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Save the day

The sound were deafening..real deafening! The stage all set, the crowd all gathered, the flags all stood up, he was shouting his heart out. The shout included what he would have done to improve water supply in the area, good roads, a healthy infrastructure so on and so forth, and what his counterpart couldn't do while he was in charge or in power.

Not that I intended to listen all of his grins, his complaints, the hardships the people are going through but some how I had to, or may be I should just say that the sound reached my ears. I was flying down the road on my 150 cc and had already faced a road block, as a result of which I had to take a diversion that connected to the other end of the blockade to the main road. To illustrate, the road block was due to the public meeting held by the opposition party. I was approaching another road block, was far from it, flying down the road on my 150 cc as usual, I had a view of it, and i felt all the blood rush to my head, the reason for which was that.. I had to take another diversion yet again, to be on track, on time to my destination. This time the road block was big with people sitting on chairs all around the stage and some standing, listening to their mighty leader dissipating the facts as if all are unaware of them. Just as I was about to take the diversion, with the stage strategically set just besides it, I was distracted by a rickshaw. I watched my 150 cc approaching the viewers who stood and sat in front of the stage IN A DISTURBING AND FRIGHTENING manner, as I lay on the ground. Instant thoughts curled up my mind, thoughts of an imperative public beating or may be an insult. The bike came to a halt as people standing, managed to make some effortless move, on time, obviously, people ran instantly towards me and the show was already distracted. For one moment I felt like I was the leader giving them the knowledge speech as they saw me in amusement. Fearing, the show might go out of his hands, the leader instantly marked his move, snapped the microphone and here I became a topic of discussion. He went on and on and on, on how bad the road conditions were, and how such unfortunate instances can be avoided. I was no more the center of attraction, I was happy. With no major injuries, I picked up my 150 cc and continued my journey.

"But Why?" Why such shrewd arrangements, why not a park, an indoor stadium, a community hall?? Why the main road has to be he victim of public addressing programs. May be the fault was mine, may be I rode faster than what I was supposed to. But it would not have happened if it were any other day, with no public meetings, and no hassles on that road. I am thankful that the shouting leader distracted the people, snatching away their center of attraction..but I still have a feeling that these arrangements can better done somewhere else than a main road!! You are here to serve the people in a much better way, why not give a good start. I thought of commenting on it in a much political manner, but that would just waste some of my precious time, and energy.



I bid Good-Bye, and a stand up Salute!!

Picture courtesy: Classic Rock stars encyclopedia.Clicked by myself


From "Billie Jean" to "Dangerous" he rocked the world and many other parts of it



The day started late for me, and it definitely started "Bad". Bad, with the news of the "KING OF POP", and mother Music's dearest son's sudden demise. The huge vinyl record with "Jackson 5" photo on it is still afresh in my mind, that was the only western record I loved to hear when I was a child. Starting his career as a child star with his four brothers and himself being a lead singer for Jackson 5, MJ as a solo star sure did make places in many people's hearts with his music. A master in an amazing and difficult piece of dancing art, the moon-walking. I somehow feel bad again and again when I see one of my pal's status message today in Facebook, it read


and the moonwalk can't be done on earth anymore

I am sure, it can't..... and am sure that nobody can take that place with those tight military jacket, tapered jeans, and black shades. As for the scandals, that's what sets the stars apart from us mortals. He will be missed and remembered by millions, for years to come, not as a controversial pedophile but as a musical and dancing genius, an idol... When a star dies it leaves a supernova brilliant, bright and enormous and that is what has happened...

MJ ruled the pop-world, and the hearts of many, and I am sure he will... forever!!


Picture courtesy: Classic Rock stars encyclopedia.Clicked by myself

May your soul Rest in Peace!!

New body, Old parts


As many of you might already know about Microsoft's recently launched new search engine, or analyzer, or travel planner or whatever they want to call it, yes I am talking about "Bing". There's a lot in the air about Bing with stories on Popular News websites tech tab to fellow bloggers blogging about it. So I am here to make justice to my Blog and give it the piece of fair share. Why the hell should it be deprived from the happiness of spreading sheer criticism?

