tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17148503939412335832024-03-13T23:21:56.061+05:30BallatImprovisation....Imagination....Inspiration...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-41284949681228022922009-12-27T14:31:00.018+05:302009-12-27T14:50:07.129+05:30Destiny<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img src="http://www.koernerbrands.com/images/hello_logo_transparent.gif" width="119" height="81" /></span></div><p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Hello everyone. Aren't you surprised and wondered when you saw an update from Ballat after one and a half months? Well yeah, even now, its not Shankar who is writing this post, its someone else. This place once saw many posts flowing freely from his pens ,but where's Shankar and what happened to him? He is busy. Zynga (Creators of Farmville, Mafia world, Cafe world) is keeping him engaged. (He is going to kill me the moment he read this <img alt="Tongue" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/10.gif" />). Shankz asked me to inform you all that <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">he will be back to the blogging world soon</span>, yeah real soon I guess.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wondering who is writing this post? Its me <a href="http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/">Shruti (Hits and Misses)</a>, who came here to dust off and clean this place which remained uninhabited for a long time. Jokes apart. So why am I here? What am I doing in Shankar's blog? Remember guys? I am one of the author for this blog who writes 55 Fiction. Yeah am here for the same. So everyone in this blogging world must have heard or read a 55Fiction somewhere.</span> Its just a Micro-fiction where the entire effect of the story is captured and wrote in just 55 words or less. So ready to read my fiction? Here you go..</p> <p><strong><img src="http://dokimasu.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/07-ghost_hug.jpg" width="136" align="right" height="77" /></strong><strong></strong></p> <p><strong> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Unlike her home, this place had everything she needed. A smiling face bent down: her new Mummy. She buried her fears and smiled back. She missed her Ma's soft tender face. She had to forget Her and love these people now. Ma had detailed her everything, carefully</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> </span><em style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">after</em><strong style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> the accident they had both died in.</strong></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>W</strong><strong>ith Love,</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7fu13iTWPr59Z9BM6nCwZd0cXzNaaDj8atEgCSsOX5jm-_ZBMopj0EK4gUX68F3JDnzBxH5yP4I2k4DH99J83xlpbS0Qv6wMwwFTE4zWbJ0Xiu4ipCiKB-1xXjbCWc6fdhEAoVlXfcmQI/s1600-h/Shruti-Logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7fu13iTWPr59Z9BM6nCwZd0cXzNaaDj8atEgCSsOX5jm-_ZBMopj0EK4gUX68F3JDnzBxH5yP4I2k4DH99J83xlpbS0Qv6wMwwFTE4zWbJ0Xiu4ipCiKB-1xXjbCWc6fdhEAoVlXfcmQI/s320/Shruti-Logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419838951785515250" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Image Courtesy :Google Images.<br /></span></p>Shrutihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02907230191165124394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-20929382442371938382009-11-07T19:59:00.001+05:302009-11-07T19:59:05.469+05:30If I were a baby again<div style="text-align: justify"> <blockquote> <p>This post has been published by me as a part of the <b>Blog-a-Ton 4</b>; the fourth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/"><b>Blog-a-Ton</b></a>. </p> </blockquote> </div> <p align="justify">When I chose this topic for Blog-a-ton 4, I thought it’s going to be a great fun to write about this topic “If I Were a Baby Again”. But it’s really difficult than I imagined and writing from a child's perspective of viewing this world is highly impossible for me. Now I feel heavier topics are way better than these lighter ones. These kinds of topics certainly need a lot of creativity and I feel a 10 year old would do it in a better way than what do. </p> <p align="justify">If I were a baby again…..There are certain things which I wanted to know or feel. <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvWEKT_uCII/AAAAAAAAAhc/him1xs56RpA/s1600-h/baby-bottle%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="baby-bottle" border="0" alt="baby-bottle" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvWELXAQeCI/AAAAAAAAAhg/VfTRcNUb6Mw/baby-bottle_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="260" height="174" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">How it feels being inside a mother’s womb? How my mom feels when I kick her from inside the womb or bang my heads to the walls of the womb. And those are the only moments where a mom smiles, even though she feels the pain inside. </p> <p align="justify">I want to see…How happy my parents are when they invite me to this world… And how do they feel when I stand on my own legs for the first time…</p> <p align="justify">I just enquired to my mom about my earl days and my behaviour while I was a kid. She said with a smile “you are very calm… You neither cry nor smile. You always bore a weird look which scares others. But on the other end “you are so rude and adamant. You won’t even drink milk. Every kid takes milk from their mom for minimum 6 months. But you were so adamant and had milk only for 3 months.” </p> <p align="justify">So If I were a child again, I assure you mom that I won’t be such a rude and adamant child.</p> <p align="justify">I really hated toys when I was a kid. My dad buys me new toys every week. But I would break them within a day or two. But still he would buy me new toys every week. Sorry dad… I should have preserved all those toys (atleast for remembrance). Dad, I will surely preserve all the toys if I were a baby again.</p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="me" border="0" alt="me" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvWELyqCo5I/AAAAAAAAAhk/7Rv2Xbv6kgA/me_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="215" height="208" /> </p> <p align="justify">I always like to rest my head over my mom’s shoulders. She often scolds me for doing that now-a-days “you are 21 and you still want to sleep over my shoulders?” God please give me those days back where I can rest my head over my mom’s shoulders and her hands tapping at my back for making me to sleep. </p> <p align="justify">There is another pleasure being a kid. When I was a small baby, many girls used to kiss me again and again. Oh my god… Will I get those pleasures again? I wish to become a baby again. And girls beware If I were a baby again I would kiss you back for sure.</p> <p align="justify">And last but not the least…</p> <p align="justify">If I were a baby again, I would put myself behind wheels right from the age of 8 or 9. Then I would start karting and one day I would drive for Ferrari F1. I wish I were a baby again…</p> <blockquote style="text-align: justify"> <p>The <b>fellow Blog-a-Tonics</b> who took part in this Blog-a-Ton and links to their respective <b>posts</b> can be checked <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/2009/11/rules-and-reminders-for-blog-ton-4.html#comments"><b>here</b></a>. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following <b><a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/">Blog-a-Ton</a></b>. </p> </blockquote> <p><strong><u>Image Courtesy:</u></strong> <a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/baby-bottle.jpg">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/baby-bottle.jpg</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-44532657249791875942009-11-03T21:34:00.001+05:302009-11-03T21:34:48.932+05:30A single question……<p align="justify">After a short sabbatical from blogging…Here I am with a new form of fiction.(A new form for my blog.) Its a 77 fiction. I tried writing a 55. But couldn't restrict myself to 55 words. So came up with this 77 fiction.  </p> <p align="justify">77 Fiction is a form of micro fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of seventy-seven words.Most 77 Fiction works are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited <a name="AdBriteInlineAd_time">time</a>.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvBUkAILTvI/AAAAAAAAAhM/GVGvmnKAbFY/s1600-h/77%5B12%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="77" border="0" alt="77" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvBUl3cPwJI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/2bXP6ALm1K8/77_thumb%5B10%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="205" height="110" /></a> <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvBUm3pBS4I/AAAAAAAAAhU/nC0CHgq7Rlk/s1600-h/Untitled-1%5B16%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="Untitled-1" border="0" alt="Untitled-1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SvBUn3TtQII/AAAAAAAAAhY/sUA-Kzp6ZBg/Untitled-1_thumb%5B12%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="56" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Arun returned home very sadly…. </p> <p align="justify">His mom exclaimed  “What happened to the interview son?”</p> <p align="justify">Arun replied “They asked me a question for which I could not answer” </p> <p align="justify">Mom: “Why Arun? Did they ask something which you haven't learnt?”</p> <p align="justify">Arun:Mom… They asked me a question for which I cannot answer “YES” through out my life time..</p> <p align="justify">Mom: What was that question for which you cannot answer the whole life? </p> <p align="justify">Arun replied “Have you got your recommendation letter?”</p> </blockquote> <p>Guys this is my second attempt… Will try to improve soon in this form of genre..</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-40641234303747573892009-10-22T11:29:00.001+05:302009-10-27T19:27:30.406+05:30Destiny-A 55 Fiction…<p><a href="http://blog.blogadda.com/2009/10/27/indian-bloggers-with-best-blog-posts" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="http://blog.blogadda.com/media/2009/02/tangytuesday.jpg" /></a> 55 Fiction is a form of micro fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words.Most 55 Fiction works are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited time.</p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="55fiction" border="0" alt="55fiction" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/St_0x_AfbDI/AAAAAAAAAf8/YlHfq38jUpw/55fiction%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="170" height="147" /> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Sitting in the flight jack thought about that evening’s pooja will be outstanding for this Diwali. <br />Though he was a Christian by birth, he loved diwali,the day destined to meet all his friends.</p> <p>He was leaving Sumatra to India for this re-union. <br />The next morning at Delhi he saw the newspaper.. <br />“Earthquake razes Sumatra..”</p> <p></p> <p></p> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="earthquake-gallery-3" border="0" alt="earthquake-gallery-3" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/St_0ywUHwDI/AAAAAAAAAgA/jii492CI4_8/earthquake-gallery-3_thumb%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="248" height="180" /> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-90138042724187560612009-10-20T14:24:00.001+05:302009-10-25T17:06:17.333+05:30A Love story…….<p align="justify"><b>She-My Girl:</b></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SuQ4KKLBB3I/AAAAAAAAAgE/HNAZkjVMEmk/s1600-h/spicysaturday%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="spicysaturday" border="0" alt="spicysaturday" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SuQ4LGGwfyI/AAAAAAAAAgI/Q_-8iR_Nu_A/spicysaturday_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="125" height="65" /></a> It was a very pleasant evening. The pleasant breeze and the sun setting down spreading its last vibrant colours of orange and red over the sky, captivated my heart. But soon I was distracted from this view. I quickly turned back to see what unhinged me.</p> <p align="justify">I witnessed a smile which is worth millions of dollars. My eyes forgot to blink the moment I witnessed her smile.</p> <p align="justify">I witnessed a pair of eyes which penetrated deeply inside me and started caressing me.</p> <p align="justify">It was the eyes and smile of a girl. What could be more appealing and more pleasing than a women’s smile?</p> <p align="justify">I was looking at her with my eyes wide open as if I have seen a beautiful mermaid. But she saw me as if she was seeing an alien. </p> <p align="justify">That is the day...the evening... I fell in love with her... even without knowing I was in love. </p> <p align="justify">I felt like my heart was beating 210 times a minute. I wanted to say Hi, but I felt like my lips were glued and couldn’t speak a word.</p> <p align="justify">Her smile...Her eyes pulled me like an electron attracting a proton. I wanted to see her each and every moment and felt like spending my entire life with her.</p> <p align="justify">Is this so called love? Would everyone feel the same when they fall in love? </p> <p align="justify">Everything was new to me. I felt like a child, who screams to seek the attention of its mother … Without knowing the directions and the way destiny is churning up my path, I started my journey blindly.</p> <p align="justify">For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the phrase…</p> <p align="center">“<b>Love is blind</b>”</p> <script>britepic_id="1366665";britepic_src="http://www.brookhills.org/images/custom/280.jpg";britepic_keywords="love,love%20story,true%20love";britepic_href="http%3A//";</script><script src="http://www.britepic.com/britepic.js"></script><noscript></noscript> <p align="justify"><b></b></p> <p align="justify"><b></b></p> <p align="justify"><b>Happy Days:</b></p> <p align="justify">After several pathetic and comic attempts, at-last she started considering me as a human. Soon we liked each other and we were in love.</p> <p align="justify">2 happy and beautiful years passed. These 2 years, I never thought about anything else other than her. But soon things changed. There is a life ahead and I had to prove myself as a responsible person. </p> <p align="justify">I wanted to meet her at the same spot where I met her for the first time. As-usual I was admiring the sun-set and she came, her face full of smile which was much brighter than sun’s rays. </p> <p align="justify">But I was thoroughly struggling between the burden of responsibility and charm of romance. I told her about my work and busy schedule ahead. Her smile faded away instantly. But she clearly understood my situation and replied “I will wait for you.” Saying this she turned and started walking away. </p> <p align="justify">She never asked me how long it will take to complete my work and when I would be back.</p> <p align="justify">Few months passed….</p> <p align="justify">The work in which I was involved was completed and I proved myself. So the time has come for me to get back to my girl. I called her and she planned for a movie the following day. I said ok and cheerfully headed towards my home. </p> <p align="justify"><b>Love Lost:</b></p> <p align="justify">As soon as I reached my home I got a phone call. It was my boss. </p> <p align="justify">BOSS: Hey… Your project was a great success and I have arranged a meeting with the clients. So make yourselves available. </p> <p align="justify">Me: I had no other option except to say “Ok. Boss…”</p> <p align="justify">I called back to my girl and said “I have one last meeting tomorrow. So let’s postpone our date to day after tomorrow dear. I am very sorry”… I thought she would start scolding me.. But the cute girl replied “No problem honey…I would take another friend of mine tomorrow. But make yourselves available day after at least”. </p> <p align="justify">The official meeting ended quickly to my surprise. So I thought of calling her to the movie. But I had certain group of friends, who always wanted a party after every success. I explained my situation, but it reached deaf ears. As a part of celebration they first took me to a Cinema theatre. Irony was that my girl friend was standing right there ahead of me with her friend. </p> <p align="justify">This is where things started getting worse. She thought I lied to her and never gave a chance to explain. Subsequently what ever happened after took her away from me. There was certain misunderstanding and everything went wrong. </p> <p align="justify">Several months passed in this manner. I called her and pleaded for giving me one last chance to prove everything was wrong and I am still the same as I was before. She nodded.</p> <p align="justify">With a beautiful bouquet and with her favourite chocolate in my hands I was waiting for her. Her face was dull and was shocked to see her in that state. Her face clearly portrayed the feeling of how much she missed me. I hugged her and said I am always yours. Tears found the way out of her eyes. I spent a few hours with her and her face was bright all over again with glowing smile. </p> <p align="justify">It was 9pm. We stood at a corner of a street and it’s time for her to go. I said bye… she nodded. I turned away from her and started walking. I was thinking about how special she was to me and how good the life is with her. </p> <p align="justify">Suddenly I heard a scream. I stood still for a moment and realized it’s her voice. I turned back. There was no one in my vicinity. I hurried back to where I left her. </p> <p align="justify">As soon as I reached the place I saw her a few yards away… After seeing her every part of my body started trembling. I didn’t know what to do. There was no one in the street. It was deserted. I couldn’t utter a word as my lips were glued again. Oh my god… Did I hurry to see her in this condition? Her face was still bright. But they were not covered with smiles anymore. All I could see is the red blood all over her face and body. I reached her without knowing what to do. My trembling hands took her head and she had the glimpse of me for one last time. I could clearly see the tears from her eyes and the tears lost its way over the blood around her face.</p> <p align="justify">I carried her myself crying, trembling and praying to god to give her back to me. All my efforts went in vain, when I realized half way that she is no more. She was still seeing me and the pair of eyes penetrated inside me to bring the tears out of my eyes. I slowly closed her eyes and I lost my love. </p> <p align="center">“<b>EVER HAS IT BEEN THAT LOVE KNOWS NOT ITS OWN DEPTH UNTIL THE HOURS OF SEPERATION.”