That's the number of tigers left in India.
Do chinese (or Indians) really need aphrodisiacs? I mean can the chinese government not do anything about seriously acting against the medicine resellers / users? Here is a animal that guarantees an ecological balance, is so magnificent and above all is highly endangered.
If there is zero demand for tiger carcass, wouldn't the poaching end naturally? Theres' already enough awareness about tiger skin-sale that it really cannot be the reason for the decline, which puts a lot of onus on the Chinese government to act.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sachin Tendulkar: First Man @ 200 in ODI
Simply the Best!
The King of batting has already showed us all - why he is the greatest batsman India has ever produced many times over in the last two decades. But today, he achieved what NO man has ever done before - Score a double-ton in a one-day international cricket match. The next best was by a Saeed Anwar who had cheated his way to 194 runs by using a far younger runner very early on in that inning. Besides, Saeed Anwar is hardly a guy any one even remembers, leave aside even using his name in the same sentence as Don Bradman!
Today was clearly Sachin's day, and he so beautifully gave it back to every cricket fan (big, small or marginal ones like me).
Congratulations Sachin - You are a hero, in a nation so devoid of them.
The King of batting has already showed us all - why he is the greatest batsman India has ever produced many times over in the last two decades. But today, he achieved what NO man has ever done before - Score a double-ton in a one-day international cricket match. The next best was by a Saeed Anwar who had cheated his way to 194 runs by using a far younger runner very early on in that inning. Besides, Saeed Anwar is hardly a guy any one even remembers, leave aside even using his name in the same sentence as Don Bradman!
Today was clearly Sachin's day, and he so beautifully gave it back to every cricket fan (big, small or marginal ones like me).
Congratulations Sachin - You are a hero, in a nation so devoid of them.
Uttaran: Indian Soap
If television programming were a barometer of society, then Indian society is feudal, schizophrenic, sexist and downright disgusting...
I cannot begin to compare the chasm between Indian prime-time serials / shows to something I grew up watching. Fox Mulder, Friends gang, Benny Hill, Simpsons, Jay Leno - to name a few. The degradation of Indian serials seems complete with the currently ranked #1 show - Uttaran.
Its' a story of a girl who lands up in a soup thanks to her psychopath elder sister. Then to make matters worse, the characters possess deep amnesia and exist in an alternate reality. Law & order do not exist, nor does morality, gratitude or plain divinity. All characters in this serial possess one and only one value which has not changed for the countless episodes that have aired. There is no remorse, no love, no clarity.
To add to the mayhem of this non-sense is the cliched cinematography that does not believe in airing 2 minutes of narratable content per episode, insists on multiple angle shots of dumb expressions of every actor reacting to tidbits that happen in each episode and above all the horrendous pieces of sound effects that accompany them.
So far it does not get offensive, but when you see the feudalistic mindsets of these writers, is when you lose reason. Its' indeed a shame that such grisly content is being served to the audience, which is primarily women who are mostly married - judging by the ads shown during the breaks, soaps, cleansers, fairness creams et al. My only request to the writers, directors and whoever is responsible for this non-sense - You dont' have to! If money is the only criteria then prostitution is the best profession, and yours currently ranks only a shade higher.
If there are any values at work in your heart, body or mind, then go ahead and walk out - unless there is stand taken against this horrid broadcasting, there is little hope for the future...
...thank god, the society I belong to is no where close to what the writers of this serial seem to have infested.
I cannot begin to compare the chasm between Indian prime-time serials / shows to something I grew up watching. Fox Mulder, Friends gang, Benny Hill, Simpsons, Jay Leno - to name a few. The degradation of Indian serials seems complete with the currently ranked #1 show - Uttaran.
Its' a story of a girl who lands up in a soup thanks to her psychopath elder sister. Then to make matters worse, the characters possess deep amnesia and exist in an alternate reality. Law & order do not exist, nor does morality, gratitude or plain divinity. All characters in this serial possess one and only one value which has not changed for the countless episodes that have aired. There is no remorse, no love, no clarity.
To add to the mayhem of this non-sense is the cliched cinematography that does not believe in airing 2 minutes of narratable content per episode, insists on multiple angle shots of dumb expressions of every actor reacting to tidbits that happen in each episode and above all the horrendous pieces of sound effects that accompany them.
So far it does not get offensive, but when you see the feudalistic mindsets of these writers, is when you lose reason. Its' indeed a shame that such grisly content is being served to the audience, which is primarily women who are mostly married - judging by the ads shown during the breaks, soaps, cleansers, fairness creams et al. My only request to the writers, directors and whoever is responsible for this non-sense - You dont' have to! If money is the only criteria then prostitution is the best profession, and yours currently ranks only a shade higher.
If there are any values at work in your heart, body or mind, then go ahead and walk out - unless there is stand taken against this horrid broadcasting, there is little hope for the future...
...thank god, the society I belong to is no where close to what the writers of this serial seem to have infested.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Windows Vista SUX
I finally got an answer to why everyone HATES Windows Vista, it simply fcuks up without a clue. Lost a few of my girls' 1st birthday photos to this quirky piece of shit they call Windows Vista!
Possible triggers to the mess:
a. Windows update ran yesterday night for a long time and added a lot of security patches to Office 2007 apps.
b. I ran Dell MediaDirect today and accessed the "My Pictures" folder for an admin a/c (mine).
c. Left the laptop running for the whole day today.
The consequence:
a. Lost a few folders that were created in the last 36 hours, which included a few of my girls 1st birthday snaps.
b. Networking failed completely
c. AVG stopped working
d. Funny errors started showing up every 2 minutes
e. USB ran at a snail's pace
f. Scans reported errors but expressed inability to repair it.
After a thorough fight for 60 minutes, I decided to do the inevitable - run a clean restore using the Dell partition which everyone had recommended as junk.
Lessons learnt:
a. Backup
b. Vista will fcuk up, just a matter of time.
c. Backup!
Possible triggers to the mess:
a. Windows update ran yesterday night for a long time and added a lot of security patches to Office 2007 apps.
b. I ran Dell MediaDirect today and accessed the "My Pictures" folder for an admin a/c (mine).
c. Left the laptop running for the whole day today.
The consequence:
a. Lost a few folders that were created in the last 36 hours, which included a few of my girls 1st birthday snaps.
b. Networking failed completely
c. AVG stopped working
d. Funny errors started showing up every 2 minutes
e. USB ran at a snail's pace
f. Scans reported errors but expressed inability to repair it.
After a thorough fight for 60 minutes, I decided to do the inevitable - run a clean restore using the Dell partition which everyone had recommended as junk.
Lessons learnt:
a. Backup
b. Vista will fcuk up, just a matter of time.
c. Backup!
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