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WizBiz (Sep 4&5)

2010-09-06T10:34:00.001-07:00

1. Who created RIM, the company behind blackberry ?
Ans : Mike Lazaridis , ceo of RIM.

2. Which microsoft product was code named Milan?
Ans : Microsoft surface

3. Bob Parsons is the ceo of which hosting service provider ?
Ans : Godaddy.com

4. Who was the first Indian to reach semi final in Wimbeldon tennis championship ?
Ans : Ramanathan Krishnan

5. " Play the lead " is the ad campaign by which clothing range ?
Ans : Park Avenue

Wiz Biz (Sep 3 )

2010-09-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

1.Who created Dilbert, the famous cartoon on the corporate world?

Ans. Scott Adams

2.Only three movies have won all the five major Oscars - Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress. Two are - It Happened One Night and Silence of the Lambs. Which is the third one?

Ans: Lord of the Rings – Return of the King

3. What is known as the art of hiding messages inside other messages so that one can't figure them out?

Ans:Steganography

4.Which Worlds largest motor vehicle company filed bankruptcy in june 1st,2009.

Ans. General Motors

5. What was born from the 'Operation Somerset' initiated by IBM, Apple and Motorola?

Ans: Power PC

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Wiz Biz (Sep 2)

2010-09-03T04:18:00.000-07:00

1.Four brothers Hirsz, Aaron, Szmul, Itzhak who have migrated from Poland to the Land of Opportunities have founded something that changed the entertainment sector. What have they formed?

Ans. The Warner Brothers

2. Which Indian FMCG giant promotes Kaya Skin Clinic, the No.1 Skin Care company in Bangladesh?

Ans. Marico

3.Which is the only cement company to attain the Super Brand Status in India?

Ans. AAC Limited

4.Who has recently passed on this statement "Internet has gone down twice because of searches. One was following Michel Jackson's Death and the other following my controversy'?

Ans. Swami Nityananda

5.What was the Google's answer to the Wikipedia?

Ans. Knol. Well, it is another story that it never ate away the Wiki as expected!

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"Wiz Biz" (Sep 1)

2010-09-01T11:12:00.000-07:00

1.What was co-founded along with Jack Smith at Firepower Systems that influenced
millions of users all over the world(and also microsoft) in a big way?

Ans: Hotmail.com

2.'Sheer driving pleasure' is the tagline of which company?

Ans. BMW

3. The standard dimensions of this product is always 85.60 × 53.98 with and an aspect ratio of 1.586. These are among the widely used products and often the one carried on person. What are we talking about?

Ans. credit Cards

4. Which counrty is called the sick man of Europe?

Ans. Turkey.

5. Which Hardware Giant has developed an Active Management Six Sigma System called the Green Sigma?

Ans. IBM

PrinciPles of VaAsTu

2010-09-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

When a building is constructed the impact of the various directional forces
creates typical forces at the corners. Vaastu is all about the
importance,characteristics and the role they play.Here not much importance is given to the cardinal directions but only to the four corner directions.

If you take a building plan and designate the corners as Northeast,Southeast,Northwest and Southwest you have a more or less
rectangular sketch. By joining the Northwest and Southeast corners by a straight
line you get two triangles.The triangle with Northeast apex can be considered as a positive terminal and the triangle with Southwest corner as apex can be considered as negative terminal. These terminals get created because of the impact of directional forces with the stress field inside the building.

The entire basis of vaastu is based on creating a very strong positive field and a
weak negative field so that the complete neutralisation of the negative field
takes place inside the building.Further the excessive positive forces occupy the structure to form a protective
shield.

GUIDE LINES

1. More open area in North & East.
2. Less open area in South & West
3. Level in North & East to be lower
4. Levels in South & West to be higher than floor level
5. Water body in Northeast
6. Kitchen in Southeast
7. Bed rooms in West & South
8. Master Bed Room in southwest
9. Attached toilets in Southeast or Northwest of each room
10.Staircase in Southeast or Northwest corner
11.A door in Northeast is mandatory
12.Another door can come in any other direction but must be in the positive
half of that direction.
13.Sloped roofs should be towards North or East
14.When viewed the weight of the strucrure should be uniform every where
or the West & South portions should be heavy compared to North or East
half.

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Self-Motivation:the key the success

2010-08-27T09:36:00.000-07:00

A PlUs tO YoUr lIfE...

2010-05-08T21:18:00.000-07:00

(MAKE EACH DAY SPECIAL)

The most important thing one should remember in life is to “make each day special”. This will make one’s life interesting and worth living. Many don’t have any purpose in their life. They don’t know how to make their life interesting. For them whether it is Monday or Friday, June or December doesn’t make any difference. They simply waste their days. But if we analyze the life of successful people we can see that they are making each of their day’s special by doing something new or different. They love their life and they enjoy it. For them every day they will have some goals to achieve. Everybody has got the same time i.e.24 hours, but the difference arises on how each person is using their time. So plan in advance how you going to spend your time. Every day make a note of things that you want to do on that particular day. Be yourself and do things differently. Listen to your favorite CD. Call a friend. Read a good book. Smile, Hear, see, Feel and Smell. Take a walk and look at all the wonders of your world. Let everyone in your life know that life is worth living.

