Something Called Life:

I had slight touch of fever today... so stayed at home. Nothing much to do. Eat,Watch TV, scan through the mails, relaxing and read through old papers and dairies.  In of the dairies, I found this poem which I had written in December 2005....  It is quite interesting that the state of mind I was in! Hmmm... Let's see:


      Something comes my way,
    with a slow decay. 
    Something goes in flash,
    like a stash of cash.
    Something falls apart,
    through the middle of the heart.

    Something seems so green,
    so clear and pristine.
    As I take a drag
    of a number of fag
    Someone touches me
    I fall on my knee.
    It's what life is all about!
                                  
                                   -Gatz


 

The O-banana

Obama is touring India. Well, it seems he is on a single point agenda. Jobs back home! It  was defined that the jobs will be created by selling $12bil worth of equipments which would create 50,000 odd jobs. I'm not sure how, but let's keep it that way. Whatever it is, there are some first to this events. It is the first time in the
history of US that it has come to India asking for something! back in 1950's when India asked for monetary help to improve its economy, it was turn down... and from then on... India has been reeling on a very slow growth rate... until someone proposed that time has come for India to open its markets.. that happened in 1991...

Well, then what's the problem now? The problem is...US wants India to open up the domestic market also.It seems it is in a deep shit with 9.6% unemployment rate, the economic downturn is NOT all over. With opening up of the domestic market what will happen? All the small time shops have to be shut down. Because the items which would be available in small shops will now be available in desi WALL MARTS. The main target of US is the agriculture production. India is no 2 in the world in terms of vegetable production. (You can imagine how many from the size of vegetarians). It is top 5 in production of wheat. Right now the cultivable land in US is dominated by the plants for production of oil seeds called bio fuel. our land would be used to feed the people of US whereas their land would be used for production of oil which in-turn will supply the Tankers,Warships, Aircrafts....

Welcome to the New-world of colonization! Let the war for food begin!
   
On the other hand, Are we so vulnerable to external influence? we have been influenced externally all through our history, starting from the Gupta empire till the Britishers. Nothing will change the crux of of living. Going to
chai wala and asking for a single cig will not change even if WALL mart comes and establishes its colony in India. There will still be a chai wala next to Wall mart selling his beedies. Because that's the way of life! and it will not change. I remember when i used to do my research in IISc. It is completely banned to sell cig's in the campus. But there used to be a cig wala just outside the wall of the campus selling cig's and beedies across the compound. Scientists, professors and the likes of that caliber would take a coffee and then go to this wall and buy cig from this guy who's  standing outside the campus but attached to the wall. I mean we are used to circumvent the rules.

Because we never follow any rules... be it driving on the road or buying items from the shops.. its our way! its our life! we know how to circumvent the rules to our advantage. ;) There is a fear that opening up the domestic market to US companies will ruin us completely. I ask... the farmers are suiciding now... what worst will happen more? One thing might happen... The demand for food like vegetables, grains and wheat would increase. which would drive up the costs in India. Hence the affordability by the normal person will be difficult. I see... Ton's of potatoes are getting rotten in the go-downs... Tons of wheat is getting rotten in the go-down.. who is accountable for all these. I say, the farmers will get a good price for his products if he sells his goods to US companies. Or rather US companies might come directly to the farmers to ask for vegetables, and other products. Well, i am not a economist but suitable strategy and price control would make the situation win-win. But how much win -win ? that is left for time to tell... OR rather to Mr Swami... till then let the O banana roll......


/Gattz

Down The Memory Lane

Shake down 1979
cool kids never have the time..
On a Live wire right up off the street
You and i should meet......

Perhaps the greatest moment of our lives is when we were free. Born free. To do just anything you like. We had wings, the wings of dreams. With which we would fly high. When sky was the limit. Then comes a moment where you have to move on. Earn a living. Get married. Have kids. Just when you realize that time is moving too fast. you listen to this music... The moments... the seconds.. when you would make rules... believing in you was at its prime... I spoke to one guy who works for GE. He had come to stockholm to manage a project... so i asked him what's the greatest moment of his life? Is it that he got into IIT? is it that he scored a jackpot? he said... he cherishes the moment when he was free... when he could do anything he wanted... and that moment was his college days... the fist love... air of fresh breath... the ordis, critis, merci's ... you name it! and the devas, the timmy, the dammanna's, the night outs... the mallu's, the gulti's the northie... masala chai... and there were days when we used to go to beaches... be it goa or malpe. Those were the moments. Those who lived it they will cherish.. the trees fluttering in the rain. The hot cup of tea and ciggarette in Devas... the sessionals.. The days when we didn't even care what was right or what was wrong...

Perhaps the greatest moment of lives are when we are Free. Born free. The moments are not spoiled yet. May be those dreams are naive. Now its time to have more logical dreams and pursue happiness within those boundries. Whatever the crap, i am damn sure we live those moments now. I did ask the same guy one more question. Do You ever miss those greatest moments of life? He said... ''I lived it!, Now its time to find another greatest moment''... the music slowly fades out. I go back to my memories again.

/Gatty

THE THEORY OF LOVE, LUST AND EVERYTHING ELSE

Blues were the days,
When Eve was making hays.
Things were hard to comeby,
Enough they had for a standby.
Life was boring,
The same lion roaring,
The birds humming,
Neither the winds charming.

While Adam was having an apple
Advised the angel:
“Adam and Eve
Go on a leave”
Adam knew the same ways,
The lion, birds, and the wind sway.

Adam decided to pursue
The secret little garden
Which Eve had hidden.
Eve was wise, ‘cause Adam ran out of choice
Thus began the theory of LOVE, LUST and Everything else.

--- Gatty

Climate Copenhagen: My Tree

I could see a piece of sky from my window. Its 10 am. Its cold and windy outside. There is hardly any SUN. Well it's not because of pollution, but its like that. We hardly get any sunlight during December. I was surfing through the internet and a piece of news caught my attention. It was the climate forum in Copenhagen. I had heard about similar type of forum back in 1997 something in Kyoto. I was just curious about this and started looking for more details on it. What exactly is meant by climate change? Does it mean that the naturally occurring phenomena in the environment could be/will be /might be altered to cause an unnatural phenomena in the coming future? This change in the environment will kill us all? I don’t know.

I like soy sauce especially when it is used in WOK. I browsed with the help of ''dr google'' about soy sauce. If there is anyone who knows everything other than GOD then its ''dr google'' he he he… So dr google gives me an answer stating that soy sauce is made from soya beans. Well, its so simple. My curiosity would not stop here. I looked again and again. Soy sauce is the main ingredient in Asian cooking and its spreading in the western world too... They use this for literally everything. Why not? I pondered. Its such a good sauce and mixes with every known vegetable and meat like ice in an ice cream. Hmmm….

