Rat hunting & sneak O snake

Having brought up in a village , i was quite familiar with snakes, scorpions, lizards and the rats as they used to visit   my house often. Couple of days back an interesting incident happened, when i was in a deep sleep. At around 1, i woke up to find my room door ajar. I have a problem with the bolt as it was br0ken (thanks to shankar for breaking my door). Then i got up and bolted the door and checked the things up in my room and went back to sleep. But again i woke up becos of some noise inside the room. The noise was made by an empty plastic cover which was lying on the ground. I then saw a rat moving inside the room.  It  just sneaked in when the door was open some minutes back. As i tried to get it out of my room it just jumped on to my table , sitting pretty next to my laptop and looking at me as if saying do whatever u can . I was horrified at the site and i could see the glowing eyes of the rat staring at me in the dark. I got into action immediately,switched on the lights and went on a  hunting spree for the rat . My room is messed up with lot of things as some of my friends dumped their stuffs in my room. So after searching for half an hour, i lost my energy and thought of dealing with the rat the next morning. But the rat made my sleep miserable by making sounds or knocking down something in my room. Finally, the next day as i woke up, i kept looking for the rat but to no avail. Then later that afternoon, my uninvited friend, just sneaked out from its secret hideout. This time i took the help of my doctor friend to get the rat out of my room. Before that evening, while on my way to chilkur, a 6.5 feet green snake just ran in fornt of our bike. My firend who was riding it, screamed, shouted and put his legs on the handle..I was shocked to see his reactions as he was doing some kind of circus.. then i saw the fluroscent green snake running behind us. Oh... both of us were down on the road and it took us 10 minutes to recover from the shock. My friend was shivering as he was driving the bike...I have seen many snakes in my house over the years and once a snake was having its(  frog) lunch happily in one of the roof of our house. we waited for the guest to finish its lunch..I could clearly see the snake swallowing the frog right to its stomach.. It was there for over an hour and then it left the place. Actually both the incidents happened the same day , the snake incident in the evening followed by the rat entry. In fact, when the rat entered, i thought it was a snake as the thought of the snake was fresh in my mind. I was quite relieved to find out it was just a rat.

IPL vs IPL

Its IPL vs IPL here in India. I mean the Indian Premier league vs the Indian Political League. The battle for both the leagues are hotting up. Coming to IPL (cricket) , it has really caught the attention of the public , thanks to ICL for initiating it. Last year, both of my favourite teams the Mumbai Indians and Deccan chargers ended up at the bottom half. But this year, both the teams have started the tournament really well.I really sense that these two teams will surely end up in top four or even top two in this season. Also, capable are the chennai super kings and the Delhi dare devils. These four teams have it in them and i would bet these four teams for the semi final berths. The chargers are really on a roll with their superb fielding, bowling and not to leave their stupendous batting led by one of the greatest ever player Gilly. And in Mumbai Indians, the worlds best batsman sachin is there along with the old war horse sanath. What impresses me most is the bowling attack of mumbai, which is one of the strongest with Malinga, Zaheer, Bhajji and Bravo. I am happy that bowlers are playing an important role in every match and the contest between the bat and ball is even this time and players like Dravid, who is considered as a test player and a discarded one dayer now is leading the run table. I really miss my sip days  and friends as i used to have a lot discussions (?)  (fights ) during the last  IPL season

The second phase of polling is about to take place and i read this   in one of the site that the current election spending of the parties account for nearly 1% of our GDP. Elections are good especially during a recession.I had promised in my previous post that i would write about my entrepreneurial journey. So far, the going has not been good but iam hoping for a revival of fortunes. I am learning new things everyday and would surely put these into actions. Its realy getting late now as i have start at 5.30 in the morning for my shop. I will post more about my venture and my journey so far in the next post...

I came across this intersting blog allegedly posted by a Kolkata Knight Riders team member. It is more interesting than a fiction. He has revealed the happenings inside the dressing room and team meetings and night clubs. Here is the link,http://fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com/

Lets welcome the Enemy!!!

14th april is an auspicius day (?) for all tamils around the world as it marks the beginning of a new year( according to Tamil history and not according to  the TN chief minister). The literal meaning  of this upcoming new year "Virodhi" refers to enemy. Tamil years have names for every year. There are 60 years. So a 60 year cycle marks the end of one complete cycle of years. That is why in hindu mythology, people celebrate the 60th marriage (arubadaam kalyanam or shastiaapta poorthi). "Sarvadaari", the previous year, brought more troubles and hiccups with it for all. On a personal front, even it was one of the toughest year for me not only in terms of placements  and jobs but in various levels. Last week, i was quite busy with my entrepreneurial venture. I thought of starting it on 13th april, but sarvadaari denied me the opportunity, now i dont have any option of starting before 14th april. Most probably, if everything goes well, i would be able to start it by 15th april. I will post about my venture in detail in my next post after its launch. As one of my friend said, a teacher teaches a lesson and then conducts a test, whereas  life tests us severely and then teaches a lesson: Strange but true. Now a days, uncertainty is the only certain thing to happen to me. But it makes us tough and extra cautious. so, enemy is around the corner, lets welcome the "Virodhi". Happy new year to all of you...before signing off, let me introduce you to some useful utiities...

Well, i found some cool softwares which would be of great use to all of you. 

HOW TO OPEN MULTIPLE CHAT WINDOWS IN GTALK:

 Some of you must be having two or three gtalk user ids. But with the present system, you can log on as only one user. Now, i will tell you how to open gtalk windows in different user names. First copy the gtalk shortcut icon in the desk top and then paste it on the desktop. Then rename the copied file as multiple gtalk. Now right click on the multiple gtalk and then go to properties. There, go to the target tab and then after the last word just give a space and then type /nomutex and then save it.Now you can open multiple usernames in Gtalk. For video demonstration of this, just click the link below.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/581450/hacking_gtalk/

The second software tool is very useful for acquiring more space in your hard disk. Just run this software and then see for yourself. I got 2GB of extra space after running it. Here is the link

http://www.freebies4ya.com/members/cleanup.asp.