Digital Ramayana

I read this on the Poda zone. Really cool stuff.
This is how you change the epics to teach the next generation. I can see my kids finding a flying monkey rather not impressive but he would find houses protected with a "firewall" more impressive.
Times change, so let's change our epics too.
And I am pretty sure that kids can relate to computers easier than Gods or super natural beings in the next century or so.
So here's me taking the initiative and re posting :P

Here's a facebook version of Ram and Sita getting married. Hilarious, I know!

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Characters
Ram - Calm, composed guy. Teetotaler(Except when he tasted Vodka once out of peer pressure). One woman man.
Laxman - Hyper enthu guy. Too much respect for his brother. Wannabe hip-hop guy. His Facebook account reads his first name as “Laky” and last name as “Back with a bang”. However “Back with a bang” is definitely not his father’s name.
—————Forest cottage in Ayodhya , evening time
A livid Ram walks about the corridor of his forest cottage.
Ram: Man, How did this even happen? You said you had installed a firewall. What happened, did some windows update screw up something?
Laky : I’m not sure. Let me check the log. Well, she seems to have clicked some kind of malicious link.
Ram: What kind of link?
Laky : 3D deer screensavers. The firewall got broken and the door got opened. Somebody must have abducted her then.
Ram: 3d deer…I mean, how old is she, 8? Who clicks on spam these days?
Laky: Hey, thats the bhabhi you are talking about. Keep it chill bro.
Ram: Any leads on who could have done this?
Laky : I’m not sure bro.
Ram keeps thinking and walking about. He sits back and looks at his MAC running AyodhyaOS.  He browses through Sita’s Facebook profile. Somebody had recently tagged her on their Friendship calendar. She had also liked a page “I hate those who don’t hate the I hate Ram” page.
No significant progress seemed to happen as hours seemed to progress. Laky was reinstalling windows on his other laptop as there was an issue with the boot sector. Suddenly the beep of an SMS emanated from  Ram’s blackberry. It was from ICICAyodhya bank. It read “A credit card purchase of 24,276 has been made from your card. Offer, now housing loan limit increased for salary account holders”.
Ram: Hey, Looks like my credit card is with Sita and there has been a transaction made.
Laky : Let me check the statement. Hold on. It says the debit was made from Lanka jewelers.
Ram: where is that? Must be at Ranganathan street.
Laky : No. Its in Sri Lanka actually.
Ram: Oh. Must be the notorious Raavan who abducted her. Google Raavan right-away.
Laky: Yes.
*Lakshman googles Raavan
Laky: This is his twitter profile.
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Raavan

Sri LankaRuler|Veena player|Veda reader|Blogger|DSLR Photographer|Private jet owner|I steal hearts and other people’s wives

