tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112582442024-03-08T15:07:14.203-08:00think╫inktjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-83055959843057090382014-09-12T10:32:00.001-07:002014-09-12T10:34:09.617-07:00Bhanvar from phaloda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-fMaQzaACM-I/VBMuOsEw7jI/AAAAAAAABMo/mVQzkFkbcMM/s1600/20140821_120258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-fMaQzaACM-I/VBMuOsEw7jI/AAAAAAAABMo/mVQzkFkbcMM/s640/20140821_120258.jpg"> </a> </div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0C K Gardens, Thomas Town, C K Gardens13.005796 77.626045tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-4013012359160079242012-01-26T22:32:00.001-08:002012-01-26T22:32:32.510-08:00DISCLAIMER: Please be warned that Hemant Sreekumar’s performance at 7:25 pm in blueFROG uses strobe lights and high pitched sounds. It is not recommended for those prone to seizures, palpitations or experiencing heart problems.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-87299255797667783742011-09-29T17:30:00.000-07:002011-09-29T17:30:07.849-07:00Siem Riep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A quaint old french town at the base of the most spectacular temple complex in the world . . and its totally underwater . . actually most of cambodia seems to be. The Tonde Sap lake which acts as a monsoon storage seems to have exercised its right over most of the country from what i can tell . . would love to see a satellite picture! Siem riep itself is a really touristy place, but its retained an old world pace that eludes even the smallest indian tourist spots. The cambodian people are so happy. The food is amamzing and the beer is cheap too . . not like vietnam, but cheap none the less. Thought I would go to Battambang to see the bamboo trrain, but Siem Riep seems to have superglued me . . :)</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-48449188172433364572011-09-17T11:50:00.000-07:002011-09-17T11:51:58.831-07:00Vietnam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Communist, socialist or capitalist . . it really makes one think . . definitely not democratic, but after Bush I have to think of that as a tainted word . . . I have grown up respecting the power of the people, and it has been reinforced time and again . . . even as recently as the mad marathis nation bandh. it defintely seems great. the power of the people, freedom of speech, freedom of laziness and freedom of anything. at least that's what they'd have you believe . . . more and more it is seeming to me like an argument for limitations . . . here in this third world country, everyone is equal . . yes its a small country, one tenth of our size and population, but none the less . . there is something to be learnt here . . we can't go on using democray as a veil for capitalist exploitation and hiding behing and archaich education system and a social heirarchy which has been abused beyond belief forever . . how long can we keeep our women behing the scenes . . how long can we act like biharis are not human beings . . i sense some serious myopia. <br />
Its really been a gift . . the experience of a society . . not an affluent society at all, but one which breathes a common spirit . . and if it was a hegemoneous society i would not grant it so much favour, but though it does appear such on the surface, the complexity of the social strata is very much there, much as it is there in say Delhi . . . <br />
I guess its an economists game at the end of the day and that;s what i really hate about it . . .<br />
:)</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-72859276194075560362011-09-07T01:33:00.001-07:002011-09-07T01:33:37.274-07:00:)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strike> <h1 class="lat-long1">The latitude and longitude of Phuket, Thailand is:</h1><h3 class="space">7° 53' 0" N <span class="slash">/</span> 98° 24' 0" E</h3></strike></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-88460593172119792002011-08-27T12:39:00.000-07:002011-08-27T12:39:38.213-07:00D D Kosambi on Marxism in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Certain opponents of Marxism dismiss it as an outworn economic dogma<br />
based upon 19th century prejudices. Marxism never was a dogma. There is<br />
no reason why its formulation in the 19th century should make it obsolete<br />
and wrong, any more than the discoveries of Gauss, Faraday, and Darwin,<br />
which have passed into the body of science. Those who sneer at its 19th<br />
century obsolescence cannot logically quote Mill, Burke, and Herbert<br />
Spencer with approval, nor pin their faith to the considerably older and<br />
decidedly more obscure Bhagwad Gita. The defense generally given is that<br />
the Gita and the Upanishads are Indian; that foreign ideas like Marxism are<br />
objectionable. This is generally argued in English, the foreign language<br />
common to educated Indians; and by persons who live under a mode of<br />
production (the bourgeois system) forcibly introduced by the foreigner into<br />
India. The objection, therefore, seems less to the foreign origin than to the<br />
ideas themselves, which might endanger class privilege. Marxism is said to<br />
be based open violence, upon the class-war, in which the very best people do<br />
not believe nowadays. They might as well proclaim that meteorology<br />
encourages storms by predicting them. No Marxist work contains incitement<br />
to war and specious arguments for senseless killing remotely comparable to<br />
those in the divine Gita."</span></div></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-9363656478004901842011-08-21T10:32:00.000-07:002011-08-21T10:32:20.305-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Living in what is commonly known as the worlds largest Democracy, I can hardly feign surprise to the spontaneous anti corruption protests rocking the masses. Anna Hazare, I'd never heard of the man before he decided to stop eating to protest corruption! Now he's the next mahatma all of a sudden. Nothing about the man appeals to me . . the obvious saffron connection, the recklessly anti democratic totalitarian solution to a problem which is so wide spread that it would be difficult to isolate it from the system at all, and not least, the obvious political agenda of opposition. Not to say that I am a big fan of corruption, but I for one believe in respecting the enemy and assessing the scale of the war before i jump into the battle field.<br />
