Death

The concept of re-birth was exhibited the greatest in the egyptian civilization..life and its vicious cycles. Based on concept art - The Rise of Anubis by spz - Deviant art

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Love

Who better to describe the words "I go crazy for you!" than the Joker and Harley Quinn :), i think these two probably represent the darkest and funniest form of love..most often they add color to the otherwise dark knight's realm

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blue

Two distinct changes i guess for my usual :)

a. A WHITE layout after a very long time..still dark in context tho :)
b. [+] and [-] removed from the main blog, considering they arent big wordy blogs anymore!

Art by FRAMZ - deviantart - i thought it was a rather beautiful representation of a rose, extremely different, which is why the concept chosen for it was unlike the usual happy rose, but a dark rose.

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Gloom

The special layout has been postponed due to some modifications being made on it..until then its glooom, concept art dedicated to dpainter - deviant art

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agony

Based on Concept Art by devil raven

Got this one up vigu :) experimentation rocks..one more favorite color post :), the next one will be special to me!

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Alone

Based on Concept Art by Weno

This is a plainer post compared to my usual complexities :) its blue and black two of my favorite colors!

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Alien Nation

This is the first of my layout blogs, these are to be shared if someone wants them, you can request for it on comments :)..Based on the concept art made by Drak on deviantart..Alientology!

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and there is light..

"Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel,
Was just a freight train coming your way.."

- No Leaf Clover METALLICA

Before everything else, a couple of apologies..

Why am I - sorry i couldnt do the tag, tied up with work, a lil too late now, will the next time, cross my heart!

Wannabe Punkster - I did decide to shelve the dark post for the time being, sometime later maybe?

You know the kind of days when nothing seems to go your way..even everything good turns out to be crappy, just because your mood swung the other way already? When you feel like barking back at your dog even though you know that you have no clue what its saying but it just sounds all irritating! On a day like that you need to sing with me EVERYBODY SING THIS SONG DOO DAA DOO DAA..ok ill stop being lunatic :)

I just think crappy days can be set right somehow(apart from the six rounds of tequila, that is cheating!) There is light at the end of the tunnel, not like how Metallica put it, but i guess everyone has their own ways of making it better. Like me for instance, i go and kill a hundred thousand ppl on my comp and im good to go! So i guess this post might reflect on some of your own ways of finding the light at the end of the tunnel..please do share, i will try figure out if i can adopt a few of them myself! :D

post coming soon..

Have been quite caught up with work, will be posting soon..turn up brightness just a little bit to take a look at this layout..the post for this requires some time :)

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The perfect woman..

Many a times, we have tried to figure out the perfect woman, "THE ONE" and many more expressions forth, but somehow everytime we get into a phase of contradiction, the lines begin to fade, and the hand weaving fine threads of commitment begin to waver..its a fine piece of embroidery, this relationship, but like any piece of art, the end is a mindblowing flood of emotions represented on a canvas..every relationship unique to its artists..ill leave this post with the lyrics of a song..which probably convey the feeling better..

A better Moon - Ian Anderson

I see you better now, shaded in deeper blue.
Hardly needing to carry the find-your-way lamp
down to the river.
Tonight flies a better moon.
Sad water buffalo lie fast near the shallows;
a splash revealing the fly-catching fishes.
Dark Gods silently watching.
Tonight flies a better moon.
I guess you've known lovers here, compliant in passion;
softly laid in the old reed bed, harshly
lit in the noon sun.
Tonight flies a better moon.
Now cloaked in this milky light, new as the virgin dawn,
shrouded sweetly in all kinds of mystery,
you turn, smile and then are gone.
Tonight flies a better moon.


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Happy Birthday to me..

This has to be one of the best birthdays i have ever had in my life! I will list the events as they happened so i dont miss anything!

Started off monday night with my lady sharon taking me out for dinner in a coffee shop at a five star, giving me the most amazing gift ever..A NEIL GAIMAN MARVEL 1602 Collectors edition Comic..ITS MINE ALL MINE!!(explains the layout too hehe)Had the most amazing time, felt really good to be pampered after a days work!

Tuesday(BDAY DAY) started off quite lazy with me trying to figure out whether i could carry out what i had planned to do without a hitch or whether it would be another day of work..and finally i got my confirmation!!

It was a day at an orphanage, Sivananda Orphanage, an evening with kids who could get the better of me!! 150 kids taking my trip all day, those darn kids!!

It was so much fun, and the place is absolutely awesome with 40 acres of super clean(maintained by the little ones) land consisting of an orphanage of 200 odd kids, an old age home with about 70 residents and the most amazing bird collection of the owner i have ever seen!!(photos below)

It was quite heart warming to spend the whole evening with them, but it was also very clear that they were just about better than animals in cages..it was quite pathetic to realise that they had no idea what was outside those walls..even though everything was provided to them inside..something which made me think how selfish we haev grown to be, that when we spend time with these ones..we dont realise how much we have and how much they lack..

