Trek-to-KP.

Night 1.

• Early start to our man’s place.
• Chronic hunting for footwear.
• Decision to abandon excess medical paraphernalia.

Of Languages and Flames.

Provocation Abstract: 5 Years here, and can’t manage a fluent line in KannaDa yet.

Me: Basically, all that people require, more often than not is just a compulsion, Which is what the Tams create ever so well.

Her: I’m completely against compulsions. If you find something interesting enough you will pick it up.
And some people just don’t have the flair to pick languages up.

Me: Lest there be some compulsion compulsive enough, why will people even make an effort to blend with local cultures, languages et al? The default tendency for people is to continue to remain inert, lethargic and glued to their stable octet shells.
The Marwaris and the like wouldn’t be as linguistically dexterous if not for their compulsions.

And what is the ultimate benefit?

• If there can be less hatred and more seamless national integrity, why not?
• The world is going multilingual, for people have come to accept the shortcomings of the endevor to bring in a de-facto linguistic standard. English can do the job only to an extent; and even to actually take English to the world, it’s but inevitable that the medium to learn English should again be in a native language!
• How insanely hypocritical would it be in this age of multilinguality (The web for instance, where everybody’s opting for l10n, i18n and multilinguality) to have a mental block against local cultures and languages? especially in a place like India where there ‘re diversities galore. You’d almost be as much a unidimensional, totalitarian bigot as he who needs to pray to(ward) only one direction, one place, one book, one god and one …..
• Picking up a language hardly hurts. It can help, on the contrary. Why not? Isn’t it a moral responsibility towards the the people, culture that’s been receptive to you?
• This has by far been the only reason for the dominance of Dravidian Chauvinism and nationalism down here in the south. Hindi imposition, chauvinism does not work here.
• Typically, in the Indian context, you ‘ve two solutions out. Either that everybody learns all the languages of the state (atleast the 24(?)) or that migrants make it a point to blend with regional cultures, languages and the like.
• The result: I guess you’d have less racist hatred, less northie vs southie flames, lesser aryan vs dravidian flames and less mutual hatred in general. The more viable option out, ofcourse.
• The Tams have done this, but they ‘ve meted out plain old hostility to the immigrants. Not a very pleasant proposition
• The Kannadigas have miserably failed, as I guess have the Marathis. There’s only frustration brewing up under the covers though.
• Some people never freaking get the point.
• Languages are learnt. They needn’t be taught. Compulsions and Vested interests are normally requisites.
• If you ‘re going to make a life out here and if you ‘ve issues against respecting the language, you ‘re a plain bigot.
• One More Inference: It’s the speakers for the most part that actually sustain the language. The movies, The Literature certainly aid, help in the process…But really it’s a catch 22 here..and in an obscure kind of way, The movies, The literature and the like are primarily subsidiary inspirations rather than the perpetrators of mainstream linguistic  sustainance.

She: agrees but disagrees.

After nearly a month and a half.

• Getting done with the torture. Well… DSP would do good to bestow upon me a graceful forty. [ 26th Dec - 7th Jan ]
• I did something pretty wack on Dec 22nd.
• Preceded by my niece’s birthday too. She turned one! (Dec 21st)
• In-turn, Preceded by an astro trip to H’Halli [ Dec 17th, was it? ]
• Working all through the period. That’s a bit of a first. Atleast, I started with the cramming early enough to fit all the priorities in. I manage to flatter myself with my time-management skills. Only that my sleep schedules complain.
• BTW, Did I mention about the Hampi trip on the 8th of Dec? My Event-Management skills deserve some flattery too. I’d have devoured any that came my way. Really, it indeed was a huge sigh of relief that all the people managed it into the bus and out of it.
• This stupid fuck (intentional obscurity) has fiddled away with the finances. ‘least he could ‘ve told me about it. Well.. understandable, but nonetheless..very lame and unethical.
• This stupid fuck (more intentional obscurity) created a semi-furore by putting a mail to a group that he shouldn’t have. I sometimes wonder if he’s perspicaciously cunning or plain retarded. Anyway, I guess we did calm the equation down
• These stupid fucks really fiddled around with my Bombay-visit schedule. Screwed my happiness for a while. Still owe me 20k too. Rather disappointed that I could ‘ve done away with a more constructive assignment (quite a bit of remuneration too, for that matter) had they been clear about.
• Doing OS, Philanthropic work for a while.
• This guy’s work never ceases to get over. It’s been on since last March! Honestly getting unproductive and annoying at times.. But then I love him far too much to give haath.
• Chronic Kammanahalli-Meetups.
• Elation over Modi-Victory. Flamewars with AR and AC.
• Benazir died. Rendered me honestly gloomy. But wtf? Will on the Party-chairmanship? God, the kid is 19. let him be in peace. Really.. these families do have something about them. I’m just glad that I’m not as accursed.
• The Coorg-KP trip mid-month. Best times in a while, except for the invertebrating weights and this stupid fuck (!) who threw up nearly one full day.
• Twenty Finally. Teen no more.
• New work at hand, by next week.
• Sweet victory at Perth.
• Life’s hectic.

