Goliath Intro Acoustic guitar cover

                This is the intro music of Goliath youtube channel. Very simple and easy to learn ,love the harmonics involved and flow of music .  I have learned so much from this channel, Gareth this is for u .hope u guys like it ..

                                      

James Bond theme Song (Acoustic Cover)

This theme song requires no introduction, I finally managed to learn it  Hope u guys like it. Note that this is modified suitably to my capabilities..  Feel free to share your views ..

       
                                    

My dear angel

(Just felt like sharing a  thought passing by ..) 

It all began when our eyes met each other, that you became my destiny.

Your name sounded the sweetest ever, only to become my motivation.

Your smile is like a shining star that never stops to amaze me.

Just your presence, brings a great rejoice to my lonely heart.

My dear angel, Life without you, would just cease to exist.

A caring soul that always strives for the happiness of others.

A praying heart with a smile that heals the infected souls.

With helping hands, radiating your love and affection.

A blend of unique things in you that defines who you are.

My dear angel, you are an epitome of being a human.

Not even a second passes by, thinking of you

Not even a day passes by, praying for you

No quantum of words can describe my love

All in all it comes down to this, my dear angel

“I’m deeply truly madly

in love with you

for eternal”.

My dear angel, Life with you, will be beautiful.

Arm in arm, we shall walk the road of life together

 I’ll show you, the eternal happiness you are blessed with….

---knvk---

Near death Experience

(I never thought that I would write something like this traumatizing experience I have been through.but anyways I'll share it for good.)

It was fine Monday morning, as usual I felt a bit lazy to get myself ready to go office. Even the alarm clock set at 7.00 AM couldn’t wake me up. The weather was just so pleasant that the only thing that came to my mind was just to sleep. But with the help of my caring mom ,  I somehow was able to get ready by 9.00 AM.

Normally I go to office by two ways. One is by the famous “shared auto wallas” of Hyderabad ,which is most widely used by the public for fast and short distance travel apart from buses and second option I have is by my friend Prasad bike . I don't own any vehicle so far for very obvious reasons being the heavy traffic of Hyderabad which I hate a lot.   Prasad and I normally come to office on his bike. We have been doing this for more than year or so as he lives not far away from my home.  I always felt comfortable with the control my friend has on his bike when we are traveling at higher speeds. But all this was not enough for what lies ahead for both of us.

As usual I called him up , when I was near his home. He came to pick me in five minutes. There are two ways of reaching our office. One by the main road which is faster and convenient but takes longer time because of traffic. The other one is a short cut which takes less time to reach but we will have to go through a series of lanes to reach our office. I  don't know why but I have asked Prasad particularly on this very day that we shall go today in alternate short-cut route. But my friend told me that we will take the main road. Our fates were already sealed for that day.

The route via main road requires us to make a crossing to the other lane as we are on the other side of the road. We were traveling in the wrong lane keeping ourselves to the edge of road and making sure everybody hears us coming, by making loud horn sounds. As we reached for  opening in divider that would let us join the correct lane, we stopped and were looking for the gap in traffic that was racing towards us. After waiting for some time, we felt there was a gap in the traffic that would allow us to cross, but the nearest vehicle was some 50 metres away which was more than enough to cross the road. Prasad slowly accelerated towards the crossing. I just happen to notice a sports-bike ( Yamaha Make) which was far away from the nearest vehicle we saw initially, but racing at higher speeds may be more 90 kms. I thought for a second that Prasad might have already noticed it as well as the biker might have noticed us crossing the road.

But our fate has totally altogether a different plan for us. None of us observed each other properly. The biker hoping that he could manage to surpass us was confidently racing towards us and Prasad did not see him altogether. I don't know what was going through the biker‘s mind. He never made an attempt to slow down the vehicle even after watching us. Two seconds before disaster , I knew we are about to collide, I shouted he’s coming very fast. Prasad immediately slowed down the vehicle just enough to shift the impact point from our legs towards front side of the bike. And then it happened. Ka-boom.