A PLUS to your life....

2010-05-03T22:23:00.000-07:00

(Settig Goals)

Life is like a journey, a beautiful journey. But few enjoy it. Not many know the purpose of the journey. Somehow everyone will complete the journey. Some with satisfied faces and many with unsatisfied faces. If you won’t plan your journey, circumstances will plan it for you. That may not be acceptable always. You will be forced to adjust with it. So it’s time to plan your own future i.e.; to set your own goals. Unless you know where to go you can’t plan anything.
Setting goals may be easy but working towards and achieving it is not as simple as many thinks. Many thinkers have come up with many strategies. But not many are successful in achieving their goals; the root cause is being the lack of consistency. Here is a simple way to achieve your goal.
1. Identify your goal
2. Write your goal in a book or personal dairy
3. Identify the step by step procedures to achieve your goal
4. Break down those procedures to day to day actions
5. Every day visualize, you achieving the goal and feel the joy and satisfaction of achieving the goal. This will help you in tuning all your activities towards achieving the goal
6. Every morning read out your goal and in the evening analyze what you have done on that particular day towards your goal.
7. Be consistent in doing the self appraisal and try to improve every day.

Lonely Night

2010-03-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

Night, through the window pane,
Felt silence dominating the world
I found unease within myself,
Was it loneliness??

Moon light fell upon me
Through the gaps of pine leaves
Watching the stars as cluster
I felt the loneliness within me??

Moon, Stars and clouds playing hide and seek,
But still I stay all alone here
I wish to be one among them,
I know it’s a dream which won’t happen… But I dreamt

I heard the oot of owl,
Was it watching my loneliness?
May be, Does it wish to play with me?
Is it possible?? But felt happy as it was near me….

-"Wellwisher of "97plus ""

In search of life... ( final part )

2010-03-07T20:39:00.000-08:00

by Prof . Balasubramaniyam

Jack was aware of all the illness which was present in the human race towards out-winning one another, but the blood bath which he heard himself and which through premonition felt he was going to witness along his path to destiny was literally stupefying.

In the next three months if Jack could concise what he saw and believed that not even with his enormous capabilities behind him, there would be no control option in his remote which can resolve the happenings and the thought that this would continue absurdly with nothing to intervene had maddening effect on him which he withstood bravely.

God sent hurricanes with fancy names which smashed a million lives in the central American countries of Honduras, Belize and El Salvador with a single swipe made by the giant tongues of mother nature, children and pregnant women in Haiti whose memories had straightened them that the only tasty food they will eat for the months to come would be the filthy beach sand rich in calcium, magnesium and phosphate imported from Kingston, natural resources which were stolen from the mineral rich areas of the Amazon valley, Brazil with the least concern for spines which carried them on their back, the Drug mafia in south American cities like Bogotá, Paramaribo and Cayenne which smothered the efforts of nascent democracies which are trying to mushroom in their countries, central and south African men who peddle virgin girls to satiate rich HIV infected business men, Governments and parallel Juntas in north west African countries which fight each other for deciding who should have the first shove at the blood irrigated mineral rich mines for precious stones, sub-Saharan nations where new viruses and other micro-organisms are tested for their efficacy as biological mass weapons by the so called technologically, industrially superior and civilized nations of the west, central and west Asian republic which are cleansing each other in the name of purity, homogeneity and holy war, schools, hospitals and refugee camps bombed on a daily basis in Baghdad, Ossetia, Kandahar and later reported as an essential exercise of collateral damage to eliminate global terrorism, the voice of people stifled so that glorious nationalism can prevail in the so called socialist south Asian countries – Marx would have hanged himself by the noose if he had reborn in one of those countries.

It was 23rd November, 2008 that day. Still with all courage Jack reached the snow clad steps of the Monastery with his mind and spirit roughened like his battered body. The Lama recognized him when he was brought inside along with the Nepalese Sherpa who had escorted him through the lofty Himalayas into the Drone pass. Jack was looked after by the monks for the 2 unconscious weeks he spent there, his dreams which suffocated him all the time during his voyage had slowly vaporized and his mind became like the rarified atmosphere of the monastery. He thought riding over the mountains was the least painful stretch of his whole journey because it only stretched his physiological limits, where has the rest had spread across his psyche to the extreme, luckily the tympanic mind had not burst yet and he was saved by the monastery. The GPRS had helped him to position all the places he traveled, but his mind was not able to position all the people he met, their emotions, their sufferings and the relationship they had formed with the universe.

