Friday, January 26, 2007

Set minds to motion!

from:flintspark.blogspot.com
hi all!

I was thinking to pose some good questions that occured to me and that might be materialized in the future.

1.Lets build a bamboo microsope.

In the pursuit of taking science to villages,we try to make a bamboo low cost mircoscope.

The only costly thing in it will be the lenses.

The microscope tube as well as the mechanism all will be made up of bamboo,since it is locally available,rough and tough,prevents entry of external light.

The problem is to design the mircoscope's mechanism.

Firstly,it must be able to move the main tube up and down,

next,it must be able to move the lens up and down.Simply put,both coarse and fine adjustments.
also how to attach the lenses with the rim of the bamboo tube.

How will you do it?


2.This is the original idea(i think) of Mr PS Ghose,of National Bal Bhawan.

Why to go on buying a laptop,when you can build it?

I mean,since desktops are now available at about 15000,so why not assemble our desktop on to a small atteche case?(say vip case)

The heating would be one big problem and the bag must be able to close on completion of work.

We shall need to drill out holes of the sides to provide the connection.
It shouldn't have its own power suppy,thats ok.
but it must have its own monitor.and keyboard and mouse and possibly speakers.

then we shall need to provide it with adequate protection from elements.The hard disk needs to be cushioned.

think on it.and gimme an ingenious solution.be descriptive and then lets matertialize.

3.This one is quite funny and is all bout lateral thinking.

What can you hold only with oyu right hand?
Don't answer if oyu already know.

Answers to those who comment.

hugs for a great repulic day,
sameer

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Racist?Who,we?

Hi all!

This comment can be taken in regard to the shilpa shetty controversy,where she was "allegedly" racially abused by her house mates,in the reality show ,Big Brother.

I have got just 2 things to say:

1.She was called a paki, and then she was not.Was she?Was she not?

We have no way to ascertain this point of racial buse coz neither have we seen the show live or on the TV,neither have we experienced this word before.

We are just going on the fodder that news chanels and papers have fed us.So why to scribble up your mind for something you haven't seen for yourself,you haven't heard for your self?

Remember,Aristotle's three tests?

Also,even when we are convinced that all this has taken place then,it must be the public of Britain that must critisise and not the government of India,which has got many other things to do.

2.We say The Brits are racist.We might even say the Whites are racist.But we are unable to see the enemy within.

Are'nt all of us in Inida racist?

It is well said"jab kisi se koi gila rahkna,samne ayina rakhna."i.e,whenever you have any grudge against anyone,keep a mirror in front of yourself.

We call all Northeast people "Chinkis".All people from south and who are a little dark,are called southys,whether they hail from Tamil Nadu or from Karnataka.We say"yes yes,its the same."

People are bewildered when they see a fair south indian.Why?

Why is it that the sale of fairness creams in India beats any other commodity?
Why do all expect a fair daughter in law,for our sons?

This is a stereotype that needs to be broken first and then we can blame the rest of the world for being racist.
Kill The enemy within before you kill someone outside.

(consider this as an echo from Barha Dutt's Editorial in HT)

Hugs,
sameer

Sunday, January 14, 2007

I am not panic.

Nothing is idle, nothing dynamic.
What is moving, is certainly not sonic.
Its catastrophe, fall of apocalypse
Her beauty,
I am taking deep breath, am not panic.

What shall I move, what shall I stall,
When I am blind, like a bird in jar.
Its time when everybody is crying.
Her beauty,
I am taking deep breath, am not panic.

Every body dies,
Gas chambers were not needed.
Neither bombs, nor planes.
It was you and me who did it.
Her beauty, with no head on shoulder, no arms to hold…
I am taking deep breath, am not panic.

Still original, kT

Okkie dokkie.. I am not saying that this is best from me, but still I liked it after I finished it. What say...Comments are invited.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Happy Hartal!!!