Tweets
@juniorbachchan Daiiiiiiiiiiiii.
Load more tweets…
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Ram: Hmmm. This must be the guy. The unscrupulous rat. Let’s kick-off some action from our end. Where is the monkey? Why don’t we send the monkey across to Lanka for negotation?
Laky: hey bro. That’s racist.
Ram: What’s racist?
Laky: Calling anybody a monkey is racist.  I have seen it bro. They might ban you for like 4 test matches bro. (makes weird hand gesture showing the number 4)
Ram: That is racist?
Laky: Totally bro. Yeah. You can’t call anybody a donkey too. Thats racist too.
Ram: Can I call a donkey a donkey?
Laky: No no. That’s racist too.
Ram: Anyway, let us head-off to Lanka. Quick. Get the travel arrangements done.
Laky: How about we go down the road to the southern tip and construct a bridge from there? Huh, wont that be cool? Like an awesome roadtrip.
Ram(in a growling tone) : What is wrong with you? Just go to makemytrip.
Laky: Yeah. sure sure. Calm down(mumbles “Nobody wants to do the cool stuff”)
Ram: By the way, have you seen my adidas sneakers?
Laky: Yeah. forgot to tell you about that. Bharath wanted it as a souvenir in remembrance of you. But I just guess he was just stingy to buy his own gym shoes.
****At the International terminal
Laky: I wonder what his full name is. Must be something like UDRS.Raavan or DPDMP.Raavan.
Ram(gestures Laky to stop talking): I see something.
At a distance Ram sees a ten headed man wearing ten caps of the cricket teams walking down the terminal. Ram goes delirious with excitement. Laky stands up frantically. Both Ram and Laxman run towards the ten headed man.
Raavan: Before you hit me or something, I am really sorry. You don’t want to trouble a bankrupt man further.
Ram(in a threatening Hollywood hero tone, fists clenched) : What do you mean? Where is my wife?
Raavan: I mean your wife just drove me crazy man. I gave her my credit card and she just blew it up. She purchased so much jewellery that the card statement is the size of a 9 yards silk saree. Now I am so screwed and bankrupt.
Ram does not respond. He just stands calm, fists clenched.
Raavan: I mean my palace is still on EMI man. And I’m just a king. No onsite and stuff for me. I have already gone through so much in life. People have been making fun of my ten heads for long. Kids used to call me base 10 in college. Do you know how much I spend on shampoo and hair-dye? Insane man. And I get ripped off with flight tickets with their ‘per head cost’ rule. Abducting your wife was a mistake. Please forget and forgive this as if it were a bad windows bug where you click ‘dont send error report’. Your wife is waiting in the visitors room. Now if you will excuse me, I will depart.
Ram pats Raavan on his shoulder. Raavan shakes hand with Ram. Laky does a rap star like hi-five with Ram and Raavan walks off from the place.
—The End.

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Loved it, didn'ya?! I bet you did cause I loved it myself.
Happy week peeps. Loved reading this during the festival season.

Fabregas vs Tottenham

Nike CTR360 Maestri boots - £150

Arsenal Kit (Shirt) - £50

Arsenal Shorts - £25

Socks - £15

Raping the shit out of Tottenham Hotspur - Priceless

There are somethings money cant buy, for everything else there's Cesc Fabregas.

Being the Gunner that I am, I was taught to hate the Spuds with a passion.. Here's me doing that watching the Solo goal. Maybe one of the best solo goals in the history of the sport.

Whether or not you stay,Cesc. You will always be a legend here at the Emirates!

Friends are like condoms, They protect you when things get hard!

LOL! Happy Week Ahead :)

Life was a lot simpler when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits!

Haha. Happy Thursday,folks! :)

Get It Over With, Fab!

It's 3 years now ever since the Fabregas to Barcelona saga started. And it's been shuttling back and forth between Barcelona and Arsenal.
Reading this post: (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3668070/Barcelona-close-on-32million-Cesc-Fabregas.html) gives me mixed emotions, Being the Gooner that I am, I don't want to see Fabregas leaving Arsenal, but the other part of me, the footballer, wants Fabregas to join Barcelona because his heart lies there and come on, He has been hinting that for quite sometime now.
He said everything except "I want to leave Arsenal this year".

Last summer, Arsene Wenger convinces Fabregas to stay for one more year, and the result? Losing 4 competitions in the time of just 3 weeks. The Champions League, Carling Cup, Premier League and the FA Cup.
From being in pole position to win the premier league, Arsenal ended up finishing 4th. That shows what to expect out of the young side Wenger is building.

Leave Arsenal or the silverware, Let's focus on Fabregas.
Would he be happy at Barcelona?
Absolutely since it's his hometown, the team he played as a youngster, and his best friend is playing for the club and more than half of his Spanish Team mates want him there.

Would he be a regular starter?
I don't think so since Xavi,Iniesta and Busquets are the 3 greatest mid fielders right now and a starting place for Fabregas in the Barcelona line-up looks bleak.
Since Barcelona have ALMOST signed the Chilean, Alexis Sanchez for more money, I think he would be picked ahead of Fabregas since he scores goal at a prolific rate and that's what Pep Guardiola wants.

