Fancy That

09.09.09, 09h 09m

2009-09-09T09:09:00.012+05:30

This one moment in a century.

Well, I almost lost this opportunity and thanks to my wife and her timely remainder to this event. It is time to tell something important, then it struck to me, well, the post itself is something... to be there in the moment that's very unique with my beloved and doing what I love to do.We, the animals, are pron to all such petty pleasures to make life interesting and keep going. Giving a positive perspective of the life itself. And making life a beautiful most event of all.

Also the date and time has something to say about the unanimity of the format. At this very moment we look at time the same way universally. Basically I don't believe in time being viewed in a different perspective. As a matter of fact there is nothing called time, like as to say, time is everything; both means the same. what do you say? :)

Panic Kills More Than Pandemic

2009-08-10T14:55:00.001+05:30

Swine Flu in Velacherry, Chennai, India. this being the place where I live, Velacherry is under spotlight after the maudlin demise of a 4 year old boy. Nearby schools have been declared holiday in the wake of the outbreak. People are almost in the brink of panic. We can see it in every other person we pass by. Most of them are either parents or hygiene freaks.

Every epidemic has a side effect, but for a pandemic it is going to be an outrage of panic people. The first thing to deal, in this link of situation is to setup access point for people to reach out for help both medical assistance or/and information. Not only the individual but the press and other representatives of any body. Panic kills more than a pandemic, now u Know. Let the wake-up call keep ringing till the Government gets the sense to hear it. They are whom we look out for help or are they the one to be helped. I don't know. God help those in need. Sigh!

Old Fashioned?!

2009-07-27T12:56:00.002+05:30

To some, being old fashioned is like becoming socially taboo. But it actually was a happening trend some time back, which was a kick ass thing to do and people followed it for a long time and we call it tradition. I would like to remind these people, who find it too antique to follow, that one fine day, the values they thought was cool will be old fashioned as time passes by. Time is a healer but it eats the glamour. What are they going to say then... I can't wait see their faces.

Good virtues has always it's values buddy!

Have a nice day!

Daydreaming ain't a Day Dream any more

2009-05-16T12:12:00.003+05:30

Neuroscientist and some intelligent community of people have found that Day dreamers are best problem solvers. If you are a daydreamer, Cheers! You can solve the non-solubles.

This is not wierd stuff, University of British Columbia have a bunch of discoverers saying this. Well they say just because the person day dream, it extends the visualization ability to see the problem in a bird eye view and provide a better solution.

Well I'm good at that... I'm so happy about this discovery.

Wait a minute will they not going to take back what they said, better they not!

Excercise Your Franchise... if given a chance.

2009-05-15T13:57:00.000+05:30

When I was in my schools, this line caught me at my civics class, "Exercise your franchise. Well thats for the responsible citizen and his constitutional rights. I doubt how many had the chance to execute it (either willingly or not) in the recent Election, as they say the 15TH LOK SABHA ELECTION. Does people know that it is the 15th or 75th election. It is the darkness that prevails, you can call it unawareness or corruption or whatever. But the election proved to be all-out feeding frenzy. The cash flow, favoritism, empowerment, election commission and the list keeps on elongating to our fascination.

Coming back to the "Un-given Chance", most of the people I knew didn't vote this time, or they were not given a chance to. Most of their names has been missed in the list of voters. I had the same problem too. Further investigating what could have happened, I found some interesting facts on list preparation. The people deployed for preparing the voters list where send in the hot sun, they were exhausted even before they start the door to door enlisting. Once they reach some residence (in Chennai), they find Tenants, where as the owners of the house might be enlisted. The Answer they get from the tenants are that they don't know about people around the place or about the owners'. This makes their job pretty messy. As a result they can't do any good and either mark them as not found or shifted. This in turn rendered as a big list of voters with no names in the list they have. It was shocking for most of the voters, not finding their names and return after a long wait in the queue under the hectic weather. That disappointment is worse than anything. This kind of victimization has not left the celebrities too. I heard Kamal Hasan was affected too.

I wondered this never happened to any politicians... or did anyone had, mmmm!

Moment Unclicked!

