Chapter one - The end game

Finally after 3 yrs and still with no plot in hand , I managed to take the story to a logical conclusion. You can read it here. I got this idea to break up the entire thing into chapters from one of the comments posted in the site.So, Read on...

Why a job is bad for you!

Consider a watchman. How much does he earn in a city like Bangalore ?, where each and every mud hut needs a security/caretaker. Contrast it with the pay of the very people he is guarding/caretaking. What will be his sense of achievement and what are his career prospects say like after 10 years of service? He shall become the respected Head watchman,if he's not already died of boredom.

Now consider a software engineer. How much does he earn? The same case holds true for him also. Every other fellow walking on the streets of Bangalore works for a software company. What are his career prospects,again take a ten year time frame. He shall become the veritable team lead after 5 and maybe if he's not fired or dead , a project manager. Contrast this with his employer's.

Can't you see the analogy ? Hard to miss I'd say. Spending a lifetime guarding someone else's property is hardly appealing but that's what people do for a living.

The employed works for a life,the employer lives the life.

The story of the 'unfinished'

The valley of fear - ii was inspired from a character 'Birdy Edwards', in one of the Sherlock Holmes' novel titled 'The valley of fear'.The story inside the story, is of a detective from the famous Pimberton detective agency going deep under cover to break up an illegal organisation in the old, wild west of the U.S of A.
Thus I started my feeble attempt at writing, but without a plot in hand it was destined to fail from the start. Now after some three years ,as I look upon to revive the story, I still have no solid plot and I don't even know what to do with the characters; whether to place them in the pre-internet era or to give them a crime of sherlockian standards.

With the kind of reviews that are coming in, urging me to complete the story, I fear to tweak the original text to suite the new plot, for I'm sure I won't be able to keep upto the quality of the original.

Domain woes

My long time dream of owning my own domain name bore fruit today and as usual along with it came new and unnecessary troubles. I simply don't know what to do with it, since I don't have a hosting plan. And trying to make it point to this blog, well, I just wasted 4 hrs and is still shooting at the stars.
Another bad Bangalore day

The need to try

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Essentially , we owe it to ourselves that we try and try we must.Since It is only by trying that we learn. So why a departure from my usual posts? Well , I have had this feeling for the past few days that I've converted my own blog into some sort of a portal, instead of taking time to deliver valuable content. And also, I am becoming increasingly frustrated at how easily people are give up just because things don't happen the way they intend them to. I'm referring specifically but not necessarily confining myself to the case of

job hunting.

People look for jobs for a variety of reasons,

1. Simply because they have no other job, and job hunting is like a passion , rather an obsession for them
2. Because they are in dire need of a job
3. Or they need a job just for the heck of it.
   

Whatever be the reason, If one needs a job or forget job, if one needs something, anything, he/she must be prepared to work for it, give it 100% and even if things don't work out the way they planned, be prepared to try, until the very end, until the objective is attained. Getting a job is not that hard but the only hurdle towards getting one is lack of trying. You might not get it the first time, not the second time, maybe not even for the fifth or sixth time, But in the end, perseverance pays. All that focused work, towards a needy goal, all that effort wouldn't just go wasted, would it?

Best of Web - 1

http://ubersuper.com/ . As the name indicates, it indeed is a super site with ubundant creative photography skills displayed. And guess what? "it's all for free" !!!! .

Nice photos. You'll love it. Here's a glimpse to what awaits you at this beautiful site.

Give Your Best Anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred. Forgive them anyway! If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway! If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway! If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway! What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway! If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway! The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway! Give the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you have anyway! You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Theresa

Be Inspired

Title :Chris Cornell - You Know My Name

Title :Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
This lyrics is from www.lyrics007.com

If you take a life 
 Do you know what you'll give? 
 Odds are you won't like What it Is. 

 When the storm arrives 
 Would you be seen with me? 
 By the merciless eyes I've deceived 

 I've seen angels fall from blinding heights 
 But you yourself are nothing so divine 
 Just next in line 

 Arm yourself because no one else here will save you 
 The odds will betray you 
 And I will replace you 
 You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you 
 It longs to kill you 
 Are you willing to die? 
 The coldest blood runs through my veins 
 You know my name 

 If you come inside 
 Things will not be the same 
 When you return to my eyes 

 And if you think you've won 
 You never saw me change 
 The game that we have been playing 

 I've seen diamonds cut through harder men 
 Then you yourself but if you must pretend 
 You may meet your end 


 Arm yourself because no one else here will save you 
 The odds will betray you 
 And I will replace you 
 You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you 
 It longs to kill you 
 Are you willing to die? 
 The coldest blood runs through my veins 

 Try to hide your hand 
 Forget how to feel (forget how to feel) 
 Life is gone 
 With just a spin of the wheel (spin of the wheel) 


 Arm yourself because no one else here will save you 
 The odds will betray you 
 And I will replace you 
 You can't deny the prize it may never fulfill you 
 It longs to kill you 
 Are you willing to die? 
 The coldest blood runs through my veins 
 You know my name (You Know My Name)


 You Know My Name (You Know My Name)
 You Know My Name 
 You Know My Name
 You Know My Name 

Classic Sherlock Holmes Quotes

• My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." ("The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle")

• "My brain has always governed my heart." ("The Sign of Four")

• "Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment." ("The Sign of Four")

• "A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her." ("The Musgrave Ritual")

• "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." ("The Boscombe Valley Mystery")

• "You can...never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant." ("The Sign of Four")

• "Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last." ("The Adventure of the Red Circle")

• "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ("The Adventure of The Blanched Soldier")

• "I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule." ("The Sign of Four")

“you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.” (A Study in Scarlet)

euphoria over Euphoria . cool

maeri video.I really like the visuals.Amazing work .

