be outspoken and frank..you could land in a job at Infosys

This morning I read this amazingly unbelievable forward..err..shouldn't I mentioned "amusingly" instead of "amazingly"?? never mind..both are the same if you read ahead..

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How to getting our priorities right - live events!!

Today I read two of the events unconnected by geographically but connected conceptually on the concept of how to get our priorities correctly..

First event watch this video event:



Please proceed to see how this event is connected with what I am going to talk about..

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Teaching the wrong person the right method? Try Hierarchy of learning

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Its been a looooooooooooooooong gap before I could turn up to my blog page and when I do that I would also require something new to keep you all updated and here it is. This morning I stumbled upon a concept of "Hierarchy of Learning" which talks about 5 difference stages that any student or professional would undergo.

Ever caught up teaching the right method to wrong person?

 If yes,  then you may want to proceed further to see what really is this "hierarchy of Learning" a.k.a "Dreyfus model of skill acquisition".

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Indian's Money accounting to 70 lakh crores in Swiss bank

From the first look at the subject made me wonder how many zeroes does that 70 LAKH CRORES actually would have...still trying to find the answer as I am NOT very good at Mathematics and zeroes :)
Anyways, I found this forward very interesting as it has some startling figures as ...

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Today's Blog - Why to love Retirement, DTC on Equities, Pitfalls during interviews and more

Today's blog would be once again the mixtures of some of the recently read and found interesting articles. It starts with the funnier Retirement benefit article by a creative individual and the serious Impact of Equities/MF with the proposed Direct Tax Code and last the interviewing Don'ts. Read on:


 "டவுட்" தனபால்: "என்னாத்துக்கு தமிழகத்தின் செல்ல குரலுக்கான தேடல்ல மலையாளி பொண்ணு அல்காவை தேர்வு செஞ்சு இருக்க்காயங்கன்னே புரியலையே!!"

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Women arrest law - important piece of information..

Today I have received an interesting forward which is kind of informational as well. It started with an incident said to have happened in Pune and the corresponding law that should have been followed or protected. crux of the message states : "The law [which most of us are not aware of] clearly states that between 6 pm and 6 am, a woman has the right to REFUSE to go to the Police Station, even if an arrest warrant has been issued against her"

Here are the details and on digging up, I found NO IPC section states this law but it is a guidelines driven by National Human Rights Commission@the NHRC guidelines. Read on:

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Simple yet so powerful story that Harvard University researched upon

This morning I had come across this wonderful story which is simple yet so powerful in its impact to reach and realize the concept of attitude and capability of a person. Let me ask you this simple question:
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 If your company, Comb manufacturers assigned you to sell combs to the buddhist monks in the temples? Can you do it?

What will be your answer?
a) No Way. Impossible.
b) Crazy.
c) I will give it a try in order to follow my boss instruction .
d) Well, I will try.
e) Ya, I think I can sell 5pcs, 10pcs, 50pcs, or more (you name it)
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having said that I guess you realize how monks would look like. Atleast for me, that immediately triggers me to relate to is Dalailama.

Pick an answer to the above question and read further to find out if you are/you are going to be a successful person or not at all . . .

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Today's blog on: Power of tamil, finger paintings and US fed

Though I am yet to get any inputs on how the news-letter-ish blog of yesterday fair, I am planning to continue further today. Today, I got into various good interesting reads, views and things to share with.

Let us go into today's blog....

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Blog - Just the way you (may) like it!!

This morning when I was in my unofficial library (well.. you guessed it correct!! I was in my rest room), I had the idea to expand the reach of my blog to be a daily newsletter rather than a little more than a tit-bit. Though I remember an article which said "anything more than 1 paragraph" would bore the reader, I still wanted to see how it evolves. Please do let me know how do you like today's blog.. Here you go on the news streams...

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Thats a big break!!

It has been a while since I wrote or even visited this blog pages and published useful contents.. But subject line is NOT about my break but a routine-breaking tips which can help all the hardcore GMAIL users, like me... Have you always wondered about why you need to always use the not-so-tech-savvy method of finding the attachment button and browse through files that you would like to attach with?? Yes, I wondered atleast... Here comes the tech-savvy solution of attaching the files through DRAG-n-DROP from Google.

