Science of Superman: Just how plausible are his Superhero powers?

I have wanted to write it for a long time but never had time to copy it from the news paper on to the computer screen. yes its not my writing its just one of the articles about SUPERMAN published in "Metro" paper on 29th june, 2006.

What is it that makes Superman super.



He is :
1: more powerful than a locomotive,
2: faster than a speeding bullet, and he can
3: leaps buildings in a single bound or can fly, and he has
4: X-ray vision
5: Heat vision and Superenergy.



Sooooo: lets discuss one by one.

1. MORE POWERFUL THAN A LOCOMOTIVE:


He comes from the planet Krypton, where the gravity was many times stronger than on Earth. No longer weighed down by his home world's crushing gravity, he can perform feats of super-human strenth. ....but can he really.......

In reality, he would be unable to simply walk about. Like a human astronaut on the moon- freed from the constraints of Earth's gravity- he would bound around.
Also he remains powerful no matter how long he stays on earth- in reality, a low gravity environment would result, as any astronaut will tell you, in a loss of muscle mass and therefore the loss of his super strenth.

2. FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET:


What is inexplicable about his super acute hearing is not that it is so acute, or that he can isolate individual sounds from the rush and roar of city life; but that there have been instances when he has heard the crack of a gun and flown all the way across town in time to intercept the speeding bullet.
The problem is that by the time the noise reached him, the bullet would have long since found its target.


3. LEAP BUILDINGS IN A SINGLE BOUND:


Again this is attributed to gravity - earth's tiny gravitational forces allow him to jump very high and therefore fly. I nearly comics, jumping was all he could do - albeit jumping vast distances. I n later comics he can fly properly and perform mid-air manoeuvres. In reality, to flly, you need a source of thrust and lift. The fact that the man of steel is able to change direction at will suggests that he gained some ability over gravity that would baffle scientists. He could be generating hypothetical subatomic particals called gravitons. if this was the case he would be flying by ridingthe waves of gravity that are in his immediate environment. Alternatively he may be using a strange magnetic content of his body to push against the Earth's gravitational field.

4. X-RAY VISION:


This would require his eyes to emit x-rays,which would penetrate whatever he is looking at and then bounce back to him.The trouble is X-rays dont bounce back - they just carry on penetrating. So , maybe he doesn't really have X-ray vision at all. Instead he could use a sound waves to create a sort of sonar map - much like doctors use sound to create the sonograms of unborn infants.

5. HEAT VISION AND SUPERENERGY:


To melt things with a laser beam from his eyes he would need a massive power source. the theory is that , rather as a plant does through photosynthesis, he obtains his energy by converting light from our yellow sun, which is many times more powerful than the red sun of Krypton.
Unfortunately, our sunlight isnt really more powerfull than that of any other star- he would have to spend so much time recharging his batteries that he wouldn't get very much crime fighting done.




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Forrest Gump

Dont know if I spelled "Forrest" right or not. But i watched this movie again tonight. And just like the last time, it made me sad again. I dont know whats it with me and the movies, they always make me sad. Most of the amazingly award winning movies.
Today i watched two highly depressing,(and acknowledged as very good, movies). They were "The Departed" and the "Forrest Gump". Some would say 'Then go fucking get some life out there.....in the real world'. But this is my life. I love watching movies and mix them up with the real world. Movies may not be the true stories but, the true stories are certainly very much like good movies. True and sad.

I remember "Anand" (my favorite indian movie), it always makes me cry in the end (i am not ashamed to accept that I still cry). People in real life are far too much busy to be by your side all the time, but movies are always there. All you have to do is press "Play".

Whenever I write on this page of this blog, I never have any idea why I do that, but i still do that. sometimes to share things with people I know or send them a message; sometimes just to get things out of my head so could sleep well after telling them to someone out there whom I dont even know, all those lost souls dropping by this page accidentaly, Since there is no one here to tell to, in real.

After writing this far I just read the whole paragraph again to make sure if whatever I was writing made any sense. I couldn't figure out, may you reader could. Just like forrest gump wanted to run for no reason, I want to cry for no particular reason. May be its psychological or may be mental, who knows.

Writing here means onething to me, sharing my thoughts and my feelings with those who care about me and with even those who just dont care about me at all.
There is alot of "me" in me. cant help it because "me" is my best friend and often I need "me's" council. cant make "me" angry, can I.

Ale´ Gross Bisous.

Another Day-Off

I am wondering how to start it. All day long doing different things when i notice something that grabs my attention, I think about the blog "yeah, I am going to write this tonight/ about this tonight". But, by the time I come back home and to my computer (sounds funny; people say "back home to my family", I say "....to my computer"), I have already either forgotten more than half of the things I wanted to write or simply dont know how to express them correctly and honestly in words without actually offending anyone/myself.

Anyway, today was just another normal day off in this London City, which I love and hate at the same time for different reasons. I got up early today (at 10:39 a.m.). Normally it is 11:00 O'clock on my day off. Made myself a cup of tea and switched on Skype expecting Mummy- Papa to be online as they always are on my days off. Since they were not there I decided to watch a movie. A thai movie called "ONG-BAK', pretty amazing stuff if you like martial arts. Tha guy "Tony Jaa" , in the movie, is just awesome. you need to see it with your own eyes. I am not good enough writer to do justice to his expertise in his art.

