Why does a golf ball have a unsmooth surface ?

Apparently there is science to the so called "Dimples"

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0215.shtml

Need to now find out WHO decided this structure to be the golf ball's

The monk who sold his ferrari and The Alchemist

The monk who sold his ferrari , - fable about fulfilling your dreams ad reaching your destiny....by Robin S. Sharma

I hope this is a story book( fable!!) and not a self help book...I hate those series...


I am going to read "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho also shortly...

Looking forward to this week and weekend...becuase both are the same to me...i am on leave :-)

Boy the pleasure of being without have to go to work tommorrow pressure....hope i dont get used to it.. :-)

Biography of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

I bought this book from a member of ISKCON member( a caucasian at that ) who came selling the book door to door on Bhagvatgita Jayanthi...I had brush in my mouth at 10 am in the morning and thought it was rude to go in to clean my mouth and continued to tlak to him with brush in my mouth in sign language ...gross!....after reading this book, apart from knowing th biography of this person, I didnt get the essensce of the teachings...i just cannot keep my mind from wandering and making funny smart ass remarks about getting lost in Krishna's Leela's. and find enchantment in chanting Krishnas praise..his beauty...how can i gain enlightenment if I say that Krishna has beautful eyes, dresses in gold and pearls and is blue /black in color? ". I find anuhya eating food, or dancing or shaking her legs more enchanting than anything else in this world...so is that it? i dont get it man....i reallllly dont get it....guess i am not blessed to know/explore the spiritual world...just didnt get it!.

Interpreter of Maladies

Finally read the famed Booker price fictional work by Jhumpa Lahiri... It was touching, but entirely commom stories day to day life of citizens in India, other than the a few in US.
I can recognize with it...but dont know if a non-indian can "get" it the way I "get" it...I was able to enjoy it, laugh with it, cry with it...wasnt sure is others can get it, guess they did, and hence the price? ...i ddnt think it was highly am itious literature...I cud write it too...it was simple...may be one day i will...it cud happen :-)

Ratna and Me

I have the coolest maid on earth. Her name is Ratna.

She is only 33,
But already a mother of 3 ( 18 and 16 yr old girls and a 14 yr old boy!!!!)...
she makes it all worth living in India...
can I dream of such in US,UK or Canada?..
oh! the comforts she brings to my life...
wish I can take her with me to my after life
she is not like most maids,
she is clan, punctual, polite, sincere and innocent.
Life has not been fair to her but she is fair neverthless.
Even if I want her not to do a certain chores in a day,
she will do it anyway.
she shops around and worries for me
she is an angel in the outback for me...
she lives right opposite to my home,
alway ready to come when I beckon...
I have time to do a lot of things here in India becuase of her...
becuase she wakes me up at 6 am and lets me enjoy the cool fresh air
[ i go back to sleep at 8 am anyway still :-)]
She always comes around at 4-5 to check on if I need anything...
just like that...she is totalllly a cool human being..
and people in my home want to have her
but thank god I had already grabbed her :-)
Busy woman that she is, she is denying everyone..
With a giggling laughter charming everyone.

Sonu Nigam - A complete entertainer

Recently attended a show of Sonu Nigams in Infosys campus. Boy the dude really rocks...not only that he is a good mimic particlarly anu malik's voice...he sings damm good, dances great, has a great stage presence and a cooool program design...i think all of us who attended the show will certianly be his die hard fans. Such energy ....

Losing a cell phone is like losing a significant part of your life

I recently lost my cell phone and boy!.....I felt like i lost my limb/hand or my head itself..
even though we can block the SIM, get a new phone, get the same # again, the precious information you had in the cell hone is lost for ever, unless you had safely copied it into the another old SIM / synched with the computer or whatever...the effort that goes into making a contact DB is completely lost ...i had made contacts with a lot of my college mates after i came to india and now i have to start over again...oh! the agony!!!!!! i ended up putting a phonebook for me and my hubby to note down new numbers as ad when we get time.

Also make it a habit to note down the SIM#, phone# and such information, so that u can properly report to police. do the same for a ny item you buy too...

I am just recovering from my big loss...and will never ever go withut backup.

