Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
My first bike accident: The hands of Fate
Before i start off, let me tell you one thing... i do strongly believe in fate! And if you don't, then i kindly request you to move you mouse to the top-right corner of your screen and do a left-click. Do it now...
"Hmmm... So..now tat u are a believer of fate!!...Well... there is nothing to be fraid off... buddy!!... One the other hand.. Fate is the most faithful, loyal & trustworthy friend you can ever get... Still don't believe it??... just wait until i narrate you my rendezvous with my fate..."
Well let me confess one thing...I am a bit too beauty conscious guy.... hmm... dude.. don't jump into any conclusions...And..for all the guyz out there... don't forget that we men have an XY chromosome pair, while the women have YY pair... which wud technically mean... we have female attributes in us. Can't help it dude... :( Anyways... the root cause of my first bike accident was my beauty consciousness... Wud u mind checking ur face on a mirror now... hehe... notin coz..tat was the same expro i had wen i came to kno abt it... Also i am a great Dale Carnegie fan... hmm.. too much of bread crumbs... lemme link them all...
Dale Carnegie's public speaking practices had a great influence in my life.. i became more and more proactive.. started becomin more open... and was far far away from the old "Taciturn Aackose".. who never speaks to anyone..and led a silent life...while things were going well.. i came to know that our eyes play a critical persona in any interpersonal relationship... so the more white your eyes are.. the most beautiful it becomes and lesser your effort for building attention in any inter personal talks... well... all i can say was i grew a bit.. a tiny bit.. GREEDY... Next day.. i went to meet my eye specialist... hehe... (the female chromosome, i guess.. oops...no offence). But on a sunday... where wud i find my eye specialist... So i decided to call him.. hmm.. kinda desperate.. ;).. I enquired with the doc on how to improve my sight... and started beating about the bush... it took me almost 5 mins.. before i cud telllin him that i wanna make my eyes more white and gleaming... I first thought he wud laugh at me make fun of me and advice me some drops.. tat wud readily gimme gleamin white eyes...Phew... thankfully he dint called me gay... But to my surprise he just said one thing.. a golden rule "Eat fruits buddy!! ... as much as u can"...Waw...Fruits... fruiiits.... fruuuuuuits... expensive one's...... tey r gonna help me???? At that time.. i didn't know that it was they keystone of a meticulous plan deviced by my fate.... :(
A bit discontented with my docs response...i returned home.... but not before having a mug of thick ripe sweet mango juice from a shop near my home.. a mallu shop... As soon as i returned home... i checked myself in mirror.. "Wholly.mother... my eyes are getting brighter..." i was not able to believe it..." i was still a bit skeptical about such a fast reaction..WTF.. hardly half an hour before i had that drink.. and lo.. my eyes are bright now...WTF.STFU...oops language!! sorry!!Hmm.. but i didnt wanna mull over that too much coz.. i got wat i wanted... again... GREEDY... tat nite i decided... tat.. from tomoro onwards... i will have 2 mugs of mango juice from tat shop... regularly...
Nxt day.. i woke.. happy to see my gleaming eyes... :)... Got dressed up pretty fast.. coz it was a bit late.. somwhere arnd 8:32AM... hehe.. i need atleast 45min.. for my straightened hair ... ;) .... kindly wear a helmet before u bang ur monitor... sorry... cant help it(XY pair i guess) ... Well....after dressing my hair... i took my bike... straight away went to the juice shop.. time 9:35AM... Then came the jolt.. that mallu guy over tere.. started a big long conversation... above all he started preparing mango juice for the whole day... he took around 10 mangoes...started peelin tem one by one... and then after around 15min.. i found myself staring at a big mug of mango juice...and that guy.. well of course.. at tat point of time.. the juice mug won the battle.. slowly but steadily i started gulpin it down... oh boy!!! it was damn cold... as soon as i finished it... i gave him the money... oh dude.. and i had exactly 12 bucks in my pocket..too... kinda weird.... exact balance of the previous days dinner... hmm anyways... i sped to office on my bike... no traffic at all... Never before had i been able to go so smoothly.. without a down gear shift... by the way.. lemme tell u one ting.. i am a damn good driver... the best... my control is too good and steady.. i aint bragging.. dude.. trust me on tis...
