Kalam awarded Hoover Medal for services to humanity

APJ is the first Asian to win this medal. Hoover Medal is awarded to Engineers for their excellenc in their field.Check this link for details...

http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/UnitAwards/2008_Hoover_Medal_Recipient.cfm

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/apr/29/kalam-gets-hoover-medal.htm

This medal can be reffered as one of the main awrds given to Engineers. How many of you have read about this in news papers? I think very few.. I haven't seen an reports regarding this in any news papers except The Hindu.. not in any malayalam papers.. When Slum dog received Oscar, it occupied Half of the front page. They are worried, Why Shilpa Shetty couldn't cast a vote. Whats the next blog of Amithabh. Which bollywood pair will break next.. Whose cared about APJ or what he receives? B********...

He is the man who showed as, there is a Position called President in India. He is the First Perosn. What all he can do. A man who has done a lot of things to Humanity. who gave away his life to equip India with Missile power, who showed President is not a rubber stamp. Then man who encourages the Indian Youth to dream, Dream Big..And what this politicians and journalists give him.. kerala CM, V.S Achuthananthan once said, when APJ said his opinion about Nuclear policy, 'There are many scientist in Thumba who had flown more rockets than APJ'. YA, VS is rigth. there will be many scientst. But not any of them has been the President of India. They Joined ISRO in search of Fame and money. But APJ was there when ISRO was created.. He was there when 1st rocket flew from thumba. He is one of the pioneer in space technology of India. And see how we repay him..

I wish him my Hearty Congratulations!!!

'The Freedom to Blame'.

Yesterday I went to a hotel for having dinner. it was a local hotel, at karukapally,near kaloor.I ordered for the so called 'malayale's desiya bakshanam' porotta n beef.I usually don't have porottas, but yesterday I just had a tendency to hav it. Anyway this is not about my food.I was seated in the farthest corner of d hotel,which was near the kitchen.waiter brought me my food. Just then a guy came & sat opposite me with a plate.I looked up & recognized it as another waiter of that hotel.a guy of 18.he was having his dinner.he had brought himself 2 parattas n beef gravy. Before I cud finish my 1st paratta he finished his food.While having the food he was looking at the counter frequently.He had a fear in his face as if he was doing some theft. He finished n went with his plate & came back with another plate of rice.He had that & went back to kitchen soon.this time also he frequently was looking at the counter when having food.I realized that he was having his food stealthly, without his boss's knowledge.May be too he was hungry!

Just imagine a kid has to have his food stealthly n tensed & I was thinking I was having a lot of preassure at my office. I'm having pressure still I can have food when I like & what I like.I don't have to do it hidden from some one. I was thinking that there would be lot of teenagers working like this in Kochi.may be in much worse conditions. Who can't have enough food a day. Can't get a pay so dat they can have a full stomach food. Last day one of my colleague was little upset because her wound-be is not so enthusiastic about Café coffee day & mac donald's.She wishes to go there frequently. At coffee day one may pay around Rs.60 just for a drink. The waiter I talked about, earlier will have to work for a week or so to save Rs.60 from his daily wages.This amount could fetch some one a full day's food. And we such irresponsible so called IT guys spend money without any care on un wanted things.Ok, we can say a lot of things like, we earn, so we spend. Or like, I studied well and so I got a decent job..etc etc.. But just think. Can you justify yourself.I'm not being a saint. I have done things like this.I have spend money on really really unwanted things a lot. Its time to think. Ok, leave that. Recently we had our general elections on April 16th.How many of you have cast your votes? Lot of my friends hasn't. But those who we call as 'poor' or 'bellow poverty line', majority of them would have cast their votes.Just in the dream of a better tomorrow for them or atleast for their kids, a little higher standard of living, 3 times food a day,better education for their kids. They know these political parties, they are just creating dramas. But they still think some one, some day will do something for them.And so they cast their votes.

And what do we do.We sit at home and watch serials and movies.When some bloodys sceens are shown, we say "o my God!" and then change the channel. We blame the politicians for their irresponsiblities. We blame them for bad roads. We blame them when there is power cut, when water supply is intrupted.We just blame politicians and government staffs.And what do we do?Nothing other than blaming.We dumb waste of our home on the near by open space.We spit on public places.We throw wastes on road.Then we starts blaming government for all those garbages being not removed. We offer bribes to government staffs to get our things done easily and we say 'The whole system is corrupted'. We waste water and electricity and the blame government when there is a power cut or water supply is intruppted.