I dont know how many of you are around here and i dont know how many of you have time..but if you do, please visit them and try and spend a few hours with them showing them and telling them the fascinations we have outside those walls, i am trying to arrange field trips for them to take them around wherever possible..most of the details of the ashram can be found on their website http://www.sivanandagurukul.org/

I wish to do this more often and not on a "Special" day anymore..i think we all need to draw some sort of a balance in our own lives to realise some others dont live like we do..i know i sound like a preacher, but the amount of fun i had, id probably say, all of you are missing something!!

Which brings me to the best part of the evening, when all the children joined in singing a prayer and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOGI...it was utterly chaotic and i had no clue what they were saying, but it was just awesome when they clapped their way through it, you couldnt help but smile and join in!

On an even better note, ended the day with sharon and reflextions(who has still quit blogging!) with a couple of beers at a nice rooftop restaurant..I LOVE BIRTHDAYS..:)

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Media Blues..

I was watching tv quite aimlessly for a while today..and guess what was the biggest national news today covered for nearly two hours live in all channels(im talking the biggest news channels NDTV, TIMES Now CNN India and so on)

Little boy falls into tube well, and is rescued after 60 hrs..AMAZING!!!

As far as i know, it is probably worth mentioning in a headline or something, but a two hour national coverage live of an operation which mainly focused on a hole and some ppl going in and out(for the dirty minds like me..has nothign to do with what you are thinking!!)

I wonder whats with the media today, are they running out of news?? or is it yet another "American" influence of making everything seem absolutely exaggerated, like the red alert all the time!I swear i saw a whole live coverage there on a kid(little lamb not human) caught in a wire mesh and ppl trying to free it for 45 mins!!!

I dont see a point to news when everything has to be "BREAKING NEWS" and then turns out to be a cow gettign stuck in a giraffe or something(bad example tho, i would love to see that!!:D) but news itself is becoming so "entertaining" for every inane activity that i see no actual analysis being made anymore! Everything is about selling today i guess, where a tsunami toll is a by liner and laloo yadav prasad announcing chai in a mud pot on trains makes a two hour show!

P.S : I wanted to make a red layout and how best than to put a dark angel on it :)

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Salaam Bombay!

I have not been in the blogging circle for a bit for a lot of reasons, work and probably a numb feeling of what happened over the week..i couldnt get myself to realise what the hell was going on, i went through feel anger, hatred, helplessness, fear, sadness and a whole bunch of emotions..and finally at the end of it all, after so many days of reading news items all over..and all that..there is one emotion in me :-

Humility - I used to go on about what a stuck up place Mumbai was..it probably still is, and i will probably never go there inspite of being all over India and the world..but today Mumbai and its ppl have shown me what they can be, and I offer a humble salute to them all, makes my heart swell with pride, pride of a nation, pride in its people, pride of my nationality, i could go on, but i will stop with this..

SALAAM BOMBAY..Mera Bharath Mahan(however corny ppl think that is, I am proud to say it today!)

P.S (added later): I did forget..that probably was not my last layout for a while after all heh, but considering i have been away for week, its probably a while :D

P.S. #2 : this has nothing to do with the current media coverage or our intelligence inefficiency(BAD I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E BAD BAD), just a personal feeling

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Yogi's Day out

I decided to go to a place which we used to frequently visit until it became too crowded and too 'hep' for my liking plus it was one of those days where i actually got off work early and we decided to make the best of it! The time i had there was absolutely amazing so no complaints at all there. But i was looking around, remember this is chennai, like summer 42 min deg celcius chennai!This guy had a bloody warm skull cap(i still like to call it monkey cap tho) in the middle of the pub..i was sweating looking at it!!

Sometimes, i really wonder about my conservativeness with fashion..i can stick to a maximum of three colors..black, white and gray..sometimes the occasional blue..and most often sloppy :). but these ppl take it way too far, i want to strip down to my underwear, and these guys wear denim jackets over their t-shirts!!i dont know how they manage it, and every alternate guy is trying pink, thinking they can carry it off!!i guess im still not open enough to accept a lot of today's men-fashion statements, maybe i should get more used to it..like the santro or something!!

This will probably be my last layout too for a while, im not sure how long i am going to carry on saying that either :) hope its 'manly' enough for the ppl around heh, jokin i know you guys loved that layout too so there!

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Football woes!

Note : Again, this is my effort to try and maintain a new layout for a couple posts atleast, therefore has no particular context to it.

Every team i have supported so far has lost!!This usually never happens during my football world cup predictions, this time I have been so off, fate must be laughing with glee at me!!Brazil, Argentina, England and now Germany! I might as well start predicting that Sharapova might win Wimbledon, I might have more luck on 'grass'!(no pun intended :)).

