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Dumping waste.... Polluting Environment...

An empty plot near Hotel Viva Inn at Chandani chowk Pune (near my society in Bavdhan ) has been converted to a dumping ground by the owner itself... Different types of waste materials including hazardous industrial waste is being dumped and burned. The plot is kept barren (even if it requires burning some vegetation periodically..) I am not sure if PMC or any other organisation is aware of these activities....!!! Is someone listening???

Maut tu ek kavita hai…

A nice and philosophical poem from Anand Movie.....

Maut tu ek kavita hai ..
mujhase ek kavita ka vaadaa hai milegi mujhako ..

dubati nabzon mein jab dard ko neend aane lage
zard saa cheharaa liye chaand ufak tak pahunche
din abhi paani mein ho raat kinaare ke kareeb
na abhi andheraa ho, na ujaalaa ho, na raat na din
jism jab khatm ho aur ruuh ko saans aae .

mujhase ek kavita ka vaadaa hai milegii mujhako ..

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O death! You’re like poetry
And I’ve been promised by a poem, that it shall be mine
As the pulse (of life) recedes, the pain & suffering go to (an eternal) sleep
And a yellowish (young) moon starts to rise and reach its zenith
The day is yet to sink in water, as the night waits, nigh, to the shore
It’s not dark, it’s not bright
it’s neither midnight nor high noon
And as the body loses material, the free soul gets seeped with (fresh) air
The poem has (fulfilled the) promise of being mine!

Change the way you think about driving

Looking at the current traffic situation in Pune , my feeling is that there is a need to have some checks on how everyone is getiing the driving licences and if they really know the meaning of "driving a vehicle".
The way some motorist drive vehicles(Specially two wheelers, it looks more like racing/flying then plain simple driving)
Earlier I thought that overtaking from left is actually because the roads are really narrow and in case you are overtaking from right the vehicle from other side may hit you (Even I came across this situation many times...) Then came the real eye-opener... when driving on a wide (real wide) road and having plenty of space on my right, I was overtaken by some bikers, i knew its not a limitation but rules are slightly different here.... :-)
The incidences are many and it may feel comical but in the end there is really a need for education.

I am aware that these so called "educated adults" can not be tought for these lessons and even if you teach them "its difficult to improve a perfectionist" (as the saying goes..)

The real and one practical solution is to provide this education in schools (primary and secondary levels). By having a curriculam/subject/class for the driving/safe driving sessions. These may be conducted on periodical basis and tests could be taken just to make sure students take them seriously.

Some of us might feel that what is the need of providing an lecture on some topic for which a person is not even eligible (also this is not as debatable as sex education .... which for some of us is unacceptable at these ages) but I believe the real meaning of education is not just cramming the books and puking them on the answer sheets to get high scores, a person really needs to understand how can he improve or help the current system based on his knowledge.

An educated child can teach/correct his/her so called "uneducated" parents/relatives when they take them along on a drive. These students will grow up to be more responsible drivers and help us in spreading the correct message.

Aarya in her new Avataar..... :-)

Avatar Movie Trailer......

Great Movie with great visual effects....
See it in movie hall with 3D effects...

Panic Attack by Fede Alvarez is the name of a 5 minutes Youtube video which brought a $30 million deal to its producer

Prague (Praha) - Czech Republic

Visited Prague today.... Its the capital of Czech republic and around 300 Kms from Vienna (Austria). We hired and tour cab and went via road. On the way visited a duty free store on Czech border.
Main Places to visit are Prague Castle, Charles bridge... etc..

My Vienna Trip

Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city and almost the largest city in Austria....

Since I am presently staying in the older part of Vienna, and so able to have a feel of their typical old and still better architecture..... (look at some of the photos below)



Schonburn Palace is also one of the places we visited last weekend

Usage share, in web browser statistics, is the percentage of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular browser. For example, when it is said that Internet Explorer has x% usage share, it means that some version of Internet Explorer is used by x% of visitors that visit a given set of sites. Typically, the user agent string is used to identify which browser a visitor is using. The concept of browser percentages for the Web audience in general is sometimes called browser penetration.

Although everyone has choice to use browser of their choice, I personally feel that most of the net users are not so computer savvy and know the benefits of using other better browsers like Firefox.
Since most of the users are windows users and get IE for free, they are bound to use the browser, resulting in the statistics like the one above.

