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Mirza Ghalib

Dhamki mein mar Gayaa jo; Naa baab-e nabard tha,
Ishq-e nabard-peshah, talabgaar-e mard tha. —– Ghalib

he who died of the threat; was NOT the head of the warriors,
Passionately, a warrior by profession, was seeking for a Man (hero)

Why this Kolaveri di song has gone viral with more than 7 Million hits in 7 days. the song is so catchy 100s of memes have sprung up in a week. There is more to follow. Till then here is a list of some very interesting Kolaveri Di memes.

Sharad Pawar Kolaveri Di Meme

This is the best of them. It was first posted by Indlish as a Sharad Pawar – Kolaveri Di Photo Meme. Latter some very interesting videos came up. Lyrics in some of them are quite impressive as well. I could not afford to miss this one.

Chokri Kharcha Di – Kolaveri Meme in Gujurati

This one is special as well. Pretty well managed and address a question faced by young lovers. Features Dj Adee and Rj Roshan. I am not sure who the hell are those people. May be popular local performers.

Tamda Rasa Kolhapuri Kolhapuri Gee – Marathi Version

I did not get what the crap they are saying but I appreciate their effort. If someone could help us with the lyrics for the Marathi version it would be super awesome.

Kolaveri Di – Female Version

I don’t like anything about this version. It won’t classify as a meme either. But I am listing it here as it was the first ever female version of the song. If you make a female version change the bloody context. It makes no sense when a girl gives voice to a heart broken drunk boy’s emotions.

George Bush – Condoleeza Rice – Kollaveri Di Spoof

This one is hilarious. The best Video + Audio mixing I have seen yet for the Kolaveri Di song. Quite enjoyable, though a bit naughty.

Kolaveri Di – International Lungi Version

Man! who the hell made that made that scum an actor? These rascals and the bloody director are screwing our image worldwide. Nevertheless enjoy it, for being the shittiest spoof of Kolaveri.

Gosh Its confirmed. It was a quake after all.

I was coding my brains out and then the glass started chattering. Then the chairs and tables shook. I felt the keyboard below my fingers shaking too. Never felt an Tremmor before. So I thought I am going nuts.

I put up the question on twitter and behold..its abuzz.

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23earthquake

http://twitter.com/#!/search/delhi%20quake

But looks like things are massive. Gods knows where the epicenter is. But people felt the shocks in Pakistan and Dubai.

If I happen to survive the night – given the main shock is not yet over. I will update you tomorrow.

I Did survive the quake then..lol.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090331100675282.html

Here is more info

God Bless us .

I have been a fan of Einstein. But I never knew he had left us a puzzle that was so interesting. I am not sure if this is a real Einstein creation but it definitely got a touch of a genius. I enjoyed each moment of solving the problem.

People claim only 2% of world’s population is capable of solving this puzzle.
So I took that as a challenge. You see being a Aries you simply cant bear to be outside the elite.

Here is the riddle.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

I dare you - Albert Einstein

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Solving the puzzle will give you a feeling of victory like never before. LOL
Initially it looked like I would blow up my mind. Then I took a mathematical approach. You cant simple solve the damn thing just by staring at the clues. Get your pencil and notepad.
Use a tabular layout like cross words puzzles and fill in empty cells with clues one by one.

give it your best shot…if you need help I have a step by step approach how to do it.
It took me 1 hour and 10 minutes to do this. Including creating that chart in photoshop and putting up this blog post. Cheers.

1. 1,1 is Norwegian (ref9)
2. 2,2 is Blue (ref14)
3. 3,4 is milk (ref
4. 4,2 and 5,2 and green and white (ref4)
5. 4,4 is coffee (ref5)
6. 1,2  is yellow and 3,1 is Brit and 3,2 is red (ref1)
7. 1,5 is Dunhill (ref7)
8. 2,3 is horses (ref 11)
9. 2,5 is Blends and 1,4 is water (ref15)
10. 5,4 is beer and 5,5 is blue master (ref 12 ) and no available combinations
11. Either 4,1 or 5,1 is sweede then either of 1,3 or 3,3 is cats then either of 4,3 or 5,3 is dogs(ref 10,2)
12. Either of 2,1 or 5,1 is dane (ref 3)
13. So 2,1 is Dane (ref 3)
14. 4,1 is German and 5,1 is Swede (ref 13)
15. 3,5 is Pall Mall as no other choice remains
16. 3,3 is birds (ref 6)
17. 5,3 is Dogs (previous analysis and Ref 2)
18. 1,3 is cats (from previous analysis and ref 10)
19. Leaves us with Fish for the German – I should have guessed that ..given their affinity for Submarines lol. Took me 1 hours and 10 mins

Final Table with Einstein’s Puzzle Solved

Power Quotes

Recently I have taken a liking to quotes.  Life and Power quotes especially. They sure help me keep the motivation higher. When you know some big and successful personality said something right that a lot of people follow it works like a kind of reference to something abstract. Hence my interest in these quotes.

