I haven't seen God but I did see Charlton Heston

Its an honor to watch you in the movies and its an honor to know about you Mr. Will Penny

my guppies in my apartment started breeding

we saw 4 little mini guppies in our fish tank day before yesterday.

i guess our female guppy started delivering babies on wednesday.

now the males are continuously harassing the female and hence I separated the males and put them in a bucket.

anyhow its delivery time in my house now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cleared my MCTS 70-432 exam

yes finally.
After 8 years of experience on SQL Server I've attended Microsoft Certification exam today and cleared it.

So now I am a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in SQL Server 2008.

My next levels which I may attempt are:

70-457 - Transition MCTS to MCSA SQL Server 2012 Part 1

70-458  - Transition MCTS to MCSA SQL Server 2012 Part2

The next question is - Is 206 AUD worth for each certification?
I might give them a go later.

plagiarism at its best - chandramukhi's original(manichitrathazhu) is a copy of Kudrat (chetan anand's classic)

Its sad that many of our indian movies are remakes of some other movies in different languages.
What saddens me most is when our own indian movies plagiarize our own movies of a different language.
This was what happened with the great Malayalam movie, Manichitrathazhu (shobhana, mohan lal, suresh gopi; written by Madhu Muttam and directed by Fazil and released in 1994


This movie was later remade into "chandramukhi" starring rajani kanth, prabhu and jyothika which was a huge success.


The fact is that the original version of Manichitrathazhu is a copy of the Hindi classic called "Kudrat" written and directed by the master director, Chetan Anand; rajesh khanna, hema malini and vinod khanna are the actors in this movie. this was released in 1981.


I just watched Kudrat and the performances by rajesh khanna and others are too good and by the time the interval is over I came to know that this is similar to Chandramukhi.
In fact hema malini's character name in the movie is Chandramukhi.

I am not sure if the original writer, Madhu Muttam gave credit to our great Chetan Anand or he just copied the story and made crores. 
Anyhow I wanted to highlight this to the people to know that Chandramukhi's original is not a master piece but infact a copy of Chetan Anand's classic.

Big business; Outsourcing a Country's Democracy

This perfectly suits Indian Democracy, looking at the current state of affairs.

Murders, Rapes, crimes, Mafia, corruption, rising prices, poverty,  "babudom", inefficient bureaucracy and so many unsolved problems still exist.

Then the next question comes to who would be the most eligible organization to take over this mammoth task.

I strongly feel no other company matches the skills and the past successes of East India Company (UK).

Hence I urge the UK government to pitch in and look out for this business option.

How about a 100 billion Pounds for this deal?? 

I know we, Indians have enough money for this; even if we pledge 5% of our country's gold that is more than enough to convince Britishers to accept this lucrative offer.

There is no other nation which has such a strong military order, a highly efficient bureaucracy and a commanding presence other than the UK.

Dear MR. David Cameroon,

       Can you please accept my sincere request to bid for an outsourcing deal with India and save all of us Indians from further grief? we would definitely rethink to renew the 5 year contract to a 10 year one after the first term ends.

A new proverb

This sounds silly but I want to record this in writing so I can smile whenever I come back and read.

"All the wood/trees/sticks which lay aside help the fire when there is one but when we attempt to put off the fire nothing comes for help".

This means everyone and everything comes and aggravates the destruction but during reconstruction no one comes for help.

Poverty is not only about money

I am poor and I can justify that; 
How many are poor in my country and in other parts of the world?
How are they poor? by birth? 
by age and living standard?
In most of the cases a person is categorized as "poor" by the amount of money he is earning and the standard of living!
I would say there is one more criteria; the amount of work one has;
Yes I am way far poorer than millions of my country citizens because I don't have work to do. I am poor by work.


There are millions and if you go by the statistics, an estimated 37% of Indians fall below poverty line; the assumption is that poverty is calculated based on your daily wages and the monthly income.
What about work? how many of these millions of people don't have work?
What about the remaining 63% of people in India? Are they all working? 
Do we have statistics to show how many of them are poor by work? 
Now comes the difficult question; there is no standard or criteria to identify how much a person works each day; then how can we actually estimate this poverty?
No nation becomes developed just by money; it takes decades and probably centuries in some cases to change the standard of living of people. Its no mean task.


When an estimated half the young population (20-30 years) of your country are just free (my own take), how can you achieve growth? 
When more than half of your middle age population are free (30-50 years), how can you aspire for a new India?
Yes I am complaining here; I am part of the problem and I know it; what I don't know is how do I alleviate it? 
Hope Aamir Khan reads this blog and highlight this in one of his satyameva jayate episodes.
There are many people in my country who goes to office just to spend half of their days with tea/coffee/lunch breaks (including me???); there is no real reason for it; its a more complex thing to analyze why a person is free during office hours.


I don't blame our policy makers or politicians for this; some of them are after all doing something if not completely good either for themselves or for the nation.
People should work; we all should work and build our nation; because of the globalization impact each nation is now becoming an immigration hub; after another 30-40 years you wouldn't say Australians live in Australia; After a century probably Britain would lose its identity of a country where majority would be English.
It happens with every other developed nation sooner or later.


The real problem is still not known and a part of the solution is with us; its an organization's failure to keep its employees free; its a nation's failure to keep its citizens unproductive; its a family's failure to see their children roaming and passing time; And finally its a personal failure on each individual to see himself/herself sitting idle and doing nothing.