Well, I just got more curious about this little soya beans. I mean how many people consume it around the world? I looked for it again. Dr google gives me an answer: A huge number hundereds of millions of them. I said WoW! So many. I am not the only one! Just for the sake of curiosity I went to the nearby supermarket to find out if they have soya sauce. They had it! I went to another one. They also had it! And another. They had it! That proves it! Its after all what makes the food eatable and also it flavours very well, so well that we get addicted to it! Ahhh… this human senses. To start again from where I left: So there are hundreds and millions of them who are consuming the soyasauce. But how is it possible to feed these many? Is it because of the diligence efforts made by the supermarkets and companies to procure this item no matter what? But how is it possible to produce so much amount of soyabeans to make so much soysauce? My curiosity took me to another level. I started to look for the countries who produced the most soyabeans. And there you go it was U.S! No wait.. its not! Its brazil No way! I could not get a clear idea of what going on. So I consulted some experts in economy. This is what they had to say. The consumption of soysauce had increased so much in china in the past decade that china is no longer able to produce the required quantity of soyasauce to feed the population. It outsources the production of soyabeans to Argentina & Brazil and brazil in turn becomes the largest exporter of soyabeans to china. Also the biggest grower of soyabeans, the US supplies the soyabeans to Mc Donalds... Hmmmm….. there you go. But why brazil? Is it because they have lot of land for growing crops! I asked the expert again. He said the soyabeans need hot summer and fertile land to grow, ideally river basins and need continuous flow of water for nitrogen fixation. India is not a big consumer of soya sauce and also the river basins are used for growing paddy and wheat and other crops. Also India is able to produce enough to feed its people with the available land. Hence it will not allow its land to grow other types of crops. And US is now growing crops for exporting it to Mc Donalds and other crops for making biofuel! I wonder if the people will eat burgers drink fuel in the near future… Anyways, so that makes brazil a good alternative for China!

Good. Now brazil is happy to produce soyabeans for the Chinese and the Americans as long they are stuffed with currency. But at what cost? At the cost of the rainforest! Enormous amounts of lands are being cleared to produce this single crop. The rainforest is thinning down every minute, the insects are disappearing rapidly. Animals are pushed to a very small area. Species are being extinct in this process. Trees which maintain carbon dioxide cycle are reducing day by day. So what? As long as I get to eat my WOK with soya sauce, I am happy. Do I need to get alarmed simply because one species of insect which is neither a distant relation of mine nor my ancestor gets disappeared on the face of the earth? Or Do I need to get alarmed because of my action of consuming soya sauce that makes the insects and species disappear? Well, insects’ play a very vital role in the ecosystem. They have a very special place in the ecosystem. They keep the balance of this ecosystem by pollinating plants which inturn bears fruits. Which means the soya plants can produce soya beans because of these insects! There you go…

I sit in my cosy sofa: a leather covered quilt stuffed thing, with my laptop in hand, typing this little piece of article which no one will read. I tend to imagine few things. Things about my future, about my childrens future and their childrens future. How will my children live without soy sauce, could they adapt to tomatoes instead? Few happy and shiny people will get together in Copenhagen to decide how the soyabean plants have to be grown so that I still get my portion of soy sauce without affecting the insects, animals, plants, water, CO2, etc which in turn will decide my future and my kids future and their future. Oh! My God. Our forefathers should not have put these happy and shiny people into this mess! It’s a huge burden.

May be we should start thinking about how to grow soyabeans in MARS!

/Gatty

25,016 and counting

Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Date of Birth: April 24, 1973

Place of Birth: Mumbai

Major Teams: India, Mumbai

Batting Style: Right -Hand Batsman

Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium, Leg Break, Right Arm Off Break

ODI Debut: India v Pakistan at Gujranwala, 2nd ODI, 1989/90

Test Debut: India v Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90

Height: 5'5

Let's go back 2 years. March ,2006. Ind vs Eng in India. 3 tests and 7 ODI's. First test played during March(1-5) happened to be a draw. Second test played during march (9-13) Ind bt Eng by 9 wickets. Third and Final Test, march 18 -22 Eng bt Ind. Very Very dismal performance by the giant Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He was right under the scanner of 1billion Indians and a committee of few baboons...

On March 26, 2006 an article was put here. Exactly 2 years back... Overwhelming response to sachin indicated that he was here to stay. Now, its march 26, 2008. India is back from Australian series writing of a comprehensive victory... Now dare talk about sachin's removal..!!! what a turn over of events... that's the trait "i would say" of a master...

Take a look at his records.

1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41*

3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
17. Most number of 100's in test's 38
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India 's highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman
after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris
Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three
of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first
overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,
Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian
cricketer to get all of them.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in
ODI's 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most
by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards
won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only
5 times India has lost.
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against
Australia
31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the
"Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category
in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the
Asian Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India
has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya
Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50
centuries in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75
centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s),
as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just
after Brian Lara
39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record
for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They
have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav
Ganguly is a world record
41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for
the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against
New Zealand in 1999
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run
partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav
Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41
Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000
run marks IN ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against
New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded
in ODI matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major
Cricketing nations.
49. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259
innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over
10,000 ODI runs
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest
debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the
second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20
is a current world record
55. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00
Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when
captaining the side
56. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing
nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after
Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more
runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997
(1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of
1000+ runs
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in
world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian
Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs
in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs
in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark
and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test
caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne
(145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for
India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include
14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20
that India has played.
67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in
Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka . He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record
of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in
Test cricket.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than
15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than
11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket

Rightly..." IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING "..................

Here's a little tit bit which i borrowed form wikipedia

"....In commemorating Sachin Tendulkar's feat of equaling Don Bradman's 29 centuries in Test Cricket, automotive giant Ferrari invited Sachin Tendulkar to its paddock in Silverstone on the eve of the British Grand Prix (23 July 2002) to receive a Ferrari 360 Modena from the legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher. On September 4, 2002 India's then finance minister Jaswant Singh wrote to Sachin telling him that the government will waive custom's duty imposed on the car as a measure to applaud his feat. However the rules at the time stated that the customs duty can be waived only when receiving an automobile as a prize and not as a gift. It is claimed that the proposals to change the law (Customs Act) was put forth in Financial Bill in February 2003 and amended was passed as a law in May 2003. Subsequently the Ferrari was allowed to be brought to India without payment of the customs duty (Rs 1.13 Crores or 120% on the car value of Rs 75 Lakhs). When the move to waive customs duty became public in July 2003, political and social activists protested the waiver and filed PIL in the Delhi High Court. With the controversy snowballing, Sachin offered to pay the customs duty and the tab was finally picked up by Ferrari. Tendulkar has been seen taking his Ferrari 360 Modena for late-night drives in Mumbai...."


