My Blah.........

Goooood Morning,

I'm bored!!! So the exercise routines have begun and are going on... the only problem is I'm eating more than I'm exercising......... Treadmill seems the way to go for me..... I'm too god damn lazy to do anything else!!!! My training seems sooooooooo far away, cats are driving me nuts........ all they do is meow moew...... And literally this morning one damn cat was lookinbg and me and meowing.......... (For the uninitiated CAT is the exam that changes our lives...... It's the first hurdle to an MBA in India....... The only problem is that a million people write the exam and there are just a tenth of the number of seats available). So sorry guys I'm really farting today!!!!! I felt like bloging but no cluse what to say!!!!!! My body ain't killing me no more!!!! I' m actually able to exercise.... Halleleuiah!!!! :-)..... One of my good friends, actually challenged me to do his exercise routine !!!!!! I tried it... It can be done bugger!!!! But seriously awsomely streneous exercise routine dude!!!!! Wokay, dat's enough for today!!!!!! I'll end this torture...
See ya for now....... Bye.......

My First Tryst With Exercise After 4 Years.....

Ok............ Small background check about me..... I'm one lazy bum and also have a huge bum....
So i've been really jobless over the last 4 months......... Just been sitting at home and waiting to join work...... That's only 2 months away........ So just eating, sleeping, gaming and biking....... and I have put on a lot of weight.

So..... I've decied to exercise to try and shake off the weight!!!!! :-)
Well.......... My body is aching and the fact is i couldn't do 5 crunchs.......... I'm totally out of shape, So after today's exercise, one thing has come to me that it's gonna take a long long long long long time for me to get back into shape...... or to atlest to be able to do some kind of exercise without feeling paaaaaain..

So........ to all my friends have been telling me, 'Dude you getting fat', 'Rahul your growing sideways'....... I'm trying to get back into shape....... So, i'll continue my tryst with this crazy human desire to stay in shape!!!! ( Unless of course one day the world wakes up and decides that the best form is round!!!!! :-D )

Cheers

Rahul......................................

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY CRAZE ON INDIAN TELEVISION?

Indian television had caught a bug, the money bug. Indian Television began these game shows which offered their participants sums of money once unimaginable to the common man.

        It all began with the Hindi channel Star Plus. Introducing their copy of the American game show “Who wants to be a millionaire”, “Kaun Banega Crorepati” popularly known as KBC. It was hosted by the bollywood phenomenon Amitabh Bachchan. This show was an instant hit and so began the onslaught of game shows on to the Indian Television screen.

        Next in line was Zee TV’s  reply to KBC, “Sawal Dus Crore Ka”. Hosted by two more bollywood celebrities “Anupum Kher” and “Manisha Koirala”. Before the show was launched there was a lot of talk that it would destroy KBC, for it offered ten times more money. But that did not happen. “Sawal” was a huge flop and was soon scrapped. It showed that not only did money matter but also that the show had to be interesting as well, which it was not.

        It was then time for Sun TV to get into the act. With a Tamil runoff of KBC, “Kotteswaran” which did quite well in South India. The competition was  brewing up in South India as well, with other channels starting new shows, but none of them were able to stand up to Sun’s show.  

        A few more new shows came up. Sony TV’s “Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke” which was a fun game show where people could win anything: from money which was of course unlimited, to a car. This show did reasonably well with it’s very jovial presentation in keeping with the host Govinda’s style.

        All these shows kept bringing out special episodes in an attempt to stay fresh. Even the  very popular Hindi music show Close-up Antakshari which has been running for over five years caught this bug and introduced a new round called “Close-up Encounter” where the winner had a chance of winning up to 1.28 crores of rupees.

       

        After this the public was quite bored. Such shows kept coming and going. Jaya TV’s show starting “Kotteswari” a quiz show exclusively for women hosted by the Tamil movie star “Khusboo”. This show was aimed at giving competition to “Kotteswaran”. Star TV’s programme “Khulja sim sim” an advertising show where they gave away money for nothing ! Zee and Sony after scrapping their old shows tried to start many new shows which haven’t yet scorched the air.

        The only people who really enjoyed these shows I guess were the participants who became overnight celebrities and fulfilled lifelong dreams of being on television. But just like dreams they were soon forgotten. Harshvardan Navate is of course the only one in the entire lot to have gone down in Indian folklore as the first Television-Crorepati. As for Harshvardhan, an aspiring IAS student (before the show) was doing advertisements for Britannia and KBC soon after the show. Where is he now?         

Regardless of the number of programmes introduced, the Indian audience has shown that the show has to be interesting, informative and appealing in order to be a success. But today all these shows have faded away or have flopped. But all these shows on some level helped revive their Networks in some way or another.

But showbiz proved one thing. They can sell anything as long as they can make their audience dream.


Rahul.

The potential of the human race

The humans are a violent, greedy and self-centered race.

        We have only one planet to live on, “EARTH”. Today earth is in a sorry state thanks to wars, over consumption and senseless pollution.

        The humans have overused this planet’s limited resources. The realization that this planet is slowly dying has come quite late, already many species of plants and animals are extinct affecting the ecological balance. But the realization has come only for a few while the rest of the people still loot and plunder this planet. They don’t realize that their over consumption will kill their planet and if it dies it will take all of us with it. What we really need is another “green revolution”, what I mean is plant trees in order to increase the forest cover, reuse and recycle in order to reduce pollution.

A few steps are being taken in the right direction by a few organizations and we must help them by not promoting to pollution on our behalf.

