I know...

I know I couldn't keep my promise of writing blogs regularly.

I know I just slip the dates for writing something.

I know there are at least 6 articles (I would say drafts) which I wrote but never posted online.

To put an end this never ending lethargic saga I'm wring this.

Let me see the whether I can keep this digital promise.

Finally I know that I can do this..

My blogspot says with a smiley ... I know what you are upto, Let's see :)

Mere vatan ke nav javan!!!

It's shame to see the state with 1 lakh crores budget is conducting the SSC Exams in such pathetic state. To add insult to injury Y.S. Raja Shekar Reddy government has announced happiness over the unanticipated rains, that will save some money for their coffer by means of the saving electricity charges.

Pic:Children writing exam while sitting in the middle of the rain/drain water

I feel shameful to be part of a society which can't provide a basic needs properly, forget about providing proper studies, it's sad to see that the governments not even able to provide the correct environment for them to write exams.



The sad part of the story is, last week when Sonia Gandhi visited Andhra Pradesh to open Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, due to some political reasons, they have cancelled the exam to be held on the day because of her visit. When they can cancel the exam for the political reason, why can't they cancel the exam for natural calamity like this.

I'm wondering wether we need to celebrate for the opening of International Aiport or feel pathetic for the sad state of our next generations.
Pic:A mother weeping at the state his kid has to face to write exams.


Random pics show the pathetic state of the schools in which the SSC exams were being conducted.

I feel the education minister must hang himself for the sad state of the education infrastructure.

pic courtesy: eenandu and andhra jyothy

Article from Pakistani News papers

This was published in one of the News Papers of Pakistan.

"The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.
In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.
In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned forty-four three weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present: A sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless communication and a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and Mukesh is not India 's richest but t he second richest.
Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean ). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four floors above the guest floors are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea . On top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family and their family home.
In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct investment destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the top 25 countries. In 2004, the United Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested the Election Commission of India to assist the UN in the holding elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election Commission of India and not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi.
Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in America are Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.
For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail. Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham. Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project. Four out of ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians. Bollywood produces 800 movies per year and s ix Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.
For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore.India now has more than three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire).
The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around $56 billion).
Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome haplogroup. We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker (namely: M124). We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same movies and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians have and we don't?
INDIANS ELECT THEIR LEADERS and here we are .......who keep cursing Indian democracy and deploring the situation!!!!!!!!! "
(The writer is an Islamabad-based freelance columnist.)

Here ends the article.

After reading this article what do you expect a Pakistani to do, they should think twice about how to achieve great things and grow thyself which in turn helps the country to grow and boost their GDP figures and reduce poverty levels.
Gosh….. No way… says Pakistanis….. In a discussion in one of the public(pakistani) forums they are trying to prove that they don’t have the same chromosome as that of Indians.
Can God save Pakistan??? I doubt… For those who want to read the article here is the link: hxxp://www.thenews.com.pk/editorial_detail.asp?id=85171 )

A tale of three guyz at lunch...

It was 12.30 pm and in Singapore its lunch time in the office. Though I'm not used having lunch so early getting adjusted to the time as, later you will not have a company to have lunch. We three went to our pantry area.
As usual we went to pantry after heating the lunch boxes. When we are about to sit .. there comes this young lady politely asked 'Can I join you people for lunch?'. Who can say 'NO' to a lady. So we all said "YES'.
We started having lunch , then came the next polite question... 'Do you eat Non-veg?'. Hmmm.. my friend said NO. As we want to avoid the food if at all she wants to offer as it might contain X,Y,z.

In fact that’s the last question after that we never had a chance to question or answer , as we are toung- tied with the kind of information she revealed about the eating habits all over the world.

As I don't want to scare my blog readers, I would like to share only few of them. (As I already have very few :) ) > I don’t want to lose them tooooo....

The Thai habit: They eat Rats and even cockroaches... (She told it with the expressions).

And the Chinese Monkey story: (We are horrified to know that people do eat monkeys, but to add more to our sorrow, here it goes)

First they will tie the Monkey underneath the table, which has got a hole which will let the monkey's head come out. They will chop the monkeys head and put straws and drink the blood. Off course later they will enjoy the Monkey's brain juice.

The stories continued.... then came the snakes , bears, crocodiles etc..

Having said this the one who told us all these eating habits is a kind of vegetarian, who only eats chicken now and then. At the end she raised one good question, we can understand If people are eating these things because they can’t afford the normal food it’s OK but how come they are paying more and eating this kind of food…. Why is it so? God can only answer the question

We finished the lunch, I think so ...

News as I like it - 1

To add to the latest craze of changing the names of popular places.
One should say Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Raja Shekar Reddy has reached to the new heights.

Now, as he ran out of the places and schemes he can name after "Indira" and "Rajiv" as part of his buttering High-command (Sonia) skills , he has named his buffalo as "Rajiv" and pet dog as "Indira". Here after they should not be called as "buffalo" or "Dunnapotu" but to be referred with their respective names that is "Rajiv" and "Indira". G.O. for the same has been issued by YSR government.

NEWS Original: Andhra Pradesh government issued a GO to change the name of the Aisa's biggest colony "Kukkatpally Housing Board" to "Rajiv Housing Board colony".

Happy Birth Day India

It's the day of the year when the patriotic fever, shall I say flu, peaks across the country , now across the world as you can find Indians all over the world. Is it just about sending mail with tri-colured message and rubbing of the hands or just think it as one of those privileged holidays where you can happily sleep till noon.

On this 60th anniversary of Indian Independence, if we look back at the sorry state of our cities with crumbling infrastructure reminds me of my colleague statment as I quote , "Indian cities are not even planning as much as that of Singapore has planned for the underground ".

Probably this is the time for governments to start focusing on basics like education and health care and as citizens stop blaming the government for all the ills as we are 100% responsible for bringing them up there by not participating in voting. Even If participated, voting based on caste , relegion, language and teritory.

As rightly said by Mahatma Gandhi, 'Be the change that you want to see in the world'. Start changing ourselves to the India , out dream India. I wish one day in the near future we celebrate the birth day of India as happily as we celebrate our family functions.

I know what my sister will say after reading the blog, as I quote, "It's very easy to say all these things and make suggestions sitting on the other side of the globe". But sis, we still care a lot, probably more than those who are in India, as we know it's value after coming outside. :)

Incidentally today, two lucky people who are very close to me share their Birth Day with India's Birth day: Souji and Sandhya. I wish both of them a very very happy birthday too.

Save energy one search at a time

Its good know that corporate companies are doing their best to save Earth. At least Google Inc. is adding their 2 cents to save energy every time we search.

Being a Google freak out , I would have wasted lot of energy/power for my searches. From now on I want to use Blackle instead of Google for all my searches. Which will save some energy in turn saves the Earth for some more days.

Coming back to original story , what's the difference between using Google and Balckle.
An on article on Rising Phoneix Design that points out that black pixel take less energy than white pixels. That is, for every screen refresh black screen takes 59 watts, while white is at 74 watts, a full 15 watts higher. So now every time I use Google , I will be wasting 15watts.

Today, if you count for all the people who are using Goggle , assuming that each search query is displyed for 10 seconds , with around 200 million queries Google is being used for about 550000 hours every day on our desktops. Which will eat up 3000 MegaWatt-hours energy.

So , start using Blackle instead of Google. No difference in the search results. Only change is in the Color in which the screen looks.
USE BLACKLE: Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time.