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The poem I love most

தமிழுக்கும் அமுதென்று பேர்! - அந்தத்
தமிழ் இன்பத் தமிழ்எங்கள் உயிருக்கு நேர்!
தமிழுக்கு நிலவென்று பேர்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் எங்கள் சமுகத்தின் விளைவுக்கு நீர்!
தமிழுக்கு மணமென்று பேர்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் எங்கள் வாழ்வுக்கு நிருமித்த ஊர்!
தமிழுக்கு மதுவென்று பேர்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் எங்கள் உரிமைச்செம் பயிருக்கு வேர்!

தமிழ் எங்கள் இளமைக்குப் பால்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் நல்ல புகழ்மிக்க புலவர்க்கு வேல்!
தமிழ் எங்கள் உயர்வுக்கு வான்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் எங்கள் அசதிக்குச் சுடர்தந்த தேன்!
தமிழ் எங்கள் அறிவுக்குத் தோள்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் எங்கள் கவிதைக்கு வயிரத்தின் வாள்!
தமிழ் எங்கள் பிறவிக்குத் தாய்! - இன்பத்
தமிழ் எங்கள் வளமிக்க உளமுற்ற தீ!

--- பாவேந்தர் பாரதிதாசன்

Is this a co-incidence or perfectly planned?

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford'.

Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford'.

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.

Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland

A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

So what do you call this? Co-incidence? Planned murders? Fate? God's decision? What else??

IPL players and their auctioned price list

Players Price (in $) Buyer

1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind) 1.5 million Chennai Super Kings

2 Adam Gilchrist (Aus) 700,000 Hyderabad

3 Shane Warne (Aus) 450,000 Jaipur

4 Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) 600,000 Chennai Super Kings

5 Mahela Jayawardene (SL) 475,000 Mohali

6 Kumar Sangakkara (SL) 700,000 Mohali

7 Shoaib Akhtar (Pak) 425,000 Kolkata

8 Anil Kumble (Ind) 500,000 Bangalore

9 Harbhajan Singh (Ind) 850,000 Mumbai

10 Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 975,000 Mumbai

11 Ricky Ponting (Aus) 400,000 Kolkata

12 Andrew Symonds (Aus) 1.35 million Hyderabad

13 Matthew Hayden (Aus) 375,000 Chennai Super Kings

14 Jacob Oram (NZ) 675,000 Chennai Super Kings

15 Stephen Fleming (NZ) 333,000 Chennai Super Kings

16 Graeme Smith (SA) 475,000 Jaipur

17 Herschelle Gibbs (SA) 575,000 Hyderabad

18 Chris Gayle (WI) 800,000 Kolkata

19 Shoaib Malik (Pak) 500,000 Delhi Daredevils

20 Shahid Afridi (Pak) 675,000 Hyderabad

21 Younis Khan (Pak) F225,000 Jaipur

22 Mohammed Asif (Pak) 650,000 Delhi Daredevils

23 Jacques Kallis (SA) 900,000 Bangalore

24 Zaheer Khan (Ind) 400,000 Bangalore

25 Sreesath (Ind) 625,000 Mohali

26 Ajit Agarkar (Ind) 350,000 Kolkata

27 Shaun Pollock (SA) 550,000 Mumbai

28 Irfan Pathan (Ind) 925,000 Mohali

29 Scott Styris (NZ) 175,000 Hyderabad

30 Farveez Maharoof (SL) 225,000 Delhi Daredevils

31 Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL) 250,000 Delhi Daredevils

