Sunday, October 12, 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Make Superglue Look Silly


New material will change the face of glue forever

Scientists at the University of Dayton, Ohio and Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with a new adhesive that mimics the behavior of gecko's feet, which means that not only is it the strongest ever made, it's also the easiest to take off.

The feet of the gecko are covered in small hair called setae, which have branches at the end, called spatulae. When the gecko puts its foot on, say, a wall, the setae spread and increase the total surface area that's in contact with the wall. Thanks to molecular forces between the wall and the setae, the gecko's relatively small foot can hold its entire body up.



Using carbon nanotubes, the scientists have created a similar structure to create an adhesive pad that is effectively a nanotube forest. They tested a square centimeter of the pad on materials ranging from Teflon to sandpaper, and found that it can support up to 1.6 kg when pulled parallel to the surface. This means that if you're light (and strong) enough, you could coat your hands with this stuff and be able to pull off a Spider-Man-like wall-climb if you wished.

The best part, however, is that like the gecko, you can un-stick this pad just by pulling it in the right direction -- in this case, perpendicular to the surface you're stuck to. Which means that if you try clinging to ceilings, you're going to wind up a bloody mess on the ground.

Monday, September 08, 2008



Wat do u feel when u get 2 knw dat sm1 whOm u loved,, knew inside out,, is NO longer yours
Sm1 who was vth u jst till the moment, within and beside u is no longer der
is no longer der to console u
to surprise u
to cheer u
to touch u
to share
to lovee.......
to live.........

Saturday, August 09, 2008

പ്രണയം >?< വാത്സല്യം

പ്രണയം >?< വാത്സല്യം

എന്റെ മൊബൈല്‍ ഫോണ്‍ നിലക്കാതെ ശബ്ദിച്ചു

ഏട്ടത്തി ആണ് .....
എടുക്കണമോ വേണ്ടയോ ആകെ സംശയം
വീട്ടില്‍ അറിഞ്ഞു കാണുമോ ??
ഇല്ല അറിയാന്‍ വഴിയില്ലാ.... എന്നാലും ചിലപ്പോള്‍....
ഇല്ലാ, ആര്‍ക്കും അറിയില്ല.. ആരോടും പറഞ്ഞിട്ടില്ലാ.....

വീട്ടില്‍ നിന്നു 60 km ദൂരെ ആണ് ഞാന്‍....

60 km ദൂരെ റെയില്‍വേ സ്റ്റേഷനില്‍...

മൊബൈലില്‍ ഒരു മെസ്സേജ് വന്നു, ചേച്ചി തന്നെ ആണ്

" കുട്ടാ മോനു നീ എവടാ ? എന്താടാ കുരങ്ങാ ഫോണ്‍ എടുക്കാത്തത് ?
അമ്മ നിന്നോട് പുറത്തു നിന്നും ഒന്നും കഴിക്കണ്ട
ഇവിടെ നിനക്കു ഇഷ്ടമുള്ള മീന്‍കറിയും കപ്പയും ഉണ്ടാക്കി
വച്ചിടുണ്ട് എന്ന് പറയാന്‍ പറഞ്ഞു,, നീ പെട്ടെന്ന് വാ,
അച്ഛനും നീ വന്നിട്ടേ കഴിക്കുന്നുള്ളൂ എന്നും പറഞ്ഞിരിക്ക്‌ാണ്
മോനേ പെട്ടെന്ന് വന്നിലേല്‍ ഞാന്‍ എല്ലാം എടുത്തു തിന്നുമേ, പറഞ്ഞില്ലെന്നു വേണ്ട
ഹി ഹി :) പെട്ടെന്ന് വാടാ
call me back or miscal wen u get dis"

കണ്ണ് നനഞ്ഞുവോ ? അറിയില്ല
"ഏട്ടാ..... " ....... അവളാണ്
ചെന്നൈയിലേക്കുള്ള ടിക്കറ്റ്‌ എന്റെ കയ്യിലെ വിയര്‍പ്പില്‍ നനഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു........
മനസ്സില്‍ പല ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍....... ഉത്തരം കിട്ടാത്തവ........... തെറ്റോ.. ശെരിയോ....
ഇതെല്ലാം ...
വേണ്ടിയിരുണോ.....
മുന്നില്‍... മനസ്സില്‍.... കണ്ണില്‍ എല്ലാം എല്ലായിടത്തും ഒരു ഇരുട്ട് പടരുന്നത് പോലെ .....