Simultaneously, recoerded the music of DHOOM -2 on my computer and made a cd (complete with the label and all that). Content with my work. Afterwards talked to mummy papa, since they had come online by now. They have just one target in mind these days and that is how to get me married. They are looking for girls. But i think the all the girls are quite fortunate. I am still bachelor and thats good as far as i am concerned.

Left house, went for another movie called "The Prestige". VERY GOOD MOVIE. You should see it. Good stuff. And then decided to treat myself to an Indian Dinner at an Indian restaurant CHOWKI at Shaftsbury avenue which costed me £20.58 for

:one paneer tikka masala
:one paneer makhani
:two naans
:a glass of white wine

Then a cup of tea with Farooq, who lives upstairs, in his living room. Yes thats when i arrived back home. And now I am writing all this, infact almost finishing writing. And none of the things I have written here are the ones which I thought about writing when I was thinking about writing all day today, sitting on the bus, looking at the crowd this world has and wondering that each individual in that crowd has his/her own world, of which I have no knowledge at all. Makes me feel kind of left out, but then I cant be in everyones' life can I ?

I am not GOD.....and I dont want to be......

Smile

There was a period in my life when I didn't smile for a long time, and that time being not hours but literally months on length. Almost a whole year when i didn't smile at all. That must be the darkest time of my life, I guess.

Today was once again the replay of the same era. Though the reasons were different. Had a real bad & long day at work. Cant really call it a bad day but, day that keeps you on the edge of triping over. I pity the people who work with me on such days. who have to cope and bear with a grumpy old bastard all day long. I AM REALLY SORRY TO THEM.

Cant really blame myself for everything though, can I? i started my day knowing that I am in shit today. Got there at 8:00 a.m. instead of 10:00 (thats when I was supposed to start).because I was the only one who knew what was happening with the functions, things still to make and there is no stuff to make them with; things which have been ordered to come in today but didnt show up in the morning and the function is for lunch, what do I do? SHIT SHIT SHIT...... Yeah I am shitting in my pants. Thats how it happens when you have nothing to work with and still you have to deliver. Shit... Shit.... Shit. All day long.

Sorry for the long face all day. Sorry James, Sorry Sonia.

So, so on goes on the long day which finished at 11:00 p.m. and thats when I joined James and Matt at Paxton's Head. First time in the day I smiled. And laughed, Thankx to Matt. And James. There is something that Matt said which made my day. He said that "ITS DURING THE DAYS LIKE THIS, WHEN YOU ARE IN SHIT, IS WHEN YOU ACTUALLY EARN YOUR MONEY". I am glad that I joined them after work.

I dont know what would I be if these people wouldn't pull me in with them in their world every now and then.

Thank you all

I Am Happy

WHY? good question. I always used to think that how people have different designs for their blog pages when those designs are not available on the provided templates. The answer was that those people are computer professionals and they know how to go about it. I Always wanted to have some kind of knowledge to make me free of those provided templates and thats why decided to change my template and as a result lost all my customisation on that template (SAD! I know).

So today I decided to do some DIY/Hit and Trial. and here is the result in front of you all. the lights you see on my page (ADDED LATER: not applicable anymore as I have worked more on the page and changed it again) are not the head lights of a car.......instead they are the repeatition of the same photo of a torch light which I clicked long ago by my camera phone at a friend's place.

Not just that, i managed to change the fonts and place my profile on top instead of the bottom, as it was in the original template.

So thats the reason that I am Happy and content with my work today. For many people out there it must be nothing, but for me its a great deal as i have no formal education on software side of the computer. Its all DIY (Do It Yourself).

So I am HAPPY and have a grin on my face. :)

Mera bharat mahaan (my India is Great).....

I am back. after a long gap i know. There's alot that happened in between that time frame but I cant possibly write all that in one go.... so wont even try. why I didnt write anything then? because i wasnt inspired enough or didnt want to share or just lack of time. one or all of the above stated reasons. Have a pick.

Well so why now? thats what u want to know... dont u? even if u dont, i will tell u.
I am not in london right now instead sitting in my home in Noida. yeah! this trip wasnt planned. was a moment's decision. because i love my DESH and miss it when I am out of India (dont ask me "WHY?"). May be the answer is "Just b'cause my family is here."

Every time I plan to come here, i dream of things which i would do when i get back here. Spending time with friends and family. Expecting things to have got better than last time I visited. Relying on the "news" information provided by different media channels that India is progressing, its economy is progressing and all that bull-shit which has nothing to do with the day to day life of an average indian.

I feel happy that my DESH is moving forward. Here goes.....

~€ I arrive here swelling with expectations.Since it was a surprise visit for my parents, i decide to take a taxi from the airport. You know how much they charged to come to noida (i m talking about the prepaid ones), Rs.1440. I m not joking. whereas you can get a cab for as little as Rs. 250-350. As if that wasn't enough, the cab i got was the lankiest i had ever seen. "Anyway, its just one taxi. things will be better next." I said to myself.

~€ Definately there is alot of development going on and around Delhi and Delhi seemed to be less crowded than last time but more polluted than the last to last time. Reason for the pollution: because my dear honest fellow country men (read Bastards) have decided to modify the CNG vehicles (enforced by government to curb the pollution) and have it run on fucking karosine (cooking fuel) because its even cheaper than CNG and they profit more. No matter if the surroundings are getting darkeer and darker by the dark smoke released by such vehicles.
Well atleast it back to its former self. Greed.

