Tour De OngBak:- a trip to Thailand

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This is a journey journal of my tour to Hat-yai, a small village as in the movie Ong-Bak. Remember

the action flicks of Tony Jaa.

Hat-Yai is a border town of Thailand with malaoysia though its 56 km away from emigration border called Sadao. I picked a bus from KL, which I want to tell about this Bus Terminal.. damne, this is just as an Airport terminal. awesome one. its 10 hour drive from KL to Sadao. The travel was good apart from the fact of this bus was fully heavily Air Conditioned, and I nearly went to freeze death:(….

Any how, the immigration checking was one incident, that I did not bring my photos with me, though I knew, I will get Visa on Arrival. My mistake, since I did not have photos with me, I had to spend more time than thought. So, I missed my Bus, damne….

there is how the real exploration starts.. All over thailand, you will see MotorCycle taxis which is not in India. Bike riders will come take you wherever you need. They call is Tuk-Tuk taxi..

So I picked a Bike taxi, and went to hati-Yai abt 56 KM on bike. that trip was wonderful. I think it was better than Bus trip. I felt near to Che’s MotorCycle Diaries..:)..

Inner Thailand country is very much pure and nature rich. But they keep their roads clean and good quality. This guy he took so many short cuts and so own, which I had the luck to touch inner thailand..:)

people belong to Australoid-mangloid.. pretty skinned, just like chineese, unlike malaysia, I dont find much Indian presense over thailand. Its a country still being ruled by Monarchy. Budhism is the official religion though, all other ppl are there.

Just like all other Asian countries, Thailand is very much rick with nature resources and wild life. It has very deep Indian civilisation Impact as you see Budha Idols, temples and etc.

Food in Thailand, its really chilly, they use so much chilly but really tasty offcourse.

and In Hatyai. its a small town, which only run by Tourism. and ya All know, what is their main tourism attraction!!.:).. yeah,the next moment I entered into the country, offers started to come up.:D:D:D.

you will see so many massage parlours, exotic clubs and so which have really attractive captions n offers…:)…The only sad thing all over the trip was, I did not take my camera with me..:(.. really sad..

The hotel, I stayed, Lee Garden, pretty good one, and this Bakth-Rinket conversion is good for me too. So I enjoyed two days on thailand, as I leave you thoughts of how I enjoyed..:)..

EoF

Gandhi and his Experiments with Desires.

Joseph LelyVeld:-The great soul:Mahatma Gandhi and hist struggle with India

Emotions has no gender boundaries. I am writing this after reading a Journal in a Malayalam weekly named ” mathrubhoomi weekly”. There was a cover story about this book and the author of this journal , he explains why Gandhi should be naked on the lights of his desires and how it makes him Greater Soul. This author depicts some excerpts from the Life of M.K Gandhi and trying to portray some points of the desires Gandhi had in his life.

He is traveling through relationships of M.K.Gandhi with Hermer Kallenbach,Shaik Mehtab,Madeline Slide(meera),Sarala Devi Chaurani,Susheela Devi, Arabha, Manu.

Kallenbach and Gandhi.
Cullen Back and Gandhi met when they both were 25 and 27 respectively. They both had a common interest, Buddhist ideas. Their relationship grew up eventually. Kallenbach bought 1100acre and created Tolstoy Farm together. Gandhi called Kallenbach as Hanuman and Kallenbach called Gandhi as Raman in their private conversations.
On the “love letters” they sent each other , they addressed each other as Lower House and Upper House. Love of Gandhi influenced in Hermen Kallenbach in a deep level. Kallenbach went with Gandhi to Jail, left his car, thrown his Binoculars on sea.
In 1915, at London, they both took depart, Kallenbach went to Germany and Gandhi to India. Experiments of Kallenbach were limited with in Gandhi. Kallenbach was co-traveler for Gandhi to do the experiments. Gandhi continued his Journey after the departure of Kallenbach because Gandhi already foreseen his Great goal. Gandhi never stops with one Cullen Back only. Gandhi influenced on Kallenbach more than any thing in his life. Maybe they had homosexual settlements on some of the abstract moments of their intimacy,it cannot be a mere sexual relation but a joining of two intimate souls. Gandhi traveled beyond that point after some time. He won in his desires and that makes him Great.
Unfortunately Kallenbach could not reach with Gandhi’s views,he went back to his life with full of desires, whatever things Gandhi filtered him from, he went back and died on 25-03-1945.

