my all time fav. poem.
i hope this time i will follow mr. Bacchan's words.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
full names
Kenny G = Kenny Gorelick
JC Penney = James Cash Penney
HG Wells = Herbert George Wells
LL Cool J = Ladies Love Cool James
MK Thyagaraja Bhagavathar = Mayavaram Krishnamurthy Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
AA Milne = Alan Alexander Milne
BB King = Blues Boy King
ML Jaisimha = Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisimha
J Jonah Jameson = John Jonah Jameson
JK Rowling = Joanne Kathleen Rowling
JWHT Douglas = John William Henry Tyler Douglas
OJ Simpson = Orenthal James Simpson
EE Cummings = Edward Estlin Cummings
PG Wodehouse = Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
JRR Tolkien = John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
CK Nayudu = Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu
RJ Reynolds = Richard Joshua Reynolds
CB Fry = Charles Burgess Fry
AC Nielsen = Arthur Charles Nielsen
AO Hume =Alan Octavian Hume
DW Griffith = David Wark Griffith
DK Pattammal = Dammal Krishnaswamy Pattammal
WC Fields = William Claude Dukenfield
WB Yeats = William Butler Yeats
GN Balasubramanium = Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramanium
ML Vasanthakumari = Madras Lalithangi Vasanthakumari
SP Balasubramanyam = Sripati Panditaradhyula Balasubramnyam
RK Narayan = Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Naryanan
MS Subalakshmi = Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subalakshmi
James T Kirk = James Tiberius Kirk
PB Srinivas = Prativadha Bhayankara Srinivas
MG Ramachandran = Marudur Gopalamenon Ramachandran
WG Grace = William Gilbert Grace
MC Escher = Maurits Cornelis Escher
JJ Cale = Jean Jacques Cale
these are full names of some famous people.
p.s.- special thnx to Anantha
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
09/05/09 ...the busy day
Although it's too late but i would like to report 09/05/09 day here b'coz somehow there are few memories with this day.
in morning we decided to march to skit. since there was a general quiz. i along with ankit soni and jha naman reached their as early as 09.30 am. this time also i had again a clumsy quiz. prelims was bit too odd u can say kind of civil examination paper. there were question right from core history, core art and there were no question from business and almost negligible from entertainment . But anyway we made some calculated flukes and finally got a birth in top 4 teams those qualified for the finals. other teams were mnit,skit and jecrc. this quiz was somehow special. this quiz was the last quiz for that mnit team(aviral, abhishek and anuraag) coz they are done with their engineering. great guys with prodigious knowledge. it's always a pleasure to compete against them.really i am going to remember them for long time.
quiz final consist of four rounds with two odd rounds. a rajasthan round and a antakshari round(l0l).yeah thts true there was a antakshari round(we learned that by the guys of mnit,they were the winner of last year's quiz)
quizmaster started the quiz with rajasthan round. round was really a disaster for us . we scored only 5 points with a very good answer from jha naman(the height of mt. gurushikhar). next round was buzzer round. first two questions picked up very early by team mnit. i would say very very fast. coz we also knew those question.but was too late to get them. but third one i pressed the buzzer very early. fortunately we got the points. we were really competing against them so we forgot ab other teams . team skit that was ahead of us after first we didn't care of them much.
so without listening the complete we went for 4th question it was my fault it was about merger of
sun microsystem and oracle, so without giving a complete listening i pressed the buzzer. i thought they would ask trivia kind of question or a question relating to these companies or officials. but i had never imagined that they could ask question on per share bidding by oracle
hahaha.........after listening the complete question each finalist was laughing at us.
nevermind. at the end of this round we were again at zero.then there was a round antakhshari round.....lol.......from this round we started laughing and enjoying the quiz rather than trying to winning...............eventually finished third. but anyways the quiz went to deserving mnit team.
a sweet farewell for them. wishing a great life for them............
farewell hmm......after the quiz i was little upset. all efforts were in vain.i was pretty tired but i decided to go to the farewell which we are organinging for our college seniors(to be honest ..400rs bhi to wasoolne the). the party was at sunrise resort(my college owns tht) . sounds intresting naa resort in just 400 rs.........hahahaha(well i guess resort is just their another mean of coverting their black money into white, i hav learned tht later from my friends). believe me there was nothing like resort other then a swimming pool for childrens. well everybody was expecting atleast a decent food from them but here comes my college. how dare u to expect a better food from them. don't you know they are profit making machines,seeking profit in whatever happens in college.well apart from them few our fellow students had really worked hard to make this event unforgetable for our seniors.
anyway i think farewell is a greatmoment for one who is just passing out, leaving the college with all sweet and bad memories, ur dear friends and everything. it isn't matter how much u cricize ur college or u hate it at ur will but this is for sure you gonna miss these four years...................
wishing all the senior a happy and prosperous future for them.........
