Category Archives: Thoughts

My Year 2009 in a Video!

By Prashanth on 29 December 2009 under EGO, Events, Experience, Past, People, Social, Tech, Thoughts, Videos

Orkut facts!!!!!!

By Prashanth on 20 November 2009 under People, Social, Thoughts

Some of the facts about Orkut which I found with set of friends I have there, but it’s the same for most of you I guess.

  • Most of the people on Orkut have personality disorder!! They pretend to be something which they are actually not.
  • Though there’s a separate box provided by Orkut to update status, most of them still edit their First & Last name to update status. Like: “Rahul – back from the trip!”
  • More than half of my friends don’t have their own picture to upload, they use some actor or actress’s pictures!!! <This annoys me a lot>
  • “LOLZZ” is the most used word!!! in status messages, scrapbooks, etc…etc.
  • They use some jinck-chack characters in their names, which takes a while to understand to read & understand who that person is! Like: ♥●• ♪Ğø|{$.. ♥●• …not lonely any more :D !!
  • Some of them are so ego conscious, they force you to write a *good* testimonial for them, rate full on “Cool”, “Trustworthy” & “Sexy” :P
  • Most of them are “Very attractive” or “Mirror cracking material”

That’s it for now!!!

Party with the stars!

By Prashanth on 26 January 2009 under Events, Experience, Thoughts

I already posted that I am going to Star Party with Bangalore Astronomical Society. I finished my trip last night. Thought of sharing experience of my first sky observation session with BAS.

Naveen took care of introducing BAS members to all of us, I actually knew many of them already. Since observation session was going to be at night, we went to Talakaveri & came back in the eve. Trekking & getting lost inside the forest with new friends was lot of fun! We were back in the eve & started preparing to Star Party. That wasn’t much for me to prepare, but BAS crew was busy setting up the Telescopes, Binoculars on top of tripods. Naveen divided us into groups & assigned one BAS member to show & explain objects. There were three groups, one with naked eyes (;)), one with binoculars & the one with a huge Telescope! The idea was to look at objects with naked eyes, binocs & telescope & find how different they are. We went through many objects in the same way. I was impressed with double cluster, it looked as a small little white patch for naked eyes. Amar setted up his binoc to point to double clusters, I was curious to see how it looks like through binocs. It was awesome, through binocs, I was able to see two star clusters beside each other, I could see the stars in it overlapping on each other. It was not end, I was even more happy to see how spectacular it is via Shashank’s telescope. I could see the separation between stars clearly. I looked at Shashank to express my “wooooww” & looked back, bah! one cluster was gone! Shashank was ready to answer me & told me about movements of stars & sky. I asked hell lot of questions to Shashank & he was glad to answer them.

As observation session carried on I saw Andromeda galaxy, Orion Nebula, Bode’s & Cigar galaxies, Saturn with rings & two moons many more objects. Shashank wanted to show me how he does Astro Photography, but unfortunately sky got fogged & dew drops started accumulating on lens of his camera. But I got a good explanation about astro photography by Naveen. He told about lot of factors involved in astro photography including tracking, piggy packing..etc. Observation was great, it was my first.

I thank all BAS organizers & volunteers to make this to happen. Hope I would get time for next starparty.

Photos:

Pics of the trip are available on my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/hnprashanth/sets/72157612953776521/. Don’t expect for any astro photographs, I am not into that yet. There is also no photographs of telescopes, equipmnets etc, because it’s not allowed to use flash lite in observation session. But sure, the pics gives you an idea how we enjoyed our trip :)

Help Forest Watchers in Nagarhole National Park

By Prashanth on 23 January 2009 under Thoughts

This is the mail from my friend Srinivas who is trying to help Forest Watchers in Nagarahole National Park. I request everyone to please contribute whatever you can afford to protect our forest.

Dear All,

We are planning to contribute uniforms and caps to 60 of the forest department watchers of the Antharasanthe and DB Kuppe range of Nagarhole national Park for the upcomming Fire Season work. Also, they require water cans for porting potable water to their camps for daily use during the fire season work, which lasts till the start of the rainy season.

The following is required:-

Uniform Cloth – 210 Mts (Around 250 Rs per person for Both Shirt and Pant)

30 Jerry cans of 10 lts capacity each @ 75 per can

75 Caps @ Rs 75 each

which means we need to raise around – Rs 22,875/-. The act of contribution is purely to boost the morale of the staff – these guys slog it out for daily wages of Rs.108 and work without any insurance or medical cover and more often than not, receive salaries once in 6 months. These are simple ways to support them and let them know that their work of patrolling an protecting our forests is appreciated.

Persons who are interested in making a contribution, pls let me know , so that we can plan the purchase and procurement.

We will then travel to Nagarhole and handover the stuff to the range officer and ensure that it reaches the people. We plan to do similar contributions to other ranges too and are finding ways to really make a difference. If any of you have any suggestions , lets discuss about it.

This will be sustained a effort , so please spread the word among like minded people…..

Thank you all in advance and hope that you will be generous with the donations.

A/C Details to send your donations to is:-

Bank: HDFC

A/C Holder: Srinivas GV

A/C number: 00411140000645

Branch: Malleshwaram, Bangalore

If you are making an online transfer, please mention the transfer description as Donation for Nagarhole. Also, please send an email to [MailID: srinivas.gv AT gmail DOTcom] along with your name and address and amount contributed. We will be creating an online spreadsheet and showing the details of donations and expnses there for all to see so that everything is maintained in a transperent way.

For any clarification mail at srinivas.gv AT gmail DOT com

You can crosspost this blogpost on your blog :)

Dream Home!

By Prashanth on 09 October 2008 under Thoughts

Dream Home Every person will have his own thought about his home. I do have a thought about my dream home! It should be atleast 40 - 50 KM away from town, a farm house, a swimming pool (I just love playing in water!), a badmitton court, lawn….etc…etc. So you might be thinking, even if I have a house like that, I might not be having time to go there! I have a quite different thought for it. My another dream is to become *successful* full time blogger. And if that happens, I don’t have any reason to stay in this city. I just need a computer/laptop &amp; a internet connection. Sitting under a tree, listening to tweets of birds (not from twitter!), looking at colourful butterflies, birds &amp; blogging is a dream. Will that really happen?

Every person will have his own thought about his home. I do have a thought about my dream home! It should be atleast 40 – 50 KM away from town, a farm house, a swimming pool (I just love playing in water!), a badmitton court, lawn….etc…etc. So you might be thinking, even if I have a house like that, I might not be having time to go there! I have a quite different thought for it. My another dream is to become *successful* full time blogger. And if that happens, I don’t have any reason to stay in this city. I just need a computer/laptop & a internet connection. Sitting under a tree, listening to tweets of birds (not from twitter!), looking at colourful butterflies, birds & blogging is a dream. Will that really happen?