pray me - Raghavendra

I have decided to bless all readers! Sing along, pray and get blessed!

Raghavendra Swami Suprabata (Bellur sahodariyaru)
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/carnatic_vocal/s/artist.104/
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/carnatic_vocal/s/album.61/


My fav:
Yeddu barutarE...nodE...

Mantralayadolu

My most fav: (rendition could have been better!)

Hari sarvottama Vaayu jivottama

Problem solving kills

Many people expect people to solve problems. Most smart people solve problems before the problems are completely presented! It is said, a stupid can throw a stone into the sea in a second, it takes many smart scholars "god knows how much" time to find the stone. But I have seen people, who can foresee problems, isolate a seeming harmless problem and let the average people solve the easy problem, and take precautions to see that there are less problems. These people who can do this are not always considered smart. They are average people by the standards of the average people?

I have come across striking examples for these cases. I have seen, smart people being rescued by average guys, from getting into problems! I do not know what to call this: the strength of average people or weakness of smart people. There are people who are both but mostly we tend to be either of them never both!

What are you?

Crocodile in next janma

My grandfather told me one day, "remember, you should disclose whatever you know to others", "withholding information that might be useful others is not nice", "if you do not share knowledge, you will become a Crocodile in the next life".

I did not want to be Crocodile in my next life, then, when I was a kid. I do not know, if there is such a thing as the next life. Yet, I do not want to be a Crocodile if there is another Janma! :)

The message was such a nice piece of advise. People in competetive places might take, who does this, to a stupid. Some consider voluntary disclosure an irritation. Many consider it unnecessary. I look stupid and I know when I look stupid: when I tell things I know about the context.

Many times we will have to choose between being stupid and nice, and being smart and not so nice.
Which one should I be?

I got given something pink

Few girls were distributing something; it looked pink. I should have known! I got given something pink. It did not take much time to figure out that it was a condom.

As part of the Sexual Health Month http://www.aidssaskatoon.ca/ was distributing THEM. Well, what should I do with it now?

It says "Hey, your sexual health month is safe and fun!". First thing that came to my mind is "It is not fair to give only condom, is it?"

They were giving it to both girls and boys. Why should only boys bear the burden of safety?
Oh my god world is turing pro-woman.

made up words

oldest word (english) I made up is "RETL". it is an acronym for "Regular Emergency Teerman Less". eg. retle meeting, means a meeting that has to be held regularly but the outcome is guaranteed to be useless.

latest is "rickyppointing". this is very simple, synonym for disappointing. I added an extra p to make it rhyme with disappointing!

other words are:

microwalE - Microwave oven
620 (next version of 420 for 6th and 20th letters!)
farts = short farm of Fine Arts
inenent of Monertia
kidney = Brain Heart Soul mixed masala. (why kidney? I do not know)
jike - hike softies get by jumping firms!
goofle - goofing up search
intelerection - intelectually stimulating
srewup - screwup (I miss typing c so much; I have to call it a word)
encagement - a connotative of engagement!
biochamchagiri - biochemistry

I will add more as I recollect them.

terrorism in India is un-islamic

“Both terrorism and the state's treatment of innocent Muslims ought to be condemned strongly,” - said blah

As Jamait-e-Ulema Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani says, “Everytime there is a bomb blast, innocent Muslims are suspected. We had to do this to clear our name.”

“Young minds are being misguided. This declaration will clear confusion in their mind about Islam's stand on terrorism,” explained Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi.

First, "it is to save my ass" attitude. Second, in the same breath they say that, "innocent Muslims are suspected". The real concern is their reputation and trouble that they are facing after terrorist attacks.

They do not seem concerned about terrorism at all! They are condemning terrorism so they can condemn so called "treatment of innocent Muslims"! Good job people, whats next? By the way they forgot to condemn SC verdict on paying compensation to divorced Muslim women.

I noted something yesterday:
It is significant because at least it has disturbed them, the scholars, and now they are willing to condemn it. It took so long to condemn the obvious? We have to note here the Gujrath episode that took as long for Hindus to condemn the massacre.

Hindus and Muslims hate each other don't they ? So much that they secretly desire to kill each other? Keep quite when others get killed?