After he recuperated, one misty evening, he told the lama who nursed him that he wanted to meet the Chief Lama. By that time the Lama himself was walking towards him, Jack humbly bowed before him to pay his obeisance. Before he thought of asking him some questions, the Lama spoke. He asked jack "Who are you?" Jack chuckled and said "I don't know". The Lama paused for a second and continued "What do you want?" Jack pondered and asked "What is the true meaning of life?" "Why do people suffer yet still cling to their life as though it was full of joy" Where is the all merciful God?" "If He is there amongst us, does He play dice?" A surge of energy made him think of asking the blessed Lama all these questions. But before his volition could act, he felt the Lama's hands over his vault and his thumbs on his vortex. Time had stopped. It was as though a white out had descended on him, but he was still there, a state of supra-consciousness engulfed him, now he saw, truly saw the mist clear, a million rays of sun striking and penetrating his mind and body at a single instance spreading a blissful, ever lasting and endearing joy into his spirit. He realized that his soul had been redeemed; it had fused with the universal one and her pulse was reverberating within him now. She had conveyed all her love, peace and freedom into him, he became aware of all the artificial boundaries, barriers and walls created by human exhume to nothing. None of the religions and racial symbols endured, all man-made illusions vanished, for the first time and the times to come he realized that all along every one had a chance to carry her in their wombs. We have to keep her alive just by believing in her and reaching out for her. She has this capacity to heal herself; the only thing was to have faith in her ability and to pass on her love to all across this universe.

When the experience passed out, jack was back to his conscious and understood that under all adversities in which people lived and suffered still they had time to talk, to offer food & shelter, to protect, to lend a boat, to ensure safety, to pass a helping hand, to remain silent when he needed to contemplate in his own mind, to heal with a consoling word and to sacrifice what little they had with them for his well-being, there he had at last sensed the spiritual element in those noble deeds and in the miracle of unselfish love and sacrifice which was something beyond his conscious understanding before. Now he knew that to feel this one need not be a devout believer of any religion or faith, but just had to be patient enough to listen to their inner self because it has something to say to them. For that the external noise and the inner ego had to be shut away just like what the Lama did for him. Jack felt it was almost like when he was a small child making his first awe-inspiring discovery when he was lying on the meadow and yondering at the star clad sky during silent nights. Jack took the Lama's hand and kissed them; he saw into his eyes, now there was no need for words because looks were more than words and he smiled and picked his ruck-sack and started walking down the steps and out into the world which was waiting to behold him.

In search of life..... (Part III )

2010-03-04T00:34:00.002-08:00

by Prof . Balasubramaniyam

Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje,
Drone pass, Greater Himalayas, Nepal – Tibet border.

What did she mean by "Loose your self" jack was trying to get the meaning in vain; it was not a conventional one to deduce its meaning. He searched the web to identify the place mentioned in the scroll and found that it was a monastery situated at the summit of the Greater Himalayas along the Nepal-Tibet border. All his money and reputation still looked deficient to take him there because he had to put his life at stake to climb that peak. None could support him on his mission as dangerous as this except himself. He first thought of catching a flight to Katmandu, then he felt foolish for the luxury and ease the flight travel will provide and there it stuck that he had to turn invisible; a nomad, which is the only way he could gain entry into the lama's abode because no King, no Clergy, no Head of state had till yet received a red carpet welcome there, because every body are prohibited there and they are considered to be only willful trespassers with their pomp and paraphernalia. For that he had to hit the dusty roads and in the true essence he had to transform himself into a lousy vagabond who has lost his way into the monastery. He whirled his Globe on his desk and traced the route to that place and didn't even wish to think whether he would survive this, but there was this feeling of warmth which engulfed him when he decided and knew it was worth it.

Jack knew the consequences of becoming invisible, but he had complete faith in his people. No more worries bothered him when he arranged his essentials in a ruck-sack vanished the same day in the middle of the night, the day was 23rd July 2008, time 11:11 pm (NYST). He just walked away into the blue, the only important element which connected him to his bygone world was the new PDA he had from a retail-store that day, it had the GPRS embedded. It was like Vespuggi leaving America.

The words inscribed on the note left by the girl attracted him like a mountain sized magnet, he conceived that the Lama had the elixir in his words and he had construed a plan for jack to find him. Leaving New York jack took the route of Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston then wished to cross the Mexican border from the state of Texas. Jack either hitch hiked or took a grey hound bus when he traveled in US, which was nostalgic to him. The eastern coast looked like a crucible of races and cultures which have fought and thrived, they had made the country the most powerful of all and competition is one thing they had naturalized with a great spirit for survival. But jack was also troubled by some circumspect, unanswered questions. They were actually some suppressed fears he tracked down in the minds of people. The fears where something, Like, "Whether there is a benevolent, merciful and personal God? Are we satisfied with all this materialistic success that has been achieved? What has been lost to achieve all this? What does the future behold with a globe that has gone flat?" Fear was like a devastating disease which was crumpling their civilization into the hellhole of Non-belief.
With all this in his heart jack was ready to cross the Rubicon, he had to cross the Mexican American border illegally. For a crumb of dollars, the borders smugglers heaved him into the dick of a over crowded car, for 2 hours he was bumping stacked in the human pile among 4 others who even in that humble situation had the guts to smile and cheer with hope to go back to their home country. At Monterrey they were abandoned when it was dark, past midnight. After 1 hour he walked into a slum where he came across Make-shift bar. He ordered for a glass of locally brewed brandy, the night was cold enough to numb his limbs and his tongue had gone taut. The shot of brandy had a dramatic effect on his body loosening him like a blooming flower, the fog was stark white and he saw a fairy like girl walk-up to him. She was wearing a white-purple mixed long skirt with pink and rose lilies strewn around a magenta top. She was startlingly beautiful with a moderate but beaming bosom. She sat beside him and started a conversation; jack felt happy talking to her as it was a relief from the silent journey he had taken across the border with no space to converse. He brought her wine but he could feel that she was not there for alms and she was laughing instead at his attitude of elation. She talked about the hardships of living and working for a Textiles & Garments company, where she was a fabricator with thousands of other blue-collared workers. Jack saw her with contempt now, as he questioned whether the company has not brought any socio-economic boom for the town's economy. She then revealed the gruesome, monotonous and mindless physical labor which they have to put up with and the hazardous journey they have to take every night back to their homes with threats of rape and murder for a few pesos which they earned after a day's toil. She remarked about the incidents of highway rapes and homicides which were committed by psychopathic managers of the firm in collaboration with the town bus drivers, the government was also deaf to the reports as the huge amounts of FDI which poured across the border made them to sweep these murders under the economic carpets. She asked why the Corporate have stooped so low enough to earn their profit which were soaked with the blood of innocent Monterrey virgins. The comfortable warmth of the brandy gave way to horror filled frigidness in Jack's body as now he knew she was one among the victims of this brutality.