--------- PiTch BlAck @ PoInt BlaNk---------

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

LeaRn to LiVe

Americans and some other European countries believe that one of the most difficult things to do is public speaking and public appearance. They arrange challenges and create opportunities for common people to come forward and talk, sing or perform their skills in public during some local football matches or other events.

Why is it so, if we think rationally most of us have the same problem, public fright and stage fright. Some of us even would even hang ourselves than to do a public performance. Yes it literally kills them, why?

We are afraid. Yes we are afraid; of what??

Let me tell you all a story, I had a neighbour (yes had, sadly, she passed away 2 weeks before) a housewife, who lead a happy yet silent life. One thing about her was she hardly left the premises of her home. Yes, till the age she died, 86, it would count only to a total below 20 times. Unbelievable, believe it. She never went out for shopping or for films. Her husband and the family made available all that she needed, the groceries and all inside her home. So she never ever needed to go out and it was also a custom and tradition in those days that Hindu Nair women hardly went out of their homes. The times she went were only for some temple festival or any close relatives marriage and those were so limited.

The point I wanted to make was that by the time she was 30+ she forgot how to walk in the streets, outside her home. It would be a strange thing to read but its true. She actually forgot how to walk outside her home. You may be thinking is walking on streets that much a BIG thing, I would say yes and you will also join me if you ever had seen her shivering when she is brought out of her home. Yes the thought of leaving her home and walking outside would literally kill her. She would not dare to do it and if she did she would start shivering and faint. If she had to go somewhere she would go by car, step out from her house straight to car and step in straight to the auditorium. She never dated to walk anymore or she always wanted someone beside her, holding her if she had to. Unbelievable but believe it.

So now you see those very simple things that we consider silly and simple become very difficult and would sometimes literally kill us to get it done. Strange but truth. Everything we do is an art – walking, talking, listening, sitting, smiling everything and everything. The more we do and try to learn those little tricks that get it done correctly it get perfected. If we don’t do things and refrain ourselves in doing things, we simply forget those things that we think we know like the back of our hands.

Let me tell you another incident

It was my friend’s sister’s marriage the day after and we all friends gathered at the wedding hall for arranging for the next days event. We were talking casually about bikes and cars discussing about our friend’s bike and its performance. One of my friend’s relative joined us; he was a tall built man who was in his early 50’s he asked whether he could have a small ride on that bike in the hall premises. He indeed loved bikes, we all sensed it from his talking and the knowledge he had about vintage bikes. My friend gladly gave his key. This man went to the bike sat on it looked for the keyhole and started the bike. But he never drove it. He was sitting there and doing nothing, we all looked at him and we saw him shivering and he was sweating like hell. We smelled trouble and ran to him and just as we got there he fainted and dropped down. Before dropping to ground we caught him and slowly carried him and laid him down. We all were scared and didn’t know what happened. He was taken to hospital, but thankfully he was fine. Doctors diagnosed and said he was quite ok.

I became curious about the man and enquired about him to my friend. And he told me his story, the man, was a bike-lover, a race freak and owned a very good bike. He once had a big accident and surprisingly recovered from it without much harmful injuries, but with a broken leg and hand. From then his wife denied him to ride bikes and in love he accepted it. Later on he himself adjusted to it. His son drove the bike and he sat behind. And years later it was on the other day that he ever again got into a bike. But my friend also didn’t know what happened to him after.

Actually what happened the man had a deep longing to ride bikes and the realisation that he was sitting on a brand new bike with high performances and his memories all got him into an adrenalin rush. But the moment he started the bike he realised and his mind told him that he had never touched a bike for last 8 years. This frightened him; suddenly he forgot how to drive the bike. The thing he did for around 20 years and the man who was a racing freak suddenly forgot how to drive the bike. His pressure was building up, he got tensed, his heart was pumping rapidly and was demanding more oxygen but he had forgot everything and even to breath properly. His eyes went blank his brain stopped working and he fainted.

Imagine this is the real life incident of a person who was a racing freak and who knew everything about bikes and handled it like an extension of his body. This can happen to you or me. This happened because of lack of practice and lack of confidence out of that.

Have you ever had those feelings of, oh no I don’t want to do that, I don’t want to ask that. Have you ever come across a situation of conversation starting trouble? In a class or in a public venue do you remember hiding yourself from the person on stage or our teacher when he asks for a volunteer?

