I have faced some problems with word press and hence have decided to move back to blogger,at least for a couple of weeks.Will try to come back after I make the necessary changes to this blog.

Till I am back you can keep visiting HERE;

From rediffblogs to blogger and from blogger to wordpress.That pretty much describes my journey in the blogging world.Nobody except me and a few of my friends I coaxed,read my blog on rediff.I had more luck with blogger.After some intital hiccups my blog at blogsopt had reasonable number of hits per day and I had managed to build up a sizeable readership.Blogger gave me almost everything I had asked for.

Though I could have conveniently persisted with blogger,I decided to take the plunge and have shifted to wordpress.For some inexplicable reason,I felt that worpress offered me more.My friend Prashanth too was had a role in this change

With an assessment tomorrow and End semseters around the corner,I must be slogging it out solving Free & Forced Convection and similar stuff,but here I am sitting and blogging about my shift to wordpress.What an eccentric weirdo you may say.But I guess that's me.Ok enough of this bullshit.Gotta go and take a final look at the portions for tomorrow's test.Till next time ciao

I have yet again been tagged by Ponnarasi.Since I don't have anything else in my mind to blog about right now,I decided to take this up.So here are some facts that could possibly give an idea about the kind of person I am or rather not

Movies I would watch over and over again:

1. The Godfather
2. Ocean's Eleven
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Andaz Apna Apna
5. The Matrix
6. Nayagan
7. Swades
8. Rocky 3
9. The Usual Suspects
10. Mudhalvan
11. Man on Fire

TV shows I love to watch:

1. Lost:-Nothing can beat this absolutely mesmerising show
2. Friends:-An All time Favourite
3. Anything on History Channel
4. CSI

My favourite foods :

1. Puri & Jam
2. Pav Bhaji
3. "Rasam" prepared by my mom
4. Pani Puri

My greatest victory so far:

1. Getting into Anna University-Not exactly a victory but atleast something worth cherishing

I hate

1. People who tease others repeatedly in the name of "kalai".
2. People who lie or whine unnecessarily

People I would like to dine with

1. George.W.Bush
2. A.R.Rahman
3. A.P.J.Kalam
4. Ayesha Takia
5. Queen Rania of Jordan
6. Keira Knightley

Things I dream often

1. Terrorist attacks inside our college campus
2. Incidents that have a sense of deja vu in real life

Most inspiring personality in Life

1. My Dad

I guess this is enough for now.Anything more and it will start looking like a memoir.

Do these questions have rational answers?

1. What's the difference between the Delhi bomb blasts in October and the Varanasi bomb blasts this week?

2.If the answer is,no difference,then why is there a difference in the response to these two attacks?

3.What's the relation between terrorist attacks and minority appeasement?

4.Can 150 million Indian muslims be blamed for the terrorist attacks?

5.Aren't Hindu extremists forces like VHP & Bajrang Dal,that talk about wiping out minorities,terrorists?

6.What's it about religion that prompts prudent,pragmatic,moderate individuals like Javed Akthar to make impractical rhetorical statements like these

"We need reservations for muslims because they are being discriminated in different parts of our socitey?When they are not discriminated they succeed,like in cricket and films."

Can these questions really be answered??

I got tagged by Ponnarasi.This is called IWD(International Women's Day)tag and you can write about any one women who has influenced your life a lot.

I will write about my mom.She is the only important woman in my life and the only woman I know well enough to write about.

Two of the many things I like in my mom:
1) Her open mindedness on all issues barring one.
2)Her piousness and concern for one and all.

The only thing I dislike about my mom
1)Her short temper

I love Chicken Biriyani prepared by mom(Damn Bird Flu).

Ok this is an open tag.Anyone interested can take up this tag.

P.S:-My very good friend Rajagopalan has started a new blog.I request you all to kindly visit the same.

Sabeer Bhatia,the man who popularised email,after a spate of disappointing ventures,has come up with a new venture called Blogeverywhere.com.He claims it will revolutionise the blogging world just like hotmail changed the face of emailing.