I even tried reverse psychology to try and cheat fate, like outwardly pretending to cheer for the team i wanted to lose, but hell no, thats one bitch youre dealing with, made sure those were games the team I secretly supported lost really badly heh..the only lucky part..atleast I didnt bet this year!!

P.S. This template is made for 800x600 above for some ppl who have problems reading the size of my fonts!!:P so enjoy with one which is designed for the 'old' ppl!

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toilet humour!

"PLEASE NOTE : I need feedback for the new layout..depending on how convenient it is since i have made posts in the page collapsible with the first post open to read so it doesnt become one long post, so let me know if its good or bad :)..it also lets me accomodate a lot more posts this way :D which reduces effort of going through the previous menu!"

Everytime i have been in and around a bathroom(loo, toilet, pee area, restroom) which does not belong to a fairly reputed hotel always has the expected scribble on the wall..i used to think it was exclusive to Indian loos, but then came to realise its just about anywhere...

the famous ones ive seen around are usually :-

1. "Someone" was here..this is probably the most common of them all, around every single one, will definitely have our narcissist wanting to make an impression in a uni-sex loo(im yet to see a common loo heh), for what god knows!! but yes, to make their prescence felt from restrooms to subway walls to where ever, they were always there!!

2. "Someone" loves "Someone", around a piss pot COME ON!! i think there are better places(if you really have to carve it out) than a stinky human waste holding environment!

3. The customary swear words...understandable, for someone with either indigestion or acute constipation!!:D

4. The best of all, the PHONE NUMBER!!, again, in a uni-sex restroom, why the hell would you put up your name and your phone number..i mean, everyone needs a job, buts thats pushing it, i cant imagine a HR guy looking at the wall and saying..hmm. theres an applicant i can use!

I dont know, i think its just charm all around in a restroom where you wait till youre done with yuo know what and just read the nonsense written all around and wonder, these ppl use only one hand to pee or something like that, i dont know, i wonder how they find time to carve as they relieve themselves, and what the hell are they thinking to do something like that!!

The two on my layout are childhood sayings(courtesy my dad) and i have never been able to stop laughing at them..they are probably the best words someone could actually write on a restroom wall!:D


And some bathroom humour(off the net):-

-Found in a men's restroom.
What are you looking up on the wall for? The joke is in your hands.
No wonder you always go home alone.
Express Lane: Five beers or less

-Found in a women's restroom.
Make love, not war. Heck, do both - get married !
There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and The Jerk's.

PS : This was an easier layout to make than the other ones since it does not involve too many complications, liked the new way i could represent the links tho, is gonna help me arrange the links in my future blogs, space saving and very neat!!And, BRAZIL and ENGLAND(this tho was not a surprise but still) LOST, it really was a "Shitty" day!

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More Comic in ME!

Disclaimer : This is a long but extremely funny post so bear with me for such a long post, but trust me its really really funny!!!

This was just unbelievable, and its not original or anything, but i had to put this up for the benefit of all the ppl who love to laugh with or at me hehe, i was in splits laughing at this!!!(im actually typing out the whole article because i thought it was worth it!

The article in the paper was called 'I understand what i misunderstand', the author goes on to state email answers he had received on various HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT QUESTIONS listed below :-

1. Beethoven wrote music even tho he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

2. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

3. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticable in the autumn where the apples are falling off the trees.

4. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

5. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays.

6. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

7. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was later canonised by Bernard Shaw.

8. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

9. Eventually, the Romans were conquered by the Greeks. History calls ppl Romans because they never stayed in one place for too long.

10. Socrates was a famous greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. Adter his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

11. Actually Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

12. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German Half Italian Half English. He was very large.

13. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. THey lived in the Sarah Desert and travelled by Camelot.

14. The greeks were highly sculptured ppl and without them we wouldnt have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

15. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying he gasped out, "Tee Hee Brutus".

16. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.

17. The nineteenth century was a time of great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing with their hands and started reproducing with machines.

18. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years.

Hehe i had to share this, i guess it was blog worth writing, i was laughing as i typed it out too!!some of them kill me everytime!


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The comic in me!

Disclaimer : The Author, during this post suffered bouts of frustration and anxiety due to high levels of stress in not doing any work for the past week and therefore expresses his readers to keep an open mind and try accept that the Author was sober during the entire process of design of the layout as well as the post.

Before anyone says anything about the woman in the layout, i thought it was a super vector done by someone whom i cant credit to now, cos i dont know who the author is, so thank you anonymous-sexy-lady-vector-creating-person!!!

I have always been considered this funny person who keeps ppl under constant laughter stress (too much laughter is stress you know!) or atleast get the customary grin(actually stating please-make-this-fellow-shut-up!)..oh well, bottom line of all those hyphenated words, i guess i make ppl smile!

