Life is a Waterfall

5 minutes

2010-06-03T20:57:00.004+05:30

Do you agree that the future of a country depends on its youth and children?
Thus, it is our duty to educate them, to lead them, to inspire them to do great things. To invent new things & to innovate.

Given our present state of affairs, do you think we are doing justice to them?

If you think of brand names from India, the first things that may come to a normal engineer's minds are software giants Infy and Wipro. However, we fail to acknowledge the fact that the pioneer of engineering and aviation and industry in India were the Tatas. Back then, under the British rule, the Tatas created a platform helping today's youth to lead a comfortable life and we don't even know that!
Tatas have not only created jobs for engineers and clerks alike, they have also opened premiere educational institutions like IISc, TIFR etc to help the youth get a chance to be exposed to world class education.
It is the Tatas and Birlas that have made India what it is today.

We openly criticised Ratan Tata for coming up with a 1-lakh car as we feared it would increase traffic as cars would become affordable for even 'normal' people! But, we had no problem with VW opening a big factory in Pune. We have no problem with VW selling the Beetle in India for 20+ Lakhs, when it is sold in Germany for about 6-7 lakhs!
We fail to recognise the intent Mr. Tata had in making the 1-lakh car. He couldn't stand a normal Indian family of 3 or 4 riding on a scooter in the rain, tribbles n fourbles as we call it. Think of the safety of this family! Tata simply wanted to give them a chance to travel safely, at the least cost possible. This is innovation. We simply fail to recognise this intent.
We are worried that our cities will get clogged with more cars. Well thats true. Just take a moment to look at the types of vehicles in any traffic signal. More than 60% will be private cars owned by software professionals, and the worst part is that they would be driving alone. And it is this very "professional" who complaints about the unruly traffic forgetting the fact that he is occupying half the road with his newly bought Innova, Scorpio, Fiesta, SX4 etc., which he bought simply because he could afford the luxury.

Outrageous.

India produces almost 5 lakh engineers every year as compared to Europe's 1lakh and a similar small number in America.

And the best jobs we can offer these fresh and probably brilliant minds is in Infosys n Wipro where they are made to provide cheap labour to mainly foreign clients.
Our focus has to move from services to product development. we can of course provide services, but that shouldn't be our main stay, the so called "core competency".

And it is upto us to give direction to our youth.

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Silver Jubilee and der Zukunft

2010-02-09T16:49:00.003+05:30

What am I going to do in the Future? Is it only me or does this thought occur to everyone?

I'm almost 25 now, just 2 days short of it and when I get this question, I'm unable to find a satisfying answer! Life is such a biach! It makes us struggle from the time we've got our senses and I'm not sure if there is an end to this.

In school, we struggled to get into a good college, where we struggled to get into a good university, where we struggled to get into a good job\ post-grad school, where we are still struggling to make 'something' happen. But I'm not sure why and am equally unsure where this is leading us! And the only thing I'm sure of is that we are all going to grow old and die one day of some disease, including myocardial infraction.

I'll consider my case first... Job... I don't know what I'm doing, nor am I the best at it, but I continue to do something to keep my job. Everyday is almost the same. I get some salary at the end of every month and I seem to spend it almost instantaneously. But I'm not sure if I want to continue this for the rest of my life. I mean, where is the end to this? Is it when I would get loads of cash? or a big promotion? after that, will I be able to sit at home and watch a movie that I want on my Bose lifestyle system, with my buddies? Is this what I want? I'm not sure. But I'm pretty damn sure I want to do many other things... like play the guitar... like sit on top of Chembara peak in the rain with the boys... like learn physics and calculus... etc etc etc, the list is endless. Now I know why Swami Vivekananda said "desire is the cause for all miseries". Now I can understand why prince Sidhartha left his royal life in search of "Truth".

Two years back, when I drove on the Autobahn, I felt I'd accomplished something. Today, when I do it again, its no big deal!

I'll now consider the second case... post grad... Lots of boys and gals I know are 'sweating' it out abroad in kick ass universities. Many are getting internships under big names. Many are turning out pretty successful. But, where is all this leading? Are they going to come back, ever? And for how long? Will be able to spend time with them like the good old days? I'm not sure. I'm not even sure if I'm doing the right thing by staying back in India, where apparently there is a lack of opportunities. It is known that it is better to try and fail than to not try at all! But, when does one try? How does one measure success? Is it making loads of bucks? is it being able to go to a chaat gaadi and have masala puri without worrying about an infection? is it being able to sit in an old temple and enjoy its ambiance? or, is it being able to simply be oblivious to the fact that there is a lot of scheiße going one around!?

I feel we are all living in an artificial world. We are made to feel insecure so that we continuously do something - attend interviews, buy insurance, get degrees, buy stocks, buy property etc etc...

Globalisation they say! Why do we need Globalisation? India, as I know it, never needed Globalisation! Indian climate and location is such that we can easily get what we need most - Food! That is why the boys from Indus Valley civilisation were the first to cultivate food when their counterparts in Rome were hunting and being kaad papas eating flesh, raw. We were the ones who started making Bronze statues for time pass. The guys from the northern hemisphere had no way of cultivating crops and there were made to work hard to find a way to get things moving. That is why they started exploring the unknown. They had to fight for a living. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. If Edison had not invented the light bulb, we'd have probably slept at 7PM and woke up at 5AM instead of sitting out late nights working or studying.
With advent of medicine, the average life expectancy is supposed to increase! But in large cities, 30 year old professionals are losing hair, taking pills, running on tread mills. Is this what technology has to offer? Is this really an improvement?? We go on inventing things and later bring in laws to stop people from using the invention. We just don't know. Some day, we will realise that we should start living like the guys on Cameroon's Avatar.
Why do you think our population is so high? It is because our atmosphere is conducive to life unlike most places in the world. We have a more or less constant climate and almost same day-night. I often wondered why should one "make hay while the sun shines". Once in Europe I realised why! People here are deprived of sun light. Everything we are, we owe to Soorya deva. He is the life giver. He brings warmth, water and food. And, in Europe, most often, he gives only light and no heat, that too for a short time! I don't know if I should pity the guys here. They may be driving around in Veyrons and Porsches, wearing Armani suits listening to their Senheisser head sets. But they always crave for the sun's warmth. Come summer, they run to beaches in bikinis to get a tan, and we here turn black under the sun! Like I said, life is a biach. What fun there is if one gets what ever he pleases?

India doesn't need Globalisation. We don't need jobs from the tech savvy nations. We could have as well stayed as farmers. But no... the world wants to "improve". Do you call it improvement if you buy packed food, frozen meat and vegetables, bottled juice from a fancy super market and eat with forks and knives from a plate at 7AM and 8PM everyday, on the dot?
No Sir. Life is not about knowing what you would do tomorrow! Life is about facing the unknown. Life is about missing that bus, being late to work, soiling your hands or forks with chilly sauce, or mayonnaise if you don't eat 'spicy food', getting pissed off at traffic jams, sneaking home late and getting caught, enjoying a day out in the country side, waiting in a queue to get some forms filled. Life is so rich, we simply fail to recognise it. We are privileged to be born in a place that was so rich that over the years many people haven't hesitated to rob us! We all need to "Get a Life".

Give a thought to a 25 year old's reaction of Wanted's last line - "What the fuck have you done lately?"

Sachin, the best of the best of the best.

2009-11-06T22:01:00.005+05:30

My god. He is the best batsman EVER.

Date: 5th November 2009

Venue: Hyderabad

No one will ever surpass this Little Master. No Richies, no Sunils, no one.

I am truly privileged to have seen him play, from the time I understood cricket, as a child. He was an inspiration to go out on the streets and hit that tennis ball as far away as possible! And today, he blew our minds off with his Blitzkreig. I would've loved to hear Ponting say, "We din't lose to India. We lost to Sachin, again."

It is really amazing, how the Little master went on batting like he did 10 years ago. The moment I saw him play, I knew that Sachin would be the only reason for India to get close to the total. And it truly happened so. When wickets kept falling at regular intervals, it became certain that it was only Sachin who could take control. What more can I say?

The master never let the required run-rate cross 8 even once while chasing 350 runs. What makes today's innings mind-blasting is the fact that as a 36 year old, after standing in the field for 50 overs, he made chasing 350 look easy and batted for 47 overs. That is 97 overs of standing and running around! If I were Dhoni, or even a part of the Indian contigent, I'd have fallen at his feet. Sachin is God.

People compare Sachin to Don Bradman and I find that absurd. With all due respect to Sir Donald Bradman, batting avg of 99.6 requires a bow, Sachin and Don are opposite faces of a coin and hence not comparable. I say this because both have played at very different times and under very different circumstances. For starters, the Don has never played a limited over match! Of-course he was devastating as a Test Batsman, but, considering the overall conditions at which Sachin has played and is playing, I would rate him a tad higher than the Don.

First of all, Sachin has borne pressure from a billion people and has single handedly won matches for India, over and over again.

Besides, the Don played mostly only against England. But, the master has played against all test playing nations, both tests and ODIs.

Enough, I won't compare anymore. Sachin rules.

India has produced many brilliant cricketers, the likes of Gavaskar, The Haryana Hurricane, Kumble, Dravid and so on. But the most outstanding cricketer has to be Sachin.

Next is Kapil. I take pride in mentioning a few of his achievements here. As a bowler, he has been the highest test wicket taker in the world for 5 years, highest ODI wicket taker for 6 years. As a batsman, he has scored over 4000 test runs including about 8 centuries. Who can forget his 138 ball 175* against Zimbabwe in '83, where he rocketed 6 maximums and added 129 for the 9th wicket, the highest partnership even today? This paved way for India's World cup winning finals against the fearsome Windies. And, who can forget that super fantastic brilliant catch he took to get rid of Viv? That turned the match and paved the way for India's only WC victory.

It is sad that Sachin was never a part of a WC winning squad. But still, he is the highest run getter in WCs till date, not to mention in all forms of the game barring T20. And at 20 years into Indian cricket he still stands tall amidst ruins. No wonder he is the recepient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. I can't believe Dhoni too has the same award. Thats like Obama havnig the Nobel Peace prize, which Mother Teresa also has!

Sachin, I pray for thee, I pray to thee. May you continue inspiring people and showing them you are matchless.

The kuduremukha adventure

2008-12-29T00:54:00.002+05:30

Its complete! a trek to kuduremukha i mean... what a trek!! Some would say that it was too much to do in just one day... but what happened happened!! :)
now that i'm sitting at home with swollen ankles due to 33.3 kms of trek in 14 hours, i though i'd do something kinda constructive... so, i wrote a story based on our trek.

its my first attempt at writing something - anything that big! so, please have a look and give some . Maybe it'll inspire me to write something hi-fi... will may later become a movie and earn me millions ;) That day, i wont forget you :)

I've uploaded a pdf version on rapidshare... click on the link below to download it. its only 192kb!
http://rapidshare.com/files/177618945/kmukha.pdf

Comments awaited!

Kat-ass-trop aka Malcom Effect

2008-12-11T21:23:00.003+05:30

"Malcom effect implies catastrophic changes."

"But... all systems are working perfectly!"

"Thats when it happens."

We really think we are doing something big... or, at least we dream to do something big. Little we realise how stupid and incapable we are.
We think being an engineer or scientist or something on those lines is a real big thing and that we will contribute to the welfare of the world. Do you think so too?

"Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. They conveniently define such considerations as pointless. if they don't do it, someone else will. Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science. Even pure scientific discovery is an aggressive, penetrative act. It takes big equipment, and it literally changes the world afterward. Particle accelerators scar the land, and leave radioactive byproducts. Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always."

"So what's the answer?"

"Get rid of them. Take them out of power."

"Then we'll lose all the advances."

"What advances? The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics... Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930? Because there haven't been any advances. Not really. Thirty thousand years ago, when men were doing cave paintings, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change."

"Before we destroy the planet?"