2009-05-11T13:23:00.003+05:30

Last evening I was all down and felt so lonely, may be I missed the scent of my wife. So to refresh my mind and to give a break to the headache, that I was have the day, I had a long shower and put on fresh, crisp dress and a bottle of plain water went up to the terrace. It took a little while for me to gel into the ambiance. The chirping birds became the background score for the beautiful evening. The gentle breeze that doesn't doze you off was lifting my falling hair on the forehead. I just want to stay still. Nothing in my mind though I was looking around, taking no notice of the details from what I was seeing. I took a sip of the bottled water, well it was good in taste, that stopped me from my vagabondish act. Wow that never tasted so good (its all up in the mind).

Now I was looking into the sky wondering what has made these all happen. Why doesn't the people looking for salvation in the awesome realm of vastity that exhibits the beauty of nature. Slowly I started to think of all the possibilities that mankind has left unnoticed of this goodness. As time pass by I wanted to sit somewhere and continue the gaze. After finding a good spot and made myself comfortable, I noticed there were some people on their terrace too mostly looking at me. Am I the last one to come here? I asked myself. I didn't notice them till then. There was one old lady sitting and watching the setting sun. She was drying her hair in the gentle breeze. And I was able to here the distant clamour of the kids playing on the terrace somewhere near. I said to myself "WOW!".

I called my wife. She talked to me like we were young lovers just found time to talk to each other in the midst of restricted parents. We were so much in love, then it came to her that the light filtering through the door screen was amazing and came out of the room (at her parent's place, she is there with my son for summer) she hurried me to go out to see the sky, unaware of the fact that I was out seeing the same. It was the glorious moment of sharing the same interest, THE BETTER PART.

It was time to go. With a heavy heart and undying love of the company (obviously heavy phone billing), we finished the call. During the call we were able to see the patterns that sparing clouds were making. At one point of time there was a symbol of arrow struck heart in the sky, and no other clouds in the sight. WHAT? come on! It was a savage attempt of the nature to make me think of my wife more that before. That lead to a sleep less night. I was wondering why didn't I take a snap of that cloud. May be I just want to leave it alone, or give them its own privacy like the talk we had. I felt that the moment would be pretty when left UNCLICKED. So was the love.

Chennai Sangamam

2009-02-07T13:26:00.002+05:30

One of its kind. We all had a chance to see the tradition relived all before our own eyes. This photo was taken from my point and shoot camera as the performer was running to finish the rally. I was so excited that I was there, unaware of the finale. Thanks to whatever factor that made me to be there.

Looking forward for next year, that I may take more photographs and make the tradition live online too.

WOW!

Nagesh: The Legend

2009-02-03T23:40:00.000+05:30

Making others happy is a boon to anyone in this whole world. It is not often we can see a human dedicate his life to make people happy and succeed. OUR NAGESH, a legend of Tamizh Cinema has completed his run in this world and took the eternal rest on January 31, 2009. His journey has made more than four generations to feel good, he was not only a comedian, but a great actor who knew his audience.

His variety in characterization and delivering the dialogs along with an impeccable body language were classic. At times it may look like he doesn't want anybody to reproduce his act, such was his dedicated performance.

His feats canopy all his personal life turmoils, and poised a great smile and ensured that the viewers had one too. We never knew how Tharumi looked like, but we know Nagesh. The monologues of a poverty struck poet: Tharumi in Thiruvilayaadal, Aspiring Movie Maker in Kathalikka Neramillai, a mourning Father in Nammavar. It seems he never knew how to stop acting and amuse people, he even portrayed as a corp with a smiling face the entire movie. At his age that was a mammoth task, yet he did it, such is his legend.

After witnessing all these accomplishments, how can we mourn his absence. The most comprehensive thing to do is to Celebrate the life of Mr. Nagesh, for he lived his life to make us smile and be happy...

Inhibition of new species on Earth

2009-02-03T22:49:00.000+05:30

This Monday an announcement stated by some environmental enthusiastic Scientists, that they have appended 10 more new species of amphibians. The excitement has extended to reveal another set of discovery that enlists a range of birds totally exotic and some reptiles.

Image courtesy: CNN - Read more

Looks like we are still cooking the evolution cauldron, where we still get new neighbours. Or are we not aware of them all along? Need to think on that!

