Voice your feelings

This is one another instance that i still remember and cherish within me...it makes me lost too....This incidence happened sometime just after my engineering. I was going for GRE training class in Bangalore and stayed in my aunt's house in vasanthnagar (near to the mount Carmel college). This place is the coolest plays in Bangalore other than jayanagar and mg road for a bachelor engineer to be in. The crowd of Carmel college was hmmmm......

i had the classes at 4pm and i used to catch a bus at a nearby place. That day it was raining heavily and i was standing in the bus stand. As it was afternoon, not many people were around. It suddenly started raining very heavily with gusty wind.And here was a calf stuck between. The poor and cute calf started missing its mom in the gusty wind. It required its mom's shelter and cried tirelessly calling its mom. Seeing the site na....i was completely lost. Couple of buses passed by and i never realized it. I was in pain seeing the plight and started praying, wish its mom listen. Wish god sends that special message to its mother. after around 1o min, the Cow its mother came running. Seeing its mother the calf started cuddling like anything. It was full of joy and its mom started giving love (as animals do) so much. It was really touching yaar. And first thing is i thanked god. It was still raining and both the cow and calf went to the nearby tree to take shelter.


Later i took the bus and went to the class. I was completly lost for couple of days remembering the incidence. Even today i am lost when i remember the incidence. I made me realise the beautiful gift the GOD has given "ability to talk". We as a human, can atleast voice our concerns. We have so many media via which we can share our thoughts and concerns. Like my blog article.

So lets voice our concern in the right way and not just that, talk politely and caringly with respect (which is tough :) )

And also our sweet sweet mother. No one in the world can be as caring as our mother.
She would take all the pain in the world and never let us know... and i guess during our college and learnning days, we get more irritated by her advice rather than appreciating.

Well Cow and Calf is also my favorite animal........

Cow, Calf and a Tiger

One of most emotional classes of my child hood was probably 3rd standard. I do not exactly remember the class. I guess it should be 3rd. This was a Kannada song that we had in our textbooks of Kannada language (language of karnataka). I guess the name of the song is "PunyaKoti". This was a song on Cow, Calf and Tiger. The song starts like "dharani mandala madya dolage....". the tone of the song was so touching and the story the teacher narrated was so emotional that at the end of the 1 hr class, i was crying.....:)
The story of the poem goes like this...(I remember we used to have a subject called Moral Science. This book was cool and my favorite subject as it had very nice short stories. Not sure whether we have it now) Enjoy the story
(taken from some article googlin)

It happened in a town called Karaamati (Or Teraavati, according to a different version). There lived a cow by name Ganga with a calf. Nearby was a forest, wherein lived a tiger. The cruel animal thrived on eating one cow each day. Everyday the cows would decide whose turn would be.

And the day arrived, when the turn of Ganga came. She gave a promise to the tiger that she would ready to be its prey for the day, but sought permission to come back after meeting the car and sisters for the last time. The tiger agreed.

And Ganga visited the manger for the last time. And she moved towards the forest area where the hungry tiger was waiting for the cow of the day. She wanted to see her calf for one more time, as she wanted to pour her love as much as possible. Ganga asks her sisters to take care of the calf during her absence. As soon as she reached home, Ganga hugged held the calf in her bosom, and told that no more milk will be available for the little one. The calf was innocent and anxious, and therefore asked what is the reason. Ganga explained that she is going to be eaten by the tiger and would not come back. The little calf offered to go in place of the mother, so that the tiger will have its food for the day, and mother can live on. But Ganga would not agree. She said that she is committed to the tiger for her turn on that day, and has to keep up the word. The little one insists to be eaten by the tiger in place of the mother cow. And Ganga again emphasizes on the promise made. Finally both the mother cow and calf together walk up to the tiger. As she was putting her steps on and on, her sisters, aunts and other relatives also followed her, to bid her farewell.