"You think you can destroy this planet? You can't even come close."

"Most people believe this planet is in jeopardy."

"Well, its not."

"All the experts agree that our planet is in trouble."

"Let me tell you about our planet. Our planet is four and half billion years old. There has been life on this planet for nearly that long. Three point eight billion years. The first bacteria. And later, the first multicellular animals, then the first complex creatures, in the sea, on the land. Then the great sweeping ages of animals - the amphibians, the dinosaurs, the mammals, each lasting millions upon millions of years. Great dynasty of creatures arising, flourishing, dying away. All this happening against a background of continuous and violent upheaval, mountain ranges thrust up and eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions rising and falling, whole continents moving... Endless constant and violent change... Even today, the greatest geographical feature on the planet comes from two great continents colliding, buckling to make the Himalayan mountain range over millions of years. The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us."

As said by Ian Malcom, the chaos theorist, one of Crichton's brilliant characters in his infamous book, Jurassic Park. These are excerpts directly taken from there.

If you haven't read the book, you are missing something! If you have seen the movie, but haven't read the book, you only know Jurassic Park as a Dinosaur movie! Go read that book! and then watch the movie again! You will feel the difference!

Those days...

2008-11-08T22:28:00.009+05:30

ಆ ದಿನಗಳು

Lights... Camera... Action!
A movie par excellence, and with no major budget as well!
I think its movies like these that are keeping our Kannada Film Industry afloat. Once upon a time, Kannada film Industry aka Sandalwood, had a golden age, with some really awesome movies, heros like ನಮ್ಮ ಅಣ್ಣಾವ್ರು, ಸಾಹಸ ಸಿಂಹ, extremely talented directors, one of my all time favourites - ಪುಟ್ಟಣ್ಣ ಕಣಗಾಲ್ etc! But in recent times, nothing much has come out!

And aa dinagalu is one extremely well directed movie! It has about two songs and not much background score as well! It really makes you think... do we really need a big star cast, major budget. This movie showcases the pure talent of a director. Really! Hats off to director Chaitanya and the 'those days' crew for a job well done!

Its a known fact that movies can create magic. But its really nice to see a simple movie give that delicate touch of finesse. Simple costumes, simple dialogues, simple background scores, simple cast, simple set up and simply brilliant!
This movie reminds me of a tamizh movie called "Velli Tirai" which translates to 'Silver Screen'. Its about how an upcoming director fights for a place in the hoplessly complicated and unfair film industry! The movie stars veteran Prakash Rai. This too was a simple movie. The last 20 odd minutes were simply brilliant! The movie as a whole may not be as captivating as this one, but it shows how simple movies can also be made.

I also remember a song from Superstar's Kuselan... It's titled 'Cinema Cinema'. A line in that song goes "Kadaval yaar enru yaar paartaar adai kannil kaatum inda cinema thaan" meaning "Who knows what God looks like, but its only cinema that shows you how he looks"!

Very True!

You've got mail!

2008-08-17T20:23:00.006+05:30

Emails! they have simply changed the way we communicate! I still wonder, how the post offices are still able to live!! :)

Have you written any letter? I remember writing letters to Uncle Pai of Tinkle, long ago! But after that, it just stopped!
Until a few months back. When I sent a Post card to a friend in Denmark, when I was in Germany. I had to literally search for where a post office is, how it'd look and find out what one must ask for!

I started writing snail mails! It obviously gives a personal touch! It feels really great to receive a letter, postcard, something from a person far far away! A person you haven't met, maybe haven't talked as well!

Postcards!! Now-a-days, I have a new hobby. Exchanging postcards. Yes, it may take upto a month for a post card to go to Canada from here (its the longest, normally it takes 10-15 days), but, the personal touch goes along with it! It feels really great to reading different handwritings! Different emotions, different things!

You will feel really nice when you get a, say, two-page letter from a friend! Handwritten! I mean, to think of it, that person must actually make some time for you! Out of their busy schedule, they must sit and write a letter, put it in an envelope, paste stamps and actually post it! It shows the human-ness! An e-mail, which just goes in a jiffy cant really have this kind of a feeling!
And then the wait!! :) Heard of the song kabutar ja ja ja? :)

Everyday I wait to get back home and hope to find a letter from someone out there!

I've got mail!

You can find pics of the cards I've received till now.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lambdaplus/PostCards

Thanks a ton to everyone snail-mailing me!
And a big thank-you to the Postal Department the world over! You people are really doing a great job!

Outkast

2008-07-26T20:01:00.004+05:30

Assume you own something, anything, take, for example, a book, a bike, a bicycle, a car, anything! Would you like seeing it get destroyed? or stolen? or man-handled? right in front of your eyes? No!!

Why isn't the same concern shown towards many other things, greater things, truly invaluable things, that truly-madly-deeply belongs to us!

India is a huge country with loadsa people... and many many cultures and traditions...
but... the problem is that we are slowly losing most of our traditions and rituals!
sad... real sad... don't you think? too much westernization :) Yes yes! I'm back to square one isn't it?

Not exactly! (Phew!)

We have different people following different traditions and practices. These people pass on the knowledge to their children, and they to their children and thus the practices go on for generations.

But as civilization advanced, man started going places and learning newer things. He thus started spending more time elsewhere than at home, learning these practices. And so, slowly and steadily the knowledge became extinct! There are so many things that we don't know why we follow, but we still follow! Some of the "high IQ" lot condemn practicing of these as they are "superstitious", as their intelligent brain couldn't find a "suitable" explanation for why it has to be done! Thus we lose these practices as well. We are adopting newer ways of life and letting go of our actual practices, which actually identify us! We are losing our identity!!

The only way to save our stolen identity is to be us! To be with people who follow our traditions... who... (to be completed when I'm in mood for it)

Step aside! The Dark Knight is here!!

2008-07-20T18:25:00.002+05:30

Vo mai gyaad!!

This is it! the bestest movie that has been made! the deadliest superhero movie ever made!
All those people who got their kids to show them batman would be thoroughly disappointed! The movie made us see what a superhero really is... and what a super villain can do!

Behold the Joker... the mad man who is as brilliant as batman himself!!

When you watch movies, you generally have one or two occasions where you go "madar of gawd! what the?!!" this movie was almost fully like that!!
We didn't realize there was an interval! and we looked at our watches and "dude! there is another half of the movie still left!!"

I'm gonna watch this movie again!

This movie opened at #4 on Imdb... moved to #3 on the night i'd seen it and next morning its #1!!

I simply cant imagine how there can be such a movie... abslutely mindblowing!

This aint not fair...

2008-03-24T22:26:00.003+05:30

Football… Football…Foot… ball… my Foot... your ball…

I was watching ManU vs. Liverpool the other day. It was a decent match, I’m not a big football person… so, I don’t care too much bout the players and all!

But anyway, something crept into my mind and it’s not good :) (as always!)

These guys playing in the EPL and other leagues are paid in millions!! And that too for doing something they simply loooovvvee! And I work my arse away for 9.5 hours a day sitting in front of a dumb comp, screwing up my health, and I won’t make even half of their money, even if I work for 10 years!! And I can never say I looovvveee what I do!

How unfair… but they play awesome football, which I can’t do!

So, I started thinking about the things that I could do… the list isn’t big… but it’s better than – kick balls around big time Period.

Ok, maybe some of these guys can do other things as well, but come on! I don’t think they can do anything that is lifesaving! (Not that anything I do saves life, but it doesn’t waste others’ lives!)

Look at these multi millionaires… they have changed the way things happen in the world! People come just to watch them play! Woohoo! Good job… but wtf! Paying them atrocious amounts of money for doing nothing?? That sucks! It’s ridiculous that the whole world is doing such stupid things! Why pay millions to some 'extremely' good player, when you can find reasonably good players for 10% that cost?! Off course the rookie may not be as good as Ronaldo or Gubaldo whoever… but at 10% the cost he’s more worthy… He would become as good as Ronaldo in a couple of months of proper training!

The various companies like Siemens, Samsung must stop sponsoring these people and pay people like us, who do the dirty coding and bug fixes, in millions! Without us, these companies won’t be able to cough up such huge sums of money, just for advertising!!

There’s one person who comes into my mind thinking about all this…

Dr. Devi Shetty. Every Single day this cardiac surgeon saves tens of lives! And he charges only those people who can pay! For the poorer ones needing medical attention, he waivers the surgery charges, arranges for monetary support and all, and he aint no millionaire! Don’t you think he should be paid in millions for the kind of job he is doing? Siemens, Vodafone, Samsung and all there ‘good for nothing’ companies must sponsor such people to do what they are doing! These are the ones who have sacrificed their lives for the betterment of humanity and society!

If you don’t know about an Open Heart Surgery, please do a Google search and read up! It’s really a big challenge to open up the ribs, expose the heart, use a machine instead of the heart and re-route all blood through this machine (which pumps blood when the heart is being operated) and then do the actual surgery, with utmost care, and then put back what ever was opened, and not forget any forceps inside! One hell of a procedure! And he does it again, and again, and again, and again…

Doctors are the ones who must be paid in millions… not footballers and other sportsmen!

And off course the techchies like me n u ;)

And… what good is football or other sport? Cricket? NBA? And Golf! Stupid stupid game! I don’t see any excitement in trying to hit a ball into holes in the least number of strokes! Whoever came up with that sport! And whoever called it a sport! There’s no running, no jumping, no kicking, no throwing, no excitement… the slightest “rush”, if u may say so, is when u hit a ball into a hole – LOSER! And these dudes are also earning more than they can spend! What a waste! So freaking unfair! Check out what wiki said about golf.

To hit the ball, the club is swung at the motionless ball wherever it has come to rest from a side stance. Many golf shots make the ball travel through the air (carry) and roll out for some more distance (roll).

Every shot is a compromise between length and precision, and long shots are often less precise than short ones. A longer shot may result in a better score if it helps reduce the total number of strokes for a given hole, but the benefit may be more than outweighed by additional strokes or penalties if a ball is lost, out of bounds, or comes to rest on difficult ground. Therefore, a skilled golfer must assess the quality of his or her shots in a particular situation in order to judge whether the possible benefits of aggressive play are worth the risks.

What crap! This doesn’t count as a sport… It’s stupid!

The only sport I would recommend is F1 :)

Why you will ask! And I do have answers...

First of all, all the cars that you people happily drive around are the way they are because of motor sports. Much of the improvements in your car, be it performance oriented or safety oriented, are due to motor sports. It’s this sport that truly is pushing technology to the limits… and being a F1 driver is no joke… its not like playing golf… anyone can play golf… but not anyone can become a F1 driver…

An F1 driver needs to be super fit… He loses 3-4 liters of water during a single race! And, he has to take split second decisions driving at average speeds of 220kmph. It’s not a joke!

As opposed to a golfer… stupid game – golf.

And the driver must know how the car works… so that he is able to give decent feedback to his race engineers. All F1 drivers must at least be given honorary bachelor degrees in automotive engineering! Again, its not justified these drivers are paid in millions… coz people like me are ready to drive everyday, just if these companies agree to fill our tummies and nothing else! So, for much lesser cost, they can do all the testing, albeit in two/three tries! Which is good enough coz with experience; we can become Michael Schumacher like. Oh and FYI Schumi donated 10 million US$ for Asian tsunami victims.

Bottom line – what I’m trying to say here is, people like us, are ruining our health by sitting in front of a computer and working our arses away to god knows where, for meager amounts of money. And sport “stars” are paid to have a fitness regime, wear Nike, drink coke, and play!! Ridiculous! We have to kiss arse with the managers to get out of work on time so that we can do a little bit of jogging, which will maintain out health and help the company in turn… - No one cares!

Damn.

FYI - Christiano Ronaldo, one of the super well known footballers owns a couple of cars costing 100,000 bucks Plus... I bet he cant say whats head or tail of it... He just knows to drive.
I also bet not all sports persons can tell why a computer suddenly switched off... Is it the hardware? Is it the software? I bet loads of YOU won't know that either!

