western Classic. I just stopped listening to that CD. I relate to Cartoons and Kannada Movies when I listen to that!!! It was hilarious

Very old-style post of mine

Whats happening in my head right now :-

1.Maruti Swift requires a clearance much more than my Maruti 800 (which was nicknamed H-B2B by me)...I still cant figure out accurate clearance.

2.Too many sweets eaten today....SHucks...

3.Cycle has to be given to refitting....I have been delaying this. Dammit.

4.One game of HALF-LIFE 1 brought back my (post-8th sem && pre-Ordyn) days memories.
One game of Road rash brought back memories of Naga ...THose rainy nights and Vikram's house and Ashoka pillar days....

5.DTM

6.Life goes on....Life is beautiful and nasty at the same time. I am feeling like a complete stranger lost in the ever changing city of life.

7.It's been awhile ............

8.God loves to spring surprises....There is no doubt abt that.

The email distraction.

The email distraction is the most common screwed-up distraction I face during work hours. This is beautifully brought out by one comic strip, which I am following for a week :-). I dont know about you guys, but this happens to me very often !!

It can be a small forward or a mail from a friend or somebody else.

himalayas

Ever felt travelling to Himalayas for 'satyanveshane' ? or concluded that it is just another crap idea ?

The quest for Truth about the purpose of life has mainfested in different religions, in different texts, different swamis, mullahs, priests, yogis, bhogis etc etc etc.
Each of these elements have exploited the human race in their own way.

We were better like animals, killing animals for food and sometimes each other. That looks cruel. But, what we do daily isnt any better. We kill aspirations, joy, peace etc etc of others knowingly or unknowingly. We lose temper, we accuse others, we judge, we misjudge, we manipulate, we hatch schemes, we do a lot of things.

Life in this society is just the quest for power, richness and glorification. This is neatly wrapped in concepts like dharma, karma, goodness, charity blah blah blah. The mundane truth of like is just power, richness and glorification.

I felt like going to Himalayas yesterday evening. ;-) This was in a fit of rage. I feel stupid looking back at that momentary decision. F**K my vague ideas. As if truth is embedded in Himalayas.. or badri, kedar, haridwar.

I am feeling hungry. This is the truth, hunger is so tangible, pain is so tangible, but happiness is never tangible :) GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

lunch time folks...

ps :- again not reviewing the text

Passion..

Ever since I started thinking, I havent discovered a passion in me. I have seen a lot of people(almost everyone) being passionate about something or the other, trivial or non-trivial. But I never could find one. I also doubt if I will have one in the future. I am kind of a shallow guy or a superficially deep(as worded by Sudeep about himself). It just struck to my head like anything. I too am superficially deep indeed :).

In school, I used to play basketball very passionately ( I think so cos back then I dint know about what passion meant). Give me a basketball I could play morning, evening or night, in my own Lousy way, but still would play :). This was one game where I was a little better than others, so I enjoyed playing it :).
But, I was sent to tutions and I never could improve my game. Why blame the tutions?? I never wanted to improve the game at the first place and hence never found a way, I needed a pretext and tutions were it.

Studies - aaaahhh, I was good at it, but I never liked any subject over and above the rest. I never aspired for a 100 in math or science in my school days. All I wanted was 90% to join NCJ, which was 3 km from my home. I was tired travelling long distances in BTS.

NCJ - A place where I learnt what LIFE was. At school I was a 'koopa mandooka'. The college was this cruel world, with ups and downns. And the end result was a DOWN. I fared very badly in my board exams (85% PCM was badddd, according to NCJ standards), but some how recovered in CET.

PESIT - What did I do in PESIT ? After obtaining a payment seat my goal was to get a placement and repay the same. I was never passionate about computer science. I took it cos, I wasnt good at troncis or mech (realisation from 2nd pu). The only two subjects I really liked were MuP and Network Theory. I read these out of passion. THe marks reflected it too. I was good at these. I joined PPR - so that I could be more assured of placements. I got Infy, so never seriously tried any other companies. I could clear the written tests, but not the interview, I was lazy to prepare, I dint have a field to target - networks,systems etc etc. I had one company offer, so I flirted with others. End result - I was left at home for 7 months.

