Sunday, December 23, 2012
A nice way to end it all!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Adventure NXG
9 Jan 2012, 11.35pm
A tiring day after which all I could think of was dinner and sleep! A call from Partho. "Vaishu, are you up for a ride to the Shaker lake? Call the other chunnu munnus and find out who all want to come~!".
If there is one thing I cannot turn down, it is a ride to a water body. We start for the Shaker lake which is on the verge of freezing over, but it was a warm day, so why bother with the winter coats. Our PLAN was to hang out near the lake, take in the beauty and get back home in a half hour span. First trip to the lake, Partho's ghost stories to scare little kids. The second trip to pick up another chunnu munnu and drive back to the lake. Here comes the highlight of the day. Partho the wise announces for everyone to lock their car doors, so those who hadn't made sure they had. A little voice from the other side of the car.."Why is the music in the car still on,..wait, why is the car still on!?" Our dear absent minded Partho had left the car on ignition with the keys locked inside!
So much for the half hour trip with no winter coats.
Step one- Don't panic Kids! (saying that more to himself than us)
Step two- Scurry around the car to see if there is anyway inside (which was impossible thanks to his final order to check the doors!)
Step three- Call the insurance company "oops battery low on phone!" ETA: 1 hour! We're toast!(stands for-we are frost!~)
Have you ever noticed how the temperature drops suddenly when you don't have a coat with you. Well, that's what happened to us! The best way to keep yourself warm is by hopping around, and in this situation crashing on the filthy car bonnet with its collection of dust(the engine was running and warm!)
It is time to call our rescue mission! Seetharam and Sohani! Epic failure~ No response from either! These are times when mankind cannot be blamed for trying to psyche the car doors to open (and guess what, it doesn't work!)
If you have ever watched the movie "Cast Away", you'd understand exactly how that fateful one hour felt! Was there no one in the vicinity, let alone someone who could bring us a cup of coffee each!?
Hysteria sets in. Should we order some pizza and see whether the insurance or pizza reaches us first? Oh! there goes a cop car! Let's ask them to get us some coffee! Mind control in parallel- Dooooors ..Opennnnn!!! And there we see the distant headlights, and the phone chimes..Saved at last!.There comes our knight in shining armor! (the insurance company truck!)
We dumped ourselves into the warm car and drove to the nearest coffee place, IHOP for our breakfast at 3.30am, where the waitress had a good laugh at either our adventure or our pink noses and ears!(Am still not sure which!)
There ends another unexpected adventure in the Civic.
A tiring day after which all I could think of was dinner and sleep! A call from Partho. "Vaishu, are you up for a ride to the Shaker lake? Call the other chunnu munnus and find out who all want to come~!".
If there is one thing I cannot turn down, it is a ride to a water body. We start for the Shaker lake which is on the verge of freezing over, but it was a warm day, so why bother with the winter coats. Our PLAN was to hang out near the lake, take in the beauty and get back home in a half hour span. First trip to the lake, Partho's ghost stories to scare little kids. The second trip to pick up another chunnu munnu and drive back to the lake. Here comes the highlight of the day. Partho the wise announces for everyone to lock their car doors, so those who hadn't made sure they had. A little voice from the other side of the car.."Why is the music in the car still on,..wait, why is the car still on!?" Our dear absent minded Partho had left the car on ignition with the keys locked inside!
So much for the half hour trip with no winter coats.
Step one- Don't panic Kids! (saying that more to himself than us)
Step two- Scurry around the car to see if there is anyway inside (which was impossible thanks to his final order to check the doors!)
Step three- Call the insurance company "oops battery low on phone!" ETA: 1 hour! We're toast!(stands for-we are frost!~)
Have you ever noticed how the temperature drops suddenly when you don't have a coat with you. Well, that's what happened to us! The best way to keep yourself warm is by hopping around, and in this situation crashing on the filthy car bonnet with its collection of dust(the engine was running and warm!)
It is time to call our rescue mission! Seetharam and Sohani! Epic failure~ No response from either! These are times when mankind cannot be blamed for trying to psyche the car doors to open (and guess what, it doesn't work!)
