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What is placed in the world except your eyes?
They went out in the morning
It curtails bowed pm
I live my eyelids die under these
You know my English is not impeccable. It is not my mother tongue, nor it is my father or brother or sister tongue. But the above lines are too bad for my standards. I am proud of the fact that,  even though I did my first 10 years of schooling in Kannada, I have read too many English books - OK English novels to write or talk bad English. 

So what on the heaven's name are  above lines? They are part of very beautiful song, a movie song, translated by google from Hindi to English. 

Guessing of the original song is left to you. For some of you who speak Telugu and kannada, here are the translations. 

మీ కళ్లు తప్ప ప్రపంచం లో ఏం ఉంచుతారు?
వారు ఉదయం బయటకు వెళ్లి
ఇది వంగిన pm హరిస్తుంది
నా కనురెప్పలు ఈ కింద మరణిస్తారు నివసిస్తున్నారు


ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳು ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ ವಿಶ್ವದ ಯಾವ ಇರಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ?
ಅವರು ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಹೊರಬಿತ್ತು
ಇದು ಬಾಗಿದ PM curtails
ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣುರೆಪ್ಪೆಗಳು ಈ ಅಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಯುವ ಲೈವ್
It is not my intention to make fun of google translate (as if anybody cares) And I have great faith in technologies. Because I was there when people typed
10 LET A = 5
and I did type such programs in black and white screen running MSDOS.  One day this translation, might be better than original song. For the time being, let us have some fun with google translate. 
And, no I can not read or write Telugu, though I recognize few letters. But have affinity towards this one  south indian language as it resembles kannada. 
PS : Am I so much bereft of ideas to blog that I should invent such a thing? May be.  
PS 2: And I am in that time of the month - when my laptop is broken - not broken as in hardware broken - broken because I can not get to boot it to gui screen properly. So this blogging takes my mind off - sudo chown this,sudo chmod that, sudo start that goddamn xserver and let me code!!!. Do you reckon that, it is high time I give up on this idea of coding and trying to make something out of my life, but rather accept the cycle of cook-clean-tv-getShoutedAt-shoutBack and be a full time unpaid maid of my part time housemates?

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