Would he be the same force to reckon with 3 years down the line?
No, He won't be what he is with Arsenal when he is with Barcelona. Though Arsenal play a similar kind of football, Fabregas won't have the liberty he had at Arsenal in Barcelona. In Arsenal, he is the cog wheel of the team, the team depends on him and the team needs him.
The Jack Wilshere's and Aaron Ramsey's look up to Fabregas.

Which is better? Working with a young team and making them win or Being at a world beating side but warming the bench?
Even a guy with half a brain would say that he'd prefer the former. Fabregas at 24 is already a legend at the Emirates. Imagine how good he will be treated if he retires playing for Arsenal.
If he goes to Barcelona, he'd be "just-another-good-player" who warmed the benches at Barcelona.
Until Xavi retires, He isn't gonna get lots of first team chances.

How good will he feel retiring at Arsenal/Barcelona?
At Arsenal, when he retires, he may not have many trophies or medals, but in the few he has, he will feel proud that he won it for Arsenal. He would feel proud that there were so many fans who were so happy for him when he got to lift those trophies.
At Barcelona, when he retires, he will have quite a lot of trophies,yes. Very many trophies and winner's medals. But wouldn't it strike in his mind that he absolutely had NO part in winning those for his team? Wouldn't it be stupid to look at those Many Medals but have no more memories than of sitting on the bench and cheering your winning team-mates on?
Yes,Football is a team sport, But you have to play your part in making your team win. And that is what Fabregas will do at Arsenal. And that is what he won't do at Barcelona for at least another 3-4 years, till Xavi retires.


So, I'd just like to see Arsenal donning the Red and White jersey all his life, but I wouldn't mind him going to Barcelona either since his heart lies there. He bleeds Barcelona.
And Barcelona being my second favourite team after Arsenal, I would love to own a Fabregas jersey in Barcelona colours.

And it's so nice to know that Arsene Wenger has finally decided to spend!! YAY!!
He has deals in place for Gervinho from Lille and Ricky Alvarez from Velez Sarsfield.
He is in advanced stages of bidding for Southampton youngster Alex Oxalade-Chamberlain and Gary Cahill from Bolton.
Ah, Finally the "In Wenger We Trust" motto is gonna be made into a reality.
I really do trust in Wenger this year.
GO GUNNERS!! A Gunner since I was 8!! A Gunner till I die! 

Dr.K Chaudhry: Internet Sensation Or In-Joke?

I was listening to As it Happens on NPR today and there was an interview with YouTube sensation Dr. K. Chaudhry, an older gent from Delhi who has uploaded thousands of webcam videos of him singing pop songs, mostly of the American Top 40 and Bollywood kind. Dr. K has been doing this since 2007 and was inspired by a local reality show called Bathroom Singer, about the travails of ordinary people and their dreams for stardom. Dr. K, a retired family physician, budding computer programmer, astrologer and author of several medical textbooks, submitted a tape of him singing karaoke and was rejected. Unfazed, he decided to upload his first video onto YouTube and the rest is history. Two years later, his videos have been seen by 2 million people and he has a Facebook fan page.
So is this old crooner any good? Actually, he’s awful and cannot carry a tune. But, for some reason, he’s inspired hundreds, if not thousands, for his pure enthusiasm to sing. In the NPR interview, the enthusiastic doctor’s life long dream was to be popular. Just in the past month alone, he’s conducted numerous interviews in North America, including this one on G4′s Attack of the Show:

Oh my…. Um… Yeah. I kind of feel that a lot of the people who view his videos are just laughing at him, with Indian stereotypes galore.William Hung, anyone? There has been some backlash with people saying the doctor is just embarrassing himself and perpetuating a stereotype. What do I think?

