The girl called Nithya

Software bridegroom

2010-04-19T13:53:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the person who shared this with me
@Dan - The names are pure coincidental :-)

படித்த நகைச்சுவை
A conversation abt the process of selecting a software bridegroom….
Enjoy reading….
வித்யா : என்னடி திடீர்னு ஃபோன் பண்ணியிருக்க என்ன விஷயம்?
Vidhya: hey! what is the matter you have called up all of a sudden?

நித்யா: வீட்ல மாப்பிளை பார்க்கலாம்னு நிறைய இடத்துல ரிஜிஸ்டர் பண்ணாங்க இல்லை? நிறைய ஜாதகமா வந்திருக்கு. அதுல 4-5 ஒத்து வர மாதிரி இருக்கு. எதை செலக்ட் பண்ணலாம்னு தெரியலை. அதான் குழம்பி போய் இருக்கேன்.
Nithya : do u remember that my parents gave my horoscope, to search for a suitable match, to many people? So many horoscopes of the groom has come.. in that 4-5 seems to match.. I don't know which one to select, I am confused because of it.

வித்யா : என்ன குழப்பம்?
Vidhya: what is the confusion about?
நித்யா : நிறைய சாப்ட்வேர் இஞ்சினியருங்க ஜாதகம் வந்திருக்கு. இப்ப எல்லாம் சாப்ட்வேர் இஞ்சினியருங்க வேற ஃபீல்ட்ல இருக்கற
பொண்ணுங்களை தான் கல்யாணம் பண்ணிக்கனும் யோசிக்கறாங்களாம். அதான் இதுல யாரை செலக்ட் பண்றதுனு தெரியல. நீதான்
சாப்ட்வேர் இஞ்சினியராச்சே. எனக்கு கொஞ்சம் சஜஷன் சொல்லு.
Nithya: horoscopes of many software engineers have come. It seems now a days, the software guys are wanting to marry girls in the other field. That's I why I don't know whom I must select among this. You are a software engineer na pls give me some suggestion .

வித்யா : சொல்லிட்டா போகுது. ஒவ்வொருத்தரும் என்ன பொசிஷனு சொல்லு.
vidhya: not a problem at all. So tell me the position that each one holds.

நித்யா: முதல் மாப்பிள்ளை மேனஜரா இருக்காரு.
nithya: first is a manager.

வித்யா : மேனஜரா? அப்படினா எப்பவுமே எதோ பிஸியா இருக்கற மாதிரி ஒரு பில்ட் அப் கொடுப்பாரு. ஆனா உருப்படியா ஒண்ணும் செய்ய மாட்டாரு. ஒரு கிலோ அரிசில ஊருக்கே சாப்பாடு செய்ய சொல்லுவாரு. ஆட்டுக்கறி வாங்கிட்டு வந்து கொடுத்துட்டு சிக்கன் 65 செய்ய சொல்லுவாரு. அது முடியாதுனு சொன்னாலும், ஒத்துக்க மாட்டாரு. எப்படியாவது ராத்திரி பகலா கஷ்டப்பட்டு உழைச்சாவது அதை செஞ்சி முடிக்கனும்னு சொல்லுவாரு. வேணும்னா நைட் கேப் (cab) அரெஞ்ச் பண்றனு சொல்லுவாரு. டேய் ராத்திரி பகல் முழிச்சா மட்டும் எப்படிடா செய்ய முடியும் கேட்டாலும் ஒத்துக்க மாட்டாரு.
vidhya: manager?? Then he will showcast himself that he is busy always. But he will not do anything properly. He will get u 1 kg of rice and ask you to prepare for the whole area say a village. He will get you mutton and ask you to prepare chicken 65. Even if you protest telling you can't make it, he'll not accept. He will tell you to work hard day and night to prepare it. He will also tell he'll provide you with the night cab. Even if you ask how can I prepare chicken 65 out of it by sitting day and night he will not accept.

வித்யா: ஆஹா. அவ்வளவு ஆபாத்தானவரா? அப்ப நம்ம எஸ்கேப். அடுத்து இருக்கறவரு டெஸ்ட் இஞ்சினியரு.
nithya: ohh..so dangerous he is!! Then I must escape. Next is a test engineer.

