Browne , Bravo, Bradshaw, Bliss !!!

Obscurity was denied its place under the sun...No longer....
Epics are being scripted at the speed of Hardy Boys Novels...
First the Greek Giant killers at Euro 04...Now the "Win" or "Die" guys from the Windies....well the spirit of Sport is living its Glory years...
The calypso kings from those pretty beaches....who all these years shed reputation...while the cricket fans and connoisseurs alike shed tears....have finally, to state the cliche, risen from the ashes...
Hey but this Windies team is a shadow of their illustrious predecessors...They didn't intimidate and sizzle...They dont send shivers through the opponents' spine...
They were pitied more than anything else...They won by grit and not genius..by application not artistry...
They have shown that Spirit moves mountains and reaffirmed my faith in my favourite adage "Nothing is more powerful than the human mind"...
Picture this..Bravo,Bradshaw,Browne....these were the unlikeliest heroes ever thrown in cricket history...
What does this show? Well...Cricket and infact all activities in this planet are team effort...and synergy provides the most obvious defiance to the law of conservation of energy....
The triumph of the calypso kings was a message to all the lesser gifted, hardworking middle class Madhavans to continue the fight against odds...
It was a much deserved high for its thus far hapless captain Lara whose individual heroics were the only source of joy for the carribean cricket fans...Now the Legends of the past can walk with their heads held high...The world heaves a sigh of relief for them....

World around...no team has endeared themselves to the fans more than these gentle giants..That is the most heartening part of this victory....
Poetic Justice ? Most definitely...

Defy Deification...Generate Synergy... Thats the Mantra...

Are you Afraid of the Dark?

Hey u sidney sheldon fans...Our wait is over...the new book "Are you afraid of the dark" is out...And yours truly holds one of the copies...Yeah...wen i went to buy five point someone..i cudnt resist buyin sidney's latest suspense thriller...Yet to read it..But lookin fwd to read it and complete the sidney collection which jus requires me to, yes, finish this book....
Happy readin ;)

Five Point Someone...

To me this is THE book for ppl like me to read...No other book ahs got me so involved and obsessed...

Ok...the Headline grabbin done..let me get on to why i am goin gaga over this one...
First...The IIT IIM Combo has a certain magic to it...Any product delivered by these Creme de la creme souls has a certain appeal that has to go down well with the educated...If not for anything else atleast for the inherent almost "first natured" sattire...
This was the reason urs truly got the book in the first place...

Second...After DCH no other work of fiction either on paper or on celluloid has captured the essence of the urban youth as much as this one...and the book sets about dispelling quite a few myths abt IITians....
Third..The three friends in the book are THE "museum" specimens as far as an example to show the Implications of peer pressure....THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE GORY, THE FUNNY AND THE MEMORABLE...
the flow and the delivery style are so typical IITian and i especially liked the IIT bashing in the book...So very true and stuff which only the IITians can comment about...

More than anything the three friends Alok, Ryan and Hari are so much like any other indian guy...What the IIT can do to an average indian guy and what it must not do...Well..i really had a whale of a time readin the book...yeah in one sitting.....

Well the book certainly is on my list of Must reads....

When a Song can arouse a realization....

After a long day at work...i was feeling really dizzy and disturbed....Suddenly the work was beginning to get the better of my senses...That is when i reverted to my elixir...MUSIC...never mind if only one ear phone works...i decided to play songs from my office PC...
When...The guitars struck a chord with my heart.What divine strums.....An unconventional voice served the role of a 30 minute medidation session...When all the peace of mind a nights sleep could have given were capsuled in 3 minutes of magical music...When the bigger picture regarding the purpose of LIFE and the motto behind my existence and my immediate and future plans seemed to get clear...Well...Atleast the haze evaporated in a matter of minutes...
Hey but thats what music can do...and thats why its such an integral part of Indian Culture....And thats why as this mortal found out...Musical genius is an INVALUABLE commodity..Worth all the world...
One of the readers of this blog has a divine streak to his music...
The world requires a lot of stress relief and bliss from that guy....

Finally..For the sake of completeness..and only for that purpose..I will include the song and its composer...Vellai Pookkal from the incomparable ARRahman

WordsWorth or shud it be WordsWorst???

Unoriginal stuff...
But hey some people in this world are really patient and jobless...
And they need their moment under the sun....for the invention of words like these...

Floccinaucinihilipilification

It means "the estimation of something as worthless."

Examples:

I loved him for nothing so much as his floccinaucinihilipilification of money.
--William Shenstone, Letters

They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.
--Sir Walter Scott, Journal



Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which has 45 letters. It's a disease that miners in Africa came down with from getting silicon slivers in their lungs.



Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village in Wales. This name is given in full on the railway station. The local people do not bother to say the name in full. They refer to it as Lannfair PG.

However, there is a place with an even longer name in New Zealand. It is the name of a hill. Here it is: This is not in English though but in Maori
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu.

But if you just want long words, the usual response is antidisestablishmentarianism, and this can be found in most dictionaries.

The longest word in the dictionary containing no letter more than once is "smiley." (There is a mile between the first and last letter.)

Chemical name for the "Tryptophan Synthetase" protein is however, the longest official word ever (1,913 letters) with the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8
And it is spelled:


methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalany
lalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalany
lphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspa
rtylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleu
cylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspar
tylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylser
ylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonyliso
leucylglutaminylaspfraginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylpheny
lalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcyste
inylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylargin
ylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylgl
ycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylpheny
lalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalany
ltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylva
lylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglu
taminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalan
ylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucy
lphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartyl
aspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryl
tyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylseryl
arginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparag
inylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucy
lvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalany
lprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylser
ylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylas
partylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylser
ylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhi
stidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethio
nylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylp
rolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine.

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Phew......That was some blog entry....Duniya hai waste...Trust only copy paste...

Socrates...A Sleeping Philosopher Problem...

This particular article finds a place here for two reasons....

1. Yours truly had nothing original to ramble on...
2. actually the natural consequence of point no 1... This will make interesting reading.....


In ancient Greece(469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his
wisdom.
One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance that ran up to him
excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of
your students called Plato?"
"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to
pass a little test. It's called the "Triple Filter Test".
"Triple filter?"
"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my
student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first
Filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to
tell me is true?"
"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."
"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.
Now let's try the second filter, the Filter of Goodness. Is what you are
about to tell me about my student something good?"
"No, on the contrary..."
"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him,
even though you're not certain it's true?"
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is
a third filter - the Filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me
about my student going to be useful to me?"
"No, not really..."
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True,
nor Good, nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"
The man was defeated and ashamed.
This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high
esteem.
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It also explains why he never found out that Plato was sleeping with his wife. :-) :-) :-)


Enjoy....