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yello, stupid guy from michigan
the son of a gun
should be shot with a saiga shotgun
by the quick .... quick gun murugan
whadddup with you, man
what's with the crizzap you used to churn
did you have the urge: "run shailen run"
dude, gotta make a u-turn
and come make some
dude, make some bun
honey-bunny hun-bun
why did you y'self shun
see na, you have may nun
little more than human, little less than humane
you are the one and only stupid shailen
guys, except you shailen, come visit my blog
hippy, aka SNOOP DAWGG.

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thankfully he didnt delete it before I got the idea of copying it and pasting it here.
n hippy ur "machines" just a lame waste of monaay

Whats your Caffeine???

java/coffe/caffeine
soda/mountaindew/caffeine

Origami

this is what we generally think of origami...
beautiful paper ..
beautiful folds ...
cool result ....

but I just found out a new meaning to the word something thats gonna change the meaning of the word for a long time to come.

Microsoft Origami .. a new project a PDA, tablet pc, mp3 player .. all in one .. the video .. found here has a real cool sound to it and the ad's like a small story told which meets a completeness in the end. Nice theme, Nice Video, Nice sound...

Im tempted to buy the product .. but its too bulky for an mp3 player .. i definitely cant take it with me for a jog...but for a tablet pc if ever i need to purchase one of those i think this looks promising ...

tomorrows the day the product gets unveiled... keen on hoping its not that big :D....

over heard in new york

Teen boy #1: Yo, pu$$y!
Teen boy #2: You just called me a pu$$y?
Teen boy #1: You are what you eat!

--Astor Place
Overheard by: Jenya

over heard in new york

Chick #1: The ceremony is so long. They should just throw the diplomas off the stage into the audience.
Chick #2: Yeah, and if you don't catch one, sorry, you don't graduate.
Chick #1: So then the football team will actually graduate.
Chick #2: The receivers, anyway.

--Fordham
Overheard by: Jess McGins

and lastly

Girl: We had this huge fight. It was awful. All the screaming and stuff and public.
Guy: Really? In the street and stuff?
Girl: Yeah. It's so embarassing.
Guy: Wow. You'll probably end up on that Overheard site.

--Madison Square Garden
Overheard by: Waiting in Line

A dream no rather dreams

When I was in India I had a plan ... I had even charted it out....

I wanted to explore the vastness of my country, yes.
To visit and the various regions of my country to explore every possible terrain that is this motherland of me and a million others. I wanted to touch the hearts of those millions, wanted to see how they smile with what they have, wanted to see how they brave the tears and wanted to see how they struggle. I didnt want to stay in a hotel. My plan consisted of hanging out at the stations! You see I had this timetable of the long distance trains in India. Just as a game I would visualise myself on a ride on the konkan express, or the kanyakumari express, the rajdhani or the eastern express. I even charted out an itinerary consisting of which stations to visit which trains to catch from the stations and where next to head towards. My plan involved going down south, then travelling as east as Calcutta( it was so then) and ride the trains via patna to Delhi, from Delhi ride back through Rajasthan and baroda to Bombay.

I used to watch a lot of this series called Amazing Race, its this series that got me wanting to travel my country, learn more about what I have in this country that I can so easily take for granted. I wanted to capture the essence of my motherland in my mind so I can never forget the feeling. I wanted to capture the various sunrises and sunsetsm the dawns and the morning dew in different languages and different meanings, with each having a story of a king, a pauper or a legendary reformer behind it. I wanted to capture it in all its soul in my mind my heart and a camera.

Unfortunately I didnt have the money first, then I didnt get the time, and now Im not in my country. But its a self contention based promissary mental note to myself that I will for one do this.

The thought of money even put me to thinking of coming up with a

unique series of my own.

I visualized a singing contest based on the theme of nationality and peace between India and Pakistan. A train trip contest wherein groups, bands and music artists of regions and areas that I would visit would perform their songs and their music on the base of this theme, with every region having its own winner who will later on come on a national front. The theme would be extended to pakistan and the overall contest winner would be be able to perform at a national day for a peace concert. This theme contest of mine got partially fulfilled, not even remotely closely by me or any of my relatives, but by the people at channel [V] in the form of other programmes such as Popstars, V- Independence Rail, etc.

How I wish I had taken it seriously with my friends.

Oh why you ask the sudden nostalgia? I happened to come across the blog of Indiauncut and the author's recent visit to Pakistan to follow up and report on the Indian Cricket team. The blog is really stirring and is really What I had dreamt of, like travelling to places and getting in touch with people. He even gets to go the all mighty Khyber Pass. It's really great. His blog and the pictures he has taken and also his style.

