A person who truly Inspires me

Internet is offering a lot of opputunities to spend quality time and learn good things in life , sites like youtube,orkut,yahoo groups and others are helping ppl get to know each other well abt whats keeping them to tick each day off.i am really fascinated by the values of a person named as Mr.Micheal Moore .Micheal moore is a documentary film maker usually associates his documentaries with a lot of schisms and rebukes the Bush family for their undoings .He became famous for his work on the gulf war under the senior Mr.Bush adminsitration .

But of late his work has been nothing less than classical and marvellous which was just endorsed as his movie Farenheit 9/11 won him an academy award .the movie revealed abt the darker side of the current US president George W .Bush .Like when the 9/11 attack took place not even the former president his father senior bush was allowed to take off in his charter flight bcoz of security restrictions but secretly Bin ladens relatives were allowed to flee US into saudi . Also that night the saudi ambassador to US who is a prince and has heavy investments Bush's oil company was allowed to go outside the US but not anyone else where allowed.Its true,but quite startling facts!!!

There are lots of fantastic videos of him in youtube and is an absolute treat to watch .the best incident that i loved in his documentary was abt the High rise in the cost of medical treatment in the US and as to How patients are first touched by the doctors after consulting with their Insurance agents (like a middle man) who would then approve partial or full treatment .

So what happened was Micheal Moore hit upon a young boy who was diagnosed with diabetes(a severe one) and his doctors had advised him to undergo transplants of his pancreas and kidney to further his life . So when the doctor spoke to the insurance agents of the kid ,the insurance agent said that they would sponsor only for his kidney transplant and not for his pancreas transplant.As u should know that for the kidney to function , pancreas are very vital and so the doctors had asked the kid to get money for the pancreas transplant and unfortunately his family couldn't afford the cost of the operation .The Boy was nearing his death slowly and with this situation at hand ,Micheal Moore stepped in .Now for information,American Laws clearly state that every company should always work to ensure that the investors should be benefited by investing in their companies .SO the companies should always record profits and so there was nothing wrong on the insurance company's part . Micheal moore tried talking to the officals but to no avail . Finally his team decided to bring a coffin along with the Undertaker and performed the Last rites of the kid while he was alive in the backyards of the Insurance company's headquarters on National tv . With such embarrasment at stake the kid was sponsored the cost of operation for the pancrea transplant as well by the company in a record 10 mins and the boy was saved!!!What followed this is his new movie named as "SICKO" which is creating Box-office records in the US exposing the Bush administrations pathetic functioning!!!i would recommend every body to watch his documentaries on you tube and also his outburst on CNN at Wolf Blitzerg and his colleague Dr.Sanjay gupta,chk it out!!!

chk this link after watching the videos :- http://www.michaelmoore.com/index.php

I remember 7/11/06,that dreaded day of our lives!!!

Many in mumbai r mourning that dreaded day on 7/11/06(mm/dd/yy)when a few minutes changed the lives of some forever while the others shrugged off these activities and cheered on saying mumbai's spirit is gr8 and blah...blah.Frankly that some other's r the govt both the central and the state .Nothing has changed in mumbai after that incident ,absolutely nothing!!!we still travel the same way that we did prior to the accident .

for those of my visitors who dont know abt mumbai's rail system ,here r some of the facts abt it .Mumbai is a huge island city whose life line is the rail n/w which reduces the time of travel from one part of the city to other drastically .mumbai is divided into central railway,western railway and the harbour line .harbour line is a bit peaceful of all the three .

11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings

Confirmed casualties Train Blast location Carriage type Time (IST)
Travelling north
from Churchgate Khar Road - Santacruz First Class 18:24

17:50 Fast Local
Churchgate-Borivali Bandra - Khar Road First Class 18:24

17:37 Slow Local
Churchgate-Borivali Jogeshwari (PF #1) First Class 18:25

17:54 Fast Local
Churchgate-Borivali Mahim Junction (PF #3) First Class 18:26

Travelling north
from Churchgate Mira Road - Bhayandar First Class 18:29

17:57 Fast Local
Churchgate-Virar Matunga Road - Mahim First Class 18:30
junction
17:37 Fast Local
Churchgate-Virar Borivali (PF #4)1 First Class 18:35

