How to get thrown out of the class in Infosys !

Infosys Mysore campus is really one of the premier campuses in the country. I was one of the lucky ones to get selected and get the infosys experience. And after a few grueling days I am not quite sure whether I am a professional or suffering an additional engineering semester.

Facts you don't know about Sachin Tendulkar !

We all know who Sachin Tendulkar is, we regard him as God in our cricket crazy nation.

We came up with 18 things that we know not many of us know about, here we go:

1. Sachin is pretty superstitious. He always put on his left pad before his right pad.

2. When Sachin scored the historic 664-run stand with Kambli, he was wearing wet pants as it wasn’t dried after washing due to monsoon weather and he did not have a spare one.

Why do girls fall for Jerks/Bad guys ?

A Question was asked by a boy asking "Why do girls fall for Jerks/Bad guys"

A girl answered his question in the best way possible :

Okay. Let me share a little of what I have observed, learned or experienced.

Girls don't fall for jerks.

It's just that jerks don't hesitate to approach girls and take their chance.  

Whereas a gentleman guy will :

Words worth noting : A Teacher's day short post

Keeping this one short as I have a my own post on teacher's day coming up.This post is from my friend Abhijit who posted this on my Facebook timeline i felt this was worth sharing.

Message on Teacher's Day

A good teacher is like a ball of cotton; stretches himself for sake of others, ready to burn to enlighten, glad to clean messy minds, provides soft dabs to comfort wounds and surprisingly light to be with. With all this his presence does not occupy space in our lives, but his absence creates a limitless void.
- Shubha vilas

3 Reasons why I Love Roger Federer !

1) During one of his matches the commentator told the following story:    He once went to a hotel with his whole team for the duration of a   tournament.
  Upon settling in, he then went to his coach's room, and noticed it was   just a standard double room while he was staying in a nice suite. He   then asked that everyone on his team should have the same level of comfort as he was enjoying. When told that no other suites were available he then downgraded to a regular room too.

2) Roger Federer, on asked about his mononucleosis fever, after losing to Novak Djokovic in the semi final of the 2008 Australian Open,

The Egg

You were on your way home when you died.

It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.

And that’s when you met me.

The Unknown Hero : Subhash Chandra Bose !

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s slogan of “You give me blood, I’ll give you Freedom” ignited the fire of patriotism in the hearts of many Indians during the struggle for independence. Even today these words don’t fail to inspire and move. The man who coined these words was a true patriot and a man of principle who did all he could to bring independence to India. Here are 7 things worth knowing about this great man that are hardly known to most Indians, including the patriots:

Protecting the Bandhan (RakshaBandhan)

Lots of people have borne the burden of keeping me company but the people who have borne it willingly are few. The name i have given to all those people is : Sisters. Well, people may always wonder why am i a burden ? For starters, I don't lift my calls at the opportune time, at most times i am late , am lazy , sometimes fail to keep my commitments and am weird a few times too. Even after all my tantrums, anger  and weierdness its my sisters who are the ones who have unflinchingly borne my burden and have made me the person I am today.
                          Today being the rakshabandhan day all of them will expect me to praise them and that will be the end of it. But No, false praise is not my modus operandi and i will never resort to it. I want to take this opportunity to tell them what they mean to me. I have to start with the person without whom I can't even think of being in this world : Shruti Deshpande. Whats so special about her ? Think of this situation

Wives,husbands and random things....

There was a group of women gathered at a seminar on how to live in a loving relationship with your husband. 

The women were asked, 'How many of you love your husbands?' 

All the women raised their hands. 

Then they were asked, 'When was the last time you told your husband you loved him?' 

Some women answered today, some yesterday, some didn't remember.. 

The women were then told to take their cell phones and send the following text to their respective husband: I love you, sweetheart. 

Then the women were told to exchange phones and read the responding text messages. 

HORN OK PLEASE

We have seen it so many times on back of trucks but have we ever wondered what does it really mean ? It has piqued my curiosity and probed further and this is what i found out

True Feelings

In today's world, the world feelings provokes thoughts of only man-women love. I think this is primarily the result of the continuous pounding we take from the movie stories which focus on the same. Well the basic idea here i am trying to address is, feelings are not polarized and have a lot of depth than just love . "Feelings are just an emotional state or reaction" a definition which can be found out with a simple Google search. There are a host of feelings starting from care,hatred,happiness,sadness,excitement,affection,disappointment,love,satisfaction and the list is endless . We exhibit them when we want to give a reaction. So they are supposed to be our reaction to situations or happenings. They can be fabricated however which then causes a lot of misunderstanding and pain. Because of it, some section of us say there are all fake people in this world and the whole world is fake (It might be a bitter reaction to a previous experience ). My post today is to address these people and make them realize this is not true. To such people I would give myself as an example. Why ? because 

I knew I've found  true love, when my Mom who is an office goer sat next to me the whole night when my body was burning with fever.

Vaidik's foolhardy Interview with Hafiz Saeed

The Controversial Interview

Much debate and criticism has been done of Ved Pratap Vaidik's meeting with US and UN declared terrorist Hafiz saeed. Much has been said about it and whether it was right or wrong on part of him to meet Hafiz saeed. Politicians are doing what they do best : blame each other.Congress branded him as a BJP enjoy while BJP pointed out that it had played know part in this terming it as a "diplomatic misadventure of a private individual ".