32 Cameroon White (Aus) 500,000 Bangalore

33 Yousuf Pathan (Ind) 475,000 Jaipur

34 Joginder Sharma (Ind) 225,000 Chennai Super Kings

35 Dinesh Karthik (Ind) 525,000 Delhi Daredevils

36 Daniel Vettori (NZ) 625,000 Delhi Daredevils

37 Brendon McCullum (NZ) 700,000 Kolkata

38 Brett Lee (Aus) 900,000 Mohali

39 Mark Boucher (SA) 450,000 Bangalore

40 Parthiv Patel (Ind) 325,000 Chennai Super Kings

41 Albie Morkel (SA) 650,000 Chennai Super Kings

42 Kamran Akmal (Pak) 150,000 Jaipur

43 Manoj Tiwary (Ind) 675,000 Delhi Daredevils

44 Abraham de Villiers (SA) $300,000 Delhi Daredevils

45 Suresh Raina (Ind) 650,000 Chennai Super Kings

46.Mohammed Kaif (Ind) 675,000 Jaipur

47 Robin Uthappa (Ind) 800,000 Mumbai

48 Wasim Jaffer (Ind) 150,000 Bangalore

49 v.v.S Laxman (Ind) 375,000 Hyderabad

50 Rohit Sharma (Ind) 750,000 Hyderabad

51 Chamara Silva (SL) 100,000 Hyderabad

52 David Hussey (Aus) 675,000 Kolkata

53 Piyush Chawla (Ind) 400,000 Mohali

54 Dale Steyn (SA) 325,000 Bangalore

55 Murali Kartik (Ind) 425,000 Kolkata

56 Munaf Patel (Ind) 275,000 Jaipur

57 Nathan Bracken (Aus) 325,000 Bangalore

58 Makhaya Ntini (SA) 200,000 Chennai

59 Lasith Malinga (SL) 350,000 Mumbai

60.Chaminda Vaas (SL) 200,000 Hyderabad

61.Ramesh Powar (Ind) 170,000 Mohali

62.Umar Gul (Pak) 150,000 Kolkata

63.Dilhara Fernando (SL) 150,000 Mumbai

64.Nuwan Zoysa (SL) 110,000 Hyderabad

65.Ishant Sharma (Ind) 950,000 Kolkata

66.Rudra Pratap Singh (Ind) 875,000 Hyderabad

67.Michael Hussey (Aus) 350,000 Chennai

68.Loots Bosman (SA) 175,000 Mumbai

69.Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI) 200,000 Bangalore

70.Simon Katich (Aus) 200,000 Mohali

71.Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI) 225,000 Mohali

72. Gautam Gambhir (Ind) 725,000 Delhi Daredevils

73.Glenn McGrath (Aus) 350,000 Delhi Daredevils

74. Tatenda Taibu (Zim) 125,000 Kolkata

75. Justin Langer (Aus) 200,000 Jaipur

Hmmm should have learned to play cricket :-(

no way now.. try some other option.,,

Its been a long time i blogged

Looks like fed up with blogging? Na na...
Busily working?? he he.. never :-)
I was trying to break the un written annexure that" Bloggers are only for those who don't have anything to do". Hence you could under stand that I was not blogging even I have no work to do for the past one month or so.
Hmmm.. will try blog everyday from now..
It was hard to miss you my Blog.... :-(
Glad that we got something to work.. Dont know how long will it continue.. Our PM said it is a short term project for 2 to 3 weeks. lets wait and see..

Your single mouse click is worth one time food for poor

We receive every scams and hoaxes everyday to our mailbox. Clicking Ads, earning money online, mails threatening to forward it to many people otherwise something bad will happen, false and edited photos.. bla bla blaas... But one thing we find from them is, everything is a hoax and nothing proves real... But onething i found real recently is this.
http://www.bhookh.com
This is the website which is governed by an NGO of India which is a Non-profit also. Logic behind this site is, this organization had tie - ups with many sponsors who have promised to pay certain amount of money daily as donations for the poor people in India. The amount of money collected from the sponsors depends upon the number of users who visited the page per single day. Every time you visit the page, value of one cup of food will be billed to the sponsors and the sponsors will pay for it. Hence the nett result is you are indirectly giving a cup of food for the poor everyday.
Each person can click the donate button only once in a single day. Its not like clicking the donate button thousand times will feed thousand people. Each viewer will be counted once for a day and obviously you can click once everyday. I request all to view this everyday and our single mouse click can feed a poor person.
http:/www.bhookh.com

Valentines Day Special

Fantastic one

MBA v/s Engineer ...

An MBA and an Engineer go on a camping trip,
set up their tent, and fall asleep.
Some hours later, the Engineer wakes his MBA friend.
"Look up at the sky and tell me what you see."

The MBA replies, "I see millions of stars."
"What does that tell you?"

The MBA ponders for a minute...

"Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are
millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.

Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo.

Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three.

Theologically, it's evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.

Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.

