Original one liners

Time for some original one-liners... Please be warned that these might trigger extreme reactions ranging from extreme laughter to extreme banging of your head :-) ...

1. I hate driving this car, but I love driving you crazy

2. If you find that this car is being driven rashly or negligently, then don't come near the car ..

3. If you are reading this, then you are on the wrong side of the road..

4. My heart is not as big as my belly..

5. I want my no-claim bonus. If you want yours, stop reading and start driving…

6. Blackberry alert... Not mine, the cop's..

Arm chair expert - Prelude

Indians are highly opinionated. Everybody has an opinion on every matter. It is so deep that software engineers have opinions on how to improve the quality and quantity of agriculture produce, farmers have opinions on how to win more gold medals in olympics and so on.. Everybody is an arm chair expert. I have noticed this during cricket matches, especially those involving India.. The most common area which is discussed is politics. The current happenings come a close second.. This is hardly noticeable in other developed countries. During the presidential elections in the land of opportunities, I wanted to make small talk with one of the people out there and made the mistake of asking who might win the election. Out came a curt reply that they don't discuss politics and religion.. This incident made me aware of the unique ability of my country men people..

Given that I also share the traits of my fellow citizens, I am starting with a series of posts in my blog  with my opinions on various topics. Will try to cover a topic in each post.

Watch this space for more.

Disclaimer : I am not an expert in any of the topics being discussed in this series. I have tried my level best to be as objective as possible. I am not affiliated to any political party or NGO. The intention here is not to just anybody's sentiments. In case if you feel otherwise, please pardon me.

October 30th

October 30th is a big red letter day in Indian history... This is the day our country comes onto the global map big time..
This is because of the F1 Indian GP happening that day. This has bought Metallica here for a grand performance..

Am seriously looking forward to both of these events..

Jai Ho !!!

Safe travel???

Hey everyone, been a long time since I posted on this blog. Loads of things have changed since I last blogged. The year 2009 has gone by in a flash. The world economy has yo-yo'd back from a recession. Least of it all(???), Metalhead is going to lose his bachelor's and (soon to be) Mrs Metalhead will gain her masters in a few weeks time..
So, that sort of explains the absence of Metalhead from the blogosphere. Lack of interesting topics was one of the main reasons Metalhead has been missing from action.
I had read in the newspapers that there was an unsuccessful attempt to blow up a flight on the way to the land of opportunities. The impact of this was huge. On another flight to the same place, a poor guy had a stomach upset. He made quite a few trips to the loo, which was noticed and handed over to the authorities as a possible "suspect". Suspect for what? Being gastronomically challenged!!! ..
Voila!! there comes new rules on the flights in the air space of the land of opportunities..
1. Passengers should not get up from the seat one hour before the flight lands
2. Nothing to be kept on the laps
3. Passengers shouldn't reach their bags.. and etc...
After reading this, my brain started working overtime and came up with some better ideas to improve safety in travel
1. Passengers to declare while checking in, whether they expect temporary illness like stomach upset, vomitting, food poisoning(Chances are bleak, as food is not usually offered in the flight), which requires frequent trips to the loo during flight.
2. Footwear not be worn on foot, rather carried in a transparent plastic bag
3. Passengers should wear diapers similar to the astronauts during flight (This will be available for a nominal fee).. Otherwise, risk being a "suspect".
4. Stainless steel clamps to replace seat belts to hold passengers onto the seats during the complete flight.
5. Only clothes certified "safe" by the authorities to be worn by passengers. This includes undergarments..

Let me know if you guys have some ideas to make our travel safe.. If this continues, I think people will start using horses and mules for transportation, rather go thru all these hassles...
Hmm.. thatz food for thought.. Till next time Ta Ta!!!

Metalhead's tips while travelling..

Life sure is funny... Sometimes funny doesn't make you laugh.. Just like most of jokes, which I crack which are "funny"... I have seen people react to my jokes with more tears than what they usually have after watching King Kahn's movies ... BTW, the spelling mistake is intentional :-P ..

Coming back to my statement.. I say this because it has been some time since I left home to the land of opportunities and when I look back, I was surprised to notice that I have been travelling abroad quite a bit.. So what is a blog without a travelogue? So here is one in this blog...