I am dedicating this page to quotes I like the best and I am sure you will find them interesting and useful as well. If you have anything for me put them in the comments and I will include them if they are good.

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

“Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch

“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”  -  Baltasar Gracian

“You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!” – Amy Tan

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I’m Spider-man.

One of my friends today asked on his facebook profile…

is Arundhati Roy Anti-national? This is what Roy has to say about … Take some time to watch the video, its good.

Its not just Ms Roy; Mr Ram Jethmalini of BJP and Mr Geelani from the Huriyat have been branded anti nationals or Anti Party for voicing support for the separatist movement that has gripped Kashmir. No, not Kashmir rather the Indian nation as a whole. This post is my personal thought about the Separatist forces in India.

Mr Geelani today leads the Huriyat Conference that is demanding a separate state. Its not a secret that these people who lead this violent organization are pets of Pakistani military agencies who operate to spread mayhem in India. I wont say Pakistani government because that exists only in papers. They claim to find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir Problem by initiating dialogues with the separatist forces.

I ask you.. was there peace post the division after independence.
Will the people of Kashmir, if they choose to go independent, be able to defend themselves. The example of Swat should be an eye opener. Swat was Pakistani equivalent of Kashmir valley in terms of beauty and tourism. Where does it stand now? Do we want to see the same fate of Kashmir?

If we allow the separation of kashmir cuz it was annexed to India because of a Signature from the then Ruler Raja Hari Singh what about the states of  Andhra, Karnataka, Awadh and the near thousand princely states. Should we let them take an independent path? Is that what you call a lasting and peaceful solution? Shall we let the Naxals form governments or rather make separate states? Naxals are probably way smarter than the Huriyat. They know the power of a nation and hence they just want the power.

Learn from the history. Was pre- British India peaceful? Will the division into smaller states make happy citizens and bring better administration? We have been united in diversity. That is the force that binds a billion individuals, 500 dialects, 28 states. I would say BJP is right to stand against those who suggest separation as an answer to lasting violence.

We should see that these separatists are nothing more than Opportunist scumbags. The best part will be to neglect them all together. We have to make sacrifices for the greater good. I suppose the sacrifices should start with the separatists.

Indians around the Globe were enraged when FAO listed Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as Independent States in its latest report on greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector (2010) .

This blunder was first brought to public by Times Of India [ref].

On further digging I managed to reach the original document [ref] ( I hope this is the one). But I do not see any thing about Jammu Kashmir or Arunachal there. Rather there is an addition India/China which probably stands for those areas that FAO hallucinates to be disputed. Refer to Annex 5 at the end of the document.

Gavin Wall, FAO head in India,  said the country grouping is based on FAO’s Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL), which aims at compiling and disseminating information on administrative units for all countries in the world and it complies with the UNCS international boundaries map.

So Mr Wall went wrong with your Global Administrative Unit Layers shit now? Bloody chicken hearts. This is a international pot to disintegrate India.  I call upon all Indian brothers to react strongly to such situation. Its better they fixed the mistake.  Else I would have made sure Mr Wall had a Merry Time in New Delhi.

I have, for most of my life, lived a lukewarm life so far. Only at moments does the intensity fuel the fire and passion. I have sometimes also been blinded by the awards and prizes which I have gained when the moments of intensity begun… sometimes I was proud, perhaps too proud of the prizes which I have won during my times in University, I may at one time have bagged the top prize among 6 Universities… and awards in the previous parts of my life…

but so what…

I have come to realized that these are ego boosters which sometimes blinded me from what really matters, a life of purpose. Silly enough to fool myself before that I felt these awards and prizes would make me a better person…in some ways it did…but the reason of getting these awards and prizes were wrong… I had wanted glory for myself and hopefully in some ways do the people who support me proud…

I could not be more wrong…
I have spent 5 years of my life studying Engineering, being one of the top in it, getting the awards and prizes that come with it, but what happens then? I am not an Engineer now, nor likely to be again in the future.

But was it a wrongful decision? No.
It was a ground that had demonstrated my abilities to others who needed to know that this person was someone who was capable and determined. If we go too deep and compare genetics to refer to IQ and stuff like that to reason out why a certain person excels at something, everything will seem logical right?

No.

I was first in my class when I was 10 years old,
I was near the very bottom of my school when I was 15,
I was in the top few when I was 18,

I assembled a full soccer team from scratch, convincing each person one by one until we reached 14 players, everyone of them were unwilling at first and have self doubts, in the hope of boosting all our confidence in ourselves.

I was one of the top five soldiers in my platoon when I was first recruited into the army,
I was the top physical trainee in my section of the air force.
I dropped from being the best physical trainee to a sergeant who have been injured and no longer combat fit. Humiliation as the eyes of many had turned. The fall from the top hurts like *.

I left for Australia.

I became the top few in University, bagged almost every award and prizes available, was invited to teach as a mentor and tutor in University, got into the Dean’s List, name in the honors board.

I became a PR of Australia.