நித்யா: இவரு அவரை விட ஆபத்தானவரு. எது செஞ்சாலும் அதுல இருக்கற குறையை மட்டும் கரெக்டா சொல்லுவாரு. நீ பத்து வெரைட்டி சமைச்சு அவரை அசத்தனும்னு நினைச்சாலும் அதுல எதுல உப்பு கம்மியா இருக்குனு மட்டும் சொல்லுவாரு. நல்லா இருக்குனு எதுவுமே சொல்ல மாட்டீங்களானு கேட்டா, நல்லா செய்ய வேண்டியது தான் உன் வேலை. அதனால அதை எதுக்கு சொல்லனும்னு கேட்பாரு. ரொம்ப நல்லவரு.
vidhya: he is more dangerous than the other person. Whatever you do he will correctly tell only the fault in it. Even if you try to surprise him with 10 variety of food, he will tell the item which does not have salt in it. If you ask him "will you not at least tell that it is good", he will reply back saying it is your duty to make it good so why must I tell that. He is sooo good …

வித்யா: அப்ப இவருக்கும் நோ சொல்லிடலாம். அடுத்து இருக்கறவரு பெர்ஃபார்மன்ஸ் டெஸ்ட் இஞ்சினியராம்.
Nithya: then a NO to him also. Next is the performance test engineer.

நித்யா : இது அதுக்கும் மேல. எல்லாமே நல்லா இருந்தாலும், இதை செய்ய இவ்வளவு நேரமானு கேட்பாரு. காபி போட 10 நிமிஷமாச்சுனா, காபி நல்லா இருக்கானு பார்க்க மாட்டாரு. 5 நிமிஷத்துல போட வேண்டிய காப்பியை 10 நிமிஷமா போட்டிருக்கனு சத்தம் போடுவாரு. நீங்க சொல்றது இன்ஸ்டண்ட் காபி, நான் செஞ்சது பில்டர் காபினு சொன்னாலும் கேட்க மாட்டாரு. அதே மாதிரி தான் எல்லா வேலைக்கும். அப்ப நீ மேக் அப் பண்ற நேரத்துக்கு நீ எல்லாம் இவரை யோசிக்கவே கூடாது.
vidhya: he is another specimen.. even if everything is good, he will ask why did it take this much time. If you take 10 minutes to make a coffee, he will question you asking why you have taken 10 min for a coffee which can be done within 5 min. Even if you say that he is talking about the instant coffee while you have made the filter coffee, he will not accept. The same will be with all the work you do. You must not think about this person if you want to do make up in your life !!!

வித்யா: அப்ப சாப்ட்வேர் மாப்பிளையே வேண்டாம்னு சொல்றியா?
Nithya: then! you mean to say that we should not marry software guys??

நித்யா: யார் அப்படி சொன்னா? சாப்ட்வேர்லயே இளிச்ச வாய் கூட்டம் ஒண்ணு இருக்கு. அது தான் டெவலப்பர் கூட்டம். எவ்வளவு அடிச்சாலும் தாங்கிக்கும்.
Vidhya: who said like that?? In software there is one more group. They are called the Information developers (Even Technical Writers) group. How much ever you hit them they will bear.

வித்யா: அவுங்களை பத்தி சொல்லேன்.
Nithya: then tell about them.

நித்யா: நீ எதுவுமே செய்ய வேண்டாம். எல்லாமே இவுங்களே செஞ்சிடுவாங்க. நாம பின்னாடி இருந்து உற்சாகப்படுத்தினா போதும். ஆனா இவுங்க கிட்ட இருக்கற பிரச்சனை என்னனா எது கேட்டாலும் தெரியும்னு சொல்லிடுவாங்க. நம்ம "அறிவாளி" படம் தங்கவேல் பூரி சுட்ட கதை மாதிரி. அப்படினாலும் ஓ.கே தான். எவ்வளவு அடிச்சாலும் தாங்கிக்குவாங்க. ஆனா அடிச்சிட்டு அடிச்சிட்டு "நீ ரொம்ப நல்லவனு" சொல்லனும். அவ்வளவு தான்.
Vidhya: you don't have to do anything. They will do everything themselves. If we sit back and just boost them it is enough. But the problem with them is- they will say "I know it" whatever you ask them.
Even that is ok. They will bear how much ever you hit them but the condition is you must keep saying "you are too good" after hitting them every time.

வித்யா: இது சூப்பரா இருக்கே. அப்ப அந்த மாதிரி மாப்பிளையை தேடிடுவோம்...
Nithya: this is superb. Then we must search for this kind of a groom….
all disclaimers apply

DO YOU THINK THAT COLOMBUS WOULD HAVE DISCOVERED AMERICA IF HE WAS MARRIED?

2010-01-13T10:35:00.001-08:00

If Columbus had been married, he might never have discovered America , because he would have had to answer all the following questions:

· Where are you going?

· With whom?

· Why?

· How are you going?

· To discover what?

· Why only you?

· What do I do when you are not here?

· Can I come with you?

· When will you be back?

· What will you bring for me?

· You deliberately made this plan without me, didn’t you?