While most of the people blog about their experience and adventures while travelling.. I thought I will post this based on my (mis)adventures during my travels.. So here comes the list of tips on what not to do while travelling, exclusively from the vaults of Metalhead's wisdom (However minute it may be)..

TIP 1:
Don't look at strangers undergoing extra security check @ the departure gate.. especially if they belong to your country or thereabouts..

POSSIBLE OUTCOMES :
You might have to answer lots of questions to a security officer, whose english is barely understandable.. Better be careful.. especially while answering questions like .. Do you have training in Chemical and Biological weapons... The answer maybe : I am a bio-chemical weapon.. I generate Bio-chemical gases on a regular basis.. Remember this, if you give this answer, you might end up in a cell eating cockroaches.. YUCK!!!

TIP 2 :
Never assume that the gate number printed on your boarding pass is the correct one

POSSIBLE OUTCOMES:
You might end up as Usain Bolt's distant cousin .. especially while running to the right gate.. Running fast with a heavy cabin bag is not fun.. It is not fun for your co-passengers on the plane, as you will be stinking pretty badly after your run :-) ..

TIP 3 :
Sleep in the plane, but not at the departure gate..

POSSIBLE OUTCOMES :
You might miss your plane.. But you might forget your ipod on da seat where you were catching forty winks, while trying to catch the plane..

TIP 4 :
When you are catching a bus to the airport.. Check whether the bus goes to the airport..

POSSIBLE OUTCOMES :
You might end up on the wrong side of the city.. Best case scenario, you might get a chance to run back to the bus station and catch the correct bus... Worst case scenario, you may irritate the driver.. :-) ..

As I continue travelling.. there will be more tips.. Watch this space for more..

Till next time .. Ta Ta ..

Not another review!!!

Looks like an impression is created that good ol' Metalhead has gone soft recently. Well, he has not gone soft. In fact, he is exploring some random thoughts, which are a bit ummm.. err... un-Metalhead-ian.. :-) ..

I guess people might feel that it is high time that Metalhead started reviewing his style.

Oh no!!! not again.. not the R-word again...nope, I am not talking about one of my earlier posts.. In fact this is the word "Review" .. There are quite a lot people who make a fortune on Reviews and lots of people waiting to make a fortune(?????) on reviews...

Whenever I open a book or newspaper, there is a movie review awaiting me.. In case, I visit some music site, they have a link to view Music reviews.. Then comes the book reviews, vehicle reviews, mobile reviews and so on ... aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgh!!! Oh God!! Please save me from the reviews.. Hopefully he will review my prayer... oh oh!! there comes the word again...

How did I come to loathe this word ??? Lemme review the past for your benefit... Sorry people!!! I'm trying my best to remove this word from my vocabulary.. For my convenience and your inconvenience , from now on in this post, I will use the abbreviated form "R*" in place of the word "Review"... Nah!!! After a R* of this post, I think it will be better to use the word, because I don't want to drive the readers away.. he he he

Let us review(formerly, R*) the time before I entered the corporate world, I was a student who did not have any qualm about any reviews, except the ones for my marks... Then I entered into the big bad Reviewing world of software engineers... Then started the reviews in my life ....

It started on tate fateful day during my training in my company. There was a session on Software Engineering principles ..(For the uninitiated, it means how best to develop a project.. All I knew then was that we had to write some code.. This said that we need to do other things, which takes more time than writing code :-).. ) .. this was similar to the title of one of my subjects during my college... But being the guy I am, I don't remember anything beyond that... Looks like I have a long term memory loss problem (akin to Ghajini, Amir Khan and Surya now have a fierce competitor :-P )... Coming back to the training, the instructor introduced a new word.. "Review".. Well it wasn't new.. But it took a new meaning henceforth..

There are different types of review in the Software World... Peer review, Code review, Design Review, Test case review, Estimation review, etc.. and then comes the deadliest of all.. Performance Review..
So basically, everything we do needs to be reviewed.. It is good that we don't have to review other aspects in the Software world like eating, and the aftermath of all the eating..

