Posted on November 24, 2008 by Abhilash
My Bullet 500 with a custom-made silencer
Originally uploaded by Machax!
A characteristic of the enfield-bullet is the starting mechanism. It is unlike any other bike in India because it cannot be started without any one of
1. Sound knowledge of the starting mechanism
2. Demo from another bulleteer.
The single most important factor which complicates the starting routine [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Abhilash
Somebody I know wrote thus in response to my points of view:
‘I think you are in a confused sttate right now and need to take some time off.
This is reflected in the rambling structure of your post.
I dont think that there is anything erroneous about a doctor observing a patient to study symptoms. Even if [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2008 by Abhilash
After my last post on this topic, I have been left fumbling trying to find some physical explanation for abstract concepts. I am going to make a sincere effort at rationalizing spiritual concepts.
Let us take the structure of the nervous system. We have a sructure called vertebral column which supports the skull and the vertebral [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2008 by Abhilash
I observe people and I can see that there are motives for every action. On a broad scale we have desires, ambition, likes, dislikes and other emotions on various scales. A few people will argue on the basic desires being food, clothing and shelter. But I would say that the very basic instinct would be [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2008 by Abhilash
Talking about the human seed, I am reminded of the Tamil word for father-’Thanthai’. This word is actually broken down to ‘Thannai thanthavar’, which basically means one who has given himself. There could be myriad interpretations for this and my understanding is it basically means a person who has given himself, which means everything which [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Abhilash
Recently I was having a conversation with my wife and she happened to mention about one of her acquaintances who had eloped with a girl of his choice and supposedly left his parents in the lurch. she opined about how hapless the parents were and went on to talk about the general state of affairs [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by Abhilash
Had to make a recent trip on outer ring-road(?) from KR Puram to Hebbal.
What really struck me as absurd was the fact that there were huge pot-holes in roads acros bridges. Now the fact that bridges are at an incline and hence less prone to water-logging has not deterred deterioration of the roads really struck me [...]
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