        Conservation is fine, it could help revive our planet but there is a more serious matter we as a race have to address.

          We as a people have waged wars from time in memorial. Although at the moment it appears that steps are being taken towards world peace there still are problems, wars in today’s world have to be avoided for they are

Hi-tech and extremely destructive. The peacemakers have got into the act trying to make peace but the big problem is that “the peacemakers” are as well armed as the nations at war themselves, how can you advocate peace when you yourself have weapons of mass destruction. We have to disarm. Let’s try and solve our problems in a more civil manner rather than resorting to violence.

         

We are all Homo sapiens (humans) but we still categorize people on the basis of skin color, race and religion. But why? Are we  not a civilized race, why cant people follow what ever beliefs they please, why go to war over such ridiculous matters. I as a person believe that there is a little good in every person and that good can be brought out only if they are shown the good in the world.

          When you read this article you might think that this writer is a dreamer for he dreams of a perfect world. But, just think, it’s not impossible; we could live in a world where there is no unwanted violence and we all live in peace. With a little love and a lot of effort it could be a reality.

“Come on let’s make an effort to form a society webbed together in love”. 

           

(Note: The views expressed here are only that of that of the writer and editor of this article) 


Rahul

Titanic – A legacy

14^th April 1912, it sank. This ship was the TITANIC. This tragedy has captivated us whole of the last century and the number of books and movies made based on it is testament to that fact.

         There were 2207 people on board but only 705 survived. This is one of the major reasons the Titanic has captured attention.

        So many controversies have be associated with the Titanic like ,

Was it the Titanic at all which sank or was it it’s twin sister ship the Olympic which was notorious for accidents. According to this theory it was a financial scam to defraud the companies insuring the ships, a scam that went horribly wrong.

The number of lifeboats on the ship was originally 32, which would have been adequate to save all the passengers on the   ship from drowning, but the number was reduced in the final design.

All day (April 14^th )there had been warnings about iceberg patches from six different ships, none of them were heeded. The most interesting part is that the last message was received 40 minutes before the accident from a ship called the Californian.

The wireless operator did not heed to the entire message and cut it off half way through before he could be told that they were sailing towards it. None of these warnings were informed to the captain (E. J. Smith).

Many stories have been told about premonitions of the Titanic’s fateful crash.

A novel entitled FUTILITY by Morgan Robertson in which a massive ocean liner called Titan sailing from Southampton across the Atlantic was sunk by an iceberg killing more than 2500 people. The chilling fact is that the novel was written in 1898 fourteen  years before the Titanic sank. Even W.T. Stead another well known novelist predicted the sinking of the Titanic in one of his novels, the twist Stead was on the Titanic when it sank.

Well this was the Titanic but the man whose account was seriously shocking. One day in April 1935, William Reeves was keeping lookout on his tramp steamer sailing from Tyneside to Canada when his mind for no reason started to dwell on the Titanic. His birthday was 14^th April, his ship was called Titanian, all these coincidences kept crossing his mind when he just screamed to stop the ship and to the horror of the crew in front of them in the darkness stood AN ICEBERG.

Well I suppose it is these mysteries which has encouraged Hollywood to create so many movies based on this legendary ship. To my knowledge a minimum  of four movies have been based on this ship. The latest of them ,well I guess  we all know this one , the one starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo de Caprio. This movie cleaned up at the Oscars when it was there.

Whatever be the reason the controversies ,the premonitions or the movies, more than half the people in the world are interested in this ship for one reason or the other. So I guess Titanic   has deserved the title  of the worst maritime tragedy of the 20^th century during non-war times.


Rahul

India - 2

India  the  country with the potential to become a superpower …… but there are too many chinks in the armour………

    India is a country with a glorious history. It has a past full of riches in both wealth and knowledge. Foreigners have plundered  our riches through  the years ….but one thing they cannot take is our knowledge that has been passed down through the centuries.

    In the olden days our ancestors developed so many ayurvedic remedies, but these remedies are slowly but surely disappearing from our society as we embrace the western ways of life. India as a country and we as a people need to keep a firm grounding in the past as we move into the future. We should not abandon the olden ways for they are natural and much more healthy. India has now slowly but surely begun combining ayurveda and modern medicine in a unique blend. This is helping the Indian medical industry to improve. But there is a problem. Fake medications in the market don’t help the consumer but instead harm them.

    One positive sign in India over the last few years has been the rapid increase in IT awareness. India is now surely becoming an IT superpower. Software developers and computer programmers from India have been going abroad for years. But now more and more developers prefer to stay in India, and well if “Mohammed wont come to the mountain then the mountain will have to come to  Mohammed “.

That is exactly what has  happened , the Indians stopped going abroad so the  IT companies have begun coming to India. Many big concerns have set up a base in India. We on our hand have facilitated this  by opening huge IT complexes like TIDAL PARK at Chennai. This really proves that India has become an IT superpower.

     Despite all this progress there still is some thing, which keeps pulling us back…that is corruption, it has been a thorn in our sides for years. The latest being the  Tehelka scandal. It is absolutely ridiculous that the people whom we have elected to rule our country can take bribes and try and pass substandard equipment. Till a while back the INDIAN ARMY was still one of the most respected organizations in our country. But now even that respect is lost to certain extent.

     In conclusion all  I can say is that if our country has to progress all of us must take an active part and try to get in touch with our past as we move into the future. To the corrupt all I can say is , try and find some shame and some pride for you’re an Indian and don’t sell out your country.

INDIANS WILL COME INDIANS WILL GO BUT

INDIA WILL GO ON FOREVER


Rahul