Initially, when I was the reviewee (the guy whose work always gets reviewed, or in short the fall guy), I used to wonder what the fuss was all about.. Shouldn't the work be done correctly the first time.. Well, as I kept on working up the corporate food chain (For the record ,am still very low on the food chain, my place is very similar to bacteria on the food chain), I understand that work will not be done correctly the first time around.. Oops!! let me not spill the secrets of this business.. let me change my statement.. I meant things "may" not be done correctly the first time around .. so the need to review things..

Even though I was stuck in reviews in office, I felt that reviews will not affect my life.. Then came the revelation.. One of the days, I was planning to go out for lunch with my friends.. I realized how reviews have come to haunt my life.. I was looking out for Restaurant reviews... Aaarghh!!! Didn't realize how much I have come to rely on reviews... How can I end up trusting some person's taste buds..

The people in the place I stay in now rely a lot on the reviews .. Even to the extent of weather reviews.. Ok.. I am exaggerating :-) ..

Instead of meandering meaninglessly over this.. I came to realize over time that reviews are just like our hair.. It is of no use.. But it is pretty difficult to survive without it..

Till next time.. Ta ta :-) ....

Marriage (food) blues

Hello readers.. Been more than a year since I blogged.. It was a combination of factors which didn't let me write a single post during the year of 2008.. Finally I have got a chance to blog something...

Lots of things have happened in my life during this year.. both professionally and personally..

Got promoted in early 2008 and now have more responsibility on my shoulders .. Travelled twice to the land of opportunities(!!!).. At the time of publishing this post.. am still here..

My sibling got married, my best friend got married and am in the dock now...

Looks like there is no escaping fate now..

Lots of my friends have got married and some of them are about to get married..

One real bad thing about living away from home during this phase is that I am missing loads of marriage food.. Hope I do get to return back before all my friends get married...

More than worrying about my marriage (which is very uncertain), I am really worried about missing all the different varieties of food, which will be served in marriages..

On that somber note, I am signing off .. Till next time.. Ta Ta...

My very own Top 10 show

Being a guy, who has been spoilt big time by various channels on television, yours truly has been spending quite a lot of time in seeing Top 10 shows i.e., Top 10 movies, Top 10 songs, Top 10 comedy scenes, Top 10 serials, Top 10 news, and so on....

I have been thinking quite sometime on why and how this term got coined.. Why not Top 200 or Top 1000 or Top 420 or Top 2 or Top 3.. in short Top n, where n is not equal to 10 and ranges between 0 and infinity.. Anyways, this post is not about the technicalities and origins of Top 10 shows...

After all these,it is high time before I launched my very own Top 10 show.. So came up with some ideas.. Here comes the Top 10 ideas for my Top 10 show ...

Here is our list for the Top 10 Top 10 shows

At No. 10 ... Top 10 Ramsay brothers' horror shows

At No.9 ... Top 10 Long lasting Soaps (No.. not the long lasting detergent soap.. i am talking about television soaps, which are more horrifying the ketchup filled horror shows)

At No.8 ... Top 10 spam mails

At No.7 ... Top 10 Annoying sounds

At No.6 ... Top 10 posts of my blog..( he he he .. how could I leave this??)

No.5 ... Top 10 VTR movies.. (Refer my previous post - A Very TRagic movie)

No.4 ... Top 10 Bappi Lahiri look-alikes

No.3 ... Top 10 Paris Hilton's silly stories

No.2 ... Top 10 Indian farmers (no not the real ones... just the reel ones)

and the No.1 spot goes to

Top 10 evergreen college heroes (The guys who play da role of college students even when they are 60 .. ;-) )

I am open to more suggestions.. am awaiting them from u guys (I mean you )..

Till next time .. Ta Ta

Very TRagic movie

Sometime, the past week, I was bored, not sure what to do.. So I decided to watch this movie by name "Veerasamy" ...

For the benefit of the readers, who don't know tamil and / or tamil movies.. "Veerasamy" is a recently released tamil movie, which is almost a one-man show..

This is how the opening credits roll out


Production
Direction
Story
Lyrics
Cinematography
Screenplay
Music
Dialogues
Catering(!!!)
Audience (????)

by

Vijay T Rajender M.A (a.k.a V T R, formerly known as T Rajender M.A formerly a.k.a T R)

This appears everytime our hero delivers a punch dialogue. BTW, every dialogue in this movie is a punch dialogue ... it is a punch delivered on the audience, for their choice of movie..

