12:12:12 @ 12:12 - Once in lifetime opportunity

12:12:12 @ 12:12

This is indeed once a lifetime opportunity.  Say it auspicious or inauspicious, I am scheduling this post to remember that I lived this date and time.

- image obtained from internet

True Love...

True Love

Once in lifetime,

Someone breaks your heart 

&

If you still feel to hold 

that person with every broken piece...

that amazing pain is called...

True Love.

- these wonderful lines/image obtained from someone's Facebook share

Wisdom of Day !!!

Worth Waiting

What's Worth Waiting?

- wonderful lines, image obtained from internet

 

Wisdom of Day !!!

Immortal (Symbol of Sun)

For a few to be immortal, many must die. 

-Philippe Weis in the movie In Time

Wisdom of Day !!!

Open Mind

Life is an eternal teacher, provided you have an open mind.

- Sudha Murthy in her book, How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories

Caution Notice

 A thought that representative of people should keep in mind.  One can always test the patience but should always remember even the patience have its boundaries... sooner they understand this the better...

This caution notice is on eve of next stormy session of Parliament of India, Winter Session 2012.

Power of People

Wisdom of Day !!!

In remembrance of Rains...

Rain & Wetness

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Vikram Samvat 2069 !!!

Wishing you all a lovely and fun-filled 'Vikram Samvat 2069' !!!

Happy Diwali & Samvat 2069

Competition to Governement

Government Competition

Found this car poster on sale on one of the website, can't resist to post this message on blog.  

'Don't Steal, The Government Hates Competition !!'

5000 Hits Milestone

In May 2008 when I created this blog or in December 2009 when I started actively writing this blog, it was with the vision to note my views, memories, those small things in life we tend to like but forgot over the period of time.  Those small pebbles we loose in search of diamonds.  

5K hits - Screenshot

Today it is important day for this blog, as it crossed its all time hits mark of 5000.  I had never imagined that this would be the case for my blog.  But thanks to all my lovely well-wisher 5K hits mark has been breached... Wish I will continue receiving such love from all of you, in future too !!! 

People and Things !!!

People and Things

People were created to be loved,

Things were created to be used.

The reason why World is in CHAOS is b'coz,

Things are being loved and

People are being used.

- a wonderful comparison as found on Facebook

Miles Apart !!!

Miles Apart

Even if we're miles apart, 

you're still the only one in my heart.

- a wonderful quote, image obtained from internet

Breast Cancer - Creative Advertisement

Breast Cancer - Social Message by Advert

This advert was published in leading newspaper today, gives an wonderful message in a very creative manner. The advertisement was by Women's Cancer Initiative, Tata Memorial Hospital.

'Google can't find your breast cancer, you can.'

- Image obtained from TOI ePaper, dated Oct 21, 2012. no copyright violations intended.

Wisdom of Day!!!

A wonderful thought, sharing with you all...

Happy Gandhi Jayanti!!!

Mohandas K Gandhi

October 2, a birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi.  Father of Nation of India, showed an path of truth and non-violence for achieving toughest results.  

Though in my mind there always pops up question regarding his path for making India a free country and its applicability in today's world, I urge every Indian to salute this man for his courage and vision of Free India.  

Wishing every Indian, Happy Gandhi Jayanti and to the world, Happy International Non-Violence Day!!!

Chicken or Eagle - A Short Story !

Last Sunday while cleaning my closet, I found a book, ‘Collection of short stories’ revised and edited, collected from anonymous sources. My father must have bought this for me, when I was a child, and I never got time to read even a single story. This story book had a disclaimer on the first page that read: ‘Read at your own risk, you may change forever’. Well the first story goes like this…

Eagle and Chicken

Year 2040 - In the backyard of Kentucky Friend Chicken (KFC), Bangalore branch there was a mango tree. This mango tree had an eagle nest. One day the wind was blowing hard, and an eaglet fell from the nest on to the ground. Luckily the eaglet fell on the dry grass (got away with minor injuries), which was placed by the KFC kitchen staff for the pullets to feed on. The hen saw the injured eaglet, and decided to nurture the eaglet along with the other pullets. After a few weeks the eaglet regained strength, and was able to walk. The favorite time pass of the eaglet and other pullets was to play hide-and-seek, and eat baby corn 3/4 times a day. After a few months the eaglet matured into a full-fledged gorgeous eagle and looked different from others pullets. The pullets were also mature, and could feel that the eagle looked different.

