Discovering Passion !

SHAYARIs

2006-10-08T17:55:00.000-07:00

Nakaam si koshish kiya karte hain,
Hum hain ki unse pyar kiya karte hain,
Khuda ne takdir me ek tuta tara nahi likha,
Aur hum hain ki chaand ki aarzu kiya karte hain.

Ek ajnabi se mujhe itna pyaar kyon hai,
Inkar karne par chahat ka ikraar kyon hai,
Use pana nahi meri taqdeer mein shayad,
Phir har mod pe usi ka intezar kyon hai.

Daulat Aur Sohrat sabke Pas Hai,
Khushiya Aur Ghum Sabke Naseeb Mein Hai,
Pyar Aur Nafrat Sabke Dil Mein Hai,
Par Khush-naseeb Hai Hum kyonki Tum Jaisa Dost Hamare Pas hai.

Aansuon ko bahut samjhaya ke yun na aya karo, mehfil mein hamara mazaak na udaya karo, is par aansu bole mehfil mein tumhe akela paate hain isliye chale aate hain.

Log kahtey hain ki Pyar zindagi hain maut nahi,
Magar voh kya jane ki dhoka bhi zindagi deti hai maut nahi.

Ankho me aansuo ko ubhar ne na diya,
Mitti ke motiyo ko bikhar ne na diya,
Jis raah pe pade the tere kadamo ke nishan,
Us raah se kisi ko gujar ne na diya.

Ab umar ho gayi hai dil ki kitaab mein, kuch khusk paton ke siva kuch nahin raha,
Zazbaat tamaam kho gaye lamhon ki dhool mein, ab dil mein dharkanon ke siva kuch nahi raha.

Ab is had tak le aya hai intzaar mujhe .....
Woh aa be jaye toh aaye na aeitbaar mujhe.....

Peaceful Peaces

2006-05-12T18:38:00.000-07:00

Need a proof? Read on................... 10 Real Life Incidents and Learn not to Quit in life and always have a hope in life that you will be successful. Failures are stepping stones for success 1) Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. He is Amitabh Bachchan. ----------------------------------------- 2)In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like! their sound.Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles. ------------------------------------------ 3)In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married". She went on and became Marilyn Monroe. ----------------------------------------- 4)In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't going' nowhere son. You ought to go back to driving' a truck". He went on to become Elvis Presley. ---------------------------------------- 5)A small boy--the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly. He is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India. ----------------------------------------- 6)When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?" ----------------------------------------- 7)When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process". ----------------------------------------- 8)In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long yearsof rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention--an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation. ---------------------------------------- 9)A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with aparalyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year shedecided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl-- Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals. ---------------------------------------- 10)A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy was Albert

Different people have different perception. One man's meat could be another man's poison. A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, "Very stupid. Why neither of them rides on the donkey?” Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, "The husband is the head of family. How can the wife ride on the donkey while the husband is on foot?" Hearing this, the wife quickly got down and let the husband ride on the donkey.Further on the way home, they met an old Lady. She commented, "How can the man ride on the donkey but let the wife walk. He is no gentleman."The husband thus quickly asked the wife to join him on the donkey. Then, they met a young man. He commented, "Poor donkey, how can you hold up the weight of two persons. They are cruel to you." Hearing that, the husband and wife immediately climbed down from the donkey and carried it on their shoulders.It seems to be the only choice left. Later, on a narrow bridge, the donkey was frightened and struggled. They lost their balance and fell into the river. You can never have everyone praise you, nor will everyone condemn you. Never in the past, not at present, and never will be in the future.
Thus, do not be too bothered by others words if our conscience is clear.
Live for a cause not applause.
Live to express not impress

Really Funny !

2006-02-11T20:17:00.000-08:00

Guys read this out its really cool...

Once all the scientists die and go to

heaven............ They decide

to play hide-n-seek.........Unfortunately Einstein is the one who has the den...........He is supposed to count up to 100...and then start searching.....

Everyone starts hiding except Newton.........

Newton just draws a square of 1 meter and stands in it right in front of Einstein...........

Einstein's counting

1,2,3......97,98,99.....100........ He opens his eyes and finds Newton standing in front........

Einstein says "newton's out..newton's....out....."

Newton denies and says i am not out........

He claims that he is not Newton......

All the scientists come out to see how he proves that he is not Newton..........

Newton says "I am standing in a square of area 1m squared..... That makes me Newton per meter squared...... since one Newton per meter squared is one Pascal, I'm Pascal, Therefore Pascal is OUT...........!

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*True Telephone conversations recorded from various Help Desks around the U.K ***

Helpdesk:* What kind of computer do you have?

*Customer: *A white one...

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*Customer:* Hi, this is Celine. I can't get my diskette out.

*Helpdesk: *Have you tried pushing the button?

*Customer:* Yes, but it's really stuck.

*Helpdesk:* That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note ...

*Customer:* No ... wait a minute... I hadn't inserted it yet... it's still on my desk... sorry ....

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*Helpdesk:* Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of ! the screen.

*Customer:* Your left or my left?

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*Helpdesk:* Good day. How may I help you?

Male customer: Hello... I can't print.

*Helpdesk:* Would you click on start for me and ...

*Customer:* Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill Gates damn it!

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Hi good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every time I try it says 'Can't find printer'. I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can't find it...

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*Customer:* I have problems printing in red...

*Helpdesk: *Do you have a color printer?

*Customer:* No.

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*Helpdesk:* What's on your monitor now ma'am?

*Customer: *A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me in the supermarket.

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*Helpdesk:* And now hit F8.

*Customer:* It's not working.

*Helpdesk:* What did you do, exactly?

*Customer:* I hit the F-key 8-times as you told me, but nothing's happening...

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*Customer:* My keyboard is not working anymore.

*Helpdesk: *Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?

*Customer:* No. I can't get behind the computer.

*Helpdesk:* Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.

*Customer:* OK

*Helpdesk:* Did the keyboard come with you?

*Customer:* Yes

*Helpdesk:* That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there another keyboard?

*Customer:* Yes, there's another one here. Ah...that one does work!

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*Helpdesk:* Your password is the small letter a as in apple, a capital letter V as in! Victor, the number 7.

*Customer:* Is that 7 in capital letters?

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A customer couldn't get on the internet.

*Helpdesk:* Are you sure you used the right password?

*Customer:* Yes I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.

*Helpdesk:* Can you tell me what the password was?

*Customer:* Five stars.

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*Helpdesk:* What antivirus program do you use?

*Customer: *Netscape.

*Helpdesk:* That's not an antivirus program.

*Customer:* Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.

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*Customer:* I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screensaver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears!

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*Helpdesk:* Microsoft Tech. Support, may I help you?

*Customer: *Good afternoon! I have waited over ! 4 hours for you. Can you please tell me how long it will take before you can help me?

*Helpdesk:* Uhh..? Pardon, I don't understand your problem?

*Customer:* I was working in Word and clicked the help button more than 4 hours ago. Can you tell me when you will finally be helping me?

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*Helpdesk:* How may I help you?

*Customer:* I'm writing my first e-mail.

*Helpdesk:* OK, and, what seems to be the problem?

*Customer:* Well, I have the letter a, but how do I get the circle around it?

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An insect falls into a mug of beer...

Reactions:

Englishman:

Throws his mug away and walks out

American:

Takes the insect out and drinks the beer

Chinese:

Eats the insect and throws the beer away

Japanese:

Drinks the beer with insect as it is coming free

Indian:

Sells the beer to the American and insect to the Chinese and gets a new

mug of beer. ......INTELLIGENT INDIANS

Pakistani:

-Accuses the Indian for throwing insect into his beer

-Relates the issue to Kashmir

-Asks the Chinese for Military aid

-Takes a loan from the American to buy one more mug of beer

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This is a collection of leave letters and applications written by

people in various places of India..

1. Infosys, Bangalore: An employee applied for leave as follows:

Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my

wife,please sanction me one-week leave.

2.This is from Oracle Bangalore: >From an employee who was performing

the "mundan" ceremony of his 10 year old son:

"as I want to shave my son's head, please leave me for two days.."

3. Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was

performing his daughter's wedding:

"as I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave.."

4. From H.A.L. Administration dept:

"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for

it,please grant me 10 days leave."

5.Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:

"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not

return, please grant me half day casual leave"

6. An incident of a leave letter

"I am suffering from fever, please declare one day holiday."

7. A leave letter to the headmaster:

"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I

request you to leave me today"

8. Another leave letter written to the headmaster:

"As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day."

9. Covering note:

"I am enclosed herewith..."

10. Another one:

"Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below..."

11. Actual letter written for application of leave:

"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at

home I may be granted leave".