It was a touching moment. Tears rolled from the eyes of the cows. The tiger was looking on to the crowd of cows, the hugging scene and the dialogue that took place between the sister-cows. Even the tiger’s heart moved a bit and had a change of mind. It is said that the tiger decided not to eat the cows anymore, as the feeling of motherly love and care touched him closely. Tiger remarks that Ganga would be his sister, and the calf therefore becomes his niece. “Let us live together in peace” - the final statement of the tiger pulled the curtains down for the episode.

Like many other stories, this also is a moral story with a lesson. The lesson of love, tolerance, Non-violence (Ahimsa). Love between mother and child. Affection among sisters and relatives. Non-violence that the cows followed. Ahimsa that the tiger observed upon change of heart. The virtue of keeping up a promise is also demonstrated here. Sacrificing spirit of the little calf to take over mother’s place at a deadly moment is worth noticing. And the mother’s willingness to forgo the world to protect and save her baby too.

hope no one has cried at the end of the narration

Book Cricket

when i was kid, one thing that made my world was playing. And my parents rightly gave me all the freedom. I was also good in studies also as my sweet sister would motivate me (she was some kind of rare brains. always a topper). I used to think all the time about playing. And at 5 pm in the evening we friends use to gather in the ground near by. I was lucky enough to have 1o of my classmates in the same colony and also lucky enough to have the school very near my house (about 10 min walk) and also lucky enough to have a huge ground near by. I remember my mom praying as to when will i loose interest in sports whenever there was exams :).

My mom and dad used to not allow me to play and so did parents of my friend during exams. But as my smart from my childhood days, i used to find innovative ideas to play. This is one among them. The book cricket.

Rules:
Take a book with lots of pages.
Act as if you are reading the book :)
Now have a book and pen down the team members name.
As usual have a toss so decide who has to bat
Now open the book.
The page number of the page on right side decides on what the status of the ball is.
Every open of the book is a ball bowled.
The right side of the page always as an even page number 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 etc
2, 4, 6 and 8 are the runs. 8 is 1 run
0 means OUT
for page number 12, 112 etc consider only the last number (here 2)

rest of the rules are same as rules of cricket example: when 1 run is taken the other batsman gets to bat. when 6 balls are over, the next bowler can be considered etc

So this is another form of cricket which i used to enjoy, get addicted to and freek
entire book used to get over. tournaments would be played. world cup cricket would be played etc.

I used to always have my favorite player score some runs....How is that...Guess
Then my favorite player used to be Dean Jones. Simply because he was cool and one of the nest players of one day and a front foot player

Hope i am not spoiling others who read at work place

French Cricket

French Cricket is one of types of cricket we used to play when I was in grade 4th to 8th. We used to play during our lunch time. The reason :) we used to not get the bat, ball and wicket from our PT teachers.
So do we make the bat.....we used to have a broken bench wooden bat like piece. We used to keep this safe and hidden from the teachers so that they do not put it back to the store, So this was our bat. Then we used either bring the tennis ball in the pocket or make a paper ball. So we had all that we wanted.


OK....here is the rule of cricket.

• Have a bat , a ball, a team with few players :), and a small place
  
• Now mark a circle (1 ft: as much as one can stand)
• Now a person from the batting team comes and then stands within the circle
• All the members of fielding team are bowlers here. To start with one person can start from a certain point that we decide to throw the ball. (say from about a distance of 6-7 ft)
• The bowler need to do an under arm bowling
• And a batsman is considered to be OUT, if the ball touches the leg below the knee or a one pitch catch (for ball that pitches) or by any chance if he goes outside the circle
  
• The batsman is suppose to guard his knee and make runs
• Oh....i forgot how to make runs....Once the batsman hits the ball he needs to rotate the bat around him. completion of one round is a RUN, Batsman can rotate till the fielder completes the throw action
• Fielder who throws is the current bowler
• So what if the batsman forever guards his legs....(we used to have some time span for a team). if the ball gets lost or any delay is tracked. This is normally the area where we used to have fights
  

Tips and Tricks.
Place a bowler just behind the batsman, make the bowler throw in such a way that the
batsman misses and the batsman is exposed in danger.

