There’s lot in a Name...

                                  Juliet : “ What's in a name? That which we call a rose
                                                 By any other name would smell as sweet."


Such a dialogue comes in well celebrated work of William Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”. Is it true? What’s not in a name? Why there is so much gaga over a name.


Recently I had a friend fathered a lovely boy. I asked him to name him “Abhimanyu”. It means someone who is intelligent and sharp minded. My logic also was about name starting with alphabet “A”. Having suffered whole of my life, for having name starting with “tail ender” alphabet “V”, the name for the newbie also explained his luxury to have things at first. Moreover Abhi would be pet name so easy to be pronounced.

But I had to face other side of the story. The name Abhiamanyu was straight away rejected coz, in Mahabharata he was killed in his puberty suggesting such a name would be inauspicious for the baby. However, this threw me into deep sea of thoughts. First of all, it was because of Arjuna’s absence Abhimanyu had to enter Chakravyuha, that too with permission from his uncle Yudhistira. Second, it’s completely ill of us to relate to a name to a mythological character. Just imagine, if a person is named “Krishna”, does his uncle be “Kamsa” ? Or if a person is “Rama” ,his father is married to three women?

What is the logic when a guy named “Ganapathy” marries some “Gauri” ? Or some lady named “Seetha” giving birth to child named “Ram” ? I remember a person whose name was “Prahlad”. Does it mean his father was Rakshas “Hiranya Kashipu” ?

All these thoughts would end me up in a rib tickling Ha ha ha ha.

Names are now meant not just for addressing persons any more. It goes beyond that. Sunil Shetty became Suniel shetty, Hari Om Rajeev Bhatia into Akshay Kumar, Yusuf Khan turned into Dilip Kumar and another Dilip Kumar was renamed to music director Allah Rakha Rahman ( AR Rahman). Someone changed their names to hide their identity or religion, someone for acknowledging their new faith, someone believe in numerology and someone for easy vocalization. Does anyone remember “Vernakula Suriya Pathapathaje Usantha Joseph ” as their name’s initials or just as “Chaaminda Vaas” the srilankan who had ousted Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar numerous times.

I don’t know how far this is true. I was told that, in Sikhism, new baby is named by the first word from the page, the Guru opens of “The Guru Grantha Sahib”. Funnily in case of Navjot singh sidhu and his wife ( who is Navjot Kaur) , the opened page was same and same word “Navjot” was referred. In another strange case, father was Brahmin and mother was a catholic Christian so their son became “ Alan Bhat”. So much constructive approach in naming was about one person who was named “Samvedan” (means sensitivity). This mentioned individual’s grand pa was “SANjeeva” , father was “VEnkatesh” and mother was “vanDANa”. The name was compounded by capitalised letters of listed names. !!

Calling names is again one more “in” thing amongst youth. In his childhood, one of my friend was big fan of the then kannada movie star Ambareesh, people used to call him Ambareesh so much so that none knew his real name. One more funny incident was, our temples used to have supervisors who were addressed as “Patali”s (traditional designation system). Naughty kids would call their sons as “Patali Putra”s. I too was addressed with an odd name “Shakti” :P ( the story is too immaturish, too shy to share here ). My principal’s initials were S.Y.K, who was always referred as (PSYCH) secretly.

Don’t you now feel that there is really something in names?

Yes, each individual wants his brand ! he wants it to be unique, un-common, stylish and powerful.So it has to start with his name. It can even make or break a person’s career. All the Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis, Khans, Kapoors or Mallyas have already carved a niche. First names are not really needed!

Here are some of my suggestions when you want to pick a name

1. Have starting letter from first 5 alphabets. This would help the child to have things falling at first place as the world is so much crazy to order alphabetically.

2. Look up for its real meaning (in popular language ), never ignore the eaning for its attractive fancy phonetics.
There was a girl named “Suvidha” ( which means facility ) !

3. Have the name short and pronunciation simple. A no no for the following
“ Ramagopalanathan subramanian Aravinda Acharya” it takes years to figure out first name.

