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I have got a new camera and experimenting with photographs... and recently saw this blog about thursday photography. thanks to vee. The theme for this week is Outdoors.



Clicked right out of my room's window :). its a little overexposed toward the top, but sun was rising in the morning .. i did not know how to control that :)

The day it rained...

That day it rained, the day my heart spilled blood in vein
never I thought, I would have to hide my fears and pain
that day I knew, my love would never come back again
the day it rained, to wash away tears in rain

filled with pain, I realized I have lost the game
wiping the tears, that would never seize to flow
holding my head, realizing the mistakes i have made
That day I knew, my love would never come back to me again

that day it rained, to hide the tears of pain
not knowing ever, if i would find love again
walking through the darkness, heart filled with pain
the day it rained, to wash away tears in rain

Six String Wodden Box.

should have done it or should i not
hope seems to me like a vanishing star
nothing seems to be working out
life is lost in bitter love
betrayal is the name of la belle dame

distant land is just a hop away
when it comes in to my hands
gets out melody even out of tune
sounds like heaven, feels like god
six string wooden box called guitar

wanted life to be like my guitar
sounding right in the lowest of times
lowest note begins a new octave
getting life out of every lows
six string wooden box called guitar

makes me forget the simplest fact
iam part of this complex world
caring seems to be like life on mars
acting like a candle of hope so bright
six string wooden box called guitar

Truce.

saw you as a kid, saw you as a boy
saw you in every walk of life
ammoru or antahpuram
you were the brightest of all

learning that you are no more
my heart weeps in pain
why did you go for politics
a question lingers in vein

from the moment i knew the news
always thought it should not be you
thunder strikes no matter what
we have to accept the scoop

the fact we have to stand
no more can we see you act
you are the one sweetest to god
may your soul rest in truce


Wrote this long back when Soundarya met with the tragic accident.

Hope it will be you.

I need someone to make me smile
and make my day bright,
I need someone to cherish me
and light up my night.

I need someone to help me through
the days that I feel sad,
I need someone to support me
and make me feel glad.

I need someone to give me Love
and someone who will care,
I need someone with Dreams and Hopes
that I can also share.

I need someone to comfort me
when I am feeling blue,
I need someone to cheer me up
and hope it will be You!

What makes us human...

is it because we are so fragile!

The Pursuit of Happiness

Why is it called the Pursuit of Happiness... because Happiness is something to be pursued...?

If I Could Love...

if i could love some one,
true to her, like no one.
Wish i could get some one,
true to me, like no one.

like a child, i could cry.
With out wings i could fly
shoulder on which i could rest
wiping away the pain of the past

hahd in hand, i could cross
deserts of sand, all across
stay togather till the end
sail across the stormy winds

wish i could love some one
true to my heart, like no one
wish i could find some one
who could say your my only one

My First Harmonica Tab

Song: Uthe Sab Ke Kadam
Harmonica: C Diatonic
Tabbed by: Srikanth.
( - is for Draw )

5 -5  6  6 -6 5    5 -5  6   6 -6 5
uthe sab ke kadam, dekho ram pam pam,
5 -5   6 6 6  -6 -5 5 -4
hanson aur hansaaya karo,

-45   -5 -5 -55   -4   -45   -5 -5 5  4
kabhi kushi kabhi gham, tara ram pam pam
-4 5   -5  -5 6 5   -44
hanson aur hansaaya karo

Elections in Andhra.

I have rarely touched the politics in my posts... but there is a very interesting thing that i have observed since my trip to Hyderabad. Coincidentally i landed in Hyderabad the day counting was to start and results to be announced.

The day i landed in Hyderabad, i was talking to the Autowala on the way. He says that congress should not come to power, as it has not done much for them. Interestingly he also tells me how the political parties were handing out money for the votes. That guy seemed to be very honest. He was scolding his brothers who took money for voting. He might not be a political analyst.. but at least he can give one side of the story.