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How to dress for Success??

This evening I got into this interesting article from Paul Castine on "Next time you think you are dressing" in his Castine's salesbook blog spot. His article impressed me with his first line itself which had already captured what I thought about his page initially. "Oh!! Yet another website on how to dress??"...boom!! I had the same statements to start with. With the interest picked up, I read this hilarious yet useful article on taking care of yourself before you present yourself to others. Some of the important tips were..

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Pushing India to "Darkness"??

As you might have got shocked seeing the subject line of today's topic, I have got shocked to see an article from a finance house this morning on a prime market buzz word "Green". I am NOT sure why suddenly whole lot of companies talking about "hole" in the ozone layer as greenists have been warning us atleast a decade from now though.

Coming back to Subject, This article mentioned "This can push India into darkness" and story goes like this...

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Do plants have intelligence? - Yes, See this to believe it!!

This morning I came across a amazingly funny true incident that happened in tamil nadu where the pungan tree started growing roots directly in the main water line pipe instead of growing deep to tap in the water source. I did NOT believe initially on how it could break the pipe seamlessly to get the water resource until I saw this picture and I read this interesting article sub-sequentially on the same topic as today's blog.

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Want to get more marks in classes?? Read "Agatha Christie" novels...

I found this interesting article this morning on the CBSE board pioneering a way to cultivate the reading habits among the school children. They have come up with the novel idea of reading NOVELS to boost the reading habits of the students as well as boost their grades with extra marks too. I kind of like the idea that does sound like "have the cake and eat it too!!".

Here is the whole story in English as well as Tamil..

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Fear of boats?? Take this bus to cross the water front..

While I was browsing randomly yesterday on the recent topic DUBAI Debacle (DD), I found an interesting tourist attraction listed in one of the sites called wonder bus. On further browsing, I found a recent set of photographs on dress sorry bus rehearsal of this wonder bus in Kerala backwaters with the following pictures.  As David Hockney once said "“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.” I guess this is beautiful piece of art... 

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5 best things to learn from a pencil - Amazing pencil story!!

here is one beautiful inspirational story I read this evening from Angele Neik from motivationNation article. 

The pencil story

The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box.

"There are 5 things you need to know," he told the pencil, "Before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be."

Want to know what those 5 things are?? read on.

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Ranjan Das and Sleep

This forward carried a sad and interesting note. Sad because one of the energetic CEO of SAP-India who got into this pinnacle of responsibiity at his young age, attained Mr.Late status at an young age too.(i.e.,42). Interesting because this forward and the links in them clearly depicts that he is very energetic and even found to be controlling his stress and work life balance. On a mystery of what could have taken the toll of Late Mr.Ranjan Das is all about this article. Enough of my interpretation, let us go to the actual contents of this forward.

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Looking for consolidating your blogs with "after the jump" summaries??

I always wondered on how to avoid clogging of the contents of my blogs in a single page where the readers like you would NOT be able to see the all the other posts in a single page. Here is the way to enable "read more" feature which helps in "after the jump" summaries and consolidating your page contents.

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Australia monalisa

Here is an interesting forward I got and I thought I could ask you to guess on what the below drawing is made up of:

Let me give more closer look, did you guess??

What about now??

Could not do it??? here what it is :

The forward said this: "Artist assistants stand next to 3,604 cups of coffee which have been made into a giant Mona Lisa in Sydney , Australia . The 3,604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different shades!!"

டவுட் தனபால் : "ஐய்யயோ..இந்த காபி ஐடியாவை காபி ரைட்ஸ் பண்ணலைன்னா நம்பாளுங்க காபி அடிசுடுவாங்கலே"

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All that glitters are NOT gold...coins??

As subject says today's blog is the reiteration of the old adage: "All that glitters is NOT gold " and could be extended to Gold coins too. In a two seperate but similar incidents observed in last couple of weeks in the same city, Chennai, could prove you that point.