4. See for the chosen name or its derivatives, for any derogatory/obscene/stupid meaning applicable
For example in English speaking countries, the Indian name “Hardik” is crazily laughed at.( find the reason yourselves).

5. Try to have a name which is fresh and not much heard.
Not just for his looks, his name too added to Hrithik Roshan’s star value.

Once Akbar demands to know from courtiers about most funny incident one has come across in their lives. Each courtier tells his share of incidents, anecdotes to please the emperor. But emperor looks less interested.
Now, it comes the turn of Birbal, the pet courtier of Akbar. Birbal, asks Akbar to come for a walk, in disguise. All Akbar has to do is to observe people and ask their name.

First they will encounter a beggar whose name was Lakshmi Putra ( Son of Godess of Wealth). Then they will see a person dead. Funnily the person who had died was named Amar (Eternity) and lastly they will see a blind woman whose name is “Sunayana” (Lady with beautiful eyes).

Akbar and Birbal return to palace, all laughing. !

How to be a GODMAN? *

( * applicable only in India )

Long back I had read this story in a Kannada comic book.

A thief is chased by palace guards. He keeps running, helplessly searching for shelter. It would not be feasible for him to run more and escape from guards,he feels. Settles down under a tree near by, smears mud paste on his forehead, covers his body with an orange gown,wears a fake beard and closes eyes as if he is meditating.

Guards without recognizing him, go empty handed. And here near the tree, a small group of devotees starts to offer him food, worship him. The thief starts lecturing on honesty,love and devotion. He becomes a ‘Baba’ as he saves peoples lives coming in their dreams, serving the poor,feeding hungry , speaking about love and blessing his devotees.!

Story may be very old, but it is the essence which remains fresh and globally applicable.

Cricket, Politics, Movies and Religion.

Enter any of these fields and be successful, you will get media coverage and loads of money. This is going to be the truth for centuries to come. There will be huge fan following you and your every mistake is either forgiven or neglected grossly.

Out of all the above mentioned areas, Religion is one connecting force for the rest. You want to win a match against Pakistan, then pray. You want your favoured candiadate to win , again pray. If you want to save your power seat, perform Yagya or visit temples. From shooting first scene till the time you release the movie you will keep praying to all the gods. Human beings are sinners as everyone say and to “purify” themselves they will again go for doing tough religious rituals.

You see, how powerful Religion is ? and how wide is the scopr for it?

If there is a face for Religion ? someone who can cure your chronic disease, who can get you, your lost seat? Who can save you from all the odds ? This essentially means if there is a GODMAN?

I personally, am against Anthropolatory ( Human worship, Vyakthi Pooja). Any human being is vulnerable for six proven adversaries namely Kaama,Krodha,Lobha, Madha,Moha and Matsarya (Ari shadwarga). No human being can overcome these, none can be perfect which is why I feel, any human being at the maximum could be respected but never be worshipped. I don’t belive in offering pooja to Babas,Gurus or Swamys. Moreover, its not a good idea for them to claim godmenships too.

I have somehow, for fun,listed here the qualities those can make an ordinary man into powerful Godman. A person who can not save himself from anything natural, can claim doing unnatural things, creating anything from air in the name of spirituality.

It happens only in India.

Before doing anything,change your name, whatever it be. Suresh, Ramesh, Sam, Akram or Banta singh whatever. Search from old scriptures, for Sanskritized words which relate to love or peace or harmony. Make sure it is unique and lengthy. Let the name be neutral it should not have any glimpse of religion you represent. This will make sure that you have devotees from other side of your religion. Be very cautious to chose your name. For the centuries to come you will be addressed with this name, so spend some good amount of time here.

First quality that has to be had by any “Godman” candidate is excellent oratory. Dispatching speeaches with catchy words/phrases with little sense of humor can turn anyone into an ardent devotee. So command over the language ( particularly English, as India is multi lingual nation) is very much essential. Topics for lectures usually should include love or peace, charity or fraternity or unity.