12. Letter writing: -

"I am in well here and hope you are also in the well."

13.A candidate's job application:

"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and

an Accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both(!! )for the past

several years and I can handle both with good experience, I am

applying for the post.
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What is the difference between girls aged: 8, 18, 28, 38, and 48, 58 and 68? At 8 - You take her to bed and tell her a story. At 18 - You tell her a story and take her to bed. At 28 - You don't need to tell her a story to take her to bed. At 38 - She tells you a story and takes you to bed. At 48 - You tell her a story to avoid going to bed. At 58 - You stay in bed to avoid her story. At 68 - If you take her to bed, that'll be a story!! ######################################################################################

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JOKES

• Pappu, while filling up a form: Dad, what should I write against mother tongue.?Santa: Very long!

• Santa falls in luv with a nurse... After much thinking, he finally writes a love letter to her: "I luv u sister."

• Santa went out to buy an Indian flag. The shop owner gave him the flag. Guess what did he ask next...Ismein aur colour dikhayiye.

• Santa: What's difference between man & Superman?Pappu: Man wears underwear under the trouser & superman wears it over the trouser.

• Santa went to battery shop n asked to change battery.The shopkeeper asked: Exide laga du?Santa: Dusri side tera baap lagayega kya?

• Banta: Marte waqt aadmi ko kya dena chahiye?Santa: Birla cement.Banta: Kyun?Santa: Kyunki is Cement mein jaan hai.
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Sardar enters shop & shouts, "Where's my free gift with this oil?" Shopkeeper: "ISke Saath koi gift nahin hai bhaisaab" Sard : "Oye ispe likha hai CHOLESTROL FREE!!"______________________________________________________

ONE FINE DAY A GIRL PROPOSED TO A SARDAR AND SARDAR DENIED SIMPLY SAYING THAT IN OUR FAMILY, WE MARRY ONLY OUR RELATIVES.. MY MOM MARRIED MY DAD, MY BROTHER MARRIED MY BHABHI, MY UNCLE MARRIED MY AUNT AND SO ON. SO PLEASE EXCUSE ME !!!!!______________________________________________________

Sardars went into a pub and after ordering two beers took some sandwiches out of their pockets and started to eat them. "You can't eat your own sandwiches in here," complained the pub-owner. So the two sardars swapped (exchanged) their sandwiches.______________________________________________________

A sardar was very fond of sensational and detective novels, but he always started reading from the middle. A friend of his asked why he did so?" It'z doubly interesting", said the Sardar. "TO start from the middle keeps one curious not only about its conclusion but also about its beginning.______________________________________________________

Once a Sardarji was going to his office. On the way he slipped on a banana peel and was badly hurt. Next day , on his way to the office, he noticed a banana peel and Later after two days, he noticed two banana peels and exclaimed" ari sala, aaj to choice hai"!!!!!!______________________________________________________

A Sardar died and went to heaven. When he got to the pearly gate Saint Peter told him that new rules were in effect due to the advances in education on earth. In order to gain admittance a prospective heavenly soul must answer two questions: 1. Name two days of the week that begin with "T". 2. How many seconds are there in a year? The Sardar thought for a few minutes and answered... 1. The two days of the week that begin with "T" are Today and Tomorrow. 2. There are 12 seconds in a year. Saint Peter said, "OK, I'll buy the Today and Tomorrow, even though it's not the answer I expected, so your answer is correct. But how did you get only 12 seconds in a year?" The Sardar replied, "Well, January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc...." Saint Peter lets him in without another word_________________________________________________________

A Sardar, his wife with son and daugher went to a party he introduced his family to his friends saying.." I am Sardar.. and this is Sardarnee ...this is my kid and that is my kidney...!!"_________________________________________________________

American says "US mein shaadi E-mail se hoti hai.." Sardarji " India me to.. shaadi Fe-mail se hoti hai...!!!"_________________________________________________________

Q. What do you call a fat lady waiting for a bus? A. Moti-vating..!!!_________________________________________________________

Nurse - "Mubarak ho.. Sardarji.. aap papa ban gaye.." Sardarji - " Meri wife ko nahi bolna.. main use surprise doonga..!"_________________________________________________________

Dr Chopra psychotherapist wanted 'Sign board' to be pained in front of his clinic but our Sardar painter painted "Dr Chorpa Psycho The

Rapist"________________________________________________________ What is the difference between WATCH & WIFE ......... Ek bigadti hai to bandh ho jati hai...... Doosari bigadati hai to "SHUROO' ho jati hai________________________________________________________

Ek sardar apne bete se bola : Bevakuf, kaisa machis leke aaya hai, ek bhi tili nahin jalti. Beta : Kya baat karte ho papa, sab tili test karke laya hu.________________________________________________________

Man runs home yelling "Pack your bags honey. I just won the 10 Million lotto. Wife : Do I pack for the beach or mountains ? Man : Who cares ? Just pack and get lost !________________________________________________________

Doctor to Sardaar : App ka aur aapki biwi ka blood group ek hi hai? Sardaar : Hoga, Jarur hoga; 25 saalse mera khoon jo pee rahi hai....________________________________________________________

Koun si devi ka kounsa prasad India mein famous hai Rabridevi ka laloo prasad________________________________________________________

A two seater plane crashed in a graveyard in Punjab today....... Local sardars have so far found 500 bodies and are still.....digging for more.________________________________________________________

Sardar Doctor to his wife: Aji suntiho! Jaa baajoo waley ghar say Doctor ko bula k laa, meritabiat kharab ho reli hai.
wife: lekin ! aap to khud doctor ho.
Sardar Doctor : ha parmeri fees buhat zyada hai

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Once a sardar calls another sardar on the phone and
says "Hi, Main Bol Raha Hoon".
The other sardar replies "Kamaal Hain, Ithe bhi Main
Bol Raha Hoon!"
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A Sardar had called an Englishman for lunch. There was
curd on the table. The guest asked what is this? The
Sardar didn't know proper English, he said "Milk
sleeping in night, morning becomes tight"
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Sardar1: - Marte Waqt Aadmi Ko Kya Dena Chahiye?
Sardar2: -Birla cement
Sardar1: -Kyun?
Sardar2: - Kyunki Is Cement Mein Jaan Hain
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Did you hear about the sardarji who is so rich he has
two swimming pools, one of which is always empty? It
is for people who can't swim!
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Santa Singh: Will this bus take me to Jalandhar?
Driver: Which part?
Santa Singh: All of me, of course!
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Sardarji calls Air India. 'How long does it take to
fly to Amritsar?'
'Just a sec,' says the customer service assistant.
'Thank you.' says the Sardarji and hangs up.
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Santa Singh goes to a TV shop and asks, 'Aap ke paas
color TV hai kya?' 'Haan' replies shop owner. Santa
Singh says, 'Ek hara vala dena!'
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Once Santa Singh was riding a cycle and he suddenly
hit a girl!
So girl shouted, 'Sala Break nahi maar sakta tha!!!'
And sardarji replied, 'Poori cycle to maar di ab break
kya alag se maroon???????????????????
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Banta Singh happened to be in a queue at a railway
station ticket counter with two men ahead of him. 'Ek
Punjab Mail dena.' demanded the man in front. He was
given a ticket. 'Ek Punjab Mail dena.' the second man
asked and was handed a ticket. Then came the turn of
Banta Singh, 'Ek Punjab female dena!' 'What do u mean
by Punjab female?' asked the clerk. 'It is for my
wife' replied Banta Singh.
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Once a sardar calls another sardar on the phone and
says "Hi, Main Bol Raha Hoon".
The other sardar replies "Kamaal Hain, Ithe bhi Main
Bol Raha Hoon!"
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A Sardar had called an Englishman for lunch. There was
curd on the table. The guest asked what is this? The
Sardar didn't know proper English, he said "Milk
sleeping in night, morning becomes tight"
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Sardar1: - Marte Waqt Aadmi Ko Kya Dena Chahiye?
Sardar2: -Birla cement
Sardar1: -Kyun?
Sardar2: - Kyunki Is Cement Mein Jaan Hain
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Did you hear about the sardarji who is so rich he has
two swimming pools, one of which is always empty? It
is for people who can't swim!
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Santa Singh: Will this bus take me to Jalandhar?
Driver: Which part?
Santa Singh: All of me, of course!
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Sardarji calls Air India. 'How long does it take to
fly to Amritsar?'
'Just a sec,' says the customer service assistant.
'Thank you.' says the Sardarji and hangs up.
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Santa Singh goes to a TV shop and asks, 'Aap ke paas
color TV hai kya?' 'Haan' replies shop owner. Santa
Singh says, 'Ek hara vala dena!'
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Once Santa Singh was riding a cycle and he suddenly
hit a girl!
So girl shouted, 'Sala Break nahi maar sakta tha!!!'
And sardarji replied, 'Poori cycle to maar di ab break
kya alag se maroon???????????????????
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Banta Singh happened to be in a queue at a railway
station ticket counter with two men ahead of him. 'Ek
Punjab Mail dena.' demanded the man in front. He was
given a ticket. 'Ek Punjab Mail dena.' the second man
asked and was handed a ticket. Then came the turn of
Banta Singh, 'Ek Punjab female dena!' 'What do u mean
by Punjab female?' asked the clerk. 'It is for my
wife' replied Banta Singh.
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An Indian is having breakfast one morning; coffee, croissants, bread, butter & jam when an American man, chewing gum, sits down next to him. The Indian ignores the American who, nevertheless, starts a conversation:
American: "You Indian folks eat the whole bread??"
Indian (in a bad mood): "Of course."
American: (after blowing a huge bubble) "We don't. In USA, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a
Container recycles it, transform them into croissants and sell them to India."
The American has a smirk on his face.
The Indian listens in silence.
The American persists: "Do you eat jam with the bread??"
Indian: "Of Course."
American: (cracking his gum between his teeth and chuckling), "We don't. In USA we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam and sell the jam to India."
The Indian then asks: "Do you have sex in USA?"
American: "Why of course we do", the American says with a big smirk.
Indian: And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?"
American: "We throw them away, of course."
Indian: "We don't. In India, we put them in a container, recycle them,
Melt them down into chewing gum and sell them to America.