Once in a blue moon

"once in a blue moon,
maybe in a monsoon,
just after noon,
it would be a boon,
to talk to you by a lagoon
like a goon,
and i hope that happens real soon"





Idioms are phrases and sentences that do not mean exactly what they say. Even if you know the meaning of every word in the see or hear, you may not understand the idiom because you don't understand the culture behind it.

The (re)Union

Three days ago,when finally after 2 1/2 years, our alumni meet which was supposedly never supposed to happen, took place, i feel contended. Somehow ,against all precedences to the contrary , i managed to do the right things, at the right time.Which is a lot, given the long history of inaction that i have been accustomed to.

The IGNobels.

The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes genuine Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater.

The Ig nobels, recognise the fun aspect of serious research.It brings in a human moment to geeks immersed in saving mankind.I am wondering why this hasn't become the talk of the world, I am sorry if it is , but that's not the case in my part of the world. Most of them haven't even heard of it.

Here , i am listing down the most outrageous of them along with this year's recipients.

2007

• Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra.
• Biology: Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites and other life forms that live in people's beds.
• Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung.
• Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net.^[3]
• Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between Japanese, played backward, and Dutch, played backward.
• Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study of the word "the". ^[4]
• Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords.
• Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetites by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.
• Peace: The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for research and development of a "gay bomb," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other.
• Physics: L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled.

gosh.. come to think of it. Everything's outrageously outrageous. It would fill in 10s of pages. I would like to mention about one that's from my own place . Awarded in 2002 in

Mathematics - Presented to K.P. Sreekumar and G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report "Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants."
Incredible !!! ain't it? awesome .

The ignobels draw attention to scientific articles that have some humorous or unexpected aspect. Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell, to research on the "five-second rule," a tongue-in-cheek belief that food dropped on the floor won't become contaminated if it is picked up within five seconds.

Got inspired? let me know. And why don't you check out
other mock awards:

• Golden Raspberry Awards for bad film work
• Darwin Awards for fatally foolish behavior
• Pigasus Award for paranormal fraud (U.S.)
• Bent Spoon Award for paranormal fraud (Australia)
• Stella Awards for "outrageous" lawsuits

(sourced from the one and only wikipedia)

"What do you do? What do you do?"

Its hard to imagine the sources of inspiration. I was just watching tv one day and saw this trailer of speed-1.And immediately this phrase caught my attention - "What do you do?.... What do you do?".
When things go horribly wrong,when you seem to have no control over the events that are shaping up, What do you do?... What do you do?".


"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. "
Bruce Barton

Spinner's End

Its for the first time after re-reading the book for the second time that i feel fit to write this one last post about the man that was Severus Snape.Many a people have asked me , how does it feel like to be right , to know that you were guessing at the truth for the past two years , without any clue , to them i say , i have moved on. I have left the fantasy world of harry potter . I started reading the book from 2001 , long before most of my friends had even heard of it , i started with the 3rd one.
And ever since that , there had been a growing fondness for the one mysterious potions master, who was evil and good , misunderstood and predictable at the same time and yet trusted by the one person that mattered. Someone who was trusted by one and only one person and detested by all.
The enigmatic Alan rickman personified severus snape to its fullness.

This is all i will ever write about the enigmatic Severus Snape.

Severus Snape Vindicated

Is it possible?

• i need to create an online bingo, to be played between two computers connected through lan
  

New Linux Kernel Will Increase Intellectual Superiority

By Brian Briggs

Santa Clara, CA - A recent survey of Linux users found that the two main factors in their migration to Linux was its stability and that it made them feel intellectually superior. Developers promise that along with USB support there will be increased intellectual superiority in the upcoming 2.4 kernel release AKA the "Hubris" kernels.

"Many users complained that in our previous release that we sacrificed some intellectual superiority in the name of 'ease of use'. We aren't going to make that mistake in this release," said kernel programmer Johan Klens.

"Programmers have worked very hard in the latest kernel release trying to make even simple tasks more difficult," continued Mr. Klens, "This release is going to include the "ocsh" - the obfuscated C shell, sure to be a favorite of intellectual superiors. In addition to inputting commands as obfuscated C code, users can also input commands in binary directly to the registers. It took me 10 minutes to code the directions to 'cat' using ocsh, but it was worth it!"

"I was impressed by the stability of Linux," said Thomas Azizi "and since I'm a loser in pretty much every other facet of my life, gloating about my OS choice makes me feel great."

"Let's face it. Linux isn't for dummies," said Linux advocate Dieter Braun, "There may have been a Linux for Dummies book, but I doubt it sold a single copy. I'm sure Windows for Dummies was a best seller."

How? and Why?

Things i found most amusing and intriguing :

• How different people react differently given the same set of circumstances
  
• How i long for a rain in summer and detest rain when it comes
• How i still cant make up my mind on which linux to use since i have already installed and uninstalled 5 of them.
• How is it that when the thing i want most, presents itself, i no longer want it
• How we succeed after so many trial and errors and eventually get better.
• How the most trivial things matter most and important things trivial at times.

Why?

• is it that people so much time over orkut?
  
• is it that people spent so much time online , pursuing worthless activities?
• is it that i am so keen on writing these silly things?