I am using Firefox since last 4 years now and find it no less than IE, in fact its the one browser which revolutionized browser concepts in a way.

Its free, fast, secure and very customizable web browser.




sources:
wikipedia
Market Share
Firefox

Tips for enriched life

A nice mail from somebody I would like to share with you all......

There are some tips on how you can maintain and improve upon certain aspects like Health, Personality ect..

Nice tips....

Health:

1.       Drink plenty of water.

2.       Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.

3.       Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

4.       Live with the 3 E's -- Energy,  Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

5..       Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer.

6.       Play more games.

7.       Read more books than you did in 2008.

8.       Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

9.       Sleep for 7 hours.

10.    Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

 

Personality:

11.    Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 

12.    Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

13.    Don't over do. Keep your limits.

14.    Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

15.    Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.

16.    Dream more while you are awake.

17.    Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

18.    Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

19.    Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.

20.    Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

21.    No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

22.    Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

23.    Smile and laugh more.

24.    You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

 

Society:

25.    Call your family often.

26.    Each day give something good to others.

27.    Forgive everyone for everything.

28.    Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

29.    Try to make at least three people smile each day.

30.    What other people think of you is none of your business.

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

 

Life:

32.    Do the right thing!

33.    Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

34.    GOD heals everything.

35.    However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

36.    No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

37.    The best is yet to come.

38.    When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.

39.    Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Why do we crib about Traffic - Young India

Again a new post from Young India Initiatives...........

Dear All,

 

I have received quite a few inputs and remarks mentioning various problems. There is a huge list of issues we have to face in our daily life. We believe that these are getting completely neglected by leaders. We also crib about these issues as those are worsening day by day. As part of my habit, I try to analyze the problems with neutral and unbiased opinion. I know we have leaders most of which are of “do nothing” attitude. We also have leaders ready to take or snatch the credit of the work they neither did nor even thought of it in dreams. That’s the pity and miserable condition and we as human nature have tendency to blame them more.

We curse almost all possible people for our chaotic traffic situation. We blame traffic controller personnel. We shout at administration responsible for road construction work. But a simple observation which made me write this email – all these stakeholders are responsible for only up to 10% of traffic chaos occurring today across cities. Believe me. How many times you have noticed the traffic jams due to bad roads? How many times you have seen the chaos happening because of mismanagement of traffic controller? How many times you have seen traffic going beyond out of control due to administration issues?

I don’t believe in blame game … but for sure citizens are majorly responsible for the 90% chaos. Everybody has urgency to reach the destination on time, but as a habit … we don’t start bit early. For our convenience we called it as Indian standard. Everybody blames other on traffic rules violation … and self breaks the rules at every moment. We blame traffic controller for not controlling the traffic and managing it … but how many times we paid attention to him or his indication? Administration has made several roads unidirectional … then why do we still see the traffic jams there? It is again we who enters into wrong direction and creates the havoc. I am sure almost everyone has seen the deadlocks happening at the squares … it is the result of nature of urgency, competitiveness at wrong place and lack of understanding. Taking vehicle on reverse gear is huge compromise for us and we cannot live with that. It is the insult for a person if asked to take it reverse. It’s only in our country where we say and believe that “Rules are made to be broken”. This is something we believe as inherent part of life. This statement gives us thrill, a feeling of adventure.

It is safely assumed and has taken it as granted across country that the footpath on roadside are designed to be used by hawkers. Road side shops have first priority to use those and if there is any space left then pedestrians may use it. Bicycle riders find great pleasure and adventure to move on mainstreet though cycle paths are available in some part of country. People prefer to cross the road based on their choice than using zebra crossing or subways. I don’t believe all these can be and should be controlled only by those traffic guys. Also, no law and order system will be able to resolve these problems unless we want to. It is very easy to say and blame … but implementation needs lion’s heart. Implementation needs self discipline and self respect. Who will stop you … if you decide to stop at red? Who will punish you … if you decide to follow rules?

But yes … administration also needs to be aware of few things. Encroachments are never removed when those are happening. What keep administration waiting till those become bottlenecks? Many a times we see heavy earth movers, road rollers, cranes etc running at the speed of 10-20 KMPH and holding back the complete traffic at peak hours. Why do we have garbage trucks competing with private cars on high speed lanes? Why administration never restricts the entry for such heavy vehicles during peak hours? Why the construction materials are never removed in time from roads … those are left for no reason and cause traffic jams. I believe this degrading traffic situation is the result of our mistakes and can be solved to quite some extend by bringing awareness. 

