tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26572844092575748942011-07-31T00:41:53.451-07:00miscellaneous agendasoortcloud domicilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17572778318981935652noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657284409257574894.post-1394646117524179102010-08-04T08:19:00.000-07:002010-08-04T08:56:40.104-07:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">1. Biology</span><br /><br /> 01-08-07<br /><br />Ram: what keywords did you use?<br /><br />Raghuveeran: plant name +alternate leaves +serrate leaves<br /><br />Ram: okay<br /> okay got it<br /><br />Raghuveeran: does the plant smell good<br /> mahogany is a type of wood used for constrcution right<br /><br />Ram: no.<br /> does smell like anything.<br /> deosnt<br /><br />Raghuveeran: k<br /><br />Ram: still something seems out of place<br /> don't know what<br /><br />Raghuveeran: yesh position of leaves<br /> is very close<br /> and the stalk attaching the leaf to the stem is not as long as in ur plant<br /><br />Ram: but the description says nothing about it being a climber. thats odd<br /><br />Raghuveeran: yeah we dint hit gold<br /> get a good pic from diff angles<br /> post it on this ite<br /> biology-online.org see id someone recognizes it<br /><br />Ram: okay. good idea.<br /><br />Raghuveeran: get good pics 2 0r 3<br /><br />Ram: i'll take pics in the morning]<br /><br />Raghuveeran: by the way i am suffering from jaundice<br /> mostly by hepatitis A<br /><br />Ram: what the??<br /><br />Raghuveeran: not severe case,<br /><br />Ram: malaria poitu ippo jaundicumma?<br /><br />Raghuveeran: but urine was dark yellow gotfreakd out lol<br /><br />Ram: oh.<br /> have pics?<br /><br />Raghuveeran: lol<br /> will get<br /><br />Ram: hehe<br /> no thanks<br /> i gave up uploading the video by the way.<br /><br />Raghuveeran: fine<br /> why does the chicken egg have 2 embroys<br /><br />Ram: do you like our brand new madam prez?<br /><br />Raghuveeran: i mean 2 egg yolks<br /> dunno wat to make of her,,shes close frnd of soniaji tats for sure<br /><br />Ram: does it have 2 embryos really?<br /><br />Raghuveeran: someone has posted<br /> egg with 2 egg yolks<br /> is it like twins?<br /><br />Ram: twins may be<br /><br />---<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2. African chicks</span><br /> <br /> 28-11-08<br /><br />Chaitanya: damn.not that way<br /> whats the tribe called<br /><br />Ram: whatever way<br /><br />Chaitanya: ill check it out on google<br /> how the feales look<br /> females also<br /><br />Ram: there might be more than one. i'll go wiki too<br /> then we'll team up and go africa<br /><br />Chaitanya: how do i go about it<br /> whats the start word?<br /> i go africa anyday man<br /> whats the tall tribe<br /> ?<br /><br />Ram: bushmen?<br /><br />Chaitanya: theres a tribe which has extremely tall people<br /> bushmen are pigmies<br /><br />Ram: i don't remember<br /><br />Chaitanya: i read it in tinkle:P<br /><br />Ram: why you want tall..?!!?<br /><br />Chaitanya: why not?<br /> long lega are a turn on<br /><br />Ram: i read it somewhere similar..<br /><br />Chaitanya: legs also<br /><br />Ram: really?<br /><br />Chaitanya: ok maybe not so for you<br /><br />Ram: did i say anything?<br /><br />Chaitanya: no<br /> chal be<br /> got to go now<br /> work calls<br /><br />Ram: no sir.<br /> bye bye. be safe.<br /><br />Chaitanya: yes saar<br /><br />Ram: dont go sneaking around some gully<br /><br />Chaitanya: why will i<br /><br />Ram: you just might saar<br /><br />Chaitanya: i know<br /> wont but<br /><br />Ram: bye<br /><br />Chaitanya: tada<br /> take care<br /><br />Ram: go<br />---<br /> 04-12-08<br /><br />Ram: Bedouin<br /><br />Chaitanya: you?<br /><br />Ram: bedouin<br /><br />Chaitanya: again?<br /> ah<br /> no<br /><br />Ram: bedouin<br /><br />Chaitanya: not that<br /> tahts not the tribe<br /><br />Ram: bedouin?<br /><br />Chaitanya: zulu<br /><br />Ram: bedouin!!<br /><br />Chaitanya: ashanti<br /><br />Ram: bedouin<br /><br />Chaitanya: pygmy<br /><br />Ram: bedouinbedouinbedouin<br /><br />Chaitanya: ok fine<br /><br />Ram: bedouin<br /><br />---<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3. Myopia</span><br /><br /> 27 July - 3 August 2010<br /><br /><br />Ram: <br /> dei naayE, translation eppO anupuva?<br /> hey dog, when will you send the translation?<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> En le handi, nettag kELak aagaangillA?<br /> You pig, can't you ask properly?<br /> What translation are you talking about?<br /><br />Ram:<br /> eruma, adhukulla (it+inside) marandhuteyA?<br /> buffalo, have you forgotten so soon?<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> ram: le katte, nee EnAdrU kaLasidrallA adara translation maadudu?