Mother’s love

Once again I have just missed writing a 55 word fiction :( But successfully written a Drabble. According to Wiki,

A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length..

And my below fiction has exactly 100 words

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Story:

She was at the end of her long awaited interview with the acclaimed writer Mr. Shinde. And here is the question she has, which most of his fans wanted to ask him. She cleared her throat and asked, “Sir, you have written stories on all genres ranging from Fantasy to Love, from Science fiction to thrillers but you have never registered about a mother’s love in your writings. Any reasons for that, Sir?”

After a moment’s pause, he answered, “Yes, there is. Because I can never do justice for that. And I feel words are not enough to describe it”.

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Updates:

Friends, sorry for not visiting your blogs for the past few days. My internet connection was gone 3 days before and its yet to get repaired. Hope it starts work fine soon. Will read all the missed posts in 2 days

And over the weekend I have seen 2 movies which I wanted to see for a long time: Alien and Aliens. Both are awesome. If the first is more of a thriller, second one is fully packed with action. I think I would have been the last soul on this Earth to watch those films. I am amazed by the way Cameroon visualized the second part of that film franchise. Because Ridley Scott finished that first part(which he wouldn’t have thought as a Ist part) in a perfect way leaving no space for a second installment.

Also started watching another movie ‘Conspiracy’, which is a documentary kinda movie on Wansee conference held in 1942 in which the German officials discussing on ‘How to evacuate the Jews systematically’. It was full of conversation and I started to feel bored midway through the movie and closed it.

Time to Act

As you sow, so shall you reap

Pakistan was learning the meaning of this proverb in a hard way these days. The once friend Talibans were rocking the Pakistan cities with bomb blasts and if we all just see the no. of bomb blasts happened there in this year, we will faint for sure. According to the following site, there are about 417 blasts(The latest bomb blast in Peshawar was not included in this) in this year till October which makes more than a blast/day. Check this here. This amount of bomb blasts also shows how easily the Talibans were moving along with the people in the country. And the latest Peshawar blast was happened on the day, when US secretary of state Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan, which itself is a statement.

In many of the blasts luckily there were no loss of life. Even an accident in front of our will create a lot of pressure, uncertainity and doubts in a human mind. And these kind of attacks will surely create doubts and fear in the minds of people for sure, which is not a good sign for a nation. We can avoid accidents, but these intentional bombings??? But this blasts provides an opportunity for Pakistan to understand how evil the terrorism is and to completely uproot Taliban from their soil. Even the people of Pakistan will be furious about the attacks which killed many of their countrymen and will extend a complete support for their government’s action.

If a stern action was not taken by the Pakistan government, it will be a great threat for all the South Asian countries. And Pakistan leaders must stop pointing their fingers towards India for the blasts by making some statements like ‘India supporting Talibans by providing monetary assistance’ which will just help to divert their attention towards a direction which is wrong and a direction where the problem won’t be solved. Actually some kind of above statement was made by Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province’s (NWFP) Inspector General of Police (IG) Malik Naveed which was then denied by the Pakistan Interior minister Rehman Malik. You can read about that here.

If we see the cities in which the bomb blast happened we could see most of the NWFP states are affected. This itself may create some doubts in the minds of the different parts of the people which is again not a good sign for the integrity of a nation. So its time for the Pakistan government to push aside their misconceptions and egos for the welfare of South Asia, if not for that, atleast for their nation and their people. Hope they won’t commit their mistake again.

Awards Time!!!!

Swaram, Avada Kedavra, Saranya and Shruti has honored me with lot of awards last month. Thank you all, I am really happy. It helps me to keep myself encouraged and write something which may be entertaining or informative. So I like to pass on the awards.

Swaram has awarded me with the following awards:

Friends Award:

I like to pass on this award to all my friends. Dhiren, Ajit, Vimmuuu, Crafty, Solilo, Swaram, Pixie, Oorja, Sandhya, Shruti, Avada Kedavra, Harsh, Sakhi, Reema, Masood, Indyeah, Sahaja, Raj, Pals, Ashwathy, Arpit, Nimmy, IHM, Ekta, Hary, Nita, Bones, Anish, RSV, Smitha, Smita, Destination Infinity, Kartz, Smallstar, Shruthi, Chowla Sir, Saritha akka, Princess, Meira, Mystery, PNA, Manju, Rashmi, Suji ,Saranya and Verbi.

I love your blog Award:

I love all the blogs mentioned above and love to read all of them. So please all of you pick up this award.

