My lit'l *D*edication ! <3 :)

Please do "feel" this video-song...(frem West-Life !)
It's a (D/M)edication fer my Lovely Loving Ones ! In fact, it is...frem every loved one to their loving one(s)..! 


I feel, & I hope the lyrics say it oLL..!! :)
  
{You Raise Me Up. . .}


When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;

Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up: To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up: To more than I can be.

There is no life - no life without its hunger;
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
But when you come and I am filled with wonder,
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up: To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up: To more than I can be...!

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Lots of LOVE & Warm regards,
i-moRon -- Rags..!



Planet Earth. . .!!
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And now, fer a touching cartoon frem "Raising Duncan" by a Mr.Chris Browne


[Click on it...to read it properly..!]

And YES ! 
Still looking fer the SONG ? :)


Click this link : You Raise me... !! 

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Women & the Universe -- sequel..! :)

Parallels between Women and the Universe...!?!

Today my dear friend Pavan was asking me about my views on Parallel Universes...! I shrugged my shoulders & said it's not a good scientific theory, since nothing about it can be easily proved/disproved by means of simple experiments--the hallmarks of a sound scientific theory. 

But thanks to his questions...i-Moron (That, would be the title of my auto-bio-graphy!! :P) suddenly remembered about my idea of writing a sequel to my previous article...& this time...list out the "parallels" of our Universe w.r.t. Women..!! :))

Without much ado...here we go..! :)

• Both are structures of incredible, infinite complexity...! 
• Both are the very source(s) of ALL Life...& have captured the imagination (& lives too..!! :( :) ) of we-men..!! ;) :)
• Both are immensely mysterious; with nobody yet able to fathom the secrets they harbour...from Einstein to Freud..! Nobody ever will too..! :)
• If provided the right kind of conditions, both are capable of giving birth/rise to bright new stars...!! :)
• Despite their external appearance of great serenity & stability, both are..in fact, seething cauldrons of chaos & confusion within..! In deed, it is a miracle that despite such complexity inside, they appear to be pretty order-ly outside!
• Both seem to be beyond the grasp of scientific study/analysis! Only mystics, poets & mad-men seem to be able to "see" their true-nature. As fer normal sane men, if/when they try to do it, they too end up as mystics, poets or made-men..! :)

Again no offence meant ...please..!! :) 

Hope you liked it..& it evokes more parallels between the two..?!?
I welcome you to share them then. Hmmm... :)

Anyway, it is easier to observe women than to study we-men. Because then I would be observing frem  the outside.

Of-course, it is an altogether different challenge/exercise to meditate on our own selves....to glance within..! That experience...is...simply Beyond All Wor(l)ds ...!! :)

Hmmmm...Take care then...& please keep smiling!

Love & Best Wishes,

The moRon in rags,

Planet Earth

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And here's something frem Schulz's Peanuts to make you Smile...;) :)

[Click on the pic to be able to read properly]

Women and the Universe ! :)

Relationship between Cosmetics and the Universe...?


Just notice this amazing thing :


...That the words cosmetics & cosmos (=the Universe)..both share a common Greek-root viz., κόσμος ("cosmos" spelled in Greek), which means "order-ly place".


The ancient Greeks believed that our Universe, or the "cosmos" as they called it, was a very order-ly, well-planned system with all the celestial bodies arranged in a great harmony. The term "cosmos" thus carried the connotation that was the exact opposite of "chaos", a state of sheer dis-order.


Well...now, it's easy to see what people...especially women...try to attain via their slew of cosmetic-products...!! :P . . .An attempt to mask the underlying chaos...with a layer of cosmos...!!?!? ;)) [No offence meant please..!! :) ]


Today all of a sudden, I got reminded of this observation twice...once in the office & once now...at home...& hence, I decided to share it before I go.


Hope you enjoyed it pa..? :)


Hmmmm...Take care...n Please Smile; and Keep Smiling...


Love & Best Wishes oLL-ways,

The chaos & cosmos in rags,
Planet Earth
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And here's something H(e)art-Warming to make you Smile...(or Sigh..!? ;) )
(courtesy "BC" by Johny Hart)

Purr-fect TEN !

Last month, it was just 2 days to my birth-day, a bleak Sunday. 


But still, stubborn and crazy as always, I was coming to the office, gasping  fer a place to stand in a jam-packed public bus by which I normally commute. 


Contradictory though it may appear, I was going to the office because I was feeling lonely, though I would be all alone in the office fer sure...!
[ Even when not alone, we sometimes feel lonely...and even when alone, we sometimes do not feel lonely...don't we..?? ]


And in the mêlée, I saw a poor old man struggling to stand amongst us boys & men in the bus. I silently took note of this, & at the next stop, although I jostled and managed to get an empty seat, I motioned to the old man to come sit there. 


His wrinkled eyes smiled a smile of gratitude, & he slowly made way & sat down grimacing with an expression of both relief & pain in the seat near me. He patted me & offered to take my bag, which I was juggling along with my jacket that I carry in case it would rain, but is too hot & humid to wear otherwise. But I politely refused saying "Parvaagilla Sir!'  [Kannada fer "It's ok, Sir!"]


Soon, the conductor of the bus elbowed his way into the dense jungle of people & came to me asking to show my ticket/pass...


I somehow managed to produce a Rs.10/- note frem my pocket & said "Town-Hall"...
I got the ticket, & soon enough, the passenger next to the old man got up to alight the bus.


