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New Slang invented!!

Well today morning around 4:15 or so, I suddenly got up as i was feeling a bit cold, then i switched off the fan and then went back to sleep. I was just lying down, getting ready for a second innings,then suddenly, i dont know what went wrong with my grey cells, a thought occured to me. What do you call a person who is both a "jackass" as well as an "assole", voila!! He is a "jackole"!! (LOL)*many times!!!

Well i was amazed at the way our brain works more than the invention of new slang. How does it suddenly respawn a completly new thought out of the dark. I mean, i didnt have any dreams earlier, nor i had a fight with anyone yesterday. So what triggred off this thought? Well, millions of dollars and zillions of grey cells, at hundreds of research institutions across the world are trying to figure it out. But it is going to be a daunting task to unlock the mysteries of our brain. Thank you God, for giving us such an amazing organ.

Radio City Live! concert on 17th Mar.

Well its a known fact that very few people actually like this FM station. I hate everything about this station, the RJs, the content(absolutely crap), the ADs(around 75% of the airtime is for ADs i guess). But i am forced to listen to it on my daily commute to office and back home. So thats how I came to know about this program Radiocity Live in which budding Bangalore Bands are given a forum to perform. I listened to couple of bands, they have done a commendable job. Then at the end of this event, RC organised a concert featuring three popular bands:

• Phenom
• Lounge Prihana
  
• Swarathma

along with Parikrama the star band. The concert was on 17th March, I along with my colleague Nagaraj, gate crashed and just were there on time to listen to Swarthma(we missed the other two). And boy, was i impressed. They were amazing with their fusion music. I was blown over by the vocals of Vasu Dixit, too good. And their compsitions "E Bhumi" and "Jana Kaha hain Mujhe" were really good. You can listen to the snippets here.

Then came Parikrama, started off with Highway to Hell, then moved to their own compositions like Superhero, But it Rained, Rhythm & Blues, mixed it with a number from Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd( Coming back to Life), then ended with "Smoke on the water". The Lead Guitarist of the band was really amazing. Then they had a fusion round with Swarthma and Phenom, which was ok. On the whole the concert was well organised, the audio setup was good.

Ratings(out of 5*):
Audio Setup: ***1/2
Bands:***
Hosts:**

Funny alternatives to a standard proverb!

The original: Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime.

• Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish. Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.
• Teach a man to fish, and you can sell him a ton of accessories.
• Teach a man to fish and you've fed him for a lifetime ... unless, of course, he doesn't like sushi -- then you also need to teach him how to cook.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
• Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
• Give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man a fish he'll get drunk then fall out of his boat and drown.
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach him to use the Internet, and he won't bother you for weeks!
• Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish.
• Give a man some fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
• Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll overfish, cause famine in the next three regions and pollute the atmosphere with his fish.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Give a man religion and he will starve to death praying for a fish
• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you can get rid of him for a whole weekend.
• Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. Enlighten him further, he owns a chain of seafood restaurants
• If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; if you give a man a machine that makes fish, teach him to operate it, and enslave him, you feed yourself for a lifetime.
• Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you will not have to listen to his incessant whining about how hungry he is.
• Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you can sell him fishing equipment.
• Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
• Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi - then you also have to teach him to cook.
• Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in the boat and drink beer all day.
• Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to sell fish and he eats steak.
• Give a man a fish, and you satisfy his fish craving for a day. Give him fish aversion therapy, and you eliminate the craving for life.
• Give a woman a fish and you'll be sleeping on the couch again.
• Give a man a fish, and he'll wonder what you want from him.

Source: http://calum.org/files/teach-a-man-to-fish.php

News Cahnnels in India--Shame of the country.

I was surfing the TV the other day and i found that there has been so many news channels competing with each other. All of them junk. Let me first make a list of news channels:

• DD News
• Star News
• NDTV
• AAj tak
• Headlines Today
• Channel 7
• NDTV India(Hindi)
• Zee news
• CNN IBN
• Times Now
• Regional News Channels(I dont know how many are there)

I have made a seperate list for the Business channels:

• CNBC(Better among the worst)
• CNBC Awaaz
• NDTV Profit
• ZEE Business

I have excluded foreign news channels like CNN, BBC,etc. Now the point i want to make is that with so many news channels around, none of the contents they show match. I mean a Breaking news on one channel is never mentioned on the other. And to my surprise most of the breaking news breaks on weekends. For ex: last weekend(FEB 11,12) AAJ Tak had a breaking news, they got hold of some old cassette in which Bollywood actors were dancing for the first naming ceremony of Dawood Ibrahim's kid way back in 1990. This weekend self proclaimed super cop Daya Nayak came on Times NOW to "spill the beans" about senior cops.

