Kaalam edo chepthondi Mike!

~~Mom's poem on MJ ~~

Aata ayina, paata ayina, padhavi ayina, pusthakam ayina
Manishini andalalu ekisthundi. Avani velugulo unnantha varake,

adantha vintemi kaadu, vedhika kinda shavaalu perche
swaardham lo padipovadhani charithra chebuthondi

ninatiki repatiki theda telusa? Maryadaku amaryadaku unade.
Adigo monnati MJ ku… neti MJ ku unmade (read his full name in place of MJ)
Adigo evaro antunaru, sajeevaniki vigatha jeevuniki unnadenani!!

Athani patala hooru lo, prapanchalu payaninchayi
Athani sangeetham lo, kotha ruchulo evo andukunayi
Nella naanani kaali vela tho natyam aadina nalla kaluvaku neerajanaalu
Marina ranghulonchi, karina jalapaatham la, mogina sagara ghosha, aa pop, aa break
Ragilina sopanalakinda, naligindi thellani a guudu thirasti ga

Ninu dachukundi ipudu e lokham CD, DVD lo.
Vimarshakandani satyalu evo vinipisthunayi.
Cheekatlo kalisaka kotlaki andani shava petikalavuthunayi.
Vennu poosa jhallu manelaa , kaalam edo chebuthondi, manishi unnantha varake nani

~~Unnamed post~~

on the wings of the wind... i wrote the saga of my crazy heart..
with a thought that they would flutter till they reach you...
to sing my words to you...with the flowers dancing to the tunes..

on the floor filled with stars.... i spread the joy of my celebration...
with an idea to cover the sky in a mantle of happiness...
to make the night look beautiful...with a breeze of love in the air...

on the edge of an island filled with warmth ..... i carved my taste for you...
with a reflection to shelter the possessions of love....
to make the world smile at you...with a grin of happiness in their mind...

on the deep shallows of the pacific... i hid the treasure of hate...
with a gist that no one could reach the deep waters in quest...
to stop the contamination of pure hearts ... with the sea world watching it...

on the ...

25

In a few months, I will turn 25.

Woww!! Its a great feeling. Excited, worried, tensed are the mixed feelings I have everytime I think about this.

Just as a revamp of what happens in everyone's life for the first 25 years: we grow up, learn to walk, we learn things by playing, we learn things by seeing things around us, we finally end up going to school, make a bunch of friends, go to college, increase the size of that bunch, meet that special person (or at least we want that person to be special), decide on a career, think of a well planned HAPPY future, bid adios to college, and we all jump into the race of LIFE.

Everyone for sure has/had their bit of dreams, dreams of becoming everything and everyone we like for that day. (I'm not heading the 3 idiots way :p)

I wanted to be Kapil Dev, I wanted to be Superman for his flying powers, I always wanted to fly in a spaceship (i'm serious, not just a simple airline), wanted to be on TV and be famous... be a celebrity.

And, these dreams or goals take a definite shape when we grow up, know the world around us.

Just wanted to share my dreams of this stage, and would like to see how far did I come across to live those dreams.

- Cricket at a big level: (for some reason, I was always glued to cricket. Its part of my blood you see, I can't do anything) I always wanted to play cricket at a very big level. I knew I couldn't make it to the National team (realized this when I was in 8th grade), but still wanted to play big.
When I was nearing the final days of schooling, I had to downgrade my aim to play at a pretty decent league level where there was a huge crowd watching me and that pressure is on my shoulders. It partially came true, in class 10, playing the finals against Harvard school, in front of my school crowd.
Then, in the recent times, I always felt bad that dad could never watch me play at a big level. I was fultoo satisfied when both the above dreams came true in Seattle. Playing a very tough team in front of almost all the league greats, and in front of my dad was something really I couldn't share with anyone then.







- I wanted to be into software industry, as a........ (sorry can't reveal yet). Well, I am now happy that i'm into this industry, and things aren't never too late.

