Katrina

There is no doubt that hurricane Katrina is one of the most devastating natural disasters in the history of the United States. I have to salute to the efforts of the national guards, volunteers, sate, local and federal workers. But I feel since due the inexperience of disasters like these we are unable to help the victims in terms of getting basic necessities with urgency. I think we must also address the stagnating water issue by applying (spraying) appropriate chemicals to prevent the spread of diseases.

Wakeup Pakis - This is 2005!

"Dr Shazia Khalid was raped on January 2nd , allegedly by an army officer while performing her duty as a medical officer for Pakistan Petroleum Limited in Sui, Balochistan. Her rapist was never caught and the Government of Pakistan forced her to leave Pakistan and left her stranded in the United Kingdom, where she is currently seeking asylum"

Have a click on this NYT article... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/opinion/02kristof.html?ex=1123732800&en=45f7cab5fa7a84c1&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Also have a click here http://www.4anaa.org/stories/shazia.htm

If you are in or around NYC you could join for a rally http://www.4anaa.org/

a beautiful mind

I finally had a chance to see this movie few days back, its just fabulous. I am truly touched by two things this movie conveys: attitude and affection.

dancing bush

Really cool.. Have a click here..

moving mela -- ny to ct

I moved out of NYC this weekend. It was tough to move out actually both emotionally and literally. No doubt NYC is a great place to live and commute. It was a definitely a mela for us to move. We had to pack things, find a mover, negotiate with him and finally move. Anyways last saturday we finally moved to Stamford, CT. I like this city very much esp there no city tax ;)

swades - one side of the coin

I saw swades today, I felt it is one side of the coin. Definitely the movie is very good and I never felt bored throughout the screenplay. The message it conveyed to me seems to be one-sided. The film portrays that the general public is very honest or atleast would accept true realities. But the reality is quite different. If someone wants to do some service then there would be major force of people who would try to spoil it. For example after tsunami Vivek Oberio adopted the village Thevanampattinam in Tamil Nadu and did some good work. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu gave him this praise!

I don't mean to suggest that no one should think of doing good service. But the greater problem with attitude of the Indian public must be changed. India needs an attitude revolution of some kind!

bush bashing: bush vs bush

I saw this video from The Daily Show by John Stewart titled "bush vs bush". Have a click here, if you see it once you would watch it 1000 times..

You will need Real player and a broadband connection to watch this!

wanna break your keyboard?

I stumbled upon a pretty good website with lots of fun games http://www.shockwave.com/sw/home/.

masala is mixed well!

I saw chandramukhi couple of days before! I didnt have the same feeling that I had after returning from Baba or Padayappa either. To me "kantham" of Rajinikanth is gone and only Rajini is there. Still not bad, thalaivar has done a pretty good job and I felt that the masala is mixed well. Its definitely worth seeing once, so if you haven't you better do.

Grand Canyon

Here is the link for Grand Canyon on Google satellite... its cool..

World is Flat??

This is a pretty good NYTimes article.. Worth a click!

Thanks to Priya!

new yorker: whats "excuse"?

i stumbled upon this joke..

These four guys were walking down the street, a Saudi, a Russian, a North Korean, and a New Yorker.
A reporter comes running up and says, "Excuse me, what is your opinion about the meat shortage?"
The Saudi says, "Excuse me, what's a shortage?"
The Russian says, "Excuse me, what's meat?"
The North Korean says, "Excuse me, what's an opinion?"
The New Yorker, says, "Excuse me? What's excuse me?

:))

I made vathal kozhambu today!

Vathal Kozhambu 001_web
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i made vathal kozhambu today... for those of you waiting for my recipie here it is ;) ...

1) take 2.5 cups of water and add 1 table spoon of tamarind paste and mix it well..

2) take 1 spoon of mustard seeds, half spoon of methi seeds, chilli, some pea nuts or channa dal (optional) and small onions in a pan and fry it...

once fried, mix both (1),(2),salt and boil it... the more it boils the better it is so keep the stove in low flame..

as simple as that can be!

come back for pottato curry tomm!

*vathal kozhambu left overs on the photo

do you have things to do in life?

so does everyone... visit 43things.com to learn more... quite interesting!

Bush nominates Wolfowitz as World Bank Chief

You gotta see this..

Click Here! (Its a comedycentral video)

I am sure you will thank me!

on the way to grand canyon

on the way to grand canyon
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on the way to grand canyon

Phoenix
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Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon
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me @ grand canyon

highly inspired

Today I read a quote online and I am highly inspired by its meaning... its here..

Bajirao Peshwa (1700 – 1740 AD) who never once tasted defeat in 36 battles. He once told his brother Chimnaji, "Remember that night has nothing to do with sleep. It was created by God, to raid territory held by our vastly superior enemy"

Enneagram

"Enneagram" is an art of studying personality types and could be used to find ways to work with people by understanding their inner types. The concept is that every person will have one core inner personality from his birth and it cant be changed. It talks about 9 different personality types and everyone would fall under one of them. It also groups personality types into 3 distinct Triad. Each triad would have 3 personality types. If you are interested its worth having a click.

i plan to scribble...

This is my own world to scribble my thoughts and ideas and to share it with you!