theory of transitivity...

Some facts...
SRK is lucky mascot:

• He has brought 3 cheers to IPL.... Indian cricket was in deep trouble, he attended 20-20 finals and we won (Hurray!) and we all forgot ODI world cup agony...
• Yash raj films can make films w/o SRK and still hit the jackpot, right? Wrong! Ta Ra Rum Pum, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Laga Chunari me Daag, Aaja Nachle, Tashan... Only saving grace... Chak De! oops that was SRK's!
• Priety Zinta debuted in his movie and she has become a big big star now... Kajol was considered ugly duckling in the Mukharjee family until she paired with SRK in Baazigar, then Karan-Arjun, then DDLJ, then KKHH then list goes on.... We all thought this girl, Rani, has perhaps sore throat till she died as Mrs. SRK in KKHH... (tum nahi samjhoge, rahul...), Ask Aaditya Chopra the feeling of starting a directorial career with someone like Mr. SRK in a lead role... he won't stop praising for at least 520 weeks...

etc etc etc... his overall impact on current state of affairs make us feel like SRK is bigger than any other star...
But But But...
Here's another part of the equation...
If SRK is a King and SRK licks Aamir's feet and begs for biscuits... no prize to show how good you are at the theory of transitivity...
Indeed it was a nice joke if at all it was... but from the things of it looks like pretty serious affair... Not sure 20-30 years down the line who would be the real king (my bet is on SRK again since it's a glamour world after all and all that glitters here is 24 Karats Gold)... and who would be lost in oblivion... (my bet is AK, since he seems to be a good guy, and it's a bad bad world... my sympathies already... and proof of this theory lies in his blog itself which i bet was the last one... a good budding blogging career crushed by his own hands, errr, own words... yet another example of power of blogging and the responsibility it asks for...)

This time I was surprised to surprise myself this way!
Was it an accidental tresppassing or a co-incidental discovery, just about when the dark empire has started opening its doors to the world outside. Not sure, as always, but the fun part was I was loving to get lost in this meshy and vast territory with little LAMP in my hand ;) The kingdom, where everybody's a king! The sneak in could very easily turn into that drowning into dark, deeper, unknown waters... or who knows, could end up discovering the new world of it's kind with little mermaids and mermen living happily in perfect harmony with the nature and each other....

the weekend passtime turned into a surpsirse exploration of the open source world and its coming along nice:
a small search algo to pull data from my server and display it (in nice format)
and adding more data to the site, can easily let me customize it.

sachin = (cricket == religion) ? God : human;

Prologue: Is sachin a match winner? Statistic: Last two years’ stats says, Sachin averages 20 while India batting second, chasing, while he averages 50+ India batting first.

Meet the most prolific, technically best and most respected batsman with huge experience of 17 years in his kitty. He is said to possess an uncanny ability of rising to the occasion especially against tougher opposition. He helps India to reach finals, but then probably fails to finish it off himself. Perhaps, he takes the whole responsibility on his own shoulders which obviously and arguably is expected of him, while this being a team sport IMO he needs to build the innings around him with support of others. Perhaps, is it too late or unfair for anybody to comment on how he should be playing and how he should not be playing? This is not because we are witnessing the beginning of the end of his cricketing career, but it is because he has by now become such a grand university in himself where so many of other players, critics, commentators, analysts and contemporaries even struggle to get through and pave themselves in. He has been a lifeline to the nation starved of sporting glory as is the mighty river Ganges, the backbone of life in northern part of India. Very rarely it is seen a single person becoming the living Idol on whom rests the faith and expectations and emotions of the whole nation; compared in equivalence to this are very few entities like the Sun, the Moon, the Rain, ocean, and the God himself. He shows interesting characteristics that has to be understandably taken note of: He speaks less but lets his bat do the job, there are some people who are dreaded of him while there are some people who loves him and believes in him, he has a short physical stature but when it matters he unveils his grandeur in whose blaze all the miseries and problems gets vanished like a magic, He comes in and all of sudden it starts raining runs off his willow like thunderstorm and longing rain in a barren land, there are times when all shoulders are down and there is no hope and there are doubts if he as they think really exists and then he proves us to keep faith and he will deliver.

Last night too there were doubts in people’s minds and at the same time hopes resting on him to deliver the goods and once again he came in, came in good, unleashing in his very own human avatar, proving to believe in him as the savior.

hmmmm....

Sometimes I wonder what if those lovely messages in those fortune cookies came true!

Or what if that person called Abu Zebib Mhkuwabi, prince of nigerian province of zinguaba, who contacted me regarding transferring U.S.D. 27,00,000,000 to a swiss bank account and giving me 5% of it, really existed!

Why is it that you have to actually walk down hundred miles before you reach that spot where earth-meets-sky, something you could only visualize from distance earlier. And, why is it that, you then discover it's not really the horizon you were so eager to admire but the journey to enjoy while reaching there!

Happy Halo(3)Win!

...and MS trick scares away all other kids coming at the door for a treat... :)

Give and Get!