A couple of days passed, and one day my mom was talking to the maid about the current government and she started scolding the congress government about the power cuts, price hikes etc etc. She too is not a political analyst.

In between i have been to a function at my sisters place. There are three people in their family and they balanced voted for 3 different parties. Post lunch there was a discussion amongst the old generation and the new. Almost everyone were talking against the election of Congress. A point to note that all the people involved in the discussion were highly educated, and were in high ranking posts.

And the day of the oath taking, while watching television, I and my mom had a thought at that time. Is the Congress Win in the elections legitimate. Somehow it all looks as if it has been staged. May be because of the impression that I had on YSR I might be talking this way. But taking samples from all the discussions above. All the varied people that were giving their opinions... all the sample population was against the current decision. But, if all these people were against.. then who voted for him???

There is also an interesting note that my mom made from our location. Talasani Srinivas Yadav, lost to a newcomer movie star Jayasudha. It seems that the Srinivas yadav had very good reputation in the constituency. He used to respond to the peoblems of downtrodden and laborers irrespective of time. Wonder how she managed to win... that too with very little campaining ( There was one news where she was not allowed to campaign by the locals ).

Rigging is not a very tough thing for the ruling parties. But the way the current results came out.. With the electronic voting machines is a little interesting. No matter what anyone has to say. This government is going to stay for 5 more years. Lets hope for Good Development, and all the people of the state be happy all the way.

The auto wala i mentioned in the begining, he liked the fact that i was talking to him.. he stopped at a tea place in between and offered me tea, chatted for a while and he payed for the tea. I offered to pay.. but he said "Anna gitla jeste getlane... ne ista gada".

I like talking to people, strangers.... but as most of you know.. im a very shy guy :P

The Awakening...

I Have been sleeping. I have been dreaming. I used to think that iam optimistic... positive thinking... but today i realized iam still sleeping... still dreaming.

I came to understand one thing today... Positive thinking only increases the probability... but it does not guarantee Success. I need to wake up. I need to keep moving.

Will keep posting more thoughts on to this space. To begin with. Here is the video of a small boy, I dont have any words to describe further.

Lazy bone.. Busy Bee

Its been quiet a while that i have posted anything here. Most of the times iam either working or being too lazy to do anything. And the rest of times watching movies. But today iam motivated by my friends persistance to blog, and taken up this again. Hope to add some more blog posts to this space before i go off again :)

Today, iam working... Bugged up with office work.. And finally trying to learn how to make dal makhani/ Mung daal :)

telugu lo chepte.. pappu vennna / pesara pappu :)

Slumdog Millionaire

First thing that comes to my mind after seeing this movie is that the way in which the story is told reminds me of "Perfume - Story of a murderer". After watching a few scenes you strongly feel as if you were in the frame, not just sensing through your vision and ears...but as a whole. Ok, not to the extent of Perfume, but yes it does touch you.

Next thing that comes to my mind is the movie "City of God", Somehow one of the threads running through the movie reminds me of that movie, yes yes the story of Jamaal's brother.

Next thing is that (no iam not going to compare it with another movie :)) the way in which the story is being told, it starts from the present time, and weaves the story in terms of flashbacks, though we know that jamaal is alive in the present time i couldnt resist in thingking in times of situation "if jamaal would get out of it or not!!!!" silly as it may sound.. but the movie is well taken.

I just saw this movie as i couldnt find any other movie to watch... i started the movie, saw it for a while... turned it off.. as i couldnt take the reality... then again i decided to get back to it, and iam glad that i did watch the complete movie.

After completely watching the movie, i read the reviews and found that the director of the movie is a very famous British film director by name Danny Boyle and the story is adapted from a novel written by and Indian author “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup. These details you could read off any review :)

One observation that i have made is that, there is a kid who plays the role of jamaal as a kid... the kid is the polio affected kid from the movie "Taare Zameen Par". He did a fantastic job. I knew he was a good actor from the movie TZP itself.. but with this movie he has shown his talent :)

Not just the kid but all the actors in the movie were excellent... and the twist in the movie comes in just before the titls at the end and after the climax... a typical bollywoodish style song and a dance sequence ;)

Last but not the least... musical scoe is given by Mr. A R REHMAN :)

People are talking about this movie to be an Oscar movie... In my personal opinion.. some things are there which might not be up to the mark.

