Tips to become a succesful book blogger
No one has become a superstar blogger overnight.Recognition in blogosphere takes time and there are no short cuts for achieving instant success as a blogger.Read like there is no tomorrow and pen down your sincere thoughts in a lucid, organised and unpretentious manner.Your work will definitely get its due.
Blogadda-Quikr Shopping Fiesta: My Experience
It was like a slap on my face.Thankfully Arun was not there with me to witness by embarassement. I was all set to call him when some random piece of paper with a phone number written on it from my pocket caught my attention.
Book Review:Salvation Of a Saint
On the whole,’The Salvation Of Saint’ is a decent thriller.It may not be as racy as ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’,but still it’s a pretty good one.
Interview with Doctor-turned- Writer Deepal Kripal
Earlier this week,we chatted with Doctor-turned-Author,Deepak Kripal.He has authored 'The Devil's Tale:An impossible journey',published by Leadstart Publishers.In this candid interview,he tells us about his debut work,future plans,his journey as a writer and his other interests in life.
Private India: Book Review
On the whole,'Private India' by James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi is a strictly average work.
November 13, 2009
An ultrashort review of the Ultimate disaster movie.....
This one is hilarious...
Check this out.....
http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/13/sena-sainiks-cover-kareena.htm
The shiv sainiks are into garment business too nowadays.....!
Now we know why you cried last week,C.M.......
For those who still can't figure out why the Karnataka C.M, B.S.Yeddyurappa. wept 'live on tv' last week, here comes the answer.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Yeddyurappa-spends-Rs-17-crore-to-redo-home/articleshow/5224576.cms
C'mmon isn't painful to sell your 'brand new house' even before staying a single night in it?
Again 3 books and a movie...!
Now that my 3 month long 'extended' vacation before house surgeoncy all set to vanish to thin air within a couple of days, here comes one more post,rather short reviews of 3 books and a movie which i just managed to finish.
Books:
1.Almost Single:
A desi chick lit by Advaita kala,this one tells the story of three single,fun loving women Misha,Aisha and Anushka and their adventures with the opposite sex.Quite hilarious and fast paced, recommended if you love reading decent chick lit' books.
rating: 6.75/10
2.You are here:
Written by India's star blogger ,Meenakshy reddy madhavan 'You are here' is nothing but chick lit gone bad.Totally unfunny and plain bad at times, this one can be easily avoided.Heard she is writing her second book now...Hope she will learn from her mistakes...!
rating: 4/10
3.The Strike:
This one is Toronto based 'Anand Mahadevan's' debut which is the story of twelve year old Hari who tries to make sense of his tumultous and complex world in the 1980's India.A note worthy coming-of-age tale laced with humour ,strike is at the best a decent debut.
rating: 5/10
Movie:
1.Dil Bole Hadippa:
Yash Raj's Chak de india meets 'jab we met' kind of story set(again) in the punjabi back drop din't work for me.The only good thing about the movie being the title track set to tune by Pritam.
rating:3/10
National Epilepsy Day
In connection with the national epilepsy day(November 17) ,Cochin Neurological society in association with the Indian epilepsy association is jointly organising a panel discussion on epilepsy at the IMA Hall,kaloor from 7 pm to 9 pm.All the GPs,house surgeons,obstetricians and paediatricians in and around kochin are invited.The function will be inaugrated by Dr.BeenaIAS ,District collector,ekm.
The topics of discussion include Head Injury and related epilepsies(by Dr.T.K.Manoj,consultant neuro surgeon,St.James hospital chalakkudy),Special issues concerning women with epilepsy (Dr.Sareena Gilwaz,jubilee mission hospital thrissur)and management of benign epilepsy syndromes in school going children(Dr.Murali Krishna Menon,consultant neurologist,Lake Shore Hospital,Cochin).
Food and cocktails will be served there after.
Hope you will make use of the evening.
November 12, 2009
Error regretted...
Shocking news : Malayalam Directors have started reading again....!
In this post,rather in a comment written by me as a reply to panicker in the comment box,i had stated that lal jose's short in kerala cafe was based on vk sreeraman's story. It was CV sreeraman and not vk sreeraman.I thank mr.saswath , for pointing out this error.
The worst Malayalam Movies ever made-Part 2
November 10, 2009
America's victory in the Kerala by-elections.....!
In the normal case i won't have cared about the by-elections, as my 'idiotic' mind thinks that the whole 'circus' of making a member of the legislative assembly leave his office to contest for the parliament elections is like forcing a husband to divorce his existing wife for marrying another, as the rest of the XYs in the city have got castrated.But with the 'jhagada' over the Voters list and 'the deployment of central forces' making the headlines ,the by-election results in Kerala arouse some curiosity.
