Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Guess the legendary legend...
*chocolate to be bought by answerer for self
PS: mildly inaccurate representation, but the effort counts doesn't it! Picture smudged due to bad storage......
Sunday, August 8, 2010
the (sorry)state of affairs....
just like life and peace,
death and danger are always around,
but what affects me is
the rate at which they now abound.
the world has seen a lot,
so have its members,
but damage in the new millennium,
insolently defies numbers.
lets dwell on the new decade, with
hope anew and optimism of a new age
but what it also ushered are
human loss and nature's rage.
though we will always grow
with belief in human ability,
once a while we look helpless
against powers that expose its futility.
earth shaking with almighty fury
left an already poor people bare,
so did the aircraft and railroad accidents,
even the angry floods didn't spare.
we spilt oil all over
with seriously negligent fare,
factor in dubious wars and terror
to give yourself a real scare.
a timely anniversary of a nuclear disaster
shows man's excellence at a dangerous art,
why? our mother herself is in strife
unrest at the head and insurgency at heart.
So i wonder if all this is
a signal to humanity, a source,
to realise the outcomes of selfishness,
of the existence of a greater force.
but hard though it may seem
if we relegate our bitterness
and as an earth's inhabitants,
strive to protect its liveliness,
we can prosper gay and guilt-free.
and though an end will still come your way
you'll have strode a noble path
doing the right thing come what may.
death and danger are always around,
but what affects me is
the rate at which they now abound.
the world has seen a lot,
so have its members,
but damage in the new millennium,
insolently defies numbers.
lets dwell on the new decade, with
hope anew and optimism of a new age
but what it also ushered are
human loss and nature's rage.
though we will always grow
with belief in human ability,
once a while we look helpless
against powers that expose its futility.
earth shaking with almighty fury
left an already poor people bare,
so did the aircraft and railroad accidents,
even the angry floods didn't spare.
we spilt oil all over
with seriously negligent fare,
factor in dubious wars and terror
to give yourself a real scare.
a timely anniversary of a nuclear disaster
shows man's excellence at a dangerous art,
why? our mother herself is in strife
unrest at the head and insurgency at heart.
So i wonder if all this is
a signal to humanity, a source,
to realise the outcomes of selfishness,
of the existence of a greater force.
but hard though it may seem
if we relegate our bitterness
and as an earth's inhabitants,
strive to protect its liveliness,
we can prosper gay and guilt-free.
and though an end will still come your way
you'll have strode a noble path
doing the right thing come what may.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
For those smiles, a thousand times over....
supposed to be my dad and sis....but somewhat close....original pic by mom....
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
Its "Common Wealth" and "Soap Cricket"!
Two passers-by along a road in Delhi were eating peanuts and discussing mundane stuff. They come across a construction.
So one guy asks, “Whats that? That place’s been frantic for months now and seems like it'll be a long time”
The other replies, “Oh you don’t know?! That’s one of the stadiums for the Common Wealth Games.”
“But that’s in two months!” the first guy says, his peanut missing its intended target and hitting his nose.
“I know. We are under-prepared. We can only hope for the best. And hope the administration is doing much more than just hoping!” he responds, laughing heartily at his own profound sarcasm.
Elsewhere, a minister opens a new stadium for the Games. And sloppily, the stadium was leaking due to multifarious reasons not understandable to common folk. The minister notices this and says to his company, “Oh, it seems there is a provision for continuous supply of rain and groundwater”, obviously missing the point. He was then silently taken aside and explained that they were having some plumber issues.
He later declared to the media, “This is one of the world class state-of-the-art facilities being built for the Games” covering his nose to avoid the stench of leaking drainage.
The Games committee was also reported considering applying for Guinness Book for most number of stadiums constructed in the shortest time, provided they stand without collapsing for the duration of the games. An episode of Extreme Engineering is also being planned as per rumours.
As of now their hands are full with the on-going corruption allegations regarding the funds for the Games. The administration seems to have taken the meaning "common wealth" too literally.
Late in the evening yesterday an anonymous official was seen at a pub, and under the sublime effects of booze talked freely to the public around.
