<<<®ĒÅLÌŦ¥>>>: August 2005

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It's really happening!!!

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Beware of Ctrl+C

We do copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied
data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a
combination of Javascripts and ASP.

Just try this:

1) Copy any text by ctrl+c

2) Click the Link:

http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm

3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was
accessed by this web page.

Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN
etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to
extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive
information.

So be careful nxt time u come online....make sure u dont copy wht really shudnt be copied...

Me in Bangalore now, wht else?? Job hunt... hehee ... Bangalore has turned out to be so congested,difficult to travel.... But gez itz easy to get a job out here... ;-)

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

TYPOGLYCEMIA.....

Believe it or not BUT u can really read this .....

"I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia :)-

Amzanig huh? And yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt !!!!

I wish i knew abt this when i was during my skool dayz....heehee...

Thnx for letting me know abt this,Rinish!!

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Gez which festival is this???



Did u figure out de name of de festival?? heehee

Neway, chill,Njoy and hv a nice day!!!

DR. APJ Abdul Kalaam's speech in Hyderabad

I juz happen to read his recent speech he gave in HYD....pretty keul...he surely got a lot of visions abt INDIA...

"I have three visions for India.

In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards.The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French,the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone.

We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.

My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation.

We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self- reliant and self-assured. Isn't this incorrect?

I have a THIRD vision.

India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that, unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space,Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr.Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.

I see four milestones in my career:

Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be the project director for India's first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one that launched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my life of Scientist.

After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part of India's guided missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its mission requirements in 1994.

The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The joy of participating with my team in these nuclear tests and proving to the world that India can make it, that we are no longer a developing nation but one of them. It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have developed this new material. A Very light material called carbon-carbon.

One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he took me to his hospital and showed me his patients. There were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic calipers weighing over three Kg. each,dragging their feet around.

He said to me: Please remove the pain of my patients.

In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction Orthosis 300-gram calipers and took them to the orthopedic center. The children didn't believe their eyes.

From dragging around a three kg. load on their legs, they could now move
around!

Their parents had tears in their eyes. That was my fourth bliss!

Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them.

Why?

We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert land into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE?

Another question : Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect
comes with self-reliance?

I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is.

She replied: I want to live in a developed India.

For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.

Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is
yours.

YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don' t work, the railways are a joke, the airline is
the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say.

What do YOU do about it? Take a person on his way to Singapore..... Give him a name -YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs.60) to drive through Orchard Road(equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU comeback to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity. In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go out without
your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, "see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else." YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop,"Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son.Take your two bucks and get lost."

YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand.

Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo?
Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston???
We are still talking of the same YOU.
YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own.
You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touchIndian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commis sioner of Bombay,Mr.Tinaikar, had a point to make. "Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place," he said. "And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job.Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here?" He's right.

We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry." So who's going to change the system?

What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.

Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too....I am echoing J.F.Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....

"ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY"

Lets do what India needs from us.

Surely....it felt inspiring to me.....

Whateva.....always be proud to be an INDIAN

Friday, August 12, 2005

RASCISM

Am sure many of you watched the recent taping of the Oprah Winfrey show in Chicago where her guest was Tommy Hilfiger. On the show, she asked him if the statements about race he was accused of saying were true.

Statements like: "If I'd know African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish and Asians would buy my clothes, I WOULD NOT have made them so nice. I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people." His answer to Oprah was a simple "YES" where after she immediately asked him to leave her show.

Suggestion: Don't buy your next shirt or perfume from Tommy Hilfiger.


Let's give him what he asked for.

Let's not buy his clothes, let's put him in a financial state where he himself will not be able to afford the ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.

If we are small, then send it to the whole community that's not white people and see the result. We have to see the result of unity. Let's find out if Asian, Jews and Non-white really plays such a small part in the world. Stop buying all range of Hillfiger products, perfume,cosmetics, Clothes, bags, etc.

A scene also took place on a BA flight between Johannesburg and London.A white woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a black man.Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air Hostess. "Madam, what is the matter," the hostess asked. "You obviously do not see it than?

She responded, "you placed me next to a black man. I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me an alternative seat."

"Be calm please," the hostess replied. "Almost all the places on this flight are taken. I will go to see if another place is available." The hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later. "Madam, just as I thought, there are no other available seats in the economy class. I spoke to the captain and he informed me that there is one seat in the business class. All the same, we also have one seat in the first class."Before the woman could say anything, the hostess continued: "It is
unusual for our company to permit someone from the economy class to sit in the first class. However, given the circumstances, the captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting."

She then turned to the black guy, and said, "Therefore, sir, if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in first class."

At the moment, the other passengers who where shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.

Gosh....all wht can be said is "Some things never change in Life... "

Well, frenz...i am back from Muscat. Really nice to be back to India. Will be goin to college to collect my certificates.

Monday, August 01, 2005

50 FACTS ON PETER CHACKO!!!

Me on de full stretch... Letz see how many factz can i really end up with!!!

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1> I have always been a mediocre(i gez).But i believe in "Hardwork" and it can really make a difference in u.

2> I luv playing soccer and i am gr8 fan of Ronaldo(Brazilian Striker).

3> I never knew what blogging waz all about until Kroopz introduced me to this. I never knew tht it would turn up so interesting.

4> I juz luv making frenz and making dem happy.It really xcites me when i recollect de really gud frenz i hv made thru chatting,SMS,Wrong numbers,partyz,hi 5,bloggers,raggin a senior,unexpectedly e.t.c

5> The number of times i have changed my hairstyle from birth until today is three.