I was approachin the junction near my office and was supposed to take a right turn... just as i started bending to my right.. my eyes caught on a maruti car heading towards me... plaaning to take a turn towards the long road on my left... my memory took snaps of the people in it... the driver - a fair lady in her late forties...short hair... thick lip sticks... glowy make-ups.... and a granny by her side.... waw... she too had a thick coat of red on her lips... well of course.. a cute.. young gal in the back seat... no make-ups...dark hair...nice forelock... gleaming blue eyes... Waw. an angel... a natural beauty... in her early twenties... hehe.. just kiddin..... i wish there was one like her ... :( Well.... Well.. wat else... the lady driver forgot that god gave her a right-leg to use it judiciously... to save aackose... im kiddin... i knew, from her face that she will not apply breaks... i had no other choice, but to head for it.
But the best part was that i saw my mind calculating the impact of collission.. evasive actions that i should take to protect my head, legs and hands... In a split second... i saw the car bumper near my legs... my eyes caught that... just as a pre programmed robot would do.. my reflexes worked perfectly... i saw myself raising my right foot and lo... the car bumper jamming onto the carburettor.. the next quarter of a second.. i found myself falling to the left... my natural instincts(from all the experience my friends and relatives had gained)..suggested me to fall with the bike and dont let go off the handle.... For a split second... i saw stars.. hovering around my eyes.. sparkling... as if i was paying a visit to heaven... eh! just kiddin.... but i saw stars...and i knew that i am gonna faint. Just as the theories i had... things went on.. and i knew tat... tis is te part where... my eyes close... time passes... and when i open my eyes... i would see myself lying on a rolling bed... lamps lights flying over me... sirens buzzing out... beeps & beeeeeeeeps....and stuffs like that... Phew!! i tot of erasing tat part from my book for the time being... and lo..... i saw myself getting up... dint fall.. tats the best part... didnt fall... i checked my vital status... everything passed... hands.. head... legs... waw i tot for myself... my theories worked... yippeeee!!!! I came out of the accident unhurt..totally unhurt.. And then the thing happened....
I felt a small pain in my right hand middle finger... i tot it was the pain from a minor cut...and i lifted te bike...with the same hand... tat was when my fate decided to take the ball to his court... a cut finger bone... pointing either sides... 3 days at hospital... a surgery to correct its alignment... a big plaster covering all 4 fingers till the mid-arm.... atleast my thumb got chance to see daylight...a sling..26k bucks... wat else.... 4 full weeks of rest.. Phew!!! (A huge sigh)..... Had i not had the juice today... i cud have saved myself... Of course there can be other factors... that can aid this... but none of them can lead me to fate teaching me a lesson on Greediness.. :(
To all my readers out there, with a mighty heart i wanna tell you one thing - fate is somethin unavoidable...someone who is tere for u always... someone who is tere to punish u wen u r greedy... someone who is tere to put u back on track... guide u... love u more than anyone...and u can be sure that she will be there for u always... always...till death departs u... Trust her...
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
My Time Management Technique
We see many people around us who spend their time in a frenzy of activity but achieve very little because they are not concentrating on the right things. They are perpetually busy but it does not necessarily mean that they make optimum utilization of their time. So there is a great need for effective Time Management in our lives today. We keep hearing the word "Busy" a lot. There are two kinds of busy, chaotic, disorganized busy and calm effective busy. It goes without saying that being the latter helps to pack in more productivity in your work. Improving our "effectiveness Quotient" calls for mastery of basic time management skills. We constantly hear the refrain that we do not know where the time goes. Whether you are an executive, a student or a homemaker, you need to achieve more in every minute of the day and to enjoy each task that you take up. We will be well on our way to the top if we know how to squeeze the most out of even a minute. The first thing to bear in mind is to question whether you have a personal sense of time or a time log. This helps you to keep track of how you spend each hour. There is a way to do this. Divide each day for a period of two weeks into one hour intervals and jot down what you do in them. You can sub divide the activities under such headings as business meetings, writing, making phone calls, reading, time spent with the family etc. At the end of the week, examine your time log. What you may find is that very little time goes into top priority activities and more into activities such as phone calls, coffee breaks, chatting with friends etc. Now is the time to analyze what activities are a waste of time and what need more time. Try to cut down time spent on useless activities or stop doing them altogether. Once you have prioritized your time, you will find your efficiency level rising and the end result is that you will be an achiever!
