News to me

Well, who would have thunk?

Further, the report says the age for sexual consent should be raised from 15 to 16 for all girls, regardless of marriage. (At present a male having sex with a minor “wife” aged below 15 is punishable under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code.)

The main gist of the article was to bring down the marriage-able age of boys from 21 to 18.

Original source is from Hindu.

PS: Hesitated for 1 second before I decided to publish this.

Blissful ignorance

American: Football is the best game ever
Non-American: I agree with you.

It's a win-win situation!

GM

Ad on radio:

"...2007 GM cars, now available for 0% APR, lower than invoice price...."

Person 1: "2007 models? Already? But it's only April 2006!"

Person 2: "Yea, well, since GM realized they are not improving their cars anyway, they might as well brand them as 2007!"

GM: Yeppidi irundha naan, ippidi aaiten!

daankeys

Vivek in Minnale: Nammala maari daankeys dhaanda yenakku berthuday, yenakku berthuday nu yellaar kittayum yaylam vittikittu iruppaanga!

onnum illa... podhuvaa sonnen. he he!

PS: Wish Mr. North-easter Raju too!

Alpa sandhosham #1*

* guilty pleasure

- When people in everyday life or characters in films refer to Madras as Madras and not as Chennai!

Refresher

Although I have been in the US for sometime, I still don't know all the state names. A gentle refresher was provided by a new kind of spam-comment in almost ALL of my previous posts.

VA stands for virginia
UT stands for Utah
...
and so forth.

So that's what is happening in my part of the blog-world. As far as the real world is concerned, let's just say that it is time to update my blog profile (now, now!).

Tagging பத்தும் செய்யும்

Got tagged by Raju this time. Anbu thollaikku azhavey illai!.

Here goes:

10 favorites:
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Sport : Cricket
Favorite Time: Noon
Favorite Month: April
Favorite Actor: Superstar
Favorite Actress: Jothika and Asin
Favorite Icecream: Anything that begins with Chocolate
Favorite Food: Potato curry
Favorite Drink: Water / Gatorade
Favorite Place: Ha!. Madras!

9 Currents:
Current Feeling: Expectant (to go home!)
Current O/S: Linux and XP
Current Windows open: Lotus Notes, VNC, MySQL query browser, couple of web apps I am creating, Windows Word
Current Drink: Water
Current Time: 5:12 PM
Current Mobile(s) used: Nokia 6610
Current show on TV: No TV in Office.
Current Thought: 45 more minutes to 6 PM
Current Cloth: Denim silk shirt (!) and khakis.

8 Firsts:
First nick: Aachari
First kiss: Donno
First crush: Maybe in my 5th standard (early starter, you see!)
First computer: IBM Thinkpad
First vehicle I drove: Wow, let me see... must be a luna in my 8th standard
First job: Usher in an NFL stadium
First movie I watched on Pulse Global's Print: WTF!?
First pet: None
First shave (men)/Hairstyle (women): I was 17

7 Lasts:
Last chai (tea): Not a tea/coffee drinker.
Last movie: Adhu oru kanaa kaalam
Last time I drove: This morning
Last time shaved (men) / Beauty parlor visit (women): Yesterday
Last website visited: weather.com
Last software installed: Open Office
Last pill I had: Tylenol (for cold) just now

6 Have you evers:
Have you ever broken the law: Yes.
Have you ever been drunk: Tee-totaler
Have you ever climbed a tree: Yes - a few times
Have you ever kissed someone you didnt know: No
Have You Ever Been in the Middle/Close to Gunfire or Bomb Blast: No.
Have you ever broken anyone's heart: Hmmm. Not sure.

5 Things:
Things you can hear right now: Water cooler, myself sniffling and coughing.
Things on your computer table: Too many to write.
Things on your bed: Its a murphy bed, so things won't stay on it.
Things you ate today: "The Herbivore" pizza (large) at The English Pub
Things in mind: When will this cold go?, weekend plans and general fear of life.

4 Places I have been today:
- ONLY 2 -
Office
Restaurant for lunch

3 People I can tell anything to:
C at DBX
K at MSP
V at MAA

2 Choices:
Black or White: Black
Hot or Cold: Hot

1 thing to do before I die:
aah, done this earlier.

--..--..--

Me tagging Slashaalvaar and Maverick.

I am escape!