The other day I recieved a forwarded SMS from a friend of mine with the following message:
" English man subha uthkar bolta hain-Good morning.
Hindu says : Suprabhatam
Muslim: Salam
but aj kal subha uthkar Mamta Banerjee Bolti hai: aj bangala bandh hai...!! Happy Hartal"
For a moment, I could not but laugh out loudly. But an instant later, it no more seemed funny. And it should not either. And for all those who do not understand the signuficance of the sms here's a list of .. well... what should I call it- poltician-declared-public holidays in Kolkata last December onwards: two 12 hour bandhs plus one 24 hours bandh and then one 48 hour bandh for various issues and various poltical parties in 31 days of December and then once again a Bandh on the 8th of January! Okay, and this list doe not include the endless number of processions and things like road blocking.. protest... all that one can think of to disrupt the life of the city and irritate just about everyone!
I understand full well that the issues the parties take up are serious and that they need to be addressed, and its not just one Miss Mamta Banerjee but Bandh is a strategic tool of peaceful mass protest, but then a simple fact is, a bandh is supposed to show that the certain issue has so much support from people that people are going on a strike till their demands are met, but the truth is people do not come out of their houses during bandh- not exactly becaus ethey support the cause or anything but simply because they are scared they might be stopped on their way and they would have to face various troubles and hazards which is not rare either! So its a "forceful" espousing the bandhs demand. And for that matter there is a certain section of the population who are not even aware of why this strike has been called!!
Kolkata's annual calendar has hardly been bandh-free for years now and finally,now that the ruling party is taking steps to curb the number of such abrupt halts... the opposition seems to be reluctant.
I am not a poltical or even social expert... but as a layman- as an young student of both the city and the country, I just want to ask one question- is bandh the only peaceful way to go about it? I only know nothing is absolute, so there must be alternatives. And all I know is, it is high time such alternatives are adopted because there are professions other than POLITICS in the city.. in the country, in which having a 'bandh-day' is neither helpful nor desirable... and there are certain people like daily labourers for whom a day-off implies -a fast.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Something requiring your action


I am sorry to include two simultaneous posts but this is urgent.

I have been trying to get this thing materialized with many organizations but with litte success.
Due to other useless things in life,i haven't been able to take these ideas forward.

I want you to read this and try to materialize it.
A poster of a similar thing in was seen in Singapore.

hugs
sameer


>>Sir,

Sub: Initiation of a programme for the poor for winters.

I appreciate your esteemed organization's role in organizing aids and facilities for the poor.

I have a suggestion of a scheme to make that might be initiated by your organization at a larger scale.

This programme would be to start a collection drive of old, but wearable woolen clothes from all households.

Most of the people do have clothes that are wearable but have either have shrinked for their size or are out of fashion. People are ready to donate such clothes but do not know where to do so.

This calls for your organization to collected such clothes on a massive scale, segregate them into sizes and then distribute them to poor, who do not have any defense against winter.

A similar programme was initiated by a society in Singapore.

I hope that my suggestion would be received and discussed by your society at the latest.

I would appreciate a response or an acknowledgement about the same.

Yours truly,
Sameer Thukral

Theories of plant translocation

Another post form flintspark.blogspot.com

 

Being a student of life sciences also,it is inevitable fo me to include some talk and theories of life sciences.

Firstly,

What i need is a physical application in form of a product of device which uses this phenomenon.

It has been shown by Henry Dixon,that the accent of sap and water to the leaves from the roots is only due to 3 reasons:

1.The transpirational pull
As water evaporates from the leaves of the plant,there is a suction created by this action resulting in a pull drom the roots.
You can also see this by taking a porus pot and gluing a tube filled of water to it,the tube dipped in a jar of water.As the water evaporates,the water level in the tube rises.

This is how water rises to trees even over 100m in height.

2.Cohesion and Adhesion.
The water molecules are cohesed(attracted) to each other forming a continuous column of water.they also are adhesed(attracted) to the xylem vessel(a thin tube) in the plant.

Since xylem vessels are thin,they help in conduction of water in small plants by cappliarity(passive asscent of liquid in a thin tube).

3.Root pressure

The water molecules surounding the root are very much eager to enter the root(due to less water potential in the root).
Thus the root exerts a pressure towards the water in the xylem vessel.

To check this out,cut a potted plant above the root at any place.Sap will exude out of it.

My question is:Is there an device required or already made that works on these principles?

I propose,a motor less water escaltion system to fill up your overhead water tanks.But it doesn't seem plausible.

You can ask it if you don't understand any point.

But if you have understood,start thinking.

Hugs for a great brainstorm,
sameer

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Nithari Cannibal

Cannibalism, is not a common phenomenon, but is one thing which raises too many eyebrows, or shrink them. This was indeed the case with the Nithari killings. Front pages of nearly every national paper is filled with a piece or two about the new revelations in Nithari case. Let me remind you that this will end pretty soon, and things will back to normality. But before that happens let us admire few people, who are the real, behind the scene people, people who really made this happen, or to say that they allowed this to happen. People who are made this wonderful piece of news which rather became fodder for news mill, for for last few weeks and even for few weeks to come.

