You got to check this..

You got to check this out...

http://narendran.youaremighty.com/

Naren

New Champions

At least 2 billion people would know India is the new Champion and Pakistan the next in the shortest form of cricket.

According to me, the cricket boards and bookies if any out there were the real champions. Because of this tournament, the entire cricket body is awakened and brought back to live. I really did not follow any of the matches closely for last couple of years and didn’t really lose anything.

Few months back, we witnessed “Flop” world cup with two big nations out of the tournament, shock, and death of Whoolmer. The World cup lost nearly half of his viewership because of two nations exit and the sponsors bitten by the big names. After all the bookie scandals, we were little cautious whether the whole series were set-up or matches were really won by the better teams.

Now at least 1.2 billion people are brought back to discuss about cricket, good or bad, viewership is back, sponsors are revived, will silent the new league and real booster for cricket boards. What ICC earns from this?

Cricket is not even considered as a game in the American continents. They don’t believe spending the whole day or 5 days in the ground rather this 3 hour game will definitely sell here. Isn’t interesting to see a pitcher run and throw the ball to get smacked down with clean hits. And with great fireworks and with extra gimmicks, this Twenty20 form will bring the rest of the world to join the party.

The winners are the Governing body, the cricket boards, players and sponsors. I don’t know the losers but wish lame man’s 1000 rupees should not go waste.

What about the India – Australia series, I bet India would win the series 4-3. Just guessing..

600K worth news..

This is not a funny news..too serious to be reported in yahoo news, CNN and all over the internet..its worth $600K..wow thats sounds serious..

http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2007/09/26/google-maps-forces-navy-to-redesign-swastika-building/


Naren

Independent India @ 60

This link is too good, having different articles about the subject from different areas..

http://www.hindu.com/af/india60/index.htm

-Naren

Last Lecture..

This was forwarded to me by Shyam, video is about a professor who got a chance to make his last lecture. Randy Pausch has 3 - 6 months to live, he tells about his childhood dreams .. he is gonna live ..

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3633956

-Naren

Second Week of September..

Second Week of September will be a eventful with lot of memories..

My father will go to Tirupathi Padayatra...probably 20th year...
I have seen dozens of Vinayakar Chathurthi..
My birthday..now 27 :-(
My first job..completed 5 years..going strong.. :-)
Our whole class got suspended in 2nd and 3rd year...in college lifes

Great Break..

Game in College Life..

Yesterday, we watched a movie "Superbad" a school teen comedy, it was quite funny. But, this is not about the movie. I was reminded few games played in my college life during class sessions. Nothing can beat it..

Okay..the game goes like this..its simple..the Mam / Sir would be taking Class on the stage, turning back..passing of the ball shaped paper or handkerchief would continue until the lecturer turns back. And who ever having the paper with them, should definitely stand up and ask a question. Basically should ask a question and move on so that we continue our game.

It would be so funny quite a few pitiful souls doesnt really know what the lecturer is teaching but bound to rule will ask a question. Lot of times, the most interested person would be the lecturer. He / She would be amused to see a person, whom he / she has never seen before in his class. asking a question. With sincere dutiness, he / she would explain what ever the question is..

We would also have "Back up" guys to help out the person who is questioning. "Just in case" to pull him out if he happens to land into a tight corner. Obviously these guys relatively know the stuff what the tutor talking about..

It was hilarious when you were part of it..Great part of our life..

My favorite - SVe Shekher Drama

Even before the Mega Serials occupied our TV Channels, Tamil dramas would be short and crispy. It would regularly 13 episodes or its multiples. And comedy dramas will always hog the limelight. I remember SVe Shekher and Crazy Mohan dramas are entertaining and we wait to watch each episode every week. I think the dramas will be shown two days a week.

As a true Chennaite, you would enjoy the typical “Madras” Baashai in these comedy dramas. Guys these are truly hilarious and evergreen. Sample dialogues, (you cannot translate this)

“Ghumnu okkathu taaraa pakkallam”
“Puthu TV ippadiya makkar pannum”
“Yappa maniyachippa Padtha poduppa..kaasu koduthu ticket vangi erukkom”

Now I found lot of sites where you could hear these dramas online. I was very much pleased to found this old drama “Nam Kudumbam” in raaga.

Sunday afternoon, yesterday’s vegetable kuruma and this drama in background, it was quite a good combination.

Shock n Awe - 300 page iPhone Bill

Shock and Awe...you got to check these links related to iPhone bill.. 300 - 400 page...I am serious..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdULhkh6yeA

This chic says she used to send 35000 messages in a month...postal charges 10 dollars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-jFzQFMLw&mode=related&search=

And she is not alone..another guy received..400 pages..

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=I3xGmEHt618&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b

You can blame a customer not opting an e-bill but thats the point, Save Resources Guys..

Grow up big boys..

Palm..in my Palm..

Atlast..after lot of reluntance..I got a new phone...it is a PDA..I am still exploring the features present in it..and also trying to port my old number to this new one..

If I am not successful will retain the new number...so how it looks..

Credit goes to Joshua for getting me one..

http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/SubmitRegionAction

Lunch with Harper Lee

11:40 pm..Two of the girls in my unit passed over for lunch. As a perfect guy thing, I got up and started for lunch..not beside but behind :-)

Everything was pretty good until I reach the door. Suddenly got reminded of Harper's Lee work. This was lying in the bag from monday yesterday. I rushed back to my desk to grab the book. This would be the nerdiest thing I would have ever done. I got the flavour of the book but lost the trail of the feminine scent. Forget it !!

Now my directions were open to Cafe A, AB, C, F and H, I headed toward Cafe C to taste the Veggie Patty from Subway. Harper Lee laughed at me asking "Did you forgot me?" Nah..Never..