Get a theme and deliver your speeach with meaningful and crisp sentences.

Read scriptures of every religions (like story books).They will give you enough “content” to lecture.Remember interesting anecdotes and the context to use them. This usually make your so called devotees think that you know lot of things about religions. This will also make your secularist views come front ( which would fetch you some more devotees from politics at least).

As you start getting donations, don’t start your investment for personal benefits immediately. You will lose the battle soon. So first identify the critical complication around your surroundings. Chalk out a budget for that task to materialize. Usual complications include and not limited to, water problems, shelter for the non priviledged class or cleaning any infamous dirty area.

Contacts are very important. You should be very wise enough to develop relationship with known figures,keeping neutrality though. Movie stars, Cricket stars , politicos are the usual targets, have foreign contatcs too. They are later potential donors for your “religious” adventures ,as color of any money related to religion is always “white”. Invite your contacts for all your charity works to inaugrate or public gathering.These exercise will let you, known to the rest of the public through media, you will be international figure in case if you have foreign contatcs. Sport a smile always, speak softly and be nice with media, keeping a low profile.

Now here is the important one.

Learn some magic tricks. Yes ! if you cant, you are no different than street side astrolger. This is the defining one for you. You need not be one amongst Houdinis or Sarkars. Simple tricks like getting things out of no where would make you look more attractive. You can practice and master them. Wear always long gowns to cover your loopholes. First try with small items like ash powder, petals or some rings. Then you can switch to bigger things like Golden watch, Silver Linga. Beware ! never get caught, or never fail to execute your tricks. Practice can make you achieve this. Be modest when your so called devotees get surprised. Act like it was no big deal for you to create them out of nothing. After all you are born with these powers.

Remember this saying,

You can fool SOME, ALL the time.

You can fool ALL, SOME time

But you CAN’T fool ALL, ALL the time.

There will be some odd people who might question you, testify you or challenge you. But always remain calm. You can deal with them offline with some “Gandhi Notes” or usual statement of spiritualism not being able to get proved by pure or applied science. Moreover you have your ardent fans now, who can handle those “odd” guys , just wink at them ;).

How can one come in dreams? That too when you are not as attractive as Hrithik or Kareena? How can you cure chronic diseases challenged by medical science? This is the last task you should achieve before you claim your “GODMANSHIP”.

You are already popular. Give away some “Gandhi Notes” to some families and discuss with them offline. Allow a person who is confided by you to have you in his dreams. Script a heart whelming story which can connect you to common man and his agonies. Let this person appear in a public gather especially when media is present. Once whole of public is informed about you coming in said person’s dreams and curing his cancer ( again spend some “ Gandhi Notes” to create medical certificates ), you will start appearing in everyone’s dream. India is populous country and many of them have some or the other disease, agony. If they start dreaming of you daily, atleast there will be one day when you cure them of their disease or solve their problem.

After all, a stopped clock too shows right time twice, daily

Never do a Nithyananda ( sex scandal ), never do a Radia ( 2G Corruption Scandal ), never do a Amar singh ( doctoring a CD ) for your benefits. Even if you do, no problem Don’t get caught.! Even if you get caught, spend some “Gandhi Notes” with a solid scripted story which proves your innocence.

Once you ensure all this, one fine Friday morning, claim “GODMANSHIP”.!

After all its INDIA with 35 million Gods. They would love to have one human GOD.

Long way to go….! Love all ..serve all !

Women who taught me Life !!

 

First of all, if you are a lady, congratulate yourselves as we just celebrated 100th International Woman’s day (IWD). It’s great to see women occupying considerable portion of world stage once was dominated by men. Today they are there in all fields, from space to classrooms, corporations to parliaments and police stations to street markets.

My readers, I intend, in this context,share with you stories about some women I met, who changed my life non linearly to a great extent .Many of them are my school teachers or lecturers as I had understood real life from classroom. It’s so etched in my heart that I would be grateful for them whole of my life. All I would love is, post reading this blog, you to acknowledge women who have shaped your life. Be grateful to them.