I was rejected from a top company with the reason stating I was too good.
I was recruited into a good company as an Engineer with a manager who was grooming me to great heights.
I was ready to marry my girlfriend of 3 years, we lived together for 2 years plus.
It was a relationship never to be, things happened, she is now with a ex-friend whom I introduced.
I humiliated myself at trying to win her back.
I applied for a transfer to Singapore in the company where great prospects await.

I came back to Singapore.

I left the Engineering position and company.
I was devastated.

I tried to build back my life again by anticipating the future and do what I love to do instead of the normal ladder climbing corporate path.
I almost started a new business as I thought I was ready to shine again. But my heart was still broken.

Then life changed.

More people started to come into my life.
They became very important to me as they taught me many things, life, business and much more.
So much so much…
I joined a cause which I knew was right and truly believe in.
I made many mistakes but I learnt a lot what I wasn’t capable of and what I could excel in.

Then I met even more people, very positive people who begun to truly make a big difference in my life…

And here I am now…

What is ahead I know will be truly amazing and beyond what I can ever anticipate beforehand,
But I know it will be great…

Why?

Because after all the above, I have realized one thing.
I was lukewarm.
I did not truly believe.

But now.

I have Faith.
Faith in the Heavens.
Faith in the journey.

I was not punished, I realized, I was being shown the right way through pain.
I was spiteful, that “Why me?” when bad things happened to me.
I was forgetful, that when good things happened to me, I did not ask “Why me?”

Lukewarm in belief, lukewarm in faith, blinded by ego, made silly by pride…

Everything will be gone if I died today or in the future, it was silly to think that what I have achieved will live forever. It will not and was never meant to be. To want to be remembered for the sake of ego is meaningless.

Everything has its reason,
The lessons I have to learn in this life through joy or pain.

Everything has its reasons,
For if a person in the middle of a desert dying of thirst did not drop into the hole which someone pushed him into hoping he will just disappear, he may not have found out that there is water in it, in which saved his life.

My life has been saved by the angel the heavens have sent to enlighten me.

Faith.
The tests of life, overcome them one by one.

Through Faith, all shalt be done.

The journey of life continues…

Thank you for reading, my courteous readers.
Much appreciated.

Eric @MaynasEric

Thank you my friends for joining the journey and living it together with me

If you have been in New Delhi this would be a familiar sight. Every other pavement is now dug up. What was good was dug up too. They have been rendered useless for over 4 months now. What the hell is going on? Why are they flushing our tax money and screwing the pedestrian’s life ?

Look at the image below. This is just a sample. This is the scene right outside Patel Nagar Metro Station a pretty busy area in New Delhi. I will give you a short chronology of the “murky pavement affair” that has hit the Indian capital since the last 6 months.

this is our Road to Developement

1. Govt freaks out as the Common Wealth games approach.
2. Crappy and corrupted deals materialize in the name of Delhi beautification.
3. As a part of the project mentioned above the Pavements are dug up. Filled with broken stones so that walking on them is – Mission Impossible.
4. Then some idiot at high govt position gets another brain stroke and comes up with a different plan.
5. Pavements are dug up once again and the whole filler content is dumped into the roads.
6. They have been lying like this ever since. Probably they want to do it just before the game starts…so that it looks new.

I ask you who is managing this stuff? Brainless gits who cannot think 5 mins into the future are sitting in top places deciding the future of the National Capital. Who is going to pay for the re-work you morons? That my money you are flushing down the Delhi gutters. You store yours in Swiss banks while we toil the day on those very pavements everyday saving every penny to pay our tax.

One of my friends just shared  a hot trend on social media – BoobQuakes. Incidentally it steams form the Iranian cleric’s remarks about adultery influencing earth’s seismic activity. (More on Yahoo)
Quoting form Yahoo –

“Many women who do not dress modestly… lead young men astray, corrupting their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted last week as saying by Iranian media.

So Mr Sedighi who probably has done some deep research into seismic-sex is of opinion that jerks in society who cheat on their partners are responsible for the jerks on earth’s crust, that we call earthquakes.
One brave female blogger defied the preaching and called for a public bashing of this idea. This has eventually snowballed into BoobQuakes. There have been two BoobQuake rallies to prove Mr Sedighi wrong. Believe it or not after the Boobquakes hit the streets a 6.5 Richter scale earthquake hit Taiwan. Do you see any logic behind Taiwan people being punished for the immodesty of European and West Asian Chics?

Well here is the world seismic activity map(courtesy – http://www.iris.edu/seismon/). Most of the harsh quakes seem to be happening in the island and coastal regions. Do the sharks and octopuses have anything to contribute to our equation of illegal sex and earthquakes? May be it is the shrimps who live in the coastal waters. You might also notice that the deserted places are void of earth quakes too. No earthquakes seem to hit Tundra or Siberia or Ice Caps. So it has something to do with sexual activity.
Again what about the European countries where sex trade is permitted? They do not get as many Quakes as Indonesia does – the world’s largest Muslim population area.

Here is my final report on this issue.
Don’t waste your time relating Adultery to Earthquakes. If women could cause natural disasters by flaunting cleavage then men are doomed, but so are women.