Your blogger
Gattz




*Courtesy cricbuzz and wikipedia

TIGER (1900 - 2018) Humans ( 100 more years??)

Tigers Tigers little star

How i wonder what you are

Up above the walls so high

besides monalisa there u lie.

One fine day, i switched on the TV to hear the news at 9.... major TV channels featured briefings of count. Only 1411 left in INDIA. I frankly do not know how many hearts did stop hearing this news...Whatever the numbers be... its NOT million!!!! There were plenty of discussions and debates on tigers on various channels... sometimes i feel... we are good at debating.. we talk a lot... we express excellent ideas..views...rules...pinpoint the problem.. but y does it all boil down to "YOU DO IT" attitude... We do wake up when there is a crisis... thank god.. our FM did announce some relief... well better late than never..

After few years, there will only be 1 tiger left: Tiger Pataudi... we love tiger brand... tiger biscuit,tiger balm, tiger this...tiger that....but what's the point??? i feel govt(if we all see as the last institution of hope) has to introduce a bill which asks royalty for using tiger as a brand... Hmmm... what's wrong???

Well, given few more years to live, tigers will only be found in cages. As is the fate of White tigers. I dedicate this article to the majestic, wild, solitary cats; in the hope that some one in some corner of the world, somewhere in time would find out that the author did live along in tiger times. Valmik thaper did give the time frame of 5 more years under the present trend... but i am little bit more optimistic...( with due respect to the tiger icon).. and give 10 more years in wild. 5 or 10... doesn't matter... what's left is meager amount... a rupee coin in millionaire's hand... What a shame!!!... Shame on us!!! .....Balinese and javan tigers are extinct.. many species of animals are being extinct.. the last wild white tiger was shot in 1958... search "tiger"...find out more...

one of my friend says "All human wisdom is summed up in 3 words wait and hope". So let's wait and hope.

=
Hope that even humans take little bit more time to get extinct. Sounds interesting?? or cruel?? whatever... it is time that we see the light at least at the end...

Let's concentrate on the article below ( with due credit to the author:ronald bailey):

'Sustainability of Demographic Progress Around the World'

".. total fertility rates (TFRs) are plummeting around the world. Population stability is achieved when each woman bears an average of 2.1 kids over the course of her lifetime—one for her, one for her male partner, and a little overage to make up to childhood deaths. Today, there are sixty countries in which TFRs are below 2.1. For example, the European Union's TFR is 1.5 and no EU member state has a TFR at replacement or above. Even high population developing countries have seen steep declines in fertility. Since 1970, China's TFR fell from 5.8 to 1.6; India's from 5.8 to 2.9; Indonesia from 5.6 to 2.4; Japan's from 2.0 to 1.3; Mexico's from 6.8 to 2.4; Brazil's from 5.4 to 2.3; and South Africa's from 5.9 to 2.7. The U.S. TFR dropped from 2.55 in 1970 to around 2.1 today, largely because of the influx of higher fertility immigrants. However, the fertility of second generation Americans drops to the level of longer established Americans.."

Even though only one variable is presented TFR there are 7 other variables which determines the population increase/decrease.. If someone does math on it.. well he can give exact number of years for human existence... truth is bitter but its truth... we may not be there till then but whoever is ...IS HUMAN.... call it demographic winter.. or population plummet... its only a matter of time...

Well... that's it.

Gattz


PS: for more info please do a search on the above topic and read the article by David A Plane.

Imagine

Happy New Year!

So the TaTa's are out with nano. The one lakh car. And the Aussies seems to be getting their own medicine. The art of "Mental Disintegration". The PM's in China. The 'White color" of communism and the stock market crossed 21k barrier..Yeh dil mange more!!!

What a wonderful start to 2008.

So this blog comes after a long long time of hibernation. Well, let me keep this short. This blog will highlight few predictions which i think will mark a revolution or rather a new beginning in the Indian market.

1. Sensex - 30k.
On dec 10 2006 swaminathan predicted this "six years from now, I would expect to see the Sensex touch at least 30,000."

Its 14th jan 2008 and the sensex is already 21k and flying..... do u see 30k at the end of the year? well i can see it.

Sorry swaminathan your prediction was too realistic!!!


2. The Great Mobile slow down.

With the PDA's entering the market and the internet service providers giving the connections at the speed of light and the VOIP catching its space.... i imagine the business of telecom service providers going south wards. So "connecting people " would be much more easier using VOIP. Just Imagine........

3. Wireless Connectivity.

Ofcourse we are 1o yrs behind any developed country when it comes to wireless connectivity. But i see this gap closing down this year. Proof??...(Just Imagine..) Oh! its a bird! no its a plane!! No its wireless.... the next era of supercomputing will go wireless....

4. Lights! Camera! Power....

With the growing demand for power in india its obvious that we have to keep the CFL lamps burning and the mouse button clicking..... on cricbuzzzzzzzzz.com..... The solution? Obvious Increase the power production. There you go!!! Just go and buy the IPO... and become a millionaire.. just Imagine. Well no Enron this time i believe....

5. The China Effect.

The Himalayas are no more a barrier. With PM in China..the side effect is positive. Increase in Manufacturing sector would be a feel good factor for us and not for US. Well, the border issue is only for distraction. Go PM Go !!! The lefts have gone bankrupt!!!

just imagine more billions pouring in!!!

Just Imagine!

Gattz

Sweet Summer Sands

Gatty, as you all know, is taking a well deserved vacation in rural India. After trotting through the globe from the rustic university town of Bologna, Italy to the enigmatic Amsterdam and all places in between, he is now cooling his heals, body, head and eyes in that chick-infested town of Manipal.

This is how his typical day looks like. He wakes up in the morning to the sound of chirping birds, having their lunch time argument, in that grand old mango true in his yard. Flashback to the good old days when a bunch of waste fellows (aka mukku, gote, bryan alias up-go-dum-blue, thambi, prash and thambi's arch nemesis Macha) used to gang up in the yard, picking up raw mangoes from that grand old tree, eating it like refugees from Somalia and shouting at the top of their voices. Of course, they never gave a thought to the fact that, gatty's great-grand father had planted that tree, hoping to live for ever, watching over his future generations.