The more I realise this gift..(or curse), the more I try making it possible in any situation, and its fun in a way too!!even using things around you, for instance, the msot dejected ppl around town are the ones who flunk the CA(chartered accountancy) exam the first time..it hits them like a brick, so you just tell em a lil joke(probably old, but a guy whos written it for the first time has never heard it for sure!)..There is a church opposite the institute which says "JESUS NEVER FAILS" and under than in small scratches some guy actually has written "ASK HIM TO GO WRITE THE CA EXAM!"(Its actually there or was unless they repainted the wall!!)..and bingo a smile!!

The ones who have been tortured by my irritating sense of humour are not allowed to comment on this post..ok ok thats everyone, fine, but somewhere sometime, if someone who reads my post is down, just try and reach me, might make you smile or atleast want to kill someone, takes the down part away(now that sounded like a well made american ad for wrigleys chewing gum or something)!!:)

P.S. The disclaimer didnt work did it??

The aching head

My head cannot take it anymore..I wonder if this is nature's way of telling you to take a break, but considering im not the very very hard worker unless necessary, i dont know why i need one. Maybe this is because i had to re-schedule my working hours to early in the morning and still couldnt manage to sleep before all the world cup matches finished, thats at around 3 in the morning IST!!

But anyways, this post was more on the lines of the future of blogs as i have seen certain posts off late, any thing you can or do can be completely and totally misinterpreted using just a line or two of the post and then they just start a war!!

Imagine in the near future "My name is Yogi and this is my blog".."HE said YOGI, the fu**ing hindu religious bast**d, how dare you come up with a post like that", and a 150 war comments, man wouldnt that be fun, pardon the language!!

Or a telugu blog saying rape vasthaava(meaning come tomorrow), imagine his plight!!! Well, my point is ppl have forgotten the art of constructive criticism, sometimes the blogger themselves(like me in one occasion) and most often, the critic..a blog is usually only a medium of opinion and opinions need not be taken down so hard like it were a crime! I hope this post does not attract "that" kind of constructive criticism, till then..THE future of BLOGS!

And as always, till the bottom for the complete layout..i have to stop saying this :)

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Boxed IN…

Creativity :
The experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative and idiosyncratic way which is characterized by a high degree of innovation and originality, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

Box : a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible.

Business development : The set of efforts for identifying, researching, analyzing and bringing to market new businesses and new products.

Australians have a nice accent, but it is funny. They always seem to be high..maybe because they are known for their beer consumption, but still! I called up this one guy “Hello XXXXX, Good Morning, This is Yogi from XXXXXX Systems Ltd. We are blah blah blah and I was wondering if we could arrange a meeting in the forthcoming week to discover how we can collaborate beneficially blah blah”, and then I hear an “UHHHHHHH, wellll, what do you do again?” in a totally drunk, unable to comprehend voice, BAM! Interest levels down..repeat purpose, yea yea, and then after about half hour of slow explaining talk, finally meeting fixed.

The reason why I used the above is when you realize that you have spoken coherently(considering I have researched hours on accent neutralization and all those big words) and then realize that they probably just are not willing to listen because they are either pre-occupied or they just don’t like your voice or something. Then, wham you are into the box, classified boring!! Of course, I tend to do the same with people who just don’t strike the right chord with me..either shut down my brain..or cut them off! So what do you do change your voice, do a desi accent, “HELLO , how y’alllllll DOINGU?” That has to be the best mix of southern twanged tamizhian!!

Then you realize the necessity of making yourself interesting, especially over the phone or something where you cant use appearance and facial expressions..like blow up your nostrils and its bound to attract attention or something like that, it is probably to what extent you will go to gain attention.

If you call an Indian up in a foreign land, 95 out of 100 times, there is excitement in just hearing your voice! The British – “These bastards have made a move into my bloody country and even taken over the production of my tea and cookies!”. The Australian – “UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, wellllll, what do you do again??”, The Chinese – “Velly goodh!”, The American – “Hold on, my presidents dropping a bomb again!” and so on..

In a box I am, offshore business development, especially cold calling, requires a certain amount of skill, I am getting there though, America and the UK are easy now, Australia, just figuring it out…Japan –“MEE NOOOO TLYING!”.

This post is probably out of frustration of having to talk to a few bunch of aussies who just cant seem to understand why an Indian with a base of about ten times the size of their company and their country would still call them up to see if there are avenues to expand!! So much for contentment..:)

Oh and hopefully, i will be able to keep this layout for the next couple posts atleast before i change it :), sandman was just a neccesity!! and as always scrolling till the bottom helps!!

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Enter Sandman!

I had the privilege of reading probably one of the darkest, most amazing set of comics of Neil Gaiman - The Sandman series, thank you tons! Megha(aka The Wannabe Tamil Punkster) for starting me off of these comics, I will probably have to read them a few several times to actually fathom the level of darkness in each context. This, probably stands out as his most famous work with the following list of characters, called the endless (oh, and all of them are related!) :-

Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

Despair, Desire's sister and twin. It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a many tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out on a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror.

