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Fall Colors

Fall has come to Ann Arbor so early. Its getting chilly and the trees are changing to the fall colors.This short but sweet blossom of colors lifts up the spirits of any one after a tiring day.

Today after coming back from work, me and my roomie took some snaps of the changing fall colors.Its a scenery to behold. Guess this is final period to rejoice the surroundings before the gloomy winters takes away the fun.

Pretty Leaves
Pretty leaves are falling down,
Green, orange, yellow and brown.
Here comes one colored red,
It landed on my head.

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.

Rants

life's journeys are more fun when your moral compass hangs in front of you and swings with each step.Every one have their moments in life when they want to vent out the anger on some one who really pisses them off.

Here are my favorite things to say to some one that got on to your nerves.Its just hilarious and wondering how could people be so innovative in cussing.I haven't used any of these sentences until now and don't see an opportunity to use them in near future. I collected these artistic descriptions from various blogs.All the effort goes to the authors of these absolutely entertaining blogs like hot chicks with douche bags, passive aggressive notes etc.I just collected them from these blogs which I thought I could share with my friends.

here it goes
1)Your face is like a three day old loaf of pumpernickle rye after being urinated on by feral wolves and then masticated by a toothless billy goat.
2)You have become what you beheld, and no amount of ironic name moniker will save you from the fact you are driftwood monkey poo on a sea of crystalline narcissism and overhyped redundancies.

Who cannot laugh at yo mama jokes?here are some I collected over from twitter.
Yo momma so ugly, she make goatse cry for a unicorn chaser. (@xenijardin)
Yo momma so fat THX can't even surround her. (@mustardhamsters)
Yo momma so dumb, she went to the dentist and asked for a bluetooth.(@seanbonner)
Yo momma so stupid, she thinks the Large Hadron Collider is a gay porn film.(@xenijardin)
Yo momma's so big and ugly she lies dreaming in R'lyeh.(@Orlovsky)
Yo momma so fat she doesn't just have a low center of gravity, she has an elliptical orbit.(@seanmoriva)
Yo momma so old, she's an arguing point between Creationists and Evolutionists. (@Nightwyrm)
Yo Momma so fat, even Ralph Lauren's Photoshop team can't help her ass. (@rawkreative)
Yo momma so old she goes on carbon dates. (@sfslim)
Yo momma so dense she got her own event horizon. (@sfslim)
Yo momma so weak physicists have unified her with electromagnetism. (@sfslim)
Your momma is so fat NASA shot a rocket into her ass looking for water. (@tbias)
Yo momma so fat, she took geometry in high school just cause she heard there was gonna be some pi. (@MatthewMors)
Yo mamma so fat, China uses her to block the internet. (@thelizupdate )

This was a small effort to bring some smile on my friends faces who are going through some tense phase in life.Good luck all and every thing would be alright.

"No"

As difficult as for me to say "NO" to any thing its even more difficult for me to accept a "NO".
Alas its me and its the life.

Where are you going

Do you don't know what you don't know?

Chatting up with my friend Rajesh at work is always fun and quiet often you hear some golden quotations.Today morning he mentioned about this quote,that he read some where.The origin's of this quote really don't matter, for what we need is the awesomeness of the meaning behind these four questions. Here is the quote

"Do you know what you know?

Do you know what you don't know?

Do you don't know what you know?

Do you don't know what you don't know?"

     This quote with use of few words but with deep sense of philosophy changes the depth of the understanding of the things that happen in our life.

     I felt the last sentence "Do you don't know what you don't know?" is the most difficult of the situation one could face and realizing that what effects it had on our lives.In this age of vast amounts of knowledge and google, I am quite sure that like me ,many of us still don't know what we don't know.It does sound scary thinking of how our past deeds with our minuscule knowledge and ignorance have effected the way  our lives run.

Alas this simple quote humbles the humans  grandeur and pseudo security of how much we know and throws us to the ground from that pedestal we created, trumpeting ourselves about advancement in technology.

As an afterthought,I am still wondering what should I do to face the final question and answer it as yes.I am  pretty much sure the answer would always be no forever.Life is a big mystery and full of surprises.

Out of Mind experience

The term lazy Sunday afternoon is a metaphor for me as its that time of week when my thoughts sit down for the round table conference to discuss and argue what they want to do in my life in coming days,weeks and years.Its an intense debate among the thoughts each arguing with their past experiences and their future predictions.

Here I am watching the discussion going through twists and turns and judging them how they put up their case.They start of their debate with the best foot forward to impress me.One is asking me to keep going since it argues that if feeling down and depressed about problems being faced in life could bring an end to them,then there is a point to be sad,but its not the case. So it is asking me to face them with strong will.Then the other thought came out with the argument that a will is as strong as what the mind feels.The human mind is like a honey bee.It works hard to gather and relish the honey i.e the sweet taste of success.if the mind can not get its honey even after going through long distances and hurdles then the mind gradually starts dying from inside and starts feeling down and depressed like a honey comb with depleting honey stores.It looks normal from out side but the honey stores are getting empty.The mind gradually starts loosing its ability to generate ideas to look for the ways to gather the sweet taste of success.

Then a new thought came up with the argument that like a honey bee during difficult times when its difficult to get honey it survives by feeding on the honey in the honey comb and starts looking at different places which it never explored before.With out the honey it would not have survived to explore these areas and find new ways to get the honey.Same is the human mind,when faced with adversities in our life it gathers courage and support from the success it has achieved in life till then to replenish it self and scour further for success.The frustration and depression are like the wasps that attack the honey comb when the honey bees are weak.If the honey bees don’t feed on the honey stores in the comb,they would not have enough strength to face and repel the wasps.All the thoughts agreed to this point and I being the judge seeing the proceedings through my out of mind experience was impressed.

