Beyonce and Shakira

ye the blog title is true.. these 2 dance divas Shakira and Beyonce Knowles are together in an album now.. the album is Beautiful Liar... a must watch for the fans of these 2 magical beauties... what a dance it is... u will start shaking ur body by seeing it... this is ultimate choreography and the editing and the camera work is too great... and to highlight , the background sets and art direction is very appealing..... i got a snippet of the video in youtube... the link is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIHBRsy1lI

Products for my Digital Lifestyle

being a techie i m dreaming a lot abt my life style these days... specifically how to stuff my house with some usefull goodies and other stuff... just thought I can list down few useful PRODUCTS that impresses me currently to lead a digital life which entertains me well enough and also to keep myself in sync with the current generation ....
Let start with my living room
LCD or PLASMA TV
my preference is Samsung Bordeux 32 inches
though there are lot other good players in this field like SONY , Panasonic , Philips , etc..
5.1 Home Theatre System
my preference is Onkyo with wireless speakers
again there are lot of players in this field too with the major one being BOSE the ultimate one
and we have other companions like SONY , Philips , etc...
Motorola Moto Rokr E6 touch screen mobile phone
30 GB Microsoft Zune or Apple IPod player
Microsoft XBOX or Sony Playstation PS3
1.5 ton or 2 ton Split AC - Voltas , Onida , Kenstar , etc..
IFB washing machine
Now lets move to the Kitchen
Refrigerator - my wife's preference Samsung double door refrigerator
and same as above lot of good competitors are here too.. like Godrej , Whirlpool , Kenstar , etc..
GLEN four burner automatic cooking stove, ........................ and the list goes on...
will add more as and when i came across such impressive things...

Invisiblity

long time back in my school days we were craze about a TV show called Invisible Man... this show is all about a man who uses some magic chemical that makes him invisible and he uses his special power of invisiblity to help others... that was a great imagination by the director during that time... and this show kindled my dreams lot of time in which i was becoming invisible and doin lot of crazy things... but as time changes and technology advances now recently i came across an article which says that a research team in Purdue university has designed a optical cloaking device which makes things invisible to visible spectrum for single frequency / wavelenght which they are now trying to expand for all the frequencies / wavelengths... if they achieve sucess in this then my child hood imaginations would become true.. assume what if this becomes a product... i believe soon some company will come forward and fund this project or even take over this team to build this powerfull device making humans invisible and sell it for huge amount... too much of fundoo imaginations coming into my mind as i write this... assume cloning is also achieved completely.... then we can see multiple versions of a single person.. this is in one direction and and with invisiblity we can see no versions of existing persons... this is in opposite direction... and to add more fuel to my imaginations.. if we can achieve cloning then within few years we can achieve cloning persons with more power like people having multiple hands / legs / eyes... and with more than one heart too.... this leads to another topic of preventing death for humans... which I believe can be acheived with the current progress in technology...ooops... this is going way beyond limits.... i hv to stop my imagination now... lets get back to the real world ....
more details about this cloaking is avaiilable in http://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2007a/070402ShalaevCloaking.html

work - life balance

ha ha... what am i talking about.. this is the recent fancy words ( or infact reasons ) most of the IT engineers are using in their day to day life i.e work life ;-)... what exactly work-life balance means... in my company too lot of initatives are taken from top management teams to ensure the employees enjoys a good work life balance... i m wondering why & how this trend has started ?? if we look into the previous generation jobs - for the fact my Dad was working as a Draftsman in Indian Railways ( central government job )... he enjoyed a great work-life balance without much knowledge on that.. this is because of the regular work timing and the less work pressure he had and the most important thing the self - discipline he maintained in the work.. but the current generation jobs are putting lot of pressure on us and forces us to work more than the regular work timings... and the flexi timing concept which is suppose to help us is making our lifes worse... this flexi timing concept induces the thought that we can come in any time & leave out any time... which automatically makes us to come and go late... as the work pressure increases we tend to come early but going late remains the same.... :-(
i hv seen people in my present ( previous jobs too ) who use to strech more than 12 hours ( even 18 hours too ) in front of the dumb idiot box ( hope u know wat i m refering )..
so to conclude its us who destroyed our work life balance and again its us who are trying to restore it back... to enjoy a good work life balance we need to maintain a self disciple.. we need to understand our work pressure and plan accordingly... never compromise on the personal side... :-O

Proud moment

Today our country's space agency ISRO has acheived a major milestone by launching its indegineous launch vehicle with foriegn payload ( which only very few other countries has done ).. yes what u read is true.. India has launched its PSLV - C8 with an italian satellite and our own satellite into the orbit.. thought it has already launched a few other foriegn satellites with its launch vehicle previously those all were of small ones with limited scope and functionalities.... but this one is more than a regular satelite with tons of functionalities which made a break-thru in our space programmes.. ISRO got a great aplause from the entire nation.. not to mention thou from our President too... who is a major inspiration for such events...

the entire article featuring this launch is availble in the link
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200704231611.htm