On a second note, as to the reason for this nostalgia. Two movies and a song. The first one is the current rave of the youth of India and is an amazing movie with a very interesting theme. The other is/was a rave of the people of India who arent anymore in India and are contemplating going back, this movie though a bit cheesy with a romance line that actually ends with a filmy happy ending was my favorite flick, and my family's most superflous waste of money flick of the year, no prize to guess why (they are in India and I am away). The song by the way is this, a recompilation of an Rabindranath Tagore by AR Rahman with collaboration of many classical artists from India, also known as the national anthem of the Republic of India, its a song that overwhelmed me as I played it yesterday.

Currently listening to Jiya Dhadhak Dhadhak by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan... wandering in my mind through the unknown streets of Des wishing I was Bono.

As I sleep a country awakens....( its just a thought .. no revolutionary speech this)

R & B

These ladies with their amazingly smooth and deep voice sing these hot seductive songs boy are they hot !!!

Divas !! Ashanti, Beyoncé, Ciara, TLC, Kelly

On a heavy dose of R&B these days .... and do a google image search for these ladies n im sure jus like me ull get bowled over :D.....

*singin*-----ooohh ahhhh

One night at Mc Cools

Thank you God!!!

You have to watch this movie... its a funny movie which is structured the pulp fiction. My pal has a thing for following any writer or any actor .... so as we exhausted off a series of layer cake, snatch, lockstock n 2 smokin barrels, even trainspotting we then turned on to a different author... someone i think who is connected to seinfeld in someway ....

anyways this movie rates better than the 6 that imdb has in it .. maybe 7.5 .. do watch it

new design

Time for some change

Hmmmm there are still quite some changes remaining. like if someone could tell me how to get opacity: .1 set just for the background and not for the entire thing... minor changes here and there required... also ... required some old styles of the old blog .... you know old habits die hard... am also missing my haloscan thing .... got to install that too.. but .. currently this much is enough of a break. will get back to the other stuff some other time.......
Thanks Neels for the help out here...and

thank you Thur

for the template .. and theres this cool site i visited but couldnt use any of the info there.. mandarindesign.com .. will use it as time comes... till then .. this be it...

Why

I just freak on the haunting tunes of black - pearl jam.


This is one song that brings tears in my eyes even when Im happy. Two combinations my friends never recommended were old monk+Black- Pearl jam+Me and old monk+Alive-Pearl Jam + Me.

When its Alive I know I cant relate to the song but heck the song makes me kick everyones ass.

on a lighter note:.... new lingo being developed at mtu
whaddup maaah desi? ima git ur brown aaahhhssss dawg.

The Beatles -- Eight days a week

Ooh I need your love babe,
Guess you know it’s true.
Hope you need my love babe,
Just like I need you.
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me.
Ain’t got nothin’but love babe,
Eight days a week.

Love you ev’ry day girl,
Always on my mind.
One thing I can say girl,
Love you all the time.
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me.
Ain’t got nothin’but love babe,
Eight days a week.

Eight days a week
I love you.
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care.

Ooh I need your love babe, ...

Eight days a week ...

Love you ev’ry day girl,
Always on my mind.
One thing I can say girl,
Love you all the time.
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me.
Ain’t got nothin’but love babe,
Eight days a week.

Eight days a week. eight days a week. eight days a week.

;)

tanki tanki tanki tanki tanki tank tingi tingi tingi tingi tingi tang

Saw rdb... only one thing on my mind
0900 78601 telefun telefun.....

to all those who are like me away from civilization but yet with a 10 mbps line, you will surely understand what that is.
to the others... yeah well this is an inside joke and you will not get it .. but heres a hint .. all-out macchar eating japanese in all of the shemaroos.

PS. oh yeah .. movie is really odd... maybe its the quality of the flick i saw ... i barely could make out the character names .. forget the dialogues .. but thats what you get to enjoy 10 - 15 feet of snow so far. I liked the song roobaroo a lot but the placement in the movie made me give a thought to the lyrics... i just wished they couldve picturized it a bit better. rest all nice nice ... the shift from the flick to the flick in flick and back to the original flick was used so extensively that it turned out to be too trippy ... aah shizzled the izzle of maah eyes

thoughts

Im implementing a geometric constraint satisfaction algorithm .....
when I came across a simple text that said .... constraints exist in our every day life ... and that we dont need a large computation to decide whether we want to splurge on a ski vacation or eat a triple layered chocolate cake ... can you believe that!!!! .... the brain .... decides ... it freaking solves all the constraints .. the cells work it out for us .. heck even when im writing this .. some freaking cell is asking my fingers to type ... this out ... geez .... amazing algorithm .. most efficient one .. and the most accurate constraint solving system ...