Monday, January 26, 2009
21st Dec 2012, DoomsDay: a myth or a reality?
Last Month, Dec 2008, i had been to my home to pay a visit to my family. Every time i go home, i bring back something or the other. Need not be a thing or an object with physical existence. And this time, i bought back with me a good knowledge on the concept of what many historians refer to as the "Doomsday"; according to which, the world would end on 21st December 2012.
DoomsDay: A myth or a reality?My first reaction to this was "bull***t"; a conventional mode of reception, of an uncanny, eldritch and irrational notion splattered at the cranial nerves of one's brain, waiting to be conducted to the five senses.."Oh! bulllllllll***@#$*@^#". Well! as i stand on my feet, a month after this knowledge, let me tell you one thing - there is something coming in our way. Whether we like it or not is another question all together. I would request you to take the best out of this journey; the journey through the pages of history, to reveal the inextricable blending between the myth and the reality.
Before we start off, let me take you through some background studies on one of the oldest Civilisation, the world has witnessed- The Mayan's. Do you know one thing: our present day forecasters still advert to the Mayan Calendar for the Solar Eclipse and Cosmic calamities because of the fact that they are 100% accurate, even to the minutest of a second. The Mayan Civilisation, existed in parts of South America. Well i don't want to drag through their civilisation aspects. But what you would be interested to know is about their calendar. They had three main calendar's namely:
- Religious Calendar (with 13 weeks, each of 20 days - 260 days on a whole)
- Solar Calendar (with 18 months, each of 20 days)
- Long Count Calendar (the one that counts years as an never ending one)
The Long Count Calendar would be the one that we should look up to analyse, for the simple reason that it bought this theory of "DoomsDay" into our future. As per this calendar, there are no dates coming after 21st Dec 2012. "I know that you are not convinced yet, just because a slushy calendar told me that there is no date after 21st Dec2008 doesn't mean that i am a psycho believing in all these s***. Dude! I am on the wagon too!". But let me tell you, its too early to take a stand.
"Planetary placements"
Our Solar System
As you all might know, our Mother Earth is the third planet from sun, in the solar system. This aids in a favourable environment for life to thrive. But don't you think we are pretty close to a ball of flaming gas? Lets park that question for a while. You must have heard about the concept of centre of gravity- "Oh! yes,yes! balancing a book on a finger and stuffs like that..". Well our solar system also has got a centre of gravity. And as our school level physics theory goes, the centre of gravity will move closer to the heavier mass. Hmm... Earth is small and lighter, but what about Jupiter, dude? A simple revolution of Jupiter around the sun would be enough to intimidate sun to propel its fury of solar flakes and CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). Among these, the solar flakes will return back to sun, but the CME's would love to visit other members of the solar system. Well, then you could say that we have Saturn. Yes! if Jupiter and Saturn are on the either side of the sun, then the centre of gravity will reside within sun (which will now be in between the two larger planets)- minimal solar activity. Imagine the scenario, when these friends are on the same of the sun - extreme solar activity would be the result. Well the next time they coincide on the same side of the sun, would be on 21st December 2012. Gotcha! Two heavy mass planets on the same side of sun, extreme solar activity. "Dude! I can hear something ringing... oh! the bells, in u'r ear's buddy". Still i am not convinced, that might have occurred a couple of 1000 times until now, taking into account of 11.12 yrs. of revolutionary cycle of Jupiter.