Economically there are mass scales of stars in the sky.
So "Economy of Scale " would be the ideal strategy in that market.

Strategically such market would be a volume driven market

Financially it would be a low margin market.

From HR point of view we would require huge manpower

What does it tell you?"

The Engineer is silent for a moment, then speaks.

"Practically"
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"Someone has stolen our TENT"

How to ask the boss for a RAISE

Dear Bo$$

In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding of the need$ of u$ worker$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company ..

I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean and re$pond $oon ..

Your$ $incerely,

$teven


The next day, the employee received this letter of reply :

I kNOw you have been working very hard. NOwadays, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticeably well as yet ..



NOw the newspaper are saying the world`s leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if South Africa may go into aNOther recession.

I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean ..

Yours truly,
Manager

NOrman

Something About Dream ...

• One third of our lives are spent sleeping.

• In your lifetime you will spend about six years of it dreaming.
That is more than 2100 days spent in a different world.

• Everybody dreams. Just because you don’t remember your dreams
it does not mean that you didn’t dream.

• We dream an average of one or two hours every night and we often
have four to seven dreams in one night.

• Five minutes after the end of a dream, half the content is
forgotten. After ten minutes, 99 percent is lost.

• If you are snoring then you cannot be dreaming.

• The word dream stems from the middle English word, ‘dreme’
which means joy and music.

• Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream
equally about men and women.

• People who give up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

• Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They don’t appear in their
own dreams until the age of four.

Today's interesting Facts

Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

Earthworms have five hearts

Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.

Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this
Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The average person can live 11 days without water

Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it. ·

The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

GM vs MICROSOFT

At a computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, GM issued a press release stating (by Mr. Welch himself):

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you have would have to buy more seats.

6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.

7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

12. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

Funny stuff huh...

Something you may not know...

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
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4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .
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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath..
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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to

Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
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14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from
History. "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great;
" Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" - Julius Caesar.
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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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16. If a statue of a warrior on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle. If the
horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
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18. Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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20. A snail can sleep for three years.
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21. All polar bears are left handed.
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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
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37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. :-)

Believe it or not

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

An e-mail that I was recently admired and love to share with all

When
The school reopened in June,
And we settled in our new desks and
benches!
When we queued up in book depot,
And got our new books
and notes!
When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet
managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.
We learnt writing with
slates and pencils, and
Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!
When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to
Color pencils and finally sketch pens!
When we started calculating
first with tables and then with
Clarke's tables and advanced to
Calculators and computers!
When we chased one another in the
corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms
Drenched in sweat!
When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,
Playgrounds,
under the trees and even in cycle sheds!
When all the colors in the world,
Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!
Whena single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,
Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!
Whencricket was played with writing pads as bats,
And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!
When few played
"kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,
While others simply played
"book cricket" in the
Confines of classroom!
Of fights but no conspiracies,
Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!
When we used to
watch Live Cricket telecast,
In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!
When few rushed at 3:45 to
"Conquer" window seats in our School bus!
Whilefew others had "Big Fun", "peppermint",
"Kulfi", "milk ice!" and "sharbat!" at 4o Clock!
Gone are the days
Of Sports Day,
and the annual School Day,
And the one-month long
preparations for them.
Gone are the days
Of the stressful Quarterly,
Half Yearly and Annual Exams, and the most
enjoyed holidays after them!
Gone are the days
Of tenth and twelfth standards, when
we spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!
We learnt,
We enjoyed,
We played,
We won,
We lost,
We laughed,
We cried,
We fought,
We thought.
With so much fun in them, so many friends,
So much experience, all this and more!
Gone are the days
When we used
to talk for hours with our friends!
Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'!
Gone are the days
When we played games on the road!
Now we
Code on the road with laptop!
Gone are the days
When we saw stars
shining at Night!
Now we see stars when our code doesn't
Work!
Gone are the days
When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!
Now we chat in chat rooms.....!
Gone are the days
Where we
studied just to pass!
Now we study to save our job!
Gone are the days
Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!
Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!
Gone are the days
Where we shouted on the road!
Now we don't shout even at home
Gone are the days
Where we got lectures from all!
Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!!
Gone are the days
But not the memories, which will be
Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and
Ever and ever and ever.....
Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!
NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE,
DONT FORGET TO
LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL
EXISTS......

