Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Euro English

More of those weird e-mail forwards :-)


The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Music & Lyrics

From the movie- 'Music & Lyrics'.

PoP! Goes My Heart



Way Back Into Love - Hugh & Drew



Don't Write Me Off




This last one is not from Music & Lyrics. It's from a new hindi movie. I like the way the beats come in and go off. Grab your best headset and play it aloud.

Sajnaji Wari Wari



The video has been trimmed both at the start and end. Full length song can be played from here

Saturday, February 17, 2007

How things work

Easy way: "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Not so easy way: "It looked absolutely impossible.But it so happens that you go on worrying away at a problem in science and it seems to get tired,and lies down and lets you catch it."-William Lawrence Bragg.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Happy Valentine's Day.

A beautiful Song- Youna Candlelight mix.


The same song by Bryan Adams.( The original).

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Birdie

Went to the zoo this week :-)

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Math Class

This is about my first math class where I'm presently studying. I have taken a coursework on discrete mathematics. A lady teacher was assigned to teach us. Since it is the first day, I jovially hopped off to university. I look up the notice board, find the class room and the course timing.

The discrete math class is to start at 11:20 A.M but at that time, the hall is occupied by the previous class and the teacher is still teaching. Another ten minutes pass, she is still on with her class. I decided to find out what's taking her so long. I go ahead and knock on the door.

Math Teacher: Yes?
Me: Could you please come out? I would like to have a word with you.

She comes out.

Math teacher: What do you want?
Me: Mam, the math class is at 11:20 A.M?

Math teacher: Sorry, but the time table was revised today, I had started the math
class at 10:30


me: Okay, thank you.


I wait outside till she finishes her class, she finally comes out and sees me waiting. I take out a piece of paper on which I had written my timetable and told her that my math class was colliding with some other class since she had revised the time table.

She thinks, it is my teaching time table!

So, she decides to take me to the course co-ordinator to sort out the time table,
another faculty in charge of time table's. However, the co-ordiantor was not at desk.


Math teacher: Do this, talk with co-ordinator and call me.

She first gives me her mobile number and then her home phone number :)


Some how, on that day I am unable to meet the course co-ordinaror. In the mean time she meets the Head of Department (HOD) and tells him that there is this other teacher(me) with which her class is colliding.


The HOD is totally at loss in identifying the other math teacher and finally tells her not to alter her time table.


The next day...I was in another class when the math teacher rings me up on my mobile phone. Since I am in class I am unable to attend it. Once the class was over, I returned the call.


Math Teacher: I called you but you didn't pick up.
Me: I was in class. ( She thought I was teaching the class. )

Math teacher: Sir, I met the HOD, my schedule cannot be revised.

I wondered why she was calling me 'Sir'. Certainly, I have not been knighted. At this point,I realize that she had mistaken me for a math teacher!

Me: Mam, I am not a staff but a student.

She doesn't say another word for the next 5 seconds and then she hangs up.


I call her two minutes later.


me: I am a student, I would like to join the course you are teaching.
Math teacher: Alright, you can join.


Later she told that she was in a hurry that she misunderstood me for a math teacher.


A student mistaking a student for a teacher, quite possible. A teacher mistaking a student for a teacher :-))