(To be continued.......)

Mathan The QUIZZER ( 4-3-10)

2010-03-04T00:29:00.000-08:00

1. Which business group has entered the edible oil market with its ‘Healthy and Tasty’ brand?
ANS: EMAMI
2. Which announced the acquisition of Brazil’s seventh largest sugar maker Equipav for Rs 1530 crore?
ANS: SHREE RENUKA SUGARS
3. Mercedes-Benz last week launched the country’s costliest limousine. What has it been branded as?
ANS: LIMOUSINE S-GUARD
4. Takashi Nagai is the new president & CEO of which automobile MNC in India?
ANS: HONDA SIEL CARS
5. Which MNC has agreed to acquire Essar Telecom Infrastructure (ETIPL) in an all cash deal for an enterprise value of $450 million?
ANS: ATC( AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION)
6. Who is the coo of Microsoft?
ANS: KEVIN TURNER
7. Who captioned India when India won its first test against west indies?
ANS: AJIT WADEKAR
8. What do you call” The state or condition of the telephone system having no available telephone numbers”?
ANS: NUMBER EXHAUST
9. Which well known personality is launching a food and wellness magazine titled SK?
ANS: SANJEEV KAPOOR
10. Which airline last week announced that it will be designating one restroom on most international routes as female-only?
ANS:ALL NIPPON AIRLINES

In search of life ( part II )

2010-03-03T01:36:00.000-08:00

by Prof . Balasubramaniyam

The kaleidoscopic time machine stopped at Heathrow airport, passengers' departure lounge, London, July 23rd 1985, time 23 hrs 15 minutes GMT. He saw himself catching the plane to New York, He had just completed his Graduation in Managerial Economics at the LSE and the girl in the picture who was conversing with him, and he could recollect she was his girl friend Christina Diane Rossetti. Jack had an offer from the Barclays, New York, as a strategic change management internee and Chris as he called her had just finished her resident-ship as a Medical expert in Community Medicine. She too had an offer from the Wockhardt Medical Research Academy, Munich, Germany. But she insisted Jack to stay back and marry her and said that she choose both of them instead of their lucrative careers. She was ready to take the offer as a Consultant in a non-profitable Hospital in Hartford-shire where Jack had still a choice of working as an Assistant Marketing Agent for an Automobile spares supplying company. She was in tears when her efforts went into the futile non listening ears of Jack. For him it was an opportunity of a life time where he can plan for their future in a great way. He was so sure that, he comforted her with the words "Chris, nothing is going to change the intensity of our love, not a thousand miles nor a year of separation, Chris you know that even a 100 years from now when we would have grown dead old our love would be the same or it would have only grown from strength to strength dear!". He just moved on, tears welling into the eyes of Chris, she was not consoled the least; it rained more inside the airport that day more than what drizzled outside. They separated with a hug and kiss, this should have kept them going and reined the changes that were to come but it was not the way how the story continued.

It has been 23 years since then, every thing changed, if there would have been a Nobel Prize for change, growth and development, it would have been on the table of Jacques Raymond Hill, the Megalith among the Corporate of the era.

Was it there that the needle of his scale called life tilted on the present side?

And he thought the least about what would have happened if he had stayed in the relationship with Chris, married her and how life would have been till now. There were challenges, excitement and the hard ways of course on what happened side, but still he new he was amiss terribly. He still didn't have a clue of how life whiz past him and he was ignorant of what the true meaning of life is.

Yes the question which was really put forth by the girl was "Did he know what really life meant to be". It will be a difficult question to answer for the person, who the entire world believed had all the answers. But first he wanted to know the true meaning of life; he handed over the reins of chairmanship to his trusted friend Brian Charles Whatmore, after a meeting of the board. He called the girl who had popped the question but the Cell technology section reported that she had taken a month long vacation to visit her mother who is living in some distant country in Asia, but luckily and surprisingly for jack the girl had left a note for him which the department head promised to send him immediately.

