Happy Birthday my Blog

It all started exactly an year back.The zeal to rescue a passion which was slowly thawing away, From that came the thought to blog, blog and blog more !! result: My blog was born on this same day, exactly 1 year back when I hosted my first post on the blogosphere in this same city Bangalore but at a different place at my office at 2.52 PM. Ever since then, I really loved my posts as much as I enjoyed writing them for all the comments I got on my posts, and especially for all those complete strangers I happened to befriend in this blogging world to grow so intimate that they even called me as soon as they knew, to wish on almost every occasion that I cherished and celebrated in my life.I really wished to blog more often but never to be, these days it has plummeted to very small numbers like 2,3,4 a month.All attributed to the crunch time at work and busy office schedules.Though I don't have a stunning number of posts on my blog, I cherished every post that meandered through my mind and came out materialistic. I want to Thank you too for coming along on the ride! I still feel the thrill I felt on the day when the count meter crossed 150 strikes in one single day, and the day when I received comments from some one unknown all the way from New Jersy !

So here We go, Wishes my one year little blog " Happy Blogiversary " [:)] Rock on !

Brag Brag Brag, Nonsense !

There is so much to say, Yet words don't flow.There is so much to feel, yet the heart does not melt.There is so much to do, yet my limbs are numb. Boredom, I don't know how many philosophies have evolved to beat this syndrome. But not with any specific output and always in vain. Its boring today ! I have been going through all those websites to just pass the time as I have nothing much creative to do at work today.So I keep thinking. Boredom brings out all the questions that I normally try to distract my brain from asking!! So generally my head gets more messed up! My inner soul just drives me towards reading some useful docs, but the other lazy guy in me stops him.If mans very existence has some meaning then why in the world do we feel bored? Wouldn’t living by itself make it worth while? Being bored implies I have nothing meaningful or fun to do at that time. Being lazy implies that I don’t want to do anything meaningful and fun at that time.
Boredom also puts the responsibility of self entertainment squarely on my shoulders,and that essentially points to the failure of my mind in coming up with things to do! Right now I am so bored that even thinking of doing something to do is boring.I did read all the labels on the back of my laptop and skimmed through some stupid sites which are of no use, read long back bookmarked blogs of few of my friends, checked my Rediff and Hotmail inboxes today after a long long time, and even took some online tests to know how nerd I am !! yeh you heard it right its "Nerd".Ok, here are some totally useless facts that only bored people like me read. Enjoy, I am too bored to be original enough to continue writing this piece.

1.Albert Einstein was dead, So did his final words with him. The nurse by his side didn't understand German !

2.It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary!!!! (I mean if her name is :p )

3.In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was a custom for her to splash it into the face of the nearest man. ( Poor beings, I wonder who went to market to fetch them !).

4.In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.

5.The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. (is it because it is tallest? )

6.A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving

7.Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.(Now who the hell is he !)

8.6% of men propose over the telephone! (60 % reject may be)

9.It is now possible to print human skin with an ink jet printer! (but why do we want to print the human skin?)

10.There are 23 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!

BTW, I dint say you what my nerd score is right? 98%, They say I am a Nerd God :)

Do you really think I am that nerd? well you just need to be smart enough to show up that nerd, Adios!

Mr. Narayana Murthy for president ?

Its hectic, Its damn disgusting to stay late if I had to jot in my blog now at office on this subject with all these project delivery tensions, issues and stuff ! but I am here to vent out all the anger and aroused belligerence from the dribbling blood in my nerves on this much hyped protagonist and proclaimed next president of INDIA Mr.Narayana Murthy, The founder and chief mentor of Infosys.

After reading this news article on the Deccan herald this morning, I really felt mortified on why the people of India are striking a common tune to nominate a person, whom I think do not rightfully deserve the most revered and honored name " the First Person of India "
Do you think that Mr. Narayana Murthy depicts the fast rebelling, slowly emerging, brightly Shining, seriously growing INDIA, with an epaulet of an Indian flag on his shoulder where ever he go and portrays the true face of India, and his hair stand stiff on listening to our national anthem ? Well think again !

