Musings of a mermaid

Aug 25th 5:00 PM. Yet another evening. Boring doing mundane stuff. Almost an hour passed. Heard the schoking news of the terrible blasts in the city. Was wincing in pain. I just prayed and felt bad for the fact that for no reason innocent people lost their lives for all they wanted was some entertainment on a weekend. Meanwhile, something else happens. I was ignorant. Next day 10:30 AM, dad unusually calling me again though I spoke to him that morning for a long time. I had this feeling of something bad happening to my loved ones. Appa said Priya nambakuda ippo kadayadu . I got him. I reconfirmed. I said am coming to Hyd. He briefed me everything. It happened last evening about 5:30 and he came to know couple of minutes back next morning. I was shattered. I cringed and cried for hours, for days. I tried my best to reach Airport. But I was very late. I just confined myself indoors. A true gem she was, my confidante, someone who mattered more than any of my other friends. I was thinking

I am a complete foodie but folks say am a poor eater. I make no fuss about food. Trying to write about khana on an empty stomach might make no sense to readers but as I have always felt “It is after all my blog.” I love Idli. Mom occasionally makes it as Dad and sis never liked eating it. So on day2 the batter morphs into Dosa. So here is my quest for something I love the most. It hardly needs any description. Food according to me should be simple, “no-frills”, delectable, easy to prepare and digestible. Idli requires minimum adjuncts. To top it all it’s so pristine white(topping the list is thair sadam of course). Whiter than the veshthi or the strip in tide detergent Ad or what your fairness cream promises. Barely requiring any effort to eat it, the texture is easily amenable for any one to eat be it a toddler or a pallu illadhai thatha . Gives you immense gratification after eating. Idli is like a simple vanilla person. I love eating it either with rasam, especially if i

H arini tagged me to write about eight weird/arbit things and tag eight people to do the same. Not pretty good at writing one. Here goes my list : 8. I want to write a mobile virus which spreads via MMS/bluetooth or through a game via trojan and install a key logger and track other's activities . 7. I make somersault in slumber. There were several instances when I knocked myself against the wall slipped from the cot and rolled under the bed. I used to use my sister's hand as pillow and put my legs on her. Poor her :P. 8. I like reading children story books. I still love reading Roald Dahl’s collections, Alice in Wonderland, Heidi and Daddy Long Legs. I love watching Tom and Jerry too.Makes me feel nice :). 6. I make weird faces when am not comfortable talking to some people so much so that at times I just give them a stare and embarrass them especially when they have this put on accent. 5. I love spoonerisms so whenever I goof up I attribute to spoonerism.{ It is kisstomary to

I was always in conundrum with my identity. Atleast I thought so. Born in Mumbai, brought up in Hyderabad, for almost an year now in Bangalore and a tamilian by heart and soul, the thair sadam girl in our clan I had difficulty with respect to my domicile. Au contraire I was fortunate to know people from various cities, their style of living, food culture and their stance on people from other communities.{Read the tamilians on Telugus and vice versa, The Kannadigas on Chennaities, The Iyer’s on Iyengar’s, The Reddy’s on the Brahmins so on so forth ….} Stand in T-Nagar {Tyagaraja Nagar, a popular street(?) in Chennai famous for shopping(?)) holler out “Karthik” and trust me atleast couple of guys would turn. Any permutation, combination of the ubiquitous Karthik say Karthik Narayan,Karthik Kannan, Karthik Kumar,Karthikeyan,Karthik Giri...suffix with it or prefix with it you name it you have it. They are mushroomed as much as the malls in Bangalore. I wonder parents’ affinity for naming

Here is how you include an audio file in blog. :) Bday Song Click on the image or link to see the song in action. Just host your song and provide its link{I hosted in googlepages} and just a simple anchor tag. Voila!:) The file extensions can either be wav, .aud,.mid or any other sound files. As long as the user has the helper application or plugin installed and their browser is configured to use these, the user will begin to download the file once the link or image is clicked.

Some of the interesting links I would like to share. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Amazing technology. Don't miss it guys. black google would save 3000 megawatts.html follow this interesting link. You could visit www.blackle.com to see our very own google in action but in a dark background.(old wine in new bottle ;) ) Flickr related tag browser. http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/ For awesome pictures give seasons/flowers as keywords and see the page in action. Tweak it and trust me you will enjoy lot more. I use this service called dropsend to send huge attachments.It supports attachment worth 1GB. Next time you want to send some movie or huge data, you can always use this simple yet powerful service. dropsend(www.dropsend.com) enjoy!