If you have ever watched the movie "Cast Away", you'd understand exactly how that fateful one hour felt! Was there no one in the vicinity, let alone someone who could bring us a cup of coffee each!?
Hysteria sets in. Should we order some pizza and see whether the insurance or pizza reaches us first? Oh! there goes a cop car! Let's ask them to get us some coffee! Mind control in parallel- Dooooors ..Opennnnn!!! And there we see the distant headlights, and the phone chimes..Saved at last!.There comes our knight in shining armor! (the insurance company truck!)
We dumped ourselves into the warm car and drove to the nearest coffee place, IHOP for our breakfast at 3.30am, where the waitress had a good laugh at either our adventure or our pink noses and ears!(Am still not sure which!)
There ends another unexpected adventure in the Civic.
Beauty at its best!
Trees with icing!
The flower that blooms facing down.
Mighty mist covers the mountain
Shedding red
Victorian white
United they stand
Taste buds?
Matrix!
So peninsular~
Wedged!
Going green!
little bells
Entwined
Caught the sun~
Let there be light~
Windblown!
To Sunsets. Takes your breath away every time you look at it!
Victory sunset, after badminton match!
Chennai sunset!
Dharmasthala sunset
Over the Ettimadai hills
Sets at Amrita Coimbatore
Sunset at Powai Lake
powai Highway Sunset
sunset at Juhu
Red sky from hostel room
Monday, January 9, 2012
Cleveland Carousel!
I may have forgotten to mention this, but I am no more in located in the beautiful settings of India. My current location is Cleveland, Ohio. I have now spent 5 good months in this city, and have moved around with various types of people, I am Indian, so obviously my closer circle consists of the Indian lot in Cleveland! Mostly Graduate students who, like me, have come to pursue their higher studies here. It is new year 2012 and my first New year away from my parents, yet it turns out to be a delightful day! A visit to the lake Erie, which actually turned out to be Eerie with the gush of wind and waves and its gargantuan shore-line rocks, followed by the New year countdown at Panini's (Kinda like a pub, albeit I don't drink!) Then a movie, " Zindagi Na Milengi Dobara"(one of my all-time favorites) at Waldorf, which is the abode of some of the noble minds!
The week following this day is one of the most erratic! I have not seen so much of Cleveland in the past 5 months put together! Kudos for this exciting week go to Partho, who was brimming with enthusiasm over his new car and escorted the "little ones" to all the beautiful and desolate spots in Cleveland and Seetharam Ji who was the brain behind some of these awesome drives!! One does not normally go to these spots as there is little or no human habitation here, except for the occasional police cars!
The list of places we visited would be a must-go for all nature lovers, and go preferably after midnight! Our first drive was to lake Erie again then the port behind the Rock and Roll hall of fame, then around Shaker lake, where I made my first snowman- Which looked more like Godzilla, then had an awesome snow-ball fight with friends and watched little ducks swim by! Then the drive around Fairmount (a residential area) where we ended up clicking pictures of the year-end decorations outside houses! Next exquisite spot was the far-away bridge on top of Chagrin river! (and the amazing encounter with the above mentioned occasional cop car, which happened to occur at the same time as our joy ride on the road). He was a nice cop, so he bought what we said- note to reader: parking on the bridge to check out the river, then fleeing to the car at the sight of another pair of headlights is not a wise idea when the other pair of headlights belong to a cop car but if you do it you can always say " You stopped to get some water!". :D On our way back we hazarded a stop at a highly desolate neighborhood with pine trees and snow, which took our breath away in the moonlight!
Our next plan is adventure on a 3D screen at the Regal Cinemas! The entire lot plan on watching Tin-Tin the animated movie in 3D! The second time for me, but I believe I would watch it once more if I could! Adventure is good, whether it is virtual or in reality! :P
Then comes the exhilarating ride to the forest near Chagrin, and my almost-rendezvous with the "wolves" :P. My sound advice- If your friend ever parks his car next to an open field in the middle of a forest, try not to run towards the forest, There is a high chance of you running back with doubled up speed after seeing few pairs of glowing eyes and white forms that start moving towards you! In the safety of the car, we ride past the very beginning of Euclid avenue-which is a long road that runs through our school campus, but no one ever knew where it started!. The city lights as seen up on this road are tiny flickers of amber. Yet another beautiful sight.