Over a period of time the eagle was sick of eating corn, and one day pounced on a rat running in the backyard. The hens started shouting, “Leave the rat alone”, and the eagle had no choice but to let the rat go. The hens scolded the eagle, and told the eagle that hens didn’t eat rats. One day, while playing hide-and-seek the eagle was hiding on the roof, and while coming down managed a decent glide. The eagle started to show off his gliding skills to the other hens, and eventually the mother got fed up and told him, “Stop doing that, Chickens don’t fly”. The eagle believed this and got on with his daily routine of playing and eating corn. One day a female eagle spotted this gorgeous eagle sitting on the KFC roof top, and decided to entice him to fly with her. The eagle rejected the offer, and said, “I can’t fly, I am a chicken”. The female eagle was angry and left.  

After few weeks the female eagle saw the same eagle playing with the chickens in the barn and was shocked. The female eagle killed a rat and bought that for the eagle to eat. The female eagle convinced the eagle that it was ‘Ok’ to eat rat, and that it was very tasty. The eagle ate the rat, and thanked the female eagle. After that day, both eagles started spending time on the roof top. A few weeks passed, and female eagle said that it was time for the male eagle to fly and come with her, but the eagle was not convinced, and didn’t fly. The eagle went to the roof top everyday and waited for the female eagle. One day from the roof he spotted her, and waived at her, she shouted, “Come, fly with me”. The eagle took a leap of faith, and fluttered his wings, and soared into the sky. He glided, soared, dived, and flew with the female eagle. The eagle flew higher and higher and reached the zenith, and could see the magnificent world from greater heights.

MORAL: Do you spend time with ‘Chickens’ or do you spend time with ‘Eagles’?

Narrator of this adapted story is Vikram Dhar, a Life Coach. He can be contacted at www.nlpcoach.in

If you do not...

A Wonderful Thought!!!

If you do not GO after what you want, 

You'll NEVER have it.

If you do not ASK,

The answer will always be NO.

If you do not step FORWARD,

You will ALWAYS be in the same place.

- Image obtained from internet, no copyright violations intended.

Lessons from Ganesh !!!

A lesson from the life of lord Ganesh,

Lord Ganesh

"If your father is very powerful person,

You would always be worshiped first."

Note:  This is just an humorous & sarcastic thought. I have no intention to hurt any individual's religious feelings.  To provide personal clarification, I am very deep believer of Lord Ganesh and belong to the family that worshiped for decades, sacred Lord Ganesh in one of the famous Hindu Temple.

Happy Engineer's Day!!!

IEI Logo

Wishing all my engineer friends 

Happy Engineer's Day!!!  

for all those who doesn't know what is Engineer's Day and why it's celebrated, here is quick bite:

 

 

 

 

Sir M Visvesvarayya

September 15 is celebrated every year in India as Engineer's Day to commemorate the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962).

Internationally recognized for his genius in harnessing water resources, he was responsible for successful design and construction of several river dams, bridges and implementing irrigation and drinking water schemes all over India.

He served as the dewan of Mysore State and was considered to be the architect of the all-round development of Karnataka.

Among his most successful projects are the design and construction of the K.R. Sagar dam and its adjoining Brindavan Gardens, turn-around of the Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works, setting up of the Mysore Sandalwood Oil Factory and the founding of the Bank of Mysore.

Picture Credit - Know More about Sir M Visvesvarayya

Wisdom of Day!!!