And when its time to select a government, we just back of as if its others duties. And the reason most say for not voting, 'Every body is corrupted. If we vote also whom should we Vote for?' What an excuse.If u have such problem why don't you get to politics? How can you do that, right? Coz its not your duty.Its others. You have got ypur own family to take care off. We always cry for our rights.But we usually forgets that to availing these rights we have to do our duties to this country.But who cares? Every body likes to be selfish. But we all are forgetting something.If Gandhiji was selfish, we would still under British rule.Subash chandra bose, Baghath sing, Chandra shekar Azad, all gave their life for this country. Its their lifes they paid with to get this countries freedom. 'The freedom to blame'.

I'm Back..

Sorry friends,

I was busy for some time. With work and festival.. So couldn't make any posts.. I'l b making posts, as frequently as I can...

ഓര്‍മകള്‍

കലാലയ മുത്തശന്ടെ മടിയിലെന്നപോലെ

കലാലയത്തിന്‍ മുന്നില്ലുള്ള ആല്മാരത്തന്ന്നലില്‍ ,

ഏകയായിരുന്ന എന്നെ ,

എന്‍റെ സുഹൃത്ത് അവന്ടെ ക്യാമറയില്‍ പകര്‍ത്തിയപ്പോള്‍ ,

ഞാന്‍ അറിഞ്ഞില്ല പില്കാലങ്ങളില്‍ എന്നില്‍ ,

ആ കലാലയ മുത്തസന്ടെ ഓര്‍മകള്‍ ഉണര്‍ത്തുന്ന ,

ഒരു ചിത്രമാവും അതെന്.........................

this 'Kavitha', [thats wat I call it..] is a birthday gift for my cute friend ........ ;)

Bus Trip

So this story happened to me when I was doing my UG. I was doing my UG in Chinmaya college, Palakkad. We used to leave to palakkad from vadakkencherry at around 8am every morning. Me n Shajeeb. There were 3 KK Menon bus at around 8am. We would be in one of it. As we started to be regular passengers of KK Menon, we had a group of around 4-5 people. All of us were students. We had made ood relation with the conductors and checkers of KK Menon buses.

One of our main hobby was "Vayanottam". Our trip was of around 1hr and it was d only time pass. There were many girls in different bus stops who used to react to us. React means, they used to stare at us, smile at us. They used to search for us, if we were not in the bus. May be we were thei time pass. Ok, now to my story. One of the main bus stops between Palakkad and vadakkencherry, was Alathur.

One day our bus was in Alathur bus stand. I noticed a girl. Now that was not the part of our usual vayanottam. I recognized her as agirl who studied with me in Cherupushpam. Not my class mate, but my batch mate. Any way the bus left soon. Next day also I saw her at the same bus stop. She was wearing the uniform of IHRD College. I don't know her name. Her standing pose had some peculiaritie.She was standing like, going to hit some one. Legs little spread, Standing erect. Holding the college bag with one hand over her shoulder and other hand droped. She was tall, well built. As one of my friend commented, Vanitha Police. I looked at her, hoping that she may recognize me. But when she saw me, she not even recognized me, but turned her was away with anger. She may have thought we were "Pakka Vaynokkikal". our may be we felt like that. Now that was a real insult for us. How dare she could do this to us. On that day, we decided not to leave her.
Next day onwards, when we reach Alathur, my main duty was to stare at her. Initially her respone was the same as that of first day. But I didn't stop. I continued. As days passeed, she now tried to hide from us. If we also spoted her, she won't look at us. It continued for some day. Now she wont hide. When she spots us, she used to stare back at me, with an angry face. And one day, when she stared at me, I smiled at her. She didnt react. Next day also I smiled. But this time, she smiled back at me. Something like a grin. Oru Kaliyakal style. I to smiled at her in the same way. With that, she broke into real laughter. Following two days, when we reach Alathur, she will be there and she will smile at me. And I too returned.