Infy - Started with a bang, mostly out of need. Was scared I would be kicked out. 4 years down the lane, there is nothing I feel passionate about my work. I was good at onsite. I felt I had strong domain, analytical and tech skills. I could easily convince the best of my clients. I got borred there too. Headed back home.

Future - MBA, I do not know what I want to do - consulting, finance ?? are my options. I am passionate (oops - wrong , I think I am passionate )about consulting, let me see..

adios

ps : No patience to review this one :)
Paaps car banta ?

My TOP 13 Guitar solos in songs

Well, I hate to admit it...but guitar is an integral part throughout the history of Rock music. I think, The Beatles were one of the first "Guitar bands" and there have been COUNTLESS Guitar bands ever since. And there have been GREAT guitar solos which have kind of enriched our lives.

Guitar enjoys a status in Rock n Roll which was enjoyed by Violins and Pianos in Vienna types "classical music".

OKAY HERE GOES THE LIST !!!


13. COME AS YOU ARE, SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT - Kurt Cobain From Nirvana

"Come as You Are" is remembered as being one of Nirvana's more optimistic songs. While many other songs by the band would feature dark, bleak lyrics, "Come as You Are" welcomes the listener "as a friend". The song has a weird and really awesome sounding guitar solo by Cobain.

The same sound can be heard in Smells like Teen Spirit.

12. BEAT IT - from Michael Jackson's Thriller Guitarist : EDDIE VAN HALEN

One song which is very different from any of Michael Jackson's songs. The guitarist is from the band Van Halen. The uniqueness of the song "Beat It", is that, it has got a R&B style of vocal rendered by Whacko-Jacko and there is this dreamy guitar solo.

11. LIGHT MY FIRE, FIVE TO ONE - The DOORS

The Doors were a great band. They had keyboards, bizzare lyrics , outlandish and bigger than life singer in Jim Morrison. They had a cult following. Personally,I like many songs of The Doors. Not for just Jim Morrison's lyrics. But the MELODY was an essential component in their music. The guitar just speaks with Morrison and played very naturally.

10. WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS - The Beatles - Guitarist - Eric Clapton

The Beatles.

They are just too big as a band.

But when it comes to Guitar, Harrison and Lennon were okay (if you ask me, that is). But the guitar in this song is GREAT !!! This is because , Eric Clapton was requested by The Beatles to play this song.Clapton is one of the "slow" Guitarists. Plays really slowly but he kicks your head when he plays .... wooooo hooooo!! I need some cocktail RIGHT NOW....

The composition by Harrison, was met with little to no interest by the other Beatles. Let down and yet undaunted, Harrison invited his friend Eric Clapton to join him during a day's recording session. Despite Clapton's doubts ("Nobody ever plays guitar seriously on the Beatles' records"),

9. SULTANS OF SWING - Dire Starits - Mark Knopfler

A guitarist who plays the guitar with lots of "ticks".I mean "short twangs".It is actually difficult to appreciate this guitar solo, because the guitar takes a "soft lead" .

The album version of the song featured an extended guitar solo. Knopfler improvised and expanded that solo many times during live performance

8. FADE TO BLACK, UNFORGIVEN - Metallica - Kirk Hammett

Kirk Hammett is a very talented guitarist, plays really very fast. Fade To Black was a favorite of mine during my college.It is a thrash metal song. And the opening sequence is really amazing.

7. N.I.B aka Nativity In Black - BLACK SABATHTH Guitarist :: Tony Iommi

One of the better Black Sabbath songs with a very good guitar.Forget abt anti-christ and all that crap...The vocals are really simple in this song, but the guitar solo is long, prolonged and very good!

