BLOGGING TO SOOTH THE NERVES.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:Telling bye bye to 2004 I blog this on the last day of 2004. So many things I want to blog. I am not lazy, but the mind and the actions don't syncronize. Okay, I may do better during 2005.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! BAD:Feeling down!!!

the tidal wave Posted by: cgbalu . The world's biggest earthquake in 40 years hit southern Asia on December 26, 2004, unleashing a tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India, drowning thousands and swamping tourist isles in Thailand and the Maldives. (Reuters Graphic)

1) COLOR IN MOTION My color is blue. 2) JUST LETTERS Try building some words.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD: I enjoyed these quotes from jason love. "Stuff I Learned While I Was Alive" Brunch is nice, but then later you have to eat linner. Linner is okay, but dinnert is the pits. "Silly Questions" Why do we always want to kick someone's ass? Isn't that where they have the most padding? Click the heading for more.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! BAD:Thirty-seven people are killed in a head on collision between two passenger trains in Punjab. The Kanchi Shankaracharya moves the Supreme Court for bail in the Sankararaman murder case. The apex court asks the CBI, if Papu Yadav can be shifted from the Beur jail to prevent his unlawful activities. India and Pakistan agree to a joint survey of the Sir Creek boundary. The Home Minister says, 209 Indian Reserve Battalions will be raised for policing the border. A series of blasts in Assam claim one life and injure 45 others. At least 37 people including eleven women and a child were killed and 45 injured in a train accident in Punjab today. The accident occurred when Jammu-Tawi Ahmedabad Express and a DMU local train collided head on near Mukerian in Hoshiarpur district around noon. Railway sources say, both the trains were given the green signals on the single line, the Jalandhar-Pathankot section of the Ferozepur Divisi...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD: No 11, Kotturpuram MS’s monumental career and accolades were belied by the simplicity of her surroundings BY VATSALA VEDANTAM The address was not imposing. Nor was the person residing in it. She owned no material possessions, laid claim to no property. She did all the household chores and was known to cook her own food. Her education ended with the third form and she had very little to say for herself. Yet, prime ministers bowed before her, film magnates travelled across oceans to see her, popes gave her audience. Young and old, rich or poor, her admirers craved her proximity. However, none of this adulation touched her. Till the end she remained simple, self-effacing and unspoilt. Her unpretentious dwelling place said it all. It could have belonged to any middle class householder in Tamil Nadu. A small well-scrubbed courtyard, decorated with kolam. An even smaller verandah with sundry footwear piled in a corner. A h...

'Thought & Humor'

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD: FOR THE WIFE WHO SAYS IT'S HOT DOGS TONIGHT, BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME, AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. FOR THE HUSBAND WHO IS ON THE SOFA BEING A COUCH POTATO, BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS. FOR THE TEENAGER WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES BECAUSE THAT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME, NOT ON THE STREETS. FOR THE TAXES THAT I PAY BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT I AM EMPLOYED. FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT I HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS. FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT. FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME WORK BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE. FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING, WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING, AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME. FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. FOR THE PARKING SPOT I FIND AT...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:Hat Pin, from Freewind A man goes up to the minister at the local church. "Reverend," he said, "We have a problem. My wife keeps falling asleep during your sermons. It's very embarrassing, not to mention disrespectful. "What should I do?" "I've noticed this and have an idea if you're up to the task," said the minister. "Take this hatpin with you. I will be able to tell when Mrs. Jones is sleeping, and I will motion to you at specific times. When I motion, you give her a good poke in the leg." So, in church the following Sunday, Mrs. Jones dozed off. Noticing this, the preacher put his plan to work. "And who made the ultimate sacrifice for you?" he said, nodding to Mr.Jones. "Jesus!" Mrs. Jones cried out as her husband jabbed her in the leg with the pin. "Yes! You are correct, Mrs. Jones!" came the minister's quick reply. Soon, Mrs...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:A quotation from www.kumudam.com PICTURE:

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD: A couple were returning to their seats after a trip to the movie theater concession stand. "Did I step on your toes on the way out?" the guy asked the man at the end of the row. "You certainly did," the man responded angrily. "All right," the husband said to his wife. "This is our row." In my other windows: Kanchi The proceedings of the seers arrest. What will happen?

