Swept Away

The air is feeling denser. Everything around us is faint. It is getting fainter. I realised my eyes are getting filled with tears. I wiped the tears off with my hand. She looked at me. I looked away, I didn't want her to see me crying. I was sitting on the grass with Evol beside me. Its been more than an hour. I felt her hand on my knees. I looked at her. She was standing up. She started to walk towards the lamp post without looking at me. She was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. It looked as if the constant friction wore out some colour from some parts the jeans,it was no more blue there. She stood still, I kept looking at her from behind. I am now sitting on her shadow the evening sun cast on the green carpet. May be she is trying to hide me.

Now I am talking on the phone. I walked away to the car and drove away. As the car was leaving the park I could still see Evol leaning on to the lamp post, unmoved. No, I am not that kind of a person who walk away from anybody without even looking. Evol does know where I am going, even though I didn't know.

Evol always knew everything. And how many times did she manage to hold her tears and cuddle me when I am in tears. She has always been there comforting me.

"Eventhough I feel she is mine
and only mine,she ain't only
Everytime I come near you
and it just gets better
When the first time I saw you,
in the green with elders
I was afraid to say I love you
bcoz you were so busy.
When the elders went away
I felt your magic in my heart,
When someday you were
holding my hands, I realised
It was not the first time
that you were touching me
I was so busy doing my job that
i didn't know when you
Touched me for the first time or
when you talked to me.
All I knew I was that i was
in love with you
I remember that day when
standing on the green park,
You said this will never end
I thought you were right.
When the tide came,
I took your hand and
Looked at your face
I realised you cant come
with me...au revoir "

Super Dream Inc(::) on Campus

Welcome to the Ppt..ee..
I welcome..e.. our dream company..ee...
Now i BLAH BLAH BLAH...
Thank you!!

Super Dream Inc(::)
...giving wings to future....

Product Portfolio
1.The Ultimate Solar cell..TUSc(::)

TUSc should convert solar energy into storable-recoverable electrical energy.
It is supposed to produce hydrogen and oxygen directly from water which allows the storage of energy for later use. This trapped energy can later be recovered by using a fuel cell. Or the hydrogen fuelled vehicles can be run on the hydrogen produced in this way. TUSc is fitted on the top of the homes covering the entire roof so that it produces entire eqnergy for the home and also for the hydrogen fuelled or fuell celled vehicles of the home owners. Since roof area is directly propotional to the power requirement and no. of vehicles in the home that works well.
Insipiration:In one hour, enough sunlight strikes the Earth to provide the entire planet's energy needs for one year.
Challenges
1.Finding a cheap catalyst to produce hydrogen and oxygen.
2.Devoloping low cost and efficient fuel cells.
FAQs
1.Why H2 and O2?
Because is H2 the fuel of the universe. The cleanest fuel ever, producing water on burning, that too clean water.It can be used directly in fuel cells to produce electricity and also in vehicles.
2.Where will you get the water from?
TUSc can work even in salty sea water and you can see a a situation where u supply raw sea water directly to home and they get energy and drinking water from it using TUSc..Possibilities are infinte..

2.THE Hydrogen Engine..THe(::)
Engines which work on hydrogen and can produce up to 10000hp so that they can be used even with jet planes.There are two varients of this version.
1.One in which hydrogen replaces gasoline in IC engines.
2.Fuel cell version.
So vehicles dont need exhaust pipes in future.The advantage of fuel cell type is that they can get energy both as hydrogen and also as electricity which makes it so convenient to refill.
Challenges
1. Controlled combustion of hydrogen
2.Equipment for producing H2 like TESc
3.Overcoming pressure from Oil Cos.
FAQ
1.Why not the electric engine?
The efficient and mass storage of electric energy in batteries is not costly and the cycle is lossy. Also THE may utilise some of the alresdy devoloped IC engine related technolgies like Turbo,Common Rail Injection etc..

