Pluto Removed or not?

How many really remember this sentence.. My very educated mother just showed us nine planets? If you did, you probably know what you are doing. If you dint, you probably need to get back to KG's. :P

Well, this sentence is very famous in the 2nd or 3rd grades, if i remember right. The sentence helps to memorize the alignment order of the 9 planets in the universe.

Read it along.. My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets .. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto..

Doesn't that look good? I wonder if Indian schools teach this way.. Anyway, at Prince they did not [citation needed :P].

And now, that is not the real problem. Am very worried about how the kiddies crossing the 2nd and 3rd grades will read the sentence as.. My very educated mother showed us nine..?

oh.. nine... what? ahh, pluto is nt a planet now for that matter and it cannot be included.

Yay.. if you are still teaching kids "There are nine planets in this universe", behold.. Good to you till the kids are unbeknownst. The International Astronomical Union in the mid of the year 2006 voted Pluto to be a dwarf planet and it was excluded from the nine planets.

"What....? Excluding a planet and that too Pluto? come on ... Pluto is the Planet discovered by America for the Americans.. You can't dare to exclude that.." and there was a rivalry possession that held when the exclusion poll was successful. you know.. this is why Americans are always strange! :P

Okay .. now the conclusion is Pluto is not a Planet according to the same science that gave us Pluto.. well. I do not mean 'Pluto' the dog of mickey mouse.. aww Disney..

Q no. 1. when will Pluto be removed from the TN state board books or be it in Matriculation's even..?

Q no. 2. Will there be a resistance from the 4th grade to 6th grade teachers of TN stating that the portions are not upto their knowledge since they had always learnt Pluto is one of the planets.?

Q no. 3. Will there have to be a special training session for those teachers who still aren't aware of what Pluto actually is?

.. many goes unanswered ... and the ultimate conclusion is.

*This will be Filed for Future Investigation and Reference*

probably there will be another planet peeking in by that time... :P

ThiruvachAgam

I may be pretty late in writing this. But, this really needs to be written here. Not in the very near past, but for a very long time I have been hearing the songs from the album ThiruvAchakam, a symphony created by the maestro Illayaraja. I can't find words to express the amount of feel this album gives. The album, entirely is based on ThriuvAchakam, sung in appreciation of the deity, lord Shiva by Manikavasagar. It was considered once that ThiruvachAkam sung by Manikavasagar, cannot be adapted to any other tunes and all that has been done by him is the extreme limit. Many singers, who have sung the ThiruvachAgam song have closely sung to what Manikavasagar did. But, that is not what you expect from a Maestro. Illayaraja had given a new light of essence to the most beautifully furnished versus of ThiruvachAgam. With a mixture of Symphony, ThiruvachAgam is now a treasure. The album consists of 6 songs in total, amazingly constructed with Music Engineering. No words can match the pleasure this album delivers. Though this is about a God, anybody who hears it shall be taken away from this earth. I bet!

an interesting prayer

this is very interesting..

“Welcome to this special report, I am Raju Reporter, along with camerawoman Isha, we are live from this small but picturesque town of Shantinagar, this small community is celebrating the 100^th Birthday of one of its resident Krishnan Lal. As you can see on your TV sets Mr. Lal has emerged from his home and is being wished by his family and friends.

I am sure all of you watching at home must be wondering if we have the wrong person, let me tell you that we have not made an error, it’s just that Mr. Lal at 100 could easily pass off as a 60 year old. Today on this occasion he will be sharing the secret to his longevity. Sources tell us that his secret is the power of prayer. He says one prayer daily, we are interested in finding out the prayer.

Religious leaders from this state are attending this function, a shrine of the God that he prays too will be build. Ram Narayan Mahadevan has promised to build a temple if Mr. Lal prays to a hindu god, Mohammad Islam is confident that he prays to Allah and will build a mosque and Father Anthony Gonsalves is certain that only Jesus can possess this power.

Mr. Lal has agreed to talk to us exclusively, I will be going down to the podium to interview him after he cuts the cake, courtesy of the local bakery.

The interview is on next after a short break and a word from the local bakery”

“Mr. Lal I am Raju Reporter from SNN – Shocking News Network. Happy 100^th Birthday”

“Thank you. I am honored and humbled by this gesture”

“Sir what is your secret”

“A prayer”

“Is it a special shloka?”

“No”

“Which God to you pray to?”

“There is but one God as far as I am concerned”

“Which one?”

“I call him God, he calls him Krishna, she calls him Jesus while they call him Allah”

The three religious leaders make a quick exit.

“Can you recite the prayer?”

“Sure, all I do is ask for diseases”

“Diseases?? Oh I get it, God never answers our prayers so you ask for diseases and thus you never get it”

“No I get my wish everyday, here let me recite the prayer

O Lord

Please give me diseases

Give me High Blood Pressure, such that my blood boils every time I see injustice in the society, let my pressure not return to normal until I have done all I could to fight against the injustice, until I have wiped a tear and healed the wound of a fellow human being.

