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Soft notes

You just don't read the following song. Tune your mind, and sing along! You can resort to any classical tune that matches it.. let there be acoustic guitars, pianos, and drums. I don't recommend violins.. (no sad tone out there!) but if you have a good music in mind, don't bother including any instruments! :D

I was looking at the yellow bus
That is the bus I need, I guess

But then I saw her in the frame
As pink as in strawberry cream

The crowded bus is blah blah blah
She is coming Oh la la lah

The sun is hot; I need some shade
I gotta move to the other side

Am I blocking the shopping space?
Then beside her is the perfect place

What is your name? Where is your home?
How do you do? When do you go?

She talked to me, as I talked to her
I had a pie, as I came from there


Two days later.. I feel better..
She makes the music.. that feels fantastic

Every time I look into her eyes
Oh my my my! I miss a lot of beats

Every time she looks into my eyes
Ain't this cool? - I see the butterflies!

Hey you girl now give this word to me
I need your music real bad, you see

Let's strike the chords, then play the notes
Bring on the tone.. for the music always stays..




H says we should start studying from April 31st onwards! No wonder, she thinks Jojo(who has been ma best buddy since the 1st day at college) joined college only this year, via lateral entry !! Great observations, H :O (I really hope you don't read this and then write a hate comment) :P

Summer Rains

It's summer. It's global warming. Temperature is rising every year. Warm places are hot. Hot places are frying! And all statistics point to the fact that the temperature is just gonna pop a few more degrees the coming summer. Well, who really cares about prevention of global warming anyways! We are frying, but we can't do all this environmental protection stuff..man! What a policy, sir jee!

Who ain't wishing for a slight sprinkle of thy heavenly rain.. in this scorching sun?! We - I mean, people around HERE - are much luckier in that sense. There's some refreshment rain for us before the temperature gets totally out of bounds. There'll be a small rain, but enough to cool things down. And next day the Sun has to start from the very beginning :O . Getting outside after 12 in the noon is reaal hell, though.

The idea of this whole post is the summer rain I received this evening :) . I was returning from my Grandma's which is a 1.5 kms from my own home. A short distance; and so I best prefer a walk. After half a kilometer has been covered, I noticed that the sky was cloudy, the air was all windy, the atmosphere was all cool.. and it was gonna rain! I LOVED walking in this climate, especially because the way was surrounded by such greenery and stuff. The clouds were getting dark and dense. Is there any special name for the rain-clouds? I do remember some cloud-names like Cumulus, Nimbus and crap (last one was a joke). Okey, I managed to stay around an open space and take some snaps at the risk of not getting home before the rain. All for you, dear *******(I mean, whatever you call those people doing climatic studies..no offense!).





An interesting thing was that the clouds were moving at a noticeable velocity. They seemed light-weight. I don't remember seeing such large groups of clouds moving at such speeds, in any immediate past. Whatever, the snaps looked cool I guess(for a 1.3 MP cam). Back at home, I showed them to mom and said "These are snaps of New Zealand", and she said "Oh! is it?". I replied.. "Yeah, New Zealand has a hell lot of coconut trees!". No big deal though, she believes anything I say*.

When my quest-back-home was at 90% completion, the climate somewhat calmed down. Lesser clouds(not moving now), no wind, lesser cold.. I looked up and said "God, you're kidding me!". And whoa!.. is god really up there?!.. the wind started blowing with double the intensity. It was much supercharged that I felt like flying away. At least I feared the coconut trees bending over in the current will fall over me! I took larger steps.
Now I reached home. I was at the steps. I threw off my slippers. Then I climbed up the three steps.
1 second.
I turned around.
Yo ho! This is a shower of rain straight down on earth. What a timing, savvy!!
It wasn't that heavy weight out-pouring as in June; anyhow, as I said before, enough to calm things down! :)