In Preschools, Bhagavad-Gita classes. Every Saturday noons, I used to attend them where a team of 30 students with all sorts of backgrounds used to come, sing devotional bhajans, recite some selected verses of Bhagawadgitha and later wrap the session with a small quiz program or a small indoor game. The one who conducted was Mrs Vijaya Kini. We used to call her Lathakka. ( I recently came to know her real name though). She was pleasant lady, who would invite all the students to her nice home, start the session with meditation rendering Mrityunjaya strotra. She would dictate bhajans, made sure that we take them down on our notebook.Following which, we would be trained with composition and sing the songs. Then, we would recite verses from Bhagwadgita which were very tough to pronounce. But she would make sure that our pronunciations were right. At the end there would be small quiz to attract our interests or some indoor games which usually involved math or being cautious. The great part, it would interest you to know that, Lathakka taught us the meaning of bhajans, verses from Bhagawadgita usually with assisting anecdotes. There are two things which are free in this world, Linux and Bhagawdgita classes. Lathakka still runs the sessions with same vigour and enthusiasms. Let lord Krishna bless her and her family.


I was a Quiz champion in my high school, was great at learning any Indian language as a result of getting introduced to Sanskrit at early stage. I was good singer before my puberty ( yes, I was). There used to be competitions where one would recite chapters of Bhagawadgitha, participating in which I could memorize verses, banish my stage fear and be confident .This was a strong base for my academic career, which helped me improve my coding techniques ( knowing many computer languages), presentation skills, sentence formation skills and importantly to mingle with any person.


Primary School Then it was Lalitha teacher in my First grade. She was smiling old lady with white hair resembling cotton. I remember she would often make me sit in the front rows, make me read the contents of book loudly. In the noons, she would share her food with me like she would do with others. She used to cook yummy food.Thats when I learnt that eating together will get you a sense of togetherness and food tastes aesthetic. Also not to forget beautiful Ratnwavathi teacher. She was class teacher in my baalwadi. She used to tell us so many stories and kannada rhymes. Cinderella story, the foolish thief or poems like “Ondu dina peddana hendathi yenu madidlu?”.


Last time, I met Lalitha teacher she was smiling and was happy to know about me. She still had same smile though she had wrinkles. Her touch was warm though her hands were timid. Much of things I discussed I think she had forgotten unfortunately. Ratnavathi teacher has become one of the top trainers of scouts and guides in Karnataka. When she met me last time, I remember her saying that I was very mischievous and intelligent when in baalwadi. I felt so happy and my eyes were wet.


Navodaya Entrance exam. It was in 1995s. Couple of my friends and me were interested to join JNV School, which promised qualitative education for the creamy layer of the district with free accommodation for seven long years. But there was a catch! To prove his academic excellence one had to pass an entrance exam and make it to final sixties. The exam contained graphical questions, mathematics, data analysis and language specific area. I remember Krishnaveni teacher who taught us for free, all she knew about cracking such an exam. First of all, her name is very beautiful. Krishnaveni means a lady with black coiffure. She used simple tools like scale, eraser to make us understand graphical questions and their significance. She also taught us basic mathematics on average , percentages and fractions. At the end of the exam, I was the only one to make it to final sixties and to enjoy classic education for seven long years. I became so selfish, I have not met her since years, will sure meet her with a surprise gift next time I visit my native place.


English always has been my language of interest. Its so hyped since our childhood I had no option left other than to get attracted and attached with it. But coming from a town with Kannada medium background the language was a tough nut. Till 8th grade, we Kannada medium students were excused to use Kannada but later we had to switch to English. Verbs and adjectives killed us, vocabulary and spelling choked us, that was a pity then. Just to give an example, one of the Biology exam where I had to explain about digestion I wrote “Mouth Juice “ for saliva. Such was my English.


