Two eggs on my plate

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Anything for you, Ma'am by Tushar Raheja.

Anything for you ma'am book cover

The Hindu recommends it as " ... one of the funniest books in recent times " and I couldnot agree more . The book is a delightful read - a 230 page paperback of pure unadulterated fun .

I had gone to Sapna books store to buy a book on Numerical Algorithms but instead bought this book. It was drizzling slightly when I got into the bus to return home and to my surprise the second page itself - had a beautiful poem on the rain . It is so beautiful that I must reproduce it here -
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I wake up in the morning
To the sound of raindrops ,
And I wonder where you'd be
And I wonder if it's raining there .
Wherever you are , I hope you think of me ,
When it's raining there .

The rain poem along with the pitter patter of rain falling on the window of the Volvo bus made me sigh. Life indeed is beautiful. I will write more tomorrow.

A slight degression here -
There is this textbook of Physics by Resnick and Halliday and the Electromagnetism chapter had Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism. There was a footnote from the authors urging the young student to read them if not for anything else - at least for the betterment of one's soul.
I would definetely suggest the same for the poem above.






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Saturday, July 14, 2007


This picture is taken from a spot called Bald Mountain peak very near to Portland ,US

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Ways of getting a new PC

http://www.neednewpc.com/?b

Check them out :)

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

The Open Source Revolution
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html

A very good account of it.

Friday, August 11, 2006

Two eggs on my plate is a book written by Olief Reed Olsen and is set on the period of ww-II and the German occupation of Norway.
Having escaped from the German occupation of Norway, the author was trained in Canada as an agent and parachuted back into Norway with the task of watching and reporting on the movements of German shipping.

The camp at which the author was training had a code. Any guy who gets two eggs on his plate for dinner was to make himself ready for being paradropped over Norway. That's how the book gets its name. I read the book in my 7th Standard in 1987 in Rajgangpur , Orissa and the heroic exploits of the three boys inspired me no end.


I find the book very inspiring- somehow it motivates me to to stretch myself , do heroic things , give everything for a cause. I feel that is the way life should be lived - giving heart and soul for a cause.