Happy New Year

hi people!!
here's wishing u all a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!
ever since i have come to delhi i have been trying to put together a post to publish....but i dont know why....maybe the weather...maybe the atmosphere...i cant seem to be able to finish anything i start....Net result....i have 2 posts in the pipeline that might never see the light of day...
I thought let me atleast wish u all a Happy New Year!!!
Anyways...enjoy life and have fun....I am also doin the same here.....
Here's to Good Times Ahead!!! Cheers!!!!
Adios Amigos
sriram

On popular demand....(drum beats)......i give u.....MR.KANTH!!!!

Herosim

Read a really interesting article in Outlook about heroism. Just thought of posting some of the interesting ones :

Few questions:

• Can anyone be a hero or is it a predestined possibilty?
• Is herosim accidental or genetic ?
• Does herosim create a neurochemical response in the brain - is it a feeling ?!

Other points :

• In some heroism lies like coiled inside like a dormant giant waiting to be woken up. In others, it is the only goal, the singular reality that validates the purpose of life.
• Herosim is when ppl break out of the nature-nurture limitations and hit new dimensions of their own potential
• Hero is an ordinary man in a extraordinary situation.
• Herosim is about valour and death denial - since in all cultures man is nothing but a mortal animal.

Who is the real hero ?

• Is a kargil matyr a bigger hero or a social worker who gives hope and heatlh to street children?
• Is Microsoft Mogul Bill gates more vailant or Nkosi Jonson , the 12 yr old who died of AIDS in 2001 , inspiring millions of Africans and around the world to action in the fight against the epidemic?
• Can Veerapan and Phoolan Devi be called heroes.? After all, they too had many heroic qualities.

Finally...

We need heroes to prove that the good and the better is possible. Hero worship is all about longing to lay our hearts at their feet.

Fun with Mr.Kanth

atlast i have finished 5 exams, jus one more to go ...adv. java ... thninkin of it i jus cudnt get myself to start studyin it right now.. feelin totally exhausted. so am vetti and i jus thought that this blog hs not been updated for a long time now...

after thinkin for long on what to write i jus thought i wud scribble about what happened on friday as it was an exam day, it was full of events... thinkin about it, the first person who popped into my mind was Srikanth.. so i jus changed my plan and thought i wud write about "fun with Mr.Kanth" (he is my class third cse b, easwari engg. coll)...

any of you who comes to know of him for the first time u would get an impresssion that he is one big pazham and you wouldnt be much interested in makin friends with him .. even i thought the same thing in my 2nd sem... but trust me he is a damn funny character ..

the best part was when we had to change his hair style, his style of dressin etc. etc durin our iv jus before goin to the camp fire.. we literally waged a war with his hair .. when we asked him why his hair was so unrelenting he said with a smirk... it has never been combed in the past 19 years.. then after more than an hour of fightin which included upturning hair oil, wet look gel, and i think at some point of time Rakesh's spit we gave his hair a beckham like spike in the middle...

and we realized that evenin that our hard work had its price when a girl in my class saw him and said..." hey ippdiye irundhena naane unne propose pannuven nu thonudhu" (If you continue to look like this even i might propose to you)

being with him in class is so much fun , the classes would be normal, everythin goin on as usual suddenly you would find a strong smell of vicks, and tiger balm .. when asked why he is applyin them when he was normal till then, he would say "there was a gust of cold breeze that flowed through the window" or " the fan was a bit faster today" ..

if you think that you are crazy about cricket and you are the greatest fan of the game then tell me, i would introduce you to Mr.Kanth .. he is so obsessed with the game that whatever situation you give him he is able to relate that to cricket... its so spontaneous that evryone around laughs and forgets.. including me ... so i thought i wudnt do justice to his presence of mind if i dont write it here ... so what did i do ... simply called him and talked to him for 15 minutes .. now!!! i have got quite some examples to put in here..