I'm not saying everyone must know everything... But, a mere footballer earns in millions, but a person like u n me, who statistically knows more than that sportler is earning around 500$ for a month of slogging-the-arse off

Todays games

2008-02-22T22:11:00.007+05:30

People who know me even a little would know that i'm a major game freak...
i may not be the Ult1mat3 Nem3sYs or Fatal1ty or g0D in gaming, but, i had my days as a good gamer in college...
Under the aliases of kab4al, uk, kat-ass-trop, dark horse and so on, i've created fear in many a hearts with my skillful fragging... want proof? have a look here...

chk eetz the frags by the kabals... oh... and here is quake...

so... i'm a good gamer... and i play a loads of games... well... at least i used to!!

I read an article by Mr.Maddox and i started thinking! Seriously! there is a point! whats the point in playing games with super duper graphics?! i mean come on! one needs to work hard to actually win in these!! i can give you loads of examples of such games! where you have to search for shit, or fight with 'villians' and the hi definition graphics makes this suck!
i'll show u an example... have a look here...

i'm actually driving a car... and can barely see whats ahead! actually the picture is just one frame... so you can see stuff pretty clearly here... but, imagine at a frame rate of 40+... you can barely see a thing! and it becomes ridiculously tough to actually drive the car!

i started playing the game to have a good time! not a tough time trying to find where the freakin spikes are!!

now a days the concept of a good game has undergone so much change! i still remember those days when i used to love dave! and not to say the TV video games! awesome fun!! Hell yes! Contra!! and also kung fu... mario... road rage etc etc etc! i would be so thrilled to play those games!! every single time! but i don't see that happening now a days!

why is there such a change!! games are not only about extreme graphics and reality! its about the fun factor! which i would say most of today's games are missing or... its better put as being short lived...

may of you have heard of Grand Theft Auto... what an absolute kick ass game it is! i started playing GTA 2... which is a very low graphics game compared to its successors... as a result, the controls were damn easy... and the handling was awesome! but with GTA 3, vice city and others coming, the game became a first person type... and damn! was it tough!! and San Andreas! i think i played it only for 2 days... and got bugged of it... every time i enter a car, i have to set my camera to behave the way i want... but it refused! its so frustrating!! the whole purpose of gaming is defeated! where is the fun?!!

I hope the game developers go back and see what we really need!

there have been absolute kick ass games... like CS 1.6, HL, Quake, UT2000, Serious Sam, NFS PU, AOE, AOM, Max Payne etc... i hope i can keep playing these again and again and again!!

da fundas de life - 1NE

2008-02-22T21:47:00.005+05:30

Eminem once sang

Lose yourself in the music
the moments u own it
u better never let it go
u only get one shot do not miss your chance blow
cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime!

and its pretty damn true!!
we dont realise how precisious and cool our lives are! and we bitch about small insignificant shit!

so I, the noble guy that I am, will give you fundas... so that you will appreciate ur life and thus other's lives too... so the whole world would become a cooler place to live in!

bring on the comments on whats bothering u... n i'll show the easy door...

to start with,

problem 1ne - traffic
well, almost all the ones living in major cities working for IT or otherwise find the city's traffic too ridiculous! u get pissed off to ride ur bike/drive ur car... coz theres just no place... and the agonizing traffic lights... damn! i need a break!

solution - u need a cell phone... and an opposite sex person to sms to...
how will this help? - well... once u start sending n receiving sms, trust me, u will forget about traffic! u will want the traffic jams to be bigger... so that you will get time to message back!
and every time ur phone vibrates in ur pocket, you would be eager to stop ur vehicle at the next signal! so the traffic signals dont bother you no more! :)

see... simple funda...

The sculptors.... aka architects!

2008-02-02T18:39:00.001+05:30

This is, leddiez and gentulmans, ein tribute to the ones who are responsible for what i am now!
they are the ones with whom i went to school/college/tution/wherever!
they are the ones who have influenced me in more than one way... good or bad...
they are the ones who have sculpted this fine sculpture that is me... which you already know ;)
they are the architects...
if u are pissed off with me, just imagine what more off a kat-ass-trop i'd have been if these sculptors werent there!

so... the list begins... and theres no end to it... and also, there will/can be additions!

Mr.Beasty
normally called manju... likes to be called yash...
fokr is in purdue n will become a roket scientist soon... :D
boy is fully talented, purdue, need i say more?!
average build... a proof that knowledge dont need space to be stored in!
encyclopaedia boy he is! panta in kannada, english and many other things!

Mr.Panta

normally called Vivek... likes to eat and sleep and game...
fokr is in mysore aaraamse passing time with no or little or over work @ infy...
panta is his name... and for a reason! every ounce of fat in him has some knowledge... reads hell lotta books, watches umpteen movies, eats like a pig...
my roomie for a year and more...

Mr.Nekro
normally called sudhiranjan... likes ***n...
fokr is in hydbad doing some shit...
Nefarious necro... the gre boy ;) waste body is still in hydbad kiththing what i dont know!
father of age of mythology... my roomie for a year....
(Update - 9/12/08)
maame is on International bench!! TCS 1 yr US onsite made him work for 23hrs a day for first few months... and now... boy is on friggin bench... while onsite! spends most of his time playing the big brain thingy on facebook...

Mr.Don
normally called vinod... marwadi boy... from badhravati village :D
fokr is in aamchi mumbai kiththing with TCS... full practical boy...
likes to sing crawling by linkin park... my roomie for a year or so...
(update - 9/12/08)
Daan... still in mumbai... unmarried marwadi boy... lo... ur demand and dakshine will go down if u continue this way...

Mr.Veejay

normally called vijay... talented singer boy...
fokr is in IISc, offcourse also with his singing! founder member of a band called Blendzzz... boy sings like a girl also!! major Rahman fan... started listenin to english recently :)
(update - 9/12/08)
dude is in Univ of Texas... has braved Mr.Gustav and Ms.Ike... and maybe more!

Mr.Chichi

Normally called Niranjan... pukka shetty...
fokr is in IBM doing something that he doesnt like! coz he aint earning in the 8lakh bracket... always wants kaasu kaasu kaasu... he eats kaasu, breathes kaasu, drinks kaasu, thinks kaasu... does everything with kaasu except spending it!
uncle buddhi... gives advice on everything, if needed...
kollegal boy... so little danger... full links with veerappan...
"kaas michcha maadodu" is his motto... a little chool party also ;)
(update 9/12/08)
Item jumped to havuvei or whatever tht company is... doing loads of kaas michcha...

Mr.Thabdey

normally called Chetan...
fokr is aiming for a green tag with wipro in hydbad...
full genius boy from gangavati... wrote GATE... and lost his admit card... so couldnt go to IISc... ontara waste body! :)
but... full sheer geniusness oozing out in all directions from him...
(update 9/12/08)
Nothing could hold him back from IISc... boy quit job and is back in namma bengaluru preparing for GATE 09... ppl who are gonna write Gate 09... theres no hope for ur percentile when this bugger is around.

Mr.Paapi
normally called rajlaxman...
fokr is in Chennai, TCS, behind some black babes... (boy likes black babes!)
full painting talenty boyge... everywhere he can paint... Everywhere!
full hardworking boy... full determination... never say die attitude boy...
an indefatigable thirst to get as many marks in the exams...
(update 9/12/08)
Annavru is comitted... comitted to "art"... exhibiting his art in Chennai... apart from working with the tatas.

Mr.Bob
normally called prabhu...
fokr in mysore... sitting prolly on infy bench...
boy plays more quake than he breathes! makes a circus our of quake... forgets the fact that its a game of fragging... always strafe jumping, plasma climbing, verticle/horiz verbounce and similar shit... i always beat him at quake ;) gauntleted him many times :)

Mr.Atti
normally called srinidhi...
fokr is in bosch... posted as a hardware engineer... haha... paapa...
full homely boy... in an ideal way... rules are to be followed... and never broken... first bencher in class... every day, every class, all the 4 years of BE!
all assignments are for our good... so must be done...
my roomie in germany... cooks awesome bisi bele baath!

now are the ones without pics! coz i dont have the pics... or havent found them yet...

Mr. Dandra - normally called prasad... a delicate balance between rebel and ideal boy... hard working! full thale... not puttin it to use properly! fokr was in wirpo... jumped to samsung for more moolah!
Mr. Chutan - normally called Chetan... ideal mechie... bindaaas... handsome dude... fokr in IBM... a typical chik magnet... lives life to the fullest... no kirik... no tension...
Mr. Raghavendra - a special mention! normally called Guru! coz he is the one kinda fellas!! fokr is in ITPL... knows hell lotta computers... major programmer... NITK material! one of the deadli boys who pioneered the sculpting of the the sculpture which is writing this!
(update 9/12/08) He is doing what he was meant to be doing! Indian Institute of Science!
Mr.Pramod NDA - normally called Pramod... fokr is in Army! protecting us without our knowledge! much like the van allen belts!! among the pioneers!
Mr. Suraj Jain (Dr) - normally called suraj... marwadi number one! is a doctor now... but full different genre of talents boy has! also a pioneer in the sculpting business!

there are many more such fellas... but time is up... i need to go! so i might have skipped ur names... so... u can catch me and kick my ass for missing u ;)

catch me if u can...

This world is a Matrix...

2008-01-14T23:09:00.004+05:30

stop talking about technology...

we dont need no technology... we goddamn OWN technology!

we are in a Matrix... built to make us believe as true what really is false...we must get unplugged...
i can only offer you the truth... i can only lead you to it... believing it is up to u...

ur so called NASA, with all the hi-fi hubble space exploorer and several other similar stuff has declared pluto as a dwarf planet... and they could do it only now!! in the year 2006 AD!!

our Rishis, with no hi-fi equipment had already calculated pluto's eccentric orbit... and that it was a small object... unlike normal planets!

these technologically adcanced countries didnt even know earth was round!! Aryabhatta had proved in his time (500 AD) that earth was round... and it's already stated in the vedas which (i believe) are by far the oldest scripturs available on earth!

even in the 1400s when columbus set out to find a route to India, he was not funded as europeans thought earth was flat and columbus would fall off it trying to find a reverse route!! God!!

so much for NASA... we are ready to believe whatever they say! our Ramayana has told about rama-sethu... and we never believed it... and still many dont believe it! and when NASA released a picture of, what they have called Adam's bridge, which is nothing but the rama sethu, we are like, "oh really!! i didnt know!"

u can read this article about it, if interested...

speed of light...

people in Aristotle's (380 BC) era believed light had infinite speed!! only in 1675 AD was rough estimates made about speed of light...but... in Rigveda, already speed of light was calculated! and accurately! not mere estimates!! see this...

nimishardha is the term used! u can find another article about this in here

and you people say you are looking for technology!!

you want more?

yoga... everyone knows the goods of yoga... and i wont say anything about it! no elaborate and expensive gym equipments and u have a fit body, and a healthy mind to go along!talking about medicine, we all know charaka and sushruta... who have done proper surgeries in their times!! u can search some info about them on wikipedia!

ok... now lets talk about war technologies...

the most deadliest weapon... the nuke... haha! already has been used... no no... i'm talking about before nagasaki and hiroshima...it is said a nuke was used during mahabharatha... the kurukshetra war... where 16 billion people

have said to have been killed in a span of 18 days!! *todays world population is around 6.5 billion*

this is the translation of the description of the episode, translated from Musala Parva of Mahabharatha...

…Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana hurled a single projectile

Charged with all the power of the Universe.

An incandescent column of smoke and flame

As bright as ten thousand Suns

Rose in all its splendor…

…it was an unknown weapon,

An iron thunderbolt,

A gigantic messenger of death,

Which reduced to ashes

The Entiure race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.

…the corpses were so burned

As to be unrecognizable.

Their hair and nails fell out;

Pottery broke without apparent cause,

And the birds turned white.