Delirium is the youngest of the Endless. She smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, and leather. Her realm is close, and can be visited; however, human minds were not made to comprehend her domain.

Dream accumulates names for himself like others make friends; but he permits himself few friends. If he is closest to anyone, it is to his elder sister, whom he sees but rarely. He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in evert century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what the lives she takes must feel like, to taste the bitter tang of morality: that is the price she must pay for being the divider of the living from all that has gone before, all that must come after. He broods on this tale, but has never questioned her about its truth. Perhaps he fears that she would answer him. Of all the Endless, save perhaps Destiny, he is the most concious of his responsibilities, the most meticulous in there execution. Dream casts a human shadow, when it occurs to him to do so.

Death accompanies each mortal twice in life. At birth, she speaks to them, but since no one remembers what she says, it is not known why. When they die, she guides them to what lies beyond their mortal years.

Destiny is the oldest of the Endless; in the Beginning was the Word, and it was traced by his hand on the first page of his book, before ever it was spoken aloud

Destruction : Approximately 300 years ago, Destruction abandoned his realm., and he can no longer be reached.He is not dead.He simply choose not to be responsible for destruction and all other facets of his domain anymore.

This layout simply does no justice to Gaiman’s Illustrations, and the only way someone can actually feast their eyes on his breathtaking piece of art is to go through the actual comics.

There are so many moments where you would probably relate a dream or a saying to yourself, innumberable situations where i did, and i think darkness prevails in subtlity in every corner, especially in a character like death. There is poetry in everything everyone says or does, it is quite amazing how dark, yet how subtle the emotions are, especially some of the conversations of Dream or Death.

For example Dream on a ruby which holds a part of him – “I made the stone, created it from the fabric of my being long ago. Powered by my spirit, it was made to manipulate the fabric of dreams, of the world I rule”.

Or Death in a conversation with Dream – “Most aren’t too keen to see me. They fear sunless lands. But they enter Your realm each night without fear!”

Anything more would just be me trying to type out the entire series on this itsy blog. As an afterthought, just because I had to talk about Metallica and their song :-

It's up for debate whether Metallica was channeling the comics when they sang Enter Sandman - 'Exit light/Enter night/Take my hand /We're off to never never land'. Either way, it certainly channels the spirit with which Gaiman's readers enter his worlds of forgotten gods and unforgettable dreams.

The characters/pictures in the layout:-

Top - Destiny

Left – an illustration of Dream

Right top – Destiny’s Book which he is chained to.

Right middle – Destiny again

Right Bottom (top) – Dream

Right Bottom (Below) – Death

The pictures(now taken off) are purposely small so they only intrigue, which is the essence of this blog, I guess true exhilaration will probably be found when you actually read the series! Just a couple of covers to show some terrific artwork :)

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Of Communism, Control and Cocaine

“Rahul Mahajan (right), and Bibek Moitra, personal secretary of Pramod Mahajan, in an undated file photo. Moitra died on Friday after snorting cocaine and Rahul Mahajan is in serious condition in a Delhi hospital. — Photo: AP(now taken off)”

“NEW DELHI: Rahul Mahajan, son of the murdered Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, was hospitalised in a critical condition on Friday after snorting cocaine. Pramod Mahajan's personal secretary Bibek Moitra, who also took cocaine, died.”

Communism : Communism is the abolition of power of people over people. This means abolishing "oppression," whether the oppression be of nations by nations, classes by classes, women by men or any other division in society. Communism is based on mutual cooperation, peace and justice instead of oppression.

Control : To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over

Cocaine : A colorless or white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from coca leaves, sometimes used in medicine as a local anesthetic especially for the eyes, nose, or throat and widely used as an illicit drug for its euphoric and stimulating effects.

This is quite a sorry state of affairs Indian Politics is coming to. Well, we have all been there, done something similar im sure, but somehow this seems totally unrealistic especially happening to one family, which for a change, even being part of the BJP, never followed the Hindutva ideal. Pramod Mahajan was probably the single greatest entrepreneur of the BJP and to expect his son, currently being arrested for possession as well as contaminated (for lack of a better word) with cocaine, only shows the other side of Indian Politics..or is it the same side.

The ability to procure cocaine, first of all by a politician’s secretary speaks volumes about the levels of corruption. It happens everywhere of course, not just here, I remember my American exploits with similar subject matters, but someone of the likes of BiBek Moitra, who has been quite the pioneer, brash, impulsive at the same time extremely practical, is lying dead filled with COKE!

I’m not against drugs per say, even though I probably hate the thought of something like coke, every man for himself (the communist part of this post).. but the levels at which a small drug takes us..was it pressure, happiness of his dad’s death?(the worst scenario considering he was supposed to lay the ashes to rest the next day), or was it poison like the BJP men claim it to be, just to escape from the situation that a “Hindutva” is guilty of drugs!! Atleast, it was Rahul Mahajan only now, Bibek has had a history according to most articles, but still managed to find a place in the “sinless” party..Hypocrites!!

