Tuesday, September 25, 2007
India win Twenty20 World Cup
India have beaten Pakistan by just five runs to lift the first Twenty20 cricket World Cup - their first major trophy since 1983!
India won the toss to bat first and Gautam Gambhir soon knocked up 75 runs to help his side reach 157-5.
Pakistan started well in response, but Irfan Pathan and Rudra Pratap Singh took three wickets each to see them end on 152 all out in the final over.
India had only played one Twenty20 game before the start of the tournament.
Shahid Afridi has declared "Player of the Tournament" and Irfan Pathan as "Man of the Match"
Well, truely a memorable day for all Indians.
Chak de India!!
Friday, September 21, 2007
Amazing Truth
" I " ---> Avoid It
The Most Satisfying " 2 " letter word
" We " ---> Use It
The Most Poisonous " 3 " letter word
" Ego" ---> Kill It
The Most Used " 4 " letter word
" LOVE " --> Value It
The Pleasing " 5 " letter word
" SMILE " --> Keep It
The Fastest Spreading " 6 " letter word
" RUMOUR " --> Ignore It
The Hardest working " 7 " Letter word
"SUCCESS " --> Achieve It
The Most enviable " 8 " letter word
" JEALOUSY " --> Distance It
The Most Powerful " 9 " word letter word
" KNOWLEDGE " --> Acquire It
The Most essential " 10 " letter word
" CONFIDENCE " -- > Trust It
Thursday, September 06, 2007
English - Driving me crazy at times
1) The bandage was wound around the wound .
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) There is no time like the present, he said it was time to present the present .
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear .
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt .
Monday, July 16, 2007
The Parking at T.Nagar
From now on, learned a lesson never take private vehicles to T.Nagar instead use public transportation which will have its own drawbacks but its better than walking 1 km.
I wish the authorities do something productive about the parking problems and the shop keepers also have a role to play.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
What is marketing....??
2. You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says: " He's very rich. "Marry him." -That's Advertising"
3. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day, you call and say: " Hi, I'm very rich. "Marry me - That's Telemarketing"
4. You're at a party and see gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink, you open the door (of the car)for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her ride and then say:"By the way, I'm rich. Will you "Marry Me?" - That's Public Relations"
5. You're at a party and see gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says:"You are very rich! "Can you marry ! Me?" - That's Brand Recognition"
6. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. - " That's Customer Feedback"
7. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" And she introduces you to her husband. - "That's demand and supply gap"
8. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say anything, another person come and tell her: "I'm rich. Will you marry me?" and she goes with him - "That's competition eating into your market share"
9. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say: "I'm rich, Marry me!" your wife arrives. - "That's restriction for entering new markets "
Monday, July 09, 2007
They are...
The 125-foot-tall statue of Christ the Redeemer with outstretched arms overlooks Rio de Janeiro from atop Mt. Corcovado. The statue, which weighs more than 1,000 tons, was built by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski in pieces in France starting in 1926, then shipped to Brazil. The pieces were carried by cogwheel railway up the mountain for assembly. The statue was inaugurated in 1931.
2. PYRAMID AT CHICHEN ITZA, MEXICO
This step-pyramid surmounted by a temple survives from a sacred site that was part of one of the greatest Mayan centers of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Built according to the solar calendar, it is placed so that shadows cast at the fall and spring equinoxes are said to look like a snake crawling down the steps, similar to the carved serpent at the top.
3. GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The 4,160-mile barricade running from east to west in northern China is the longest man-made structure in the world. The fortification, which largely dates from the 7th through the 4th century B.C., was built to protect the dynasties from invasion by the Huns, Mongols, Turks and other nomadic tribes.
4. MACHU PICCHU, PERU
Built by the Incan Empire in the 15th century, the giant walls, palaces, temples and dwellings of the Machu Picchu sanctuary are perched in the clouds at 8,000 feet above sea level in the Andes mountains. It remains a mystery how the huge stones were moved into place for the construction of the remote city.
5. COLOSSEUM, ITALY
The giant amphitheater in Rome was inaugurated in A.D. 80 by the Emperor Titus in a ceremony of games lasting 100 days. The 50,000-seat Colosseum, which has influenced the design of modern sports stadiums, was an arena where thousands of gladiators dueled to the death and Christians were fed to the lions.
6. PETRA, JORDAN
The ancient city of Petra in southwestern Jordan, built on a terrace around the Wadi Musa or Valley of Moses, was the capital of the Arab kingdom of the Nabateans. It also flourished under Roman rule after the Nabateans were defeated in A.D. 106. The city is famous for its water tunnels and numerous stone structures carved in rock, the most impressive of which is probably Ad-Dayr, an uncompleted tomb facade that served as a church during Byzantine times.
