Saturday, March 18, 2006

Sands of Time

Well... here's a post from me after a long time.
Dunno what prompted this title. I guess its jus the realisation that time moves real fast. Before you know it the good times come to an end and you are forced to move on. The only things you take along with you are the memories of the great times you've had. It always seems that time runs out when you are enjoying the most!

Life, it seems has this nasty habit of taking you right upto the peak and then dropping you down mercilessly to the bottom of a valley, and you can do nothing about it. Its just a real long(or short?) sequence of peaks and valleys where the climb to the peak is real tough and when you reach there and begin to enjoy you are on your way down.

I guess there's no one who escapes this vicious circle(?). And the only thing they take away are memories.

p.s. the photo was taken on a beach in pondicherry.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Back after a looooooong time!

So...here i am blogging after a loong gap. Been away from home for about 4 months now...and my jobs taking away all my time. still...i remind myself that i've got a blog somewhere and i gotta update it. And thats what i'm doing!
I'll Be Back!!

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Why did the chicken cross the road??

Answers:

Pat Buchanan: To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.

Louis Farrakhan: The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the "black man" in order to trample him and keep him down.

Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken 2000, which will both cross roads AND balance your checkbook, though when it divides 3 by 2 it gets 1.4999999999.

The Bible: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the Chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The ends of crossing the road justify whatever motive there was.

Freud: The fact that you thought that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

L.A. Police Department: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Saddam Hussein #2: It is the Mother of all Chickens.

Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed it, I've not been told!

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken nature.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Joseph Stalin: I don't care. Catch it. I need its eggs to make my omelette.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and, therefore, synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

John Locke: Because he was exercising his natural right to liberty.

Albert Camus: It doesn't matter; the chicken's actions have no meaning except to him.

Mulder: It was a government conspiracy.

Scully: It was a simple bio-mechanical reflex that is commonly found in chickens.

Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically dispositioned to cross roads.

Darwin #2: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Oliver Stone: The question is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" but is rather "Who was crossing the road at the same time whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"

Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place anyway?"

The Pope: That is only for God to know.

Immanuel Kant: The chicken, being an autonomous being, chose to cross the road of his own free will.

Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

M.C.Escher: That depends on which plane of reality the chicken was on at the time.

George Orwell: Because the government had fooled him into thinking that he was crossing the road of his own free will, when he was really only serving their interests.

Colonel Sanders: I missed one?

Plato: For the greater good.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences, which had pervaded its sensorium from birth, had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own freewill.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Emily Dickenson: Because it could not stop for death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

O.J.: It didn't. I was playing golf with it at the time.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Blog Day is here

Well...so here we are Blog Day 2005!! but...i dont seem to see much enthusiasm about Blog Day in the blogosphere....or maybe its just me...haven't been blogging much lately.
So here goes my recommendations for blogs that should not be missed:
1. http://www.intentblog.com/
2. http://anna.typepad.com/
3. http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/
only 3 though. Just stuff i've been reading recently.
Keep Blogging!

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Ode to the Nice Guys

"This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style."....read the full article

This article written for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal...describes me so well i'm shocked. Are you too one of these guys?? Share your thoughts.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Windows Vista

Its official now..the next version of windows will be called Windows Vista taking over from the codename that was Longhorn. Its due to release somewhere towards the end of 2006. The advertising tagline for Vista is "Clear, Confident, Connected: Bringing clarity to your world," according to a video of the announcement posted by Microsoft.

Frankly I was quite disappointed with the name(it really doesnt pack much ooomph..). With the amount of innovation they are said to be putting into "Longhorn" or rather"Vista" I expected a more radical change in the name. Whats more... even the new logo's released to the press aren't really groundbreaking. They are just minor modifications of the present XP logo. Hopefully the OS doesn't end up being a mod of XP!! Microsoft have always been a company that has promised much but failed to meet the expectations of their end users but still control the market!

Get the logos here: Click Me!

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

An Addictive Puzzle

http://people.ex.ac.uk/rbd201/riddle/ame.htm
A really addictive and tough challenge awaits you here! I'm currently on level 9 but the puzzle goes on to level 60....hopefully i might be able to complete at least half of it! You really gotta pull out your thinking caps for this.

Time for some Music

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Well if you're on a dial up connection dont bother with the video that's supposed to be playing in the black box above. I'll tell you that its In The End by Linkin Park. Others..enjoy it and post a comment(dialup user's also welcome).