Here you go on the news # 1 happened in Nanganallur, Chennai:

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Jeweller cheated with copper coins

CHENNAI: A jewellery shop owner at Nanganallur was cheated by a man who sold copper coins coated with gold paint to him for Rs 3 lakh. The jeweller has now approached the Suburban Commissioner office where he has been directed to the Palavanthangal police station.
Sanjay Gupta runs NeelKamal gold jewellery shop at Nanganallur. He was introduced to Rajesh through a common friend Selvajyoti Lingam of Adambakkam, who is a real estate broker. Rajesh claimed that he was a secretary at the All India Human Rights Council and urged Sanjay Gupta to join the council by paying a fee of Rs 200. Believing Rajesh, Sanjay Gupta joined and made 15 others to join the council.
Rajesh had visited Sanjay’s jewellery shop during March and had asked him, if he could buy gold coins. Rajesh even gave a sample gold coin to him. Sanjay Gupta tested the coin and found it to be original gold. “Rajesh told me that one of his friends has a lot of gold coins that was inherited from his ancestors and that he wanted to sell it to me, since I am a gold jeweller,” said Sanjay Gupta.Later, Rajesh promised Sanjay that he would sell 1400 grams of gold coins at the rate of Rs 1000 per gram. Drawn by the cheap offer, Sanjay gave Rs 3 lakh to Rajesh in March, 2009.
Sanjay was called to Puducherry to give the gold coins. He was given a bag of small coins. Sanjay immediately tested the coins with acid and found that it was just copper coins coated with gold paint. He immediately asked Rajesh to return his money back but Sanjay was threatened by a group of goondas. Fearing his life, Sanjay returned to Chennai. Rajesh, who initially promised to return the money back, threatened Sanjay last week.
Sanjay made a complaint at the suburban police commissionerate. “Many people have joined the Human Rights Council and have been cheated like me. I initially hesitated to make a complaint, as people would laugh at me for getting cheated by someone, as I am experienced in gold jewellery business. But I have lost Rs 3 lakh. I want my money back and I don’t want others to get cheated like me,” explained Sanjay.
The Palavanthangal police inspector has assured all help in nabbing the culprit.

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News#2: (Crux is the same as the News#1)


As scary as it sounds, I guess you may want to rush to your safety lockers to check the last set of coins that you have purchased from Sadaiyappa Stores or that one you got it at a good "deal" from Puducherry, if you have got some!!

For those who are wearing the gold coins at அரணா கயிறு.. well, they did NOT have these latest techniques that time. So no sweating, huh?? for safer side, எதுக்கும் ஒரு தடவை செக் பண்ணிக்கோங்க!!

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Kite flying - Is it that bad really??.

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"Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail."
Author: Hawaiian Proverb
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"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."
Author: Lauren Bacall
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"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind."
Author: Source Unknown
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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country."
Author: Anais Nin
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"கொரங்குக்கு கூட தான் வாலு இருக்கு, அதுன்காட்டி கொரங்கால பறக்க முடியுமா??"
Author: Pammal K Sambandham
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During self introspection phases, I guess it is usual to look into those nostalgic feelings especially those sweet childhood memories. I am NO exception to that rule. Thinking about it, I always has this kite flying is one of the prominent along with the Kitti-pullu(Tamil) alias Lippa sport(English). And indeed I was surprised to hear that kite flying has been banned with unbailable warrant for those violators of the ban in Tamilnadu effective november month of 2009. I read as it was due to the increasing unwanted incidents in the state very recently. I also read that in 2006 itself this ban was imposed but being violated completely. here is the detailed news on the same.


There is other side of the story is(I guess from Manja dealers) that it has just been overreaction which diverted the efforts to eliminate the Kiteflying sport from the favourite list. Why?? T promote the money-minting cricket game in a bigger way. The noteworthy point is that during the kiteflying seasons, it has been found that the cricket craziness is off-peak which is not a good news for the cricket merchants.

Stories apart, after reading this, I could NOT resist myself asking this question:In the name of safety measure, are we denying one of the favourite sport to our next generation kids who are already inundated from the out-door games?? feel free to share what you think about it!!

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Free Eye Camps OR Free Eye-loss camps??