</b></p> <p align="justify">Now I am standing at the place where everything started hoping to see her again. The pleasant breeze and the sun setting down spreading its last vibrant colours of orange and red over the sky, captivated my heart. But there is no one to unhinge me now. It was hard for me to realize the fact that she was no more. She stayed in my eyes forever, and we together enjoyed the beauty of sunset through my eyes. According to the world I lost my love. But still her love and she herself remain in my heart forever.</p> <p><strong><u>Image courtesy:</u></strong> <a href="http://www.brookhills.org/">http://www.brookhills.org/</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:60a94e1e-a625-4d3d-bc9b-6f4ae1136f70" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lover" rel="tag">lover</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lost+love" rel="tag">lost love</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/love+story" rel="tag">love story</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/true+love" rel="tag">true love</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-4719210485851674852009-10-18T19:06:00.001+05:302009-10-18T19:06:21.407+05:30Diwali Clicks!!!<p align="justify">Hey guys.. I guess most of you had a great diwali.</p> <p align="justify">My Diwali celebrations started of really well. But the way things ended were really bad. One of the aerial displays shot at my face directly. Other than that my diwali was great. One of my friends bought a new Digital Camera. So we spent most of our day behind the camera checking out its various features such as fireworks and motion capture. </p> <p align="justify">We captured many aerial displays. But none of them had the resemblance of a cracker and it looked very weird. Here are some captures.</p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0023" border="0" alt="SAM_0023" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZXfr5xgI/AAAAAAAAAek/2ehW4kgUkB4/SAM_0023%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /></p> <p> </p> <p> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0024" border="0" alt="SAM_0024" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZaeDE8OI/AAAAAAAAAeo/l5YmSJlOPX4/SAM_0024%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0031" border="0" alt="SAM_0031" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZbtatn5I/AAAAAAAAAes/voOVT1HiqoM/SAM_0031%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0035" border="0" alt="SAM_0035" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZdmmmz1I/AAAAAAAAAew/uk1bnECwIZI/SAM_0035%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0036" border="0" alt="SAM_0036" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZf3xhmiI/AAAAAAAAAe0/cGXUy7imSCg/SAM_0036%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0038" border="0" alt="SAM_0038" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZh1qeW4I/AAAAAAAAAe4/dxNR1jyMIkE/SAM_0038%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0039" border="0" alt="SAM_0039" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZjxMUY7I/AAAAAAAAAe8/8gT2XaBwARE/SAM_0039%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0041" border="0" alt="SAM_0041" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZm0sqNbI/AAAAAAAAAfA/qIisIOBieU0/SAM_0041%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0042" border="0" alt="SAM_0042" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZpsNl8KI/AAAAAAAAAfE/lamXRoWfGLw/SAM_0042%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0048" border="0" alt="SAM_0048" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZr-PdgOI/AAAAAAAAAfI/haqqjpy25Jw/SAM_0048%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0049" border="0" alt="SAM_0049" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZtHS_IHI/AAAAAAAAAfM/ga7VXUo3ceU/SAM_0049%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0053" border="0" alt="SAM_0053" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZvX0mfNI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/DO-V4pi9a7E/SAM_0053%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="SAM_0054" border="0" alt="SAM_0054" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZx3tYxiI/AAAAAAAAAfU/2apUq016i_0/SAM_0054%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="570" height="428" /> </p> <p> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="<SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA>" border="0" alt="<SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA>" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StsZ0aMj3pI/AAAAAAAAAfY/U5h2DPP-MCA/new%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="576" height="447" /> </p> <p> </p> <p></p> <p>We tried to capture something but it ended up something. I think I am little pathetic behind the cam. But will soon improve within next diwali and provide you some nice pictures.</p> <p>Once again wishing everyone a very happy Diwali.</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:53855653-bc08-4272-8061-96b05355825b" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/diwali" rel="tag">diwali</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/crackers" rel="tag">crackers</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/pictures" rel="tag">pictures</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/captures" rel="tag">captures</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-52650179643597067172009-10-14T01:12:00.001+05:302009-10-20T18:26:26.758+05:30Conversation with Ghost!!<blockquote> <p>Curiosity killed the cat...</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/St2zdOOflkI/AAAAAAAAAfc/y6JBj1VyGsk/s1600-h/ttp%5B6%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="ttp" border="0" alt="ttp" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/St2zeI_UJCI/AAAAAAAAAfg/ZmG4moMI2CY/ttp_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="179" height="58" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">I am always curious regarding the existence of ghost. I had never made a research about the existence of god. </p> <p align="justify">This post has nothing to do with the existence of ghost. So don’t think it’s a crap. May be you will enjoy it or you might feel bored. But do remember to put up your views. Both criticism and appreciations are invited.</p> <p align="justify">Few months back, I read some ghost stories and was reading various articles regarding the existence of ghost. I am very much interested in paranormal sciences and my curiosity led me to do more research regarding its existence. </p> <p align="justify">It was a usual summer night and the time was half past 11. I found a very interesting article written by Donald Tyson, who is very renowned researcher in supernatural and paranormal sciences. The article was about the existence and proof of ghost in earth. How they come... why they come... Are they harmful? All the answers were in the article. With a great interest I finished reading the article. But still I was not much clear about the ideas and concepts as they were beyond science. </p> <p align="justify">My heart said Ghost do exist… But my intellect shot back some questions to my heart... Those questions had no proper solution.</p> <p align="justify">When many persons can see ghost why can’t I? Why no ghosts find me even though I sleep alone in a dark room which totally void of any form of light?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">As soon as the world war started between my intellect and heart…<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StTYNzcNeMI/AAAAAAAAAec/24GTzATJtfo/s1600-h/ghost%5B7%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="ghost" border="0" alt="ghost" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StTYPL4tCkI/AAAAAAAAAeg/6edKoaAlkhM/ghost_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="276" height="314" /></a> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Hush….. There was silence… the power went off. Oh... My!! That was a bit scary as I was thinking about all these. It was really hot and I was sitting before my computer. I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of current. I was very eager to do more research on the existence of ghost. </p> <p align="justify">Suddenly I felt like everything was turning cold around me. I felt the cool breeze slashing through my body. But the windows were closed and there was no chance for the breeze to enter. </p> <p align="justify">Soon my room was getting colder and I asked to myself “Why is it so cold over here? There is no power. Air conditioner is not working but still it’s cold as if the temperature has gone down below 14 degrees.”</p> <p align="justify">That’s because I am here… A reply came…</p> <p align="justify">“Who is that??” I asked to myself again... Did anyone speak to me? Or is it my thinking? </p> <p align="justify">Once again the strange voice spoke “Whenever I go to some place, the place becomes cold. Don’t you remember you just studied few minutes back?”</p> <p align="justify">What the hell?!!! Who’s that? Then suddenly Donald Tyson’s lines struck me.</p> <p align="justify">“Ghost appears in places where the light is poor, when the air is still and quiet. And things turn cold when the ghosts are near you”</p> <p align="justify">Oh my god!!! Is this a ghost? Did I hear it really? (Or) Are they just hallucinations? While thinking about this once again the strange voice spoke…</p> <p align="justify">“I think you were just wondering about the existence of ghost and asked to yourself about why you haven’t seen ghost so far? “</p> <p align="justify">Now I understood these are not just hallucinations. I could hear the strange broken voice. I started trembling not out of cold, but out of fear. I never dared to open my mouth again. But still it was difficult to understand… where they real or not? Am I getting psychologically affected?</p> <p align="justify">With great difficulty and out of great fear I spoke with my trembling voice “Who are you? How do you know about all these? Why are you here?”</p> <p align="justify">The voice replied “I am here because you wanted to see me and know about my existence...” </p> <p align="justify">I had no answer. </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me:</strong> Where are you from? </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Ghost:</strong> I am from a different world and I do not belong here. Both our worlds overlap with each other and I get to meet humans whenever the separation between two worlds becomes thin.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me:</strong> So…Are you going to harm me? Or Kill me?</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Ghost:</strong> I am not harmful to human beings until I want to harm them. </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me:</strong> Is it true that you can move through walls? How come it is possible?</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Ghost:</strong> Yes. I can move through walls. According to me your world is just a 3d image. So I can move through anything.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me:</strong> So does that mean you cannot touch objects?</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Ghost:</strong> There are some exceptions. Some ghost can appear like real humans with bones and flesh. And some can touch objects and haunt humans too. If ghosts want to haunt someone we can be as distracting and threatening.</p> <p align="justify">So don’t ever question the presence of our world in future. </p> <p align="justify">Suddenly the cold I felt was gone. Everything became normal. </p> <p align="justify">I shouted and screamed out of fear..</p> <p align="justify">I woke up from my bed screaming. </p> <p align="justify">My mom and dad heard my scream. I guess my neighbours too.</p> <p align="justify">My mom hurried towards my bed and asked what happened dear?</p> <p align="justify">I replied it was just a bad dream. That night I never slept again as these stories were haunting me again and again. I promised to myself that I should not read such things in future and started spending time with my play station. </p> <p align="justify">But the promise didn't last long….</p> <p align="justify">Last week…..</p> <p align="justify">I was standing at a bus stop where  two ladies were conversing. I guess the son of one of the ladies died and the reason of the death was quite weird. She was explaining the whole story to the other lady. It seems her son used to work for a BPO and will return everyday to home around 11:30 pm or 12’o clock midnight. It seems there is a graveyard not far away from their residence. The guy, who usually returns home within 12  never turned up until 1. He was carried home unconscious by some workers at around 1:30 that night. When her mom enquired about this to the workers, one of them replied “He was lying unconscious near the grave yard”.</p> <p align="justify">After this incident happened it seems his behaviour was quite weird and subsequently he hanged himself to death a few days later.</p> <p align="justify">I was shocked and once again the curiosity which was sleeping inside me was awaken. The same night I started searching for haunted places in the world and once again started doing my research.</p> <p align="justify">But still I am not sure about why that guy died and the existence of ghost remains uncertain until I see it or unless it is scientifically proved.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy:</strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/">http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ec1dead7-0f74-4532-8d17-1c89ee0a1c82" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ghost" rel="tag">ghost</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/god" rel="tag">god</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/existence+of+ghost" rel="tag">existence of ghost</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/conversation+with+ghost" rel="tag">conversation with ghost</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-73342679663581624612009-10-12T21:00:00.001+05:302009-10-12T21:00:59.644+05:30Play to donate Rice!!!<p>First of all my sincere thanks to dmanji and his blog. Just now I visited dimanji’s blog and this cause grabbed my attention.</p> <blockquote> <p>“Play and Donate Rice”</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>I immediately visited the site and saw what kind of game it is. We can play the game in various subjects. Instead of saying a game it would be more appropriate if we call it as a quiz. </p> <p>This quiz has various subjects. Each individual can choose any subject from English vocabulary to arts.</p> <p>Each correct answer is worth 10 grains. Every correct answer of yours is going to help a child in this world. The various subjects are as shown below.</p> <p> </p> <h5><strong><u>ART <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StNLoK0OGBI/AAAAAAAAAeM/-jRSCsR4rwU/s1600-h/hunger%20to%20hope%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="hunger to hope" border="0" alt="hunger to hope" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StNLpXRPckI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/36ukyk7jhaI/hunger%20to%20hope_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="312" height="216" /></a></u></strong></h5> <p>Famous Paintings  </p> <h5><u><strong>CHEMISTRY</strong> </u></h5> <p>Chemical Symbols (Basic)</p> <p>Chemical Symbols (Full List)</p> <h5><strong><u>ENGLISH </u></strong></h5> <p>English Grammar</p> <p>English Vocabulary</p> <h5><strong><u>GEOGRAPHY </u></strong></h5> <p>Identify Countries on the Map</p> <p>World Capitals</p> <h5><strong><u>LANGUAGE LEARNING</u></strong> </h5> <p>French</p> <p>German</p> <p>Italian</p> <p>Spanish</p> <h5><strong><u>MATH </u></strong></h5> <p>Basic Math (Pre-Algebra)</p> <p>Multiplication Table</p> <p>If you are asking what you are going to gain from this event. I guess it helps in developing your knowledge. Those who want to develop their vocabulary can do it. If you are interested in arts go for it. And those who are born genius, you guys can play it for fun. I guess everyone (including me) spends more time on finding date of the day and other facebook quizzes..Farmville etc….</p> <p>So..I guess we can spend 2 minutes for answering 10 questions which would yield 100 grains for starving children.</p> <p>You might have a question within your mind.. How far this going to be true? How our answers can help in generating grains for children? </p> <p>For such questions you can refer to FAQ section of website. If you are not  satisfied with the explanation in FAQ section… </p> <p>I guess we are not going to lose much by just answering those simple questions..</p> <p>So.. what for you are waiting… Click the link below to start playing..</p> <p><a href="http://www.freerice.com/index.php" target="_blank">PLAY TO DONATE</a></p> <p> </p> <p>If you really like to donate some money.. You can visit the link below…  Our 1$ can feed 4 children.  FROM HUNGER TO HOPE..</p> <p><a href="http://www.fromhungertohope.com/" target="_blank">WORLD HUNGER RELIEF 2009</a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StNLrODGsLI/AAAAAAAAAeU/KwVM64dGmpU/s1600-h/hunger%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="hunger" border="0" alt="hunger" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/StNLsX_oebI/AAAAAAAAAeY/UHmNgxOLegA/hunger_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="586" height="147" /></a> </p> <p> </p> <p>My sincere thanks to everyone who contributed some time in reading this and for those who are going to play and donate some grains.</p> <p> </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d5b7686d-a1bb-4c5c-b436-c6f6d5bbb790" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/World+hunger+relief" rel="tag">World hunger relief</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/donate" rel="tag">donate</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/food" rel="tag">food</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/grains" rel="tag">grains</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/play" rel="tag">play</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/quiz" rel="tag">quiz</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/play+and+donate" rel="tag">play and donate</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Hunger+to+hope" rel="tag">Hunger to hope</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/feed+children" rel="tag">feed children</a></div> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><strong>Image Courtesy: <a title="http://www.freerice.com/index.php" href="http://www.freerice.com/index.php">http://www.freerice.com/index.php</a></strong></p> <p><strong>                          </strong><a title="http://www.fromhungertohope.com/" href="http://www.fromhungertohope.com/"><strong>http://www.fromhungertohope.com/</strong></a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-42260320306790163652009-10-08T16:20:00.002+05:302009-10-10T11:16:27.501+05:30Tagged Again…<p align="justify"><a href="http://evanescentthoughts.wordpress.com/">Ashwini</a> tagged me for these 2 tags. Tags are back again after long time……</p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>TAG #01 : Innocent… or Guilty?</strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>RULE 1</strong>- You can only say Guilty or Innocent.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>RULE 2</strong>- Copy and paste this into your notes , delete my answers, type in your answers and tag to your friends to answer this.<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Ss3D9QePrBI/AAAAAAAAAeA/cvkZ1g_VsYE/s1600-h/guilty%5B4%5D.gif"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="guilty" alt="guilty" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Ss3D-bjSC5I/AAAAAAAAAeE/6PkoO1uAdGQ/guilty_thumb%5B2%5D.gif?imgmax=800" height="120" width="240" /></a></p> <ol> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Asked someone to marry you?</strong> <em>Innocent.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Ever kissed someone of the same sex?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Danced on a table in a bar?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Ever told a lie?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Had feelings for someone whom you can’t have back?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Kissed a picture?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Slept in until 5 PM?</strong> <em>Guilty.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Fallen asleep at work/school?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Held a snake?</strong> <em>Guilty( A dead snake).</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Been suspended from school?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Worked at a fast food restaurant?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Stolen from a store?</strong> <em>Guilty(I used to steal a lot of cricket and wrestling cards at the age of 13. I like them a lot. There is a funny incident which I will share in the next post hopefully about how I stole things and its consequences).</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Been fired from a job?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Done something you regret?</strong> <em>Guilty</em> <em>(I really do lot of things which I regret to do..I whole heartedly regret those..)</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?</strong> <em>Innocent. (Would never laugh or speak to someone when I am eating or drinking).</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Caught a snowflake on your tongue?</strong> <em>Innocent</em>. </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Kissed in the rain?</strong> <em>Innocent</em> <em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Sat on a roof top?</strong> <em>Guilty</em>. </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Kissed someone you shouldn’t?</strong> <em>Guilty.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Sang in the shower?</strong> <em>Innocent.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Shaved your head?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Had a boxing membership?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Made a girlfriend cry?</strong> <em>Guilty (If you ask this question to my X,</em> She would react “Has there been a day he made me to smile?”) </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Been in a band?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Shot a gun?</strong><em> Guilty( While I was in NCC)</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Donated Blood?</strong> <em>Guilty.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Eaten alligator meat?</strong> <em>Innocent.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Eaten cheesecake?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Still love someone you shouldn’t?</strong> <em>Guilty.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Have/had a tattoo?</strong> <em>Innocent.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Liked someone, but will never tell who? </strong><em>Guilty.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Been too honest?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Ruined a surprise?</strong> <em>Guilty ( I ruined a surprise party once)</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Ate in a restaurant and got really bloated that you couldn’t walk afterwards?</strong> <em>Guilty( this happens most of the time)</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Erased someone in your friends list?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> <em>(Erased many)</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Dressed in a woman’s clothes (if you’re a guy) or man’s clothes (if you’re a girl)?</strong> <em>Guilty (My cousin sister wanted me to wear her clothes when I was a kid. I had long hairs that time and was really looking like a girl after I wore her clothes)</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Joined a pageant?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Been told that you’re handsome or beautiful by someone who totally meant what they said?</strong> <em>Guilty</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Had communication with your ex?</strong> <em>Guilty.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Got totally drunk on the night before exam?</strong> <em>Innocent</em><em>.</em> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Got totally angry that you cried so hard?</strong> <em>Innocent</em>. </div> </li> </ol> <p align="justify">Guilty for just 25/42…. OMG…. I am INNOCENT… </p> <p align="justify"><strong>TAG #02 : How DUMB are you?</strong> <br />The more [x]’ s the “dumber” you are.</p> <p align="justify"><img style="border: 0px none ; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="i_see_dumb_people_o_o_by_cool_slayer" alt="i_see_dumb_people_o_o_by_cool_slayer" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Ss3D_vq5HMI/AAAAAAAAAeI/0aCtdi5Ent8/i_see_dumb_people_o_o_by_cool_slayer%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" border="0" height="308" width="300" /> </p> <p align="justify">[] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were talking <br />[] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were NOT talking <br />[] You have ran into a glass/screen door <br />[x] You have jumped out of a moving vehicle <br />[x] You have thought of something funny while walking by yourself <br />[x] Laughed, then watched people give you weird looks <br />[] You have run into a tree/bush. <br />[] You know that it IS possible to lick your elbow <br />[] You have tried to lick your elbow… a few times <br />[] You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle Twinkle Little star have the same rhythm. <br />[] You just tried to sing them.</p> <p align="justify">So far: 3</p> <p align="justify">[] You have tripped on your shoelace and fallen. <br />[] You have choked on your own spit . <br />[] You have seen the Matrix and still don’t get it. <br />[] You’ve never seen the Matrix. <br />[] You type only with two fingers. <br />[] You have accidentally caught something on fire <br />[] You tried to drink out of a straw, but it went into your nose/eyes. <br />[] You have caught yourself drooling. <br />[x] You have fallen asleep in class and fell outta your chair</p> <p align="justify">So far: 4</p> <p align="justify">[x] Sometimes you just stop thinking (most of the time I wont think about anything) <br />[x] You are telling a story and forget what you were talking about <br />[] People often shake their heads and walk away from you <br />[] You are often told to use your “inside voice”. <br />[] You use your fingers to do simple math <br />[] You have eaten a bug <br />[] You are taking this test when you should be doing something more important <br />[] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and didn’t realize it <br />[x] You’ve looked all over for something and realized it was in your hand <br />[x] You have ran around naked in your house.( Hey..hey… while I was a kid… I used to run naked..)</p> <p align="justify">So far: 8</p> <p align="justify">[] You repost bulletins because you are scared that what they say will happen to you if you don’t. <br />[x] You break a lot of things. <br />[] Your friends know not to use big words around you. <br />[] You tilt your head when you’re confused <br />[x] You have fallen out of your chair before <br />[] When you’re lying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture of the ceiling or wall <br />[] The word “ummmmm” is used many times a day.</p> <p align="justify">TOTAL: 10</p> <p align="justify">Even I am (10/37)*100 = 27.02% DUMB !</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I tag <a href="http://clickbharathi.blogspot.com/">Bharathi</a>, <a href="http://attitudethatneverfails.blogspot.com/">Raji</a>, <a href="http://pranksygang.blogspot.com/">Swetha</a>, <a href="http://cricoholic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Venky</a> and all others who like to do this tag…. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Image Courtesy:</u></strong> <a href="http://www.thorswarriors.com/">http://www.thorswarriors.com/</a></p> <p align="justify"> <a href="http://angrygrayrainbows.wordpress.com/">http://</a><a href="http://angrygrayrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/cookies-terrorism-cookies-crack/">angrygrayrainbows.wordpress.com</a>/</p> <div align="justify"> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: none;" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bf4b612e-2582-439b-918c-093eca00357f" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tag" rel="tag">Tag</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/dumbledorehalf+blood+prince" rel="tag">dumbledorehalf blood prince</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/innocent" rel="tag">innocent</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/guilty" rel="tag">guilty</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/dumb" rel="tag">dumb</a></div> </div> <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-47726970388349483322009-10-06T21:41:00.010+05:302009-10-22T11:34:37.510+05:30A NEW BEGINNING<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 100%;"><br />
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P.S: This is purely a fiction. I envisioned 9 days (The no. of days since shankar asked me to write for his blog ) as 9 months to bring in the dramatized effect.<br />
</span>Shrutihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02907230191165124394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-46868375022772127652009-10-05T22:18:00.001+05:302009-10-05T22:18:51.349+05:30Reduce the Loading time of your blog…<p align="justify">The loading time of your blog is very important factor in attracting visitors of your blog. My previous blog template had lots of css,java scripts,sliders..due to which my blog's loading time was poor and soon many started complaining about it. So now I shifted to a new template. Still I am fond of those java scripts and Gadgets which results in very poor loading time of my blog. So is there any remedy for this? So how to balance between performance and java scripts,css etc… I searched Google for the solution and asusual Google didn't disappoint me. I don't know whether you all know the solution for this.But I really like to share this info with you all. It might help atleast one of my visitors. There is a solution for this. You can compress your css and java scripts which gives better loading time for your blog.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">So how to do it? Its not a difficult process at all. Don't think you have to work with codes,HTML etc.. English is enough for this. Now before trying this please download your full template to ur system’s Hard disk. If you don't have a clue of how to do it..</p> <p align="justify">GOTO <strong>BLOGGER DASHBOARD->LAYOUT->EDIT HTML </strong>and click on <strong>DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE.</strong></p> <p align="justify">There are lots of css compressors available online.However I recommend you to go for this link-> <a href="http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor/" target="_blank">CSS COMPRESSOR</a>.</p> <p align="justify">Now you are in EDIT HTML… press CTRL+F to search for <b:skin>. Remember to check EXPAND WIDGET TEMPLATES.</p> <p align="justify">Copy all the contents between <b:skin> and </b:skin>.<img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="css compress" border="0" alt="css compress" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SsojceJNEDI/AAAAAAAAAd8/WtbmRixQuMk/css%20compress%5B27%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="515" height="561" /> </p> <p align="justify">Visit the above link I gave you.</p> <p align="justify">Select <strong>NORMAL</strong> for <strong>compression mode</strong>. </p> <p align="justify">For <strong>Comments Handling</strong>.. select <strong>DONT STRIP ANY COMMENTS</strong></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#2e2e2e">Now after copying the contents between the above specified tags and paste in the space specified there. After pasting click <strong>COMPRESS IT.</strong></font></p> <p align="justify">That's it… Your code has been compressed. Now copy back the code and paste it between <b:skin> and </b:skin>. Remember to delete the old uncompressed code,before doing so. See and Feel the difference.</p> <p align="justify">I wont say that your blog would now load within 5 seconds like a miracle. Suppose if your blog takes 20 seconds to load completely. This will reduce in the range of 10-12 seconds. </p> <p align="justify">Hope this is useful. Now if your blog is taking more time to load,don't keep changing your template instead compress your Css and java scripts.</p> <p align="justify">And sorry guys if you already know this and if I have wasted to your precious time. Hope this is useful for those who don't know much about these css and compressions.</p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4834c900-4678-41b8-93d3-f956beb7bd3f" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/css" rel="tag">css</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/javascipt" rel="tag">javascipt</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/compress+css" rel="tag">compress css</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/compress+javascript" rel="tag">compress javascript</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/loading+time" rel="tag">loading time</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/reduce+loading+time" rel="tag">reduce loading time</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-63343633437506146122009-10-03T00:13:00.001+05:302009-10-03T00:22:18.124+05:30The Indian Dream<blockquote> <p align="justify">This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 3; the third edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/"><b>Blog-a-Ton</b></a>.</p> <p align="justify"></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Blog-a-Ton is back. The topic is THE INDIAN DREAM..</p> <p align="justify">I never thought I would be writing this post on behalf of Blog-a-ton. I have my exams tomorrow,still I am sitting here wondering what to write. But I don't want to sight exam as a reason for not participating in this online marathon for bloggers. I should have prepared myself in the past weeks, but couldn't do it because of my commitment with another website and in providing a new look to my personal blog. So sorry guys if this post disappoints you. Participating is more important. So here is a short compilation of my dream about my India.</p> <p align="justify">Clean INDIA..</p> <p align="justify">Green INDIA..</p> <p align="justify">Pollution free INDIA…</p> <p align="justify">This is the first and foremost of my dreams about India. Clean and Green India.</p> <p align="justify"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/3861555622_ddc620706b.jpg" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Let farmers DIG happily.. </p> <p align="justify">Let researches set foot in MOON..</p> <p align="justify">Let our citizens be employers providing employability to the whole world.</p> <p align="justify">Let the quality of institutions develop to such an extent that the whole world should turn up to India for education.</p> <p align="justify">Let our films win Oscars…</p> <p align="justify">Let our country be No.1 in everything we do.. (apart from Aids and Corruption… for which we hold top ranks…)</p> <p align="justify">Let builders house a Formula 1 track..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">But how these things are possible?</p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>ERADICATE</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">Corruption…</p> <p align="justify">Recommendation…</p> <p align="justify">Capitation….</p> <p align="justify">Community Categorisation…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>PROMOTE:</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">Education…</p> <p align="justify">Awareness…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Last but not the Least..</p> <p align="justify">Will this happen???</p> <p align="left"><strong>                           1 INR = 45 U.S.D…</strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font color="#2e2e2e"></font></strong></p> <p align="left">Sorry guys. I could not elaborate on things as I don't have much time. Hope every other post for this blog-a-ton would  do.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><span><span>The fellow Blog-a-Tonics who took part in this Blog-a-Ton and links to their respective posts can be checked <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/2009/09/rules-and-reminder-for-blog-ton-3.html#comments"><b>here</b></a>. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/"><b>Blog-a-Ton</b></a>.</span></span></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><span><span></span></span></p> <p align="justify"><span><span></span></span></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:12c63857-83f4-4d34-9f2a-c4e0c2b6d7e4" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/India" rel="tag">India</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Indian+dream" rel="tag">Indian dream</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/how+India+should+be%3f+green+india..pollution+free......" rel="tag">how India should be? green india..pollution free......