Lonely asteroid: 2012

Monday, December 31, 2012

Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein

Friday, December 28, 2012

Quotable Quotes

Quotable quotes

Quotable quotes:-

1. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

- Arthur C. Clarke

2.The first 40 years of life give us text. The next 30 supply the commentary on it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotable quotes:-

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. – Buckminster Fuller

The music that can the deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.12.12

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

It is good to be rich; it is good to be strong, but it is better to be beloved of many friends. - Euripides

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." By Cicero

*How true! It hold good even after 2000 years!

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion for life." -By Frederico Fellini

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." By Clarence Darrowon'

12.3.2013

"Don't argue with a fool.The spectators can't tell the difference." - By Charles Nalin

16.3.13 "Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect." - Leonardo Da Vinci

11.3.2013

"Minds are like parachutes: they work best when open." - Lord Thomas Dewar

17.3.2013

"Always listen to experts.They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."

24.5.13 "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln

28.5.13 "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

31.5.13 "Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequencees." - Robert Louis Stevenson

2.6.13 "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Bertrand Russel

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire

4.6.13 "Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I am not going to retire." - Margaret Mead

9.7.13 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare

10.7.13 I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. -- Martin Luther King, Junior

15.7.13 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

26.7.13 Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. -- Arthur Schopenhauer.

27.7.13 Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light. Hellen Keller

I am gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. -- Jimi Hendrix

(Comment:- It is kinda curse n'body can argue with! )

31.7.13 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. -- William Blake

4.8.13 You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -- C.S.Lewis

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -- Maya Angelou

5.8.13 whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. -- Thomas Jefferson

18.8.13 Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Malachy Mccourt

8.9.13 A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -- John Barrymore

14.9.2013

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals and thinks in man. -- Arthur Young

12.10.13 The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -- Vince Lombardy

18.11.13 If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein

28.2.2014

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. -- Geoege Bernard Shaw

7.3.2014

The true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection - Michelangelo

11.3.14 A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. -- Phyllis Diller

21.3.14 The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. --The Buddha

5.4.14 The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -- Scott Hamilton

14.4.14 The distinction between the past, present and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein

21.6.14 The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. --- Leonardo Da Vinci

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodre Roosevelt

2.7.14 Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.--- Carl Jung

28.7.14

We build too many walls and not enough bridges. – Issac Newton

3.9.14 Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung

11.11.14 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
14.11.14

I have received so much love and affection from the Indian people that nothing I do can ever repay even a fraction of it, and indeed there can be no repayment of so precious a thing as affection...I have been overwhelmed by it. – Jawaharlal Nehru

14.12.14 The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. - Don Herold

13.1.15 However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. - Stephen Hawking

15.4.15 Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. -- Rene Descartes

19.4.15 Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. -- Vernon Howard

22.6.15 Understanding others is wisdom. Understanding yourself is enlightenment. --- Lao Tze

2.7.15 If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. -- Meister Eckhart
3.8.15

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. -- Socrates

The superior man thinks always of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort. --- Confuscius
15.8.2015

To see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -- J.K.Rowling

27.9.15
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. --- Pablo Picasso

9.10.15 What we see depends mainly on what we look for. -- John Lubbock

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Chemystery of words.

There is chemistry of words, like, as in poetry, and a fine piece of prose. But look at the chemystery I have discovered! The paradigm runs as follows. Consider individual items like atoms, in chemistry. Oxygen, by itself, has a certain set of properties. It is highly combustible, for example. But when it combines with hydrogen, it produces water, which quenches fire! Well (pun intended, as you will see), words can behave like chemistry! Come, take the word, “come”. Its past tense is, “came”. It is not, “comed”, for god’s sake. Any doubt?