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Monday, May 4, 2009
an entreaty
" out of the depth, i cry to you o lord .........please give some sanity to my college and some good quizzes to me"
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
the word "classic"
what i have observed from my experiences when you devote a great amount of time in a particular interest whether it is music, movies, books or anything, your tastes will definitely slant towards the classic works in that field and more or less you starts making comparison between the classics work and the latest word. and eventually ends up criticizing the new work. unless it not peerless.
like when you devote lots of time in listening music specially rock music i have found that people always criticize the latest work and start making comparison with old classic bands( n that includes me 2) like whenever i have been in a discussion with many people with reference to movies or music or books they always came up with led zepplin or citizen cane or to kill a mocking bird.
i am also leaning towards these sort of works. but sometimes a question arises in my mind
is that all classics are benchmark for the new stuffs????????
or all we are simply following the classic benchmarks blindly?????
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Monday, April 13, 2009
indian national congress and india
election fever is now a days at it's peak. the world's largest democracy is going to select it's new government.But will it be the same(ideal) government that we have seen since the independence.
i have added the word ideal coz this is the world tht we all people always looks for.
so i starts with ruling alliance's main party india national congress. from womesh chandra bannerjee to sonia gandhi party has seen almost 125 years of india. from j.l. nehru to dr. manmohan singh india has seen 13 prime ministers(not including gulzari lal nanda) out of which 6 are/were from cogress.
and among those six 3 were from nehru-gandhi family. and as every one knows if there is any nehru-gandhi family person is there for either the party presidentship or priministership he/she is always the usual no. (1) irrespective of his or any party member's experience, wisdom. congress is the contender of world's largest democracy's top post. but my question is tht are they really a democratic party??a big question ...really b'coz i don't think they are. cause there is no such election for the party's top post party president, every nehru-gandhi is selected without any competition. in hindi there is a very good word for tht "nirvirodh". and one who try to contest the party election for top post by any mistake is sidelined by the party just like that.
poor sitaram kesri was the best example i guess.
i don't have any personal antipathy towards congress. infact my family is a loyal congress voter.
but the fact is , is there only one family to rule over the whole party?? to rule over the whole country? this isn't democracy this is monarchy. this is like that when u win war ur family member gets crown and when u loose u dont , simple as that.
another point secularism, a very useful issue for politician in a country like india. i mean are they secular? i agree with tht point that minorities and sc/st in india are not in good condition. but not b'coz of someone forced them to live like but of lack of awareness , education . i know many people won't agree with tht point. but that is truth. if u just take example of united states after abolishment of slavery none kind of reservation is provided to black community by any president, still they are now a days very good position in the society, i mean from basketball to president. blacks are not behind anybody anymore.
also i don't blame our contemporary politician for this immoral politics. the reason lies in our history of politics . here i would like to give an example famous george washington . Washington reluctantly served a second term as president. He refused to run for a third, establishing the customary policy of a maximum of two terms for a president which later became law by the 22nd ammendemnt of constitution of united states.
paradox to tht i don't need to tell mr nehru's example. i wonder this poor country has seen how many greedy politician. i couldn't see any reason why these politicians and their family mem. take politics as a carrier not as oppurtunity to server the country or society.
few days back veteran leader mr. bhairo singh shekhawat(ex vp of india) again expressed his will to return in active politics . i would like to remind the readers he is almost 86 years old.
i rest my case. god save india
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Into the wild
today i came across this beautiful movie"into the wild". into the wild is a sort of movie that leads you to thinking about life. i bet whoever has seen tht movie can't stop him without giving a shot of thinking to his life.
well the movie chronicles the true story of 24-year-old Christopher McCandless’s journey, without compass or map, into the Alaskan wilderness in 1992, based on the book of same name by jon krakauer(now a must read for me).
chris McCandless, a highly intelligent and academically successful young man,but a lil reluctant towards the system of our civilized society, has his belief in the restorative effect of nature on man’s soul.These internal clashes led McCandless, in 1990, to renounce his parents, give away to charity his savings of $25,000, burn the cash in his wallet, change his name to Alex, and effectively drop out of civilized society.
he then spend almost two years in travelling in various parts of america meeting different people from different backgrounds But his dream was always to spend several months alone in the Alaska, living off the land in the tradition of his literary heroes Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Jack London. later he spend his days thoroughly reading books and observing the each true and innocent moment of nature.
the movie is really a soul touching. into the wild has few good thoughts/lessons for life. a kind of spiritual movie but in a unique way.
@ the last part of movie he wrote in his book ""Happiness only real when shared". so true
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