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I am happy and I am proud. I am registered as a Voter now :) In the coming Lok Sabha elections I will make my voice count!

With the eclipse being a few hours away, there was some discussion about the reasons behind people believing that the viewing the eclipse with naked eyes is harmful. And I hit this interesting article from BBC.

Inaugural Speech for the new batch at the Symbiosis BBA program 2008 by  Chetan Bhagat ©

Back in 1970, Dr C V Raman, at the age of 82 had once given the following message: “I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. ..I can assert without fear of contradiction that the quality of the Indian mind is equal to the quality of any Teutonic, Nordic or Anglo-Saxon mind. What we lack is perhaps courage, what we lack is perhaps driving force, which takes one anywhere.

On the last day before Christmas, I hurried to go to the supermarket to buy the remaining of the gift I didn't manage to buy earlier.

Located in Chamoli district of Uttaranchal at a height of nearly 3000 metres with a vertical drop of 500 metres, Auli is a new entrant in the tourist map of India. A place where natures beauty comes alive with a combination of pleasure and adventure, the dense oak and pine forests and the snow capped slopes.

To do:

- make a quick call home and inform about your being okie and your estimated time of reaching home

- stay indoors as much as possible

- use mobile phone only if necessary

On the way to the Great Himalayas, my aunt told me this line (told to her by her neighbour) that no matter how much anyone studies, their education will never be complete without travelling, on the very first day.

At that moment, I thought it was an over-statement. I mean in this era where one can find any possible answer right at the finger tips, and where world is getting smaller by the minute through the World wide web, where does the need to travel those long days sitting in a bus arise?

Pain- Something that knows no limits and understands no boundaries. I had the ‘opportunity’ of experiencing two different limits of the ultimate teacher of the human race (maybe living beings). The end of semester exams marks one of my happiest moment , as i get to go home and live life my kingsize way. This time i happened to book a ticket in Howrah mail, which leaves from Chennai. Everything was fine and well until we discovered how Lalu was managing to generate so much profit in railways.

We strive to realize to our dreams,
we strive follow the path shown to us by world,
We compromise our dreams with reality,
We accept the thing as it comes our way,
We strive hard and efforts to please others,
We strive to keep our dreams alike,
We strive to strike the balance,

Now, It's time for action.

Life keep us teaching lesson on different phase but let not be too late to learn this and commit mistake to learn new one.

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over”. I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. “I will come next Tuesday”, I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.