*** "Life is sometimes like archery...U shoot hoping to hit the bulls eye, only to see the arrow not even hit the board, sometimes its also like rock climbing, u keep climbing hoping to reach the top only to realise that the last step is out of reach no matter how hard u try!"
** Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off today! :-P
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
My own original Mokkais!!-- More to follow...
** Do u know why it doesn't rain during Chennai Super Kings matches?? Becos CSK already has Suresh 'Rain'a in their team!!! :-P
** Why do they say 'kiss and make up'? Why not 'make up and kiss?'
** If u appoint someone it is called 'appointed', but when someone is sacked or resigns from a job, why isn't it called 'disappointed'..sumthing like 'he has been appointed by the company. He has been 'disappointed' by the company?!!
** Why is a rocket called a 'rocket' if its not made of rocks?!!
**U can only drive as fast as the vehicle in front of u.
** The inevitable is inevitable!
** Why do they say 'kiss and make up'? Why not 'make up and kiss?'
** If u appoint someone it is called 'appointed', but when someone is sacked or resigns from a job, why isn't it called 'disappointed'..sumthing like 'he has been appointed by the company. He has been 'disappointed' by the company?!!
** Why is a rocket called a 'rocket' if its not made of rocks?!!
**U can only drive as fast as the vehicle in front of u.
** The inevitable is inevitable!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"Will This Rocket burst"??
Guess, it takes a satellite launch for me to start blogging again. This time, its 'Risat-2', India's own digital 'spy sat' in space, meant to keep a tab on our borders and infiltrators. Of course, ISRO did its best to assert that it was not a 'spy sat'.
But then as Arun Ram told me, all sats are spy sats, except this time around we will get digital images of almost everything. This one can image a number plate on a vehicle, it is believed.
But what got me writing this is the first place was this:
Ok..I dint get such a good picture of these two kids. They were there opposite the spaceport near the Pulicat Lake where a few of us media ppl were, to watch the launch. 6 am for any kid is too early...but then they decided to come there and watch a live rocket take off for real. They will remember this for the rest of their lives. Wonder what will happen when they return to school and tell their friends. 'Whoaaaa....the rocket went like this, like that...fire came from below....and stuff'
Children are children and questions they ask will dumbfound anyone(Mom tells me I used to keep asking questions non stop about anything and everything when I was a kid!!). The innocence in the question struck everyone standing on the solitary bird watch tower opposite the spaceport.
As the rocket took off, we were busy taking pictures, while the Times Now crew went live from there as they were told OB vans will not be allowed inside to cover the launch (spy sat...see?)! As the rocket went up, one of the kids said 'it's like a flower pot'!!
Then the other one asked her father, who was busy watching the rocket..."Appa, appa...inda rocket vedikuma, vedikada?" (will this rocket burst or not?"). For a country that celebrates Diwali in a grand manner, I believe this one question summed it all up. For a child, it was equivalent to just an ordinary firecracker going up.
I am sure she would have gone back home and asked her dad who lit the wire on the rocket for so much fire to come out of the bottom? May be, once she grows up, she ll come to know of the significance of the launch and may be proud of the fact that it was meant to help Indians keep their country a little more safer from enemies.
But that one question... I will remember for my lifetime!! More than covering the launch, that single question made it worthwhile that I did not go inside the spaceport and watch the launch from the reporters gallery!!
But then as Arun Ram told me, all sats are spy sats, except this time around we will get digital images of almost everything. This one can image a number plate on a vehicle, it is believed.
But what got me writing this is the first place was this:
Ok..I dint get such a good picture of these two kids. They were there opposite the spaceport near the Pulicat Lake where a few of us media ppl were, to watch the launch. 6 am for any kid is too early...but then they decided to come there and watch a live rocket take off for real. They will remember this for the rest of their lives. Wonder what will happen when they return to school and tell their friends. 'Whoaaaa....the rocket went like this, like that...fire came from below....and stuff'
Children are children and questions they ask will dumbfound anyone(Mom tells me I used to keep asking questions non stop about anything and everything when I was a kid!!). The innocence in the question struck everyone standing on the solitary bird watch tower opposite the spaceport.