· You seem to be making a lot of these programs lately...

· Answer me – why?

· I want to go to my mother’s house.

· I want you to drop me there.

· I don’t want to come back – ever!

· What do you mean, OK?

· Why aren’t you stopping me?

· I don’t understand what this whole ‘discovery’ thing is about.

· You always do things like this.

· Last time also you did the same thing!

· Nowadays you always seem to do this kind of stuff.

· I still don’t understand what else is left to be discovered!

Mango cheese Pie - A quick dessert within 10 min

2009-11-23T14:28:00.000-08:00

Ingredients -
2 grahams pie crust
2 packs of cream cheese(8 unces each)
1 can mango in syrup
little elachi powder(1/2 tbsp)
some saffron
knox gelatin powder - 2 packs
2 cups water

Method :
1) Thaw the cream cheese to room temperature
2) Drain the mango pieces and beat it along with the cheese
3)sprinkle the cardamon(or elachi powder, few strands of saffrron)
4)Boil 2 cups of water and dissolve the gelatin packets in it stirring continuously, make sure you dont form any clumps
5) Now keep beating and slowly add the gelatin water to form a smooth batter
6) Pour this onto the pie crusts and refigerate for at least 6 hrs

Yummy mago cheese pie is ready to eat

Jack And Jill And Media Reporting

2009-11-12T09:20:00.001-08:00

Simply Superb...

Here’s how the Indian TV news channells would report the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme. All names (except those of Jack and Jill), are fictitious.

Prashant - TV Anchor
Two persons have been injured in a freak climbing accident. Jack and his companion Jill had gone up a hill to fetch a pail of water when Jack fell down and broke his crown. Jill came tumbling after. Live from the hill, our reporter, Amrita Shah, takes up the story.

Amrita Shah
Thank you Prashant. Well, as you say, two persons - Jack and Jill - had gone up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Suddenly, Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. Prashant.

Prashant
Thank you Amrita. What do we know about the hill?

Amrita
Not too much. Jack was going up the hill to fetch a pail of water when he fell down and broke his crown. Jill came tumbling after.

[Headline appears at the foot of the TV screen: “hill breaks crown of pail-boy Jack”]

Prashant
What news of Jack and Jill?

Amrita
Prashant, it seems that Jack had gone up the hill to fetch a pail of water. We know nothing about the pail, or how heavy it was but it seems that Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. I have here with me, an eyewitness to the accident, Mr Shahid
Trivedi. Mr Shahid, tell us what you saw.

Shahid Trivedi
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

[Headline appears at the foot of the TV screen: “Boy and girl tumble
down hill. Water spilled”]

Amrita
Jack and Jill. What do we know about them? Are they brother and sister? Are they married? Just what were they doing on the hill together?

Shahid Trivedi
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail a water.

Amrita
And what happened next?

Shahid Trivedi
Jack fell down and broke his crown

Amrita
Go on.

Shahid Trivedi
And Jill came tumbling after.

Amrita
Prashant, there you have it. Two people innocently going about their business to fetch a pail of water when one of them falls down, breaks his crown, and the other comes tumbling after. Back to you in the studio Prashant.

[Headline appears at the foot of the TV screen: “Water errand ends in tragedy”]

Prashant
I have with me in the studio now, Professor Chandrashekar Belagare from the Indian Institute of Applied Hill Sciences. Professor: a hill; Jack; Jill; a pail of water. A tragedy waiting to happen?

Professor
Well that depends on the hill, the two persons, the object they were carrying and the conditions underfoot. Let us look at the evidence so far.

Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

Clearly, one would suspect that if Jack’s fall was severe enough to break his crown then the surface of the hill must have been slippery or unstable. But I think we’re overlooking something quite fundamental here. Who was carrying the pail? Jack fell down and broke his crown and – this is the key – Jill came tumbling after. If Jack and Jill had been carrying the pail together, would they not have fallen at the same time? The fact that Jill came tumbling after suggests that Jack lost his footing first and perhaps knocked Jill over as he slipped.

Prashant
Professor thank you very much. So there we have it, two persons – Jack and Jill – went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. Later in the programme, Osama bin Laden captured in Afghanistan, President Bush
says rent-boy menage-a-trois was "just a brief lapse of judgement", and Pakistan launches nuclear warheads against key Indian cities. But next up, join us after the break for a studio discussion about hills,boys and girls and whether water-fetching trips should be supervised.
We’ll be right back...

Definitions

2009-09-11T19:17:00.001-07:00

CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco
rolled in paper
with fire at one end
and a fool at the other!

MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement
wherein
a man loses his bachelor degree
and a woman gains her master

LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information
from the notes of the lecturer
to the notes of students
without passing through the minds
of either

CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man
multiplied by the
number present

COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing
a cake in such a way that
everybody believes
he got the biggest piece

TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which
masculine will power is
defeated by feminine water-power!

DICTIONARY:
A place where divorce comes
before marriage

CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks,
nobody listens
and everybody disagrees later on

ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel
you are going to feel
a feeling
you have never felt before

CLASSIC:
A book
which people praise,
but never read

OFFICE:
A place
where you can relax
after your strenuous
home life

YAWN:
The only time
when some married men
ever get to open
their mouth

ETC:
A sign
to make others believe
that you know
more than
you actually do

COMMITTEE:
Individuals
who can do
nothing individually
and sit to decide
that nothing can be done
together

EXPERIENCE:
The name
men give
to their
Mistakes

ATOM BOMB:
An invention
to bring an end
to all
inventions

PHILOSOPHER:
A fool
who torments himself
during life,
to be spoken of
when dead

DIPLOMAT:
A person
who tells you
to go to hell
in such a way
that you actually look forward
to the trip

OPPORTUNIST:
A person
who starts taking bath
if he
accidentally falls
into a river

OPTIMIST:
A person
who while falling
from EIFFEL TOWER
says in midway
"SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"

PESSIMIST:
A person
who says that
O is the last letter
in ZERO,
Instead of the first letter
in OPPORTUNITY

MISER:
A person
who lives poor
so that
he can die RICH!

FATHER:
A banker
provided by
nature

CRIMINAL:
A guy
no different
from the other,
unless he gets caught

BOSS:
Someone
who is early
when you are late
and late
when you are early

POLITICIAN:
One who
shakes your hand
before elections
and your Confidence
Later

DOCTOR:
A person
who kills
your ills
by pills,
and kills you
\

Definitions

2009-09-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

What a wonder full defenitions..................Pl. read them all...

CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco
rolled in paper
with fire at one end
and a fool at the other!

MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement
wherein
a man loses his bachelor degree
and a woman gains her master

LECTURE:
An art of transmitting Information
from the notes of the lecturer
to the notes of students
without passing through the minds
of either

CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man
multiplied by the
number present

COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing
a cake in such a way that
everybody believes
he got the biggest piece

TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which
masculine will power is
defeated by feminine water-power!

DICTIONARY:
A place where divorce comes
before marriage

CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks,
nobody listens
and everybody disagrees later on

ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel
you are going to feel
a feeling
you have never felt before

CLASSIC:
A book
which people praise,
but never read

OFFICE:
A place
where you can relax
after your strenuous
home life

YAWN:
The only time
when some married men
ever get to open
their mouth

ETC:
A sign
to make others believe
that you know
more than
you actually do

COMMITTEE:
Individuals
who can do
nothing individually
and sit to decide
that nothing can be done
together

EXPERIENCE:
The name
men give
to their
Mistakes

ATOM BOMB:
An invention
to bring an end
to all
inventions

PHILOSOPHER:
A fool
who torments himself
during life,
to be spoken of
when dead

DIPLOMAT:
A person
who tells you
to go to hell
in such a way
that you actually look forward
to the trip

OPPORTUNIST:
A person
who starts taking bath
if he
accidentally falls
into a river

OPTIMIST:
A person
who while falling
from EIFFEL TOWER
says in midway
"SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"

PESSIMIST:
A person
who says that
O is the last letter
in ZERO,
Instead of the first letter
in OPPORTUNITY

MISER:
A person
who lives poor
so that
he can die RICH!

FATHER:
A banker
provided by
nature

CRIMINAL:
A guy
no different
from the other,
unless he gets caught

BOSS:
Someone
who is early
when you are late
and late
when you are early

POLITICIAN:
One who
shakes your hand
before elections
and your Confidence
Later

DOCTOR:
A person
who kills
your ills
by pills,
and kills you
\

vi on solaris box on my mac term

2009-08-13T09:38:00.000-07:00

mac is a different world.
One of the major problems I was facing when using mac, was that I was not able to use vi on all my solaris box when connected using mac terminal.
All I had to do was open a terminal and then ssh to my solaris hosts..
but then vi didnt work and I had to install vim on many machines..
Then I came across this post and voila, now I am happy
Thanks for this post
http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/geeks/2005-February/047462.html

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/

Which mentions this:

"9. If you dont have the file already, drop xterm-color in
/usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/term-color. Then when/if you use a
color-supporting xterm, you will be able to correctly set TERM=xterm-color
and actually have it work properly. (This actually works better for dtterm
color than its own "dtterm" TERM setting?!!)"