No prizes for guessing who is the hero, comedian, heroine.. oops ignore the last one... it is our very own V T R...
Luckily for us, he has got a well groomed(!!!) and pasted beard, due to which he cannot disguise as the heroine.

After this introduction, I doubt whether you would want to read a review of this movie.. In case, you still want to read the review, then may God save you...

The story is very simple. The hero(V T R, who is also director-cum-producer-cum-story writer-cum-caterer-cum-music director of this movie) is a good samaritan, who helps needy people.. In order to help people, he joins politics and wins an election .. Thanks to his verbal punches at the villains and the dear audience.. Then you have his sister, who loves his arch-nemesis' younger brother (surprise!! surprise!!), who delivers a long dialogue, which makes us reach for the paper napkins.. You also have a heroine whose purpose is .. nah!! forget it .. totally irrelevant to the movie and its audience.

The travails of our hero lands him in trouble with the corrupt politicians, police officers, audience of this movie.. and finally our hero dies surprisingly without speaking a dialogue..

Officially, this movie is intended to belong to action genre. But unintentionally it has ended up as a comedy movie. The audience started laughing during the emotional scenes.

V T R rocks (just like a baby in a cradle) as usual with his rhyming punch dialogues, rhythmic dance steps and amazing emotions, which ends up as a good stand up comedy. Jerry Seinfeld, step aside!! you are no match to VTR. I love the scene, where our beloved V T R jumps thru the roof and hits the villain. I have never laughed so much looking at an action scene.

Not recommended for people to see alone, especially in theatres.

Rating : Sorry dude, no stars, maybe one black hole..

I would like to end this post with a punch dialogue from V T R. During a TV interview,a reporter asked V T R about how he felt about his son's success in the Tamil movie industry, he replied in a typical VTR style "Maankottailendu Maamaram-than varum" (Translation : From a mango seed, you can only get a mango tree)... I thought we could grow apple trees using mango seeds, oh stupid me!!!!

P.S : I admire V T R. Even after taking a lot of flak from everyone, he dares to make movies his way and be himself. Also, it takes a lot of effort being everything in a movie. This guy is never short of energy, even though the end result is vastly different from what he expects.

Multiple Personality .... Disorder????

One of my all time favorite movies is this Tamil movie by name "Anniyan" (a.k.a "Aparichitudu" in Telugu and "Aparichit" in hindi.. In case, u don't know these languages.. Don't worry I'll tell wat's so special abt this movie ;-) )... I dunno how many times I've seen this movie. Everytime I see this movie, it brings on a new dimension......

So what's this movie all about, that makes me blog about??? There's this portrayal of a condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder , a.k.a MPD..... Yes, u are right, the same condition which is mentioned in Sidney Sheldon's "Tell me your dreams" ,which is a brilliant book...

In case u haven't see this movie, here's the brief outline.....
The movie's about a meek person by name "Ambi", who can't stand the carelessness of people and feels bad that he can't make any difference to the society. Without his knowledge, he transforms into "Anniyan", who punishes the people, who are careless... The story is all about the protogoanist's brush with the law machinery and the movie ends brilliantly, one of the best I've seen....

After seeing this movie umpteen times, it just occurred to me, that this condition is prevalent among every person... Interesting .. ain't it?? First thing, people will vehemontly deny this...Let me prove that this exists.... Just read on!!!

There are many personalities within a single person, a humorous personality, an angry soul (something like our very own angry young man ;-) ), a romantic personality and many others... It can be seen that every person has his/her own mood changes... Now isn't that something like a personality change .... People do have fantasies .. isn't that wanting to turn into some other personality, which they are unable to.....

Let me take a test subject....

As usual, our friendly neighbourhood Software Engineer... somehow, I just can't do without dragging in Software Engineers :-P.. Before u jump to conclusions, Let me re-iterate that I'm also a Software Engineer :D.....
Early morning, this guy is lazy as a sloth .... During the day, he's a professional, talking and behaving like a well-groomed individual.. Catch him with a close friend, he is as humorous as Drew Carrey.... When he's speaking with his parents or someone from his family, he as quiet as a mouse... When with his girl-friend or wife, he is as romantic as Romeo.. When drunk, he's more unpredictable than a monkey.....
Wow!!! isn't this a multiple personality????