Attended my first cousin Swathi's wedding. Managed to get pictures from my sister only now. The first word that strikes me when I envisage a Tam Bram wedding is a "Marathon". A three day fun and frolic filled event for all of us involving a lot of leg pulling activity courtesy scores of cousins, sumptuous lunch for us, the non-stop rituals, changing sarees often, those heavy jewellery, managing the nine yard saree and repeating those hymns.No wonder one gets to learn to be patient by then.Indeed attending other's wedding is really enthralling. Right from Janvasam to Reception to Unjal to Kalyanam ,Valayadal to Kattusadham(bidding adieu to hordes of folks accompanied by gargantuan lunch) ..the endless list proceeded by a tear jerker moment for the bride's side. I could empathize with my Aunt and Uncle.Finally we all folks landed up getting exhausted making umpteen rounds here and there volunteering, managing my niece nephew and not-so li'l sis.. I took a b

Here is me wishing you Happy Birthday Dad.You have reached another milestone in your life,though you stay young mentally.Wishing you good health,peace and tons of love from me,deedhi and mom. I owe you so much... Thanks for the support you gave me for all things I love thee words often fail me for the inability to express these I have come a long way you see. how I remember when I often stumble and tried my best to mumble, most of the times when i grumble you did try to handle with all mirth right from my birth when I was in worst predicaments and cynical your touch was magical now I am here away from you and far how I wish there was no geographical bar waiting for a lending ear for I fear telling here I miss your care Is it fine and fair Am waiting to come home all these days was only hearing on phone the cubbie in her den literally waiting to have some fun so here I am scribing with a euphoric feeling and a li'l cribbing after weeks of dilly dallying some crooning and some dro

Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption "Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department : "I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers." Any guesses why this letter was of historic val

This weekend marked the celebration of Techical fest "Innofest", organized by IIIT-B kicked off on friday the 23rd. There were fun filled events such as Teach your professor,Abhivyakthi,DC,Informals(Themes:Inquizzitive,Harry Potter,Lord of the Rings),Mad Ads,LAN Games,Bug Samurai,Code Butter(a continous 12hr coding competition) and a game developed by the students here and brain child of Dr.Prasanna "IChess ". The one which started with scepticism made people go green with envy as it turned out in a great way.The USP of the fest was the prizes,all gadgets. From Playstation to XBox , iPOD ,Vista licenses ,headphones,USB Drives,Webcams, definitely this is really awesome. Some gifts displayed Great responses to all the events and students took part sportively. For people who would miss to catch the World Cup match between India and Sri Lanka,it was screened in 70mm projector,sitting blissfully in the landscapes with cool breeze wafting we all guys watched keeping f

Life is very strange I say. You see people around you and one day you no more see them.Losing friends who have been around ,you who were your seniors guiding you,thinking of enjoying themselves for a couple of days taking a break and losing their lives for fate is unimaginable. Thinking of their parents moves me to tears. Shubham and Sumeet(my seniors) and kapil Jamkar(a close friend of my friend) may your soul rest in peace.Amen! I don't feel like writing any more.

I have tried something with Photoshop.Agreed it's aweful,but hoping to evolve better.Collaged 3 pictures and edited shapes using Office 07 Here is Bholu.

I have been fida over the new "Yahoo! Mail Beta" .Excellent Web 2.0 and RI Application. Giving an Outlook feel ,tabbed browsing,shortcuts keys shooing my touch pad for a while ...I definitely like it(with a Switch Back feature to revert in case it is not "likable"). Well for people who have slow net speed, must have seen an animated Gif's while loading the mail service,just an intelligent way of ensuring that users are not put off by the time taken to load the page,here you see this pretty cool guy called "Liam".Preety cool right? I present some of the images collected by me over time and snatched from the Internet.Weird me? :| Liam -Fat Belt(Recent one) Liam being chased by Ostrich Liam blowing heart bubbles(Occasion:Valentine's Day) Liam on Rein Deer and galloping away Liam on a Train(on wheels) Liam Electric(fied?) Liam - Shadow boxing(kewl) Liam with a Bouncing Ball Liam a Sumo Wrestler(looks like The Simpsons) Liam -Break Dance(somersaulti