This was a really nice cute title game. Wish we could still play in the company :)

Flying Objects

When I was small, a small cute little kid, I was a kid with lot of doubts. Really the crazy ones. Like Why the 'A' should be called as 'A' and why not B. why should the clock hand rotate clockwise, why there is a sound of tides when you close your ears.Why is not the hand static when your walking? and so many

I would always gaze at my dearest sky and the wonderful tiny little stars. My granny (like all grannies) would tell stories about stars. The Stories that tell that all the dears one who are not living anymore become stars and watch us daily. Again a doubt would arise that what if the clouds were there. Would they not be with me…..

There are also sayings about a wish u make when u see a falling star. I like to believe this saying as I always make a dearest wish when I see a falling star. Its like a wish falling onto you or wish being granted by the god. Then suddenly I heard the story of other flying objects,the Aliens of the other World, the so-called UFO’s. The Unidentified Flying Objects.

Here’s some stuff on that…..

Almost every civilization that has kept a written history has recorded the sighting of strange objects and lights in the skies. Today, unexplained aerial phenomena are generally referred to as unidentified flying objects or flying saucers.

Descriptions of UFOs have ranged from glowing wheels to colored balls of light to cigar-, disk-, or crescent-shaped objects. One of the first well-documented UFO sightings occurred in 1561 in Nuremberg, Germany. A broadsheet published that year describes red, blue, and black balls or plates, crosses, and tubes that appeared to battle each other in the sky over the city.

The term flying saucer was coined in 1947. A businessman named Kenneth Arnold told reporters that while flying a private airplane near Mount Rainier in Washington he saw nine objects flying over the mountain in formation and at a speed of more than 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) per hour. Arnold described the objects as moving like "a saucer skipping across the water." After that first report, Arnold's description was shortened and it soon became popular to call all UFOs flying saucers.

When the report was later declassified it showed that 90 percent of all UFO sightings could be easily explained. Most of the sightings turned out to be celestial objects, such as stars or bright planets like Venus, or atmospheric events such as auroras or meteors falling through the atmosphere. Many other sightings turned out to be such objects as weather balloons, satellites, aircraft lights, or formations of birds. Often these sightings were accompanied by unusual weather conditions.

By the mid-1960s UFO reports were more numerous than ever. For the first time they were coming in regularly from places outside the United States, including Canada, Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Australia. In February 1966 another UFO panel was convened. Like the others, this panel determined that the vast majority of UFO reports were either natural phenomena or outright hoaxes.

In 1968 the United States Air Force asked Edward U. Condon, a physicist at the University of Colorado, to head a panel studying the extraterrestrial hypothesis (see Extraterrestrial Life). The committee's final report, 'A Scientific Study of UFOs', which covered detailed investigations of 59 UFO sightings, was reviewed by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences and released in early 1969. The 37 scientists who contributed to the report interviewed UFO witnesses and studied physical and photographic evidence. The report, also known as the Condon Report, concluded that not only was there no evidence of extraterrestrial control of UFOs but also that no further UFO studies were needed.

People have a natural desire to explain and understand everything they see. This is why visual sightings of UFOs are the least reliable. The unaided human eye can be tricked to the point of hallucination. A bright light, such as the planet Venus, often appears to move, though a clamped telescope or a sighting bar shows it to be fixed. A visual impression of distance is also unreliable because it is based on an assumed size. Reflections from windows or eyeglasses may provide superimposed views. Optical defects can turn point sources of light into apparently saucer-shaped objects. Such optical illusions coupled with a desire to interpret visual images account for many UFO reports.

Radar sightings, while more reliable in certain respects, do not provide the information necessary to discriminate between physical objects and such natural phenomena as meteor trails, tracks of ionized gas, rain, or thermal discontinuities. Furthermore, several effects can give false radar echoes: electronic interference, reflections from ionized layers or clouds, and reflections from a region of humidity--for example, a cumulus cloud.

do you believe this. do add comments if so...or not so....