I can quote many examples like this... When friends go out on a road trip, where a lot of booze flows and they do get drunk and go crazy.... When the same people go out with their folks the very same evening,they seem like some body else..... Isn't this strange??? The only difference between MPD and this syndrome is that, people are very much aware of changes in their personality ...... Is this voluntary or involuntary??

So what's your personality today???

Music in Metalhead's eyes.. oops!! ears

Guess who's back in the blogosphere?? Yes, it's the average dude with the mix 'n' match of random thoughts.... If u haven't guessed the person yet, then u need to scoll to the top of this post ;-).... Yep, it's me :-D

What is Music?? How will a person define music??? Some might say soothing sound..... some strange out-of-the-world person would categorise the sound of chainsaw cutting wood as music as well.... Looks like people can debate on this topic forever. It's said that Humans are social animals... I would go further ahead and say that humans are also musical animals.... I don't think there are people who live without listening to music. In fact, it has been proved scientifically that plants also listen to music....

Hey, why am I posting some random information about music? This is just a prelude to my post. It's said in English Grammar that a good passage consists of an Introduction, Body and a conclusion... So here I am, trying my best to follow this... Oops!!! this is another distraction.... Let's come back to the topic....As the title says, I'll talking about my perception on various music genres.

Please note that this is my personal opinion and I'm not trying to impose my views on any of the readers....

Classical Music : A person needs to be classy to understand this type of music. This is the foundation to all the music being created. In fact, when a person learns music, he / she has to learn classical music. There are no 2 ways abt it. In fact, most of the successful Indian singers are accomplished classical musicians.. Now that's food for thought....

Pop : I'm not a huge fan of pop...Let's not talk abt it... I include remixes alongwith this genre... My view is that I'll listen to pop.. in case if it's the only music left in the universe.. I like a few tracks here and there... but those are far and few.....

Hiphop and Rap : I like the videos... Who doesn't like them :-P... But music-wise, some are very good and some are ok-ish... As long as u don't get offended by lyrics of most of the tracks.. I don't think many people will dislike this genre of music...

Rock, Metal, Heavy Metal, Death Metal and any music that's heavy ;-) : I guess my profile name gives away my preference.... :D.... Yes, I love rock music.. Many people perceive it to be only noise.. Believe me, if u haven't listened to rock, u have missed something in life.. So, what are u waiting for??? My all time favorite rock band is METALLICA.

Indian movies' music scene is sort of a cocktail of different genres of music... It combines every possible genre of music, that too in a single track.... That's what makes this music scene unique... My favorite songs are those which have a touch of classical and Rock music.. which makes the numbers less than others....

There's no rights or wrongs in a person's taste for music... and I believe that no music is bad.. it's only that an individual likes or dislikes a particular type of music..... There are a few things about a person, which should not be criticised and preference for music is one among them....

So, what are u waiting for?? Go grab ur Music Player or something and put on some music.. After all, there is no background score in real life ;-)....

Learning from Unusual Sources

The promise in my previous post was that I'll review / try to review every F1 race going forward. After a disastrous sporting weekend, where Brazil lost to France in the World cup quarter final and both the McLaren cars crashed out at the opening lap in the US Grand Prix, the last thing I want to post about is sports.

One of my all time favorite cartoon characters Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is back on Cartoon Network and this series, which is being shown is amazing... Hey, what has this got to do with the topic??

The COO of the organization I work with, emphasise on "Learning from unusual sources" . Taking that into account, I'll be taking some of my favourite comic / animation characters and try to find out some characteristics which can be really useful. This's not a philosophical post by any measure, it's just to show that we can learn from "Unusual" sources, which in this case will be cartoon/Animation characters.

