The poet in me !!

I didn't realize I could write poetry..until I actually did it!

Go on people, go wild with your comments..

I am waiting for constructive criticism,

unless I have to wring your neck >:->

..::One Final Warning::..

This is one story that the whole world has heard,
of how mother nature poured her fury.
How thousands of lives came crashing down,
and the element of water was the jury.

Little Swamy was playing on the beach that morn.
He squished little ants and laughed with glee.
But did he know that miles away,
there was danger, which he couldn't flee.

He washed away the last ant with water,
"Die! I am your god!" he said.
At that moment the waves rose behind him,
and before he knew it, he was dead.

Is this a lesson we were to learn?
A pending message for the human race.
How could we have taken the world for granted,
and torn endless scars on nature's face.

Gaia is a forgiving person,
someone whose wrath is difficult to arouse.
But once her patience reaches the limits,
she unleashes an anger that's difficult to douse.

Times like this bring us all together,
we realize religions are nothing but lies.
And the boundaries we put around ourselves,
are things only a human could surmise.

What are we to learn from all this, you ask?
This is a warning of things to come.
We must make sure we don't become the dinosaur,
that we don't meet an end that's gruesome.

1600 and counting !!

And here it comes people !

my sixteen hundredth blog hit..Well, actually, that would be six hundred, because I slyly put the counter start at 1000..but that is a secret just between you and me right?!

And I'm also quite sure that it's been me who's responsible for half of the true hits..But, if there are any fans out there( and god save them if there are!), then I would like to put out the message that without your joblessness, I wouldn't have got this far..

Thank you(or something like that!) ;)

Egosurfing

Just discovered the wonders of Ego-surfing, i.e. searching for yourself on the world wide web.

And guess who is listed number two on the search for "Vivek Narayanan" on Google !!

Yay..this is virtually my biggest achievement since I've been hooked onto the internet !!

Now, all I have to do is get the moron who is listed above me, and I will be the supreme Vivek Narayanan of the world..(Atleast I can be the best of my namesakes!)

F.R.I.E.N.D.S - Some great lines

Ok..this is something that I do when I'm generally fooling around on the Wild Wild Web..Here are some lines from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. that got me ROTFL.

The One With The Football

Chandler: Hold on a second Joe. Where do Dutch people come from?
Joey: Uh well, the, uh, Pennsylvania Dutch come from Pennsylvania.
Chandler: And the other, uh, other Dutch people, they come from somewhere near the Netherlands, right?
Joey: Nice try. See the Netherlands is this make believe place where Peter Pan and Tinker Bell come from.
Margha: Oh, my.Ross: Enough with geography for the insane, okay? Let's play some ball, guys.

Chandler: Guys, guys! Come on, it's Thanksgiving! It's not important who wins or loses. The important thing is, the Dutch girl picked me! Me! Not you! Holland loves Chandler! Thank you, Amsterdam! Good night!

The One with the Metaphorical Tunnel

Joey: Well, I've never been through the tunnel myself, 'cause as I understand it, you're not allowed to go through with more than one girl in the car, right? But it seems to me it's pretty much like anything else, you know? Face your fear. You have a fear of heights? You go to the top of the building. You're afraid of bugs? Get a bug, right? In this case, you have a fear of commitment. So I say you go in there and be the most committed guy there ever was.

Joey: Oh, yeah. Go for it man! Jump off the high dive. Stare down the barrel of a gun, pee into the wind!
Chandler: Yeah. Joe, I assure you if I'm staring down the barrel of a gun, I'm gonna be pretty much peeing every which way.

The One without the Ski Trip

Monica: What's "pleh"?
Joey: That's "help" spelled backwards, so that the helicopters can read it from the air.

The One where Old Heckles dies

Ross: You don't believe in evolution?Phoebe: I don't know, it's just, you know...monkeys, Darwin, you know, it's a, it's a nice story, I just think it's a little too easy.
Ross: Too easy? Too.... The process of every living thing on this planet evolving over millions of years from single-celled organisms is... is too easy?
Phoebe: Yeah, I just don't buy it.
Ross: Uh, excuse me. Evolution is not for you to buy, Phoebe. Evolution is scientific fact, like, like, like the air we breathe, like gravity.
Phoebe: Oh, okay, don't get me started on gravity.
Ross: You uh, you don't believe in gravity?
Phoebe: Well, it's not so much that you know, like I don't believe in it, you know, it's just...I don't know, lately I get the feeling that I'm not so much being pulled down as I am being pushed.
[There's a knock at the door]
Chandler: Uh-Oh. It's Isaac Newton, and he's pissed.

The one after the Superbowl Part 1

Phoebe (singing): Now, Grandma's a person who everyone likes,
She bought you a train and a bright, shiny bike.
But lately she hasn't been coming to dinner,
And last time you saw her she looked so much thinner.
Now, your mom and your dad said she moved to Peru,
But the truth is she died and some day you will too.
Lalala LAlalala LAlalala LAlalala La La La
LaLalala LAlalala LAlalala LAlalala La La La La

Phoebe (singing):There'll be times when you get older
When you'll want to sleep with people
Just to make them like you
But don't.
'Cause that's another thing
That you don't wanna do
Everybody!
That's another thing
That you don't wanna do.

Phoebe (singing): Oh, the cow in the meadow goes moo,
Oh, the cow in the meadow goes moo.
Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds him up,
And that's how we get hamburgers.
Now, chickens!