I have been living in UK for last four years only but its not these four years which have changed my view towards indians and its not that since I LIVE IN UK "TO MAIN JYADA APNE AAP KO ANGREZ BAN RAHA HOON". Aisa nahi hai. Main hamesha se hi sach bolne ki koshish karta raha hoon. But yes living in england has definately chaged ny view towards many things and has shown me that the things which used to be thought impossible to be done correctly can be done in a correct and orderly manner. all you need is the right attitude towards anything.

Only if people in india decide to rid themselves of their greed and selfishness...india can be one of the best countries in the world.

I am not done praising India (MY MOTHERLAND). but I shall continue this topic some other time because I have written it for so long that i am back in England now.

Self obssessed "B@£^$§d"

There is no change in the way life goes on. The same monotonous rhythm, day in and day out of work and then scratching ur brain to think of something to do. But what? Well, was off last two days, first half of the first day went without any realisation of passing time and before I knew it was time to go out and meet some colleagues (yes colleagues: because they are the one who constitute the group called friends, since the real friends are not around or available). So went out in the evening and wasted out the whole night with Ed and party as it was Ed's 24th birthday. spent the night at Ed's "warehouse" house. Not that i did anything interesting, but no complaints.
Came back home at 0800 in the morning and slept. woke up at 1200 Hrs. lazed around, talk to mummy papa on skype and phone.

Then wached the movie called Weatherman. not an entertaining movie (its a bit serious movie, which I dont prefer). But Nicholas Cage is great as always. I like him alot. the film finished, returned the dvd back to the shop. but the day isnt finishhed yet so what do I do? I started playing on my photoshop with an idol brain. Since there was no subject or project I could work on, hence I chose the first subject that came to my head and that was ofcourse "me and myself". as a result of useless timepass and figuring out what all can photoshop do, I got what is in front of you all now.

Hope you know now the reason for the title "Self Obssessed B@£^$§d" . this can be the name this collage as well.



And the day is still not finished so I am going to go and make some Pizza for me, its dinner time now. will catch you later.

NITE NITE

They shhhott me in the face, arm, legs and chest

The String of fun did not end yesterday. Today I found myself in the middle of a gun battle and they shot me from head to bottom several times.I am red at all the places I was hit. And it hurts. Yes it does hurt when you are hit during a game of paintball.

IT WAS AWESOME DUDE!

AAOW! I dont have enough words to tell you guys how much i enjoyed today at the delta force centre for paitball in hemel hampstead. We, which includes me, Keith, Mark, Daniel, Stefan, left euston at 0900 Hrs and reached the centre at around 0945. there were about 40 people there. They were divided into two teams: Blue and Red.
I was in Blue team and very much excited. we were issued the ammunition, uniforms, helmets and above all Guns. Ammunition consists of : Paintballs (which hit you at a speed of 180 miles/hr.), paint grenade, smoke grenade and illumiting sticks. The first round was annihilation of the opposite team. I was doing well, hiding and shooting from behind the barriers and husk and then running around to get to a safer hide out. I leaned a bit to see the opposition position and suddenly my head jerked with a sound of THUD. I was hit in the face. thankfully I had the helmet on. But my googles were all painted in yellow paint from the bullet that had hit me. Since I could not wipe it or remove the helmet, I was partially blind and unable to make out the target to shoot. very soon when I was tackling one of the opposite team members, the stinging pain in my right thigh made me drop to the ground. I looked at it ...and saw that i was hit again. As per rules of the game I was dead for the game and could not play any more. so I came out. we lost that round. we lost this game to red team.

Next game was to hold the positions in the different huts in a jungle. both teams attacks each other, shooting paint bullets and grenades to distract. I reached to near of this hut with three reds in there. even though close range shooting was not allowed, they bombarded me bullets. Atleast 6-8 bullets hit me at the same time from the distance of under three meters and it hurt like a bitch and i became a martyre. Technically it was a fowl, but no one noticed at that moment and i was out once again. though the other team lost some points for fowl play later on.

Similarly, in the next game you had to save your president without getting him shot even once. which was fun again. I loved shooting people down. what made it all the more interesting was the location of the games. it was located in a real country side place with natural vegetation and hideouts. ofcourse there were man made things as well.

And similarly there were many more games to follow. it went on for the rest of the day and I was shot everywhere.........they shhott me in the face (i couldn't see, arms (I couldn't hold my gun). legs (I couldn't run) and chest (well I was dead anyway)
whoever finds these games interesting and want any information can visit "www.paintballgames.co.uk" you go visit them and and I go and visit my bed.

I am tired and bruised all over the body. IT HURTS LIKE A BIATCHHHHH.........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Evolution

Its amazing how a person can change in a matter of few years only. Ofcourse not entirely, but there are things either inside or just on-the-side which changes. There are moments of pain and happiness, flickering through the ongoing life. It wasn't long ago, just two days back, when I was captured inside a strong bubble of terrible nostalgic pain. It was there for a very short time but was strong enough to create a vaccum around you and suck the life out of you.

And then, there was yesterday. I WAS HAPPY for no reason in particular. Now here comes the evolution. I have been in this country for more than three years and I loved it, since I come from the hot country as compared to here. So I loved it here except the gloomy and dark surroundings. I always welcomed winters, exactly opposite to what locals would have done.