Shaik Mehtab
He was 3 years Senior of Gandhi in the school. The super star athlete in Kathiyawar school. Gandhi who was a physically weak and inferior personality, automatically attracted Mehtab. Mohan trusted Mehtab more than anything. After Mohans’s marriage , Mehtab controlled Mohan, how to behave in bedroom, how to tame the wife etc etc. Mohan invited Mehtab to SouthAfrica/Durban. This intimate relationship came to an end with a terrific incident. Mohan happened to be a witness of relationship between Mehtab and one lady. Mohan went as epilepsy, thrown Mehtab out of the house. Gandhi wrote that more than 10 years , he was on the finger tips of Mehtab. Mehtab was more than an invasion, an incubus to Gandhi.
All other relationship that Gandhi went after with Mehtab, Gandhi made the influence, none of them, Gandhi never let them to influence himself.

Sarala Devi Chaudhari.

Gandhi came to Punjab according with Jallianwala Bagh committee. He stayed with Rambuj Chaowdhari and his Wife SaralaDevi. She was 47 years old. Gandhi have seen her before, before 19 years, Calcutta Congress meeting. She was daughter of Sister of Rabindra Natha Tagore. Gandhi and she went for so many seminars and meetings together . They both get attracted with their soul power, intelligence , energy and love to the country. Gandhi made to publish her poems on the front page of Young India and Navajeevan.
C.R Das wrote Gandhi,” please set back. Realize the virtual reality you are in “. Gandhi’s son Devdas,Madhuradas, C.Raja Gopalachari. all of them tried to convince Gandhi and finally Gandhi made the move back.. Gandhi wrote her about his move back ” My love to yours , I interpreted it. Thus I came into the definition of spiritual matrimony. It is the sharing of love with out sexual/physical involvement.”

But SaralaDevi couldnt understand Gandhi. She wrote back ” Your Ahimsa ends in Hatred,When people like you live in this earth, there will not be flowers, no rain bows, no rivers” etc etc”.

There again Gandhi won on his desire. He took the experiments with courage, never run away from them, and he conquered them.

Morality police, they dont understand the dark ages/tough situations Gandhi went through with his desires. They just need to symbolize Gandhi as a GOD, a super-Human. To understand Gandhi completely, not only his political experiments, but also his emotional experiment should be criticized. Finally, thats how Gandhi became a great Soul.

Courtesy:- MathruBhoomi weekly

10 things about Anna Hazare

Who is Anna Hazare?
1. Who is Anna Hazare? An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War

2. What’s so special about him? He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra

3. So what? This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in …the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills. In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village.

4. Ok,…? This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.

5. Really, what is he fighting for? He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.

6. How that can be possible? He is advocating for a Bil, The Jan Lokpal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.

7. It’s an entirely new thing right..? In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit thier theft (corruption).

8. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill ! How can that be possible in such a short span of time? The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed. Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the JAN LOKPAL BILL. 50% goverment participation and 50% public participation. Because you cant trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.

9. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed? A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result.

10. Is he alone? Whoelse is there in the fight with Anna Hazare? Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more. Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause.

11. Ok, got it. What can I do? At least we can spread the message. How? Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics. At least we can support Anna Hazare and the cause for uprooting corruption from India. At least we can hope that his Hunger Strike does not go in vain. At least we can pray for his good health. Thanks for reading.