Nevertheless its a great movie to watch, and i strongly recommend this movie to all. some scenes are so ... (i couldnt get the word.. its not scary, not disgusting, not graphic) but will leave a strong sense of disgust against people who do uch stff....

PS: its a long post.. i know... but couldnt resist as i was writing after a very log time.

Feel Like God :P

I was waiting at a signal near the entrance of the Koramangala to Domulur Intermediate ring road. There is a guy on pulsar honking.. though there is a red light. Gave him way so that he can go ahead.

There goes the green light, and i was planning a 100+ on the Rind Road. I thought i will cross the pulsar and let loose the Black Pearl. 100.... 110.... and it was still going great... i gave a little more gas and i was reaching 120 :O at this time i was almost near the Pulsar fella..... I was a little adventurous and gave a little more accelerator.... and went till 125Kmph... At this moment i started to feel a little scared and stopped. And i couldnt believe my self.... 125kmph on my Avenger.

Its an Awesome feeling :)

Using Gmail.

Using Gmail... come on, every one uses gmail. Whats new in that. Every one uses Gmail, but today i want to write about some of the cool features that are not so widely used in the gmail's user interface that made my mailing experience lot more simple :)

Simple only if you are a keyboard person :)

A prerequisite for the tips to work is to enable the keyboard shortcuts in the gmail page.

1. "gi" - When you are in any part of the gmail interface, reading a mail, spam box, drafts etc, you dont have to move your hand till the mouse.. and then move the mouse to the inbox link.. just type the letters "g" and "i" in succession and you will be taken to the "inbox"

2. "ga" - This option is similar to that of "gi" but this shortcut takes you to the "All" box, i.e It will take you to a place where you have all your mails, chat conversations and muted mails (more on muted mails later)

3. "c" - takes you to the Compose mail option :)

4. "Esc" you are in compose mail mode, you want to discard the current composition and get back to the inbox, when you type "gi" it is being typed in the address box or the textbox... What to do ;) for.. most of you who are familiar with VI editor, you know what to do. Just type "Esc" button and you are in to the command mode, then just type "gi" "ga" etc to go to the view that you want :)

5. "r" to reply to a mail, when you are reading some mail.

6. "a" to reply to all, while reading a mail

7. "f" to forward... i didn't have to tell that .. isn't it :)

8. "m" - You are reading a mail thread. ex. Friends gossiping on a particular topic.. or you are being dragged in to an unnecessary conversation.. you dont want to look at all those mails. what do you do.. you just "mute" it. Once you mute, those mail conversations will not appear in your inbox, if you want to view all the conversations including the muted mails, you just have to do "ga" and you have your conversations.

9. "z" - this option will undo the previous action that you have taken. For Example you have deleted a particular mail, and you want to undo that, just type "z"

10. "/" the best feature that i have found on gmail ;). Typing "/" will focus the cursor on to the search text box and from there starts the following host of tips that will make your life easier ;)

11. "/is:<label>" - typing "/" will take you to the search box, then you type "is:" followed by any of the labels that you have applied or the mail already has. Few of the default labels that you can use right away are "inbox" "spam" "chat".

12. "/from:" - Straight forward option, But this can also be used with any other search option, for example "/is:chat from:srikanth"

I thought of writing only a few useful tips, but couldn't resist from writing so many.. But this is not the end of the list, i will give a couple of them more and let you guys to explore further.