Which provides a link to this:

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/xterm-color

Is that what the Solaris admins should download and install on the server "

end of things to best resolve this?

Using jndi on mac

2009-05-04T22:49:00.000-07:00

New to mac and trying the get the simplest jndi app working on it?
I got stuck figuring out where to place these jars.

Download the JNDI 1.1.2 packages, which consist of:
- JNDI 1.1.2 class libraries package (jndi112.zip)
- LDAP Service Provider package (ldap103.zip)
- fscontext-1_2-beta3.zip
Extract the jar files from the zips.
Move these to /System/Library/Java/Extensions
Edit the /System/Library/Java/JavaConfig.plist

$HOME/Library/Java/Extensions/providerutil.jar:$HOME/Library/Java/Extensions/jndi.jar:$HOME/Library/Java/Extensions/fscontext.jar

And voila the program compiles

Software Load Balancer

2009-04-21T08:50:00.000-07:00

Any one have any other suggestions.
I am looking a free software load balancer options.

Got a few..

1) Sun Web Server 7.0 includes a Reverse Proxy Plugin(RPP) that can be used as a simple software load balancer . Sun Application Server also has a Load balancer plugin that can also be used. For reference, the docs:

AS : http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4341/gchvt?l=en&a=view

WS: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-6600/ghquv?l=en&a=view&q=reverse+proxy

2)
http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#pen
http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/pen
http://siag.nu/pen/

Allows round robin/response based, and failover to a landing page if all services are unavailable (useful for maintenance).
3) http://www.inlab.de/balance.html

Salaries of MPs!!!!!

2009-03-04T08:42:00.000-08:00

Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP)

Monthly Salary : 12,000

Expense for Constitution per month :10,000

Office expenditure per month :14,000

Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000( eg.For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km)

Daily DA TA during parliament meets :500/day

Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free (For any number of times)
(All over India )

Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)

Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free

Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units

Local phone call charge : Free up to 1 ,70,000 calls.

TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : 32,00,000 [i.e . 2.66 lakh/month]

TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000

For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years :
8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores)

AND THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THEIR SALARIES.... .

This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities. ........
And this is the present condition of our country:

855 crores could make their life livable !!
Think of the great democracy we have........ .......
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL REAL CITIZENS OF INDIA ...
but,
STILL Proud to be INDIAN

Nostalgia..Good Old 80s

2008-12-09T11:19:00.001-08:00

Are you missing those days? Sometimes I do

Doordarshan Logo

Doordarshan' s Screensaver

Malgudi Days

Dekh Bhai Dekh

Ramayan

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

Turning Point

Bharath Ek Khoj

Alif Laila

Byomkesh Bakshi

Tehkikaat

He Man

Salma Sultana DD News Reader

Vicco turmeric,
Nahin cosmetic
Vicco turmeric ayurvedic cream

Twaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiinggggggg
Washin powder Nirma, Washing powder Nirma
Doodh si safedi, Nirma se aayi
Rangeen kapde bhi khil khil jaaye

I'm a Complan Boy(Shahid Kapoor) and I'm a Complan Girl (Ayesha Takia)

Surabhi:Renuka Sahane and Siddharth

Then were 'Mungerilal ke hasin sapane' and 'karamchand' .'Vikram Betal', etc.

How did one survive growing up in the 70's, 80's and 90's?
We had no seatbelts, no airbags and sitting in the back of a truck was a treat…
Our baby prams had the most gorgeous lead based colours…
No such thing as tamper proof bottle tops…

Opening kitchen cupboards was a breeze… as safety locks were unheard off…
Cycling was like a breath of fresh air…
No safety helmets, knee pads or elbow pads, with plenty of cardboards between spokes to make it sound like a motorbike…

When thirsty we only drank tap water, bottled water was still a mystery…
We kept busy collecting bits & pieces so we could build all sort of things … and we were fearless on our bikes even when the brakes failed going downhill…
We were showing off how tough we are, by how high we could climb trees & then jumping down….It was great fun….
We could stay out to play for hours, as long as we got back before dark, in time for dinner…
We walked to school, or sometimes we even rode our bike.
We had no mobile phones, but we always managed to find each other…. How? No one knows…
We lost teeth, broke arms & legs, we got cuts and bruises and bloody noses…. nobody complained as we had so much fun, it wasn't anybody's fault, only ours
We ate everything in sight, cakes, bread, chocolate, ice-cream, sweet sugary drinks, yet, we stayed skinny by fooling around.