“.....you guys(the public) are really gullible. This is just the tip of the iceberg. After this, we will apply for Olympics. Just imagine the money we’ll earn then!” he told, mocking at them with his hands at his ears and his tongue lolling.
But he did not realise others were drunk too and as per eye-witnesses, he escaped with his clothes barely on.
In unrelated news, a PIL was filed for banning broadcast of soap cricket. It was argued that so-called “daily soap” cricket matches of India-Sri Lanka were having an adverse effect on public. It observed that a new phobia of cricket between India and Sri Lanka called “Indolankophobia” was being detected by doctors. Symptoms ranged from falling unconscious to tendency to jump from rooftops on being told another match was scheduled.
The recent test match did not help matters with 50% of patients additionally wanting to tear their clothes and pull their hair off. Doctors recommended seeing matches between England and Pakistan, especially those with IndoLankophobia.
Also, the recently concluded test between England and Pakistan offered newspapers juicy stuff. It will be fun to see who comes first with the clichéd headline “Pak of cards!”. Some observers told that Kamran Akmal was trying to catch with the back of his hands and that it was great he did what he did, forget what he dropped.
And till further rumours come forth, be well.
So one guy asks, “Whats that? That place’s been frantic for months now and seems like it'll be a long time”
The other replies, “Oh you don’t know?! That’s one of the stadiums for the Common Wealth Games.”
“But that’s in two months!” the first guy says, his peanut missing its intended target and hitting his nose.
“I know. We are under-prepared. We can only hope for the best. And hope the administration is doing much more than just hoping!” he responds, laughing heartily at his own profound sarcasm.
Elsewhere, a minister opens a new stadium for the Games. And sloppily, the stadium was leaking due to multifarious reasons not understandable to common folk. The minister notices this and says to his company, “Oh, it seems there is a provision for continuous supply of rain and groundwater”, obviously missing the point. He was then silently taken aside and explained that they were having some plumber issues.
He later declared to the media, “This is one of the world class state-of-the-art facilities being built for the Games” covering his nose to avoid the stench of leaking drainage.
The Games committee was also reported considering applying for Guinness Book for most number of stadiums constructed in the shortest time, provided they stand without collapsing for the duration of the games. An episode of Extreme Engineering is also being planned as per rumours.
As of now their hands are full with the on-going corruption allegations regarding the funds for the Games. The administration seems to have taken the meaning "common wealth" too literally.
Late in the evening yesterday an anonymous official was seen at a pub, and under the sublime effects of booze talked freely to the public around.
“.....you guys(the public) are really gullible. This is just the tip of the iceberg. After this, we will apply for Olympics. Just imagine the money we’ll earn then!” he told, mocking at them with his hands at his ears and his tongue lolling.
But he did not realise others were drunk too and as per eye-witnesses, he escaped with his clothes barely on.
In unrelated news, a PIL was filed for banning broadcast of soap cricket. It was argued that so-called “daily soap” cricket matches of India-Sri Lanka were having an adverse effect on public. It observed that a new phobia of cricket between India and Sri Lanka called “Indolankophobia” was being detected by doctors. Symptoms ranged from falling unconscious to tendency to jump from rooftops on being told another match was scheduled.
The recent test match did not help matters with 50% of patients additionally wanting to tear their clothes and pull their hair off. Doctors recommended seeing matches between England and Pakistan, especially those with IndoLankophobia.
Also, the recently concluded test between England and Pakistan offered newspapers juicy stuff. It will be fun to see who comes first with the clichéd headline “Pak of cards!”. Some observers told that Kamran Akmal was trying to catch with the back of his hands and that it was great he did what he did, forget what he dropped.
And till further rumours come forth, be well.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A Beautiful Mind, Part 2
This is about probably the breakthrough of this decade!
Just when you give up saying that, in all probability you cannot motivate yourself to blog again, something like this happens. A queer yet profound thing called Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. Our definition of a reclusive genius.
I assumed after what happened, people would be lapping up news about our dear Grigori. Actually, not as many are. So, he is a Russian mathematician and what has he done? Oh nothing much, just solved one over-a-century-old problem in mathematics. He proved the Poincaré conjecture, posed in 1904 by Henry Poincaré (another insane polymath) and regarded as one of the most important and difficult open problems in mathematics. The problem concerns the nature of three-dimensional space of finite extent and has eluded the best in business.