I entered the house in all soft mood, and DUH! no electricity at work! Who cares..! I took my li'll mob and played The Beatles. Fine and peace, well and good.. imagine, F'in cool! I was at the high, and I felt like enjoying the rain. At the backside of the home, there's a black iron grill. I hummed to the music, moved with the music, and held on to the grill.
One moment.
Everything in front of me on the other side of the grill.. the ground, plants, trees.. everything, flashed as in broad daylight. The scene was crystal clear. There was a bluish tint all over the place. Something ran from my hair to toe.
One more second.
There was a blasting sound! Oh my.. that was heck of a lighting, struck at just a few meters from the grill. Not to mention that piece of shock that jumped to the grill and, with all good intention of best earthing, passed through me! All my desire to watch the beauty of summer rain evaporated off in the third second. :~

Leave the lightning. Leave the fierce wind. Summer rains are (no matter) a BIG DEAL! Hope you people get 'em soon! :)

Creeping Light

Life's not always positive. Write some negative poems, and remind yourselves! LOLZ! :O



It's been days since the darkness fell
All so black, without a ray of hope

I survived in the corner
But with a broken heart and a rusting mind

Thoughts were dying..and
There is nothing left to do in the dense ebony

Oh! who shines now in this lost street of distress?
The comet.. lighting up it's way through all the long

Why so late? Why right now?
Can I make a wish?.. or do I?

I love this moment
And for a moment, I wished it would stay.

In the time so back, it did appear before
Vanishing before I made the wish, leaving me to ruin

Life's a big circle..
May be it's a spiral which fools us around

I see shooting stars in the distance
I wonder why I should make the wish

Life's a spiral
Oh yes, I'm at it's center

The comet comes to me
But I know it'll leave a wish and pass through me

Why am I not moving?.. neither in, nor out
Where am I stuck.. I wonder!

My poems do not rhyme at all !! :P

The Salty Winds

Sometimes.. it just takes a little break, out of everything.


Teh school:
Today I was called to my old school for a meeting. Old school is the place where I spent eight splendid years of my life. It wasn't an alumni meeting. I reached near the school by afternoon. As I walked through the old paths the wind started blowing gently on my face. Now this is very particular of my school - the sea. Staying close to the Arabian sea, the place is all windy! This wind constantly coming all it's way from the African coast provides a special theme for the school :D . The wind possessed certain element of nostalgia in it. I was all getting into the good ol' memories! There was a brief meeting.

When I walked away from the school the wind made me nostalgic again. I roamed through random paths near the school that I've traveled years before. Finally I reached an old stop. I stood there for a while and I felt cool. And then I decided to take a walk to the park..

Teh stadium:
As I headed my way to the park some half kilometres away, I came to notice the entry to the stadium in the place. My thoughts were going all dynamic at the moment. Obviously I took the steps and entered the stadium. It was deserted since this is a vacation time. It went all around in vast radius with big steps at it's perimeter. I could see the basketball court at a long range, where we struggled with the orange ball. I sat down on a step and tried to visualize.. we children in our primary classes, playing around there in the evening. We used to take rounds around all the stadium(normally half, may be 3/4, and sometimes a hard one round!) ;) . We even did somersaults.. and took rest at home for one whole day due to back pain :O ! Child plays! :$

An interesting group of goats were having their hang out nearby. They were all in black and white! There were white ones, black ones and mixed ones. But there was a whole black and white feel :D . It was like a big can of black paint poured on to a group of white goats.



There were two little goaties - one white and one black. And they were moving all around that I could never get a snap of both of them together with my mob cam and it's goddamn one-second delay!


That's all about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle!

Teh sidewalk:
There are many things in the universe that are beyond our scope, like the dark matter which is said to have holding together galaxies and constellations. We all have a mind. Whenever we interact with a place, our mind creates certain form of energy around the place, at a certain sphere, including all the information of our deepest thoughts and intense experiences. Rather it can be a group of energy particles, something like the dark matter say Nostalgia particles. These are specific for a person's mind. Whenever the person comes back to the place, the particles specific to him are absorbed to the mind, somewhat like logging in a website with a password. Now this completes all the broken memories in the brain and gives the FEEL of nostalgia!
No big deal.. this is all the theory I made up during my walk to the park :P . But it makes sense, doesn't it?