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There is no doubt that the Hazare led movement has tapped the support of large numbers of disgruntled citizens, for that and that alone I have to applaud the movement. They have made blubbering fools of our elected representatives, not that there was much going for them anyway. Unparalleled disparity, military occupation within the country, an economy flexing its muscles and reckless destruction of natural resources apart, there came a point in the second term of the UPA when it became blatantly autocratic. Their attempt to arrest Hazare and thwart the movement just shows how far down this road they have come. Behind their 8% growth they hover like vultures.<br />
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Corruption. Misuse of power for personal gain. Much as I admire the blaket of vague that a democracy protects its citizens with, there are some things I just can not fathom. The dichotomy of personal freedom and disparity is at the root. The problem is actually quite simple, its just been around for so long that we look right past it as if it doesn't exist. Freedom. The ability to speak or act on ones own behalf without restriction. Responsilbilty. Not to harm others, to abide by the law . . . Now the problem comes when we bring in money. freedom to become rich. but to become rich at the cost of trampling upon others? Any right comes with riders. They are there everywhere. Even a cursory glance at the economy make it obvious that there is no attempt to bridge the gap.<br />
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We live in a world inured to the stratification of society. For thousands of years humans have coexisted side by side in ever increasing numbers, shaped by the rules of society. These very rules that we know so well in India, like sati or caste, are at the basis of the acceptance of the status quo. It is these rules that we need to question. The NREGA does exactly that. Ensuring a minimum wage even a fraction (tending perilously we might add) has been a fight fought over many years. The answers are there I presume if we head a little towards the left and ask ourselves how the Dalai Lama could show compassion even to the Chinese, we shall be well on our way, but that is not going to happen. The thermodynamic whopee that we are so addicted to belies any expectation of the revolution.<br />
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Anna I suspect will fade rapidly into oblivion, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was all about us winning the last world cup as much as anything else ;)<br />
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</div><div>Check out the page . . and do donate to mom if you have some spare cash . . :)</div></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-65041558051234252922011-05-30T12:46:00.000-07:002011-05-30T12:46:32.719-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">some go<br />
some stay<br />
live on the fringes<br />
just make way<br />
heed the flow<br />
take the day<br />
sweat it out<br />
disarray<br />
constant twinges<br />
rock my world<br />
niggles bends<br />
torn unfurled<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Analyse the bitterness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">See if from within</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shapeless till withdrawn </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Formed when forsaken</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Seldom is there clarity</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To live within ones means</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wasted hope seeds freedom</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ticking through the seams</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Take time for compassion</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Redirect the punch</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pay heed to the emptiness</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It never meant that much</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Seeking nothing seemingly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beating through the bone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There’s simply no denying that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The heart is always home</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Twitching restlessly the tongue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wants no more to know</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bitter bitterer bitterest</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yearning for the glow</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sweet nothing then is far beyond</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What ails and weathers men</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tangy sour and tasteless blend</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What’s now is never then</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thinking through the bitterness</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Re tasting thick and thin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Reminiscing the bold embrace</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The glow takes me within</span><o:p></o:p></div></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-77212629738829345522011-05-02T15:13:00.000-07:002011-05-02T15:13:00.417-07:00School for Democracy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4kDlkp3bfOM/Tb8nkb32WhI/AAAAAAAAAbY/C957STZ3r_A/s1600/sfd+wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4kDlkp3bfOM/Tb8nkb32WhI/AAAAAAAAAbY/C957STZ3r_A/s400/sfd+wide.