There are certain things that put an end to an amazing ride, dry music on the radio is one of them! This reminds us that it is 4am and that all of us ought to get back home! So cheers to a week of fun which taught me that Cleveland has more to it than just unemployment, frighteningly low population, a boring university and a city with tall buildings!
with that revelation, so long folks-till I bump into my next adventure that is! :D
The week following this day is one of the most erratic! I have not seen so much of Cleveland in the past 5 months put together! Kudos for this exciting week go to Partho, who was brimming with enthusiasm over his new car and escorted the "little ones" to all the beautiful and desolate spots in Cleveland and Seetharam Ji who was the brain behind some of these awesome drives!! One does not normally go to these spots as there is little or no human habitation here, except for the occasional police cars!
The list of places we visited would be a must-go for all nature lovers, and go preferably after midnight! Our first drive was to lake Erie again then the port behind the Rock and Roll hall of fame, then around Shaker lake, where I made my first snowman- Which looked more like Godzilla, then had an awesome snow-ball fight with friends and watched little ducks swim by! Then the drive around Fairmount (a residential area) where we ended up clicking pictures of the year-end decorations outside houses! Next exquisite spot was the far-away bridge on top of Chagrin river! (and the amazing encounter with the above mentioned occasional cop car, which happened to occur at the same time as our joy ride on the road). He was a nice cop, so he bought what we said- note to reader: parking on the bridge to check out the river, then fleeing to the car at the sight of another pair of headlights is not a wise idea when the other pair of headlights belong to a cop car but if you do it you can always say " You stopped to get some water!". :D On our way back we hazarded a stop at a highly desolate neighborhood with pine trees and snow, which took our breath away in the moonlight!
Our next plan is adventure on a 3D screen at the Regal Cinemas! The entire lot plan on watching Tin-Tin the animated movie in 3D! The second time for me, but I believe I would watch it once more if I could! Adventure is good, whether it is virtual or in reality! :P
Then comes the exhilarating ride to the forest near Chagrin, and my almost-rendezvous with the "wolves" :P. My sound advice- If your friend ever parks his car next to an open field in the middle of a forest, try not to run towards the forest, There is a high chance of you running back with doubled up speed after seeing few pairs of glowing eyes and white forms that start moving towards you! In the safety of the car, we ride past the very beginning of Euclid avenue-which is a long road that runs through our school campus, but no one ever knew where it started!. The city lights as seen up on this road are tiny flickers of amber. Yet another beautiful sight.
There are certain things that put an end to an amazing ride, dry music on the radio is one of them! This reminds us that it is 4am and that all of us ought to get back home! So cheers to a week of fun which taught me that Cleveland has more to it than just unemployment, frighteningly low population, a boring university and a city with tall buildings!
with that revelation, so long folks-till I bump into my next adventure that is! :D
Monday, December 19, 2011
In the mirror
Theres this girl in the mirror,
I wonder who she is.
Sometimes I think I know her,
and sometimes I wish I did.
There is a story in her eyes,
lullaby and goodbye.
When she's looking back at me
I can tell....Shes hurting inside.
I wonder who she is.
Sometimes I think I know her,
and sometimes I wish I did.
There is a story in her eyes,
lullaby and goodbye.
When she's looking back at me
I can tell....Shes hurting inside.
Friday, September 30, 2011
How God owns a chip producing company...(Author requests readers to shut down their processors while reading this)
God happens to be a bioscientist as well as an engineer! With so much time in his hand( about a few million years approx), he has had ample amount of time to study cell biology and robotics etc.