Vallavan, E-(Fly), Vivaha,Dhoom-2 and Departed

Vallavan - The guy simbhu should STOP trying to be a do-all. He is a talented kid but boy he is too much of a "ADHINGA PERESANGI"...and that is not a lovable trait....he shd take a step back and relax..he is young and he has time, unless he is suffering from an unpublizied terminal illness of which he will die in 5 years he doesnt have to act, write, direct, sing, dance, produce in a single movie. Take a chill pill dude!.

E-Fly - I want to watch this movie for 4 reasons, Jeeva, makeup less Nayantara, Asish vidhyarthi, and that virumadi dude...I am so convinced that this is truly different movie...the hero is actually a villian...
Update: Watched it and loved it for all the reason above and much more..Jeeva and the comedian guy also are realllly good. no cliches in the movie and makes one think, a lot! and thats the kind of movie I like.

Vivaha - Kill me...girls dad hams, girl has oil based over makeup and hams, girls sister has ugly makeup, boy hams, boys brother is clumsy, music hams, plot hams....FREAKING everything HAMS...saving grace, seema biswas, the bhabhi, message in the final twist...

Dhoom 2 - Hrithik was kya great hai, anthemic "dhoom machale" was kya cool hai, rest all was kya BAKHWAS HAI !!!!......but after watching vivaha this movie gave me the thrills of watching the nail biting thriller.!! :-) Aish and her first on screen kiss was overrated and overrected too...who cares!!!!! media act as if aish was indias primeminister and someone made a picture of her in a bikini....she was wearing way too much when compard to Bips and she is a model/miss universe for god sakes!...Worst career move for baby B, sloppy looking and in floral half hand shirts when compared to sculpted HR.....Uday..! god!..its better i dont open my mouth abt him....and same advice to him too...the minute he opens his mouth he sounds like a loser!.

Departed - Cool movie, again it hurts to see leo die, why do they kill him in all good movies. Jack Nicholson is doing what he does best. Surprise was Matt Damon, he was "G O O D". I would have liked an alternate ending though. I like the usual good triumphs over evil stuff. Otherwise I dont see a point :-). God they killed Mr.President (Martin Sheen) that was a shock! Too many shocks in the end. Loved it.

I thank god for Youtube

You tube is saving my life here in India. I am so glad that I am able to watch Gry's Anatomy and Gilmore girls current season sitting here in India. I was almost getting closer to choke the Thursday of Grey's Anatomy's season premiere. First week I survived barely by the help to two angels of USAA, Duane and Laurie who sent me a brief on the happenings...but then how am i supposed to make sense of drama from reading the line "Izzy was on the bathroom floor throughout the episode and Addison pins Merediths panties on the notice board" without actually seeing it :-). Weeks went by and I read from them stuff like "MrDreamy was doing McNasty with McHottie, that McBastard!" I was close to a breakdown..then i rememberd that i used to watch Marthie( Ruthie and Matin collage, 7th heven, what happened to it BTW? ) in outube..so searched for grey's anatomy and lo behold..the entire episode was in fron ot me....gosh!...and my dad finally had got broadband connection...and i was on my notice period and so i sat from morning 8 till evening 6 and watched all the season 3 episode uptil then....aparently my dad had got only 250 MB limit plan...my one episode was around 147 MB, so by the middle of second one i was paying 1.50 paise for each MB...but i didnt care ( bill was about 4000 rs - and my dad was hoping for a 250 rupees bill..:-) so he went and politely admonished the BSNL people at MISTAKE in billing and was super politely pointed out the actual fact...hanks to my sis who was warning all at home whenever i was watching a show, my dad figured i was the culprit and paid the bill and came back :-) [next it was my husbands turn to get annoyed at the bill in my new home in bangalore, but do i care :-) !!!) so....then i watched all my gilmore girl episodes too....the freaking lorelai didnt get married all the 6 years i was watching and she got married( not even in a season premiere or season finale episode) !!!! anyway...

I am happy as a cat who just had a pot full of milk and has a big bed to sleep in :-)


Thanks to angels who upload the shows in youtube everyweek judiciously and keeping ABCDEFG( American Broadcast Committed Desi's,European's,French,Germans ) tele-fically alive.

:-)

I hate Simi Garewal and love Malaika Arora

I truly hate simi garewal and her pretentious ways...GOD she is such a pretender.
Who the hell she thinks she is...

Apparently, I have started loving malaika arora, I watched her in "Nach Baliye" which is a "Dancing with the stars" Hindi version [ tamil version - Jodi #1 SUCKS!!!!! big time ] with a twist, reel life stars dance with their real life partners.