Who are they, they are Times person of year, 'YOU'.


YOU, is a great music lover and a obsessive TV viewer, it have a headphone over his head, and eyes fixed on TV, looking for news produced by people like him, other YOU.
Mr. Cannibal was killing, and his victims were so nice that they were ready to be cut in pieces as it was for some divine purpose, thus they did not found any purpose to make some kind of noise. Girls with all respect to their minority were molested, and YOU who were in police saw that as their wish granted.
Mrs. Brinda Karat (don't mistake it as Karait, which is a deadly snake) saw bones in Ramdev's medicines, Mrs Karait Karat, people don't require Ramdev for bones, they can churn it from their own mill. Lady Karait Karat went to Nithari, but forgot to look the manufacturing process and took that valuable movement to use her jibe instinct.
MONEY:Answer to every problem, is going to be given to every one, whose family lost some one in this incident created by YOU. Probably YOU also wants money, so they allow suc things to happen. Hey but I really dont see any purpose of DNA test, why do you want to check for deceased identity , every one will get money to keep their mouth shut, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav( Soft Lion Yadav) have plenty of it.
Common YOU keep it up,because their is plenty of money with other like YOU. Hey one nice song to hear, just load it on your I Pods, Jeena Yahaan Marna Yahaan, from Mera Naam Joker, Mukesh was great in it, though movie bombed at box office.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

hi,

this is a much awaited reply of the post longwaited replies by ZERO.

I appreciate your endevour in digging out information and viewing the whole thing scientifically.

Your calculations are well performed and what i understand as a jist of it ,that human power can be limited upto 500 watts,but a vaccum cleaner may require upto 2200 watts,right?

But what i fail to understand is that how vaccum cleaner may run on just 150 watts?

I checked Eureka forbes website(http://www.eurekaforbes.com/products/product.php?catid=34&&prid=22)
and(http://www.eurekaforbes.com/products/product.php?catid=34&&prid=21)

and found this data:

For some product of theirs:

Rated Voltage 230 V AC, 50 Hz
Rated Current 0.65 amps
Rated Power 150 watts
Maximum Suction 4116 Pascals
(420 mm water column)
Dimension (l*d*h) 480 * 100 * 100 mm
Net Weight (main unit) 1.10 kg
Std. Accessories 4

And yet for another product,what you said was true:

Voltage 230 V AC, 50 HZ
Input power 2100 Watts
Suction 1600 mm/H20 or 15680 Pascals
Dimension (L * B * H) 400 * 355 * 500 mm
Net Weight 14.2 Kg

It boggles me how the first one runs on 150 watts power.
So,i think it might just not be impossible to build a mechanical vaccum cleaner.

What say?
Hugs for a great new year,
sameer



 

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Longawaited replies

This is to reply to two posts I found close to my heart.
Going by chronological order.

1. Mechanical vacuums.

This reply will be a bit technical but do excuse me.
Bernoulli's principle as far as I understand is a clever restatement of the law of coservation of energy. Hence I will proceed with conservation of energy itself to check the feasibility of a mechanical vacuum.

Let us consider that the vacuum has a circular cross section nozzle with a radius of 1 cm.
A standard vacuum generates 20kPa pressure difference between outside and inside.
By Bernoulli's principle,
(1/2)*d*v^2 = (P2-P1)
Thus, v = 180 m/sec
Now, Power = (energy)/time = ((1/2)*m*v^2)/t = (1/2) *d*A*v^3
= (1/2)*(pi*(o.o1^2))*1.2*180^3 = 1100 watts
Assuming a modest efficiency for the mechanics at 50%.
Total input power = 2200 watts.
Power output of a human being working hard physically = 500 watts.
Hence I would tend to believe this is not feasible.

NOTES :
d= 1.2 kg/ m^3......density of dry air.
Standard data such as pressure diff. in vacuums and output of a human courtesy Wikipedia.

2. Mission to the moon

Construction of moon bases is not as easy as it seems.
NASA's press release though impressive, I believe is over optimistic.
The ISS which is one thirtieth the distance to the moon remains incomplete inspite of regular shuttle flight and the co-operation of 16 countries. In this context it is highly improbable that a habitable base on the moon will be built within the next 50 yrs. Chandrayan has a more modest completion date i.e. by 2008.