13. "*a" will select all the conversations, "*n" will unselect the selected conversations. "*u" selects all the unread conversations etc etc

14. The most important shortcut is the "?" this will give you onscreen help :P

The bestest best feature of gmail, is the usage of the mail aliases. I know that this trick is very old, but will give here for the rest of the crowd who are not aware of it.

You can append your email address, with a "+" symbol and create unlimited aliases. For example I have joined a mailing list called "runners for life". I can submit my mailing address to those guys as "mymail+rfl@gmail.com" where "mymail@gmail.com" is my actual mailing address.

Now create a filter in you mail options, add a new label called "rfl". The rule can set the label when ever the "to address" has "mymail+rfl@gmail.com". Above all, you can now add colors to your labels ;) the colors are limited in number, but yes they are very helpful. you can search for all the conversations with this label as "/is:rfl" and you have all the mails from the mailing list :)

The advantage with the above trick is that, you can know which of the mailing list or forum has leaked your email address to the spammers :)

I have written lot of stuff, I will stop here as my movie download has completed :)

Will come back with more information :P

Title

One night when i was at home, getting bored... thought will add an image to my blog title.. but what to add.. Thought i will make one of my own and it appeared on my title.

Those music notes transfer to the intro of music from Harry Potter.

Ting Ting di ding ding... ding ding ;)

I Have Been Tagged.

The rules:
1. Link the person(s) who tagged you - Vamsi Krishna
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

Here goes the 6 unspectacular quirks:

1. I Like to learn alot, Infact started learning a lot of things but most of the times drop it in between, some times as soon as i start ;)

2. I can open Locks with picks :) Inspired by james bond.

3. I always plan to tidy up my room next weekend :P

4. When i chat with some one, hmmmmm will occur more often than the actual text :)

5. I have a strange phobia to eat curd or pulpy items at places that iam not comfirtable with.

6. I like to drive bike very slowly at times, Intermediate Ring Road at 20-30k :)

Fellow Blogers that i would like to Tag. Sorry guys i could only get 2 bloggers :P Please continue to tag 6 bloggers :)

Nishant Shekar, Bhuvana, (Few more people whome i want to tag, but i dont want them to know ;) )

EES ON EMIT GNOL !!!!

Its been long time that i have written. I get thoughts on a daily basis bit my work is not letting me do anything else. I keep working all day without thinking about anything, Come home with a headache and just sleep. Im not even able to continue learning what ever i have started.

That is a lot of cribbing, Will do something tomorrow.

Afterlife.

Wikipedia says The terms afterlife or life after death refer to the continuation of existence of the soul, spirit or mind of a human (or animal) after physical death, typically in a spiritual or ghostlike afterworld.

There are many theories, spanning across all the civilizations about what happens to humans after death. Here are some of interesting destinations ;) that i have read somewhere. Here are some interesting theories :)

Facts:
Good people go to heaven, Bad people go to hell.
There is abundant of food in both the places.
Both of these sects don't have elbows.

Conclusions:
Since people in heaven are good, so they feed each other.
People in hell cant make friends, so they starve

Quiet interesting isn't it. Here is one more interesting quote from the Islam, these people have much more clear definitions of their dream destinations, of course after life.

The Islamic belief in the afterlife as stated in the Qur'an is unique, its official description is more detailed. The word used to describe Paradise in Islam is referred to as jannah and to describe Hell is jahannam. Jannah and Jahannam both have different levels. Souls will not get there until after the Judgment Day, but their level of comfort while in the grave depends on their belief in The God and hereafter, as well as their deeds during this life. The levels are 7 for Jannah and 5 for Hell.

After mentioning these quotes, i would like to present this quote, and i guess that you guys can easily relate where this comes from :)

Just as a man discards his old clothes and wears new ones; similarly the soul discards the old body and takes on a new one.

After reading through all this, you might be doubting why is this post going on, just feeding on the information from the Wikipedia. Here goes the part why i have actually started this post.

We live happily in this world, doing what ever deeds we do. I wouldn't tag them good deeds or bad deeds ;) as the amount of good is purely subjective.