Total 11 minutes 209(dead) 714(injured)

note : 1 means One bomb exploded at this location, but another one was found by police and defused.[3]ALL BOMBS TOOK OFF IN THE SUBURBS OF WESTERN RAILWAY!!!

the incident that i could relate was that of my uncle who frequents by the 18.35 fast local churchgate-virar .that day the train was as usual jam packed .people who r little financially well-off do the smart thing of travelling by first class .my uncle that day missed boarding the train in his usual ist class compartment towards the starting row of the train as it took him little more time to pay the auto fare so he ran and entered the first class at tthe back which usually has two first class compartments .luck as it was on his side, the people were welcomed with a loud sound the moment train entered borivali station and there was a huge black cloud that engulfed the air .immediately everyone jumped off the train and ran outwards towards the road while some had the audacity to go and try to rescue ppl without caring for their lives .i again say that it requires guts to do that and ppl did that .hats off to them!!!my uncle suffered temporary loss of auditory sense due to the sound .his fear was his wife who is paralysed and wondered all the way back amidst chaos that what would have happened to her if he had died in that terror attack .his thoughts then ran across to his daughter who travels in the same train at the same time while he was on his way back home .fortunately for him ,his prayers were answered as he returned home the door was opened by his daughter who greeted him with a smile and the two shared hug and confined themselves to their home that day . his daughter had returned back home early that day as she felt feverish and uneasy at work.

My dad who frequents by the central railway fortunately was safe for us and we were happy .but becoz of the scale of the distance in which the city is seperated it was rather difficult for us to share the feelings of my uncle .but the images that tv cameras left in us still sends a fear in my spine and i still look out for some abandoned bag in the compartment .

As for the govt,well they r not equipped at all to handle such crowd .i think they just cannot handle it .the reason is pretty fair as i see it,mumbai a city in maharashtra is surounded by gujarat,chattisgarh,UP,karnataka,andhra and goa .western railway plies to mostly border areas of gujarat .gujarati traders visit mumbai everyday and travel back home,bihari migrants constitute the labourers .when u have such states which is least among the oppurtunities provided for the ppl then they ought to migrate to mumbai coz it is one city which speaks the national language unlike chennai,vizag,bangalore .bangalore i understand is attracting heck of a lot crowds for IT and is faced with admin crisis like water shortage and traffic jams etc .the solution is to decongest cities big time!!!if the CM asks for quota on no.of migrants into the cities then he gets a whip as they would loose out on votes from such ppl .it is surely a problem issue for the centre but i wonder if they consider it as a problem???

Rainy season officially takes off !!!

Yesterday folks in mumbai experienced the first heavy showers of the season ,it was truly unbelievable with water seeping through the closed window panes and winds howling and gushing with a constant feeling that made me feel our neighbor was in arm's with his wife . it was a big relief after a scorching summer season .

But just in 24 hrs time the economic hub of India was paralyzed and was cut from the rest of the cuntry and more importantly as usual the ppl living in different suburbs of the city were stranded on roads!!!Funny incident that came out of this was the 500 ppl who had gone to a famous theme park in mumbai named as ESSEL WORLD were left behind in the theme park coz it was too dangerous for the ferry service to return back from the city to pick them up !!! wow,i wish i had been there with my loved one then ask why , coz it would have been a ball of time (ahem...) though with increased political interference there is some kind of new policing called as MORAL POLICING so i therefore erase any such creative thoughts .well such creative thoughts do tend to arise due to rains!!!

No but seriously,i just feel pity for those who have been stranded on road's or their home's flooded coz there is tremendous amount of revenue being generated by the city thru it's high profle residents (like Anil & mukesh bhai,India's richest brother's ,amitabh bachan - biggest tax payer of our country, then u have shahrukh,godrej,bajaj,piramal's just to name a few) and yet the govt cant find a solution to the city's outstanding problem .

actually i analyzed the issue and it does not require Einstein's brain to know that Kurla which connects central line to the harbour line is a low lying area and if it's drainage is upgraded then half of the issue is resolved . Besides there is King circle,sion and parel mumbai's very famous low lying area's which have a history of flooding and this year it is no different .