Well, the protagonist of our story is not one made of branches and leaves, but our electrical engineer, who by now has woken up and slowly, but surely completing his morning ablutions. Now his stomach rumbles and he ambles, scratching, towards the kitchen. As a force of habit, he tries to reach out to whatever is lying on a plate there. Here he is reminded of how he used to go into his kitchen in the italian town, pick up slices of bread lying around and stuff his mouth. This was, of course, before he became a master chef cooking all things Italian, right from pasta, macaroni and such dishes whose names remain forever unpronounceable to our south Indian tongue.

He is brought back to the present by a sharp pain shooting all over his knuckles. He looks aghast. The pain is the result of a sharp rap from his mother, who is busy cooking in the kitchen. Then he realizes that he is reaching out for raw fish, which has been nicely sauntered with chilly paste and other secret ingredients. This now means a delicious, mouthwatering (slurp!) fish curry rice meal. That brings a smile on our hero's face and he ambles back to the living room towards that window to the world, that piece of metal and plastic, the ubiquitous PC.

(...to be continued. Watch this space for more adventures of gatty or in brian's alien language, mattre mattre gattre gattre!!)

Vignette

Its been a long wait for me.. to write something... The following piece is from my own experience... i wrote the article in one shot..without any overlook.. Although i need not be so formal out here but i see that as soon as i submit a new post.i get something around 600 hits for the article on the first day itself.. thats somethin' man.. its like releasing a movie and making millions in the first week itself... Anyways.. i have tried a new approach of writing out here.. Its quite new experience to me and also it was fun.. I took care not to make the article Long... Blogs should be quick read types..isn't it?..Lets Start..

Scene 1: (In My room) Sunday 8th July

Its 1:15 just had breakfast...milk with oats, one big peach and choclate... I just derived an equation for the potential of a cylindrical well using cylindrical co-ordinates. The mathematica says its a transdental equation....which means.. there is no solution!!! What the %&$£!! i have to re-check.. this third order PDE is eating my brain...Wish i had concentrated more... during my UG.... Meanwhile..

(Flashback..)

MIT EE,b Section ... Maths class.. (Don't remember the name of the classroom... Probably one of those NLOOOOOOO1's....)

A Sheshappa rai's lecture.... "whats the answer"... I was wondering where the question is???

Scene 2: (PAM SuperMarket)

i enter with the basket..wear the plastic glove..i see that peach is selling for 1.69 euros, bannana 2euros (for 6), kiwi again 2euros for 4, cherries 6euros for a kilo... i take 200gms of cherries,6 bananas,4 peach (Nice peach could eb useful for breakfast) ,4 oranges..move on to the vegetable section, take tomatoes,onions, potatoes,mushrooms,chillies( there are 2 types...sweet one and the hot one..),a packet of peas, Rice, sphagetti...milk..oats.. thats the ration for 1 week.. and i go to the billing counter.. the lady there scans all the items and says 21 euros...i pay the bill and bring the items to my residence... its very hot..my T-shirt is wet.. i wish i was in a cool place... probably a place were we get to grab a glass of beer or somethin' (Pub!!) ....... Meanwhile...

(Flash back )
MIT Mess....

The place were "______________" ... Can't find the right words... i take chicken breast, palav,rice.. some curry... and finally ice cream.... Our Swami's in lungi's...serving the ice-cream...and our charlie mathegaswamy.. asks for more.. Yeh dil maange more..

Scene 3: (Residence.)

Me in my residence chatting with Nicole... meanwhile.. My mobile rings....

Me :"Hello.."
XXXX :"Hey ..its Toni."
Me :" Hey Hi..How are you man,.."
Toni :" Fine...What about beer?"
Me :" Sure..What about Florian? is he coming?"

So we decided to meet in Irish pub along with Florian... i ask for a Guinness draught.. and they go for a blonde beer..( I think it was HARP and Tennent's)

Incidentally, Football match was being played that day..we took our seats in front of the TV..this Toni was harping about the incident that he experienced in Japan... he said a girl came and kissed him on the lips.. and next day he found sleeping with her... i took a big sip of the beer... Mmmm quite a story..i said... and our Florian who hardly opens his mouth (as if lightning stuck him..)..says few words.. which we listen carefully... He was telling that in germany when it snows... the snow makes up about half a meter..we were curious.. as to how they would make about their daily lives in winter..

Anyways, the football game got over. We set overselves into a disco tech... this time to 'Transylvania'...There are 2 guards standing at the entrance... We go inside and wait at one more entrance..the guy there gives us an entry ticket.. we then take the stairs down (Underground).. A band is playing the cover of Guns and roses... we go to the drinks counter and i take Rum cola...and the bartender gives me the exit pass....all of us take a seat and the table is designed in such way that is looks like a coffin with glass cover and deadbody(skeleton) inside.. they say that there used to be a BOA... there.. quite transylvania types...we sip and sip waiting for something to happen.... the band finishes the show and the Dj takes over pumping heavy metal... ''Now thats more like it'' ... i say and we hit stage...

Its 2:00 in the morning...devastated... we head towards a plaza...(Open place...in front of the church)..from there toni and florian heads back home... i meet Nicole. she, prepares a joint..which she had bought few days ago.. from a pusher...she has this small instrument for making cigarettes... she prepares a beautiful joint... i haven't seen such a beautiful joint..anywhere... even our macha is not so skilled in preparing..what he calls BOB... By the time we finish off... its already 4 in the morning... i'm totaly blown...

Scene 4: (The travel..)

Its 8 in the morning... the train is at 9:30.. I call up ryan... he is still on the way.. Meanwhile we have already reached the station..its 9:15.. The big board says the train stops at platform 2...We are still waiting for ryan.. Its 9:20.. He appears in front of the counter and we rush towards the platform 2... " and we run and we run to catch up with the sun that is sinking..." So there we are in platform 2 at about 9:25 am... its strange.. there is no train... there.. we thought we saw the platform number right... its 9:29.. we ask the TT as to were this platform is.. he said its platform 2........ 'West' what the HECK!! now where is west???..incidentaly we were standing on east platform.. Now who the bloody hell knew there had 4 directions for a single platform.. Anyways... again " and we run and we run to catch up with the sun that is sinking.." its 9:32 we could see the sun sinking...right in front of us... we missed the train to PISA.... after 3 hrs... we were standing in front of 'leaning tower of PISA ' one of the worlds wonder...

