Memories of a former self

Evolution

2006-09-27T22:01:00.000+07:00

Expansions

2006-07-13T19:17:00.000+07:00

The most annoying webpage

2006-06-07T10:48:00.000+07:00

Click on the Link

Vista Transformation

2006-05-27T18:23:00.000+07:00

Untitled

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1
I feel life slip away with the on-rushing peril
And as I stare, nonchalantly, up at the barrel,
With the closure of eyes, an out-burst of tears and blood,
Leave, seeing the Reign of terror create a river of fear in flood.
Question myself: 'Will I spend Eternity with the angels
Or will I burn and rot with the devils?'

2
Up, above, in the divine Chamber of Heaven
A Debate among an angelic, wise assembly of seven
To decide before the stroke of the Great Bell,
'Should it be Heaven or should it be Hell?'

3
The clock of my life is brought to rest
As the one that constrains the decison-making is set in motion.
My heart skips a beat: Will I lie in God's great Nest
In eternal bliss (or - that I fear to mention).

4
An angel spoke: "Generous he has been to many a friend,
A consoling tongue, a helping hand in their woes
True to his fellow countrymen, but this hand he did not lend
As he dishonoured and wronged all his foes.

5
Time, a moulding, forging force, can melt a man's mettle,
Swaying as time blows (whether the heart's a thorn or a silken petal),
Tried by the passing of hours, the molten metal on cooling is set
And on vaporising, leaves a fragrance that fades not even with death."

6
Said another, "Aye, but, in many men, emotions overshadow reason,
Thus, was he a menace to enemies and loyal to family,
Selfless and daring for his nation, guilty of no treason,
I feel only in Heaven must this man spend eternity."

7
"Nay", returned the first that spoke, "He is forever stain'd
For the sins of man cling to the soul like dirt
He respected his countrymen, but had the others profan'd.
Surely, such a man is undeserving of such heavenly comfort."

8
"To see this noble young heart go to Erebus would have me dismayed
For man's thoughts and actions tailor an attire with his soul portray'd,
A fabric revealing his respect for all the things that God had laid;
And he repented when the wrongs were done for his soul was now fray'd.

9
A man that spoke in few words, a man of action,
One that made no false promises or flattered in cowardice,
A soldier, he killed not out of vengeance, but out of patriotic passion,
Let him pass the gates of Heaven - be not affected by prejudice."

10
Spoke another, "Is it not but natural for humans to err?
We, rich in wisdom and virtues (so we claim), must forgive and forget
Little sins deserve not stern punishment - pray, show him the way to the Door,
The brave and the honest must not spend an eternity in regret."

11
"Nay", spoke the seraphim. "None but the pure may enter the Lord's kingdom
Let not the little patriotism in the sin-stained man blind thine eyes,
We may forgive and forget, but did he on earth? Use thine God-given wisdom
For slaying, whatever the cause, cannot be forgiven - he must pay the price."

... To be continued

Lessons

2006-03-25T12:49:00.000+07:00

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients."

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: B/S might get you to the top but it won't keep you there.

Great Thoughts

2006-03-25T12:35:00.000+07:00

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... "
Sir Norman Wisdom

"One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."
Edgar Watson Howe

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! "
Doug Larson

"A harmful truth is always better then...a useful lie! "
Eric Bolton

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me."
Erno Philips

"I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'."
Robert Paul

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's liv! es teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."
Phyllis Diller

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
Victor Borge

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with."
W.C. Fields

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
Will Rogers

"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. "
Mickey Rooney

" Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children.
Men have the same choice we've always had: work or prison."
Tim Allen

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong

"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive. "
Elbert Hubbard

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. "
Wendell Johnson

" In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out."
Joey Adams

"I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me."
Henry Youngman

"Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born ?"
Benny Hill

" Reach for the stars - You might not always get a
star, but at least you won't end up with a handful
of dirt "
Leo Burnette

Learning

2006-03-25T12:33:00.000+07:00

"Once a wise man taught me something I never forgot. Although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it, either. So what I am left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember."

Transparency Screenshot

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The after-math

2006-03-18T09:50:00.000+07:00

While on the phone with a friend of mine before the Maths exam, I was telling him that I was more worried about the Chemistry exam that would follow Maths.

In reply, the friend, sounding as if indicating that he was worried, too, said, "Yeah, the after-math..."

Screenshots

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Windows XP

Windows Longhorn

Windows Vista

Test tube animals?

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Screenshot

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How smart are you?

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Click the link below for the:
The intelligence test

Polonius' Advice

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"Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged courage. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,
Bear ‘t that th’ opposèd may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
But not expressed in fancy (rich, not gaudy),
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

- Excerpt from Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark (William Shakespeare).

Something that I found rather instructive and intriguing. Tell me what you thought of it.

The better half?

2006-01-06T16:20:00.000+07:00

Winston Churchill once declared with conviction: "Half the members of the Parliament are fools".
When asked to immediately apologise, which he did, he added: "Half the members of the Parliament are not fools".

Screenshot

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Parting of the Ways

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Heavy hearted, heads rest on the other's shoulder,
Fiery and ruddy are the eyes, blinded by many a tear.
The fire may burn out soon, but passions will smoulder,
And forever will remain in melting hearts memories so dear.

