One day, a poor boy named Howard Kelly was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water! She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you?" You don’t owe me anything," she replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.” He said … “Then I thank you from my heart.”

Vande Mataram
The National Song of India

“Vande maataraM Vande maataraM
sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM
SasyashyaamalaaM maataram

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM
pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM
suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM
sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaalekoti koti bhujai.
rdhR^itakharakaravaaleabalaa keno maa eto
balebahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiMripudalavaariNiiM maataraM

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

Tumi vidyaa tumi dharmatumi
hR^idi tumi marmatvaM hi praaNaaH shariireBaahute
tumi maa shaktihR^idaye tumi maa bhaktitomaara i pratimaa gaDimandire mandire

A nice resignation letter poem in Hindi. Details out a lot on why people leave IT companies in India ;). My Hindi speaking friends ENJOY!!!

Hi All,

Here are some funny quotes that you can use in your profile or make your girlfriend laugh or whatever.

• Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.– Demetri Martin
• I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack.– Demetri Martin
• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.– Bill Cosby
  If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.– Dave Allen
• The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.– Max Born
• There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don’t know what it’s a plan for.– Fred Hoyle
• Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we’re not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking.– Arthur C. Clarke
• There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.— Douglas Adams
• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.— Douglas Adams
• With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.— Ransom K. Ferm
• My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.— Christopher Morley
• I’m worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It’s not holding a charge.— Edward Chilton
• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.— Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
• One scientist to another: “I’m beginning to agree with the theory that space is curved — either that or my car is pulling to the left."— Hoest and Reiner
• Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth’s surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs. The tallest ones, anyway.
• Scientists have discovered that time is not real, that we only live in the current moment. But then according to that, they haven’t done the research, and don’t really have anything to back them up, do they?
• Black holes are where God divided by zero.— Steven Wright
• If aliens are smart enough to travel through space, why do they keep abducting the dumbest people on earth?
• Time is an illusion… lunchtime, doubly so.— Douglas Adams, “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe”
• What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.— Dave Barry
• Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.— Aldous Huxley
• Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun.— Clay Center Wisdom
• A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.– Demetri Martin
• Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn’t make me laugh.– Eddie Murphy
• He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.– Bertolt Brecht
• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.– Napoleon Bonaparte
• You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.– Stephen King
• Laughter is higher than all pain.– Elbert Hubbard

Okay, I didn’t search the net and collect it for you guys. It was done by some other noble man or some other noble blog. I just made a copy :)

A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eatingsome more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night,the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

NUMBER ONE LEARNING PROBLEM: KNOWING IT ALL

Do you know someone who knows everything there is to know about something? Do you know someone who believes he or she is the world’s greatest expert ina subject? Do you know people who think they know it all?

If so, you know the first reason why someone cannot learn.“You cannot study a subject if you think you know all about it to begin with.“A student who thinks he knows all there is to know about a subject will not be able to learn anything in it.“A person might already be familiar with a subject from previous experience and, having had success in that field, now has the idea that he knows all aboutit.”

“Denial by definition is a psychological defence system by which people protect themselves from things that threaten them or make them feel uncomfortable. People do this by refusing to acknowledge the awkward person, thing or event, or by attacking any allegation of the existence of such difficulties”.

I came across this detailed definition of “DENIAL” and some analysis into day to day life and work, I realize that almost all of us are more or less inflicted by “DENIAL”. Most of the people do not take “CRITICISM” in a normal manner. The first reaction to a single bit of “CRITICISM” is to go into a state of “DENIAL”. And as rightly said in the beginning, the reactions vary from refusing the allegations to attacking the critic in a variety of different manners. The former is the approach taken by most people wherein the “CRITICISM” has arrived from superiors or co-workers. The later approach of attacking the critic generally happens when the “CRITICISM” comes from a critic who is at a position lower then the person being criticized.

Brought forward from my old blogs which are no longer updated…

There are many important events happening around in my life both on the professional as well as the personal front. Ofcourse we will be talking professionally on this blog. Many a times it so happens that some events occur which in the whole context of either the project or the program being executed, is pretty much unnoticeable in the beginning, but turns out to have a huge impact on the final outcome.