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : They have the most amazing attitude. According to them, being different is no sin and they appreciate that difference.Everyone is different in their own way, we need to appreciate the fact that we are different and others are different from us.
In spite of their regular skirmishes with the Shredder, they still enjoy their life to the fullest. But they beat Shredder virtually everytime. This can be related to the problems we face in everyday life.. We should never get bogged down by it and affect our life , but at the same time, we'll have to face it and triumph over it just like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
Another aspect which impressed me was the amount of respect they have for their Sensei Splinter.. This should prompt us to respect our teachers and mentors

2.Batman : I like Batman more than Superman, just bcoz he's a normal human being and has no special powers. He leads the Justice League ;-), even though people with special powers are present... He shows that a person need not have any special powers to do good.. Only hard work is required.. BTW, it also helps to be a billionaire ;-)... He's also brilliant and a quick thinker.. this shows that only special powers donot serve any purpose, a person needs to always think thru situations and come out trumps...

3.Superman: He has a lot of Super Powers, but chose to use them for the good. If he had wanted, he could have ruled the world, but he chose to do good.... He shows the importance of choice in life... Our choice should always be such that it doesn't harm let alone help others...

4.Justice League: Individual powers help, but to face bigger obstacles, team work is very much necessary.. This is applicable to everything in life... Problems in family should be face by family members together as a team. Similarly in work environment, especially in software companies, team work is of paramount importance...


This is just the tip of the iceberg.. We can learn much more from every comic / animation character... Who said that comics / cartoons are only for kids?? I think that person has never watched any of them...

Hatred

Most of u might have heard abt Orkut(TM). I'm also an active member of Orkut(TM) and love to explore orkut(TM) whenever i'm free. Now what has Orkut(TM) got to do with the topic? No, this is not an ad for orkut(TM), but something which i have noticed and feel is prevalent in the real world.

I have seen many communities on Orkut(TM), which was very disturbing. Why was it so disturbing? Because, here follows the names of some of them
F##k India
Shitt on India
Anti- Pakistan
Pakistan sucks
Chennai sucks
Bangalore sucks
and many others

Why do we have so much hatred among us??

If this is the case in the virtual world of Orkut(TM), where we find most of the educated and cultured people, just imagine what it might be in the real world.

What exactly is "Hatred" ?
It's a negative emotion. It's an extreme emotion of dislike. I'm no psychiatrist, but would like to dwelve a bit on emotions.

There a few thing people want to do and love to participate or watch, etc..... This is known as "Like". The opposite of above is "Dislike". If a person starts "disliking" something a bit too much, this turns into "HATRED".

More than the cause, I'm very much concerned about the effect, this in turn increases the violence, lot of negative emotions and in short turns life into hell and the place into a hell-hole.

Life is short, why waste it on hating something / someone. What will a person gain by hating something / someone?? Beats me!!!!

I think there are lot of things in life which necessarily doesn't make sense to me.Looks like I keep on discovering these things day in and day out. I think this will join the list alongwith the beards (Please read my earlier post to know more about this ;-) )

Just another day in the life of another software Engineer

Bangalore, the city of Gardens, lakes,opportunities and empowerment....
This was the hoarding put up by BMP (Bangalore Mahanagara Palike), on a flyover, which I come across everyday while driving to office. The penultiate point hit me hard. As usual, if something hits me hard (other than stones, sticks, and other physical stuff :-P ) I blog about it. So here comes another one.
What are all the opportunities present here?? The answer is one everyone knows. The software industry has boomed big time out here and this is the Silicon valley of India. So what does all these info lead to? How's this related to the topic in question? Well, this was a not-so short intro for this topic.
I am J.A.S.E (Just Another Software Engineer) frm namma Bengalooru. After a sample size of 10-15 fellow J.A.S.E's cutting across namma bengalooru, this is how a typical day with J.A.S.E will look like :

Disclaimer : The situations explained here occur very regularly and any resemblance with non-J.A.S.E(s) is a pure coincidence ( I mean it)

1) Time of the day : 7 - 8 AM or sometimes even 9 AM -----

After pressing the "Snooze" button on his Nokia nobile phone umpteen times, the subject realises that he has missed the ideal time to wake up in the morning and knows that he will be late to office. Rush to office as soon as possible. He also realises that his boss had scheduled a client call @ 9.30 AM.... Run J.A.S.E Run

2) Time of the day: 11 AM to 12 PM -----

After reaching the office, subject finally turns on his workstation. The J.A.S.E opens all the required files for the work planned (?) for the day. Then, he realises that it's time for Coffee / Tea / Boost / Bournvita / Horlicks/ whatever ... RUN J.A.S.E RUN again