More importantly if robots are to be sent than a moon base itself is irrelevant. The robot will survive of solar power and will explore when it is fully charged. Why would we need a moon base.

- By Zero.

P.S.
The last post on the moon issue was by me. Didn't realize my name wouldn't show up.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Misson on moon.

I wrote a post before about the proposed manned mission on moon from India and a score of other nations. Then I told that there are few better options, rather than going for a manned mission on moon, and India should place a larger picture for the global audience. After all such things are just to show your international poweress.
NASA is now trying to make a permanent station on either of the poles of moon. It could have been ISRO's idea, if I would have been working with them. Yes it will take much more money than sending a man or two to the moon. But hey sending such rockets is not a monthly business, rather in many cases its a life time opportunity. So, tax more and make a thing which we can call The First. Moreover, to me, its a far better idea to set up a permanent station on moon, though not human, but robotic(NASA are going for manned station and I am not ready to pay that much tax).
It would certainly be working there for much more time than a human can work. And if some one tells me that India is not that good in robotics then I would like to remind them that Indian is possible to do any thing in a time span which is unimaginable by many others. We can easily develop robotics, more over this is era of multinational activities.

You can read my previous article here.
And a follow-up by my friend here.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Youth Against AIDS.

Today I am happy, very happy that I have materialized one of my old dream, a truly social site against HIV, that too free of cost. I thought about it in summer last year, then now nearly after year and half, when I am deep in social blogging, after materializing few of my other projects suddenly this old idea of mine struck me once again on another World AIDS Day. I dont know weather this idea of mine is unique or not, it doesn't matter, the thing which matter is that we will need lot of people, that to youth to mobilize whole world against AIDS.
So make your presence felt at Youth Against AIDS

Monday, November 27, 2006

A mechanical Vaccuum.

This post is taken from my blog:flintsparks.blogspot.com

One of the ideas that i have is that of creating a light hand held and mechanical vaccum cleaner.



Most vaccum cleaners available in the market are electrical.but in India electricity is not a thing you can rely upon.also the major type of thing that needs to be cleaned up
is dust coz we don't have much of paved roads.



I thought about it and googled a bit too.

I found out that vaccum cleaners work on basis of bernouli's principle.In side the cleaner we have a strong current of air,hence less air pressure.

Out side air pressure is more.Hence things are sucked in from outside.

The most common principle of creating a high pressure is using a rotating disc with blades(just like a kiddy picture of sun).The whole disc moves and thus the velocity of air increases.

Replicating it,what we want to create is a system of gears which allows us to rotate the disc at high speed but with minimal effort.

I don't know how to do it.Do you?

Well said it is"in details lie all the miseries".


Keep trying.

 

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Beg to differ

I felt that after Karthik's moon mission post we were all swept away by emotion

Here's a dose of objectivity :

It is not always technically possible to do all the stuff u said with robots.
A standard moon rover can go at a maximum of around 2km/hr easily outstripped by any fit human.

Secondly assembling stuff requires a lot of precession. On the IST they use a Canada Arm and I assure you, they dont come cheap. Most indegionous robotics would find it hard to remotely hammer a nail.

India as of now only has the capacity to launch Polar sattelites with certainty (2 successive GSLV tests have failed). Polar orbits are a complicated matter and the region is crowded with many sattelites (space traffic if u like). There is no way to launch an enormous survellaince net without causing global tension.

Currently a profitable proposition would be surveying the moon for minerals.

In conclusion sending an Indian to the moon may not be woth the money but sending a robot and producing truly original work, certainly would not be a lot easier.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Suggestions for better democracy.

