Thats-so-Raja !

Folks, welcome the new Toast Master on the block. I gave my maiden speech last month. With a bang :) It was chosen the best prepared speech of the evening. I am going to post all the scripts here. The main objective is to get your suggestions on the improvements. Also, the beginners who google their way in here would get some tips, hopefully :) This speech was titled the 'The Modern Man'. Project 1 (P1) was intended for the speaker to introduce himself, therefore, its an ice breaker session. Following the tradition, I pulled out a couple of real incidents from my life - the ingredients that cooked me into what I am today. I would probably write a separate blog on those incidents. But, I think what really gave the wind to the sail was the closing  segment (the script below). It was supposed to be delivered in an express speed and I took 2 weeks to memorize it. Phew! I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Multicultured, multi-faceted – a post-modern de...

I am a utilitarian. Do you know how hard it is to live as a utilitarian these days? You often get mocked in closer circles. In the pretentious places, you are looked down upon. You are generally pushed to feel like a flying swine - strange, curious and out of place. The problem is the word ‘utility’ in it. The commoners derive a shallow meaning that it is utility before happiness. Utility before pleasure. Stretching it a bit, they think that a utilitarian denies pleasures, leads a boring life of a miser, does not appreciate finer things in life and is generally a philistine. But utilitarianism is exactly opposite of that. I will be a damned liar if I declare that I am holy and have renounced all the pleasures. The tricky thing, and here in lies a great secret about the art of living, is to understand what pleasure really is. I think there is such a thing as ‘ supreme ’ pleasure. And by virtue of the existence of a supreme pleasure, there are also ‘ inferio...

At last, I have brought this app to some shape. It still has some pending pieces - of which we will talk later. Work and life has suddenly propelled into busyosphere and this activity was given a backseat. I just took it back and dusted it up yesterday. This application comes from my personal needs to work out using the ‘High Intensity Interval Training’ (HIIT) method. This method worked like magic on me. I have lost close to 2 kilos in a month’s time. When you google it, you might find that it’s a rhythmic cardio exercise which involves a repetition of an impact phase (a run or cycling at break neck speed) and a cool down phase (a slower walk) with a certain ratio. I am not still very clear of the biological explanation for its effectiveness (it burns fat 8 times more than the usual cardio forms) but I myself am an empirical proof. The only problem was that I am an outdoor jogger. Without any tools, I was counting the timing in my mind first and later started using landmarks to co...

The CWG 2010 seems to be back on track. But I was too busy with work and missed the window when 'fun' things were happening. It was a loss for the cartoonists but good for the nation. Chak De! India! Anyways, I will publish here whatever I had in my mind... Tight Rope Walk Snakes and other problems plague the CWG Delhi 2010 "Organiser, there is a snake in my bed" "Well, you always say our country is full of snake charmers! You can find one quickly!"

The Boxing Champion's bed crashed . Also it was revealed that the bed was made in China.

Bridge to the stadium collapses adding to the Common Wealth Games woe ! Pole Vault!

இப்போதெல்லாம் முறிந்த காதலுக்கு மூன்று வரி கவிதை அளவே வலி. மூன்று நாளில் மீண்டும் ஒரு கனாக்  காலம்!