a kavithai

(a tamil kavithai, translierated in english)...

ARJUNANukku Subathirai,
KANNANukku Sathyabama,
Enakku nee,
........

netru anna salayil aval pinnae scootyil pogayil....

P.S. friends, this just my imagination....

some new e-acronyms

hufffff, got bored typing "stay in touch" and "keep in touch" in many
of mails.. here, i am just suggesting some arconyms to replace it..


SIT = "Stay In Touch"
KIT = "Keep in Touch"

Since I talked about acronym, I want to mention here, how acronyms differ
from abbreviations...

acronym : Short form, formed from the First letters of a compound term.

abbreviation : short form of a compound term.. does not have specific rule
of formation.

eg :

WHO (World Health Organization is an example of acronym)
etc. (etcetra, is an example of abbreviation).

so, acronym is a special case of abbreviation...

some observations....

infatuation : a short - lived attraction
love : a long lived infatuation

huh, this is what I observed.

DiWaLi

it is diwali time, in india. this is the times when people buy dresses
and other shopping to have a good year ahead.(and number of such occasions,
similar to diwali, is also there. and the frequency of such occasion
is one in a month). And of course, these festivals make the shop
owners happy because of their booming business. Even I went for
shopping and bought some dresses. Got a chance to look at the fake products
manufactured, selling at road side shops, (some times I saw these in big shops
as well). here i am dropping some of fake products (sounding like the
original counter part).

goodland shoes - sister consultant of Woodland, huh?

peter india - rival for peter england

van philip - aah haa, what a collaboration of van huesen and louis philip

hero shirts - doesn't this sounds like sero shirts ;-)?

rockey briefs and vests - if the jockeys hear this, they will hang

Beta slippers - similar to BATA slippers, by name

and of course, these branded brand names are good source for amusement.

for those who does not know about the diwali?

diwali (derived from the sanskrit word deepavali, meaning "a row of lamps")

diwali, is a famous festival in india, celebrating the assasination(?) of naragasuran,
a daemon. he was born to bhumaa devi (godess of land). and later he got a boon
from brahma(a mythical figure, creator of living beings), that his death
should come only from his mother, assuming that no mother kills her own child.
(wow, what a logic?)

after getting the boon, his play started and he was very cruel those days
(the myth says). then vishnu,shiva,brahma(other mythical figures), met and
played a drama to kill naragasuran. they created a girl, named "Satyabhama",
(as rebirth of bhumaa devi, mother of naragasuran). satyabhama, also being the wife
of vishnu, went to war with vishnu against naragasuram, as a charriot.

vishnu acted in the war, as if he is hurted, which made sathyabama to fight
and kill naragasura. on his death, the daemon, realized his mistakes and
requests people to celebrate the day with crackers and sweets.
this day is diwali. so let's have fun to celebrate the falling of the great
naragasuran.

Bachelor of politics

India, my motherland. gone were the days when we argued about why India is
still in develping countries list, in block 5 and 7 of AU hostels.
everyone had their own thoughts, but all the thoughts narrowed down to two major issues. one is India's population, and the other is the Indian politics.

First, let me tell something about the population. India often boasts about the
human resources available and the quality of each people. To me, I feel that the
quality is being eclipsed by the quantity of the people. as the head count increases
basic requirements for food, shelter, employment.... keeps increasing and
of course, we are not able to meet this requirement.

Although india is the seventh biggest country in the world, the cultivable
land space is less, even if it is available it will be under some problem
and less funds to improve the quality of the cultivated food.

considering north india, Kashmir problem is a major problem and most of
the funds needs to be allocated for defence and for day to day threats,
same with the case with east india. considering south india, there is always
some communal problems and race problems (aryans and dravidians, still!!!),
and regional problem (kaveri water dispute) and lots of funds and energy
is wasted solving these problems, instead they can be used for getting
basic amenities. So, inorder to tackle the increasing population, we need to
solve the communal problems and regional problems at first place.

Now, comes the second issue into picture. In most of these communal problems,
politicians role is major. If you take north india, the issue would be raman
temple and babri masjid, if you take south the issue would be cauvery water issue.
and these politicians campaign and sustain their throne using these issues,
and spend less time in these.

The solution that immediately pops on the top of mind is recruiting PMs, CMs,
ministers, only if they are literated. My strong belief was illiteracy
in the government circle is the major reason for these things. even I was thinking
of a new course which only teaches politics, Bachelor of politics.

But I was shocked when I heard that a party with more number of corrupts is from
lalloo's team, and also it is the party with maximum number literates among all
the parties in india. Literacy should be injected to commoner as well,
so that atleast, they can choose their well-wishers, deliberately.

I feel that there is a big hole in democracy. it says it is for the people,
by the people, and of the people. and the most funny thing is people exploits
democracy. there should be strict rules, hard and fast, to make people abide
the rules of the government. the number of decision makers should be decreased,
so that we can arrive at some conclusions faster and will reach people fast.
I am not saying some sort of autocracy or dictatorship, but tuning the demcoratic principles.

Personally, I feel that communism is the best.

(excerpts from gist of gita ;-))

Whatever you have, you have received from Him (Government).

Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.

You came empty handed and you will go the same way.

But I know that it is tangential what's happening in india, and quite difficult
to implement.

The last thing to say : unless we realize ourselves we cannot make india a super power, even in 2020. realization should come from oneself. just think of a country
like japan, which was in bad shape, before 50 years, when we were in the same
position. now, japan has grown to an extent, which will take india for another 15
to 20 years, to reach.

let us keep japan as our role model, and in future other countries will keep us,
as their role model.

