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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YMSHs4eCp7ImA9WhRaFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541807</id><updated>2012-02-18T02:09:49.530+05:30</updated><title>Arena</title><subtitle type="html">Arena is the platform i choose to express my thoughts,feelings like morpheous said 'Free your mind'.
Never forget about the disclaimer, here it goes  "The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of my employers and its affiliates. The views and opinions expressed by visitors to this blog are theirs and do not necessarily reflect mine."</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://minearena.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://minearena.blogspot.com/" /><author><name>Tanmoy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07779945099198784002</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/Vucrj" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/vucrj" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0ABR3wyfyp7ImA9WhRWEUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541807.post-5249228684935744169</id><published>2011-12-29T22:56:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2011-12-29T22:59:16.297+05:30</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-29T22:59:16.297+05:30</app:edited><title>Can you share this ?</title><content type="html">A Message from Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder. Please help if you can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear TANMOY,&lt;br /&gt;Here's how the Wikipedia fundraiser works: Every year we raise just the funds that we need, and then we stop.&lt;br /&gt;Because you and so many other Wikipedia readers donated over the past weeks, we are very close to raising our goal for this year by December 31 -- but we're not quite there yet.&lt;br /&gt;You've already done your part this year. Thank you so much. But you can help us again by forwarding this email to a friend who you know relies on Wikipedia and asking that person to help us reach our goal today by &lt;a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1227_EMR_JW/en/US?uselang=en&amp;amp;utm_campaign=20111228EM2.en.US&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_source=email2.USD.10" target="_blank"&gt;clicking here and making a donation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If everyone reading this email forwarded it to just one friend, we think that would be enough to let us end the fundraiser today.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, we wouldn't turn you down if you wanted to &lt;a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1227_EMR_JW/en/US?uselang=en&amp;amp;utm_campaign=20111228EM2.en.US&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_source=email2.USD.10" target="_blank"&gt;make a second donation or a monthly gift&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 470 million different people every month – with billions of page views.&lt;br /&gt;Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others.&lt;br /&gt;When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1227_EMR_JW/en/US?uselang=en&amp;amp;utm_campaign=20111228EM2.en.US&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_source=email2.USD.10" target="_blank"&gt;Thanks again for your support this year. Please help spread the word by forwarding this email to someone you know.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks,&lt;br /&gt;Jimmy Wales&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia Founder&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25541807-5249228684935744169?l=minearena.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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As I write up this, the FIFA World Cup ’2006 reached in its final stage. The Quarter final matches are going on. And it’s only 7 days away to get to know the best team of the world for the next 4 years. For me it’s the 6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; world cup starting from 1986. The game has been changed since then. FIFA continuously experiments with the Game to make it more enjoyable for us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;This world cup as I see is bit different then others. No one is playing defensive now a day; every team is giving more importance to attacking. This makes the game more exciting than ever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;This would be the last world cup for many of legends&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Fugo, Zidane, Rolando, Beckham, Cafu to name a few and also starting of new comers like Robinho, Ronaldiho, Kaka, Messi, &lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Riquelme, Podolski etc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Like many others &lt;/span&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Brazil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt; is my favorite team. Next is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;. Both of teams are playing well and there are chances that final may be a repetitions of last world cup. We can only hope at this point. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;If we analyze the two teams now, FIFA rank 1 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Brazil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt; are on a great shape. Though they have not played there best games yet, but they proved that they are ahead of other’s while scoring goals. Their last defeat in the competition was against &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt; in the 1998 final. That proves their position in the world arena.