Embrace Pressure Governance, not pressure politics.

pressure politics vs pressure governance

Its a hot fuzz now, since the election heat waving on the air and adding a bit cherry to it, popular social activist Anna Hazare has ignited his strike for LokPal, a powerful, apolitical governing body to prevent corruption. There are immense of support and solidarity for his strike, coming from every niche of the society. This is a real good thing for Indian society and politics. Corruption is the deepest rooted cancer in Indian politics.
We have seen so many time, its came into the debates, discussions, so many people tried to stop it, even they proposed new parties, new ideologies ,claiming to prevent corruption, a new political party which is free from corruption, but sadly, they all grown up into politics with corruption.
So its been clearway from past experiences that, not a single party can succeed without corruption, because power always mixed with corruption.

So what is the solution for this? Each time, we ask this each other, then some of us jump for a new party, but the same old sad endings.

We have to propose a new solution, a new scheme. The contemporary schema we are seeing in the political area is the pressure politics. Organized communities and minority communities,cast-oriented communities, etc etc , all of them are using pressure politics. They are pressuring to these political parties according with their demands, which are specifically and precisely form these community interests. Unfortunately, no one cares about the common-man issue, the regular social issues. May be the society is not organized or federalized, thats the reason??

I guess, we can learn some thing from this Anna Hazare strike, we can evolve into some thing new and effective. No party can be clean from corruption. We need a stern,firm apolitical watch dog system for corruption. One of the main reason for this hike of corruption is the lack of precise sentences. Every one think that they can bend the law and violate rules by money, its so far as true also.
Here comes the importance of bills like LokPal, some thing, some legal system, which is powerful, yet apolitical, free from all kind of outside-pressure. This kind of a system or a board or a governing body, whatever we call, it can restrict the rate of corruption. People may not jump into corruption if there is a powerful watch dog. If they know, they will get caught, they will get serious punishments, these rate will down fall so fast.

So its time for pressure-governance. We need more and more influence into the governing system from the public side. We have a very powerful tool already, ie. information law, now we need some more spearhead to our arsenal. LokPal could be the best of them.

So support for this movement, Make this happen, take part more into the governance,contribute,influence into governance, not politics. Let the political parties do their work, but let them know , they are being watched. Thats the only solution for this, the better approach to make things clean and effective..

Mandriva Application Manager,yet another rocking tool from Mandriva

yes,Mandriva is rocking again. They are packing new mandriva application manager(MAM) whith a very new style user interface. Its way better than Ubuntu’s software center…

more infor:-http://bit.ly/hT5ZOQ

Open Laszlo installation in Linux Mandriva

I guess you all know about OpenLaszlo, an open source RIA development framework and if you not check it here

OpenLaszlo is a powerful alternative for Adobe Flex , you can create intuitive powerful RIA based applications and web services. you can export files swf and it can work under FLASH player plugin.

read more about here

now how to install in our box.. well you have to get javaSDK 1.5 or higher. I used 1.6 then download the installer file from their website.
and read the install manual and go on…

I just wanna write down a note about installation bottle neck. since it needs Java, it will ask to export JAVA_HOME path. I tried first and I go this error as Java path cannot find..

if you get this error

# ./startup.sh

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program

well, if u see this, then you have export java path as

#export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_06/

then you can run ./start.sh

thats all..

Libya:- Dilemma between Devil and Sea??

Since its the hottest news after the Japanese catastrophe, seems like western countries waiting for a chance to use their aged-weapons on their arsenal.

The common people in Libya is now in a dilemma. They no longer want a dictator as Qaddafi but what they gonna have on other side?? Alien invasion?? Libya gonna be the next Iraq, a place with no government, no rules , no laws.

All these so-called upholders of democracy has one single view, to the broad pool of petrol in Libya. The current situation of world is such a trauma. Isnt this a bigger catastrophe effect of Communist-break down??

there are no alter-forces to oppose these western democratic-torch holders …. there are no good alternative than dictators/terrorist/fanatics/democratic invaders…

sad..sad… saaad……….

3 must have compression tools for Linux:- Mandriva

Well, Using a computer for home or business purpose, usage of compression tools are inevitable.

here we go some must have tools in Linux

Unrar:- yes, most of the web content compressed package format…

you can install unrar from Mandriva non-free repos. once installed you can use unrar package to extract rar files as this command.

