THOUGHT VALLEY

Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

2011-02-13T14:42:00.002-12:00

If you want to build a artiller of ships, you don’t sit around talking about carpentry.
No, you set peoples’ souls ablaze with visions of exploring distant shores…

Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain

2010-11-04T13:17:00.002-12:00

Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer

2010-09-05T17:08:00.001-12:00

I know what is the most fascinating thing in this world; and i got a version of it in my own skull. How wonderful does that feel.... !!

Source: TEDTALKS

China overtakes Japan as the World's SECOND biggest economy

2010-08-16T15:58:00.005-12:00

Key points from the article:
China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy last quarter.

Japan’s nominal gross domestic product for the second quarter totaled $1.288 trillion, less than China’s $1.337 trillion

The country of 1.3 billion people will overtake the U.S., where annual GDP is about $14 trillion, as the world’s largest economy by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief economist Jim O’Neill.

China overtook the U.S. last year as the biggest automobile market and Germany as the largest exporter. The nation is the world’s No. 1 buyer of iron ore and copper and the second- biggest importer of crude oil, and has underpinned demand for exports by its Asian neighbors

The country remains a developing nation, with its

per capita gross national income ranked 127th in the world at $2,940

at the end of 2008, behind Angola and Azerbaijan, according to the World Bank

Source: BLOOMBERG

True and Tough Manly Movie characterizations

2010-08-07T11:22:00.022-12:00

Here are my personal recommendations of movies with strong and tough MANly characterizations.

Trying not to miss out any good ones that i might have forgot, i searched the web with the key words-'top manly movies' and i was disappointed to see the lists that came up had emphasis on movies with beefy actors and gun fights. So, I hope you see what this list is not about.

This is about the solid characterizations of men with inspiring manly body language. No Fuss, No Extra emotion, No Nonsense. I am having hard time finding the adjectives to describe the list. If you see what i mean, this one word is actually enough to describe the theme - 'MANLY'.

Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood

Gone with the wind (1939) - Clark Gable (As Rhett Butler)

Deliverance (1972) - Burt Reynolds (As Lewis Medlock)

Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Lot of them (Directed by Stanley Kubrick).

The movie that made me become a fan of Stanley Kubrick

God father (1972) - Marlon Brando

Schindler's List (1993) - Liam Neeson (As Schindler)

Gangs of New York (2002) - Daniel Day Lewis (As Bill the Butcher)

A Perfect World (1993) - Kevin Costner (One more of Clint Eastwood's)

A Few Good Men (1992) - Jack Nicholson (As Col. Jessep)

Sin city (2005) - Mickey Rourke (Marv)

Dana Veera Soora Karna, Missamma and a lot of other movies i can not recall right now-NTR

I know i didn't list any movies of Rober De Niro, Al pacino, Sean penn, Stallone etc.., May be in the second list.

Did i miss out on any good ones ?

World Economy - A Map based on Economic Status of Countries

2010-07-31T16:41:00.007-12:00

World economy cartogram. To highlight the distribution of wealth and power in the world of today, this cartogram sizes the countries according to their relative financial status, here presented through gross domestic product (gdp) per capita, offering an alternative world view to a regular map.

Countries such as China and India become much smaller, next to giants in Western Europe, North America and Japan. Africa represents a minor speck, while South and Central America lands somewhere in between.

Source: ENVIRONMENTTIMES

Julian Assange of WikiLEAKS

2010-07-27T13:36:00.005-12:00

Internet activist Julian Assange serves as spokesperson for WikiLeaks, a controversial, volunteer-driven website that publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct.

Source: TEDTALKS

Is there a hole in the plot of 'Inception' Or am i missing something here?

2010-07-25T16:00:00.018-12:00

what follows is my understanding of the chronology of subject's state of mind and his perceptions during the length of the story. From what is being presented in the movie, i see that the objective of Dicaprio's team was not actually met!! Why i think that way would hopefully be apparent towards the end. May be i am missing some point but please feel free to comment.