I mulled over certain things at this odd hour of the day(2:30 AM). Call it an eerie feeling of Déjà Vu or conglomeration of wacky thoughts ,some issues keep bowling over me. For instance,when I see lights switched on in rooms even when there is no one or lights on in washrooms even after being used and not giving a hoot to screw the faucets properly I get irked. Well,I am a conservationist per se agreed but definitely not a person to give up things easily.I loathed leaky faucets,over flowing buckets,those pitter patter of drops on the floor and water/electricity getting wasted. At times when I wake up at 9 AM I see the corridor lights unattended in the hostel,I make a point to switch it off every time and tell the security to do the task early from next time but all to deaf ears. I don’t mind doing each day but why when wait for such a long time. The feeling goes like ,”this is not my house so why should I bother”. Are we not contributing to the electricity bill this way or adding

Now,the little birdie{Miss KK:KrystalKlear} signs up a blog sitting next to me,when the KSM happens in full swing at 11:45 PM,trying to drive the difference between interfaces,abstract class and what not.I have also "abstractly" understood.Being a fine critic I can't stop telling her do this and that. This post is basically to get on her nerves and irk her to the zenith.We have swapped blog url,just waiting to drop my brickbats. All the best dear :). Blogosphere welcomes you. Look forward to Damsel's dream II from my end,thanks to the sequel hits of '06. P.S.:Name of KK withheld on request. With loads of smirks and smiles bidding adieu.

H ave two exams tomorrow and by chance stumbled upon Deepa's blog.A great one indeed. Testing my yahoo emoticons :| and DropCap feature. Hope this works \:D/ Thanks to Deepa and Hans:)

I finally succeeded in creating a favicon for my blog which i have been thinking of doing for years ;) Take a look at the Browser's address bar.A Pisces image could be found. To create a favicon : » choose the desired image and convert it into a .ico(icon) file here » Host that .ico image (Photobucket doesn't support .ico extension) in googlepages or elsewhere .This will do as it only needs Gmail ID. » In the Template tab in Blogger,edit the html link add the following lines in the head section immediately after the start of head tag » For nice custom made favicons Click here I will sometime create a better one.This is just a test . » If still the favicon doesn't appear in IE,delete the link from Favourites in IE,clear the cache and restart the browser and link it up. Enjoy! P.S: Blogger did not allow me to paste the html code as is hence the image.Apologies for the blur and low clarity.

This Ad from Honda is very meticulously done. Take a look.One of the engineering marvels :)

Updated my Quiz Blog. check it out in Quiz blog

Having taken a sabbatical I dust the cobwebs off here. I happened to attend a seminar on Simputer (Mobilis ) , a hand held computer by Mr.Vinay,Encore Information Systems in college today.The presentation started with some hilarious comic strip of "Blondie" throwing some pointers on how at times understanding certain features become difficult,bulky software,how softwares become easily obsolete and with the question of how many people fail to use or explore all the utilities of a given software say Microsoft Office where an ordinary user requires only 30% of the features provided one is not a power user.Their motto is to make PC's cost effective,easily understandable to non-English speakers,support multi-lingual features so that it can be procured by one and all.It was one of the best seminars I attended. Mobilis, could be used as a desktop and a laptop.,more for users than developers.The one I was shown was in AltaVista Linux(I don't remember exactly,correct me if am

Today I felt like Blogging.I am not blogging because its 'almost' impoverished but because I do not feel like doing anything per se. I had classes from 8:30 in the morning(on weekends too :( ). I have loads of assignments to do,some stuff to study but did not feel like doing anything.Was just tired.I just sat by the side of window. I was thinking about the conversation me,my Chittappa,his friends and Appa had about the city where we spent our formative years. I got involved in their talk. What's in a street name you might ask.There is lot if street names in Secunderabad are anything to go by. Read on.. The Raj that shaped much of what is today's Secunderabad,giving it its cosmopolitan touch and distinctive feeling,still lives on.If not in the ethos ,atleast in street names like McIntyre Road,James Street,Ronald Ross Road,King's Way and so on.. True political whims more than cultural or patriotic reasons have buried most of the names under tar.But those that surviv

I happened to watch this Ad very recently,as I dont get to watch television. This Desi version is cool. Video: XBox360 India Ad - extremely funny