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Asok is back!

All is well again. :-)

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Don't Shave That Hair!!!
I have recently made a mistake in my life, and I offer my story to you, that you may learn from my error. It all started, as many things do, with me having trouble shitting.

No, I was not constipated; this was not a regularity problem but a matter of technique. It seems my ass-hair had grown to such a length that tiny grogans were constantly getting tied up in the matted jungle between my asscheeks. It led to much frustration, with me KNOWING that I still had something to drop, but unable to shake the tenacious turd loose from its butthair dwelling. Eventually I would have to do two things: either reach down with some paper and try to pinch off the lingering loaf (which required careful precision to avoid smearing the creature all over my rear, especially since I had no way of seeing what I was doing) or just go for broke, start wiping, and hope that I could remove all the leftover fecal matter before the toilet paper reached its Can't-Be-Flushed threshold.

I was contemplating this problem, when I had what seemed at the time to be a bright idea. "Hey! This is my butt and my butt-hair, right? So why don't I just eliminate all the hair, and then my grogans will flow out like beer from a keg!" I said to myself. It is a statement that will go down in history with a lot of other regretted statements. "How many Indians could there be?" said by General Custer. "Looks like a good day for a drive!" by JFK. "There! America On-Line now has complete Usenet access!" by some idiot system tech. Such was my anal shaving idea.

I performed the operation that night, with a cheap disposable razor and a towel to sit on. Starting from the bottom, and shaving from the crack to the cheeks, I began the arduous process of ridding my ass of hair. Occassionally, I would have to clean the razor of accumulated hair and miscellaneous slime, which I did by wiping it on the towel. Slowly, my twin mounds and the between-ravine began to resemble the hairless cheeks of a newborn baby. Finally, I wiped the razor one last time, and surveyed my work. The towel was covered with a pile of hair. My ass was smooth as ivory. I smiled, satisfied, thinking my troubles were over.

Little did I know.

I now have a great respect for anal-hair. Like everything in this world God created, it has its mighty purpose in existence. It was only after I had removed it that I started to learn how much I had been taking it for granted. For one, it provides friction. I learned this the next day, when I walked out into the sun heading for class. After climbing two flights of stairs and starting to sweat, I started to notice something unpleasant. The sweat was accumulating in my crack, and was causing the unpleasant sensation of my two asscheeks sliding past each other with every step. I thought about going to the bathroom and wiping it off, but had to get to class. Eventually, I thought, it would dry.

Unfortunately, it did dry, but only after mingling with the microscopic shit- molecules lingering around my brown starfish. When I stood up after class, my cheeks were stuck together with a slimy sticky shit/sweat combination. As I made my way back to my dorm, it started to itch. God-DAMN, did it itch! Felt like a swarm of ants was making its way up and down my crack. Fighting to keep from jamming my hand down there and scratching away, I rushed back to the dorm.

Unfortunately again, this exertion caused me to sweat, and when I finally reached my room, my cheeks were sliding back and forth against each other like a pair of horny cane-toads. I quickly dropped my pants, and attempted to dry my ass off by sticking it in front of a fan and spreading my cheeks. As I pulled the two mounds of flesh apart, a horrible stench burst free and filled the room. Every dog within a 4 block radius started to howl. I had it worst of all, as the ripe aroma of festering shit/sweat went into the fan and blew back into my face. I fought to keep from heaving. And as I sat there, fighting vomit, my ass cheeks spread and dripping, with the concentrated aroma of my body odor mixed with the tangy smell of my own shit blowing right into my face, I had only one thought: "It will be like this until the hair grows back. Weeks."

Later on, trying to deal as best I could, wiping my ass at every opportunity, I discovered another wonderful use for ass-hair - ventilation. I attempted to launch a fart, only to have it get stuck between my asscheeks. Apparently, with no hair, the two pink twins can get vacuum sealed together, and the result was a frustrating fart that slid up and down between my cheeks like a lost gerbil.

As if that wasn't enough, I am now enduring further torture. As anyone who has ever shaved anything knows, when hair is first growing in, it comes in as stubble. Imagine your ass having the texture of a brillo pad. Well, that is what I am dealing with now. It is a hellish torture, and there are many times when I just look out the window and contemplate why I shouldn't just jump out and get it all over with in one fleshy splat, rather than endure this constant agony.

Friends, DON'T SHAVE YOUR ASS-HAIR!

