Helmets are a must

A simply amazing pic and a relevant post from this link wrt helmets. Even though I don’t like usage of religious symbols, this one hits the nail on the head and does a good job of conveying the message.( Tagged under humour too)

Sutta n Dope; I can tell u 'ONE' reason for which guys turn up to these

Hello! What I’m going to write may be controversial & may sent u into tizzy but with what I have seen in reality, that’s one reason which ‘IS TRUE n PRAGMATIC’ (though after reading through, I still hope that you are right…not to smoke, not to dope).

First of all! its important to know

‘WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INSERT THAT LEAN FAG STICK INTO YOUR MOUTH n START HAVING THOSE SMOKY PUFFS?’

In layman terms, smoking gives a relaxation to your mind, you become somewhat more alert & conscious and your power of visualization/thinking/dreaming gets diminished partially (all these things won’t be noticed to a chain smoker). If you are a non-smoker (non-chain smoker) or a starter, you will realize though it may not be instantaneous.

So, is there a reason which can explain cogently whether it’s worth enough to be a smoker INSPITE of all those numerous and detrimental diseases (see any anti-smoking book or browse any website n u will meet gamut of diseases ranges from simple coughing to deleterious cancers). You may think NO, but still there is ONE.

The situation where you can find a supportive answer is when you are depressed (cause of depression may vary from person to person). Justification of reason – We all know suicides are very common symptoms of extreme depression. All suiciders go into deep profound depression owing to repetitive thinking about a particular incident. Now, if at that moment, if they indulge themselves in an activity (or vice versa) which can remove their attention from that incident, that suicide will surely be averted. This is where sutta/dope comes. Sutta/Dope diverts your thinking power deliberately (in case of Sutta, the effect is very minute whereas Dope effect are variable). And if by doing these, you are saving yourself from committing suicides…then…BUT…in the hiding are concealed many dangers.

U may save yourself but this won’t help you often and also this could pave the way to many repercussions. Let assume you are depressed quite often, then (as earlier) you start having your antidote to depression problems (sutta/dope) very frequently…congratulations…you just entered the HELL community of tobacco addicts. Also, practically speaking as mentioned earlier addicts/chain smokers don’t get the same FEEL of relaxation through smoking. If you are depressed that often, consult medical science.

The key which lies here is ‘HOW MENTALLY SOUND PERSON YOU ARE n HOW STOICAL YOU ARE?’
Smoke may help you once but once you get into that vicious cycle of that ‘UNREAL’ world of smoke, coming back is damn difficult.

Remember:
“Smoke is weightless and shapeless” …all you get is ostentatious with fake relieve.

Beer Or Women ?

* A beer is always wet, a woman isn't.

1 point for beer!

* Beer is horrible when it is hot.

1 point for women!

* A cold beer satisfies you.

1 point for beer!

* If you come back home smelling beer, your wife can get angry at
you. If you come back home smelling women, your wife will get angry
for sure and she might even not talk to you again.
Draw! (it depends on your point of view...)

* 10 beers in a night and then you can't drive. 10 women in one
night and you don't have to drive anywhere!

1 point for women!

* The older beer is, the better.

1 point for beer!

* Many beers can make you see UFO's. Many women can make you see
God!

1 point for women!

* If you ask yourself how the next woman will be, you're normal. If
you ask yourself how the next beer will be, you're alcoholic.

1 point for women!

* For a beer you pay taxes.

1 point for women!

* If you take a second beer, the first one doesn't get angry.

1 point for beer!

* You can always be sure that you're the first one "opening" a
beer.

1 point for beer!

* If you shake a beer, after a while it calms down by itself.

1 point for beer!

* You know exactly how much a beer costs.

1 point for beer!

* A beer doesn't have a mother.

1 point for beer!

* You can do it if you want, but beer won't ask you to hug her for
half an hour after.

1 point for beer!

FINAL SCORE: Beer beats women. (9 to 6)

If you're a woman and getting angry, think that a beer wouldn't.

Another point for beer! Final score: 10 to 6.

ICICI BANK --"barosa hai"

Rajiv and Mona are flying to Australia for a two-week vacation to celebrate their 40th anniversary.

Suddenly, over the public address system, the Captain announces, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am afraid I have some very bad news. Our engines have ceased functioning and we will attempt an emergency landing. Luckily, I see an uncharted island below us and we should be able to land on the beach. However, the odds are that we may never be rescued and will have to live on the island for the rest of our lives!"

Thanks to the skill of the flight crew, the plane lands safely on the island.

An hour later Rajiv turns to his wife and asks, "Mona, did we pay our Rs 5lakh deposit cheque yet to ICICI Bank?"

"No, sweetheart," she responds.

Rajiv, still shaken from the crash landing, then asks, "Mona, did we pay our ICICI Bank Master card yet?"

"Oh no! I'm sorry. I forgot to send the cheque," she says.

"One last thing, Mona. Did you remember to send cheques for the auto loan to them too this month?" he asks.

"Oh, forgive me, Rajiv," begged Mona. "I didn't send that one, either."

