at work...

This is my second week at Gloucestershire airport, but first day getting my hand on real-world work. Yeh it was intersting to work on this sweet learjet. My first job is to remove, inspect and reinstall the fuel pressurizin check valve in the Learjet aircraft.
between i got some spare time to take these pictures..... a small piston engine aircraft...

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The luvly LearJet..

Huuuge heh... imagine four of these (4 tonne) engines hanging down the wings of Boeing 747 ...

Good team work... to go home...but... bloodyyy mini bus...

Portuu Gaal..

Portuu Gaal! Portuu Gaaaal!!! Yah they did it again. Crushed Bra-Zeel 2-0 this time by late goooools from substitute simao (benfica) and Cahvalo(chelsea). Here follows some picz we took on that glorious night.

packed stadiumlined up

bra-zeel free kick
portuu gaal scored...

N joying the early morning snow fall...

walking over the snow..
trying to escape...
too cold to complete..
had cuppacino...
walked away...

In 'Emirates'.....

Well not in United Arab emirates, but i was at the Emirates stadium of Arsenal Football Club to see the world class players showing off their magics in the world class stadium.

The Portugal team.

Luiz Felipe Scolari sprung few surprises in naming his Portugal squad for next Tuesday's friendly with Brazil in London at the Emirates Stadium.

Atletico Madrid midfielders Maniche and Costinha remain out of favour with Scolari whose reign as Portugal boss started with a 2-1 win over Brazil in 2003 at the Estadio das Antas, the former home of Porto.

Scolari, who led his homeland Brazil to victory in the 2002 World Cup, also continued to omit Everton defender Nuno Valente.

Here is the list of players that i am gonna see on tuesday at Arsenal's Stadium.

Ricardo (Sporting Lisbon), Quim (Benfica); Jorge Andrade (Deportivo La Coruna), Miguel (Valencia), Paulo Ferreira (Chelsea), Ricardo Carvalho (Chelsea), Marco Caneira (Sporting Lisbon), Manuel da Costa, Fernando Meira (Stuttgart); Deco (Barcelona), Hugo Viana (Valencia), Joao Moutinho (Sporting Lisbon), Tiago (Lyon), Petit (Benfica), Raul Meireles (Porto); Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Ricardo Quaresma (Porto), Helder Postiga (Porto), Simao (Benfica), Nuno Gomes (Benfica).

Grounded for life..

Skins.....

I set on the sofa in my living room with a tea after the dinner and switched on the TV. As usual I started shuffling the more than 200 channels aimlessly, and this brought me to a hault,.....a new E4 drama set in Bristol about sex-crazed, dirty-mouthed feral teens staying up all night and getting stupefied on pills...


...young Tony sets the plotlines running as he tries to sort out a debut shag for speccy Sid before his forthcoming 17th birthday (failing which he will become an instant pariah), meanwhile sending him off to buy a bag of skunk on credit from a local psychopath ahead of that evening's party at a posh girl's house. The rest of the suitably variegated group are rounded up - beautiful Michelle, nutter Chris, dreamy Cassie with her eating disorders, and Anwar(ofcoz not me), interrupted on his mobile during prayers at the mosque ('Cheers, Tone - now my uncle wants to stone me to death'). They are easy to like as long as you're not the mum and dad arriving home from from the Maldives to find your living room remodelled by Moravian swineherds and your Range Rover in the river.( Bristol, Anwar, Maldives...!!!)

But it's is not all wild partying. One plot strand focuses on a girl struggling with an eating disorder in the face of useless adults, not to mention an overfriendly taxi driver old enough to be her dad...

Anyway. This is supposed to be a review of Skins, right? Except, when it comes to cultural reviews, the best time to write them is straight afterwards so you remember most of it; but I’ve procratinated on this review in the hope that I delete the entire memory from my mind, and because I didn’t take notes (who does?) I’ve forgotten half of what actually happened. Thankfully!

In any case, there is very little to recommend of Skins. I know most drama is supposed to be a flight of fancy, and that it’s just a story, but Skins claims that this is somewhat based upon real life, as if all teenagers handle unpaid for drugs and have the mafia on their backs, and it all ends in hilarious consequences. No, no it bloody well doesn’t. Don’t pay for drugs? You get shot, that’s what happens. As if white middle class teenagers would go near Mr Big; they’d probably just get on the phone to their deelah and would go nowhere near guns.



It was too much...

Look, if you don’t believe me (and I have a feeling that there will be many of my peers who will no doubt virulently disagree with me) check it out on Thursday nights, at 2200 on E4.

Salaam-e-Ishq...

Well another day-out in Bristol. We( the bristol badboys) gave a big farewell to our beloved friend Firu, n then headed to cineworld( the cinema for hindi movies) here in bristol.
I am not a very bollywoodyyy fan but i do join the joy of my frends n enjoy the love movies..
we entered to the hall 5 mins to the showtime. and then...