6. SWEET CHILD OF MINE & NOVEMBER RAIN - GUNS n ROSES - SLASH

A GnR song generally goes like this :-

Axl Roses used to create good lyrics, but not THAT good compositions. However, Slash used to build the tempo and change the chords and take the song to another dimension. Axl used to join Slash in the finale and the songs used to END very well.

Probably everybody reading this post will have heard these songs. GnR was the late 80s/90s band which tasted success like CRAZY. Slash really gears up "November Rain" with that solo of his and the chorus. This video is very often requested in many music channels.

I like the "Sweet Child of Mine" solo. It appears to be easier to play and more relatable.

5. HEY JOE, VOODOO CHILE, FOXY LADY - Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix !!!!
The man....The Hippie....The guitar....The Wah-Wah Pedal....The number #1 guitarist of all the time as voted by many people.

He was an innovator while playing guitar.....But his solos, in my opinion, are really too techincal to undertsand.

Voodoo Chile is one of Hendrix's greatest solos. I love it!!

4. ONE OF THESE DAYS , TIME , COMFORTABLE NUMB , HIGH HOPES & ECHOES - PINK FLOYD - Guitarist :: David Gilmour

Pink Floyd's forte is really complex and intriguing lyrics. Taking a concept and visualising and coming up with a whole album of songs.David Gilmour has the speciality of playing the Guitar like a Violin. He can make it moan in melody.Pink Floyd can depress you with its lyrics and the cynical look at reality.

From a keyboard POV, Gilmour's rifffs and chords are mostly black keys. There are rarely white keys :-)

ONE OF THESE DAYS is not exactly your regular Psychedelic piece...But it is really eerie. The guitar makes an slow entrance and in a minute gains control of the whole song.

TIME : The lyrics are legendary. Penned by Roger Waters, they can instantly send you to a bloody depression of meaninglessness. But the guitar piece is melodies.


3. BLACK DOG , COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN , BABE Im GONNA LEAVE YOU - LED ZEPPELIN Guitarist :: Jimmy Page aka the Boss

Hmmm...Led Zeppelin, any comments ?
Hmm...James Patrick Page , any comments ?

This guy is WAY tooo good. He'll play fast. He'll play slow. Each one of the above song's solo is unique. Black Dog's riffs are quick. "Babe...." is a rock ballad. Communication Breakdown is a short song with a terrific solo well complemented a skipped beat by the drummer.


2. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, HEARTBREAKER - LED ZEPPELIN Guitarist :: Jimmy Page

It's Jimmy Page again!!!

Heartbreaker solo is one of the most difficult solos to play. It is a marvel.

And who hasnt heard of Stairway to Heaven ?

1 FREE BIRD - LYNNRD SKYNNRD - Dont know the guitarists

This Southern Rock band rocks like hell! And the guitar solo is long , and fast and lots of adrenaline...I heard this song when I was in Infy...Boy! I was blown by the guitar !!! For the moment, I dont have this song and I am looking for it....If you have it, please let me know :-)

DoT versus the ISPs

Welcome back!

Okay now the blogging websites are accessible from my ISP (atleast). So as I understand it, the story so far, is as below :-

a) DoT asks the ISPs to block SELECTED websites.
b) ISP blcoks everything.
c) This causes a furore amongst the naturally very vocal blogging community. They bring up freedom of speech etc. and floor the DoT with verbal attacks.
d) The DoT gives a press release and an explanation.

Whatever.Regular updates will continue from my side, atleast.

21 tribals killed by Naxals..

and the world is MUM about it,
Indian government too is MUM about it
the public and media too is MUM about it (compared to the voice raised against Bombay blasts)

Why ?
Arent Tribals human beings ?
Arent Naxalites TERRORISING people ?
Isnt this a form of terroism too ?
Shouldnt we tackle this too ?
Why isnt media sesnitive about it ?
Why isnt the public sensitive about it ?
Is this double standards ?