       The first question which crops up is 'How did he arrange this meeting ?' . 

What to do with a broken headphone ?

The headphone/earphone acts like an antenna to receive the frequency signal, which the mobile doesn't have.So if suppose your headphone breaks down do not throw it away. If you like hearing songs on speaker you can cut the wire and use the jack as the antenna ! Innovative stuff huh ? 

Origins of a Lamborghini !

Ferruccio Lamborghini was born in Italy in 1916. He was fascinated with engines from an early age. During World War II he joined the army and was stationed on the island of Rhodes. Fortunately there was little going on there during the war.  The island was essentially isolated from the rest of the world. Any cars, trucks or motorcycles that broke down had to be repaired on the spot with reused parts.  Lamborghini became known as a wizard at mechanical improvisation and became very much in demand at fixing engines.After the war he returned to his home near Modena in northern Italy and setup a small car and motorcycle repair shop.  He soon realized that there was a desperate need for tractors in the agricultural area in which he lived. He found he could build about one tractor a month from derelict military vehicles. As Italy's economy grew demand for his high quality tractors started to grow. He began building his own tractor engines. His tractor business became very successful reaching a rate of over 400 a month in 1960. 

I wasn't drunk !

"I wasn't that drunk."
"Dude, you spent two hours trying to drown my goldfish."

"I wasn't that drunk."
"Dude, you were in my closet yelling, 'where the fuck is Narnia?'"

How to get a job at Google

Thomas L Friedman, New York Times | Feb 23, 2014, 12.23PM IST
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google — i.e, the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world's most successful companies — noted that Google had determined that "GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. ... We found that they don't predict anything."

He also noted that the "proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time" — now as high as 14% on some teams. At a time when many people are asking, "How's my kid gonna get a job?" I thought it would be useful to visit Google and hear how Bock would answer.

Why is the Keyboard's Layout qwerty ?

It hasn’t been done randomly or just for fun, it has a very distinct and purposeful reason behind it.

How to be Happy in Life

Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

Interview with Raghuram Rajan (Reserve Bank Governor)

India will be one of the greatest economies, Raghuram Rajan tells students

Very, very few children ever get an opportunity like this. For the 800-odd children who came to Mumbai's Birla Matoshree auditorium on Friday to meet and hear Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan, it's a day they will carry with them into adulthood.

Shorn of jargon, Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan's hour-and-a-half interaction with them at The Times of India's Newspaper in Education (NIE) meet was a masterclass in economics. Before he came to Mumbai to head the country's central bank, he'd been chief economist with the IMF, a professor at one of America's top universities, author of a widely-acclaimed book, chief economic advisor to the government of India, and one of the world's most influential economic thinkers. But not once did he talk down to the children. A senior RBI official says Rajan spending time with children- and it showed. He was patient, he was thoughtful, and he applied his mind to every question he was asked. He started with a question that many - and not just children - might have thought of asking (in the fond hope that money can buy happiness), "Why am I such a cruel person today that I keep control of our printing presses and do not churn out thousand rupee after thousand rupee notes". Emphasising that there was no 'silver bullet' to check prices or increase incomes, Rajan spoke across a range of issues, from monetary policy to subsidies to capitalism to protectionism to India's place in the world - to his own hopes and fears. Here are excerpts from the Q&A.

God's Motorbike !

There are some incidents in your life which leave a mark forever.They are meant to teach us something and in a way that we can never forget  what we learnt. I experienced one such lesson.I was travelling daily from my home in Nanded phata,Pune to my class located in Deccan. Pune unlike mumbai has a screwed up transport system and hence there is not good connectivity between regions. As a Navi-mumbaikar i may have been habituated to the comforts my city provides but seriously Pune seriously needs to improve its transport system. My daily transport was a tedious affair involving 2 shared autorikshas, a bus and then 20 minutes walking.The entire cost of this was 80Rs. But it was imperative to attend the class so i had to undergo this ritual daily.

A CUP OF TEA !

A group of fifteen soldiers led by their Major Sahib were on their way to the post in Himalayas where they would be deployed for next three months. Another batch, which will be relieved, would be waiting anxiously for their arrival so that they could fall back to safer confines of their parent unit. Some would proceed on leave and meet their families. They were happy that they were to relieve a set of comrades who had done their job. It was a treacherous climb and the journey was to last till the next evening. Cold winter with intermittent snowfall added to the torture. If only someone could offer a cup of tea, the Major thought, knowing completely well that it was a futile wish. They continued for another hour before they came across a dilapidated structure which looked like a small shop. It was locked. 

A Bad Day : post dedicated to a sis having a bad day ! :D

When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know.
I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying "Hello." I politely said, "This is Chris. Could I please speak with Robyn Carter?"
Suddenly a manic voice yelled out in my ear "Get the right f**in number!" and the phone was slammed down on me. I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude. When I tracked down Robyn's correct number to call her, I found that I had accidentally transposed the last two digits.
After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again.