@rgumental @dvisor

Over the last one month, we've been inundated by wikileaks with all these 'top-secret' diplomatic cable communication records .. Of-course, some good aspects have come out like the true-pictures of prisoner abuse & related stories..But I've to say, bulk of this leaks is practically useless and to a great extent, undesirable.. I came across this link  http://www.ndtv.com/article/wikileaks%20%20revelations/wikileaks-cables-singapore-called-india-stupid-japan-a-big-fat-loser-72197    today... The headline screams  'Singapore called India stupid , Japan a big fat loser'... Now if you read through the story, you would see that its some diplomat who has expressed this opinion.. Its not the stance or official position of Singapore..its just an arbitrary opinion of a diplomat.. Now the media highlights it with a catchy tagline to get reader-base.. An average news reader will be easily enraged by these kind of stories if he happens to be on the receiving side.. I...

The Mayhem in Mumbai has ended apparently...I'm not going to do a post-mortem of this..There are enough articles in almost all news sites over this..But couple of incidents that happened over this terrorist siege.. ----------------------------------- 1 .  Media has a habit of reporting statements selectively..Not sure if thats the case here..But if this guy really said this , no wonder he is often quoted as 'crown among clowns' .. What a practical joke.  ..   Jai Soniaji !!! ( PS:- Check the comments section of the news link ) ----------------------------------- 2.  Media's live war commentary --  The ATS chief is shown live on TV wearing bullet proof jacket & helmet as he enters the hotel... Later on, he is dead by a few bullet shots at his neck --Did the terrorists see the live broadcast so as to shoot at his neck ? Apparently it cannot be ruled out as media themselves reported that terrorists had setup command & control rooms in Taj & Oberoi..       NSG c...

I had to post this.. Or rather rediff gave me an opportunity .. See this news -- Impressed by Tata's One Lakh car, Sanjay Dutt chose that to gift a Tata Nano to his girl friend Manyata.. It also reports that he chose Nano over a 4 Crore car :-).. I wonder what Manyata's reaction was when she heard this 4 Crore - 1 Lakh swap ..Or call it economics of love .. Assuming he had 4 Crore money for this purpose, he can split it and give it to 400 girl-friends, past present and future.. Makes sense..Isn't it ?

This is a unique place in the road-map of Bangalore ..or even in India.. The unique features of this place .. 1) This is a four-way junction under a flyover and over an under-pass with 8 roads , 2 each in each direction , all one-ways with well visible & working signals..Technically a well-thought about and well-designed traffic plan - an extremely rare piece of engineering in India perhaps .. 2) 90% of the people don't bother about the signals at this place.. Even if the signal is green, you'll have to look to all four directions and then take your vehicle. All are alike i n breaking signals at this place..bike riders, auto-wallahs , bus/car/lorry - drivers and even cyclists. 3) Only place where you can see vehicles taking all possible directions and U-turns simultaneously even if the signal is red . -- See the snap of this place..Taken at a time when there is not much traffic..but you can still see vehicles moving in all directions.. I'll upload another one once I ...

See how a Wall-street investment banker addresses the queries of Ms. Pretty . Have to appreciate her honesty though :) . Isnt it ? I thought of drawing a2x2 matrix over this..But would be an overkill.. :-) . Ajith

Couldn't resist posting about this.. Got a mail in NITC alumni group about the 'code of conduct' published recently in NITC..The document link is this Some quotable quotes from the pdf .. 1. " Students are expected to spend their free time in the Library/Reading Room. They shall not loiter along the verandahs or crowd in front of the offices or the Campus roads. Students should refrain from sitting on places such as parapets, stairs, footpaths etc" -- Sitting in Raj-path & "looking around" used to be one of the favorite time pass of NITC'ians (or CREC'ians ) from long time back itself.. I wonder who's going to enforce this.. Are they going to appoint someone who'll chase out the students from Raj-Path in a typical school master style ? 2. "NITC Campus is a “Smoking free Campus”. " -- I didnt know that :) ..I'm not a smoker, but I really don't find anything wrong in someone smoking within their confines...

For the last couple of dayz, my gtalk status message has been "Extremely Busy", and believe me, I've been really busy. I don't think I've worked this much in the recent times... On a co-incidental note, I found that many of my friends in gtalk have status messages in a similar sense.. In addition to the usual"very busy" & " do not disturb" messages, some of them read (i) "Making me work is Cruel" (ii) " Not @ all Available " (iii) " Ping only in case of extreme emergencies " (iv) "Work is worship, but sometimes hardship too " (v) " Bugs bugging me too much " -- I notice that the number of people with such status messages have got way too high over the last week.. I know its a crazy thought, but has this 'too-much busy' schedules got to do anything with the increased duration of day-time ?? 3rd week of June has the longest days in an year..And today(June - 21 )...

I think I'm thinking a bit too much about my work nowadays.. Yesterday after work, I went to a hotel lost in thought and ordered "2 porotta and a compilation schema ( a technical term used in my work ) " .. I don't know how that word came to me then..The waiter had a puzzled look..Fortunately I realized my mistake and quickly changed it to a veg-curry.. I hope I don't do anything more stupid like this :( :( :( Current mood :- Embarrassed Immediate diagnosis :- I'm just back from a totally drenched up trip from Ooty last weekend ( We went to botanical gardens there and heavy rains started in 10 minutes ) ..So its not a problem with lack of outing.. Maybe I should get a few new books or see some funny movies. Ajith

I'm getting a dream nowadays that I'm writing my std 10 language paper again ( Malayalam paper 1) ..This is not like one of those numerous engineering subjects like Theory of computation ( which has a text book -- Lewis & Papadimitrou -- that has almost all possible printing symbols in this world) , Software Engineering ( Sommerville fame -- ask any NITCian about this book,95% chance that u'll hear #$%& ....) or Electrical engineering ( semster 1 ..- I forgot the text book name-- maybe I studied on photostats... or maybe I didnt study at all.. ) in which I somehow managed to pass the test / fool the evaluator , whatever the case may be... Malayalam first paper is something in which I scored 48 / 50 --- The dream caught me so paranoid that I actually verified the marks in the SSLC book - Any interpretations on what this dream means.. ?? Don't say that I've to go to Pareeksha Bhavan at Trivandrum and see if still my SSLC records are stil...

Right from the day A.B. senior started presenting KBC -1, I was pretty much interested in that..I remember once in those days of land-line telephone system, I used to sit at home and try dialling those inaccessible Mumbai telephone lines and try to answer the questions given by them.. In those days, there was no funda of questions being flashed in the screen during the program..U call them ,if u r fortunate to get connected they'll ask u a question, for which u have to dial the answer in that IVRS . I remember getting connected twice and answering those questions, only to lose out in the next round of random selection... Now, in KBC-II and KBC-III after the advent of airtel, the situation is actually much worse.. I subscribed to an airtel package ( 99/- ) wherein they SMS me the questions and I've to SMS the answers to get shortlisted for random selection.. The charges are 2.4/- per SMS.. To tell u how airtel makes money, just have a look at the KBC entry quest...