Reminiscences flood in, seeing anything from the Earth to the skies,
Swelling hearts and brimming tears indicate the Parting of the Ways;
Embittered souls curse unforgiving, unceasing Time that flies.
Will these young hearts ever re-live their memorable days?

Admiring the friend's strength, while his little weaknesses we've borne,
Giving warmth in despair, tickling ribs when tense, together we've grown,
In caring, comforting and compassionate acts, our fraternity we've shown,
Reassuring the heart that despite the Parting, we'd 'never walk alone'.
Though during the Parting of the Ways, the bereft heart grieves,
Strong is our Bond and shall not crumble like withered leaves.

Project Abandoned

2005-11-06T12:50:00.000+07:00

Subtle flicks of the hand, His eyes ever resting on the forms,
Watching them unintelligbly ponder on their creation and existence.
Stunned, numbed by the volleying rage of untrappable Wind in storms,
For Thunderous Heaven resonates His superiority and their ignorance.

Dawn

2005-10-07T19:15:00.000+07:00

I rise to meet the new-born day at dawn
When the air that's filled with the bird's song,
Rain-quenched earth and grass across the lawn,
Cast a spell of oblivion as to where I belong.

The gentle wind whispers carelessly
Purging the land with vigour anew
Like the river inside flowing silently
Bringing life to every sinew.

There's the rain falling on the leaves
Quenching all with heavenly water sweet,
An instant when there's not a thing that grieves
As the beauty of Heaven descends with escaping vernal heat.

The speed of the descent fades with the passage of time,
Uneclipsed, the sun shows its visage with the fall of light;
Purged by heavenly water and light, earth - purer than gold sublime,
Lying motionless like in a swoon, bathing now in golden light.

Expressions to emulate

2005-10-07T18:57:00.000+07:00

"There's a tide in the affairs of men, which when taken at the flood
Leads onto Fortune; Omitted all the voyage of their lives
Is bound in shallows and in miseries"

William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar.

Paranoia

2005-09-30T20:56:00.000+07:00

The sun overhead is bright, yet vision is far from clear,
With no foes save himself, he succumbs to needless fear.
And while the taper burneth, he sees only darkness;
With idleness fills the time, leading a life of emptiness.

Sith Sense

2005-07-29T12:25:00.000+07:00

You might love this if you're a Star Wars fan.

Link

Sands of Time

2005-07-08T20:21:00.000+07:00

On my back, I lay, heat penetrating through skin
Scorching sun, burning sand and blinding light, which to torture seemed akin.
Motionless, as if in a stupor, spreadeagled across, abandoned and bare,
To rise and walk, enduring the Satanic rage of the Sun, would I dare?

A slave - now, prisoner by War,
Atrocities on me have left many a scar,
Scars that evidently will fade not until death,
But, too stolid and stunned have I become to fume or fret.

It was, then, that I felt passing over me the shadow of a Falcon,
Regal wings spread wide - it had the appearance of a beacon.
I followed it with my eyes and then, on my legs as it flew towards the North,
With an enkindled flame I walked, overshadowing the solar wrath.

Sweat running down sinews, I traversed the sands, bearing binding rope burns with which I was scarred,
Then, realisation dawned that I was only human - with the passage of time, senses seemed to retard.
On the threshold of losing all hope for survival, manifested before me an oasis,
In the Land of no Man, the body of blue seemed like heavenly bliss.

Was it only a Mirage - false like people in life where the virtual seemed so real?
Preparing for the worst and hoping for the best, I advanced upon it with a new-born zeal.

Was this where I was destined to find my road to freedom - only Time would tell.
Would the last sound I hear be that of pleasant music or that of a Knell?

Contemplation (polysemous)

2005-05-25T18:29:00.000+07:00

Does a little peek into the mirror reveal a reflected stranger
That you need a closer look for familiarity till it turns clearer
Even then, does the virtual seem unfamiliar? Search within but Alas!
You seem lost as you search for yourself beyond the glass.

You may choose to either chew on it or just 'chuck' it.

Time to get a little local

2005-05-24T15:08:00.000+07:00

For both peters and locals,
Madras Bashai: Check out what's hidden behind some of the words you knew, but didn't know the meaning of.

Link

My attempt at creating a blog

2005-05-23T14:45:00.000+07:00

Something I do when caught in the snares of boredom - poetry-writing (if you can call it that). They scarcely make sense and the only good thing about them is that they rhyme. Tell me what you think

Here's a sample:

Walking carelessly, my eyes fell on her on the corner of the street
A look refined, a benign air of pride; man, she looked so sweet!
Expressive visage reflected innocent heart, didn't mind admiration
Time ran swiftly, ceaselessly and I, unaware, stared in fascination.
Footsteps like rustling leaves, she passes by like a gentle breeze,
Pride of a lady, heart of an infant, she's got a child's caprice.
With pride, innocence and gait that could charm the birds off the trees
Felt my passionate heart covetously plead, "Will you be mine, please?"

Verse 2 (continuation):

Gentle, searching looks, snow-fur she had and a sharp claws for nail
Joyous walked to the "Pet Shop" window, pride showing in upright tail
A satisfied customer, I walked out, in the end, with a load flabby
In hand I held my pet, selfish, wild, yet, the cutest little tabby.