"Our Galaxy - The Milky Way"
Our Galaxy - Milky WayAll of you know that Milky Way is the galaxy that we reside on... I hope there is no objection on that statement at least. Well we're located somewhere on the edge of the disc, slightly on top of the narrow disc. But very soon we'll be moving to the bottom of the disc. This change, from top to bottom, begins on December 21, 2012.
Yes, that's right. On the same day when our Sun is at it's solar maximum, something will happen that's never happened before -- the ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!
Yes, that's right. On the same day when our Sun is at it's solar maximum, something will happen that's never happened before -- the ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!
If you imagine our solar system as a bunch of peas on a plate, with a huge meatball in the center, imagine the Milky Way as a city-size pizza with the "Guiness World Book Record Meatball" in its center!
Prior to December 2012 we have been drifting on the top of the pizza, never really able to see the bottom. The plate and pizza are not parallel. They are moving at different angles. We've been drifting down, down, down... and on December 21st, 2012, we will be exactly level with the crust -- forming an "x" at the Galactic Equator where galactic gravity is the strongest. After 2012, if we are still here, we will be passing through the bottom zone, viewing the Milky Way pizza from the South.
Yes, there's even more!
Prior to December 2012 we have been drifting on the top of the pizza, never really able to see the bottom. The plate and pizza are not parallel. They are moving at different angles. We've been drifting down, down, down... and on December 21st, 2012, we will be exactly level with the crust -- forming an "x" at the Galactic Equator where galactic gravity is the strongest. After 2012, if we are still here, we will be passing through the bottom zone, viewing the Milky Way pizza from the South.
Yes, there's even more!
Change in the galactic center
By some amazing coincidence, not only will we be intersecting with the Galactic Equator, but we will be doing this precisely aligned with the center of the Galaxy where there is maximum mass! More mass means more gravity. More gravity means more influence from those barycentre's in our Sun. That means exponential increases in solar disruptions -- all coinciding on the same day! Whew!
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What makes 2012 significant is that it coincides with the alignment of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, our sun, earth, and the large planets. If it was not for this fact I would say that 2012 was just another Y2K hoax. But the astronomy makes it believable.
It looks like this gravitational cosmic tsunami could cause the sun to scorch the earth. That means that the only immediate survivors would be people in the underground cities, caves, and submarines. However, even these people may not survive too long because such an event ( gravitational surges ) might bring on earth quakes and volcanic activity, flooding, and the such. These events might collapse underground cities and caves. Huge tidal floods might flood subways on the eastern seaboard.
However, if just a few did manage to survive. They would not be able to come out of their underground dwellings for some time, because the earth's protective magnetic shield may be gone.
If the upper atmosphere and the earth's atmosphere was able to repair itself say in even a short period of time of one year, the survivors would face a barren world. All surface vegetation and animal life will have been destroyed. The surface of earth might perhaps look like a barren planet. The only possible source of food for those few survivors might be the ocean. Plant life and sea life might survive this event to some small degree. However, there is one problem...more than likely all the plankton will die. They live at the surface of the water and will be destroyed by the radiation.
Plankton is the basic building block of life for many living organisms in the ocean. Plankton is the biggest generator of oxygen on the planet. With plankton gone and the forest gone, what is going to provide and create oxygen for the planet?
It doesn't look good for the few that survive 2012. It may very well be the end of the world. Unless, a greater power comes to rescue us. But are we worth it? Man is a miserable creature that kills and destroys himself and other living things.
It looks like this gravitational cosmic tsunami could cause the sun to scorch the earth. That means that the only immediate survivors would be people in the underground cities, caves, and submarines. However, even these people may not survive too long because such an event ( gravitational surges ) might bring on earth quakes and volcanic activity, flooding, and the such. These events might collapse underground cities and caves. Huge tidal floods might flood subways on the eastern seaboard.
However, if just a few did manage to survive. They would not be able to come out of their underground dwellings for some time, because the earth's protective magnetic shield may be gone.
