Does anyone know how network ADSL!!

ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. I have been trying to network this thing for past 10 days ( seems like 10 zillion years) and so far ...... so unsuccessful .... damn ... Does any one know how to do it!!!!

MY HAIR

When I wake up early in the morning and appear before the mirror, I see myself as a man who has just come out of the coal mine. The old dirty looking dry long hair has changed not only my appearance but also the perception of others towards me. My parents ask the same question several times in agony, “Why do you keep long hair”? My friends also ask the question but with delight, my neighbours with suspicion, my brother with curiosity but I never ask to myself because the decision was entirely my own volition. Today, the long hair has turned me into a lazy person for my parents, a likely hooligan for the neighbours, a look-alike of Abhijeet Sawant (the first Indian Idol) for my friends but for myself, I have changed into a person who can make his own decision, who is independent and who is matured enough to carry a responsibility along with him.
Rolling my fingers along the cascading long hair, I get reminded of the times when I constantly defended it. Many said, the long hair did not complement my dark complexion very well but the long hair is more the part of me than my appearance. The part of me says I want to be an independent, free-thinking and grown up person and the long hair of mine justifies the personality I want to be a part of.
My hair may not be the most stylish but the style and attraction, for me, lies in the power to sense your own freedom and measure your maturity, not on the other’s satisfaction on your appearance of looking good.

Requite: a tribute

REQUITE



Inside you
I exploded
Erupting a volcano
of my youth

Inside you
I shook
Trembling from earthquakes
of my buried desires
coming to fore

Across you
I travelled
And searched, back and forth
For fragnance
To linger in my soul

And from the plains
of your golden flesh
I raised my head to see
Between the mountains
your face
Breathless!!

Life of pi : The book review

The first section is an adult Pi Patel’s rumination over his childhood. The main character, Piscine Patel (aka "Pi") talks about his life living as the son of a zookeeper, and speaks at length about animal behaviour, while also speaking about his religion - Pi practices Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, having seen merits in all three religions. He says "I just want to love God." While on a ship when his family leaves politically oppressed Puducherry for Canada, the Japanese ship Tsimtsum mysteriously sinks into the ocean (most likely due to an engine malfunction).

Everyone, including Pi's family, is lost at sea and Pi is the only survivor of the fatal accident. He manages to survive due to being tossed into the lifeboat before the ship went under, and is joined by a zebra who jumps into the boat and breaks its leg due to the impact. Pi then mistakenly helps a dangerous 450-pound Bengali tiger by the name of Richard Parker, only to realize his mistake after the tiger is on board. There are other animals on the boat with Pi, including a hyena, orangutan, various insects and other pestilence. At first Pi believes that Richard Parker the tiger has abandoned the boat, and focuses on surviving the hyena. It is not long before the hyena begins to feed on the zebra. After the zebra's death, the hyena kills the orangutan, prompting Pi to approach it, lest he be next. It is then that he notices that Richard Parker has been resting under a tarpaulin and has been aboard the lifeboat the entire time.
The tiger kills and eats the hyena, but does not immediately attack Pi. The young man manages to construct a raft using supplies aboard the boat, and avoids direct confrontation with Richard Parker by keeping out of the tiger's territory on the deck of the boat. He fishes and feeds both Richard Parker and himself and tries to keep both of them alive. Later as they are close to death, the duo wash ashore upon a strange island formed of a tightly-knit edible algae. The island is populated by meerkats and contains pools of fresh water, but at night the algae that forms the island becomes dangerously acidic. After some time, Pi finds a strange tree on the island, and upon examining the tree's unusual "fruit", finds human teeth. He deduces that the 'island' is actually a massive plantlike organism that has consumed a human previously. Pi and Richard Parker soon leave. They later make it to Mexico, whereupon the tiger leaves Pi feeling at a loss for losing his one companion. By the time he has made it to the hospital, he has been at sea for 227 days.