I despised the summer. But yesterday, mercury had risen to up to 35 if I am not wrong, and I was still happy. the reason: I had an awesome evening with my collegues at a leaving-do of one of the collegues, the day before. Hence was out till late. Consequently, was very tired when i started work the next day (yesterday). Well! it turned out to be one of the unusually quiet day at work. Once or twice in a year you get such days when you dont have too much to do and you can relax a bit on wowrk front. This quietness resulted in early departure from work :) . As soon as I step out on the footpath outside the hotel, this DEMON, who scares me far too often,pops his ugly head out of the corner. This Demon of "not knowing what to do next and its still daylight out there, where to go since i dont want to go home, who to call cause everyone else might be busy or whom to meet. etc." But I didn't him stay there for a long time and crushed his head with a blow telling him that I dont need anyone to enjoy, which is not excactly true but it works.

Once the demon was dead and out, I made my way to my legendry WALK IN THE HYDE PARK. a park usually full of green grass was today full of people and dry yellow husk (remember summer). A few years back this would have been impossible, but its happening now.The breeze was a treat to the thirsty soul. so I walked and walked and at one place under the soft shadow of a big tree placed "My Esteemed Self". Wind was so "beautiful" that I dozed off the moment I hit the ground. And when I woke up it was 8 O'clock. "Aaa...oh. I have to go home". But what am i going to do at home. I start walking again lost in the ocean of people around me enjoying the summer as much as me. .......looked at the watch again and found out its only 7:15 and not 8:15. Hmmmm............ so I got it wwrong the first time.

What now, made my way to cinema. Bought a ticket and watched "Superman returns". some people didn't like the movie but I liked it alot. Awesome effects and beautiful pictures (specially the casting bit at the start of the movie). Wont say much about the movie, you have to find out for yourself.

Scotland

I am back in my room after a week of vacation. I wont say that it feels good to be back because it surely does not. I was in Scotland, so all of you can guess why it doesn't feel good to be back. Instead of writing about the whole trip on this page, I have linked the day to day account to the title of this blog. So just click Scotland. And let the photos do the talking.
The photographs are all there.
So go on the trip to Scotland with me.

Alé

Growing Down

WELL!
Prashant said that he has never heard of "GROWING DOWN"; neither did I till I actually started to grow down...or atleast thought about doing it. There are times in life when you have to make decisions which you wouldn't have made if everything was the way as you wanted it to be. Thats when you decide to bypass a few "not so important" things to sustain life and move on to the so called " more important" things. Sometimes you are just not capable/confident enough to do those things. So, thus you are at a stage where you do what is considered as things "by-the-book". Doing everything as it is said in the book.

Unfortunately when you are doing these things by-the-book, time does not stop, and you grow up - in age. When you wake up and see around you, you see people staring at you as if you are a MORON, ALIEN, out of this world, or whatever else. As if saying that 'Idiot. what the hell were you sleeping all the time for, see we had so much fun in the night', And would reply ' I was sleeping because by-the-book it is beneficial for your health to sleep at night and have fun during the day, and moreover, night made for sleeping not having fun'. Am I wrong - NO. I am perfectly right. So they say "OK! Go back to sleep, 'cause its still not morning yet." But you dont wana sleep anymore.

So catching up on the night's activities, doing things which are not done so much by-the-book is what I call................

................GROWING DOWN.

Unfortunately, I have to grow down alone. So tomorrow I am going to Scotland for four days, to catch up on my growing down. Just pray that the weather is good and it doesn't rain all the time, some times is OK, but not all the times. So that I can take some pictures with my phone and shoot some video with my camcorder.

....rowing regatta CONTINUED.....

➻➻Task Number Two➻➻☟
This was an interesting game. we had 20 mins in total, same as the earlier one. In which we had to read the objective, plan the task and execute it. And the task was: One team member will be a shepherd and the rest will be sheep (meeeemeee...). All shepherd has to do is to get all the sheep in the herd inside a square by onlly using a whistle. SO WHATS THE BIG DEAL?
the deal is that all the sheep are blind folded and spread out on the plain. We used most of the time planning and achieved the goal in such a short time that it surprised even us. I am sure it does not sound at all interesting for the readers but was definately very very interesting for me to actually do.

Task No. Three.............

mmmmmm........I dont want to write about it any more........may the excitment has faded off now. Anyway I'll just say that it was a very welcome break from the hectic day to day life.

NO ROWING REGATTA BLOG.

Rowing Regatta

Today was one day in last three and half years that I went out on some actual exercise with the staff of my hotel. It was called "Rowing Regatta". It was arranged by the HR team as a fun day with some new things to learn, and team building ...... and to let us know our colleagues better. And I must say it was really good.

I enjoyed it.

We went to ETON Rowing College. It is the same place where the Rowing World Cup in august 2006 And Olympics in 2012 are going to take place. So half of the total hotel staff went today and the rest are going to go tomorrow. So as it goes, we all assemled at our hotel at 7 in the morning......had breakfast....and boarded the coaches to ETON in Dorney, WINDSOR.
It is in country side and a beautiful place.

We were divided into different teams. first half of the day we were supposed to do land related activities and second half we were going to do the water related activities. Here goes the details of the activities in chronological order:

~➻➻FIRST TASK~
We were given given two logs, two elastic bands, a bucket full of Cleaning scrub, two more buckets and two ropes....and we were supposed to make a catapult with the provided stuff in eight minutes and then throw the wet sponge through this catapult to the finish line where my team members will try and catch them. more you catch more points you get. since non of us had made a catapult in our life so after much discussion we ended up with a crap catapult (it seemed to be the best thing at that moment though). Consequence: we couldn't even throw the sponge to the required length. all we could catch were 9. So we got 9 points for this one. There were more tasks waiting for us ahead, it was going to be an exciting day.