First Indian To (would be) get an Oscar - A R Rehman

2009-01-23T12:10:00.000+05:30

It is not that he is talented but gifted. His love for music (with no condition as any genre) has a vast but vivid meaning. His compositions might have been a little naive to those who love some elderly musicians like Ilayaraja. He never bothered them and made his mark as the one who can break the path and make a new one.

The title of this blog is not just because of that I admire AR Rahmans work but also because I'm watching Oscars since 80's. All the time when some score gets nominated and packs an award, it would have a flavour thats so familiar for the westerners. Last year The award was given to the sound track for a critically acclaimed movie "Once". The song was so simple and emotional. It was that simple you can just hum to someone and the other would recognise it. The same year "Enchanted", a modern day fairy tale, was nominated for its three songs. Guess what... the contemporary got its share of success.

In that regards, I am damn sure Rahman will bag the Oscars. His work on the background score is also so exceptional, it made the movie. I wish he wins the both and for sure he will get them. And thats not going to surprise me.

All the best Rahman.

The Ghosts we see, holloween special.

2008-10-30T10:17:00.000+05:30

Does Ghost exist? Are they trying to contact us? Are the mediums freak? Well I'm not going to utter a single word to answer those kinda questions. But I would definitely step forward to explain or understand the phenomena. I believe its all in our cranial box.

So let me start with what all concepts are being around this "Ghost" idea. EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) one of the famous entity when it comes to ghost reading, feeling cold (what?) ghost hunters have

something called 'cold spot', apparitions, voices, odor, hallucinations and the list goes like China Wall. Placing these phenomena and analyzing, we constantly missing something that we have to watch. Like its been said we need two hands to clap. So we have one hand, those that I've just tried to list, the other hand is obviously our BRAIN.

The Brain is the most complex body we have ever encountered. Its main functionality is to understand, recognize, calculate, decide, act or react, and repeat all the above. It plays the crucial part in the entire drama. So lets take the phenomenon of odor, we bring an object, say a Rose flower, and take a deep breath, the scent locks itself to the receptors located in our nose and sends signals to the brain. These signals are bio potential (here comes our Hero) our body produce, in simple words electricity our body generates. Bio potential signals are interpreted in one part of the brain and recognized in the another part, and make us to respond, like, making us to say it as a Rose.

A series of bio potential exchange happens in the brain the whole while. When exposed to an EMF for a considerably long time, there is a possibility that our brain kick start a smell process without the initial sniffing of the flower. And the other part of the brain recognizing it as the scent of rose, and the "Fright, flight and fight" area of the brain would alarm an abnormality. The scent of Rose without the rose. And misinterpret as spooky!

Well that was a long story short. It is said Ghost cause an EMF at their presence, may be! But it can also be the other way, a strong EMF causing our brain to see, smell, hear that is not existing. Another explanation to ghosts.

Later in my posts I would talk about how our feeling could reach others... that's another spooky stuff. You can comment or correct to what ever I have said above... You are welcome.

Understanding Our Loved Ones...

2008-10-29T14:41:00.001+05:30

Being together has brought the world to where it is now, the same sense that drove all the odd and kept us going and still keeping us in pace. LOVE. Loving someone is also one of the driving force to thrive life on the planet, the tingling surge is its energy. When all is done and the one we love, loves us likewise, then heaven has its meaning explained on earth.

The unseen love between the animals and insects, which we can't understand, coexists our romance. But what keeps our relationship going is the constant and undivided attention, unconditional love, and prolonged synchronization of understanding.

There are simple ways to acquire this, like having a soul talk (nothing dirty!), loving them until you know them completely and making them know how much you love them. Even if the argument is right in your side be patient to bring them to spot light. Being considerate and agile to the needs, not necessarily compassionate but respect the feelings. Hurting yourself to make your better part feel good will never do any good for a long run. So be cautious to decide and act. A reassuring touch can replace thousand words of console. Never ever leave them feel alone. And so many more... the problem is, it is tough to follow. It is always good you express your better part your effort to bring all these into your life, even you are failing at times. Admittance is another catalyst.

Learning to love the person is not a task but an art, after all love is the best gift you give yourself.

World Handwash Day, first time in history.

2008-10-15T16:17:00.000+05:30

UN has declared to commemorate its first World Handwash day. Following the declaration of the year 2008 as year of sanitation, October 15th has been declared WORLD HANDWASH DAY.