Teh park:
Well.. let us skip the whole section and go right into the park!
There I was, again in front of the beautiful sea. It wasn't really the time near to sunset, but the sun surely was thinking seriously about setting down. There was the vast sea staying in silence, all lonely, yet with a huge shot of refreshing energy. I sat at the rocks watching the tiny waves coming and crashing out on the big grey stones.



These little waves are never bothered about rising every time after a fall, as the usual waves do.. to inspire people. They come all straight, crashes in, shatter to particles.. and all that remains is a cold white foam. Lots of tiny thoughts were crashing inside my brain. This was necessary. I've been sitting all idle at home these days, and the brain truly deserved some freshness. The sea was the perfect atmosphere for a whole brain-reload.
The sun's side of the sea looked amazing. :o


Watch the sun rays peeping through the clouds!

And the sun, glowing above everything!



I realized what I've been missing at home. I realized why I felt like sitting idle even though I were running around doing lot of work.. and why I wasn't entertained even though I managed to watch a lot of entertaining movies.
All that I needed was.. a little inspiration! :)


The Eternal Thinker : find me!
Snap by Hari on last visit

Tail piece:
What was the meeting at school about??
It was something about making a website. The website is particularly about the tourism in Thalassery, as a project of the school tourism club. As I said before, Thalassery - the place where I live in, do hold a vast potential of Tourism. Well, it's getting kind of noticed nowadays, and we're being a part of the promotion :) . There was a brief meeting. And finally I realized that all the burden of making the website is put on MY head! It all started when my friend informed our teacher about me doing some web designing. The whole blog-redesign thing has turned out to be a BIG MISTAKE! ;) But it's too late for regrets! :( :P

The music of.. love break!

Time to share some music again! I've been thinking for long about sharing an Avril Lavigne song. I'm in love with her, and why do I delay much to put a song of her in my blog! All her music are so exuberant. Anyways the current song on repeat in my music player is Fall to pieces from the album Under My Skin, of Avril Lavigne.

The music is all about love break. But this song is different for it is not displaying the very common "My heart is broken without you baby" thing. The lyrics display the feeling of love break told in silence, with all the sweet memories of past, all the realities they are facing and a little hope not to fall apart.
This song makes a lot sense to people on the verge of a love break. May be it helps them to move on. May be it doubles their sorrow. It's upto THEM! Not to me anyhow :D . You free birds out there, just enjoy the music! Love break lolz! :O :v

I don't want to fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you
I don't want to talk about it
And I don't want a conversation
I just want to cry in front of you
I don't want to talk about it
'Cause I'm in love with you


The award thingy

And today I got an award.
It's from my friend Shravan, owner of the Obnoxious Mind blog. He tells that the award is for the design of the blog; actually both the blogs(tnQ tnQ!) and some of my helps regarding his blog template and all.



He told nobody around him has been talking about anything like an award and thus he decided to make one of himself - My Choice Blogger award! Well it's true that a group of bloggers around here are not really into awards, tags and such stuff about blogs. It's always good to take initiative and give a push in that case. Thanks to Shravan for both the latter and the award. :)

Now this involves some further distribution. The author says to distribute this to 3 other bloggers of your choice. Well I'd love to pass this to all you wonderful fellas I know. Again, this time around I'm abiding by the rules and making a narrow 3 choices. :O No offense!

#1 Choco : No words. You're the first, you're the foremost! :)
#2 Azra : Special score on proximity to the blogger + stars to your cool ideas! :D
#3 Princess : This is to gift the princess on keeping her word that she'll actually work on her blog, and for some encouragement to work harder! :h

Now it's your turn to pass on the award, and link back to the person who awarded you!

Roll on the award! Happy Blogging! :e

Flame On!

Well here's the surprise of the month.
I'm now gonna disclose what I've been planning since the start of vacation. It's a new blog! And it's called et on Fire.


One fine day I got this feeling that I should start a blog to showcase et cartoons and other artworks, apart from personal blogging. In a brief sentence, this new blog is the result of that thought put into action. And that explains it! Okey, there's something more.. I plan to make some goodies like various graphics and e cards that you can use in your sites! Now that'll be more cool :) .