I dont know who wrote this... But it really thought provoking.. Salutations to the Author...

Interesting facts about Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler had a half brother named Alois Hitler, he owned a bar in Germany that was frequented by prominent Nazi officials. Alois would never share his opinion on Adolf because he was afraid Adolf would revoke his liquor license!

Adolf Hitler had some Jewish heritage in him. His great great grandmother was Jewish who was a maid.

Hitler ordered tanks to be made in Michigan and told the company to not worry about sending them to Germany, he'd 'pick them up on his way through Detroit.

"Quisling," which is used to describe a traitor, was the name of Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian fascist and supporter of Adolf Hitler, who was appointed Führer of Norway in World War II. Arrested in 1945, Quisling was so despised, Norway broke with their centuries-old policy against capital punishment and executed him.

Hitler's 3rd grade report from his teacher remarked that Hitler was...'bad tempered and fancied himself as a leader.'

Adolf Hitler was fascinated by hands. In his library there was a well-thumbed book containing pictures and drawings of hands belonging to famous people throughout history. He liked particularly to show his guests how closely his own hands resembled those of Frederick the Great, one of his heroes.

The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

Hitler was voted Time Magazines man of the year in 1938

Adolf Hitler kept a framed photograph of Henry Ford on his desk and Ford kept one of Hitler on his desk in Dearborn, Michigan. Hitler had used in 'Mein Kampf' some of Fords anti-semitic views, and he always welcomed Ford's contributions to the Nazi movement.

-courtesy comedy-zone.net

Some more Interesting Facts....

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish don't have brains.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. Just have a try... :-)

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 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 mustache.(nice joke huh...) :-)

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

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

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The sound of E.T. walking (in the movie) was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.

-courtesy Shane McDonald.com

Some more Facts....

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in??????
Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronymAjax

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
Yet another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
ADIDAS- Always Do I Dream About Sports"ADIDAS" is All Day I Dream about Sports.

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
Satellite Television of Asian Region

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal Dozen

7. The 1984-85 seasons. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot-India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
That match was abandoned after the ppl heard the news of indira Gandhi Being killed..

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is India's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh-(Amar Sonar Bangla)

9. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th??
South Korea

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007???
'cause 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR, as it was known During the cold war)!!

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
Geoffrey Boycott

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned fromInternational cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?
John Traicos

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and AbrahamLincoln

-courtesy funnpics blog

Cool Facts

-In 21 states of USA, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
-One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.(he.. he.. My Employer)
-As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
-There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
-The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
-The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
-If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
-There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
-The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
-There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
-Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
-Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
-The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
-The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
-It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

What we lost and What we get??