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Quotations !

2006-02-03T23:57:00.000-08:00

06--02-2006 to 11-02-2006

1. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton

2. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

3. It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up. -Vince Lombardi.

4. One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill

5. The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his
enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but
his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
- H. W. Arnold

6. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at
night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

13--02-2006 to 18-02-2006

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

• You must have long range goals to keep you free from being frustrated by short range failures. -Charles Noble

• Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. -Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson

• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. - Henry Kissinger

• It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.

• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. -Robert Louis Stevenson

20-02-2006 to 25-02-2006

1. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
Voltaire

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

06-03-2006 to 11-03-2006

1. "The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."
-John Evans

2. "Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more."
-Tom Fasulo

3. o run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
-Mahatma Gandhi,

4. "Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
-Swedish Proverb

5. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-Henry Ford

6. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

06-03-2006 to 11-03-2006

1. If your ship does not come in, swim out to it.
- Jonathan Winters

2. A fool in love makes no sense to me. I think you are fool if you do not love.
-Sigmund Frued

3. Courage isn't having the strength to go on - its going on when you don't have the strenght.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

4. A pessimist is somebody who complains about noise when opportunity knocks.
-Oscar Wilde

5. Hapiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Rober Frost

6. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams

03-04-2006 to 08-04-2006

1. Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

2. "It's always your ATTITUDE not APTITUDE which decides your ALTITUDE.

Navneet

When you educate a man you educate an individual; whey you educate a woman you educate a whole family. – Jawaharlal Nehru.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will never bite you. This is the principle difference between a man and a dog. – Mark Twain.
There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. - Mahatma Gandhi.
Its man’s good deeds that not only fulfils his needs but also eliminates his greed.
He who is faultless does not care for opinion of others. - Mother Teresa.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit. So a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. –Charles Reade.

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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. - Albert Einstein The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you meet a beautiful girl . - Uzair Sait The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. - Darrin Weinberg Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving. Whoever said money can't buy happiness, didn't know where to shop. Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk. Most people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them. Forgive your enemies but remember their names. The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

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OPEN SOURCE

1. Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. -- Linus Torvalds, September 2003

2. Software is like sex. It's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds

3. There appear to be few if any technical reasons to move from UNIX to Windows NT. The performance of Linux exceeds that of NT 4.0 and Linux appears to be more reliable. -- David Korn, creator of the ksh shell, 1997

4. Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux. -- unknown
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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

--Red Skelton

2. Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike (1932 - )

3. "If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep." - -Dale Carnegie

If a task has once begun.
Never leave it till it's done.
Be the labor great or small.
Do it well or not at all.

-Anon
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."-Fats Domino

Amazing Facts of Technology!

2006-01-29T04:41:00.000-08:00

30-01-2006 to 04-02-2006

1. When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in first first two months.

2. Windows 95 can officially run on a 386DX at 20 MHz with just 4 MB of RAM.

3. It is much debated that whether any single person can be said to have invented computer. Examples of candidates are Charles Babbage and Konrad Zuse.

4. Konrad Zuse was a German Engineer who built series of computers, the Z1 to Z4 using binary logic.

5. A refresh rate of 85 Hz on your monitor means that every single pixel is refreshed 85 times a second.

6. EPSON stands for " Sons of Electronic Printer."

06-02-2006 to 11-02-2006

1. The fastest type of internet connection is T3, which can go upto 44 Mbps. It is mostly used by ISPs.

2. Bluesnarfing is the theft of Information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection.

3. Bluejacking is the practice of sending messages between mobile users using a bluetooth wireless connection.

4. Before joining Apple, John Sculley was CEO of Pepsi.

5. The most expensive game ever developed was ShueMue for Sega Dream Cast. It costed $20 million.

6. Every time mouse moves or it is clicked, it sends 3 bytes of data to computer it is attached.

13-02-2006 to 18-02-2006

1. Cyber Patrol, Surf Watch, Net Nanny and Big Brother are all access filters used to block access to objectionalble Web Sites.

2 Boeing was the first airline to discover the Y2K problem, way back in 1993.

3. Did you know that Domain registration was free until an announcement by the National Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995, changed it?

4. Original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu

5. Intel Co-founder George Moore said in1965, " The amount of information stored in one square inch of sillicon will double every 18 months." This came to be known as Moore's Law.

6. Intel Flying Pentium ads and 'Intel Inside' logo were made on an Apple Macintosh.

20-02-2006 to 25-02-2006

1. GUI stands for Graphical User Interface.
2. In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh, the first PC with graphical interface.
3. The computing for Pioneer 10 Spacecraft was done by the Intel 4004 microprocessor.
4. Intel's code name for its effort to make the one GHz microprocessor was Project Froster.
5. Intel stands for Integrated Electronics.
6. ULSI stands for Ultra Large Scale Integration, used in Microchips with over one million transistors.

27-02-2006 to 04-03-2006

1. Perl, the programming Language was created by Larry Wall with the intention of rehumasing Computing technology.
2. In IT world PnP recruit means an employee, who, like a Plug and Play device, can immediately be productive to the company because of his skills and knowledge.
3. Programs often use a series of nines as a code to shut down systems.
4. Apple had once planned to shorten the name of Macintosh computer to simply 'Mac' to stand for 'Mouse-Activated-Computer'.
5. HP's first inkjet printer was launched in 1984.
6. A Seagte Lab is 100 times cleaner than a typical hospital operating room

06-03-2006 to 11-03-2006

1. QWERTY keyboard was introduced in the year 1875.
2. The first commertial modem was developed by DATAPHONE by AT&T in 1960.
3. Cordless phones were first introduced in the year 1970.
4. India's first supercomputer is Intel XEON cluster owned by INTEL.
5. Adobe name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
6. The first hard disk of Seagate had a capacity of 5 MB.

13-03-2006 to 18-03-2006

1. The first high level programming language was Fortran.

2. When Steve Jobs announced Apple's partnership with Microsoft during the August 1997 Macworld trade show, the audience booed for 42 seconds!

3. David Bradley wrote the code for [ctrl] + [alt] + [delete] key sequence.

4. Head of the hard disk doesn't touch the platter, instead it floats few micrometers above the platter.

5. Did you know that first computer to perform a trillion operations per second was called "Gravity Pipline"?

6. The first ever ISP was "Compuserve", established in 1969. It still exits under AOL Time Warner.

20-03-2006 to 25-03-2006

1. "Stinger" was the code name used by microsoft for its smart phone platform, that was unveiled in 2001.

2. Java was created by James Gosling at Sun. He had to debate at coffee shop for the name " Java".

3. If you happened to open the case of original Macintosh, you would find 47 signatures, one for each member of Apple's Macintosh Division as of 1982.

4. On an average employees loose 15 minutes of a hour just deleting the spams.

5. After English, Japenese and German are most used languages on Internet.

6. China is second biggest target of Spam.

27-03-2006 to 01-03-2006

1. Vinton Cerf is the co-creator of TCP/IP and the internet.
2. Mathematician Blaise Pascal attempted automated computing as early as 1642.
3 Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen who presently is the chairman of Vulcan Northwest, an Investment firm.
4. Lindows Linux changed its name to Linspire Linux on April 14, 2004 after it lost a legal battle against Microsoft.
5. Bob Metcalfe created ETHERNET a trademark of XEROX company.
6. John Backus of IBM created FORTRAN in 1954.