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The impact has thrown all of us to the ground. We fell onto the left side of the our bike. I was in a state of shock for a brief moment. But immediately I realized that I was lying in the middle of the road. Fearing that some  vehicle would over run on us,I immediately got up onto my feet and saw the situation before me. I thought Prasad must have been severely injured but to my surprise, he was ok and was the first one to administer help to biker at the other end. As far as the biker is concerned , he was traveling along with his wife. After the impact ,the biker was ok but  the lady was hurled into the air and got badly injured. She has bruises all over her body. The horrible thing was she was crying in pain and was crying for help. I imagined the worst but that was not the case to some extent. She had a minor head injury and her nose was bleeding along with left leg was badly injured in this impact. Luckily good Samaritans from all around rushed in to help us.  

The aftermath followed with heavy traffic jam , arrival of ‘108’ ambulance , taking the lady to the hospital,police arrival along with relatives of bikers and colleagues of mine within minutes of accident. I actually fell onto the my left side after which I couldn't even hold my cellphone with my left hand and call for help as it was shaking but somehow I managed to call. There was heated arguments between both the parties for sometime. But my colleagues pacified the situation after which, both the parties dispersed from the scene of the accident. Thanks a lot to my colleagues for their care and support for us.

As far as our bike- the unicorn  is concerned, the front portion of it was completely destroyed,such was the speed at which the biker was traveling.  We all were lucky enough to survive a major accident. This was really a near death experience for me,If our bike was not slowed down , the impact point would have been our right legs which would have been crushed and four lives would have been at stake. I don't want to blame anyone but the only thing that hurts me the most is that  lady got badly injured because of all this.

All I can do at this point of time is to pray to god for her speedy recovery and hope she leads a normal life as used to be. I wish her all the healthy, wealthy and prosperous life ahead .I hope the biker learns a lesson from this incident as we did.

My dear readers ,my intention  of sharing this with you all is to warn you of the consequences of not following the traffic rules. So be careful while driving , don't drive very fast and stay safe.

Acoustic cover of Collide by Howie Day

After a long time, we made this video. Hope u like it .. 

 

The Story of our Universe Part 2:The Turning Point

 

(To continue reading Part 2 , please refer Part 1 : Asking Questions)

The Geo-centric model of Ptolemy gained wide popularity among astronomers around the world. Astronomers started making measurements or rather predictions of planetary motions based on observations. They have encountered certain problem with the motions of planets like Venus. Many Muslim Astronomers from 8^th  to 10^th Century  like Al-Khwarizmi extended their contributions by fine tuning the Geo-centric model, though it never solved the problem about planetary motions.

Though by 16^th Century, many astronomers doubted the Geo-centric model, but they failed to come up with alternative theory.  It was work of Tycho Brahe, a Danish nobleman (refer picture below) whose remarkable collection of data which was the most accurate data available till his time pertaining to motion of celestial objects which he obtained using his Instruments( refer picture below)  that led to the next break-through in our journey. 

  

   

 

Based on the data provided by the Tycho Brahe , Copernicus , a German Astronomer made his own calculation based on this data and came to startling conclusion that to describe the motion of planets , The sun must be at the centre and all other planets including the Earth must be rotating. Thus he developed the so called “The Helio-centric Theory”   i.e., with the sun at the centre, and all other planets revolving around the sun in perfect circles.

Helio Centric Theory

Copernicus

                                                                                            

It was a revolutionary idea that would have very serious implications on the world. Though Copernicus was very confident about his calculations, he only published his theory in his book  “On Revolutions of Celestial Spheres”   only at very later stage of his life. But when the world came to know about his theory, The Holy Church was against to this idea and so does the rest of the world.

To the astronomers around the world, this theory was a daring proposition and they set out to find out the truth. One of them was Keppler, a German astronomer further added to this theory that the planets revolve around the Sun not in Circular orbits but rather in Elliptical Orbits as shown below.