As Depeche Mode says, “people are people…”  If William Hung’s dream is to dance and sing, so be it. Can’t blame the dude for pursuing his dream. I, in fact, welcome it and he was able to enter the zeitgeist (even if he ended up as a joke) and even starred in hisown movie. I don’t see other American Idols attaining this.

WHERE IS MAMA'S BOY? (2005)

Whatever you think of Dr. K Chaudhry, the guy is enjoying his life, having a grand ol’ time and is gangsta in my book: He can diagnose diseases, do open heart surgery, write textbooks, read your astrological sign and is an Internet singing sensation? If I were him, I’d be knee deep in poon. You go, Dr. K!!!!

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Why Beckham Deserves To Win The 2011 Golden Foot

For all the celebrity and fortune he enjoys,David Beckham epitomises football's greatest values and is why he deserves to be awarded the Golden Foot for 2011.

This year's nominees for the career achievement trophy have been released, with some of the game's modern day greats among the names under consideration:

David Beckham (LA Galaxy, England),Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, Italy), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid, Spain),Didier Drogba (Chelsea, Ivory Coast), Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan, Cameroon), Ryan Giggs(Manchester United, Wales), Carles Puyol (Barcelona, Spain), Raúl González Blanco (Real Madrid, Spain), Xavi Hernández (Barcelona, Spain), Javier Zanetti (Inter Milan, Argentina).

All would be commendable winners and deserve their immortality in the 'Champions Promenade' on Monaco's 'Walk of Fame'. But at this time, and at this stage in his career, Beckham stands out as the most worthy.

The Los Angeles Galaxy star has reached the very pinnacle of his sport not through natural gifts, but from sheer hard work and endeavour.

He's no gazelle like Ryan Giggs, or physical powerhouse like Didier Drogba.

Instead, Beckham has built his career on his famous free-kick taking, his wonderful range of passing and his gut-busting stamina - all honed hour-after-hour, day-after-day on the training pitches of Manchester United's Carrington complex.

His career has been a triumph of determination over adversity.

The highs and lows with England are well documented. His dismissal against Argentina in France 98 made Beckham a national pariah, but he never hid upon his return toManchester United the following season. Indeed, he put to bed that infamous episode with Diego Simeone by dumping Argentina out of the World Cup four years later - and his free-kick against Greece to reach the Far East tournament is now the stuff of legend. Later dumped by Steve McClaren, only to be recalled, Beckham would have played in last year's World Cup if not for injury.

At United he was part of the iconic Treble team - but for me, his greatest triumph was the Liga title won in his final season at Real Madrid. Shunned by Fabio Capello, told to train with the kids at the Castilla, Beckham never dropped his head or threw a strop.

Instead, he kept his professionalism. He kept fighting. And not only - through sheer force of will - broke back into the Real first team, but inspired his teammates to an amazing championship victory.

Again, from being a pariah - through no deliberate act of his own - Beckham was a hero and such was the emotion he generated from Real fans, the board made every attempt to buy him back from LA Galaxy in 2007.

Even his time at AC Milan was typical Beckham. The cynics in the Italian press met the announcement that Beckham was moving to Milan mockingly, we had whispers from inside the squad also questioning the deal. But within days of joining his new teammates, he had wowed the medical staff with his fitness and won over the players with his ability.

Like with Real, such was Beckham's impact, Milan attempted to buy him from LA Galaxy. The Americans refused to do business, but Milan still moved heaven and earth to make sure he returned for a similar spell the following season.

That's Beckham. In terms of his football, nothing has ever been handed to him. Even going right back to 1993 and England's U21 European Championship victory, Beckham was overlooked for the likes of Gary Neville, Sol Campbell, Nicky Butt and Robbie Fowler.

Instead of sulking, he hit the training pitch, worked harder than ever before - and it's that value of achievement through sheer hard work and dedication which makes football the greatest sport in the world - and why David Beckham deserves to be the 2011 Golden Foot winner.