Don't ever think that I've been working weeks over the new blog. I did it in somewhat 3 days. The actual plan was to make some slight alterations to the Eternal Thoughtstemplate(currently used in blog). Even then I put the work aside and stayed idle. And then the day came, and the thought sparked in my head, and I made the Flaming thoughts template, now used by the new blog. I need all your feedback about the design! There's lot of experiment out there!

Why you should never use Internet Explorer??
It's because et on Fire blog looks like crap inside IE. When I tried it with all other browsers it looked just fine. And then in IE7, even the header wasn't displayed at all. I tried many tweaks over it. Then i dropped IE, at last. No matter how popular IE is, I can't delay the release of this blog. So stop using IE. And why should you use IE when you have cool browsers all around and the masterpiece browser Mozilla Firefox?? Go here and get inspired with Mozilla!

Again get inspired with et on Fire! :P

Teh surprise element..
Personal notes
The new blog was in the concept, soon it was put into process. All these times the hardest thing was to keep the surprise for now. There were many times when I was about to spill the secret like when choco started her new blog, during the twitter fight with kaddu and choco, or when I'm simply tweeting etc etc. Not to mention that I survived all these scenarios :) ! Piece of cake :e

Start afresh!

It's that special time of the year again. It's Vishu, the festival of lights and glory. The Kani-konna flowers has blossomed everywhere, and this time the small Konna tree in my house yard has also blossomed! :)

Crackers are making noise in the whole of the place. People will be having their Kani the coming midnight - a wonderful sight which symbolizes glory.. with all fruits, vegetables, cereals and the idol of lord krishna in the golden bowl.. and a reflection of the self in the small mirror, showing us the potential in ourselves, the power within us to change our fate.

This is time to kick start another fresh round, with all good deeds, promises, and a clean heart.
Let there be flowers!! :D


Konna flowers.. and et :)

So go ahead.. talk nice to everyone, hear some refreshing music, do something meaningful and good. And yeah.. watch some good movies; they can work wonders on your day :) . Speaking of which, I watched the movie Bridge to Terabithia. It is beautiful.. and it shows us there is no limit for our imagination. A must watch. Think beyond imagination!!

Have a prosperous time till the next Vishu.
Wish you all a Happy Vishu!! :)

Earth and Sun

Aww.. yesterday I got this mail from my little cousin Paurnami, who is about 10 years now. And I saw that she has made a picture so that I can make it my wallpaper. Well after seeing the image, I was really surprised to see her skill so that I couldn't help posting it here.. and making it my wallpaper :) ! Her impression of the universe, the space and perspective is amazing.

See the little art..


Earth and Sun by Paurnami

(You see some snow on the Earth? Is that Antarctica?)

And the little artist here..


Paurnami(Snap by me!)

I didn't mean to insist you upon using this as your wallpaper! But it's so beautiful to have an original wallpaper from a 10 year old :L . The image is probably made in MS paint and actually is a little smaller to be a wallpaper. Anyhow it looks perfect at my desktop :h !

Lets hope that she'll become a good artist and make more beautiful wallpapers for me ^_^ . And I also noticed that the smaller versions of this pic looks cool. See some of them..


width:200


width:120

You can use them for links in sidebars ,as other graphics, or simply showcase the picture. Feel free :O .

Downloads down here..
The original pic
The 200 width version(smaller one)
The 120 width version(smallest of em all)

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility

How to add a unique set of Smileys/Emoticons in your Blogger blog

The ET smileys project kicked off when the Eternal Thinker blog wanted a custom set of emoticons in the blog posts.
After several requests from readers, I am sharing the free custom made smileys for Blogger with all of you! (These emoticons can also be used in Wordpress, Tumblr, or any other blog and website)

Now let your articles communicate more with these original cute smileys. The smiley set contains all the basic smileys plus a collection of interesting icons. You just need to type in the smiley symbol while writing the article, and they'll be converted to smiley images when it is published. Smileys will also display in the threaded comments in Blogger. ^_^ 


