Hooks and crooks!

Imagine a giant hook with some good mouth watering food hanging from it. And say the giant hook is attached to a big crane. Now, imagine yourself as very hungry and you ran to take a bite from the food that is lying on the hook!! This seems mouth watering at that moment isn't it! But, say as you lay your mouth on the food and the hook, the crane operator pull you up into mid-air putting you into unbearable pain. You are now stuck and cannot free yourself from the hook and you are struggling with the pain hanging in air! Well, you may now wonder why i'm trying to be all filmi here... But all this because, i came across this! Imagine the fish's plight! Poor thing's only fault is that it is born a so called game fish! And yea, it's going extinct too in some years!

I can understand if the fishing is to feed a dying hungry man! But for fun, you are not supposed to kill a living being! What is the difference between the terrorists and these game fishers!

I wonder what happens when all the game fishes are extinct! Who will be hanged by hook by these game fishing crooks! ? Han?

Commercializing cricket....

This is a beautiful article on what would happen in the near future or it nicely reflects upon the changing player's attitude in international cricket scene. I'm totally for commercializing the sport. And players staying independent of countries. This also is good for players. No player can be igonered by any country's governing body. A player who wouldn't suit a scheme of things in a particular team, might very well be a good option in another team. The possibilities are far too many. The competition in the sport will do a lot good to the quality of the sport. Innovations happen when there is competition. For example would ever Dilshan had played his strange looking but very effective over the wicket-keeper's head shot if it was not for the T20!

The biggest problem though i see is the fact that these big corporates who bring in players for exponential amount of money compared to the individual's cricketing consistency might one day lead them into doom! So it's all upto the group of corporates who have good sporting idea to take care of it. And not just spend large amounts of money on buying too many star players. After all it's not the number of stars in a team that matter. It's the combination of individuals who eventually play contributing effectively by making up for one another's weakness and strengths that win! I don't want to see a star studded team of the "real Madr!d" style fall dud.. ;)

I hope more tournaments like the ongoing Champion's trophy take place.... I'm bored of seeing the same national teams playing each other.

Bollywood surprises me ever time...

I came across this piece of news in some bollywood gossip site or whatever! I'm not sure if it is true. What is interesting about this piece if it is true is that the fact about someone saying a "no" to a composer like AR Rehman. :) People are bold enough to say that! Thats great news. For this song, which was eventually recorded by ARR, it did come out very well. I wonder how would it have sounded if Himesh had sung it ;) Two versions of the song would have had to be on the CD eventually which would read "Fiqrana (Nasal version)" and "Fiqrana(Operated vocal chord version)" ! Makes it interesting.... Almost every movie these days have different versions of the same song. Club mix, remix, rock mix and what not!! So we've a new dimension added to the mixing on song in music CD. Business aspect han! ;)

Metronome for mac

There are not many metronome software that a user could choose from when it comes to Mac. So i just took some time yesterday to write this and here is the first version of it. Please feel free to download and use it and comment about it. Right now, i think this is pretty basic. It allows you to set a beat per minute from anywhere between 1 and 240. If your Mac has a speaker in it or connected, the default system beep must be heard at the interval you set in the UI. Have a nice time practicing your guitar with it fellas.

UPDATE: I added another feature to this existing version: Please download it from here.

Cyclothon!

I'm planning to register for the this cyclothon to be held in Bengaluru on 11th October 2009 at 07:00 AM.! The elite 50Km ride sounds pretty much interesting... :)

Cycling to Bannerghatta

It's been a while now since i have cycled some long distance. Other than the short trips in the weekend stretching couple of kilometers i've not done  much. With lot of work looming over me in  the days to come at office i needed some break. Also i was tiered after the 3 week's haul of work. So me and one of my colleague decided to bike a  small distance early morning. We had done this earlier on a different route which was fun. So we did start early as 6 from my place and went all the way to the Bannerghatta national park. We couldn't anyways get into the park as it was too early. So we just circled around the park and then returned. A good 50 KM round trip did make me feel fresh mentally :)

Some of the snaps here...



This is meenakshi temple that you get enroute:



The tariff board hanging at the park! Should go for a safari sometime ;)



Well, the zoo's Map!!



Njoy!

Oh! Do i love this Judgement? I do.. :p

Reading this piece of news was fun. Aren't the judges right when they said that there are far more important issues in this nation to be addressed than thinking on "to ban or not to" a TV show! He he! I don't know what's with these people that this moral policing is so important to them! One thing that strikes me here is "Taliban"! Aren't we different from them guys or  are we the same? ! common! Let the society take it's course. I don't think moral policing will help anyone!

All said and done! If at all the program "Sach ka samna" is so "vulgar" to some then i think it just needs a flip of channel for those "some". Let me give a small example here, for me personally i don't like the program "Rakhi ka swayamvar". I can't stand the program not even for a frame! So did i go and file a PIL? No, i just flip the channel. I've more important things in life to do than file a PIL on a stupid program! I think the grown ups who understand simple logics can understand what i am saying here.!!!

Well, if the People are really worried about the future of our culture then let me put it this way. It's upto the people of older generation to provide knowledge to newer generation on consequences! And it is upto the individuals to chose what's good or bad for them. Culture cannot be forced. It needs to be coming from the heart.