I am confused, I feel sorry for these people, I feel helpless

All in the family...

We have relished the dishes at Brahmin's coffee bar, SLV and Adigas. Now a little history abt the foodie chains.

http://www.discoverbangalore.com/restreview7.htm



ADIGA'S

Majestic, Bangalore



For an old time Bangalorean, the Idlis and steaming Coffee at Brahmin's Coffee Bar in Shankarapuram is part of their life. I have known several people who would break their journey when they are passing the Brahmin's Coffee Bar to take a bite of the hot idli. Such is the popularity of these Idlis and coffee and Adiga's Chain of Hotels took its birth from this Coffee Bar. The entrepreneur in Mr. Vasudeva Adiga from Kundapur (South Canara) made him chart a course of his own. Armed with an engineering degree in 1984 he did the rounds of job scouting, before taking over an ailing eatery SLV hotel in Gandhi Bazaar. The small but well known Brahmana Coffee Bar noted for its Idlis in Shankarapuram which his father maintained is where he learnt the ropes of the trade. He renovated the SLV hotel and the response was tremendous. The take over of his brother in law's ailing eatery and naming it as Adigas Fast Food by maintaining high standards of quality and hygiene (fully mechanized) and service has resulted in the well known ADIGA'S CHAIN of restaurants. A gamble well executed as in the offing is two more branches to delight the addicts of the Adigas hotels.





For a first time visit at any of their outlets, it is recommended to order for their famous Masala Dosa, Rava Idli, Vada, Gulab Jamun and Coffee. The taste of Coffee is unique and reminds me of the MTR variety with the just right flavour bringing out the richness of the coffee bean. For a growling tummy this is manna. The rotis and accompanying gravy dishes are excellent. The specialty at Majestic branch is the newly introduced Jollada rotti meals (50/=) a North Karnataka specialty. The South Indian meals priced at 30/= is wholesome. In the self service wing mini meals at 15/= caters to small budgets, and those in a hurry. Keeping the diner's pulse in mind he has the Executive meal, for the calorie conscious with less rice, but with chapattis, salad etc. "VALUE FOR MONEY, SERVICE WITH a SMILE and CUSTOMERS KNOW BEST" drives his business enterprises. At the restaurants the day starts early and closes by 11 pm. It will not be a surprise to find a friendly gentleman sauntering towards you, to chat and casually take the feedback - That's Vasudeva Adiga. A lot of foreigners frequent the Dickenson branch.

Idiots

The Indian Press needs really a good lesson. Whenever a blast or a terrorist attack is well executed, they really go gaga all over the media and it gives a reader, like me, a feeling, that the journalists and the Indian public are in awe of the planning.

I fail to understand, the purpose, this statement serves :-


“Only engineers know how maximum damage can be caused while blowing up mountains and trains,’’ he said. “We think the services of very well qualified people have been used in the Mumbai attacks "

It's okay and even I agree that some terror techies may be involved.

But my question, is what is the use of saying statements like :- "The attack was well planned and executed"...."Skilled manforce was used".....

Somwhere a terrorist sitting and reading press statements will be encouraged to plan even more hi-fi attacks.I remember that during 9/11 2001 there was NOT A SINGLE WORD MENTIONED that the attack was well planned.....These kind of statements are very encouraging to the terrorists....In my opinion, that is.

Terror techies

Shine on you Crazy Diamond

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd dies at 60. One of the most obscure musicians I have ever listened ...
The guitarist was the band's first creative force and an influential songwriter, penning their early hits.

But he was crazy. Reclusive.

So was his music and lyrics....

To give you an example :-

One of my favorite songs of Pink Floyd was "Bike".


In the song, Syd Barrett offers a girl his bike, a cloak, an old (but good), homeless mouse that he calls Gerald, and a clan of gingerbread men - because "she fits in with my world". Towards the end of the song, he offers to take her into a "room of musical tunes".