After a few hours

All foodstuffs were infected…

…To escape from this fire

The soldiers threw themselves in streams... (courtesy gurudev's blog)

still u question our oldies?! damn!

i've shown you we are better in Nuclear physics, astronomy, chemistry, Biology... lets talk geology...

i'm tired man... u people seem to be unworthy of the information you are getting! simply click here

even the ramayana... the vanaras mentioned were indeed present! search for neanderthal man and u will see... dating back ramayana, it shows it happened at a time when humans had evolved from monkey-men... and there were also the monkey-men, both co-existed... and some theories say jambhavan was a yeti... the whole world is realising the truth slowly... but we... being Indians are oblivious to these facts!!

we were always living at one level higher than the rest of the world... untill now a days!! in the recent times, when we say history, it is only about British India... and struggle for Independence! which is again a part of the non-Indian system of education!

and we go to hi-fi English medium schools!we talk english, walk english, laugh english! and most of us cant even read and write out own mother tongues!! what are we headed towards?!

go to europe... Germans speak only German... all boards, announcements are in german... same is the case with italy, France, spain, Austria... everywhere in Europe! no one really cares about English! why are we giving it so much improtance?!
i'm not against english or any other language or culture!! the point im trying to make is that we are giving English so much importance that we are neglecting our languages! how many of you non Karnataka people are in bangalore from considerable time? have you given one thought about learning Kannada? no... why? coz everything is available in english... but... for a 4 month deputation to germany, i was in a german course learning the basics of the language... so that i dont get lost one there!i mean, ok... flexibility aside, must we not learn our language with passion? it OUR LANGUAGE! its ours!! if we dont talk about it, who else will?!!

Samskritham, the mother of all languages... none of us knows anything about it! again... untill the westerners talked about it! only when Forbes magazine talked about sanskrit as a perfectly built language, extremely well suited for computer programming did we think about it...

whats with us?! why are we like this?! we nod to everything the "developed" countries say! we are something like slaves! doing what they say... everytime!! :(

it saddens me that people around me question "why must i study sanskrit?"

we learn A B C from kindergarten and even at 10th Std we are skeptical about taking up sanskrit!! its our way of life... our culture... we have to be proud about it!
over these years, we have been so accustomed to the western education that we believe our culture is inferior! we are so ignorant that we condemn it as superstition!! so much hopless our state has become that the word 'purana' has come to mean nonsense!! that so not right!

take any field, we had a role to play... all the number system... advanced mathematics... tigonometry... everything was pioneered by our ancestors in those days... and yet somehow, we dont ackowledge that!
MANY WESTERN SCHOOLS TODAY TEACH VEDIC MATHEMATICS IN THE NAME OF MENTAL MATHEMATICS WITHOUT GIVING THE ANCIENT INDIANS AND THE VEDAS THE DUE CREDIT THEY DESERVE!!

i have heard about some schools in Russia having prayers in Sanskrit! and we, we pray in english! full "hi-fi" that we are!

Indus valley civilization was the most advanced civilization of its time! ask any archaeologist, he will tell u! we were the ones who were cultivating crops (including crop rotation)when the rest of the world were wanderers and nomads living on hunting and eating raw meat. its no wonder the europeans still dont cook their food well... and eat it witout

anything at all... just plain and raw! they are so behind us!!

see the link below for more info about the Indus Civilization...

this is our history! and you want us to FORGET IT?!!
its not some pathetic love failure in my dumb ass life that i can say "that was the past... let me forget it!"
i bet none of ur dumb asses had no goddamn clue how rich our heritage is... damn!

you people want us to catch up with "technologically developed" countries? the ones which are fighting wars for no reason... doing crap in the name of religion? u must be out of ur mind!

if you are thinking i-pods and laptops and hi-fi technology... then u are **** i'm not finding a word... one of u brilliant GRE greats can fill up this blank...

it hurts me to see young kids going around with earphones on listenin to music on their new hi-fi gadgets! they are harming their ear! soon they will be deaf!

why were our great grandfathers and their generation people able to live for 100+ years? coz they we not relying on ur so called "technology"technology is synthetic... and everything synthetic has side effects, which are BAD! even the 'english' medicine u take has side effects! i hear there is a subject for the MBBS ppl which deals with what medicines have what kinds side effects!

we have all the required technology... we only need to see it! only then will we improve... buy going behind the "technologically developed" countries, we will get no where but more inferior in our own eyes!

everything in those places are catchy... everything automated... EVERYTHING! u dont need to ask anyone for directions... u can follow the signs and get anywhere... u dont even need to ask for the location of a street... u will find it... but whats the point?! limited human interaction... our country is great... as put in the opening song in Sivaji - "pakkatu veetukkum seethi samakkira panbu inge valzhum".

and wo... we talk crap about the superstar and his anti newtonian stunts... but we watch Matrix with mouths wide open! "kya sexy scene thi yaar! kya jump maara, saala!"
we accept everything western without a question... and we raise infinite questions about our stuff!!

and i still cant understand so many NGOs teaching small children english! its not needed!! they need to learn the true Indian culture! that will give them all they need to live happily ever after! teach them hindi, kannada, tamil, sanskrit... maths... why english?!!

we dont need to teach them freedom struggle so early... thats the past which we can forget and talk about later!
not this!

give it a thought! what we are doing is crap... crap... and seriously 100% pure u know what... :(

lets change!

goddamn serious thought

2008-01-13T13:14:00.000+05:30

Inndiaaaaa Inndiaaaa! clap clap clap... Inndiaaaaa Inndiaaaa! clap clap clap!

**********no disclaimer**********
i want every single mofo to read this and understand what shit he/she is upto
if u cant handle this language... u will never be able to handle anything at all!
u must be happy u were not in front of me when i was typing this...
*******no disclaimer ends********

what ever you say, our country rules! there is no way that is going to change!!
after 4 months in europe, i have learnt it, the fukin hard way...
Believe me ladies and gentelmen... damen und herren... u dont know what our country is worth!

this is a warning message to all those leaving India to "pursue" "higher fukin studies" or whatever in the US or wherever the hell they are going...
just lose that thought... you are getting no where...

first... leme start with the basics...

why do we study?
to learn new things...
why?
i'm interested in something and i wanna know more...
what else?
i like this... i like that... blah blah....
ok! time out! stop all this... and tell me where u are headed?
i wanna give the world some thing... i wanna make a goddamn difference... i dont wanna live like some normal nigger...
oh! so... u wanna be supernormal? beware... be fukin aware... u may be headed towards abnormality!!

i did a little bitta questioning about why ppl go abroad... and the reasons i got are pathetic!
if u tell me i'm goin abroad coz i wanna bone some biach n make a mark, that would be close to reality... everything else is 100% pure unadulterated bird poo...

here are some of the reasons i get! and i quote
"not enough opportunities here"
"the course i'm taking up is not available here"
"too much discrimination based on caste... and with reservation, i get nothing" - the one reason i felt sorry about
"i wanna make a difference... i will come back and do something for my country" - well u better remember the latter part... i hope the perspective of my country doesnt change!!
"prospects of a better job"
"$ dude! i can make a hell lotta money" - go for it man! u can do it!!

see what i mean!!
you are prepared to leave your country, your parents, your near and dear ones for ever!! and for such lame reasons?!!
i goddamn cant comprehend this shit!! are u drunk or something?!!

dont you think the only thing that you need to do in life, as your goddamn moral responsibility, is to keep your parents happy? so... screw thoughts of world improvement and such other "noble" endevours...
first do what u must do... you are not albi (i call einstein that, tribute to FRIENDS episode 9x20).
and the first step in keepin your parents happy is in your presence with them...

life... ur living it, not for urself... its for ur family, ur mom, ur dad, ur sis, ur bro and prolly ur unknown children and then the known ones as well... and... u dont need to make urs so glamorous... u gotta kill ur ass to make theirs glamorous... and going abroad is not the fukin way!

u wanna live happily, what better way than making the ones around u feel good about ur fukin presence?
do u know what is the most important thing u need to make that happen?? its easy... u gotta fukin be there, with them... when they need u... & making a fukin phone call from some foreign soil and saying "hi... im doing good... listen, i need to go, i got an assignment to submit in one hour" doesnt exactly qualify...

what good is it if you are 10 hours behind IST and you need two years to come back... for a short visit! coz u dont get enough holidays... and the tickets are damn expensive!
oh hero! you were on a quest for making money... what point in making it and not spending it?! damn! u people! so fukin unbelivable!

do you understand how much this decision is going to change you life?! it will never again be the same!
and for one moment, dont think its fun to live in a foreign developed country... no matter how developed the country is, you are still a foreigner there... and they know it!
do you fancy taking a shower in a 4x4 tub, with curtains drawn so that no water gets spilt on the non water proof floor?! who the makes a bathroom floor and doesnt make it water proof?! "oops! sorry, i forgot!"
a goddamn bathroom needs to be water proof! its the basic requirement!
you are not allowed a postpaid mobile connection as u dont have a SSN (social secutiry number, a number to identify ur lame ass coz numbers are easier to search than people's names) which u get only when u work. and prepaids suck as incoming calls are charged!!
plus... do u fancy working as a waiter in a restaurant? a janitor in a dorm (unless its a gals dorm, i'm not at all interested), a moote horavnu in wallmart (they dont make u horu moote... but its boxes and u operate machines)... just because they are fancy, doesnt mean u can do it! cleaning a toilet with a parke or a mop makes no goddamn diff... its the same... cleaning shit! (in the ultimate meaning of the word, tribute to beasty's 39 page essay)
to one of the guys i asked this, and he said it was a welcome break! from hectic schedule! and something new he hadn't done before!! WHAT? u think its cool to work like that? i would rather kill myself than serve food to a foreigner, who is in no way thankful for it!
i would rather be a waiter in a sea side restaurant in goa... atleast people coming there like India...
have you ever served food to your parents? cleaned your own toilets? NO... thats was not 'ur' work...
KISS MY ASS... u losers! you know what else you have never done before? and you will never be able to do ever in your life... Suck your own dicks...

and getting into a US university is a pain in the ass... and thats an understatement! the number of documents u need to produce, literally produce... "statement of purpose" as it is called! recos... if i were you, i would go there, give them the finger and come back... and would open a nair chaaya shap on hosur road...
why are you so ready to kiss ass?? that too a white american one?!

werent you the one complaining about lack of opportunities here?! you are not capable of getting a decent score good enough to get you into the course of your choice! and you were pissed with the reservations! but you are fukin ready to kiss some lilly ass giving loads of reocs, given by our people, making some cock and bull story for the "SOP" haha! i can only laff at u infedels!!

as for me... i'm content with leading a normal life... atleast i'm happy and i dont have a constant fire all over my ass... i can afford to eat Vena stores idly, drink a brahmin coffee bar by-two coffee, eat that occassional VB dosa... go for an MTR full meals, just because i can and u cant... and dont even get me started on the junk food... its divine! gobi manchurian... masala puri... paani puri... and i dont have to restrain myself from spending money... i have saved enough... its time to savour... and u guys aready there, enjoy your half cooked rasam and rice with some dipshit chips that tastes like shit... the ones yet to get elevated to that state, well think about it... its nor all that worthy u see...

23 people changed their decision and are happy to be where they are after reading this...

Scorpions!!

2007-12-20T22:57:00.000+05:30

my first concert :)
yes! the scorpions in bangalore, 16th december 2007!!

I knew Scorpions from the first time they came to bangalore... during 2000-2001... and that time i had not started listening to English music!! :) yes! all my English music gyan and following just started around that time!!