This morning I read this dreadful news on the Free Eye camp that was held in Andra. It is learnt that due to mis-creptions provided by the doctors then, almost 10 of the patients who had to taken in an emergency operation only to find .. err..feel that they have lost both of their eyes. That too after all the way travelling from Andrapradhesh to Tamilnadu (Chennai).

As scary as it sounds, I could NOT find out what were the actions taken on the doctors!! As my father always tends to be easy on Free Eye Camps, I guess I need to caution him with this news while not necessarily scare him though!!

டவுட் "தனபால்": அதுதான் அறக்கட்டளை பேரையே "போலி"நேணி-ன்னு வசுருக்கும்போதே டவுட் வரவேண்டாமா??

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No Diwali this year - இந்த வருடம் தீபாவளி இல்லை!!

This morning, I was browsing through all my unread mails that I have piled up for last 3 weeks. I found this forwarded mail to be quite amusing and hilarious. Here you go:

While this is a feast for the amusement, I tend to think that how come this craziness of the fan fare is of high quotient in Tamilnadu, especially after noting "kadavul"(god) Murali.

No wonder why that forward had this tag line: "என்ன கொடும சார் இது"!!

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Pensions - Two stories

This morning I have come across incidentally two interesting stories surprisingly related to Senior Citizen's pension funds as given below and was wondering what would be the mentality of the recipients of those senior citizen's pensions.

Story-1:

இந்திய சுதந்திரப் போராட்ட வீரர், 1952ம் ஆண்டு வரை கேரளம், தமிழகம், ஆந்திரா மற்றும் கர்நாடகம் இணைந்த பகுதிகளைக் கொண்ட சென்னை மாகாணத்தின் முதலமைச்சர், சுதந்திரத்திற்குப் பின்னர் இந்தியாவின் முதல் கவர்னர் ஜெனரல், காந்தியடிகள் உள்பட தேசத் தலைவர்கள் பலருக்கு மிக நெருக்கமானவர்...இத்தனை பெருமைகளைக் கொண்டாலும், மிக எளிமையானவராக வாழ்ந்து மக்களுக்கு சேவை செய்தவர், இராஜாஜி.

இராஜாஜியின் பொது வாழ்வில் நடந்த ஒவ்வொரு முக்கிய நிகழ்வும் சுவாரஸியம் நிரம்பியதாக இருக்கும் என்பது அனைவருக்கும் தெரியும். அவரது தனிப்பட்ட எளிய வாழ்விலும் பல சுவாரஸியமான சம்பவங்கள் நடந்துள்ளன. அவற்றுள் ஒன்று தான் நாம் இங்கெ பார்க்கப் போவது...

இராஜாஜியின் பேரன் பார்த்தசாரதி, சிவில் இன்ஜினியர் பட்டம் பெற்று, வட மாநிலமொன்றில் பெரிய பதவியில் பணிபுரிந்து வந்தார். திடீரென ஒரு நாள் வேலையைத் துறந்து சென்னை திரும்பிவிட்டார். இதைப் பார்த்து கவலைப்பட்ட இராஜாஜி "என்ன இப்படிச் செய்துட்ட..." என்றார்.

"நான் சொந்தமா ஒரு நிறுவனம் தொடங்கப்போறேன்" என்றார் பேரன். இராஜாஜிக்கு மேலும் கவலையாகிவிட்டது. ஆனால் பேரனாயிற்றே...அதனால் "நான் ஏதாவது உதவட்டுமா?" என்று கேட்டார்! "எனக்கு உதவுணும்னு நினைச்சா நீங்க ஒரு சின்ன காரியம் பண்ணலாம்" என்றார் பேரன்.