Beautiful Poems

2006-01-28T09:33:00.001-08:00

The Difference Between
Winning and Losing
by Catherine Pulsifer

Some of the significant differences between winning and losing are:

Hanging on, persevering,
WINNING
Letting go, giving up easily,
LOSING

Accepting responsibility for your actions,
WINNING
Always having an excuse for your actions,
LOSING

Taking the initiative,
WINNING
Waiting to be told what to do,
LOSING

Knowing what you want and setting goals to achieve it,
WINNING
Wishing for things, but taking no action,
LOSING

Seeing the big picture, and setting your goals accordingly,
WINNING
Seeing only where you are today,
LOSING

Adopt a WINNING attitude!

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Failure."

It's only a word.

But it carries with it so much pain
and so little concern
so much frustration
and so little respect,

so much stress and so little
understanding
that people spend their lives
running through their days

in the hope of avoiding the long arm
of this little word.

To test our vision, you must risk
failure.

To temper your ego, you must attempt
the impossible.

To tell your story, you must
take a chance.

To see beyond the horizon, you must
spread your wings.

To be all you can be, you must
stretch, flex, try, and go beyond
your proven limits.

To bridge the silence, you must risk
rejection.

To advance into the unknown, you must
risk the peril of all your
previous beliefs and emotions
that feel so secure.

Failure is not negative. It is a teacher.
It molds, refines, and polishes you
so that one day your light will
shine for all to see.

It isn't the failure you experience
that will determine your destiny,
but your next step and then the next
that will tell
the story of your life.
-Tim Connor

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Success

You ask me what I call Success -
It is, I wonder, Happiness?

It is not wealth, it is not fame,
Nor rank, nor power nor honoured name.
It is not triumph in the Arts -
Best-selling books or leading parts.
It is not plaudits of the crowd,
The flame of flags, processions proud.
The panegyrics of the Press
are but the mirage of Success.
You may have all of them, my friend,
Yet be a failure in the end.

I've know proud Presidents of banks
Who've fought their way up from the ranks,
And party leaders of renown
Who played as boys in Shantytown.
Strong, self-made men, yet seek to trace
Benignity in any face;
Grim purpose, mastery maybe,
Yet never sweet serenity;
Never contentment, thoughts that bless -
That mellow joy I deem Success.

The haply seek some humble hearth,
Quite poor in goods yet rich in mirth,
And see a man of common clay
Watching his little ones at play;
A laughing fellow full of cheer,
Health, strength and faith that mocks at fear;
Who for his happiness relies
On joys he lights in other eyes;
He loves his home and envies none. . . .
Who happier beneath the sun?

Aye, though he walk in lowly ways,
Shining Success has crowned his days.

Robert W. Service

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WHAT ARE DREAMS?

You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store
makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.
And I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination if I never try,
So I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Too many times we stand aside and let the water slip away.
To what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
So don't you sit upon the shore and say you're satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides.

-Garth Brooks,

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How True!

To realize
The value of a sister
Ask someone
Who doesn't have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still
born.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one hour: Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has
survived an accident...

To! realize
The value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when

you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.

Great Articles

2006-01-28T09:33:00.000-08:00

When Steve Jobs Changed My Life !

STEVE JOBS

“You’ve got to find what you love”

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers.

She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a failing out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool. I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost every thing - all external expectations, all price, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important, Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your good byes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I hid a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I am fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty that when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called ‘The Whole Earth Catalog’, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of ‘The Whole Earth Catalog’, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was mid 1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on it, you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

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In life, go straight and turn right.. always and in all ways.

My name is Nick Vujicic and I give God the Glory for how He has used my

testimony to touch thousands of hearts around the world! I was born

without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth
"defect". As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and
obstacles.

"Consider it pure joy, my Brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds."

....To count our hurt, pain and struggle as nothing but pure joy? As my
parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of our church, they knew
that verse very well. However, on the morning of the 4th of December 1982
in Melbourne (

Australia

), the last two words on the minds of my parents
was "Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There
were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it. The doctors we
shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why
this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just
like any other baby.

The whole church mourned over my birth and my parents were absolutely
devastated. Everyone asked, "if God is a God of Love, then why would God
let something this bad happen to not just anyone, but dedicated
Christians?" My Dad thought I wouldn't survive for very long, but tests
proved that I was a healthy baby boy just with a few limbs missing.

Understandably, my parents had strong concern and evident fears of what
kind of life I'd be able to lead. God provided them strength, wisdom and
courage through those early years and soon after that I was old enough to
go to school.

The law in Australia didn't allow me to be integrated into a main-stream
school because of my physical disability. God did miracles and gave my Mom
the strength to fight for the law to be changed. I was one of the first
disabled students to be integrated into a main-stream school.

I liked going to school, and just try to live life like everyone else, but
it was in my early years of school where I encountered uncomfortable times
of feeling rejected, weird and bullied because of my physical difference.
It was very hard for me to get used to, but with the support of my
parents, I started to develop attitudes and values which helped me
overcome these challenging times. I knew that I was different but on the
inside I was just like everyone else. There were many times when I felt so
low that I wouldn't go to school just so I didn't have to face all the
negative attention. I was encouraged by my parents to ignore them and to
try start making friends by just talking with some kids. Soon the students
realized that I was just like them, and starting there God kept on
blessing me with new friends.

There were times when I felt depressed and angry because I couldn't change
the way I was, or blame anyone for that matter. I went to Sunday School
and learnt that God loves us all and that He cares for you. I understood
that love to a point as a child, but I didn't understand that if God loved
me why did He make me like this? Is it because I did something wrong? I
thought I must have because out of all the kids at school, I'm the only
weird one. I felt like I was a burden to those around me and the sooner I
go, the better it'd be for everyone. I wanted to end my pain and end my
life at a young age, but I am thankful once again, for my parents and
family who were always there to comfort me and give me strength.

Due to my emotional struggles I had experienced with bullying, self esteem
and loneliness, God has implanted a passion of sharing my story and
experiences to help others cope with whatever challenge they have in their
life and let God turn it into a blessing. To encourage and inspire others
to live to their fullest potential and not let anything get in the way of
accomplishing their hopes and dreams.

One of the first lessons that I have learnt was not to take things for
granted."And we know that in all things God works for the best for those who love
Him."

That verse spoke to my heart and convicted me to the point where that I
know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these
"bad" things happen in our life.

I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to us in
our life unless He has a good purpose for it all. I completely gave my
life to Christ at the age of fifteen after reading John 9. Jesus said that
the reason the man was born blind was "so that the works of God may be
revealed through Him." I truly believed that God would heal me so I could
be a great testimony of His Awesome Power. Later on I was given the wisdom
to understand that if we pray for something, if it's God's will, it'll
happen in His time. If it's not God's will for it to happen, then I know
that He has something better. I now see that Glory revealed as He is using me just the way I am and inways others can't be used.

MORE ON SAME STORY

My name is Nick Vujicic and I give God the Glory for how He has used my testimony to touch thousands of hearts around the world! I was born without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth "defect". As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles.

"Consider it pure joy, my Brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds."

....To count our hurt, pain and struggle as nothing but pure joy? As my parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of our church, they knew that verse very well. However, on the morning of the 4th of December 1982 in Melbourne (Australia), the last two words on the minds of my parents was "Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it. The doctors we shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby.

The whole church mourned over my birth and my parents were absolutely devastated. Everyone asked, "if God is a God of Love, then why would God let something this bad happen to not just anyone, but dedicated Christians?" My Dad thought I wouldn't survive for very long, but tests proved that I was a healthy baby boy just with a few limbs missing.

Understandably, my parents had strong concern and evident fears of what kind of life I'd be able to lead. God provided them strength, wisdom and courage through those early years and soon after that I was old enough to go to school.

The law in Australia didn't allow me to be integrated into a main-stream school because of my physical disability. God did miracles and gave my Mom the strength to fight for the law to be changed. I was one of the first disabled students to be integrated into a main-stream school.

I liked going to school, and just try to live life like everyone else, but it was in my early years of school where I encountered uncomfortable times of feeling rejected, weird and bullied because of my physical difference. It was very hard for me to get used to, but with the support of my parents, I started to develop attitudes and values which helped me overcome these challenging times. I knew that I was different but on the inside I was just like everyone else. There were many times when I felt so low that I wouldn't go to school just so I didn't have to face all the negative attention. I was encouraged by my parents to ignore them and to try start making friends by just talking with some kids. Soon the students realized that I was just like them, and starting there God kept on blessing me with new friends.