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:There I am going to attend the paper II, a few minutes from now. At mycyber just I am scribbling. BAD:I sat upto 12.00 last night imbibing things. I was supposed to sit 3.00 a.m. The mind refused to imbibe things after 12.00. I did not sleep. Thought and thought of little about exams and more about other lousy things. There is a guilt that I did not sleep nor imbibe things. There it goes on...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! BAD:Hey, it is just a struggle. Make it. You have gone through everything. You will retain them in mind. Just sit, go on....think whtever you like...but just go on. God, help me to imbibe things just this day please.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:I need confidence now. Boss wished me well, and said to write the exam with confidence.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:Post I say. There are two days left for the examination. I should do well. I should do well with all my coolness converged to a point.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! PICTURE: my imageShack

The Good and the Bad at the moment! BAD:Taking today till 19th Nov. I have just 16 days left for the examinations. The by hearting part is to be done. I have to keep the mind very cool - very very cool - not allowing anything else except for the by hearting part. This morning I had the feeling of not doing enough - this is not enough - I should put in more effort - leave sleep and put into mind the examination related words and sentences. I should write things examination connected things. I should talk examination connected things. Some how I should make it.

div_105 Originally uploaded by sparky_mark . wow, this is a nice picture.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! BAD:It is good to post the bad things at the moment. Well, time is flying. I just can't sit tight to study for the exam. Even, if I sit tight the sujects are not going into the skull, to be reproduced later. There are lots and lots of things to be memorised. The coming fifteen days I should sit for memorising things. Ah, the reading part I have done - that is good. Now, to memorise. One plan is to have a blog - just write like this in a place - with imagination - bringing in the office atmosphere to mind, linking the work I do with the subject. This morning a trial is made: There are sixteen Railway zones. 1c 3e 5n 5s 2w

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:mscribbler: hello again today's work over...just saw your noting on the OD imgna: hi balu!! imgna: how r u? mscribbler: fine...had your snacks? imgna: almost dinner her actually imgna: im just relaxing imgna: hows work? mscribbler: ic.....u seem to use the internet a lot....relaxing that way? imgna: hahahah imgna: yes in a way mscribbler: fine...today a so so day..... imgna: and also my friend from bombay is online mscribbler: very fine......how is your friend? you may if you wish tell that there is a madscribbler at Hubli imgna: yes i'll be glad to tell him that imgna: great mscribbler: what does he do? our age group? imgna: yes almost imgna: he is only 39 mscribbler: ic he is younger...... imgna: he have a business imgna: but he is not yet married mscribbler: i c..waiting...... imgna: in a way yes. though i kept telling him he should fine a nice woman there.. but he too choosy imgna: so hows ur daugh...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! SEARCH: So I am in search of things for my examinations. 1) J.K.Rowling. 2)Chairman of Railway Board. 3)Author of Pride and prejucice. 4)Meaning of the word Reconnainssance. Definition: [n] the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) 5)Meaning of the word Theodolite. Definition: \The*od"o*lite\, n. [Probably a corruption of the alidade. See {Alidade}.] An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed. Note: The theodolite consists principally of a telescope, with cross wires in the focus of its object glass, clamped in Y's attached to a frame that is mounted so as to turn both on vertical and horizontal axes, the former carrying a vernier plate on a horizontal graduated plate or circle for azimutha...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD: cgbalu: good morning gennie:) imgna: balu! imgna: how r u? cgbalu: fine today is a holiday - local rajyosthava i.e state formation day. imgna: the whole of india? cgbalu: no our state - karnataka where we speak kannada imgna: ok imgna: is it holiday too in bombay? cgbalu: at office? No ...no holiday at Bombay imgna: ok imgna: my best friend lives in bombay cgbalu: u r at office? - where is the friend working? imgna: its holiday here. "all soul's day" cgbalu: i.c. how are children? imgna: my friend have his own business in bombay. he live in fountain. r u familiar with the place? cgbalu: a bit...my sister in law is residing there..... imgna: in fountain? cgbalu: no they live in a place called vikroli....she is a nurse..... imgna: ok imgna: so how r u doing? u r in the bat cave again? :D cgbalu: how r children? hope you r better.... imgna: a little better imgna: but still have cough and colds cgbalu...