<br /> Donkey, I can translate only if you send something, right? (This was a translation of the whole sentence, not word by word translation).<br /> Rather than continuing with the quite meaningless exchange of epithets, I'll send you a sentence. Limit yourself to this sentence only in your reply; and send a new sentence along with it (a respectable one, if you please).<br /> kaaDinalli ninna anubhava hEgittU?<br />(How was your experience in the jungle?)<br /> I can also add that my labmate, Dr. Venkat Kolla is interested in this initiative. He had evinced interest in it two months ago. So, I'll be adding him to the list. He will contribute with Telugu sentences.<br /><br />Ram:<br /> Comrade Rahul, you speak as if I have been indulging myself in the delights offered by zoologically-inspired slurs. Your wronging me is illegitimate. I was merely exploring certain vistas of dravidian exchange as has never been skirted by our likes till the time I struck up on the idea and took action to attend to this very fundamental flaw in our courteous multilogues.<br /> I try to be true to your literary visions by translating your cheery sentence and also providing one of my own making. These you may find at the end of this correspondence.<br /> All done and said, I extend a warm welcome to the newest, keen member of our humble community, and only with the earnest view of not giving the bright soul the slightest notion that any of his lingual buddies is being disrespectful, do I refrain from expanding the usage of my faunal vocabulary.<br /> Let's germinate.<br /> kaaDinalli ninna anubhava hEgittU?<br /> kaaTTula On anubavam eppiDi (=how) irundadu (=was)?<br /> Look at the sky! How beautiful is the moon!<br /> vaanatta paaru! nila (=moon) evolo (=how much) azhagA (=beautiful) irukku!<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> Dear Ram, I was not aware of your intentions. Honest and appropriate though they were, a formal notification was necessary. I can impress upon you the fact that addressing a Kannadiga with canine references will seriously offend him. I don't know if it's routinely used in Tamil. Hence, the outrage.<br /> Since the aim of this initiative is to learn the common parlance of our respective cultures, I think we can include these adjectives and epithets. But standardization, not amounting to censorship, is also required here.<br /><br />Ram:<br /> Your impulsive agitations pardoned, I make a note of your plea and, with effect, will strive to abide by the statutes. But pray do not get carried away by the occasional sparring. If it issues (it is important you follow me on this point) our minds should still be of such capacity as to scour the dirt with a decisive swipe and continue journeying on our lingual escapade. So, translate!<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> Maybe I would do both of us a favour by reminding you that I wasn't pleading. And you can stop assuming that I was asking for "pardon". I was just clarifying things. A bit of fine-tuning of attitude and a hint of diplomacy would help a great deal in continuing with this endeavour; no matter what your personal opinions are.<br /> As you advocate, scour this dirt with a decisive swipe and continue.<br /><br />Ram:<br /> As you seem to be preoccupied with fictitious agendas that you just animatedly alluded to as my assumptions, I, albeit with a sunken heart, cannot help but feel a pinch of remorse at the prevailing circumstances. I, however, reiterate my conviction that matters more important deserve no more than being a notch higher than petty misunderstandings on our list of priorities. To resolutely follow what I advocate is, and always was, precisely my motive, and just in case the message failed to reach your commendable intellect, I take the trouble of copy-pasting here the alluring sentence from within the depths of the very dirt I wished to scour.<br /> Look at the sky! How beautiful is the moon!<br /> vaanatta paaru! nila (=moon) evoLo (=how much) azhagA (=beautiful) irukku!<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> If you want to be supercilious, I am not the one to entertain such things. For a person like you who has limitless intellect, it shouldn't be a strain to figure out who is choosing to ignore messages.<br /><br />Ram:<br /> Oh, such insolence from so honourable a gentleman! Most unexpected.<br />My dear chap, I have now become so hopeless (in spite of your certification of my intellect) in my venture that I am willing to accept any amount of censuring from your divine form in exchange for the translation. The word is final. I bow to thee.