Message is, wash your hands for God sake people!

Jenga; For manual dexterity.

2008-10-15T15:18:00.003+05:30

Well here comes another toy to our home, The jenga blocks. This was in my list for a very long time. At last we got it last week. Since then it is a war between people at home to participate to build (actually to destroy) the tower and challenge the opponent to exhibit their manual dexterity.

This image shown here is one such tower we (me and my wife) created and we couldn't go any further as we felt that's the maximum it can hold. The structure was about to fall so I took the chance to get a image of it.

In the meanwhile, my son was so anxious to pull some block for his part and succeeded in doing that, leading to his victory dance which in turn brought down the tower.

But this didn't end his curiosity, instead of building a tower he started to build objects of his own choice. The image shown below was done in minutes, he was enjoying building them.

Anyway if it feeds kids' creative thirst, then any toy is a success story. I believe this is a good one you can get for your family too.

August 8, 2008 - or 08/08/08

2008-08-09T09:52:00.000+05:30

Well this is something that everybody wanted to do something. We came to know news of newborns and special events that mark this one day in our calender an important one, as such a combination of day will not come in eighty years, now. Then comes the Olympics. What an extravaganza

Primates Plan Like People!

2008-06-18T08:44:00.000+05:30

For most of us, primates are mere monkeys to our eyes. The truth is we might look as one to their eyes, may be.

Through the time, enthusiasts have made studies that has moved us so hard that we find it difficult to believe the fact that Chimps do that thinking and has a great cognition. Once I saw a documentary in National Geography Channel, it was about the Chimps and its way of life in the wild. One among the amazing facts was that they organize crime. WHAT?! Organize Crime!... Yeah Buddy! They have it like us... The Instinct. Phew!

Now Studies have a proven theory that they also plan for their future! (give me a break!). The Lund University Cognitive Science had this study undertaken. Previously many studies (by others) have a theory that Chimps use tools. Well that is some kind of sign that they can plan. But the latest studies is mind blowing, how can they plan for their future? I still wonder, what could have been their plans. Unlike human counterparts they might not have plans for their next SUVs and grand mansion, don't tell me!

What so ever, it is clear that there are things in existence that we refuse to believe and can make us feel worthless of ourselves. Some facts - Chimps have almost 96% same human genes, HIV originated with monkeys - not Chimps, they are team players, selfless helpers and what not.

Lets go scratch ourselves!

Friday the 13th

2008-06-13T08:35:00.000+05:30

paraskevidekatriaphobia as its been termed, the fear of Friday the 13th has nothing to do with anything. It is a creepy feeling that something might happen very unlucky and displeasing on this particular day, I bet, it can't be as bad as every other day. cuz, it is a famous day to get frightened off, that makes it special. Freaky stuffs happen to people on any other day, it doesn't bother what day it is, if it wants to smack you, then you get it with a right stroke buddy! PERFECTION is its middle name. So Chill!

Once in my boyhood days I encountered a cyclone, that hit our town. As for as we know for generations we didn't have any cyclones, may be heavy rains. I took my bicycle and rushed to the sea shore to see how it passes the shore (was curious to see the thing that we often hear in the weather reports..). The sea shore is some 700 meters from my house at Tuticorin. The fast wind pushed me back, that was very intense. After reaching the shore I can feel the sharp pain on my face caused by the raindrops. Then I realized that day was a Friday,13th of1993.

Today, by 2:30am, we had a heavy electrical siege at my office. Resulting, a large scale of damage to electrical and electronic instruments, that includes laptops adapters, monitors, Servers and some vital office infrastructures. Now, do I have to fear Friday the 13th or it is just a coincidence? I don't know!

Keeping aside the "numro 13 mania", the folklores, all the superstitions and the coincidence, I guess its weekend and its time to rejoice.

World Environment Day

2008-06-05T13:52:00.001+05:30

As we observe this day as World Environment Day, it will be a nice think to do as to talk about the planet we call as home.

Have you seen clouds, I mean stared to look deep into it. I always love to watch them, move and always love see the bright bulky cloud thats behind another dark one at the foreground. They always display the beauty of an exotic fairy wandering in a Fantasy Island or something... wo! too much imagination eh! These clouds are so unique that they are available only in the World in this entire galaxy (of course, as far as we know!). Its for us, only for us. We should be so lucky to have them. accompanying it are the trees, snow cap mountains, glaciers, sea, desert. I should stop piling this as everything is so perfect to be in this world for us.