As the rocket took off, we were busy taking pictures, while the Times Now crew went live from there as they were told OB vans will not be allowed inside to cover the launch (spy sat...see?)! As the rocket went up, one of the kids said 'it's like a flower pot'!!
Then the other one asked her father, who was busy watching the rocket..."Appa, appa...inda rocket vedikuma, vedikada?" (will this rocket burst or not?"). For a country that celebrates Diwali in a grand manner, I believe this one question summed it all up. For a child, it was equivalent to just an ordinary firecracker going up.
I am sure she would have gone back home and asked her dad who lit the wire on the rocket for so much fire to come out of the bottom? May be, once she grows up, she ll come to know of the significance of the launch and may be proud of the fact that it was meant to help Indians keep their country a little more safer from enemies.
But that one question... I will remember for my lifetime!! More than covering the launch, that single question made it worthwhile that I did not go inside the spaceport and watch the launch from the reporters gallery!!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
'He who must not be named'!! :-P
Remember the famous line from the movie The Village- 'Those we do not speak of'? Or 'He who must not be named' from Harry Potter if I am right!?
Well, I do not understand what its with government officials, who throw such a fuss just to tell their names. In the last two weeks, I encountered two officials who gave their designations to me but not their names. Strange, since being a journo and on official duty, it wouldn't have taken an additional minute to figure out their names from someone in their own office!
Having had to check on a couple of cases (thanks to all the bloody fraudulent companies coming out of India Inc.'s closet :( )at the Department of Corporate Affairs (DCA) and SEBI offices in Chennai, I was reminded of the two lines above.
At SEBI, the person at the office refused to give his name after telling us that the regional manager was not available. At the DCA, I had gone to meet the director since i was asked to come and meet him. But the director was held up in a meeting. So the deputy regional director came out and asked the purpose of the visit. So when I wanted to know who he was, he said "I am the deputy director" and when asked for his name, he said "No, no...you don't need to know my name. I cant tell you my name!" Bad luck ppl..I got your names as immediately from someone as your refused to tell them! And ya, if you had thought I would write something bad about you in the papers, you were wrong! I am writing about you and your stupidity on the internet..all thanks to your refusal just to give your name. Cos, if you had told me your names, this post would not have been possible!! :-P
I ask- afterall, 'Whats in a name, mate?'
Well, I do not understand what its with government officials, who throw such a fuss just to tell their names. In the last two weeks, I encountered two officials who gave their designations to me but not their names. Strange, since being a journo and on official duty, it wouldn't have taken an additional minute to figure out their names from someone in their own office!
Having had to check on a couple of cases (thanks to all the bloody fraudulent companies coming out of India Inc.'s closet :( )at the Department of Corporate Affairs (DCA) and SEBI offices in Chennai, I was reminded of the two lines above.
At SEBI, the person at the office refused to give his name after telling us that the regional manager was not available. At the DCA, I had gone to meet the director since i was asked to come and meet him. But the director was held up in a meeting. So the deputy regional director came out and asked the purpose of the visit. So when I wanted to know who he was, he said "I am the deputy director" and when asked for his name, he said "No, no...you don't need to know my name. I cant tell you my name!" Bad luck ppl..I got your names as immediately from someone as your refused to tell them! And ya, if you had thought I would write something bad about you in the papers, you were wrong! I am writing about you and your stupidity on the internet..all thanks to your refusal just to give your name. Cos, if you had told me your names, this post would not have been possible!! :-P
I ask- afterall, 'Whats in a name, mate?'
Back yet again
I have been wanting to blog in the last few days, but never got around to doing it, thanks to eye problem. Now, am looking at the world through a pair of glasses :( and since its about 3 hours since I got the glasses, I am trying to get used to it by blogging! :-P . Well, I think I wanted to write about a lot of things..but I have forgotten them. So, no point. But yeah..oh well...three things have changed on my face front(not that it matters a great deal but anyways since I am writing something, I might as well write this!!)..one is that my long time companion---the lion tooth got plucked one and half months back...then I got a 'mottai'and then last week I realised my eye wasnt in great shape as well--so the glasses...so there...thats about it...I will write something in the next few minutes if I can think of something good or bad or mokkai to write about!! :-P
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