Chirag Rathod

Sunflower @ Windflower

2009-07-14T04:56:34Z

Sunflower, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Bourdain's: Decoding Ferran Adria

2009-02-25T09:08:49Z

This is amazing stuff !!!

At Dusk - II

2009-01-29T05:44:58Z

At Dusk - II, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Location: Kerehaklu, Chikkamangalur, Karnataka, India.

Kitten Climbs A Tree

2009-01-09T05:22:32Z

Kitten Climbs A Tree, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Men

2009-01-09T05:21:13Z

DSC_0389, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Cosmic Smile

2008-12-09T04:43:28Z

Cosmic Smile, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

I understand that it is bit too late to post this, but still ...

Roll

2008-11-17T06:15:28Z

Roll, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Glass House

2008-11-10T13:58:25Z

Glass House, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Glass House located in Lalbagh, Bangalore

Red Green & Yellow

2008-11-08T10:48:49Z

Red Green & Yellow, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Prehistoric Japanese Goblin Shark

2008-08-28T09:20:48Z

The way it gets its upper jaw our is just ... woow!

Tobacco To Cure Cancer!

2008-07-22T06:14:05Z

The tobacco plant - responsible for millions of cancer cases - may actually offer the means to treat one form of the disease, a study suggests.

Read more ...

An Amateur Photographer's Delight

2008-07-09T04:27:18Z

A picture that I took at St. Kilda Beach, Melbourne has been short-listed for inclusion in the fifth edition of the Schmap Melbourne Guide, which will be published at the end of this month.

I AM SO VERY HAPPY!!!

Cycle Computer

2008-07-08T05:01:21Z

Last evening I fixed my new Cycle Computer on the bike. (Thanks Balu for your help!). Fixing it did make my ride to work today morning faster and more enjoyable!

So here are the stats ...

Distance: 4.63 kms
Time: 16 min and 18 secs
Average Speed: 16.9 kmph
Top Speed: 30 kmph

If

2008-07-03T10:45:25Z

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

- Rudyard Kipling

One Decade

2008-06-30T08:16:03Z

I joined Future Software in Chennai on 28th June, 1998. That makes it a decade of work life.

In another 19 days I will finish 9 years at Oracle!

Discovery Channel: I Love the World

2008-06-27T05:06:17Z

I love Discovery Channel!

Ovulation Moment Caught on Camera

2008-06-13T09:26:19Z

A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for
the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.

Read more ...

Daughter Like Father

2008-05-20T06:03:25Z

Daughter Like Father, originally uploaded by Chirag Rathod.

Picture taken by Bhavesh (http://photo.net/photos/bhavesh)

Large Hadron Collider

2008-05-19T06:48:42Z

Brian Cox is a rock start physicist --- literally! In the following video he explains why we made the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/253

Skills For Men

2008-05-09T05:38:57Z

#19, #40, #47, #60, #75

Best Jingle Of Recent Times

2008-05-01T11:06:47Z

Everyday I want to fly stay by my side...
Everyday I want to dream stay by my side...

Every morning I wish I could just play....
Wish the mornings would just stay...

Child Labor

2008-04-07T05:15:24Z

Happened 10 minutes ago.

As a principle I never ask Shaylee to do any of my personal errands (viz get me water/remote/keys).

But today, while she was busy painting (and I was checking my LJ friends page), when the door swung open because of wind; I asked her, "Shaylee can you close the door, please?

Immediate reply was, "You close it --- please".

Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union'

2008-03-19T05:37:06Z

Waiting for one more my Indian leaders to talk like this.

One Of The Many Reasons I Love Physics

2008-03-02T14:47:46Z

It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later. Storing a strange form of vacuum builds on previous efforts in which researchers stopped light in its tracks (ScienceNOW, 22 January 2001) and may mark a significant step toward new quantum information and telecommunication technologies.

Source

You have no right to be proud, unless you did it yourself

2008-02-23T06:34:27Z

This guys does have a point when he says:

You have no right to be proud, unless you did it yourself. That goes for anything from racial pride to patriotism. Your race, gender and nationality are fucking accidents of birth. Being proud of something you got stuck with when mamma squeezed you out is stupid. You have a right to be proud of your own personal accomplishments, and perhaps those of your children (if you were actually a good parent, and your kids didn't succeed by sheer bloody-mindedness alone). That's it. Your parents fucked, Mom got knocked up, and ~9 months later, there you were. Race, gender and nationality handed to you out of some cosmic lottery machine. Fuck your white pride, black pride, national pride, and all the horseshit that goes along with it.

Original link: http://www.f-ckingc-nts.com/ramble/10-things-every-adult-should-know