Phoebe (singing): Sometimes men love women
Sometimes men love men,
And then there are bisexuals
Though some just say they're kidding themselves.
La lalala lalalalala laLa la lalala lala la la

The One where Eddie Won't go

Rachel: Why do we always have to do everything according to your time table?
Ross: Actually, it's the movie theatre that has the time schedule. So you don't miss the beginning.
Rachel: No, see this isn't about the movie theatre. This is about you stealing my wind.
Monica: You go girl! I can't pull that off, can I?
Ross: Excuse me? Your... your... your wind?
Rachel: Yes, my wind. How do you expect me to grow if you won't let me blow?
Ross: You... you know I... I don't have a... have a problem with that.

The one after the Superbowl Part 2

Chandler: Hey, stick a fork in me, I am done!
Phoebe: Stick a fork what?
Chandler: Like when you're cooking a steak.
Phoebe: Oh, okay... I don't eat meat.
Chandler: Well then, how do you know when vegetables are done?
Phoebe: Well you know, you just... you eat them and you can tell.
Chandler: Okay then. Eat me, I'm done!

The one with the dollhouse
Monica: I get the dollhouse!
Phoebe: Wow! A house for dolls! That is so cool. When I was a kid, I had a barrel.
Joey:Uh, Pheebs? You had a barrel for a dollhouse?
Phoebe: No, just a barrel.
Monica: Ya know what? You can play with my dollhouse.
Phoebe: Really? Really?
Monica: Any time you want. Ya know, when I was younger, all I wanted to do was to play with this dollhouse, but no! It was to be looked at, but never played with.
Chandler: My grandmother used to say that exact same thing to me.

Rachel: Joanna, this is my friend, Chandler Bing.
Joanna: Bing! That's a great name.
Chandler: Thanks. It's, uh, Gaelic for "Thy turkey's done."

Monica: What's this?
Phoebe: That's a dog. Every house should have a dog.
Monica: Not one that can pee on the roof.
Phoebe: Well, maybe it's so big because the house was built on radioactive waste.
Chandler (holding a tissue): And is this in case the house sneezes?
Phoebe: No, no--that's the ghost for the attic.
Monica: I don't want a ghost.
Phoebe: Well nobody wants a ghost. But you've got one. Because the house is sitting on an ancient Indian burial ground.
Ross: Wait a minute. The house was built on radioactive waste and an ancient Indian burial ground? That would never happen.
Phoebe: Okay, obviously you don't know much about the U.S. government.

Rachel: Okay, my boss--Joanna--when you left, she started asking questions about you...
Chandler: Oh, liked what she saw, huh? Dug my action, did she? Checkin' out the Chan-Chan man!
Rachel: That was... surreal.

The one with the Screamer

Ross: I, uh, I also need two.
Monica: Really? Who's number two?
Chandler: Whose number two? One of the more difficult games sewer workers play.

Obviously, this shows how jobless I have been sitting in the computer lab all day..

::Porn Wars::

Over the last coupla weeks, almost everybody who's anybody has had something to say about this apparent rise in porn in India. Just this morning, the CEO of Baazee.com was arrested with accordance to the IT act, which bans selling of pornographic material. E-Bay doesn't seem to be too elated at this development, and I think this is just the start of a stiff stand-off between the government and corporate policies.

People are frantic, and word's going around that the people accessing this material are being traced by goverment agencies. Now, how Indian Government agencies are going to pin down civilians for seeing porn, is something that passes over my head. Another point is that as long as you have a dial-up account, the IP address of your machine is changed dynamically every time you connect, and even if you did watch any porn, or download it, you are probably safe. And given the commitment that has been seen of governmental agencies in pinning down cyber criminals over the years, the probability of people being apprehended for the transfer of porn on the web, and over mobile phones, drops to the minimum.

I, however, have not watched this stuff, and any government people watching this space, better get off my tail. Maybe I'll watch it, maybe I won't. But one thing is for sure, India is changing, and as far as I am concerned, it is all for the better. How long are we going to go around crapping about Indian values, culture, and ethics. IIT and DPS have shown the way, transparecy is the thing that everyone likes, and this will be the future!

Cristiano Falls

It's been a week since I thought I should put up this post, but I like being fashionably late, and I don't think putting up time-bound blog posts is going to make much of a diff to the amount of traffic my blog attracts.

Thus I come to what I had intended to say in this one..
It was a day before my 'Principles of Marketing & Management' exam, and as usual, I was in front of the box.Flicking channels, I stopped at DD sports, as there was nothing better playing, and decided to watch the Federation Cup Final between Dempo FC and Mohun Bagan FC. Vinod would have a thing or two to say about me watching indian domestic football, but the cable TV bastards will not help my pirsuits of EPL. That's when I saw Cristiano Junior fall. Now, my initial reaction, contrary to that of shock and grief,expressed by most other people, was comic, and I actually thought it was pretty funny.

Picture this:

You have the ball in front of you, you have the goal ahead, and just the goalkeeper to beat. The goal is there for the taking. The goalkeeper comes forward, but you easily dodge him and score. The crowd,(that's jobless enough to come and watch you),cheers and you hear the thumping of you heart when you start to celebrate. And then, suddenly, you drop dead.

It's like you are Linus Torvalds, and you just wrote Linux, and you drop dead.

It's like you are Bill Gates, and you just made your God-knows-how-many th dollar, and you drop dead.

It's like you are Amitabh Bachchan, and you've just completed your millionth advertisement, and you drop dead.

It's like you are Dubya, and you have just conquered the last oil well in Iraq, and you drop dead.


That, I think pretty much makes my point clear. I want to go in the way Cristiano went, and I, unlike most people feel happy at the way he went.

Now, for people willing to know what I want to have just done when I die, you'll just have to wait and see.