Your Highness Mr president Abdul Kalam, was in town on Sunday and Monday at the Mysore Infosys campus, and what greeted him at the stunning campus was not the mellifluous rendition of Rabindranath Tagore’s poem sung by humans, but the electronic version of crappy mis tuned version of notes which sounded more like some polyphonic ring tone than a National Anthem.

Reason? well, this is what the host himself has to connote,

"We had arranged for five people to sing the anthem. But then we canceled it as we have foreigners on board here. They should not be embarrassed while we sing the anthem," - Narayana Murthy.

Infosys said last year it had some 1,800 foreigners on its rolls. But there are no precise figures on how many foreigners were at the Infosys Mysore campus, which is designed to seat 6,400 students, yesterday. But it is on record that it had offered jobs to 126 students from 82 foreign universities last year.But still, Even if that figure of foreigners is ten times greater, does it mean Mr Murthy’s company is willing to slavishly mute his nation’s anthem for their sake?
The national anthem of the winning team and the national anthem of the two competing teams are played at all the Football games and other games like rugby etc even at the Olympics which is witnessed by global television audience, which is always foreign.If that is OK, why is it difficult for Infosys professionals who also happened to be foreigners to listen to a 52-second, five-stanza number? Or for their faculty to make them listen to it? I don't really understand what is the precise embarrassment that foreigners feel by listening to their host-country’s national anthem as was averred by Mr.Murthy. But, above all, coming to a foreign country, to a foreign city, to a foreign company is all about learning, appreciating, assimilating, understanding, and respecting that country’s, that city’s, that company’s culture.
If Infosys’ foreigners—all the 126 or whatever multiples of them—are not doing that, then they have missed a vital ingredient of their education and even more vital ingredient of their excursion I suppose.I don't think they might have neither objected to listen to our national anthem nor be embarrassed with it. Narayana Murthy is being spoken as the “fantastic” next President. Hopefully, the would be Rashtrapati will not have similar views on the National Anthem being sung in the presence of foreigners.

On the same Discussion which I had with my friends at office, I came to know that a local kannada news paper Praja Vani alleges that 90 per cent of the 5,000 employees who had assembled for the Kalam function yesterday at the Infosys campus didn’t know the lyrics of the national anthem by heart.I don't have any feeling to reveal, either to pity them or feel ashamed of them or what ever, Only thing I can do is to show these lyrics of JANA GANA MANA for those ignorant Infoscions. Let go what ever, hope India would be in better hands !

" Water " A review from my eye

I don’t know why, but I always prefer the comfort of my room over a movie hall or a multiplex when it comes to watching good meaningful movies....'water' I wanted to watch not only because its a DeepaMehta movie...but the topic it is dealing with. Thankfully, I could dig one out from the debris at my nearest CD vendor a couple of days back, and I got a chance to view it. The plight of the widows or for that matter the sufferings of a 'woman' is always a topic creating much hype and for these obvious reasons the more realism You can bring in it the better it creates a buzz, a favorite for film makers treading the non conventional path, and thus here was another film with magnificent cinematography, trying to recreate Benaras , somewhere in Srilanka.....oh yes I have to give it to the cinematographer for the beautiful imageries...but beyond that I found nothing 'new' or outstanding that will separate the film as something extra ordinary. Well its my version of course and I am only being critical from an analyst's point of view. On the whole I really feel its a wonderfully shot film....the story line drags at points and yet catches on....the scenes where the clouds enshrouds the sky is worth gaping at I feel.....surprisingly John Abraham actually 'acted'....need I say anything bout Seema Biswas, she is outstanding in her own right...but the one who surpasses them all is the child actor Sarala named chuiya in the movie....the child-widow, the reason why the film was worth a watch.....somebody I dint like at all and felt had taken away much from the movie by her 'not so good' performance was Lisa Ray...her Hindi was pretty anglicized, and though was a pretty picture she just could not bring out the suffering, the pain, the helplessness, the excruciation that the widows endured in the bygone days,

I agree it was an Oscar stuff, but it could have been better to go a step higher from Oscar nominee to Oscar winner yet its a What left me a bit unhappy was the death of the heroin at the end who sacrifices her life when she could not battle out the life's causes and The little Kid is handed over to Gandi ji to be taken care. the film ends on that note. yet, the film is worth watching for various other reasons if not for the story and performances.