Moving On - Love is not end of the World

- photo obtained from a facebook share... no copyright violations intended.

One more day without you...

One more day without you!!!

Wonderful thought... can't resist to share it... 

Image obtained from facebook... no copyrights violations intended.

Falling Leaves - A Wonderful Poem

I was thinking of old friends today
and how many of them have slipped away.

Moved, got married, or stopped calling so much,
Found new friends, got busy, and just lost touch.

It reminded me of falling leaves.

Falling Leaves

Every autumn the leaves fall from the trees.
Some stay longer than others, but eventually -

Each leaf must fall, I'm told,
leaving the tree alone to face the cold.

Why is it that in the time of utmost need 

the leaves would seek to leave the tree?

And when we need our friends around
we look and they cannot be found?

Of course these friendships come and go
and in the spring new leaves will grow.

But I prefer autumn friends of old
with crackling laughter and colors bold.

And then I thought of you.

That one stubborn leaf that won't let go,
That clings despite the winds that blow.
 

Fighting ice, and snow, and winter's stings,
Hanging on right through till spring.

So I guess that's what you are to me -
The very last leaf to leave the tree.

I know it seems silly, but it's true. 

When I see that last leaf...I think of you.

- wonderful poem, a forward message by school time buddy, Gaurav Buddhadev

Fact about numbers & A.B.C.D.

A B C D & Counting

Some Interesting Facts about Alphabets and Numbers...

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English counting...

(- a forward email from Dikesh Patel.. thanks for enlightenment)

Thank You - A Wonderful Poster

Thank You

- Found an wonderful image on Thank You, can't resist to Share it.

Time... plz go slow

Most things in life come unexpected, so this morning...  

Woke up early both me and my wife and she decided to make a super cup of hot tea.  It was amazing weather post rain last night and with tea and wonderful conversion about the world we live in, our lives and lives of people we know, I felt it was one of that small pebbles of life, a memory worth cherishing... Tuning on to Radio One and listening to evergreen songs in background added the much needed spice to the atmosphere... 

Well I have always heard from elders telling to get up early from bed and enjoy the nature around us and I almost enjoyed this after long time.  A thought cross my mind, can't we tell time to go slow.. there are still numerous memories to be created and cherished...

Stay in touch...

Stay in Touch

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Happy Independence Day !!!

Happy Independence Day

To all those who Cherish and to all those who take it for Granted, wishing you a Happy Independence Day!!!

- Image Credit - Samiul

Top 9 Travel Tips

Read an interesting article on Paulo's blog... sharing for benefit of all...

I realised very early on that, for me, traveling was the best way of learning. I still have a pilgrim soul, and I thought that I would use this blog to pass on some of the lessons I have learned, in the hope that they might prove useful to other pilgrims like me.

1. Avoid museums. This might seem to be absurd advice, but let’s just think about it a little: if you are in a foreign city, isn’t it far more interesting to go in search of the present than of the past? It’s just that people feel obliged to go to museums because they learned as children that travelling was about seeking out that kind of culture. Obviously museums are important, but they require time and objectivity – you need to know what you want to see there, otherwise you will leave with a sense of having seen a few really fundamental things, except that you can’t remember what they were.

2. Hang out in bars. Bars are the places where life in the city reveals itself, not in museums. By bars I don’t mean nightclubs, but the places where ordinary people go, have a drink, ponder the weather, and are always ready for a chat. Buy a newspaper and enjoy the ebb and flow of people. If someone strikes up a conversation, however silly, join in: you cannot judge the beauty of a particular path just by looking at the gate.

3. Be open. The best tour guide is someone who lives in the place, knows everything about it, is proud of his or her city, but does not work for any agency. Go out into the street, choose the person you want to talk to, and ask them something (Where is the cathedral? Where is the post office?). If nothing comes of it, try someone else – I guarantee that at the end of the day you will have found yourself an excellent companion.