This happens out of lack of practice and lack of confidence out of that.

Only practice builds confidence. When we do something, we learn things and our mind stores it. This is knowledge; we use this knowledge in later stages wherever it comes into use. This builds confidence. And every time we do the thing we learn more and gets on better all the time.

So the lesson is simple, do the thing you fear the most and the fear vanishes, refrain yourself and you are in the prison forever.

Quite often we refrain ourselves from asking doubts to our teachers or even asking to the person information counter and may I help you counters, who are indeed there to help you. We find it difficult to ask, Why?

This is simply because we fear mockery and false-ego.

We fear asking doubts to others, fear that whether they would tease us of our ignorance. And in some other cases our false ego wont let us ask. I have heard some people telling that they would rather die than to ask a doubt or clarification to someone. But in the end who loses?

I have heard people talking, ”I don’t need to know that, its not my discipline or its not my subject or business”. This is an attitude most of the people put up the tag in their minds with. But this is just ridiculous, they are just refraining themselves from the knowledge flow. Everything is knowledge and there is no good or bad or something that is for me or something that’s not me. Try to know and learn everything or something of everything. Don’t put yourself in the prison when the door is so wide open.

Try and become Jack of all and Ace of none. This helps in the long run. Sticking to one job is good and specialisation is also good, but this makes people monotonous and boring. Theses people always see only one side of the fact and think with only the concept that applies in their field. This thought makes them partially blind. They never get to see the other side of the picture. Such people usually stand firmly with their concepts and without compromises to learn something new and understand new concept ultimately fails themselves. They are in the prison built by them. Neglecting knowledge and blinding themselves from new concepts is the worst thing and the most foolish thing that can happen to a man. He will never go forward but keep on turning around and around in a loop within his own self-created prison.

Break the prison, open your mind, free your mind, and let your mind wander. Go places you have never gone before, experience things you have never experienced before, do things you have never done before.

People may call you a freak, show them what you experience, stand on it and they will follow you. That’s people; they are afraid, they just need someone to show the path to be a leader for them, to take responsibilities for them. Show the world what you got within you.

Stand erect, be bold. be brave and take responsibilities in your shoulders.

Let it be you - The ONE, the Chosen ONE.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

CheSs

365 days/columns

BLACK nd WHITE

sometimes Colourful

Cavalry – your Words

DeeDs

ThougHts

TacTics

PerCeptioN

AnaLysiS

IntUitioN

StraTegy

PoWeR

KnoWledGe

SileNce

ActiOn

PlaY with all, Place them all with Tact and You win

CheSs

BuT everY time I wiN,

I fEEl liKe LoSt

Ever Y time I wiN, I LoSe.......

? - JAX

Monday, May 26, 2008


APNA CHAACHA NEHRUU

Sunday, May 18, 2008

RemeMbeR , No maTTer HOw baD Ur HeArt is broKen the woRld woNT stOp for U..
so KeeP WalKinG

ATTITUDE DECIDES LIFE

Most PeOple are dissatisfied with their life, they are searching for things that even they dont know what...
they look out to other peoples life, make comparisons...

I know an elderly women, a senior grade govt servant and also an LIC agent, has a very good family children doing quite well,, but still she is not satisfied with her life.
she is craving for something BIG and very miserably fails to realise her valued life and for that reason she fails to enjoy her life, always looking and searching for something which she doesnt achieve, just because she doesn't know what she is looking for.

what a pity, many of us live our lifes like this,
we are not sure where we should go, what we should do...
we just think we are never full, we lack things and just go on comparing with other people..
You find People with this attitude everywhere around you, spend some minutes with them and you will start feeling weary and tired..
You also start thinking like them; there is something lacking in my life.

As I say this a nice story popped up -
Two cows were grazing as they saw a milk van passing by, in it were written " Milka milk - the best natural milk, with vitamin A and Vitamin B+"
Seeing this one cow told another " Did you see that, I knew we lacked something, we have some problem".

There is a very dirty stupid irrational preaching style adopted by Pentecosts, they distribute leaflets to people describing every human as born dirt worms and demonish satans, they say everyone in this world are sinners and are going to have a very bad life and will never achieve in life, unless and until they join their mission.
What a pity..
but its a marketing trick, they first picture people as downtrodden weak and create an insecurity feeling in their minds.
By this act they attract those weak minded people, who believe there is something lacking in their lives and they are not having a good life.
such people don't believe in themselves, but they believe in those leaflets else.
And there comes the mission for their help, What a very nasty dirty way to preach a religion, pitiful.


coming back
There is only one thing to remember,,

LIFE IS PRECIOUS, DON'T WASTE IT, ENJOY LIFE

and to achieve an enjoyable life, make it a point that you will do only things that you enjoy doing or go for a profession where you love being.