Scene 5:(Pablo's Party...)

He had invited me to come at 2:00 in the afternoon... its 6pm.. i leave the lab and walk towards my residence... it takes me 20 min to reach. Pablo's doing his research in physics... specialization in material structure, he could cook very good 'Tortilla' (A kind of Omlette with potatoes and onions), and now he is completing his intership here in bologna and returning to Valencia,Spain. He plays good football, and always wants to keep me covered..( cause he thinks i play better than him)... Now i am standing near him with a drink in my hand called 'Sangria' a typical drink from spain.. its nothing but full of wine with fruits and water... i go around and meet some friends... i caught an eye with a girl there.. she speaks french and little bit of italian..and she was curious with the culture of india..etc etc.. went on and on for about half an hour.. i took her number and asked if she could show me around paris..

(FlashForward)

Somewhere in france....Its early morning...i come out of my house and i see kids playing in the lawn... she asks me something in french...i said i just had breakfast...

I walk around and meet this guy called Sirius.. he is from Milan.. He was high with sangria.. i could make out from his eyes.. he had been drinking since afternoon.. He is studying economy by the way..he was belting statistics about india..and said that India is already there.. i asked him where??.... he said it has beaten all of europe. and is already there.. i once again asked him clamly..Where??...he said in the next 10 yrs..India will lead the world in all fields..and its already there.. i give him a cup of sangria and ask him where??...he was pointing his finger to the sky... THERE.!!!!

Song recomendation... . i think its your turn to recommend me a song!!..


Gattz

... And the move has started....

.. India is growing at the rate of 8%...and by 2020 we will beat everyone in the planet......comfortably.

When India opened its economy in 1991, leftists warned that uncompetitive Indian companies would be killed or swallowed up by multinationals. Fifteen years later, the shoe is on the other foot: Indian companies are taking over giant multinationals.

In 2006, Indian companies raised $ 19 billion from global markets to finance foreign takeovers and internal expansion. This far exceeded the inflow of foreign direct investment (around $ 10 billion).

India has once again leapfrogged the conventional path of economic growth. Countries normally succeed in manufacturing exports before succeeding in services, but India leapfrogged to stunning success in services first. Countries normally attract large amounts of foreign investment before venturing abroad themselves, but here too India has leapfrogged into massive investment abroad without waiting for massive foreign investment in India.

The biggest takeover story of 2006 was Tata Steel’s bid to take over Britain’s Corus (the outcome is still awaited). There is a delicious historical twist in this. When Jamsetji Tata first proposed to manufacture steel a century ago, Sir Frederick Upcott, head of the Railways, was so contemptuous of Indian capabilities that he undertook to eat every ounce of steel that Tata could produce.

One century later, Tata Steel is set to take over the whole British steel industry (which is part of Corus). Sir Frederick Upcott must be turning in his grave. The empire has struck back with a vengeance.

How can Tata afford to buy Corus, which is thrice its size? Because global financiers are happy to lend Tata $ 8 billion, confident that it will do a better job than the current British owners. The Corus management itself agrees, and has backed Tata’s bid.

This is the real revolution of 2006. India has left behind the stage of being seen as a global supplier of software, generic drugs and auto components. It is now seen as a global managerial power, one that can take over multinationals across the world and improve their performance. So, global financiers are tripping over one other to fund foreign acquisitions by Indian companies.

This new Indian image owes much to Lakshmi Mittals’ success in acquiring and turning round steel plants in many continents, becoming global number one in steel. His key managers are mostly Indians. Their success has established Indian managerial capabilities in steel as being superior to American and European ones.

But Mittal is not an isolated example. Virtually every top Indian company in software, pharmaceuticals and auto has acquired foreign companies or set up greenfield factories abroad. I don’t want to bore readers with the full list of Indian acquisitions in 2006, but here are some prominent examples.

Tata Tea acquired US energy drinks manufacturer Energy Brands for $ 677 m. Dr Reddy’s Labs acquired Betapharm of Germany for $ 570 m. Suzlon acquired Eve Holdings of Belgium to become one of the world’s top manufacturers of windmills. Ranbaxy acquired Romanian pharmaceutical producer Terapia for $ 324 m. Tata Coffee acquired US company Eight o’Clock Coffee for $ 220 m.

Medium Indian companies have rushed into foreign acquisitions no less than big ones. Bharat Forge has acquired half a dozen companies in the US and Europe and become global number two in automotive forgings. It hopes to become number one by 2008. Amtek Auto would like to become number one in castings, Jain Irrigation in drip irrigation and sprinklers, Sundaram Fasteners in industrial fasteners. Essel Packaging took over Switzerland’s Propack some years ago to become global number one in laminated tubes (used for packaging toothpaste and cosmetics).

Many medium Indian companies (eg. Havells, Bharat Forge, Wockhardt) have managed to raised billions abroad for unspecified takeovers at some future date. India Inc. has acquired such a good image that it matters less and less which Indian company is raising finance, for what purpose and in which country. Global finance is willing to back Indians to take over the world.

Till recently, Indian businessmen were terrified of competing with China. But now a dozen Indian companies including Mahindra, Infosys and Sundaram Fasteners are investing in China, confident of beating the Chinese in their home ground. Essel Propack has long been number one in China.

The world now believes that Indians are excellent managers, better than those in several American and Eruropean countries. What used to be the biggest companies in the world, General Motors and Ford, today have a credit rating far lower than that of Tata, Birla, Reliance and other Indian groups. Indian companies can raise cheap international finance to acquire ailing American giants, but not the other way round. Hundreds of Indian companies have become MNCs with growing empires.

This is only the beginning of the great Indian takeover. Indian companies should aim for the sky over the next two decades. I look forward to the day when ICICI Bank takes over Citibank ; when Infosys acquires IBM: when Reliance takes over Exxon; and Tata Motors takes over General Motors.*

Its you guys out there making us proud... Why wait till 2020? ... 5yrs down the line and briton would be eating from our hands...

Gattz


* courtesy swaminomics

Silhouette

....The wait was worth it... isn't it?

The temp is 9 deg and dropping..It takes me around 10 min to walk from my room to the lab. I can feel the wind chill flowing over my body even with 3 layers of cloth over my body.