The old man promptly 'reserved' the window seat fer me & welcomed me with a smile :)
I too smiled & sat down, & proceeded to look at the ticket, as is my usual wont...(to check if there are any Prime numbers...!!)...


And what I saw...made me almost shriek with delight...! :)


I quickly marked the ticket-number & wrote something...(the old man who was now looking on was quite amused..! )...& as for me, I just couldn't wait till I shared this with my friends...!!


I could not help but smile to my-self that SUCH a co-incidence could happen, & HOW happy i felt that I was able to recognize the pattern of numbers which lay smiling at me...!!
I could not breathe easy...I could not eat a proper lunch also that day...till I had captured a snap of it.


A day after my birthday(yes, I skipped office on Monday...due to ill-health...was feeling too lone-ly and bored...crazy me..!)...i.e., on Tuesday, I could not help but where I pestered ALL my hapless colleagues to please take a look at the ticket.


Finally, after our afternoon meeting that day, I could no longer contain my excitement.


I pleaded with my dear friend Venkat Karthik, an avid Apple fan/user, to please get me a snapshot of this ticket, before it gets lost. He kindly obliged & mailed me the image a couple of days later. 


Check out my ticket...(Thanks to Venkat's brand-new Apple i-Phone 4 ! )

Below, is the pattern which made me scribble what i did on the ticket...the ticket number, as it had turned out...has/had ALL the leading digits in the exact same sequence as 10! 

(10-factorial,  not 10 followed by an exclamation-sign(!) of which i bet I'm one of the heaviest users..!! ;) ), which is defined as the product of all natural numbers from 1 till 10

i.e., 10! = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x ...9 x 10

    10! =  3 628 800

Now, let me tell you what made this ticket  SO special fer me..!

• The price fer it = Rs.10/- .That's the exact fare frem Srinivasanagar till Town-Hall, Bangalore.
• The Value being 10! (missing the last zero of-course..). The probability of that is 1 in 10^6, or in plain English, 'one in Million' literally & mathematically as well..!! :) Just imagine, in that tightly packed bus, with so many people buying tickets, even if another person had got a ticket before me or had not got one, then I would have missed out ON this purr-tick-ular number ! It makes me feel thrilled to simply contemplate it backwards...! Phew !  :)
• More over, I had NO need to go to the office on a fine Sunday...! Consider the date I got this gift of a ticket! As I mentioned, I got it 2 days before my birth-day, (October-12)...which makes the date-- the 10'th...!! Yes, and that too in the 10'th month(October)...totally, 10/10/10...!  :)

All in All, it was a perfect TEN-ner indeed...!! :)


But I admit I am not at all happy about the formatting of this article--it deserves much better. 


I promise to do something (special) fer it soon..! :)


Fer now, hope this made you remember something..ANYthing...that made you feel Special & Loved...!?!?
No..?? 
HOW & WHY else, do you think you're reading this article..!?! :)


It's because YOU are special indeed fer me...!!..


Thanks pa...fer...always (g)Listening to me... ;):)


Are(n't) YoU.???


Lots of Love & Best wishes,
The moron in rags
Planet Earth
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For the usual dose of  'Comic' -relief...click on the image below ! :)
(Hope you get the nice joke in this..! :) Courtesy  of dear Mr.Jim Davis :))

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Baffling Beauty

Bamboo-zled..! <3


I won't say much.
I don't have to.
I...can't actually. 


Just click on the below image...read, imagine & wonder...!


No one knows, how these plants communicate to each other...truly baffling, isn't it..?


Love,
the moron in rags
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Silent Spectator..

Well, was resting...watched the Dasara proceedings on TV...while having Mom-made stuff at home...

Now, mommy got some leaves of the "bunny" tree--and the 4 of us @ home exchanged "GOLD"---that's how the leaves are supposed to be treated/referred

It wud've been great fun if i was in my village...with tiny gals also draped in Sarees ( & if even younger & smaller...a towel of their farmer-papa's acting as one..! ;-) Aww... )...shyly coming over to exchange these leaves..! :)

I fer one...was smiling HOW it took 6 exchanges among we 4...since it is 4-C-2...LOL..! :)

[Mom did say---"HEY Mr..where are you LOST..?? What u worried bout..?? Huh..?" ]

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Oh My! "Blind" Math against "Common-sense"..! :P

Me went out n told Mom & she vehemently said it takes only 4 exchanges...

Me explained to her animated-ly & then ran to my room & produced the following programmatically (fer my satisfaction..! ):

{{Pappa, Mommy}, {Pappa, Sis}, {Pappa, meMoron}, 

{Mommy, Sis}, {Mommy, meMoron}, {Sis, meMoron}}

That is, I created a list of ALL 4 of us...& then generated ALL Permutations of exactly 2 elements, & removed "duplicates"...thanks to the power & compact-ness of Functional Programming...! :)

Phew !! I am a bit dizzy & she got me doubting fer a moment..!

Scepticism !! 

And i gladly welcome it..! :)

{That's why, I am sometimes able to convince my Mommy-dear about the futility & stupidity of some of the things we do...! She is quite  receptive...to scepticism...which is the burden (& SEED !) of Science..! :) }

Lots of Love & ....nothing... :)

The moron in rags

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Fer a dose of smile & ...here's frem the genius of Jim Watterson's Garfield.. :) 

Click on it & Smile...Pleeeeeze...??? Thank YOU..! Now, stay THAT way..! :)

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