I almost gave up the hope but one lady came to rescue. Her name was Rajeshwari Bhat. She always encouraged my desire to learn the language, for my efforts put in. She explained grammar so well that it became my stronger area. Traditional ways of teaching was not followed but she depicted every character of an English chapter like a movie, every subtle element of grammar she made us understand. I was at then, at the end of CBSE X Board exam awarded with Merit certificate in the language.


Just to make you know significance of what it means , the awarded certificate meant you are one best amongst 1000 who appeared for the exam.


Engineering There was this lecturer named Jyothi Shetty. She explained Data structures with C so well, that even for today, I find it very useful. Computer graphics again with C made me think and visualise images. I had even designed a computer game of shooting balloons with arrow. Her lectures made me strong in C language which is paying dividends for me in this coding life.


There are many other teachers who taught me and made me realize what life is . I am also thankful to them.


Family. In my family and personal life I always liked few women. All of them showered plenty of love on me, gave me all eatables I liked and at the end would give me some pocket money. First such is Meera Mhav ( Mom’s cousin) and Ramaa mhav. They both were poles apart financially. But the care they showed is immeasurable. I remember one of my aunt Sakhoobai Akka who was teacher herself, would take me to her classroom, made me sing some filmy song or dance infront of her students. I still cherish those moments. Her students too still remember me. Unfortunately Sakhoobai Akka succumbed to death fighting prolonged cancer. I was very young then. Then I had one more aunt who was very intelligent and creative, Krishnabai Akka. She had mastered Sanskrith , Bhagawadgitha engaged herself in embroidery, poster making. I would accompany her wherever she used to go. She was the one who inspired me to join Bhagawadgita classes. Sadly, she committed suicide for having troubled marital relations. It was a big blow to me at young age.


Last and not the least, my beautiful mother, who never wants me to lose at any cost to anyone, who constantly inspire me to do different things , excel in different fields. From the day I was born till the day I breath my last, I think I owe everything to her. For the hardships she had endured, for dreams she had to sacrifice for us, for the wonderful cook she is. Just wonderful.


Women are great, powerful and inspirational.


Every species you see, males are considered usually good looking. Lion looks elegant compared to lioness, or male peafowl when compared to peahen looks gorgeous. Similar is the case when rooster is compared with hen.


But in case of homosapiens it is not so.


Now, I know the reason. !

Tera Kya hoga Computer ?

Security is in high demand these days. Growth in information technology and having high stake data has called for a genuine need for protection.

Some of the illegal activities which have created problems are
> Hacking : gaining illegal ownership over system
> Phishing : fraud process of getting sensitive information by means of spoofing
> spamming : transmitting unnecessary bulk messages/mails in software.

Awareness about security is need of the hour to target these problems. As one gets educated about proper usage of any application in software market, complexity of security problems gets diminished.

A malicious Software (Malware) is something which usually harms the system. I have listed some of them

Infectious or harming malwares :

a. Virus : - Its a computer program which infects other executables,harms computer when they are run. Usually double clicking it,triggers the problem . It might have some payloads which performs other actions. Here user intervention is a MUST !

b. Worm :- Its almost same as virus but they volunteerily gets executed and spread the infection themselves. Here user intervention is not required,they are very fast to spread.

Never use Virus and worms interchangably. Both are different.

Hiding and decieving malwares :

These are very interesting infecting softwares. They hide from the user , act innocent without showing their presence and does illegitimate activity.

a. Trojan Horse : Its a malicious application,gets installed by attracting the user. Tempted by the dummy offers displayed, user installs the program which will contain payload to allow worms into the system or install other malwares.

b. RootKits : These are applications which conceal themselves and subvert usual OS operations. They give illegal authority to their masters.

c. Backdoors : These allow illegal entry point to attackers bypassing normal authorization process. User will never be able to trace the presence of these application.