Right now, I am really really tired and have a long day at work tomorrow as we are only four people in my dept. tomorrow because rest will be in regatta. Therefore I am going to sleep and continue this blog on sunday when i am off and probably will have more photos of the event.

Till then.........................................

After effects of Shahrukh

"After efeects of Shahrukh". That poor guy's name is going to be maligned even when whatever happened today had nothing to do with him. He is not involved in any of it at all. So what is this fuss all about?
Nothing really. ;) HAHAHA.
What happened today is that, after working till half one yesterday for the "Shahrukh event" and hence forth practically not having even a single day off this week; as a result I was obviously tired. I reached home at around 2:30 and then wen tto bed at 3:00 a.m.
CONSEQUENCE:
Next morning i overslept. First time ever I was already late for work when i woke up. I was supposed to be at work at 8:00 a.m. whereas I was still in my bed at 8:50. So I reached at work two hours later than i was supposed to start.

First time in my life. Thats what happens when you break the rules.

Adios.

Busy but fruitful day......guess how.

This was a very busy week with regards to banqueting functions as well as cafe. Hence I ended up with just one day off this week. (One day off?)Nothing new for you guys back home; but for me its a big thing now after having two days off for last thre and half years. So I had just one day off.... and guess what..... I got an offer to do some casual work for a person I know from th e past and have worked for him a few times. So there goes my only day off I had this week. Anyway it was kind of worth it..

would you like to know why? if the answer is yes then read further otherwise get lost.

It was worth because this guy told me that the function i m going to work is being organized by ICICI Bank and since its Brand Ambassador is Shahrukh Khan, he is going to perform there as well. I said well may be I'll get a chance to see Shahrukh Khan, so why not get paid to see celebrity, instead of paying for it.
Everythign was going well all the food was there, all the kitchens were set. All i had to do was to take some stuff to the kitchen downstairs to the floor where he was supposed to perform. so i took the food to the kitchen on this floor and was waiting for the lift to go back up.
Lift came and there were quite a few peopple in it. I asked them if the lift was going up or down, nobody answered. Wierd.
Instead they walked out of the lift, and the last person walk out was Sharukh Khan, not even a meter from me. He looked at me and then looked away as if he doesn't know me. The truth is he actually doesn't know me so it was quite natural.

I was happy that working here was a success. Atleast i got to see shahrukh.



Tihsn photo is of the stage where he was performing at the time of this shoot, but because of the dark surroundings and very bright spot lights and the distance of myself from the stage , it is not at all clear. but atleast its here.

So when in the evening when he was supposed to perform, all the chef stoped working and went to see Shahrukh Khan. But he was nowhere to be seen. and it was geting close to open the stall in the banquet so i went to call all the chefs back. They were all reluctant to come back as they hadnt seen him yet, But still started moving.................you wouldnt believe it....................we were all waiting for the lift... lift opens and there is Shahrukh again, this time only with his two hefty big gigantic bodygaurds. Involuntarily, suddenly I blabbered that" arey jise dekhne aaye hain wo to yahan hai".
He heard that and smiled a bit and then walked into the stage.

I was happy again. watching Shahrukh Khan in the lift, just a feet away from you; I think, is much better than watching him on the stage from tens of feet away and just as if watching a movie.

Are Deewano...Mujhe Pahchano.. Main hoon DON.

Another Day in Good Old England

Well this is a kind of continuation to the previous post. today was the hottest 12th June in Engalnd's history (31 Degrees C). Hence one more walk in dear Hyde Park. After a pint with with my boss and colleague I headed home but since in england the sun doesnt go down till 9 (in Summers) in the evening, therefore it was still bright as afternoon and hot as well. So i changed my direction towards Hyde Park instead of Bus Stand. I knew what i was going to view while on my half an hour walk through the park (its always same as last blog, but its always beautiful just as the last blog).



I had no intentions of taking any photos....... BUT...... only yesterday i have found some very good feature in my phone which had no idea about till now that i had it in my phone (I am proud owner of this phone for around a year now). Well that feature is.....panoramic photography. YES DUDE. Panorama in phone. Cool, eney?

So that compelled me atlast to take some photos. I shot them, not many just two or three...as somehow for last one year or so I am off photography, but every now and then this "keeda" wakes up and i have to feed it, Even if its with my phone.
So here are the photos i shot in Hyde park.........



And check out time on the photos and the sunlight and you will have an idea how it feels here at eight in the night. Yes it was quarter to eight in the night when I shot these photos. :)




These are the photos of the same serpentine I mentioned in the earlier blog.

One Fine Day

Today is one the very few and very Sunny days that one can see in england. It was a beautiful day, full of sun shine and light. all you sitting in india must eb wondering what am I talking about......Sun?.... and beautiful?.........YES. "Sunnier the better". Thats what is called a lovely day here. A day with cold wind and clouds here is as common as a sunny day with 45 degrees in india.

Well, anyway it was a beautiful day and I was working an early shift, that means I finish at six or half six latest.
NICE & EARLY :)
Still lots of sunshine to see, heheeeeee:). Was I happy...... Oh yeeeaah :))

Therefore i decided to do my yearly deed (yearly because this these actions take place only once or twice a year). And that would be walking through the HYDE PARK from Knightsbridge all the way to Notting Hill Gate, where I would catch my bus Home.

The moment i entered the Hyde Park, wow, it was nothing less than heaven. A nice breeze, sunlight, and loads of half naked people( yes, that includes women. What do u expect? it is england) A sunny day is an open invitation to remove ur clothes and lie down for every one ( i mean every one to see, first of all for SUN).