During his stay in the hospital, Pi is visited by two Japanese officials, Okamoto and Chiba, who work for the Japanese government, and he proves to be most frustrating for them. They tape record their conversation with him in order to find out and form an official report on how the ship sank. He stubbornly tells them his story of animals and spending 7 months at sea with a ferocious tiger, but the skeptical men cannot believe his tale. Pi asks the two men if they disliked his story. Okamoto replies that they enjoyed it, but that they need to know what really happened. Pi says he will tell another story. In this story, the four occupants of the lifeboat are Pi, his mother, the cook (an ill-tempered, greedy French man), and a sailor (a beautiful young Chinese boy). The sailor had broken his leg jumping into the lifeboat, and the cook cuts the leg off and tries to use it for bait. The sailor dies and the cook butchers and eats him. Pi and his mother, both horrified, try to stop him. The cook kills Pi’s mother and throws her head in Pi’s direction. Soon after, Pi fights the cook and kills him. He eats his heart and liver and pieces of his flesh. Then, as Pi says to Okamoto and Chiba, “Solitude began. I turned to God. I survived.” The parallels between that story and his story involving the tiger are noted by the two horrified Japanese men. They ask more about the ship and how it sank, but Pi cannot tell them anything useful. Pi asks them which story they preferred: the one with animals or the one without. Both Chiba and Okamoto agree that the one with animals is “the better story.” In his report, which years later he sends to Martel, Okamoto writes that Pi’s story of survival at sea with an adult Bengal tiger is astonishing and unique.

( internet sources)

Redefining Religion

A well known scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how sun, in turn , orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. There was this old lady who turned outrageous and at the end of the lecture she got up and said that the scientist was talking gibberish. She said that the world is a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. The scientist gave a haughty smile and replied “What is the tortoise standing on?” The old lady replied-“You’re really clever, but it’s the turtles all the way down!”

I read this story in the science epic-“A brief history of time”. Stephen Hawking illustrated this story to demonstrate the ridiculous mind set of people. This story also reveals how dogmatic people are regarding their “religion” and unfortunately to many people, religion is the traditional belief and the roots in which they were brought up. No matter how much the scientist tried to make the lady understand about the universe, the lady was stubborn with her idea. She stuck with what her parents had told her or perhaps her Grandparents and then, quite stubbornly her mind rejected the idea that was being injected to her by a man who was so young!!!
The point is – We have developed this tendency of rejecting new ideas like our body rejects foreign particles. In other words, we develop allergy towards new ideas. For centuries we have continued to follow quite mechanically the same rituals and tradition without having the slightest idea of how they originated or what is the benefit of following them. Even today, I see my peers bowing their head and closing their eyes (into transcendental vision!!??) and murmuring their prayers just before they are distributed with their Exam Questionnaire. People still summon the so-called “Holy Brahmin” to enchant the incomprehensible mantras. And what’s more? Our parents (not all of them) want a bride who is of out caste and creed!!! And when asked about these practices, we blame the religion. And despite all this, we all know deep down that no matter how much we pray we aren’t going to get good score if we don’t study. And our parents also know deep down inside that it’s the behavioral qualifications and the educational qualifications that are more important than anything? And even the Brahmin knows that he is enchanting something that he doesn’t understand completely. Then, why are we blindfolded regarding ourselves? I have no objection with the old lady of the story above who perhaps wasn’t fortunate like us to study and understand the “miracles” of science but what about us, or our educated parents? Are we all hypocrites??

I am not pleading everyone to be an atheist. But you are reading this thing; I want you to think about this question- What is religion? Is it going to prayers frequently? Or is it following the orthodox ideas and conventional beliefs?

And if you think that religion is practicing moral values (which is what I think), then I am afraid that most of us are blasphemous because we don’t practice “religion”. How many of us prefer to leave seats in a public bus and stand for an old man or how many times have we fed a hungry stray dog? Please think about it and leave me your comments!!!

I am sorry

I am sorry What was your name maam,
cant remember the show
everyday i peep through the same window
I tried too hard to lose the memory
couldnt really forget you maam , i am sorry

Thought those alley belong to you,
saw u walking theret'is all vain?
didnt hear you down the stairs yesterday
How could you do this to me ,
oh girl u are the fire
your enticing smile and brutal walk, all my desire
I tried too hard to lose the memory
couldnt really forget you maam,
i am sorry

There are about 15 million Nepali speakers in India. I think all these guys must vote for Prasant Tamang and make him Indian Idol. That would be a great irony considering the fact that the Nepalese speakers (though Indian citizens) are treated harshly in India. Moreover some morons who call themselves as Bollywood directors often cast irrational speaking idiots and label them Gurkha. Guys, its time to show the bloody idiots that you guys have better accent and melody than the rest of 'em.....
Hail Gurkha