..... on a lighter note ......
saw phoebe freak out ross's belief's in evolution and his liking for work just cos he nagged her a lot about evolution ... really trippy the way she works on him ...

No.8 does 81

Watch him do it here
Kobe Bryant's 81 against the Raptors at the Staples Center LA.

And the man only states that he felt real pleasure when magic called him and said he was proud of his game....

No "air" about this one here ;)

Amazing game a must watch.

Happy Festivus

So the really really wella guys decided that they celebrate yday as Bapat day... Nothing special .. just that all the guys on orkut had one pic of Dr. Bapat :P

But a valiant good comeback by da man himself .. changed his nic to Orig. Since 1980 Bapat :))

Had fun .. orkut was full with agent bapat .. all over ..

Sania Mirza

She lost her second round match to the sister of Richard Krajicek , a young player called Michella Krajicek...

I like her, for the sport, for the things shes done in the name of Indian Tennis, I believe because of her at least 100 Indian girls mustve taken up the sport seriously. Good thing girl. Its inspiration like yours that binds the hopes of a hazar others.In fact apart from Akio Nakamura, shes the only other Asian girl in womens tennis, n Akio is ranked below her. So that makes her the best Asian female tennis player. Thats nice ...

Although we all would have loved to have her sailing through the rounds at Australian Open, I think its nice to be defeated once early in the season ... cos then the comeback is a fierce one. So heres to hoping that youd crack it hard at the french n the wimbledon n american...n the australian next year....The press at AO were real nice to her this time around, the reviews for her and the hopes that the international press have from her is a real relief n better hope than the "rave reviews" that the indian press keeps on coming out with.

And to all the pervs ... go fyf something from hippys blog ....

The Son of Man

Nina Simone .. Oh Sinnerman ...+
this Rene Magrilte... +
Peirce Brosnan =
One cool movie .. ->
The Thomas Crown Affair

Peirce Brosnan was one of my favourites since his Remington Steele days ...

The title of this post happens to be the title of this painting...

Passing then ru

To my two pals who've gone on a new journey

Walk On.....
first U2 and then .. when its settled in .. time for the walker ;) Johnnie boy

khalbali

Rahman coming up with good numbers again ...
khalbali is cool passionate n powerful ..... the arabic tunes makes me wonder though
Pathshala is damn kiddish but is awesome to listen to....this one very vividly a sound from boys.
Rang De basanti is the punju types..

bollywood of late has been totally influenced by the brit punjus n the paki poprock scene... its good as a lot of the stereotypical "bollywood song listeners" are getting exposed to a different sound and as a matter of fact because these songs are lipsynched by our lukkhas like that eemran hashme fella or even abhishek b n aamir makes em appreciate the variance from the mainstream.... good for bollymusic.... up your **s bappi!!!!

i guess for the first time rahman has a mix n match album .. mixing the traditional sounds like that of songs of the calibre of lagaan or swades with those of the type of boys n yuva

thats kinda sad for me as now i cant tell the story of the movie without actually watchin it ...

well..... paint it yellow ...

*Listening to Strings - Zinda Hoon*

Im seriously thinking of creating my own podcast ... its something that I always wanted ....
On some really beautiful weekend when Im done with my thesis.. I will be publishing my podcast....right now all i can add is just a couple of posts in between .....

*recent event
me passing everyone on my way to home at a speed of 75 on a limit of 55
I zero on on my next target... a lil black dot in the horizon...
so the speed ramps up 55 60 65 70 75 .. the dot becomes more like a car
suddenly the car brakes ...I see its red lights .. sensing something goofy I slow down... 58..
the car pulls over on the curb ..
and in between the red brake lights of a dark blue car I see the white words "state police"

next 20 mins the brute chevy beretta with no radar detection is forced to be driven like a mouse with a blue escort ...phew !!!

the cop was nice enough not to pull me over .. I guess christmas is still being celebrated somewhere....

When I come back like Jordan wearing the 45......

Ever had to go through your thoughts?
some thing so intense, even you dont know
whats going on in there, is it just a dilemma,
or a question, questioning yourself

A cry, a wail, a whimper that makes you scream
all you want is your brain to go numb
to think that you dont ever want to think
these games they play with you

Caught in a fog, a war on both sides,
you are just a spectator,
your white's just plain useless
Its their war, what makes you stand in it?

Their wars, their claims, their bullets,
blowing you to smithereens,
and yet your feet deep in the muck.
while the thoughts keep shooting out.