what does 100 stand for ??

A little bit of politics. Do you know that there are
100 elected criminal politicians in the Federal Parliment of India??


How I wish that I could stand them all up in a straight line and mow them dow (Thats the devil in me speaking) ... all I am going to do is pray for now ... till I can get them to stand in a straight line.

NoViCe

International terrorism ...

Well the bush administration has doubled the number of deaths due to terrorism for last year to 625. I don't know if this estimate is an accurate one, (I think there are more deaths in India alone) but it does pose a question on the nature of enemy we are fighting. Gone are the days when the 'enemy' was a fellow nation state, the new 'enemy' has no such defined stature. Terrorist are various things to various people, some even call them freedom fighters and martyers. The latest major incident is the attack by chechen rebels in Russia which has left scores dead. The Russian Government calls them terrorists (which is obvious from the tag "rebel"), but for such an attack to be possible and for the movement to be sustained there has to be some other driving force ... a force we can only debate about ...

NoViCe

P.S : This was posted before in a different blog of mine

The joys of job hunting

Come to think of it I can't think of any. My job search has now exted to almost a month. I havn't been interviewed yet, that part will come once I finish my DB2 certification. Right now all I do is get read the DB2 handbook, work on the computer (I know people who know me would find that hard to believe) I do have my distractions, Harry Potter, Astrix, sleeping and last but not the least eating.

The long hiatus - 3

This is after the short hiatus. Life isgoing on pretty hectic what with learning DB2 DBA and trying to find a job. Continuning on with my tale ...

Meeting Charley

Following the graduation me a few friends of mine decided to go on a trip of florida. Nature did not take kindly to our plans and decided to send Mr. Hurrican charley our way. Undeterred as only the young and foolish can be we went ahead with our plan. It was quite an event full journey. I saw more of florida than in my entire two years there. The first port of call was Tampa, followed by Naples to meet John (My roomate who also happens to be a new bridegroom). Just as we reached Naples the evacuation order was given. We then decided to go to greener pastures ... the Miqusukee tribal reservation, where we were officially certified as Aligator catchers.

Or next station was going to be Key west with Homestead in between but aur attempts were thwarted by Charley. The course was then changed to go to Miami. The following morning we had wonderful and scenic drive down US highway 1 and A1A along the coast through Ft Lauderdale, West palm before we decided to meet our nemesis Charley at Orlando.

Charley struck Orlando 10 minuites after we found a shelter at Days Inn (this after searching for a place stay for almost an hour). We spent the night without current since Charley had decided that we didn't need it and struck the sub station right next to our hotel. I can't complain about it though, the wonderful green and blue spark when it struck the power line ... the tree flying across out window ... the low lying signal lights(maybe not that) ... the lightless restroom which had to be used with out closing the door ... and near lack of traffic on our side of the interstate as we left Orlando.

The final port of call was Perry, where Koshy annan got to strut off his guitar playing and singing abilities. It was whirlwind tour but it definitely was worth meeting Charley!!!!

The Strom Chasers

Koshy - Captain / Driver
Ulysses - Navigator with a limp
Akhilesh - The photographer / In house malayalee
Sandeep - Metrosexual / Guy who wants to be in the picture

Till Laters ...