There were times when I felt depressed and angry because I couldn't change the way I was, or blame anyone for that matter. I went to Sunday School and learnt that God loves us all and that He cares for you. I understood that love to a point as a child, but I didn't understand that if God loved me why did He make me like this? Is it because I did something wrong? I thought I must have because out of all the kids at school, I'm the only weird one. I felt like I was a burden to those around me and the sooner I go, the better it'd be for everyone. I wanted to end my pain and end my life at a young age, but I am thankful once again, for my parents and family who were always there to comfort me and give me strength.

Due to my emotional struggles I had experienced with bullying, self esteem and loneliness, God has implanted a passion of sharing my story and experiences to help others cope with whatever challenge they have in their life and let God turn it into a blessing. To encourage and inspire others to live to their fullest potential and not let anything get in the way of accomplishing their hopes and dreams.

One of the first lessons that I have learnt was not to take things for granted.

"And we know that in all things God works for the best for those who love Him."

That verse spoke to my heart and convicted me to the point where that I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these "bad" things happen in our life.

I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless He has a good purpose for it all. I completely gave my life to Christ at the age of fifteen after reading John 9. Jesus said that the reason the man was born blind was "so that the works of God may be revealed through Him." I truly believed that God would heal me so I could be a great testimony of His Awesome Power. Later on I was given the wisdom to understand that if we pray for something, if it's God's will, it'll happen in His time. If it's not God's will for it to happen, then I know that He has something better.

I now see that Glory revealed as He is using me just the way I am and in ways others can't be used.

I am now twenty-one years old and have completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial Planning and Accounting. I am also a motivational speaker and love to go out and share my story and testimony wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to and encourage students through topics that challenge today's teenagers. I am also a speaker in the corporate sector.

I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep myself available for whatever God wants me to do, and wherever He leads, I follow.

I have many dreams and goals that I have set to achieve in my life. I want to become the best witness I can be of God's Love and Hope, to become an international inspirational speaker and be used as a vessel in both Christian and non-Christian venues. I want to become financially independent by the age of 25, through real estate investments, to modify a car for me to drive and to be interviewed and share my story on the "Oprah Winfrey Show"! Writing several best-selling books has been one of my dreams and I hope to finish writing my first by the end of the year. It will be called "No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!"

I believe that if you have the desire and passion to do something, and if it's God's will, you will achieve it in good time. As humans, we continually put limits on ourselves for no reason at all! What's worse is putting limits on God who can do all things. We put God in a "box". The awesome thing about the Power of God, is that if we want to do something for God, instead of focusing on our capability, concentrate on our availability for we know that it is God through us and we can't do anything without Him. Once we make ourselves available for God's work, guess whose capabilities we rely on? God's!

Something's never change...
But something's do...

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Love Story of Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murthy

It was in Pune that I met Narayan Murty through my
friend Prasanna who is now the Wipro chief, who was
also training in Telco. Most of the books that
Prasanna lent me had Murty's name on them which
meant that I had a preconceived image of the man.
Contrary to expectation, Murty was shy,bespectacled
and an introvert. When he invited us for dinner.. I was
a bit taken aback as I thought the young man was
making a very fast move. I refused since I was the
only girl in the group. But Murty was relentless and
we all decided to meet for dinner the next day at 7.30
p.m. at Green Fields hotel on the Main Road,Pune.

The next day I went there at 7' o clock since I had to
go to the tailor near the hotel. And what do I see?
Mr. Murty waiting in front of the hotel and it was
only seven. Till today, Murty maintains that I had
mentioned (consciously!) that I would be going to the
tailor at 7 so that I could meet him...And I maintain
that I did not say any such thing consciously or
unconsciously because I did not think of Murty as
anything other than a friend at that stage. We have
agreed to disagree on this matter.

Soon, we became friends. Our conversations were filled
with Murty's experiences abroad and the books that he
has read. My friends insisted that Murty was trying to
impress me because he was interested in me. I kept
denying it till one fine day, after dinner Murty said,
I want to tell you something. I knew this was it. It
was coming. He said, I am 5'4" tall. I come from a
lower middle class family. I can never become rich in
my life and I can never give you any riches. You are
beautiful, bright, and intelligent and you can get
anyone you want. But will you marry me? I asked Murty
to give me some time for an answer. My father didn't
want me to marry a wannabe politician,(a communist at
that) who didn't have a steady job and wanted to build
an orphanage...

When I went to Hubli I told my parents about Murty and
his proposal. My mother was positive since Murty was
also from Karnataka, seemed intelligent and comes from
a good family. But my father asked: What's his job,
his salary, his qualifications etc? Murty was working
as a research assistant and was earning less than me.
He was willing to go dutch with me on our outings. My
parents agreed to meet Murty in Pune on a particular
day at10 a. m sharp. Murty did not turn up. How can I
trust a man to take care of my daughter if he cannot
keep an appointment, asked my father.

At 12noon Murty turned up in a bright red shirt! He
had gone on work to Bombay, was stuck in a traffic jam
on the ghats, so he hired a taxi(though it was very
expensive for him) to meet his would-be father-in-law.
Father was unimpressed. My father asked him what he
wanted to become in life. Murty said he wanted to
become a politician in the communist party and wanted
to open an orphanage. My father gave his verdict. NO.
I don't want my daughter to marry somebody who wants
to become a communist and then open an orphanage when
he himself didn't have money to support his family.
Ironically, today, I have opened many orphanages
something, which Murty wanted to do 25 years ago. By
this time I realized I had developed a liking towards
Murty which could only be termed as love. I wanted to
marry Murty because he is an honest man. He proposed
to me highlighting the negatives in his life. I
promised my father that I will not marry Murty without
his blessings though at the same time, I cannot marry
anybody else. My father said he would agree if Murty
promised to take up a steady job. But Murty refused
saying he will not do things in life because somebody
wanted him to. So, I was caught between the two most
important people in my life.

The stalemate continued for three years during which
our courtship took us to every restaurant and cinema
hall in Pune. In those days, Murty was always broke.
Moreover, he didn't earn much to
manage. Ironically today, he manages Infosys
Technologies Ltd., one of the world's most reputed
companies. He always owed me money. We used to go for
dinner and he would say, I don't have
money with me, you pay my share, I will return it to
you later. For three years I maintained a book on
Murty's debt to me.. No, he never returned the money
and I finally tore it up after my
wedding. The amount was a little over Rs 4000. During
this interim period Murty quit his job as research
assistant and started his own software business. Now,
I had to pay his salary too! Towards
the late 70s computers were entering India in a big
way.

During the fag end of 1977 Murty decided to take up a
job as General Manager at Patni Computers in Bombay.
But before he joined the company he wanted to marry me
since he was to go on training
to the US after joining. My father gave in as he was
happy Murty had a decent job, now.

WE WERE MARRIED IN MURTY'S HOUSE IN BANGALORE ON
FEBRUARY 10, 1978 WITH ONLY OUR TWO FAMILIES PRESENT.I
GOT MY FIRST SILK SARI. THE WEDDING EXPENSES CAME TO
ONLY RS 800 (US $17) WITH MURTY AND I POOLING IN RS
400 EACH.

I went to the US with Murty after marriage. Murty
encouraged me to see America on my own because I loved
travelling. I toured America for three months on
backpack and had interesting experiences which will
remain freshin my mind forever. Like the time when the
New York police took me into custody because they
thought I was an Italian trafficking drugs in Harlem.
Or the time when I spent the
night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with an old
couple. Murty panicked because he couldn't get a
response from my hotel room even at midnight. He
thought I was either killed or kidnapped.

IN 1981 MURTY WANTED TO START INFOSYS. HE HAD A VISION
AND ZERO CAPITAL...initially I was very apprehensive
about Murty getting into business. We did not have any
business background.. Moreover we were living a
comfortable life in Bombay with a regular pay check
and I didn't want to rock the boat. But Murty was
passionate about creating good quality software. I
decided to support him.
Typical of Murty, he just had a dream and no money. So
I gave him Rs 10,000 which I had saved for a rainy
day, without his knowledge and told him, This is all I
have. Take it. I give you three years
sabbatical leave. I will take care of the financial
needs of our house. You go and chase your dreams
without any worry. But you have only three years!