If the upper atmosphere and the earth's atmosphere was able to repair itself say in even a short period of time of one year, the survivors would face a barren world. All surface vegetation and animal life will have been destroyed. The surface of earth might perhaps look like a barren planet. The only possible source of food for those few survivors might be the ocean. Plant life and sea life might survive this event to some small degree. However, there is one problem...more than likely all the plankton will die. They live at the surface of the water and will be destroyed by the radiation.
Plankton is the basic building block of life for many living organisms in the ocean. Plankton is the biggest generator of oxygen on the planet. With plankton gone and the forest gone, what is going to provide and create oxygen for the planet?
It doesn't look good for the few that survive 2012. It may very well be the end of the world. Unless, a greater power comes to rescue us. But are we worth it? Man is a miserable creature that kills and destroys himself and other living things.
"Coming Soon!! A description or theory by Mayan's on the concept DoomsDay"
Signing Off
Aackose Mentu Lal
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Aackose Mentu Lal: The Name
"What co... lal?", exclaimed a guy, the very first time i introduced myself.
"Well! I am Aackose Mentu Lal and you would be ...?", I reverted.
"That is one hell of a thing i have ever heard in my life... I am ...", he promulgated.
"Ghe!... ", I gloated as if i won a war or so.
Hmm... thats how things go about with my name. This name will surely ring the wierdness bells in your mind. I don't blame you... Its quite innate... :) I guess. Well one thing for sure this guy turned out to be my best friend throughout my academic life. Let me drive you through the logical rationality behind this name being chosen for my human body.
I was born as the eldest son to a small, middle class family settled in Kochi(Kerala, India). My dad is a lawyer practising at High Court Of Kerala while my mom, though an MSW degree holder, decorated the homemakers post... donno why... But lemme tell you one thing... my dad was an intellectual in the making, leaving with him a cognitive and profounded knowledge arsenal which even i could not manage in 20 years down the line.
As far as my name was concerned, he really wanted it to be unique, rarified and be first in class attendance always...Hell Noooooo... But there was a restriction on the cards for him. According to our christian tradition ... by the way i am a christian but not biased to any religion, I consider all gods same and all people equal and dont wanna spur a communal riot or something... so according to our traditions, i was supposed to have the name of my grandfather .Oh boy! what kinda of eldritch rule was that... god knows... anyways... my grand dads name was Kuriackose. Now thats called a name by friend... in Kerala. Dad recollected... first in class, rare name, grandfathers name... Hmm he must have had a hell of a time with this. All his LKG, UKG class lessons must have started playing mind games with him. hmm... letters floating around... jumbled words, scramblers... donno whether he had played these games.... sounded celestial to me.. Kuriackose, mathematically speaking can have 10! possible combinations in the world of Permutations and Combinations in Mathematics, if i am not mistaken. Oh my god... was he practically skinning my grandad alive... Finally after the end of this feisty Word War with his conscience, he decided to cut my grandads name into two. That left him with a 50% chance to find the name for me, erp... probability theory, mathematics.. Kuri & ackose .
Well to be first in the class a name should surely start with "a", rite.... Well akuri was wierd... sounded like chineese i guess..Aguri or so, however aackose wasn't... well atleast that was how he felt it. Frankly speaking... if i was able to speak some english, i would have asked him for the definition of the word "wierd"... unfortunately, i was wrapped in a white cotton cloth, lying by my mother...hands held like a prisoner... thankfully not cuffed... and with a small window opening near the face... allowing me to enjoy the white ladies in the room...oops... Well either way... i was destined to be "Aackose"- the great... as in "Alexander -the great"... hehe!!
The middle name was taken from the ancient Greek history books - a Greek god of War... Did i kick him the first time saw him..? Donno... either way... War became a part of my life... and Mentu, the Greek God Of War was reborn from the ashes... after centuries... i guess.. To prove my relationship with my dad and mom... i believe... he had to append "Lal" to the end of my name.... my dads and by default, my mom name had "Lal" at the end...... Hmm... Aackose Mentu Lal... not bad eh!... "Holy!..." i am a dead man... wait until i enter my school.
