Mind set matters

Sometimes we tend to think negative, pehaps we may be too emotional.
A small parable goes like this ....... the young camel asked its mother, ‘Mom, why are our hooves so soft?’
The mother replied, ‘Sonny, so that we can run fast in the shifting sands of the desert.’

The young fellow was not satisfied, ‘Mom, why do we have a huge hump on our back/’
‘So that we will never go thirsty in the hot and arid desert,’

the mother responded patiently.‘Why are we shaped in this peculiar way?’ queried the youngster.

Mom decided to give a conclusive reply. So she said, ‘We have been designed by God in such a way that we are most suited for living in the desert!’
The young camel then asked, his mother, ‘Mom, if God created us with all the qualities necessary for life in the desert, what are doing in this circus?’

One must gain positive energy only when there is crisis.

More than positive thinking mind set of individual matters lot.

Phone call from God

The highlight of the novel "one night at the call centre" took me to thrill - edge of the seat. When I start reading this book, I never knew I will complete in full. Really chasing.

Let me share what I read.

Just to freak out,Shayam,Priyanka,Esha and co - the team working in a call centre decide to go and enjoy at a night club. After enjoying for a while, they leave for office. On their way, Vroom, one among the team, starts feeling discomfort after his drinks and so they stop and venture out. Vroom throws up and also breaks the window-pane of a shop thus spreading an alarm. They rush out of the place in fear. When they return, they face a life-threatening situation when their Qualis crashes into a construction site hanging over a mesh of iron construction rods. They are all in panic situation. They caught in a situation where no mobile phone connectivity that time. this is where the entire team felt helpless.Suddenly, Shyam's mobile phone starts ringing.

The phone call is from God. He speaks to all of them and gives them suggestions to improve their life. After that, God also advises them on how to get their vehicle out of the construction site. The conversation with God motivates the group to such an extent that they all sleep together.

In one line : Sometimes, we start realising life only when we are in distress or only when we pass thro' difficulty.

Dear Mr.Shivaji Rao Gaekwad

Dec 12th 2008 - You turn 58 today. MANY MORE HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY.

For many of us like me, you are the Thalaivar, Super star
For the most Asians, you are the most influential personality
For many of the film producers, you are the ONLY most bankable movie star
Great philanthropist
Great Spiritual person ……….

No need to mention, there are many feathers on your cap.

You have created your own mannerism, meaning without imitating any one – to me that is where all your success lies. If I am not wrong, you have been active in movies since 1975 - almost 33 years. Perhaps, only very few will have that feather. Definitely, it is not a simple joke. There are many children- even in 2008 follow hero worship on you. I should say (in your own style of language), “Hats off to you”

All these years in your career, you must have seen almost all walks of life – from conductor to super star. Your age and experience will definitely mould you much better than anything else.

Despite all above some of the instances in your career path seems sending negative signals that may ruin your image – pardon me if this hurts you in any way.

Remember 1995 event you announced your support to Congress Party after meeting with Narasimha Rao.

Same the case in 1996 – you supported DMK TMC alliance. Your speech also broadcasted in tamil channel

Similarly 2004 – this time your supported BJP-AIADMK alliance

You also protested Hogenakkal issue in mid of 2008 and then took a u turn asking apologize with Karnataka people.

One thing is quite clear – what ever you do that will be focused much by media, your industry people, your friends in political circle and beyond everybody your own fans.

My only suggestion here: You will be in good books of every one if you could only concentrate on movies, spirituals, any thing and everything except politics. If you still choose to talk polictics, then the consequence would be multifold - Let sleeping Dogs lie

Know all about wine

The picture above are wine bottles hand picked from different countries(Itlay,France,Spain,Australia....) kept on shelf. Where? "Wine Company",Singapore.

Some of the interesting facts(hopefully) about wine are gathered from various sources - read on further, if it doesn't really bother you.

Wine has been made for centuries from just a two simple ingredients: yeast and grape juice. Actually, just about any fruit juice can be used, but by far the majority of all wine is made from the juice of the grape.

You probably know that there are green grapes and black grapes and different grapes are used to make different wines. What you might not know is that almost all grape juice (even from the black grapes) is basically colorless to golden in color. The way a wine gets its color is by letting the skins soak in the juice during fermentation. You can actually make white wine from black grapes by not letting the skins stay in contact with the juice. Champagne is one of the most famous examples.