4. Try to travel alone or – if you are married – with your spouse. It will be harder work, no one will be there taking care of you, but only in this way can you truly leave your own country behind. Traveling with a group is a way of being in a foreign country while speaking your mother tongue, doing whatever the leader of the flock tells you to do, and taking more interest in group gossip than in the place you are visiting.

5. Don’t compare. Don’t compare anything – prices, standards of hygiene, quality of life, means of transport, nothing! You are not traveling in order to prove that you have a better life than other people – your aim is to find out how other people live, what they can teach you, how they deal with reality and with the extraordinary.

6. Understand that everyone understands you. Even if you don’t speak the language, don’t be afraid: I’ve been in lots of places where I could not communicate with words at all, and I always found support, guidance, useful advice, and even girlfriends. Some people think that if they travel alone, they will set off down the street and be lost for ever. Just make sure you have the hotel card in your pocket and – if the worst comes to the worst – flag down a taxi and show the card to the driver.

7. Don’t buy too much. Spend your money on things you won’t need to carry: tickets to a good play, restaurants, trips. Nowadays, with the global economy and the Internet, you can buy anything you want without having to pay excess baggage.

8. Don’t try to see the world in a month. It is far better to stay in a city for four or five days than to visit five cities in a week. A city is like a capricious woman: she takes time to be seduced and to reveal herself completely.

9. A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller used to say that it is far more important to discover a church that no one else has ever heard of than to go to Rome and feel obliged to visit the Sistine Chapel with two hundred thousand other tourists bellowing in your ear. By all means go to the Sistine Chapel, but wander the streets too, explore alleyways, experience the freedom of looking for something – quite what you don’t know – but which, if you find it, will – you can be sure – change your life.

- author is Paulo Coelho, a renowned author and motivator. Original Blog link

Respect - A Good Thought

Respect

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor.  

If you respect me, I'll respect you.

One day if I own my company or a corner chamber, I would like to put this message on the center wall... wonderful message !!!

- Image obtained from somewhere on Internet

 

Happy Janmastami

On this auspicious occasion  of Janma-astami, 

wishing you all Happy Janmastami...  Jai Shri Krishna

Dwarakadish

Jai Dwarakadish

 - image courtesy - www.dwarkadhish.org

Happy Friendship Day!!!

To all friends, with whom I have contact and whom I can't contact... Thanks for being there in a Journey called 'Life'.

Happy Friendship Day

 Happy Friendship Day!!!

Powerful Hallucinogen - Love

The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. 

Highly addictive! you will see and hear things that don't exist

 - Paulo Coelho

I had been fan of Paulo Coelho from the time I started reading 'The Alchemist', few years before.  However, after he has became active on facebook recently, he posted this wonderful thought on his wall and I couldn't wait to share it along my friend list.  This has define Love from a very realistic angle and no doubt young people will never agree to it, till they reach to my age.  

Sharing this on blog to make it a remembrance of the fact that after I shared this thought on the facebook, I heard about two heartbreaking relationships, which I thought could never turn sour.  

May God Bless All !!! Amen !!!

Falling in Love...

Falling in Love

Meet couple of young people (of course by age!!!) today and heard some old stories from new mouths about love, friendship and relationship during college life.  

Coincidentally found this wallpaper on an fb page.. so couldn't resist to copy-paste it here...  

No judgement on the young people's definition of relationship.. but just realized, only the characters changes, equation of relationship always remains the same... perhaps!!!

- Image obtained from somewhere on Internet

Wisdom of Day!!!

A great quote on Relationship...

Relationship

All relationships go through hell.
Real relationship get through it.

- Image obtained from somewhere on Internet

 

 

Wisdom of Day!!!

Not everyone who is single is lonely;

not everyone who is taken is in Love.

- Image obtained from somewhere on Internet

Drenching in Rain !!!

With almost second rainy season in Bangalore after I shifted here, I was not much happy (just like other Bangalorean) with almost no Rains till mid-July. With my first season experience, it rained almost daily in Bangalore from early April till late August.  But this time it was delayed, more in line with entire India's rain statistics.