Quick Links:
* See the complete list of ET Smileys with their symbols
* If you want to add smileys to another website/blog (other than Blogger), see Smileys for every blog
* If there is a JavaScript conflict while using ET Smileys with other scripts, see How to avoid script conflicts while using ET Smileys


3 simple steps below to add smileys to your Blogger blog:

 1  In your Blogger Dashboard, click the More Options down arrow next to your blog and select Template. In Template page, click the Edit HTML button.
 2  In the template code, Search for the part saying </head>
 3  Now just before </head>, insert the below code:

<script src="https://et-smileys.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/etSmileys_blogger.js" type="text/javascript"/>


And you're done!


Cool, but how to use the ET smileys in my posts?
You can simply type in the emoticon symbols in your post, like in a chat.
The above script replaces the emoticon symbols you type with the corresponding smileys. For this you'll have to know the correct symbol for each smiley.
Example: :) becomes :)

See a full table listing the ET Smileys and their symbols at the end of this post. You can bookmark the above link for quick reference.
You might also like to display a Smiley reference panel over your comment form  

Alternate no-script-conflict no-wait-for-page-load version
The above script will wait till the whole page loads for the smileys to appear. There is an alternate version of the script which will be useful in following situations:
  • You have a lot of JavaScript added to your blog, and adding the smiley script results in some script conflict
  • Some elements in your page is taking forever to load, and since the page is not loaded, smileys are not appearing
  • For some reason you need more control over when exactly the smiley script is called
In any of these cases, you can use the explicit-call version of the ET Smiley Script.  

Troubleshooting for common issues where smileys aren't showing up
One important point you should remember is to put a space before the symbol.. or else the smiley image won't appear.

If you have a custom Blogger template, there might be issues with smileys not appearing.
In such a case just add the etSmileys class in your Blogger template.
Suppose you need to add smileys to a section in the template with CSS id custom-content. The original code would look like something this:

<div id="custom-content"> ... </div>


Now add the new class as follows:

<div id="custom-content" class="etSmileys"> ... </div>


If custom-content is already a CSS class, then new code will look like this:

<div class="custom-content etSmileys"> ... </div>



If you still have queries regarding adding the smileys, feel free to drop me a mail at et (at) eternal-thinker (dot) com :)

Liked the et Smiley set ? Let us know ^_^


Staying up-to-date and Keeping in touch..
Whenever new smileys are added, the script will be updated automatically. But you'll need to know the new symbols for the fresh smileys. So stay connected to know the updates in the smiley data base.

Bookmark this page to stay in touch with the constantly updated smiley list and other related updates.

Put the smiley badge in your blog to let others know of the smileys and also for a quick link!



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Spread the Word
So have you decided to use the ET Smileys? Then do a little favor. Kindly link back to this page so that others can also come to know about this smiley set. Thank you!! :)

Updates:
Smiley update #001
Ode to MJ - the Michael Jackson smiley
Smiley update #002
Smiley update #003 - Smiley panel over comment form 
Smiley update 4.0 - just when you thought it couldn't get any better, it did! 
Smiley update #5: The end of all JavaScript Conflicts

The ET Smileys - Complete List:


  smile :)
  laugh :D
  lol :O
  rotfl :r
  sad :(
  wink ;)
  tongue :P
  straight :|
  blush :$
  kiss :k
  angry :@
  love :L

  devil :v
  daydream :d
  sweat :f
  cry :c
  wow :o
  sick :~
  nerd 8|
  cool 8)
  bow :b
  dance :e
  inverted :i
  hug :h

  confused :/
  laugh xD
  smile ^_^
  stunned o_O
  muahaha :vD
  straight :||
  dead xP
  frustrated >.<
  et! :et
  rock on \m/
  heart <3
  broken <\3

  angel :angel
  raise brow :brow
  party :party
  on fire :fire
  frozen :ice
  musical note :tone
  rainbow :rainbow

  vote up :tup
  vote down :tdown
  star :star
  robot :robot
  kitten :kitten
  MJ :mj