During the 16^th Century, the world was introduced to telescopes as toys that would magnify an object. But one astronomer had a different idea altogether, he developed a special telescope that could magnify an object 10 times. He was Galileo Galilee, a Italian Astronomer. He was first Human being to  gaze at the universe with his telescope. What a remarkable feeling Galileo must have felt by seeing the universe with a naked eye..

  Galileo made a detail record of what he has observed. His observations led him to conclude that Helio centric theory offers the best description of the world around. 

The first ever Telescope

The moon as seen through the telescope

Galileo supported the heliocentric theory with practical observations that could be seen with his telescope. But the Church readily did not accept this idea. The Church decided to prosecute Galileo for his support of heliocentric theory as it rejects the idea that the world was created as described by Geo-centric theory which was work of the God himself. Thus, officially the clash of ideology between Religion and Science has began. In this prosecution by the Church, Galileo was all-alone in this battle. He was at the mercy of the Church. He lost the battle against the Church and was house arrested for the rest of his life. This was done to him just for stating the fact which we regard very obvious in 21^st century. But it is just unimaginable to think the struggle he must have faced. As time passed on after his death, more and more evidence poured in about the Helio centric theory, thus causing the Church to accept the Helio centric theory as the Work of God himself and rejecting the idea of Geo-centric model of universe which lasted for about 1500 years unchallenged.

Prosecution  Session of Galileo by the Holy Church

Galileo in his last days

 Helio-centric theory explained the Sun was at the centre and the rest of planets revolved around the sun. But it was never able to explain what caused the planets to revolve? In our journey to understand the universe, it is time to meet one of the most brilliant mathematician ever lived on the surface of the Earth..

Sir Isaac Newton

Let us look at the Part 3 of our Journey to understand the Universe in the next post ..

The Story of Our Universe- Part 1

How did the Universe come into existence?

Why is the universe the way we see around us?

We all at one point or the other in our life must have asked ourselves the above questions about the universe.As an ardent follower of Science, I have always been deeply fascinated by the mysteries of the universe especially about its origins. I always used to wonder what could be the answer for the following above questions.  And thus, I began my quest to understand it. I immediately realized that there are only two possible routes to find a possible answer to these mysteries.

1.  The Path of Science
2.  The Path of Religion

I took both the paths to understand the universe. The Path of Religion only made me realize that for these questions, the obvious answer is God. Often described as The Supreme, The Invincible, The Creator, The Destroyer and many other names, we were made to believe right from our Childhood that there is someone out there in the skies who is watching us and will grant us anything we wish for, only if, we lead a life as described by Him and His Messengers and thus, according to our acts, we are ensured our berth in Heaven or Hell accordingly. I’m not here to argue about His Existence, that’s not the topic of this discussion, but if asked whether I believe in God, Yes is my answer and He created the Universe we see around.  But at the same time, I certainly believe the fact that the Universe was not created the way as often described in our Sacred Books of Religion. Every Sacred book has its own version of Creation, thus leading to chaos. For example, the Abrahamic religions like Islam, Christianity & Judaism agree that the Universe was created spontaneously in just Six days and God took rest on Seventh Day which is quite different version from what Hinduism and many other states. I certainly believe that God must have left it out for us to figure out ourselves about the origins and so He devoted most of His work making us understand the path that we all need to follow to reach Him, through His Messengers. After all what’s the point of spoon feeding everything?.

For most of us, we are not at all bothered as to how God might have created the universe as it is a past event and cannot affect our daily lives. We are more concerned about our present and future, striving harder to lead a happy and peaceful life.  But for some people understanding the origins of universe  became their entire life’s work for which they have earned respect of the whole mankind which will also be highlighted apart from their contribution in this topic.

The more I try to know about the universe, the more mysterious it becomes. It is perhaps the most complex thing the humankind has ever came across. In this 21^st century we may be nearing to answer few of  the most complex questions by using the Six billion dollars worth “The Large Hadron Collider” facility to  unlock the mysteries of atoms which are conducted at the CERN, Switzerland.This may ultimately help us solve some mysteries  and pave way for some more deep mysteries of the universe ,after all  the universe will never stop to challenge us until we reach the final truth.