7. TAJ MAHAL, INDIA
The white marble-domed mausoleum in Agra was built by Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan between 1632 and 1654 for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth. The complex - an example of Mughal architecture combining Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles - houses the graves of the emperor and his wife, as well as those of lesser royalty.
Source: Forbes.com
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Two moons on 27 August, 2007
You may be interested. Show two moons to children. Mark the date on your calendar. Let us hope the sky is not cloudy. This time translates to 11 pm CST (12 pm EST) in USA. Let’s not miss this spectacle!!**Two moon on 27 August
**27th August the Whole World is waiting for.............* Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am IST. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.
Monday, July 02, 2007
The iPhone: Ten Things Apple Did Right, and Ten Things That Need Work
1. The display, the display, the display: Everything looks good on it.
2. The menu design is simple and clean, and the home-screen icons look like so much eye candy.
3. Fingertip navigation, zooming, and scrolling are intuitive, effective, and fast.
4. Video playback is so good that you can tell when you've done a subpar job of ripping your movies.
5. Visual voice mail lets you get to the calls you care about faster.
6. The integrated applications--including Google Maps, YouTube, and a world clock that packs a timer, a stopwatch, and multiple alarms--are great.
7. CoverFlow, which lets you choose your music by visually flipping through album art, is incredibly fun.
8. The exterior is tough: Our initial stress tests suggest that the iPhone is more durable than you might expect for such a sleek handset.
9. It's the first Apple music player with a built-in speaker--and the speaker isn't half bad for a phone component.
10. You don't get a disconcerting "do not disconnect" message when syncing the iPhone with a PC.
Ten Things Apple (and AT&T) Did Wrong
1. There is NO AOL Instant Messaging--and Yahoo and MSN IM clients, too. What about MMS support for sending picture mail?
2. There's no voice recording and, more importantly, no voice dialing support. How are you supposed to use an iPhone with a hands-free car kit?
3. It's the most locked-down phone we've ever seen. You can't swap out the AT&T SIM card for one from another network; in fact, you can't even swap it out for another AT&T SIM card.
4. AT&T is building out its mobile broadband network, but iPhone users are stuck with the company's older EDGE technology--or with battery-consuming Wi-Fi.
5. You know those great headphones you already own? They won't fit the iPhones headset jack, so your first iPhone accessory will have to be a bulky, ugly $10 adapter.
6. The software keyboard invites typos--and when you're entering passwords, there's no way of telling whether you've got them right until tyou get an "access denied" prompt.
7. It's great that the iPhone can reorient pages in Safari, CoverFlow, and the photo album, but why not extend that capability to other apps such as e-mail? Some messages would benefit from a wide-screen display. And even when the device does reorient, it doesn't always follow through with all the attendant features: CoverFlow loses access to the volume slider, for example.
8.There's no support for custom ringtones--surprising in a music phone.
9. The camera is rudimentary, with no audio/video or even a zoom capability.
10. You don't get to-do list support, a basic in most calendar applications.
Cortesy: PC WORLD Saturday, June 30, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Here comes the monsoon.....!!!
Monday, June 18, 2007
My first car accident
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Where is the helmet..??
- All two - wheel riders are to complsourily wear helmets.
- All pillion riders should also wear helmets compulsorily.
- No kid will be allowed to travel sitting in the petrol tank.
- Kids are exempted from wearing the helmets provided they are below 6 and sit behind.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Krd Rys (a.k.a Curd Rice)
According to Business Line:
Hatsun Agro Product Ltd has come out with `Krd Rys'-- possibly the world's first branded curd rice offering. The company owns brands such as `Arokya' milk, `Komatha' milk, `Santosa' milk (targeted towards hotels and caterers) and `Arun Ice cream' and launched `Krd Rys' recently in some parts of Tamil Nadu.
`Krd Rys' will be prepared entirely by machines in the company's ISO and HACCP certified dairies. Hatsun operates four dairies at present in Salem, Kancheepuram, Nallur (Chennai) and Belgaum, Karnataka.
At an introductory price of Rs 10 for 275 gms, the curd rice is garnished with mustard, cashew nuts, raisin, green chillies, ginger, curry leaves and carrot.
The product will be available throughout the State in a few days, according to company officials. Details of the investment have not been disclosed but the thinking behind the launch of the product is evident.
So what do you guys think about this new product??
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
A dozen stupid facts..!!!
2. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
3. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
4. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
5. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206!
6. Earth is the only planet not named after a god!
7. Sharks can live up to 100 years!
8. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency!