Have you ever had this feeling? I am sure everyone of us surely has... everyone of us who lives has, everything that exists has! The feeling of joy, the joy of being so calmly excited, excitement out of the achievement, and the achievement of the ultimate victory, victory out of the feeling of that fulfillment, fulfillment of the purpose, a purpose of a mere life and a mere one's existence. That feeling when we say "Yes!", "Yes, we did it" pumping fists in air, or even that calm smile out of the sense of victorious joy for having achieved the purpose... we feel these or somewhat similar to these emotions at every turn at every moment in our daily life (ofcourse there are those moments we don't feel them also, but isn't that again how we take it...? again aren't these finally those just interim moments between successive transition between doing something to achieve the final glory and then actually achieving it? because finally when we are there we look back remember only the sweet moments of how we achieved it and not those elusive moments when we were striving without victory insight... and those moments are also eqully important because those bring higher sense of achievement, aren't we glorified more on winning after being frustrated at the very thought of almost having lost it, don't we feel the joy and happiness after having through the struggle and pain to achieve what we had set to achieve for? aptly goes the saying "sweetness and joy of the glory lies in the struggle and pain put to achieve it", hadn't we had rains we wouldn't have liked the sun so much, hadn't we had the dark nights we wouldn't have loved the mornings, hadn't we had the steep slopes we wouldn't have joy of reaching atop mountains).

But what is the real victory is the real question, is it merely achieving something? how long does such a joy last? how long can we continue glorifying the things we did and we achieved? is there any such eternal joy? is there any victory that lasts forever? is the question... Answer is "yes" there is definitely and the answer lies in itself... it is the joy that lasts till eternity when it comes not from the only victory but being continually aware of achieving more such victories, achieving the higher purpose, the higher purpose of which these are just small stepping stones towards the path reaching there... but the fun is that the destination is not a single stop journey! :) even more so, in knowing that there is no destination, it must take a loooooooong walk down the path to know this very fact, and the fact is that the journey itself is a destination, its just that we just need to keep walking! So, every thinking mind will have an obviously innocent question: "then what's the purpose, if we just have to walk? and if we just have to keep walking isn't there any end?" I guess the answer lies in itself again, purpose is nothing but achieving the knowledge that one has to take a sojourn to keep walking and discovering more closely the eternal beauty and deriving heavenly joy of the ultimate purpose!". but then what and where's the end...??? can't be told in words, but it has to be discovered by actually walking down the path... perhaps there is no end or perhaps the end is just another begining but definitely worth taking a walk to know more about it...

Let me share one such joy, along the path that we might come across, it's the "joy of giving". Lot's been said and done about this that doesn't deserve any space on in here. How much do we long for something to achieve, to get? but how often do we achieve it not by getting but by giving? There is this joy of achievement that comes out of non-achievement, to give what we are seeking for... give a smile and what do we get in return is a question that even a new-borne baby answers very clearly, doesn't it? perhaps because new-borne baby doesn't know nothing but to give... give a smile every morning to a person when you are glad and don't know perhaps that person will smile back at us in the evening when we need it most, when we are sad... think you have to get something and then think when sincerely need to give the same thing; when do you feel more strong? we grow stronger when we get to give than we get to just get... in the miserly world of "give and take" if one starts walking down the path of "give and get", "give without expecting" i think we would reach there sooner than later...

Aaaaargh.... what is the worst curse mankind has ever had, u ask me, ask me what is the single thing that has proved to be the biggest side effect of all the times.... Leave that thing aside for awhile and let's try to convict the original culprit who is the root of all the bad causes that has caused tremendous damage to the society, human kind and most importantly also to itself. If I were to ask it to present itself before me, I wouldn't have taken even a second to sentence it to go back to the start of the times and come back to the present time in a rectified and orderly manner... I would sentence it to rigorous imprisonment of trillion centuries in the remotest andman nicobar islands of the universe few quadrillions light years away, or would dump it into the biggest and darkest black hole.... Ask me, and I don't give a damn to Salman khan's crime against innocent black bucks... or Lindsay Lohan's shop lifting act or Sanju baba's convincing attempt by conducting his own version of 'Experiments of the Truth' as a self imposed penance even after being found guilty of bhai da accomplice [ it's no french, it's just punjabi ;) ... for that matter the only french connections I have are: my beard that i name it, the kiss i see in hollywood flicks, the cycling race i see the whole month which a postman from my current land of residence used to come first, and last and least the underewear i wear ]. I won't even give a dime as a charity to Britney's Rehabilitation Aid nor will i crucify Indian team or BCCI for focusing on everything but the actual game...

But i can't even think of forgiving this most wanted for crime of crimes and it is none other that the Computer Science a.k.a Information Technology a.k.a. Software Engineering... yes this is it, who has done the undoable to both Computers and Science alike.... It must be held guilty for the way it has mis-directed the whole human generation into complete dis-array.... Science was happily making progress slowly and steadily on its way to find answer to the biggest question of all, leading us to constantly move forward towards the goal whatever it might had been planned for us... all its ancestors did the same things too during ice- age, stone-age, copper-age, even till recently, till iron-age but then's when it started to behave like a son of super-rich mugal a spoilt brat and then's when we started to lose it all... computer science borned and borned as a thorn in the horn of our evolution....