- Share, Serve and Support: Always wanted to share my resources, serve the needy people and support those who needed a shoulder to rest, a hand to hold, an ear to listen. Yes, you got me right, be part of a NPO. I am happy that I could live this dream of mine. And, I'm still living it :)

- Sky Diving: It is for sure a great experience. I want to do this at least to get over that nightmare I usually see in my sleep, where I fall from a very tall building, and I never hit the ground. :) I am not even close to this yet. But, will surely try to live this dream.

- Snorkeling and diving: Well, I don't know how to swim. So, I don't even think I can live this dream.

- Tip a huge amount: Always wanted to go and win large at a casino and then tip that dealer with some good amount and come back home :D Not sure if I have already lived this or if I will ever.

- Space shuttle: Well, the childhood dream still continues :) I want to see EARTH as a whole. Like, how Tom Hanks sees in Apollo 13.

Well, these were just a few things I wanted to do before my 25th birthday. Just a hope that I can at least do the skydiving and snorkelling thing in the next 3 months :)

Who knows how the next 25 years are gonna be. So, better start living our dreams at least now. :)

Northwest Kids Cricket

Cricket has always been a passion for me. It is one thing that actually flows in my blood (I mean it).

I started playing cricket when I was hardly 3 years. What I hear from my dad is that I was always technically strong. Used to have a very neat batting and bowling action. Thanks to my dad, my first coach.

My cricketing skills have always seen a raising learning curve. It was my physical fitness that always pulled me back from going to higher level.

My mom being a teacher, I again have this quality of spreading the knowledge in my blood. So, I ended up learning about a kids cricket coaching in Seattle. Thanks to Vishwa Gaddamanugu garu.
The first thing that stuck my head was, I should be a part of this. When I shared this thought to my friends and family, I obviously didn't get a positive response. But, to clear everyone's ideas, cricket is not just a physical strain sport. It helps in building an individual. Specially when you are learning and playing this game frequently at a very young age, its not just your cricketting skills that develop, but its your physical fitness, your social skills, your presence of mind, social and inter-personal skills.

Thanks to Northwest cricket league for taking this iniative of starting a kids coaching program. Thanks to all the cricketers who are part of this and are helping out in making this program a huge success.

I was lucky to be part of this initiative program and i'm happy that kids in the USA are getting to learn the game at a very young age.

Here are some pics form last years sessions:
http://picasaweb.google.com/vishu2/NorthWestKidsCricket#slideshow

So, if you know any kids (boys or girls), just pull them into cricket. Well actually, not just cricket, be it any team sport. :) Trust me, that helps a lot!!

Coincidence?? Guess so!!

Is this just a coincidence or how true is it gonna be?

The following text is just pure "non-sense". It has been ages I have written a post and just came up with some stupid thoughts.

I have been receiving so many forward messages these days, but one that really caught me into laughing and that surprised me was:

“Coming October 17, 2008 the sun will rise continuously for 36 hrs (1.5 days). During this time the American countries will be dark for 1.5 days.

It will convert 3 days into 2 big days. It will happen once in 2400 yrs.
We’re very lucky to see this. Forward it to all friends.”

Well, there was no information about this on google or any other search engine. And, as every other blogger says, there is not a single hint of this from NASA (which almost forgot what is happening here on earth. All their intrest has been Mars, Moon, Sun, Stars, etc etc. )

Ok, so why am I writing this blog? Read through it.

This was in the news that some stupid mad group of people are trying to create a Large Hadron Collider over a 27kms circumferance. Well, I really don't want to talk about what all it does, how is the proton created and how does it collide with its opposite charge at such a speed on earth. If you do not know about it, please take some time to read about it at: http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/

Ok, to be simple all this LHC does is, creates a black hole. How cool (or Kewll) is that? Anyways, so the process was started today: Sept 10h, 2008.

