1000 Places to See......India

In discovery HD, there is program 1000 Places to see before you Die. I watched the India Episode. In the program a young married couple(Chris and Malin) travels all the place and they express the beauty and uniqueness of the place.

In this episode they travel to New Delhi, Capitol of India. They started their Journey in auto-rickshaw (a three wheel automobile)
Chris asks "why people are using Horns", the guide says to drive in India, three things are necessary "Good Horn, Good Brake and Good Luck".

The guide take them to "Chandini-Chowk" a shopping area. Malin the girl go out with a shorts and a T-shirt. After a while she realizes people are starring at her. Then she learns people in India specifically females don't show their bare leg. I don't know why but that is the true. But the guide with her was very smart, she took her to the near by shop and buy her a "Sudithar" a typical Indian outfit for girls. Chris feels happy because the Malin outfit cost him only $10. They keep walking into the street, Chris ask to the guide "what's up with this wires crossing above their head". It is nothing but power line with 240 Volts. it was the funniest moment, as soon as he knows all of them is electric power lines he goes "Its crazy, I don't believe it and he runs away from that place".

In the rest of the episode they go to "Taj Mahal" and all other places in Delhi. Episode finishes with "India is organized chaos but life moves on fast here".

Dont ask questions if u r not prepared for the answer !!!

Why Lawyers should never ask a witness a question if they aren't prepared
for the answer..... (But this story applicable to all)

In a trial, a small town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to
the stand. The witness was grand motherly, elderly woman.
He approached her and asked, "Mrs.Jones, do you know me?" She responded,
"Why, yes I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young
boy and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat
on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk
about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't
the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit
paper pusher. Yes, I know you"

The Lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the
room and asked, "Mrs. Jones. Do you know the defence attorney?" She again
replied, "Why yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster,
too. He's lazy, bigoted and he has a drinking problem. He can't build a
normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in
the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different
women, one of them was your wife. Yes, I know him."

The defense attorney almost died.
The judge asked both counsellors to approach the bench, and in a very Quiet
voice, said, "If either of you bastards asks her if she knows me, I'll throw
you in jail for contempt

My State in India....Tamil Nadu

It is a beautiful state in southern tip of India. I born in the city called "Madurai". it is very religious and very orthodox city with lot of Hindu temples.

It is one of the colorful state in India. The first thing comes into my mind is girls with dark color long hair with a jasmine flower in it and most of them.....nope...all of them are skinny and beautiful.


The second thing is food. I can't explain the taste of the food here, but I can tell you those are the most tastiest food. My city is famous for a food item called "Parrotta". You don't need to go to a five star restaurant to taste this, you can get in a ordinary restaurant and taste depends on the chef's special ingredient .(Check out the picture)

Recently I happened to see "Cotton candy" ice cream flavor in Cold stone. That inspired me to post this picture here.

Hindu religion is such a way that, every month some festival comes up. So all the temples are always decorated and busy.

The picture your seeing here is not like wal-mart, it is a street-mart, there is no lowest price here, you can always bargain and get a good deal. If you think sometimes bargaining makes you feel better and gives you more shopping satisfaction.

Deadliest Job in the World

Crab Fishing in the Winter in Alaskan sea.
The main catch here is as usual money






Approximately 90-cents/pounds of crab, a crew man can earn $50,000 in 2 months period. But it is very dangerous and very physical work.
Fill the crab pot with bait and put into the sea for 20 hrs come back and grab it. What a crappy job....huh....
The safety rules are very simple. Don't get got into the pot hook ropes. If you get into it, if someone noticed you, you are safe otherwise, it is very hard to get your body.
Crew man has to work all day and night in snow and cold and in high wind speed. They will be tired very soon and no time to concentrate on safety later the day.

A good season is -------no one injured
A great season is-------no one injured+good money

I wouldn't mind to spend my vacation as green horn in the deck. (FYI. I don't eat this crab)

'07 Memorial day lesson

You won't get what you like
You won't like what you have
-Anonymous

Not a Typical weekend......

"I'm like everyone else-I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does"
-Paulo Coelho

Last Saturday (First half) was pretty good. I had prep classes in WFU. Three hours brain storming. I had lot of fun. Certainly I learned a bit how to solve a problem in Tech' school method and in B' school method. Solving the problem is not a big deal. only the timing matters. That late saturday, I understood, the meaning of real bad day.


Sunday, I went to Spider-man 3. A lengthy movie with lot of sentiments. I watch these kind of movies for graphics. I always wonder, how did they even imagine every shot......and made it real with graphics........amazing........