If they dont have anything then they have this usual India-Pak junk. Evryone knows that they are faking it,(wish my girl friend faked like these ppl ;-)), I mean its just a big PR boost for those Neta log, if they go in a Bus or train to Pak and hours of Breaking News for our dumb news channel.

One of newest trends is that, instead waiting for News to "break", news channels themselves make the news by carrying out Sting Operations. Though i was excited about it when it happened the first time, i got really pissed off when i saw another sting operation being carried out by CNN-IBN. Even the timing they air these news are based on the TRPs. Here is a fictious conversation in the boardroom of one of the news channels:

Annoy Roy: Ok ppl what was the TRP for the previous week??

Arkha Butt: Sir, kaafi low hain....I dont know why, it was probably because of those cricket matches.

Annoy Roy: Ben C*&%, yeh sala cricket ne to hamara jeena haraam kardiya hain....I think we should close our news channel and start a cricket channel. Ok, no problem. Did you speak to the MLAs on whom we carried the Sting operation last month? How much are they ready to give?

Arkha Butt:Sir, none of them agreed. They said go ahead and show to the janata....they will anyway forget after sometime. They think that their popularity will increase with such operations.

Annoy Roy:Yeh MLA log bhi kaafi chalu ban gaye.....Teek hai..then lets slate that for this weekend. Ok. Ab agla sting operation kab aur kispe plan kiya hain??

Arkha Butt:Sir, the agency who did the previous one are quoting 3 times the money they charged last time.

Annoy Roy:What??? are they mad or what?? Let me meet them first, i will kick their A**. If thats the case we will postpone the next one for later sometime.

Arkha Butt:oOk Sir. But, I am getting a feeling that very soon a major natural calamity is going to occur. Lets wait till this month, if nothing happens then probably we will go in for another operation on Bollywood producers.

Annoy Roy:Oh yaar, i remeber the last time u told like this, South India struck Tsunami and we struck gold. Good yaar, hope that this time also something like that happens. Ha,Ha,Ha....
Ok, Good bye ppl. Hope no one is doing a sting operations on our Talks in the board room!! LOL

Arkha Butt: That was very funny sir. LOL

Note:I dont have any intentions to hurt anyone thru this fictious conversation

So, what i mean to say by all these is that, please show us the news as it happens and most important "What actually Happens".

I want to share one the Funniest Breaking News that i have come across. It was during the time when the Sarav ganguly was being stripped of captaincy. During that time there was meeting by the BCCI, so these News hungry News channels got into act and this is how:

Breaking News: BCCI meeting started in Calcutta.

Breaking News:BCCI meeting in progress in Calcutta.

Breaking News: BCCI meeting ends in Calcutta.

Gimme a "Break" guys!!!

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Thanks to Ramkumar, my colleague for giving this link.

Wish you all a happy new year!!

Wish you people a happy new year. Well i was going through the 31 dec edition of TOI, and again crap...the person fo the year is Big B. To top it, Rahul Dravid is the person of the year for Karnataka......major and utter crap...cricketers,entertainers being made persons of the year. Whats wrong with people???

These bloody cricketers can neither play nor do they do any good for the country, a cricketer from maharashtra is a very good example.....he just plays for his records.....nothing else...doesnt even bother to chip in money during grave natural calamities like tsunami or earthquakes....that person is bothered about getting free gas for his tax free ferrari(how disgusting).

These entertainers are there to just entertain us..thats it...no need to treat them like gods!! They are in the business to make money through various means and dance to the tunes of some underworld dons.

I was watching a documentary on TV, it was about a person who was blind by birth, but believe it or not he has struggled through out his life and now he is teaching english to B.Ed students in a college. No, its not a college for special people but its a normal graduation college!!!Also he has made lot of softwares for helping blind people. I was really motivated after watching it, i was thinking inspite of everything right with me i am useless :-(. Unfortunately i am unable to remember his name but he is in gujarat...i will try to find out his name....and update this post. So why i told all this is that instead giving awards to these cricketrs and entertainers we can give it to these real life heroes who have come up in life against all odds.

Well, anyways, lets see what has 2006 got in store for us.