Itachi, the favourite of many is fighting his last battle with everything he has. Itachi became the favourite of everyone for his notoriety after massacring the clan. His manner of speech and his abilities are unprecedented in the Narutoverse . This precocious prodigy activated sharingan at the age of 8. More about him can be read from wikipedia. He does things in a cool manner which inspires awe. Sasuke, his brother bred by hatred has become so strong enough to face Itachi in a face-to-face combat that forced Itachi to use Ametarasu. Can you believe that Sasuke suppressed Itachi’s Tsukoyumi with bare sharingan? I wonder about the potential of Sasuke’s MS if he activates one. Right now(chapter 310) Sasuke needs to deal with Ametarasu inorder to claim Itachi. Itachi’s defeat is near for the following reasons:

Kishi showed a previous confrontation between Itachi and Sasuke where Sasuke lost pathetically.There is no point in repeating the same fate. Moreover Sasuke has dealt with two akatsuki members – orochimaru and deidara – since then. Though Orochimaru and Deidara are nothing compared to Itachi as Itachi made a mincemeat of them in separate instances, it showcases Sasuke’s growth. That growth will not make much sense if Sasuke is killed by Itachi now. Moreover, the manga is revolving around Sasuke and Naruto since its inception. I think that Sasuke will defeat Itachi and he will take his eyes to face Madara. Sounds tangible, ain’t it?

As I am done with all my projects, I have plenty of free time at hand. I have decided to invest the free time on orkut to find interesting results. I went on sending friend requests to every female profile I came across till orkut refrained me with a “adding friends is disabled” caution. I had interesting conversations with the ones who accepted my request. Since every person is unique and diverse in their own way, their interests hobbies are equally diverse. One has taught me loads about finance and stock trading. Another gave me truck loads of advice about girls. Another about French language. The knowledge i have gained is extensive. It is always fun talking to people with varying intellect. Some sound like kids. Some of them are so mature that they tire and awe me with their ideals and analysis. Some demand an apology for every offense they sense. Loads of Henry David Thoreau’s quotes and discussion on that. Did I tell you that I did my economics assignment with the help of Orkut? Interacting with all these diverse characters at the same time sure is an interesting experience that i will cherish.

No discussion can be neutral without mentioning the cons. In my female pursuit, I have encountered a couple of disturbing personalities as well. And the coincidence is that they belong to the age group of 15-16 and they use internet round the clock. Their albums are full of pictures with suicidal tendencies. Looks like uncontrolled Internet usage at early ages is bearing its fruits.  Internet is a double edged sword and it should be dealt with care. It exemplifies the classic adage: Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous. A technology in its rudimentary stage should be viewed skeptically as its potential dangers are yet to be unveiled and sufficient guidelines should be laid before throwing it out in the open. Hope someone figures out something to get around this problem.

Getting a seat in Carnegie Mellon or MIT ?

Completing a Phd in robotics?

doing MBA in Harvard or Wharton or IIMs ?

Job in Google ?

12LPA salary ?

Reading everything on the earth and generously advising everyone when your view is uncalled for?

Knowing a girl and flaunting that she is your girl friend ?

Or having a girl friend and boring others ceaselessly babbling about her ?

Glory?

more money?

Having tons of research papers?

This is one of the questions whose answer depends on the person and his/her perspective of life. In these days, where only a few think while the rest just try to emulate these and follow their lead as they don’t know what they want for themselves, the meaning of the word is out the the reach for a majority. Perhaps the word may not mean much for them as they gave up life long ago and are desperately trying to project themselves as an ideal individuals in the eyes of society. The description can be ceaseless and penning that is useless.

For me, Happiness is -

not in winning a table tennis match but in figuring out a way to counter a smash in table tennis that has been troubling me from some time.

not in winning a carroms game but in devising a new way to take care of a particular coin configuration.

not in getting full marks in a test but in solving a challenging physics problem by myself.

being able to ride the bicycle on my own after tons of futile attempts in learning it.

in playing with my cpu whenever something goes awry.

in using a new word in a sentence while writing something.

