Monday, July 19, 2010

LIFE TRANSITION !! A JOURNEY FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO GRADUATE COLLEGE...

Its been a long time since I reminisced about the golden days of my life n posted sm stuff here...but here I am back again with one another very close chapter of my life..infact every graduate college student's life...Be patient while u read it..n try to empathise n corelate with the incidents !!! :)
N hey..its not another one of those cliche posts u might have come across !! So here u go...



Ever since I faced d first ever emotional whammy in my personal life in d very first year of my grad. college, I tried to sum up the tit-bits of "WHAT WE ALL WERE ! N WHAT WE ARE NOW !!"
As a part time blogger, I always feel nostalgic when I retrospect my past, n try to find an answer to dt humble request v all make when v see a bunch of school kids, frolicking around the corner of d streets, d request v make   when v get a chance to walk past our old school gates...a simple pristine wish " WISH I COULD GO BACK TO THAT TIME..AGAIN !!" The era of innocence n tranquility....ws wt dt time really ws...


Who wud ve thought that dt d excuses v once used to give to our moms while waking up for school, d monotonous school uniform dt v hated so much, d after effects of reaching late to school, n d endless excuses n tantrums thrown by us towards our teachers would b missed so much now !!


School was the time wen v were just free from the malice of the outside world..8am - 2pm..6 hrs of pure fun and enjoyment...these 6 hrs everyday gave us the opportunities to meet our best buddies ! To fight wid our so called "rivals" who today r d ones v tend to bank upon ! To develop new crushes everyday, n take a flight to our own fairy world from d very first page of our notebooks, till d tym v landed on our new crush d very next day on d last page of our notebooks !!!


From petty fights over stationery to developing complete dislike for d bully PTIs...from d well planned excuses to visit d medical room to the real cases of stomach aches n nausea...from d fake leave applications to d real notes in d school diary in red ink... L.i.F.e's definition has undergone a complete "transition" !!




Who wud have thought dt d phrase "Lets meet n plan" will slowly n steadily transform into "Lets plan n meet" !!
Perhaps there has been a shift in our so called priorities since dat tym, to d tym v r living in today..N wt do u think are those shift in priorities ?! Wel read on n m sure u r gonna smile n think upon this perspicacious reality once u r through !


From family n friends to our "serious" girl/boy friends...from well maintained notebooks to one small notes cum contacts cum record book...from simple two shades of uniform to d ever changing attires...from a two wheeled cycle to d hefty bikes n posh cars..n who can dare to forget...from d usage of simple monotone landlines to all sorts of hip n happening gadgets...Well the winds of change have surely struck everyone of us...n y shouldn't they ?! V need to match up with the fast pace world..d ever changing...ever nagging...ever confused...and the ever gaudy n meretricious world of wonders !


But here again...I come full circle..to the phrase I took up a few paragraphs back...y do v still want to go bk to our childhood days...y do v think dt v were better off as youngsters..." Y DO V WANT TO GROW UP ONCE AGAIN ?!?! " when v r leading a life full of luxuries, speed n freedom...


Even after taking a long time in writing this post, I tried to question almost all bonhomies around me...just to try n answer d above mentioned...a very simple question...N though everyone empathised, n understood the essence of d question...none were able to say exactly "Y DIS HAPPENS" ?


N if u, while reading up dis post went back to ur childhood days..d days of puerility...den try to think upon the same question n leave ur answers in d comments section !




Note : This post has been imbued by my school mates, who all have entered their 3rd yr in college, n still r searching for their lost childhood.





Sunday, July 11, 2010

TO THE MANNER NOT BORN

With Social Networking, has come a steady decline in etiquette. No time or space is off-limits any longer.
Here's a check, to see how many of you are being "RUDE", when it comes to the "social networking / High Tech phenomenon" !!

ARE YOU BEING RUDE?
Yes, if you do the following !
  • Make or take phone calls in the middle of a meeting, date or social gathering
  • Use a mobile in hospitals or libraries
  • Use a loud and irritating ringtone
  • Take photographs of people and put them on your webpage without their consent
  • Put your phone on loudspeaker mode and talk loudly while in office, in a publi space or at someone's house
  • Put office gossips and memos on your blog
  • Use casual or abusive language in emails
  • Check email or update your online profile on your host's computer during a formal dinner
Courtesy : TOI, New Delhi

SOME RANDOM FUNNY SNAPSHOTS !


















TOP 10 MISCONCEPTIONS WE LEARN IN SCHOOL !


1) Einstein got bad grades in school.

Generations of children have been heartened by the thought that this Nobel Prize winner did badly at school, but they’re sadly mistaken. In fact, he did very well at school, especially in science and maths (unsurprisingly).