When god graduated, he wanted to start a manufacturing unit. But he realized that he lacked man power, there being only one god. So he went ahead to learn theory of omnipresent and omnipotent, and hence he could be in several places to do several tasks. So he started with the building of a universe gradually by exploding some raw materials that he could accumulate in his journey around the cosmos(BIG bang). There still remained one problem, god being only god, he still had to have his share of personal time, which was not liberal considering his ambitions with the manufacturing unit and the rate at which it was growing,(it is not easy to master all knowledge and keep it contained, and god was fond of experimenting). His manufacturing unit being more like an IC Fabrication facility of today, he needed automation. This led the almighty to learn physics and automation, and he could now program things to work by themselves, and raise an alarm only when there were critical issues.
God owned a few lab notebooks, in which he had recorded every study or experiment that he had done in his ENTIRE life. One particular day, when god was making an encyclopedia of his studies, he came across an idea of Positive and negative feedback control in his manufacturing unit. This led to the theory of sins and good deeds. Whenever Sins>>deeds The negative feedback loop would kick in, and if good>>sins, positive feedback would function. During the process of evolving his lab, god realized that there was a lot of debris being generated from failed experiments, malfunctioning and dead devices, and updated versions led to the elimination of the older versions( like the homo sapiens took over and he had to get rid of all the neanderthals and so on).
At this point god figured that he needed an apprentice, one who could take care of all the debris. He sent out an advertisement and the only candidate who turned up was one Dr. Satan who had been following god's experiments and results on a famous journal (appears he had eliminated all other contestants in order to acquire the job himself!). God realized that he had no other option but to accept this new burnt complexioned guy as his apprentice. Satan was a unique creature, he was suffering from OCD(Obsessive compulsive disorder), and hence whenever god's mess would get out of hand, he used to set fire to the entire amount of debris. God being a knowledgeable person, feared for asthma and fire damage to his property and lab, and hence made a pact with Satan that he would have a filter system in his garbage chute where he would filter the garbage from the negative feedback to a separate furnace house, and Satan would be the manager of that unit, and he also taught Satan certain parts of omnipresent( but not the omnipotent) theory, so that Satan could manage the garbage disposal unit! He told Satan that he could contact god anytime he had doubts regarding anything!
The debris from the positive feedback were recyclable, so god used it in his experiments after some processing!
One day, while god was on a holiday, Satan called him to tell that one particular chip, called Earth, was resulting in a lot of negative feedback debris. God realized that this was one of those chips in which he had manufactured several units of homo sapiens after a lot of trial and error with their genetic makeup, unlike in mars where he had different units with the same basic functions (More like BJT and MOSFET). Homo sapiens had evolved to function by themselves, multiplied randomly, and were in a stage where they were even figuring out that they were all parts of an experiment, some of them had gotten a glimpse of god when he was trying to set things right and monitor their development, and some heard god when he was reading out loud from his encyclopedia, and they picked up bits of god's knowledge. They had even started sending out optical probes(space bots) to see who could be watching them. While some species on other chips, had figured out that they were part of the experiment, but had decided to let god work in peace by not disturbing him. The fact that earth was generating a lot of negative debris meant that there was some malfunction in the way god had programmed the homo sapiens. Apparently they were becoming some sort of cancer in the chip called Earth, and were trying to abort the chip function with their byproducts!
Now god realized that this experiment was not a failure, but a success. He had re-programmed a variable called commonsense with two other variables called EGO and selfishness, and thus the value of sins became >>>>good! this resulted in the loop of negative feedback with a large path gain value and thus excess debris!
God decided that he had to isolate this chip, else it would start affecting the neighboring chips. So he took out his plasma arc weld and started removing the chords connecting the chip to the experiment, at that time there was a large surge of current and the sparks from his weld fell as meteorites on some parts of the chip! God rushed to the tap and got out a cup of water to put out the smoke! but it was too late when he realized that the particles were destroyed due to his unintended annealing process! This was not a failure in the experiment! God now knew what not to add in his variable database to have a proper functioning chip!
As for Satan, he got an entire chip(EARTH) to chuck into the furnace, and keep the lab neat and tidy. So all ends happily (for god and Satan that is!).