Malwares for monetary benefits :

untill 1990s malwares were thought to be existing for pranks but later on intentions turned to profit making . Some of them are listed here,

a. Spyware : Its like trojan horse but intended to display ads , altering the web pages to get the creator of spyware some monetary leads.

b. Key Logger : This is an application which stores keystrokes of computer user which can be later misused. Usually bank related vulnerabilities are exploited here.

c. Botnets : These are applications which act like potential users usually found in online chats. They display ads or misguide other valid users.

Anti Malware solution or Anti Virus solution as its generally called, aims at securing computer from all the malwares. They identify infections first of all,If the user intends, AV Solution takes appropriate action.

Let us know few basic concepts of anti virus technology :

Anti Virus Product : This is a software which takes care of scanning the computer and take appropriate action after infection is identified. The common actions which are executed once an infection is found are as follows :

* Repair : repairs the infected file.
* Quarantine : separate malware from application, move it to a monitored location
* Delete : Delete the infected file


Scanning : This is process of examining computer's memory , file systems to be infected or not. There are two ways of scanning, in On Access Scanning (OAS) where continous scanning will be happening and whenever any of these resource is accessed by any computer application. In On Demand Scan (ODS) scanning is done whenever user requires scanning to be done. OAS is highly recommended.

DATs : These are also called Virus signatures. These actually contains pointer for infections. This help scanner to find the culprit application and take appropriate scanning action.

Take an example : A cop is finding goons of a gang. He has a file which contains photographs, contacts of gang members. cop will be successful in catching these people based on file. In Anti Virus analogy, cop is scanner, file containing photographs and contact of gang members will be DATs and gang members are malwares.

As everyday many bad people join the gang, file having photographs should also be updated with new gang members. This analogy is called DAT updation.

Site Advisor (SA) : This is one McAfee product, comes free of cost.
We generally surf web pages without having knowledge about their authenticity. Site advisor once installed helps user to decide to access web page or not. SA warns user with Red Balloon for any web page which is harmful or tells with green ballooon that a webpage is safe to go.

This can be downloaded from : http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html


I will spend some time to collect some tips to secure your computer. If you are not able to afford to install any Anti Virus products, you can use free software from AVAST.

This can be downloaded from : http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

Hope this blog was useful :) Create awareness , protect cyber world !

MMS – Modern Moral Stories

New year wishes to you and your family !

Its 2011,so thought of sharing with you some “REMIXED”moral stories befitting today s times . Hope you like them.

All these moral stories are imagined to have happened in Bangalore.


The Hat Seller and Monkeys

One evening,our own hat seller, again makes way towards Banashankari III stage,after a hectic day of “No Sale” of hats. He had made sure that he roamed every traffic signal,convinced every software engineer,real estate agents about this cool cow-boy hats he flaunted. But alas, no buyers.

As the sun started to set,he feels drowsy. He comforts himself under a fly-over under construction.Arranges bag of hats beside him and drops himself to eternal happiness of sleep.

After almost an hour later hat seller wakes up and sees that some monkeys around him have emptied his bag of hats,wearing them. His hat, too is stolen away.

After giving enough time to thoughts, hat seller takes some paper sheets out and writes something on them. Distributes these papers to every monkey and in return monkeys return their hat to the hat seller.!

Moral : If you allure any Bangalorean with 60X40 sites for free, he does anything for you. After all these are monkeys, why not they return hats for the same offer ?

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The Fox and grapes.

This fox escapes from Bannerghatta Zoo, fed up with the way they treat animals. It keeps running ,panting and making sure that none chasing it. Thank god! There are so many street dogs that none took special interest to identify this fox.Some street dogs admired the fox for its shiny complexion.

All said and done,fox now feels hungry. And it darts towards green pasture. A tall plant bearing green grapes, is standing there. Fox starts drooling…

But fruit bunch is at too high. Fox now plans to go Rajinikanth’s way. Into action.
It jumps to get it, coiling and re-coiling itself. Tries every smart moves it knows. Show jumping,liverpool,dry ditch… but No !

Suddenly it notices some shiny paper at the stemmy part of plant.

It visits Food world near by,pampering itself with couple of grape juice milkshakes.

