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നീ പോയി വളര്‍ന്നിട്ടു വാ... നിന്നെ പിന്നെ കണ്ടോളാം, ചിക്ക്കിങ്ങില്‍ വച്ചോ, KFC യില്‍ വച്ചോ കണ്ടോളാം.

മുണ്ടു മടക്കിയും കുത്തിയും

മുണ്ടു മടക്കിയും കുത്തിയും നമ്മള്‍ മല്ലുസ് എത്ര വിലപ്പെട്ട സമയമാ നഷ്ടപെടുത്തുന്നെ?? അറിയില്ലേ, കേരളത്തില്‍ ഒരു വ്യവസായവും പച്ചപിടിക്കാത്ത്തതിന്റെ രഹസ്യം. ഈ മുണ്ടു മടക്കല്‍ തന്നെ കാരണം. ഒരു അന്താരാഷ്‌ട്ര സമിതി നടത്തിയ ഒരു റിസര്‍ച്ചില്‍ ഇത് തെളിയുക്കുന്നുന്ടെന്നവര്‍ അവകാശപ്പെടുന്നു.

റോഡോ തോടോ, ആര്‍ക്കറിയാം ഭഗവാനെ??

ഇത് റോഡോ, തോടോ, ആര്‍ക്കറിയാം ഭഗവാനെ!! ഇവന്മാര്‍ എന്നെയിവിടെയിട്ടു കുളിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ലക്ഷണമുണ്ട്!! നാളെ ഞാനിനി കോടതി കയറേണ്ടി വരുമോ ആവോ, MACT കോടതിയില്‍, അതും ചിലപ്പോള്‍ വേണ്ടി വരും വല്ല വണ്ടിയും വന്നു മുട്ടിയാല്‍. മഴയെത്തിയാല്‍ തോടാകുന്ന നമ്മുടെ സ്വന്തം റോഡുകള്‍, പിന്നെ പുഴകളാകുന്നു.

പേടിക്കേണ്ട, ഇപ്പോള്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ കൊച്ചിയിലാണ്.

ഇങ്ങനെയൊന്നു കണ്ടാല്‍ കരുതിക്കോളൂ നിങ്ങള്‍ കൊച്ചിയിലാണ്. കൊച്ചിയുടെ സ്വന്തം കൊതുകുകള്‍!! ഇവറ്റകളെ ഈ കുളത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് ഓടിക്കാന്‍ കൊച്ചി corporation വളരെ പണിപ്പെടുന്നുണ്ട്‌, അതിനാല്‍ പലരുടെയും കീശ വീര്‍ക്കുന്നുമുണ്ട്, കുറ്റം പറയരുതല്ലോ!!

തിരികെ ഞാന്‍ വരുമെന്ന വാര്‍ത്ത കേള്‍ക്കാനായി....

കേരള to ദുബായ് ബസ്‌ സര്‍വീസ്

KSRTC BUS JOURNEY

ഈ തൂങ്ങിക്കിടന്നു യാത്രചെയ്യുന്നവരാ നമ്മുടെ ശകടത്തിനെ നഷ്ടത്തിലെത്തിക്കുന്നത്. ആയതിനാല്‍ ഇവരില്‍ നിന്ന് തന്നെ കണ്ടക്ടറെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുന്നു. ശകടത്തില്‍ തുങ്ങി യാത്ര ചെയ്തു ശീലിച്ചവര്‍ അപേക്ഷിക്കുക...

Mallu's Waste Management

A scene near Edappally level cross, Ernakulam.

I have a chance to capture this picture from Edappally level cross area, while waiting for the gate to open. I got to stop exactly in front of the above sign board. In spite of two sign boards, Edappallian's least bother about not to throw rubbish under this warning boards.
Our Indians, especially we mallus has a very good sense of waste management. Throw it on to the neighbors’ property or on the road side or on to the drainage canal on the strip of the road, to block the free flow of water on it. Then later cry about the water clogging and mosquitoes. It is time to declare that mosquito is the national bird of Cochin. Enjoy Cochin mallus.

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life.

I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ...................

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? ................

It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices........." "Don't be serious, be sincere."!!

Printers are like woman…

"Printers are like woman…."


This is not my version. This is my colleague Mr. Pat’s version.

One day our chief mechanic came to control room for some print. He brought his pen drive (USB Memory stick) for getting some print out. After giving print command from the computer, he was waiting for the print out. But the machine still not showing any sign of printing it. So he got up from the seat and looking at the print tray and its display area anxiously. He was in a hurry to attend some important job down in the engine room.

