Behind a "kutcheri"........

One week before the show: Authorities/fest. conductors will request a lead musician to perform.

Two days before the show: Lead musician will call and ask other musicians to come a play in the "kutcheri".

One day before the show: Confirmation of the musicians who are playing.

(sometimes)Six hours before the show: One practice of all the songs and changes.

Two hours before the show: Revisal of all the songs going to be played and all the raagas.

One hour before the show: Sound check.

Ten minutes before the show: Prayer time!

ONe minute before the show: Fest. conductor will give the musicians sum "inspiring" words.

The show will begin.

George Bush Mixup.....

This is funny...........Read on................


Secretary: - Mr. President, Condoleeza Rice is here to see you.

George B. : - Good, send her in.

Secretary: - Yessir.

(Hangs up. Condi enters.)

Condoleeza: - Good morning, Mr. President.

George B. : - Oh Condoleeza, nice to see you. What's happening?

Condoleeza : - Well, Mr. President, I have the report here about the new leader in China.

George B. : - Great, Condi. Lay it on me.

Condoleeza : - Mr. President, Hu is the new leader of China.

George B. : - Well, that's what I want to know.

Condoleeza : - But that's what I'm telling you, Mr. President.

George B. : - Well, that's what I'm asking you, Condie. Who is the new leader of China?

Condoleeza : - Yes.

George B. : - I mean the fellow's name.

Condoleeza : - Hu.

George B. : - The guy in China.

Condoleeza : - Hu.

George B. : - The new leader of China.

Condoleeza : - Hu.

George B. : - The Chinaman!

Condoleeza : - Hu is leading China, Mr. President.

George B. : - Whaddya' asking me for?

Condoleeza : - I'm telling you Hu is leading China.

George B. : - Well, I'm asking you, Condie. Who is leading China?

Condoleeza : - That's the man's name.

George B. : - That's who's name?

Condoleeza : - Yes.(Pause.)

George B. : - Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China?

Condoleeza : - Yes, sir.

George B. : - Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East.

Condoleeza : - That's correct.

George B. : - Then who is in China?

Condoleeza : - Yes, sir.

George B. : - Yassir is in China?

Condoleeza : - No, sir.

George B. : - Then who is?

Condoleeza : - Yes, sir.

George B. : - Yassir?

Condoleeza : - No, sir.(Pause. Crumples paper)

George B. : - Condi, you're starting to piss me off now, and it's not 'cause you're black neither. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. So why don't you get me the Secretary General of the United Nations on the phone.

Condoleeza : - Kofi Annan?

George B. : - No, thanks. And Condi, call me George. Stop with that ebonics crap.

Condoleeza : - You want Kofi?

George B. : - No.

Condoleeza : - You don't want Kofi.

George B. : - No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N.

Condoleeza : - Yes, sir.

George B. : - Not Yassir! The guy at the United Nations.

Condoleeza : - Kofi?

George B. : - Milk! Will you please make that call?

Condoleeza : - And call who?

George B. : - Well, who is the guy at the U.N?

Condoleeza : - No, Hu is the guy in China.

George B. : - Will you stay out of China?!

Condoleeza : - Yes, sir.

George B. : - And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N.

Condoleeza : - Kofi.

George B. : - All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone.

(Condi picks up the phone.)

Condoleeza : - Hello. Rice, here.

George B. : - Rice? Good idea. And get a couple of egg rolls, too, Condi. Maybe we should send some to the guy in China. And the Middle East. Can you get chinese food in the Middle East? I don't know.

Lol............

Bluffmaster Movie Review

Roy (Abhishek Bachchan) is a professional conman, who has raised his work to the level of an art. The only true thing he has is his love for Simmi (Priyanka Chopra) ? someone who is so rooted, honest and sincere, that he can't bring himself to tell her the reality of who he is. But when his past catches up with him, she cannot forgive him for the deceit their relationship is built on. He loses her forever.

That's when Aditya Srivastav (Riteish Deshmukh) enters the picture. He is the counterpoint to everything that Roy is ? as frantic as Roy is calm, as dumb as Roy is smart, as messy and untidy as Roy is smooth. They have only one thing in common ? Aditya is a conman too. At least he thinks of himself as one. In Roy's book, he's an embarrassment. But one that won't go away!

The story progresses on well packaged by Rohan Sippy(director) and this is his second directorial venture. I personally LOVE the music especially the "Right here Right now" by abishek reely rocks! Well the main twist lies in the end of the movie. Definitely worth watching! P.S. Priyanaka looks hot in the movie!!!!!!

JUST DO IT!

This is a sad day...........

My favourite horse at the trainin academy.......Red Feather, dies today. He was the horse I first learnt to ride and was quite a beauty. He was in the army for two yrs n den was given to the academy. Since then, he was a rookie horse... and was all beginners were allowed 2 ride on him..........n he dies due tot he rains, he was down with fever n NONE OF THE DOCTORS CUD DO ANYTHING!!! Damn dem!!! DAMN DEM ALL!!!!!!!

The little prince

If you want to read it... click on the link

http://www.spiritual.com.au/articles/prince/prince_contents.htm

The little prince is author Saint-Exupery's most famous work; it is also one of the most successful and best-selling titles in the world. It's easy enough to see why: delightful prose, rich imagery and metaphor, beautiful illustrations, simple yet profound.
This is a relatively short book, with the key themes of love and friendship, identity and relationship. The book's main character, the little prince, journeys to earth from his small planet to learn more about these ideas. There he meets the book's narrator, a pilot lost in a desert, to whom he shares stories of his fantastic travels and meetings with colourful characters, including a wise fox and perplexing tipplers.
Through the Prince and his tales we learn much about the book's, indeed life's, central themes. We also learn something of the importance of perspective, open and creative thinking, imagination and child-like wonder in a happy and enriching life.
Saint-Exupery's book is considered by many a classic. However, it is short and sweet enough to read to even very small children, who will undoubtedly fall in love with the book's direct style of narration and both memorable and charmingly funny persons and events.
Originally written in French, the English translation is nonetheless good and easy to follow. Though now more than sixty years old, the Little Prince's ideas remain as powerful today as they were then. Timeless, beautifully illustrated and highly recommended.

What the BCCI stands for.....

Very recently there was a meeting regarding the spat between Saurav Ganguly, the Indian Cricket Captain and Greg Chappel, the Indian Cricket Coach. It was chaired by Ranbir Singh Mahendra, the President of BCCI. Following this line is what I believe happened in that meeting.


Mahendra: Good Morning gentlemans. We are haveeng thees meeting today to find a solutions for thees problem.

Ravi: I suggest Grammar classes.

Mahendra: Excuse me Ravi! I was meaning finding the solutions for India losing the matches and the settling of dispute between the Greg Chappal...

Greg: Its Chappel mate!

Mahendra: That is what I said. As I was in the saying, the settling of dispute between Greg Chappal and Saurav Ganguly. That is why I have called Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar and Srinivas Venkatraghavan to help me find solutions. Let us start with Ravi. Give solution.Ravi:
Saurav, why did you go public with the issue involving you and Greg?

Saurav: Hmm, the boys did not play well today. It was a bad day in the office for us. The boys did not score enough runs nor take enough wickets. The boys...

Ravi: Saurav, I must remind you that this is not an after-match presentation ceremony.

Saurav: Uhhh, sorry Ravi. I...

Greg: He's practised that speech a lot in recent times.

Ravi: Greg, I would prefer it if this meeting went off peacefully.

Greg: Whatever, mate.

Saurav: Ravi, it irked me that someone would ask me to give up my captaincy despite me being the most successful captain for India.

Sunil: Yes Saurav, you are the most successful captain but that has nothing to do with you washing dirty linen in public.

Mahendra: Saurav, I didn't know that you wash your own dirty clothes. I was in the thinking that you gave it to the laundarary service.

Sunil: Oh God! It's a saying, Mahendra, like crying over spilt milk.

Mahendra: Oh, you mean due to water problems you are adding water to your milk by crying?

Sunil: Crying over spilt milk is an idiom!

Mahendra: You are calling me an idiot!!

Sunil: Uhhh, Greg, What do you think about this mess? I mean the spat between you and Saurav.

Greg: I feel that it was an issue blown way out of proportion. It was just a talk that I had had with Saurav dealing with team selection and it was a talk that should have been kept within the dressing room.

Venkat: Do you think that a coach can ask a Captain to step down?

Greg: Why not? If Saurav's not performing, he shouldn't play.

Saurav: Huhum, Excuse me Greg, I did score a century against Zimbabwe.

Greg: Mate, Geoffrey Boycott's mum could score a century against Zimbabwe..blindfolded!

Mahendra: Wow! Very talented mother. Mine is very good in the making of the aloo parathas. She also make good milk sweets. I think you will like them Sunil. It isn't made with the cried milk you were in the talking about.

Sunil: Oh...good.

Saurav: Greg, A century is a century, whether it is scored against Australia or whether it is scored against Zimbabwe.

Greg: You wouldn't score a century against Australia, mate. They are awesome when it comes to bowling short pitched stuff and you run towards square leg whenever you see a ball coming waist high or above.

Mahendra: Greg, you can't blame Saurav for that. They say they'll ball short pitch and they ball very high balls. Shouldn't they call it tall pitch balling?

Greg: I can see why Indian Cricket is in shambles.

Ravi: Saurav, you haven't performed consistently for two and a half years now and India hasn't been faring well too. Why should you continue to stay at the helm?

Saurav: The boys are not playing to their potential. They haven't performed when required but I believe that this is a temporary phase.

Greg: You didn't answer the question mate.

Saurav: I did Greg.

Greg: No, you didn't!

Saurav: Yes, I did!

Greg: No, you didn't!

Saurav: Yes, I did!

Mahendra: Ooo, this is vaery exiting.

Venkat: Exciting, you mean?

Mahendra: Yes, that is what I said.

Sunil: Saurav, why do you deserve to be Captain?

Saurav: I am the most successful Indian captain.

Sunil: You already said that.

Ravi: Remember Saurav, even good captains have an expiry date.

Mahendra: Even the Dates I had boughten yesterday had an expiry date.

Ravi: Saurav, give me a proper answer. There's no use beating around the bush.

Mahendra: Ravi, why are you breenging the George Bush into this? Let us stick to Cricket.Sunil gives a sympathizing look to Ravi.

Ravi: Saurav, tell me why you went public with your problems with Greg and why you merit a place in the Indian Cricket team despite your poor performance with the bat.

Saurav: The boys... Hmm... You know, the boys...I did score a century against Zimbabwe... Uhhh.. The boys?

Mahendra: I say, give him a life line. Phone-a-friend. Call Jagmohan bhai, Saurav.

Greg: Listen mates, Indian Cricket isn't going to go anywhere if we are going to be afraid to drop players just because of their past records. We need to be fair to all the Cricketers in India. You don't perform, you ain't gonna get picked. Simple.

Venkat: Greg, wouldn't it have been in the best interest of the team if you had kept this talk with Saurav after the tour was over? An unhappy captain is not good for the team morale.

Greg: A non-performing captain is also not good for the team morale!

Saurav scowls.

Mahendra: Excuse me Gentlemans, it is time for tea break now. We don't seems to be settling dispute here. Why don't we just shake hand and call juice?

Sunil(indignantly): You mean truce!

Mahendra: No I mean juice only. I am very thirsty.

This is just a mockery of what occurs in the BCCI conferences but I suspect that it is pretty close to the actual happenings. The BCCI is a pretty pathetic organization. I am not talking about the money making bit. I am talking about the way they handle problems. I also feel that instead of having honorary members they should have paid employees. The theory that “They should do it for the love of Cricket” is just bs. The truth is you get more work and better work done if you pay your workers and the BCCI aren’t in any ways short of money. As I read in a magazine recently, BCCI really stands for, “Board of Cricket Controversies in India”.

-by Mendelismental.blogspot

Tsunami: Role of mega thrust confirmed......

The tsunami, unobstructed by landmass, was able to reach the Indian shores.

While people living miles away from the epicentre were killed, fragile marine organisms on the ocean floor close to the fault were left unscathed.

*A cliff rising for a height of 40 feet due to vertical displacement of sea floor found
*No signs of landslides found
*The vertical displacement of the seafloor runs for a length of 750 miles
*Discovery Channel will air the programme `unstoppable wave' on December 25 and 26 at 8 pm

The Tsunami, unobstructed by landmass, was able to reach the Indian shores.
ONE YEAR after the killer waves struck havoc that killed hundreds of thousands of people, the answers for what actually caused the tsunami have been documented by Discovery Channel. The study proved conclusively that it was a mega thrust — a large-scale rupturing and vertical displacement of the earth's crust — that caused the tsunami.
The Discovery team of 27 scientists had spent 17 days on board the ship The Performer in May this year in the Indian Ocean to explore the ocean floor off the coast of Sumatra to find the causal factors that created the unprecedented killer waves.
First time ever
This is the first time ever that anyone had ventured three miles beneath the ocean surface to find the answers and explore the effects of an earthquake soon after it had happened.
The India plate moving at the rate of 5cm every year is diving (subducting) deep under the Burma plate. The continuous subduction of the India plate results in stress build up in the Burma plate. Beyond a point, the stress that is built up is released producing earthquakes.
The team explored the areas northwest of the earthquake's epicentre as the seabed had moved the most in this region during the earthquake. "After surveying these areas, we found evidence that the seafloor had been lifted by nearly 40 feet," noted Prof. Kate Moran, the lead scientist of the expedition and a professor at the Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, U.S.(NDTV)
Good possibility
The Discovery Channel team spent the first few days looking for signs of landslides. "A shallow focus earthquake (10 km below the seafloor) and having a magnitude of 9.3 has a good possibility of triggering landslides," pointed out Dr. R.K. Chadha, Scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad.(INfo. frm THe hindu)
"Our task was to see if landslides (on this mountain chain) were also caused and if so, to ascertain if they were of recent origin (caused by December 26 quake)," said Dr. Baban Ingole, Marine Biologist at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa.
Dr. Ingole was the only Indian scientist on board The Performer.
Large earthquakes cause vibrations or massive ground shaking that liquefies and turns the sediment found on the mountain chain into a fluid. Scientists expected to find many underwater landslides, but found none.
The scientists did find some evidence of landslides such as fractures and debris that had moved down from the mountain chain. But all these features ultimately turned out to be older and not caused by the December 26 quake. Another evidence was the one-metre long umpellula, a deep-sea animal looking more like a plant and found on the seafloor. The umpellula being a fragile animal, would have been destroyed by landslides, had there been any, caused by December 26 quake.
The team of scientists also found many sponges growing on the ocean bed. The team found that umpellula was much older than the December 26 quake; the landslides were not of recent origin.
Deep sea undisturbed
The umpellula study tells another tale altogether. Fragile marine organisms so close to the fault were left intact; humans, flora and fauna thousands of kilometres away from the epicentre were destroyed by the killer waves.
Ocean bottom in the deep sea is placid and tsunami waves are but only ripples they are generated and move away from the epicentre at a speed of 750 km per hour at a water depth of 5000 metres.
With no trace of landslides seen, the scientists turned their attention to find evidences of the vertical displacement of the crust caused by the mega thrust. Large-scale vertical displacement of the oceanic floor should leave behind many trails. And the expedition team found many. On the ocean floor, the team has recorded many cracks that serve as indicators of seafloor movement. But the clinching evidence is the vertical wall of the cliff that rises abruptly from the ocean floor directly above the fault line for a height of 40 feet.
The recent origin of the vertical displacement of seafloor comes from the rough saw-toothed edges seen at the top of the cliff.
The rough edges would have been smoothened had it not been of recent origin.
The 40-feet vertical displacement of the seafloor runs for a length of 750 miles. "We had predicted the vertical movement of the seafloor to have happened in the first 500-odd kms of the fault though rupturing had happened for a length of 1300 km," Dr. Chadha said.
Coral proof
Another proof of the vertical displacement comes from the islands formed by the mountain chain jutting out of the ocean at some places. The mountain chains are in turn formed as a result of volcanic eruptions along the subduction zone. These islands have coral reefs growing in shallow waters.
The vertical shift of the seafloor lifted the mountain chain and in turn the islands. It has been recorded by other scientists and the Discovery team that large tracts of coral reefs now lie above water and exposed in these islands. Some areas in the islands have been pushed up by about 10 feet, the team found.
Apart from confirming the causal factor, the scientific expedition has also come out with a model to predict which areas are prone to tsunamis and how badly they would get affected. Discovery Channel is airing the programme `unstoppable wave' at 8 pm on December 25 and 26. It is by far one of the well-documented scientific evidences of a vertical displacement of the crust that caused the tsunami.

HA!A nice retort i got!lol.

A Tsunami? Again??? of so much magnitude??? not a chance....... It is not even remotely possible for sooo many ppl to die again due to a tsunami in In dia COZ DA PLATES HAV TO REFORM!!!!!! And even if it does originate, the communication system will let one country warn the other country...... Yes, the plates are reforming and INdia will definitely experience more eatrhquakes coz the Himalayan Regioin is still a growing mountain region and that fact is accepted....Another tsunami affecting India..........Scientists the world calls them..fools i call them!

My fantasy with numbers.........

7 things I can do
Sleep
Sleep
Did I say sleep?
Eat
Be the most boring person on earth...
Eat
and again Eat

Basically Im a very borin person.......

7 thigns I plan 2 do
Learn to dance
Learn the saxaphone
Study one day for sanskrit
Watch a football match live
Eat
Sleep
I need to use da loo....

7 things i cant do
Sing
Stop sleeping
Stop eating
Stop talking
READ.Noooooooooooooooo
Watch sun music (rightly described bade no.)
Sit next to romeet and not doze

muahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

OUCH!

50 Reasons why.............

..........I must b da most jobless person alive........

The first you would associalte with

1. Red : Love
2. Blue : The ocean
3. Yellow : The sun
4. Pink : Gurlz
5. Black : My clothes
6. White : The shirt im wearin
7. Dictionary : Huge
8. Bed : zzzzzzzzzz........
9. Tv: Desperate housewifes(im watchin it)
10. Cats: Karan
11. Cellphone : Mine(busted)
12. Love: ummm..................
13. Eyes : Bipasha Basu
14. Exam : sleep
15. Fish : Tawa fish at Presidency club
16. Shampoo : bathroom
17. Mcdonalds : IM hungry!!!!!!
18. Car : My new Ford fiesta!!!!!
19. Fruit : Banana
20. Tatoo: painful sharp needle, Mathy
21. Holiday: ummm....the movie?
22. Bye: uhh....bbye
23. Dream girl: hehehehe......
24. Dream boy : ummmm..........
25. Nail polish: puts me off........
26. Ball point pen : blue
27. Shopping: Somebody put a restraining order on me.........
28. Chicken : yummm
29. Chocolate : double yumm...........
30. Powder: makes me sneeze
31. Time : 14:07
32. Mouse : Hrishi`s voice!!!!
33. Hell : My brother
34. Juice : Watermelon.............
35. Perfume : paris
36. Computer : eeeeeeeeeeee!!!
37. Club : Squash
38. Food : wen did i eat last??
39. T-shirts : Oh dont remind me of my cupboard........
40. Pjs : zzzzzzzz..........
41. Essays: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........
42. Ring : phone
43. Superhero: ME!
44. Singer: Jlo
45. London : i wanna go........
46. Belt : black
47. Necklace : Geeta parthasarathy
48. Winter : snow perhaps......christmas!!!!!!
49. Me: Jobless freakazoid writing all this.......
50. And you: Worse than me to actually read all this!!!!!!!!

HA! I SHOT VEERAPPAN!!!!MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Trinity College Grade 8

I jus received my mraks! I got 83% in my grade8 keyboard exam.......thats like 99 in the 10th board exam maths!!!!!!!!!Ha. after this its only Diploma in music n i can bcum a keybrd examiner!!!!! So after this...................... its the highest mark in India!

Deres too much to say newyaz...................

Are there angels?

It is said there are Angels
In Heaven above
And they shine with the light
Of an inner love

Of these things
I had not a clue
But that was
Before I found you

For in you I’ve found
A love that is so right
It shines all around
With the brightest of light

It comes from somewhere
So deep within
That it has no beginning
And knows no end

Your love is a light
That brightens each day
Of all of the people
You see on your way

Where ever you go
Or whatever you do
All see the love
That you have inside you

That God sent you here
To a place where you’d be
Sharing such love
With someone like me

Lucky No.5

Five things I`d kill for
A Korg Triton
My bathroom
Brownie with ice cream
I-pod docking system
Jennifer Lopez

Five things always in my pocket
Happydent
My I-Pod
Band-aid(for sum weird reason, i always carry it)
Money
Torch


Five things I wud never do
NEVER GO OUT WID MA PARENTS
sleep b4 12
miss watching vh1`s fabulous life
watch a vijayakanth movie
Eat at Ratna`s Cafe

Five places i wud escape to
Hoganakel(TN-karnataka border)
My room
Sri Perumbadur(hope i spelt it right)
Grt`s Tempole bay
my dad`s office

Make way for me!

Hey ppl.....i hav cum 2 da conclusion dat blogs r fer ppl hu hav nutin to do n i therfore signed up right away! Dey call me Vikram, Talented actor, musician by nature, dashing gud luks....charming smile!! okok bak to reality....well i hope this attempt at blogging is succesful! so lets get started.........