BFN.

jokes to refresh

i am just copy pasting some jokes which my friend has sent to me, long back.

i found these humorous..

000) Teacher: "Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?
Student: "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day
same time."

001) Waiter: Would you like your coffee black?
Customer: What other colures do you have?

010) Pupil: Did you know that the most intelligent person on earth is
going deaf?
Teacher: Really. Who is it?
Pupil: Pardon, I don't understand.

011) Teacher: Now, children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped
him, what virtue would I be showing?
Student: Brotherly love.

100) Patient: What are the chances of my recovery doctor?
Doctor: One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out
of ten people die of the disease you have. Yours is the
tenth case I've treated. The others all died.

101) Girlfriend: And are you sure you love me and no one else.
Boyfriend: Dead Sure! I checked the whole list again yesterday.


101, is the best of all ;-)

Word Smith

Words, words, words,.... I started loving words when I was doing my 5th
semester (BE, in Anna university), and when I started preparing for my
GRE Exams.... After my 5th semester I do not remember any class where I slept,
since we started playing games related to words. one such game is "cows and bulls",
which students of 5th, 6th.. grade play... but we liked the game
very much and we used that game to improve our vocabulary.

Legend:

We = back bench boyz, which emerged as the fofy (the Freak Out Final Years),
when we were doing our final year..

here, I would like to give some words with peculiar properties...

first lemme start with words which does not have vowels
(i mean words without letters a,e,i,o,u, not vowel sound)
(feel free to add to this list).

my
by
why
sky
shy
cry
fry
try
wry
spry
tryst
gypsy
rhythm

"ryhthm" is the longest word without vowels, i have come across.
(and of course the most toughest word to guess while playing cows and bulls).

and coming to palindromes....(a cliche for you,....although..),
with some meaning in it... the list is:

A
I
civic
level
refer
madam
radar (bad example, ;-)
Rotator
aibohphobia (fear of palindromes)

I do not want to add "malayalam" to the above list....

whenever I come across the word "palindrome", a peculiar property
of palindrome numbers pops up on top of mind.

"a palindrome decimal number of even length will always be a multiple of 11".
eg : 234432

I published the above observation(discovery?) in aBaCUS 2002 magazine(thanks to the editors ;-)),
and just thought putting it here, if anyone has missed it...

and i came across some words which when gets reversed it will give different meanings...
here are few of those...:

tar = rat
no = on
ten = net
god = dog ;-), good word for ma kinda ppl
Live = evil
pool = loop
was = saw
raw = war
are = era
tool = loot

and it goes on...

of course, all the palindromes fall in to this category....

oops, i have received an SMS, wait lemme read.....

i tried to reply to my friends SMS, and I felt very difficult in typing
the following sentenced...

beef

and lots more words are there which is very difficult to type in a mobile
phone. surprised is another such word and it keeps going..

ok, I think I can sign off with this, and will get back to this column,
with lot more interesting facts!!!!

kavithayae theriyumaaa.......

one good kavithai from my thoughtss....

Square, is a special case of Rectangle,
Circle, is a special case of ellipse,
I am a special case of Monkey,
you are a special case of me ;-)

-Keep kicking!!!!

Message of the day

No Woman, No cry!

Courtesy : BoneyM

Quotes for the day

The only FISH that can sunk friendSHIP is selFISH.

It's happening

Teacher asks a student on the first day, "what's your father's name
and what he is doing?", and the student replies,"I have got two fathers,
Sam working in XYZ, and the next, my adopted father, is working in ABC".

So, where the problem is?

dho choti se love story

bride says to bridgegroom, "today we are getting married,
and tomorrow, my father and your mother will get married."

little drops.........

This about saving few ML of petrol when we drive car ot two wheeler.

Nowadays, in almost all cities of India traffic signal comes with Timer.
Updown/Downp counters. And in many signals the timer is in the order of minutes...
and I observed that almost all the two wheeler riders are keeping their
vehicle on during this time. I feel that by switching it off would
save some energy, and economy. let us hope everyone will start realising this
and will make it a practice..

my 2 cents...

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ஒரு ஜோக்:

ஒரuவன் - 1: டேய், உனக்க்கு சைக்கில்ல ப்ரேக் ப்டிக்குமா?
ஒருவன் - 2: எனக்கு சைக்கில்ல ப்ரேக் பிடிக்காது, சீட்டுதான் பிடிக்கும்.

God - why man coined this term?

God is a term that man has coined to blame the failures that happens to him,
without knowing the fact that "he, himself is the maker of his destiny".

I have found in many situations that people not helping others, instead
saying that it is their fate, What is FATE? and who decides it?

It is totally in the hands of the MANKIND. NO SUPER POWER controls
or writes it... Helping others without selfishness and not hindering the
growth of the human race, alone can increase the growth of the humans,
not by worshipping god.

Advantages of the word GOD:
=========
a) man fears that some thing bad will happen to him by GOD, if he do bad to others.
If man has not coined the word GOD, then this fear wouldn't have been there.

b) to increase self confidence which he does not have on his own.

Disadvantages of the word GOD:
==============
a) all the advantages mentioned above is for SELF, not for the man kind.
hence the selfishness comes into picture when one talks about the letters,
G,O,D.

b) supersititious believes, comes the next.

Just think twice on the advantages... cant we achieve it on our own?.....

if our ancestors have not coined this term, if they have not started the super power
belief then, the human race would have come to end before thousands of years ago....

-Krishna Ram