</a></div> <p> </p> <p>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://www.flickr.com">http://www.flickr.com</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-47403680678905008102009-10-02T01:25:00.001+05:302009-10-02T01:48:13.651+05:30New Look…!!!New Author….!!!<p align="justify">Atlast here is my new template. Sorry I couldn't add the header for which I asked your suggestions. And this template for sure cannot replace the looks of my old one. The glitzy sliders, which attracts everyone at their first sight is no more available. But there are other issues to be dealt with too. There has to be a compromise and balance between looks and performance.So this time I tried to concentrate in decreasing the loading time of my blog neglecting the looks. I don't know how many of you like this template. So you can pour in your suggestions. But please don't say to change the entire template. It has consumed all my time. </p> <p align="justify">Further this is not a single persons work. However I invite minor suggestions like fonts,size etc. I have to thank some of my friends who were really helped me and suggested me about the good and bad at each step. I sincerely thank my friends <a href="http://cricoholic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Venky</a>, <a href=" http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/">Shruthi</a>, <a href="http://technoalley.blogspot.com/">Karthi</a> for being a part in successfully creating this template. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I sincerely thank <a href="http://www.templatesblock.com/">EVO</a>, a very good designer who helped me with SEO and page elements column. He prepared the page elements as I wanted and imagined. I just mailed him about the changes I need and within 2 hours the design was ready.<img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" align="right" src="http://www.churchalivelumberton.org/Images/New beginning2.jpg" width="248" height="156" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Once again I invite suggestions regarding fonts and its sizes and possibly whatever change that can be made within layout. I still have to add some widgets. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">And I am happy to announce a new author to my blog.  You all know her probably. I think everyone in my network follows her blog too. So again I am happy to announce that <a href=" http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/">Shruthi</a> one of my very close friends will be the guest author of my blog and I am very happy to announce that in future you all can see 55 fictions in my blog too. A person cannot be good in everything and cannot satisfy everyone. I tried writing 55’s. But every attempt ended in failure. So I recruited <a href=" http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/">shruthi</a> to write 55 fictions for my blog. I asked her to write a 55 fiction each month,starting from OCT 1.  My friendship with <a href=" http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/">Shruthi</a> is a very weird one. We both studied at same school. She is put up at a place which is hardly 5 mins from my home. But till date I haven't seen her. And also Venky.. His place is hardly 2-3 mins from my home. Till now I haven't met him in person. But I am very happy to say that I got some great friends through this blog.Some too close… Some too far…. and this blog has given me a greater exposure to outside world. Last but not least, this blog has done things which I wouldn't have imagined in my life time.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">And sorry for those intensedebate comment form. I had problems with the blogger comment form especially the picture display.So I have added this intense debate comment form. Please let me know if you genuinely have any problem with the comment form. After confirmation from venky and after trying it in all browsers, I think this comment form is compatible with all browsers. Do let me know if any problem exists.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">So thank you all again. Waiting for your valuable suggestions.</p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1073861b-1fea-4b20-b2ad-5e8489c7538a" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/templates" rel="tag">templates</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/friends" rel="tag">friends</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SEO" rel="tag">SEO</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/new+template" rel="tag">new template</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/author" rel="tag">author</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-72329240965346672812009-09-27T23:48:00.001+05:302009-09-27T23:48:50.157+05:30Disappointment!!!<p align="justify">This has been one of the worst weekends. Now-a-days I usually sit before the TV for watching 3 programmes. </p> <p align="justify">Barclays Premier league</p> <p align="justify">Formula 1</p> <p align="justify">Cricket</p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>SATURDAY:<img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/raik_ferr_sing_2009-4.jpg" width="159" height="109" /></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Disappointment no 1:</strong></p> <p align="justify">My first disappointment was at Saturday evening. It was a fine evening until…. I saw both the Ferrari's Failed to qualify in a good position for the Singapore Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen managed only 13th fastest and Fisichella who gave the glory for Force India, managed only 18th. It was a great disappointment as Kimi failed to qualify within top 10. </p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Disappointment no 2:</strong></p> <p align="justify">It was not over. There was blow after blow. Second came when Pakistan managed to score more than 300 against India. <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://l.yimg.com/t/260909/91168393_10.jpg" width="97" height="151" /> </p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Disappointment no 3: <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Clubs/Club_Home/2009/9/26/1254001739725/Carlo-Ancelotti-saw-his-1-001.jpg" width="129" height="81" /></strong></p> <p align="justify">It was Barclays premier league..Chelsea against Wigan.. It was very disappointing to see Chelsea losing 3-1 to Wigan. Chelsea won all league matches before this game. 6 continuous wins and alas… The winning streak ended. The Blues were shattered. Heart broken.I switched back to watch India’s match.</p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://l.yimg.com/t/270909/91169866_10.jpg" width="77" height="99" /><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Disappointment no 4:</strong></p> <p align="justify">About 45 min later.. Little master gave a flop show when he was caught out.. I expected a century from the little master, but he apparently failed. He just got for 8 runs. </p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://l.yimg.com/t/270909/91171556[1].jpg" width="140" height="96" /><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Disappointment no 5:</strong></p> <p align="justify">Few hours later… OMG.. India lost to Pakistan. India were bowled out for 248.. All went bad when the GREAT WALL of our team was broken by our Great “Bajji”. Good innings from Dravid. It was a great disappointment.   </p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>SUNDAY:<img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090927/capt.sin13409271443.singapore_auto_racing_f1_gp_sin134.jpg?x=213&y=239&xc=1&yc=1&wc=365&hc=410&q=85&sig=pnJaRjuckZVWqKsbiIM1mg--" width="89" height="100" /></u></strong></p> <p align="justify">Oh…Thank god.. Only one disappointment on Sunday. Once again Ferrari failed miserably to score a point at the Singapore Grand prix. That’s not so disappointing actually..Because the result was expected. But the greatest disappointment is LEWIS HAMILTON took P1.   </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><font color="#008080">Actually wanted to write a review about our teams wonderful display at the Champions trophy. But not in a good mood to write.Lets have our fingers crossed for the match against Aussies.. GO INDIA GO…</font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Image Courtesy:</u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk">www.f1fanatic.co.uk</a></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://www.cricket.yahoo.com">www.cricket.yahoo.com</a></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://www.news.yahoo.com">www.news.yahoo.com</a></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:623d5e65-b921-4db0-8cd9-3025c2e09e3e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/cricket" rel="tag">cricket</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/sports" rel="tag">sports</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/formula+one" rel="tag">formula one</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/singapore+grand+prix" rel="tag">singapore grand prix</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/hamilton" rel="tag">hamilton</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Champions+trophy" rel="tag">Champions trophy</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/India+vs+pakistan" rel="tag">India vs pakistan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/India" rel="tag">India</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/pakistan" rel="tag">pakistan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/dravid" rel="tag">dravid</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tendulkar" rel="tag">Tendulkar</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Chelsea" rel="tag">Chelsea</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Barclays+Premier+league" rel="tag">Barclays Premier league</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Wigan" rel="tag">Wigan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ferrari" rel="tag">ferrari</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/kimi+raikkonen" rel="tag">kimi raikkonen</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-57057115424250853422009-09-25T01:25:00.001+05:302009-09-25T01:25:55.228+05:30Who Am I???<p>Who am I? What for I am born and what am I going to do in this world? Sometimes when I am alone and when I deeply think about myself, a series of questions strikes me inside my head...</p> <p><b>Who am I?</b></p> <p><b>Am I good son to my parents??</b></p> <p>I feel like I have never made my parents happy. Right from the age of 5, my mom asks me to study well. But till now I haven’t bothered to listen to her words. I shout at her when the food she prepared is not tasty. But till now I never understood the pain of standing in kitchen and cooking. Am I a good son to my mom??</p> <p><b>Am I a good friend??</b></p> <p>Sometimes my friends ask me for help. I do help those most often. But sometimes there comes situations during which I am forced to say NO. My friends like me a lot... While there are some who hates me too… Why can’t I be a good friend to everyone?? Why can’t I help everyone when they need me? </p> <p><b>Am I a good student??</b></p> <p>Lectures, Have I ever listened to them in my life time? Teachers scold me and also punish me for not listening. But I didn’t realize they are punishing me for my own good. I never bothered to respect their words. Am I a good student to my teachers??</p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://api.ning.com/files/33whhao6xf8ACicQlfcKcu*gQ13hlHSJW1gZi8bAX0VDUpUmQQait2jZF7rnc*90UI4xoy5yoKZvNeTqRKun43NmcLFcVVdM/question.jpg" /> </p> <p><b>Am I a good Citizen?</b></p> <p>Till date.. what I have done for my mother country? Why am I so selfish to think about myself? Why I am Self-centric? Why can’t I think out of box and make a difference? </p> <p><b>Am I a good Lover?</b></p> <p>Whenever she called me I ignored her. I spent most of my time in cricket, racing and other games. Did I satisfy her at least once? Did I do whatever she asked me to do? I couldn’t manage to keep my eyes off other beautiful girls, even when she was sitting alongside me. I never failed to express the beauty of everything around me. But I miserably failed to express the beauty of life when she was with me. Am I a good lover?</p> <p align="justify">And the questions go on… For everything the answer remains no. Till now I haven’t found out who I am and what role god has assigned me in the game of life….</p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy</strong>:http://api.ning.com/files/</p> <p></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:86edaca5-65b0-4bea-ad63-824b76c342d5" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Who+am+i" rel="tag">Who am i</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/friend" rel="tag">friend</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lover" rel="tag">lover</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/citizen" rel="tag">citizen</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/son" rel="tag">son</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/student" rel="tag">student</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-74595318987409543082009-09-21T13:28:00.001+05:302009-09-21T15:17:01.097+05:30Issues<p align="justify">Recently there are lots of issues with my blog and some of my FB’s are complaining about the page load time of my blog. I know that my blog takes a long time to load and its mainly due to the css of sliders and other stuffs. I tried editing the template and removing some of the widgets. I removed some unwanted widgets too. But still it takes a long time to load.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">So after searching for a new template and after trying out some,I am fed up. There is no good template which matches our expectation. I searched lots of websites,lots of templates and Finally I gave up the Hunt for a new template. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">But now I started working on creating my new template. Its lot tougher than I expected. I have worked on it for past 4 to 5 days.But till now I have been successful in giving a 3 column layout for my new template.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I am very bad in choosing colour combinations. So i asked for help from my few friends to choose the colour for headers. Some of my friends helped me with their Ideas but I still don't know whether they are good and which one to select. So I leave it to you friends for choosing the header. Photoshop is really cool and interesting. But it often makes me to scratch my head. Its more complex for a rookie like me.</p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Untitled-4" border="0" alt="Untitled-4" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Srcx-7RupZI/AAAAAAAAAb8/dVvFvgRJ1HQ/Untitled-4%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="566" height="65" /> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="header and menu" border="0" alt="header and menu" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SrcyB7p92BI/AAAAAAAAAcA/meJzRUfg4EY/header%20and%20menu%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="566" height="65" /> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="new" border="0" alt="new" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SrcyDsEPyKI/AAAAAAAAAcM/RS9t8Cv8qmE/new%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="566" height="65" /> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="new1" border="0" alt="new1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SrcyGJent9I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/TDdQSBUE3CU/new1%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="566" height="65" /> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Untitled-1" border="0" alt="Untitled-1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SrcyIgbPaQI/AAAAAAAAAcY/Gj0chhKXz_w/Untitled-1%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="566" height="65" /> <img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Untitled-2" border="0" alt="Untitled-2" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SrcyKiNORKI/AAAAAAAAAcg/jnlLNyoDlBU/Untitled-2%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="566" height="65" /> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p align="justify">Some headers have title.But Others don't have.So you guys have to help me out. Help me out in choosing the headers, so that I can successfully create a template. Select the one which you like the most from the above headers. If you are not satisfied with anything,give me your own colour combination. I need two colours. The top one and for the bottom links colour. Please suggest the colour combination in the comment box in case if you feel none of the above is good.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> Which Header Is Good? <iframe style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; width: 100%; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" height="260" src="http://www.google.com/reviews/polls/display/-738374265070494050/blogger_template/run_app?hideq=true&purl=http%3A%2F%2Fballat.blogspot.com%2F" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" name="poll-widget-738374265070494050"></iframe> <p>So probably considering the rate at which I am working on creating a template,  I think it will take another month to complete the entire template. Fell free to give your own suggestions about What a good template should have?Is the read more hack necessary? Do you like the sliders? or you think sliders are not important? Thanks a lot in advance.</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-31716989470122945192009-09-18T23:55:00.001+05:302009-09-18T23:57:31.367+05:30Rajnikanth-Is he the Real Superstar?<p align="justify">These are my personal views upon superstar and his films…So superstar fans if you think this topic is offending ur beliefs..You can quit at this point.Actually in Tamil nadu this topic creates more controversy and chaos than the topic about existence of god. And my FB’s from North India and those who are not familiar with Tamil movies,very sorry for writing about such an unfamiliar topic and Tamil movies.</p> <p align="justify">“Superstar yaarunu keta chinna kozhandaiyum sollum.” </p> <p align="justify">Even a small child knows who the superstar of Tamil cinema is… But do everyone feels the same as they grow up and mature?</p> <p align="justify">When I was young I too idolised him as a superstar. But if you ask me now,will I say the same? </p> <p align="justify">My answer is a big NO….</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">What can you find in the superstar movies?