I don't want to be a spider man......at least I wish I could have a girl friend like MJ........Juz kidding......

Life Passions?????

I was reading an article headed "Live Your Life with Passion".
Is that a human thing? I never seen anyone living with their passion? Can I get that thing from Wal-mart?
Do I really have any life passions? or Am I living in Buddha's principle?
I am really confused.....Life sucks!

It's my life.....Now or Never

First time I'm following American Idol season. This week a tribute to Bon Jovi. Personally I love Bon Jovi songs and From this season I like Blake B'coz he don't just only sing, he remix the song and put his on own way. So Blake Vs Bon Jovi I was really excited. The really good part is Blake comment about his performance "Take risk or keep your mouth shut". He took risk and he did pretty good.

It's been a long time, I watched TV shows like this. Long back I used to watch "sitthi" a Tamil TV drama. I never had any choice at that time. AXN "Amazing Videos and "Sitthi" comes on a same time. But that time not only remote wasn't in my control. So I started watching it and I wouldn't say I didn't like it.

The one more good contestant is Jordon. She is only 17 and doing well. She is really using her opportunity.
What I was doing in my 17? Did I had any chance? I'm not only talking about singing..........Am I still missing my fortune opportunities? Don't know....But "Life is really too short to suck".

Free Broadband From Google.....Wow! But a little smelly......

http://www.google.com/tisp/

After reading the news, and went through all the procedure to install.
I was really confused, I am living in third floor, how the heck, it works for me.
After I realized the date and month, I thought oh...Shi#!?.....

Traffic Ticket

I went to Time Square, for 2007 New year eve. Totally I drove 1874 miles in 3 days. From Greensboro, I drove to Ohio, picked up a friend at Akron, Ohio and we drove to New york. Everything was exiting, except I got a speeding ticket at Maritta, Ohio. It was a beautiful drive form Greensboro, Virginia and in West Virginia. Even the speed limit was 70miles/hr, I was driving around 77 miles/hr. As soon as I hit into Ohio, the speed limit become 55miles/hr. So What I did, I was driving 55 constantly and whenever I don't see any traffic (through my windshield and through my review mirror) I was raising my car to 90( I rented a SUV). It was dark and in that Ohio suburb I didn't see no one in the road, So I was constantly driving around 85 miles/hr. There were two Caravan in front of me. I should have slowed down, but I thought to overtake them and slow down. As soon as passed the vehicles, I realized that is a cop car. I have been pulled over. I got a ticket 88 miles/hr @ 55miles speed limit, $140 fine.

This is what I learned from my first traffic ticket experience.
Talk very polite to a cop.
Don't be scared to talk to cop. After you have been pulled over by a cop, your first question would be "what speed you were driving. Don't admit, even though you drove fast. Say the exact speed limit in that place. Then Cop would say his radar reading of your speed limit. If you have rented a car, dare to say, you are speed-o-meter was showing only the speed of maximum speed limit at the place.
If you would say, you didn't see any speed limit posting for lost 10 miles, Cop would explain you, where and all the speed limit posted. B'coz he knows the area better than you. So don't say that.
Try your best not to admit the over speeding and act very innocent as much you can. (If you are pulled over, 90% you are getting a ticket, only 10% chances are there to escape)

If you got the ticket, and you can think of taking the chance to appear into the court, that is the best way to do, to escape from your insurance premium rise. ( I don't have any experience, may be I will write a blog about that, later some time)

But, be proud to have a ticket.

The Matrix Phone

Recently in my office all the conventional desk phones has been replaced with Cisco IP phones(7941).Here I am not going to review the technical details of the phone. Try WIKI to know about that.

But as a user I feel, lot difference. I had one of the Matrix phone in my desk.(The phone used in the Matrix movie, to travel between Matrix world and the real world). The message indicator in this kind of phone is a small red light in front of the phone blinks.(Even I didn't had that option in my phone. The one I had, you have to pick the receiver If you have a message, you will hear a different ring tone.)

The ultra revolutionary Cisco IP Phone has everything in it. the best part is, it has the display, If I get any internal calls it shows the name, who is calling me.(So I have the option now, to pick the call or not). Cisco would have added MP3 capability to make it an ultimate machine.

In my personal side recently I upgraded my cell phone to Blackberry Pearl. (Last two years I used Moto-Razor) I would say, Blackberry Pearl is the ultimate equipment. MP3 playback, Video streaming, 2MP video camera, the best part is the PIM(Personal Information Management) software. It is same as outlook features. I didn't take the date package, b'coz I sit in front computer almost 16hrs/day. So I haven't needed the e-mail data package. But I use the PIM as a reminder for my personal tasks.

If I think back in my college days, I didn't had a cellphone. I used to remember all the phone numbers and tasks in top of my head. Oneday, myself and Sivasu was counting how many phone numbers we know. If I am right, I had 17 numbers in my count and sivasu got 20 . Sivasu was always pretty good in manipulation numbers. But now, I remember only 8 to 10 numbers and I am damn sure without a cellphone I could be lost.

Coming back to Blackberry Pearl, I have a trouble with Sync'ing to Apple-Imac. Bluetooth to Bluetooth is not compatible. I used to sync my Razor via bluetooth. Even after I download some software I have difficulties to transfer data's thru USB cable.
I don't want to give up both the products(Apple and Blackberry). Probably if I buy a Micro-SD card, I hope I can solve this problem by directly communicating to SD Card thru a reader.

Nick Names

I met a my college friend Arun Kumar after 6 years.
Last week he was here in winston-salem, NC for his business trip.
We went to a same school for our four year Mechanical Engineering

Actually in our friends circle no one knows him by his name.
He is very famous with his nick name "Proxy". We were talking about how he got that name.
In our first year we had a chubby lecturer for our Basic Electrical paper, Geetha Madam.
In our attendants list the next name to Arun Kumar is Antony Praveen Kumar(well known as DAP)

One fine day Geetha was going through attendants list, "Arun Kumar" he said Yes ma'am
Antony Praveen Kumar, he said Yes ma'am with the same tone. She got him. From that day, he has become "Proxy".

The other main reason to use nick names is to differentiate the guys with common names. For example there were four "Karthik" in our class. So to differentiate everyone uniquely we used nicknames.
"Self"Karthik ---> My nick name. I ragged my co-students in the first year, called self ragging.
"Mama"Karthik --> He is a very big guy........so, Mama(Uncle)
"Kalingan"Karthik-> I'm not sure why he got this name, but "kaligan" is Goundamani(Comedian) name in Ullathai Alitha-a tamil film
"Tuticorin"Karthik->He is from Tuticorin

Other interesting nick names in our college
(You should definitely know Tamil to understand this, but keep it in mind all the nick names has a valid reason).

"Pedal" Udaya, "Sibu" Prem, "Kattu vassi" Senthil (Tarzan),"Kadalai" Kasi, "Aaatha" Pandi, "Surtai" Senthil, "Netta" Muthukumar,
"Motta" Muthukumar, "Ding-Ding" Mani, "Kuruvi" Aravindan..................................

Desi Party

Desi Party

I attended a desi baby shower on Saturday. The party was scheduled @ 4PM.
I thought it is so rude to show up exactly at 4, even though I know the host couple
very well. So I showed up at 4.40 PM. Oh....my goodness I was the first one.
After some time people started showing up one by one.

Later on that day, we were talking about timings. Some one made a comment, people usually show up
approximately on following schedule.

bachelors - 45 min. later then the scheduled party time
Just Married - 1hr
With one Kid - 1hr 30 min
with two kids - 2 hr

(Just married may have the reason for their late, but I am not sure about others)

I don't understand, what is the point to schedule a party time?
I guess, May be this is the way it works, probably I am new to it.....
I have to keep this timing in my mind.

Okay, about the party it went very well, in my point of view. Last part of the party was fun and different.
I have been to parties like this a lot. People usually eat and talk, nothing else and most of the discussions are about Visa and their flight adventures (nothing but how they passed the security gate and how they found their departure gate @ international airport).
Suganthi & Srikanth prepared some quiz, puzzles and scrambled words. It sounds like a kiddish, but really some of the questions were tough and the competitors were aggressive.

Just do it

Well, fellows I have been blogging here and there, But now I decided to do it regularly.
The main reason, I want to see today’s karthik in future. If I look back my past I have only few good and bad memories, not a whole lot and I forgot so many peoples whom came across my life. My brain’s RAM memory having a limitation. I am hopping this blog would help me to back-up my memories to my brain in the future.

Okay, they next question is what do I write in my blog? My daily life.
What’s happening in my daily life?
In a normal day, 10 hrs of work+1 hr for transport+8 hrs sleep+1 hr miscellaneous, so I have only 4 hrs for my personal life.

In a normal working day I am spending almost 70% of my time @ work. So there is no chance I could escape without talking about, different people I am meeting in my daily life.

Finally, what ever I am talking about here is my personal opinion only. If you are reading this blog now, probably you might know me in some way, so don’t hesitate to comment about my blogs.