The Entire picture of our Universe

 The above picture is a computer simulated model of our complete universe. This was only possible today  because of the latest Super Computers that can do calculations at staggering speeds of more than One PFLOPS/Sec  ( 10 ¹⁵  Operations per second). Each Bright spot in the picture represents billions and billions of galaxies. And each galaxy is collection of billions of stars. Out of these Stars, one star i.e., The Sun is about which our Planet Earth rotates. Isn’t it mind boggling to realize this fact? It just makes feel how tiny we are before it.

In this series, I would like to make an attempt to present  the views of scientific community from the past to present about the origins of our universe in a simple lucid explanation, not involving any complex mathematics that even a glimpse of it will scare you and this, mind you is my interpretation of what I have learned through watching a number of documentaries on this topic.In this journey of our understanding , we can also notice one remarkable thing about science is that a theory proposed by someone is not accepted until and unless it is proved by means of verifiable and repeatable physical parameters which can be conducted by anyone who has understanding of it. It is remarkable to see how science proposes a theory and shatters it by a new theory and mind you this is a iterative process which continues until to that point where we are only left with nothing but  the absolute truth.

I only intend to write this so as to make myself organize the data that i have learned and also have a better understanding about the origins of the universe.The copyrights of all the images used in this post belong to their respective owners .

Part 1:  Asking Questions

In the beginning, say some thousands of years ago, our understanding was very limited. As our mind evolved with passage of time, it became curious to know the things around it, because understanding of surroundings led ultimately to its survival itself. At the same time, it made an attempt to make sense of the mysteries that it happen to encounter. One of such things is the Universe. And it made sense by the idea that the Universe and the Life was created by an Invisible and Invincible force of the universe. The God.

This was the way our ancestors depicted the Universe as the creation of God which is very widely accepted idea today. But the important question is not whether God created everything or not, But  how God created this Universe. The only way to do was by asking questions and making careful observations of things around them. And thus mankind set himself on a journey to unlock the mysteries of the Universe, since God did not gave a clear picture of how he created the Universe even if he did, it was often different versions to different people.

Frightening the Moon to save Sun God!!

             

Our attempt to understand the universe dates back to some 5000 years ago by Babylonian Astronomers who perceived the Earth was flat which was floating in ocean. The first noticeable observation of our Universe on the Earth was that of solar Eclipse, where the moon comes in between the path of Sun God- The giver of light, thus causing darkness in a bright daylight. Our ancestors spread across the Earth had their own perceptions of this event. One among them was, to save The Sun God as he has been swallowed by moon , they were suppose to frighten the moon with their weapons and remarkably this worked , and frightened  moon escapes the spot immediately to avoid the anger of the Sun devotees as depicted in the above picture. Though this interpretation of Solar Eclipse seems to be funny, but it’s quite remarkable that even more than 2500 years ago, our ancestors made very careful observations of the things around them and  made an attempt to understand these mysteries in their own way.

Aristotle

 The first person to make an attempt to understand the universe was Aristotle, who lived around some 2300 years ago in Greece. Until then all his precursors with naked eye were able to make out that the Earth which was spherical in shape and was surrounded by some five Planets which they named them after their Gods.  Later on Aristotle made some remarkable conclusions based on his observations, one of which was that the Solar Eclipse is caused by moon coming in between the path of Sun rays and further he concluded that the Sun was the Centre of Universe.      

                

Ptolemy

            

Earth Centered Model of Universe

It was work of a Greek astronomer, Ptolemy in 1^st Century AD that put forth this idea of Earth Centered Model of Universe which is also known as Geo-centric model of universe, in which earth was centre and all other planets were revolving around the Earth in perfect circular orbits. Though there were certain problems associated with this model, but it was widely accepted as the Standard description of Universe which explained many phenomenons observed at that time like day and night etc (depicted in the above diagram). The Holy Church immediately accepted this idea as it left room for heaven and hell beyond the Stars and preached this as the work of God himself.