Murty and his six colleagues started Infosys in
1981,with enormous interest and hard work. In 1982 I
left Telco and moved to Pune with Murty. We bought a
small house on loan which also became the
Infosys office. I was a clerk-cum-cook-cum-programmer.
I also took up a job as Senior Systems Analyst with
Walchand group of Industries to support the house. In
1983 Infosys got their first
client, MICO, in Bangalore. Murty moved to Bangalore
and stayed with his mother while I went to Hubli to
deliver my second child, Rohan. Ten days after my son
was born, Murty left for the US on
project work. I saw him only after a year, as I was
unable to join Murty in the US because my son had
infantile eczema, an allergy to vaccinations. So for
more than a year I did not step outside our
home for fear of my son contracting an infection. It
was only after Rohan got all his vaccinations that I
came to Bangalore where we rented a small house in
Jayanagar and rented another
house as Infosys headquarters. My father presented
Murty a scooter to commute. I once again became a
cook, programmer, clerk, secretary, office assistant
et al. Nandan Nilekani (MD of Infosys)
and his wife Rohini stayed with us. While Rohini
babysat my son, I wrote programs for Infosys. There
was no car, no phone, and just two kids and a bunch of
us working hard, juggling our lives and
having fun while Infosys was taking shape. It was not
only me but also the wives of other partners too who
gave their unstinted support. We all knew that our men
were trying to build something
good.

It was like a big joint family,taking care and looking
out for one another. I still remember Sudha
Gopalakrishna looking after my daughter Akshata with
all care and love while Kumari Shibulal cooked for all
of us. Murty made it very clear that it would either
be me or him working at Infosys. Never the two of us
together... I was involved with Infosys initially.

Nandan Nilekani suggested I should be on the Board but
Murty said he did not want a husband and wife team at
Infosys. I was shocked since I had the relevant
experience and technical qualifications.
He said, Sudha if you want to work with Infosys, I
will withdraw, happily. I was pained to know that I
will not be involved in the company my husband was
building and that I would have to give up a
job that I am qualified to do and love doing.

It took me a couple of days to grasp the reason behind
Murty's request.. I realized that to make Infosys a
success one had to give one's 100 percent. One had to
be focussed on it alone with no
other distractions. If the two of us had to give 100
percent to Infosys then what would happen to our home
and our children? One of us had to take care of our
home while the other took care of
Infosys.

I opted to be a homemaker, after all Infosys was
Murty's dream. It was a big sacrificebut it was one
that had to be made. Even today, Murty says, Sudha, I
stepped on your career to make mine. You are
responsible for my success. I might have given up my
career for my husband's sake.
But that does not make me a doormat....

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My Stupid Suicide Plan

Last week, an IITian committed suicide. People who commit suicide do it when they feel there's no future. But wait, isn't IIT the one place where a bright and shining future is a foregone conclusion? It just doesn't add up, does it? Why would a young, hardworking, bright student who has the world ahead of him do something like this? But the answer is this-in our constant reverence for the great institution (and I do believe IITs are great), we forget the dark side. And the dark side is that the IITs are afflicted by the quintessential Indian phenomenon of academic pressure, probably the highest in the world.

I can rant about the educational system and how it requires serious fixing, or I can address the immediate-try my best to prevent such suicides. For this column I have chosen the latter, and I do so with a personal story.

News of a suicide always brings back one particular childhood memory. I was 14 years old when I first seriously contemplated suicide. I had done badly in chemistry in the Class X half yearly exam. I was an IIT aspirant, and 68% was nowhere near what an IIT candidate should be getting. I don't know what had made me screw up the exam, but I did know this, I was going to kill myself. The only debate was about method.

Ironically, chemistry offered a way. I had read about copper sulphate, and that it was both cheap and poisonous. Copper sulphate was available at the kirana store. I had it all worked out.

My rationale for killing myself was simple-nobody loved me, my chemistry score was awful, I had no future and what difference would it make to the world if I was not there. I bought the copper sulphate for two rupees-probably the cheapest exit strategy in the world.

I didn't do it for two reasons. One, I had a casual chat with the aunty next door about copper sulphate, and my knowledgeable aunty knew about a woman who had died that way. She said it was the most painful death possible, all your veins burst and you suffer for hours. This tale made my insides shudder. Second, on the day I was to do it, I noticed a street dog outside my house being teased by the neighborhood kids as he hunted for scraps of food. Nobody loved him. It would make no difference to the world if the dog wasn't there. And I was pretty sure that its chemistry score would be awful. Yet, the dog wasn't trotting off to the kirana store. He was only interested in figuring out a strategy for his next meal. And when he was full, he merely curled up in a corner with one eye open, clearly content and not giving a damn about the world. If he wasn't planning to die anytime soon what the hell was I ranting about? I threw the copper sulphate

in the bin. It was the best two bucks I ever wasted.

So why did I tell you this story? Because sometimes the pressure gets too much; like it did for the IITian who couldn't take it no more. On the day he took that dreadful decision, his family and friends were shattered, and India lost a wonderful, bright child. And as the silly but true copper sulphate story tells you-it could happen to any of us or those around us. So please be on the lookout, if you see a distressed young soul, lend a supportive, non-judgmental ear. When I look back, I thank that aunt and that dog for unwittingly saving my life. If God wanted us to take our own life, he would have provided a power off button. He didn't, so have faith and let his plan for you unfold. Because no matter how tough life gets and how much it hurts, if street dogs don't give up, there is no reason why we, the smart species, should. Makes sense right?

- CHETAN BHAGAT
- (IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad)

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AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION .

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem
science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and .....

Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is
this God good then? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is God
good?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?
Student does not answer.

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible
things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?
Student has no answer.

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the
world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have
you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science
says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega
heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything
called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we
can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is
only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of
it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You
can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you
have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't
it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make
darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is
life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the
concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science
can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has
never seen, much less fully understood either one.

To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that
death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of
life: just the absence of it.

Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of
course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and
cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not
teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The
class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's
brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt
it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to
the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science
says that you have no brain, sir.

With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face
unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all
that keeps things moving & alive.
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. A.P.J Abdul Kalam - The Present President of India !

Don' Let Others Shatter Your Dreams!

Once upon a time there was a bunch of tiny frogs.... who arranged a running competition.

The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.

A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants....

The race began....

Honestly,no one in crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.

You heard statements such as:

"Oh, WAY too difficult!!"

"They will NEVER make it to the top."

or:

"Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!"

The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one....

Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher....

The crowd continued to yell, "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!"

More tiny frogs got tired and gave up....

But ONE continued higher and higher and higher....

This one wouldn't give up!

At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!

THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?

A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?

It turned out....

That the winner was DEAF!!!!

The wisdom of this story is:

Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic.... because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you -- the ones you have in your heart!

Always think of the power words have.

Because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!

Therefore:

ALWAYS be....

POSITIVE!

And above all:

Be DEAF when people tell YOU that you cannot fulfill your dreams!

Always think:

God and I can do this!

Pass this message on to 5 "tiny frogs" you care about.

Give them some motivation!!!

Most people walk in and out of your life....but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart
In two days tomorrow will be yesterday. Today is no special day and I have no particular reason for writing to you... I have no news to tell you.... nor any problems to discuss with you.... or gossip to tell you... It's only one of those happy moments ... when I thought of you... and I would like to share these thoughts with you...
MANY SMILES BEGIN BECAUSE OF ANOTHER SMILE...

To The World You Might Be One Person; But To One Person You Might Be the World.

You have been Tagged by the Froggy, which means you are a great friend!!

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Think Twice before you do anything.

This is a true story which happened in the States.
A man came out of his home to admire his new truck.
To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck.
The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment.
When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital. Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands.
When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, " Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?"
The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with someone u love. Trucks can be repaired. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't.
Too often we fail to recognise the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.
People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.
Pause and ponder. Think before you act. Be patient. Forgive & forget. Love one and all.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa

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DETERMINATON

In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.
Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.
Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.
The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.
"We told them so.""Crazy men and their crazy dreams.""It`s foolish to chase wild visions."
Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.
He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.
It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.
He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.
For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.
Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.
Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realised with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.
Even the most distant dream can be realized with determination and persistence

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HELL OR HEAVEN?