Next day, I was coming from Tharur. I have to come to Alathur and board Palakkad bus from there. SO I thought, if I get oppurtunity, i'l talk to her. Now I had some friends from Tharur. I came with them to Alathur. We were in Alathur bus stop. She was standing there. I showed her to one of my friend and asked how is she. He looked at her. Said, "that girl? She is the daughter of Alathur C.I.".
Now that was real shock to me. I got really afraid. I didn't dare to look at her or go and talk to her. I simply escaped from there. Next day, when I was in Vadakkencherry Bus stop, I toldmy friends about the new information. Every one of us got scared. What if she had complained about us to her Dad? Now we knew why she was standing like a Vanitha Police.

After that day I havn't travelled on KK Menon bus for a long time. If I had to travell, I would hide myself when I reach Alathur. Anyway I have never seen her again after that incident. Still I dont know her name.

നിനകുവേണ്ടി..............

അമ്പിളി അമ്മാവന്റെ നിലാവെടുത്ത്,
അതില്‍ നക്ഷത്രങ്ങളും ചുവന്ന റോസാ പൂകളും വിതറി,
അതുമുഴുവന്‍ നീലാകാശത്തില്‍ ചുറ്റി എടുത്ത്,
ഇടിമിന്നലില്‍ നിന്നും ഒരു വെള്ളി നൂലെടുത്ത്,
കെട്ടി നിനക്ക് നല്‍കുമായിരുന്നു ഞാന്‍,
എനിക്ക് കഴിയുമെങ്ങില്‍................

What Was My Mistake?

I was in class 7.(7.A). Our class teacher was Leena. She was taking English for us. My favourite subject. And she was my Favourite teacher (She Was!). Once she had come to my home, while going to another teacher's house.

Usually she takes a lesson, then she gives us questions and answers and asks us to study and come on the next day or so. Next day, she will ask the questions and we have to answer those. If we don’t answer the questions we have to receive beatings in hand with cane. Usually the number of beatings vary.

That day also she had asked us to study a lesson’s questions and answers. I had studied them very well. I was confident. I came to the class. I was sitting with Nithil, Shajeeb and Sakeer Hussain. I came to class in the morning. We all recited the questions. First period was English. All where busy studying the questions. We were in the 2nd column, 1st bench. We came back to class after assembly. We again started to recite the queations. She came and the class started.

She said ‘I am going to ask questions and nobody should open the book once I start asking the questions. Is that clear?’

And she started asking the questions. Mean while I had kept my pencil inside the book. She had started from the 1st column. Probably she will be coming to our bench at last. Some of my friends were tensed. But as I had studied well, I didn’t have any worries. She had finished asking questions to the students in the 1st column and has started the 2nd column from the last bench.4-5 students were standing, as they couldn’t answer the questions. I was simply sitting and waiting for my turn. I noticed my pencil inside my note and took it out. Suddenly Leena Teacher came to me and asked a question. It was not my turn. I was little surprised. Anyway I answered the question. After that she went back to the last student to whom she was asking questions. She didn’t ask me to sit. I thought she had forgot about it. As it is not polite to sit, without her permission, I stood there itself. My bench mates were also surprised by the sudden behavior of our teacher.

She came to our bench. It was my turn again. She asked me another question again. I answered that too, very fluently. Still she didn’t ask me to sit. This time I realized, there is some problem. And that session of questioning finished. Now there were about 9 students, including me, standing. She started to ask questions again to those who were standing. Those who can answer this time can sit and escape from punishment. She came to me. She asked another question. This time also I answered. For my surprise (probably to the surprise of all of us) she asked me another question. I answered that too. Still she didn’t tell me to sit. She went to the table and took the cane. Now 5 of us were standing.

She started to give punishment to others who were standing. One hit with the cane on his\her palm. And finally she came to me. She asked me to show my palm. Now I was really surprised and very sad. Why should I get the punishment? I have answered all her questions? Now that hurt a lot. This was the first time I’m getting punishment in her class. I have never given her a chance to punish me. She hit me, not once but thrice. When hitting me, she said ‘Anyone can answer to my question by looking into note. I saw you peeping into the notebook’.

So that was my mistake. She was not my favorite teacher anymore. And I have never answered any questions she asked in her class, even though I knew the answers.