This model of universe was left unchallenged for about 1500 years, but the curiosity to understand the mysteries of universe never died. The thing that needs to be highlighted here is that these people made foundation for their successors to understand the Universe using careful observations. It took the following brilliant people Copernicus, Keppler and  Galileo along with countless people to overthrow the existing idea of Geo-centric model of our Universe.

Copernicus

 

Keppler

 

Galileo

Let us look at the Part 2 of our Journey to understand the Universe in the next post " The Turning point"

A ride to remember : Mallelatheertham Waterfalls

My life is damn routine is the first thought my mind plays along when I just wake up.  Determined to kill this thought for this weekend, I decided to do a bit of traveling. I teamed up with my good old engineering friend Mr. Srinivas to do something. Inspired by the movie “The Motor cycle Diaries” We decided why not do a bike riding to a distant place together. We decided to go to Mallelatheertham waterfalls which is near Srisailam , Kurnool District and 180 kms away from Hyderabad.

We started at 10.15 am which, i think is not  a good time to start for long journey especially in summers. Armed with only a cap to protect us from scorching heat, we set out towards our destination on our "La Poderosa"- The Powerful- YAMAHA SZR. The journey through the city was slow with traffic piling ahead of us , but as we reached the outskirts of city, our speed picked up.

The travellers ..

On the outskirts of city, we stopped to visit one of the Hyderabad's famous temple by name “Maisigandi Temple” the home of Goddess Kali. The temple attracts hundreds of devotees daily from all over Andhra Pradesh offering their services to Goddess. The Striking part of this temple is that the mere sight of Goddess Kali appearance would just send a shiver through your body and warn you about the implications if you do any sins. On the vicinity of the temple, I also happen to come across the area which is dedicated for sacrifice i.e.,for execution of innocent animals painfully mostly goats and hens. It was indescribably horrible site to watch for me. I don't understand to this date why would God ask us to do something like this and at the same time ask us not kill in His name.

Maisigandi Temple

We moved on leaving behind my unsettling thoughts about offerings to God. As sun reached directly  over  us  , we started to experience his real power. The heat was just dehydrating our bodies and at  one point, we became desperate to have some water to quench our thirst. After 2.00 pm , the climate has dramatically  changed to pleasant cool weather as though to  welcome us when we reached the ghat roads of srisailam. It took one more hour drive to reach the waterfalls by 3.00 pm.

The waterfalls was about 100 feet high , not too tall when compared to what i have seen earlier. The flow of water was not that intense as it was unseasonal. The good thing is that this has better platform to have fun under it. We spend about 90 minutes having fun and exploring the peaceful surroundings.

 

Mallelatheertham waterfalls

A small trek will bring u closer to waterfalls

Srinivas having fun with water

As always serious

By the time we started back to Hyderabad at around 4.30 pm, there was a slight shower of rain which left with a cool breeze of air. The return journey was great as cool breeze of air was flowing through your face, the smell of mud after it rained was very pleasant, the beautiful sceneries around us was just a feast to our eyes and travelling while listening to your favorite songs was just awesome combination.

By the time we reached our home it was 9.30 pm and it was great experience altogether. We never travelled on bike for about 360 kms ( Up and down) along with 10 hours of journey time in a single day as well as never had back pain which will hopefully subside eventually.

I hope this is just the beginning of many more to come in the future …………

The Godfather theme acoustic cover

This is the theme song of my all time favourite movie The Godfather .. Yours comments ,valuable suggestions are always welcome .. hope u like it .