It is the exalting feeling when you feel like you are on the top of the world and you want nothing else in life. It is the satisfaction you get in figuring out things on your own irrespective of the size of the impact it has.

(Well, the experiences i had, shaped the way i think and it may be different in case of you. )

History’s Strongest Disciple: Kenichi is the latest series which made it to my all time bests. Protagonist’s name is Shirahama Kenichi(This pic ====>). The usual ingredients like bullying, hard work, humour, innuendos and ideals in the correct proportion make this anime worth the watch.

Elder’s words rocks. Miu-san rocks. Niijama rocks. Shijure-chan rocks. Ma Kensei rocks. Sasaki rocks. Honoka rocks. Renka-chan rocks. Koetsuji sensei rocks. Ryouzanpak rocks.

The cons are the lack of scantalators for the manga due to which only a few manga chapters were translated.

I have seen the Yang-Yin badge(the badge on Kenichi’s collar in the pic) in several animes but thanks to this one, I got its meaning. Yang means the brighter side or Light. Yin means darkness or negative side. The Small dark spot in the bright part represents the darkness in the Light. Similarly, the bright spot on the Dark part is the light in the darkness. You can have much more information about this from its wiki page.

a note on Bleach Movie: Posting here because dedicating a post to Bleach Movie will demean the Post. I watched the movie in the hope of seeing Ukitake taichou fight but it is a complete let down. Its just like a lengthy filler episode. The only part worth mentioning is Byakuya’s dialogue – “Be proud that you are dying by my Bankai”.

Lately I am falling in love with the Japanese language. Hopefully I can translate manga chapters soon [too ambitious an ambition, but nonetheless it is plausible]

Sayonara.

What makes me so content to such an extent that i’ve decided to flaunt it with a post?

Here are an array of reasons -

India won the 20-20 world cup.

I wrote the first day exams of second midsems very well.

I am done with tomorrow’s preparation under the guidance of the best tutor one can think of, sandeep that is.

Listening to Vennelinthe song from Tulasi unceasingly, a habit of mine, the usual expected response, whenever i take to a song.

I can ostentate the long hair, about which I was dreaming from my childhood. The resulting curls are astonishing.

Naruto manga is rocking.

No girls.

Done with embellishing the room by adding the posters of my choice.

Deleted the orkut account.

Reading Memoirs of Geisha and am thoroughly enjoying it.

what more can i ask for? why ain’t life like this each n every second?

Its an interesting fact to notice that I resort to this online selfsame only when I am on seventh heaven or extreme distress.

I think masashi kishimato is under a great hurry to finish off the series which he has created. He is rushing things all of a sudden like -

* revealing pein and arranging a direct confrontation

* killing jiraiya (will be .. soon.. )

* revealing BH’s name as konan

* a confrontation between Itachi and Sasuke

* revealing Madara

my guess is that he’ll complete the series in 1 year at most.

I can talk ceaselessly about Naruto and about Masashi ? No idea. This has prompted me to search for him and I came up with (t)his pic..

I loved these images of Sasori of Red Sands.Sasori, the strongest ninja Sand has seen. He killed the Third Kazekage, who was presumed to be the strongest sand ninja till then.

let me add a Pein and Itachi too.. Pein and Uchiha Itachi, the prodigy require no introduction.(Shall i say Uzumaki Pein or Nimikaze Pein as I speculate )

This is one of the mind boggling spoilers I came across(Pein was not revealed back then! nonetheless the image is soo interesting) Nimikaze Minato(Fourth) is the strongest ninja the series has seen.

Naruto, his son is the only one who can surpass him as kakashi mentions a few chapters ago. I am dying to see some more information on him.