3) Time of the day: 1PM to 2 PM ------

Time for lunch... The less spoken about the taste of the food (if the subject is eating food from the cafeteria), the better. Our subject also spends his time gossipping with other J.A.S.E's.... Talk J.A.S.E Talk

4) Time of the day:2 PM to 4 PM ------

Finally, involved with work... The subject receives a few calls from a bank / insurance company for credit card / debit card / visiting card (oops! pls ignore this)... Our subject is disturbed and he's also feeling very sleepy (after-effects of the cafeteria food)... So back to Coffee / Tea / Boost / Bournvita / Horlicks/ whatever .... Walk J.A.S.E Walk

5) Time of the day: 5 PM to 9PM ------

Finally, the work is done and gotta go home.. Our subject prays that he doesn't have to re-do the same piece of code tomorrow...Crawl J.A.S.E Crawl

6) Time of the day: 10PM to midnight and beyond

Our subject has multiple options

a) Night show movie

b) Pubs / Disco (only till 11.30 PM)

c) Yahoo! messenger @ home

d) Orkut

and so on............ Sleep (?) J.A.S.E Sleep(???)

This vicious cycle continues on and on and on and on...................................

This is the life of an average J.A.S.E ......

This blog is dedicated to all the budding and wanna-be J.A.S.E's ;-)

Difficulties in finding a topic

Well, looks like it's been a long time since I blogged. I was in search for a good topic to blog on.
It was very difficult to pick one. After some days and a lot of thought, I realised that I had one amazing topic to write about and this topic materialized.
Very often, people think a lot about something a lot and miss the very obvious. This happens a lot when I used to crack PJs( Poor Jokes - I will need a separate blog to explain why this sentence is in past tense. Will post that sometime in the future).
The punchlines involved in the PJs will usually state the very obvious. Looks like I have deviated a lot from the topic ;-).
Coming back to the topic in hand. Some of my attempts to find a topic included :
1) Looking for an inspiration, just like my previous topic. Unfortunately, could not find one
2) Haven't seen any movie recently worth mentioning. This was one of the reasons which led to my first topic
3) Tried to learn from life. I feel that there is a lot to learn from life and every leason cannot be blogged. Especially some of the really private ones :-) ....
4) Out of desparation, asked a few people around for some good topic. I got some really good suggestions and some not-so good suggestions.
Neither of this worked out and here I'm finally writing about the difficulties associated with finding a good topic to write about.
What are the characteristics of a good topic?
From what I realized during my short span of blogging, topics have to be either
1. Entertaining
2. Thought-provoking
3. Different
4. Non-controversial

So the most difficult part in selecting a topic that meets at least most of the above criteria..

Finally, I'm stuck and am not getting a good topic to blog about :-( .......

The saying "There is always a light at the end of a long dark tunnel" holds good here. My only hope is that the light does not turn out to be that of a speeding train...

Good day everyone... Thanks a lot for reading my blogs... Will blog on some interesting topic very soon .... after all life gets very interesting as days pass by...

Love Failure and obsession with beards

Whenever I had decided to grow a beard, I came across many ridiculous comments from different people.

Some of the really good ones are :
1. Are you going to Sabarimalai (especially in the month of May?? I don't think the temple is open during May)??
2. Don't you have enough money to go for a shave??
3. Are the shops which sell shaving razors closed??
4. Did you have a love failure??

The fourth question usually strikes me. Why should guys grow a beard if they had a love failure?? What will girls do if they had a love failure (as they can't grow beards, maybe they might grow their hair)???

What's this "LOVE FAILURE" concept??
This has been really troubling me for a long time (ever since my facial hair started growing).

As far as I can understand, a guy and a girl start liking / loving each other and long to spend time together. One fine day, they split due to some reason or the other. They feel sad about it. I think this is what is called or termed as "Love Failure". This will bring in a lot of bitterness and sadness to the individuals concerned.

Still my question lingers on and on... How can you associate beards with love failure.
Many great people had beards, but does that mean they had "love failure" during their lifetime.

Looks like this will still remain an unsolved mystery for times to come. Hopefully someone can come up with an answer.
Meanwhile, watch this place, I might finally solve this.