The old man at the hotel

(It was almost a year ago, i.e., Jan 2011, It was customary for me that along with my school friends that we should at least have one tour of India . Accordingly, we planned to visit quite a few places in Goa as well as Karnataka. This incident happened on the fourth day of our tour when we were in search of a hotel, while returning after a daylong of enjoyment …)

Basically it is a very well known hilltop hotel in Gokarna beach, Karnataka (Sorry I don’t remember the name). The route to the hilltop was quite scary with no proper lights and with dangerous curves ready to take you down to the bottom.  There was only one light near gate of the hotel. We happen to reach the hotel in our cab at around 21.30 hrs. In our batch two of my friends, TK and Privinesh who happen to knew kannada, went to reception office which is down the hill to find out the accommodation details, while the rest of us i.e., myself , Arun, venky, & Pavan decided to stay just near the gate. 

As we were engaged in our own conversations, we happen to watch two foreigners emerge from the stairway, which lead to the reception office. There was a small room for security check up near the gate, where there were two persons in the room. One was obviously the guard who is on night duty for that day and the other was an old man, probably in his 50’s.The guard was just standing near the entrance of the security room and the old man was sitting at the entrance of the room. We didn’t care much about them until, the foreigners who were in need of some help asked the guard for directions towards their hut. The guard was trying to help them but the old man intervened and offered his help. The moment he opened his mouth, we understood that he must have emptied a few bottles to get some good sleep.

The old man, as though he was on a stage for an auditioning of a Hero role, set out to display his dramatic acting skills. We couldn’t understand a bit except for a few English words which he managed to pop out for his audience, as most of what he was saying was in Kannada with emotions running high. The two foreigners felt uncomfortable and we had to intervene and tried to bring some sense in the old man. At one point, the old man even made us laugh at him. After sometime, the two foreigners left towards their hut, leaving us to judge the old man audition. 

The old man was unstoppable, almost his performance was reaching climax. At that point, he happen to ask us something. We didn’t understand anything. But he came to know through our conversations that we are from Hyderabad and that might have aroused his regional feelings (No offence at anybody). 

Venky immediately replied “We don’t know kannada. We can only understand Telugu, Hindi and English”. 

The old man said something and left us in search of something. Pavan happen to keep a close watch on the old man saved many lives. The old man went near the bushes just a few feet away from us and happen to pick up his most favourite tool. The AXE!!

Pavan cried out “Look guys, He got an axe !! Run for your lives”

 

Say Hello to my little friend

My friends immediately ran out of the gate, into the darkness and took protection near our cab  .I wasn’t  actually facing the old man,  by the time , I turn around to comprehend what has happened, I saw the old man as though to take revenge for some injustice ,came running towards me with an ‘AXE‘ swinging ,as I’m very  near to him. A Sense of fear for my life went through my body. By the time, I started running towards the gate and into the darkness, he came very close to me.  I thought this will be my last day on this Planet called Earth. 

As I came out,   I saw a car parked near the gate. At ones, I decided to take protection near the car. By the time, I reached the back of the car, the old man stopped near the entrance of the gate with his Axe in his hand, swinging wildly and yelling some rubbish stuff in Kannada. The only words we could understand were those that he would like to cut us into pieces.  God saved us all to live another day!!

The Security Guard came for our rescue and immediately took him away .We had a heated argument with management of hotel. They assured us that the old man would be taken care of and won’t disturb us anymore. Somehow we weren’t interested to leave such a beautiful spot. We decided to stay in the hotel.

The next day we left the hotel and were about to take our breakfast in a nearby food centre, when we happen to see this old man with his friend walking along the beach. We were quite sure that he would have not remembered anything. We thought to teach him a lesson for what he has done to us. But the moment, we thought of putting our thoughts to action, the old man took out his dagger to show to his friend as though to warn us. That was instance, we gave up the thought of doing something.

 Dont ever mess with me

 

It was a terrifying event for me, as I came face to face with almost certain death situation. I just cant even imagine the consequences if he had thrown the axe at me. Nevertheless, we continued to enjoy our tour of Western India..

super mario bros theme acoustic cover

This cover is a simpler version of super mario bros theme .. one of my favourite video games that i used to play a lot back in my school days .. hope u enjoy it and feel free to comment ..