I used to hate malaika before...for no reason apparently ...just thought she is a skinny bitch...but after seeing her is NB, i think she is not a SB, but a pretty coool lady....

Diary of Anne Frank

What can I say...Truly touching...Truly beautiful...I felt as if I am reading my sisters diary...guilty that i am reading it, guilty that i am not there to help her through it all...happy that she is self sufficient, jealous that she is much more matured than me...anxiuos that she doesn't settle w.r.t to boy friends...But happy that she found someone to have some fun with ...irritated at mom for not understanding her, sad that dad cud do no better...angry at the mean neighbor...finally so thankful to god that she couldnt write about her end...Being such a GREAT write that she is ...I would have died before I completed reading her journey towards the end of her life in her own words...for some where along the line I truly had forgotten to differentiate my real life and her life and she was Banu to me...becuase believe it or not my sis has the same spirit and style as her...I know it will sound very blasphemous for some, but only I know both of them....

AMAZING EXPERIENCE !.

Umrao Jaan and Memoirs of a Geisha

These two are basically the same, but that one is set in India and the other in Japan.
Both is a sad story about a young girl who under unfortunate circumstances separates from her family and ends up in a place where they are taught on the art of pleasing men by whatever means(art,dance,beauty,poetry, sharp wit) to make a filthly amount of money to maintain luxurious life style. Both have a ritualistic first initiation, their virginity auctioned off to the highest bidder!. The girls then do the most forbidden thing, they fall in love and heartbreak follows.

Hated/slept thru the aishwarya rai's umrao jaan...learned a lesson, will never go for another movie JUST to see aishwarya rai, she is not that breathtakingly beautiful any more, not her fault though, the surprise element is lacking since she looks the same in all traditional outfits.
Dont know if I have enough energy/enthu left in me to watch rekha's UJ and decide which one is better...I am really big on watching both the original and the remake and pass judgement on which one i think is better...I watched manichitra thaaz again after 6 years after chandramukhi for the same reason..but apparently I seem to realize i dont care much, don - not interested becuase this one had Mr.King Sttutter Khan and other had Mr.I-dont-think-you-are-all-that-great-bachaan[ my husband might divorce me for saying this :-) ]....heard they are going to make a Billa remake in tamil with ajith, billa was a remake of old don with rajini[ i finally gave up my claim with my husband that don was remade from billa ! ]. ..god!!!!!! And frankly this hobby of mine will be very time consuming this period feels like holly-bolly-kolly wood is all celebrating a 2007-2008-remake mela.

where was I, oh!. right...UJ and MG both crapppppppy !!!! two smart women, wanting to put their lives through crap happily to attain crapdom and loving crappy guys for crappy reasons and leading a crappy life every after!!!!

God what a waste...!....my blog writing efforts are much little waste than theirs :-)

What kind of guys I like....

On one cold cold day in Bangalore a.k.a Bengaloru, I was thinking about what kinds of people attract me, especially what kind of men gains my attention, for I know pretty sure that I like a carbon copy of me in girls...same proportion of seriousness, fun loving, family loving, studious, but not a nerd type....

So, I decided on male of the species and then started...

If I were to reason it out for a real life partner I know who it would be...my husband...every which logic I use, applied to brain or heart he will be the result...

Then both my brain and heart wanted to be naughty for a while [ hello, bored o death on my leave] and hence i started thinking of what are the other people I would consider...real life people are too boring with my current level when compared to my current level of knowledge and expectation and experience...so I turned to old faithful the golden marquee...filmdom...My logic is if I list down the attributes I like in each actor and then combine then I will end up with the perfect fictional male who could shatter my own imagination.

Here we go...

1) Joaquin Phoenix ( Waa-keen people!) - mystery factor... ( gladiator, walk the line, signs )
2) Ben Affleck - Vulnerability without being a wuz. ( pearl harbour )
3) Tom Hank - Reliability ( terminal, apollo 13 )
4) Will Smith - Funny without being gross. ( Hitch, independence day)
5) Gene Hackman - powerful old guy ( replacement )
6) Harrison Ford - Trustability ( airforce one )
7) Jude Law - cute loser ( l hear huckabees)
8) Clive Owen - animal magnetism (closer)
9) Matthew McConaughey - Handsome cockeyness. ( sahara)
10) Abishek - rugged looks with vulnerability (umrao jaan )
11) Surya - Shy and yet excude manliness somehow ( kaka kaka )
12) russell crowe - dedication ( gladiator )
13) Mel Gibson - father figure ( patriot )
14) Mathew Perry - super understanding of women ( friends )
15)


to be continued.....feeling like its a waste of time already :-) I am such a LOSER !!!!! :-) :-)

Life is Beautiful

Finally got to watch this movie with the full attention it deserves.
What a fool I have been to not have watched this before!