DONT CHEAT YOURSELF,, DONT KILL YOURSELF

Dont ever,, Never choose professions just for the sake of it, dont go for engineering or medical profession just because it may earn you big bucks,, that way you are cheating yourself
you may earn bugs, but very soon you fall tired, tired of everything - the work, the world, your life, your spouse and yourself.



FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS

Do the thing you love doing the most,
choose that as your profession, that way you just grow everyday and grow beyond comparisons.
And anything and everything is marketable and of demand in todays world, so dont bother about some so-called high earning professions.
Any work done with heart put in takes you up into heights you never knew before.


IF THE DOOR DON'T OPEN, USE ANOTHER KEY

Do only what you enjoy or do things in the way that you start love doing them. Change the format of those boring things and make them into things that suit your liking.
Its so simple just use that thing between your ears.
Just remember the story of Mark Twain - Tom sawyer and his whitewashing the fence.
he just changed the whole format and see what difference it bought.


YOU CANT REACH PLACES WITHOUT WALKING


People think a lot about their life and worry a lot BUT they mostly choose the way thats most common and used.
People just think but don't walk their life, they just sit there thinking and dreaming of their future prospects, if i do that then I can be this and
they just dream but don't walk.

If you want to reach the place you have to start walking..

Some start walking but when they see the thorns and stones on the pavement they stop and start thinking, then they sit and think and they fall asleep. (Dreamer)
some go forward ignoring the stones and thorns, but they get hurt and go back halfway and never return. (Emotion driven)
some stop there waiting for someone else to come and show them a way without hurting (Imitator)
people may come and walk the road ahead without hurting,seeing this he may also start walking but get hurt, because he did not have the shoes made of iron (experience and faith) as others who walked ahead.

Some people who walk, don't stop seeing the stones and thorns but just take small deviation route and join the main route as it gets smoother, he walks on as he has the power of knowledge and belief in him.
(walker) Whatever you do, dont stop walking


BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE

The one thing that gets you into top is BELIEF, believe in GOD or believe in yourself,
both helps,
but belief in GOD helps a lot more
People who deny GOD are just lazy enough to think beyond or are in the box of misconceptions.
Don't,,; NEVER create boxes, walls around you, they just constrict and restrict your thoughts.
Miracles do happen only when you start believing in miracles, believe and see the difference, is just what can be said.
For people who don't understand and believe the world of ignorance belongs to them.


Never label anything good or bad, accept everything as they are.

Everything in the world are knowledge banks.
Just learn them, experiment with them and you will find the beauty of knowledge then you will start realising the power of knowledge.

Restricting knowledge, ignoring them just blinds you.You will never gain anything from restricting any knowledge, but will only loose.

You will only earn when you start accepting and knowing them.

Knowledge is light, create the attitude to know things - inquisition.
With the new light of knowledge we will start seeing new ways which we never thought existed.
Its like us, standing in dark stranded without knowing where to go
and a sudden lightning give us the vision of the way, the road ahead and the possibilities in front of us.

God is such a Knowledge Bank, learn, experiment, realise and enjoy.
With belief on your heart keep walking, and you will find miracles on the way, doors will open up for you..


Life is So siMple, DonT maKe it ComPlicaTed

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008

A husband wakes up at home with a huge hangover.

He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he seesis a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house.

"Honey, breakfast is on the table, I left early to go grocery shopping. Love You!"

Totally shocked with the note , he goes to the kitchen and His son is also at the table, eating. He asks,

"Son, what happened last night?"

His son says,

"Well, you came home around 3 AM, drunk and delirious. Broke some crockery, puked in the hall, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door".

Confused, the man asks,

"So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?
I should expect a big quarrel with her!"

His son replies,

"Oh, that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your clothes n shoes off, you said,

"LADY LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M MARRIED!"