Its 8:00 am still misty outside.. Not brave enough to open the window to let air in. The heater is ON.. keeps us warm 'somewhat'...my roomie is still sleeping...but this time the roomie has changed... i have slight headache...not because of the wine i had last night but too many simulations can get you a head ache...Anyways, i goto the bathroom to start my day. I go into the TIMELINE... i take my oralB and local toothpaste called microsfere con (with) microgranules and start brushing me teeth....first on the left side after few in's and out's ,i go to the right hand side and after few in's and out's..i'm done with the brushing... About soaps, well we get the same soaps that we get in india..(atleast i found it like that..)..Palmolive.. What a name!!! Seems to be a mix of Palm oil and Olive oil in the soap.. but in any case it is after all a sodium cake... TIMELINE over... i switch on the TV... and change the channel to MTV.... These guys suck everywhere.. same songs over and over again....

Its 8:45 am...all dressed up...looking like i'm wearing a spacesuit or somethin'.. anyways i take my bag and walk towards the gate.... and into the street... Its cold..i can feel the wind chill flowing over my body... I take a detour towards a caffe bar...

Me: Ciao.
The Lady: Ciao.

Me: Uno Cappucino e Uno bombolona (a kind of italian sweet filled with Choclate)
The Lady: Ok.

Me: Grazie.
The Lady: Forie? (Outside?)

Me: Si..(Yes..)
(People generally prefer to take a quick drink inside the bar...and ofcourse chat with the lady..)

Anyways, i get cappucino, bombolona, acqua (water) and sugar packets.... Nice weather by the way..
After finishing the breakfast, i go to the counter and pay the bill which comes to 2.10 euros..

Me: Ciao ( Bye)


I walk slowly towards my laboratory... After crossing few roads and after watching few chicks (..fully covered..) i reach the laboratory...

I go into the TIMELINE.... "work".... prof comes and asks for the results.. "work"....

Its 12:30pm.. time for a pizza... Me and my friend go to a resturant ... we order for verdure (vegitable) Pizza... stuffed with olive oil and cheese we can see the vegitables cooked and lying on top of the pizza... i take a bite.. Mmmmmm absolutely marvelous.... So after about 30-40 min we leave the place paying him around 20 bucks...

Its 2:00 pm, i am in the lab..fully stuffed.. can't say how much but upto to the rim.. no more TIMELINES.. now time for sleep... ha ha ha..... to reduce the pizza hangover ( i believe i can use it here..) i go towards a coffee vending machine.. but this time only caffe.. a strong coffee without milk...


And the rest of the day in another part... so till then... song recommendation

Artist : ' the Killers ' (Las Vegas band,....) ,
Album : Sams town ,
Song : 'When you were Young'

and

Artist : ' MUSE' (British band without british accent...) ,
Album : Black holes and revelations ,
Song : ' Starlight'

So till then... happpy blogging and i hope that i increase the frequency of my posts.. and by the way howz the guy in the foto and his new car?


gattz

What's the difference?

There are two things which i wanted to share..

Firstly,

I am attending italian language course..and obviously there are guys and girls from many parts of the globe...like my friend faisal from pakistan, paschen frm stuttgart, oriana from france, hot-chick from spain, joke(its pronounced like that..i donno xact wordings) from belgium..etc etc.. and then obviously countless chingis for the fill-in..

It so happend that we had overstayed without getting the permit of stay within 8 days..and we had to rush in to the foreign office 3 times..but they said that it was o.k nothing to worry about...
we were standing in the queue (Here too we have to come very early to get things done...) we met this guy from palestine called mohammed.

Me:Hey mohammed. Come stai? (How are you?)

He:Molto bene..(Very Good)

Well thats as far as i can go in italian and finally i had to stick to english for the next talk onwards.. as a matter of fact even he too.. He ahs come here to study medicine.. and just completed his high school..i mean 12th as we call it here..

He:Well, here i am having a tough time with the food..Back in palestine we get lot of varities..
Me: Yeah, me too..Back in india we get ot of varities..

He: Like what?
Me: Like, masal dosa,idly vada,pani puri (i think i went on and on for 5 min)..

He:Yeah even we get lot of items..

Me:Like dates,badam,pistas..etc etc..
He:Whats badam? whats pista?

Me:do u cook or u get from the market..
He: I sometimes cook..

Me:Right now only pizzas and pastas..(pointing to my friend) he doen't eat meat..
He:Oh!! and what about u?

Me:yeah i eat but only a selected ones..i mean chicken legs, chicken wings,chicken breast...but not chicken feet, chicken head and chicken feathers..

He: Oh i see..that means you don't eat beef, and pork..
me:Nailed it.

He:yeah we don't eat pork..but y u don't eat beef..?
Me: ( i had to stat the story from ramayana.. and tell him that you will find more cows walking around the roads that traffic polices)

He:Do you drink?
Me:No.

He: Yeah in quran it is not allowed to drink... Even i don't drink...that means we are same but the difference is COW..
Me: Oh! is it?

He:Do u have girlfriends?
Me:No.

He:Even i don't have girlfrinds...that means we are same... but the difference is COW..

Although i have presented a very vague cross-secion of that guy..he is really funny...

Secondly,

The above picture is of Brian burton and Themas Callaway together called Gnarls Barkley Their first album, St. Elsewhere, was released by Warner Music on April 24, 2006 in the UK and on May 9 in the US by Atlantic/Downtown Records.

"Crazy", their first single was released as a single on April 3, 2006, preceded by its release as digital download and 12" Vinyl record single in March 2006. On 2 April 2006, it became the first ever UK number one single based on download sales alone.

So what i suggest is you guys out there "Beg, Buy,Borrow,Steal or Download"... a must listen song...

i have it 'ON' as i am writing this...

So till then...

Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably

Yours truly
Gattz

A Brand New day

Blog has turned 2 this month...Happy Birthday.

So i had to wait for four hours in Frankfurt....i was directed to counter number 1C..There was a big line there..probably the boarding had started..then i found out that i had to wait for 4hrs. I went to luftansa counter...there was a big queue...a guy from africa was going to stockholm...and aunty from india was standing in front of that guy.Since the queue was long..the african guy decided that he couldn't stand in the queue..so he left his bag there and asked the aunty to look after it...So aunty was asking me as to where to i was heading?US? i said no....to Italy.Well she was going to US..so she asked all those blah blah and more blahs....there was a lady who had just joined the line...

The started moving slowly..the lady behind me asked about the bag the african had left..i said it was not mine..i think she got a little suspicious about the bag..i told her that the guy is sitting there..its his bag..but she went on with all the crap(Bombs and stuffs) and the ladies in the counter were informed about the bag...i told her that the bag belongs to the guy who was sitting there...the line had stared moving...and the guy came to pick his bag..Oh!these mindless foreingers...