For nobody cares,

1. Trip to Om shanti dhama. Some ethnic vedic gurukula on the outskirts of B’lore, off kanakapura. The amazing waters of Kaveri too. The splash was the best thing about the whole exercise, undoubtedly. The skies weren’t all that bad, The food was par excellence (I managed a healthy appetite. First in a long time). The ride to the place wasn’t particularly great. The Masala dosas at Kanakpura beat it all.
2. The craziness continues. No stopping us, eh?!
3. Work, Lots of it. PG takes half my day off. The rest doesn’t fare all that lightly either. The Cake app is a tougher cookie than I thought it was.
4. Got a day for myself sometime. Set the Bangalore-blog thingy up. I don’t see it making great progress, But a decent experiment all the same.
5. Can’t wait for the Hampi trip.
6. Learning a lot of new stuff, Much in the J2EE, EJB scheme of things.
7. Doing completely wack things on Jobless sundays.
8. Pondering preposterous ideas on the career front.

Uh..Work Haunts

Far too many deadlines et al..

• The trekking guy’s site.. Been on for six whole months, Done 2 re-makeovers and what not.. The Data entry does not proceed.. Well, Not my problem though..That I’m ready to give him anything from a CSV import unto the db unto a field formatted entry form and yet there’s been an eternity of delay trying to find the right persons to do it..
  Uh..I got this guy I know to do it, But I’m afraid its hardly par mediocrity for that matter… Good labour comes at a far higher price.. and people like I are hard to find :))
• The Animal NGO ? Snail’s pace..duhh.. It’s not my fault.
• That PMS of mine… Its coming up too.. Plenty o’ bugfixing on… I wish I had tried it with CakePHP after all..
• The womens social networking site.. The rest is about ready..I reckon they’ll ask for a pink theme any moment.
• The big integration… is running into a lot of problems..G2 is a huge problem, basically.
• Uh..somebody asked me to help me out..The poor server was churning out pages in 4 minutes time doing a poultry 400Queries/page.. Always the case with borrowed code.
• One more AJAX result table with a user authentication for an arbitrary person.. Not too bad, this.
• Might be doing National Clg, B’gudi’s site too ?…Although I’m not sure whether they want me to.

Deserves teh slashdotting.

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

UNARGUABLY, the MOST retarded article ever in the history of the internet. Just happened to stumble across it.. and OMG it drove me berserk with laughter !

And no, it’s not meant to be funny ! Other articles by the same person are pretty much serious in context !

ah. The lethargy.

I’ll admit I’ve had my share of work.

1. Random Women’s Social networking site with Drupal.
2. Random Xoops customization for random social club site.
3. Random AJAX Conferencing ware. In collaboration with 5 other delinquents.
4. Random Drupal Crap - Node specific Node.tpl.php ($node->links) links.
5. More random Drupal work for a Hospital site I took up
6. Further random Drupal for a friend’s trekking and adventuring related site. possible e-commerce implementation for a good chunk of it. More community stuff, etc.
7. Random Joomla templating project thats getting fuxorized hook, line and sinker.
8. an animal-care NGO perhaps.

That apart, here’s what my dashboard quotes.

Your Drafts: 150 Years in memory., aavaraNa - The revealation.

Had intentions to write verbose articles about the 150th year anniversary of the 1857 war of Independence & S L Bhyrappa’s aavaraNa. They still remain as half completed drafts.
Just came across a fitting review in any case. Go here

Other plans include a satirical critique of them paki’s defamatory allegation against sam manekshaw.

Shalt do them sometime. My opinion matters to me, after all.