As an ending note I would like to point a website that talked about the shrinking glaciers in Norway, the fading beauty. It is just the tip of an Iceberg, I meant the issue.

Save our home save our Earth.

End of a great Odyssey! a Tribute to sir Arthur C Clarke.

2008-03-19T13:50:00.000+05:30

One of the finest human achiever. He has poised himself as a great Author, an Inventor and most amazingly a futurist. His 2001: A Space Odyssey was an exceptional work that blew our minds. His rendition of the fact that the 'man's tools helped him evolve and at the end his tools control him', was kind of a jaw-dropper. His contribution to the scientific community has been inevitable.

I never had a chance to see him in his life time, yet my friend, Petchiappan did, which was almost like me seeing him. Petchiappan and me share similar interests when it comes to all those stuffs Clarke deals. He met Mr. Clarke at his Colombo residence. As he recalls the historic meeting, he described the place was painted SCIENCE, wallpapers depicting the distance to the moon from his staircase, Posters of "THE STAR CHILD" form space odyssey and a forest of books. The snaps he took with him and couple of others stuffs there will cherish the memory of The Great Soul.

I was personally overwhelmed with Clarke's association with Stanley Kubrick. This dynamic duo rendered the words into celluloid and made a revolution in the movie media too. Though I have not read the book I have seen and amazed, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Discovery Channel once aired a program which was hosted and concieved by Mr. Clarke was always a topic my friends took to discuss (actually amaze!) most of the times.

To conclude, not in a sad note, yet I would say, 'A great soul has taken off for its real Odyssey!

Goodbye Mr. Clarke

Fuel Price Hike, what's the alternative?

2008-02-16T02:03:00.000+05:30

The natural resources of our precious planet is running out. It is us to blame and we face the consequence may it be global warming or fuel price hike. As its been said 'necessity is the mother of invention", we now go for the next possible solution. Technology is a bit catalytic towards the evolution of man in a way. Our quest for a solution is always aided by the power of technology.

Nanotechnology is one among the astonishing accomplishment in the face of technology. Now alternative energy (I don't know whether I use this term or not) gets 'nanofied'. Researchers have come up with a 'Power Shirt', capable of generating small amount of electricity that can fuel small devices that's carried by soldiers, hikers or for people constantly in motion. Devices like GPS navigators.

(courtesy: science daily. Images shows the magnified view of a zinc oxide nanowire cluster connected to a nanogenerator)

Not only nanotechnology, but bio-mechanical stuffs are also contributing for its share. The image shown beside is a electric generator capable of powering an iPod or a GPS for a walker who wears this knee brace.

Whatsoever new technology may come up with new solutions, it us to use it wisely and conserve the precious energy we poses.

Think about it.

Tutorials curtain raiser..

2008-02-16T00:26:00.000+05:30

This has been in my mind for a long time now. Most of the knowledge I acquired was all from internet and from some good hearted people. These people are my inspiration to start telling and sharing what I know. I remember, when I was doing my 7th, there was a good 'thought of the day' written on the school-news-board. It said,"Knowledge shared is sought. I strongly believe in that, ever since.

So what will I be talking about? well anything I know about graphic stuff. May it be Photoshop, Flash, HTML, Java Script, Ajax, Web 2.0 concept, Dreamweaver and what not. All of them classified into Entry level, Intermediate and Advance level.

You can find them in my technical blog.

So c u folks, wish me luck.

Photoshop New Logo

2007-09-24T11:16:00.000+05:30

Like all old guys going after a new face lift to show themselves young and exhibit their presence, Adobe has step forward to give it a shot. The first and for most is the logo, Boy! it looks 'mmm... ok' kind for me. Altough it resembled some other logo, it's tag line 'see what's possible' is something that I have experienced with Adobe Products.

For a visual design aiding giant like Adobe could have got more than what they have proposed now. Anyway lets see what it may come in time, as its an ever changing world changes are always inevitable and acceptable as time goes by... you can share your idea.