Situation:
we were talkin about our exams and he started tellin me about the staff who r gonna handle us next sem... i then expressed my releif that sworna wont be there as she is on maternity leave and if we are lucky she wont be there even for the next sem so life would be easy while preparin for kratos.
His reaction:(exactly as he said it)
"No no no sworna illadhe kratos ganguly illadhe indian team madhiri eppidiyavadhu nuzhanjuduva" (Kratos without sworna is like Indian team without Ganguly she ll somehow wheedle in).

you see what i mean???...
there r many such instances.. i wud leave it as such..

there are lots more like this but i thnk i ll stop with this...

Life is Good

Life is Good...
There are times when we feel that our heart is sorrounded with dark clouds of disappointment, hatred and self pity. These are time when we arent ourselves we tend to start longing for the happier time that we once used to have... we want to have company when we are alone .. we become ambivalent and yearn for some loneliness when we have company... these are the time when we have to beleive that those dark clouds are just passing ones and sun will rise once again with all its strength to fill our heart with hope and happiness.

God creates humans and treats everyone the same, leaves us in this hard and ever changing world to fight our way through...some of us fight hard and win over the fierce army of jealousy, hopelessness, hatred and the difficult times that are eternal to become great humans... these are the ones who have fought through their ways ... faced hard times and have become stronger in every such hopeless situation they have been in...

If any of you are facing difficult times ... times that are clouding your brains and heart ... eating away your hope ...take my simple advice hold onto something ... hold onto your friends, hold onto your loved ones, hold onto your parents, hold onto every small beleif that you have that will give you the samllest possible hope.. for hope is an exponential curve if there is small progress it increases rapidly... filling your heart with pride and strength to face anything...

If you do not have anything to hold onto ... if everyone who were a part of your world walks out and you feel alone and friendless hold onto yourself ...

because life is good...

Ideal use of time???

These holidays are gettin on my nerves. From a personal POV i have wasted loads of time in the hols. Like how i am doin rite now. Bcos there has been no closure to the exams its always at the back of my mind and i have not been able to start anythin new. I think half my life has been whiled away doin nothin :-(. And tat really harps on me cos every second i waste now., i am never gonna get it back. Ever. Its gone with the wind. So i really wud like to make gud use of every sec.Many a times i have wondered wat does classify as not wastin time. Personally i feel time sud be spent

* improving ur skill set. ( this encompasses a wide range of things )
* meetin / talkin to ppl : old and new. ( here again im confused cos orkut/ y! /sms/partyin is technically meetin to ppl.. but i wunder if its a waste of time ?.. i guess too much of it is. )
* physical activities. ( as in sports, yoga, exercise etc. )

But wat is really needed is a good mixture of the above. Not excess of any one thing. But the irony is wen im real busy i wil look back with nostaliga at those days wen i had nothing to do!!. Now wen i have nothing to do im cribbin bout how i wud like to busy. So , i guesss im gonna jus leave it free and enjoy da moment. ;-)

Wht has happened to me?????

I have been in Chennai my entire life ... did my skoolin here...5 years ago i wud hav told any1 who wud listen tht chennai is the best place on Earth... coz i had been too attached to my school...atleast ppl in my skool are a lot sensible n all...

I hate Easwari ...fuck!!!!!! ..... and i hate the ppl in it even more..... the most immature fuckin ppl on Earth.... of course not all are bad ... i believe most of the seniors are a lot sensible... and i like a few ppl in my year and few of the juniors... apart frm this every1 else r fuckin lousy....

I din want this blog to be obscene and with a lot of slangs but i cnt help .... if u think tht wht am writin is nt fair... i dun give a shit...FUCK OFF!!!!!

comng back to immaturity... y do ppl have to suspect every god damn person they meet... ppl here r extremely friendly while they r with u , they act as though everythng is lovely.... but they speak smthng diff at the back... y do ppl hav to be like tht ...if ppl hav any prblms with any1 jus be frank and speak it out... dont do this double game thingy... i totally hate it.... jus b frank ... it does a lot more good thn tlkin in d back and makin it worse fr the person u tlk about ...