When he opened the envelope next day, he found a soft satin scroll inside it on which a small phrase was inscribed with golden ink "You loose your self to find your self".

( to be continued....)

Mathan the quizzer (3-3-10)

2010-03-02T22:21:00.000-08:00

1. Which company unveiled its new small hatchback car for micra ?
ans : NISSAN
2. Which bankrupt company rejects a $14.5 bid from reliance industries?
ans: LYONDELL BASELL
3. Eurocopter formed in 1992 is the merger of helicopter division of germany and which company?
ans: DIAMLER-BENZ
4. The largest civil helicopter operator in india?
ans:PAWN HANS
5.What is the name of the isotonic energy drink launched by Heinz India?
ans: GLUCON-D
6. CFM INTERNATIONAL , aircraft engine manufaturer is a joint venture between france's Snecma and which company ?
ans : General Electronics
7. Who is the new FICCI president ?
ans: Mr Rajan Bharathi Mittal
8. Which Indian company owned UK based heavy engineering company "DAVY MARKHAN "?
ans : Hindustan Dorr -olivers
9. CEO of Nokia?
ans : Mr. Olli - Pekka Kallasvuo
10. BYD co. ,"the chinese carmaker " and which company will jointly develop an electronic vehicle to be sold in China?
ans : Daimler AG

MaThAn tHe qUIzZeR..(02-03-10)

2010-03-01T19:10:00.000-08:00

1. Which is the first building in India to be electrified?
ANS: TAJMAHAL HOTEL
2. What is the name of the Mobile that is launched by Google?
ANS: NEXUS ONE
3. Which company launched save our tigers ad campaign?
ANS: AIRCEL
4. Where is the Head Quarters of Asian Development Bank?
ANS: MANILA
5. Which economist came up with the idea of Invisible Hand?
ANS: ADAM SMITH
6. What name is the building 'Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers' better known as?
ANS: BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE.
7. Which drug is the only approved antibiotic for the cure of anthrax attack?Ans. CIPRO
8. What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish?
ANS: CHICKEN MARKET
9. In terms of retailing partnerships just as Bharti is to Wal-Mart, Tata is to what?
ANS: WOOLWORTH
10. Qantas is the Airline belongs to which Country?
ANS: AUSTRALIA

Self Management Vs Time Management

2010-02-28T21:45:00.000-08:00

by Dr. Pious Thomas

“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland.
The world famous Disneyland was built in 366 days, from ground-breaking to first day open to the public.
Management education today is more concentrating for the success, the vision and the individual’s urge to make the vision happen. Dreams converted to the reality with consistency and perseverance. Planning, execution, evaluation and reforming may be the steps for the success. “Excellence is something a human being can strive for but perfection is God’s work,” said by Lee Iacooca, a Japanese Business Entrepreneur. So let me put the concept of ‘self management’ a combination of ‘Goal setting’ and ‘time management’
To me the success is all about managing self. Live a life fully to the present. Be content and happy of each moment is the call for the day. To be a happy man, a contented man, one should have the passion to do the things he dreams for. Therefore, I believe ‘Self Management’ is the more apt word than ‘Time management,’ the talk of the day.
Goals are dreams with a deadline. Dottie Walters
“A Goal is a specific, measurable result that you want to produce at a determinable time in the future.”
Goals are Experiences not yet had, places not yet been to, people you have not met, the level of income you have not yet achieved, type of relationship you are not enjoying now, or having something you do not currently have.
Goals give directions to life, it harnesses the energy towards important tasks, a tool to measure your progress and you will face daily problems in the right perspective. It is found from the world level survey that people who have written goals have achieved more.

If you wish to lead a goal-oriented lifestyle, it is necessary to realize the importance of time management. It is only through a time bound program of action that you can hope to achieve success in any venture. Many people do not attach much significance to time management and because of the same, they are unable to finish their tasks on time and fail miserably. I would like to mention here about the findings of Yale University survey, the seven steps for the successful achievement of one’s goal.
1. Identify the goal
2. Identify the benefits
3. List out all obstacles that may come on the way
4. Find out the skills, knowledge and attitude required for achieving it.
5. Search for the resources and people to contact for the purpose
6. Have a plan of action, a step by step process for achieving the goal.
7. Fix a deadline.