<img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://nowrunning.com/cgi-bin/uploadedImagesNR/842008104129PM.jpg" width="211" height="262" /> </p> <p align="justify">Rajnikanth films usually are of same category… A two and half hour pure entertainer.. </p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Analysis About Rajnikanth movies:</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">Every film starts with an Introduction song.. Where the hero is perfect in everything,the hero never makes any mistakes and he pour lots of advices to the general public.</p> <p align="justify">I should accept he is the Style Samrat. A man who can capture hearts with his unique style.</p> <p align="justify">So as I said before every movie starts with a introduction song.He appears to be a normal ma,n but actually he is a superman who can do everything and who is talented in doing everything.  Let it be love, stunts.He is the best.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">He has special types of guns.His gun can fly,go and shoot the bad guy and comes back to his hands. So without any trouble and without aiming,he can shoot a person from where he is standing..Regardless of where the target is. Wow…Incredible right?? <strong>Is he a Superstar or a Superman?</strong></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">In all his films..He is either a rich man or a poor man. He has never done the role of a common man. If he is rich,he becomes poor half way and then becomes rich again within a short period of time(maybe in a single song).</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">In other case he would have been rich in flashbacks(may be his father or ancestors)..which he realises half way and the remaining film lies with whether he is rich or poor in the end. </p> <p align="justify">There are even some incredible concepts in his films.. In one film “Arunachalam” He should spend 30 crores in 30 days for claiming his remaining property from going into bad hands. </p> <p align="justify">Next in line comes another great film.. Where our superstar is an Atheist.But our superstar accidently meets the god himself. God teaches him a powerful mantra,which he can use for seven times.. The rest of film lies with how and for what purposes he uses the mantra. And he apparently wastes few times in testing it.. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Is he educating the society by passing some good message through the film? There is nothing wrong if he never passes a message to the society and provide a two and half hour entertainment. But he should not teach something wrong to the society. Don't you agree?I am speaking about the concept of Hawala. I think most of our people were unaware about the concept hawala until he utilized this concept in a film. Such Illegal concepts should not be preached.Especially by rajnikanth as he is considered as something great by our fellow people over here.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I accept that he provides a great form of entertainment.But where is the reality? where is the quality? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Is he acting in such kind of films from the start of his career? Was he accepted as the superstar in his very first film? The answer is NO. Then at what point of time he started acting such kind of movies? What made him to act in movies which makes no difference and which has no quality or reality?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p><strong><u>Rajnikanth Before:</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">Rajnikanth actually started acting as co-artist and as a villain.Especially along with kamal Haasan. His earlier films had some quality and he established himself as a good actor. </p> <p align="justify">His good films includes “Aarilirundhu aruvadhu varai”..(From 6 to 60 years) Where he plays a role of a young man who sacrifices his whole life for the sake of his siblings. The story is about a man’s life from 6 years to 60 years. The film mostly characterises human relationship and bonding. Such an excellent movie it is to watch. And another notable film is “SRI RAGHAVENDRA”, where he portrays the character of lord Raghavendra. Is he the same superstar who acted in such good and quality movies? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u></u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>The Turning Point:</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">I guess doing such quality movies didn't earn him the required fan base and Image. The turning point came when he acted “BADSHAAH”. The film was a huge hit and created a great image. So inorder to maintain his image and fan base,he started acting in similar kind of movies and apparently his films started lacking the quality. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Apart from all the above, all Rajnikanth movies have some good ingredients too. But what I feel is the lacking quality and reality has shadowed the good ingredients. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p><strong><u>Image Courtesy:</u></strong> Google Images.</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-1202279267632205282009-09-15T17:01:00.001+05:302009-09-15T17:01:24.170+05:30A Costly Mistake: Epilogue<p>First my apologies for taking such a long time to post the final edition of this series. If you have forgotten (or) if you haven't read the first two parts..you can do so from the below links</p> <p><a href="http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/08/costly-mistakepart-i.html" target="_blank">Part I</a></p> <p><a href="http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/08/costly-mistake-part-ii.html" target="_blank">Part II</a></p> <p align="justify">After travelling for half an hour,we reached a place which was very dark.There were no street lights.There was a fly over,but the auto driver took a different route which was below the Fly over.It was extremely dark and there was no other living being in the vicinity. The auto suddenly stopped. </p> <p align="justify">This scene made me a bit frightening. I asked to myself “Where the Hell am I? Am I heading towards Delhi? Why did the auto stop at this place?” Oh… My god.. I knew I was in some sort of trouble.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I looked around. Even the driver left me..He said  “I will be back in few min..” ..Everything was dark. My heart started beating at 210 times a min.  I just took my seat inside the auto and started thinking. My first thought was about my mom. A series of question aroused….</p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.vistawallpaper.org/vista-wallpapers/night-journey.jpg" width="248" height="191" /></p> <p align="justify">What happens If i die in this same place? </p> <p align="justify">Will they bury me? or burn me to ashes? </p> <p align="justify">How will my mom and dad find me once I am buried or burnt?</p> <p align="justify">What my parents will think about my friend for being so careless?</p> <p align="justify">How can my mom live without me?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">While thinking about these.. I heard some distant footsteps. I quickly collected some stones and covered it using the file within which I had my certificates. I heard the footsteps more clearly as they were approaching me. Suddenly 5 to 6 peoples appeared before me.Everyone looked like rogues. very tall and stout. One man hurried towards and asked “Where you want to go?Delhi?” I said yes. On hearing my answer everyone started laughing at me. I don't know why. They spoke in some language I guess it might be Urdu or something else.  I couldn't understand even a single word.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I checked my mobile.Still no signal and the time was half past 9… Then one man who was on his late 50’s came near me. He threw his arm around my shoulder and pulled me. He said  “Come I will take you to Delhi”. His attire and outfits clearly depicted he is a Muslim. His Voice was flat and rude. He said something in urdu..I was not able to understand fully, but with some words I assumed myself what he said.. He told me that “we have to walk for 5 min from here and then I will drop you near Delhi”. I had no other option except to go with him.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">The others left the place laughing and singing loudly,as if they have achieved something. We started walking and he was still holding my shoulders very firmly. He asked me the place which I belonged to and I said I am from Chennai. And I started saying my usual Hindi dialogue to him “Maaf kijiye… mujhe Hindi thoda he malum hai..” To my surprise he started speaking in English.. He said “My name is Azad khan”.. He also said he knows English very little.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">To my surprise He was a very nice man and took me to his place. He somehow managed to speak in English. After reaching his place, He escorted me to his auto and soon we started moving towards Delhi.I asked him about why the auto stopped there.. and what’s all this about… He replied politely with a smirk that the auto in which I came had no license for entering Delhi.So they asked the Muslim bhai to take me to Delhi. He dropped me at Indaprastha around 10:15 pm. As conversed before he asked me 180rs… But I was so happy and relieved to reach that place and I gave him 200rs. I soon got the metro train and thought about what and all happened in a single day. I laughed at myself..  thinking about death for this small issue. This Incident had a great impact on me to such an extent that I forgot totally about the interview I attended. I soon reached Bharahkambha Road where my friend was waiting for me. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="center"><strong>THE END…..</strong></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><font color="#ac0604"></font><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="q" border="0" alt="q" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq96-VeNwkI/AAAAAAAAAa0/osIR23abX9g/q5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="150" height="189" /> </p> <p align="justify">And I wish all the aspiring Engineers of India. Today is Engineers day….</p> <p align="justify"><strong>HAPPY ENGINEERS DAY.. </strong></p> <p align="justify">Its our responsibility to take India to various heights interms of technology and Innovation…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">September 15 every year is celebrated as Engineers day in India. Its a tribute to the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir M.VISHWESWARAIH, CIVIL ENGINEER.He was the wizard  of engineering. He was also called the precursor of economic planning in India.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq97ATG7v4I/AAAAAAAAAa4/SgghQIlrg80/s1600-h/seng44.gif"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" title="seng4" alt="seng4" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq97Cga2DYI/AAAAAAAAAa8/qmcsOU7sLrA/seng4_thumb2.gif?imgmax=800" width="314" height="300" /></a> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><u>Image Courtesy:</u></strong> </p> <p><a href="http://www.scraps123.com">www.scraps123.com</a></p> <p>GOOGLE IMAGES</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:551e1390-fdea-4f3e-aef3-504e53466a5f" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Interview" rel="tag">Interview</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/engineers" rel="tag">engineers</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/engineers+day" rel="tag">engineers day</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/M.vishweshwaraih" rel="tag">M.vishweshwaraih</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-63932307733539825502009-09-14T20:57:00.001+05:302009-09-15T00:06:44.092+05:30Awards!!!!<p align="justify">Hey guys</p> <p align="justify">I was out of town last week. So couldn't write much after BLOG-A-TON. </p> <p align="justify">First my hearty wishes and congrats to <a href="http://republicofdream.blogspot.com/">IP</a>.Great going buddy. I somehow managed to get a single vote this time.This result for me is very similar to the result of <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/">BLOG-A-TON</a> 1. Now I think I have to considerably improve my style of writing to get votes in future. And thanks a lot <a href="http://attitudethatneverfails.blogspot.com/">Raji</a>… For voting.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Now there are other reasons to celebrate… 5 awards in the past 4 days. Thanks a lot to all my blogging friends.. When I logged into my blogger account today morning I was surprised to see message from <a href="http://republicofdream.blogspot.com/">IP</a>.. The pundit has an award for me… It feels great to get an ward from Pundit.. It seems he loves my blog(Don't know whether its true or not..) Thanks a lot IP. </p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="loveblogaward[1]" border="0" alt="loveblogaward[1]" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5gxViB97I/AAAAAAAAAaQ/RtdfZsLRw0c/loveblogaward%5B1%5D%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="150" height="150" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> Another Award from IP. I didn't notice this before..Thanks a lot IP..for such good awards…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq6NNRWfwGI/AAAAAAAAAas/3V5jktEWeQI/s1600-h/blog_buddies%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="blog_buddies" border="0" alt="blog_buddies" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq6NOty2PwI/AAAAAAAAAaw/M5vuoNTyR1s/blog_buddies_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="194" height="260" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">I<strong> share</strong> this Blog Buddies award with </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://rahulsharmaspeaks.blogspot.com/">RSV</a> </p> <p align="justify">Swetha </p> <p align="justify">Priyan </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://cricoholic.blogspot.com/">Venky</a></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Another message from devils workshop clearly depicted that another gem was added to my crown. Thanks a lot <a href="http://pranksygang.blogspot.com/">Swetha</a>.. for the Honest scrap award. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="honest-scrap" border="0" alt="honest-scrap" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5gyWYIJrI/AAAAAAAAAaU/PgEKfWsGxyc/honest-scrap%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="157" height="152" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">The third one from <a href="http://attitudethatneverfails.blogspot.com/">Raji</a>. She gave me the Stylish blogger award. I thank you again for the award. She<font color="#444444"> requests me to post often. I will try to do it Raji. I am so lazy now-a-days. I am also writing for another website. Typing throughout a day makes me sick. But i will try my best to keep this blog alive.</font></p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="stylish_blogger_award" border="0" alt="stylish_blogger_award" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5gzYjHrZI/AAAAAAAAAaY/5l6gVnvcbfg/stylish_blogger_award%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="215" height="215" /> </p> <p align="justify"><font color="#444444"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#444444"></font></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">The fourth one was a complete surprise. There was no message about this award. When I visited his blog, I saw many awards were presented to everyone. It was really nice to see the various awards given to various persons. But atlast there was one award,which according to him was very apt for my blog. Thanks a lot <a href="http://clickbharathi.blogspot.com/">Bharathi</a>. It feels really good to receive award from fellow Bloggers.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5g1Ul9YBI/AAAAAAAAAac/RtjEUyzRyRE/s1600-h/honest-blogger-award%5B3%5D.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="honest-blogger-award" border="0" alt="honest-blogger-award" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5g3gNK4ZI/AAAAAAAAAag/BC54WeNJS1U/honest-blogger-award_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="300" height="236" /></a> </p> <p> </p> <p>Now I am certified Honest blogger. Actually speaking the fact,I am not such honest. On seeing one of my posts,Some bloggers said I am very honest. To keep up my reputation and maintain the same image, I continued the same.. And ended up as a certified honest blogger. So thanks a lot guys.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5g4UpX0VI/AAAAAAAAAak/VvmrSUBbU6M/s1600-h/stylish_blogger_award%5B8%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="stylish_blogger_award" border="0" alt="stylish_blogger_award" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sq5g5OeBwbI/AAAAAAAAAao/18dZp7aeYT4/stylish_blogger_award_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="215" height="215" /></a> </p> <p>I share this <strong>STLYISH BLOGGER AWARD</strong> WITH</p> <p><a href="http://www.shilpaagarg.blogspot.com">Shilpaa</a></p> <p><a href="http://clickbharathi.blogspot.com/">Bharathi</a></p> <p><a href="http://republicofdream.blogspot.com/">IP</a></p> <p><a href="http://vipulgrover.blogspot.com/">Vipul</a></p> <p><a href="http://m4maruvada.blogspot.com/">Pawan</a></p> <p> </p> <p>The above 5 bloggers are best in their style of writing. Especially I have to specify about pawan. Let it be his psycho series or poems.He is cool and best..</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-80560118542103935432009-09-09T01:07:00.001+05:302009-09-09T01:07:51.997+05:30Who deserves the vote???<p align="justify">I guess everyone might have seen my last post which was published on behalf of <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">BLOG-A-TON</a>, the online marathon for bloggers….Where we decide and we write.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">BLOG-A-TON 2 was a great success. Nearly 30 bloggers participated and wrote for a single topic-TEACHERS Aaj Kal…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Asusual I forgot the date and some how manage to write a post at the last few moments and posted it. The final phase of blog-a-ton is the voting phase,where all the participants votes for the best post and the person who gets the maximum number of votes is the winner. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Will you believe if I say writing a post is easier than selecting the right person who deserves the single vote? Yes it is… I felt it really difficult to select a single post out of the 30(approximate)…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I first read ashwini’s post.She was new to blog-a-ton and so I wanted to check her post very first. I was amazed to see such a nice post. At the same instant I commented and I decided I should cast my vote to ashwini. To be frank I liked the pictures of the post than the way she expressed it.The pictures clearly reflected about the teachers of this age.Especially the kalinga war picture. So I decided to vote for ashwini. </p> <p align="justify"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4575909/73114-main_Full.jpg" width="274" height="221" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Then as soon as I logged in my blogger account I saw half a dozen post with title “Teachers Aaj Kal” or “Teachers now an then”. So I decided to check everyone’s and comment before voting for ashwini.