Web 2.0

2007-09-06T09:33:00.000+05:30

This buzz word has now transformed itself into a 'non-jargon' word. Every netizen is aware of it.
It is a happening thing, yet I wonder, what if this really exist even before it is. When it comes to the internet experience, WEB 2.0 rocks. Now every web page wants web 2.0 feel. Usability, Interactivity, RSS feed has become a layman term, Google maps is the most used navigation system, 'read in papers this morning' has gone long ago, 'I checked today's podcast' is happening, Socializing through internet, all these being the aspect of Web 2.0 (especially the last one), it is all about the experience we have .

Lots and lots of good stuffs are coming through in my further posts. Some good WEB 2.0 sites:

http://www.zoho.com

facebook.com

digg.com

On my forthcoming posts I will be writing tutorials on web 2.0 based designing and development.

Video Games

2007-07-19T16:07:00.002+05:30

I got my first video game when I was doing my 9th at school. It was attachable to the Television. I was a little good at that but soon it was broken, it became the victim of my anxiety and my involvement in the game. But now Games have gone to places that were remotely possible to imagine in those days. Often it is not advised to play a lot of them, especially kids. My son plays (now and then) in my computer, I don't have much games though. It is important for us to limit the playing time and parental discretion is needed when it comes to the content of the game.

There are lots of good games that utilizes the ability of our reasoning and decision making to precision perfect. But most of them out there are brutal both visually and lingually. The choice is always with us.

A Foolhardy Jaunt

2007-07-19T11:14:00.000+05:30

It may be a common sight for frequent commuters to see people, mainly college boys, climbing atop the bus and have a joy ride. But for most of us, it is too frightening. The astonishing part is that nobody can question them or held them against doing it. The driver and the conductor of the bus are mum to the puckish mob and let them face the consequences. The bus is one among the couple of buses that had such a "PAYLOAD" (they can never be called as a passenger!). Yesterday(17th July) afternoon, I managed to take a snap of one of the bus (location: Saidapet Bus Terminus, Mount Road, Chennai. ), incidentally the day was traffic intense, it was 1 p.m. and too hot . I wonder how these guys can do such a foolhardy act on a day like this!.... God knows!

(click on the image to see the enlarge version...)

I'm back....

2007-07-17T10:19:00.002+05:30

I was staying back for a while to just give some time to heal my knees, which got hurt when I was playing football. Damn goodness, it was a narrow escape.

Now I'm ok, I'm healing fast....

Lets rock.

Microbes To Produce Hydrocarbon...

2007-06-07T14:51:00.003+05:30

The days are not far away, when we use genetically engineered fuel. Bacterias that are genetically modified to store energy in them can be used to generate Hydrocarbons that can one day substitute the fossil fuel that we are using now. Read more here...

It is also feared that the genetically engineered bacteria must not interfere the food chain or something to cause any catastrophe.

Overcast, an outcast of Summer...

2007-06-07T14:11:00.002+05:30

Believe it or not it was raining last night and drizzly-mizzly in the morning on the way to office. In the scorching heat that Chennai has in its summer (even post summer!), we look for a rain or something to cool. Man the fairy listened to us and granted a wish.

But with the joy it brought a little fright to me, as I'm forecasting the rain that's going to rock Chennai this year. Definitely it is going be cats and dogs. Hope we have proper planing for all the flood its going to cause.

Scary!

Are we movie freaks? No!...

2007-06-07T11:09:00.000+05:30

After are very long time, we went to Movies. It was kind of a nostalgic for us though, as we always wanted to spend time alone and sans being disturbed. So I secretly booked tickets for "Pirates of Caribbeans: End of worlds" and daringly to the next movie "Shrek the third" too, on the same day. I was lucky enough to get tickets for both the movies without clash in the show timings. And the Saturday (June 02), was quiet memorable. She was thrilled to go to the movie, with me. For some time we forgot we are married and got a kid. We were roaming around the CITY CENTER complex and was playfully mischief, that she almost dragged me from many spots. We were seeing our own Old Days before our eyes. The first movie started by 9:15am and the second at 1:15pm, comfortably, between movies we had an hour's time, which we used for dining. Man the lobby was so good, with a sea view, it was a little romantic. We enjoyed the Lunch, though we were already stuffed by the snacks we had before.