Today's Fortune in Orkut..

Today's fortune:

You and your wife will be happy in your life together

This is toooooo much guyssssss..try to publish the fortune according to the marital status of the person...Tension aagaathinga..

Check out this song...

I always enjoy some of the Hindi Melody, touching and soothing.. I searched and got the meaning of this song..its true that I cannot understand much..

Can anyone guess whats this song is?

Lyrics by Prasoon Joshi

(Amma)

This game of hide and seek has gone on too long,
Come home now, wont you

I've searched high and low
these old eyes are weary so,
come home now wont you

Dusk is spreading like the ache in my heart,
my vision blurs, come home now wont you.

(Son)
I'm in a place you wouldnt believe Ma
Endless skies I can soar
Just like you fairy tales
It's filled with dreams

A sea of hope wth no shore
My soul flies here, like a kite without fears
No one to cut my strings, no more
If only I could show you this place, Ma

Here waterfalls are made of rainbows
There are no roses just bouquets of dreams Ma
Their scent, no flower can hope for
Here sunlight and shadow walk hand in hand

Everything seems bright and new
But what is heaven and all its wonders

When Ma, I dont have you

PS: check this youtube link, to view the song..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZ42Z4k_10&mode=related&search=

Sirius...

When I first saw "Sirius" satellite radio with dog as his icon..that too when I was peaking with Harry Potter books...it immediately strike Harry's God father..
And the brand goes with dog..which was the patronus of Sirius Black in Harry Potter...

Sirius also known as "Dog Star" is a brightest star in the night time belonging to Canis Major..

Sirius.. Satellite Radio..Harry's God father..."Dog Star"..

I like Harry's Godfather..

-Naren

33% Nothing about Women Reservation..

This is nothing about women reseravation but about Air India's Cost cut measures on his non-stop US fares..

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/27air.htm

The national carrier has reduced its economy fares by 37.17 per cent to Rs 50,700 (return fares excluding taxes) from Rs 80,700. The executive (business) class fares were lowered by 40.11 per cent to Rs 159,700 against the original price of Rs 2,66,700.

Right time to grab your tickets buddy..

Weather-beaten Week..

It was a good week until now, I know its going to be little pressure next week. It's not the work, its going to be how you are placed. We are going to experiment new next week and gave my managers Green. I think everything is in place.


It is not going to be Mourning Monday, I am going to rock Dallas this week end. It is going to be kind of work related and fun with friends kind of trip. First kind of meeting for me. I was about to go Sunnyvale but it was rescheduled and relocated to Frisco, Texas.


Mahesh wanted to meet his cousin Eshwar and Sriram wanted to meet his college pair, Siva (she) and Thendral (he) in Dallas. My company is taking care of my travel, so rented a SUV rather a car and hitting the highway. Saravanan is also going to join us.


We have booked Town Place suites Mariott nearby Frisco and these guys are roam on Saturday. I would be joining the fun on Sunday. They have already picked up couple of restaurants, I heard lunch at Udupi Cafe. I wanted to go to this "White Rock Lake".

Oh..forgot to mention.. It was raining cats and dogs in San Antonio..

Potter beats Potter..

I dont follow any of the sales report or records, Sorry, I could not control myself. Figures does matters not the text..I gathered from different websites and news..Thanks for posting in the net..


THE seventh and final Harry Potter book sold more than 11.3 million copies during its first 24 hours on sale.

Canada
812,000 copies

Australia
70,000 copies

US
8.3 million copies

UK
2,652,656 copies

India
170,000 genuine copies

Czech readers have so far bought 1.5 million Harry Potter books

Five million copies of the Harry Potter Chinese edition have been sold in Taiwan.

In the United States, Barnes & Noble Inc. also reported all-time sales, saying Monday that 1.8 million copies were purchased in the first two days, including 560,000 in the first hour, a rate of more than 150 copies per second. The audiobook is a record breaker, too: 225,000 copies in the first two days, according to Random House Audio's Listening Library.

Online retailer Amazon.com announced it took in 2.2 million pre-orders for the new novel worldwide, surpassing the 1.5 million advance-order record held by the previous book.

Borders USA chief executive officer George Jones told AFP at the weekend that it was the biggest day in the bookstore's history, with 1.2 million copies of the Potter book sold worldwide on Saturday.

Penguin India tied up with Britain's Bloomsbury to distribute 230,000 copies of the book in India. Most of these books are expected to be sold in the first three days.

Gleebooks, which has already sold 2 million Harry Potter books, is expecting first-day sales of Deathly Hallows to break all records. Sales of 350,000 are expected in Australia.

Harry Potter..Still open..

I have never felt the release of any kind of movie or book...I am not a kind of person who rushes for the book on its release and lock myself to complete on the same day..

I felt everything has it own exceptions, so does the Harry's seventh book. I didn't do any pre-order which I intended to do. I thought I would get the same book from library later this week and complete it. I dont want to hear from some one or from news source to let out, this is the final story and blow up the grand finale..

Got up around 12:00 noon, decided to get the book from nearby Barnes and Nobles. We did the groceries, weekly movie DVD exchange and got the book.

Started to read the book around 5:00 pm and halted bit to do my turn of cooking, Vegetable Kuruma. After having my early dinner, get on to book around 9:00 pm again after a 2 hour refresher.

I did not browse the net or check my mails or any of the forums...kept myself tight..

I did completed the book an hour ago..I felt it was a good read..opening up lot of questions...

PS : If anyone wants the book within US, I could ship the book. I can also give my address so you could return it back after your reading and research.. :-)

iPhone Bugs..

Found this interesting link about iPhone and surprised to find 68 bugs ranging from "serious" to "Performance".

Check this out..

http://www.applehound.com/node/104

Naren