Bing, well..ok..."weird name!" first of all. The search engine claims to be not only a search engine, but your travel planner, a decision engine etc (read more). According to Microsoft, Bing will be able to: make a purchase decision, planning a trip, research a health condition, and finding a local business. To be honest, I do not see any new or "Whoa!!"-factor in all the four verticals. I somehow find "Bing", a concoction of all the little good things that pre-existed over the internet. Bing gives you a good background image every time you open a page, or a new theme. Quite sometimes back I was doing a comparative study (not that "Thesis" kind, just a small research) on search engines, and found little sweet search engine known as Ask.com. I am not sure as of how many people know about it, but it has that wonderful theme and background thingie that "Bing" flamboyantly shows-off , and thats not all, once you have an account of yours with Ask.com, you'll be able to set your own backgrounds for the page too!! You can then set your own close-up, smiling face snap of yours taken at the Goa trip or at the amusement park, so that you get to see your own (or your loved one's smiling face every-time you search stuffs (legal or illegal) over the internet. Surprisingly, Bing's look and feel are a lot more similar to Ask than to Google or any other search site.


Bing also says that "I'll plan your travel" or "I will help you plan your travel" and so does Kayak.com . For people unaware of Kayak.com : It is a travel search engine website based out of United States, and un-surprisingly the similarity between Bings travel plan page & Kayaks travel search page is so striking that it is now confusing Kayak users. Kayak's interface is in-line with Cleartrip's interface for domestic users, an ideal Web2.0 example. This act of Microsoft made Kayak send them a legal letter.... "Cut it off!!"..."Leave us alone!!"..."Stop cloning us!!" must've been Kayaks words. I wonder why MS did not include the Mathematical "analyzer thing in Bing" (that rhymes, and it sounds odd!) just like Wolframalpha. But wait!! who would like to experiment with an approach thats in experiment mode itself, "Let them launch the Beta, we'll pull it on then!! eh eh!!"...

Note: The images above a free images available over Google.

Whats the story? Morning glory!


"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and Wise"

Yesterday I forced my room mate to create a Facebook account , "wake up! get connected" I said, not that I really wanted him to be connected in some sense. I was rather out of track for some moments and wanted something to revive upon in the hot, humid and lousy summer evening, and what else could have been refreshing than to jump up and explain the glories of status messaging.

I was feeling dry and bored with a lot of things happening around. The massive documentation* is still taking a toll on me. I just can't beat the impact of it. (*The documents were meant for the mighty Consulate). I mean, why the hell do they need so much of proof reading?, is still far from my understanding.

I had a feeling somewhere down that I should better take a nap, and I was into action the next moment. I woke up to a sudden breeze of heat across my face and I realized that it was 5a.m. in the morning already. The lights were still turned on, my Laptop still running, songs still being played on the shuffle mode with minmum volume. It felt like some precious moments of my virtual world were lost. Nevertheless, I should be happy, atleast thats what the European research says, as "19th June 2009" is supposed to be the happiest day in earth according to some blissful formula. Not just that, there are a couple of more reasons to bring that feel good factor which included India Inc. having acquired more than 140 American companies in the past 2 years saving American jobs, the new Palm Pre being much cheaper and better than iPhone 3G or Nokia's Express Music, or Shiney ahuja being held up in the 'anda chamber' (oval cell) along with Abu Salem! But the feel good factor got constantly shattered as the consulate trivia continued and I steered back and forth between the formalities and stupid policies.

I tried to convince myself , making myself understand.."its normal, everythings cool", but somehow the "5 a.m." moments flashed across my mind everytime making me blame it for all the miseries.

I hate waking up at early mornings...God! please don't make me do that again!

P.S: Whats the story morning glory! is the second album by Oasis, and every one should get hold of it.