Veerapan photo by: cgbalu Veerapan is a Villian Hero. He was shot dead. Many questions like by whom he was let to live so long will remain un answered. Though he was a villian pouching forest - killing Elephants for tuskers- supporting terrorist groups - kidnapping people he remained a hero and made the society to remember him. BAD: Trail of blood and gore 1955: Veerappan at the age of 10, poaches an elephant. Over 25 years, he kills 300 tuskers for ivory. 1986: The Karnataka police nab Veerappan; he escapes killing 4 policemen and a forest official. Jan. 1990: Kills a sub-inspector and a head constable after the Tamil Nadu (TN) police shoot 2 of his colleagues. May 1990: Govt sets up Special Task Force (STF) to nab Veerappan. Nov. 1991: Beheads R. Srinivas, deputy conservator of forests. Feb. 1992: Kidnaps the son of a granite quarry owner in Karnataka for a ransom of Rs 1 crore. Quarry owner pays Rs 15 lakh. June 1992: STF kills 4 of Veerappan’s gang...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD: cgbalu: good morning here....may be good afternoon there:-/ imgna: hi balu imgna: its afternoon here cgbalu: holiday? it is holiday here and I am in the cave :-O imgna: wow! the cave :D imgna: how r u? cgbalu: fine....one friend who is at Pune is also on the line.... imgna: i c cgbalu: tajmahal has left a off line message.....>:) imgna: she did? imgna: she is coming home on nov 13.. finally!!!!!!!! cgbalu: yeah...she also told through mail about her plans.... imgna: at least i thought its the best move she can ever have cgbalu: sure....sometimes i feel somebody elsle is planning life for usX-( imgna: yes i thought the same too.. imgna: must be a good entry for OD dont u think? :D cgbalu: but we get dejected when we things go beserk - not according to our plans...yeah very nice theme.... imgna: but then.. if there is already a supreme being then we cant do anything except to follow cgbalu: yes we should bring that t...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:cgbalu: happy dussera friend :) prasad_7519: hi happy dussera dear cgbalu: so after a long time...the happy news is that my daughter got Electrical and Electronics Engineening at the local college prasad_7519: oho thats nice cgbalu: what news there? prasad_7519: i think i told u my daughter is in third year E n TC and son is in 1st year En TC engg cgbalu: yeah how are they doing? prasad_7519: fine prasad_7519: how is dharward cgbalu: fine....yesterday we went to the sharade temple. This is the temple we are referring here: prasad_7519: where we had gone the same? cgbalu: very fine of your memory..... prasad_7519: next sunday i am going to delhi chandigarh cgbalu: very nice....I have a departmental exam....wish me to study well lol prasad_7519: ohoo sure all the best prasad_7519: i have my third japanese exam on 5th dec i am 100% sure i am going to fail prasad_7519: no time for studies cgbalu: thank you.....tel...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! This one after the entry diary registary I should write about celebrating life and then search for some more prompts. Discovered the recent recipe. The recipe is writing. I consider writing-blogging as a favourite dish preparation. Just like Jani's cooking! The ingredients: GOOD  is like salt or the Tamarind the sour (soul) material BAD is the chilly - pungent - hot part. SEARCH is a bit of sweetness - just like the jaggery in samabar. PICTURE - the decorative pieces like the cashew nuts; badam; resins; grated coconut. MOOD - It is the water content of the dish. Very important. Mood should not be watery. It should be added to the dish to make it gravy- groovy. The method: Boil the mood well.  Add the basic ingredients in appropriate quantities.  Make a draft. Taste (Edit) it for my satisfaction. Whether the dish I made is GOOD or BAD will be known. p.s: MOOD: I am SEARCHING people to serve the dish.   Taste it ...

in Bakersfield, Calif photo by: bumperstickers

cat photo by: cgbalu Two lion cubs are weighed in Aalborg Zoo, Denmark, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004. The five day old cubs are a bit of a surprise to the zoo staff, as their mother had only herself become sexually mature, and because a lioness' first litter rarely survives. (AP Photo/Ole Kjaer/POLFOTO)

Violet photo by: nancyc Another favorite flower.

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:The Ramayan written by Bill Gates sent by Chirta is good . LAN LAN ago, in the SYSTEM of I/O-dhya, there ruled a PROCESSOR named DOS-rat. Once he EXCUTED a great sacrifice PROGRAM after which his queens gave an OUTPUT of four SUNS - RAM, LSI-man, BUG-rat, and SED-rughana. RAM the eldest was a MICROCHIP with excellent MEMORY. His brothers,however, were only PERIPHERAL ICS. Once when RAM was only 16MB, he married princess C-ta. 12 years passed and DOS-rat decided to INSTALL RAM as his successor. However, queen CIE/CAE, who was once offered a boon by DOS-rat for a life saving HELP COMMAND, took this opportunity at the instigation of her BIOSed maid, and insisted that her son BUG-rat be installed at I/O-dhya and that RAM be BOOTED to the forest for 14 years. At this cruel and unexpected demand, a SURGE passed thru DOS-rat and due to FATAL ERROR he collapsed, power-less. RAM agreed to LOG INTO forest and C-ta insisted to LOGIN with hi...

The Good and the Bad at the moment! GOOD:I have several scribblings. On Sep 3 I made an entry with two prompts. One is about linking writing like food. Another is about what will I celebrate? The link to that entry is: diary registary After that I started scribbling about receipes. It went on with writing with dishes made at home during that period. Then there was something about Secunderabad trip. Then there was some quizzes posted. Still there is a nagging feeling in the mind that I have not scribbled in connection with the titles mentioned in the entry. I wanted to make some more entries visiting some more prompts. BAD:But I have not done so. So let me complete the project of writing like making a dish. Let me also write something what I celebrate most. SEARCH: janibalufamily PICTURE: national geographic MOOD: