One thing I like the most about Mozilla Firefox (besides it being free) is the various innovative add-ons its got. It gets downloaded and installed in a jiffy. One such interesting add-on is ScribeFire

ScribeFire lets you blog without leaving Firefox or without logging in through your blog site. Its simple, just like a text editor and supports most blog sites including blogspot and wordpress. Its fast and efficient. Besides saving your loggin in time (as i call it). Even tags can be added to your post via this add-on besides offering a live preview and being user friendly. However I did some wierd stuff and clicked the Delete button to check it out and i found one of my posts gone! (Pity me!).Overall its a must try! According to me.

“Who is your role model?”.A typical teacher-to-class question.We were asked this question too and almost the whole class chorused with perfect coherence “Mahatma Gandhi” or “Sachin Tendulkar” (A typical class-to-teacher answer. I mean nobody would dare to deviate and say “Mumtaz” or “Mallika Sherawat” ie) be truthful). Personally I liked Gandhiji and Sachin very much. But were they actually my role models? I wasn’t sure. So till recent times I was that “spoilt brat” sans an idol.

Well,as a teenager living in Tamil Nadu meant I would hear a lot of AR Rahman on TV and radio. Most songs was awesome and all of us enjoyed it. The best aspect of his music was variety. Naturally he became my favorite. He dominated Indian music throughout the decade and even now. An indisputable champ even now to say the least. I didn’t know much about this Genius till about a couple of years ago. It was through orkut that I came to know about his early life. How tragedy struck their family when he was about 9years old, how and why he converted to Islam,what made him pursue music as a career.

We’ve heard of so many rags-to-riches stories, all very inspiring. But a more serious insight into this one made me wonder how many of us when in such financial crisis would pursue our true passion, what we love,what we desire?? Rahman could have easily become one of those infinite engineers or doctors and led an ordinary secure life. How many of us would risk studying music in Oxford under such family circumstances? Whether it was his commitment, talent or religious ways in life that made him what he is now, he seems tireless and humble to the core. One never gets tired of his music even those 1992 ones.

So finally, I can safely say I found myself a role model a differnet one and I’m proud to be his fan. Hail Rahman!

Meet The Singhsons, the Simpson’s Indian counterpart . I’m pretty sure you will like it. I mean, I certainly did. The transformation of the famous American household into a typical Punjabi family was stereotype but done pretty well (especially the Bart to Bartinder one was very hilarious!!!). Well,after all this video is sort of a parody to its original version and thats about it. Right, lets fancy this show becoming a reality and is telecast in Hindi (and hopefully the voices wont be those sick ones used in the dubbed versions of “The Power puff Girls ” and all those silly looking Japanese cartoons we get to see on Cartoon Network nowadays).

For those who don’t know, This is not but a mere cartoon, its a sarcastic portrayal of the North American home and deals with America’s favorite issues like School dropout rates, drug abuse, outsourcing, Teen pregnancies, Paris Hilton vs the Paparazzi and many more! The show actually requires a certain amount of Parental guidance. If such a thing hits the TV screen in our country, here are some things I’d love to see…

1. Our present leaders especially my favorites Lalu Yadav, Amar Singh, Mumta Banerjee, Bal Thackeray, Karunakaran and M.Karunanidhi as cartoons . Perhaps portrayed a shade better than those in our newspapers. (I hope they don’t miss the trademark cluster of hair protruding out of Laluji’s ears)
2. The big happy “Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham” type bollywood family (like in Ekta Kapoor soaps) with all those infinite Khans, Bacchans and Kapoors who put on their artificial smiles and start to get as bitchy as ever with their promos, blogs, guest appearances and what not!? The Simpsons had guest appearances as well. I remember episodes when great personalities like Abraham Lincoln & JFK appeared. Perhaps Mel Gibson could be replaced by Ram Gopal Varma, Paris Hilton by Shilpa Shetty and Arnold Schwarzenegger by guess who? Salman Khan!!! (The Desi way)
3. Hindu Gods. Again I’d expect the animation to be much better than the “Ganesha” and “Hanuman” type movies. Since this has to do with religion I don’t think the producers will be sarcastic about it at the cost of their butts. And still, we’ll have the Saffron Brigade fuming.

Well, my imagination is limited and even with all these I’m sure there wont be scarcity of controversies, sms polls and half hour specials in news channels. After all, at least it’ll be a break from the conventional Saans-Bahu type serials.

PS: I certainly had a good time thinking about and if u come up with better thoughts, feel free to share it through the comments!

I’m a die hard cricket fan. By die hard i mean i enjoy almost every aspect of the game. In the 90s and even till perhaps 2002, commentary (in English) was good and maintained some standard. Well, at least they had some command over the language. But, commentary faced its worst disaster when Mr Navjot Singh Siddhu came into the limelight.

His comments were sort of annoying and even stupid at times. The way he spoke was disgusting like a jackass(funny of course!!) but his twisted sense of humor evident in his “Siddhuisms” (a collection of silly phrases like “the ball swung like a banana“) made him world famous. Now something gives me the notion that the commentators these days drew inspiration from Siddhu which makes them sound awful. (Guess at least Siddhu ll be proud!!)