Upon seeing this anxiety in chief mechanics face, Pat said, “hi Prakash, Printers are like woman, it is slow to start and fast to finish”. So let it warm up, once it warm up, you will get the print fast.

The man who keeps me healthy

This is about the man who keeps me healthy. The man who cares me sometimes more than my spouse does at home (regarding food). Mahinder Singh Rana is from Uttaranchal, India. He is working as the chief chef on our installation out at sea. He came here almost five months back. He is a very good cook. Before him, we had some Bengali babu’s as our cook.

We came to know his cooking ability only when we were running the galley without a camp boss. The camp boss on duty left after completing his term and the new camp boss hasn’t reported.

That camp boss was from a village in West Bengal. He never treated the galley boys well. Instead he is a chamcha… cocksucker. He gives special items to client representative and other supervisory people.

Once he left, we don’t have a camp boss for almost two weeks. During this period, this chief cook, he had prepared food with the available grocery on board, even though we were running short of provisions, it was mouthwatering. All enjoyed the food this period.

I noticed him only when we weren’t having the camp boss. He immediately picked up my requirements, as it is a short list like, boiled vegetables and chicken. (any form of chicken preparations) and a piece of chapattis and sometimes I go for some soup too. Chicken is unavoidable for me. Lot of time, I thought of quitting chicken as I did for beef and mutton. But it hardly happened. When ever I see chicken in the counter, I could not resist. I do pick some pieces and eat it.

I was thinking about writing a blog about my cook, but when I started putting in black and white, I could not explain it well. So I am stopping it.

Deepwater Horizon Sinks Offshore Louisiana

The US Coast Guard office in Louisiana has confirmed that Transocean's semisubmersible, Deepwater Horizon, has sunk in approximately 5,000 feet of water off the coast of Louisiana at approximately 10:30 a.m, (CST) this morning. Additional explosions occurred this morning causing the rig to settle below the surface. At this time it is unclear what the condition of the rig is. ROVs have been deployed to survey the situation.

The exact position of the rig is not known at this time and two pipelines that are in the area have been shut-in as a precaution should the rig impact one or both of the pipelines. Either the GSF Development Driller III or the Discoverer Enterprise, both currently under contract to BP, could be used to drill a relief well should it be necessary.
The well was being temporarily abandoned as a producer and would have been tied back to existing infrastructure in the area. It had been drilled to just over 18,000 feet and had already been cased and cemented. An ROV is also being used to determine the condition of the wellhead.


BP's Incident Management Team is continuing to make every effort to respond to the spill in coordination with Transocean, the USCG, and the Minerals Management Service.
BP says five deepwater open ocean recovery vessels are currently on location with more on the way and skimming operations have begun. Current skimming capacity in the area is 170,000 bbls/day. The barge storage capacity in the area is just over 120,0000 bbls/day with more storage capacity also on the way. Shallow water skimmers are also on standby at Fourchon, Louisiana. Within 6 hours there will be 500,000 feet of boom in the area and it will increase to 1,000,000 feet within the next 12 hours. Four aircraft are also on standby to spray dispersants.
Search and rescue efforts continue for the 11 missing oil workers. It is uncertain at this time, but the 11 missing may have been in the vicinity of the explosion. Weather conditions are favorable for continued search efforts. Helicopters and patrol boats are continuing to search the area. Enough time has passed that the survivability window may have closed. However, Rear Admiral Landry said the search would continue for approximately another twelve hours.
According to RigLogix, the Deepwater Horizon, an RBS-8D-designed dynamically-positioned semisub, is rated to work in water depths up to 10,000' and with a rated drilling depth capacity of 30,000'. The rig is under long-term contract to BP through September 2013 and its current dayrate is $502,000. The Deepwater Horizon was built in Ulsan, South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries at a cost of approximately $365 million and entered service in 2001.

Courtessy: Rigzone

Oil Rig on fire and listing dangerously

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns Wednesday after an explossion the night before. The blast happened as the rig was doing exploratory drilling in the Gulf of Mexico more than 80 kilometres off the Louisiana shore. (Associated Press)

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 11 workers after an explosion tore through an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
A total of 126 workers were aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig when the explosion happened Tuesday, sparking a massive fire that is still burning.
Seventeen workers were taken by air or sea to hospital and four are in critical condition, the coast guard said.
The rig is about 80 kilometres off the Louisiana coast, officials said. Two cutter ships are searching for the missing workers and an aerial search is set to resume Thursday morning.