Rajiv grabs her and gives her the biggest kiss in 40 years. Mona pulls away and asks him, "So, why did you kiss me?"

Rajiv answers, "They'll find us!"

Tata sky --"the jingalala of ur money"

The real story of almost all the companies in the service industry in India. Now Tata Sky has upped their monthly rental to Rs 300 i.e. a 50% increase from the previous one. Andthey had been telling us all along that the increase will not bedrastic. Need to find out, whats more in the store for the consumers.

Someone explain why is the voucher priced at Rs 550 when the subscription charges are Rs 200 or Rs 300. It does not make sense because it cannot last for 2 months even. Or is it that eventually Tata Sky’s monthly subscription rate will go up to Rs 550 and that is what was kept in mind while keeping the voucher price at 550??

All the customers are being taken for a ride here. All those who have purchased the Tata Sky subscription, have already paid Rs 3000 towards the set top box and installation charges and all that. Now if Tata Sky hikes their monthly rental to Rs 550 or more, what are you going to do. Your 3000 is already gone. and according to the fine print, you do not even own the STB and the dish.

Hello!! Wake up!! We already know the service level of Tata in the cellphone and the broadband sector. Hundreds of people are crying to get their money back/pathetic services, callous attitude of the customer care, billing issues and you name it. Lets wait for some serious competiton. Dish TV is already a standard in pathetic services. Tata Sky is a touch better that most of the people have got their connections up and running very smoothly, and in good time. But its just few months old. Watch out for the surprises.

DHOOM:2 Back in Action

Ok I know that Iam gona play a Big Spoilsport ....But I simply cant wait posting this one ...I got it through a mail from one of my friend Now....For the people who are not interested, browse away NOW and for Others Check it Below.....!! So Here is The STORY & Movie Review of One of The Most Aniticipated Movie Of the year..





CAST
Aishwarya Rai... Parul
Hrithik Roshan ... Aryan / Mr. A
Abhishek Bachchan ... ACP Jai Dixit
Uday Chopra ... Inspector Ali
Bipasha Basu ... ACP Shonali Bose
Rimi Sen ... Sweety Dixit (Guest Appearance)


The movie starts with a princess travelling in a train in a country in South of Africa along with her jewels. Comes a helicopter from which jumps a highly intelligent and handsome masked thief (Hritik Roshan) who with the use of awesome gadgetery steals the jewels and leaves his trademark "A" to let know everyone that he did it.

Jai Dixit (Abhishek) is still the policeman with his wife (Rimmi). Ali (Uday chopra) is still working as a policeman for Jai. He is always complaining that Jai makes him do all the donkey work. Some of the comedy scenes are funny especially one where Jai sends Ali to bust a cocaine consignment!

Bipasha Basu is the Assistant Commissioner of Police. Ali is sent to South Africa on an assignment where he meets Bipasha's sister (Bipasha again) who cannot speak a word of hindi. Ali spends about six months there and then keeps calling Jai and asks him to swear at him in hindi because he hasn't heard a word of hindi since the last six months...

Hritik meets Aishwarya in another heist where she presents herself as a thief too. She asks Hritik to team up with her which Hritik refuses because he already knows that she is the police informer for Jai who is trying to trap Hritik! But Hritik plays along...
They plan to steal a load of coins which was supposed to be the first ever coins made by men valued at over 250 crore rupees. They steal the coins and Hritik leaves his trademark "A" there. In the climax Aishwarya shoots Hritik who then jumps off a cliff

Six months later , Hritik and Aishwarya are very much in love and working in a bar in Fiji islands. Enters Jai dixit saying that he knew the whole story all the time. Hritik asks him whether he will put him in jail now. Jai says,I was looking for Mr.Aand Mr.A is dead. So my business is over. But if Mr.A raises again, I will be there waiting for Him...!!!!

Hritik has done good. He is portrayed as a very clever, thief with a good knowledge of technology and mastery in gadgetery. The motorbikes used are awesome and fast!

Aishwarya does her usual job of being totally glamourous. Jai Dixit is the ever cool police dude. bBipasha...teek taak hai!. Uday chopra...Alright hai, but I guess there are many other better guys in the Film Industry many others guys in Indian film industry who could have done his role much much better than him.,its just that he is frm the Yashraj Camp that he is cast...!!!!

Haven't gone into too much more depth & details because then there wont be anything else left to watch in it.The use of gadgetery is awesome, the dance sequences are nice and the photography is excellent! All in all a must watch movie.All I can say that you will absolutely love the movie!!!

Rating:4.5/5

"Simplest LINUX installation manual"...

Are u new to LINUX?? If yes than let me tell u its an open source operating system ..Here is a “10-STEP MANUAL for starters”…it can be generalized for all LINUX flavours.

1) Insert the CD in your CD/DVD drive.(make sure your system is configured as ‘boot from CD/DVD’ in Bios setup)

2) ?boot:/? will appear on screen. Just hit enter.(let Anaconda do his work for a while)Note: anaconda is one of the installer for Linux flavors.

3) Choose normal options such as language, country, time etc as your choice on the screens.

4) Configure your boot loader (choose one Grub or LILO) and default boot partitioni.e. Linux or other.