I know that the frequency of my posts has decreased.
I know that the curse words directed to me (after seeing NO UPDATES) have increased.
I know I have played it cheap by living in the glory of my last post's comments.
It's not that I have blogger's block.
It's just that I am going to home-sweet-home for a break (this friday).
But that wouldn't prevent me from visiting other blogs.
Neither would it stop me from taking advantage of cheap-shot commenting in this post!

I am escape!!

PS: Will start posting again from India.

Se7ven*

* shamelessly copied the classic movie's title for this post.

This is new to me. I have been tagged by Vatsan and Keerthi. Tagging is something like a chain-mail thing, but in a good way.

Here goes:

Seven things I plan to do before I die:

1. Buy a time machine (when one becomes available) and relive some of the moments in the past.
2. Go to Ibiza, Spain.
3. Get Scuba diving certification and swim with the sharks.
4. Do hot-air balooning and shoot the rapids.
5. Learn to fly a plane.
6. Help to find/fund a cure to make ignorance disappear.
7. Know what really happens after death without dying.

Seven things that I can do:

1. Remain without being controlled/addicted to/by anything.
2. Identify great music from good music.
3. Convert lyrical/instrumental music to sapthaswaras on the fly.
4. Seeing through people when they fib/brag, and act un-affected, thereby giving them false hope and eventually make them lose their energy.
5. Influence people.
6. Take decisions reasonably quick.
7. Play any kind of sport solely by endurance.

Seven things that I can't do:

1. Talk in an affected accent.
2. Write poems.
3. Tolerate stupidity.
4. Mention the second person's name in a conversation.
5. Getting influenced by peer pressure.
6. Cook well.
7. Not losing temper with people I care.

Seven things that attracts me to the opposite sex:

1. Honesty.
2. Beauty to an extent (hey, atleast I am honest).
3. Not expecting special treatment.
4. Reciprocation and respect.
5. Not always, but it would be nice if the wavelengths match sometimes.
6. Dressing intelligently.
7. (Mutual) Occasional dependence.

Seven things I say the most:

1. What up?
2. Adhaan thalaivar!.
3. Periya m*** everu; serupaala adi; poda naaye.
4. bye bye.
5. danke!
6. adhaavadhu..
7. hi da

Seven celebrities I want to meet:

1. Thalaivar.
2. SRT.
3. 'Ice cool' Waugh.
4. Maestro raasa.
5. 2pac - (thats not possible. Yet)
6. My late grandfather (never seen him. Not possible. Yet. Well, maybe if I buy the time machine!).
7. Tom and Jerry (or) Bart and Homer Simpson.

Seven people who have to take this quiz:

1. Slashaalvaar - done
2. Boldtaurean
3. Maverick - done
4. Aparna - done
5. Srini
6. Mitr - done
7. GP - done

That's all folks!.

(hee hee)e-mail

The following incident was re-told to me by my friend KR when he was still in university. Conversation between a student and his friend who works for the d.evil (Microsoft):

Student: dei.. enga university computer system a hack pantaanga da. email down.. :-(

Microsoft peetar: adhuku dhaan Microsoft Exchange server use panni irukanum.

Student: yea, nee solradhu sari dhaan. Avanunga hack pandra samayathula epidium Exchange server crash aagi irukum illa?. Correct da!

Microsoft peetar: ?!??!?!?.

A lighter post after 2 pretty heavy ones.

Hackers breaking into university computer systems is not new; in fact, even today there was a story about a break-in at the University of Southern California (USC). I remembered the above incident when I read this.

Mysteries of mankind

A person is first an individual - a life form primarily. Social and ethical aspects would probably come only later. Simply put, man first thinks for himself, lives for himself and then if he is safe and sound, he ventures to help others . People who deviate from this aspect are not human beings, they are something else.

Note: The above are my views and I don't plan to substantiate it with references. But somehow I feel this is fair to assume.

If that being the case, why does a person who can tolerate an attack on his individual self (say, abusing verbally - "you are worthless") becomes incensed when the same is said in general - "all men are worthless" or "your type of people are always like this" (apply some caste name here). Why should something said in general affect us? And it does affect us and we react too. To me, it seems to be counter-intuitive.

To think in a broader sense, perhaps it is because of this mystery, that mimicking human brain using Artifical Intelligence has not become such a big hit as we expected it to. We are way too complex for a computer to understand!