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Attention all Vodafone users!

Vodafone Rip Off!!!

Attention all those vodafone subscribers who’ve been using Special Tariff cards for SMSs. Vodafone has deactivated all the Special Tariff cards (which we use for sending smss at a cheaper rate) for the festive season without letting any of the customers know. Vodafone has been charging everyone with these tariff cards Rs. 1.20/sms which is the rate for sms for those not using these schemes. This is an outrageous, an all out unethical, desperate way of making money and should not be accepted at any cost!! All of us message everyone ‘dil khol ke’ on these occasions and Vodafone is cashing in on that by exploiting this fact. I just can’t believe how outrageous this is!! After coming to know of this, I called up Customer care at 111 but it was busy. Most of us have been robbed of hundreds of rupees without our knowledge! Even my account was diminished by hundreds, and I found out about it just now! And the best part is, they haven’t owned up to it till now! Nor is there any time line for this immoral act by Vodafone, i.e. we don’t know till when will this extortion continue.

As far as i know, these two schemes have been deactivated:

1. two to talk (Rs. 69) which makes your sms cost 20p
2. 300 sms bonus card (Rs. 35) which gives 300 free sms

Vodafone cannot be allowed to handicap us like this and get away with this! Please spread the message so that we can generate awareness amongst more people and get back at Vodafone for misusing our trust in this dastardly way. They will have to pay!!

Global.......Cooling?

Here is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels. A PDF of the original is available here.

A fine short history of warming and cooling scares has recently been produced. It is available here. — D.D.

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

“The world’s food-producing system,” warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA’s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, “is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago.” Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

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Movies

Top 50 Dystopian Movies of all time

Going to be watching all of these. Will post reviews as I see them.

Americans

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Antonio Puerta

R.I.P. Antonio Puerta

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The Last Supper

Amazing stuff found out about The Last Supper by some scientist. He superimposed the reverse of the image on the image and found a completely new one.

New "Last Supper" theory crashes Leonardo Web Sites

MILAN (Reuters) - A new theory that Leonardo's "Last Supper" might hide within it a depiction of Christ blessing the bread and wine has triggered so much interest that Web sites connected to the picture have crashed.

The famous fresco is already the focus of mythical speculation after author Dan Brown based his "The Da Vinci Code" book around the painting, arguing in the novel that Jesus married his follower, Mary Magdelene, and fathered a child.

Now Slavisa Pesci, an information technologist and amateur scholar, says superimposing the "Last Supper" with its mirror-image throws up another picture containing a figure who looks like a Templar knight and another holding a small baby.

"I came across it by accident, from some of the details you can infer that we are not talking about chance but about a precise calculation," Pesci told journalists when he unveiled the theory earlier this week.

Websites www.leonardodavinci.tv, www.codicedavinci.tv, www.cenacolo.biz and www.leonardo2007.com had 15 million hits on Thursday morning alone, organizers said, adding they were trying to provide a more powerful server for the sites.

In the superimposed version, a figure on Christ's left appears to be cradling a baby in its arms, Pesci said, but he made no suggestion this could be Christ's child.

Judas, whose imminent betrayal of Christ is the force breaking the right-hand line of the original fresco, appears in an empty space on the left in the reverse image version.

And Pesci also suggests that the superimposed version shows a goblet before Christ and illustrates when Christ blessed bread and wine at a supper with his disciples for the first Eucharist.

The original Da Vinci depicts Christ when he predicts that one among them will betray him.

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Sorry they're not clear enough, but these are the best I could find.

The Original

The Reversed Image

The Superimposed Image.A figure in red robes has appeared at the end of the table, and the 'Mary Magdalene' figure appears to have disappeared from the left even though the image should be, in theory, perfectly symmetrical.

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Found a really high resolution image of the superimposed image. Am just giving the link, for the benefit of my bandwidth limited friends
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/LS%2Bmirror.png