And if one of us was lucky to find a 1 litre coca cola bottle we all had a swag from it & guess what? Nobody picked up any germs...
We did not have Play Stations, MP3, Nintendo's, I-Pods, Video games, 99 Cable TV channels, DVD's, Home Cinema, Mobile phones, Home Computers, Laptops, Chat-rooms, Internet, etc ... BUT, we had REAL FRIENDS!!!!
We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell, just went around the back…
We loved being let loose in the big bad world…without bodyguards…
We played with sticks and stones, played cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, hide and seek, soccer games, over and over again…
When we failed our exams we were given a second chance by simply repeating the same grade…without visiting psychiatrists, psychologists or counselors…
Such were the days…
We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities. ..
Most of all, we learned to respect others…

Think.............

2008-12-04T08:20:00.001-08:00

1. Do not worry about those who have come thru boats... Our forces can easily defeat them.
WORRY about those who have come thru votes.... Those are our REAL ENEMIES….

2. What a shame and disgrace to every citizen of India that the elite NSG Force was transported into ordinary BEST buses, whereas our cricketers are transported into state of the art luxury buses, these Jawans lay down their lives to protect every Indian and these cricketers get paid even if they lose a match, we worship these cricketers and forget the martyrdom of these brave Jawans.

The Jawans should be paid the salaries of the cricketers and the cricketers should be paid the salaries of the Jawans.

3.Our NSG, BSF, ARMY, do not have a dedicated AIRCRAFT to perform rapid operations, while every tom dick n harry Minister is travelling through his Personalized Helicopter....!!!

4. Our Navy has total 25 Heavy artillery loaded ships, while a country named Korea which is smaller than Chattisgarh has 250 Heavy artillery loaded ships for the security of there coasts.

5. An ace shooter shoots and gets gold medal, govt gives 1cr, another shooterdieswhile shooting terrorist, govt gives 5 lakh.

WHO DESERVES MORE Our Commando's or Cricketers?

Huh.. This is our India....
Please be a patriot and forward this to everyone u know.

Let Mumbai come to its PACE once again with the spirit of MUMBAIKAR, but we people will never forget to send a mail daily to all the assosciates of ours. we wil not let this end here....!!!!!! we will keep the fire of revenge inside and will show at regular intervals....Plz dont feel shy to forward this mail......

JAI HIND!!!!!!

Aint it all true?

2008-11-20T09:07:00.000-08:00

Sinking in the family life

2008-10-29T22:17:00.001-07:00

Scribblings of a working-mom-trying-balance-life-work-baby-life
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Having had a religious upbringing, I was brought up with hearing vedantic discourses.
Hearing it again and again, about how people get engulfed in the daily life and forget god and the meaning of life...
All this was funny to me, for at that time, I wasnt a family woman.
I was a kid who had everything taken care of...
Free to do anything..

Now, married and with a child.. I am living the verse - Totally engulfed in the sea of life.
Each day has become a replay of a previous day with just slight differences.
Nothing bad.
I have a wonderful family life. But running this has taken over me.
There is no time to sit and relax.
Yesterday I read an post about Naresh, who mocked back at fate, which had driven him to a wheelchair.
I was in tears, and wanted to and meditate.
I was so moved that, my mind was questioning the reason why god created humans and gave them suffering.
I wanted to go some place and sit and contemplate on life and give my mind some time to gather the scattered thoughts.
I reached home, and nothing of this happened.
I ended up cooking and cleaning.

The next day has come. And my mind still is confused.
So again I am here thinking, WHY?
Why wasnt I able to spare some time to sit doing nothing?
What is life?What is fair?Why are things the way it is?
I dont not want anything even remotely hurtful to happen to my son.
We are all Gods children, arent we?
Then why is he making us suffer.
Each person, however rich and endowed, has suffered in some aspect.
All the pain and sufferings in the world.. Why is it there?
I am sitting here and writing this, and at the same moment, there is some one struggling just to be alive.
It doesnt seem fair or right.
"Life is not fair. Sometimes things happen which we dont like"
A dialogue which I remember.

I think, this is a question every one gets.
May be people turn atheist unable to get an answer to this question.

May be this is why we had Gurus, answering your questions.
Sitting here in the Western end of the planet, everything seems very unnatural.

So many things are taken for granted out here. Things which more than half of the planet's people can only dream about.

Hmmmm
To sum it up, I am truly lost in the sea of life.
Those days, when we do nothing, but sit and stare at the star studded sky,
take a walk in the beach not feeling guilty for having wasted precious time, where I could have cooked something.

The only time my mind rests is when I am driving and am not talking to anyone on the bluetooth.
:-)

P.S...
This was a post which I forgot to post and posting it a couple of months later.

Once again, sinking in the family life

A guide to making a Hollywood disaster flick

2008-07-11T09:38:00.001-07:00

After having losing count of the disaster flicks and the mini cable movie series, as if there isnt enough of the Hollywood movies,
I am more than tempted to write my own disaster flick.