End of day, corruption, bribery, extortion, control, arms(lets not forget bofors) and now, drugs, what else is in store for Indian Politics??

A static layout!

This is probably going to be my layout for the next few posts atleast, i like the look of this layout, alien v2.0 as i call it..i hope this will suit my needs for the time being, even though i love making new layouts!

I hope this layout is easy to the ppl who actually read my blog :), because i think i am going to freeze on this for the while, until something else strikes my attention!

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Alien v2.0

HE IS BACK!!

It’s been a while since the name came up, ever since Doomsday (the supposed killer of Superman) killed him, and I guess the rush of Supermen after (six, if I remember right) somehow made his charm a little jaded. But he is back!!! SUPERMAN RETURNS with Brandon Routh playing him(actually looks quite corny, I think we are past the Christopher Reeve look, even though he was awesome!) and Kevin Spacey playing Lex Luthor instead of Gene Hackman…Wonder how good he is going to be as the evil mastermind nemesis of the Man of Steel. After seeing Matrix Revolutions, I expected a DARK Superman but it looks as colorful as the old ones so I really hope its not him flying at an angle again!! Batman Begins really lifted my spirits up with respect to the comic world, PLEASE LET HIM BE BACK as the First and ONLY SUPERHERO(even though my favorite is Spiderman) to have captured the world for decades now! As always a layout dedicated to “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a moving locomotive, able to jump tall buildings in a single leap” SUPERMAN! As always i have tried a comic like template for this, not the best, but scrolls till the bottom again :)

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The New Microsoft Word!

I just installed the new Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2 and I have to say I am quite impressed with the new look! It has actually made things so much simpler, less clutter. As my new layout, I am using the new blog publishing capability. I just need to type my blog out on word, and directly click on the publish button and it publishes it to blogger.com the moment i enter my username and password!I can just about do anything in this page, except pictures which you may have to add later! Highly impressive, very easy to use, now am really awaiting the entry of Vista(as optimistic as i can be) and the new Microsoft Office when it does release its final version!! Not the greatest Microsoft fan but this looks like a winner as far as a layout for the program goes and for me!!(scroll till the bottom to view the full layout:D)

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The New Microsoft Word

The artist in me

At some point of time, my drawings used to be my source of retreat, something i have not gotten myself to do off late, so i thought i would put a few of them up..i guess somewhere down the line, i hope i will lift that pencil again to sketch, if i can ever do it again :)

Some of my other ones i will probably put up as part two at some point of time, till then.. Yogi Da Vinci :)

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Lady in Red...

My involvement with a co-blogger's struggle forces me to write this, not out of concern, but out of regret, that "man"kind can stoop down to levels in history which believes in only one agenda, the lady in red..

Definition

Lady in red : Can be defined as

(1) The most lovable creation nature came up with..i have my own lady in red :) and therefore my first acknowledgement will go to this form of the lady i see every minute, even tho the blog is not meant to portray this.

(2) The ever angry lady forced to succumb to man's whimsical needs and fancies, boiling inside, but with no reprieve from physical and mental torture, which again is not the essence of this blog even though the reason of vent is a corollary of this.

(3) The ever bloody attitude of man, to portray every drop of blood in history due to a woman, and every sin related to a woman, this being the essence of this post..

A Brief history of time..

(a) "Sex was considered the special province of women, and in the medieval mind women were the carnal, lustful ones, while men were the spiritual ones victimized by their temptations. After all, they were the descendents of Eve. In art, the asexual beauty of the celestial angel was best represented by a young boy. The Victorian idea of the delicate, sexually naive "angel in the home" did not exist. The double standard certainly did though -- a women's honor resided in her sexual exclusivity. Married men were constantly afraid of being cuckolded, and seemed to think this was almost certainly to be expected, given women's voracious appetites. A lot of this, to our eyes, is certainly men projecting their own desires onto women, and blaming women for their own actions. The idea that a raped woman had invited it was certainly common (even Montaigne expresses this view). Christine de Pisan, writing in the 15th century, argues quite touchingly that this is not so, but her voice was a rare one.


(b)Prostitution was another option for independence for women. In the earlier years of the 16th century it was not uncommon for a town to support a municipal brothel, as a way of containing possible public disorder. n a public brothel she had protection from abusive customers, food, shelter, and medical care. On the street, she had none of that. An ordinary prostitute's life, out in the public space with no man to protect her, made her vulnerable to violence and disease, not to mention periodic social persecution.