Moral

There are truly some things that both money and Mastercard can't buy

Monday, March 17, 2008






Its a bit late.... too late to respond to something that happened on the New Year Eve of 2007, so I'm not really responding to that,but that night I was chatting online with my friend Manu (Tinku) about the incident and he told me that was the effect of mob psychology, but I really dont go with him on that idea, because going through the mind and psychological aspects of mob, eventhough it cant be said so... coz it all depends upon the personality and character of the persons in the act, for the reason that the a mob is teasing women you wont be a part and wont appreciate that unless and until you also have the desire to do that deep inside your mind and hence take part in that psychopathic (pathetic - thinking how far can people go down and act atrociously without conscience) act.


No one will or can do a thing unless and until he really needs and wants to do that no matter what his condition is.,drugged , intoxicated or whatever. Its that animal deep within that comes out when it gets the opportunity. Its the animal called subconscious mind, how you have molded him.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

This poem or watever u may call is composed by joining every movie name of 10th IFFK (International Film Festival Kerala)

I am a runner & I have to run
a long run like crazy through
the roads under the skies
along the wind that strikes barley
raising the dust, hearing the sounds of sand
hearing the whisper of Gods in my mind
I have to run a long run
look both ways and run..

I know when the road bends
it is the checkpoint for me by the creator
But I wont stop and go offside
I will run like the one from bow

I wont cling on to Yesterday and
end up in human conditions of
The great depression and Whisky
leaving behind the still life
tearing off waiting calender
I have to rise and shine
as no angels fall
whether my opportunities are
Full or Empty

I will rise and shine
because I have 1000 days and a dream -
the murmer of my heart;
I know life on earth is a journey
which forever flows
not waiting for happiness and golden doors
but always closer to something like happiness

It has been since the age of Earth
and life will forever flow
But I have to run for my
1000 days and a dream
coz life is a diamond

Thursday, January 10, 2008




TATA NANO - the One Lakh Car




Heavily expected and awaited TATA's 1 lakh rupees car has launched finally after its political hypes and other issues.> This is the World's cheapest car ever to be launched, cheapest car in China costs around l 1,75,000/- and in US costs around 1,50,000/- in rupees.

Only Rs.1 Lac (Rs.100,000/-) KD666.000 (Kuwait Dinar) $ 2,222.00

TATA calls this as the car for the common man.

Even though it is the base model that comes for 1 lakh rupees with no-frills like Airconditioning,power steering and power windows it is still a car for four and gives 20 kmpl as said by the company. NANO is Barath stage 3 and Euro 4 compliant. It is 20% bigger than Maruti 800 and has its engine on the rear.
On road price may go upto 1,30,000/- and model with A/C and other features (Blue coloured one) can be around upto 2,00,000/- or more.

Booking has not yet started for this common mans car but there is an immense rush for it. It is expected to be the NEXT BIG thing after the Maruti 800 and its also predicted to have a waiting period of 1or 2 years to reach the consumers hand after booking because of this immense rush.

The car is expected to sale high in the sector of society where people are waiting to get out of their bikes into the cars.

The lack of good and wide roads and pollution hazards are pointed out and protests also started out as there can be a situation of High rise in car population. So the car will be a success only after the issues of Singur factory (the propoesd factory for NANO) is well settled.

Monday, January 07, 2008

Your life - your likes - you decide!!!
Let me tell you all a story
A long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his horseman that if hecould ride on his horse and cover as much land area as he likes, then the Emperor would give him the area of land he has covered. Sure enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. When he was hungry or tired, he did not stop because he wanted to cover as much area as possible. And heCame to a point when he had covered a substantial area and both he and the horse were exhausted and was dying.
Then he asked himself, "Why did I push myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself."
The above chineese folkore is similar with the journey of our Life.
We push very hard everyday to make more money, to gain power and recognition.
We neglect our health , time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding beauty and the hobbies we love. One day when we look back , we will realize that we don't really need that much, but then we cannot turn back time for what we have missed.
Life is not about making money, acquiring power or recognition.
Life is definitely not about work!
Work is only necessary to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life. Life is a balance of Work and Play , Family and Personal time . You have to decide how you want to balance your Life. Define your priorities, realize what you are able to compromise but always let some of your decisions be based on your instincts. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of Life, the whole aim of human existence.
So, take it easy, do what you want to do and appreciate nature. Life is fragile, Life is short. Do not take Life for granted. Live a balanced lifestyle and enjoy Life!
Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words ; they become actions.
Watch your actions ; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny --
Smile in pleasure, smile in pain;
Smile when trouble pours like rain;
Smile wen someone hurts U,Smile coz someone cares 4 U.
Keep Smiling :)