I even had thoughts of changing my name during the later period of life... but my insights told me not to do so. My Grandpa, my dad, my mom, my younger bro... just 1 1/2 yrs. younger.... and all my relatives...they all loved me far more than anyone... I can never tolerate any tears in their eyes... i finally decided not to change my name, my identity... oops! not the one that you were thinking.. just my name... :)
And thats how Aackose Mentu Lal, became a part of this world.
"Well! I am Aackose Mentu Lal and you would be ...?", I reverted.
"That is one hell of a thing i have ever heard in my life... I am ...", he promulgated.
"Ghe!... ", I gloated as if i won a war or so.
Hmm... thats how things go about with my name. This name will surely ring the wierdness bells in your mind. I don't blame you... Its quite innate... :) I guess. Well one thing for sure this guy turned out to be my best friend throughout my academic life. Let me drive you through the logical rationality behind this name being chosen for my human body.
I was born as the eldest son to a small, middle class family settled in Kochi(Kerala, India). My dad is a lawyer practising at High Court Of Kerala while my mom, though an MSW degree holder, decorated the homemakers post... donno why... But lemme tell you one thing... my dad was an intellectual in the making, leaving with him a cognitive and profounded knowledge arsenal which even i could not manage in 20 years down the line.
As far as my name was concerned, he really wanted it to be unique, rarified and be first in class attendance always...Hell Noooooo... But there was a restriction on the cards for him. According to our christian tradition ... by the way i am a christian but not biased to any religion, I consider all gods same and all people equal and dont wanna spur a communal riot or something... so according to our traditions, i was supposed to have the name of my grandfather .Oh boy! what kinda of eldritch rule was that... god knows... anyways... my grand dads name was Kuriackose. Now thats called a name by friend... in Kerala. Dad recollected... first in class, rare name, grandfathers name... Hmm he must have had a hell of a time with this. All his LKG, UKG class lessons must have started playing mind games with him. hmm... letters floating around... jumbled words, scramblers... donno whether he had played these games.... sounded celestial to me.. Kuriackose, mathematically speaking can have 10! possible combinations in the world of Permutations and Combinations in Mathematics, if i am not mistaken. Oh my god... was he practically skinning my grandad alive... Finally after the end of this feisty Word War with his conscience, he decided to cut my grandads name into two. That left him with a 50% chance to find the name for me, erp... probability theory, mathematics.. Kuri & ackose .
Well to be first in the class a name should surely start with "a", rite.... Well akuri was wierd... sounded like chineese i guess..Aguri or so, however aackose wasn't... well atleast that was how he felt it. Frankly speaking... if i was able to speak some english, i would have asked him for the definition of the word "wierd"... unfortunately, i was wrapped in a white cotton cloth, lying by my mother...hands held like a prisoner... thankfully not cuffed... and with a small window opening near the face... allowing me to enjoy the white ladies in the room...oops... Well either way... i was destined to be "Aackose"- the great... as in "Alexander -the great"... hehe!!
The middle name was taken from the ancient Greek history books - a Greek god of War... Did i kick him the first time saw him..? Donno... either way... War became a part of my life... and Mentu, the Greek God Of War was reborn from the ashes... after centuries... i guess.. To prove my relationship with my dad and mom... i believe... he had to append "Lal" to the end of my name.... my dads and by default, my mom name had "Lal" at the end...... Hmm... Aackose Mentu Lal... not bad eh!... "Holy!..." i am a dead man... wait until i enter my school.
I even had thoughts of changing my name during the later period of life... but my insights told me not to do so. My Grandpa, my dad, my mom, my younger bro... just 1 1/2 yrs. younger.... and all my relatives...they all loved me far more than anyone... I can never tolerate any tears in their eyes... i finally decided not to change my name, my identity... oops! not the one that you were thinking.. just my name... :)
And thats how Aackose Mentu Lal, became a part of this world.
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