<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> INSOLENCE!? Oh great father figure, choose your words after checking their meaning in some dictionary other than the one you have written. In case you had that very meaning in your mind, then I am sorry for you. I can say you are truly, as you say, hopeless.<br /><br />Ram:<br /> Noun 1. insolence - the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.<br />= cheekiness, impertinence, impudence, crust, freshness, gall.<br /> Sigh.<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> That's what. So you are naive enough not to get the meaning even now? SIGH!!!!!!!<br /><br />Ram:<br /> All the dictionaries i referred propound an unswerving loyalty to the meaning I had in mind. Sigh.<br /><br />Rahul:<br /> I didn't expect you to be so myopic. My fault. Sigh!!!<br /><br />---<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2657284409257574894-139464611752417910?l=bogfly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>oortcloud domicilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17572778318981935652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657284409257574894.post-37043195285009106702008-02-25T05:59:00.000-08:002008-02-25T07:05:52.195-08:00caught my first skink today. it approached me when i was having my lunch. why does it seem to me like these guys deliberately come to me as if for some purpose?<br /><br />it approached with caution but had absolutely no regard for us ten odd human beings busy in conversation (the nearer shore about the pioneering use of cocunut oil derived biofuel as the jet-driving fuel of virgin airways and the farther shore, one can assume, about oils, drives, virgins, and parting ways). nature has selected these creatures to be wary of the mynah, the rat and the occasional foot. nature has not selected these creatures to watch out for the shrieking, shivering babes (and dudes) sporting rat-fed sleeves (yes, dudes) and a neo-modern loud attitude. which is where i think nature commited a big blunder. i am neither a rat-fed sleaze nor am i a neo-modern louse and i caught it with a lunge. what lunch? now the beauty was in my formidable grasp and its scales frictioned to reveal the luster of its life. i was having the time of my life. i beckoned ravi kiran (who i consider a close associate of mine because of his extraordinary temperament, may be it's a condition, i might not know, and who had wandered off to indulge himself in some petty girlwatching group activity) towards me to share the plunder. he was good and even touched the skink. the skink was lustrous brown, a bit like bronze, and a ten centimeter ripple. it was molting. and i learnt, the skink does not bite and it does not attempt to. madras paati says <span style="font-weight: bold;">"onaan kadicha oru nimisham; arana kadicha ara nimisham"</span>. i proved the first wrong 3 years ago and the second today. by the way, garden lizards do bite. i placed the skink on the lush green useless eye-sore of a lawn in front of the IST building and contemplated on the scope of the event.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2657284409257574894-3704319528500910670?l=bogfly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>oortcloud domicilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17572778318981935652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657284409257574894.post-32411312375851422432008-02-25T05:45:00.000-08:002008-02-25T05:48:12.804-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">"neengal tigera?"<br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2657284409257574894-3241131237585142243?l=bogfly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>oortcloud domicilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17572778318981935652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657284409257574894.post-53711911532327668152007-08-28T06:23:00.000-07:002007-08-28T06:29:06.280-07:00pinu foif vjot nuspoph.<br />stopped eating.<br />parasites.<br />us.<br /><br />why must they taggis domestication?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2657284409257574894-5371191153232766815?l=bogfly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>oortcloud domicilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17572778318981935652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657284409257574894.post-73800341564139704272007-08-26T21:50:00.000-07:002007-08-26T22:04:11.829-07:00i vaspif vxipvz upi today.<br />emo, xejiif and zapat had come juni.<br />fish bowl. nemo, pabio and fernando.<br /><br />i and arjun sijecomovevif my first djenimiup.<br />eco-friendly.<br />limit consumerism.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2657284409257574894-7380034156413970427?l=bogfly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>oortcloud domicilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17572778318981935652noreply@blogger.com