This 3-hour-45 minute ‘Tribute To Love’ starts off quite grippingly. One after the other, the twelve characters are introduced. And the characters are colourful. There is a young married couple( John Abraham and Vidya Balan ) deeply in love with each other. There is a taxi driver who waits everyday for his dreamgirl ( Govinda and Shannon Esrechowitz ), an gori mem, at the airport. There are two lovers with broken engagement (Akshaye Khanna and Ayesha Takia ). There is an item girl who would do anything to get a role into a Karan Johar film( Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan ). There is a middle-aged man with unfulfilled desires( Anil Kapoor and Juhi Chawla ). And there is a newly wed couple( Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar ) unable to consummate their marriage.

In this huge ensemble, ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’ gets tangled in the second half( yah, there was this unusual 10 mins interval). Of the six love stories only three manage to make an impact. The others more-or-less remain bland.

Out of these six tracks, the stories featuring Akshaye Khanna and Govinda are the most entertaining. While Akshaye is simply superb in playing an eccentric, commitment phobic lover, Govinda brings the house down with his trademark humour. Sohail Khan, too, is very funny. But his track with Isha Koppikar is relegated to the background for most part of the film.The Salman-Priyanka track is bland and boring. It is a story without any head or toe. And to make things worse, both Salman and Priyanka have acted poorly.

The Anil Kapoor-Juhi Chawla track works solely because of performances( we all voted them the best). On the other hand, the track featuring John and Vidya lacks any depth. It merely ends up as the story of a man trying to revive the lost memory of his wife. Vidya is natural in her performance while John leaves much to be desired.

Despite too many tear-jerking moments, there are hardly one or two scenes that genuinely stir your emotions.

Of the six stories, four meet together at a big fat Indian wedding in the end. Thankfully, there is some humour in the climax to send the us back home with a smile on our faces.

Watch the longy longy movie when u get time, u will worth it....

Is this the reason Ronaldo is fat?

Much has been made at this World Cup about the size of Ronaldo’s waistline. He arrived at the World Cup weighing over 95 kg, 13 kg above his normal “fighting weight”. The question is what made him so fat?

Here is the answer i have found. He seems to have Coke’s slogan: “Eat football. Sleep football. Drink Coca-Cola” rather too literally……


Anyways the fat, slow and stressed Ronaldo is not gonna be playing at Emirates Stadium against Portugal's Ronaldo.

Brazil name squad for Emirates friendly.

Brazil manager Dunga has announced a 22-man squad to take on Portugal at Arsenal’s Emirates stadium on Tuesday February 6.
He has included the Barcelona's talisman Ronaldinho, Intermilan's striker Adriano and Milan midfielder Kaká.

Portugal boss Phil Scolari is expected to announce his squad next week.

The Brazil squad to face Portugal at Emirates Stadium:

1- Helton (Porto),
2-Julio Cesar (Internazionale),
3-Daniel Alves (Sevilla),
4-Maicon (Internazionale),
5-Adriano (Sevilla),
6-Gilberto (Hertha Berlin),
7-Alex (PSV),
8-Juan (Bayer Leverkusen),
9-Lúcio (Bayern Munich),
10-Luisão (Benfica),
11-Gilberto Silva (Arsenal),
12-Edmílson (Barcelona),
13-Dudu Cearense (CSKA),
14-Elano (Shakhtar Donetsk),
15-Kaká (Milan),
16-Tinga (Borussia Dortmund),
17-Diego (Werder Bremen),
18-Ronaldinho (Barcelona),
19-Robinho (Real Madrid),
20-Adriano (Internazionale),
21-Rafael Sobis (Real Betis),
22-Fred (Lyon)

Hoping to see them....

I will be there......

Yaah, Hopefully I will be there in a crowd of more than 60,000 spectaters watching Brazil play against Portugal at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London on 6th of feburuary. A purely well deserved end to a long awaiting. Yes! my first match to be watched in a stadium out side the Maldives.

After all its Brazil the world number one and Portugal( currently 9th in the fifa ranking). Ronaldinho, Kaka, Christiano Ronaldo, Deco....... n many more world class players performing in a world class stadium ( the new stadium of Arsenal opend july 2006).

Historically the two nations have always enjoyed close ties, and last met in March 2003 at the old Estádio das Antas. Ronaldinho was on target for Brazil but goals from Pauleta and Brazil-born playmaker Deco, on his Portugal debut, gave Scolari's side victory. Overall, Portugal have won two of the teams' four meetings, with Brazil recording one success.

I cant wait!!!

Is January 1st the New Year Day.

The celebration of the new year on January 1st is a relatively new phenomenon.
According to the early roman calender new year was celerated on march 1st.The first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st was in Rome in 153 B.C.But this new year date was not always strictly and widely observed, and the new year was still sometimes celebrated on March 1. But....... whish u all a very happy new year!