3.The REPrinter..TREp(::)
TREp can do all an ordinary all-in-one full fledged color printer can do. But the difference comes from the fact that you never have to refill its catridge and it can reprint a new document in an already printed paper like a new paper. It extracts ink from the old printed paper thereby erasing the paper and stores it int the catridge. So if the catridge is running low feed in some old printed papers. If you need to print a new document and have unneccassary old printed papers just feed in those papers and get new document. What more you need?,Saving on both paper and catridges. Now imagine reading those ebooks by printing by TREp. It takes 0.3 seconds to erase a A4 size page and 0.1 seconds to print one A4 size page. Save those bamboos for the pandas.
Challenges
1.Devoloping the ink extraction technology.
FAQ
1.When will TREp be avaliable on Market?
When Super Dream Inc(::) decides to do so.
2.How much will it cost?
The value of one share of Super Dream Inc(::) at DowJones Stock market.

and much more coming soon...visit www.superdreaminc.com

Compensation and Benifits
CTC:Best in the industry.
A world where energy is free..
A world where global warming is not on news..
Paternity leave of 1 year upto 5 children.

Location
Not decided..

Criteria
Willingness to accept defeat.

Thank You..Any Questions?

Black and White: At Its Best

This is my favourite








Some classy B&W photos..not Photoshoped...

MONOPOLY

MONOPOLY-1

chapter 1

“Angetine Phigteror not available...may I suggest u Bilos Derthigh” asked the druggist.

“No let me check some druggists near by “ said Shawn.

“Sir if u want u can….but I would like to tell u that u wont get it” said the druggist.

“hmm!!” Shawm smiled towards the druggist without showing his enamel ,as he opened the door of his Carrera GT. “durr…rrrr…rr..r…”the car passed BLETIQUE Druggists and Chemists building...Shawn gave it a full throttle as he flew through the Havana International Airport Highway.

It has been a long time since he left Cuba at the age of twelve. Shawn’s parents shifted to Shanghai to work for Fujitsu Shipping Corporation. Both his father and mother were in FSC as port engineers. It was at FSC Havana they fell in love and got together. As FSC was forced to close its operations in Havana due to labor problems Shawn’s parents were shifted to FSC Shanghai along with many other employees. Life was difficult in Shanghai for Shawn and his brother Smith as Chinese didn’t know Spanish. But they pushed through, learned Chinese. His father resigned from FSC and started export business in Shanghai. It grew at an amazing pace. Shawn and Smith never looked back since. They spread their business from export to real estate to automobile to petrochemicals at a blistering pace. It was at such pace that the communists of china started calling them MONOPOLY. The government of China restricted them from any further investments marking them as a foreign company owned by Cubans. That was how Shawn was reminded of Cuba. He called it nostalgia and his old man asked “why waste a week in Havana? Our old little town ha..ha ..”. But Shawn wanted to go there and stay for a week. His secretary arranged for his landing in Havana. He took his Carrera GT with him, which he cant live without.

Travelling away from Havana, there are two railway level crossings at Jaguey Grande (about 13km from Havana) and approaching Ranchuelo (about 10km later). Both of these are ungated and have "stop" signs - drivers should stop, look and listen before crossing.

After crossing Jaguey Grande he stopped at another druggist and asked for Angetine Phigteror but it was the same again. Only Bilos Derthigh was available.

A new monopoly was taking form in Cuba the ultimate monopoly of the 21^st century.

chapter 2

Shawn resumed his journey. He reached the resort that was arranged for his stay. It was ‘Paradisus Rio De Oro” hotel located right alongside Playa Esmeralda beach, in the Natural Park of Bahía Naranjo, 5 km from Guardalavaca in the province of Old Havana. The hotel has a very special beach. The beach has a three side seashore with one side heavily covered with rocks, and the other two sides are beautiful sandy and calm beaches. The hotel can be said to be situated in a small subcontinent.

The evening sun was floating over the sea when Shawn got into his room. He still doesn’t have any plans about what to do in Cuba. He stayed in the resort for one day. The resort had only foreign tourists. He had not had much chance to interact with anybody.