For starters, you need a disaster.
(My cooking which most of the time is a disaster by itself, doesnt yet qualify for a mega disaster.
We are all alive :-))
Aliens,earthquakes,meteorites,gigantic abberations,insects,animals are all out. These are ancient disasters.We need something new.

How about the magma in the center of earth stopping the rotation?Already done.Do not miss the wonderful movie The Core.
Even bare minimum knowledge of high school Physics is enough for you to appreciate this spoof of HiTech movies.
(I am writing up a commentary about this movie and will post it soon.)

How about unexplainable alien life forms, mutated creatures,alien-human combos, humanoids, machines?Done in too many movies.

Looks like the latest trend is the climatic changes that holds key..
So,
How about tectonic plates reversing...Am just seeing this usa network flick called 10.5 and its sequel 10.5 The Apocalypse. Well, to be truthful, this flick just flipped me and I lost it. How do you stop faults, create another..this is just too much.

So we are out of that one too....What more disasters can you predict?
Are we running out of disasters of global proportions?Nope..we just need more imagination.
So heres a few.....
How about the moon crashing onto earth?
Or, The sun dwarfing?
Or, Earth running out of oxygen?
Or, Big Sink - dats opposite of Big Bang?
I think I will choose one of the above.
If you have any interesting disasters, please let me know.

So now that I have a disaster, whats next?

HiTech gizmos, unbelievable gadgets, unlikely heroes, unconventional methods, untried rescue operations, sad background score, an attitude ridden male lead(s), a skinny-dont-care-about-dressing-up-yet-looking-top lady lead, some history and friction between the heroes, a scorned hero, and a last minute unpredictable(is it) goof-up in the machinery, and finally the HERO-number-UNO who sacrifices his life to save mankind.
Well if he doesnt, since technically he is also a part of mankind, he would have also perished.
So in a Die-or-Die situation, our HERO-number-UNO dies and becomes a DOUBLE HERO.
And other survivors are chosen in a lottery.

As always the core of the story line, Any disaster should first strike, the United States.

At least one thing thats a benefit is , we have scores of people re researching the geography and the history to excavate untread disasters, that there is a chance that something useful might come out.

P.S.
A guide to making a Tamil disaster movie.
Just do a remake of any hollywood disaster movie.
Half the people will not understand and rest would have already seen the original.
And you have a tamil disaster movie.

Never say Just an ear infection.

2008-07-08T00:35:00.000-07:00

So many things happened after the last post.
My ear infection, didn't respond to the antibiotics and took epic proportions.
What started out small on Wednesday morning, soon strengthened into category 10 outbreak by Saturday.
My doctor wasn't available on Wednesday - day 1 and I went to another in network doctor, who gave me antibiotics & ear drops.
But things didn't improve by Thursday.
So this time I visited my doc. She doubled the antibiotics strength and gave me vicodin for pain.
I hadn't taken the vicodin prescribed for post delivery pain. I managed through the soreness and stitches with ibuprofen. But now, vicodin every 6 hr wasn't enough for me.
The pain killer wore of in 4 hrs and the pain started killing me.
Like a drug addict I was begging for Sakthi to give me the next dose.
Then came Friday, nothing improved.Only I spent almost the entire day in sleep or I should say trying to sleep hoping that some magic will happen.
It didn't.
Came Saturday when things took a turn to the worst.
I started the day with a huge vomit and by afternoon became a pro.
I went to OConnor's ER after having vomited the last pieces of my intestines, or at least I thought that I had.
Luckily for us, Sakthi's colleague and his wife had come and we handed over Nikhil to them when we headed to the hospital.

If you are a big fan of efficient American hospitals and are used to the glorified Hollywood ER's - patients being rushed to the ER being attended to immediately, doctors running around, stretchers aplenty......... Wake up.
Here is the harsh truth.
The ER was deserted. And Sakthi had to stand in the queue to register. I just went and flopped in the nearest chair.
After 15 mintues of waiting and me shouting Sakthi to get me in, a nurse came called out my name.
My name never sounded better.
By thursday morning, my ear gave way to a little colorless stream, which soon started changing colors each day.Friday it was yellowish.Saturday it was pinkish white.
And the pain was killing me.

Coming back to the nurse, the stupid system ....
Some sort of a pre questionnaire which Sakthi was well qualified to answer for me. But She forced me to and there I was sitting in the wheelchair using all my strength to keep me from flopping. So you can imagine the sort of answers I would have given.
After this rather stupid and useless episodes, I lost the last ounce of my energy and was 1% away from fainting.. I begged Sakthi to get me a stretcher and guess what, THEY DID NOT HAVE STRETCHERS IN THE ER...What sort of ER doesnt have stretchers?
When you are in pain the system sucks.