The Inox experience was also a notably good one. All together we felt that spending time together, is painfully a bit costly, which we realized only by the time we paid our parking ticket. Snacks Rs.350, Movie Rs. 480, Parking Rs. 35. Boy! what an expenditure, even then it is not that much, when compared to the time we had together. Like it's said, PRICELESS.

Olympic Logo!?... give me a break...

2007-06-06T10:19:00.001+05:30

All the time when I see a new Olympic logo. It has been surprising and it made us wonder what they have tried to convey. Most of the time it would be about unity, Grace, or Glory kind of stuff. The designs have always been a trend setting component. You can see lots and lots of merchandise floating with the logo embedded, regardless of the user's interest in sports. The core reason is that it looks good and meaning full. There will definitely be the five ring thing, in it. May some cursiveness accompany, but LONDON 2012 Olympics too has given a surprise with the logo. This time it is a negative surprise. Just check the logo out...

What does comes to your mind, when you see the logo? What the crap? Wha... what the hell are trying to say? The funny part is that it comes with all corouls, you hace a choice to pick your favourite one, if you like in the first place. It must have eaten a lot of money and time to come to this design. I just need to know them, so that they can spend some on me and make feel angelic. God! I can't they did this to something like Olympic. They must have great guts to accept this. Anything is design, though. But you need some grace and elegance and message with respect to the unified spirit of sports and the movement itself. I don't know how people on Earth got this accepted.

If you want to give your piece of mind, well the "Annotate" section always welcomes you.

Helmet For Bike Riders...

2007-05-28T17:12:00.000+05:30

The Government of Tamil Nadu, India, has announced that it is mandatory to wear a helmet by all motorbike riders. It also added that the pillion travelers are also required to wear one. The deadline is 01 of June, 2007.

But this one took the issue too seriously. She has worn a helmet, but forgot how to wear it.

(Image courtesy funtoosh.com)

I don't see much of the riders are taking it seriously. One of my colleague has met an accident couple of days back and got hit in his head leading to internal bleeding. Luckily he was out of danger and fine now. But the point is that other than head he had very minor injuries. This is not one incident but most of the time it keeps proving, that it is essential to wear one.

Say, that came a long way..

2007-05-28T11:40:00.000+05:30

Have you ever wondered how some "Say" might have born or came into usage. Right from my childhood I had this fascination of how things started to exist. Here are some say that I read somewhere and I would like to share them.

It's Raining Cats and Dogs: In the those days, say 14th century or somewhere then, the houses had thick straw piled roofs. These thatched roofs where harbouring all the house pets like hens, dogs, cats and whichever finds a way to climb atop. It was warmer there. But in days of heavy rain they sometime slip and fall down off the roof, and hence came the say "it's raining cats and dogs". (Image courtesy http://www.vitalnetworks.com)

The well-off, in those days, had slate floors and were slippery in the cold season, especially in winter. So they spread thresh (straw) to keep their footing. As the season wore on they keep adding more thresh, until it slips outside when doors are opened. To stop them oozing out there were wooden block placed to hold them, they are known as "thresh hold". Yeah you got it....

In those days most of the marriages were held in the month of May, as people used to take their yearly bath by April and they smelled pretty good that invoked them to get attracted (!?!) and married. Once they started to smell by the time of wedding, the bride carried her bouquet to conceal the odour. But the custom of carrying a bouquet is continuing, but the bath stuff I don't know...

England, when ran out of space to bury its dead people, Way back couple of centuries. They used to dig the existing graves and found scratch marks in the coffins, when reopened. It was believed, there were 1 out of every 25 such incidents. Realizing that the buried might have been alive and tried to escape from the death trap and fell prey to the fate, they came up with some new ideas. So they tied a string to the corpse and let it come through the ground and the other end was tied to a bell (if you have seen the movie "The Great Train Robbery", Donald Sutherland will be placed inside such a coffin, which had a provision to ring a bell from inside, to sneak into the secured part of the train, for obvious reasons). There will be someone waiting out side to watch for the bell to ring and they stayed all through the night, taking turns in the "graveyard shift" so that someone could be "saved by the bell". There was a custom of "wake" held in Irish families, and they don't mourn till they get conformed that the body has no more life in it, after couple of days wait. Most of the time these guys used to drink a cocktail of ale and whiskey, which knocks them for days and this made the others to think of the person is a dead one already. STRANGE!

