Four liner

Give me some sunshine
Give me some rain
Give me another chance
I want to grow up once again.

Very nice lines.I really donot know if it is the original lines by "3 idiots" team or adapted from "Five Point Someone" by Chetan Bhagat.I have not read the book but watched the movie.Planning to read it sometime when I am free.Let me see.

Wise and Other Wise

"Wise and Other Wise" a book by Sudha Murthy is the one which I have read in recent times.I liked the title of the book and is by one of the ladies whom I admire a lot.I like the inspiring story of Infosys and the way it has grown all through the years and especially the story of Narayanamurthy and Sudha.I hardly miss any article about them .For that matter whenever I come across articles or news about Subramaniya Bharathi,Sushmitha Sen,Shah Rukh Khan ,Martina Navaratilova and very recently Leander Paes and Katrina Kaif,I hardly miss.

Coming back to my book review,all the stories in "Wise and Other Wise " are written very short and crisp.I also felt like I can write upto a pagelength on most of her topics in the book .I agreed with her in most of the places and in some places I could not agree with her.But thatz what it is all about.How can I fully agree with anyone on all topics under the earth!

I like to read short stories rather than novels.I hardly read novels and I prefer Indian writing which I can associate myself with and I dose off every time when any body gives me non Indian novels.I really take years to complete them.

Ayirathil Oruvan

Ayirathil Oruvan - a movie which I had seen in the theatre after a very long gap say after so many years.I feel that this movie is one in which the director is not sure of the message or his intention.
When I watched the first half of the movie,I got a fair idea that the dir was trying something new for the Tamil cinema.So it was Ok...within the limits(tolerable) rather.
The movie's theme or central idea is that the search of a famous archaeologist.
In the second half of the movie,this central idea is left behind and Reema Sen is given all powers(Don't really reveals from where she gets all that).
A movie worth watching not even once...

Director's intention is laudable but there seems to be lots of confusions in the second half.So itz waste trying to watch and trying to understand.

It was a waste of both time and money(for my friend who has taken me to the theatre).

Hence my rating is 0.5 in a scale of 1-10.

Good Bye 2009

As 2009 is coming to an end,I look back at it very gracefully.Professionally the best year till date.2009 had kept me busy all throught out the year except for June wherein I didnot travel anywhere.If there were no official tours,I was making a trip to my house atleast once in a month unlike Malanjkhand from where coming to my house was a herculean task as I was able to come once in six months to my house.

A year far more satisfying as the year started with me getting into BARC and ending with my official training at IISc-the two big names in Science and technology.

Government Posting

There are a million aspirants for government postings in India because of the security it provides.When anyone enters into a government service,one is sure to find out few kith and kin of the fellow colleagues working in the same organisation.For eg,I was astonsihed to see the father,daughter and son in law working in the same AMD.It really hurts me because the thousand others who have applied for the same post are made fools.

Competition should by all means reflect it's meaning.

Is this pity situation because of the government policies...or is this because of the mediocre thinking of the below average human being.

Whatever it is, the loopholes in the recruitment of all the governmet organisations must be mended otherwise prosperity will be beyond the reach and sight of the common man who has blind faith that sometime some good thing will happen in his life.

Universal gas constant

Many times I have asked myself what is universal gas constant which I have been studying for so many years.

During my school days,I used to mug up the value of the value of Universal gas constant because the units are sure to be as one question in objective type.So...

During my school days it was like:

R=8.314 J/mol/K

R=1.987 cal/mol/K.

Oh! I need to mug up the unit...OK...J/mol/K...Cal/mol/K...In my exams,atlast I used to get confused and mark wrong answer!!!

I used to think in my mind why people have discovered so many units(SI,CGS etc.) just to confuse everyone....especially students....

Universal gas constant doesn't end with school.Infact it is the beginning...

In college as I had taken Chemical Engg(Without even being now aware of what the subjects are!),So universal gas constant was bound to continue...

Aarthi,my teacher during my B.Tech days with whose help I have just passed...just passed many exams... used to teach so many chemical Engg. subjects especially problems.So she used to say Ok,then...

"In this problem you have to put the value of R and 2-3 Eqns.S the problem is solved...."

After a gap of so many years...R is still not leaving me...

Now as a Scientific Officer,my HOD asks me, " why don't you calculate the enthalpy of Pyrite oxidation and Free energy of Uranium oxidation".

Myself:Ok,Sure sir!

Next...Going to the library to search Enthalpy,entropy and gibb's free energy.

Accidently I come across R once again.As the book(Moore's Chemical Metallurgy) was interesting and teaching me all the basics,I got to know what finally R is :

For gases,molar heat capacity is found to vary i.e.value of Molar Heat capacity of gases at Consant Pressure vary from Molar Heat capacity of gases at Consant Volume and this variation is found to be almost constant for all gases and that is why it is called as Universal Gas constant and is also equal to Cp-Cv.

That is the reason why it is called

Universal as it is applicable to most of the gases

Gas as it is applicabe to gases

Constant as the value is almost found to be constant.

Eureka!Atlast I found it.Like this, there are so many questions in my mind.If I find answers,I definitely will write them.

After a long gap...

Yesterday after a long gap my friend gave me Kumudam from one of the fellow passengers in the Charminar train.After my post B.Tech days,my brother practised me the habit of reading Ananda Vikatan and I started enjoying it.But when in 2007 I had to go to Malanjkhand,I was totally cut of from reading this weekly magazine-A magazine which had taught me so many things in my life.

Now having read a similar magazine(Kumudam) yesterday had brought me back the memories of my yesteryears and gave me great satisfaction.