Gloden Pen Award:

Swaram awarded me with this one mentioning as below:

Kanagu – U r really gud @ fiction Kanagu!

Its a great honour for me, as I am writing fiction very rarely and also this makes me to think a lot before publishing a story. Hope I didn’t disappointed you with my fiction Swaram, after these words

I like to give this award to: Indyeah, Shruti, IHM, Avada Kedavra, Nita, Ekta and Destination Infinity.

Tea cup Mouse:

Again I like to give this award to all of you. Please pick it up

Butterfly Award:

This is the first award I have received in the blog world and I am happy that I am still continuing that way

I like to pass on this award to Vimmuuu, Dhiren, Ajit, Solilo, IHM, Indyeah, Crafty, Hary, Swaram, Meira, Oorja, Saritha akka, Pixie, Nimmy, RSV, Anish, Smitha, Ashwathy, Harsh, Pals, Shruti and Smita.

Addicting Blog award:

Once again I am awarded with Addicting blog award and as I have earlier mentioned, I love to read all your blogs and like to give this award to you all.

Thanks for all the awards Swaram

Avada Kedavra has recently completed her 100 posts and as a part of celebration given the following awards to me. Congrats and thanks AK

Avada’s blog buddy:

Its really cute and special.. thanks AK

Superior scribbler award:

I like to pass on this award to: Masood, Smita, Smitha, Verbi, IHM, Sandhya, Reema and Sakhi.

And I am once again awarded by her with Butterfly Award. Thanks AK for all the awards

Saranya has awarded my blog as Freaking fabulous.

I like to pass on this award to: Swaram, Dhiren, Solilo, Indyeah, Chowla Sir, Nita, Crafty, Vimmuuu, IHM, Shruti, Oorja, Reema, Anish, Rashmi, Suji, Manju, Smitha and Smita.

Thanks Saranya.

Shruti has recently published her 50th Post and as a part of golden jubilee celebration has given me the following awards.

Awesome Blog Buddy:

Again a special award. Thanks Shruti

Awesome Blog award:

Hope I will live up to the expectation of this award. I like to pass on this award to: Nita, Reema, Raj, IHM, Nimmy, Solilo, Sandhya, Crafty, Swaram, Pixie, Dhiren, Destination Infinity and Ekta.

Best blogger award:

The winners of this award writes so well and they captivate your heart the moment you start reading their posts!

All of us in this blog samaj are true to ourselves and everyone were best in their own way. So I like to pass on this award to all of you

Loyal Award:

I like to pass on this award to: Shruti, Chowla Sir, IHM, Ajit, Swaram, Solilo, Smitha, Smita, Vimmuuu, Indyeah, Crafty, Dhiren, Saritha akka, Sandhya, Ekta, Nimmy, Pals, Raj and Sahaja.

Thanks for all the awards Shruti

Some updates:

This is my 150th post and also my blog crossed 25K hits, which I never thought will happen at the start of my blogging. Thanks for all the comments, encouragements given to me. Hope my posts didn’t bored you. More than this, I have met many wonderful friends in this journey, which is more important than those above numbers.

There is a marked difference between the topics I have written then and now. Before I used to write more on the happenings in the world and these days I am writing more and more of happenings around me. I think its time to strike a balance. And also I want to share some little things  that happens in my life and my thoughts on them as I am thinking that each persons experience and thoughts are unique and can be shared whether it is good or bad.

I think somebody has heard about my lament in my previous post about the English films. Two films released on Friday and I watched them by Friday itself

After 17 years, I have watched 2 films in a day in theater. First one is the film of my latest favorite director Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and I liked it. Second one is the film on back stage happenings of the last MJ’s concert which didn’t staged. For the first time in my life I have seen a film completely based on music and I am the last one to leave from the theater. Anymore things I need to say on, how was the film??? Another thing I need to add is, I am not a great MJ fan. This one is for  2 weeks, so all the MJ’s and music fans, catch it soon. I will possibly see it in big screen again if time permits. I will write my detailed view on both these films by coming week.

And the song I am hearing and watching for the past 2 days is this one from MJ. Awesome. Just see the joy in the face of the girl in 2:25 minutes. Ah!!! thats what the music does.

So with this I am signing off now friends. Have a great Sunday.

Mobile Hunt and Meet with DI

Meet with DI:

First things First. Me and DI have met in Anna nagar(Chennai) the Sunday evening which followed Diwali. With no hiccups like last time , I have reached the place by time and DI came a little late due to his unexpected meeting with his friends. We, then went to the Anna nagar Tower and started to talk about range of things from our current jobs to bloggers to journalism and obviously blogging and side by side having sundal.