On the second morning after his arrival in the resort he decided to check out possibilities of starting his business in Cuba. Shawn decided to get to Havana, this time in a taxi. He went to many consultancies and discussed with them, most which got the agencies interested. Shawn didn’t need any introduction, as he was well known among the world business circles for the amazing growth of his company. But Shawn was clever; he was getting as much information about the situation as possible. The situation was such that the government was open to any investment from anybody. They were wiling to provide anything the investors wanted, land, power, tax exemptions etc. Shawn took two days to get hold of the situation. He started his journey back to “Paradisus Rio De Oro Resort” after a long discussion with Mr. Victor Vance, the secretary of industrial minister of Old Havana province, which lasted till 9 pm. As his taxi flew back through the Havana International Airport Highway, he saw many ladies wearing mini skirts and t-shirts waving towards his car. They were trying to get a customer. The waving ladies disappeared after Jaguey Grande. It was nothing new for the taxi driver, yet may be for Shawn’s amusement he said” Cuban women are prostitutes not because they needed to be but rather because they liked to make love, and they are the most educated and the healthiest prostitutes on the market”.

Shawn didn’t respond, may be that’s why the driver didn’t opened his mouth till they reach Paradisus Rio De Oro Resort.

Shawn often says” Business can stop to grow or die, nothing in between”. Its this belief that tempted him start make some investment in Cuba as the growth opportunities in C China were few and far. He called in a group of his managers from China to discuss about the opportunities and challenges of investing in Cuba. They flew in within two days they held many discussions with the Cuban government. After a month of meetings and analysis the Shawn and his managers have decide to build a Ship manufacturing company at Matanzas. It is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas, 90 kilometers east of the capital Havana and 32 kilometers west of the resort town of Varadero. The Cuban government has offered to give land in Matanzas for free.

In the proposed project area of Matanzas lived a community called Matanzians who earned there lives from fishing alone. They have to be evacuated from the project area. That was no new trick for the state cops. It has been a general trend in Cuba to take land from the poor fishermen and give it for free to multi billionaire industrial tycoons to make profits for themselves. Nobody except the sufferers questioned it since this has been happening in all third world countries. Anyways cops did their job .Around five hundred families have to be evacuated. Around hundred people lost their lives during the evacuation drive which made the job easier. It took around one month to evacuate the land. All this time Shawn’s head was working like a computer. He had to attend many meetings, make arrangements to roll the money for new investment and gather the resources required. At last, the day has come, the commissioning of the new plant. His whole family has flown in from China. Shawn flagged of the first work in Matanzas Ship Factory. As the metallic noise of the huge machines filled the atmosphere, Shawn felt like an yellow light filling his eyes, he lost the strength of his legs, and he fell down. His father rushed towards him, Shawn said in crumbling voice” I forgot to take Angetine Phigteror..since I left…CH..CH….”over, it was all over for him. His father murmured holding his son’s cold hand”SON, you are not the money you have, you are not the car you have, you are not the companies you set up… how did u forget to live?”

Disclaimer: This story does not have any relation to the present or past political, social or economic situation in Cuba or China. The places and characters are pure imagination of the author. Any resemblance is just incidental.

A Guide to KU

Current scheme of examination should be scrapped.There should not be a university which simply collects the fees and ask the quetions without teaching anything. This scheme eats up half an year of the students just preparing and writing exams.There should be only lab exams and one single theory exam all put into one single question paper of 3 hrs.If they want they can scrap sessionals also.The duty of evaluating the student should lie with the institution/college,which demand the best from the faculty.(I believe responsibity is the side effect of authority).There should be no obligation to sit in class.It should be the sheer thirst for knowledge that drive the student,not that for marks..I wanna blast KU into space dust...i want all the current question paper makers to be busted..usage of the racist words such as "topper","supply","backpapers","cgpa",etc should be banned..
anyways i pray i dont have any supply this semester...If my words hurt anybody(especially KU ),take them as the mumbling of a cluttered and stressed gullible mind..