Wondered about the title? I dint meant losing one girl friend and getting a new one. :-)
Life is all the way going fun, hale and healthy. Had great responsibilities, working, earning, loving family members, friends around to entertain, savings, nice Girl or Boy friend(s) etc.. One day we will get married, will have children, soon mid-aged then more responsibilities, expansion in family, things goes on like this. Centuries and centuries have passed on. No man had a different life than this. Everybody lived through their life time and passed away as the time calls them up. But the world still exists healthy and comfort for the next generation to come. Its remaining still fresh for more generations to come. But everyone of us know that our world has changed a lot and still changingeveryday. What we have seen yesterday is not available now. What we experienced last night may not present for the next night. We dont know what will happen next day. As years passed-by we have lost many things as well as gained many things. Ask your heart these questions and try to answer it by yourself.
-Are you still able see your childhood playing ground? If so, are there any children playing?
-If you have children are they playing the same games what you have played in your childhood?
-If you dont have children then watch your other children in your relationship or neighbors.
-You might have seen group of white birds(crane) flying overhead in the evening time while you are young-aged. Just check whether these birds are still flying?
-You might have seen families with more persons as family members. You might have experienced or you might have seen in your neighbor's family. Where are those families now? Are you still seeing any Joint-Families?
-If you hailed from a village, then go back to your village and see whether the greenaries what you have seen in your childhood still exists?
-You can find more number of farmers in a village, they were countless. Think of today's scenario. You can easily count them as there are only handful of farmers now a days and also think about future?
-Where these old folk dances, country-side cultural dances and art-forms has gone?
-Do you think the real Husband-Wife relationship persists in every family today?
-Do you remember the Marbles(Goli) and Tap that we used to play with. Do the children of current age atleast know those?
-People from villages might had experiences with well, lakes, pools and rivers. Those are really amazing. Do our kids are willing to go for that? Even if they are, they dont find these kind of entertainers everywhere.
etc..
There are many etc s and you can add lots of such a kind of lost things to this list. But after all these loses what did we got?We can have another list of things that we gained. We had at both the sides. Positives and Negatives. We can list our positives like internet, communication, wealth, comfortness etc. Here also wecan have many etc s. But this is not what we really have to listen up. What we have to watch is the another side of the coin.
What we have got in the negative side.Let me list some of my thoughts for this.
-Pollution- Did we ever experienced such a bad polluted world in our childhood?
-Cultural destruction(I cant explain this here as it goes to bigger and wider thoughts. I think this should be an another blog topic)
-Un ethical living-Decreased care towards our neighbors and relatives. Do we really know all of our relations and do we have contacts with them really?
-People living in flats and apartments-Do you know all of your neighbors? Have you ever shared your love and affection during any of the festival times? (Some people are there, but not all)
-Look out the children. Are they going outside to play now a days? After they came from school they sit before a computer or before a TV. Didn't they?
etc.,
Still more number of etc s should be added for this list.I have shared this thought not to scare you or anything. It doesn't matter whether we are going to get back our old fantasies or not. Writing such a blog doesn't do anything. Reading this blog also cannot do anything.The world is going to change everyday. Nobody can stop this. This is out of my pain at the corner of my heart and this for the readers to realize their own kind of pain and to look back and say "I really miss you my life"

The Pushing and Pulling Factor in me

Somehow I found that I am moving towards a destination. Whether it is towards the goal I have set or not. Doesn't matter. But still I am moving towardsa goal satisfactory to myself. Satisfactory by what means? Satisfaction of not harming others; satisfaction of being right minded. Is it not enoughfor a nice Gentleman? I could say enough. But the real truth is definitely NOT enough. Then what else is needed? Perseverance? open-minded? personality? Body Language? Respecting others? Responsibility? Yes,everything what I have listed are needed for a nice Gentleman. But this is not only enough. Things said here are knownby everyone and they also know how to gain these too. But many of us will miss-out an important thing. What is it? The answer is.. "Knowing the self". You can say "Exploring the self" or "Identifying the self" what ever. But this is not so easy as it is the real Billion-Trillion-dollar question that is being asked by saints and Yogis for centuries. But only few identified. Still the search goes on. "Knowing the self" doesn't mean something spiritualistic and vedic, even it may, but here I didn't mean't like that. What I meant was "Knowing our inner thoughts", "Finding and recognising the another human thinking in us". Knowing the self, if it goes more deeper, then it can be said as spirualistic. But what I meant here isnot more spirualistic but more meaningful and sensitive.
This includes the folowing
1.Realizing your career path
2.Realizing your level of knowledge
3.Deciding what you are going to be in next 2 years(atleast)
4.Your destination to be reached in next two years of time
5.While moving towards your goal, what pushes you towards that and what pulling you from reaching that?
-etc..few more questions you can add it up as per your own wishes.
The first four questions dont need any explanations as those are the questions raising in everybody's mind knowingly or unknowingly.The fifth number seems to be the most important fact to me(I believe). The force that drives you towards your goal and the force that pulling you out from reaching your goal. This is the point here. It is easy to find out these strengths and forces, but the need of the hour is, how to handle them? This is the right question here. But the ill fact here is no one has the right answer. If you have a strong desire to achieve your goal and if you are facing more pulling-out problems then the tug-of-war is more ferocious. You couldn't manage the crisis here. Its totally controlled by fate and depends upon what and how you worked on? Thats why I said no formula to handle this. Eventhough you couldn't manage the crisis, but there must be an end. Something should win at the end, either your desire or your problems. Even the war between your problems and your desire is happening right before your eyes and your activities are the sole reason for it, you don't have any control over this war. Only thing you could do is to sit back and watch the show. That means "You cannot manage things happening". Nobody has the formula or solution for this. Everyone let them as such and says 'let it happens'.
We can say, things motivating to make a desire or to fix up a goal is also playing as things driving towards achieving it. Hence these are araised once we started fixing the goal. But problems or pulling-out factors are raised once when we start moving towards the goal at various stages of your run-way. Also you can't predict the pulling-out factors to come everytime. They are spontaneous and un-predictable and nobody can say when it will come and stand before us. Hence we can number the problems to be so higher than the positive factors itself. Keeping that in mind, we could suggest a solution for handling the crisis situation. Eventhough we cannot find a complete solution, but we can suggest an alternative for this. Its here....