(c)One cannot discuss the history of women during this time without discussing the craze for burning witches. This is a trend which seemed to have been seriously fanned by the printing press. The publication of the witch hunter's guide, the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) at the end of the 15th century and its popularity in print probably caused a great deal of harm. Enlightened Renaissance scholars like Jean Bodin wrote seriously on the subject of witches, and few philosophers found any conflict between science and magic. Witch persecution is a subject that deserves a huge amount of historical examination. It is clearly a social force directed against women, who comprised the overwhelming number of victims, but what this means about the pressures the society was feeling isn't clear to me.

(d) Our own scriptures :-

Manu VIII.416 " A wife, a son, and a slave, these three are declared to have no property ; the wealth which they earn is (acquired) for him to whom they belong."

Manu V.148 " In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a women must never be independant."

Manu Smrti IX.3 " Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman is never fit for independance."

Manu Smrti V.164 " By violating her duty towards her husband, a wife is disgraced in this world, (after death) whe enters the womb of a jackal, and is tormented by diseases (as the punishment of) her sin."

Manu Smrti V.154 " Though destitute of virtue, or seeking pleasure (elsewhere); or devoid of good qualities, (yet) a husband must be constantly worshipped as a god by a dutiful wife."

Today's World..

The smart man..Courtesy the tamil punkster for her phrases

Why are you a feminist? Feminism is nat gud fer our women. Feminism causes wars, causes other problems fer women who want to work, it also causes rift in family, because women want to work, leaving males to do suicides, it causes psychological problems in marriages, and it makes women divorce men, leaving child as orphan.


In every religion, in some form or the other we have and continue to persecute and accuse women of deeds, and for someone like me who has met the most beautiful women, and in a relationship with one who deserves as much credit i can give her for a lifetime and more, I dont know what i can say, but i do know what i can do, regret my history...and work towards my cause, until then this layout is surrounded with apology to the lady in red..

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Dogs and Bones!

The number of songs which feature the dog and its bone is just truly amazing, my next layout is dedicated to the dog who loves his bone!(well in the layouts case...wants!).. it is probably one of the best metaphors used, rose thorn..romantic,...understandable, dog bone!!romantic too!!! the number of romantic/lady oriented songs(or so they say..) ..it could be a whole genre, D&B or something heh.

For example

Queen - Dog with a bone

You say you won't you can't give me any more love
But you say you will you can forgive me but I doubt
You make me high when you talk on the phone
I gotta ring up your number when I know you ain't home
You gotta hold on me baby
Like a dog with a bone

Hold on me baby
I won't let go
Like a dog with a bone
Don't let go
You gotta

AC/DC Givin' the Dog a Bone

She take you down easy,
Going down to her knees,
Going down to the devil,
Down down to ninety degrees,
Oh, she's blowing me crazy,
Till my ammunition is dry.
Oh, she's using her head again,
She's using her head,
Oh, she's using her head again.
Chorus:
I'm just a givin' the dog a bone,
Givin' the dog a bone,
Givin' the dog a bone,
Givin' the dog a bone,
I'm just a givin' the dog a bone,
Givin' the dog a bone,
I'm just a givin' the dog a bone,
Givin' the dog a bone.
Yeow


just give the dog the bone!!! and then african-american language with make you a dog and your.... a boner! now how attached is that!Now you can see how much more man is obsessed with the attachment of the dog and the bone!!Think if the dog got that obsessed..imagine an indian vegetarian dog, what would happen one day when the dogs realise things about their master...DAMN, that dogs got his boners whenever he wants to and gets rid of them too with aunty, however reluctant she may be(heh, indian twist),but we get none, only curd rice..and leaves!! and who would call a dogs boner a boner anyway??maybe they would call it gummer, cos thats the only thing humans chew all the time, or maybe cudder for some cows out there too!

The dog will be like...snarl..OW..dam, they call it a boner and NO BONE!!!I like vegetarian better..heh, but yes ladies and gentleman...the dog and the bone :)

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And a new Layout!

Well, i did finally manage to make a new layout for want of posts, i have so many in mind but very few which i can really implement, so i decided to make my layout in dedication to my previous dead blog(deny everything) and the X-files(God bless you Chris Carter!). Thank you Reflexions(as always!) and the wannabe punkster for helping me with the code(unknowingly of course), you did help me recap on my lost html talents..:) hope you like my new layout, have to start working on them soon

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My meeting with God (and Goddesses too)

For those who died reading the title(coming from me), my condolences, for the ones who survived, read on..its not a funny post tho!

To start, family discovers that they have been going to an assumed native God rather than the original native God, they decided to embark on a pilgrimage to meet with actual native God(Goddess actually) so off we go..

