Reposting and re-affirming and requesting ...

blogbharati linked me to "My Life": Kashmiri Woman Speaks Out today and I couldn't help but go back to this - Kashmir's Burning - link in my blog ... what links them? - Crowning glory, once which was the Jammu and Kashmir, be lifted from the head of India and be left alone for its own people - the pundits and mullahs - the dal lake and katra - the Kashmiri and the Kashmiri ... that's it!!

Dear Frankie...

a beautiful movie after really long time. Watching this I m turning fan for Brit movies. The language, the accent, the poise... the circumstances and the conflicts and not so perfect solutions... the mother talks to his Son through the letters meant from/to his dad (who's a sailor) ... the son so yearns to meet his dad that he keeps track of the sail across oceans (in a world atlas in his room)... a stranger who accepts to be part of a deal to be son's dad for a day leaves in sheer amazement of this relationship

(i have been lying to my son every single day) "..(no) you have been protecting your son every single day"

.. and then the dying Father's last wish to see his son against the ma's last shield to her son... loved the movie and highly recommend it even - here's the IMDB link

USA will turn into FUSA ("F" is for "Former")...

so is this dream state really gonna last -
"http://energybulletin.net/node/48082"

points stated are fair and simple. The repercussions are baneful. Simile picked is very recent. But i still feel there is a difference... a democracy will survive the ill effects of its leaders' hubris which soviet union succumbed to...

Another great initiative rolling on...

... you wouldn't believe the words of the gentleman who has started this. Mc'Donalds got him thinking - "why not us?"

"See McDonalds concept is simple, they feel they can train people irrespective of different religions, cultures, all those things to produce a product in the same way and deliver it in the same manner in hundreds of places" 

if things have to be driven at macro level u have to think of strategies at the same level.

Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy

check out, some facts from the video below...
1)12 Million blinds in India - Aravind Hospitals treat close to 2 million of them every year...
2)National Eye care surgery avg. 250 - Aravind Hospitals docs avg is 2000 surgery...
3)A cost of Intracular Lens (a substitute to Cataract lens) brought down from $200 to $5...

The video -



I hit upon this in following link - "http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=Journey_across_India_-_Tata_Jagriti_Yatra"

and the other side of the picture...

and we have the other end to it .... check the video here

wanna go Skiing in DUBAI!?

Dubai in dumps..

every city has its problems and so does Dubai seem to have a really big one...
read here

vir meryaa ve jugni....

vir meryaa ve jugni kehndi aa...
ek raah nawe aaj pandi hain...

...Background speech by A B Vajpayee...

Jugni dekhan chali desh....
Jide janmay si kadi ved...
jidon kadyaa si angrez...
Ki banyaa usdaa....
Ki banyaa usdaa haal....
kede kite usne kamaal... 

vir meryaa ve jugni....
vir meryaa ve jugni kehndi aa....
ek raah nawe aaj pandi hain..

...Agressive speech about killing in Kashmir by someone

Jugni jaa wadi kashmir ....
jithe roz maran das vee..
soni behnaa te sone veer..
oooo ro ro poochna..
ke jaghda tayi mukhnna...
jedo jhelum paani sukhnaa

vir meryaa ve jugni....
vir meryaa ve jugni kehndi aa....
ek neer nawe aaj behndi hain..

...A punjabi news item....in background

jugni jaa wadi punjab....
jithe padhe likhe bekaar...
bech zameenaa jaawen baahar...
uthe maaran jaadho....
uthe gori lain vewha..
peeche tabar take raah..

vir meryaa ve jugni....
vir meryaa ve jugni kehndi aa....
ek nayi udhari lendi aa....

...Background....a talk between match fixers..about satta..

Jugni jaa wadi bambai..
jithe sonda koi nahi...
sab labban cheez koi ....
kis kise noooo labbe...
jeno labbe woh bechain....
mathe matke uske pain...???

vir meryaa ve jugni....
vir meryaa ve jugni kehndi aa....
ek sah safar daa lendi aa....

...News item in background

jugni jaa wadi aaj dilli,,,,
uthe bheed ch ral ki bhuli..
kitho aayi teh kithe chali...
sab basar gaya...
jeddon aaya usno cheta...
taaki mukhea thaa usdaa belaaa....

vir meryaa ve jugni....
vir meryaa ve jugni kehndi aa....
aaj naam guraa daan lehendi aa.......