It claims itself as a science while it knows it isn't anywhere near to it, a mere set of misconcieved notions that solutions can be found by simulating the same scenario mechanically. It's just an art so perfected of trying to perform the same computation by imitating the problem domain 1000 times in the hope that it will work out correctly one time.... and also without any theory to prove it has indeed been worked out, finally....

The very base of this bundle of thoughts that revolves around anything related to computation relies on flawed assumption that there can be only two things that can happen in the world at a given time... in the vast world of umpteen parallel ways of co-exitence of the same patterns the same time it could only be this scientific blunder to consider that a system can exist in only one of the two states at a a time.... 0 or 1, how ridiculous! there are atleast three different colors to even simplest state machine as a street signal and given the flip-flap-flop permutations it can toggle between any of all the 3! possiblities.... if it had to be a "Computer Science" to tell the mankind that two and two comes to 4 then that thing could have been done in a nearabout complete manner even by a chimpanzee, given enough banana stock to the mammal. Give an ape a light bulb, it will toggle it on and off a few hundred times and after knowing the perfect pattern it can easily answer any of your seemingly complex computational problem!

This science gives a wrong impression that its best produce, "computer", knows it all... it is an intelligent machine... whereas we all know, even who knows ABC of this science can tell that that's not the case... its just a dumb electronic cage which we have stuffed a bird and all the atsrologial cards in and whenever we need to find an answer we open out the parrot to pick an appropriate card, that unfortunately tells how mis-fortunate idiots we have made of ourselves by trying to rely on it...

Computer Science, it is the most alien of all sciences, most unknown to the mankind... that is also because there is nothing scientific about it... it's just like a pet hobby of a dropped out student who has been given a magical lamp and not knowing what to exactly do with it and after rubbing it from all sides in the hope that jeannie will come out, finally finds the best use of it... as a dump-pot... Terms like virtual-reality, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, micro and macro computing and networking are all nothing but just like the false promises of a presidential candidate to lure in the crowd but later sublime in the atmoshpere like smoke coming out of the cigars of this same spoilt brat, the computer science!

It has done nothing more than providing the movie writers the food for their thought... something that they always relied on... be it flying planes, or landing on the moon... (but the respective sciences have also backed their notions by proving them in reality too). Ever since humans have started thinking, they must've been inspired by the power of imagination and thoughts and that must be the driving force behind their strife to provide scientific developments to innovate and solve the problem. It is just so unforunate and ironical that it seems that we are reaching the dead end on that thought process ever since the computer science started following a wrong track... one can just wish we get out of the clutches of self-clamped make-beliefs and fly free again to make the ammends....

P.S. Just imagine, had it not been binary arithmeic, what would it have mean to us... so, even if we had followed the street signals logic CPU's would have been performing operations at the rate apprx. 3 to the power x instead of 2 to the power x... extrapolate it a bit more and we can eaily find the age of that distant star in a day instead of few hundred years from now!!! Agreed, there were only cathodes and anodes to begin with but now why can't we think of neutrode / alphode / gammode / betode / sandode or for that matter why do we want to rely only on amplitude / power / voltage of the charge why not on the other parameters like frequency and (electro)magnetism... or for that matter why we still thinking of hard wired systems to help us solve problems. we have light that is already travelling fast in the fibres too, why not trap it for computer science???
that's the biggest harm computer science has done to itself, it has led the community to stop thinking because it has reduced the scope of the box, it just shows those astrological cards that are stuffed inside it!!!

कितने जवाबों के सवाल, कई अनसुलझी पहेलियाँ, कई मंजिलें जहाँ जाना अभी हैं बाक़ी,
कितने खयालों के बवाल, कई अनदेखी नवेलियां, कई जिंदगियां जिसे जीना अभी हैं बाक़ी...

देखें तो ख़्वाब कईं, लेकिन ख्वाबों में भी एक ख्वाब ऐसा हो,
चमकें तो सितारें कई, लेकिन उनमें भी एक आफताब जैसा हो...

चलने को तो हैं राहें कई, लेकिन पहुंचना हैं आख़िर वही,
निकल पडो उस राह पर, जहाँ कदमो के निशाँ ना हो कोई
(कवी - संदिप )

Not bad, this is nice feature that blogger has come up with... though there were few other transliteration tools available so far but it's builtin editing support definitely gives much needed assistance to all those wanted it since long...
It's no news that the internet giant is making big strides in the innovation and leveraging the web 2.0 and 3.0 initiative, but same time one wouldn't make mistake to notice there is something lacking there... the service model, the www restrictions, the real lack of out_of_box_light_bulb_idea even with all the momentous brain power and reserves of pin money, still it's nowhere on the way to take it to be the next car_in_every_house and desktop_in_every_household provider... maybe it can do certain ammends and look far and beyond the ocular vision. just for fun one can hope it doesn't join the list of those sudden shining stars which shot themselves down to oblivion just within a generation...