Moral : Never lose your sodexho coupons. Someone will use it, for sure.

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The River goddess and Mobile phone owner.

A Gujarati business man with his wife and kids visit Hebbal lake for a family outing on a weekend. They spend time boating, speaking sweet nothings . His naughty kids enjoy watching “koochi- koo” sessions of young couples, hiding from public.

When Gujarati and his family returns home,he finds that his phone is missing. After thorough search he decides to visit hebbal lake again, this time alone.

He suspects that he might have dropped his phone into lake waters. He stands there helpless, sobbing.

There appears a bright flash, a beautiful woman standing in front of him introduces herself to be a River goddess. First she shows latest BlackBerry smart phone supporting 3G with long battery life and asks the businessman whether he owns it. Businessman snarls and goes “No!”.

River Godess later flashes, an Apple iPhone-4 with all necessary accessories, and again the businessman denies him owning it.

At the end, having no choice left, River goddess displays an old dull Nokia 7210.The gujarati gets so excited to see his mobile phone and pleads River goddess to give his mobile phone back.

Surprised Goddess asks why he did not opt for plush gadgets but to this dumb piece instead. The businessman replies. Satisfied with the reply, River goddess offers all the mobile phones to the smarty and disappears.

Moral : Bijiness (Business) happens with contacts and NOT by posh gadgets.

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A Father and his three sons

An old dying father, calls up all his three “legal” sons. Having spent many years into business, growing his assets from nothing to everything,raising his family, the old man recalls his deeds. Now being at final stages of his life, he shares his assets amongst his three children.
But, odd asset being a Full duplex house in HSR layout and not willing to damage it, old man plans a task for his sons. Old man remembers that he had seen many movies in his life time and there is no movie NOT seen by him. He orders whoever makes him watch an unseen movie,he would grant the posh home to that son.if not, he promises that the home would go to his second young wife.
Chucking, First son gets a DVD of Govinda’s movie. The old man rubbishes him saying he has seen the movie and not just that he quotes some dialogues of the movie as proof.
The third son,comes home with an old Justus Barnes movie. The old man watches the movie till the end,but discloses the climax before the movie ends,there by establishing the fact that he has seen the movie. Both the sons feel lost, and all of them will be awaiting for second son.

Two weeks get over, not a sight of second son.The old man sighs and hopes that he would still have something to gift his second wife.

He returns with a CD of a movie at last. Whole of the family watches the movie.Surprisingly , let alone old man, none has seen that movie. The second son wins luxurious home,unconventionally.

Moral : Kannada movies.! Of course.

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The Frog and Daughter of Corporator

Deepika,beautiful daughter of Karunappa,corporator of murugesh palya was worried. She had no serious boy friends. No guy with whom she had infatuations took care of her, neither dared propose her.Guys, who had crush on her feared her father for being powerful man.So, Deepika was alone.

“Happy Birthday” she heard someone shouting. A speaking frog.! She was surprised.Yes, it was her birthday that day and the little frog had wished. She was moved.

Double curious, as frog could speak and also for knowing her birthday, Deepika questioned.But Frog smiled and jumped into waters. For that day, she was very happy.

Few days later, she saw the frog pulling a stalk of lotus. Frog had got it as a gift for her as she liked the lotuses. Deepika was again surprised,accepted the flower, blushingly. The frog again vanished into dark waters.

Deepika, for the whole night was thinking about the frog. How it knew so much about her, how the frog made subtle moves to win her heart. She fell in love with the frog.

It was Feb 14. She got up hearing her favorite song “……….. “ sung by the little frog again. Deepika is again surprised. How come the frog probably could know so much about her?

It was there near her blanket, with ugly sloppy skin,triangular head and a yucky smell. But Deepika was in love ! Love which is blind and insensitive to smell too !

She kissed the frog on its lips. A tight one…

The frog changed into a six feet , fair man who was also a Software Engineer….!!

Moral : Dude, get into Social Networking sites, you will get every damn info, about her birthday, her favorite flower, favorite song….