Objective of DiCaprio's team:
Implant a new idea/thought in the mind of Subject at Level 0.
That is- by the end of the process, the subject in Level 0 should be aware/know with authenticity, about a NEW important information 'xyz' previously unknown to him; and backed by a reason strong enough to believe it is true

Subject's/Victim's(Cillian Murphy) State of mind:

Level 0:
Traveling with bunch of guys in a plane.
Duration of journey is 10hrs.

Level1:
Doesn't know that he is dreaming.
He thinks it is real world.
Inception team is his enemy and is harmful to him.
His Godfather/Advisor(Tom Berenger)is a good man.

Level2:
Initially doesn't know that he is dreaming.
He thinks it is real world Later, Dicaprio convinces him that,
-this is a dream world, where his godfather is trying to extract info from him and Level 1 is the actual real world.
-and that subject's Godfather knows some very important info relating to Business empire, which need to be extracted from him.

Subject friends with DiCaprio's team.

Level3:
Knows he is dreaming. But still thinking that Level1 is real world, Level2 is Dream and now thinks he entered into Level3 which is the Dream of his Godfather(Berenger), to extract some valuable info.

Level 4:
Dead/Inanimate
Ms.Page gives him a kick so that he could wake up/go live and continue on with his work back in Level 3

Level 3:

Now he extracted valuable info from the subconciousness of Berenger.
Goes through some Father-child emotion and changes his future direction.
(From Dicaprio's perspective, New thought implanted into Subject's mind.(But notice new thought which is real with respect to only Level1 subject but not Level 0 subject ))

Level 2:
Knows he is dreaming.
Thinks he is Just one level from Real world which for him has been Level 1.
Thinks that with the help of his friends, he successfully extracted some valuable info(previously unknown to him) from his godfather's dream

Friends with DiCaprio's team
Equipped with New info he extracted from his god father's dream

Level 1:

Friends with DiCaprio team.
Thinks he is back to real world with the new thought carried from his Godfather's dream to Intermediate dream to real world.
Ready to implement the thought in this Level 1 real world. He is not aware of the existence of any Level 0.

Level 0:

No relationship with Dicaprio team.
Just Remembers about the new thought as a part of the dream(s) he had. But he comes to know that he Level 1 is just a dream but not real world .The new throught is not from a real world experience.

(This is the transition i would like to question. The movie doesn't show what the subject was thinking when he is back to this level 0. Everyone starts walking as if objective was achieved )

what's not convincing is:
The subject thinks that he just had a normal dream of his own, not shared by anyone else, and that all new thoughts were part of his own dream, But not part of some REALLY planned extraction from his Godfather(as in deeper levels) at Level 0, which means there is no authenticity associated with the new thought he now has at Level 0.
But for the Subject who lived in Level1, yes since it is real world to him he would have followed the thought that is being implanted into him. Because at L1, he was aware, that he had really shared dreams with others and came to know about some info from subconscious of other people.

But isn't the objective of Dicaprio team is to implant the idea with authenticity, into the mind of subject in Level 0 ? The subject would not follow the implanted idea in Level 0 because, he knows that the idea belongs to Level 1 which he consciously considers as his own dream, meaning DiCaprio team's objective is not met.

Am i missing something?

My original thoughts on Real Life and Virtual Simulation

2010-07-24T17:03:00.009-12:00

If humans at level 1 can create a virtual world(level 2) which is as real as and indistinguishable from Level 1, How can the Humans at level 1 say that they are not part of virtual world that has been created by someone in Level 0 ?

A rough description or an instance of my notion reflecting the above statement

I had this notion originally occurring to me and growing in my brain, though a bit fuzzy, since my adolescence. But i see that the idea already has different manifestations running through some fellow human brains already. When i heard about Bostrom's trichotomy i was shocked to see the similarity of his notions to thoughts of mine, but also at the same time felt elated that i had in essence the same idea that occurred to a scientist/philosopher, originally occurring to me. The same interesting thing, i observed, is the common conceptual thread that runs across movies like Matrix, Thirteenth floor, Inception. Who would believe me anyway, I am just an other Mathematics lover from India, currently after money.