Yours truly,
Young! India (“Y! I” should be read as “Why Not I?”).
YoungIndia2014@yahoo.in, YoungIndia2014@gmail.com, YoungIndia2014@hotmail.com

Excerpt from the Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
 

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

"Don't be serious, be sincere." !

My Latest creation... :0)

Young! India

I am copying this mail from Young India Initiatives:

Hello All,

Today we have about 47% of our population is under age 30-35. Country having such a big population under age 30 … imagine the potential! But the fact is altogether opposite. Our country is being managed or mismanaged not by this youth population.

 

As per biological terms, we may be able to define the “youth”. But then does that definition make any sense for us or for community or for country? What makes you feel proud to have about half of population as youth when most of them have no aim in life? If they believe eating junks, drinking complete bottles, puffing life in smoke and then riding the bikes and attending clubs and discos is what the power of youth … I feel terribly sorry for you and for myself and my country. What makes you think and believe … these youth are blessings for us? Do you still believe nothing is going wrong?

 

Potential power which we believe we have in India in form of this youth population is like nuclear power. And the currently designated leaders who may not have skills to manage themselves are misusing this nuclear power. This youth power is being wasted for no reason. And we are responsible for this. This youth population needs direction, needs able guidance from people like you who are ready to take this responsibility and are truly proud to be part of this country. People like you are most wanted who believe that time has come when we need to clean our country and remove all those pests who are ruining the roots. These youth can make wonders & will make this land pride provided you take responsibility.

 

A simple question to you – if you have a child then what will you do if your child is getting trained under wrong hands? Don’t you see this wrong training or wrong lessons for your child today will spoil his tomorrow as well as yours? If this makes you think at least once, I will congratulate myself. Aren’t these youths the children of this country whom we should teach or at-least make them aware what’s wrong and what’s right? Believe me, if this is not initiated today … tomorrow will never come.

 

I always wanted to ask few things to these youth of today – Why do you believe you should be called “Youth” or “the power of country”? What makes you powerful? Do you believe your action and your thinking work in coordination? Why do you think eating pan masala or gutaka is an essence of life? Why smoking cigarette is always a style? Why riding bikes and violating traffic rules is part of adventure? Why always follow a leader who inspires you to do illegal and antisocial activities? Why do you indulge yourselves into the act of damaging the public property for no reason and then getting locked in jail … All these just for few hundreds? Do you believe … your life is just worth of that? Why don’t you understand you are being misguided and misused? How can you believe someone who neither cares for you nor your people nor your country?  Why you cannot trust yourself and your instincts? Mother Nature has put our brain in top most position and that is clear indication – use brain before using your mouth to speak out, before taking it to heart and feel emotional, before raising your hands to take action and before you take steps to follow someone.

 

What is the point in celebrating the birthdays of those great people by putting huge loud speakers with nonsense songs and putting complete traffic jam for no reason? Shouldn’t we be learning from deeds of these great people and taking the work done by them to next level? Have you ever thought what your parents feel when they see you in such pity condition? Ask them at-least once what they dreamt when you were about to come into this wonderful world.  I bet you cannot answer even a single question of mine. And I am 100% sure that you never even thought about it. Not because you were not aware of these … but because you cannot face your soul. You are losing faith in yourself and also the self control. But what happens when you lose the self respect? That’s the end of world for you … moral world … if not the physical one. And that’s not too far.

 

Please do circulate to others and let's first spread awareness (for sure atleast one indian youth).

 

Yours truly,

Young! India (“Y! I” should be read as “Why Not I?”).

YoungIndia2014@yahoo.in, YoungIndia2014@gmail.com, YoungIndia2014@hotmail.com

Please spread the awareness....

The Innocent look..................

Aarya.... few days old...

Morning at LVC...

It was a nice December morning ... it was 01 Dec, and Aarya was 14 hours old....

Some Pics taken by Anu.. by new Canon SX110

XP won't recognize Sansa m240

I searched a lot on the net and find this useful information for the above problem..
Please try and hope to resolve this issue...

from SanDisk.SanSa's menu >> settings >> Advance >> USB >> select "MSC" mode.

This will work for any XP PC now...