If the skins are left in the wine for only a short amount of time, a rose (or blush) will be made. If they are left for an extended amount of time, a dark red wine will be the result. Even though there are very few ingredients, there are many things which influence the taste of wine. First of all, there are many varieties of grapes. Each grape variety will produce different flavors, aromas, and even textures.

In addition, the soil and climate where the grapes are grown drastically affect these variables. Not only that, but the wine maker can control various things by the technique, temperature and yeast used during fermentation. Other variables such as fermenting or storing in oak barrels will also affect the taste.

Never fear, with all of these factors considered even the most avid wine drinker would ever be able to experience all of the different varieties of wine on the market today.

Tannin is a substance in wine that causes a firm, mouth-drying feeling in your mouth. It is extracted from the skins, seeds and stems of the grapes so red wines will contain more tannin than whites.

White wines will get a degree of tannin when oak barrels are used for fermentation or aging. Eat just the skins of grapes or drink strongly brewed, unsweetened tea for a good idea of what tannin feels like in your mouth.

Try this out

Try this out - simple things but we never spend time thinking about this.

1. The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is
112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area
of your mobile; network and there is an
emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search
any existing network to establish the emergency
number for you, and interestingly this number
112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.

2. Does your car have remote keyless entry? This
may come in handy someday. Good reason to
own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car
and the spare keys are at home, call someone at
home on their mobile phone from your cell
phone.Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car
door and have the person at your home press the
unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone
on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves
someone from having to
drive your keys to you. Distance is no object.
You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you
can reach someone who has the other 'remote'
for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the
trunk).

3. Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To
activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will
restart with this reserve and the instrument will
show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will
get charged when you charge your mobile next
time.

4. To check your mobile phone's serial number, key
in the following digits on your phone!: * # 0 6 #,
a 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This
number is unique to your handset. Write it down
and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone
get stolen, you can phone your service provider
and give them this code. They will then be able
to block your handset so even if the thief
changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally
useless.

Who owns the media in India ?

Gujarat election have witnessed unaccountable money paid to media persons of both, print and electronic by Saudi Arabia to discredit Modi and the Hindutva forces, which Media did very faithfully without success.

There are several major publishing groups in India , the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.

Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.

NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan . Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India . His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters.

India Today which used to be the only national weekly which supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US.. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

Times group list: Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijay Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more...

Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World Christian Council¢ does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.

Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontifical Church Melbourne.

Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collaboration with Times Group.

The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland .. N. Ram's wife is a Swiss national.

Indian Express: Divided into two groups. The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart.

Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao.

Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily very recently.

The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India.

Kairali TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)

Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.

Must Read : The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The journey of Balram Halwai, son of a rickshaw puller, from being a help in a tea shop, to being a driver, then a murderer and finally an entrepreneur.

It talks about two Indias.

One India faces the light with sky scrapers, posh malls and with advanced technologies, a perfect urban life. The other India where the rich and fertile paddy fields along the great rivers depending on agriculture are still in darkness with defunct electricity poles, open sewage, stale food products and deprived of basic amenities.

Even in 21st century globalization has failed to penetrate these villages. People live here in ignorance and total darkness.

Balram moves out of the village to the city. But the corrupt city and the agony of being a servant tormented by employers makes this innocent lad filled with values to choose the law of the jungle –“Survival of the fittest” route.

The city life in Delhi and the corrupt politicians are well captured. How he becomes self- centered and takes a crooked route to success forms the rest of the story.

A racy novel, it won the Man Booker Prize 2008 for the debutant novelist Aravind Adiga. Well written; must read.

Dear Mr. Prime Minister

Until Nov 26th 2008, we were talking,discussing about blood bath in dalal Street, the financial hub of India. This day we saw in live across all news channels blood all over Mumbai streets, Gate way of Terrorists.

Let me share the mail which I recd from one of the annoyed Mumbaikers.

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I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak but we don't even do that.

Today, I heard your speech. In which you said 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him everybody will be exposed. Your statement 'NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED' is nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India .
Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there will be one more Hiroshima .

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Mumbaikar Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn't it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar . Look at all the politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house , enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.
Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders. Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn't it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.
If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.
Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person, such a fine human being. You politician didn't even spare him. Your party along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are supreme and there is no place for good person.
Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.
Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?
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