I had not listened to any of their songs!! and then, one day on Radio City (the old one, which rocked) Suresh Venkat played hurricane 2000... and gawd! was i spellbound!! the orchestra ruled!! never had i heard that high speed violins (untill i heard salaam bombay by Rahman) what a song Hurricane is!! u must listen to believe it!!
from that day on... i am listening to Scorpions... Hurricane, Lady Star light, Moment of Glory... and then my friend opened my ears to Holiday and Wind of Change! please please listen to these few songs at least ( though u r not a rock fan)! its worth ur time!!

and then... on that day, there i was... with Vijay Narendra of Blendzzz fame!
i was astonished when he told me that the Scorpions released their first album in 1972...
and that after that, every 2-3 years they have continuously released newer albums!!

It takes a lot to have a band, performing concerts, releasing newer albums, unlike many others who release a best of 80s album thingys!!

and i was immediately calculating... assuming the singer was 20 when he released his first album... its been 30 odd years now... and that means he must be 50 odd now!! Holy Jesus!!
The Scorpions are Veterans at the art of crowd entertainment! they know what the audience want! they know how to deliver too!!

the very thought that we were not even born, not until 10 years after the release of their first album, gave me chills!!

the wait was pretty agonizing! especially since we were inside the enclosure 2 hours before the start... and we had to simply wait!! with the HH Hunk's waste add coming over and over again...

but then... the opening act by Nervewreck was ok ok... they need to learn a lot more! waste bodys dont know that the crowd dont recognise them and that they must play a popular song, from a more famous band, at least for the opening act! but no... they played some song, which wasnt bad... but still... was pretty unheard and also lasted just too long... but then, they did try to clean up the spillt milk by starting off Metallica's Where ever I may Roam... but then, they added a little bitta the nervewrek shit and it was history...
they are a talented band no doubt... but they need to learn to woo the crowd!!

anyway! the wait was over! and there stood in front of me, Scorpions! not on a video, but fukin real ones!! i was waiting for that very moment!!
and when i heard the guitar... OMG! i cant even put those moments in words!!

Every song they played... so much energy!! its hard to imagine the amount of energy they had!
they jumped, kept runnin all around the stage... kicking air... dancing, offcourse doing their trade mark steps and offcourse singing! Klaus Meine, the lead singer, is simply mind blowing!!
the pitch he can reach will make most other singers shy! i'm sure Nervewrek had a real nervewrek watching the Scorpions perform! these buggers were almost standstill!! the only visible movement was the leadsinger/guitatrist moving his over grown hair outta his fukin face!!

Here I am... the song of all times!! Klaus sang Here I am... and all of us, from the crowd yelled Send me an Angel... the atmosphere is un-describable...

some of the super hi-fi songs that the scorpions put up included Zoo, Send me an Angel, 321, big city nights, humanity, tease me please me and so on!

and when they brought in the aucostic guitar... tears almost ran down my cheks!
"Here i ammm.... Send me an angel"!! that was just the start!!
"let me take u far away... you'd like a holiday!" Scorpio fellas, you are the best!!
I couldnt resist... so i called up my friend, panta, and made him listen... useless fellow! u missed the show ma!! i hope they come back again!! and soon!! so that we can go!! :)
and when the whistle started... i was mesmerized!! i couldnt help but yell "Taaaake me... to the maggeeek of the moment... on a glooory night.. Where the children of tomorrow... dream awaaay... in the wind of change..." oh my sweet lord!!

i also cant forget Big City Nights... Big City... Big city nights! Bangaloreee... Big city... big city nights... i still have that visual stored in my head!!

off course Humanity!! what an album that is!! at such age! after so many years of rock! they still have the same charm! the same touch! what i describe as awe-fukin-some!!

and then... they sang one more master piece from their new album... the song, i later got to know, is called 321... wow!! what a song!!

saaaaaave me...
coz the worlds gonna stop...
baby 3 2 1
are u ready to rock...

are u ready to rock, are you ready to rock, are you ready to rock,

Tonight!!

simply superb!!

and then... they played Hurricane!! i almost broke down!!
me and vijay were looking at each other's awestruck faces for every song they played... with a wide smile... so much anxiety... we were 10 times more than ecstatic!! and then, boy tells "we're not gonna leave you... untill we rock you like a?"
oh brother! that time i knew... the time had come!! my heart skipped a beat...
then the guitars started... oh bajezus... and klaus... tran tran... Its early morning... the sun comes out... last night was shaking... and pretty loud... my cat is purring... and scratches my skin... so what is wrong with anaaaother sin? The bitch is hungry, she needs to tell... so give her inches and feed her well... more days to come new... places to go... Ive got to leave its... time for a shoooooww...

Here I am, rocked you like a hurricane
Here I am, rocked you like a hurricane

Oh my god!! i simply cant forget that night!! and that is when i decided, i'm going to every live concert that i have access to!!

Scorpions! My god!! i bow... no prostrate to them!!

and to know more, Klaus is a '48 born!! which means... he is... freakin almost 60 years old! and the energy he has! you HAVE to see the Scorpions live! atleast once in your freakin short ass life!!

long time no see...

2007-12-02T20:56:00.001+05:30

Its been a real long time that i 'blogged' - still the word makes me wanna puke...

anyway... that outta the system... i was thinking of what to blog (yuk) about... i've been to lotsa places since my swiss trip... and everyone of which was just amazing! Pisa, Rome, Milan, AMSTERDAM! and few more! thought i'd write about that...
but thats for some other time... coz i need to get the pics in order...

so... now, lets talk about porn :) I see you scrolling down... sorry! there are no 'that kinda' pics here! u gotta go to the proper websites... if you want a list, let me know... i can help you...

but anyway... i was reading a post by incognito boy...
and then i thought... yeah! i've been there!! and to juice it up, i'm talkin bout porn :D

so here i'm in flash back mode... those days!! were real cool! :)

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Disclaimer - Internet is one of the best sources of information... i owe my present state to internet... lotsa info that i have... many friends i've made -> the internet... how i stay in touch with my frnds and family from 5ive thousand miles away is only because of internet!
and i dont want to hear anyone say internet means porn. period... coz thats not true... porn is also kinda info... u kno... so... dont equate internet = porn... remember, porn > internet :)
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it started after 10th std, in the year 2000 AD... i'd finished the exams and was getting ready to go to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair... and i needed to send receive mails! And i was new to using a computer! so i asked my neighbour to make an email ID for me...
he wanted my birthday as well! i was like... ow! cool... its like a passport or something! a freakin mailID!!
the next day, he told me it was done...
mailID - Venkatasubramanian.M@excitemail.com (with a unique name like this, i dont need to use numbers and all!)
password - i seriously dont remember!! i think it was something like venkat_85 or something...

back in those days, excitemail was free... just for curiosity, i did open excite.com, just now, and they've kicked me out i guess! :(

so... he was the one who used to check my mails and tell me... and i would tell him what to reply...

then one day i though i'd try it myself... it was the holidays... and I had nothing much to do really! so, i set out... with a friend of mine... Mr.Mohan... (guru... if you happen to read this, just leme kno u exist)
he used to sit next to me in school... it was with him that i "learnt" what an intercourse is... off course with the help of an oxford dictionary... and some quick wit! thats another amusing story... may narrate ASAP...

anyway... i took him over to an internet cafe... it was called Netizen :) and we had to pay about 30 bucks an hour, i guess... and then opened excite.com and keyed in my name and password, which i'd on a piece of paper... i'm not jason bourne!! rather, i was not :P

and i typed in my corespondent's mail id and the message and wola! i'd sent my first email!
we used to come almost daily... and my mom used to give me those 30 bucks... and then one day, the ingenious mohan came up with an idea... you guessed right... porn!! :)
i new they existed, but never knew how to go about... lets just say i didnt know the art of gettin pics of naked women on my computer screen!
and mr.hero told me there is a website jcbaba dot com... (thats what i heard)
i was sitting at the keyboard, as I'd paid for the internet... and then i typed www.jcbaba.com... and i got a "This Page can't be displayed" message!
and then he said it was desi baba dot com... and then it appeared... the desibaba.com verification page...
clicked on the "Click here if you are above 18" button (seriously i dont still know why they have that) and then opened the home page...
the first porn site i'd ever visited!
First time i saw the stuff... was awestruck!! :) you dont get to see a fukin nude woman every day! atleast i had not gotta see that everyday... untill that day :)
two freakin 10th std kids sittin in an internet cafe lookin at naked women, for the first time :) Internet... u fukin RULE!
we went straight to the actress section and were drooling over the numerous fakes pics of actresses... how many times i've visited that site after that, even god cant tell! :)
now i'm so damn good that i dont need to visit any website for seeing naked women... i can do it right in my head - anyone, anywhere, anytime ;) ,\,,/ its an art... not everyone can do it... or appreciate it :)
next year... i was in PUC... and there was a new chain of cyber cafes that opened near my place... and they had branches near my college as well... and as an intro they gave 30 minutes of browsing for free (jagga and suraj would remember the names of this offer as well!!)... haha... somebody gonna get a hurt real bad! how many aliases i've used i dont know! free internet porn!! YES PLEASE!! even today i'll be intrigued by that offer!! if you say ur not, you are lying... and thats a pho phuk lai! (damn! Russel Peters is the man!!)
i'd used so many aliases and had taken so many people to the free internet thing that those people could recognise me! so i was not allowed any more... and in two branches... gandhi bazar and rajajinagar... paapa!

that was long ago... and then i grew... and i knew how to use floppies... and then in the next level, i knew how to use Ctrl-Alt-Del... some cyber cafes used to have a program which would automatically log u out after the time u've paid for... unless u hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and disable that software... and then it was P.A.R.T.... Y? because it was unlimited browsing for price of 30 minutes!! - i miss this! now i cant simply Ctrl-Alt-Del my way around no more!

and, by reading all this, dont get me totally wrong! when i say browsing, i don't always mean porn!! many factors decides what i do on internet!
the place where the comp was situated in the cafe was a major concern... often i used to fight for a secure PC :) else, i used to goto F1.com... collect pictures of cars, planes, super models (FYI also clothed ones) and many many things... i used to play online games... even now i have more than 10000 points at indiatimes contests... and i havent redeemed them points at all... and there was contests2win... i think this is still there...

you may ask, if i have ever been caught doing this... and the answer is NO... the only possibility of anyone finding out about this is after reading this blog! - now it doesn't really bother me if someone finds out ,\,,/
i used to take several measures while doing it at home... and i tell you internet explorer sucks... use mozilla! its damn easy to erase traces! :)

next question... do i do it now? - well... now i dont really go behind pics of nekkid wumen (unless they are exxxtremely hot, these ones deserve to be posters in my room), i have limewire and naughty america :)

Die alpen... der Schweiz!

2007-10-17T01:47:00.001+05:30

Mother of Gawd!!

zeroth... actung! this blog is not what u expect
first... Switzerland is helluva wonderful place!
second... BMW is one helluva car maker!
third... i'm tired!

This blog is being written in an incredibly small time! since i have internet only till tomorrow morning... and it is already 21:00 hrs!
I have just come back from a mindblowin trip to the Swiss! Just means just! i just arrived, few minutes ago... driving about 1300 kms in 4 days time... :)

so... lets get started!

day one...
the man... the machine... the autobahn... to swiss... wooo hooo!
day two...
snow for the first time!! freaking wasser everywhere, not a drop to drink... but loads to feel cold!
day three...
fighting for world domination...(read peace)
day four...
modeling on the alps...

i was apperhensive about the car that we had planned to take... it was a BMW compact class car... which simply means its the cheapest car we could get then... but son of a gun the BMW 1 series 1.2 liter mofo was one deadly piece of machinery!! i can actually write a blog about only that mofo! but... no time for that!

time to hit the road! direct to schaffhausen... this navig system was one sexy thing... it showed a 3D map with an arrow (our car) and the whole map rotating around as we turn... like in a computer game! awesome navig system it truely was... as it knew each gully in swiss!!

the autobahn!! damn! how the hell did the germans come up with that system of complex yet amazing set of roads!! only these SOBs can do such shit!
this time it wasnt new to me! i knew the wearabouts... i simply cant explain the thing... not now... i'm friggin tired... but... one thing for sure... u have to experience the autobahn to believe it! no where in the world will u have such an experience... not even in the autobahns that extend outta germany to swiss and france and neighbouring countries... the German autobahn is a thing to rekon with... when u enter it, u have a sense of freedom... and... and... u just feel free to accelerate... to speed up... to just go go go! its just too good! i have driven in the swiss and the french counterparts... but nothing is even close to the german autobahn! its the german precision!! :)

we entered the swiss territory... and the autobahn ended soon enough... and gave way to normal roads... it was another schwarzwald! but just that the places we went were kinda high altitude and we had to climb up and down the alps... the drive was splendid... and since now i knew where i could go faster and where i had to slow, i just hit the limits! its always awesome to rip through tight turns! it gives the churning effect in your stomach! :)
and when u click pics, it comes like this! :) as though one is driving with nitro in Most Wanted! ;)

it was in swiss that i saw a real river! Rhine... was ferocious! normally the rhine that i saw in germany-france border was very silent!

