my mother

i should have written this as my first blog to
show how much I love her.
As a resident of Chennai during the fearful
Tsunami period, downpour of concern through
telephonic calls from relatives is a common thing.
I'm not yet married, so I defintely do not know how
it feels to be a parent whose children are in an area
of dire distress. within a span of 2 days, I received
4 calls from my mother asking if I was ok ...
I'm so moved by her love.
The very thought of her gives me immense strength...
and I do not know how I'll surivive if she is not there.
I have no doubt that my father and brother love me in
similar way. but I somehow feel mother's love is the
purest of all .. no strings attached .. pure unconditional
love...
I love u so much my dearest mother...

egyptian hieroglyphics

till yesterday, my idea of egyptian hieroglyphics
was that they were semigraphic in nature.. i.e.
the characters in the script represented a concept
or a word as a whole .
I was reading "The Code Book" (a history of
cryptography) and found this notion wrong.
It seems everyone believed so untill Thomas Young
(yeah !! u r right ! the double slit experiment guy from
Optics) discovered that the egyptian script is phoenetic.
But it seems Young was so fascinated by the existing idea
of it being a semigraphic script that he rejected his own
discovery as a faulty one. Later one linguist (I forgot his name)
took up where Young left and proved that egyptian script was
phoentic in nature by using a ancient tablet that had same
inscrption in egyptian and then in greek.

3 years back

On this day, 3 years back I was busy preparing for one
of my post grad math exams (I guess it is Mathematical
Modelling or Statistics .. i can't remember which)
all tension in the air ... because most of us had spent most
of our even semester preparing for GATE exam rather
than concentrating on the course work. GATE results
were due on March 31st and all the college was waiting
and expecting great results from us because of the hype we
all created in preparation. The next day's final semester exam
seemed remote and unimportant. We went through all that ..
all our classmates ... through that tension .. supporting each
other... a sense of togetherness .... I can't forget the unity
among us. Now here I'm three years older than I was then ..
typing away about what happened then .... Most of us did
not even bother to ask each other how we did the final sem
exams .. even CK, I remember was unusually quite after
any og those exams .. Those 7 days constituted the slowest
week in my life till now.. after long last March 31st did come ..
and the GATE results were to be announced in the afternoon ..
I still remember Jaya walking off after lunch to Mandir to do
meditation for some time so that he can be ready to face
whatever the result might be .. First time ever in Maths dept ..
our guys achieved what was not thought abt b4...
Jaya got All India 11th rank in GATE(Maths) and Sagar got
31st. I got 154th rank in GATE(CS), PVSS got some 50th
rank in GATE (M) .... and many other guys got good ranks
in Physics and Chemistry too.. by God's grace... we were
rejoicing the whole night ... I still remember those days with
happy tears in my eyes....

Shivrathri

Yesterday was shivraathri.
Went to Sundaram temple
in the evening and attended bhajans for
about an hour and came back. Again around
2 in the morning went for a few minutes
to the Jalakanteshwara temple within IIT
and then went to bed. Got up very late into
morning and chanted Namakam after bath.
Have to revert back to the schedule of
sleeping early and getting early.. lets see what
happens. I still fondly remember those days I
had spent in Puttaparthi during Shivraathri
when Swami would take out lingams from His
mouth.. I miss all that .. hmm

my family

Its great to have support of family in everything you do.
Tommorow is a gr8 day where I'll be able to give my MS
seminar by God's grace. and from yesterday I got calls from
my brother and sis-in-law, my parents, two of my sisters (cousins)
wishing all the best. Its a nice feeling to see so many people are
are behind you to give their shoulder.
God, thanx a lot for such a nice family.