“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” Said by Liz Smith. You know about yourself on what you are confident of achieving, but others know about you on what you have already accomplished. Ask yourself these four questions for doing.
1. Why am I doing this?
2. What is the goal?
3. Why will I succeed?
4. What happens if I chose not to do it?
Importance of Time Management
Plan your programmes
Failing to plan is planning to fail
Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester
You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
It is important to realize that the available amount of time is constant and all that you can change is the way you utilize this time. If you take time management seriously, you can break loose from this bondage and pack more in the available amount of time. You need to alter your habits and your attitude in order to derive the maximum utilization of the limited time at your disposal. Wasted time can never come back.
By some estimates, people waste about 2 hours per day.
Signs of time wasting:
· Messy desk and cluttered (or no) files
· Can’t find things
· Miss appointments, need to reschedule them late and/or unprepared for meetings
· Volunteer to do things other people should do
· Tired/unable to concentrate

Prioritizing Your Tasks
The first step towards an effective time management planning is to make a list of all that needs to be done in the course of the day. You would then need to find out which tasks are more important than the others and this will enable you to prioritize your tasks. You, however, should retain the less important tasks on your list. The next step is to estimate the amount of time that each task is likely to take and in doing so, you should take a realistic view. It is no use trying to achieve the impossible and then failing miserably and upsetting the entire schedule. Even the smallest element of the task needs to be considered in arriving at the required time. Once you have analyzed all these elements, you will be able to see where you might waste time so that you can adopt a time saving strategy.

To do list
• Break things down into small steps
• Like a child cleaning his/her room
• Do the ugliest thing first
After identifying the areas where you can waste time, you need to eliminate such activities. Your work schedule will thus be compacted and you will be able to find some free time for relaxing with your family. The significance of time management will be apparent when you have been able to organize your daily activities and are able to achieve your long-term goals with a sustained methodical approach.

Start Now
“What can be done at any time is never done at all.” -- English Proverb
Realizing the significance of time management is essential but not enough as these principles need to be put into practice in order to derive the maximum benefits. The best time to start is now as the duration of your life is predetermined and limited. The time that has elapsed is gone forever and the future is not known. All that you have is the present time and so, you need to start now. If you can set into motion the correct time management techniques, you will find that you will be able to achieve your target of a goal-oriented lifestyle and enjoy life to the fullest.

MaThAn tHe QuIzZeR..(26-02-10)

2010-02-25T23:10:00.000-08:00

1. When and by whom was the first budget of Independent India presented?
ANS: FIRST FINANCE MINISTER RK SHANMUKHAM CHETTY ON NOVEMBER 26, 1947
2. Which Indian finance minister presented the maximum number of Budgets?
ANS: MORAJI DESAI
3. Which two Indian finance ministers presented five Budgets in a row?
ANS: YASWANT SINHA AND MANMOHAN SINGH
4. How many finance ministers have India had since independence?
ANS: 28
5. The president of Toyota Motors?
ANS: TAKANOBU ITO
6. Which company has been voted as leading business brand in the world knocking competitor Google from its number one spot?
ANS: Microsoft
7. Reckitt Benckiser has made tie up with which company to increase the penetration of dishwashers in India?
ANS: LG
8. The RBI has fined which bank for violating RBI’S direction with regard to acquisition of immovable property?
ANS: BANK OF RAJASTHAN
9. Which sports goods maker launched its “star war” collection to fight recession?
ANS: ADIDAS
10. What does FTP stands for ?
ANS : File Transfer Protocol

In Search of Life........

2010-02-25T00:50:00.001-08:00

Prof. Bala Subramaniyam

It all started when Jacques Raymond Hill was questioned during the celebration party for his new product launch arranged for his Research and Development Professionals at long island, New York. He was at his jubilant best, entertaining his clan of innovators, who have brought laurels to the company by bringing product after product which has stunned his competitors, fascinated his supporters and enthralled his customers' world wide by their features through years of painstaking efforts. Raymond Hill Inc's people knew that they were working for a company which was their first home and which understood, "it's all about people and nothing else". And the chairman made it sure that the company made all the ills of the industry seem a distant phenomenon. But the question by this enthusiastic girl working for the cell technology section of the R&D came as a blinder; it was during a small pep talk which he was having with her during the dinner time which caught him unaware. She looked almost like her daughter Lisa; the question she asked him was what had been raking his mind for the past 5 years. The question was simple! "Are YOU OK?" Jack just faltered at it, not able to get the words, it's like pulling wind out of his lungs, and he borrowed some time by asking, "What? I did not get you". "Pardon! Can you come again?" It's a simple question which people ask very often but in different contexts. But this question from a person not that much known except that she is working for him came with a different probing tone caught him off guard. It's seemed as though she had a bit of clairvoyance or she had just buzzed it like that but anyway she had known that there is something disturbing his psyche and it had been running like an audio tape over and over again. "Normally people expect me to be full of confidence, at sync with my thought and action, spreading positive aura into all the gatherings in which I am invited. I am a show man, a rather flamboyant and successful one as they know me" he thought. But here was one person who could see beyond all the layers of paint which he has pasted on his personality. He never thought at that instant he will travel a thousand miles in search of the answer. She just paused for a few seconds then understanding that he had got the real question she meant to ask etched on his heart now, she smiled away and just vanished from his acuity.

The rest of the party just went on in a smoke screen that's what he remembered when he told his driver Russell that he will walk back to his house that night, and he started walking on the bridge which he was so fond of since he shifted his house to long island. He came to a halt at the middle of the bridge and looked into the dark blue water stream. The grey ripples created a fugue effect on him. Jack knew he had lost his true persona, the life he wanted to live and the way he wanted it to be comprehended eons back. It looked as though he was being pushed back into the tunnel of light at a great speed and life leaping beyond his control; he tried to stop at the exact point at which things changed. He pondered about some important phases of his life in a glimpse; at least anybody else would have enjoyed living his life he thought which they could only live in their dreams and which would alternatively vanish in the morning when they get up only to reappear the next night in their beds...........(To be continued.......)