Then we went to a AAVIN shop to have some milkshake and after that we departed(DI paid for that ). Only for a short time we met, but it was really nice. I enjoyed it

Mobile Hunt:

When I have written the post on the mobiles ‘Then a fan and now‘, I didn’t even thought that I will be checking out for mobiles soon. With me almost lost my craziness on the mobiles by now, found it really really difficult to choose one. I would have spent more than 20 hours in net searching for new one. So here is short story on my long hunt.

First thing that triggered this happening was, the loss of mobile Sony ericsson W810i exactly one month before It’s such a nice mobile and I felt bad for losing it. For the next one week I didn’t thought about buying one. Anyways I have to buy one to keep myself alive in this world. What a 21st century world without mobile???? This time I thought about buying another Sony ericsson Model because I always like to hear a good music and I don’t like carrying another device for the same. But all the walkman series models(W595, W910, W705) are above 11K which made me to think a lot. They are stylish but they had the same features as my previous mobile with slight upgradation in camera(3.2MP from 2MP) but still 2MP is the best one and I have bought my previous one for 9.6K only. So I have decided to wait and search for some more time.

Samsung:

I have asked my friends and one of my friend suggested Samsung Star which is a touch screen one. And that is the primary reason for me to reject it. I am skeptical about the touch screens, sliders and flips. It can be said as I like only bar phones. For touch screen the exception is Apple iPhone which I have to buy someday. Samsung offered some great features at a stunning price but I couldn’t go for that.

Nokia:

Then my attention turned towards Nokia, quite unusual of me. For some reason, I didn’t touched Nokia. But with my loyal brand Sony Ericsson disappointing me with high price and same features, I have to turn up to its enemy. But I have decided not to touch the Xpress music ones. Because walkman ones are too good any day compared to them. So I have decided to look out for something different. And there I have found out E55 and E52. Both are business mobile and they got all the wonderful words in the world. They are processing-wise fast, looks-wise stunning and performance-wise kings. Have a look at them.

So I have zeroed in on them and started to search for their price(approx. price quoted for them is 17K for E55 and 15K for E52). It was way above my budget of 11K but still worth having, I thought. But sadly they didn’t launched in India then and now. I have decided to get it from US. But US mobile market is different from India that mobiles are provided to network operators and very few available in retail shops. And after days I have seen in Univercell site that its going to get released and the price quoted is 18K approx. I fainted. Because if they say 18K they will easily pull it to 20K.

Again started to search and I have found their ancestor E51 and it was also good. It has also got some great reviews and also said that its the best buy for that price, which is 11K. It had 3G, Wi-Fi and everything. ‘Ah!!! you got one which is worth your money’, my mind said. Have a look at it.

And I eagerly turned to stores by Diwali to buy it but I have got the reply, “Sir, this is outdated and no stock available”.  And I was blank then. What to search now. I have searched every possible brand and every possible model. I couldn’t think about it for 2 days.

Sony ericsson:

Now my budget was decided as 11K and I thought, “Why not go for the trusted alley?” And there I have decided to buy Sony ericsson W595 which is 11.6K and had good looks. It had 3G but didn’t had Wi-Fi. But that is not my priority. It must be within budget. Have a look at that mobile. Its stylish and has got nice slider.

So me and my friends went to a shop where my friend’s friend brother working by evening 5 on the Monday which fell after Diwali. When we asked for this one, but he didn’t have stock. So he went somewhere to get one but we are running late for the movie we booked for that evening. So without buying a mobile we went for movie.

As I went office by next day, the mobile plans are postponed to this week. In between, I have again started to search and I have read about the only left out G series mobiles of Sony Ericsson. First one, I have seen was G700 priced at 9.5K, which had normal keypad and also touchscreen. But reviews stated that they are not that responsive. So dropped it. Other G series mobiles(900 and 705) are 14K and 15K, so I have just read about and didn’t thought about buying them. And there I have seen G502 which is the lower end mobile in that series priced at 7K. And the reviews for it was really good. It had good music, no nonsense camera and is fast with large memory. So now the dilemma has started in me, on which one to buy?? At last G502 won over W595 on both price and performance terms. Have a look at my mobile which I have bought this Sunday.

Look wise, its not impressive but still I believe it will long last. It is almost similar to my previous one, W810i and most importantly bar type. Of all the reviews the one which helped immensely is one of the user review given here. And also gsmarena websites reviews too helped me immensely.