The Art of Catching Criminals-Kerala Police Way

HUNT FOR THE UNKNOWN

This is not a comedy story making fun of the Kerala police that I intend to tell. It is an incident that took place; in fact this may be a golden feather on the cap of the cops.

Exactly on 20 June 2007 I woke up earlier than most of the days around 6.00 am. It was raining outside. I felt nice and cold in the bed. But not for too long. I felt guilty of wasting precious time yesterday night studying nothing as the mad timetable gave me one day time to prepare for the all important electronic circuits exam.(….its getting postponed to such an extent that we take vacations in between exams …). Also the remembrance of a spoiled signals & systems exam made me take the texts as soon as woke up. I have made plans of finishing one module before noon. Started studying the fattest guy of the season,the Sedra & Smith. Finding it too heavy to carry while walking (a method of learning when there is too much to...) I slipped onto a Photostat note. By this time my father had left to his office. Mom had finished the morning buzz and was resting in the bed as I had decided to take the breakfast later. It was around 8.30 am by now. The rain had stopped. And it was the turn of the trees(“Maram peyyumbol”).

The ambience around was such that, it was difficult to differentiate between footsteps and the tree drops. Some cats were making noise around the area. I guess it is mating time for them. There are around five or six cats around my house fed by many neighborhoods. The number of cats has increased recently hmmm…naughty cats. No surprise, they have even dared to mate in, with me watching. Coming back to real time, I haven’t seen anything like that morning. But some were running around the bushes may be in quest of…..hmmm my mind…thinking too much. Realizing that cat watching may do no good for the circuits exam I turned back to the Photostats.

As I was reading, sitting near the closed window heard somebody talking from outside. The voice was rough. Are there any trespassers in my compound? Or is it somebody in the neighborhood? I sharpened my ears. There was only one voice. It was a male voice. I guessed it as a mobile conversation. I was not able to hear exactly what he was saying. The only snippet I understood was “veettokarodu parayano??” (Means “should the households be informed??”). I felt the voice too close to be from the neighborhood. Who dared to trespass my house??? The inquisitive in me woke up. I dared to go to that side of the house and find out. I opened the door silently. With slow steps a advanced to that side of the house. I folded my Lunky and stiffened in case of an attack. I extended my head around the corner. THERE….. There he stands…THE TRESPASSER…he was at least 6 feet high and looked heavy .He was well dressed. He had an umbrella in his hand. He spotted me and looked at me and I moved towards him. He grinned, I didn’t…. He advanced towards me. His left hand went into the left pocket of his trouser. As he held some thing towards me said “I am from Police….. no need to panic….”.I looked at the thing he showed me. It read “KERALA SANNAD POLICE”. It was his identity card. The rough was voice fell on my ears as I was reading," I am awaiting a person”. My heart beat rapidly…He looked at my face. I closed my mouth realizing that it had been open for sometime. Tried to smile. Don’t know whether I succeeded or not. However he succeeded as he took his previous position. I turned back and got inside the house. I thought who he could be waiting for….I noticed a man standing opposite my house on the other side of the road. He has been there for quite some time. Is he making some actions toward me?? No. He is communicating with policeman. I concluded that he was also a cop. I started watching him. He is making some phone calls.

‘Who is the man they are waiting for??’ Many answers came up in my mind.'May be waiting for somebody passing through this way’. Now I can’t study. I was expecting a chase by the police, more cops hidden in the streets. So I fixed my eyes on the cop who was standing opposite my house. Time passed...I thought of informing my mother about the cops but dropped the idea soon as she might compel me to stop cop watching and study………..

to be continued…………………………………….. Aj

CONFESSIONS OF A LOSSER

The loser thought that he is a winner. One day somebody told the loser that he lacks something. That made him thought about it. Then he realized that he did lack something. He then found out what was that he lacked. He decided to try hard to develop the abilities that he lacked.He succeeded in developing those abilities.Then he believed that he became an achiever. Then he wondered why he should be called a loser anymore.

So please read the title CONFESSIONS OF AN ACHIEVER…