So, what's so interesting again. If it is gonna create one, let it. Well, i see a coincidence with the LHC and that forward about the Oct17th. I ain't any highly talented person with lots of enthu towards science, but I am just making a GUESS. If it is really possible that the LHC can generate particles to collide at higher energy levels and can atleast simulate a blackhole existance on earth, than, the forward message could be real.

The speed at which earth is rotating is constant due to which our ancestors concluded 24 hours a day, 7days a week, 30days a month and 365days a year. For the fwd message to be real, earth has to stop rotating when sun is at its highest point in the Asian region, and thus leaving night time else where. If this really happens, sorry to say this, but it will be near to end of human life on earth. (Now, does that get any thing in line with the LHC??)

I hope everyone knows what a black hole does. It sucks everything in its vicinity. Since, people are just creating a simulation or a miniature black hole, or the speed of the particle revolution inside the LHC, can this cause the earth to slow down its rotation? Well, it is said that, it takes around a month for the particles to attain such high energy. So one month from today, probably around Oct 10th, and 17th is not too far. :-)

Well, i am just guessing, but can this really happen? ( I am pretty sure it won't). So is it like, the earth stops rotating on Oct 17th and drifts on its revolution axis for half a day? I guess it would be like, driving a car at 100mph and imagine the situation of the passenger sitting in the rear of the car and you apply breaks suddenly. Imagine this at speeds that we can't even imagine. ;-)

Well, all I say at the end, let us just wait till Oct 17th and see what happens. Even if something really happens (or not) close to what was said in the forward message, find the person who started it and .......

You don't want to share?? :-X

“I did not want to tell you that I was suffering.” Is there anything wrong in this? I would like to ask everyone that is it wrong even if we don’t share our feelings? I didn’t want people to worry about me and waste their time thinking about my problem. Is that anything wrong? Well, the community and the culture where we live, probably says yes. It is not just about hard feelings, even if people don’t share any happy moments or good times, why are people so angry or disappointed about you? It happened to me that I did not want my friends and dearest ones know about my hard times. Was that something wrong? I did not think that they will be of no help. I just did not want to share my hard times, can’t even do that? It is true that when you are very close to people, when you inculcate that trust factor in them, you do feel that they are the right person’s to share things with. But, what if a person just did not want to do so? Is that such a big sin? Why do people get so angry if we say so?

What's wrong today?

What am I doing? I have been sitting all alone in my apartment, in my chair, not moving at all, skipping my lunch. I don’t know what’s going on with me. I am all alone. There is no one to share my feelings. I’m missing so many things now. I miss my motherland, my friends and mainly some light in my life today at this moment. I could have done so many things from the time I woke up, but, there is something stopping me from doing those.
I desperately want to study, but I can’t. I want so many things now, but I am so sure, that I can’t get them. What should I do? Something wrong is going on, how can I rectify that?

Newton's three laws of Graduation

Cricket ruins my softball

Cricket ruined my game today :( .

In cricket, we are so used to place and hit the ball over the in-field to score more and quicker runs. I was trying to do the same thing today in my softball game. But, I did not do that purposefuly, it just happened. I spoiled 3 of my innings. I later realised what the problem was, when I was fielding in the same old position of mine (right wing). My 4th and 5th innings were really good, and made them basehits.
My 4th innings, being the funniest situation of the entire match, rather the entire league :D . I made a base hit, the next batsmen hit the ball high in the air, I didn't knew that I was not supposed to run to the 2nd base if the ball was caught. As soon as the batsmen hit the ball, I started running and I covered two more bases. The 3rd base coach then said me that I was out, I had no clue what was going on. I had to walk back to the bench. Jason, my captain then said me that I was not supposed to run if the ball was caught (man, it was baseball for a while that caught my mind).
My 5th inning was a really good hit, making a double and winning the game 18 to 7. Good way to win these games, and its really a nice feeling when you are playing a sport for the first time, and you hardly know the rules, and you are winning matches.