MaThAn tHe qUiZzEr (25th feb )

2010-02-25T00:30:00.000-08:00

1. Which company owns the brand “easyday” a hyper market store?
ANS: BHARTI RETAIL
2. Which lifestyle and footwear industry launched the fashion footwear brand “skechers” in India?
ANS: SKECHERS
3. Which Indian company is trying to enter the food market of UAE with a joint venture with
Al seer group?
ANS: ITC
4. Which company recalled its premium sedan “sonata” due to its lock problem?
ANS: HYUNDAI
5. “Field fresh foods” a joint venture with del monte pacific and which Indian company?
ANS: BHARTI ENTERPRISES
6. Whose record did sachin break by his unbeaten 200 runs record?
ANS: SAEED ANWAR AND CHARLES COVENTRY
7. Which company has become the 6th largest and fastest growing future exchange in the world in term of number of contracts traded in 2009?
ANS: MCX
8. Samsung India has roped which celebrity chef as its brand ambassador for its microwave product?
ANS: SANJEEV KAPOOR
9. Who is the chairman and managing director of Punjab and Sind bank?
ANS: G.S VEDI
10. Which IT company have signed a 10 year contract for IT outsourcing service for the bank?
ANS:WIPRO

MaThAN ThE qUiZzEr (24th Feb)

2010-02-24T00:28:00.000-08:00

1. Maruti Suzuki has recalled which hatchback car following a problem in its fuel tank?
ANS: A-STAR
2. Which company manufacture the car for Nissan under the brand name “PIXO”
ANS: MARUTI SUZUKI
3. In South America A-Star is known in what name?
ANS: SUZUKI CELERIO
4. Name the world’s tallest living dog and tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records?
ANS: George (GREAT DANE)
5. Bee TV a cell phone TV station founded by Avex and which company?
ANS:NTT DOCOMO INC
6. First comic book featuring which super hero sold for$1 million smashing the previous record price for a comic book?
ANS: SUPER MAN
7. Which Bangalore based Mobile handset retail chain that acquired Chennai based Wavetel for a consideration for 13 crores?
ANS: SANGEETHA
8. The unique identification Authority of India has selected which company as consultant to develop technological roadmap for its ambitious UID project?
ANS: ERNST AND YOUNG
9. Satyam computer service has filed lawsuit against the UK based which company?
ANS: UPAID SYSTEMS
10. CEO of Lloyds group?
ANS: DANIELS

WeDdInG BeLlS..............

2010-02-14T08:14:00.000-08:00

I stood there looking at the cross

A cold wind that touched me gently

The purity that held me in drapes

Diamonds that shone through its cuts finely

Alas! I felt I looked pretty

I closed my eyes in prayer

As I felt Gods will being in power

I had walked a mile holding his

Hand / He smiled happily

He knew he had to let go this once

And so he was ready to do so, peacefully

I followed his eyes across the room

Getting lost into those tiny beads

My heart skipped to musical beats

As I felt the stares that filled the room

Yet he stood there calmly

It all seemed as perfect as destiny

I seemed to have reached even before

I could freeze my steps to admire

Tears filled as I thought

This was indeed ‘the beauty of God’s blessing’

For -I had put up a calm fight

I knew the value of what I would be missing

If he didn’t stand beside me

If life had another truth so bare..

As chants filled the air

And songs added to the flair

I was lost in it like always

I felt accord with it in all ways

I focused at the cross again

Seeing it had finally happened

Then I realized a rare truth

“I had my whole world in my hand”

I was crowned and tied in a knot

My commitment for which I sought

For as it lay on my head

I saw the last wink of acceptance

So many witnessed it and so did they

Their tears that showed I was their life

For I was washed in their blood

And brought in their values

Tensions that crept their faces

Given a chance she would have flood

For she is the good old wife

I walked back happily

To be greeted by the smiles

Of all whom I loved so deeply

Flashes took away every second

Life’s so turned precious memories

Registered in my mind

I walked amidst the newly bond

Sparkling like a star

Proudly as I still held his hand

Finding my life at par

Being united with them

That I secretly loved and cared

Holding their raw gem

I silently promised

“I’ll only be his”

N then the heavens poured

We all believed we had been blessed

For our Life had nothing more to miss

Than this heavenly bliss…..

ViNiThA.......

mAtHaN ThE QuIzZeR.......

2010-02-11T20:21:00.000-08:00

1. Which company has acquired Canada-based consulting and engineering services company Brainhunter for Canadian $35 million?