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #645f5e; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">where does our water come from? where does it go? can the Yamuna ever be a river again? These are some of the questions which led me to explore traditional water systems in the country as well as looking at a direction for our metropolises of the day. Focussing on Delhi, the pretext is that we actually get enough rain water to meet our needs, yet ever increasing large scale projects are endlessly under construction, I smelt a rat . . . decentralised solutions, which are small scale, community managed and cater to the immediate locality obviate the need for transportation and drastically reduce the footprint of a community, but there is little scope for large scale corruption . . thus the saying we need a 1000 1000$ projects, not a million $ one!</span></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-33889827559116981772011-04-23T02:40:00.000-07:002011-04-23T23:09:50.606-07:00the new delhi graffiti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VpyFQhQv3VY/TbKe0UILFPI/AAAAAAAAAa4/ST-DKg-M_G4/s1600/IMG_1159.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VpyFQhQv3VY/TbKe0UILFPI/AAAAAAAAAa4/ST-DKg-M_G4/s320/IMG_1159.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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the point sharp yet unsteady<br />
no more than eternity<br />
palms will weld the soul to me<br />
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shock so gentle bullet proof<br />
mean to mingle be va koof!</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-8713589448460853572011-04-06T08:00:00.000-07:002011-04-06T08:03:24.135-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The space I inhabit is wide and free</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">flipping from sunny to desultory</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">encased in caring possibility</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">makes me wonder dream then be</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">if space needs bounds just to exist</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">and infinity lies in my closed fist</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">what shackles then do i resist</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">for this is one train that just can't be missed</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">nose to the grind</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">punctual swift</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">help me unwind</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">get on my drift</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">time out of mind</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">sands gently shift</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">oscillate slow</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">three one two three</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">up the tempo</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">and its melody</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">minds eye window</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">have a look see</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">of them paths breaking through my wall</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">muddle my world engage it all</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">singed finger tips sculpted rationale</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">some call it mayhem others gall</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">time it will tell as i enthrall</div><div style="font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">rock or rocket fly or fall</div></span><br />
</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-56880301070753287792011-04-02T12:49:00.000-07:002011-04-02T12:49:09.760-07:00we won<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">no biggie . . it actually felt thataway . . but it was some grit there . . crazy . . :)</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-22889381807059012832011-04-02T11:39:00.001-07:002011-04-02T11:39:32.083-07:00we DID<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">kudos to dhoni for coming up the order. just what the doctor ordered!</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-49013412509959152912011-04-02T01:56:00.000-07:002011-04-02T01:56:28.256-07:00will we or won't we<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">on the brink of inking in the 2011 deep into the psyche of a nation. the team selection seems spot on. we're batting second, that's a good thing. love to see india chasing, even though the record isn't so great. but they say the ball will swing a bit. go msd!</div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-36969867932980293512011-03-29T14:38:00.001-07:002011-03-29T14:38:57.088-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">i know its trouble<br />
when i fall<br />
from frenzied race<br />
to steady crawl<br />
the urgency<br />
which should have stilled<br />
seems just to age<br />
and strike a chill<br />
make not that urge<br />
still not emerge<br />
distant traces<br />
fabled word<br />
dream in fragments<br />
shatter proof<br />
maybe madness<br />
coming through</span></span></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-39024350646765213152011-03-26T10:07:00.001-07:002011-03-26T10:39:42.691-07:00the cajon in action<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; white-space: pre;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F12560508"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F12560508" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/trooooon/cajon-solo-1">Cajon jam with assorted grinders and drills</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/trooooon">emni</a></span> </span></div>tjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075466224362713640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11258244.post-62387048777881189102011-03-26T10:05:00.000-07:002011-03-26T10:05:46.040-07:00cajon making at asim's workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kyZsHzLL-hI/TY4cEonpaaI/AAAAAAAAAak/f6Zrl_vCVYY/s1600/cajon+making+-+inspection.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kyZsHzLL-hI/TY4cEonpaaI/AAAAAAAAAak/f6Zrl_vCVYY/s320/cajon+making+-+inspection.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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