Maverick

Friday,July 28th, 2006, is the 7th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin.

Isn’t it sad how, when you get older, vacations are suddenly a lot shorter? True, you get to appreciate the time much more (because you have so little of it when you work full time) but it just flies by and the point of visiting relatives and enjoying the vacations gets lost somewhere along the way. But we were fortunate enough as our close relatives – My Sister-in-law and Aunt,who are just 6 hours away from us(by flight) visited our home last week.We spent a good time together, we went to temples,beaches and restaurants. And the major thing is, I ate the first crab of my life, yes my Aunt cooked lovely crab for me. Man!! it just sounds like fish and I bet you need hell lot of patience to crack the shell out. I do love it though. I would like to try it again, if my wife is patient enough to cook for me else need to wait for my Aunt visit again.They made us great Indian sweets and brought us some home made Indian Butter biscuits (but it doesn’t have butter in it, funny name though), which I emptied in 5 days. My wife stole the recipe from her mum now and hope I will be able to taste more and more in future. Time for us to visit them, that will be a welcome vacation for us.

Dalai Lama has links with CIA, Indian Army: China , accusation of China is right and I indeed believe in it.As far as Tibet is concerned, No country has ever publicly accepted Tibet as an independent state including India. While Tibet was once an independent kingdom, the government of the
People’s Republic of China and the Government of Tibet in Exile
disagree over when Tibet became a part of China, and whether this
incorporation into China is legitimate. CIA and the Indian Army got involved in Tibet from 1956 when the rebellion broke up. And Nehru, the then Indian PM, who was the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) Leader, later turned aside from the conflict siting the Panchasheel Agreement and allowed China to occupy the Tibetian territory which inturn backfired India in 1962 when China-India War arose.Bad Foreign Policy costed it all.
Recently China opened the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which paves way for more Chinese settlements, result  the large influx of  Chinese will ultimately extinguish the local culture.
Better for India is to continue backdoor diplomacy and disallow Chinese domination more into the region. Lets ‘wait and see’ as Dalai Lama says, often.