Crazy, you can all me, but I won't shy away from proposing some constitutional change or to say a demand for better performance of our central government. I recently read, which many of you would have read, that India is one the failed democracies, though I don't buy there vision and neither there methodology, but still there are many things which can be improved to make ours a better democracy. One of them I think, which I am proposing over here is as follows:
Every party which is going to run for say minimum of 300 seats out of some 550+ seats in Lok Sabha elections, should before election declare there prime-minister candidate. And those who are in no position to nominate there PM candidate, which means that they are running for less than 300 seats, have to before hand support any of the Prime minister candidate. It would certainly tell us the people a clear picture of future, and thus make it easy to select candidate of our region. It will thus make parties answerable to public beforehand. It must also be made necessary for every candidate to (on there own money) publish their biodata in at least 2 popular local dailies.
I also feel that there must be some legal paper signed just like contracts between two parties before an alliance, which should be made public, and this must be done before election, so that people who vote should have a clear picture of parties and people for whom they are going to vote. This will avoid development of any future crap. And a much stable democratic structure. I think we should make democracy for our need and should break away from a highly borrowed up democratic system. India is a very unique nation, which absorbed democracy like no other nation that too after long autocratic rule. If any person comes up and say that India is failure in terms of a democracy then I would ask him to visit India, a nation of such a magnum opus society, with such a variety of cultures available, and with a very long history.
These are few potpourri views, which will only work better if reviewed by many others. So I will love to read comments on it.

Monday, November 20, 2006

A new addition...

So many others have joined the roost. I want more... we all want more... don't we.
OK, so why am I writing this post? I am not writing this to congratulate ourselves for our new found activeness but to inform you about a major addition or to say a major change in site.
Look towards right...
Yes the Creative Commons logo, so now on our blog is under creative license, you all can read it in detail. But if any one of you want to post some thing under a different agreement they you are free to do so, but please don't forget to mention it in bolds. I with my sincere heart would appreciate if you follow the open source regime, but I also agree that few things just cant be kept open source, so be it.
We Indians from long time have followed the regime of open source, this can be seen from the number of effective patents against over names. Jokes apart, here we are and now looking towards a much brighter future.
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Another addition to mention, again look towards your right and scroll down. Yes a facility for users to interact with us, its a voice commenting facility. I think its cool.
Looking forward for your comments, oral ones.

Fighting Nothingity.

Ok, I agree that this is not one of my best poem, but since I have kept it open sourced then, I will accept any kind of change.
Nothinity will bring red lines in MS Word, to indicate that there is no such word, but I think I can bring some of crap in already craped up english, to make it according to my taste.

Fighting nothinity.

Fighting the lark of golden light,
Amazing visions blinding me in dark.
Thoughts in flow shall stand tall,
I am being pressed against the wall.

War cry is what i hear every day,
Typhoons and tycoons are looting us away.
I want to fight them out,
Presently I am stalled, stalled till death.

Fight, fight is cry from every corner,
Fight fight, is the music i hear.
Fight, fight is what i shy from.
But still i will fight nothingity.

This state, state of hell,
no money, no kebabs and finding driest well.
Still i will win, is cry from soul.
After fighting i will leave it around the door.

If you like ant single line of the poem then please do mention it. I will certainly love appreciation.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Society (1)

Society --

A school of fish -- never blinking, mouths opening and closing all the while, swimming about in tightly-knit groups, trying to not get eaten by bigger fish.

A school --

They teach us --

"Always keep your eyes open and on your target; blink and it'll be gone"
So, they teach us to not blink.

"Speak up! Else, someone else will speak up and usurp your position in Society!"
So, they teach us to open and close our mouths, perpetually.

"One who cannot live in Society is either a SAVAGE BEAST or GOD -- most often the former one"
So, they teach us to despise being alone -- find a group or perish.

Q. I'm a son and a brother; can anyone usurp my positions as these?

A. You speak of your position in Family. Society bears a semblance to Family, yes; but the similarity ends there. The qualities possessed by Family may never be possessed by Society.

Q. Society means a group of individuals living together with mutual understanding -- this definition fits a family too...

A. Mutual understanding? No. Your definition is specific to a certain type of Society -- 'harmonious Society'

When more questions shall be asked, more answers shall be given.
This is not to say that all these answers are 'right' or anything of that sort; this is merely a discussion. You are welcome to join in.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Manned mission on moon.

India is planning for a manned mission on moos for year 2020, China is targeting 2024, Malasiya 2020 and Pakistan 2020. Pretty nice isnt it. Hindi Chini Pakistani bhai bhai on moon. Bull s#!t.
There is one fact that I know, US gained far less things on moon from Neil Armstrong then they are gaining from Mars Roover. Be intelligent, this is no cold war era, there is no need to prove any thing.
I would, as all ways give kattak suggestions.

  • Invest money on detective satellites, for global surveillance. Because whole world need proof for you know who…and what…
  • Invest money on robotic mission.
  • Make a base over there on moon, which can run for a decade.
  • Plan for a telescope on moon.
  • Plan for a robotic biological lab on moon containing microbes to test for life sustainability under controlled environment.