Swiss! the place! the magic! its a place one MUST visit in winter! when there is snow! its classy even otherwise ;) but... winter brings in snow... and most of us would've never seen snow! its damn sexy to walk on snow...
especially on jungfraujoch... the highest peak in europe... (mere 4k odd meters above sea level :P )
its still now winter there... but there was snow! for the first time in my life i'd walked on snow!
just water... frozen! no mud, rock whatever... just snow and ice and that all! miles and miles! every step u take makes a crackling noise... of ice breaking under ur weight! its like walking inside a freezer! ice everywhere! the temperature when we went wasnt as cold as in a freezer though! :P
it was 1 or 2 degrees... but a sexy experience!

oh! i also went to the UNO in geneva! :) promoting world peace ;) went into the room which we have seen a million times on TV... have a pic also... look :)

this trip was when i broke my record of fastest drive! i reached 220kmph!! yes!! infact, 180s and 190s and 200s were very very common during this trip! and the BMW felt sooooo soooo goood! i mean... its not everyday that a guy like me rides at that speeds! so i will keep talking about it... for the rest of my life! :) and i betcha ass u will too!

i'll quickly put some pics here n there... just chk eetz... i will try my best to upload some pics on picassa as well... just use my old link and search for more public albums that i've added... i dont have internet... and cant send links... havea-funa...
oh... i have a special message for ye all... i dont care what it means in other languages... but... guess its pretty plain... if u dont understand what i'm talking bout, i have encircled it...

oh! i also bought a swiss watch for myself :) not a rado or rolex or tissot or swatch... its swiss military! what a lame name for a watch! but... its made in swiss and looks cool :)

stop gaping at me... i know i know... remember, it was approx 0 degrees...
the watch i'm talkin bout... i'm wearin...

2007-09-28T00:01:00.001+05:30

It all started with this... The Machine... A 4 Cylinder Audi A4... 2.0 Liter mofo pumping approx 200 bhp...

After playing Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed, I was into racing! and cars! Thats when I found out that Porsche is what my ultimate thing in life is! It may sound stupid, but hey! haven't you seen my first page? Look again, here is the link...

Then when I came to Germany, I realised, all the tracks in the game were actually real locations around Europe!! OMG! I so wanted to go to these places, and what better way to do so than on a Porsche! I knew we could rent cars, any make provided you cough up the required money! And a Porsche is worth the money you spend... Its the best there is!

And no matter how long you work, in what so ever position you work, it is IMPOSSIBLE for us to by a Porsche in an entire lifetime... Because, a Porsche Carerra GT costs around a whoping 100000 Euros!

So... my funda was to rent a classy car and go to some place in Germany! But, life is not so simple! I was in Germany and had the money to do it... I was so close to realising my dream! That ultimate thing in life was coming to be a reality! And that too when I am just 22 years old!! It felt like I hit jackpot! But, no!!

One can't rent super car of a Porsche just like that!! Yeah! Else it would be too simple! And every mofo Tom, ba(bad ass) Dick and sob Harry would boast about driving a Porsche... So, now, I'm satisfied that when I get to ride a Porsche, I will deserve it!! :) so near yet so far... now, i will wanna drive it even more! i like this! i wanna wait and do it when i'm good for it!

But never the less, we rented the machine... It is a splendid car!!

And... we chose to go to Schwarzwald! That was a good decision! :)

It was an awesome trip...
Started at the Europe Car rentals... I'd booked a car for the trip... and went to collect it... Boy gave us an A4 with navigation system after a 20 minute delay... When I had the key of an Audi in my hand, I couldn't help but smile! That thieve kinda smile!

And he told us to go to their garage and on the place no.44, the car would be there!

"oh! ok! thanks! Isn't anyone going to be there? just to tell us how to use the car?"
"You know how to drive right?"
"yes, Offcourse!"
"Then just go down and you will find the car!! There will be no one there!"
"oh! ok! well... thanks again! and see you!"

and... there it was... the Audi A4... in the underground parking lot... which was a lot under! a coupla floors under for the trains and 'locals'... then a couple more for car parks etc!

We sat inside... and... my god! I was in a German car!! Took some time to figure out how the navigation system works, in English and then headed off towards our home. We didn't have a clue about the route back! just followed the Navig system! it was dark and we didn't even know where we were going! No glitches, we reached safe and sound... just a couple wrong turns... u know, coz i'm so used to left side driving! :)

the next morning...

started out trip... and had to get into the Autobahn! The mutter of all roads in the world! the name itself is sufficient! The only place in the world with no speed limits!! I played safe and stuck to some speed limits. 130kmph minimum! :) since it was my first time, i wanted no pain! So gently I entered... the Autobahn... and slowly eased the throttle... and the 2 liter diesel engine roared and accelerated off... from the 50kmph max limit on the entry lane to the 130kmph min speed Autobahn!
Slowly i engaged the clutch and changed to 3rd, 4th, 5th.... and 6th gears... ooh! oooh! oooooh!!
The anticipation... the acceleration... the sensation... it is unbelivable...
Though the first time, i wanted more! First time is always fun... you find everything so new and pure and sexy! so i decided to just GO FOR IT...

so... i entered... this time, to the left lane, the fastest of em all... throttle going down... engine reving up... and the speedo read 130... 140.. 160... it was like a miracle... so gentle, yet so much! in just 5 minutes!

Then came... ... ... the time for the exit... from a 160 odd to 50kmph... the ABS continuously pumping them brakes to keep us stable and not slide off track under such inhuman braking... gentle? u bet!

This was the autobahn... and our trip was to the schwarzwald! it had just started!! we drive into the start of the black forest... and took a 250 km long circular route which goes through the wald... called Schwarzwald Bäderstraße... and then my dream started materializing... vast forests... and german homes here and there... and at some places beautiful fields and grasslands... cows! yes cows grazing in the fields... and lumber mills... everything picturistiqe!

then... i had an idea... why not go off road?! so... we headed off into the woods... on a non road... the ESP working hard to kick in enough traction to keep us on the slippery track! and in front of me... i had a dejavu... i've been here before! yes!! this place... ooh! so cool!!

thanks to the NFS 5 boys! a classy job they have done!! they mofoin RULE!

We continued the journey... now, back on road... so much of stuff to look at and i was on the steering wheel looking forward, lest i get into trouble! its my first time u see... and i only had little protection...
in the form of insurance... still i was liable for 500 euros of damage!

the track was twisty... and i was doing a 80kmph average... with top speeds reaching upto 140kmph at times... it was wonderful... every curve i hit, the tyres resisted with a screeching moan... and the ESP (Electronic Stability Program) worked harder... its always fun to push harder! you know it! you've wanted it!! I entered into tunnels and drove around cliffs... it reminded me of Corsica...

and then... on sunday, I entered into France... just across the border... it was like coming from malleshwaram to mariappan palya... just a bridge seperating the two countries... at this point, the navig system went blank! coz i only had a german CD!

but today was not first time! so, I knew my way around... and I headed on... on the banks of Rhine... on some highway... it was faast! 120kmph on small roads... and then slow down to 30kmph when u enter cities! and this was like Avurene! tight corners inside cities, in front of houses! NFS 5... aaaah! so sexy!

and driving through fields like pyrenes and normandie! wow! the entire NFS 5 coming into reality...

except for monte carlo and zone industriale... aah... greedy me!

and... then... time to get back to stuttgart! towards the Autobahn A5... the ultimate driving experience... its one of a kind! no where in the world can you get such class... such speed... such precision...

I hit the no max-speed-limit zone... and i had a wicked smile on my face and the throttle under my foot...

go baby go! it was vrooooom... 130s dissapeared to 140s... and 150s and... 160s! not like the first time, where i was unsure... here i was reckless... fuk protection... fuk everything...

lets just do it...

the adrenaline was there... more more! this aint nothing... back to 5th gear and the engine gave a warning roar... but the throttle put that down... more more... 160... 170... 180... comeon... lets just get to the climax...

i pressed harder... moving to top gear... and then... i had to brake to slow down as the guy in front was slow... :P
he moved out of my way... and then... it was game on... back to business... 140s... 150s... 160s...170s... 180s... it was in a jiffy... just a press of the throttle... there was that connection now... more space... 190s... and then... the climax... 200kmph... everything was flying by... cars, sign posts, boards, more cars, opposite traffic was just no match...
their 140kmph plus my 200kmph = 340kmph relative speed... just a whoosh... and... this wasnt the climax... there was more in reserve... a yellow ferrari... i knew it was a ferrari as i saw it approaching... opposite direction... fastest lane (obvious)... and it was gone... i just saw it... thats all... not even for a fraction of a second... the sound waves never reached my ear... we were past that place at 200kmph and he... prolly at 250 or more! poor old sound waves...

this was the ultimate! and it was only on an AUDI A4!

i just cant wait to get into a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or a Porsche... only time will tell!
we drove an incredible 750kms from saturday to sunday...

/*CONCLUSION*/

Fuk! how many days had I thought of this shit! driving on the Autobahn, in Schwarzwald!
Isn't it this crazy dream that made me quit Wipro? Coughing up 75grands for the bond!
Isn't it this crazy dream that made me join Robert Bosch, a German company...
Yes indeed!!

I thought I would be an uncle by the time I could do this... but no...
thanks to my Saggi characteristics... i'm here now... standing with my dream almost fulfilled...
and i'm only 22!! now i gotta sleep more! to dream more shit!!

Moral of the Story... enough reading this... go back and sleep! and dream! always!!

and... does this pic remind u of some game?? :P

no? dumbo! this one?

no?? even now?! che che! go and grab a computer!

chumma i'm wasting time making blogs n all!! ayye ayye!!

oh... i said it started with the machine... but... what kept the machine going?? the ultimate force :P if u wanna say so...

the Man...

his work...

now... time for me to go go go! too much pressure to release this blog... and i have done it... finally... no time for censor board, proof reading... editing... and shit... just pure crap...

By public demand!

2007-07-30T00:07:00.002+05:30

Hudugeero hudugeero huchchu hidiso hudugeero!!

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Ha! Finally I got some time to write some stuff... Everyone asks me the same thing.
Hows Germany, How are the babes? So... this is dedicated to all of you in whose fortunes the Germany visit is still not happened. I wish it happens soon.

Germany is a nice place! Everything happens perfectly! Nothing surprising that the Germans are known for their precision!

My travel started off in a Lufthansa Airline Boeing 747. And my new found independence had to be used! One bad thing about the Lufthansa people are that the air hostesses are not that good. But from the place i was sitting, them hostesses, while serving food, bent over to ask the passengers what they wanted... and... I... was intimidated by their classy asses, neatly tucked in their tight trousers! That was a sight to watch! But otherwise, them hostesses need to be changed! To ass to the intoxication... I mean, to add to it, I had Rot Wein... Being a non drinker, I have no idea what it tasted like. It brought a weird twist on my face everytime I tool a sip. Thats all I know!! But that was all... Next morning, I had Orangen Saft. Big deal :P

I alighted in the Flughafen and proceeded towards the ICE station. My god! The crowd that comes for US! Jeez! Its like they are giving out free shi*! Why do so many people go to the US!? Anyway! I waited at the bahnhof for the ICE which took me to Stuttgart. And then an old Mercedes took me to my Hotel.