#unrar e file.rar
and

if its an uncompleted rar file , then you can use,

#unrar e -kb file.rar this will extract and keep broken files…

7zip files

The 7-Zip app is open source, but remains Windows-only. For Linux users, the project links to a command-line client package named p7zip that provides two executables, 7z and 7za. The two have the same syntax and options, differing only in that 7za is a self-contained app compiled only for use with 7z and the essential Unix formats (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), while 7z uses a plugin architecture that allows it to support many additional compression formats.

The basic syntax is 7z function options filename.7z. To uncompress an archive, use 7z x myfile.7z . You can extract files from an archive with 7z e myotherfile.7z , but using the e function extracts all files to the current working directory, whereas x preserves their paths.

unzip

this is also an important tool to handle winzip files

Gnu Universal Linux Installer:- GULI

This a strictly a concept post. It in the level of idea stage.

We all know Gnu/Linux is a powerful operating system and very much alternative for Mac and Microsoft. But still Linux is lacking and lagging some areas. One of the worst drawback or weakness for Gnu/Linux is its package derangement. If there is no Internet connection for the desktop which installed by a Linux Distro, then adding more packages are really a pain in **sss. But in windows, we can download installer files (msi/setup.exe) and install those with out in need of an internet access. It is supposed to be the best feature of Windows OS.

now what we have in Linux world.. Sure there are APT or URPMI or zypper which are elegant package tools but still they heavily rely on Internet. well, if some one download a package say Amarok for ubuntu , two problems there,
1. we can only install in ubuntu.
2.we have to find all dependency files.

So here , we need a universal installer for Linux. Sure, there so much talk about it, since its still in the egg stage. here I have some concepts to share,
– A package installer which is in a binary format. it has two parts. 1). a binary package itself 2) all dependency files itself
for example foo.bin is a package, and one download this package and try to install, then there should be a script should check for all dependency files.
–if all dependency files are found, it can install the package.
–if not, the second part of the package, which is the dependency files should start to install, once it completes , the original package should install then.

what you guys think???

Mandriva Linux Tweak:-10 things to do to make a better experience than Ubuntu..

We all know, that, tweaking is art and it always give us more experience in aspect of Operating System.. Since Microsoft or other private OS doesnt allow much customization, Gnu/Linux offers endless possibilities in customization.

here, we go how to make a Mandriva installation into a tweaked customized polished way.

I suppose you installed a Mandriva-Free DVD or Mandriva-Live distro..so first thing you have to do is get internet which is so easy if you use a LAN connection.( use Mandriva Control Center). then we have to install so many extra softwares and packages.In order to do those, try these steps

Enable all repositories:- for a default Mandriva installation, only the Main and Contrib repos will be enabled. So if you installed from a DVD, the DVD must the medium of repo. So add more repos. Mandriva provide third party, non-free repos as PLF(Penguin Liberation Front) repos. To enable those, just visit,
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and select you distro version,
then click “add PLF repos” . This will help you to save the PLt) repos. Either open with Package Installer(which is default) or add from the terminal. thats done..Now we need to add one more excellent Mandriva respo, named MIB(Mandriva International Backports). Its well packed, multimedia rich package stellar. In order to add those

visit:-http://mib.pianetalinux.org/mib/ or visit here :- http://urpmi.mandriva.ru/

and click add “MIB medias”. update all of your repos from the software central and let it download the XMZ files.Once its done, its done , we are ready to fly with Mandriva.

Enable mutlimedia/third party plugin:- To enjoy the maximum user experiencing, we should have extra plugins. here are the things you have to do.
–install gstreamer-ugly
–install smplayer with all of its dependency
–install VLC player with all of its dependency
–install XBMC(XboxMediaCentre), a must have media player and more…
–install real-codecs
–install win32-codecs
–install libdvdcss codecs
–install gxine with all of its dependencies.
–install MKV supporting tools and also FLASH player plugin