" என்ன?'' என்று கேட்டார் இராஜாஜி. "ஃபோன் இல்லாமல் நிறுவனத்தை நடத்துறது ரொம்பக் கஷ்டம். கனெக்ஷன் கிடைப்பதோ குதிரைக்கொம்பா இருக்கிறது. ஒரு வார்த்தை நீங்க சொன்னா உடனே கிடைச்சுடும்" என்றார் பார்த்தசாரதி. சிபாரிசுகள், விதிமுறைகளை மீறுதல் ஆகிய செயல்களை அறவே வெறுப்பவர் இராஜாஜி. பேரனுக்காக தனது கொள்கைகளை தளர்த்திக் கொள்ள அவர் விரும்பவில்லை. "அதோ டெலிஃபோன் டைக்டரி இருக்குபாரு; அதை எடு" என்றார் இராஜாஜி. அதைப் புரட்டி ஒரு பக்கத்தைச் சுட்டிக்காட்டினார்.

''எளிதாக தொலைபேசியை சொந்தமாக்கிக் கொள்ளுங்கள்"என்றிருந்த விளம்பரத்தை பேரனிடம் காட்டி, "இந்த திட்டத்துல விண்ணப்பிச்சா, உடனே கனெக்ஷன் கிடைச்சிடும். சிபாரிசு தேவையில்லை" என்றார். "அதை நான்
படிச்சுட்டேன். ஃபோன் இணைப்பு உடனே கிடைச்சுடும்; ஆனா அதுக்கு இரண்டாயிரம் ரூபாய் பணம் கட்டணுமே...இப்போதைக்கு என்னிடம் பணம் இல்லையே" என்றார்.

உடனே இராஜாஜி தமது செக் புத்தகத்தை எடுத்து, பார்த்தசாரதிக்கு இரண்டாயிரம் ரூபாய் செக் எழுதிக் கொடுத்தார். "முன்னாள் கவர்னர் ஜெனரலுக்கு பென்ஷன் மாதம் ஆயிரம் ரூபாய்...ஏற்கனவே போன மாச பென்ஷன் பணமும் சேர்த்து, ரெண்டாயிரம் ரூபாய் உனக்கு தர்றேன்" என்று பேரனிடம் செக்கை நீட்டினார்.

தாத்தா தனது பென்ஷன் தொகையை அப்படியே கொடுத்ததில் நெகிழ்ந்து போன பார்த்த சாரதி "ஆறுமாசத்தில் திருப்பித் தர்றேன்" என்று சொல்ல, பேரனை ஆசீர்வதித்து அனுப்பினார் இராஜாஜி. பார்த்தசாரதி தொடங்கிய நிறுவனம் நன்றாகவ நடந்ததால், சரியாக ஆறாவது மாதம் இரண்டாயிரம் ரூபாய்க்கு செக் எழுதி ராஜாஜியிடம் கொடுத்தார் பார்த்தசாரதி.

தன்னைப் போல தன் பேரனும் நேர நிர்வாகத்தைக் கடைபிடித்து, சொன்ன சொல்லைக் காப்பாற்றுவதால் மகிழ்ச்சியடைந்த இராஜாஜி, "எனக்கு இந்த சந்தோஷம் போதும். பணத்தை என்னுடைய அன்பளிப்பாக வைத்துக் கொள்" என அவரிடமே கொடுத்து ஆசிர்வதித்தார்.

Story-2:

Not to forget of course, the donors (voluntarily and involuntarily) are on the losing side anyways. I remember someone said "giving is pleasure". I am sure they have NOT referred to the story-2 here!!

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Episode - 2: Amazing concepts of Hinduism - Why 108 is so sacred?

Are you like me who always wondered on why 108 is so sacred for Hindu community?? I have always wondered about it.

I could atleast guess the other sacred numbers as 101,201 and 501 as part of Marriage gifts as we cannot round it so add + 1. The same logic BATA store in India that applies as part of consumer psycology with 99.99 INR instead 100 INR. It is called psychological barrier of human mind. Let us ignore this for this moment as 108 does NOT come into that circle anyways!!

During my search for it this morning, I have come across this interesting article : The cycle of Time which talks about Golden Ratio and the suspense behind the 108 number.

Though as my brother calls it right, it would be "Pazhamperumai" (Exact english translation please??!!), I still wonder how did they come across the distance between the planets in those days. I read another connecting article where the ancient hindu mythology almost captured the speed of light with this formulation.

Anyways, I say it is good piece of information to know why we are following what we are following!!

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