According to a news article

"The software lets you blog anywhere and everywhere and anybody with the same software installed can read what you've written and Sabeer being Sabeer, he knows how he's going to make money.

The software is a toolbar that sits below the address bar in your browser and when you go to hotmail it starts downloading email."

The toolbar hasn't been launched yet.As far as I know it isn't up anywhere on the net.The world right now has atleast 27.2 million bloggers and about 1 billion internet users.Bhatia claims that blogeverwhere.com will allow those remaining 970 million users to blog with just the click of a button anywhere on the world wide web.Interesting concept.We will have to wait and watch.

As for more information you can visit here and here.

Update:-You can now download the blogeverywhere toolbar from Here.Rashmi Bansal writes an interesting article on the blogging world as a whole and also on why blogeverywhere.com may eventually fail to take off.

"Why the hell can't you get me Kashmir"

Those are three morose looking men

Dubya meets Aaloo

How did this guy not become a circus buffon?

I bet that ball was bowled by Musharraf

Is he playing golf or cricket?

Unfortunately I couldn't find the picture of Laura Bush sleeping during press conference today.I would have loved to post it here.If some one finds it please give me the link.

Photos Courtesy:-Getty Images

 How the hell did the Americans vote for a buffon like him?

 Guess Bush is upset that he didn't get a chance to talk first

 "You talk too much Manmohan"

"I just duped another country into joining my Freedom on the march program"

"Hey Laura,I found myself Indian girlfriends"

As Bush was being feted by the Indian government,protesters were venting their ire against "greatest terrorist in the world"(Mr Jyoti Basu's words)

Lastly,a picture that proves the level to which India has stooped to please the Americans

A sniffer dog at the Rajghat

Photos Courtesy:-Getty Images

A friend calls me after 3 years.After the initial pleasantries he makes a request(I knew this was coming).As we both belonged to mechanical engineering,he wanted a favour.As my department was conducting its annual technical symposium he wanted me to get him a participation certificate for paper presentation.He hadn't submitted any paper for review nor did he have any intention to.All he wanted was a certficate that would aid him for his placements.

What should have I done?

Take the moral high ground and tell him that I can't do this favour(I am still suffering from RDB hangover).Nepotism is a major problem plauging this country and I didn't want to be party to it.I represent this country's youth that our elders are proud of and wouldn't do anything to belie their belief in us(Ofcourse no one will no,but even then).

Or

Forget all this uprightness nonsense and try my best to get him the certificate.After all he was my friend and what's wrong in helping him with his career.

It's been six days since Bird flu was found among poultry in our country.The incident took place in Maharastra but the repercussions were felt throughout the country.Within a day people all over our country stopped consuming chicken and eggs.Well the decision was quite warranted.No one was interested in taking a risk.Better safe than sorry.As always our media pounced on this story and tried to bring us all the info they could get about this disease.We had news stories about the myths and facts of this disease.If this wasn't enough they even had news-stories on the decline in the prices and consumption of chicken.All this was fine and quite commendable.After all people had to know about this.

But what I found perplexing was that none of the news channels posed the question as to how Bird flu came to our country(atleast not to my knowledge).I know there is this theory that flu came to our country through migratory wild birds.Well that's fine for other countries like France,Turkey etc where wild birds were found dead.But that was not the case in our country.In our case it was the poultry owned by an individual that was found infected.The chickens weren't some wild birds roaming around that came in contact with migratory birds to get infected.These were birds that were privately held and were being reared for eggs and meat.How did they get infected?This is a question that probably ornithologists could answer.But sadly the electronic media hasn't brought in these experts to the studio.

In a related development,couple of months ago I had read an article written by proverbial animal activist Maneka Gandhi in tehelka.While I had discarded it as a figment of maneka's imagination,the arrival of bird flu in our country made me take a second look at it.The article is extremely interesting and the theory proposed seems radical but quite expected.Quoting it here would prolong my post and hence I will give you all a link to the same.

I request you all to kindly go through this article and tell me your opinion about the same.

For the article kindly click Here