Instead of waiting for problems to come and solving those(atleast trying to), why can't we try increasing the factors that push you towards your goal? When we increase the weightage in the positive side, there are many a chance to overcome the negative pull. Predicting the problems and trying to solving it is not possible always. Though it is important to do so, improving the pushing factors will definitely make a big difference. It doesn't sure of winning the damn game. But it will make sure of getting yourself working towards your goal.(for sure)

Am I Buyable???

Am I Buyable???
The question I ask to my own soul often is this.. "Am I Buyable?? Do I perform something that I can able to compete in this world?" One of my Mentor in my college days has initiated this thought in me. I always think that everyone should have a thought or a book-mark in their mind about this question.Technically speaking(am an IT Guy ha..ha..:-)...) everone should maintain a tracker of their own issues everyday they are facing and it should be updated regularly. 'Atleast once in every three days, Guys!!'(My manager Says this..Lolz..)
To the business now..
"You should be a good Marketer, though you are an Engineering graduate or a science student" these were the real words of my Mentor. I thought it was not a worthy line to be remembered always. But as the saying goes, "Wisdom will not be taught; they are only found after a long search". (wondering who said this? Not taught to me. I Found after a long search. After all this is also a kind of Wisdom. ha ha..) And i found that wisdom of my own. I was so proud about myself and once I took back my old notes and when I saw my archived mails from my Mentor,I was shocked to saw that was already told by himself. But he doesn't hold any patents for that(really..) may be he may got that wisdom from his own mentor or any other books he read.But that doesn't matter to me. The wisdom I got is more precious and in-valuable.
I am not insist on anybody to ask yourself this question and do it. But i am sharing this as it is available in everyone but we seldom realized it. I am asking to realize. When you write an exam in your school, you are marketing yourself before the teachers; when you are writing an exam in your college, you are marketing yourself before the university that you are capable of holding a graduation. When you attend an interview, i don't need to say that you are marketing yourself before the HR. Every time you complete your project or a task, you are marketing YOU. In the recent days I often think of my career path, and say "Am I going in the RIGHT path? Is this the way I ought to choose? Is this the path that God has decided for me?" But I am not sure always. Actually I am moving in a direction where my everyday works drives me. "Don't I have any goals to achieve?" Yes, I do have. But will that be a reasonable one? Who knows. Life is like a Share Market. We can say the best time to investment and redempt by seeing the past fluctuations of the market. But we could never predict the same when it comes for a real-time or current market. As it is we can compare and comment anybody's life by seeing their past life. But we could never suggest an exact model or solution for current issues.
Life always goes with assumptions, confidents and trusts. (Think I am Deviating???)
So, Ask Questions to yourself folks. Its not important to answer all your own questions, but more the questions you raise is more the wisdom you will receive. Wondering how?? here it is... Once when you learn to raise questions and as a result if you had more questions, you will try searching forthe answers(Knowingly or Unknowingly) Your search for life starts from there. May your search returns answers or not, but your search will drive your life to a different level that you have never been in to. Search is the NIRVANA of life. Its not the matter of finding right answers as I said, its the matter of finding solutions. Some times you may end up with no solutions at all. But really that vacant state is the real solution for your search. Search never ends. Questions are the real initiative for a search. once you learn raising questions, you are in the right direction of yor life.
"Am I performing?"
"Am I doing well?"
"Am I really worth competing?"
"Am I really marketing myself well?"
"Am I buyable?(really)"
those are the type of questions that often raised knowingly or unknowingly in everyone. But it doesn't ensure of an answer. No need of getting too. But asking and searching is worth than finding the fact...