And after another 15 min of waiting,which seemed like eternity to me, I was wheeled into the ER ward.And got a bed.
When I finally saw a doctor, it was as if I was seeing God.
Then I walked him through the story of my ear infection, which by now, I could replay it even in my sleep.
Then he gave me morphine for pain.
WOW.. It was a heavenly feeling.
After almost 4 days of pain, it felt so good.
The narcotic had me floating.
Everything after that seemed vague and dreamy
No wonder people start liking morphine.
A CAT scan later, the ER doc alerted my doc and she dropped by.And said hello.
Really, and I think I smiled back.
Then after a series of conversations, the infections seemed to have spread beyod the ear, So I went for another series of CAT scans, this time with some die injected.
The technician said I had cooperated nicely.All I did was sleep through it.:-)
By now, the ENT on call,Dr Nyugen, got so worried about the severity of the infection and talked about transferring me to Stanford which is better equipped to handle my situation.
This was a big scare and by now, Nikhil started missing us and became inconsolable.
So Sakthi left me to head home and the doctors were conferring amongst themselves.
After 2 hrs, it was decided and I had to go to Stanford.
If I were to be shifted in an ambulance, I had to wait for one.
So Sakthi said he will drive.
Start a family trip to the Stanford hospital.
God bless the GPS.

Went to the Stanford ER, finished the formalities.Here the staff were better and allowed Sakthi to answer all the questions.
May be, on looking at me, all stoned from the morphine, slumping in the wheelchair, IV in hand, they must have understood that nothing even remotely sensible will come out of my mouth.
Since the good doctor in the OConnor ER had already talked to the ENT in Stanford, I had a bed waiting and was admitted immediately.
The ENT here, was Dr.Murray, and he assured me that I would be well taken care of, and I was more concerned about the next dose of my pain killer.
I was dizzy and fainting and sore from pain.
The doc said that we had to sure that the liquid oozing out was not brain fluid.
This was even more scary and hence sample was sent to culture.
It was past 10pm, and I asked Sakthi, Appa and Nikhil to head back home.
So I spent the first night all alone.

The next day dawned and nothing majorly happened, than that I was allowed to eat.
The 3 wise men visited me from home and the little man drank my cup of cranberry juice.

Monday came and I wasn't given any antibiotics. Turned out that the infection was viral and not bacterial. No wonder the drugs didn't work.
Pain was still there and I was gobbling down vicodin.

Dr.Murray said I was out of danger and that I was fit to go home.
So late night that day I was discharged, with instructions to continue treatment as OP in his clinic.
Pain killers in hand I headed home.

The next day, the family headed to Dr.Murray's office.
Pain still safe and sound, I was still dizzy.
Did I mention that, by Saturday I lost hearing in my right ear?

The doc examined my ear and wanted to drill a hole in the ear and insert a small tube to help drain the fluid, which was still flowing relentlessly.
The numbing medicine was applied. But the infection prevented it from doing its work.
So imagine the pain as he pierced my ear drum.
My delivery was better.(Of course I had epidural.:-))
The expletives that came out of my mouth.
Hmm. I didn't know I could use such colorful words.
Poor doc, got a shock of his life.
I was crying there like a kid and to the western world who is used to mature non emotional adults, a mummy crying in the OP chair must have seemed so out of the world.
Hmm wat to do.

But at least this worked. The pain started coming down.
But the dizziness bouts continued.
And I was tired to the bones.
But the doc had already warned me of a slow recovery.
So here am I, the fourth week after the start of my ear infection, still recovering from it.
Haven't yet regained my health and earing in full.
At least, as of today, I am no longer fainting.

After this episode, I am treating my ear with respect.
No more cutips.
Dear Ear,
Just because you don't warrant so much of maintenance, doesn't mean that I don't love you.

The first post

2008-06-10T21:13:00.000-07:00

There hasnt been a day, I havent wondered about something.
Why is it, the way it is?
Why I am the way, I am?
The need to reflect, relive, and recover.
Reread the lost pages from my life.
Search for the meaning for my life.

I remember a little girl, who was inquisitive and questioned every thing.
I remember a little girl, who was afraid to ask for things.
I remember a little girl, who was happy and contended.
I remember a little girl, who didnt understand why people chose against her.
I remember a little girl, who cried sad tears when she was left alone.
I remember too many little girls.
Too many girls all combined into me, as I am now.

Why I am, the way I am?
Deep inside me, there is a voice that wants an answer for everything.

I created this blog, hoping to find some water to quench my thirsty soul.