6> The first time when i got caught proposing to my first girlfriend waz when i was grade 7th in ISM(my skool in MCT). I know itz embarrasing but i am juz being frank with u.:-(

7> Altho i'm an IT Engineer, i am de one who spoils de computer most of the time @ home. :-) Altho i learn the mistakes only after spoiling them. LoL

8> If @ all there is a word that i would like to hate,it would be GOOD-BYE.

9> Networking was a subject that i hated to itz core. But NOW,thtz de very same subject thatz making my carrier. Sometimes,thingz cud really move in de opposite direction.

10> I am VERY concious abt my complexion. :-(

11> My MOM never allows me to go shopping ALONE when it comes to CLOTHES coz she is fed up seeing de colours blue & black @ home.

12> I was into smoking and boozing during my college dayz.But,no more coz it does nothing but degrade,degrade and degrade ur effeciency.

13> I do luv web designing,s/w programming altho i dont build very strong logics and yea Networking.

14> My best friend has always been referred to as Miss "Sweety" in my previous posts.De ironical part is that i have never ever met her.

15> I had pierced my ear when i was in college. De funny part waz when my mom asked for de other pair of my stud.I no longer hv any PiErCed ear.

College life is de MOST experiencing year....gosh :-?

16> I dont have a very gud sense of humor but gud enuf to bring on a smile.

17> The first time when i visited India waz at de age of "6 months",after that at de age of 10 years( for 2 weeks) and finally when i came to do my Engineering.That waz de time when i began to realize that i hv got SO MANY cousins,uncles and aunty's. :-(

18> If at all there is something that i hate to do,it wud be packing bags b4 travelling.

19> Macromedia Flash and Adobe photoshop are 2 softwares that i always luv to xplore.

20> I believe in HONESTY....

21> I stoped my swimming class juz becoz de trainer was praising my brother more than me....heehehee (happened when i was 6 or 7 yrs old)....jee...regret tht i did tht.

22> Hv u ever got a 0 in ur final xamz and that too in a Language paper??? Well, i did...in 10th standard for my french xam,she awarded me 0 since i repeated 2 sections of de grammar twice. Well,she forgived me after 2 dayz and gave me a score of 71/100 after i got de signature from my parents. :-P

23> Cant handle sports and studies side by side. Juz like an AND logic.

24> Really GOD fearing....HE has done many wonders in my life.

25> Mom luvz pampering me @ times...and dad??? He wud kill my mom if he saw her pampering me. LoL

26> I realized my programming skills when i completed my final year project.

27> The novel that really deepened my reading interest waz "DA VINCI CODE" by "DAN BROWN".

28> I dont think i have made any 'big' achievmentz in life xcept for my frenz. :-(

29> Altho i hv been in Muscat for 18 years, i dont even know how to speak Arabic fleuntly...

30> If u gave me a wish at this point of time,then,it wud be : " i wud like to put on some weight ".

31> Mom hates de way i fancy my room but she has no other choice than to enter it coz de fridge is in my room. LoL :-D

32> I get serious pretty fast at times.... :-(

33> I hate to say this but i got to admit tht i am a bit short tempered @ times.may be i got it from my DAD.

34> Frankly speaking, i got to say this strange fact of mine tht i have never ever become first in nethin,i have always noticed tht.The highest level i have reached is de second highest.May be GOD surely got sumthin BIG for me in de future.

35> I really waste a lot of time deciding the dress to wear at times.

36> I luv driving.But de ironical part is that i dont have licence yet. :-(

37> Addict on COMPUTERS.

38> I am an addict of 'Fair & Lovely' :-D LoL

39> I am a very SILENT person. i mean it... Really silent.....

40> I eat more than wht an average person can even think of...but why de hell dont i put on ne weight still?? :-X

41> I luv to finish my work as soon as possible even if de deadline is very much ahead.Now i feel that is selfishness....

42> A MUST : i want my surroundings clean no matter wht cost....

43> Surprises!!! an often style i use to make ppl happy at times.

44> I waz a good 100 mts sprinter during my skool dayz.However, i have never got a single Medal. And once i had the chance to get one and i messed it up by not going for de final although i was present for de day. :-(

45> THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FACT WHICH I SHOULD HAVE TYPED AT DE TOP PRIORITY.HOWEVER I THINK THIS IS DE RIGHT POSITION.I HAVE LEARNED ********* !!!!! FOR 5 YEARS WHEN I WAS A KID.DE SAD PART IS THAT I DONT EVEN REMEMBER A BIT OF IT!!! I DID THT TALENT ON MY DADz compulsion. sorry for censoring it!!! I had to. :-(

46> The only subject that i have never failed until today is MATHS.

47> Learned "Keyboard playing" for 6-7 years.

48> My belief : " Face Life as it comes,Take LIFE eazy,chill n Njoy coz u mite not get a second chance ".

49> Me Landing to INDIA on AUG 9th.

50> Saddest moment : breaking up with MY BEST FRIEND in college only due to a misunderstanding,a misunderstanding tht cud never be solved....

I never knew i cud really end up with 50 facts. Half Century.... *lifts up Keyboard as a sign of success*

Cant come up with nemore facts....do lemme know if u come up with nethin....heehee LoL :-D

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Donno whether these facts did really give u a picture of mine.Neway,wht u think??

Sorry abt de delay for posting this.Coz i waz bizy with de examz and projects....

And yea..... HAPPY F.R.I.E.N.D.S.H.I.P. DAY

Ciya!!!