Though these above information may have an alleged nature by itself, they are interesting to know... ain't they?

Thanks to Matt Simpson for sharing the info. If you've got any comments or know any cause to some say just annotate them too.

Jackie Chan

2007-05-23T15:15:00.000+05:30

I admire Jackie Chan right from my childhood. He is awesome when it comes to humanly tedious stunts and humor. His Movies have never failed to make us laugh. But behind the screen he has gone through a lot of pain and strain to become what he is now. This is a tribute to the incomparable artist and the human limits that a human can posses. I remember my friend Petchiappan has a video tape of Jackie's "The young Master", which he used to see a lot of times and tries to imitate the postures Jackie did. It is just one sample of Jackie's influence on Kids and all his audience. He never fails to keep his reputation too. He has hardly done his schoolings, but effort has raised him. He cannot utter English for a small moment of time, yet he has made his stamp in Hollywood. He has got his star in the Walk Of Fame. Starting as a stunt man, in his career, friends like Samo Hung, has given him a great hand of friendship and profession.

An Inconvenient Truth - By Al Gore.

2007-05-22T12:45:00.000+05:30

Couple of weeks back I happened to see Mr. Al Gore's presentation, "An Inconvenient Truth", talking about human caused global warming and a possible remedy. The entire presentation was a clean portrayal of what we have done to our home planet. His thesis claims the retreat of anormous glaciers dating back for 1850 till date, it was really creepy. The most heart wrenching truth was that the reports of the drowning polar bears. They were found dead because of drowning after a long struggle of swimming and getting tired. The melting ice has become helpless themselves to help these magnificent creatures.

I also heard the Associate Press has contacted some 100 or so climate scientist to get the nod, for this thesis has some real science in it. Only after which the documentary was released. You would end up with awe, after knowing that we have also contributed for our share.

Though we talk a lot about global warming and can feel its effect, we take no measures to minimize the effect of anything to help the situation. The Documentary's success is that it doesn't talk only about the impact but shed some usefull suggestions to follow (which we can only dream off..) and the outcome would be a great resolve.

Excellent statistical references.

Well it is a must see documentary.

Quest for an Author

2007-05-21T10:58:00.001+05:30

I have always been wanting for a writer in the family. Even if there were people who loved literature a lot, nobody was stepping forward to become a writer. All the goodness of literature has no dawn in my family, we just gaze the awesomeness of these great constellations of literature.Interests about reading and knowing about things around has always been with us. At times I have tried to become one and found it would be the greatest comedy of the century, such a clumsy writer, I am.

But still I was about ask my wife to write, but she is busy with the house and her new job. I might try with my brothers and sisters and cousins. Someone might get in the net. Lets see

Quest continues...

Freezing moments of Freezing A Moment!

2007-05-21T10:50:00.000+05:30

Photography is always a fantasy for me. I was so keen on those marvels and found some kick in watching someone's excitement on seeing my work. It all started when I took a snap of my grandmother. The combination of bright evening sun and the dark overcast translated a high contrast lighting and professional looking photo. Everybody loved it, that was my first work on photography. It was so good for a 9 year old. I used a Polaroid camera. Though the technology I used might have done some magic, it really turned out to be a great stuff. There it started and now, my son is capturing good snaps out of good P.O.V. and difficult angles. He uses a digital camera. The above image is one of his work.

Now the point is, those moments I was freezing, once I was a kid, is really nothing compared to what my son is doing. Now thats what I call A FREEZING MOMENT OF FREEZING A MOMENT, when I was his work.

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Lost but Found!

2007-05-19T17:33:00.000+05:30

Good God, I almost forgot this blog URL. Fortunately I got it now. I hope, I would blog now and then. I'm having a ton of things to share with. OK I'll paste them one by one. Thanks to Durai as he helped me in some of this blog stuffs.

Ok See you all...

My ever first Blog...

2006-07-11T11:55:00.000+05:30

I was wondering what if I had a blog too. Though it is a piece of cake to acquire a blog site, I felt a great deal in producing a literary work that goes online. With that deep breath I'm plunging myself into this ocean of information highway. Hope I shall meet large school of bloggers on my way.

Hai to all.