My take on Religion

This is a really difficult post to write about, and I have thought a lot on this topic, and still I am confused. So there are no well thought out ideas in this post. I am basically writing whatever comes in my mind. I hope it remains comprehensible.
I believe religion is a tool. It is a tool created by us, to create fear in the mind of people. Fear, to make them do the correct thing. Think about it. Don't we try to do the right thing because of the fear of God, because of the fear of retribution in some afterworld, because of the fear of going to hell, where everything is bad and hot. Isn't the fear of God more overwhelming than the fear of the law? How many of us really fear the law, especially in India? If every law can be worked around using money or influence, why do most of us still follow them? Why do we do the 'right' thing, even when we know when doing the wrong thing won't make a difference?
Another thing that I have realised about religion, especially about my religion, Hinduism.
Unfortunately religion in India today has denigrated to the point of being a matter of convenience. Want to visit a temple? Don't want to spend 4-5 hours like the 'regular' devotees? Just pay some money, and get a straight ticket to the statue. Instant penance (for a price)!
Why blame the temples? All around the temples you see people trying to take advantage of your devotion. People selling flowers, prasad etc just so you can please your God. You go to Shirdi, the place of Sai Baba, and you realise the extent to which commercialisation has taken place. Go inside the temple by leaving your shoes outside, and by the time you come back, your shoes are gone! And which shop is nearest to the temple? A shoe store! You go to Mathura. People have converted their homes into temples. Some temples trying to popularise themselves rent huge bands which play extremely loud music imploring people to visit this specific temple.

So is this post about Hinduism-bashing?No, because I don't know other religions well enough to be able to comment on their faults.Is Hinduism all bad?No, this post is about the people who claim to be the guardians of the religion, for whom it seems the economics have overtaken the duties that they have to be fair to all.

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. But I don't believe in going to different temples to wash away my sins. I believe sins can only be negated by doing positive deeds. That's what every religion basically preaches and that's how we should be following life.

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Don't know where I got it from but its really funny!

Internet for the dead??

I was just going through the blog stats of my site(thanks to www.blogpatrol.com ) and this is what I found of a particular visitor when I tracked the IP Address-

Manchester United Analysis

For those people who do not know about Manchester United, allow me to introduce it as the biggest Football Club in the world. This entry is basically an analysis of the current team of Manchester United and what it can potentially achieve in the next season of the English Premier League. Do not expect me to be impartial as I am a fanatic as far as Manchester United is concerned.

Most people know that Manchester United won the EPL title last season. This was a team that the media predicted to finish 4th because it did not have quality backup to the first team, had just sold its most prolific striker for a pittance to Real Madrid and had its top 2 players have a major altercation in the World Cup. Yet it won the premiership by playing some of the most attractive and entertaining football seen in the league for quite some time, it scored the most no. of goals it had scored in quite some time, and showed a level of camaraderie and team spirit unthinkable of post World Cup. Having just won the title, it then goes on to buy a Defensive Midfielder it so desperately needed and 2 of the hottest young players in the world of football. I here present a player by player analysis of the current squad, and in the end compare it with the other teams of the Premiership.

GOALKEEPERS:

Edwin Van Der Sar - Is 36 now but will definitely be first choice Goalkeeper for this season. Made a few errors towards the end of last season, but overall has been pretty solid.Brings stability to the backline and commands his area well.

Tomasz Kuszcaszk - Played a bit role last season. Is a very good shot stopper but is dodgy when it comes to dealing with crosses. Does not inspire confidence in his backline, but given a run in the team I'm sure he's capable of doing well.

Ben Foster - Widely touted as the future England No. 1. Spent 2 seasons on loan at Watford and has been pretty solid for them, but doubts remain on whether he will be able to handle the high pressure situation at Manchester United. Had a few howlers last season, especially the one against Tottenham. Will be given a settling in time to eventually takeover from VDS, but not without competition from Kusczcasck.

DEFENDERS:

Gary Neville - One of the best right backs in the world. Excellent in defence, excellent while attacking. Has been having a few injury problems of late, and seems to be starting to age, but still has at least 2 years in him.

Rio Ferdinand - One of the classiest centre backs of the world. Seems to defend effortlessly. Excellent in defending, has shown a propensity to attack whenever given a chance. Great skills with the ball for a defender and is possibly our most prized possession in defence.

Nemanja Vidic - The perfect foil to Rio Ferdinand. Fearless, uncompromising, strong, ruthless are just some of the adjectives used to describe the man. Is awesome at heading too, which makes him the prime target from corners. Scored a few goals last season, but can easily score a few more from the corners.

Patrice Evra - Really good left back.Excellent while attacking. Is not as good at defending, especially against long balls, but is our first choice left back. Is young and can only get better.