So when you are going to buy a mobile, the sites to check out are:

www.gsmarena.com

http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/

And also check as my user comments as possible. Because at last we have to know what the people say who uses those mobile for some time. Because reviews are written at the heat of the moment and they may use it for atmost 10 days. Wavetel mobile shop site have a user comments section. Its good.

PS 1: I have also thought about Balckberry and HTC but my friend advised against HTC that its not that easy to operate for us. And blackberry is rejected due to QWERTY keyboard. Already it gives me a torrid time with PC. In mobile too… NOOOOOOOOOOO….

PS 2: I have to remind my PM that my mobile have 3G. So that he will consider me for onsite because with 3G net will be faster which means I can support the application efficiently

The curious incident of the dog in the night time – Review and Some Cricket

This is the book I have bought in the recently held discount sales of Landmark. As I have already said, the only time I have seen it is, in the book shop only. So, how it turned out?? Its really nice. I can say its really poetic and one of a kind experience.

Plot:

Christopher Boone was a 15-year old boy lives in Swindon(UK) who investigates on who killed the dog Wellington which was in Mrs.Shears home. In the process of investigation he finds some shocking truths which affects him so much makes him to flee to London. So what made him to move out of his home to London? Find out.

In this book, author sees the world through the eyes of a 15-year old Christopher Boone who is somewhat special, he loves the things to be in a orderly way, can’t recognize the expression of the people or the phrases because he likes to see and remember the things as it is, never says or accepts a lie, afraid of strangers and new places, very much interested in Maths and Science and love to become an astronaut. The other prominent characters in this book are Ed Boone(Christopher’s father), Siobhan(Christopher’s teacher and friend), Jude Boone(Christopher’s Mother), Toby(Christopher’s pet rat), Mrs.Shears,  Mrs.Alexander and Mr.Shears.

My View:

You could have ask me whats the story it is, which is not even goes beyond 4 lines, all I can say is, it has some more but it will be revealing the entire story which may make you to lose the interest in reading the book. But this book’s specialty of this book is how Christopher behaves to each ordinary situations we face in our ordinary life. Actually I have categorized him as a special child but couldn’t classify exactly but when reading wiki it termed his condition as ‘Asperger Syndrome‘. Its really refreshing to read about his fears and behaviour and I am sure not many novels will be in this category. Even though there are many first person narrations this one is special.

So if anybody wants to read a different book, whose subject is light and interesting, you can pick this up for sure.

My Rating: 4/5

Indo-Aussies Series: A quick update:

India and Australia one-day Cricket series is going to begin today. Australians have arrived with form and pride to stamp their authority in the short version of the game against one of the best team in the world. India will try to prove they are tough nut to crack. Australia’s bowling favours them with Brett Lee firing on all cylinders after his comeback. He who was wonderfully supported by Mitchell Johnson and Siddle. Their batting lacks the same kind of strength with Ponting was the man to look out for, again. Their line up is highly inexperienced with Clarke too sitting out due to injury.

India is  a different side when Sehwag opens the innings and Yuvraj comes to the middle order. I have seen Sehwag in this Champions league, he is amazing. He is fit and thrashing the bowlers to all parts of the ground. To me, if he continues this kind of form and doesn’t gets out in early overs Australians will pay dearly because pitch or conditions or bowler are immaterial to him. Sachin is still showing that he is best in business, with Gambhir there to keep ticking the scoreboard, Dhoni to play a sheet anchor role and Yuvraj to explode this Indian Batting line up is threatening.

But Indian bowling is as thin as it can get. With everybody out of form, Dhoni must pull every possible tactics out of his hat to manage the overs and contain the Australians. Munaf, Nehra and Amit Mishra will be the key bowlers, I guess. Indian selectors must give chance to Pragyan Ojha. He is a great bowler in short version of the game.

My prediction: If 3 of the Indian bowlers clicks, Series 5-2 in favour of India else 4-3 in favour of Australia.

PS1: I have started this cricket thing as a post script but I have written a half the post on it

PS2: I have bought two of the epics Lord of the Rings and Mahabharata last week, which I have wanted for a long time.

Updates:

Seen the Avatar trailer last week, it is just amazing. Seems to be James Cameroon going to hit the bulls eye again. I am eagerly waiting for the movie. Watch and Enjoy it’s trailer.

But don’t know whats happening in Chennai…. no good English movies are releasing these days Inglorious Bastards, District 9 are yet to be screened and last critics hit film screened here was ‘The Hangover’.