I gave my judgment favoring the thought of keep going and face the difficulties with strong will.My out of mind experience is over and my mind is tired after the intense debate.I am making a cup of tea with honey for my Sunday afternoon late tea.

What’s about Slumdog Millionaire?

I am an avid fan of Danny Boyle movies and his new movie Slum dog Millionaire is by far the best from Boyle.Although the movie opened early November it didn’t get much attention initially but gradually by December it won the accolades from general audience as well as critics.I watched it in December and I was really impressed by the way he depicted the story a young boy from slum in Mumbai.The audience  gave a standing ovation after the movie.

The story depicted the sad but the ground reality of the poverty and struggle for survival in one of the biggest slums in the world.The  movie’s real strength was the realistic depiction of young kids being forced in to child labor and more horrendously the way they are handicapped and thrown in to streets for begging and prostitution.It also portrayed the hope and love that triumph in the most difficult of the times.

It was destined to won many awards and I was exalted when it won four golden globe awards including the best music score by an A.R Rehman , the first Indian to win a Golden globe award.I was going  through the reviews of the movie and I came across this article that some of the Indian audiences didn’t like the portrayal of India in such a poor light exposing the underbelly of poverty that’s right next to the sprawling buildings which represent the surging  Indian economy.Even couple of my friends argued that the film showed only the negative side with out showing the positive aspects that India is experiencing.

I feel that we are missing the whole point of film making.First of all the film is based on a novel written by an Indian and Boyle did an excellent job of making a movie on that story and portraying  the reality.the story indeed is a saga of struggle, hope and love in the slums of Mumbai.The  argument that  positive aspects were not showed in the movie sounds absurd,when the whole movie is about the young boy’s  life  and his hope that carried him to meet his lady love.The movie is not some feel good movie that shows lives of people being perfect with all the happiness in their lives.A good movie can only  be made when the director makes a movie according to what the story demands rather than making a story for what the movie demands.

I feel that those who are arguing against the movie don’t realize the sad reality that these are the things that every common man faces in his life.Is it not true that children are being trafficked in to flesh trade, begging, drug business.The movie got enough media attention for highlighting the plight of the children in slums of India.This would  help in mounting pressure on  the government to tackle these issues and bring about necessary reforms and laws to eradicate this evil.Its a sad thing that,although many Indian directors showed the ugly side, they didn’t get western media attention.

The other argument that the western media portrays India in a stereotypical fashion of land of elephants, yogis and snake charmers  and poverty and this movie is no different is wrong.although it showed the poverty,the depiction of the elements of  love, hope and struggle in the lives and how  they overcome the adversities gives us enough inspiration to think about the various aspects in our lives that we take them for granted.

 

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My Sweet Simbha

She came in to our life about 2 years ago.When I first saw the sweet little thing for the first time, I fell in love right at that moment.It was the cutest pup I had ever seen.

Me and my brother thought of bringing a pet in to our family,but we were not sure how they would react to the idea of pet.But we were sure that my parents would love it once it comes in.So I took Simbha, well that was the name we kept to our Labrador puppy we bought.My brother suggested the name.

When I first brought Simbha it was 30 days old,just weaned off mother’s milk.I took a bus to my home town, the same day as I wanted to give surprise to my parents.I carried Simbha in a basket and all through the journey I kept the box on my lap.Since it was first time that Simbha was out in to outside environment,it didn’t sleep the whole night,so did I.

When my parents saw Simbha for the first time, they had mixed feelings.they liked the cute looks and when it ran towards mommy as soon I let loose her, know they are going to love it.But my mother was apprehensive how to raise it in an apartment as the Labrador breed needs lots of space to run around the house and space is a constraint.

here is the first photograph of Simbha when we got it to our home.

Since then the happiness it brought in our family was immense.The unconditional love, the way it greets us when we come back from work relieves all the tensions.

Here are some of the snaps that we took.

Now after two years of coming in to our lives, its like another human .My parents talk to it as if conversing with a person.It listens and understands what ever my parents talk.They have to talk secretly if they are planning to go out.Its crazy for car rides.Every evening when dad comes back from office, it sits near him and makes sounds asking him to take out.The way it jumps around when it sees dad picking up the car keys is one delight to watch.

When ever we call up home, my parents switches on the speaker phone and it recognizes our voice when we call her name and tries to grab the phone from their hands.

I some times feel that may be we humans are lucky to have dogs in our lives because the true love and devotion it shows makes us realize we do not come any way near to it in our relations because of our prejudices, egos and conditional affection.

I am really glad to see my parents happy and stress free,thanks to simbha it removed the lonely feeling in their lives.

 

I am a great fan of Lifehacker blog and I have been experimenting with different applications and softwares they review. I recently read about how the desktop can be customized with different applications like Rocket dock, rainmeter,yahoo widgets( especially Neon Gauges), RK Launcher, Vista OS X.


Here is my modified desktop using the above mentioned applications.

Dock- RK Launcher
Dock Icons- http://skm-industries.deviantart.com/art/Carbon-Gloss-60590949
Clock and Weather- Rainmeter configs
Neon Gauges- Yahoo widgets
OS- Vista Ultimate.

Thanks to Tom0630 from lifehacker for the amazing idea. Do let me know about your opinions with your comments.