My research topic

I  have chosen a very wierd topic for research. One of my well-wishers has suggested me not to flash that out at present. So I won’t tell many people about that.

But it is related to Paleontology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Prof. Ronald has provided me with a very nice “tool” for finding out literature in the subject matter.

I have already talked to Prof. SR Basnyat regarding the supervision.

I am working out on some articles too.

NASA scientists can help me, if they want.

Prof. Bauerle has suggested me to write to some of them asking them for the help by providing me with the articles published by them which are generally not available for free.

However, I haven’t written the proposal yet. I will do that after developing the methodology on the topic. And, for that I have to review literature.

Yet, I haven’t found any great material.

That’s why I am very busy these days surfing the net to “discover” approapriate literature.

Though I have caught common cold and have mild fever, and running nose, I have to work……

I don’t know where I will submit the proposal. I mean, who will provide me with the resources for the lab work. May be RONAST. Oh, now we have to call it NAST!!

I have no expectation from the CDM.

I even don’t know whether my proposal will be accepted or not…

Let me see what happens next.

I am alive

I am alive.

Miss Else

An hour ago I watched a French movie. Miss Else. It was damn good.

It’s about a young middleclass girl who kills herself …

I love watching French cinemas with English subtitle. But the English is weird.

Some catchphrases, I still remember, from the movie:
I am but a man. It’s not my fault.
I am author of his decline……

help!

It’s dark outside.
Minutes ago shouted sombebody “Help,” outside.
I went to my rooftop, but saw nobody. I yelled, “who is that?’. But there was no response.
Was somebody in trouble?
Or, somebody just horsing around?

Buddha Jayanti

Today (technically yesterday) was the birthday of Siddhartha Gautam who after being enllightened became Lord Gautam Buddha.

Baishak Poornima. The Fullmoon Day.

Not only was he born this day, he got enlightenment this day, preached his first sermon this day, and died this day.

I have been to two places that have been connected to Gautam Buddha– Lumbini in modern Nepal, his birthplace, and Saranatha in India, where he first preached.

UNESCO has recognised this day….

Meanwhile, I am afraid that the modern world is cashing on Buddha's name. Buddha has become only the means of money making.

If the present world takes account of the great soul, it should abide by the principle of ahimsa.

Let's give up the violence of any sort. No animal sacrifice. No killing of people for political interests.

More than two hours in Net

I have spent more than two hours in Net.
I collected some information for the write-up ….

For the weird write-up. When finished I will post it here. Wait till I finish that.

More than two hours in Net

I have spent more than two hours in Net.
I collected some information for the write-up ….

For the weird write-up. When finished I will post it here. Wait till I finish that.

My Dial-up woes

For days unnoticed, my landline had problems. And when it started raining, the snag to the Internet connection devolved into low speed, abrupt disconnecting, and the failure to connect.

How can I forget these Error messages — particularly, 721 and 778 that I stumbled upon everyday?

I tried to connect every now and then night by night. But the failure every time. What a fucking nuisance these messages were!
721: The remote computer is not responding.
778: It was not possible to verify the identity of the server.

After tens of attempts, I used to get connected but the speed was not more than 4.6 kbs. What I could only do with the speed was to wait till getting disconnected without my intervention (which was obvious). Neither the messengers were working, nor were the web pages being opened.

The icon with two glowing computers on the right bottom of the monitor was only exasperating me despite the success in the establishment of the connection.

Heaping anathema upon the Dial-up connection system, I wish(ed) I had the broadband. But it’s quite dear. About 30 USD per month only for the Internet is not a joke for me.

(The Dial up, however, also is not cheap. It costs about 40 cent per hour in day time and 20 cent for the same duration at night for the phone bills, exclusive of the Internet charges. I don’t want to calculate how much it costs for the hours I glue to the Web.)

Nevertheless, since I can get Internet passwords for free (either by sharing or by hacking) and I myself don’t have to pay the telephone bills, the dial up has been my Hobson’s choice.

Instead of giving up, I tried with (an)other User names and (an)other Dialing numbers—I mean different ISP. But all in vain. Were the servers of all the ISPs down? Or, was it the fault on my landline that divested the machine from good connection?

Since the telephone also had problems — the sound quality was poor, there used to be no dial tone for some instances, sometimes the calls used to be picked up of its own accord after first ring, and by itself — it was then sure that there was fault on the line.

Even so, at days I used to forget to oversee the cable. Procrastination is the thief of time, I know. But I could not help myself from dragging my feet. What I did at days was, I watched that boob tube and read newspapers, but dillydallying maintaining the line.

However, today I sorted out the problems and maintained the line. The copper wire had carbon deposited for years because a portion of the cable was au naturel and the moisture was the real problem…

This way, I made my day!

Navin’s invitation

Some days ago, Navin gave an inkling that he would invite me for something (a grand party)… I teased him by asking whether he was going to tie the knots. He only laughed and said that he wanted to keep that secret.

Today, I visited him. I asked him to tell the fact. He refused to. He again asked me to be ready for a party in the last week of May. I thought he was only horsing around. But he was serious.

I was playing with his laptop. I happened to open a Microsoft word document on the desktop. The document was something about Tamrat’s visit etc. When I scrolled down, there I saw a draft of invitation of a wedding party. At first, I didn’t care. However, my eyes caught up on the names: Meena and Dhruv.

Ok. Then, Meena Di’ is going to get married now. I, in haste, closed the document when Navin came in.

Congratulations Didi!

However, I pretended that I didn’t know anything. Actually, I was in a daze for no reasons.

Navin along with Deep was going to attend a wedding party of one of our batchmates. And he said he had no formal dress. I too do not have. I said that if somebody invites me to a party, I would go in jeans and tee-shirt.

He again asked me to be ready for the ceremony on May 27 and 28. I only laughed. I understood why today he went to the tailor’s for the suit. Earlier, I had thought that the suit was for his US trip.

Before returning home, I told him that I already knew what would be the party for. I guess, he only thinks that I don’t know the fact.

I would not, had I not opened the document on his machine.

I am really sorry for knowing the “secret” before he revealed that, moreover, the way I came to know the secret.

Did I make a mistake by opening the document? What would Navin think if he reads this all….?

Cool! I am not a fool!

Mark Moxon, Travel Writer

Just minutes ago, I happened upon this site.

http://www.moxon.net/

And wrote Mark Moxon, the travel writer, this missive.

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Dear Mark,
Recently I visited Varanasi.
I had no digital camera with me and the ordinary camera did not produce nice pics. So I wanted to find some nice pics of the place…. to upload in my blogsite.
And I happened upon your site.
I am not sure whether I will use the pics from your site or not. But I am sure I love reading your travelogue.
I too am interested in TRAVELLING.

BYE

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This is the link from which you can download ebooks for free.

http://www.moxon.net/ebooks/index.html

I suggest you to explore the world via Mark’s travelogue.