I got my boarding pass....and had to wait for four hrs in the airport. At about...4 in the evening i boarded Luftansa..to bologna,Italy...the only indian on the plane.( the airhostess was good)

5:30pm i called up hotel were a room booked and confirmed the booking. i took a taxi to bologna.
6:00pm My friend was waiting for me...'Welcome to bologna' ...nice place.

Next day we were taken to university Hostel called 'Il Castellaccio'..the incharge of the hostel is from Argentina...and the worst part..is he cannot speak english...we had to manage with sign language...Nice guy..'Nestor'..


The pic shows the two towers of Bologna...


Arrivederchi (Goodbye)

Gatty

The Last Day

Thank You.

So a new canteen has been opened, our block getting renovated. The proudest block to live in because C.V.Raman stayed there. The E block.

Its 8:00am, friday. I got up early today somewhat, my roomie still sleeping. He had night shift. I reach for toothpaste : its empty. Well, whats a roomie for? I take my brush filled with toothpaste and walk towards bathroom. I realize that the bathroom has been under renovation because of the long lasting demands of the students to renovate the 80yr old bathroom..... i begin to wonder.. why does my post always contain a mention of bathroom??? anyways, i move on to the other side of the block.

Its 8:45am,friday.Next stop mess. Well i decided to do something different. I went to Coffee board, where they serve real good Idly Vadas.

Its 10:00am,Friday. i know ,i know for the rest of the day it will remain friday...but still. I am in lab now..National MEMS Design Centre.. recently our dudes have designed a new website for our lab..anyways, we clicked some pictures with our profs and all the lab members.... said goodbye to all of the guys.. Well very few labmates are remaining. Most of them have left either to US or they got good jobs.

12:30 friday, very special lunch for me.. rice, dal fry some more fry and then omlette... Take my place. Search for some familiar faces..

The rest of the day.. spend stuffing up my stuffs in the bag. No more football. No more IISc chicks (as if i had one).. no more sandwiches in faculty club... no more riding in bicycle.No more guys pestering for design problems...

Its 8:30pm Friday, i have completed stuffing almost all the materials. i reach for my back pack. one more paper left to put inside the bag. A copy of the resignation letter.

Its 9:00pm my bus is at 9:30 i figure out that it needs atleast 25min to reach the stop. i hurry up. The person puts all the luggage inside the bus. 8 more hours to reach home. Me see the busstop for the last time... Put the pillow underneath the head, reach the oblivion...

Yourz truly

Gattz

Joga Bonito

Well a game is a game is a game, as someone once said (.....probably just me). Anyway, what a wonderful month it was....right from day one, it was just pure fun.....for every match, we used to take sides and rejoice if our team wins, shake our head if it looses and then on to the next match, new sides to take and etc...then the big ones, the quarters, semis and then the final....there we were, me, gatty and the rest of the guys watching the climax of the greatest show on earth....we did expect fireworks and boy, did we get it!...all the wonderful passes, "yaaah" goals, the "ooooh" misses, the pushing and the shoving, the "oscar-winning" injuries and then the finale...not the head-butting dear, but the penalty kicks....and what a nail biting finish!...and of course, then the usual blaming and counter-blaming, blah blah. What mattered at the end was a nation with no footballing team to speak of, enjoys the global game and celebrates the victory/weeps in defeat, as if it was its own. Now, what more could we ask for? Joga Bonito !!

Heart break...

What ever said and done....Zinédine Yazid Zidane will always be remembered as the greatest footballer ever (atleast by me) ..and he was righlty given the Golden Ball award. He was the one who single handedly brought France to the finals...and single handedly deprived it of the CUP..but still i feel france should have won the FIFA cup. One cannot forget the pass he gave to ribery in the match against spain and the goal he scored after that. But ultimately what matters is not the feeling, but how many goals have been scored and Italians had it in them....LUCK. This four letter word is the one which decides between WIN and LOSE. But Zidane had that four letter word in his feets....

Commenting about the game: Italians played one of the most pathetic game i have seen. They had 9 defenders, 1 striker and a goalie. No counter attack and no attack which the italians have always been known for. In fact the attack style "Blitzkreig" was brought up by them. They fully showed this style against the germans....thats italians...thats the game they play (Both the goals scored against germans came from the clearance by the defenders) But what happend on sunday.??? were they afraid of french defence..Thuram, Mekelele....at al?

One header to Buffons gloves and the other to Materazzi's chest. I believe that RED card was a little bit harsh on him...47 seconds after the match started cannavaro almost knocked Henry COLD.... but who saw..nobody protested...So no Yellow.. no RED..and what about Figo's header in the match against holland? He was given a clean chit....anyways.. Lets not talk about who is right nor who is wrong..its all in the game..thats what makes football more interesting and continues to inspire billions of souls....Probably its the 'idiosyncracy of the genius souls'

MARADONA WAS ONE OF THEM.......................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tCoMtPuL3Q&search=maradona%20original


.............and the song which is played in back ground....

Artist: The Animals

Song: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Baby, do you understand me now

Sometimes I feel a little mad

But don't you know that no one alive

Can always be an angel

When things go wrong I seem to be bad

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Baby, sometimes I'm so carefree

With a joy that's hard to hide

And sometimes it seems that all I have do is worry

Then you're bound to see my other side

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy I want you to know

That I never mean to take it out on you

Life has it's problems and I get my share

And that's one thing I never meant to do

Because I love you

Oh, Oh baby don't you know I'm human

Have thoughts like any other one

Sometimes I find myself long regretting

Some foolish thing some little simple thing I've done

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Yes, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Yes, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

_____

Fully played with spanish guitar....Beg, Buy Borrow....a must listen song....

Your's Gattz

Votta Game....!!!

It was 5:30 pm and i knew today there was match between Argentina and Serbia & montenegro. Well my prediction was 2-0. Pretty decent i felt.. i have a long chart of predictions for all the matches...anyways, i went to mess..took a glass of milk poured tea decoction and a spoon of sugar.. there was Veg Puff to eat..i took a seat and started to eat....in front of me there was a guy who was reading 'Times' newspaper....i was waiting for that guy to leave the paper and go....After 5 min he finishes of his tea and goes away...me quickly grabs the paper and start reading...one hand tea one hand times..Oh! i forgot to tell you there is no coffee in the mess, the mess officials have protested by not giving us coffee since the coffee vending machine has broken down and it is not repaired by the hostel authorities..so u know..tit 4 tat...Ok politics apart, its 6:00pm the match starts at 6:30pm...me, finishes of the times paper and tea...and go towards the hostel TV room...TV room is not that spacious but enough for 50 guys to cramp in..but quite understood, knowing that there is a TV in each floor of the hostel. Anyways, i pick a chair and sat tightly glued to the TV. Star movies, nobody was watching that..but still it was running...everybody are waiting for 6:30 with newspapers in their hand....the clock starts ticking and people start pouring......