Inception: my opinion on the movie

2010-07-24T16:51:00.005-12:00

Waring: the comments might contain some specific refences to plot details and might spoil your experience while you watch the movie. Reading after watching recommended.

Using virtual Immersion (In this movie, the virtual world is Dream happening in the brain of the person instead of a External simulation like in the movie Matrix) just to steal Information from a Rich guy !!! WTH ??

One smart concept wasted on one dumb motivation.

This is not a sci-fi movie if you interpret the word sci-fi in its true sense. I've read a review about this movie and christopher Nolan, in one popular media source- that went something like.."....Stanley Kubrick would have been proud". I say -"Kubrick would have regretted for being so less understood about his dedication to purity of presentation of a sci-fi concept (like in the movie -2001 space odyssey)". Actually, this could be a very good test that you could give to yourself to find out whether you like the sci-fi movies for the respect of pure novelty in science element or for how good they stimulate your emotions even at the expense of week rational justification of motivation for the whole plot. I fall in former and i believe Human emotion should just be a part of the sci-fi plot but not overcome the novelty of science element (Human emotion got greater weight in the movie but then christopher nolan didn't say that Inception is going to be a Non-commercial movie)

If a movie demands 2 hours of continuous attention, that doesn't mean there is two hours of worthy stuff. The concept underlying Matrix has far more potential to be projected in a complex manner by giving some convincing justifications for going deeper into three or four levels of simulated worlds. I am glad the makers of matrix stuck to just to one level and have given more importance to explaining or justifiying the motivations that drive the creation of virtual world, Matrix.

Anyway again, One smart concept wasted on one dumb motivation and on excess weight to human emotion over novelty in science element.

Whale onto the boat

2010-07-23T05:30:00.006-12:00

A 40-ton whale flipped into the air and smashed the mast of a 33-foot boat off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The couple on board was not injured, but their boat was wrecked. The whale then slid down the boat and back into the water. There are reports the boat was harassing the whale prior to the attack

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/

Focussing sound

2009-01-31T08:35:00.001-12:00

Wonder who discovered computer

2008-04-14T14:36:00.006-12:00

Context:
Today we got to listen to a guest lecture by a guy from industry. He said he has an aggregate 29 years experience ranging over from dba to data warehousing to SAP.There were like 40 ppl in the class, including 3 indians, me inclusive.

When he first mentioned the word DBA, everything was OK. when he mentioned Data warehousing, some 10 pairs of heads looked at each other, wondering if the other head had ever heard of it. When he mentioned SAP, one guys popped the question, whats that?.. (ohh...BTW, graduates made 25% of class strength)

the three indians: !!!!!!$$$ :):):) [in that order]

i wondered, assuming no fundamental technology breakthrough in next 10 years, what indians would do to US IT labor market.

Break brothers....

2008-02-12T13:55:00.003-12:00

Source: Sidhu's Blog

My tango darlings

2008-02-12T13:31:00.001-12:00

Source : Sidhu's Blog

A Wild Hypothesis- Simulation of Life

2007-12-26T22:39:00.002-12:00

Source: Self
Genre: Science / Science-fiction

Don't miss the parts with the headings - "The paradox" and "The Question"

Let's consider a point in time when human race has reached a superstate, by which i mean there couldn't be any further improvement in terms of technological infrastructure. what could be a question which might still be left unanswered?

A decent prediction would be the question about 'The future'.Estimating it precisely and giving a systematic approach which can calculate it.

Idea:

Now, Given enough technological power to deal with this question, Simulation could be an answer to this. Because, if you create an exact scenario as it was in the past; and running the simulated world in time faster than our real world time (like 100 years in simulated world happen in just one sec or less in our real world), we can come across all the evolution phases, life has come across precisely.