But the problem is not that easy to solve coz these r the main inhibitors of slum's in the city and when u have million's living here and protesting and obstructing development,then i dont think any govt would be able to solve this problem .all i would say is it is going be to be another tough rainy season for all mumbaikar's !!!Enjoy

SIVAJI-THE BOSS

After several years a movie that interested my parents to watch was sivaji and boy they forced me to buy the tickets . the weekend shows were housefull surprisingly being in mumbai .

went for the first show on monday and the the whole sound effects of adlabs theatre was awesome .the first scene with people trying to push the police was just breathtaking . And then when the movie took off ,i and my parents loved every minute which passed by . the dance sequences were breathtaking and i felt i was dancing with shreya(the lead female)!!! if rajni is the hottest star on indian soil then shreya is hotter than him!!! vivek's comedy with rajni was too gud and the first half ,i think was dominated by him .we found the first half leaving us wanting for more coz we didnt get even a trailor of rajni of the past in the first half .the first half ended with rajni promising to display his angry side in him!!!

This left many enthusiasts to come out of the loo in a hurry and i guess thats expected after his punch dialogue finish of the first .


The second half was damn interesting and it was vintage rajni at his best!!!
there were better fight sequences,fun alongside vivek and scenes with shreya was just too gud .though some of the scenes r not possible in the real world, it was still accepted coz it was after all a rajni movie .the first time i felt the villain was not treated cheaply and he was not thrown out easily .the messages that were to be conveyed was delivered sweetly .

I cried when he was made to hit by the constables and they refused to do it bcoz of his generous work.also loved the scene when i thought the movie would end with rajni dying but the manner in which he gets rescued was special .and the last scene his scene when he comes out of the chopper with total bald look just pumped in the adrenaline........man this guy is the bosssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

loved the movie watching in adlabs and hoping to see it once more.

Analysis Through Paralysis!!!!!!!!

i am talking about Indian cricket here .i have been closely following all the drama associated with Indian cricket in this world cup and i m glad that india was knocked out of the world cup in the way it happened. All right,so BCCI is being lead well by Mr.Pawar who has appreciated the efforts of Greg chappell and is planning to offer him a post in the NCA,banglore .from news excerpts this is what i read abt Greg chappell.

1> Greg chappell is grand son of Victor Richardson,the former aussie captain who had opposed Sir Donald Bradman(who played till 40)

2>Greg chappell is the brother of Ian chappell who was the most Independent of captains who led the rebel aussie side against Bradman's schism(Bradman was national selector) for kerry packer's World series .

i believe Greg chappell is a man of his words untill u let him be on his own and not interfere in his decisions .Greg had a master plan of bringing the best of aussie cricket to the men in blue .he thought of bringing that through saurav but he had major disagreements and then with rahul who i believe is still a supporter of Greg but for sachin .

Now what is sachin's problem?eh! it suprises me that how a batsman who is learning the game of playing and winning cricket decides what is best for him and makes that happen without realizing it is bothering others and does not realize the importance of following the orders of captain & coach and gets called as "The God". All right,i do agree that he is a gentleman and he never displeases anybody,his commitment cannot be questioned and blah blah... But this is what i think of Sachin( (You) "i m talking to sachin with lot of anger,phew!"):

You were out of cricket for several days due to tennis elbow ,u forced ur self into the team for the malaysia series against australia & windies u failed there(India didnt make to finals),Champions Trophy,India; U failed there(India didnt reach Finals), South africa Tour;U failed there(India lost miserably) World cup;U failed there( and India lost miserably).

Then tell me Sachin why shouldnt a coach of that stature question your commitment to the game of cricket .I think Greg should stay and Sachin,saurav,sehwag all of the three need to go .

