Imagine a situation where your boss gave you a day off. To spend time he gave you one boooring book (say Ayn rand ) and a stupid movie ( say some karan johar). Which one would you chose ?

That was just a question, for answers just look at these maps.

Books published, including school textbooks.  and boy !!! where is Africa ?

Movies watched, I am accountable for nearly half of this bulge

PS: Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

I have two songs for this week, which are very inspiring song for bollywood aspirants . These are the best parodies I have ever heard. First one is by KL Saigal on “jack and Jill went up the hill”. Listen or download. ROTFAL and ROTFALALALALAR

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

This is bonus track for you, called “Ba ba blacsheep”. Its a tribal song sung in farming season in an Indian village… too good. ( little addition to lyrics is there- “bolo re bolo”).

download

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.

One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.

Bolore bolo bolore bolo…….

PS1: Thanks sarkar to sending me these. He made me recall all such songs we used to write.
PS2: These have only 5GB ( each) monthly bandwidth, If you cant download let me know. I shall mail them to you.
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Little competition to prashanth

Dint come up that well though,

To mother earth, this is for you … on this World Environment day.

Photo courtesy : my room mate

PS: About all those poison getting doped into you: Tomorrow we shall clean it up. Today let it be there.

One of the random shots of a jobless day(college days).

I was very irregular in blogosphere lately. I was busy resolving life, both professional and personal. Thanks for asking.

Here I am., back to track

Dear Stevee,

I heard you are coming to Bangalore. Thanks for choosing Bangalore to perform. You have innumerous rock fans here, specially to that rock which comes from the heart, like yours. Read our newspapers :

Aerosmith, the greatest American rock band of all time with more than 100 million albums sold, has a diehard fan base numbering in the millions. The Rock ‘n’ Roll legends will perform at the Palace Grounds as part of their ”Greatest Hits 2007 World Tour”. The concert is part of Aerosmith’s first World Tour in nearly a decade

The band members Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer would perform some of the best compositions from the band’s 33 year history, including Looks Like a Lady, Livin’ on the edge, Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion, Falling in Love, I Don’t want to miss a thing, Crazy, Angel, Dream On and Janie got a gun

I always been a big fan of yours (not die-hard fan though). I have heard almost all of your songs, among them I like “crazy”, “farm” and “dream on” the most. Dream on is one of my top ten favorite for a long now. I just love that song, it make me… Chuck it, I can’t explain. Please make sure you sing that song minimum of three times in this tour.

Welcome to India

Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone It goes by, like dusk to dawn
Isn’t that the way Everybody’s got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
where it comes and where it goes
I know it’s everybody’s sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life
is in books’ written pages
Lived and learned from fools and
from sages
You know it’s true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me, if it’s just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dreams come true
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dream comes through
Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream On Dream On

@ Steve: Please remove this line “the good Lord will take you away” from the song. Change it to something else. God/lord names don’t look good in rock songs.

dumper had asked for some of my best photos. Now they have placed it in a museum. Try if you wish to.

this particular photo : mani

Photography : My Control system professor Girish Navuda
During : an outing with we students,
and you are looking at : Western Ghats
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Toondoo is a very nice place where you can cartoon-ize your opinion. I did not spend much time there, yet. For now this is what I have for you. Click on the cartoon to view it properly.

I know it is not hilarious; it’s just my first try.

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I am not good at mythology, I have tried naming cherecters. suggest me good names to the sculptures ( if you dint like my nomenclature). these are the images of walls of cave temples in mahabalipuram.

GovardhanaGiridhari.: To protect a town called “nandagopa”, krishna lifts a mountain called “govardhana giri” with his small finer. All living creature take protection under that.

Gopika/gopalaka : These are the subjects of the town. Krishna used to be very naughty with them, specially gopikas. continuation of above image.

Balaram : elder brother of krishna. partner in all activities. continuation of above images.

anantashayana/ padmanabha : image of vishnu with his wife lakshmi. he has a lotus coming out of his naval and brahma is sits in that. Located below light house

mahishasuramardhini : Goddess durga comes down to earth to kill an evil demon mahishasura. Located below light house

• India’s oldest light house
• Photos: Mahabalipuram
• Gods, demons, dancers, soldiers etc.
• Mahabalipuram – ‘Pallava’ remains.
  

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I was cute. wasn’t I ? this is 1987 . scanned photo.

Do you recognize this song? (Hint: tomorrow is his death anniversary.)

Load up on guns Bring your friends its fun to lose and to pretend
She’s overboard myself assured I know I know A dirty word

Still dint get it? Listen to some more…

Here we are now Entertain us I feel stupid and contagious

A mulatto An albino A mosquito My libido

Hello hello hello how low

When this song released, Kurt Donald Cobain was lying (supposedly) high on streets (with normal dose of heroin). Cops gave him roof that night, while radio stations repeatedly playing this song “Smells like teen spirit” a new genre altogether. Within no time song was topping the charts, and teen found a new god.

Kurt Cobain defined “grunge rock” as a genre to the world, and this song (and another “come as you are” in the same album) became anthem for mass hysteria. He was 27 when he died, a suicide. But he is biggest teen icon even today (may be second biggest, after “che guevara”

My room mate fasts on the day April 5, the day God of grunge rock died. But I don’t. I am very religiously intolerable person. I believe my god is best and “there is no god except David Gilmore”

Suicide notes and other stuff

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Observer tagged me to “Publish the 5th/last paragraph of the page number 123 of the book you are reading. And tag other 5 “. Currently I am reading two books.

One among them is “Kahlil Gibran” collection of his greatest works. To be specific “the prophet “among them. It doesn’t have123 pages, so here is the last page. Please don’t ask me what about it, I dint reach there yet.

The second book I am reading is a Kannada book. Its National academy award winner Bandaya (means rebel) by Vyasaraya Ballala. It’s one of my all time favorites and I have read it at least ten times. Still love to read it. Its about Lal-zhanda-zamana ( red flag era ) of mumbai.

I am tagging five more

Cuckoo

Kaushik

Mohan

Prashanth

 Kedarsoman

Priya

Ramya

Veena

Vijay

That is seven, eight friends. Please do the needful (if you wish ).

Rules : Publish the 5th/last paragraph of the page number 123 of the book you are reading. And tag other 5

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Good morning… Then afternoon …..And now …

Friends complain for me not mentioning the place I click the photos. Most of the time it is not worth telling, sometimes I too don’t know them. So let me try from this time.

The location I clicked this is called “Narahari Parvatha”. It’s not a big mountain (as its name says) , but surely is a hill which has “sadashiva” temple built on the top of it. As usual people don’t like to climb a lot just to see god, unless he is a powerful god like thirupathi. Temple was empty, not a great trekking spot , but still…500 steps !!!

I tried to shoot Netravathi River, dint come up well. Look at the satellite image, see anything interesting? – How people converted a blue river into a sand basin.

Almost been three years since I started blogging. Now I am planning to quit. Blog needs lot of reading and time, which I can’t think of in near future. Bye

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I can recall 500 movies now and this is my list in IMDB. I have selected my favorite among them here. Click on the images or the link to learn more about the movies.

• The movies roughly belong to those categories I have given below. Some of them are more than 10 and some of them less.
• Movies in are in no order inside the category, they are qualified to be called as my favorites. In other words I am feeling lazy to rearrange them
• Sequels and trilogies are shown as the first movie itself ( reason : lazy )

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 First .. good morning … then …