C0nstant validation of solution:

We can even validate this model because, given the model we've created at the t=0 is 100% accurate, it should follow that the process happening in simulated world after some time should reflect at least conceptually what we as humans have experienced. If we find that simulated model doesn't correlate with actual world process at any point of time, we may decide we've started out with wrong initial conditions(but since our assumption is that we have the ultimate technological prowess, the possibility of going wrong here is not considered).

The paradox:

Now with this model running successfully, and pace of simulation set at a rate such that all of the evolutioin of life in simulated world happens in single realworld day (which might actually take billions of billions of years in simulated world), the creators of simulation should be able to see what exactly has happened to human race in the past..like how it evolved from whatever it started out with;

Suppose, that there are a N number of humans who were involved in this simulation project; sticking to the accuracy of the simulation model, it is a must that the N scientists should be able to see in the simulated world some N number of scientists in simulated world trying to simulate a new world with their intention too being- "to predict and define systemactially the future of their world".

The question:

Now the question is, how could the real world N scientists and all the humans in the real world say they are actually real?, according to model they have created, they have clearly proved that the ultimate endeavour of the people of simulated world is to find their future course and for that they have resorted to a "simulation", which should prove that we the real world humans ourselves should be a part of simulation run by a higher level world which is trying to find it's own future. !!!!

According to this concept, i wouldn't hesitate to say that in any point in the time in the future, if humans are able to acquire the capability to simulate the real world on such a scale that they can see the simulation of life running exactly as expected, it might be a irrefutable truth that there exists a world on a level higher than us, the ppl of which are simulating our human world to seek the answers about their own future.

Note:

Now in the above concept i've assumed the ultimate endeavour of humans is to know their future. Even by replacing this question by any other important and hard question the hypothesis still holds.

All the efforts to refute the above theory are most welcome.

Black and White collection

2007-12-26T21:50:00.001-12:00

Source : Web
Genre : Visual pleasure

some of the most influential images (Source: Life magazine & others)

2007-09-30T06:22:00.000-12:00

Genre: Historical collection
1. America hasn't always been the way it is today...

Migrant Mother 1936

This California farmworker, age 32, had just sold her tent and the tires off her car to buy food for her seven kids. The family was living on scavenged vegetables and wild birds. Working for the federal government, Dorothea Lange took pictures like this one to document how the Depression colluded with the Dust Bowl to ravage lives. Along with the writing of her economist husband, Paul Lange’s work helped convince the public and the government of the need to help field hands. Lange later said that this woman, whose name she did not ask, “seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.”

2. One man versus the war machines

Tiananmen Square 1989

A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven weeks the people and the People’s Republic, in the person of soldiers dispatched by a riven Communist Party, warily eyed each other as the world waited. When this young man simply would not move, standing with his meager bags before a line of tanks, a hero was born. A second hero emerged as the tank driver refused to crush the man, and instead drove his killing machine around him. Soon this dream would end, and blood would fill Tiananmen. But this picture had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope.

3. Segregation in United states..,

Birmingham,Alabama 1963

For years, Birmingham, Ala., was considered “the South’s toughest city,” home to a large black population and a dominant class of whites that met in frequent, open hostility. Birmingham in 1963 had become the cause célèbre of the black civil rights movement as nonviolent demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. repeatedly faced jail, dogs and high-velocity hoses in their tireless quest to topple segregation. This picture of people being pummeled by a liquid battering ram rallied support for the plight of the blacks.

4. The picture says it all...

Nagasaki 1945

Nothing like the mushroom cloud had ever been seen, not by the general public. It was a suitably awesome image for the power unleashed below. On August 6 the first atomic bomb killed an estimated 80,000 people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There was no quick surrender, and three days later a second bomb exploded 500 meters above the ground in Nagasaki. The blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees and radiation destroyed anything even remotely nearby, killing or injuring as many as 150,000 at the time, and more later. As opposed to the very personal images of war that had brought the pain home, the ones from Japan that were most shocking were those from a longer perspective, showing the enormity of what had occurred.