Gabriel Heinze - Had an excellent first season at the club, been injured through most of his second, and was injured at the start of the last season. Because of his injury wasn't able to prepare properly for the season and that showed by some of his early games of the season by which time he had lost his position to Evra. Is a much better defender than Evra but is really poor while attacking. Seems to be on his way out of the team as he can't accept being second choice at the club, with Real Madrid the most probable destination.

Wes Brown - The best backup defender in the Premiership, would probably come in the first team of most of the teams in the League. Prone to losing his concentration at crucial moments, which is why he is backup rather than being in the first team. Good at right back also. His loyalty to the team means he will remain a squad player in the next season as well.

Mikael Silvestre - Past his best. Can play at both left back and centre back, but makes lots of mistakes at each position. Don't know why Sir Alex is sticking with him in the team. Can be easily offloaded to make room for some of the youngsters.

Gerard Pique - I tip him to succeed at the club. Had an excellent loan season at Real Zaragoza where he won rave reviews for his performances. Is versatile and can play at CB, RB as well as DM. The only place which may be available for him is at RB and I'm hoping he plays well enough at that position.

John O'Shea - The most versatile player in the team. Can play at any position anywhere in the field, but is like the Jack of all trades and so is not good enough to consistently hold down any one position. Came useful at the end of the season when the first 4 of the defence were out injured, but unless that happens again next season, I don't see him featuring regularly in the squad even.

MIDFIELDERS:

Paul Scholes - The QuarterBack (in American Football parlance) of the team. He is the playmaker of the team. Every move flows through him. Superb vision, ability and definitely amongst the best players in his role. Had his best season ever last season. Will hopefully be able to continue his great form into the next season as he is vital to the team.

Michael Carrick - Came into the team with the expectations of a huge price tag of 18 million pounds. Took a little while settling in the team but eventually his partnership with Scholes ensured a kind of solidity in the midfield which had been missing for the past few years. Plays mainly as a holding midfielder and so had to curtail his natural play for the good of the team. His real ability showed through in the match against Roma in the Champions League in which he was by far the best player of the team. Will be used in rotation with Scholes and Hargreaves in the Premier League with all 3 of them being used in the Champions League.

Cristiano Ronaldo - The player of the season last season. Stayed at Manchester United despite being castigated by the English press for the World Cup Incident. Faced huge criticism by opposition fans but was supported by most Manchester United fans and he repaid the trust shown in him by playing some of the best football seen in the League for quite some time. Was definitely the shining beacon of the squad and deserves all the accolades and awards he recieved. Definitely amongst the Top 3 players in the world at the moment, and can definitely get better. The big challenge for him will be to maintain his form at the very least. Huge expectations from him this time around.

Ryan Giggs - Had one of his best seasons but unfortunately age seems to be catching up with him. Can't run up and down the wings anymore and I envisage a much more central role to him in the form of an Attacking Midfielder. Will play regularly in the start but will be phased out by some of the younger players.

Owen Hargreaves - Probably the worst kept secret in the history of football was the desire of Sir Alex Ferguson to bring Hargreaves to Manchester United. Protracted negotiations continued for over a year and have eventually resulted in the arrival of Owen Hargreaves for a reported 17 million pounds. One of the better Defensive Midfielders of world football. Has won a lot with Bayern Munich and will be looking to add to his medals tally at Old Trafford.

Darren Fletcher - Was backup last season, and will have been pushed further down the pecking order due to the new arrivals. Showed some good form last season, but was never consistently in the team to be able to maintain his form. Is good enough for teams out of the Top 4, but will never be a regular here. Nevertheless, is a good backup if he is willing to stay that way.

Nani - Dubbed the new 'Cristiano Ronaldo'. Pacy left winger, lots of tricks and showboating, very similar to Ronaldo in his first season. Will be eased into the team to probably replace Giggs, but will first have to reduce his showboating and start playing for the team more than himself. Can easily become a first team regular if he continues his development.

Anderson - One of the brightest young footballers in the world at the moment. Dubbed the new 'Ronaldinho'. Has a great mind which can see things before others do. Has already earned his first international cap for Brazil at the age of 18 and things are looking really bright for him. Seems to be the perfect replacement for Scholes and will probably be groomed for that position by the man himself. Still at least a year away from coming to terms with the Premier League.

Park Ji Sung - Good winger. Plays with all his heart but this cant cover up for his obvious lack of quality. Has a knack for being at the right place at the right time in front of goal. Been injured for majority of last season but will definitely be a squad player next season to cover for Ronaldo and Giggs.