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt; showed their metal under effective guidance of coach &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;Jürgen Klinsmann called as "Golden Bomber". They are full of &lt;/span&gt;energy and enthusiasm&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt; &lt;span lang="EN"&gt;and would have the advantage of playing their home ground. They have already showcased great football and the way they cameback even after 1 goal down with Argentina in their quaterfinal match, to make a equilizer and won the game through penalty shoot outs only proves their ability to won the world cup. It would be a great final if both the team makes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN"  style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Tonight there is big match. France vs Brazil. I remember the 1998 world cup when Brazil looses to France by 3-0. This would be a great change for Brazil to take sweet revenge of 1998 defeat. France too after their win over spain, is in great sprit. This would be an exciting battle to watch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Lets pray for Brazil !! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;If you are here and don’t know what soccer is, please go through &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fifa.com/en/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25541807-115176459015862978?l=minearena.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/60EWMwnUjNdsbfC_McqCdnEwDPg/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/60EWMwnUjNdsbfC_McqCdnEwDPg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/Vucrj/~4/I0e6D5gbVTQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://minearena.blogspot.com/feeds/115176459015862978/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25541807&amp;postID=115176459015862978" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25541807/posts/default/115176459015862978?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25541807/posts/default/115176459015862978?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Vucrj/~3/I0e6D5gbVTQ/soccer-madness.html" title="Soccer Madness" /><author><name>Tanmoy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07779945099198784002</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://minearena.blogspot.com/2006/07/soccer-madness.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DU4NSXg6fyp7ImA9WBBQFkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541807.post-114822591019490020</id><published>2006-05-21T20:53:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-11-16T00:43:18.617+05:30</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-11-16T00:43:18.617+05:30</app:edited><title>What to do next ?</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ever ending question with never ending answer. This is more evident to the young minds who are off the college and don’t know what to do next. Reality of life is totally different than our school/college days. Most of us spend our days happily because of our parents. But as soon as your study got over it’s time to take care of yourself. We always have the dilemma of what to do ? Though we have lot’s of options now a days but competition are more too. Lets categorize the options ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Move to IT /BPO&lt;br /&gt;2. MBA after graduation/ having work exp&lt;br /&gt;3. Join Service Industry&lt;br /&gt;4. Govt/Private jobs other than IT&lt;br /&gt;5. Do something different..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Career shift to IT are the most preferred options now a days. The attractive pay package, Corporate culture with comfortable work schedule, future prospects, flying high are the main key for this. But you need skills, mindset to excel. Getting a job in this segment for fresher’s is always tough, You need to try harder and has to be ready to stretch more in the initial days. The underlying base for this segment evolves day by day, so people needs to keep them updated with the latest happening in this area to sustain themselves as competition grows day by day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For BPO it’s a different ball game. You need communication skills and has to be agreed to work in odd hours. For non-engineering graduate this was a welcome change. Now lots of engineering graduates too works in that segment in various position from junior level to senior level stuffs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After you are settled in your own field, its time to climb up the ladder. And there you may need additional skills, although its not necessary always. A loyal and smart worker in any company will surely get the higher positions after a certain periods of time. Only catch is, it may take a very long time. But it’s not true for different business verticals where you need to know underlying business prospects, history and the managing trade offs. Then you need additional skills like MBA (Master of Business Administration). There are numerous institution available, however it will surely paid off if you get your MBA from the reputed institutions like IIM. Globalization seems change this also. Lots of Universities from all over the world tap for Indian student, it’s a very lucrative business from them and good for us too. You will get international exposure and all together different environment rather than Indian Universities. And if all goes well you could be end up working abroad with your dream company. But it requires a good GMAT score, work experience, scholarship or finance from Bank. It’s a bit costly affair. Amit (http://wafter.blogdrive.com/) has put a great details on this ‘My take on the B-school apping process’ which can be a very good reference for people who are interested to pursue their MBA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next big thing is the Service industry. There are lots of scope there to establish yourself from Retail , Media to Engg Services. You may well get a opportunity in Egg service division after your Engg graduation Or for non engg graduate there are Retails, Media , Entertainment industry which are growing up rapidly. You need a great deal of communication skills , attitude and knowledge of the same industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Govt job is not lucrative now a days. Except IAS and IPS which are dream jobs for most of the people. The preparation is so rigorous that most of the aspirants loose the track often. It needs years of preparation, dedication to become an IAS or IPS. Nothing is impossible if you go die hard for this. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Private job has its own flair. I am talking about jobs other than IT. A job in DRDO, HAL , NTPC Army and other numerous Govt undertaking companies are prestegious. However, competition are high for this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now what’s next ? Doing something different from others will be always tough if you don’t have the proper planning or financial help. It may not be financially a very good option always but the satisfaction is worthy. You can be a singer or RJ or working in some NGO. Lastly it’s your life, you have to decide where to move into. We can only help showing the options. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25541807-114822591019490020?l=minearena.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/du42qEDNXkAz-jlmmqF3VWg-l4I/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/du42qEDNXkAz-jlmmqF3VWg-l4I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/Vucrj/~4/nri2JQzXQUI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://minearena.blogspot.com/feeds/114639961135596756/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25541807&amp;postID=114639961135596756" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25541807/posts/default/114639961135596756?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25541807/posts/default/114639961135596756?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Vucrj/~3/nri2JQzXQUI/nit-agartala.html" title="NIT Agartala" /><author><name>Tanmoy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07779945099198784002</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://minearena.blogspot.com/2006/04/nit-agartala.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DU4NSX08eip7ImA9WBBQFkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541807.post-114528505718354286</id><published>2006-04-17T20:09:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-11-16T00:43:18.372+05:30</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-11-16T00:43:18.372+05:30</app:edited><title>What i am doing ?</title><content type="html">Vacation time. So people are asking what i am doing ? Here goes the answer ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read all the books ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/1600/DSC00494.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/320/DSC00494.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watched MacGyver ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/1600/DSC00495.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/320/DSC00495.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Played with Shuvam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/1600/DSC00497.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/320/DSC00497.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Climbed up here ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/1600/DSC00505.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6899/2670/320/DSC00505.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had great food everyday !! Mom's Care. Spend time with buddies and its time to return ..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25541807-114528505718354286?l=minearena.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Pretty much excited that Stone is back with her tricks. Little I know that it could be a disaster for the Catherine, (the character Stone portrays on Basic Instinct) we know for long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 years ago when the first part (at that time it’s was not known about any plan of a sequel) was released In India, it had created eyebrows among the Indian viewers, in other words it was the first entry towards adulteration for many young people. The story behind has everything one can imagine of, strong violence and sensuality, drug use and lots of skin showing. Popularity of this type of content to movie buffs in general, are evident on IMDB review of Basic Instinct. It was indeed a well-planned cat-and-mouse erotic thriller where you need to concentrate to understand how Catherine Tramell a.k.a Sharon Stone was controlling the story, there by writing her book ‘Shooter’. Certain viewers were in huge disagreements over who the killer in the film really was. It wasn't until Paul Verhoeven the director and stars went public in interviews, telling the public who the killer was and where the clues could be found, that the debate about the ending finally was put to rest. Stone became famous for this role and she did admit one for interview with CNBC 18 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;It was the character that everyone identified me with because before I played this part, people didn't know who I was as an actor ..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The film was history for the superb performance by Stone and Douglas with a perfect direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It started with a accident, as Stone driving her car off a bridge during wild sex. Stone survived and put to trial as the accident proves to be a planned murder. Police investigation put Catherine against a psychiatrist, played by David Morrissey, who is fascinated by her and the game of seduction begins. The show as I thought was houseful and the crowd was mostly young except one or two families. As Stone appears on the first scene the reaction was amid. She still has the glamour, which earns her instant fame way back on 1992. But its 2006 and Stone is at 48. The movie was boring at some point of time with more mind game than showing, heavier acting and terrible dialogue. It has less surprise being a sequel and a bad storytelling, which makes you laugh at wrong places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can only hope there wont be any more sequel on this. Stone a MENSA member a.ka. Catherine at 48,had a perfect time to get caught, punished by law and die or life sentenced, story ends. Rumors that Stone herself will direct the next one, good decision I could say seeing her age. No one wants Catherine of 1992 looks terrible on the screen. We remembered 'Shooters' not the 'Risk Analyst'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25541807-114502608741961868?l=minearena.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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