Questions That Haunt Me!

Continuing from where i left last time….some more rib ticklers…

Can you cry under water?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’… but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where’s that extra penny going to?

Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

What disease did cured ham actually have?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that people say they ’slept like a baby’ when babies wake up like every two hours?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change?
They’re going to see you naked anyway.

Why is ‘bra’ singular and ‘panties’ plural?

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours?
They’re both dogs!

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Do you ever wonder why you gave me your E-mail address in the first place?

Imponderables!!!

Ok i dont really have anything interesting to write so found this article…its called Ponder on these Imponderables.Read on!!!

1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?

3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

6. Why is it that the man who invests all your money is called a broker?

7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy … opposites?

10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

11. Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?

12. “I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?

13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

14. What hair colour do they put on the driver’s licenses of bald men?

15. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered what Chinese mothers use. Toothpicks?

16. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

17. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

18. No one ever says, “It’s only a game” when their team is winning.

19. Ever wonder about those people who spend £1.50 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE

20. Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

21. If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean that one enjoys it?

Raichur trip part -2

Ok the second part of our 2 day trip was spent in Hampi.11 kms off hospet, in the middle of nowhere in today’s terms.I’ll start off by telling you a bit of the history behind the place.

HISTORY:=>

Hampi, the capital city of Vijayanagara Empire, was founded by two brothers Harihara and Bukkaraya (more popularly known as Hakka and Bukka), under the guidance of their Guru Vidyaranya. It was not just the largest Hindu empire of its time, but was also one of the largest trading centres of the world. The markets in Hampi were always crowded with merchants from all over the world to barter their goods in exchange of spices and cotton, grown abundantly in the area. Rubies, diamonds and all precious stones were sold on the streets in the scale of seers (litre like measurement, commonly used even today in many parts of rural India). Gold and silver were the currencies.

Hampi, built in the year 1336 flourished and had a population of over half a million. The city was important not just for the traders but also for devotees and poets. There were temples built in hundreds, which stand as an evidence to the religious inclination of Hampi. Public ceremonies and festivals were celebrated in their true meaning. Names like Shri Purandhara Dasa and Tenali Rama can be linked with Hampi. Hampi is also the place where Lord Rama met Hanumantha and killed Vali in exchange for help from Sugreeva.

As the saying goes, everything that goes up must come down. It was true in case of Hampi also. After seeing its golden reign during King Krishna Deva Raya (AD 1509 – 1529), Hampi fell down to the attacks of the five Sultans of Deccan – Bidar, Bijapur, Golconda, Ahmednagar and Berar in the year 1565. The city was looted for a period of 6 months. The temples were destroyed and the markets were plundered. The golden empire had come to an end.

After that short history lesson which the Guide narrated to us in halting Hindi and Kannada which the poor guy switched rather patiently while showing us around the Shri Vijayavittala temple.The temple did not have deity,it was moved to a village near sholapur in Maharashtra. It consisted mainly of the main temple and as is mandatory in hindhu tradition Marriage,music and dance halls.Now each of these were marvels by themselves.One had these array of pillars that made different sounds when struck with sandalwood sticks.The guide told us that it was down to the weight and structure of the beams which i understand to be resonance to us Science people.Then there was this huge stone chariot carved from one full stone.It wasn’t mobile of course but back then during important festivals the wheels were rotated to give you the illusion that it was moving.

From there it was a short walk via the river to the Shri Virupaksha temple which to this day people go and pray.En-route we stopped by the river and it was a splash and dash,it was already 3 and we hadn’t had lunch.Though the bajji’s served at the tiny shack were tempting,it was an appetite killer.We finally reached the temple after like an hours walk and after a bit of shopping(i got this awesome tribal neckband with carved beads for a bargain…its already broken!!!!). At the temple we were “blessed” by the elephant, and once we were done offering our prayers at the sanctum sanctorum we went on the have our lunch which was at around 5 i think.

Virupaksha Temple

That brings an end to day 2 of our trip.We proceeded to hospet where we had dinner and at around 10 we started on our return journey back to bangalore.

Overall it was a very good trip,i had a good time.I was accompanied by a good bunch of friends and wouldn’t mind doing it all over again.

raichur trip

PART-1=> RTPS

Ok its been long since i posted anything here. Busy as usual. but i went on a trip recently that i had to share with you.This was basically an industrial visit to the Raichur Thermal Power Station(RTPS in short). for those who don’t know about, 40% of the daily power supply comes from here to Bangalore.Amazing place it was.

There were elaborate security measures of course . We waited a full half hour with all the security checks and handing over our cameras(Taking pictures inside were prohibited),so everything we saw was for EYES ONLY.But once inside, you were in a different world.

Starting with the coal unloading(forgot to tell you,its a coal fired plant).Here full train carriages filled with coal were over turned onto hoppers.the hydraulics were on a massive scale,they had to be, considering that they had to lift almost 300 tonnes of weight.We were covered in the soot of course once the coal was unloaded.

Then we went over to the crushers,furnaces and boilers which too were humongous . i think as big as olympic size swimming pools .Then we went on to the turbines and generators, there were 5 of them totally spread over a kilometre in length..im not kidding…and each unit had its own control centre . Only two units were in production when we went at the time…the reason for the load shedding in bangalore!!!

Then we got into our buses and went to the cooling towers,which according to me was the best part of the plant and certainly the most beautiful to look.There were 7 of them totally, we went into one of them and MEIN GOTT!!!! it was like a sauna on biblical proportions!!!! i would call it a mechanical wonder.

cooling towers

Then of course we got back into our buses and proceeded to have lunch,for which we waited a full hour and a half.we got back to our hotel and once there we let the bubbly flow(if you know what i mean).thats a whole other episode that im still deciding if i should share with you.maybe before my next post i would have made a decision.

So next day ,after a few minutes of picture taking in front of the buses we departed to Hampi.