Kieran Richardson - SELL HIM!!! 'Nuff said.

STRIKERS:

Wayne Rooney - Had an average season but still ended with 23 goals. Likes to play in a free role and not up top like where he was played for a few games towards the end. This is the season for him to turn into the player everybody hopes him to be. I reckon him to fulfil his potential from the next season onwards.

Louis Saha - Injury prone, but when ok, is the perfect foil to Rooney. Will probably remain injured most of the coming season as well, which makes it necessary to look for replacements.

Guiseppe Rossi - One of the brightest young prospects from the academy for quite some time. Plays in a position very similar to Rooney, which makes him very unfortunate because he won't be able to replace Rooney from the team. Had a very good loan spell at Parma. Hopefully will be given a chance in the team to prove himself.

Alan Smith - Again a player who might be good enough for other teams but isn't for United.Will probably be sold, with Everton as potential suitors in a reported 6 million pound deal.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Past his best by a long way. Will be sparingly used if injuries crop up to major players. Should look to provide his experience to the younger players and help them develop.

Carlos Tevez??? - Although the deal hasn't been confirmed as yet, it is near to confirmation. Again one of the brightest young players in world football, will bring a lot to United. Plays with a lot of heart, extremely intelligent but with a suspect temperament. Is already settled in the Premier League, and if he can play the way he did for West Ham, he can only get much better at Manchester United.

Formations of the team and the other title challengers will be discussed in the next few posts.As far as Manchester United is concerned, if the youngsters who have been brought into the team fulfil the potential that they have in them, this United team will become the greatest team ever in the history of Club football.

GLORY GLORY MAN UTD!!!!

Manchester United vs Roma (April 10, 2007) - 2-0

The most wonderful goal on one of the most wonderful nights ever for Manchester United Football Club. If this is not beautiful, what is?

Of highways and deaths...

Sahib Singh Verma died of a car accident yesterday. His car was on the Delhi - Jaipur highway when an out of control truck coming from the opposite direction jumped lanes and crashed head on with them. May his soul rest in peace.
I was on the highway today and it's not difficult to understand why there are so many crashes on the highways of India. Inept truck drivers driving at speeds of 70-80 kmph while chatting incessantly on their mobiles. Overenthusiastic car drivers going berserk with speed of above 110 while still driving the way they drive in the city. Tractors going on the wrong side and totally oblivious of that fact. Cyclists covering the whole road as if it's their own. Animals roaming around on the highways freely. Result : I saw 4 car crashes within a distance of 200 km, mostly with trucks, which had seemingly resulted in serious injuries or worse. A carcass of a dog on the road without its head, probably there for hours with its blood dried out.
What can be done? Create service roads along the highway to cater to the local and slow moving traffic. Have at least some form of traffic rules on the highway and at least a little level of enforcement. These 2 things alone can reduce half the risks on the highway. As far as the drivers are concerned, there is nothing that can be done till self realisation occurs amongst the people that they not only risk their own lives but also of others.
Think about it.

The meaning of life

As you can see from my 'Sites I Visit' section, I browse a lot through the site www.damninteresting.com. One article a few days back really caught my eye and set me thinking.

Reanimated Rodents and the meaning of Life

Basically this article points out the research carried out by some scientists in which a rodent was frozen for some while until its bodily function stopped, kept it frozen for some time and then brought it to life again.
This article made me think as to what 'life' means.
Is it a stopping of bodily functions like breathing and of the heart. Then what about the aforementioned case? What also about people shown on some channels who 'returned from the dead'?
Or is it the leaving of the soul from the body. In such a case how do you decide who's dead and who's not? What about the Near Death Experiences(NDE's)?
What about brain-dead people? Should they be classified as living or dead, considering that all their other organs are running, albeit by external stimulation?
I don't believe there is a definite answer to this question, particularly because there are a lot of blank areas that need much greater understanding than what we currently possess.What do you think?

First post

This is my 3rd attempt at blogging, the previous 2 having been abandoned by me after just one or two posts. I don't know how successful this one will be, but I sincerely hope this one does not fade away like the previous two.
What will this blog be about? This blog intends to present my viewpoint on the various ongoings in the world as well as anything interesting I find on the internet. I do not intend this blog to chronicle my life, because I don't think it is interesting enough to be chronicled. Motivation is a big issue for me, so I hope to have a few comments from you, the reader, to help motivate me in posting in this blog.
That's about it for this post.