This is one of the seven million dollar Millennium Prize Problems posed by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. No, literally, anyone who solves it will get a million dollars, no less. Even you and me. These seven were selected from numerous questions posed by great mathematicians. Some of them are centuries old. This was the first one to be solved! The problems, if proved, will be instrumental in numerous aspects.
Stunning, you may say. Now what? Again, nothing alarming, he has just rejected the prize! And as I said, its easily the breakthrough of the decade. In fact, he is already notorious for such deeds. He rejected the Fields' Medal, bestowed upon him in 2006. The Fields' Medal is the equivalent to a Nobel (or an Oscar, for our more colorful readers). He probably regarded his contemporaries incompetent to award him the medal.
And guess what, he is currently jobless. Living with his mother and sister in St. Petersburg. He left mathematics, left as in totally left, before he got the Fields' Medal. Something about the lack of ethics among mathematicians or the like hurt him. You can only imagine the kind of functioning his mind has.
And guess what? He proved it in 2002. Now that you got used to his type, he did not publish it. Why would I publish the proof of one of most important problems and gain credit? Money? Thats for mortals. He posted it on the internet! As a part of a more elaborate research which he was doing. Word spread around and it took a better part of the decade for people to verify that he actually did it!
Of the lot many who tried, a reporter got hold of him. All he got was, “I am picking mushrooms, you are disturbing me”. Talk about dialogues!!
This is just a very small teaser, what I wrote. Dig up the net, you'll find lots more. Still reading about him and the seven questions and other related curiosities.
Expecting a movie on the lines of Beautiful Mind?
Just when you give up saying that, in all probability you cannot motivate yourself to blog again, something like this happens. A queer yet profound thing called Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. Our definition of a reclusive genius.
I assumed after what happened, people would be lapping up news about our dear Grigori. Actually, not as many are. So, he is a Russian mathematician and what has he done? Oh nothing much, just solved one over-a-century-old problem in mathematics. He proved the Poincaré conjecture, posed in 1904 by Henry Poincaré (another insane polymath) and regarded as one of the most important and difficult open problems in mathematics. The problem concerns the nature of three-dimensional space of finite extent and has eluded the best in business.
This is one of the seven million dollar Millennium Prize Problems posed by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. No, literally, anyone who solves it will get a million dollars, no less. Even you and me. These seven were selected from numerous questions posed by great mathematicians. Some of them are centuries old. This was the first one to be solved! The problems, if proved, will be instrumental in numerous aspects.
Stunning, you may say. Now what? Again, nothing alarming, he has just rejected the prize! And as I said, its easily the breakthrough of the decade. In fact, he is already notorious for such deeds. He rejected the Fields' Medal, bestowed upon him in 2006. The Fields' Medal is the equivalent to a Nobel (or an Oscar, for our more colorful readers). He probably regarded his contemporaries incompetent to award him the medal.
And guess what, he is currently jobless. Living with his mother and sister in St. Petersburg. He left mathematics, left as in totally left, before he got the Fields' Medal. Something about the lack of ethics among mathematicians or the like hurt him. You can only imagine the kind of functioning his mind has.
And guess what? He proved it in 2002. Now that you got used to his type, he did not publish it. Why would I publish the proof of one of most important problems and gain credit? Money? Thats for mortals. He posted it on the internet! As a part of a more elaborate research which he was doing. Word spread around and it took a better part of the decade for people to verify that he actually did it!
Of the lot many who tried, a reporter got hold of him. All he got was, “I am picking mushrooms, you are disturbing me”. Talk about dialogues!!
This is just a very small teaser, what I wrote. Dig up the net, you'll find lots more. Still reading about him and the seven questions and other related curiosities.
Expecting a movie on the lines of Beautiful Mind?
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A Pastime....
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Goku/Piccolo/Vegeta.....DBZ only......
Goku again.....
Give me any great pictures or suggestions guys :D
I can't comment on my own blog :( (net @ office) , so thanks in advance.....