Ok, coming to my point, we also do lot of things in our "other life", the "second life" or more clearly the "cyber life". We create many e-mail accounts, we manage our own websites, We register to a lot of mailing lists, We are part of Open Source projects, We create blogs, we have a lot of friends online whom we don't know personally other than their personal "email addresses".

Again in this "cyber life" too we have some good deeds and some bad deeds. We wont indulge with that here as well. But Some unfateful day. It so happens that we are cutoff from our "second life". The reasons can be anything ranging from "i cant think of anything here" to going offline from the first life.

Imagine what kind of a havoc it causes. May be the effect is not felt at all. People might think, that the person has just gone lazy and stopped blogging. Open source project group might think the person has lost interest and might scrap away the proj, or might clear you off from the project.

But as the soul is still there and its just the shell has worn out, The Email accounts still exist, though active only for 6 months in most cases. Receiving our mails, as if nothing has happened. Locking in all our secrets, our passwords, the only links to all the websites we maintain, links to the blogs we maintain, Links to all those friends we made in our lifetime. At least a person from your "second life" that you would like to inform that you are no more.

There should be some way around this, isn't it. I have read about how a guy tries to tackle the problem, the suggestion was to give all your "second life" passwords in your "will". But the guy also discusses the only side effect ;)

The side-effect being that your family/friends will get to know of all your darkest secrets from your "Second life". The sites you visit, the profiles you have etc etc. There can be many facets which you don't want your family/friends to know is it ;)

But some how this is a very interesting problem that has to be solved yet. "Once you are incapable of attending your cyberlife" how do you settle your accounts with that part of your life. How can you let all your friends know that you will not be online any more, what would be the fateful destination of your blog!!! what will happen to that open source project of yours. Who will answer to all those scraps you receive on your profile :(

I know that this is not a very happy post, but if you think it in other terms it is not a sad post as well :)

Its All About the Money - 2

After a long time this topic has hit me again. Somehow it occurs to me what ever we do, how much ever we do is equated in the end to "how much we make" .. show me the money baby!

This post is partly inspired by this

Some how these days it is important as a son a relative a friend, that you are in the US of A or some distant place minting out dollars or pounds .. Doesn't matter what kind of work you do.. all that matters is, $#$%@#$

Partly can we really blame the people who have these kind of expectations??? This question quiet interestingly points fingers at us, who are connecting to this post. Are we being selfish of not going to the distant land, staying in India doing what ever you wanted to do ... Just for yourself????

 
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Well it some how seems to be like a chicken and egg problem ;) But this is the situation at the ground level where software engineers are the victims.. But The Problem With Money seems to be omnipresent. It is everywhere. Nothing can be done. Below is an interesting observation made by some guy long time ago on Slashdot.

There used to be a wonderful website that provides tabulature for budding guitarists, who couldn't figure out how a particular song has to be played. This website was a breeding ground for lot of such guitarists and a few of my friends including me used to be parasites at this site. This website was called olga.net or Online Guitar Archive over net ;)

Not to be misled by a fact, that playing such songs becomes an inspiration to create much more beautiful music.. and no one here is trying to actually moneterize on the Tabulature provided by that site.

Later on a bunch of guys, thought that this website was causing havoc with the artistes by grabbing away all their money and so this website has to be closed, once and for all. It might be a customary in Indian Cinema, that a poor hero finally wins the Rich man's daughter.. but not in real. This website to this day is still closed and on their home page is a slap at all those musicians, rock stars who wanted to revolutionize the world and bring one hood, brother hood ... my foot.

Below is one interesting post that i have seen on that particular discussion.

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Right. What his 'representatives' are doing with his music seems to be the very antithesis of his philosophy. Indeed, recall the lyrics to Imagine:

Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
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Ink in my brain has dried out, i cant think of anything else to write. So dropping my keyboard for now :)


PS: Thanks for appreciating my ascii art. It looked okie okie in notepad though. ;o)