So there I was strolling in the Hyde Park. The number of activities you can see there, in one bright beautiful day, is something that you wont even see in many days, if you go out looking for them one by one. So rarely have i seen that many poeple in one place. children playing games. Old people sitting on the chairs provided, looking after (or just looking at) the kids. Some fitness freaks running all over the place with their stupid iPods/MP3 players tucked in the holes provided in their ears and listening to GOD KNOWS WHATTTTTT.


In the serpentine, there were paddle boats floating, with couples paddling them to nowhere, just loving each other and the moments together in this ONE FINE DAY.


As I walk along the serpentine, I see this lot of some young guys enjoying swimming in it.ALL HAPPY ae?
I walk past the PRINCESS DIANA MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, still watching and enjoying the view and the feeling inside me. I mix of happiness and sadness, as such a beautiful day is ought to make you feel happy, though it does bring back those moments of nostalgia from different times in past.

It seldom happens that i am so close to grass and natural habitat, in the midst of nature. it all reminds me of the times when i used to play with my friends on the trees, in the pits........playing football in school ....or just walking in the stadium at five in the morning .


On the other side of the lake(serpentine) many people on their skates are showing off tricks I can't imagine doing even in my dreams. Someones streo system is playing on full volume and a nigga brother( no offence meant just a slang) is dancing on his head and again showing the tricks I cant imagine.
Further down two young men are flying kites ( well these are not the paperkites i m used to seeing on every rooftop, these are the once like parachute which often lifted the flyers off the ground). very nearby were two young girls giggling and trying to get the flyers' attention.

Ducks, pegeons, swans, Dogs and many more swimming in the lake. I wanted to remove remove my shoes and walk on the grass barefoot but my wristwatch told me "NO". So, unwillingly i kept walking, soaking up the scenery of footballers; beautifull girls in the arms of their boyfriends. AHHH; ALAS!

HAHAHAHA. Kya karein koi hamari taraf dekhta hi nahin. ab ka batayein BHAIYA humra mukhda hi itna khoobsurat hai ki kisi ki nigaah thaiharti hi nahi, phisal jaati hai.
KHAIR, isi tarah chalte chalte hum park paar kar gaye aur pahunch gaye bus stand. Aaj ki kahani yahin khatm.
Khuda haafiz


NOTE: PHOTO IN THIS BLOG WERE NOT TAKEN TODAY, BUT WERE TAKEN THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR.

Australasia

Hey Guys,
I today stumbled across this blog, and was very PLEASANTLY SHOCKED to see a beautiful australian lady.You must be thinking that whats there to be shocked to see an australian. There is a reason, She is SPECIAL.
KNOW Why...........because she is learning HIndi and...... is very keen on learning all the other aspects of indian culture. Specially south indian.
I am Happy and Glad to see that people do take interest in our culture, even if its one in a million.
But then,Such people do deserve to be "One in A Million". What do you say.

Her Name is MARY.

Target Practice

Thats what I call a practical and successful "TARGET PRACTICE".
ये है असली "Target Practice"।

Its time again........ its 00:55,

SO its 00:55 hrs when i m writing this. well this is the time when i normally write my blog, before going to bed. Its been some time since I have written anything sensible here; that doesn't mean i m going to write any sense now ~EITHER~. well a disc of Himesh Reshamiya is playing on my music system and i have just finished watching "Aksar". No comments on the movie.

Well, what have i done in the last so many days??? I worked..... so those who dont know what i do, I tell them that I am a chef (Pastry). Was obviously a busy week, last week; as I havent written any blogs then. Even then managed to watch "DaVinci Code" on the first day of its release. Honestly speaking The film dissapointed me a bit. Not that it was not good, but somehow it didnt have that excitement that the book has. after that I went out with the friends.
Tuesday wednesday I went to Birmingham to my mama-mami's house to see them and my cousins. On monday my cousins are coming to London so I m looking forward to that.

What else can I write, there are so many thoughts in this stupid head when i m not on my computer, but they vanish always when i need them to give them some shape. Anyway i wont write anymore today but will come back again on some auspicious day/night.
Till then please bear with my short and non-sense making blogs, till I get back in my sensezZZZZZZZZZZ.

WOW WOWWWWW........ B4 I SLIP, CAN ANY ONE TELL ME "How to upload a music or video file on this page?"

I WILL DEFINATELY SAY "thank you" ONCE YOU HAVE TOLD ME THAT.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

will be back

I am in a hurry right now, but will come back soon when i have enough time to write evry thing in detail.. Till then have fun.

I dont know

I have no indea how i reached this page right now, all i knw isds that i m well pissed right now. why im righting this blog, no idea. just beacuase i hve to rifght it. tahts why.
Anyway it was a good night i m back at home so it mus tbe contrallable .i dontknow what i m writing . I m sorry...

Rang De Basanti

I am watching "Rang De Basanti". Its the first time I am watching this movie, and i am so much surprised that how close it is to reality. I wonder how many of us have learnt anything from it. I know its easy to sit here and say big things.... but seriously guys is there anything we (as todays generation) can do to get our country out of the clutches of these corrupt politicians, this lepre system or we all (like me) and so many others will only just leave the country in hope of a better future (for just me, and myself).

Another long day..