Let me tell you and all the scientists in ISRO, above options are far more respectful than a manned mission on moon, at least scientific community and future generation will respect our acts. Above options will have far more far reaching effects than a 2 hour walk of man on moon surface.

Another suggestion…
[/pj]Why not make a all religion worship place over there on moon for future generation and aliens who fear to come down on earth.[/pj]

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Untitled by Sudeep Pagedar

Good day, kind person.
My name is Prince Obatawanakinashitohanomoha of Zwazeitrangapultu. I am sure you have heard about the violent civil war in my country, some years ago.
My father, King Waritashatiklikosobrutanajiginomoha was the leader of the Krutsoshimenahaligoropisbenatasha Army (also known as the Royal Guard). Sadly, he was killed while making a brave attempt to sneak up from behind on an evil enemy general and slip a grenade down his shirt. Alas, the evil general (known to all in Zwazeitrangapultu as 'Average Joe' -- a strange term, yes, but it makes him sound very, very bad...which he is) survived. Soon after my father's demise, Average Joe overthrew the Krutsoshimenahaligoropisbenatasha regime and came to power in the summer of 1969. I was but a child then and those were the worst days of my life. I was sent in exile to a strange land whose name I cannot pronounce (but this is how it is spelled -- HARLEMNEWYORK) and the Royal Hut, the family residence since the last eight hundred years (or maybe eighty...I can't remember which) was taken over by Average Joe. He was searching for my fortune --- which I have with me here in Harlemnewyork --- of seven hundred antelope-skulls. Even today he continues to search. His agents are all over the world. It is only a matter of some time before they find me. Even in Harlemnewyork I am not safe -- all the residents look like my countrymen and everyone looks at me with strange eyes and makes signs of raised middle-fingers, when they see me counting my treasure which I carry with me wherever I go. I think I am being warned. Therefore I have an urgent need of finding safekeeping for my wealth. I have absolutely no idea who you are and have never met you in my entire life. I therefore feel you are a very trustworthy person whom I can have complete faith in. Would you want a share of my fortune? I know you would. No sane person -- and you are a most sane person -- would turn down my generous offer:
In exchange for keeping my fortune safe, I will give to you 3% of it -- twenty-one skulls of Zwazeitrangapultudian antelopes. You will not find any such skulls anywhere in the world; I am proud to say, this animal was made extinct by my Great Ancestors many, many moons ago. Now I will reveal to you a plan which you must not reveal to anyone; especially not to Average Joe, if he contacts you. (If he does that, deny knowing me and then run away to a remote part of your country where the weather is harsh and the vegetation is sparse -- your safety is of utmost concern to me.)
My good friend, I am planning to stage a coup in...say...a few years or so. Average Joe is old and will not live much longer. When he dies, his three-year-old son (who is the eldest of all his 29 sons) will become the new King. That is when I will make my move and most bravely snatch the throne from under him, pun intended. It will be like taking candy from a baby. Once I become the new King of Zwazeitrangapultu, my first act will be to invite you over to my country as an honoured State Guest and together, we will go hunting and try to make some other species of four-legged creature extinct. I am certain a person as wise and kind as you will not refuse. You must help me out or else there is no hope for me.
Visualise those white antelope skulls, my friend...keep that image in mind and contact me as soon as you can, expressing your eagerness to assist me. I have a lawyer who will flawlessly conduct the transaction -- he refuses to wear clothes; but in my country, clothes are a sign of poverty...and my lawyer, he is a very rich man. (I am a rich man too, you understand?)
There will be no need for Swiss bank accounts either. All you will need is a large room to store the bounty safely. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerefully,

Prince Obatawanakinashitohanomoha of Zwazeitrangapultu, son of the now-diseased King Waritashatiklikosobrutanajiginomoha of Zwazeitrangapultu

(p.s. you may have received some emails from a Nigerian widow asking to share her fortune with you. She is my aunt. Please trust her blindly and send her all your details, from your bank account number to which colour you want your 'surprise gift' in -- oops, shouldn't have said that here..excited, aren't you? Send all details now! Hurry!
Her lawyer is also very good; he wears clothes...but then he isn't from Zwazeitrangapultu and the customs of the outside world are indeed very strange.)

Saturday, March 11, 2006

First thought

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on permission of others.
This is by all famous Madona, so true, isnt it?
I ask all of you to contemplate, and give your own thoughts.