12/03/10
11/03/10
09/03/10
10/03/10
Give me any great pictures or suggestions guys :D
I can't comment on my own blog :( (net @ office) , so thanks in advance.....
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Back with a.......post, nothing else
Hello!
What?
Yeah, its been a long time since I saw my own blog. Whaddu they call it? eons, ages, eras (and all such exaggerations).
But in reality it has only been two months (two months and a day for those pestering pedants).
You might ask me what kept me. The thing is you move only as fast as your experiences. I was doing pretty much the same thing for quite this while, as a matter of fact I doing more of that thing now. So there was nothing to write. And thats what kept me. There, now you know.
Among my attempts to break the norm, apart from reading a book here and there and trying to practice my flute, there is nothing worth mentioning :P. And those worth mention needed time.
So I decided to be a fast bowler(at least try being one). So I went into one cricket academy here in Baroda and asked THE guy,
“Hello, whats the timing of this place?”
Guy: “Who are you? What do you want?”
'Pavan. I work here, I wanted to know the timings of the academy'
'How old is the kid?' (Slap!)
'Oh no no, am 22 yrs old'
'Woh theek hai? Par bachha kitne saal ka hai?' (!)
'Its for me, I want to play' (there's no kid :x)
He told the timings, which clashed perfectly with my office timings, like fate. I felt bad.
He then gave me a good hard look and then said to the another guy.
'Forget cricket. He are now in a job, concentrate on it. Cricket is only till college. I tell my students the same th..........' (Upon which I said a meek thank you and slipped off.)
People, bah.
Among other events, CAT this time was like..so many ppl!
If people are trying to hide or trying to tell something these few days, it most probably is their CAT percentile. I expected a rough figure, but every guy around has attempted it!
You know its like these attacks when people die. The official number is 10 and real no. is, well, 40 or so. I felt something like that. Every other guy springing across the street with percentiles (A rather morbid example, don't mind).
So, If anyone has any fascinating idea that does not involve much time, feels good to do and is legal, please ping me!
PS: In case anyone's wondering why the hell I wrote this, no real reason. Feels good see latest dates on the blog. I can pat my back later and say “March was not an orphan!”
What?
Yeah, its been a long time since I saw my own blog. Whaddu they call it? eons, ages, eras (and all such exaggerations).
But in reality it has only been two months (two months and a day for those pestering pedants).
You might ask me what kept me. The thing is you move only as fast as your experiences. I was doing pretty much the same thing for quite this while, as a matter of fact I doing more of that thing now. So there was nothing to write. And thats what kept me. There, now you know.
Among my attempts to break the norm, apart from reading a book here and there and trying to practice my flute, there is nothing worth mentioning :P. And those worth mention needed time.
So I decided to be a fast bowler(at least try being one). So I went into one cricket academy here in Baroda and asked THE guy,
“Hello, whats the timing of this place?”
Guy: “Who are you? What do you want?”
'Pavan. I work here, I wanted to know the timings of the academy'
'How old is the kid?' (Slap!)
'Oh no no, am 22 yrs old'
'Woh theek hai? Par bachha kitne saal ka hai?' (!)
'Its for me, I want to play' (there's no kid :x)
He told the timings, which clashed perfectly with my office timings, like fate. I felt bad.
He then gave me a good hard look and then said to the another guy.
'Forget cricket. He are now in a job, concentrate on it. Cricket is only till college. I tell my students the same th..........' (Upon which I said a meek thank you and slipped off.)
People, bah.
Among other events, CAT this time was like..so many ppl!
If people are trying to hide or trying to tell something these few days, it most probably is their CAT percentile. I expected a rough figure, but every guy around has attempted it!
You know its like these attacks when people die. The official number is 10 and real no. is, well, 40 or so. I felt something like that. Every other guy springing across the street with percentiles (A rather morbid example, don't mind).
So, If anyone has any fascinating idea that does not involve much time, feels good to do and is legal, please ping me!
PS: In case anyone's wondering why the hell I wrote this, no real reason. Feels good see latest dates on the blog. I can pat my back later and say “March was not an orphan!”
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