Today was different, right from afternoon, it felt so hot and cloudy that I was hoping that it would rain today evening or late night, but with recent hide and seek by rain, i was no were certain of rains.  By the time I came out of the controlled environment of office (should I say cozy office), I saw few drops of rain falling on me and my bike.  Just like any normal person, I too sighed, 'not now... let me reach home'.  Though that was not my inner soul wanted to say, but the worldly worries definitely overtook my inner voice, perhaps that happens a lot with me.  

Somehow, God did listened to me, or probably had pity on me and the dizzle stopped immediately and just like normal office going guy, I zoomed towards home with thought of overlooking outer ring road friday traffic from my cozy balcony along with wife and a cup of hot coffee.  However, nature had its own plan being directed for me.  I was about to reach home, just about 2 kms away from my place, it started raining heavily.  Again, the worldly thought, can't it wait five more minutes, but this time, probably there was no one to listen.

I stopped my bike underneath a huge tree, good enough to spare me from the heavy rain for little while.  I saw lot of people parking their 2 wheelers near by the bus stop to take shelter under the rarely used bus stop and save themselves from rain.  Just as I was observing this, I saw a small boy passing on footpath enjoying the rains, immediately I can relate him to my past, how wonderful days we used to have when it first rained in usually hot Gujarat.

The glimpse of boy enjoying in rain was enough for me to hear my own inner voice, probably asking me when I last fully enjoyed rain? and I as usual failed to get an answer of it.  I decided to forget everything and enjoy the rains... as if there is no tomorrow.  I put all my worldly prized possessions, my wallet, my cellphone into my backpack and came out the shadow of tree to enjoy rain.  I started my bike and raced it towards my home, with empty streets and crowded temporary shelters like, trees, bus stops, shop gates.  It was hardly 5 to 7 minute ride, but without helmet and without any worries of world, it was just amazing.  This was a moment I enjoyed after a long long time and would be a memory to cherish long long time.

I remembered, how when first showers hit Rajkot, we used to celebrate and go for long walks in flooding streets and how mom used to prepare 'bhajiyas'.  I recollected one of my most happiest day of college, when we, group of friends, completely rain drenched drove from our college in outskirts of Rajkot to home in completely empty highway.  I remembered how under heavy rains we traveled to college to give exams, just to discover that due to heavy rains, exams have been called off.  What amazing days were those, yes I didn't had expensive bike or mobile or laptop, but had that peace of mind to do whatever my inner self wished for me.

Today's this short period, I relived my past for few moments, but it left me with an question, would I be able to overcome worldly wishes and able to hear back again to my 'inner' self?.  Well currently looks like the quest for answer to this question is surely going to long time.

For the memory of this wonderful day, attaching the photo of the day, one of most memorable in recent time....

Rain flooding Terrace - Cloud covered sky

- dedicated to all the people who made my past most cherish-able...

Wife as defined in Chemistry...

 A new element is added to the chemistry

Name:

Wife

Symbol:

Bv

Atomic Weight:

Don't even dare to ask!

Physical Properties: 
Boils at any time
Can freeze at any time
Melts if treated with love and care
Very bitter if mishandled

Chemical properties:

Very reactive
Highly unstable
Possess strong affinity for gold, silver, diamond, 
platinum & other Money reducing agents

Occurrence:

Mostly found in front of the mirror..!!!

- a humor message by great buddy, Nirgun (baba)

Wisdom of Day!!!

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you

- Image obtained from somewhere on Internet

Wisdom of Day!!!

Don't think too much, You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place.

- Image obtained from somewhere in Internet

Wisdom of Day!!!

Trust is like a paper

Trust is like a paper, 

once it's crumpled,

it can't be perfect again.

- Image obtained somewhere from Internet

Dancing in Rain

With first showers of monsoon in India, I can't resist sharing this wonderful wallpaper...