Ride to Oblivion - Vellore Drive 12-11-06

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Brahmin tamil...

Hey guys check-out this article in wiki on Brahmin tamil... Hilarious isn't it..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braahmik#Braahmik_.2F_Lesson_1
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Subbu... ( ur Chuppandi for ever )

Total Chaos

I am in one of my infamous rambling and grumbling moods tonite... Why is that my books have to be in my bookshelf and why not just strewn around in my living room? After all I live there. and why is that my office binny should be neat and spotless with everything arranged in their places? why is that my whiteboard should make sense to all and sundry? Am I not allowed to write my own crypts? What I whiteboard makes sense to me!!!Why should I always take the shortest route to my mailbox? Why not walk a new route every now and then? Why must I be organized when I can perfectly make sense out of the nonsense I create? And why must I work from 9am-5pm and not 9pm-5am when I am wide alert???

I love the chaos I create arnd me...books arnd me, my cds closeby, my papers scattered haphazardly - everything within a hand's reach. Yeah, I sometimes misplace my stuff but thats ok since I always manage to locate them. I have to endure lectures from all and sundry abt my so-called sloppiness and laziness and then help them locate their missing stuff!!!! If organized means they can find what they want when they want it, then I wonder why I am often called to help find things my 'organized' friends/family keep misplacing.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr......

Fine Leg....

Some people argue that BCCI should break away from the ICC and fix major tournaments to ensure an Indian victory. Whereas you can treat that as a comment made in a lighter vein, it is hard to separate BCCI's rise to dominance of world over the past decade from India's own economic growth.

For one, the growth has been staggering. The beneficiaries in both cases have been few. In cricket, there is a huge gulf between earnings of players at the international level and domestic levels. And most of this growth hasn't really translated into changes in infrastructure.

Back when we were kids, the papers used to scream for structural changes in Indian cricket, based on the Australian model. Today, nothing has changed. Except that the BCCI can claim to be world's richest sporting body, surpassing footballing heavyweights like Juventus, Real Madrid and Manchester United.

Unlike in the case of these football clubs, India's dominance of the economics of cricket isn't because we are/were the best for any considerable period of time. As Chappell himself puts it, our cricketers haven't won any major tournament on foreign soil in over two decades. The rise to riches in Indian cricket is not because we were superior to any of the other cricket-playing nations. It is merely a reflection of our population, and an acknowledgement of its spending power.

As India rises to prominence among nations, especially in areas where the country can assert its burgeoning middle-class, it pays to wonder whether this sheer strength in numbers alone is enough to help us remain there. When will we realise that mere brute force bends? Our policymakers would do well to learn from our experiences on the cricket field

Me and My World

Cant tell what you wont grasp
Cant show what you wont see
For my world is a notion to you
A Reality meant only for me

Bother not, if you fail to know
Worry not if I refuse to clarify
For my world lives in me
In me must It also die

If I appear insane, so be it
Its true, the way you know
I care less, for what you see
Who I am, I alone know

Wandering Minds

Some days I felt guilty because of frequent mind-wandering at work, so I find following numbers are quite comforting:

Dr. Michael Kane, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, recently sampled the thoughts of students at eight random times a day for a week. He found that on average, they were not thinking about what they were doing 30% of the time.For some students it was between 80% and 90% of the time. Out of the 126 participants, only one denied any mind-wandering at the sampled moments. Prior work has also turned up average rates of 30% to 40% in everyday life.

It appears our mind are weired to wander. "Mind wandering is not objectively good or bad. It depends on the context in which it occurs", Dr. Kane said. Mind wandering may enable us to do multi-tasking and creative thinking. Life usually doesn't demand our full attention after all.

Minds and Matters

Small minds discuss people

Average minds discuss events

Great minds discuss ideas

Noble minds work in silence

Yendaroo Mahaanubaavulu, Andariki Vandanamulu

One is losing a big piece of enjoyment in his life if he is not enjoying the intricacies of carnatic Music – Sujatha mentions in his latest katrathum pertrathum.

I am one of those unlucky person. I try to develop my listening to carnatic music but at somepoint of time i do lose out especially telugu kirtanais. But thanks to hundreds and hundreds of tamil kirtanais and pathigams. It save me and also raises my hope of getting a bit of those blisfull moments poeple get into while listening to or performing kutcheris.

I have got some decent collection of tamil kirtanais and my best of it is Oothukaadu Venkatasubbier songs by God’s own Maharajapuram santhanam. I think nobody can sing Thayae yesodha better than him. Also i have pretty decent collection of papanasan Sivan kirtanais ( Kavava is my favourite – singer sudha ragunathan ) and Bharathiyar songs ( Fav: Thikku theriyatha kaatil - Unnikrishnan ).The Icing on the cake is ‘Kurai Ondrum Illai’ Sung by MS Subbulakshmi. Everytime i listen to his song i feel something rolling in my stomach. Powerful song