Well well well.... it was another long day at work as usual. had so many functions going on. two lunches, three dinners and the breaks. for one of the functions I actually cooked of doughnuts instead of apple turnovers. and when james asked me where are the turnovers...I wondered "what turnovers?". and realised what i had done. the waiters were waiting for the stuff and I was panicking. And today was also the first day of new menu in Park restaurant as well as the whole new setup. So it was extremely busy. but by the end of the day with help of the whole pastry team we managed not to do any fuckups. A day well spent.... time to sleep, tomorrow is the action replay on a smaller basis.
Catch ya later.

Saturday night.....

Yup....its saturday night and I am writing this blog instead of sitting in a pub or dancing in a club. WHYYYYYYY? I tell you why.... because MUSTAPHA stood me up, we were supposed to go out together and spend the night in town.....BUTTTT.......Mustapha is nowhere to be found. Well atleast I have my faithfull movies by my side. A choice of
REIGN OF FIRE
CASANOVA
AEONFLUX.

tomorrow I am off... I shouldn't be here right now, its very wrong. And I dont like it. Mustapha you will have to pay.

So the Summer starts

Its been an usual busy day at work. nothing new in that. Whats new is the changed smell of the air... after almost a month of of spring, the summer seems to have entered the domain of London. I heard that it was a beautifull day with lots of sunshine. I fealt it when i came out of hotel at ten in the night and i didnt have to put on my jacket. It feels good. I wish iwas at the Hyde Park during the day, bird-watching ;) , u know what I mean.

Yesterday I had a haircut, so here is my latest hair style for all of you to see:



Again this photo is from my phone only. aren't these phones good?

DAMN THEY R.

This sunday if it doesnt rain i m going to go to hyde park and fly with the birds and take photos as well, not for me but for u all. OUI?????

OUI OUI.

Beauty

"Imagine me and you, I do;
I think about you day and night,
its only right
to think about the girl you love...
and hold her tight
so happy togetherrrrrrr
so happy togetherrrrr
how is the weatherrrrrr
so happy togetheeeeerrr
we’r happy together.
so happy together
so happy together."

This beautiful song is from the movie "Adaptaion". Very good movie, definately recomended, but only for the serious movie lovers.

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEEEEEEE.............

Know what! this morning when i woke up ...............what happened... u know?............
hehehehe.....
I received a call. YESSSS ! a CALL.

itwasmyboss. :( .
know what he told me........?

he saiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid :
THAT I AM OFF EVEN TODAY, THAT MAKES IT A FIVE DAYs WEEKEND.........

PLEASE DONT BE JEALOUS GUYS.
BECAUSE there is nothing funny about getting a day off when u r not expecting it or to put it into the right words... when u dont want one. Four days was more than enough.

Weekend Marathon

So ends the WEEKEND MARATHON. Today was the last day of a long weekend (longer for me as I had one more day off than other people continuously). So what did I do during these four days? Well I posted the events of the first day in the earlier writing. Sunday was chillout day. AND then on Monday...............

I went to KEW GARDEN.
Kew Garden??? What is Kew Garden?

Well my friends for those who are not familiar with Kew Garden, I will familiarise you with the KEW. SO Kew Garden (as it is commonly know) is basically "The Royal Botanical Garden" which is situated in the place called Kew. It is home to some of the most extraordinary plants on the planet, there is some thing for every eye whether you want to marvel at what's in season, or tour the amazing 19th century glasshouses or simply explore the 300 acres natural beauty. It will be even more beautiful if you have someone beautiful with you.

So what is amazing about A Garden? well it is hard to describe in words as I am no writer here, this is something to experience yourself and is a matter of personal interest off-course. Since I love beauty (natural or artificial), I loved the garden. It is spring and all over the place there were flowers, different coloured ones from this country and far away. Greenery everywhere.
There is this TEMPARATE HOUSE, kew's largest glass house, which houses world's largest indoor plant a Chilean Wine Palm "Jubaea Chilensis" and many more from all over the world.

Magnolia, blue bells, Bird of paradise, Lily, Tulip, Cherry Blossom and dont know how many more different varieties of flowers and the knowledge about them. the place was awesome.
Fortunately there was this exhibition going on about the woodcraft. I know it doesn't sound interesting to many of us. Would be interesting to me even, if I was reading it on here. But watching things being made out of a rough wood very much in front of your eyes is a completely daunting experience. as I said awesome. I even learned how to make fire without a matchstick or lighter :) .

Those who are interested in finding out more about this garden can check it out on "www.kew.org.uk".

So what next: well Coincidently I did exactly the same thing as Prashant. Watching movies back to back. What u say dude?

what happened was me and my friend Orvar decided to go to a movie after kew so went to Notting Hill but couldn't find anything decent so we headed off to Whiteleys in Queensway, Bayswater. it was &7 in the evening and the movie that we wanted to see (16 Blocks) was playing at 8:50. so what do we do now.... too early to go home...... then ...... lets see any film since we are here. ok why the hell not?

Bought the tickets to "Slither" and went in. £8.25 wasted. it is supposed to be a horror whereas what it is, is an insult to a horror and even a decent movie. but we still saw it through. You must appreciate our courage. So we come out at 9:00
Shit its only 9.' "16 Blocks" starts at 8:50. that means it hasn't started yet' I said to Ollie (as we call Orvar with love). Want to see that one then since we have wasted two hours and one evening, why not finish it with a better note.

And guys themovie was worth every penny. delivered everything you expect from Bruce willis and the others (since I dont remember thier names). I would recoment it to every film lover.go on and watch what it has to offer and you wont be dissapointed.
Movie finished and we said bye to each other and so ended my beautiful day.

