Quote: The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to left.
I really wish that my brother play all his Heavy Metal and Rock Cd's on anything less than full volume on the 1500 watt speakers at home!
Friday, March 30, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Random rant
The days are more exciting. Got to watch a whole bunch of movies -'Music & Lyrics', 'Bride and Prejudice' & 'Flavors' both Indian English movies, 'Shall we dance', 'Coyote Ugly', 'The Pursuit of Happyness', this is a very good un-orthodox movie starring Will Smith .
More than that, the level of doing useful work has come up from 1% to 10%. That hopefully gives me the right to brag how busy I have become and serve as an excuse for staying out of blog world :-)
More than that, the level of doing useful work has come up from 1% to 10%. That hopefully gives me the right to brag how busy I have become and serve as an excuse for staying out of blog world :-)
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
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
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
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.
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).
The same song by Bryan Adams.( The original).
Sunday, February 11, 2007
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 :-))
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 :-))
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Rajiv Gandhi's Laptop
Rajiv Gandhi (9 th Prime Minister of India with his laptop).
P.S. This photo was shot by my friend during his visit to Delhi recently.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
A train tale
I love trains and I love train travel. I have stayed close to the railway tracks for most part of my life. My home, my college where I graduated, my present college, all are adjacent to the railway track, each one closer than the previous.
This is about a short trip to Kolkata, last month. I took a train to Howrah. Much of the journey was eventless except for an 11 or 12 year old ragamuffin ragpicker kid who entered the compartment at Bhubaneswar train station. His agility and keen observation immediately caught my attention. He went under the seats and in no time extracts 12 empty plastic water bottles. He realises that 12 bottles are too many for him to carry out, all in one strech. He reflects for a moment and then goes back hunting under the seats. Curious to see what he was upto this time, I strained my neck and in a few moments, he magically produces a plastic cover from beneath one of the seats! Cool- but he figures out that he can't fit 12 bottles in one plastic cover. Ah-bad luck I thought.
A minute later, I decided to check on the boy. Much to my surprise he had torn one side of the plastic cover into one single plastic sheet. He was busy uncorking the bottle's cap, putting the plastic in between and re-corking the cap. Soon, he was done with all 12 bottles, picks the plastic sheet to which all the 12 bottles are now attached, puts it on his shoulder and walks off.
That is something that I wouldn't have thought of in a million years. The mind of a child!
This is about a short trip to Kolkata, last month. I took a train to Howrah. Much of the journey was eventless except for an 11 or 12 year old ragamuffin ragpicker kid who entered the compartment at Bhubaneswar train station. His agility and keen observation immediately caught my attention. He went under the seats and in no time extracts 12 empty plastic water bottles. He realises that 12 bottles are too many for him to carry out, all in one strech. He reflects for a moment and then goes back hunting under the seats. Curious to see what he was upto this time, I strained my neck and in a few moments, he magically produces a plastic cover from beneath one of the seats! Cool- but he figures out that he can't fit 12 bottles in one plastic cover. Ah-bad luck I thought.
A minute later, I decided to check on the boy. Much to my surprise he had torn one side of the plastic cover into one single plastic sheet. He was busy uncorking the bottle's cap, putting the plastic in between and re-corking the cap. Soon, he was done with all 12 bottles, picks the plastic sheet to which all the 12 bottles are now attached, puts it on his shoulder and walks off.
That is something that I wouldn't have thought of in a million years. The mind of a child!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Food
I thought, my Hindi was the worst amongst all the Hindi speaking people in the world. But that's not quite true.
It was our undergrad days, it's afternoon and my friend decides to break the daily canteen food routine and goes out to the nearest Sardar restaurant. He didn't seem interested in looking up the menu. Anyway, finally the Sardar comes to get the order
Sardar: "Kya kayega?"
Friend: " Ullu ke Parathe".
Sardar(confused): "Kya?"
Friend: " Ullu ke Parathe, dena."
Sardar: " Aloo ke Parathe?"
Friend: " dena, dena".
Sardar smilingly goes off and gets him - Aloo ke Parathe.
It was our undergrad days, it's afternoon and my friend decides to break the daily canteen food routine and goes out to the nearest Sardar restaurant. He didn't seem interested in looking up the menu. Anyway, finally the Sardar comes to get the order
Sardar: "Kya kayega?"
Friend: " Ullu ke Parathe".
Sardar(confused): "Kya?"
Friend: " Ullu ke Parathe, dena."
Sardar: " Aloo ke Parathe?"
Friend: " dena, dena".
Sardar smilingly goes off and gets him - Aloo ke Parathe.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Life & Love
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-Samuel Butler
-Samuel Butler
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Dream Girl
Quite right, dream girl's cannot be for real. That's Sandra, a model-based, computer-generated image of a person. This image is created by Mihai Anghelescu and can be found here.
The second image is a 'Japanese Female Android' designed by Professor Ishiguro, story here.
I seem to like a computer generated 3-D image and an android. I must be crazy!
P.S This wikipedia entry is interesting.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
The Village
One of the most romantic movie scene I have come across. The violin in the background is simple but is intense amidst the movie.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
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