I have nvr experienced ths sort of attitude in skool... they r the most amazin ppl i hav met ... Vidya Mandir ROCKS!!!!!......

am sure thiz is nt gonna chnge any1 ... but this is jus to vent my frustration out... i din wanna vent it out on any1 else thts y am writin as a post... if u feel wht i am sayin is wrong...and then we need to get used to ths ... plss thnk again... and if u wanna tell ur point jus comment.. and dun talk in my back.....

I hav nvr in my life imagined tht i wud strt hatin chennai.... god please help me chng this new feelin...

AI: my approach :-D

I have always had this nagging thought ever since i started readin about Artificial Intelligence in 4th semester... and this has become much more intense after writing our semester exams...

I will introduced my thoughts towards intelligent systems through a question that was asked in our semester question paper..

q) List out certain aspects of Human behaviour or Natural intelligence that can never be copied
onto an intelligent System, rather, put in a different way list the areas in which artificial
intelligence,intelligent systems can never match Human Intelligence,humans respectively.

this was just a 2 mark questions but it was a question that attracted lots of funny comments and answers..
which were like breathing, eating...and few other amusing answers which include feelings like anger,happiness,love,attraction towards others and other such feelings.

now this question acted like a stimulant and brought out those vague thoughts in my head into a more well defined form..well as a matter of fact it made me actually argue with some of dept. mates about the latter part of the so called amusing answers tht i have mentioned above(about the feelings).

As we all know everyone of us defined and also constrained by the genetic codes and these genes more or less define about our entire existence...things tht we like and dislike, our weaknesses and strengths, our feelings, are we short tempered or docile etc. etc. are all defined by this complex DNA pattern.

well i dunno much about genetics but i thought i wud guve it a try with whatever little i know.(obviously the amount i knw is miniscule)

Most of us might have also noticed that our feelings are all relative and also complemetary...ie might hate a person to the core...and i might adore another..these feelings could all be relative... ie

suppose i totally hate X...and adore another Y.

Feelings towards(X) = -(Feelings towards(Y))

I might like Z, but not as much as Y. so i could define my feelings towards Z relative to that of Y

Feelings towards(Z) = Feelings towards(Y) - t

where t could some parameter that can be expressed between a range of values.I have just given one emotion the rest could also be expressed with such parametric equations.

And we have also successfully defined the characteristics of an individual as a pattern of the basic A,T,G and C... Then why cant we simulate the purpose of A,T,G and C and define each and
every intelligent system as an instance or entity whose behaviour is characterised and constrained by the primary pattern of its simulated A,T,G and C.With equations to define the amount of feeling towards other artificial intelligent systems or humans we could try to create machines with emotions.

but of course humans are amazing creatures, with the amount processing going on in the brains the amount of learning that is done by the brain such simulations can be a total fiasco but still it was jus my thoughts....

now all these could be total stupidity on my part.. but i did not want all these to die down my grave so i just thought that i would write them down in my blog.I want to write more but am sure u ppl will start cursing me.

dont be too angry with me :-)

please comment your thoughts...

All Hail the ONION

Those of you who know me will know that I have a passion for eating onions…and those of u who didn’t know …now u do..
Unfortunately, not many others in my family share this devotion to what I consider the king of all vegetables (Brinjal was dethroned long back as far as I am concerned). Hence it is very rarely that I get to fulfill my desire of eating the above mentioned vegetable.
On occasions when I am fortunate enough to prevail upon the others to make onions, the duty of cutting this most sacred of all vegetables is thrust upon my shoulders…
Lest u underestimate the magnitude of the task facing me, let me tell u all a little story….
There were once a lady bought 3 vegetables from the market, a potato, a tomato, and an onion. The first day she cut up the potato and ate it…both the tomato and the onion cried at the loss of their friend Mr. Potato…
The next day the lady made tomato and the onion cried for its demise.
That night, the onion kept on crying at night…god taking pity on the onion came and asked it…”What are u crying for Onion”…Onion replied “When my friends died, they both had someone to cry for me…but who’s going to cry over my death??”….
God (for some godforsaken reason) decided that the onion had a point and granted it a wish that anyone who cut’s onions henceforth will have to cry and shed (what I call) onion tears whenever they cut it...

What I seek to emphasize here is that whoever u are….if u wanna cut onions … beware….and keep a couple of towels handy!!!