Bristol Lights......

Fly-by-wire!!!!

Mechanical and hydraulic flight control systems are heavy and require careful routing of flight control cables through the airplane using systems of pulley and cranks. Both systems often require redundant backup, which further increases weight. Furthermore, both have limited ability to compensate for changing aerodynamic conditions.

By using computers and electrical linkages, designers can save weight and improve reliability. Electronic fly-by-wire systems can respond more flexibly to changing aerodynamic conditions, by tailoring flight control surface movements so that airplane response to control inputs is consistent for all flight conditions. Electronic systems require less maintenance, whereas mechanical and hydraulic systems require lubrication, tension adjustments, leak checks, fluid changes, etc. Furthermore putting circuitry between pilot and aircraft can enhance safety; for example the control system can prevent a stall, or can stop the pilot from overstressing the airframe.

Most fly-by-wire systems incorporated redundant computers and some kind of mechanical or hydraulic backup. This may seem to negate some advantages of fly-by-wire, but the redundant systems can be simpler, lighter, and offer only limited capability since they are for emergency use only.

is this fly by wire??!!!

Assume the Position

Ok, all you stomach sleepers out there--listen up! In order to help prevent the formation of wrinkles, you need to learn to sleep on your back.

Sleeping on your side or stomach creates wrinkles because you bury your face in the pillow and the wrinkles are ironed onto your skin as you sleep. This won't happen if you sleep perfectly still on your back.

HHmmmmm that sucks! So much for beauty sleep.

30 seconds for men!!!

HALF of all women make their minds up within 30 seconds of meeting a man about whether he is potential boyfriend material, according to a study on speed-dating.

The women were on average far quicker at making a decision than the men during some 500 speed dates at an event organised as part of Edinburgh Science Festival.

What makes us yawn?

Next time you're in a meeting, try this little experiment: Take a big yawn, cover your mouth out of courtesy, and watch and see how many people yawn. There's a good chance that you'll set off a chain reaction of yawns. Before you finish reading this, it's likely that you will yawn at least once. Don't misunderstand, i am not intending to bore you, but just reading about yawning will make you yawn, just as seeing or hearing someone else yawn makes us yawn.

While the dictionary tells us that yawning is caused by being fatigued, drowsy or bored, scientists are discovering that there is more to yawning than what most people think. Not much is known about why we yawn or if it serves any useful function, and very little research has been done on the subject. However, there are several theories about why we yawn.

Is there a doctor in the house?

I made a loose analogy between the different stages of an aircraft maintanence engineer's career and a doctor’s career. Mostly about the pay and the responsibilities.
Some of u may think that we have more responsibility than a doctor. As a doctor holds a life in his hands each time he diagnoses a patient. A wrong diagnosis or unsuccessful surgery could lead to death. Our patients are airplanes. Unlike a doctor, a wrong diagnosis or repair can lead to multiple fatalities.

So where does pay fall in? If we hold so many lives in our hands should we be paid as much as or more than doctors? Again it goes back to the old supply and demand. If there is a shortage of mechanics and a great demand then pay will go up to try and attract and keep the employees. So what are your thoughts? Is there a doctor in the house? lol..

This Plane is not Safe!!!!

“Do not fly with this plane, it is not safe.” Those are some pretty direct words — no beating around the bush. If a pilot were to hear these words uttered from a mechanic, he would probably think twice about flying that aircraft.

But what if it was a pilot who said that? What if you were a passenger on an aircraft, buclked in and ready for takeoff, when you heard those words come across the intercom? Believe it or not, that situation did happen to some unfortunate passengers. The Daily Mail reported a few weeks back that a jet carrying 180 tourists was grounded when its pilot made some unsettling comments. The A321 was about to take off when a srange sound came from one of the engines. That is when the captain announced, “I am resigning from my job. Do not fly with this plane. It is not safe. Do not fly with Onur Air.”

The pilot was escorted off the aircraft leaving the passengers onboard an aircraft with temperatures over 100 degrees and no air conditioning. The passengers eventually deplaned, retrieved their luggage, and went to back to the terminal where an alternate flight had been arranged.

When the pilot made the announcement, there were varied reactions from the passengers. Some laughed nervously while others were crying and almost screaming. About 20 of them refused to board the re-booked flight and made travel arrangements to get home.

I don’t know how I would have reacted in that situation. I think I would have laughed at the surreal atmosphere of the situation. I likely would have been one of those trying to find an alternate means of getting home.

Third consecutive failure.

This is going to be a real hard tournament for coach Stoikov, as under his belt this is the third consecutive failure for Maldives. After a remarkable performance against Iran in the opening game of Asian Games, Maldivians hopes for the quater was high....http://www.maldivesoccer.com/news/2006/tournaments/asian%20games/03122006002/