Well, well, take another chemical word like “well”. When you want to combine ‘well’ with ‘come’, you are welcome. Now form the past tense. “The president was warmly welcomed.” In case you have missed it, it is wel+COMED. How come come became comed? That is chemystery of words for you. Mystery indeed.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Every language has developed its own characteristic ways of expressing. The other day, I was feeling drowsy, and was in a state of reverie. Suddenly, a striking paradox flashed in my mind. Two OPPOSITE words could be used to describe the same phenomenon! In Kannada, a regional language of South India, we use the phrase, “nidde bardithay.” It means, “Sleep is COMING.” On the other hand, the antonym of ‘come’, ‘go’ is also used when I want to sleep. I say, “nidde hogthini” which means, “I am GOING to sleep”! Two opposite verbs are used to convey the same meaning. Similar expressions can be found in most Indian languages. I am curious to see if my Western readers can quote similar expressions in their languages.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Edit and Sweat

I am declaring this, Sury’s Law of Editing. Every time you open your manuscript, and review it, you will invariably find a mistake. This law holds good whether you type it, or whether you get it typed by somebody else. I edited my novel eight times before publication. The moment I eagerly opened the printed book – damn it, I espied a mistake!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Pictures: Best Micro-Photos of 2012

Bizaare News

Bizarre news.

Deccan Chronicle, dt 14^th April, 20009

“Sapling found in man’s lungs

Moscow. Surgeons found a sapling growing inside a man’s lungs when they operated on him. He was complaining of sever chest pains.

“I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things.” An Izhvesk surgeon told the daily paper, Pravda

18thapril200
2) Deccan Chronicle, "yuck factor'
Maid mixes menstrual blood in food
HongKong; An Indinesian maid has appeared in a HongKong court accused of adding menstrual blood to her employer's food in an effort to improve their stormy relationship......etc.
as reported in The Standard newspaper.
In some southeast Asian cultures, menstrual blood is thought to have special power, the paper said.
Comments - By god, what will we have next?
3)Indian Express, 18th April, 2009, Vizag
"Youth kills farhet for not voting for Chiru"
part excerpt
"In a bizarre incident a 23 year old ardent fan of megastar Ciranjeevi reportedly killed his 55 year old fatherfor not voting in favour of PRP party in the just concluded first phase of elections at Archaiapet vikkage in Mankavaram mandal...."
Deccan Chronicle, 10th May, 2009 – page 13 bottom half, 3rd col.
“Man gives birth to remains of his twin”
“Former fire fighter had been carrying the embryo in his abdomen since he was born 30 years ago.”
“Iy was like something from Alien. I didn’t believe Gavin when he said something was coming out of his belly button until I saw him..”, the Sun quoted stunned GP Dr. Joe Santos
…”Then one said it could be my undeveloped identical twin that I absorbed at a very early stage.”, Gavin Hyatt said. “ PTI
***
Deccan Chronicle, 16thMay, 2009 – page 8, top, 1st col.
“26 year-old’..‘baby’baffles doctors”
Shilong, May 15th: A 26 year-old youth who looks like a toddler has baffled doctors in Meghalaya.
Jerly Lyngdoh is an adult trapped perhaps forever in a baby’s body and mind. Born on March 29, 1983 …has not grown beyond 84 cm …weighs 10 kg. He cannot talk…
J.Ryngdong, pediatrician of Ganesh Das Hospital said, “What is more intriguing is his inability to speak a single word….”
“The circumference of Jeryl’s head is equivalent to that of a child aged between nine months and one year….”
PTI

Sunday, October 28, 2012

The other day, I saw them drilling a bore well. The machine was drilling hundreds of feet into the hard rocky earth. It was powered by compressed air. That produced an imagery in my mind – about the power of compression.

Words, too when compressed have power! A long word, when compressed, exhibits more power.

For example, ‘aggro’ connotes more meaning than ‘aggression’. Other examples:-

Ad for advertisement

Condo for condominium

Deli for delicatessen

Perp for perpetrator

Cat for catamaran,,, and so on. I will be adding more to the list.

I would like to add my own concoction, ‘fant’ for fantastic!
13.11.12
of course the primordial condensation; ad for advertisement. simply grand.
* perm
*info
*G/gen
*prez ( they have even the 'POTUS' - for The President of The United Syates!
*cop