Anyways, back to the present, I was faced with this Herculean task of GARGANTUAN proportions a week ago…
If any of u have gotten the impression that I dislike cutting onions…let me clarify…it is an honour and a privilege for me to do such a task…the lingering smell of onions in my fingers(for quite some time) after I have finished is reward enough for undergoing such a ordeal. In addition, I also get to eat it…so I am quite happy J
Now, on to the task, let me emphasize the fact this is something that requires the utmost amount of patience and concentration….
I make a series of precise parallel incisions on the onion in all the three directions in order to achieve neatly chopped and uniformly shaped pieces, the fact remains that due to a clouding of vision, these incisions are neither parallel nor precise. It is then time for me to adapt the age old technique of chop as u please, and every chunk of onion brave enough to come near my knife is attacked with the atmost vengeance…
Anywayz, this process continued for about 15 minutes at the end of which 1 onion had been successfully dissected. Due to excessive water loss from my eyes, I decide to take a break and go chat on the phone…nice break, but what has been begun must be completed and after an additional 1 hr of hard work I am done. In front of my eyes are 5 finely (I showed no mercy) chopped onions ready for delivery to the higher authorities….
It suffices to say that I had a very nice lunch consisting of potato and onion curry accompanied by the usual variety of food.
So people, next time you eat onions, spare a thought for the person who had to cut it….
Here’s to THE ONION

Thought Provoking verses...

Was listening today some old hindi songs ( of Kishore Kumar ) my dad was playing. Really liked de verses of this one song so ( inspired by Sivaram , if i may add ) i decided to put up a part of it.

Phool Khilte Hain, Log Milte Hain
Phool Khilte Hain, Log Milte Hain Magar
Patjhad Mein Jo Phool Murjha Jaate Hain
Vo Baharon Ke Aane Se Khilte Nahin
Kuchh Log Ik Roz Jo Bichhad Jaate Hain
Vo Hazaron Ke Aane Se Milte Nahin
Umra Bhar Chahe Koi Pukaara Kare Unka Naam
Vo Phir Nahin Aate, Vo Phir Nahin Aate
Zindagi Ke Safar Mein Guzar Jaate Hain Jo Makaam
Vo Phir Nahin Aate, Vo Phir Nahin Aate

Almost al the verses of old songs rock.. New songs just dont seem to have tat magic. Wonder why.?!

I got tagged

well there is this tagging concept.. have got tagged to write 20 things about me...

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1)am damn crazy reader .. but am very specific about what i read and i love novels with a conspiracy (da vinci code for eg.) , spy novels and psycho thrillers.

2) i can make friends easily and am really close n all...... i enjoy bein with friends,

3) my life ambition is to become a professional game programmer and guru... and am actually preparin and readin abt game prog... itz damn damn tough.

4) I have a huge crush on every other good lookin girl... which includes, of course kajol, ash, jeniffer connelly... :D

5) I wanna earn a lots after i fin studyin and spend them....

6) I am not too keen on going to US,UK etc. etc..... but if i get a good opportunity there ill go... and ill stay here if i get a better one

7) am also interested in cryptography, steganography, and many toher code breakin stuff...

8) Vasili Zaitsev is my hero.. jus got impressed by d "enemy at the gates" movie.. i advice anyone who hasnt seen, to watch if they get the chance.

9)my favourite books include Bourne trilogy, harry potter, lotr,godfather,john saul books

10)If i get impressed with any book, movie or author, ill get totally obsessed ... ill do a lot of research about them... at one point of time ... i think durin my 12th i was so obsessed with lotr that i cud tell all d chapter names in reverse... and i knew most of the poems in the book too....

11) I take nothin seriously which has been my gr8est strength and weakness....

12) If i take up a job i cannot have peace until i finish it... like now i have started writin the post ... hav been thinkin for a long time now ... but still am goin on... :D

13) I like programmin a lots ... and i can sit on fr hours jus programmin without gettin bored..