A person of greg chappell's stature cannot change the behaviour of the team then i dont think there is any body in the world who could change team India .The fact that he does not want to renew his contract shows his disgust for the system of Indian cricket and i dont think he would take up the job at NCA,bangalore.

lets hope!!

well it has been a long time since i last posted and i needed to get into the practice of writing something which is worth reading . i have been watching news stories on TV where the upcoming budget is eagerly awaited and talks are also around as to how our finance minister(India) is going to curb the soaring inflation rates which is on a record 25 week high!!!. well i am not too sure to bet abt budget and how his decisions are going to change our lives but i always get angry with the developmental plans which governments plan.these are my views about them as of today:


1>DELHI is a city(read it as downtown and monumental areas) with illegal structures ,people live lives without paying house rent,use water resources ,electricity bills etc and the delhi govt is planning to stop them(well i have been hearing them say these words from as long as they took over the govt)HOW???oh not by the ceiling act(i.e to destroy and shut the illegal property)but by paying for them without kicking them out???well they were kicking them out for the last 6 months but not now coz UP is going to polls and they are going to terminate them .with all this in hindsight they have grand plans of hosting DELHI COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010 . i do know that running a govt is not anybody's cup of tea but when the SupremeCourt says kicking them out is the solution then u better follow it,instead u use ur smartness and bring on your own plans and jeopardise or country's image in front of the world .well i dont have much to say abt this any more .delhi our capital city is unorganised yet after 60 yrs of Independence!!well solution is people in the ministries need lessons in Urban planning or use your common sense .



2>when i see the news channels make our sucess stories out loud and clear on TV,i feel proud abt it ,At the same time i realise that certain things which are happening in our country currently Land acquisitions,Illegal encroachements,take over of farm land without compensation etc are not given the magnitude of attention which is needed .i feel helpless as i watch these sad things unfold . i can vouch for what i am saying is this ,for any country to succeed a long distance ur people need to be taken care off well which i suppose happens big time in the United States .what i am saying is this "There is no point in giving us gold when we are satisfied with silver but there is point in giving them basic rights(food,land,shelter,clothing,education) when they are trying for their ends need".

we have got the little that we want EDUCATION,good parents etc .a serious effort needs to go into make sure that these things happen irrespective of which govt comes to power .As of today , i dont think this happens or is happening to my knowledge .a repeat telecast of srinivasan jain's award winning show abt farmer suicide was shown on NDTV which won him second prize in some big festival in NY .i would like to congratulate him for the award and for his efforts .he showed us that the picture is just too bleak and sad in villages .

well i cut it here now, but our developments what we are making a fuss about is to only concerned with 30-35% living in cities in India and some million NRI's and the investors . we will be developed untill and unless the remaining 60% become what we are today(or i am) till 2020 .lets hope!!

Mumbai Hopes of Shangai!!give me a Break

It was a bright thursday morning,i was little happy since there is no college today . why? bcoz mumbai is going to BMC polls .If we vote today in numbers it is going to make sure we are going to pick the best corporator to run the BMC(Brihan mumbai municipal corporation) .all the news channels have elite panels advicing the youth of this city to go out there and vote .while i sip my coffee in the morning reading the newspapers, i m setting up my mind. alright cowboy,u gotta make a difference to ur city .how do u do it??go out there and vote .thats it!!yeah thats it. okay now i am going to vote and i am serious about it .alright before i step out of my house,i just tried checkin out what the news channels are saying .

NEWSFLASH:-Governor of Mharashtra S.M KRISHNA's name is not listed in the BMC voter's list .ROADBLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Okay now,i was wondering all the time in the morning that i need to stand in the queue there and vote for the best party .thats it as easy as that .But it aint that easy and they dont want it to be easy for anybody .

Here we go this is India and i was wondering, if it was that easy for a local to vote and create a difference to the society .My mind immediately recalled that i had filled up the form for the voters ID card the year i turned 18 and i am yet to recieve it .

so i dont get to vote inspite of living my entire life in this city.what difference am i going to make!!the matter to laugh about here is that even the top people of the state like governor S.M.Krishna cant find his name in the voters list after almost his tenure coming to an end , Preity Zinta with a broom in her hand saying,Go and vote on the cover of Mumbai mirror newspaper(waste of her effort to write an editorial to encourage the youth) .

why do these people waste precious air time and newslines of papers before checking the basics right .its so pathetic,i am disgusted and feel sorry to say i dont care.

hey,dont blame the youth when there is going to be a hung assembly for being indifferent .i sincerely wanted raj thackeray to win this polls but i am wondering if it is possible . meanwhile i am going to figure out if there is still a chance to vote without a voters id(we wont let our city and country down that easily!!)god bless this beautiful city and its ppl!!Amen