Rescue workers said the hope is that the missing workers made their way to fire-resistant enclosed life-rafts.
Adrian Rose, vice-president of rig owner Transocean Ltd., said the explosion appeared to be a blowout, in which natural gas or oil forces its way up a well pipe and smashes the equipment. But precisely what went wrong is still under investigation.
Crews were doing routine work before the explosion and there were no signs of trouble, Rose said.
"They did not have a lot of time to evacuate. This would have happened very rapidly," he said.
About 100 workers made it to a supply boat after Tuesday night's explosion. The workers arrived in Port Fourchon early Thursday, where they were checked by doctors.
"I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen anything like that," said a visibly tired worker, who declined to give his name, as he got in a car to leave with a woman.
Some of the workers were greeted by family members when they arrived in the small coastal town. The rest of the survivors piled into buses and headed to New Orleans, where their families are waiting.
Since 2001, there have been 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries and 858 fires and explosions in the gulf, according to the federal Minerals Management Service

Courtessy: Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/22/louisiana-oil-rig-crwe.html#ixzz0lpLlA58Z

I' m Lost!!!

Somewhere between the yesterdays, todays and tomorrows I have become lost. It seems as though only yesterday everything was so beautiful and perfect. But again like the endless tides, I have lost my way as the waters withdraw. The search for self, confidence and wholeness washed away again. Stranded on a bar surrounded my a billion fluid paths. And then the tide rises again to find me standing out too far to swim home. There is no turning back. There is no desire to turn back. I do not have the strength or the will to swim so far against the tide.

So I let it wash me further and further. Each recession I find my feet tenuously planted in the now. My mind grasping on to hope. My eyes seeing out to the horizon. Standing so tall above the sea of change I can see a horizon. The distance eluding me, but still so far away. The tears come and the tide returns again. My head is barely above the surface and able to breath. Each breath is guarded and unsure. It may be a while before I can breathe again, when the waves come to swallow me and pull me further down this fluid path.
The waves come. They always do. My horizon lost to the towering menace that threatens to take away my lungs. I manage to keep some strength. Tired and beaten with every set. My only horizon is coming at me again and again. Faint glimpses in the distance as each wave crests. I feel my feet no longer touch the bottom. I am in deep water. I am in an element from which I was born, but cannot survive. Unless…

Unless I can keep swimming, treading water, occasionally sinks to the bottom to rest my weary arms, legs…soul. Hoping I never go so deep that my lungs will burst and the surface will never come. It is so dark near the bottom. It is lonely and cold. And there is no one to save me if I falter.

Faint glimpses of light between the swells warm my resolve through the burning in my eyes. I do not want to fail. I want to keep swimming along this path and resting with each falling of the tide until I can go no more. It’s all I can do. It is surviving.

I am only surviving. I ask myself with the approach of each tide, how do I go on? Should I even try? So many others have made it across this vast ocean landing in the new world. Discovering life as they have never known before. I have no compass. I have lost all maps. I follow my star in hopes it will guide me to that new land. Hoping… that when I stop and sink below the cold darkness that I will return to the surface to find my star. Hoping it is the right star.
Fear sets in thoughts of the star only leading me further out to sea. I am so tired. I am becoming disoriented. My arms and legs are so tired. Like weights of unwanted emotion and despair they struggle to keep me afloat. I must not lose focus. I must continue to breath. The tide will leave me on a bar again soon. I have to keep that thought.

And there is always the hope, dim, so very dim at times through the fog day and night. The hope that my star will turn into a beacon on that distant shore I have traveled so long and so far to reach.

But now I am still Lost at Sea.

Oil Rig Explosion

According to sources at least 11 people were missing and seven were critically injured after an explosion at an oil drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana and authorities were searching for the missing workers. On Tuesday around 10 p.m. this horrifying incident happened and after that 126 workers had been safely evacuated. No deaths were reported after the explosion but some workers were injured.

It’s also said that no reason has been officially announced for the explosion and it’s still unclear what caused the fire. Most of the workers on the rig were Transocean employees and its located 41 miles offshore Louisiana. Seven workers were taken to the hospital and those workers were airlifted to a naval air station near New Orleans.