14) I like to talk about things tht i have and others dont.. and try to make them feel jealous ... i wud never offend them in any way of course... for eg: "hey u knw tonite am gonna watch head of State in Star movies.. its a nice movie .. r u gonna?.. oh sorry u dun have set top box na? sorry!!!" ...

15) I like my skool a lots .. i mean wht fun we had!!!... i really miss my skool days u knw... easwari cn never come to even 10% of its standard.

16) when it comes to travellin or vacations.. i get excited and all initally .. and then after some time i get bored..it has happened everytime i have been on a long vacation.. i start thinkin about my mums coffee...

17) I totally adore tv shows like whose line is it anyway( its damn funny) , friends... and also lollu sabha..

18) yeah..comin to music.. i like all kinds of music... rahman is my all time favourite.. i like linkin park and nirvana.....

19) am a damn crazy formula 1 fan .. hav been followin f1 for more than 6 years nw... Kimi Raikkonen is my favourite .... it had been hakkinen fr some time... i dun hate schumacher of course.. but i dun like him too..

20) ok finally about me... am a very frank person, if i like or dislike smethng or smeone ... i jus tell dem ... and am easy goin too.. so if u need a gr8, faithful friend.. then u cud of course count on me anytime..... :-)

thasssiiit... so ... nw its my turn to tag.... huh thinkin of it... hey radha u hav tagged every person who blogs... u havent given me a chance to tag any1... anyway ill tag sriram, harini, nilesh again.....

Poovukellam

pooovukellAm siragu muLaithathu enthan thOttathil
viNmeen ellAm nilavAi pOnathu enthan vAnathil
muppathu nAllum muhUrtham Anathu enthan mAthathil
muLLil kUda thEnthuli kasinthathu enthan rAgathil

ithu eppadi eppadi nyAyam ellaam kAdhal seitha mAyam
ithu eppadi eppadi nyAyam ellaam kAdhal seitha mAyam

nilavai pidithu eriyavum mudiyum
nEEla kadalai kudikkavum mudiyum
kAtrin thisayai mAtravum mudiyum
kambanai muzhuka sollavum mudiyum

i love you, love you sollathAnEy ayyo ennAl mudiyavillai
suttrum ulagin vittamum theriyum
sUriyan bUmi Dhooramum theriyum
gangai nathiyin nEEllamum theriyum vanga kadalin Azhamum theriyum

kAthal enbathu sariyA thavarA ithuthAn enakku theriyavillai

otrai pArvai uyirai kudithathu
katrai kuzhal kaithu seithathu
mOdhum Adai muthamittadhu
ratham ellAm suttu vittathu

i love you, love you sollathAney ayyo ennAl mudiyavillai

mEEndum vasantham ezhunthu vittathu
mEEndum sOlai kozhunthu vittathu
idhayam idhayam malarnthu vittathu
isayin kathavu thirandhu vittathu

kAthal enbathu sariyA thavarA ithuthAn enakku theriyavillai

Now now dont thnk that am in love or something.. it is just the lyrics of a song
poovukellam by KK and Srinivas in Uyiridu uyiraaga movie..

i like the song and the lyrics .. i wudnt want to sing this to u.. trust me .. u ppl have lots of life left...

so jus thought i wud add the lyrics.

damn gud lyrics na... :D (ie if u r tamil and cud decipher it)

The True Meaning of Joy

All this talking about happiness got me thinking….
Everything is life is relative isn’t it…I mean to realize the value of happiness u need to experience sadness. You might feel really down and simply feel like giving up, that is the time when u need to simply push on, cos things are bound to get better soon…I mean …when god closes all doors open in front of u , he will surely open a window somewhere. We need to realize that life is a great leveler, if u are in bad times now, then take it as a sign of good things to follow in the future, cos if u have already had your share of sadness, u are bound to get happiness down the line to even the scales.
If u want to know the real pleasure of water…ask someone who has stayed thirsty for 2 days…if u want to appreciate the taste of a bowl of rice…ask someone who hasn’t eaten for weeks…if u want to know what finding true love is ask a person who lost someone whom he loved….
Happiness also has different meaning for each one of us…
Take for example news that I got just now…our exam that was re-scheduled for 18 has now been re rescheduled for 27.i cant go home now…cha….but most others are quite happy. Anyways, however upset and disappointed I might be now…I am sure I will enjoy my trip even more when it actually does happen.Is this an example of greater good for greater number or whatever…but in order to actually experience happiness to the utmost we must have experienced sadness.
So, whatever happens people, keep living life to its fullest….as they say time and tide wait for none…what makes u sad today will definitely lead to happier moments some other day…there is always light at the end of the tunnel....