One day while walking down the street a highly

> > successful Human
> > > Resources Manager was tragically hit by a bus and
> > she died. Her soul
> > > arrived up in heaven where she was met at the Pearly
> > Gates by St.
> > > Peter himself.
> > >
> > > "Welcome to Heaven," said St. Peter. "Before you get
> > settled in
> > > though, it seems we have a problem. You see,
> > strangely enough, we've
> > > never once had a Human Resources Manager make it
> > this far and we're
> > > not really sure what to do with you."
> > >
> > > "No problem, just let me in," said the woman.
> > >
> > > "Well, I'd like to, but I have higher orders. What
> > we're going to do
> > > is let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven
> > and then you can
> > > choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity
> > in."
> > >
> > > "Actually, I think I've made up my mind, I prefer to
> > stay in
> > Heaven",
> > > said the woman
> > >
> > > "Sorry, we have rules..."
> > >
> > > And with that St. Peter put the executive in an
> > elevator and it went
> > > down-down-down to hell.
> > >
> > >
> > > The doors opened and she found herself stepping out
> > onto the putting
> > > green of a beautiful golf course. In the distance
> > was a country club
> > > and standing in front of her were all her friends -
> > fellow
> > executives
> > > that she had worked with and they were well dressed
> > in evening gowns
> > > and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on
> > both cheeks and
> > > they talked about old times. They played an
> > excellent round of golf
> > > and at night went to the country club where she
> > enjoyed an excellent
> > > steak and lobster dinner.
> > >
> > > She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy
> > (kind of cute)
> > > and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing.
> > She was having
> > > such a good time that before she knew it, it was
> > time to leave.
> > > Everybody shook her hand and waved goodbye as she
> > got on the
> > elevator.
> > >
> > > The elevator went up-up-up and opened back up at the
> > Pearly Gates
> > and
> > > found St. Peter waiting for her.
> > >
> > > "Now it's time to spend a day in heaven," he said.
> > So she spent the
> > > next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing
> > the harp and
> > > singing. She had great time and before she knew it
> > her 24 hours were
> > > up and St. Peter came and got her.
> > >
> > >
> > >"So, you've spent a day in hell and you've spent a
> > day in heaven. Now
> > > you must choose your eternity,"
> > >
> > > The woman paused for a second and then replied,
> > "Well, I never
> > thought
> > > I'd say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great
> > and all, but I
> > > think I had a better time in Hell."
> > >
> > > So St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again
> > she went
> > > down-down-down back to Hell.
> > >
> > > When the doors of the elevator opened she found
> > herself standing in
> > a
> > > desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth. She
> > saw her friends
> > > were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage
> > and putting it
> > > in sacks.
> > >
> > > The Devil came up to her and put his arm around her.
> > >
> > >
> > >"I don't understand," stammered the woman, "yesterday
> > I was here and
> > > there was a golf course and a country club and we
> > ate lobster and we
> > > danced and had a great time. Now all there is a
> > wasteland of garbage
> > > and all my friends look miserable."
> > >
> > > The Devil looked at her smiled and told...
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > "Yesterday we were recruiting you, today you're an Employee.."

MORAL: Bad things or bad areas or bad habbits may look beautiful or may be easy to deal with but fact is that they still are bad. They may look good for some time but slowly and steadily they start loosing their lusture. So stick to good people, good places, good habbits, good ideas and and many more good things no matter how tough they may seem to conquer.

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Lets Drink the Coffee!

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got
together to visit their old university lecturer.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in
work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went
to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and
an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some
plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them
to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the
lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking,
expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and
cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the
best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and
stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the
cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are
eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position
in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and
contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."
"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to
enjoy the coffee in it."

So folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee
instead

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A Trur Love-Story!

He met her on a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing
after her,while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end
of the party,he invited her to have coffee with him,she was surprised,
but due to being polite, she promised.

They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say
anything,she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please, let me go home...
suddenly he
asked the waiter: "Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it
in my coffee."

Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but,
still,he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously:
"Why you have this hobby?"

He replied: "When I was a little boy, I was living near the sea,
I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea , just like
the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I h! ave the salty coffee, I
always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so
much, I miss my parents who are still living there." While saying that tears
filled his eyes. She was deeply touched.

That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who
can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares
about home,has responsibility of home.Then she also started to speak, spoke
about her faraway hometown,her childhood, her family. That was a really
nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story.

They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who
meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful.
He was such a good person but she almost missed him!Thanks to his
salty coffee!Then the story was just like every beautiful love story,
the princess married the prince, then they were living the happy life. And,
every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she
knew that's the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said:
"My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie.This
was the only lie I said to you - the salty coffee.Remember the first time we
dated?
I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said
salt It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead.I never thought
that Could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you
the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that,
as I have promised not to lie to you for anything.. Now I'm dying, I afraid
of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a
strange bad taste.

But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew
you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you.Having you with me is my
biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for the second time,
still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to
drink the salty coffee again."

Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday,someone asked her:
"What's the taste of salty coffee?"

"It's sweet." She replied.

Bcoz love is not 2 forget - but 2 forgive.
not 2 c - but understand
not 2 hear - but 2 listen
not 2 let go - but HOLD ON !!!!

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Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he

could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the

lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

"Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present."

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Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General motors !!!!

An Interesting Story

Never underestimate your Clients' Complaint, no matter
how funny it might seem!

This is a real story that happened between the
customer of General
Motors and its Customer-Care Executive . Pls read
on.....

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of
General Motors:

'This is the second time I have written to you, and I
don't blame you
for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it
is a fact that
we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for
dessert after
dinner each night,but the kind of ice cream varies so,
every night,
after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which
kind of ice cream
we should have and I drive down to the store to get
it. It's also a
fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and
since then my trips
to the store have created a problem.....

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I
start back from
the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind
of ice cream,
the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm
serious about this
question, no matter how silly it sounds ."What is
there about a
Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice
cream, and easy
to start whenever I get any other kind?" The Pontiac
President was
understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an
Engineer to
check it out anyway.

The latter was surprised to be greeted by a
successful, obviously well
educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged
to meet the man
just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car
and drove to
the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that
night and, sure
enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn't
start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first
night, they got
chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got
strawberry. The
car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The
car failed to
start.

Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to
believe that this
man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He
arranged, therefore,
to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve
the problem.
And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted
down all sorts
of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive
back and forth
etc.

In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time
to buy vanilla
than any other flavor. Why? The answer was in the
layout of the
store.Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a
separate case
at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the
other flavors were
kept in the back of the store at a different counter
where it took
considerably longer to check out the flavor.

Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car
wouldn't start
when it took less time. Eureka - Time was now the
problem - not the
vanilla ice cream!!!! The engineer quickly came up
with the answer:
"vapour lock". It was happening every night; but the
extra time taken
to get the other flavors allowed the engine to cool
down sufficiently
to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine was
still too hot for
the vapour lock to dissipate.

Remember :

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all
problems seem
to be simple only when we find the solution , with
cool thinking.
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ATTITUDE IS WHAT IT COUNTS!

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I
won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging
up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would
be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.
.............................Love, Dad

Shortly, the old man received this telegram: "For
Heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden!! That's where I buried the GUNS!!"

At 4 a.m. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents and
local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.

Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son
telling him what happened, and asked him what to do next.

His son's reply was: "Go ahead and plant your
potatoes,
Dad.......................... It's the best I could do
for you from here."

Moral:

NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING DEEP FROM YOUR HEART, YOU CAN DO IT. IT IS THE THOUGHT THAT MATTERS NOT WHERE YOU ARE OR WHERE THE PERSON IS.

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One Day I Decided to Quit

One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship, my
Spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. God, I said. Can you
give me one good reason not to quit His answer surprised me...

Look around, He said. Do you see the fern and the bamboo

Yes, I replied.

When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them.
I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth.
Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo
seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew
more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed.
But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.

In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not
quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would
not quit. He said.

Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the
fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the
bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing
roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I
would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle. He said
to me.

Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you
have actually been growing roots

I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you.

Don't compare yourself to others. He said. The bamboo had a different
purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful.

Your time will come, God said to me. You will rise high

How high should I rise I asked.

How high will the bamboo rise He asked in return.

As high as it can I questioned

Yes. He said, Give me glory by rising as high as you can.

I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope these words can help you
see that God will never give up on you.

He will never give up on you!

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WHEN A LIZARD CAN, WHY CAN'T WE?
This is a true story that happened in Japan .
In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan breaks open the wall.

Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.
When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck
there
because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees
this,
feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail,
it
was nailed 10 years ago when the house was! first built.

What happened?

The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wall
partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and
mind-boggling.
Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years! without moving
a
single step--since its foot was nailed!

So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing,
and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it
came, appears another lizard, with food in its mouth. Ah! He was
stunned
and touched deeply. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another
lizard
has been feeding it for the past 10 years...

Imagine? it has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without
giving up hope on its partner.

Think, will u do that to your partner?

Think that will you do it to your Mom,

Who brought you after a big struggle of Nine long months ?

Or at least to your Dad, Friends, Co-workers, brothers and Sisters?

Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with a
brilliant mind can't.

As information and communication technology advances, our access to
information becomes faster and faster. But the distance between human
beings . . . is it getting closer as well?