Sun afternoon 2 PM - Journey begins

6 hrs to Chidambaram - got to drive a tempo traveller for a few mins - one cheap thrill achieved

8:30 PM - Entered Chidambaram, right on time for the last "darshan" at the chidambaram temple - head facing upwards most of the time amazed by the intricate architecture, every pillar trying to depict some story..lots of naked women too..curiousity kills the cat..went to old priest and asked him the point of filling the pillars with naked women around..symbolic explanation starts

"Son, in spite of all that around, look around and see how many ppl look at it..(had half a mind to say..me me!!but shut up)..the point is that inspite of carnal pleasures depicted all around, the focus of all ppl who come to pray are only on God's Idol..(well left delivery, waits for the next one)"

"And also God always had dancers around, Since it is a Shiva temple and with a history of dances and performances, the decorations are symbolic..history can be read from a book outside..(well defended, went straight out and bought myself a history book to read)"


9:30 PM - off to the hotel in Vaideeshwaran Kovil(Shiva Temple) , that is the name of the town itself (derived from the temple situated there, amazing!!) super rooms

11:30 PM - dads encounter with the Ghost in the room - Bed starts jumping up and down when he was about to doze off, thought he was dreaming woke up, read..

12:00 AM - nearly dozes off again, bed starts jumping again..gets up looks under bed, nothing there, so quietly comes and joins me, later finds out in the morning that all the cables in our factory burnt at about that time, major fire averted - co-incidence or real, Ripley's believe it or not!

5:00 AM - to the temple of health!(Vaideeshwaran temple - known that way because Shiva cures a leper/deaf and dumb person in the temple after a dip in its holy tank..you could take a dip there if you wanted to become a leper and deaf and dumb, its that clean..but that apart, head gazing all around again, even more amazing architecture..time for another history book, which i eventually forgot there, now im cured of all my diseases!!

9:00 AM - Drive starts in search of Native Goddess, Kali herself! Roads full of paddy, Tempo gets stuck, half hour wasted in pulling weeds out of tyres and bottom, driver pissed with the farmers says "indha oor janangal ku romba thimuru..(translates to the ppl of this place are very vain).. i guess he didnt realise that all the ppl sitting inside were from that ooru!

10:30 AM - Reach Kali Temple(little itsy bitsy thing on the road, so didnt need to look up to appreciate architecture) waited patiently for ppl to finish with their prayers, was peeking in to the police station next door, with men in white settling a dispute, tamil movie style with one man reading out the verdict and all the ppl sitting and waiting, damn cool!

12:30 PM - Great Great Grandfather house, now this is a house i would love to own!! amazing house beautifully constructed and as big as three houses in my street put together.. constructed completely with teak..but funny part comes..Maami(old aunty) there walks up to me, "enna vuyaram nee..(whats your height)..im like 6"..seri un kitta enna pechu, amma enga(why am i talking to you, where is your mother?) ..enna ma, un payan ku kalyanam paakaaramichaachaa, enna vayasu avanukku, en vittu ponnu irruka..(have you started looking for marriage for your son, how old is he, there is a girl in my house)..by then im already rolling with laughter in my head and looking at my moms expression is even better, shes like why him? but she cant say it, and shes like hes not interested, he wants to study more or something to that effect.. and we headed out of there at the speed of light!

Part two of this adeventure later i think this is apost which ppl will ignore already any longer and i might as well write a book on it :)

Till "Blog"dom Come!

I have always been fascinated about the different blogs i have been seeing over sometime. Some of them are plain funny, a lot of them over frames of mind and attitude, some of them mostly reviewing media and some of them downright weird rambling..but i have never been able(continuing) to identify myself to a blog.

I would not like to be funny(i can be serious!!), but a satisfying smile is always better than an ignorant guffaw(he who laughs loudest probably didnt get the joke - Old Jungle Saying), so i shall try derive some of that through my "seriousness".

As a person who leads a very closed life emotionally..hold on, do i have emotions..ok assuming i do, i definitely am not going to be able to write about my emotions on any given subject which rules out a given frame of mind or attitude..

Being a constant critic(much to manys' annoyances), there would definitely be a lot of reviews on a variety of entertainment channels (this, i truly love doing) but this again will make it look like a sudesh kamath(however you spell his god*amn name) "un"biased paper review..so it will definitely not revolve only around media..

Rambling, i always do, and that will definitely form the core of this blog im sure at some point of time, but then someone told me, a ramble will have an effect of a fly, a constant buzz which just needs a swat, a good thought off idea usually stings like a bee, it needs to be looked at (and this has nothing to do with boxing!, and im not rambling either!), so i suppose there has to be a thought process to any post..

As confused as always, i will take to this "blog"quest yet again, till "Blog"dom come, after all, if i can relate my blog to myself, and with help from the readers around me (if they ever read it!) , the holy grail isn't too far away! Until then, wish me luck!

And its back..

My final attempt at blogging, my next article will be about it so i can justify my inabilities in maintaining a blog, but this time it is going to pursued the Alfred E. Nueman way, or as how it is better known, the MAD way! But im back into blogworld with absolutely no clue how i will proceed, but its a start..knowing a few ppl they wont welcome me back until they see atleast two posts :)

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