He should be, because whether it was Aamir Sohail exclaiming “there ees no doubt about it” (about what?? I’m sure even he doesn’t know) “Axcellent short” (read excellent short!!) and trying to put on an alien accent everytime he spoke, or Ramiz Raja calling every batsman (or bowler, even Umar Gul or Ashish Nehra for that matter…) who came to the crease “a clever operator” or “a cheeky customer” or some other weird commentator talking about Arun Lal’s toothache or Arun Lal himself trying to explain in the 16th match of the IPL.. “…in the 15 matches played so far, 10 have been won by teams chasing…another astonishing fact is that only 5 matches has been won by teams batting first!!!” (as if 15-5=10 is as he says…”astonishing”) or shouting “ Chris Gayle has smashed Agarkar’s two balls” …. they have all managed to eat our heads. No doubt about it indeed!

Its really strange how some people (usually girls) react to sentiments. Here is a very funny and stupid incident that happened long time ago. Now let me give u the background. This guy (ma fren) was a very very close friend to another girl (also me friend.I know this sounds stupid but anyway…) So there was this time when they decided to chat on line at about 5 in the evening. Everything was just perfect. At about 3pm in the afternoon the guy got a text message from her that she couldn’t come because she was tired after her daily work or something. Now our hero was a real rascal and he comes up with a brilliant idea. He just wanted to pass time and knew what a sentimental idiot she was… Well this is the text conversation that follows…

GUY: Hey! wat hppnd y u ignoring me???

GIRL:Hey no i’m sorry cant come…pl undt

GUY: Hmmmm i can undt…now i know ur attitude toward mee…u know that i cant come online after this…y u doin dis to me…

GIRL: Hey nooo… nothin lik dat…

GUY: Y r u acting frenship to me… i know u wont giv a damn bout me…this always happens i’m a looser u keep avoiding me (Btw he isnt such a person to whom u’d giv a damn about)

GIRL: Hey pl try to undt da…u know bout me…

GUY:  Yeah yeah i know bout u…u think im and idiot and stuff… u always do this to me…

GIRL: (A bit upset) What did i doo???

GUY:(As usual in a sick way!) u wont know mah value…i’m texting with tears in ma eyes (ROFL!)

GIRL: (Almost in tears) oh no but u know i cant na…. 

GUY: (Now this 1 is my personal favourite he’s sort of said “heaven” instead of “hell” just for the “effect” he later remarked…here goes) 

U wont realise ma importance da until i die!!! never ever even after i go to hell!!!  (Straight to the showpiece… phew!)

GIRL: (Dats it she couldnt take it anymore) Ok fyn…5:00pm gtalk!

GUY:

Well i dont know y she obliged eventually maybe outta sheer concern or maybe to make the sick idiot wailing guy shut up. Anyways, the guy got what he wanted (A good long chat with her) and what he deserved (A good 180 degree slap when they met in their school reunion)!!! 

PS: Sorry for the arbit sms slang used in the conversation

“Get up!!! Its 8:45 da”. This is the 1st thing I’vebeen hearing in the morning for the past month. (Well, what else do u expect after listening to incoherent chaats the whole night!!?). Anyway, i dont wanna go about on that coz that would require another blog. Comming back to the topic….I wake up @ 8:45 (and 10 seconds) look around until 8:47 (and 8 seconds) rush to those horrid bathrooms and return at about 8:58 (and 45 seconds). Now i try desperately to tame my ruffled hair and rush to our mess (”People who not just cater but care” ). But the problem is they wouldnt “care” to entertain us after 9:02 (and 17 seconds). Anyways most probably i would end up taking the back enterance into the mess. “Konjam seekrama vara mudiyaatha” the mess guy would ask at 9:04 (and 03 seconds). Then i’ve gotta take the supposedly washed plate and decorate it with the bread that is left, butter and the other dish (idly/dosa or the like). I find myself a seat beside my good buddies and as i start eating i pause for a moment (and 10 more seconds) and think-oh no! i forgot to skip the mess food!. By that time the bread in my hands would have crumbled. The only reason i woudnt call the food “s**t” or goarn ” it tastes like s**t! ) is coz we are emphasised to respect every morcel of food. I wonder what kind of respect the cook has for the food. Anyways i would gobble the food as fast as possible and run to get tea before 9:14 (and 35 seconds) else i ll miss it. And while leaving would meet the guy at the counter and order my “GOPI-65″ , ”SILLI SICKEN” or “VEG CHICKEN MASALA” !!!!

Nerds…hush!!! Starting a new blog the day before ones semester practicals indicates the amount of bravery, stoopidity and utter joblessness in every single (biological) cell of mine  . But to be frank i don’t think I’d do any good to myself studying and keeping by long term desire to go berserk at bay. So TADAAA… welcome to the blog of one more NITTwit who is getting baked in the scorching heat out here. Phew!!! Worse the centralised AC system for our i-labs are’nt doing any good. Now as i write i can feel the heat getting on to me and i’d bet my head phones that there wouldn’t be power when I go back to CORAL. Oh nooo!!! gotta go…or I’m dead at the chemistry lab tomorrow (Well so much 4 my “BRAVERY”!) …

PS: My headphones are soo valuable right now to meee!!! (SKAR get it???)