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Ambigrams offer interesting ways to write a word. I had quite a good time, creating the ones here. To kill boredom & to spark some fun, here I offer to create 8* ambigrams for the words you want.

Hold on, here are the rules:

• Only bloggers can request an ambigram. This privilege isn’t applicable to Adiya, Aparna & Latha (identification mark: B’s teeth).
• Lets limit to 1 request/blogger. Let it be a fair play.
• If you agree that, “I love you” is a sentence. Sentences can’t be ambigramed (atleast, I donno). Even if it is written as, “ILoveYou”. So no ambigram that you may request shall exceed 2 words.
• All requests are to be via comments of this post only. No direct/personal emails shall be entertained.
• Your request would be accepted, after you answer a question, I may pose, via email.
• This offer closes after 8 requests or on 12th Oct. Whichever comes first.
• All ambigrams will be released in Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.
• Although, I’m committed in completing the requests; there is no deadline. :) I wish you know this.

*My fav number.

I happened to pull-in some pics of Elisha Cuthbert (I’ll try to remember her name) not knowing who she is & not even previewing her pics. Its a kinda technology which provides only filenames & no thumbnails, with which I downloaded. That was a week before.

Stumbled across, My Sassy Girl yesterday & it was totally entertaining. Guess what? Elisha Cuthbert, is the lead actress. She appears as Jordan R+o+a+r+k; an unpredictive, seemingly arrogant, always drunk, bossy, delusional, yet hawt still beautiful girl. Charlie (Jesse Bradford) the character getting along with Jordan, introduces her like this:

Once in your life, if you are very lucky; you’ll meet the person who divides it; into the time before you met her & the time after.

Thats how the course of events take a ruthless, un-imaginable yet interesting turns, after bumping upon her.

While watching the movie, felt the character of Jordan to be something new for Hollywood (ofcourse, telling this with my limited knowledge). Later learnt it to be a remake of a Korean film.

Elisha’s role is very-much likeable. The background score is pleasant & devoid of any modern sounds. It is disheartening to hear that this movie didn’t make it to the theatres. It is DVD only.

Get your eyes on it & leave your comments.

ps: Wikipedia entry of Elisha says that she was the contender for MJ’s role in SpiderMan. Would hav been awesome, had she gotten the slot.

(if you are a craftsman, skip this portion.)

• Take any porcelain cup & break apart the handle. Or if you are gifted with a maid, who manages to break the handles of the cups you use; you are lucky.
• Measure its circumference C & height H. Divide them with a whole number W, so that the resultants are whole numbers, WC & WH, with a minuscule remainder. ie WC ~= C / W & WH ~= H / W.
• Cut long strips of paper from magazines (no newspapers, specially not TOI) of lengths > C & widths ~ 3W . Fold both the edges inwards along the breath, so that the resulting width is W. Prepare WC + WH many such strips.
• Take your hankie & place within 15 cms from the eye. Watch closely the thread patterns & imagine how it could hav been put together. Your observation & imagination should last atleast for a minute.
• Now take the paper strips, you hav folded & knit them like the threads weaved in your imagination. (You can use the above pic for reference, though.) Use glue to secure the strips in place. Run the strips between, above once & below the other time. Do this keeping the pattern of the cloth, you hav seen in your mind. Pull in the strips closer, to avoid any gaps that may form. Glue all the sides, once the paper-fabric in the making measures  C in length &  H in width.
• Now, time to dress-up. Wrap the whole paper-fabric around the Cup. Secure the sides & the joint with a duct tape.

(If you hav skipped the above text, I guess just by looking at the pic, you would hav gotten a fair idea on how to do one.)

• Prepare for a photo shoot, post it online & leave a link. :)

He1: Hey! Tell me, how many times you guys hav gotten physical?
He2: Hu! ok -1 times.
He1: Minus one?
He2: Yep! Figure it out.

He1 scratches his head, to find what -1 can be. The number of times that anything is done, can’t be any negative. Can it mean the number of times, a certain thing is un-done? What can be un-done in such a scenario? He1 could not comprehend.

Simply ignoring the sign, would make it 1. He2 could hav said it to be just once. Ho! come on, it can’t be just once. He1 knows the intimacy between He2 & his GF.

What could be minus one? He1 goes back to his PC & writes a program having the following line:

printf(”Minus one means: %u”, -1);

The terminal blurts:

Minus one means: 4294967295

Shocked to see such a big number. He1 decides to spoil the rest of his day.

Minus One actually means Countless in English.

Do It Yourself (DIY), is an attitude kinda thing. Gives you independence & empowerment.

3 things, I DIYed recently:

Fixed my headphone. Being a Sennheiser, I didn’t want to throw it way. Learnt that the internal metal strands are very thin & comes with a resin coating. Just pulling out the vinyl sheath isn’t enough to establish a broken contact. You gotto meticulously scrape the resin to expose the bare wire.

My mobile fell down from the shelf & the display showed up like a mirror image. So all that that you enter would go from right to left with all glyphs having a horizontal flip. I tried several things, like restarting the phone, pulling out the battery etc. Nothing worked. Then I dropped the phone exactly the same way it had fallen, the prev time. Viola! The display is back to normal.

The ironbox is the most essential thing, specially for Bachelors who would do a quick press before running to office. It had gone berserk & would heat only for the 1st time, you power up. The next time it would heat-up is after 30 long minutes. I opened up the outer-cover & pulled out all screws; except one. It got jammed & my screw driver would slip everytime I tried hard. Not knowing what to do after, I placed all the screws back & closed the cover. Now the iron works perfectly fine until today. :)

Something had gone wrong? Don’t giveaway. Try your hands. You can make a difference.

Great resource for DIYers: Makezine.com

ps: Agreed! This post isn’t composed well.

Update #0: My iron stopped to work after I blogged about it! :( Looks like, taking it to a repair shop is also a part of DIY.