As expectedly, a flash about the results appeared in the news channel (which has reporters with a 'I don't mind raping a teenager for the sake of my channel's TRPs look' all the time)by noon.It announced the victory of the congress led United Democratic Front in all the 3 constituencies in Kerala where the by-elections were held.It was followed by a clipping in which the 3 elected candidates lectured about how they would work for the upliftment of the 'secular', 'peace loving' people of Kerala (thank God,no body asked them whether they had some plans to kill all the 'communal','violent' people of the state!) or rather the 'mankind' as a whole in the next one and a half years of their life (or till they get screwed up by getting themselves involved in some scandal!) .As i was about to switch off my television ,still pondering about the possibility of being included in the 'violent' group (for having a secret fetish for bondage and domination videos) came the second clipping in which one of the defeated (atleast that was what i thought before seeing this one) communist candidates was seen analysing the results of the election.(I should say that i am thankful to this great human being for clearing one of the greatest misconceptions of my lifetime) .As always,i am sharing all the valuable information which i got listening to that great human being with my beloved readers.
1.The popular belief that UDF has won the kerala by-elections is nothing but a delusion.
2.In fact all the 3 communist candidates have emerged victorious 'technically' this time as none of the 'UDF' candidates could garner as much majority as they had garnered in the last Lok Sabha Elections.For instance, while during the last lok sabha elections the UDF won the kannur constutency by 22,000 votes ,this time they could win only by 12,000 votes.
3.America and CIA are spreading 'false information' proclaiming 'the UDF victory' to destroy the mighty Communist party of India(Marxist).They are doing so to force India sign the ASEAN deal(which they have already achieved by now) and thereby make Indians eat 'American' food all the time.
4.Due to the pressure from America, more than 12,000 workers in kannur and 8,000 Christians in Ernakulam refrained from voting in favour of CPM which has 'given' a false impression of UDF victory.
In short America Has won the Kerala by-elections.....!
November 8, 2009
Remembering Seth Cook
While browsing through one of the 'desi' entertainment channels(which still believes that 'zooming' into the 'menstrual cycles' of celebrities' would qualify as entertainment!) , happened to see the trailer of a 'yet to be released' Amitabh Bachan starrer titled 'Paa'.Incidentally it reminded me of an article (which i had come across a couple of weeks back) about a child called 'Seth Cook' who lived in the United states. For those who are wondering what Big B and this child have in common,here is the answer -Seth Cook had progeria.(Of course ,Bachan doesn't have Progeria,but his character in Paa has...!)
For the beginners,here is a useful piece of info. Progeria is a rare,non-heriditary genetic disease which occurs as a result of mutation.Also known as "Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome" and "Hutchinson–Gilford syndrome)it is an extremely severe disease wherein symptoms resembling aspects of ageing are manifested at an early age.The affected usually die in their teens though cases have been reported where the patients lived up to twenty years of age.In other words children(though their mental development will be normal) with progeria dont grow ,they age rather.No effective treatment is there for this condition.
Kyle Cook, (Seth's father ) and Patti Cook,(Seth's mother) were students of a high school from the tiny logging town of Darrington, Washington. Like every other bollywood movie; they met , started dating and a few twists and turns later got married.Patty eventually got pregnant at the age of 21.On July 22, 1993 Seth Anthony Cook ,the baby with blue eyes was born.All was fine till the baby was three months old,when the parents discovered that their child was not normal.Failure to gain weight(failure to thrive) and hairloss(alopecia) being the first symptoms.When Seth was two years old,the parents realised that their son was one among the 40 odd cases of progeria diagnosed worldwide.
While weak hearted people like us would see this as a tragedy,Seth cook had the courage to underlook it and he even took his life as a blessing.NBC,USA had done a feature on him and he won over millions of people through his witty one liners and practical jokes.
He was made an honorary sheriff's deputy, which incidentally was his lifelong goal.
Seth passed away on June 25,2007 when he was thirteen years old due to myocardial infarction which was a consequence of his disease.
I came to know about him while i was collecting some information about progeria to write a paper on it.But after reading a lot of articles about his life, and watching the interview he had given to nbc online,i am pretty sure that i wont be able to forget this blue eyed,brave boy with a great sense of humour soon..
To read more about Seth ,here is the link http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20119569
This post is dedicated to all the students in the country who don't think twice to end their lives when their exam results disappoint them ...!
Stress and diabetes...
Stress is an inevitable accompaniment of modern life.As most of us know, stress can create havoc in our personal life.It can cause or worsen a hell lot of diseases.But have you ever thought Diabetes is one among them?Those who haven't, this one is for you people.
Diabetes Mellitus (popularly known as high blood sugar) can be due to a lack of insulin in the blood level or the resistance to insulin or the presence of an excess of counter regulatory hormones like Cortisol,Adrenaline,Glucagon and Growth hormone.Severe stress can cause an increase in the blood levels of the latter thereby resulting in Diabetes.Studies have been done worldwide substantiating this fact.This makes it extremely important to detect high stress levels in a diabetic patient,since blood sugar will come down only if stress is relieved.Have you got a patient with un explained high blood sugars,or with un controlled levels despite optimum use of diet,tablets and insulin,think of severe stress..(it may explain the condition).
The ability to cope with stress depends on the individual and it all depends on how he/she reacts to it.It's also important not to resort to a band-aid approach when dealing with stress.(that's try only treating the symptoms avoiding finding out the root cause for it).Stress management techniques,diet,exercise,meditation,bio-feed back,yoga and other relaxation therapy will help in over coming stress..
for those who wonder why i am posting an article related to diabetes,november 14 th is the world diabetes day.