---Background...AB Vajpayee speech....

beautiful song... long time wanted the lyrics... 

http://rabbism.blogspot.com/2005/07/jungi-rabbi-shergill-lyrics.html

here's modest thank you...

here is Jimmy Wales speaking ...
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/ThankYou/en

how brilliant is the initiative and how amazing is the will ... and all this with the help of 23 strong team and million contributors worldwide...

Cheerlishness...

http://learningfundamentals.com.au/blog/being-optimistic-about-pessimism/

science and study of "trying hard to be happy people"...

so here u see how difficult it is sometimes when u force some one to be happy... so do u say Cheer Up!! ... how true the article is when it says

.. that defensive pessimism is a strategy that helps anxious individuals to confront and work through their anxious thoughts rather than deny them.

so next time you need to swear at yourself for not doing the job right.. do it! do not wait for the smiling angle to bother... cauz then u shall realize its you who sets your standard for being happy rather than some god sent angel ... get your work done ... get the results... believe in yourself and you(or rather I) shall be happy...

and to find out if u (or rather I) are the one who cannot be happy (or rather keep that ever smiling grimace) while trying to get your work done... check the link to find out link to find out if you are Defensive Pessimist... or Strategic optimist

well it turns out I "..may use both strategies or neither strategy consistently"

Whole lot of stuff in Just a Hole In The Wall...

check the project's truly humble beginning -
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html

how difficult it has been for our education system and society to understand ... its the curiosity which best teaches the kid... its the curiosity to look at possible direction as a baby... its the curiosity to jump at every possible sound ... its the curiosity to touch every dirt around... its the curiosity which makes the baby take it's first steps... man i know now .. when I stopped learning :'( ... कहते है ना "Education ruined me"... well it hasn't been the ruins still ...
so what am i curious about now ???
1. Information Sharing?
2. Deep Space exploration?
3. what sustains life?
4. whom does the life sustain?
5. faith.. yeah ... who is He.. naah... may be ... who is "he/she" who thought of He for the first time?
6. dance and music... is He the one?
7. why are we here .. hahaha.. naah ... why not no one on Mars yet?
8. when Einstein said Space Time wrap!... what did he mean?
9. when my former manager said ... "we don't see the flair"... wat did she mean?
10. when someone said... nothing... what did she mean? :(
11. when someone ... communicated on missed calls every day... what did she mean? :S
12. ok ... seriously... what is Evolution? and what are we gonna look like nxt?
13. all this digital information? are our future paleontologist and historians gonna be master code breaker... trying to figure out archive digital information.
14. can i still be a Masters from USA and be back in India :) ?
15. does hoping that "all's gonna be all right" work?
16. I guess I will add more... but later though

and well this the reason why I like NIIT and it's brand ambassador (Vishy) ... dono ko :)

Coffee suppresses dreams...

is that so?? loosing dreams over a coffee is a bad news.

Isn't it enough that I already have lost it over my job, finances, credit card bills in $$$, admissions, colleges, appraisals, headaches, cold, fever, exams, certifications, future plans, current plans, past plans, transcripts, recommendations, letter heads, infy HR's HRgiris, 3 tier packs, scornful someone, ailing USA, traumatic 26/11, bleeding Gaza, Pakis, Masters, information management, IE, wats an ethical dilemma, ppls exception handling, suckers, truckers, Christmas lunch, mosquitoes, hara nauseating bhara coil, khud ka khaana, wedding in kerala, R n R, japanese with chopsticks, ....

the list ain't long enough to fill the box... but aint this bad already?

You really think so ...

I am not here to give the comparative figures on how much govt has spent on poverty eradication till date and how much the same has gone for the space programs here. Nor am i gonna take any policy decision on our poverty eradicators and critique that... the point i am making is why??

Why would you question the amount spent on space programs arguing that something thrown away in space vacuum which we not gonna see the material results for?

... nor am i gonna glorify our space mission to have achieved with so little in hand...

poverty is relative but hunger is not... so when some person dies of hunger we know we have problem at hand... similarly strong space program is relative but a launch of Chandrayaan is not... so when we have a Chandrayaan I in stable orbit around the moon we have a amazing success at hand...

This success is accumulation of the years hard work, planning and minor successes... money is just a small part... govt didn't spend enough money to buy a space technology from Russia and have our yaan sent across for the sake of Indian flag on Chandra. If that flag is up there it is because the these scientists at ISRO had the mettle and determination to do that. It is in true sense symbolic of success these guys have had over the years and please don't spoil the glory...

few good links -
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun102004/1489.pdf
http://chandrayaan-indianmissiontomoon.blogspot.com