We are a bunch of people, swimming in the cow urine stagnant inside the pig shit.

mind games

people play games! you know what i mean. i will use the terms the player and the pawn. the anatomy of the game is something like this:

the player wants the pawn to feel that pawn is being controlled. this is independent of whether the pawn is really being controlled.

there are at least two things to do at any situation, including to do or not to do. if the player can get the pawn to think that he is making decisions that player wants; player wins. this is based on confusing the pawn on what the player is expecting the pawn to do (among other things).

there is a trick to win the game. the pan should make moves that are favourable to the pawn, irrespective of player's moves. Simple! then the premise is "i did what i wanted and you wasted your time"; the player looses. if the pawn tries to defeat the player by making counter moves the pawn will definitely loose. this is because as i said before the winning is not based on sequence of moves but an unprovable claim that (irrespective of what pan does) player wanted to see that particular sequence.

i do not like mind games. most easiest way to win a mind game is by refusing to be part of it. first attempt of the player is to draw you the game. the player is playing a game "choose your own battle ground". the pan has to play the game "choose your enemy".

the game is always on guys but i am out! when my close friends try to draw me to mind games, i remind them that we are friends! i usually do that by asking "what is that on your hair?" and pat his/(her?) head.

what about games that we get into over email and online communities? bad thing about them is there is no way to know if a game is being played or a gunine transaction is being carried out. trick remains the same: make moves favourable to you.

there is another saying, "it is better to loose, than loosing a friend". I treasure this more than tricks or triumphs. this way we will never loose the game.

instinct

Use of the word design in this post means "evolved". I am used to conversation that uses design. When we talk about nature I mean evolution.

It occurred to me that instincts do not work for favourable results (good for life stuff). Instincts are designed to help reduce the effort that body/mind has to put in doing something or designed to be favourable for the human body and mind.

This is bit tricky. Based on our genetic make up, we are comfortable with certain ideas and reality. So our instincts drive us to maintain this comfortable situation. Direct implication of this is that strategies driven by instincts may not be beneficial for the social context or the problem at hand. Because instincts maximize comfort and what is comfortable for us may not be beneficial for us.

We hear people say "go out of your way", "go out of comfort zone", you will be able achieve more.


An example to make thoughts concrete:
People try to avoid their friends when they have to explain some uncomfortable issue. But that might create misunderstanding. I am sure you can think of more.

whatever

My colleague says this a nude lady! I do not know. I can not stoop to that level! What else this can this be? Can you help me put up a brave face throwing a weired interpretation?

J H Patel - a witty politician

On the opposition criticism of the power shortage, Patel said "The Opposition leaders are unnecessarily raising a hue and cry, let them touch the electric wire once and feel it!!". [೧]


"They say government gas done nothing, what to say to these blind guys who can not see irrigation channels that run many kilometres?" - J H Patel, Sagara 1996
[along with Ramakrishna Hegde and Sushma Swaraj ]

When asked to take the responsibility of power ministry or execise ministry patel remarked, "One gives shock, other a kick! I think I like them both!"
- Ramakrishna Hegde says [೩]

"I like wine and women and wife knows about it!" - J H Patel

``Hegde says there is power, power and power at Delhi and the state has to buy it. I do not know which power Hegde is talking about. Certainly it is not electricity'', Chief Minister J H Patel said in a sharp reaction to Union Commerce Minister's statement that state can buy power from the central power grid on downpayment.

Read these aussom ಕnnada jokes by J H Patel [೪]


[೧] http://www.ourkarnataka.com/profiles/jhpatel.htm
[೨] http://jhpatel.org/gallery.html
[೩] http://www.kannadaratna.com/jhp/hegde2.html
[೪]http://www.kannadaratna.com/jokes/jokes2.html

Why is Bengaluru not Bengaluru yet?

I had a glass of milk the day Bengaluru got its rightful name. But the Indian media, mostly run by the liberal biased drunkards, is not calling it Bengaluru yet. They are not out from the party hangover about the "good" news to open pubs till 1.00 in Bengaluru. I will talk about drunken mothers and pink babies later; now let us deal with these lefty media people.

They have no problem calling Calcutta Kolkota, Bombay Mumbai, Madras Chennai. But Bengaluru, they kind of do not like the name yet. They still want to impose what they want to call it or is it still waiting for the Goondas of India approval?

The "real Bangalorians" are not helping either, they like the colonial name. They want to sound British? I heard no complaint from them about the this pub thing yet! They are not scared that "heritage" of Bengaluru is being tampered. For "real Bangalorians" drinking is acceptable from the day Churchill was stationed in the cantonment, and army officers kept the "heritage" going.

Fixing slums, improving roads or efforts integrate new comers to the local culture is not the priority of the media. More booze, more medical problems, and providing condoms to call centre employees are high on their agenda. What an intellectual garbage, this country has produced after 60 years of independence! What to say to these kednyless people who can not even see the results in the west, of things that they claim the best for society?

The nut GOI is meddling with election and delimitation of constituencies, using it to delay elections in the Karnataka state the media is happy with it and is having fun bossing over local people.

Haven't you heard the uproar in Maharastra? It takes lot of guts to kick these self proclaimed ''I know what is right for you" people.