"Abe baaju hat.."
"sir, thoda iss taraf..."
"Can you please remove the chair...thank you"
"Neeche bait jaa..."

So now the room is packed..and one fellow rightly changes the channel to ESPN..we see harsha bhogle's face...with 2 other fellows predicting a win for ARG.

Jose Perkerman had said before the tournament, that the tactic would be to hold the possession around the penalty area and create tension before unleashing a strike when least expected.

To be brief; it was 3-0 in the first half. The 2nd goal which was netted by cambiasso was a classic. After 22 passes cambiasso nets the ball, total team effort. S&M had no answer at all..They had held Netherland to 1-0. So quite a good team..but the story is not yet over..


Second half yet to come...The game was drifting after the second half started. However Carlos Tevez came in for Saviola while Lionel Messi for Maxi and the game struck fire once again. Crespo got the goal he deserved making him the tournament’s leading scorer, after a beautiful pass from Messi. While Tevez dodged two defenders and struck a goal. Messi scored the final goal, because the score sheet just wouldn’t look right without his name on it. 6-0

They say Riquelme is the missile and crespo the warhead...deadly combination for argentina.. and pekerman has got Messi,Tevez and Aimar up his sleeves.

Match not to be missed...


So till then..Viva la Argentina..


Yours Gattz

Very Inspiring ............

There are many stories which our grand mothers used to say about the maharaja's and the ancient mythologies and their awe inspiring courage in which the good beats the evil. But here is something which generations after generations will reiterate the courage of the young lad, who with the swing of his bat taught the whole world what we can become.......

1989-1990 Pakistan v India, 1st Test, National Stadium:

Picture this: Pakistan's National Stadium, packed to the rafters with home team supporters roaring their team on against the hated enemy. In the middle, easily the most fearsome pace attack of the time - the young Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, backed by the legendary Imran Khan. Krish Srikkanth, Navjot Sidhu and Sanjay Manjrekar are blasted out in rapid succession (13/3). Prabhakar is fourth out - and a young lad of just over 16 years walks out into the cauldron.
Imran sets an attacking field, and the two fearsome young fast bowlers go for blood, with a barrage of short-pitched deliveries that buzz around the tyke's head. A ball from Younis rears up and smacks the youngster on the helmet. Concerned, the close in fielders and the bowler rush up to render assistance. The youngster shakes his head to clear it - and through the visor of his helmet, boyish eyes glare in defiance. He scored only 15 that day - but in the nerveless fashion in which he took guard again after having his bell rung, he announced himself a man among men.

Lets ask ourselves two questions:How many feet did Orville and Wilbur Wright traverse in their first flight? And what was our own biggest accomplishment at age 16?



1990, England v India, 2nd Test, Old Trafford:

England 519. India - powered by a swashbuckling 179 from Mohammad Azharuddin - 432. England in the second innings, 320 for 4 declared, leaving India 408 to make to win. What follows, is a sorry procession: Ravi Shastri, Navjot Sidhu, Sanjay Manjrekar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Azharuddin back in the hut with 109 on the board. Kapil Dev follows, 18 runs later.
And then a lad not yet old enough to qualify for a driving license drives England's attack to distraction. While Manoj Prabhakar (67 not out) holds his end up with dogged determination, the boy wonder cuts loose. A defensive innings at that point would have been hailed as a masterpiece - but 17-year-old Tendulkar attacks, shots of scintillating brilliance punctuating an unbeaten innings of 119 that carries his team to safety.

Passion to do something for the country is only amongst few.......Sachin is one amongst them....Very Inspiring.


** Courtesy Prem Panicker

Chaos Theory

What exactly is chaos? The name "chaos theory" comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data.

When was chaos first discovered? The first true experimenter in chaos was a meteorologist, named Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he was working on the problem of weather prediction. He had a computer set up, with a set of twelve equations to model the weather. It didn't predict the weather itself. However this computer program did theoretically predict what the weather might be.

One day in 1961, he wanted to see a particular sequence again. To save time, he started in the middle of the sequence, instead of the beginning. He entered the number off his printout and left to let it run.

When he came back an hour later, the sequence had evolved differently. Instead of the same pattern as before, it diverged from the pattern, ending up wildly different from the original. (See figure) Eventually he figured out what happened. The computer stored the numbers to six decimal places in its memory. To save paper, he only had it print out three decimal places. In the original sequence, the number was .506127, and he had only typed the first three digits, .506.

By all conventional ideas of the time, it should have worked. He should have gotten a sequence very close to the original sequence. A scientist considers himself lucky if he can get measurements with accuracy to three decimal places. Surely the fourth and fifth, impossible to measure using reasonable methods, can't have a huge effect on the outcome of the experiment. Lorenz proved this idea wrong.

This effect came to be known as the butterfly effect. The amount of difference in the starting points of the two curves is so small that it is comparable to a butterfly flapping its wings.

" The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does."

(Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)

This phenomenon, common to chaos theory, is also known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Just a small change in the initial conditions can drastically change the long-term behavior of a system. Such a small amount of difference in a measurement might be considered experimental noise, background noise, or an inaccuracy of the equipment. Such things are impossible to avoid in even the most isolated lab. With a starting number of 2, the final result can be entirely different from the same system with a starting value of 2.000001. It is simply impossible to achieve this level of accuracy - just try and measure something to the nearest millionth of an inch!

From this idea, Lorenz stated that it is impossible to predict the weather accurately. However, this discovery led Lorenz on to other aspects of what eventually came to be known as chaos theory.

Chaos has already had a lasting effect on science, yet there is much still left to be discovered. Many scientists believe that twentieth century science will be known for only three theories: relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. Aspects of chaos show up everywhere around the world, from the currents of the ocean and the flow of blood through fractal blood vessels to the branches of trees and the effects of turbulence. Chaos has inescapably become part of modern science. As chaos changed from a little-known theory to a full science of its own, it has received widespread publicity. Chaos theory has changed the direction of science: in the eyes of the general public, physics is no longer simply the study of subatomic particles in a billion-dollar particle accelerator, but the study of chaotic systems and how they work.

It may not be that your exsistance depended on chaos or may be it is......
Science is Beautiful isn't it?



[**Thanx to mukesh who introduced me to chaos and greg rae for the material]