5. It's not about what you believe....it's about how strong you are with what you believe..,

Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel

The defining portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential figures, almost didn’t happen, thanks to the Mahatma’s strict demands. Granted a rare opportunity to photograph India’s leader; Life staffer Margaret Bourke-White was all set to shoot when Gandhi’s secretaries stopped her cold: If she was going to photograph Gandhi at the spinning wheel (a symbol for India’s struggle for independence), she first had to learn to use one herself.

But that wasn’t all. The ascetic Mahatma wasn’t to be spoken to (it being his day of silence.) And because he detested bright light, Bourke-White was only allowed to use three flashbulbs. Having cleared all these hurdles, however, there was still one more - the humid Indian weather, which wreaked havoc on her camera equipment. When time finally came to shoot, Bourke-White’s first flashbulb failed. And while the second one worked, she forgot to pull the slide, rendering it blank.

She thought it was all over, but luckily, the third attempt was successful. In the end, she came away with an image that became Gandhi’s most enduring representation. it was also among the last portraits of his life; he was assassinated less than two years later.

6. The other extreme of human race ..,

This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

A Column from Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997

2007-09-27T12:23:00.001-12:00

Genre: Reflections on Life

Try skipping the first 5 to 6 lines at the beginning of text and start from the line- "Wear Sunscreen"... & If you are enthusiastic about how this text sounds with added multimedia, enjoy the video in the following post, with this text inspiring the lyrics for the video.
I've highlighted some of the sentences or paragraphs that i think have given the text, nice and touching finishes.

Source: A column from Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

Author of the text: Mary Schmich.

Name: Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who'd rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there's no reason we can't entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Graduates.

I encourage anyone over 26 to try this and thank you for indulging my attempt.

________ _________
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.

Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.

It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings.
They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Video and Lyrics inspired by the text above.....

2007-07-13T06:39:00.002-12:00

Mood to watch: Relaxed

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2007-07-13T06:39:00.000-12:00

Dollar versus Oil

2007-03-30T17:25:00.002-12:00

Source: Amateur Research over Web
Genre: International affairs

This friday afternoon when i was woking on my project a friend of mine asked me.... assuming my awareness to the current state of international affairs...."If US is gonna launch strike on Iran... in these circumstances....they would definitely go bankrupt"...... the words US and war and Iran (a new country now other than Afgh and Iraq) in succession sounded rediculous, owing to my preconceived idea...that....why the heck in this world US will go to war in the first place with Iran or whoever in these circumstances ?... and felt like this guy must be having no idea of what a war means ..... only later would i realize, otherwise...

What are the questions this writing addresses

Is US economy going to experience a drastic fall in very near future?

How possible is US-Iran war, irrespective of current & iraqi war burden on US?

Is it really possible for a middle eastern country like Iran to shake down the gloabal leader like US just with petro-weapon, in trade?

Before getting to the more interesting part of the issue, here are some facts....

Iran is the fourth largest producer of crude Oil in the world.
Iran is has the second largest natural gas reserves
& Fifth largest crude oil reservers on the globe.

What could this mean....

There are only two Oil exchanges on the globe one located in Newyork (NYMEX) and other in London (IPE) where all the trade realted to oil goes on. All the purchases whatever country that is involved should follow a policy that they should purchase oil only in terms of dollars and no other currency, the reason being that american oil corporates run both of these Exchanges.
What this means is that any country wishing to purchase oil,( ofcourse that is inevitable for any developing or developed country) should have huge reserves of US dollars beforehand in their treasuries. This very important factor consequently makes US dollar particularly strong in world market and thereby its economy very stable.

Now Iran, with motivations (which can make one other heck of a book content), against america is following very innovative plan of striking US, which involves taking advantage of US's dependency on foreign fuel.

