Another attempt....strike two!

Fun on the run....

Recently I became interested in running and decided to check out the trail around the lake in my apartment. The trail has a beautiful locale around it and takes you into a path with trees on both sides that give you a forest feel. Just the environment gives you the motivation to run more rounds even though I seemed to lose all my energy after a couple of errands.

Only then, I realized energy conservation is a key to cover more distance. But reckless spending of energy led to exhausting my resources within a couple of rounds. But I was happy that I was not causing environmental damage by this and also given the fact that bigger corporations who were supposed to conserve were in fact exhausting energy resources, I did not care that I was burning my own energy. No guilt involved you see! The other relieving factor was that human energy is renewable in the sense that I can gain the energy I lost after the next meal. Unfortunately, there is no alternative energy source as my body had to spend the calories to make me run the whole distance.

But in any case, I concluded that it can make a person healthy, lose calories and improve stamina. So there I decided that I should make more such rounds around the lake and have some fun on the run. So here I am taking my music player and off to the lake.

Cabtan speaks tamil!

Music(k)!!

Comments are welcome :-)

Holding the spirit of the game...?

Well a lot of talk has been going on about the recent controversial decisions at the SCG. Before I rant about the issue, hats off to Kumble and his team for playing the game in its right spirit. I could not stop empathizing myself with the Indian cricket team when Kumble said "When too many things happen at the center, its difficult to concentrate on the game. But we still fought it till the last moment". It was amazing to see the Indian players come out and shake hands with their opponents after their controversial defeat (I would still rate it higher than some of the wins in the past). But after all this, I could not believe that Ricky Ponting still said "We played the game in the right spirit"!! It was apt when one of the senior players pointed out some of the incidents involving the Aussie captain in response to this- His vociferous appeal for Dhoni's catch even after clearly grounding it, his "directions" to Mark Bensen that Sourav Ganguly was "Out" (n the umpire just accepted it!) and his refusal to walk even after a clear nick to the keeper in the first innings when he was at 14.

These are just a few instances from the plethora of frustrating incidents that happened during the game. The "World Champions" were just behaving like a bunch of cry babies who were desperately looking for a win to equal Steve Waugh's record of 16 straight test wins. Even though it would go into the record books that Ricky Ponting's team did equal the record, the test match at SCG would be remembered for all the reasons other than this.

Happy new year!

Happy new year to you all. Everyone of you is a champ in your own respect and so party it hard :). 2007 has been a good year to me with its own ups and downs. Hoping to make 2008 a great year! and wishing you the same too. Here is a free toast to you all!!




More later!

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Found this nice widget embedded with a good song ;).

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Shawshank Redemption

I love this movie. Wanted to post some of the best dialogues from this movie (tough to choose tho :)

1. Some Birds Are Not Meant To Be Caged...
Their Feathers Are Just Too Bright..
And When They Fly Away..The Part Of You Which Knows,
It Was A Sin To Lock Them Up Rejoice..Yet The Place You Live,
Is Much More Drab And Empty After They Are Gone....

this was red's feeling after andy broke out of SHAWSHANK.

2. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

3. On the outside I am a man straight as an arrow... I had to come to prison to become crooked...

4. Red : These walls are funny, first u hate them , then u get used to them and as time goes by u get dependent on them

5. Red : Some things are best left unsaid

6. hope is a good thing,maybe the best of things and good things never die


7. I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away...and for the briefest of moments -- every last man at Shawshank felt free.

8. "Andy Dufresne, he crawled thru 2 miles of shit and came out clean
on the other side"

Dandia bash!

Well, I have to say that the India club event at Georgia Tech provided lots of entertainment to all the students who took part in the Raas Garba Night last weekend. After a l'il thought, I have to admit that the dandia night matched the navratri celebrations that I had taken part in India. I thought of tracing back the origins of dandia through this blog. So here it goes....

Raas and Garba are the featured dances of Navratri evenings in Western India, originating in Gujarat and Sindh. Navratri is the longest Hindu festival celebrated all over India for nine consecutive nights in praise of Lord Rama (Hero of the Epic Ramayana) and Godess Durga from the end of September to early October.
Originated as devotional Garba dances, which were performed in Durga's honor, this dance form is actually the staging of a mock-fight between the Goddess and Mahishasura, the mighty demon-king, and is nicknamed "The Sword Dance". The sticks of the dance represent the sword of Durga. The women wear traditional dresses such as colorful embroidered choli, ghagra and bandhani dupattas (traditional attire) dazzling with mirror work and heavy jewellery. The Men wear special turbans and kedias, but can range from area to area. The dancers whirl and move their feet and arms in a choreographed manner to the tune of the music with lots of drum beats. The dhol is used as well as complementary percussion instruments such as the dholak, tabla and others. The true dance gets extremely complicated and energetic. Garba is performed before Aarti (worshipping ritual) as devotional performances in the honor of the Goddess while Dandiya is performed after it, as a part of merriment. While Garba is performed exclusively by women, men and women join in for Raas Dandiya. Also known as "The Dance of Swords" as performers use a pair of colorfully decorated sticks as symbols, the circular movements of Dandiya Raas are much more complex than that of Garba. The origin of these dance performances or Raas can be traced back to the life of Lord Krishna.


Today, Raas is not only an important part of Navratree (meaning nine nights) in Gujarat but extends itself to other festivals related to harvest and crops as well. The Mers of Saurastra are noted to perform Raas with extreme energy and vigor.