In the State of Fear
Yes, you read it right. Its not just me, but we all are constantly in the State of Fear. Well, thats what Crichton says in his latest novel, "State of Fear" .. Its an intriguing description of how we fear "global warming" and how various people in this society use this fear to their advantage. Well, the most interesting part of the novel is that, nations have always used this "State of Fear" to control its citizens from time immemorial [ i hope that doesnt exaggerate the point :p ] ... global warming just happens to be the current "Fear" for all of us.
The way Crichton takes you through this is very interesting. I dont want to leak out more information from the novel, and spoil the fun of reading it. I have been into this novel for close to 3 weeks now !!! and i havent yet completed it. Well, i know its a very slow pace, but i dont get a lot of time to read novels these days :( ... Thanks to Bangalore traffic, i have completed almost 90% of the book in 3 weeks reading the book while travelling to and fro between office and home. Otheriwse, i would have taken even more time to read it i suppose.
A couple of weeks back, my uncle and aunty had come over to our home. This was infact their first visit to our home. It was good to have them, but i hope they were not bored. Atleast they didnt seem to :) .. We had been for a small trip to Nandi hills, which was incidentally, my first long trip on my new bike :-). If it was not for my camera chip that gave way halfway through, i would have posted some nice cool pics here.
Last week, i had been to a wonderful trip to Masinagudi, a place adjacent to Bandipur forest, and very near to OOty. It was a very beautiful time of the year to visit that place, with light rains and green trees all around. We were 15 guys who went there !!! ... yeah right, 15 !!! .. we went in 3 cars and 3 bikes. I was not allowed to use my bike :( so had to travel in a car which was such a bore !!! ... If you like bike riding, you will definately not enjoy the car ride... The only adventurous thing we did there was to go for a night safari in an open jeep, and we sighted 4 bisons, as close as 5 meters away from us !!! ... the jeep dirver was so confident, that he would turn the jeep right into the bison, so that the jeep flood lights would focus on it and we could see it and capture some images. Unfortunately, none of us had any good night capturing cameras :( and we didnt get any great snaps of those beasts. We also saw quite a number of deer. so many that on the way back, we didnt find sighting a deer interesting enough anymore. You can have a look at some of these snaps at http://flickr.com/photos/s_raaz/sets/481979/ [ I have one snap for our Kannada film industry fans ;) .. so enjoy it ;) ]
Gnome cvs servers are being relocated by RedHat, and because of this outage, we are not able to do any great work today and hence this blog :p .. Well, it was really long that i had posted anything here anyway !!! Should be posting a good snap too now in my next blog.
The way Crichton takes you through this is very interesting. I dont want to leak out more information from the novel, and spoil the fun of reading it. I have been into this novel for close to 3 weeks now !!! and i havent yet completed it. Well, i know its a very slow pace, but i dont get a lot of time to read novels these days :( ... Thanks to Bangalore traffic, i have completed almost 90% of the book in 3 weeks reading the book while travelling to and fro between office and home. Otheriwse, i would have taken even more time to read it i suppose.
A couple of weeks back, my uncle and aunty had come over to our home. This was infact their first visit to our home. It was good to have them, but i hope they were not bored. Atleast they didnt seem to :) .. We had been for a small trip to Nandi hills, which was incidentally, my first long trip on my new bike :-). If it was not for my camera chip that gave way halfway through, i would have posted some nice cool pics here.
Last week, i had been to a wonderful trip to Masinagudi, a place adjacent to Bandipur forest, and very near to OOty. It was a very beautiful time of the year to visit that place, with light rains and green trees all around. We were 15 guys who went there !!! ... yeah right, 15 !!! .. we went in 3 cars and 3 bikes. I was not allowed to use my bike :( so had to travel in a car which was such a bore !!! ... If you like bike riding, you will definately not enjoy the car ride... The only adventurous thing we did there was to go for a night safari in an open jeep, and we sighted 4 bisons, as close as 5 meters away from us !!! ... the jeep dirver was so confident, that he would turn the jeep right into the bison, so that the jeep flood lights would focus on it and we could see it and capture some images. Unfortunately, none of us had any good night capturing cameras :( and we didnt get any great snaps of those beasts. We also saw quite a number of deer. so many that on the way back, we didnt find sighting a deer interesting enough anymore. You can have a look at some of these snaps at http://flickr.com/photos/s_raaz/sets/481979/ [ I have one snap for our Kannada film industry fans ;) .. so enjoy it ;) ]
Gnome cvs servers are being relocated by RedHat, and because of this outage, we are not able to do any great work today and hence this blog :p .. Well, it was really long that i had posted anything here anyway !!! Should be posting a good snap too now in my next blog.
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