Iran is planning to set up a Iranian Oil Bourse, which when established becomes the third Oil exchange on the globe. Iran is planning to set up IOB in such a way that all the transactions of Oil trade goes on in Euros but not on dollars(for that matter it is even considering Yen or in other words any non-USdollar currency). This means that all the countries which now have to maintain large reserves of Dollars no more have to do that. For the initial boost, IOB will obviously be giving price reduction like incentives per barrel which will drag every nation's interest towards this exchange. Russia is already backing Iran's intentions of independent initiatives, and the world except US would welcome iran's plans. Actually Iran would really have profit by doing this because, the proportion of oil it exports to Europe is much higher than it exports to US. So it does make sense that Iran making such a move, though the primary motives involving its bad relations with US, are obvious to everyone.

Should America be really concerned about this?
Well, the consequence of success for IOB implies a devasting effect on US economy. When world's nations no more have to maintain Dollar reserves the dollar value in international market obviously plummets. Given US's current debt, its economy would be bogged down into depression which some economic experts are forecasting will be the biggest ever after its 1930 economic depression (which we ppl would obviously have no idea of).

So, if US is really concerned about this theory then the only way it could get out of this situation is to launch an overt or covert attack on Iran making its plans of IOB impossible. Now US is showing Iran's nuclear moves as pretext for its anger towards Tehran. For you people, who feel that this is a bit exaggerated theory let me give some supporting stories.......

Some of the economic experts in advance to Iraqi war came up similar reasons for US war against Iraq. In 2000 Saddam became the first Middle-east leader to stop trading his country's oil in dollars and making Euro as the exchange currency. We all know what is the story that followed and what the US reaction is, ofcourse since US can't get into a nation saying that the country is not acting in line with US's intersts, it showed nuclear and some secret weapon operations as a threat to the world and atacked it. Ofcourse there weren't any such weapons found in Iraq, we know that US never gave explaination to its actions. One important thing worth consideration here is that if US was really concerned about offereing freedom to Iraqi people from tyrant like saddam, in what way reverting the oil exchange standard from Euros back to Dollar will help?....Yes, thats exactly what happened immediately after Iraqi war. US reverted back the policy of trading Oil from Iraq in Euros set in by Saddam to that in Dollars and this thing hasn't been made clear officially for quite a length of time.

So US war on Iraq....is it to save iraqi people or to save american interests?

The Impasse...

US might be at verge of an inevitable slow down of economy at minimum for definite. Even if the US attacks and stalls the establishment of IOB, by attacking Iran (it can't fully occupy a nation like Iran in current situation since its already spending $100,000 per minute on Iraq, and it will be foolish to go to full fledged war with a nation which is atleast 3 times bigger in size and population than Iraq.) the current supply of oil from Iran will stall for definite..... to give you a sense of situation, just a little rumor that there is an clash between US and Iran navy boats in gulf will rise the barrel price form 60 dollars to 70 or more......which has the enough potential to tremble world's economy....and if US atacks Iran.....economists say the price per barrel would hike up to 100 $ or some specualate as high up to 200$......which is other way of saying there is going to be inevitable global depression..... Obviously all the industrialised nations and developing nations are aware of this situation and this time thinking pragmatically, would(should) very strongly oppose US war on Iran, since the result directly effects the economy of every nation which is dependent on Oil(No wonder oil trade manages the biggest market of the current world).

Either way US seem to be in impasse...... whether to make a move against Iran or not to.

ten minute thought flow......

2007-03-29T15:50:00.000-12:00

Source: Self
Genre: Miscellaneous (personal)

Hmm...i tried to sth which makes sense on this blog....but haven't dared ...due to the lack of proper motivation to direct me...

I want to make this blog popular....like...a reflection of my taste...so that the number of people turning and dropping in comments can act as a sort of metric to assess my taste from society's perspective....hmmm....vocabulary is building up pretty welll.....isn't it....ya...thats coz...am currently doing a part time job...which involves good deal of writing....along with some technical work.....so i guess my writing skills are building up strong....along with some athestic touch...