From now on, I'm gonna only talk about... You know what!!

The receptionist was cute! Its great that the hotel has a lot of schöne frauen who are receptionists! Not one of them is bad! Not even close to it! I hope I can take pictures with them! I will upload them pics as soon as I have enough guts to take em! :P

Also, at the breakfast room, there one hot female, who changes everyday, who serves coffee and does the chores! I have no idea from where these many hotties came into one place!!

All females in Stuttgart can be categorized into the following:

1) Oldies - They were the once upon a time babes, now they are sober and mind their own business.
2) Bad - They eat a hell lot and are obese. Gross.
3) Married - They are HOT! They may have a few kinder and are almost always accompanied by their männer.
4) Babes - They are junge, classy and posh. They are kinda hot and kinky!

One thing common to all these people(except 1) is that they all have a great dressing sense.
They are fashionable! And spend a great lot of both geld and zeit for their appearance. No wonder to be a barber, one has to undergo a 3 year course here!!

All said, I so much want to take pictures and show them to you as proof. But at the last moment, I lose courage! I don't want to get beaten by Germans! So I'm exercising some caution. The moment I'm able to capture some, I'll upload them first!

Anyway, here are some of my attempts at photography. I don't want any comments on this cause I know they suck. But this is the best you can get. So just see.

Germany Rules!

2007-07-29T01:55:00.001+05:30

English is a language spoken by many... and the usage of words have changed such that it means different things to different people. When I say rules, you may be thinking it to be great(which it is) and so. But, think again... Check the dictionary... this is what m-w.com has to say about Rules...

"a prescribed guide for conduct or action b: the laws or regulations prescribed by the founder of a religious order for observance by its members c: an accepted procedure, custom, or habit d (1): a usually written order or direction made by a court regulating court practice or the action of parties (2): a legal precept or doctrine e: a regulation or bylaw governing procedure or controlling conduct"

and... when I say germany rules, I meant the bold part!
Yes! there are so many rules! and people abide by them! very religiously!! Coming from bangalore, this sucks for me!!

Everything is planned, and has to happen in a specified way! theres no alternative!

It seems strange in the begining, but one will get used to this and probably start liking it! I hope I wont fall in that category! though you never know!

And for one instance dont ever think Germany is the all that awesome! The German trains are known to be on TIME, every time, EVERY SINGLE DAY, ALWAYS... and the day I landed, the train i was supposed to take, was late by 5 minutes! :) and you must've seen the announcements that used to come inside the ICE - inter city express. Announcements that the connecting trains would be delayed to enable passengers on this train to board it... Thats what happens when you follow too many rules! you lose flexibility! :)
However the train reached its final destination on time... to the dot. it was supposed to reach Stuttgart at 10:33, and it did! at alarming precision!!

One more really really awesome thing in Stuttgart is that all clocks in public (atleast all that I've seen till now) are analog! & the times specified for the transport system aint in multiples of 5! Amazing how people make out 12:12 and 7:22 from these analog clocks!

Even alarming is the fact that people from India, start calculating time in precise terms!

My friend, who was supposed to leave for Paris the night I arrived, happened to give me a visit and forgot his mobile in my hotel room. Back in his apartment, a couple stations away, he was all getting worried. His problem was that the bus to Paris leaves at 21:30 and that he can get ready by 20:00. But we had to get to my room and take his mobile and then he had to continue to the bus station... we left on schedule... 20:00 hours... and on the way to the nearest train station we happened to meet a few guys and had to talk and in the mean time missed the train. The next train was 15 minutes away... and ... this guy became nervous... he went, "ok... now I've missed this train, the next train will come here in 15 minutes... as in 20:19. It will take 7 minutes to your stop. From there the next train will be coming in 8 minutes interval. That means I need to get your room and get back with my mobile to the station in 7 minutes 30 seconds. which means we have to run from the station to the hotel as we cant reach in time if we walk!"
WHAT?! when did you start acting so German!!

And... heres the best... when he went to a frisuer (hair cutting) and sat for a cut, he was asked the most deadliest question... I have to put that in Italics... "How many millimeters short you want your hair to be cut to?" If i'm asked such a question, I'm a gonna freak out! how many mm? cant u freaking just gimme a short haircut?!

Pirates of the Information Highway

2007-07-21T22:23:00.001+05:30

I was wondering... who is it that gives us the countless movies, the countless mp3s, the countless videos, the countless e-books... who ever you are, may you live long and continue giving such goodies!

It's a great thing to write a good book with a great story... but its a much much greater thing to be able to get e-book on or before the day of release! This is PIRACY!! and it RULES!

All you people who think otherwise are...(after a Agent Smith style pause ;)) wrong.

Who is the cause for all this? It's the creator... not the creator of the e-book (he is GOD), but I'm
talking about the one who has created the "real" book. That biach had no business to, First. write the story, Second. Sell it at astronomical prices.
All those must be kicked! Oh. You are talking about them earning their bread by writing crappy stories? Think! See! All theses authors are multi millionaires! And they simply are living on the reputation their first book created, correction, first Good Book created! Who wants to pay 950 bucks for a 607 page book?! Thats outright cheating! More than one buck a page?!! SHIT!
Next time you get a thought about e-books being piracy, just let it pass!

kimi for vacation

2007-06-23T17:41:00.001+05:30

The Canadian and US grand prix ended as triumphs for Hamilton, the nigger deserved it! He is a fabulous driver! I would say he is probably better than any other driver currently there. Even Kimi Raikkonen.

I think its time for Raikkonen to go on a vacation and not return until all his money is spent there. Cause, when there is no money, he will have to work hard to earn it and will hopefully drive better. We all know 'necessity is the mother of all inventions'.

And, I know the best place for him to go on a vacation... Kerala!! God's own country!!
Another advantage of Kimi going away to Kerala is that he will never return to F1 again, cause his money will never expire! So job well done, if we convince him to get to Kerala.

Speaking about Kerala, its one awesome place! I would run out of adjectives, but will not be able to completely describe the splendor of Kerala. It truly is "God's own country".

Who would have thought that the land of the sexy Asin and the husky Meera Jasmine would be less beautiful. And if you are asking me who Asin and Meera Jasmine are, here is a pic, you ignorant morons! How can you not know who these two lasses are! They are the most beautiful actors in South India!!

<-asin (surely a sin won't count) jamine (rhymes with asin) ->

Never-the-less, Kerala Rocks! I just visited three places in Kerala - Thekkady, Iddukki Dam, Vagaman. And I was blown away! This is just a small part of what Kerala truly offers! Theres Kovalam, Kollam, Allepy, Munnar etc., etc., etc., the list goes on! I would want to spend 15 days in Kerala just lazing around.

The best part of Kerala trips come when you do the driving yourself. The surroundings are too seductive to tire you from driving! I wanted to drive on and on and on and on... and at some places, we were driving through clouds! YES! literally!

I love the Keralan food! They use coconut oil generously in everything they cook or fry! I simply love the smell of coconut oil from my food!
"Coconut oil is a fat consisting of about 90% saturated fat. The oil contains predominantly medium chain triglycerides,^[1] with 86.5% saturated fatty acids, 5.8% monounsaturated fatty acids, and 1.8% polyunsaturated fatty acids. Of the saturated fatty acids, coconut oil is primarily 44.6% lauric acid, 16.8% myristic acid and 8.2% palmitic acid, although it contains seven different saturated fatty acids in total. Its only monounsaturated fatty acid is oleic acid while its only polyunsaturated fatty acid is linoleic acid.^{[2]" (wikipedia)

When we first landed in Kerala, we took a bus to my friend's place... that was at 430 AM... and the bus was jam packed! on the way... I was delighted to smell coconut oil... what a pleasant smell... It reminded me of the tasty food I'm gonna have the next three days... I thought the smell was from some petty shop doing some chips frying... I was wrong!
It came from the head of a semi bald oldie, who had applied coconut oil very generously over his bald head thinking it will grow back his lost hair, standing under my nose! I was flabbergasted... How could I think a chips guy would be awake at 5 in the morning frying!!

This apart, coconut oil rocks! ;) Specially the very tasty and crispy vadai that we had for breakfast at Thekkady at a restaurant. It melted from its crispy nature when put in the mouth... it felt real good when the taste of coconut oil went through my tongue nerves... :P

Rendezvous with clouds!!}We finally met the clouds! Vagaman... a place so good that you would wanna spend the rest of your life there! Here, not only people are frequent visitors, but also clouds!!

You can find clouds on the street!! STREET! it doesn't get closer than that!! Don't believe me? have a look...

Thats not mist... its not rain... its a freaking cloud! playing on the streets!! You have to be there to believe!

And on our way back, we had to drive through clouds!! jeez!! that was super awesome! and I'm out of adjectives! watch the video for yourself!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5822717351128441453
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6438315594472829793

Just go to Kerala once and I bet you will start a blog yoursel!! its an awesome place!

Rajani - The BOSS

2007-06-17T14:49:00.001+05:30

All you people who think otherwise are wrong.

"naan oru dhadavai sonnal nooru dhadavai sonna maadri"

It simply is mind boggling, the kind of response this SuperStar generates!!
Forum was CLOSED till 9AM on Thursday, the day before Sivaji's release...
And the crowd went 'PVR down down' when they announced Sivaji tickets will be available only at 6PM!!

I'd only read about Rajani preferring to not act movies because of the sheer amounts of money and people involved in his releases! I couldn't actually imagine how that would be... But on 14th 06-07, I had a first hand experience!

I had never stood in a queue for 45 minutes and been denied a ticket!!

Then I went back to work... and came back at 19:45, just to see how the situation was...

In less than 2 hours (from 18:00) all tickets for Friday, Sat, Sun and Mon were booked! And only first row seats were available on Tuesday... I had to be contented with a Wednesday evening show ticket.

I wanted to see the movie in the first two days... in a local theater... that would be awesome! but no tickets no where!! I didn't know how I would wait till Wednesday!

But I did get to see it on Saturday, night at easwari theater! Courtesy Janny.D Our links 2 3 4 boy... who got me in for the 2130 show though we went there only at 2100... We sat on stools to watch the movie! This is as local as it gets!! awesome! :)

We entered the theater... amongst the cheering by the Thalaivaa fans... whistles claps etc... and when audio of balleilakka was played as a filler, the crowd was ecstatic...

In the next two minutes the seats filled and anticipation grew... and the silver screen lit up... the crowd went mad!!
The censor board certification was displayed on the screen... it read Trailer - Sultan!!
Guess what! that's next Rajani movie! only without the superstar... its an animation ;) with Rahman's score!
This is the heights! showing Rajani's next movie trailer in his current movie!! brilliant!

After that, the crowd screamed like its apocalypse when Sivaji was written on the certificate!

The screen went black and blue silver dots formed a SUPER STAR and the letters R A J A N I appeared... the crowd went berserk!

The ambiance was electric! every one whistling and shouting! I wish I'd known how to create that high pitched screeching noise... would have made the best use here!!

When the movie started, a man, face covered, is lead by the cops to jail... and in there he is locked up... and he stands with the back of his head facing us and his now comrade, from the next prison is inquiring about why he is here... and that is when Shankar decides to show Thalaivaa's face for the first time...
Do I even need to tell you how the crowd were?!!

ARRahman was as always... Mind Blowing! I can't get the proper adjectives to describe this man! He simply rules the music industry!

Shreya was nice! Worth watching! You know what I mean ;)

The dialogues were neatly made, at one point, the villain beckons Rajani to become a bus conductor!!

Vivek was at his best...