When god graduated, he wanted to start a manufacturing unit. But he realized that he lacked man power, there being only one god. So he went ahead to learn theory of omnipresent and omnipotent, and hence he could be in several places to do several tasks. So he started with the building of a universe gradually by exploding some raw materials that he could accumulate in his journey around the cosmos(BIG bang). There still remained one problem, god being only god, he still had to have his share of personal time, which was not liberal considering his ambitions with the manufacturing unit and the rate at which it was growing,(it is not easy to master all knowledge and keep it contained, and god was fond of experimenting). His manufacturing unit being more like an IC Fabrication facility of today, he needed automation. This led the almighty to learn physics and automation, and he could now program things to work by themselves, and raise an alarm only when there were critical issues.
God owned a few lab notebooks, in which he had recorded every study or experiment that he had done in his ENTIRE life. One particular day, when god was making an encyclopedia of his studies, he came across an idea of Positive and negative feedback control in his manufacturing unit. This led to the theory of sins and good deeds. Whenever Sins>>deeds The negative feedback loop would kick in, and if good>>sins, positive feedback would function. During the process of evolving his lab, god realized that there was a lot of debris being generated from failed experiments, malfunctioning and dead devices, and updated versions led to the elimination of the older versions( like the homo sapiens took over and he had to get rid of all the neanderthals and so on).
At this point god figured that he needed an apprentice, one who could take care of all the debris. He sent out an advertisement and the only candidate who turned up was one Dr. Satan who had been following god's experiments and results on a famous journal (appears he had eliminated all other contestants in order to acquire the job himself!). God realized that he had no other option but to accept this new burnt complexioned guy as his apprentice. Satan was a unique creature, he was suffering from OCD(Obsessive compulsive disorder), and hence whenever god's mess would get out of hand, he used to set fire to the entire amount of debris. God being a knowledgeable person, feared for asthma and fire damage to his property and lab, and hence made a pact with Satan that he would have a filter system in his garbage chute where he would filter the garbage from the negative feedback to a separate furnace house, and Satan would be the manager of that unit, and he also taught Satan certain parts of omnipresent( but not the omnipotent) theory, so that Satan could manage the garbage disposal unit! He told Satan that he could contact god anytime he had doubts regarding anything!
The debris from the positive feedback were recyclable, so god used it in his experiments after some processing!
One day, while god was on a holiday, Satan called him to tell that one particular chip, called Earth, was resulting in a lot of negative feedback debris. God realized that this was one of those chips in which he had manufactured several units of homo sapiens after a lot of trial and error with their genetic makeup, unlike in mars where he had different units with the same basic functions (More like BJT and MOSFET). Homo sapiens had evolved to function by themselves, multiplied randomly, and were in a stage where they were even figuring out that they were all parts of an experiment, some of them had gotten a glimpse of god when he was trying to set things right and monitor their development, and some heard god when he was reading out loud from his encyclopedia, and they picked up bits of god's knowledge. They had even started sending out optical probes(space bots) to see who could be watching them. While some species on other chips, had figured out that they were part of the experiment, but had decided to let god work in peace by not disturbing him. The fact that earth was generating a lot of negative debris meant that there was some malfunction in the way god had programmed the homo sapiens. Apparently they were becoming some sort of cancer in the chip called Earth, and were trying to abort the chip function with their byproducts!
Now god realized that this experiment was not a failure, but a success. He had re-programmed a variable called commonsense with two other variables called EGO and selfishness, and thus the value of sins became >>>>good! this resulted in the loop of negative feedback with a large path gain value and thus excess debris!
God decided that he had to isolate this chip, else it would start affecting the neighboring chips. So he took out his plasma arc weld and started removing the chords connecting the chip to the experiment, at that time there was a large surge of current and the sparks from his weld fell as meteorites on some parts of the chip! God rushed to the tap and got out a cup of water to put out the smoke! but it was too late when he realized that the particles were destroyed due to his unintended annealing process! This was not a failure in the experiment! God now knew what not to add in his variable database to have a proper functioning chip!
As for Satan, he got an entire chip(EARTH) to chuck into the furnace, and keep the lab neat and tidy. So all ends happily (for god and Satan that is!).
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