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I reached Bharathi’s. His post are quite natural and true. Let it be 200 words or 2000 words… It will be very interesting till the end. As soon as I read his post,I was in a great dilemma…Whether to vote for bharathi or ashwini.Both are equally good. I especially liked the attitude of bharathi. He never wanted to win blog-a-ton and never cares about the votes. But he wanted his message to reach the society(i.e.) to fellow bloggers… I liked his post a lot and I thought now I have to short list between two. whether its bharathi or ashwini?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Then I clicked on “A rose is a rose is a Rose”. It was shilpa’s blog. She was the winner of blog-a-ton and I expected a lot from her. You know they always say when you expect so much it will lead to disappointment. But in this case it was false.She was at her best. I think before writing the post,she might have taught her son “Differentiate between” answers. And straight away she implemented the same for Blog-a-ton. It was a classic post I have to say. The differentiation was uniquely constructed with nice pictures and beautiful quotes exactly in opposition to each other. Now its between three…SHILPA…BHARATHI..ASHWINI..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Next came Vipul ’s. This time vipul ’s father wrote for blog-a-ton as a guest blogger.  I feel that only a teacher or a professor can best describe about this topic. Because only a teacher truly knows the difficulties involved in being a teacher and how today's teacher differs from yesteryear’s. And Vipul’ s father was no exception. His post was amazing and I guess vipul made him to write for blog-a-ton inorder to win blog-a-ton 2.(just kidding;-))..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">And so the list added on…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Pawan… who differentiated very well between teachers during his school days and college days..</p> <p align="justify">Shruthi.. who justified the post with amazing quotes and a very different 55f…</p> <p align="justify">Ranee.. narrated the topic with a beautiful and touching story..</p> <p align="justify">Pra…IP…Guria…Dhiman…. Rajee…..the list went on…..Each one’s post was very good and It really became very tough to vote. I asked vipul to open up the option by which “A person can vote for themselves”. A better way to solve the above problem. Another reason is  that mine would not manage even a single vote. Atleast let me tick my own counter. </p> <p align="justify">Further this voting system is an acid test for my friendship too. Shruthi and Bharathi are my two good friends over here.. So as a good friend I have to vote for my friends right.. But is this the place to show my friendship? </p> <p align="justify">Pawan commented that my post was really good and he will vote for me if he didn't come across any other interesting post. So how can I repay the courtesy to him? Should I vote him back?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Now who really deserves the single vote(4 cheers)? Lucky, time has been extended so that I can think for some time.. And may be my Fellow bloggers can help me to sort out..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">If you want to participate in future events of BLOG-A-TON,Please click <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p align="justify">I am very happy that some of my blogging friends have joined BLOG-A-TON after seeing my post. So indirectly my post has been a source of inspiration for some of my friends over here.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I got one super cool award..from <a href="http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shruthi</a>….Thanks a lot shruthi….for the award..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqayiBzOf1I/AAAAAAAAAaI/MHSFxvLQ1rY/s1600-h/superior%20scribbler%20award%5B9%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="superior scribbler award" border="0" alt="superior scribbler award" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/Sqayja1EISI/AAAAAAAAAaM/8ioU3y7K05M/superior%20scribbler%20award_thumb%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="179" height="240" /></a>These are the rules for the award:</p> <p>Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Blogging Friends. <br />Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award. <br />Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to This post which explains The Award. <br />Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List. <br />Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>I share this award with </p> <p><a href="http://vipulgrover.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">VIPUL GROVER</a></p> <p><a href="http://whysoserioustoday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SUGA</a></p> <p><a href="http://cricoholic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">VENKY</a></p> <p><a href="http://republicofdream.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">INDIAN PUNDIT</a></p> <p><a href="http://rahulsharmaspeaks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">RSV</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><u>IMAGE COURTESY:</u></strong> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://i.ehow.com/">http://i.ehow.com/</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-72300526252760957962009-09-05T19:42:00.001+05:302009-09-06T22:29:40.305+05:30Teachers:Aajkal..<blockquote> <p align="justify">This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 2, the second edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/">Blog-a-Ton</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">This time the topic deals with teachers of yesteryear and teachers of today.  I am not sure about the teachers of yesteryear. How they teach?are they good or bad? etc..etc… But the fact is let it be yesteryear or let it be today…  There are teachers who are really good,who treats teaching as a service to the society and on the other side there are also some teachers who  merely work for money.They treat teaching as another profession and teach for the sake of earning money.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">So in this post I will share about the different types of teachers I have seen so far in my life. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Teachers:</strong> I first would like to discuss how many teachers can teach,assist or help in mastering the various concepts of the studies. Let it be ABCD that we study in LKG or the complex engineering and medicine concepts. How many teachers can really teach in a way so that every student in their class can understand? How many teachers can honestly clear the doubts of students in their class? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">From my personal experience I can hardly say 5 or 6 teachers have done that so far. A teacher should take a class in such a way that each and every student of his class should be eager to listen to the concepts. Especially the students who talks or sleeps during class.The teaching should be very lively and interesting. But most of the teachers today are not able to control the class. They remain as a mere complainers that students are always sleeping in my class.. Some say “the students never listen to my lectures. They are keep on chatting during the lecture hours.” But they never think about why the students or not listening and they cannot understand the fact that they cannot convey the message properly to the students. And as a result of that the students lose interest in their class.</p> <p align="justify">I see those teachers as mere losers. They cannot teach properly and beg the students by asking “atleast give respect to our age.” My college lecturers are hardly four to five years elder to us. Most of them have just completed their ME. They joined as a lecturer as they didnt get any good job. They don't know how to take a lecture. How to make it interesting.. And they don't even try to improve and remain mere complainers.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">On the other hand there is one experienced teacher. No teacher comes to our class for the second time. They teach for one semester and never turn back the next semester. They say we are such bad students.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">But two experienced and good staffs took class for us for continuously 3 to 4 semesters. I can call them here the yesteryear teachers. Their ages would have crossed 70 and their experience in the field of teaching is more than my own age. Both the staffs liked our class very much. We don't chat or give any trouble to these two staffs as they keep us tightly packed with various good and lively concepts. Their way of explaining things have been so good and Only those two staffs can control our class with the power of teaching. Even the worst student in our class remains silent and listen to whatever those staffs say and teach. They often say “I don't understand this. Your class and you guys really good during my session and its weird when other teachers complain about your class as ungoverned and worst class.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">So I feel, <strong>If a student fails in a subject its not the failure of the student.Its rather the failure of the staff who took that subject.</strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Young Lover:</strong></p> <p align="justify">I think this is a very rare case. And this wont happen everywhere(I think so..). I was in my second year of college. I am Electrical student. I had one beautiful friend who did her computer science engineering.She was a close friend of mine. Many boys were crazy after her,I don't know why. And many proposed to her,gave letters etc..etc.. But is it wrong? Giving a love letter during collage days is not such a bad thing. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">But it was very weird when one of the lecturers of my college ran behind her for over a month and ended up giving a love letter. That too his wife works in same college too. How weird it is. The girl cried a lot and she never came to college for over a month until that lecturer was suspended from college. This really is very bad. How a teacher can give a love letter to her own student?  That too if he is a bachelor,then atleast we can consider. He is married and still needs another girl. </p> <p align="justify">Do we have to respect such kind of teachers? Is this what a teacher does? </p> <p align="justify">According to me I give respect to a person according to his/her deeds and not based on his/her age.  I completely hate such kind of teachers.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Invigilators:</strong></p> <p align="justify">What should a invigilator do? Take care of the hall during examination and should protect students from involving in mal-practice. What today teachers do??(especially male staffs)</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Usually during our exams, We wait for the right time to copy.lol… not me. I wait for the time to show answers to others.I accept I will  copy during my internal tests, But not during universities.Do you know when the right time is?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Its when a male staff is invigilator and when a female staff crosses the examination hall. The staff immediately starts chatting with the female staff and that's the best time we get to copy . Both the staffs will be very intimate and involved while speaking to each other, as if they are talking about inventing a new type of machine. And the male staff would often turn to class and starts creating scene by shouting “If I see anyone copying,i dare say you will be suspended from college. I think you know very well that I am very strict”. He just creates scene and wants to impress the fellow female staffs. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Are they qualified to be called as teachers? <img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://www.late.dj.lv/userfile/teaching.gif" border="0" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Killers:</strong></p> <p align="justify">This does not mean teachers kills students.. They directly or indirectly responsible for spoiling the life’s of various students.And this happens more often in our mother country.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <ul> <li> <div align="justify">17 year old girl in her XII standard died in school due to severe asthma attack.</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">One boy drowned in swimming pool and died. Incompetency of the coach and lack of good coach is suspected as primary reason.</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">A 10 year old girl died in school due to severe punishment.This took place somewhere near Kolkata.</div> </li> </ul> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia">There are lots of such similar incidents happening in our day to day life. The primary reason is that teachers don't do teaching as a service.But they only do it as a profession. Teachers work only for money and income. That's their primary goal. They never consider child's safety and future. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia"><strong>Saviours:</strong></font></p> <p align="justify"><strong><font face="Georgia"></font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia">So far everything was like against the teachers. So do I have a grudge against today's teachers? No way. I wouldn't have got so much success and marks without teachers. Each and every teacher in my department helped me and I vow them a lot. I was affected Jaundice last year and I was not able to attend college for four months. I missed all classes and never did any lab sessions. I thought I cannot write the exam that semester due to lack of attendance.  So as a matter of fact I thought I would get 9 backlogs(as i had 9 papers at that sem).I was really worried about my condition. But my HOD called me to college and personally advised me to start studying while I was at me home. He encouraged me a lot and said “I know you don't listen to classes and you can write exams without attending.I will take care of your attendance and with your past records, all the teachers agreed to help you with attendance.So its high time for you to start preparing for exams.Don't let me down and keep up my name.”</font></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">All the teachers helped me with the attendance and they allowed me to write the exam. And luckily I cleared all papers those sem and my HOD was really happy to hear that.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>MATHA PITHA <font color="#ff0000" size="4">GURU</font> DEIVAM…Do they deserve a position ahead of god?</strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify">As I said before Some teachers value teaching while most of them don't. Most of the teachers consider teaching as only a profession and only very few does it as a service. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I think yesteryear teachers must have considered teaching as a service and very few considered it as profession. So they deserve the position ahead of god.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">But Considering Today’s teachers… Most of them value it as profession and very few as service. So do they still deserve a position ahead of god?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>My Best Teacher:</strong></p> <p align="justify">I end up this post by telling this world about my favourite and best teacher. According to me EXPERIENCE is the best teacher. None can teach us as good as what Experience does and none can make such an impact in our heart so that we don't forget the lessons teach by experience for rest of our lives. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Ofcourse there are lots of books which can teach us how to survive in this competitive world but only experience teaches the value of life and how to cherish it.</p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify">The <span style="font-weight: bold">fellow Blog-a-Tonics</span> who took part in this Blog-a-Ton are <a href="http://vipulgrover.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Vipul</a>, <a href="http://attitudethatneverfails.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-then.html">Rajalakshmi</a>, <a href="http://dmanji.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/teachers-aaj-kal/">Dhiman</a>, Ranee<a href="http://purplemangotree.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">[1]</a>, <a href="http://raneespoems.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">[2]</a>, <a href="http://littlelightbulbmoments.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">[3]</a> , <a href="http://evanescentthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/teachers-now-and-then/">Avada</a>, <a href="http://republicofdream.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Indian Pundit</a>, <a href="http://pagedin.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Sojo</a>, <a href="http://piscatorial-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Aneet</a>, <a href="http://10heads.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Pramathesh</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/thistimethattime.blogspot.com">Aativas</a>, <a href="http://sidoscope.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Sid</a>, <a href="http://prashansapuranik.blogspot.com/2009/09/teacher-aaj-kal-blog-ton-2-post.html">Pra</a>, <a href="http://tosspot-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Ajinkya</a>, <a href="http://www.gingerchai.com/2009/09/05/teachers-of-india-analysis/">Lakshmi</a>, <a href="http://govindoo.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Govind</a>, <a href="http://shilpaagarg.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Shilpa</a>, <a href="http://clickbharathi.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Bharathi</a>, <a href="http://matuppenceworth.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Mytuppence</a>, <a href="http://hshekhar.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Azad</a>, <a href="http://m4maruvada.