Thats okay....Now comes the absurd part :-


The final verse is followed by an instrumental section that can be referred to as a piece of musique concrete: a noisy collage of oscillators, clocks, gongs, bells, maniacal laughing, and other strange sounds edited with tape techniques. This "other room" has been interpreted by some as being symbolic of insanity, and may have been a foreshadowing of the eventual mental breakdown that forced Barrett to leave the band. Another interpretation is that these noises symbolise sexual intercourse - Courtsey Wikipedia.

Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60

sasken office yesterday on my 6630 

Sad day for Bombay....I am feeling so angry and helpless....What the heck is this...

Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty

I read this somewhere in Seattle "If you dont have brains better be tough". I pondered over this statement after reading the comments from Sudeep and Bridget Jones (Kriti) on my last post Cup of Glory. And in response to it I write this piece. These are purely my thoughts again. (Usually I write opinions from others, gathered over discussions and potray the thoughts to which I have acquiesced, as mine)

We are often very critical about display of Muscle power,as against the display of brains and almost non-critical about beauty flaunting. ZiZou might have been wrong according to the football faternity and the codes of the FIFA worldcup and he rightly recieved a RED card for it. May be he should have acted as Kriti puts it
"I would have expected the "best player of the tournament" to be self-assured enough to laugh away insults ", but I would not agree with the part of to laugh away insults'.

How often can we swallow insults or racial abuse, of origins, of religions, of language, of stature, of looks and of behaviour ??? When will the abusers be punished? I know world cup finals is not the right platform to do it. I am highly disappointed about the French not winning. But I believe, if Zidane had stayed back for the full extra-time there would have been any difference to the score line. David Trezeguet was slated to take the 'penalty', and he would have missed it anyways.

The FIFA has just looked into containing the PHYSICAL ABUSING, and havent done much about the verbal abusing. Hence, I prefer the football of the 80's where men fought, like men, for the glory. Now, they act, they deceive, they taunt others with abuse of all forms.

We cannot see a kick in the BUTT, but we are okay with verbal bashings, the Nazi salutes of Buffon, the spitting of the players, their diving, their remarks. speculations are that Mattarazi called "Zidane a terrorist", "His sister a whore" etc etc. How often can you swallow such remarks ? Sometimes your personal pride takes over the World Cup. May be Zidane dint want the world cup then, may be he wanted to teach the Mattarazi guy and his likes to behave properly. Italians are accused often of being racists Okay this is not about Italy. Its generic - its european in nature.

Coming back to the Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty. Brawny ppl are the most accused, followed by brainy ppl and then the beautiful. If you display your muscle power you become an instant hooligan (They do it cos thats their act of defence and offence. They lack brains so they go the muscle way). I am not justifying that they are right in doing so, but I am pleading that we need to be equally critical about the others too. We never condemn the killings/assasinations of thousands/lakhs of innocents, who are victims of diplomatic screw-ups in the same way (with the same fervor) we condemn the burtal killings (see the word brutal comes naturally) behind which the muscle power has ruled. Given the choice between 'concentration camps' and 'nuclear bombing in hiroshima' the 'concentration camps' will be voted as more cruel, where as both these acts are equally despicable to the highest orders respectively. One was a muscle power and another a brilliant tactic. Ofcos brilliance gets away easily in words of diplomacy. (this has been derived from the disussion I have heard so far, we often discuss too much abt Nazi vs Jews and occassionaly discuss abt Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. I might be wrong here)

Now to Brains vs Beauty. If you flaunt your brains, its an offence - you are headstrong, you are not humble, and you are a jerk too at times. But you flaunt beauty and no one complains. Everyone loves it. Its gone to an extent that 'if you have it flaunt it' . Now if a person has brains and a lesser capacity in beauty, doesnt he have the right to flaunt it. Why are we biased here again ? Why do we taunt poeple with remarks and put a tag on them as 'headstrong, arrogant' etc etc.
Again I am against both or I am for both, not for a step-mother treatment of brains or beauty. Research in the US have reported that offenders with better looks have escaped the wrath of the jury many a times. Why so ? why are we so much tuned to be so partial towards beauty?