Today I did not do anything, stayed at home all day, cooked food for myself, called home on Skype and talked for hours, paid the bills and rent since it is the beginning of the month.

Thats it, period.

Cracked Lips ...and.....blurred vision

Chiped creaking lips, blurred vision and rocking world.... thats how the world was beyond the sensible senses of my being. The world I always dreaded to go into, but I was there and, not surprisingly (but troubling enough), was liking it. SO much I miss YOU. This is the world you wanted to be in, did you not? See I am here as well.
Every soul around me is in the same floating world under and above the colourful lights twisting their bodies into different positions and shapes. someone is breaking and someone is walking on the clouds. he is grabbing her and she is after him, and look there, they are in their own world oblivious to the passage of time or place. What am I doing here? Well I am trying to grow down, all that i have skipped during so many different junctures of times.

AHHHH.....I HAVE SO MUCH GROWING DOWN TO DO. will I be able to do so? I don’t know.
One thing for sure that this is the place which I have avoided all my life but still now I find myself here.

OHHH... I MISS YOU SOOOO MUCH. See I am here as well.

Why is it that I was always told that it is wrong to go there where i m standing right now, no one else seems to feel guilty of any crime except me, myself and me only.why is it that its not bad for them but it is bad for me. I am enjoying myself so what issss wrong. everything seems possible. I am the king of the world. So what is wrong....i never got the answer, though mirror showed me the Image of a man with red (or rather PINKish) cheeks, ears and definately RED eyes. Who was this guy I never met him before but still he was there looking at me as if trying to figure out who I was. I left him their to figure out whatever he wanted to.
At 3:30 in the morning I was running on the roads of London trying get to the bus stop on time so I don’t miss my bus. I saw the car race that I had only seen in films like “fast and furious”. there were all sorts of these most expensive and latest models of cars like Ferrari, Lambuigini, and many more whose name I don’t know. it was at 3:30 in the morning on a side road adjacent to cromwell road, just in front of science museum. Should i keep running or stop to admire the beauty of these mechanical beasts. I stopped, for a second and started running again, u know why because i wanted to get back home before the sun rises, because I dont want to belong to the world which I was coming back from. I wanted to wake up in my home on my bed and not feeling odd at going back towards the place, to get into a place where I should already be at that time. I wanted to be snug in my blanket while it still was dark And I still could feel as if it was night and not morning. I am not a vampire who should go to bed when the Sun rises, I am HUMAN.And that is what I always was and will always be.

I was back in my world. Shivering in the london's freezing chill of the night, even though it is spring but night are cold enough to bring your senses back to land.

SO much I miss YOU.

So I am back in world, but am I happy to be back?..... Good question.. I don’t have a straight answer to that question. I loved the other world more than I should have, but, I don’t belong there. I belong to this world where I am now. I know I will go back there every now and then.
Still it is painful to be back.





Will it be same ever again, NO, I don’t think so.

WHOA....OW

WHOA....AOW! ...... is all i can sound at the end of this frigging busy week, cant explain in words how how how much busy and stressful this week has been.
Whoaw.... ahh! I am so glad this week is done, so much now looking forward to the staff party tomorrow. we have the White Theme, every one has to wear white. Its kinda crazy but i hope it looks good.
Tell u what i m so tired right now that i will sleep a whole ten hours straight. and then tomorrow I have to catch up with my growing down ( just so let u know, i m trying to grow down a bit).
catch u all later.

just to let you know

I have posted the photographs from my last year's holidays in france on the following link "www.foneshots.blogspot.com (other side of the phone)"

So lets Start Blogging fultime, Shall we?

me, myself and my world
Here I go once again, after two or may be three days work i have at last figured out the problem i was facing with the blogging. I m content enough now. Not that anything great happened today but I still feel like sharing it or atleast making a note of it just for the sake of it, may be!
So, it was a long day at work as usual nothing new in that. what was different that I went out for dinner with two of my collegues. This is an activity which I have done after ages and felt really good. You must be thinking that what so good or so special about going out with two people and having dinner, so I wud say ask the people who are away from home and have a routine of work-sleep, work-sleep, work-sleep. So here I was with Heather and Matt having a pint and afterwards dinner at an Italian restaurant in Chelsea.
It is strange how you feel completely different the same people at work and outside work. I hardly know heather outside work and I have been out with Matt just twice earlier. But like their company. We took our time in eating and the food was really good. I had Garlic Bruchettas with mozerella cheese as starters and Basil pesto Penne with Pinenut cream which was awsome. On the side there was a bottle of "Gavi de Gavi" the wine. In all it was a time well spend. Matt had plans for nightout and asked me out as well but since I have to catch on my sleep i declined the offer. I have been sleeping only four hours for last two days and i m off tomorrow so I will SLEEEEEEEEP till i hate my bed.

Rest later.

Got it

At last I got it, it seems. Cheers Prashant.
Next Step how to change the background to my own designs instead of the one offered in the blogger.

Struggling to learn

me, myself and my world
Here I am again trying to understand how to work with the blogs and not quite getting the hang of it. it seems a bit complicated for me to add and delete and change things on the site, but I will keep trying. Any help is appreciated.what I am trying to do is add a link to prashant's blog.

Introduction

Just to mark my entry into this world of blogs where every one is trying to share something with everyone. So here I am hopeful of sharing (or may be trying to get rid of) my thoughts/memories and much more.