This is an experience of a life time.
This movie realllly enriched my life.
What an attitude to have in such terrible adversity.

How a father protects his kid.
How a wife loves her family and ready to sacrifice.
How cruel the men of that era were, not only the germans but the entire world which let this crime happen!!!

I hate the world for not doing anthing ...hate hate hate....so mch hatred i feel for the human race, the evolution, which lead to humans who could do such a heartless thing..

I was more so feeling hopeless, when the hero meets the doctor in camp and really hopes that he will take him to safetly only to find out that the doctor is obsessed only with his puzzle...

But then I think of the hero, then i feel heart broken that human species is so hopelessly trying to cope up with every freaking change set lose on them and cant help but love them for the way they react...

If you havent seen this movie, take leave, tell a lie, call in sick, do whatever it takes and get the DVD and watch it right now...

I dont know any credentials about this movie..but it will be a shame if I let it be so any longer...so here are the people I want to thank.

Vita è bella, La (1997)
Directed byRoberto Benigni
Writing credits Vincenzo Cerami (story) & Roberto Benigni (story)

Roberto Benigni Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi Dora
Giorgio Cantarini Giosué Orefice

God of small things

Its a wonderful book. Loved reading it. I had tried reading it a few times before..bout couldnt get past the first few lines. But this time I was somehow ready to read this book. ts a very warm book...I now know why this book got the Pulitzer price. It completely deserves it.

I was so desperate to get into the characters world and make things right for them. God!...it is so cute.

Arundhati Roy is the "God of Small Things" she just know how to present the small things in life so simply, so elouquently, so artistically, and yet so touchingly.

I particularly loved the following thought process wherein the little girl thinks " Jesus could walk on water, but culd he have swam on land?..did he have such imagination and was he that creative?"...Its still very innocent but so geniuely curious.

Must read for anyone who simply loves life..with all its joy, love, happiness, heart breaks, sadness ad irony.

Kaavya Viswanathan

I am in my two month long seista and I FINALL got a chance to read the books I had wanted to read for a long time.

One of he books was "How Opal Mehta got kissed, got wild and got a life".

I have to admitt frankly that I wanted to read this book for three reasons
a) to ease my saddended mind( after reading "God of small things" )
b) curious how an Indian girl by origin and in harvad writes
c) want to find out about the scandal first hand.

First thing first, I think its ridiculous that people made a big deal about the scandal..give me a break, one of the points they mentioned as plagarized was writing something , listing reasons using a),b) and c)...This style is now OWNED by Megan McCafferty, freaking I used it in my previous paragraph...does that mean i plagiarized too?

Second thing is its a freaking chick flick, anyone writing about a chick flick will end up having the same plot...its not as if the scenario is different example the movies which the so called "similarity detectives" quote , she's all that, clueless, mean girls....if there are 3 movies for her to flick the situations from why cant there be 3 books which have the same plot..!!!

Thirdly I hate the idiots who think becuase its by an non-white the book is a hit. I dont think so...its a hit becuase of all white/amercian reasons.
1) HARVARD
2) DOLLARS ( 1/2 a million contract )
3) AGE ( 17 yrs) ...

I dont want to be as shady as some of the people....above three points are a global reason not only white reasons.

Well, as far as how I liked the book, IT WAS CUTE....well written, well researched( quotes all the pop items - grey's anatomy, manolo blahniks..etc etc ), fast paced and hold interest till the end EVEN thought we know whats going to happen and how the ending will be. And
I think that itself is a big kudos to the writer...sustaning interes till the end EVEN if we know the plot.

This is not a life altering thing/book. Its just a time pass. It has potential only to alter one life, kaavya's..and may be the other author's who are getting free publicity with this scandal. There are much more serious things in life for people to deal with. So leave the girl alone and let her write more chick flicks and entertain the people.

One other think which is irritating me is that its guys who dismiss the book as a chick flick and at the same time comment on the author's behavior in the same breathe....Why do they care !!!