Give me High Cholesterol, cholesterol of the soul whereby I cannot digest excess riches, I cannot indulge in excess luxuries, I eat only what I require, crave for all that is necessary, my condition may improve only when I share my riches with others, make my neighbor better off than me.

Give me Diabetes, my body should reject fake praises, false claim of love and support, I want to digest criticism, help me make the day of people around me a little sweeter, refrain from abusing others, shower a praise where necessary, give encouragement when needed all while boldly speaking the truth.

Give me loss of Speech and Hearing Ability, so that I do not speak ill of others, love is a feeling that one can experience, I have no use for the ears.

Give me loss of Vision, I don’t want to see the modern marvels, temples and shrines, riches, luxury or affluence. I want to see and feel the pain and suffering of others, want to share their misery, all I want to see is love and peaceful co-existence, those things are felt not seen, thus have no need for eyes.

Give me Alzheimer’s Disease, I want to forget all the pain that has been given to me by others, once I forget that I will forgive them. I want to be a decent human being and for that one needs a good heart, thus I have no use of memory.

Give me Heart Disease, make my heart stop beating the day I become numb or indifferent to the pain and suffering around me, the day I put myself ahead of others, for a heart that does not feel for others is useless for me.

God, give me these diseases and much more, I also ask for strength and blessings to continue on my mission, you can judge my actions, I might falter but let my intentions forever be pure” he pauses

“Dear Friends, I only pray once a day and then go on with my life, today I pray that may God give all of you the diseases I have”

Raju Reporter’s phone rings “Raju, this is the GM, this turned out to be a waste of time and our rating has plummeted, I want you to go to Mumbai right away, sources tell me that SRK has decided to quit smoking, I want our network to break the news, he sought the help of Addiction Clinic, I hope to get their sponsorship for our upcoming serial Bhabhi Ya Souten”.

Walk when you talk.. ?

Here goes one more of that creative themes and campaigns by Idea Cellular Services. Idea had always been creative in making promos equating human values and spirits. Now its new campaign, Walk when you Talk, with its brand ambassador Abhishek Bachchan, really walkss... Idea says walking while talking can reduce calories.. More interestingly it has put up a 'talk and walk - calorie' calculator in its web site. Check it out here..

http://www.walkwhenyoutalk.co.in/home.html

seriously there is nothing to share here. just another Idea! to keep my blog alive :P

Are we what we are?

Wondering about the world, about the people, about the nature, about the machines, about the buildings, about the roof tops, and not to mention about the buses, I was standing in a bus terminus, which I think is the best possible place where even Socrates can gain some exposure. Different people, some from the high caste, some poor, some flattery, all those food item sellers… The bus stand, as and always, at least in a worldly, democratic county like India can have a lot of scopes from which people can understand a lot.

I din know either, why I were starring at some people… I was in a visual perception of watching the Earth form probably Mars or Moon. With a feeling of my very own fellow people as nothing but small creatures like amoeba, I presumed I was in the Domain, of the world, if at all it had one! I really appreciate and kneel before the Nature.. How many people? Unique - as my friend use to say. Not just that was which in my mind, I still had a very few questions..

Time and situations decides man? Are we working under the knot of Time? What if time fails? So, are the people who were successful in life born with the blessings of time? Then why did the creator gave a Brain to each of us?

Many times, at many places, we are not what we are. We speak, we fight, we be polite, we dwindle depending on time. Is time the most successful thing in this universe? Blaming the fate, unknowing what it really is or with what pen it had been written, had been and still is the excuse given by people on failures. We behave according to situations, without understanding the complexity, with knowing the issues, expecting something, unanswered with what and how. You can call it a part of life. At least life in this particular generation is such.

Everyone of us are beggars in reality. The beggars of happiness. Some have wealth to buy the entire world but not the wealth to buy happiness. Where does this happiness comes from? The happiness you feel is you. Having said, the happiness is you, then you are the deciding authority. Sameness, as I would like to refer it as, is what we really require. Same at all the time. Easier said than done. When I feel I am the same anytime, I feel I am the best always. People gain confidence.

I would like to give a new perception regarding the statue of any temple here. I presume, people go to the temple, not because of just belief, problems, affairs, but I believe its because of the sameness, as I referred to it before. The statue is the same all time. Unless and until there are some RGB colored bulbs, glowed up to create some fantasy effect. Whenever we go to the temple, we see god as the way he is, he was and expecting the same. Expectation had merely or never failed here, in this case.

The same principle, sameness is what I wish everyone had… if that case prevails, let the unique person be unique all time. 100 million unique people with their same character, till death….

 

Paaaaaaaammmmmmmmm paaaaammmm --- waking up…. oh oh.. that's my bus. I need to leave now.