If a physical damage leaves a scar behind which is very much visible, then a moral/mental damage leave a deeper wound which is not percieved by many. I am in total support of ZiZou (if the allegations made on Mattarazai were true). For me he will be one the greatest footballers. My best would still be Maradona. I havent seen Pele much but I dont think even if I see him I would like him. Genius ppl have a slight madness in them, and that madness is what makes them a genius. ZiZou also got support from his coach, co-players and PM. The cup of glory can be won again and again and again. It's tough but it is not impossible. But it takes a lot of time to regain personal pride, as they say it in Kannada 'adikege hoda maana aane kottru barolla'.


And I agree with Kriti

"The diving, the anger, the head-butting, the goals, the referess, the brilliance - all seem like parts of a well done play, where the suspense stays on till the end. Thats what is so much fun about it! :)
"

only thing the Italians should not have won the world cup. A team which plays 10 ppl in the 18-yard area, doesnt deserve the highest reward of this sport 4 times. All said and done, well played Italy and ZiZou you deserved the Golden ball. Keep your head high

ps: only person who I have seen coming close to evenly critical abt brains, beatuy and brawny is Chilli

Cup of Glory..

Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a Cup of Debauchery, Genius acting skills, hooliganism
Cup of Money (for rich nations), while a Cup of struggle for the Poorer nations
Cup of Pride for the starters, whereas the europeans fight as if it is a world war
Crazy refrees, coaches and even crazier players.

Only good match was Germany vs Italy, thanks to refree, who dint care for the player's acting skills and diving skills. The footballers can seek a career in Hollywood. Next it would be like 20th Century Fox presents 'The world cup 2010'

Racist remarks would be made on the ground, but we cant hear what the players speak. All we could see in Zidane heading Mattarazi and earning a RED card. Which moron in the world will hit a guy without being provoked. ZiZoU u need a mental asylum. People are not ready to forget is from Algeria, a muslim. Similarly the Africans would have been slurred for sure . Things which we see on TV are never true aint it.

The clash between Argentina and Germany after the match. What was that ?

Its been a disappointment of sorts. The whole world cup looks flimsy. Thanks to Shakira it looked somewhat colorful.

The only team I really liked was Ghana, for their sprit (they too had some actors though)

A huge disappointment, though I watched most of the matches with fervor, made a 100 buks too.

Kopa

Zidane was hallucinating that he was a bull yesterday.

24 hour news channels ..

Solutions

Solution to the coconut problem

Well, the solution is not even n-nary. It goes something like this :-
a) Go to the eight floor and drop the coconut.

b)If it breaks
{ then the floor "x" is such that 1 <= x <= 8.
So start from 1st floor and drop...2nd floor and drop....8th floor...
Until you get x.
}

c)If it doesnt go to 8+7 = 15th floor.Drop from here.
If it breaks
{then the floor "x" is such that 8 <= x <= 15.
So start from 8th floor and drop...9th floor and drop....15th floor...
Until you get x.
}

d)If it doesnt go to 8+7+6 = 21st floor.Now the search for x is between
15 and 21.

:
:
It goes on till 8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 36.

Solution to the Prison Problem

Richie got a beautiful deduction as :-
Prime numbered cells will be closed.
The state of the composite numbered cells depends on the number of its unique factors.

Among composite numbers , consider the numbers which are squares. e.g. 1 , 4, 9 , 16 ...These have an ODD number of factors. eg :- take 49. The factors of 49 are 1,7,49. So Door# 49 will be opened during 1, closed during 7 and re-opened during 49. So, All the numbers which are perfect squares will be opened and the rest will be closed.

