Occupation 101

Saw the award winning documentary "Occupation 101" yesterday. Anyone who is interested in knowing the root cause of Israel - Palestine conflict should watch it.. I didn't have any idea of the cause of conflict till yesterday but now I do.... 

Holidays

You know things are really going bad if you have to set an alarm to make it to a function at 2:00 pm. 

This is what holidays do to me !! :)  Have become very laz....

Job search

I remember reading somewhere that in coming years man would try and reach Mars and that it would take somewhere around 1.5 years for the space shuttle to reach to Mars from Earth. The organizations [ISRO's NASA's] would soon start searching for a person to be aboard the shuttle. They believe that it would be a difficult job. 

My take: Finding someone who can live in a small space with nothing to do for around 1 year and remain sane ain't that easy. I have been doing my part to get the job :) Have been preparing real hard for the last month.. When the applications open up.. I am sure to apply... 

Tollywood movie copied my story :(

Hell yes !! I had this simple logic of going from one place on Earth to the other which has been copied by some Tollywood movie :(

Here is the poster of that movie:

The logic is as follows:

Earth is revolving constantly from west to east. Now if I need to go from one place to other say, Pune to New York, all I need to do is be in the air for "some" time !! As the Earth will be revolving during this time frame if I get down at the correct time I should find myself in the US !!  :) 

Believe it or not this got copied and was made into a movie. 

Heres the story of the movie:

"Vijay’s dad was killed by the villain, and his mother needs an operation ! So he sells his land for his mother ! Inorder to take revenge, Vijay(Villu) has to go to America to kill the villain, but he has no money, no passport and no visa! So he decides one thing and comes to Chennai ! 

In Chennai, Villu climbs on top of LIC Building, gets blessings fromGodess Kuruvi, and jumps from the top floor!!!  But our Villu stays in air itself in same position! After 12 hrs, the earth rotates and since he is still in the same position, he jumps and lands in America! He kills the villain and returns to Chennai the same way!!!! Wat a man??!!"

Conclusion:

Guys make sure you copyright your ideas, however foolish they sound !!

This my orkut fortune for today:

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working...

What do they want to suggest [:)] ??

Figures worth pondering over :

Orissa and Bihar account for more than one-fifth of the total poor in India. In Orissa, where to be counted as poor one has to earn less than Rs 474 per month in urban areas and Rs 324 in rural areas, a whopping 47.15% of the population is classified as poor. In Bihar, where corresponding monthly income figures are Rs 380 and Rs 333, as much as 42.6% of the population live below the poverty line. 

As per the health ministry's affidavit, Jammu and Kashmir is least afflicted by poverty. The northernmost state, where urban and rural poverty lines are demarcated by a monthly income figure of Rs 421 and Rs 368, only 3.48% of its population is classified as poor. 

Source TOI. Thurs Nov 13 2008.

Show the principal some respect !!

College time incident:

I used to occupy the 2nd last or 3rd last bench in the class... well why not last ?? well believe it or not our principal fined some "poor" students sitting on the last bench !! so from that day on the last bench was not the first place to go and sit... also some lecturers liked to ask questions to last benchers... so was better not to sit there anyway if you didnt want to be disturbed...  It so happened that I was late to class one day.. so had to occupy the first bench... The class started and I went into trance.. that wonderful feeling when you dont care about what is going around and  you and concentrate on doing.. well nothing... 

Our college principal was this guy who didnt love to be away from action.. so out of the blue he entered the class... Now; Indians are taught to show respect towards elders.. they do so by standing when any lecturer comes in the class... (I guess this is why we stand dont we ??) So when a principal comes in you are supposed to STAND and show respect.... Poor me.. oblivious to the fact that whole class stood up behind me I still continued doing well... nothing.. Infact the trance  stage I reached was so deep that my partner also stood up but I just didnt notice !!

Believe it or not.. the whole class standing in front of the terrorizing principal except me... wow.. Obviously he noticed it... Gave me a look.... Me: didnt notice ;) ... Said something looking at me.. cant remember what as i wasnt listening :) .... Just then I felt a kick... It was my partner .... morning dawned...  I looked around and saw the scene.. was starting to feel that I would have to pay up some money :) Stood up quietly and heard some lecture which the princi had to give...

Awesome day it was....