Thokar khakar gungunana zindagi hai
Ghum peekar muskurana zindagi hai
Sukh ke sath jiye to kya jiye
Ghum bhulakar jashm manana zindagi hai

Here’s to a lot of happy days ahead…..

Superstition

Well many of us have an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome, or rather put in a different way beleive in so many things and do not try to explain some situations as a consequence of actions but give a totally illogical explanation (ie superstitions),

many people might object to this and will of course argue with me. but i will of course support this with an example. One of my friends cousin was taken ill (i mean some form Schizophrenia) and no one was able to satisfactorily explain the reasons.. because one day she was alright and the next she day looked bewildered and in a state of shock. they din know what to do and were contemplating on the next move .. finally they decided to take her to some village and consult the local (for need of a better word) spiritual leader who supposedly drives ghosts away (imagine). on bein asked why they din take her to a psychiatrist they said that "she is not mad and its just some shock" . well consulting a psychiatrist would have been the most logical solutions and they tried to give a totally illogical reason to it. people also have a bad beleif that u consult a psychiatrist only if some1s mad .. well actually thats not true. u cud go to them fr 100s of other reasons ...

do u get what i mean..

well comin to the concept of raahu kaalam... thats the most exasperating of all such beleives... my parents say not to get anything or start a work during this time... (for eg: dont get your hall ticket between 10:30 and 12:00 coz thats raahu kaalam).
nw come ooooon ... to all those who beleive in this ... imagine that u r goin to get your hall ticket and your dad or mum is an ardent beleiver of this raahu kaalam... and reminds u before going to coll to get your hall ticket way after this time and suppose you forget and get it exactly at say in the middle .... and you write your exam .. study hard day and night and then your results come out ... you find out that u have flunked (of course u wudnt :-)) in one subject.. well your mum or dad gets all flustered and angry.. nw think.... will they ever blame this misfortune on the raahu kaalam.. they will of course try to scold u for not studyin properly... So whats the point.

and the worst part is, i cannot argue with them .. ie i cannot say what i had just written .. if i did they wud say that i am too immature to understand all these :-/. and will start hinting about coming with me to get the hall ticket.. whoa imagine me coming with my parents jus to get an hall ticket.

of course there are many such instances.. and people really dont change even after realizing that what they r beleving is utter nonsense.

Matrix World

" Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.(In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.)

Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

(Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pill)
Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.
(Neo takes the red pill and swallows it with a glass of water) "



Now, the movie matrix as such is designed to be a simulation of the real world, so u cant be like totally happy. But if i consider a small variation of the matrix world where you will have everything u want ( in my matrix u cant be unhappy), then wat wud u take the blue pill or red pill??

<< blue pill : stay in the matrix world , be happy
red pill : come to terms wit reality >>

I asked this question only to two ppl til now... Scoffes and my bro.. Both ( to my utter surprise) chose the blue pill..!! But why??

According to scoffes its cos " we are happy.. and wat is the goal of life but to be happy"...

My bro said smthg like " ya..its al in the mind.. but wat matters is only the mind.. "

I am puzzled really. I wud chose the red pill for sure. Even if i am most contended in the matrix i stil wud. Because i prefer reality to illusion. Yes, being happy is important but wats the point if its not real. Its jus a simulation.Yes , u can argue tat if the simulation is soo real tat u dunno the diff betn real and matrix , den wats the harm in staying in the matrix? But its like u r being an ostrich and buryin your head into the sand. You are denying reality. Living in a make believe world.

Also,being happy al the time wud get boring. Happiness is after al relative. Anyways , I am curious to know the opinion of everyone on this issue. So plz comment away..