Note:-

There are some more puzzles coming. But yesterday's coffee discussion was centered around the fact that Kannada movie heroes are ugly. I couldnt disagree on the fact that, the movie which was being showed on TV at the cafeteria when this discussion was going on, was a lesser know movie called "Chaitrada Premanjali".On second thoughts,should heroes always be good-looking ?

The old guns fired

Against Brazil :), and they looked tired against Portugal :(, but they still made it, thanks to Henry and Zidane. I am concerned as to how will they perform against the energetic Azzuri. The Azzuri's hold the edge. They have talented people matching France, man to man. Yeah, there is no Zidane in the midfield, but Pirlo is good enough. And there is Buffon. How can French get past him. Answer is Henry, Buffon can be beat only from near >2 mts & <>4 mts he can respond easily. Where does Barthez stand against Italy? He has a crucial role to play, but he acts like a jerk sometime. (sometime ? most of the times).

And the French get tired easily. Old soles. Almost everyone wants to retire after world cup :). Vikash u are missing the game man. I especially dislike the forwards in both the teams. They get exhausted without doing much of running around. They act as if they are precious soles. They expect the ball to be thrown at their feet. Uhhh they suck. But, Henry is a better forward (probably cos Shammi, my friend,is nicknamed Henry. that reminds me the following - Teju looks like Del Piero, and Dhi like Klose, someone suggested me Sudeep looks like Lahm, no personal opinion here. Avi can get an entry to the Italian side for his looks and shaven head;-). One person I cant imagine in football is SP.. lazy couch )

Okay, back to the match. What would be the scoreline ? Very difficult to predict. 1-0 France or 2-0 Italy. I like France, but I am not a hardcore French fan. May the better team win. Going by the last match performance Italy is a better team. Going by quarterfinals match France is a class apart. Only expectation is a classic encounter similar to Italy vs Germany, Brazil vs France :). I dont have tears for any team that loses. It is left to their country men and women who weep so much. They wouldnt have done cried so much for their parent's demise. Thus are the strange ways of europeans :). They blame Bangalore for the Rajkumar incident, they dont mind killing each other on the football field (as pointed out by Sudeep) :)

Okay tomorrow 11:30, get glued.

Welcome to the new look

Guys,

How is the new look ?

"The Adda" turns two years today.

I started blogging after I stumbled across a few blogs.Since I had the habit of mailing people left ,right and center (Oh yes, I am a natural human spammer) and I had the strange feeling that people dont like many mails in the mailbox , I thought I will write whatever comes to my head,instead of mailing people...If people like it, let them look at the blog....Otherwise, let them go to hell.That was the main motivation of starting THIS blog.

Before this blog, I had two very personal blogs which I used to vent my frustrations and I was going through a personal turmoil of a heartbreak. I deleted it.Thank god.

Well today the blog count reads 13,229 visitors. It has become a vital part of my sedentary life.And there is a community of bloggers (I have edited and put the links in the left).Apart from the last two, I know everyone.

Coffee Time puzzle #2

In continuation to the coconut problem , I posted , here is another one.

Vivek keeps flummoxing me with these puzzles....

Anyone try this ?


There is a prison with n cells. All the cell doors are in the closed state.
On the first day, they are all opened. On the second, all multiples of 2 toggle their state (cells 2,4,6...close). On the 3rd day, all multiples of 3 toggle their state (those which were open now close and those closed open). This goes on for n days. After the nth day what would be the state of the cell doors and why?

IBM's new ad

Have you heard the new song which features in IBM's ads ?
I was desperately searching for the mp3 (below), and found it on dogpile.

It is froma sixties(1966) band called "The Kinks".

Check out the lyrics...This is what every damned human thinks!!!


I won't take all that they hand me down,
And make out a smile, though I wear a frown,
And I won't take it all lying down,
'Cause once I get started I go to town.

'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else,

And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.


Here is the mp3 :-
I am not like everybody else