Ya...my thoughts are moving ....i should rather use the word....pouring i suppose......and my fingers are assisting them...to put them into english words fast on this page.....so before i change my mood let me put some of my current thoughts......

hmmmm.......

i'm getting this itch....to re-read what i have just typed.....because i'm dragged into feel like....i have made up pretty good sentences....and am trying hard to resist....myself from going through what i have just typed....because....if i do so....i will inevitably find some mistakes....or some sentences which might expose my basic character to some people....who tend to look at it more sharply........so when i find such mistakes....being a human....& teenager & and who has a bit of itch to impress people....still inside...........will strongly feel to edit the text.....so as not to be vulnerable in terms of just previously mentioned possibilities.......
the bigger problem would be that when i edit the text....the text is no more.....pristine or what u can also call virgin.....or original.......a primary motive for putting my thoughts in to text here.....

hmmm.....

of late i lost interest in my studies of second semester.....compared to the first semester....because of ......... i don;t want to get into ....it that makes another page of words......

so i have been surfing on web looking for interesting sites and news..... hey....did i tell u that....i'm getting interested in news of late....and also finding history fascinating....a behavious which has been surprising myself......
some intersting sites......were like...

www.blinkx.com

which is very much like...youtube and google videos but it appears that this site specializes particularly in news.......so i with my recent inclination to world wide events.....i found it naturally interesting......

another site...which i found have been cited in many of the websites...has been

del.icio.us

this is a good idea since it allows me to track my bookmarks.....which of late has been exploding in number..... online.... but still i find my local browser provided facility enough for my purposes....i think that i haven't yet got the tast of what this site is actually intended for....let's see about it in the future...

also have a look at the sites like.......

www.tv-links.co.uk

hey...forgot to mention.....i have seen a film "The excorcist" from 1970 s...but man !!!....thats a solid horror movie worth watching....and spending ur time on...... though the horror specific scence are few but the build up to those few scenes would be awesome......i rate it as one of the few films....when ur watchcing it for second time, retains the feeling you had when u saw it for the first time......

i still want to write a lot of stuff but.....one particular thing is strongly holding me back....i always believe that to talk about a thing...involving the words....like...."i ", you got to have some qualification.....like the capability to accomplish the things which you have started....and the things which you dream of....until you prove your living makes sense to yourself i don't consider a man to be man or a woman to be woman.......but a bit inferior......to put it mathematically......the value i give to the person is equal to the ratio of things he does to amount he talks or thinks of about the things he wanna do........i took up the ratio because........it is possible that a man who never accomplishes anything can have a value of one provided he keeps his speech and thought discussions to similar proportions ........

if right now i take that ratio......damn.....i will far less than 1 ...... i will hit back on this page.....when i feel that i'm in positive accelaration towards.... 1 or may be more......

hey..hey....i'm gonna get to read the whole text now..... i'm nervous..... .... ..........

One of the worst experiences of my life

2006-11-29T02:25:00.000-12:00

Source: Self
Genre: Miscellaneous (Personal)

Yesterday was the worst experience i had in the last three months that i have stayed in US.

I was to give a presenation on our term project in SW engg as a group and i got some 10 min to talk about the work i have done. The last time i talked before some 40 students and some 5 profs was in the last sem of my engg and i did beyond my expectations and that was kind of confidence booster for me for next one year or so.

With the same frame of mind I was under the impression that it is my natural talent to speak wonderfully, infront of any audience, which was utterly wrong as i proved it to me by myself.

I lacked the motivation to study this particular subject software enggineering, the major reasons being the subject itself i feel is not tuned for a student who hasn't yet had practical experience in real world software project execution and for a student who is looking for many number of challenges predominently in mathematical mood, will hate this subject to the best of his ability.

Adding poor interest shown by prof(so first of all should he be called 'PROFESSOR' ?) in the class, its a nightmare for guys like me.

