Big Bang theory

Nice, 'of the psychos for the nerd by the jerks!'... UnitedStates sitcom.
Well the place where am in now; they call our batch (masters and research fellows)  Magge alias dumb ppl. Well I too feel they might be in a way correct. We of course are a bit confused when enjoyment part comes. So we really are not sure of what we expect from our life!

This is so far a three season serial that will take u into a group of friends (lenord and sheldon who share the room both working in the same college. the have a neighbour (the girl next door) Penny, and are occasionally rather often visited by Howard and Rajesh (Indian). their language teh language of the engineers - which is innovative otherwise depicts the F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 

Well for a way to get entertained this is worth a bet! 

Njoy watching

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya

VTV with the so called unexpected anticlimax (well rather expected) continues the Soap version of movies that gautham menon presently continues with (apres Vaarnam aayiram). Minnale too was a bit of in the middle xcept for vivek and harris tht movie was no where to be heard. So it remains a Question are we expecting form him too much!...
Well now its upto u pple to decide to use this link / excapppu maamu


http://tamilcinemalinks.blogspot.com/2010/01/vinnaithaandi-varuvaaya.html Watch Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya

SACHIN - the name speaks

"Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it."

- Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight.

"Sometimes you get so engrossed in watching batsmen like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar that you lose focus on your job."
- Yaseer Hameed in pakistani newspaper.

 "To Sachin, the man we all want to be"
- Andrew Symonds wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.

“Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their TV sets and switch off their lives."
- BBC on Sachin

"Tuzhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?"
- Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin's catch in 2003 WC.

 Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
- Brian Charles Lara
"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin."
- Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)

"The more I see of him the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock."
- M. L. Jaisimha

"The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual,"
-  Glen McGrath

"I can be hundred per cent sure that Sachin will not play for a minute longer when he is not enjoying himself. He is still so eager to go out there and play. He will play as long as he feels he can play,"
- Anjali Tendulkar

"Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar."
- Tendulkar's daughter, Sara, tells her class her father's name after the teacher informs them of a restaurant of the same name in Mumbai.

Question: Who do you think as most important celebrity ?
Shah Rukh Khan: There was a big party where stars from bollywood and cricket were invited. Suddenly, there was a big noise, all wanted to see approaching Amitabh Bachhan. Then Sachin entered the hall and Amitabh was leading the queue to get a grab of the GENIUS!!
-  Shah Rukh Khan in an interview.
“India me aap PrimeMinister ko ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin Tendulkar par Ungli nahi utha Sakte.. “
 - Navjot Singh Sidhu on TV
He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.
- Waqar Younis
'I Will See God When I Die But Till Then I Will See Sachin'
- A banner in Sharjah
  Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world. I was bowling to Sachin and he hit me for two fours in a row. One from point and the other in between point and gully. That was the last two balls of the over and the over after that we (SA) took a wicket and during the group meeting i told Jonty (Rhodes) to be alert and i know a way to pin Sachin. And i delivered the first ball of my next over and it was a fuller length delevery outside offstump. And i shouted catch. To my astonishment the ball was hit to the cover boundary. Such was the brilliance of Sachin. His reflex time is the best i have ever seen. Its like 1/20th of a sec. To get his wicket better not prepare. Atleast u wont regret if he hits you for boundaries.
- Allan Donald  

"Sachin cannot cheat. He is to cricket what (Mahatma) Gandhiji was to politics. It's clear discrimination. "
- NKP Salve, former Union Minister when Sachin was accused of ball tempering

There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others.
- Andy Flower
"I have seen god, he bats at no.4 for India"
- Mathew Hayden  

The best one.  
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!
- Peter Rebouck - Aussie journalist

"GOD"

Swami Vivekannada says "To preach good things to people God was choosen one." No scienticfic fact does prove the godly things that are being taught to us. Then are they real! Well a form of simple commensence point lets' analyse.

Well to begin with please dobrush up your mind to the fact and theories u have. Lets be open minded. Communicationis said to break when we have preset notions and ideologies (stereotype and strong beliefs). So if you ready to break all this then continue!

Talking of the faiths that are existing

1) Christianity - the Biggest faith allows one to enter the house of worship with full costume and poeple sit and kneel to pray to god. Their, Scripture readings are receited, which are drawn from the Old and New Testaments, with many versions.

2) Islam - the aruguably most populous faith allows one to enter their place of worship with clean feet (no footwear) and a covering for hair (usually a cap). They worship in the direction of Kabba kneeling down with male doing in open and female hidden.

3) Hinduism - the religion of diversity, one need to put it into collection of similar school of thought. The Temples are visited with neatness and barefoot, western costumes are not allowed. They receite sacred sanscrit verses (rhyms) and pray in standing posture with folded hands.

4) Bhuddism - Another great faith where worship is by people sitting on the floor barefoot facing an image of Buddha and chanting. They will listen to monks chanting from religious texts, perhaps accompanied by instruments, and take part in prayers.

5) Jainism - Jains don't worship to please gods, or in the hope of getting something from gods in return. But nevertheless, Jains do worship. Their beleief is diffulct to be followed - not to harm any living things. Obstein yourself from all the wordly things etc; their prayer also is similar to Hindu (due to location).

AND SO ON ....

Wel what do I understand from that...

Muslims are from Desert where there is lots of wind and sand so they need to be clean with covered body and hair is supposed to be coveerd.

Christians are from cold western nations where they cannot think of stepping / touching floor. so they need to be fully made up.

Hindus and these budhists are from tropical region where they have variety of climate so all mixed to give them a altogether different identity.

Thus these beliefs basically helped people to realise what was good to them as a norm set upon them.

All religions does talk about Resurrection from death (christ / krishna / Zeus ...)

All talk about the sins being taken up by God himself to relieve human form his sins

To make people realise though they have comitted sins tehy can still come back and regain lyf and be better person in this world.

Thus there are many similarities (mostly all teaching the same philosophy according to the regions).

For ore scientific truths watch the linked videos :

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgRUpDDrb0&feature=fvsr"

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njU5CsrYfKM"

Electronic addiction

I started using these e-tools ... well WHAT has happened to me ...
For blogging i needed to use blogspots.
For SMS blogs i needed to tweet
To socialize with my pals in India I needed to scrap in orkut. and to them in abroad I needed Face book.
To share photos I need the picassa and Fickr
To share videos I had to upload in youtube and then ping it onto Orkut or Facebook.
and people needed to buzz, and after all this I cannot stop chatting with my OL friends nor can I stop Emailing traditionally.
Well onething that has changed this 2K is - all these have reduced my phone bills and I do use mobile to listen to songs and take photos to share again electronically.

Beware of the trial rooms!

Please don’t use the trial room of Big Bazar as there are pinhole cameras to make MMS of young girls. Even in Mrk n Spencer and Citicntre. So plz fwd 2 all the girls, also fwd 2 all the boys whi have sisters n girl frnds. It has been shown on TV9. Don’t be shy in forwading this message bcz its about protecting integrity of Indian Girls.

Competition

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones

Reason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sony’s and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India ? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India . That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smart phone bus. They admit that Apple's I phone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The "Mahabharata" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2009, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ?Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and tele presence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. ( India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton 's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India . PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then tele presence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmy gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cell phone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley ). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.