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kal.html">Pawan</a>, <a href="http://mythoughtarchive.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-aaj-kaal.html">Pankaja</a>, <a href="http://scratchyoursoul.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/teachers-now-and-then/">Saimanohar</a>, <a href="http://me-the-maverick.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Guria</a>, <a href="http://xperiences-in-life.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-then.html">Shruti</a>, <a href="http://vishnushady.blogspot.com/2009/09/teachers-now-and-then.html">Vishnu</a>,<a href="http://milestogo.in/2009/09/06/teachers-now-and-then/">Nasrajan</a> and <a href="http://subzeroricha.blogspot.com/2009/09/we-dont-need-no-education.html">Richa</a>. Click on their respective names to read their posts on <span style="font-weight: bold">Teachers : Aaj Kal</span>. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following <a href="http://blog-a-ton.blogspot.com/"><b>Blog-a-Ton</b></a>. <br /></div></blockquote> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-89356019569006477912009-09-04T10:32:00.001+05:302009-09-04T10:32:21.042+05:30Brand Tag!!!!<p>I was tagged by <a href="http://www.shilpaagarg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shilpaa</a> for this brand tag.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Numerous brands move us in our day to day life. </strong><strong>I think brands are like relationships. Do you maintain a good friendship brand? Are you loyal and caring in your brand relationship?</strong></p> <p><b> <br /></b></p> <p><strong>Take any day in your life and chart out the brands you have used. </strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Let me start my brands from electronics!!!</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqAS4UR4SFI/AAAAAAAAAZw/4wsITuCkpCs/s1600-h/Sony_4006.gif"><img title="Sony_400" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="143" alt="Sony_400" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqAS5MmYzKI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/AAnaU2W1lTs/Sony_400_thumb4.gif?imgmax=800" width="143" align="left" border="0" /></a> </p> <p></p> <p>When it comes to electronics..I always prefer this one… As for me Sony is second to none in Electronics.</p> <p>At my home you can find  <strong>Sony 32” LCD</strong>….</p> <p><strong>Playstation 2</strong>.(after i earned enough will be shifting to playstation 3)</p> <p>Sony<strong> Ericsson</strong> </p> <p>Sony <strong>Digital camera.</strong></p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="131" src="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Apple-Logo-apple-41149_1600_1200.jpg" width="173" align="right" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><strong>Apple I-pod</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="105" src="http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/nokia_logo1.jpg" width="233" align="left" border="0" /> </p> <p> </p> <p>This connects me…with the world…</p> <p align="center"><strong>Nokia 5130 xpress music</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="167" src="http://www.techgadgets.in/images/hp-logo-oct07.jpg" width="201" align="right" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Without this I cannot write this post… and You cannot see this one..</p> <p>My pc….</p> <p><strong>Hewlett Packard</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqAS5hF99sI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/Bt3uoeaDnCc/s1600-h/delllogo5.jpg"><img title="dell-logo" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="146" alt="dell-logo" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqAS6Ur1O6I/AAAAAAAAAZ8/m2StAsQZYZc/delllogo_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="148" align="left" border="0" /></a> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>   I had this laptop… my brother’s..  before buying this pc…</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"> <strong>Dell Inspiron</strong></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqAS7Au_-iI/AAAAAAAAAaA/njP1R3tSaI4/s1600-h/reebok256x2565.png"><img title="reebok-256x256" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="174" alt="reebok-256x256" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SqAS8GhLhrI/AAAAAAAAAaE/6dhrks_i5DI/reebok256x256_thumb3.png?imgmax=800" width="174" align="right" border="0" /></a></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">Running without this is a nightmare…</p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><strong>Reebok</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong></strong></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://www.thebanana.in/images/logos/burgerman.jpg" align="left" border="0" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Hot Mexican flavoured Cheese burger… my favourite….</p> <p align="center"> <strong>Burger Man</strong> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> <img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="120" src="http://www.topnews.in/health/files/Pizza-hut.jpg" width="119" align="right" border="0" /></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">Yummy pizzas from <strong>Pizza hut</strong>…….</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="167" src="http://www.vijayswami.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/bajaj_logo11.jpg" width="146" align="left" border="0" /></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">This takes me distinctly ahead of everyone in road….. </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://www.titanvendor.in/includes/images/sonata_logo.gif" align="right" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p>This is a little bit outdated product..I am having the same watch for over for more than three years.. high time to change…How about fast track??</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="73" src="http://static.cricketnext.com/pix/sitepix/11_2006/1411espnstarlogo248.jpg" width="98" align="left" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Weekends are hell without these channels… I either watch Barclays premier league or formula one racing…</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="155" src="http://shoponline.in/images/prodimg/large/ITC0001_1lg.jpg" width="128" align="right" border="0" /> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Will mostly get good offers from this brand. Often gives buy 2 get 1 free…</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="140" src="http://pic.51windows.net/Logos/L/Levis_logo2.gif" width="55" align="left" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><strong>Levis is best….</strong> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0WyMHDAsn6fQ98s9HrDYc_hAvDkNjiLuaYfVakhSLhCNZJv7VLkczpvbeUMGvW-IaYeW8SZLdC2OyvE_H_2qlzVBPqEj5F6YoW7aRv485_XOmcWyAFppnBTOlRtT8AyZl1Lg5g4mqsuT/s400/tmp.png" width="114" align="right" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Connects me with WWW……apart from social networking sites…Thanks to Google… </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="121" src="http://pakmediablog.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/logo_sprite.jpg" width="121" align="left" border="0" /> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Seedhi bhat..No bakhwaas… CLEAR HAI…</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="101" src="http://memrieconomicblog.org/images/uploaded/shell-logo-t.jpg" width="116" align="right" border="0" /></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Sprite for my bike……<strong>Shell..</strong>I actually use Bharath petroleum..But since my brother is working for this concern now..He wants me to use his own company’s product…marketing the products of his own company….</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>I think that's all of now… </p> <p>I tag..Ashwini,shruthi,bharathi,Vipul(tag hater..who does a tag.. actually without doing it…..), My new bro from the world of blogging RSV… IP,Suga,pawan,priyan,swetha….</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><u>Image Courtesy:</u></strong> Google Images</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-19558369209625647722009-09-01T10:50:00.001+05:302009-09-01T16:06:49.597+05:30Formula 1- Is it entertainment or a sport?<p align="justify"><font color="#ff0000" size="3">"F1 is not purely sports. It is entertainment and this venture by JKSP is a commercial initiative," said a ministry source. F1 will not have an impact on Indian sports "in terms of either participation, broad-basing or promotion of excellence". </font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#ff0000" size="3">"The proposed F1 race does not satisfy conditions which focus on human endeavour for excelling in competition with others, keeping in view the whole sports movement from Olympics downwards,"</font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#ff0000" size="3"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">The above statement was given by the ministry of sports when JPSK sports proposed to build a formula one racing track in India. This statement had a huge impact on the world of motorsports.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">I wont say formula 1 is not an entertainment. But how the ministry can say its not a sport. Do they really mean what they say? On what basis they classify between a sport and an entertainment?</font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Every sport has entertainment as its ingredient. Cricket, Soccer,basketball,baseball,Badminton,tennis and the list goes on. And formula 1 is no different. Lets see the reasons why Indian ministry rejected the venture.</font></p> <ul> <li> <div align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Formula 1 is not a sport,its an entertainment<img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" height="311" src="http://carmaker.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/formula-one.jpg" width="243" align="right" /> </font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Formula 1 is a very costly sport</font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Formula 1 is not in Olympics</font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">Much crowd wont turn up to watch the sport</font></div> </li> </ul> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia" color="#000000" size="2">The above four are the premier reasons given by ministry.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia" color="#000000" size="2">The first point.It seems <strong>our ministry wont encourage entertainment in  our country</strong>. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia" color="#000000" size="2">Lets take cricket. Test cricket,One day International and 20-20. How much crowd will turn up to watch a test cricket when compared to T20? Test cricket is really good form of sport.It tests the skill,ability and energy of a player. And one day cricket is also acceptable because its played for a whole day and to an extent the player can prove his skill and ability.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia" color="#000000" size="2">Lets come to t20. A shorter form of cricket,purely commercial.In this form of cricket you just have to sustain for four hours to get lots of money. It is more entertaining and cool to watch the ball flying over stands. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia" color="#000000" size="2">When they say T20 is a sport. Why not Formula 1? This shorter form of cricket is no match to the high level of engineering,competency,skill,will power of formula one racing.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Georgia" color="#000000" size="2">If you are watching formula one races,you might have seen a Advertisement.I have mentioned this previously before in one of my posts.</font></p> <p> </p> <p>Imagine yourself being subjected to a G-force of 5G’s. (Don't know what's a G-force? for example: When we sneeze or cough we experience a G-force of about 2G’s.Then Imagine how 5G’s would be… G-force is nothing but the measure of gravitational force) <br /></p> <p>Imagine yourself being in a 50 degree C pressure cooker. <br /></p> <p>Imagine your Heart beating 210 times a minute.</p> <p> </p> <p align="justify">This is what a Formula one driver goes through.Every formula one driver loses around 1 to 2 kgs when they drive a one and half an hour race. Now would you still call t20 as a sport and formula one as a mere entertainer?<img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" height="137" src="http://www.f1wolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/formula-1-team-logos-2008.jpg" width="232" align="right" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Lets analyze the next case… <strong>Formula one is a costly sport</strong>….  I do accept it is a costly sport and loads of money are involved in it.</p> <p align="justify">But I really wont accept if ministry says they don't have money to spend. When BCCI can spend a lot for giving incentives and apartments as gift to Indian players, why not the Indian ministry spend on formula 1.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Third case is the most stupid one. <strong>Formula one is not in Olympics</strong>. According to our ministry other than sports played in India and the sports in Olympics, every other sport is an entertainment and not purely a Sport.</p> <p align="justify">Just think how many sports are being played in Olympics and in how many India participates and in how many they are winning medals? And over the period of time there is no improvement regarding the participation of Indians in Olympics. But atleast they have started winning some medals. So this is the most stupidest of the arguments. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">The fourth case…<strong>Much crowd wont turn up to watch the sport</strong>. I think the ministry must be kidding. Google very recently conducted a small survey about which communities have more number of Indians and the communities which involves active participation of our country. And to my surprise Soccer and Formula 1 were among the top ten communities in which there are lots of Indians and they are actively taking part in it. I am proud to say I am one among them. </p> <p align="justify">There are fans for formula one who are ready and willing to go to every country where the race takes place. So huge crowd from other countries might turn up to India for watching the sport. And die hard fans(like me) would turn up to see the Scarlet car shining under the sun light.  So this argument is not acceptable too.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">And according to me there is a difference between World wrestling entertainment and Formula 1. The former called the entertainer as everything is predetermined and fake in that.The latter involves will power and courage. So formula is absolutely a sport which is much entertaining to those who have the knowledge about the sport and for those who like watching races. </p> <p align="justify">And Indian ministry has the rights to deny the development of Formula 1 in India. But I guess they don't have rights to classify whether It is a sport or an entertainer and that too without a pure knowledge in the sport.</p> <p align="justify">This sport is a great Hit at Singapore and Malaysia. When they can spend for a circuit.. Why not India? The night race at Singapore was  great and dramatic one. We have already seen a Indian Formula 1 driver and an Indian Formula one Team. And the racing track in India is absolutely a dream come true.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><u>These are my views upon the issue and ofcourse my views in this topic is biased since I am an ardent fan of formula one racing. I prefer India can spend In formula one racing than spending for the so called Idle mans game. </u></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">And Kudos to Vijay Mallya. It was really great to see the tri colour car racing for the pole position and fighting with a Ferrari till the end. Great work from VJ and team. Force India’s Budget is only one third of Ferrari’s Budget. But still it fought with Ferrari in Last race and Ferrari would not have managed without the KERS technology. Force India managed to get second position and they got the first ever points in Formula one after hard fought battle for over 30 races.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://formula1.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/season2009_race5_saturday-qualification_3.jpg" /></p> <p align="justify"><strong>I would like to thank Ashwini for her two cute awards and venky for his timeless friendship award…</strong> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SpyvBZ-lziI/AAAAAAAAAZY/1zOb2ckw_Tw/s1600-h/timeless%20friendship%20award%5B7%5D.jpg"><img title="timeless friendship award" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="197" alt="timeless friendship award" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SpyvE3rv1lI/AAAAAAAAAZc/0vjB_w4YTM0/timeless%20friendship%20award_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="193" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SpyvH86EaXI/AAAAAAAAAZg/4IRzX1AuxLM/s1600-h/honest-scrap%5B6%5D.jpg"><img title="honest-scrap" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="201" alt="honest-scrap" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SpyvLi-SiKI/AAAAAAAAAZk/mA1S2AfUsQ4/honest-scrap_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="200" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SpyvM9osWUI/AAAAAAAAAZo/iyfbIYW4yHo/s1600-h/one_lovely_blog2%5B6%5D.jpg"><img title="one_lovely_blog2" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="212" alt="one_lovely_blog2" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aX6_AI4nNKE/SpyvOUJ5tZI/AAAAAAAAAZs/pg45sWhfHHY/one_lovely_blog2_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="210" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Image courtesy:<strong><u> Google Images</u></strong></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-36504594545478405902009-08-24T13:18:00.001+05:302009-08-24T13:19:04.297+05:30A Costly Mistake-Part II<p align="justify">This is a continuation of “A costly mistake-Part I”. You can read it by clicking <a href="http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/08/costly-mistakepart-i.html">HERE</a>. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">It was time and the test was about to begin. I could see many officials entering the auditorium with bulks of papers in their hands. They looked like high class professionals and Atlast one of them made his way to the dais with a mike in his hands and started with a welcome note. The welcome note was followed by the Instructions for written exam. Most of the instructions were in Hindi. Majority of the students were from South India and most of them don't know Hindi. I interpreted the instructions to students around me. That's when I realized I can understand Hindi. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">“It seems you know Hindi. You can understand a lot better than I expected” A voice spoke from inside my head and this statement brought an instant smile to my face. But it was short lived as the officials started circulating the question paper and answer sheets. We had two hours to complete the paper,which consisted of several aptitude and domain questions.  I first took the aptitude paper and it was like a piece of cake. I completed the aptitude paper in half an hour. The domain paper was little bit tricky one.  It took me one hour to complete the domain part and still I completed the paper half-an-hour before the scheduled time. I returned my answer sheets back and left the hall.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I met my friend who was eagerly waiting for me and both of us hurried to lunch hall. The lunch was free of cost and we were so happy to see the Buffet system(everything was unlimited in terms of quantity). We had a lots of stuffs to eat and someone tapped me on my shoulders. I turned back and to my surprise it was two of my school mates. They both joined us for lunch. And we had a great lunch and the discussion about the school life brought smile in everyone’s face. Myself and my friends  were the last few to leave the lunch hall and we made our way back to the huge auditorium.I completely forgot about the test I wrote and something prickled inside me when I entered the hall. It was half past 1 and the results would be published by 2 o’clock. The half-an-hour was like sitting in a gas stove and something was bothering me continuously. It was 2 and one of the officials made his way to dais and started reading out the names. It was a short list of students. Nearly 300 electrical students appeared for the exam. I had no idea whether I would be selected or not. I never prepared for the exam and I was scolding myself when each name was read. nearly forty to forty five students names were read and I was sitting there with my fingers crossed. My confidence level started deteriorating and the faith over god started surged to the highest point. My counter ticks whenever a name is read and so far the counter read 46. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">And suddenly to my surprise the 47 name was “Shankar Narayanan”. I stood up very happily but it ended in sorrow when another guy stood up along with me. He is the other “Shankar Narayanan” who wrote the exam and there was a confusion. Now my confidence overtook faith and I was sure it was me and not the other guy. We both enquired about this to an official and he said “Shankar Narayanan.B” is the one selected. It was none other than me. The selected candidates were escorted to another room and I was the last to enter the room due to the unwanted confusion. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">50 electrical and 50 instrumentation students were selected and both my school mates didn't manage to clear the examination. After waiting for several hours, I was asked to appear before the Interview panel at 6pm. Both of my school mates and my friend in Delhi,left the place at 4 o’clock.They assured me that they will come back at 7 and pick me up. All the three left to Delhi and enjoyed going around Delhi and visiting many places like palika bazaar,Bharah kambha road and to several other malls at Delhi. </p> <p align="justify"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="439" src="http://www.jokatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/interview-reduced.jpg" width="350" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I appeared before the panel which consisted of three experienced men's. One person was very aged maybe around 60 years. The second was a bit strange,harsh looking man.It was clear that he was on his 50’s. The third was comparatively younger and smarter of the three. After the formal introduction, they asked me three questions. The first two were very easy and I gave very detailed explanation to those questions. Then all the three HR’s discussed about something for few seconds. The third HR shot the final question. It was a bit tricky but I managed some how and I made my way out of the room. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">It was 7pm. The interview was over by the time and the results were ready. The results of electrical engineering came first. This time 30 names were read from the 50 selected students. And alas my name didn't make it to the sheets. I could see some students jumping in joy.I felt may be they were better than me. I was a bit confident this time and still I couldn't make it. All the 30 students were asked to assemble separately and the voice continued “You can all go out”. The whole crowd went in silence. He continued “Those other than the names I specified can stay back and get yourselves prepared for next round.” I was shocked and also happy. I couldn't believe what he said. The way they published the results lacked professionalism. It was so unethical and never expected such a good company to react this way.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">It was 8pm and I appeared before another panel. The questions this time were general. They asked me whether I am ready to work anywhere in India.And they also tested my Hindi speaking and Understanding ability. To my surprise.. I satisfied there basic criteria in Hindi. That was my biggest achievement through out the Interview process. But it was not over. One last question.. This was my last question for the interview process. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">HR said “One last question.. This question decides your future with our concern”</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">(Was it a technical question? what was the question about? Did I answer correctly? Did I clear the Interview?) </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">“Are you ready to sign a three years bond with us? You may have to work any where in India… Are you ready for this? If yes you may have to sign immediately and  join as soon as possible”</p> <p align="justify">My mind raced through several answers and several faces……</p> <p align="justify">My heart said “just say yes..This is a great opportunity….”</p> <p align="justify">My Intellect said “just think whether its good for you… before you decide..”</p> <p align="justify">The room was very silent and I could hear the sound of air rushing out from the Air-Conditioner. Both the HR watched me anxiously. Still I remained silent. This may sound as an easy question. But it was really difficult for me to answer this question. I never knew why. </p> <p align="justify">Atlast the silence was broken.. I answered “Sir..I need some time to think about it.. I am not sure about my decision and may be I have to consult my parents before taking the decision.” </p> <p align="justify">HR replied.. “ So you are not sure about making your own decisions…Well and good… you may go now..”</p> <p align="justify">I was very sad and made my way out…. I felt like I should have answered yes.   </p> <p align="justify">The selected list was read atlast and I am not surprised this time.I know I had made a mistake and I shouldn't have done it. I made my way out. 13 or may be 15 were selected at last. </p> <p align="justify">I was sitting at the corridor. i felt bad for making such a mistake. Suddenly one old man sat besides me and said “ Never get disappointed when didn't get appointed”.. Cheer up… better luck next time.. He said…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">I soon left the college and realised that my friend didn't turn up… Oh God!!! without knowing Hindi.. “How I am going to make my way from Noida to Delhi..?” I never know the route.. It was 9 pm…. I called my friend and he said he was at Delhi. He asked me to reach barahkambah road In Delhi within 11,so that we can catch the last train to his home. I was really angry and had no idea of what to do. I walked out of the college and searched for an auto. After a long walk for about 2 kilometers I found one auto and asked him to drop me at Delhi. There were two persons. As soon as i said i want to go to Delhi,One of the two gave a smirk and hissed something on the other ones ears. They two were involved in some sort of discussion and finally said ok. They asked me 200.But I argued and managed to 180. I asked 150,but they didn't accept and due to time constraint and there was no other auto around. Finally they accepted for 180 and started from the place. They took an entirely different route from noida. I clearly know the route by which we came to noida. But he took entirely different route.an opposite one. I was little suspicious about them. After travelling for half an hour,we reached a place which was very dark.There were no street lights.There was a fly over,but the auto driver took a different route which was below the Fly over.It was extremely dark and there was no other living being in the vicinity. The auto suddenly stopped. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">This scene made me a bit frightening. I asked to myself “Where the Hell am I? Am I heading towards Delhi? Why did the auto stop at this place?” Oh… My god.. I knew I was in some sort of trouble.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">IMAGE COURTESY: <a href="http://www.jokatimes.com/">http://www.jokatimes.com/</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1714850393941233583.post-65492832557720571482009-08-21T19:16:00.005+05:302009-08-21T19:33:37.984+05:30My Formula For Love!!!<p align="justify">A few days back, I learnt “What Is love?” from one my friends in blogosphere. His name is Bharathi and you can check out his post by clicking <a href="http://clickbharathi.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-love.html">here</a>. It was such a nice post and reminded me of my teen age. </p> <p align="justify">This is perhaps the most important memory I have collected.Let’s go to the pensive and take a look at my memory. </p> <p align="justify">I was 13 years old. I was at 8th standard to be precise. It was my first year as a teenager. It was the age when love and infatuation were synonyms and it was the age which gave birth to many crushes. </p> <p align="justify">I was a last bench genius those days (not now… of course…Engineering made me blunt…), very good in maths, very mischievous. I would be punished severely for not allowing others to listen to lectures and classes.</p> <p align="justify">It was one fine morning, which turned bad when I saw my biology teacher entering the class. She hated me completely since I won’t listen to her lectures and instructions. Myself and two other friends of mine would be sitting together at last bench. We were more like Ryan, Hari and Alok of “Five point someone”. Suddenly one of my friends raised a topic. We were a bit excited as the topic was new to us to discuss about. This is how the conversation began...X is my first friend and Y the second one… </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>X</strong></span>: Hey Shankar!!! Do you know anything about love??? <img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" height="189" src="http://www.briansolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/conversation.jpg" width="310" align="right" /> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: No…. I think we can speak about it a few years later..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">X</span></strong>: Why not now? See we have started wearing Full-pants (instead of shorts) to school. we are big boys now… aren't we? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: of course..We are… (That's the first year we started wearing Full pants. Till seventh we were asked to wear half pants) so what do you want to know now? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Y</strong>: Hey guys!! won’t you listen to what the teacher says? It won’t be nice if we stand out of the class before those beautiful girls. I don't want my image to get spoiled.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: Hey Shankar..You are good at maths...you score 90 every time and you know each and every formula… </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: so what? What it has got to do with love? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: tell me a formula for love...If you are so called good in maths… </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: formula for love? Let me think… </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Y</strong>: Guys!! Take a look at the girl in the second row..How gorgeous she is?? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: shut up!!! Let me think for some time. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">(The period ended sooner than I expected. I was thinking for the next three periods for a formula. But I didn't get any proper Idea. </p> <p align="justify">Hurray!! It was lunch period and at least we can talk freely without anyone watching us, atleast for some time.) </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: For how much time you will think? The maths genius cannot even derive a formula??? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: This is not maths. We can rather call it chemistry. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: ok. What about the formula? If chemistry then make it as a equation. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: Why are you suddenly asking about love? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: Because yesterday my brother told me that he is in love with a girl!!! </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: oh…!! So what and all your brother does with his lover? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: He often speaks to her in phone… all useless topics.. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: That we also do.. Whenever we speak over in phone we talk about useless thin<img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" height="206" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/jonas.bandi/SBYv9q-q2KI/AAAAAAAAANc/u-QsVy_o2bo/conversation.jpg" width="206" align="right" />gs as we do now. Next? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: They go to movies together.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: Hey… we also do the same thing. So there is not much difference between friendship and love!!. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: No…No…No… There is one main difference… </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: What’s that?? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">(After uttering those words my friend looked on his sides to check if someone is listening to our discussions. Suddenly he came closer and kissed me on my cheeks. )</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: What the hell are you doing? What happened to you? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: What I did to you now? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: you kissed me… idiot…. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: I kissed you only on your cheeks. For that you are scolding me. But my brother kisses his lover on lips.. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: when you kiss on cheeks, that's called a kiss. But when you kiss on lips?? What’s that called? (See we were so ignorant on that age…) </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: may be lips kiss?? </p> <p align="justify">(This is where my another friend, who was just listening to what we spoke enters the conversation) </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Y</strong>: You dumb fools… Do you know what it is when someone kisses on lips??</p> <p align="justify">(myself and X were puzzled..and looking anxiously at Y for the answer!!!) </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Y</strong>: If some one kisses the other on the lips,its called s**…</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>:really??? </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Y</strong>:Do you think I am joking??</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: Then let me frame the formula… I have a new formula…I got it..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: Great…what’s that?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: So the lovers do whatever we do… and additionally they do something called S**….</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">So the Formula is Love= Friendship+s**….. How it is??</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>:Disgusting…..s** is something bad. don't use that word.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: Then let us search for a good word from dictionary.</p> <p align="justify">( I asked for a dictionary from a girl. We searched for a word which can effectively replace sex. Atlast with great efforts I found a word!!!!)</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: “Eureka!!!” I yelled.I got it. So the new formula for love is </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:100%;">Love= Friendship + Lust</span></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></strong></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>X</strong>: wow.Its great.Now let us spread this to whole class.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Y</strong>:Then, What is friendship?? Shankar..</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: simple… If love=friendship+lust….Then Friendship= love-lust..(This is how engineers refer to problems!!! lol…)</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Few Days later….</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Teacher</strong>: It seems you are studying applied maths?</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: Ma’m?? I didn't get you???</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Teacher</strong>: It seems you are deriving formula’s for various unwanted stuffs. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Me</strong>: ????</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">My formula was a Hit.But I got several punishments!! (the after effects of my formula…..)</p> <p align="justify">I was made to stand out of principal’s room for a whole week and had my lunch in staff room along with teachers. </p> <p align="justify">Irony is that, they liked it and some teachers laughed after hearing my formula. But still they punished me. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Image Courtesy: Google Images</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767229715612563957noreply@blogger.com42