Rajani's style was impeccable! That is indeed what made him what he is now!
Shankar and AVM were generous with the settings creating some great sets.
The camera work is superb! and the CGI is ok... Don't compare it with Hollywood ones like Pirates for instance, which with loads of HQ CGI creates only a very meager response when compared to the likes of Rajani movies!

But... I'm disappointed... There is something missing in the movie... theres no speed... no adrenaline... All the extravagant resources that were present, were not used in the right way. Shankar fails to deliver what he did in Anniyan. Though this movie is set to break, or possibly has already broken, all possible records, it ain't upto mark...

I just can't imagine this doesn't compare to Padayappa and Baasha... They were epics... even Muttu was a classy movie...
I just want to get back and watch Baasha and get a taste of the real Rajani...

No matter what... Rajani rules... he is indeed THE BOSS

Michael Schumacher! By Jeremy Clarkson...

2007-06-03T19:34:00.001+05:30

I came across this article by one, Jeremy Clarkson... Bet you've heard about this fellow! He is simply too good! He is the host of one of the best Auto shows - Top Gear...

This is what he writes about Michael Schumacher in an article about Renault Clio Sport, for which Fernando Alonso campaigned. I haven't modified anything in the article, its produced 'as is', using the one tool that I know how best to use - Ctrl - C, Ctrl - V.

"Even though Fernando Alonso, the mono-browed young fish-nicker, did not acquit himself well this year(2006), endlessly complaining about how the team wasn’t treating him properly and how the stewards were fixing races in Michael Schumacher’s favour, I did feel rather sorry for him as the grand prix circus reached its ear-splitting climax in Brazil.

First of all, he was beaten in the race by Felipe Massa, who behaved as though he’d been wired up to the national grid. And because he was a Brazilian, in Brazil, the Brazilian television director decided that the fish-nicker should be largely ignored.

To make matters worse, this had been Michael Schumacher’s final race before he headed off to Switzerland with nothing but his dogs and his chin for company. And that’s all anyone was talking about. Not Fernando’s second world championship, but what life might be like in F1 without the Hun.

Boring, I reckon, though not everyone agrees.

Martin Brundle, the F1 commentator, said recently that he struggles to think of any great Schumacher overtaking moves. Really? Well what about that last race, when he went from last place to fourth? What about the way he drove so aggressively he frightened Giancarlo Fisichella not just out of his way but clean off the track?

And what about the time at Silverstone when he was stuck behind Damon Hill? For lap after lap, on the approach to one particular corner he drove on the wrong side of the track, cleaning away all the dust and the marbles, so that when he finally made his move he had all the grip in the world. (This was his level of technical brilliance!)

That was the great thing about Schumacher’s racing — he used intelligence. Ross Brawn, his technical director at Ferrari, said that even when he was on a hot lap, he could converse about clouds on the back side of the circuit and whether they might bring rain, whereas other drivers could only ever grunt.

Then you had the time when he finished second despite being stuck for half the race in fifth gear, and the Spanish Grand Prix in 1996 when, in torrential rain, he lapped almost the entire field. Sometimes he must have thought that he was the only human in a field made up entirely of incompetent playboy blind people.

Ah yes, say the detractors, but what about the times when Schumacher has been most unsportsmanlike? Stirling Moss says the German’s career will always be blighted by the way he parked his car on the circuit at this year's(2006) Monaco Grand Prix.

I’m sorry. Am I hearing this straight? Because I fail to see the difference between this and the sledging that goes on in cricket, or the punching in a rugby scrum.

The mere fact that Michael actually thought to park his car, and therefore bring out the yellow flags and thus prevent anyone from qualifying faster than him, shows yet again that he’s more intelligent than anyone else out there.

When I first met him, way back in the days when he had a mullet and he was racing for Benetton, he was a shocker. Ford, his employer at the time, had asked him to road test a

Mustang for Top Gear, so he did, coming out of the pit garage at Silverstone, getting into the car, and refusing to put a microphone on. The reason for this became clear shortly afterwards, since he also refused to speak.

But then many years later, while making a show called Speed, we contacted Schumacher to ask for written permission to show some of his so-called unsportsmanlike moves over the years, and he agreed. He had mellowed.

Sort of. Because I will never forget his final race in Brazil, and that extraordinary charge from last to fourth place. Can anyone think of any other driver out there now who would have the skill and the aggression, and the determination, to do that? I can’t.

Losing Michael from Formula One is not like losing your arm or leg. It’s like losing your torso. It’s like removing America from the world map and hoping that somehow Spain can fill the void.

It’s another reason why I feel sorry for Fernando. Not only was he largely ignored as he won his second championship, but he had to go home knowing that next year the best Formula One driver in the world will be sitting at home in Switzerland." (By Jeremy Clarkson)

Well, seems like we are not the only ones whose thoughts about Michael 'divine' Schumacher match!

Max Payne...

2007-06-03T05:58:00.000+05:30

Max Payne... the game!!

Almost se7en years since its relase, and this game still kicks ass!! And I finished it today! Finally :)

Well you may wonder what a loser I am!! :( but... thats the fact! back in 2002 or so when I first lay my greedy hands on this thriller, it was a unbelivable!! The trailer of the game that was on a CHIP CD was mind blowing! and the game was no less!!

Its one of the games that started a revolution, the trend of classy graphics and a sexy storyline to accompany it!
The story line, often narrated with a comic strip, which is painted, is very very deep! Whats more! the characters are nicely crafted! Theres some sarcasm in the dialogues, which puts a smile across your face, though you are tensed in the virtual world! "He was talking crap, trying to buy time for his expired sand dial" "I wasn't selling any..."

You may wonder why it took me so long to finish a game that I calim to be (and is) extremely good!
Well, when I first installed the game, it took 4 hours for installation. When I used to start a game, it would take 25 minutes to load. I still remember, many times, I used to have a snack by the time the game loaded. Mine was a P3 550 Mhz turbo charged bad ass computer which would put the Perum series to shame... and the best part is... it had SIXTY FOUR Mb of memory!!

The best innovation in the game was the "bullet-time" concept, I hope you have seen Matrix.

And the funda with my comp was that I did not need to explicitly enable it! It was ALWAYS on bullet time :) and the bullet time would get even more bullety when more than one opponent appeared on the screen!! With all this I did get to the 2/3rds of the game. But then gave up :( Immature that I was back in 2nd PUC, I did not totally appreciate the story line! When I decided to play the game again, on my new 3 Gigs monster, it was sweet nostalgia! and I realised what an awesome entertainer it is!! Very cleverly crafted!
After starting this game, I found the difference between a Beretta, Shot gun, Ingram etc., before this, they were all plain guns to me! :P I also recognised the links... between Valkyr and Norse mythology! (Age of Mythology, another game thats awesome!)

This is not 'yet another dumb ass shooting game'! its MAX PAYNE!

Well, if you still haven't played this game, GO FOR IT! Its better late than never! Though you may not be a game enthusiast, the story is mindblowingly complex, yet simple! :)

Hail Michael!

2007-06-02T18:32:00.001+05:30

I've always wondered... In every sport, there is one person, well, at least one, who makes life miserable for others! Need examples?

Roger 'god' Federer - Tennis
Sachin '10' dukar - Cricket
Zinedine 'head butt' Zidane - Fußball
Venkat 'kabal' Subramanian - Gaming @ SIT :)

What is it that makes them tick?
I think, they are born to be just that!
They are immensely talented AND gifted!
Normally I like to call myself an atheist. So, natürlich, I don't believe in god, so who gifts them is still a mystery!

Never the less... I'm here to tell you about one such great! He is my favourite...
The one and only... Michael 'divine' Schumacher!

He has an impeccable record that you will find through any search engine! And I don't see that being reached in quite some time. He was a virtuoso! Right from his debut for the Jordan team, which coincidentally, was our very own Narain Karthikeyan's debut team as well, he made an indelible mark!

I don't think he will ever be replaced.

And the worst thing is... people still believe Kimi Raikkonen will fit in his shoes! I DON'T THINK SO!
Let me prove my point...
This 'ice man' has a bad record in the recent past, al beit the solo win in Australia... The last win he had prior to that was in 2005! Two years back!
Most often his engine would blow off or his suspension would come out in the penultimate stages of the race...
Thats not bad luck! Its the way the icy fellow drives! He has been out qualified by Massa 4 outta 5 times! And in the first corner, he loses his place to atleast one of the McLarens!
He plainly SUCKS!

A small example... Last year, in Monaco, Michael halted his car in the Rascasse... That, I say was a brilliant move! to disable the opponents :) He was anyway penalised and started from the LAST place...
This time, Kimi, halted, at the Exact same corner! I was bewildered! The icy had clipped a corner so bad that he broke the suspension! as a result, he was on 16th place...
Now... from that place, on a 1 stop strategy, he could only manage a cheap 8th!

But Michael, he ended 5th! That was an epic race! And he showed, what racing is all about!

He is technically brilliant! Remember last year's Chinese F1? My bet is, he would have nailed Alonso, or any other, if his engine hadn't given way! And he was composed! He never blamed the team! He never has. He is a true teams man! I've heard his race engineer say that Michael cheers them up from his car! Who the hell can do wise cracks from a F1 cockpit, during a race!!

You see Kimi, after every race he blames the car... Something or the other is always not right for him! and that sucks! See how the Mclarens are cruising?! All because Kimi has left them for good!

Moral of the story - Michael is god... everybody else, everything else is mortal...

For everything else, there is

Succumb to Reality

upcoming posts....

2007-05-20T08:54:00.000+05:30

1) Hanuman Vs Superman
2) Why profanity is cool
3) Russel Peters

wait up :)

Spiderman

2007-05-20T07:17:00.001+05:30

Do you feel Spiderman is a super-hero? really??

Then you are a bigger loser than it is. Spiderman, I'll refer to Spiderman as 'it', as I dont think it is worth the dignity of even being referred to.

anyway... It is no close to being a superhero. It has no special abilities... if climbing walls and spinning webs are to be called super human abilities, its like me learning to swim and yapping about it.
Heard of Alain Robert from France? This dude can also climb buildings. And whats more? he is also called Spiderman. If I was him, I'd jump off the tallest building that I'd scale.
If it was a real superhero, then you wouldn't see others being called by the same name!! Have you ever heard of another Superman? another Wolverine? another Magneto? NO! why? because they are REAL SUPERHEROS... Offcourse you would have heard of another Hercules. Thats because he is not a superhero! Exactly! now you get the point!

my very first blog...

2007-05-19T18:28:00.000+05:30

the time has come! abandon all hopes, ye who beggint reading this...

well... i thought (and maybe still think) blogging is for jobless morons who have no better way to spend time than sit in a room, and blog... but, i thought, "let me try this", and... by any chance, dont even think i'm trying this cause i'm jobless! i have a kinda tight schedule... even on a sunday... and that doesn't consist of a mere paper with 'sleep' scribbled on it!! i wake up at 4:30 in the morning and turn on my comp to start limewire. then i go for swimming classes till 6-6:30. and then... well thats enough for now... so here is the fruit of my try...

but... let me warn you...

This blog, is about why everything i like or say or do is right... and, if you disagree, well, you are quite simply wrong, dick-heads... (punchline - courtesy maddox). So, pack your bags homer... and go home!

now... where do i start... with the term blog? why not... first... who the hell started this name? blog... blog... like some kinda freakin bubbles bubbling all the way like tomorrow is armageddon... blog... yuk... what kinda pathetic looser would have come up with this kinda shitty name?

i thought of checking out the meaning of that term in the merriam-webster online dictionary...
it says there is only one usage of the word 'blog' and this is it! what a wasted word! just one meaning!! even 'shit' has more meanings than this! literally!! it kinda gives the word an inferiority complex! blog! the next time i hear someone utter this wasted word... well, it only means you too are equally wasted...

i guess thats a nice start to a new blog... plus its kinda time that i go do something else... "constructive" and comeback and 'blog' later... every time i use that word i wanna puke...