In this context i went onto the stage to present my 10 min presentation. My content i guess was technically most interesting part of our group's presentation, coz i addresssed some issues which are of common concern to all teams and cuts across various technologies like DOM and AJAX.

I started out good, but suddnely i started self-concious about my language and accent and stopped the presentation for about 40 seconds abruptly with all the 40+ students, the prof and TA looking focussing their sharp looks at me...some of team members dropped their heads, some students tried to stop thier laugh coz they might have felt like its not a courteous gesture.
and worst part is prof himself behaved as if he is sitting on some horn chair waiting to see when our group's presentation is going to get over.....

I felt like i fell in an infinte loop and waiting for at worst part atleast an error handler, which can catch the exception raised so that i could restart my brain, but never build one into my mind such logic being too confident of my brain's software logic. The worst part began now as i started pretending as if nothing happened and went on saying some crap which is relavent but lacked continuity in thought flow, and sequence . I started stiching soem weird shirt with all different bizzare colors and what ever kind of cloth i can lay my hands on.

I didn't how much time i spend feeling like it and saying something which i don't know .
But my team leader came upto me....i didn't know why he cam up......whether he understood the problem and came up to help me get out of the situation or whether he felt like i'm ruining his team's presentation as a whole so get me out of there as soon as possible?....
but he whispered in my ear that i'm taking beyond the stipulated time.
I had one more interesting technical topic to present to harp mindlessly on, but with current position of mine i felt like its better to quit right at that moment coz as it goes on, it is more and more appearing to be standing in the middle of fire,....there ended my PRESENTATION OF SELF-CONCIOUS , FEARFUL, TIMID , MIND which upto this point of time do not know how to be firm and clear.

Since i felt it to be the worst experience i had in recent years, i couldn'd digest the fact that i could fail in doing something. Ya may be i am habituated to winning too many times, i realise how much it hurts more.... falling from great heigts rather than from a nominal height.
For the whole time after that even until now, i am realising what i am actually and what is my position in reaching a personality which i dream of and feel sometimes as if already i have attained it.

But immediately after the presentation when i went into shadows of my team members standing beside the stage..my client team partner, came up to me and appreciated me that i have covered a good deal of technical material and showed the gesture of "u did it great". That one guesture he showed taught me a lesson of life time. At that moment i realised how better u can make someone feel just by saying 'its alright , u have done great job', or a guesture of that sort , when they are in depression. I assure that they will never forget you in their lifetime.

All my friends replied back saying soothing words. I am basically a person who thinks that i do not need any kind of emotional support from any person in this world and i can stand alone on my own technically and emotionally and in every other sense. I assume that every person who is 2o year old is capable of taking care of himself completely and i often rate people low when i see them seeking support of any sort from other people. Being such kind of person, i never seem to understand my peer's problems and their miseries .I guess i have never paid much attention to other people's emotional feelings since i do not how it feels like when we are depressed.

But when my friends replied back to me immediately how low am i compared to thier moaral souls. They understood my problem so well that i realised how dumb am i compared to them in terms of understanding a friend's anguish.... Now i am in doubt again that how perfect a person shoule be to live in this world without an emotional support of some sort from a materialistic thing other than his own brain.

But still apart from all their consoling words i still feel what my team partner told me convinced me to go to sleep tonight. I am sure that the reason he said that is not becoz i presented well but to he understood what i'm going to feel immediately after such situation...
How can people be so good..what makes them so good...how do they learn to be so good.....
i learned bunch of lessons from what he meant by saying single sentence of text ....

Thank you Steven...

I don't how long this feeling is going to stay along with me.....
I might be avoiding all the faces that i have attended that meeting for the rest of my masters?...
or will i get back to previous rush and super confidence.....with touch of respect for fellow human's emotions?....
i will look back at this text after one year and see how amazingly different it could be or it couldn't be...

damn what is best way to learn colliquial english...and speak it fluently..... i hate not able to speak the english.... and express every kind of feeling i experience......