2) Mice like cheese

Mice enjoy food rich in sugar as well as peanut butter and breakfast cereals. So a Snickers bar would go down much better than a lump of cheddar.

















3) Napoleon was short.

He was actually around 5ft 7, completely average for the 18th/19th century.














4) Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

Edison invented a lot of things – in fact he’s one of the most famous inventors of all time – but the light bulb wasn’t one of them. What he did was develop a light bulb at the same time as the British man, Joseph Swan, who came up with it originally.















5) Lemmings throw themselves over cliffs to commit suicide

The poor old things are sometimes so desperate for food that they do, according to the BBC “jump over high ground into water”, but they aren’t committing group suicide.

















6) Water flushes differently in different hemispheres

No it doesn’t. Sorry!















7) Humans evolved from apes

Darwin didn’t actually say this, but he’s been misreported ever since. What he did say was that we, and apes, and chimpanzees for that matter, had a common ancestor, once, a long, long time ago.















8.Vikings had horns/helmets with horns.

Vikings may have been buried with their helmets and with drinking horns. When they were dug up by the Victorians, they assumed that the helmets had horns.





































9) Columbus believed the earth was flat

He may not have known how big the world was, but he wasn’t worrying about falling off the edge of it.
















10) Different parts of the tongue detect different tastes

You do have different taste buds on your tongue and some are more sensitive than others. But they aren’t divided into perfect, easy-to-teach sections.



10 MOST HORRIFIC ANIMALS !

It is known that lot of people have some kind of phobia. One of the most common phobias is fear from animals. That fear has often reasonable because of the nature of predator animals but also it is just unjustified fear for the most of time. Everyone will tell you that there is not much use of fear, especially when you are in situation to have encounter with some beast-dog or similar. The best thing you can do is to stay calm and to focus all of your brain activity on self defense.
Here you can see a list of some of the most horrific animals that should scare you but remember, they are just animals and while you think they are so scary that you can’t breath, they are actually scared of you and they could eventually attack only because they are afraid of you.



1.GRIZZLY BEAR
Bears should be actually latest animal to be afraid of, because all of us used once to have a little teddy bear toy. The most concerning facts about grizzly bears is that they are amazingly fast even they weight several hundreds of kilos. If you’re planning a trip to the wood please check if there is some kind of guide how to avoid them.










2.WOLF
Wolf has been a subject of different horror stories for a long time. It has been an unavoidable way to scare the kids in rural areas. With the development of movie industry, wolfs and werewolves have became a part of plenty of horror movies.











3.MOUSE
For the most of males this could be pretty funny. Small fast nasty animals can really be scary for some people out there, in this case, mouses often scare females. It is interesting that they are not dangerous at all and they even can’t bite but some people are freakingly afraid of them.










4.PIRANHA
Unlike the mouse, piranha is some real threat. It has been the subject of several horror movies and I have to admit that they scared me a little bit since I never knew before watching those movies that such kind of fish even exists. But the truth is that this kind of fish prefers to eat already dead bodies, however, if you see some of them, keep the distance from them.









5.GREAT WHITE SHARK
Here is one more animal, that often has a villain role in horror movies. The fact that there is about hundred shark attacks reported every year worldwide scares a lot of swimmers. Only a several species of sharks are potentially dangerous for human.




















6.SPIDER
Small bugs and spiders, especially the fast ones, always scared me a little. Some people have extreme phobias of spiders and they can be scared even with the picture of spider. In tropical areas this fear is pretty justified because there are some poisonous species of spiders.








7.BAT
When I was kid, I was running home in sunset and I experienced to be hitten by some crazy bat right in my head. I was pretty surprised and little bit scared at the time but later I found that there is not much reason to fear of them. There is a very few of species of bats who can drink the blood like vampires, but one good slam will probably take any bat from the course of attacking you again.











8.BEE
Bees can be very dangerous because there is a lot of people who are allergic to their venom. Those who are allergic, they have to be very careful not to be bitten by bee because a single bite can be deadly for them. There is a several movies which includes bees as major villains who try to overtake the world from humans.












9.SNAKE
There is not much to tell about the fear of snakes. They are often poisonous and they are sneaky that is enough reasons not to like them. About 30.000 people are killed by snake’s bite every year. It is important to know that, despite the fact that they have so deadly weapon like their venom is, they attack when they feel unsafe and when they see a threat in your behavior.








10.LOA LOA WORM
This one is pretty unknown worm but that doesn’t stop me to put it as the most horrific animal on this list. They can be found in Central Africa’s rainforests and they can cause really scary disease which may cause some worms to grow in human’s eye. In order to remove them from the eye, medics are forced to do not so comfortable operations on eye which includes scalpel and cutting.