In 2009, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company $87 million and said that the company had failed to fix safety hazards at the refinery. It’s the largest amount in the history which they had to pay. The owner of this rig are Transocean Ltd and the company describes itself as the “World’s largest offshore drilling contractor.”

Oil Rig Threatening To Topple Over After Explosion

An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - The Coast Guard says at least 11 people are missing and seventeen hurt after an explosion and fire at an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. The rig -- which is still burning -- is owned by Transocean Ltd. of Houston. Spokesman Greg Panagos says the rig was drilling but was not in production. The rig is under contract to BP.Chief Petty Officer Mike O'Berry says most of the 126 people on the rig are believed to have safely escaped after last night's explosion. The site is about 52 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip.Seventeen workers were airlifted and taken to hospitals. A total of six workers were taken to USA Medical Center in Mobile. One worker is being treated in the USA Burn Center. The other five were treated and released, according to Bob Lowery, a spokesperson for the hospital.Helicopters, an airplane and boats searched for any sign of the missing workers. Meanwhile, the rig was listing at about 70 degrees and threatening to topple over.If you're trying to find out if your loved one is okay, call the next of kin hotline at 832.587.8554.

Beautiful Sharjah!!

Beatiful Sharjah picture from an oil rig in Lamberall Ship yard during night. Sky scrappers and luminous lights... makes her beautiful scene!!

BEST TOOL FOR SAFETY.....

Here is the best tool for safety... Use your own brain.

Dont forget to use your brain. Might be you are not using since long. But use it especially when yu work with machines.

VISHUKKANI

Today is vishu!!

For me it is like any other day. There is nothing special for me as I am out at sea on an offshore installation.

My vishukkani (the first thing I saw in this morning) was an underwear of my colleague. It was hanging near my cloth cabinet after a wash. I told him to shift it to somewhere else where it will not become my vishukkani. But that idiot doesn’t move it.


Later at work place, my vishukkani was a fishing vessel (dhow) under fire. A dhow (Arabic,داو) is a traditional Arab sailing vessel with one or more lateen sails. It is primarily used along the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, India and East Africa.

One of our galley boys noticed it and informed to the control room. It was having fire and heavy smoke when we saw. It was almost 4 to 5 nautical miles north east from us. Soon we informed the oil production platform and boats which are close to my installation. They initiated the assistance by sending one of their tug boat and another offshore supply vessel.

We sent one of our offshore supply boats which were on anchor, to the scene for rendering assistance. But they could hardly do anything as the dhow became completely under fire by the time they reached the location.

As the platform people and the tug boats were all communicating in Persian language, I could hardly understand any. Even after four hours of fire, there seems no firefighting from the vessels assisting. The dhow was drifting with wind, with ball of fire and heavy smoke.

Since it dangerously drifting on sea , later, asked the platform to instruct the tug boat to tow the vessel on fire away to a safe distance from the oil production platform, which they did. After five hours later or so, the dhow on fire sank in to the shallow sea. The crew of the dhow abandoned the dhow and none of the got injured as they have been picked up by other fishing vessels in the vicinity.

This incident reminds me that we are working in a place where we cannot expect any assistance from any of the stand by boats in the event of a fire on our installation. None of them have the facility to do the fire fighting.

What a place I do work? Isn’t it?

Why does the men always pushing the trolley in the supermarket?

Just now I was talking to my friend Pat: Suddenly he turns around asked me:

Why does the men (husband) always pushing the trolley in the supermarket?

He has the answer too like every time:-

That is to stopping putting stuff in the trolley by the woman (wife) from the rack of the supermarket.


Now you know the trick!!!

Aaru Rakshapedum??

Suppose M/s Achuthananthan and his associates, Ommanchandi and his associates, AK Anthony and his associates, Pinarayi Vijayan and his associates angane ella politiciansum boattil pokumpol boat mungipoyaal, Aaru Rakshapedum?

The second standard school going niece asked me the above question, even though she doesn’t know who are these guys, exactly, and their part in politics.

While I was posing like I am thinking for an answer she said….

KERALAM RAKSHAPEDUM!!!

So that Mummy won't be alone!!!

Riyan was humming the song “Daddy Mummy veettililley……” from the Tamil movie Chillu…..

Suddenly he turned around and asked to Mamma, “Why did God make Daddy?”

Mamma got puzzled like every time; she was trying to get some words to answer the 3 year old son.

But the son got answer for it and he said: “So that Mummy won’t be lonely.”