Now we are set about the media file plugins and codecs. Our Mandriva box can play any type of media file now. now we can install some media players. Since we have installed VLC,SMPLAYER etc, so we can look for audio side now.
–install AmaroK, its the best of its kind, very much kool user-interfaced and powerful library management etc.
–install Banshee Music player, if you use GNOME and u dnt need to install AmaroK’s KDE huge dependencies, then use this
–Rhythmbox , just another powerful mediaplayer
Now , we need some another multimedia tools, not for playing but for handling, like, editing, composting , making changes etc.. now

–install Openshot, its a wonderful movie editor with powerful options
–avidemux, another great movie editor
–soundconverter, a converter tool to convert you audio files into various formats. this can be used to convert youtube videos into audio.
–MKVMERGE, Matroska is the newest media container and its very exciting. so you can convert ur videos into this format
ok, then, we have done here.

Internet/communication:- yeah , whats the point without Internet. here we go for the usual ways..

–FireFox, yes the default web broswer with awesome features and powerful addons.
–Chrome, its the second one, killing IE so fast on that place.
–Opera, you will be needed for a third one, trust me.
and for those dudes/dudees who love to be socialize all the time, you can try install FLOCK webbroswer, it has integrated all leading social networking sites as twitter, facebook etc. You wouldnt miss the online life for a sec.:)

now, we need some communication tools, yes the chat!. yahoo,msn, gmail and those.. The best feature of linux is its really powerful. well, instead of using all those chat IM separately, we have one stop solution , its called PIDGIN.
you can create all those IMS for yahoo, MSN, google talk, jabber, AIM etc into this. and use as the way as you use the original. Same thing you can done by using EMPATHY.(GTALK voice/video users must keep this). So here one more note, Neither Pidgin nor empathy support yahoo webcam service, what shall those Yahoo ardent video chatter do?? There goes , again the magic of Linux, Gyachi. Install gyachi from mandriva repos and hoora, you r on for yahoo video chats.
Now, the mighty Skype, yes its int he repo, just find it and install it, It supports voice/video everything..!! and if you use any SIP services, go for Ekiga softphone, its great

Now , we go for some tools like torrents, FTP , newsletter.etc.
–install, VUZE, the mighty one in the area but also try with bittorrent,qtorrent and ktorrent. For gnome users, run for Transmission, the default for gnome.:)
–install Filezilla, yes if you use any File server things
–Thunderbird, its way better that Evolution, the best outlook alternative in the industry.

System tools:- now , lets look for some system tools to handle our mandriva box better.
–install bleachbit, it bleaches ur system, removes unwanted, unused files and chunks, heard abt Ubuntu’s Janitor, this kid is better that that.
–install K3B, yes brasero is there by default, but I prefer K3B over it, you experience it.
–install Gparted, you must need this, if you are a medium user.
–PlayOnlinux, your life savior , if you are serious game player. coz its the main reason , people still use Windows , coz they cannot leave their fav games. but here you can play on Linux Also.PlayOnLinux is a wine based stack which comes with lots utilities, like Games and few windows only programs.
–install VirtualBox, its the best one available, if you know what is visualization ..

thats all enough..

Development:- If you use Mandriva box for some development usage, you can have so many options. Apart from default packages, you can try these too.
–install bluegriffon, yes, there are bluefish and kompozer but this one is also good, give it a try.

Themes/artwork:- yes, we need our system eye-candy and glazing right?? yeah.. lets see what to do.there are lots themes available in mandriva repo. try any of them, some recommendations are
gnome-bisigi theme, mac4Lin theme. I personally use mac4Lin aqua.same as install gnome login themse, gdm-theme-extra and some other themes..

its really cool. go and install more backgropunds and wallpapers from the repos. One good spot for awesome lInux wallpapers, are–

http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=9658

http://www.fullfondos.com/en/linux1.htm

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/77556.aspx

http://www.junauza.com/2008/02/25-coolest-linux-wallpapers.html

and some work around,
..put the task bar top side of the screen
.. keep the menu bar/notification area bottom side of the area
–take properties of the panel and use background as in solid color and change the value, you can see, ur panel will be transparent.. its cool….
just restart now and log-in , now you Mandriva Box is awesome.. and its way better than Ubuntu!!