ANS: ZYLOG SYSTEMS

2. Which well known business personality last week unveiled his latest gadget – an underwater plane?
ANS: RICHARD BRANSON

3. Which MNC introduced a new Smartphone series 'Liquid’?
ANS: ACER

4. Which spa in India has been ranked as the second best hotel spa in Asia by the Conde Naste Traveller’s Readers’ Spa Awards 2010?
ANS: OBEROI SPA

5. Which company acquired online bus booking firm Ticket value .com?
ANS: MAKE MY TRIP

6. What is special about ‘LIFE CYCLE” a new mall in Pune?
ANS: A MALL EXCLUSIVE FOR BIBYCLES

7. Which company is the world’s largest liquor maker?
ANS: DIAGEO

8. Who is the current International Olympic Committee president?
ANS: JACQUES ROGGE

9. Which Indian American has won Daniel pearl Memorial journalism intern award which allows him to work with “wall street journal”
ANS: DEVIN BANERJEE

10. Which person would receive this year’s citizen extra ordinary award?
ANS: NANDAN NILEKANI

MaThAn tHe QuIzZeR (11-2-10)

2010-02-11T00:06:00.000-08:00

1. What do you call a person who eats whatever he or she can find, particularly food that has been discarded?
ANS: OPPORTUNIVORE

2. What is the name of the new F1 car that Force India team will use in this season?
ANS: VJM03

3. Name the 5000km range missile that India would test it for the first time?
ANS: AGNI-V

4. Name the English film featuring chaiya chaiya track?
ANS: THE INSIDE MAN

5. Brand associated with Al Gore’s "The climate change"?
ANS: LOUIS VITTAN

6. In Cuba what are known as yank Thanks?
ANS: CLASSIC CARS

7. Name the co founder of Google?
ANS: SERGEY BRIN

8. India would acquire 12 AW-101 helicopters from which Italian company?
ANS : AGUSTA WESTLAND

9. Name the 110 cc motorcycle launched by Honda Motor Cycle And Scooter India?
ANS: CB TWISTER

10. Which university opened 6 new FM radio station in India adding it to its total 37 radio stations?
ANS: INDIRA GANDHI OPEN UNIVERSITY

Heaven Vs Hell

2010-02-10T22:17:00.000-08:00

If there really is no Hell, then where do unrepentant sinners go when they die? Do you think YAHUVEH would let them into Heaven?

[Please Note: There has been much debate whether this is real or not. We are not saying it is real or not but we feel it is important enough to post it and let you the reader decide.]

These details are from the translation of an article in a Finnish newspaper named 'Ammennusatia'.

A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth's deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth's surface.

'The information we are gathering is so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there,' stated Dr Azzacov, the manager of the project in remote Siberia.

'The second surprise was the high temperature they discovered in the earth's center. 'The calculations indicate the given temperature was about 1,100 degrees Celsius, or over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit,' Azzacov pointed out. 'This is far more then we expected. It seems almost like an inferno of fire is brutally going on in the center of the earth.

'The last discovery was nevertheless the most shocking to our ears, so much so that the scientists are afraid to continue the project. We tried to listen to the earth's movements at certain intervals with supersensitive microphones, which were let down through the hole. What we heard turned those logically thinking scientists into a trembling ruins. It was a sometimes a weak, but high pitched sound which we thought to be coming from our own equipment,' explained Dr Azzacov.

'But after some adjustments we comprehended that indeed the sound came from the earth's interior. We could hardly believe our own ears. We heard a human voice, screaming in pain. Even though one voice was discernible, we could hear thousands, perhaps millions, in the background, of suffering souls screaming. After this ghastly discovery, about half of the scientists quit because of fear. Hopefully, that which is down there will stay there,' Dr Azzacov added.

'What really unnerved the Soviets, apart from the voice recordings, was the appearance that same night of a fountainhead of luminous gas shooting up from the drill site, and out of the midst of this incandescent cloud pillar a brilliant being with bat wings revealed itself with the words (in Russian): 'I have conquered,' emblazoned against the dark Siberian sky.

'The incident was absolutely unreal; the Soviets cried out in terror,' says Mr. Nummedal. Later that night, he saw ambulance crews circulating in the community. A driver he knew told him that they had been told to sedate everybody with a medication known to erase short term memory. The Soviets use this drug in the treatment of shock victims.

"As a communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now believe in hell," said Dr. Azzacove. "Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of Hell!"

Dr. Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."

"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment."

"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!

* * * * * * *

Do you know why Jacques Costeau, the famous underwater explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime before he died? It is said that he stopped because he had heard in one of the underwater caves he was exploring, the sounds of people screaming.

There was also another time, when one of his men, who was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda Triangle, also had a similar experience. He signaled to be brought up immediately. After being revived from his shock, he told others of his frightening experience of hearing "Screams of people in pain".

MaNoJ...

ThE dAyS ArE GoNe....

2010-02-08T21:54:00.000-08:00

The days are gone but the remembrances still spiralling around me
The life is gone but the remembrance is with me
Sandwiched with gladness and poignant feelings
The ebb and flow of life is still a mystery to me
The mystery of a child standing in front of the corridor of the world
Wondering what to do..
That’s life.......
It can`t be measurable
But still there is something stuck with me
The throbbing of pain in the pertrurbance of the life
Wondering what to do
The innocence at the same time guilt
That prevents me to get into the world...
But the heart of the child lost from me
And waiting for it to come.....

SuPrAbHa.......