I took to carroms two years ago. During our second year my friends used to play carroms regularly and they used to drag me along with them to fill the shortage in players. I am the worst in the group and I used to scowl at them for using me to fill the gap. I tried and tried but my game was always the same; it refused to improve.

I slowly began to fall in love with the game. I constantly tried and tried to improve my game by polishing off mistakes. The more I played, the better I understood and enjoyed the game. I was enthralled to see the mind boggling strategies, tactics, skills involved in that game which made it appear like chess. Whenever I saw a new move, I used to emulate it as a player equipped with more moves is at advantage. Madhuhaas, Manoj, Sandeep and Pramod used to astound and inspire me ceaselessly with their skills.

Fellow players used to develop their own moves by perennially experimenting various configurations. Once one masters a move, it becomes a target for the rest of us to grab as each move comes with its own advantage. This incessant thirst used to take the game to a different level with each passing day. There were times when I played carroms for 8 hours in a day!!! We begin after dinner and used continue till 5am in the morning!

I want to reflect on the change of my perspective towards the game over time. When I was a beginner ,I could not understand much of the game, and I labelled it as a ‘boring game where luck plays everything’. Now it became an exciting, captivating and enthralling game for me. Therefore Outlook of sth/someone depends on the level of interaction, perhaps. A few days ago, I stumbled on these videos of Carroms worldcup on google videos which have loads of surprises in store for me or any other carroms enthusiast for that matter. The better one performs, nearer he will move towards the line called Perfection.

Thanks to all my friends for helping me realise this which in turn helped me in enjoying it avidly.

note: I’ve lost my singles game in carroms tournament today and I avow to make up for it by bagging the first place in the doubles segment. (going too far?! bragging about doubles where game is dependent on partner as well! Withal, It is healthy to pursue a goal now n thn)

update1: We’ve been to quarter finals with the help of 2 byes plus a win. 2 more matches and it’ll be finals and 1 more then to make it a history.

last update: we lost the game though we played decently. score is 25-0. my carroms dreams are shattered now.

* At last found the song “Sash – Adelante”. I’ve been searching for the song for the past 5 years without knowing the name or language. The only piece of information that i’ve is that it is from bacardi blast.

* Reading an awesome book called Princess by John Sasson. It is a biography of a princess in Saudi Arabia’s noble family. It contained a detailed account of their dogmatic customs which they follow with point precision. A female is a naught in their eyes. Maintaining four wives is a well-accepted custom(?!). I was shocked to see the way in which a Saudi-male behaves. Retching!! It changed my perspective of the lives of Islamic women. To think that such behavior is in practice sends shudders through my spine.

* I was reading some random posts from random blogs and suddenly this urge to write a post enveloped me. I had to relent This post is a result of a caprice

This is an impromptu post. If you don’t know about naruto, google it up! Only those who are from naruto verse can feel the post. For others, can’t help it guys!

I took to naruo 6 months back. It is very interesting right from the beginning. Now I reached a level where I refresh the mangahelpers

picture of antagonists in this series.

website throughout the friday night for the manga in order to grab it at the moment of its arrival.

Thanks to couple of pals over here, I can speculate about the story line. They correct me if my predictions are awry. I am a part of a naruto community in orkut where a good number of enthusiasts share their views, comments, etc,. The unending flow of spoilers pumps adrenaline and keeps everyone guessing. These spoilers range from fan made fiction to photographed manga images. Though they are not usually credible, but are sufficient to let our imagination run wild. The best thing about them is that, these spoilers can be verified at the end of the week and they change every week unlike Harry potter counterparts. To write a gripping series like this which has been captivating audience since 7 years, Kishimato must be a genius. Icing on the cake is that, like in many story lines, the antagonists in this series are elite geniuses. It gives a kick when the opponent is so powerful, thrilling the readers whenever the villains are mentioned/encountered in the series.

In fact the name of this blog is taken from this series. Pein is the the leader of the antagonistic group called Akatsuki.