A Friend

“Knight F3” I said.

“Pawn E6” he replied.

As I sat before him, a feeling of friendship came over me. I thought to myself “Why don’t I play regularly
with him. He wouldn’t mind, and it’s better than playing chess over Facebook”.

But today i wanted something else too. I wanted to find the friend in him. I wanted to bond with him,
like we used to do when I was 8. I still remember he used to put me on his lap and say ‘hodi hodi hodi
hodi’, and then used to throw me on a pillow. It was fun for me, and a huge weight on his legs. Even
after all day’s work, playing with me used to de-stress him, even though the words weren’t invented yet.
I remember him coming directly to home, to me.

10 Minutes into the game, he was beating me like crazy. I have already lost my Bishop and Rook, and
in the process of losing my Queen. This reminds me of the first time he took me out for a morning run.
Being in 7th didn’t mean I could run fast. Still he said “Run fast, walk fast, if you don’t you will get fat and
lazy”. I am 95kg now. I was the only one whom he would take out for a run, although it didn’t last due to
my frequent complains.

20 Minutes in the game I am already losing interest in the game. This feels awfully familiar to the phase
in life where I lost interest in studies and immersed myself in computer games. Frequent complaints
from him didn’t take me out of it. Maybe he couldn’t see his friend so addicted to the PC.

I have already lost most of my major players now; he has systematically destroyed all my pieces. And
still I am happy. Maybe I don’t give as much time to him now, but today I feel I want to give him the
friendship he deserves. I want to play Chess with him for the whole life ahead he has.

I want to give him the Friend he deserves. I want to give my Father a friend today.

Munnar Trip

We just recently had a trip of Kerela, staying at Munnar and Thekkdi.

Below are some of the pics i took

This is the new gate of Vadodara Railway Station. Just royal and goes with the architecture in Vadodara.

Audience of Beginner's Web

After lots of blogging and trying out new articles and reading other compititive blogs i have decided the content of my blog.


I must say its too late to decide what it should be, but to make my content different from other, i had to do a soul search.

This is what i don't want my blog to be....

1. Its not a tech news site.
2. Its not a copy paste medium for other people's articles.
3. Its aim is not to produce content, but to produce good articles.
4. Its not a money making machine.

What my site really stands for...

1. Its a site for everybody interested in good tech articles.
2. Its a site especially for those who want to learn, and not spoon fed.
3. Its a site for the learner and not the learned.
4. Its a site where original content is published.

Maybe i might add more later, but right now this explains my blog to my readers.

Bolt and fastener chart: what's that dingus called?

From: Bolt and fastener chart: what's that dingus called?

A test Image upload from Picasa.

Some Long hair, making me look like my wife's hair. Cut now. though

Fwd: 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

via Ian's Messy Desk by Ian McKenzie on 7/31/08

Public Speaking

1. Writing
2. Self Management
3. Networking
4. Critical Thinking
5. Decision Making
6. Math
7. Research
8. Relaxation
9. Basic Accounting

Scientific Methods to Catch a Lion

How to catch a lion (Science)

1. Newtons Method:
Let, the lion catch you.
For every action there is equal and opposite reaction. Implies you caught lion.

2. Einstein Method:
Run in the direction opposite to that of the lion.
Due to higher relative velocity, the lion will also run faster and will get tired soon.
Now you can trap it easily.

3. Schrodinger Method:
At any given moment, there is a positive probability that lion to be in the cage.
So set the trap, sit down and wait

4. Inverse Transformation Method
We place a spherical cage in the forest and enter it.
Perform an inverse transformation with respect to lion.
Lion is in and we are out.

5. Thermodynamic Procedure:
We construct a semi-permeable membrane which allows every thing to pass it except lions.
Then sweep the entire forest with it.

6. Integration Differention Method:
Integrate the forest over the entire area. The lion is some where in the result.
So differentiate the result PARTIALLY w.r.t lion to trace out the lion.