9. Octopus have three hearts!
10. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born!
11. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant!
12. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer!
Friday, May 18, 2007
Tips for searching in Google
1. allintitle: If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.
2. allinurl: If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the URL.
3. date: Search only a range of months.
4. intitle: If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.
5. inurl: If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the URL.
6. site: If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain.
7. Punctuation - Several of the more common operators use punctuation instead of words, or do not require a colon. Among these operators are OR, "" (the quote operator), ~ (tilde, the synonym operator), #...# (the numerical range operator), * (asterisk, any word identifier), - (the minus operator), and + (the plus operator).
Operators
1. cache: If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.
2. define: The query [define:] will provide a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources. The definition will be for the entire phrase entered.
3. filetype: Use to restrict the results to a specific file type such as [filetype:pdf] or [filetype:ppt].
4. info: The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page.
5. link: Use to see who is linking to you. The query [link:] will list web pages that have links to the specified web page.
6. movie: Use the [movie:] operator to search for films related to a specific actor, director or plot detail.
7. related: The query [related:] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page.
8. safesearch: Exclude adult-content.
8. stocks: If you begin a query with the [stocks:] operator, Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols.
Special Searches / Features
1. showtimes – Use [showtimes] or the name of a current film into the Google search box. If you've already saved your location by using Google Local, the top search result will display show times for nearby theaters for the movie you've chosen.
2. patent - Search for a specific patent number. "patent 12345678 "
3. Fcc - Search for a specific FCC equipment ID. "Fcc B4Z-34009-PIR "
4. Weather - See weather conditions and a four-day forecast for a particular U.S. location.
5. Calculator - The Google search box becomes a calculator.
6. FAA registrations - Get info based on an airplane's tail number.
7. Stock quotes - Use the ticker symbol(s).
8. Airport conditions - "mco airport"
9. UPS tracking numbers - "1Z9999W99999999999"
10. FedEx tracking numbers - "999999999999"
11. Telephone area codes - "650"
Thursday, May 17, 2007
INDIAN CRICKET BOARD REFUSES RICHARD BRANSON'S VIRGIN AIRLINE SPONSORSHIP
sponsor the Indian cricket team currently reeling after a string of
tournament defeats.
However, the embattled Board of Control for Cricket of India (BCCI) has
politely refused the generous multi-million-pound offer by the cricket-mad
magnate.
As one harassed Board official snapped: "We can't have VIRGIN written on
our shirts, when we're getting screwed in every match"
"courtesy of : Selvan. L (You know who)"
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Worst day of the summer !!
The problem started only when we were coming back, we started by 11.30 and at noon we were literally burnt in the weather, the car AC was at its maximum but still the heat could be felt inside and once we reached the city limits it got worse as we couldn't move freely and the heat was taking its toll. Eventually we couldn't travel anymore and had to settle in my aunt's house for the afternoon.
This truely is hot really hot, I wonder how people travel in this weather especially the two - wheelers..
What do you think about the weather chennaities..??
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
The Best Things in Life
2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.
3. Getting mail.
4. Taking a drive on a pretty road.
5. Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
6. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
7. Finding the jean you want is on sale for half price.
8. Giggling.
9. A good conversation.
10. The beach.
11. Laughing at yourself.
12. Running in rain.
13. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
14. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.
15. Laughing at an inside joke.
16. Friends.
17. Falling in love for the first time.
18. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.
19. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.
20. Your first kiss.
21. Having someone play with your hair.
22. Sweet dreams.
23. Chocolate.
24. Swinging on swings.
25. Watching a good movie cuddled up on a couch with someone you love.
26. Going to a really good concert.
27. Getting butterflies in your stomach every time you see that one person.
28. Making eye contact with a cute stranger.
29. Winning a really competitive game.
30. Holding hands with someone you care about.
31. Discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time.
32. Hugging the person you love.
33. Watching the expression someone's face as they open a much-desired present from you.
34. Watching the sunrise.
35. Getting out of bed every morning and thanking God for another beautiful day.
If you think there is anything else best, let me know.. :)
Monday, April 30, 2007
WC 2007 - Also The Aussie way
Brian Lara, Inzamum-ul-Haq, Russell Arnold, Ian Bradshaw and Glenn McGrath have already announced their retirement. Stephen Fleming, Sanath Jayasuriya announced their retirement from ODI's for the time being.
I definitely believe Marvan Attapattu, Michael Vaughan, Jacques Kallis will and many more will call it a day soon. In a few weeks time we could see many players following suit.
Whats your say? Am I missing out somebody?