5) Now hopefully you will reach on partition menu screen( It’s a

very important step for a successful Linux installation??. So, do it carefully)a) choose custom or manually partition option on the screen.b) make a free space as you or your hard disk afford.c) now create a ROOT partition i.e. mount point=?/? space = 3gb or mored) another partition SWAP i.e. mount point = swap space = _____ ( this valve should be more than twice your RAM, i.e. if you have a RAM of 256, this the valve >512).Note: SWAP partition is not always needed but in fact it should be.

6) At this juncture, half of your task is over.Now choose your root password and loginname (root password should be easy to remember otherwise Linux become Hell)

7) At this step you will find a package selection menua) choose ‘minimal’ or ‘default’ option on the screen(it will only minimum package required to run Linux and take least time(10-15 min) to install)b) Choose ‘select all’ option( it will install all packages selected by you but take more time ( 40-60 min) to install).

8) Just wait…and enjoying the merry TUX(the animal you see in

the surrounding pictures is actually the LINUX mascot...TUX).





9) Another important step for your system configuration. Here you should check yoursystem drivers specially Graphics and Sound Cards, otherwise it will goes in text modeafter Rebooting.

10) Take out your disk from drive and Reboot your system.

11) Once your computer restarts, you see ‘GRUB loading’.Press any key to access menu of different OS on your computer.Once the starting process ends…open up your newly loaded LINUX OS (again a reminder DO REMEMBER YOUR USERNAME and PASSWORD”…and once you log inenjoy the cool desktops!!

UBUNTU desktop.

FEDORA desktop.

MANDRIVA desktop.

SUSE desktop.

Remember LINUX is free!! and may the 'SOURCE' be with u

Sony Ericsson W44S Multimedia Phone

The W44S is Sony Ericsson’s latest multimedia phone, and it’s definitely no slouch. Featuring a dual-hinge QVGA display w/BRAVIA technology, 115MB of internal memory, a 1Seg TV tuner, video recording capabilities, 3.2-megapixel camera, and a host of multimedia functions. It measures 101 x 49 x 24mm and weighs 146g. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced. More pictures after the jump

Do We Need A Language ?

Hello Friends

This is my first posting on any blog. Hope it marks beginning of a new process, and just doesn't get obliviated as a one-off event.

Today, I would like to share some views on languages. The very creation of language always fascinates me and amuses. "How was the first word invented?", "How was the first sentence built up?", "Who would have thought that man would require a language?".........These are questions, I am sure, am never going to get answered. Still, I love exploring this amazing world of languages.In April, 2004, in Economist, an article titled, "Language Barriers" was published . The article posed a question, "Can a concept exist without words to describe it?". It talked about a Brazilian tribe - 'Pirahã' - living along the banks of the Maici River. This tribe, mainly consisting of hunters-gatherers, use of a system of counting, "One-Two-Many"..... In this system, 'One' means one or two, 'Two' means a bit more than that, 'Many' is everything more than 'Two'. Not only that the Pirahã don't use a number system but they can't even learn numbering and counting when they are exposed to.

Lack of enumeration and counting skills of this tribe, led some scientists to call them, 'Men from Mars'. Their language is unique not only terms of numers but also in some other aspects. They communicate as much by singing, whistling and humming as by normal speech. It is not that this tribe has lived in complete isolation. They have been having some little trade with other Brazilians for more than 200 years. However, socially they have strongly rejected to be a part of mainstream. Moreover, internally, they use a barter system. And probably that could be the reason why they would never need a complex number system. Because in barter all you need is 'one or two' and rarely, 'many'.This also has another interesting insight.

Our language not only determines our thought but also our ability to think. The Pirahã cannot learn numbering because they simply don't have numbers in their language. Language is a medium of expression. Words are an invention, and necessity to express, is the mother of this invention. But language can also limit your scope of expression. You can express, only what you can think of. And you can think of only, what your language allows you to think of. Well, this is getting complicated. Without language you cannot think and without thinking, you cannot develop a language !!!??But does this tell us that our language is making life more complicated than easier? We have invented complicated languages - labyrinths of complex structures and words. And now we have complicated expressions and confused individuals. Can't we just part with our over-dependence on language? Can't we become 'humans' instead of mouthpieces of ourselves? Can we put emotions ahead of words describing it?

When we use words like 'love', 'anger', 'patriotism' etc., words become more important than actual emotions, for which these words are used. What is 'love' for me, is not 'love' for others. What is 'fear' for others, may not be 'fear' for me. Words continue to cheat us. Language continues to mislead us.Can we think independently of language? Probably no! Our minds are programmed by languages learnt by us. And it is difficult for us to reprogram ourselves. Probably its not that language is at fault, rather we human beings, misuse it to cheat others. What we need is a little bit more of honesty on our parts. If we become honest with our own emotions and expressions, words will no more be our masters, they will no more cheat us. Let's own our words, and not be enslaved by them!

(Finally!! - In the beginning of a post, I have posted a photo image from my recent rural excursion of India. Can you suggest appropriate words to describe it? Or, we should just leave it like that?)