...Please never abandon your loved ones

General Knowlege

2006-01-28T09:19:00.001-08:00

29-01-2006 to 04-02-2006

1. Aviva Life Insurance is a joint venture between Dabur and Aviva.
2. Aviva is largest insurer in Britain.
3. China is third Largest country in terms of area.
4. Leela Chitnis was first to model for Lux soap.
5. New India Assurance was set up by Dorabji Tata in 1919.
6. Gateway Of India was built by George Wittet.

06-01-2006 to 11-02-2006

1. Aniel Matherani was India's Ambassador to Croatia.
2. Karan Thappar won the conveted Asian Television Award as Best Current Affairs Presenter Award for the third time.
3. Skycrapper Taipei 101 ( 508 meters) which is sought to have triggered two earthquakes, is located in Taiwan.
4. Srilanka is hosting Under 19 Cricket World Cup which is to be held in February 2006.
5. Supeme Court of India appointed to T. S. Krishnamurthy as the observer for the BCCI office bearer elections which were held in Novemember 2005. Mr. Sharad Pawar was selected as President of Board Of Cricket Control in India in this election.

13-02-2006 to 18-02-2006

1. Peter Weir is the director of English file "Shantaram", based on the novel with the same title by Gregory David Roberts.
2. Pondichery has opposed the interlinking of the Achanchoil and Pampa rivers to the Vypar river.
3. Israel's Prime Minister has formed new centrist party called Kadima.
4. DART stands for Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
5. Article 30(1) of Indian Constitution deals with Right of Minorities.
6. India is world largest Tea producer.

20-02-2006 to 25-02-2006

1. The Kruger National Park, which is taking various measures to control its increasing elephant population, is the flagship national park of South Africa.
2. Ramakutty Maniappan, an employee of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), was recently kidnapped and killed in Afganistan.
3. Dadar railway station was originally designed by London-based architect Halsey Ricardo in December 1905.
4. N. Ram is the editor-in-chief of The Hindu.
5. The Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
6. Kyoto Protocol will lapse in 2012.

27-02-2006 to 04-03-2006

1. The media channel Al-Jazzera is hearquartered in Doha.
2. Indian Government worked as mediator between the Srilankan Government and the LTTE in 1980s.
3. BrahMos missile travels 2.8 to 3 times that of speed of sound.
4. The 165 year old heritage hotel, The Grand Eastern Hotel located in Kolkata was purchased by Bharat Hotels in December 2005.
5. Out of the 42000 cases of rabies around the world, about 36000 occur in India.
6. Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark.

06-02-2006 to 11-02-2006
1. Vande Mataram is associated with maternal mortality.
2. The valley of flowers is located in state of Uttaranchal.
3. Indian railways are divided into 16 zones.
4. Film and Television Institute of India is located in Pune.
5. Silent Valley of India is located in state Kerla.
6. Chess Originated in India or China.

06-02-2006 to 11-03-2006

1. Beijing is nicked named as " The Forbidden City".
2. Berne is the capital of Austria.
3. After United States, India is the second largest user of Pesticide.
4. "What buisness demands" is punch line of Satyam.
5. The head quarters of Motorola is located at Schaumburg, Illinois.
6. Hynix semiconductor, a chip making company is based in South Korea.

13-02-2006 to 18-03-2006

1. "Don't be evil" is the punch line of Google.
2. Berger Paints is the Co-Sponsor of the movie "Rang De Basanti".
3. "If you think, you can" is punch line of The Economic Times.
4. Bogey, eagle and tee are the terms associated with the game golf.
5. Qutub Minar is named after Qutubuddin Aikbak.
6. Arga was founded by Sikandar Lodhi.

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BECOME A QUIZ MASTER!

CODE-NAMES
1. What is the literary term used to describe a code name?
2. What was the name given to the systematic killing of the Jews of Europe by Nazis?
3. What was the code name of Windows XP during its design stage?
4. During second world war, which ruler was code named GLYPTIC, meaning "an average carved out of stone"?
5. What was the 1944 Japenese assault on Imphal and Kohima code named as?
6. What was Japenese code name for attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941?
7. What was the pull out code of Israel from Gaza strip in September 2005?
8. What was Indian Government overall operation in Tsunami affected areas code name?

Answers:
1. Cryptonym.
2. Operation Reinhard.
3. Whistler.
4. Stalin (which means man of steel")
5. U-Go
6. Z
7. Shevet Ahhim
8. Sea Wave
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Dictators:
1. Which African dictator was also his country's light heavyweight boxing champion between 1951 and 1960?
2. This dictator holds no official title but calls himself "Guide of the Revolution". Who is he?
3. Which dictator is said to be the author of the romantic love story Zabiba and the King?
4. He introduced Juche, Which demands absolutely loyalty to him and party. Name the Dictator.
5. Which Delhi Born South Asian Military Commander and later day dictator coined the phrase Enlightened Moderation.
6. Which absolute autocrat's words were "France, the Army, Head of the Army, Josephine"?
7. Which dictator named man of the year by TIME had titles like Brilliant Genius of Humanity and Gardner of Happiness.

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Random Points:

The liquid inside young coconuts
can be used as a substitute for

Blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half

more than seven (7) times.

Donkeys kill more people annually

than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping

than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns

until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code

was Wrigley's gum.

The King of Hearts is the only king

WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
by eliminating one (1) olive

from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(Since Venus is normally associated with women,
what does this tell you!)

Apples, not caffeine,

are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are made from

DEAD SKIN!

The first owner of the Marlboro Company
died of lung cancer.

So did the first "Marlboro Man."

Walt Disney was afraid

OF MICE!

PEARLS MELT

IN VINEGAR!

The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...

but, not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo,

and no one knows why.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
be kept at least six (6) feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles
resulting from the flush.

(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

Richard Millhouse Nixon

was the first U.S. president
whose name contains all the letters
from the word "criminal."

The second ?

William Jefferson Clinton

(Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!?!!)

And the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.
(I know some people like that, don't YOU?)

1. Asia has the largest population.

2. In 1997, Astronaut David Wolf of Houston, Texas, was permitted to caste his vote for Houston's Mayor while on board the Russian Space Station MIR!

Word Power

2006-01-01T09:00:00.000-08:00

30-01-2006 to 04-02-2006
1. Articulate: Jointed; To speak distinclty.
2. Artifacts: Things made by human workmanship.
3. Artifice: Machination; Tactic; Stratagem.
4. Ascendancy: Dominating Influence.
5. Ascertain: Certify; Establish; Verify.
6. Ascetic: A person who lives a life of austerity; a strict hemit.

06-02-2006 to 11-02-2006
1. Ascribe: To attribute; Impute; Assign.
2. Asinine: Absurd; Idiotic.
3. Askance: Sideways; Obliquely.
4. Askew: Aslant; Awry; Crooked; Lopsided.
5. Asperity: Acrimony; harskness; bitter coldness.
6. Aspersion: Claumny; Slender.

13-02-2006 to 18-02-2006
1. Aspire: Desire
2. Assail: To attack
3. Assay: Analyse; Appraise.
4. Assent: To express agreement (to,with); Approve of; Consent.
5. Assessment: Appraisal; Judgement.
6. Assiduous: Industrious.

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RANDOM WORDS
29-02-2006 to 04-02-2006
1. Draconian: Too harsh.
2. Palatable: Pleasant-tasting.
3. Insipid: Dull; Flavourless.
4. Raconteur: One who tells stories in entertaining manner.
5. Pacifism: Belief peaceful resolution of conflicts.
6. Belligerence: The quality of aggression; The quality of always being ready to start a fight.

06-02-2006 to 11-02-2006
1. Flotsam: Wreckage.
2. Jejune: Ingenuous.
3. Appurtenance: Opportunism.
4. Beatific: Blissful.
5. Stultify: Deaden.
6. Febrile: Feverish.

13-02-2006 to 18-02-2006
1. Animadversion: A disapproving comment.
2. Trenchant: Energetic
3. Phantasmagorical: A series of images seen as if dream; Everchanging Scene.
4. Nebulous: Unclear.
5. Sinuous: Simple and Graceful.
6. Quotidian: Common place; Done daily.

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Word Power Made Easy

Poverty
1. Penury: Absence of money. Stinginess, Absolute starvation.
2. Parsimony: It is synonym of Penury with only difference that if Parsimonious person is stingy then Penurious person is twice stingy.
3. Indigence: It is somewhat milder word for poverty than Penury. Thus Indigence people are not absolutely penniless.
4. Destitution: It is close synonym of Penury and of equal strength. Destitute people do not have even means of subsistence.

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