• I was in 3rd standard when my parenst wanted me to start learning music. For my name was the same as a great musician.
  and i was in to tabla.It was onlythe 2nd day that i was found kicking tabla around like a football and there ended my adventures with music. Never dared to enter again.
• It was in 9th standard that i first asked a girl out, it was motivated by one of my friends :) and it was good ice creams with a fun ride at the local mela when it was happening when the ice creams were done with i realised the 50 RS i ahd saved had been lost :( ! it ended when the gal counted her small notebook purse to pay for it. Its been some years since then the gal still pays for me .

Oops got late with class will do it when i get time :) ha ha ! i know :p i canleave many things incomplete :)

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Whom do you call a cannibal ?
Wikipedia says “cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one’s own species and usually refers to humans eating other humans“

I grew up in a vegetarian home , with a fiercely vegetarian mother. But we havent been a traditional vegetarian family , my grandfather says his father was a pretty good hunter , i see inone of my childhood frames a pair of tiger claws hanging around my neck .

I always loved the taste of meat be it chicken or the mutton and never had this sense of guilt in me that i was actually killing a living creature and if you take religion “all of us are creations of the same god hence we are all related“and if you take in to what darwin says “All creatures have a common focal point“.Hence everytime i chop an animal down iam actually killing a far off relative.
And that makes me a Cannibal.

But wait does is this really a good argument ? or is there a counter argument ?
the existence and non existence of an counter argument depends on the listener themselves.

One can always say Plants also fit in to the realm of live creatures.While the vegetarians shout from the roof about the Immorality of killing animals , what happens when they cut a plant out, what happend when people pluck fruits they know bear the seeds of another tree ( another living organisms) .

When you are reaping down the crops how many weeds get broken , howmany soil micro organisms die off. Isnt these death slaughter or killing ? Howmany know that in what is called Nitrogen fixation for a paddy crop its the nitrogeneous bacteria that lays itself down? isnt this an act of killing ?

Arent we descendants of the bacteria ? oh ! god didnt we kill our own ancestors when we take every bit of rice down ?

Well my friend says ” common bacteria is different froma goat or a chicken and no way a plant can be compared to a live animal“

well why not ? May be it comes down to say ” Size matters” if it does then yo are moving away from your stand . If it didnt you know its very difficult to pass a judgement.

But is this all ? how does this nature work ?
For those who know science would quickly come up with food chain or he food web or the ecosystem pyramid .

What does it mean ?
It puts out the food chain that exists in the nature today and what happens if there is an imbalance in the food chain .

And then comes the questionof Death .
” It is impossible to fully address the moral implications of eating meat without thinking about the significance of life and death. Otherwise one is in danger of hypocrisy, stemming from our separation from the fact of death behind each piece of meat we eat. The physical and social distance from slaughterhouse to dinner table insulates us from the fear and pain the animals feel as they are led to the slaughter, and turns a dead animal into just a piece of meat “

Why should death be considered so unfortunate ?
Nature has its own way of creating and maintaing a balance in the ecosystem and we being a part of the ecosystem shouldntmeddle with it.

At the end of the day may be we call oursleves human being but we still are omnivores arent we ? we play the role of any omnivore in the eco system and food chain .

Well my mother is alway sup to advising me the harms of killing fellow creatures be it a small insect or a hen. well i loved animals too i had pets and loved the company of love birds.
I have grown up seeing my grandfather eat meat my father eat meat. I ask my mother “When they dont have a sense of guilt and mymother herslef being a part of it. Why should i develop a sense of guilt for this “Well she always brought up an answer but she knows it well its never so good .

It all comes down to the individuals choice for the person raising the issue hasnt done anythin better too ?

So are we all cannibals ?

Have we all become insensitive to other life forms on this earth or its jus the natural priocess that has gone on sinc etime immemorial and we are just seeing a few people against the tide. The choice is yours…..

This post is a reply to one such accusation against me ! ..someone just called me a cannibal!

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There is this bug in sendmail! ( well its a fact any advanced BUG becomes a feature !! ) which u can use to send mails using some other addresses .

What do u need

• A Unix Shell connected to the net and knowledge of any mail server using sendmail

Now when u login to the shell do .

• telnet mailserver 25
• it should say sendmail 25 .
• now confirm it by doing “HELO taggy” it should reply pleased to meet you
• then mail from:mail from id>
• rcpt to:to email id
• data
• Type in all your content and end the body with a “.” on a new line
• then you should get a reply saying mesage Qued up :)

thats as simple as it gets :) using sendmail ! :)
and dont ask me ! themail servers name :p jus try looking for urslef :)

Well yes its all fun :) but how do we detect such emails ?
its pretty easy actually u just have to see email headers and u will realise :) the server from which it came !! :) ha !

It doesnt mean u cannot send completely anonymous emails.It only means you have to do one step more..

ha ! not here man :)

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Where did u hear this last “The Dots..” a condomn ad ? ha ha

well not really iam going to talk abt the dots and how they connect to our lives.

U have a series of dots .. u walk and find that you have actually connected those dots from the past to the current position.These dots can be anything your past incidents …past life . But the ting is you have connected them and you will be connecting them in future too.

And more often than not a dot is an indication of your current position.So what others call as fate( ur destination is what i would take as dots) .

But the interesting thing about these dots is you can only connect the dots from your past not the ones in future.

It takes me to this story .
When steve Jobbs was at college . He never liked the routine subjects he thought , they arenot heloing him to do what he wants to and hence dropped out of college.His colllege(REED) was very famous for calligraphy.It was fascinating art for him ,the space between fonts ,. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and he found it fascinating. and ten years later when apple was founded and Mac being made, all these came in to his mind and there was born the fonts that we all love to use, their proportinate distance was fascinating , and since windows just copied Mac people would never knew what it would be like to use different fonts if not for that small lectures on calligraphy.. Who would thought those would be apart of Steves life but he did that and y ? the answer is because he loved to.

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And thats what we should also try and do. Look for what you love and as it is the case with all matters concerning love, you kow it when u see it. failures are awful , yes accepted ” It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes ” is ture as well, sometimes when you are successfull failures can help you. When th eheaviness of success is replaced by lightness of a beginer you feel rejuvenated and you start with all vigour again .

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. convinced that the only thing that kept him going was that he loved what he did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Stay hungry stay Foolish was all he said to finish off his speech at stanford university but let me assure thats a message for all thos e pople who have a vision for themeselves , let not the medicrities around you bog you down , for success as i beleive is always jus a step ahead of what your are doing and thinking.

Let not the darkness of failure scare you . For its a fact with nature… Sunsets and darkness envolopes only to make way for the Bright sunshine a few hours later. and then the cycle repeats itself.

The pleasure more often than not is in the journey of a mile than the milestone itself , Keep doing what you love and iam sure we will have milestones as we look back at us . Well lets not forget the dots too. :)

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i am always getting lots of links as in fwds but very few are really good this fwd frm devil certainly was .

A red square game , a javascript :) one :P

tried hard for 5 attempts managing to get arnd 18 ! once i crossed 18.73somethin and then came the 21 :)
:) nice fun it was tho it cost me 15 min :D

see this for my success pic :P See here

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