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Versatile Blogger Award

2011-12-15T19:36:00.000+05:00

Wow! These are the moments that make us felt worth enough and to keep blogging and giving something for our readers.

Amira, mindblur.wordpress.com gave me the second award of Versatile Blogger Award. It is a surprise! Mainly because I haven’t updated here that often and it was just recently I updated this with just a few lines of “how to” post and here I am with a blogger award on my hand and as happy as a small kid just got a lollipop.

Let me thank once again mindblur.wordpress.com aka Amira for the lovely award and I really appreciate it.

Now lets do the honor.

Number 1: 

I have to thank Amira and I did already above but let me say thank you very much again.

Number 2:

I will need to share 7 random things about me. This is not easy and I haven’t actually shared that much about me but I guess it is time to share 7 random facts me.

I am the eldest of my family. I have three brothers and the youngest is a sister. So yes we are four boys and a sister.
I am 26 years old and happily married to the world’s kindest and most loving person.
I am using a macbook of last 7 years and still feels like I bought this sweetheart just day before yesterday.
I have an obsession of buying notebooks whenever I go to a bookshop.
I have a balcony garden that I started from scratch and now it looks just like a real balcony garden.
I go to very few restaurants for my dinner. Most of those restaurant’s waiters know me and treat me like a VIP.
I moved out from my parents when I was 21 years and have been living by myself since then. Of course now with my wife. ☺

Phew! That was hard. But I guess I did it and all those are 110% truth about me.

Number 3:

Nominate 15 fellow bloggers for this award, briefly stating why. I am not really familiar with a lot of bloggers and only recently started exploring the actual blogger world.

So I would like to keep this number 3 for a later post and I promise to nominate 15 bloggers for this award in a very near future.

Once again thanking Amira for the wonderful award.

If you haven’t visited her blog, I really think its time you should.

I will be creating a new page on this blog for my awards. It feels just like creating a new showcase for all my awards.

I will keep all my awards there and you all are welcome to pay a visit.

Until next time, keep rocking.

How To Convert Screenshot To A JPG (Mac Users)

2011-12-09T12:12:00.001+05:00

I have been using my macbook from 2005 til today. But I know very few shortcuts and for all these years, I have only been using this to watch movies, listen songs and internet surfing. I had no time to use this for any other way.

But until recently when I started blogging seriously, I needed to know more about macs and its shortcuts. As a mac user for all these years and know so little about it, it feels a bit ashamed to call my self as a “mac user”

Today I am going depth to explore different features of the applications and would like to share my experience here with you all.

I am sure there will be many more mac users like me and who are to lazy to search for new features. So let me make it easy for you and share my experience step by step.

When I blog, I sometimes need to convert a screenshots and share it on my blog so that it will be easy for my readers and it is way easy to explain something by an image rather than trying to explain it in many sentences. So I always need to do printscreen and convert that print screen in to a jpg and share it on blog.

Now lets start.

You want to screen shot a certain page and share it on somewhere in the form of jpg or pdf. It is way easier than you think.

Cmd+Ctrl+Shift 3

Now your screenshot will be saved and you need to open your word document and paste it  Cmd + v

Crop it the way you want it and any other edits you want to bring for your image. (make sure it is on the right size)

Right click on the image and choose “save as picture”

Save the document on any format and anywhere you want to.

Simple and quick.

Enjoy! Until next time, keep exploring.

Below is a sample shot!

How to Convert Youtube Videos to MP3

2011-08-29T09:00:00.028+05:00

With high demand on “Ehandhaanugai Retro” songs, I thought why not tell you how to convert youtube videos to MP3 with in 7 easy steps. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to buy audio CD’s from MNBC Store. Simply follow the below instructions and listen to these songs or to play from your mobile or on your laptop. The majority already will be aware of how to convert youtube to MP3. But I am sure there are few out there who would like to know these easy steps.

I know it is not legal and not even ethical to convert a youtube video to a MP3 song and listen to that song without spending a penny. But as a blogger who provides information on how to manage your personal finance, I think this will be helpful and useful to all of you.

Step 1: Click this link YoutubeMP3. You will be directed to YouTube-mp3.org online service as shown below.

Step 1

Step 2: Search for Youtube video you would like to convert and copy the URL of Youtube web page as shown below.

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Step 3: Paste the URL on YouTube-mp3.org and click “Convert Video”

Step 3

Step 4: Your video will be successfully converted to MP3 within seconds and you will be asked to download the song. Simply slick the “download” link.

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Step 5: Save file to the desired folder or simply click “OK”

Step 6: Your video is downloaded and click “Open Containing Folder” to find the song

Step 7: Play with your preferred media player and Enjoy!

Movie Review: The Next Three Days

2011-08-21T09:00:00.005+05:00

My Ratings: 5/5

The movie begins with a normal couple of John Brennan (Russell Crowe) and Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) having dinner with friends. What they don’t know is from next morning onwards their life is going to change upside down. Lara is being accused of killing her boss and taking away from her son in front of her husband and son.

The perfect couple’s life changed completely when Lara is being sentenced to jail for 20 years. John, an ordinary schoolteacher became a fulltime parent for his son. Police found the evidence as blood on Lara’s coat and her fingerprint is on the murder weapon. Her co-worker seen her leaving the murder scene and there is no way to escape from the convicted murder case other than serving a 20 years jail time.

But John believes on his wife’s innocence and she cannot murder someone. He questions about how someone can kills a person and goes for dinner with her husband and not other than a psychopath can do that and his wife’s is not that person. That leaves John with two options. Waiting for 20 years for his wife to come out from jail or get her out of there.

There are many moments on this movie that your eyes are filled with tears. One of such scene is when John says goodbye to his father and mother before escaping. His father knew that he is not going to get to see his son for a very long time and his mom don’t know a thing about it. Russell Crow’s wonderful performance is filled with emotions and no any other actor can perform that well on that role. How he struggled with life’s every obstacles when the reality and truth of his life is playing a life and death drama with him. How an ordinary citizen is being forced to change to a felony in order to save his family.

When he finds out about Damon Pennington (Liam Neeson). Author of a novel “Over the Walls” and he was a felony who escaped from jail seven times. Damon was on a single scene of the movie and that is when he meets with John. John interviews with Damon about how he escaped from jail seven times and how he do it. Damon answered his questioned with a question for John. “Ask yourself first if you can do it. Can you forget about seeing your parents for the rest of your life? Can you kill a guard? That’s who you have you have to become. If you cant do it then don’t start.”

John was beaten to death several times and is being followed from gangsters when he approached for new passports, driver’s license and social security numbers. The movie shows how he struggles to succeed with his plan and after years of planning, one day he became to know that she is going to be transferred to another jail with in next three days and that leaves John with no choice other than to implement his plan no matter what happens and he has only 72 hours to do it. There are many scenes on this movie that you will think that John is going to get caught and he can’t make it. But he fights back on every obstacle that comes on his way. When it was time for Lara to escape with John, she first refuses to go with him. She says, “You are going to get us killed and I am not going with you”. The next question John asks from Sara made me shiver “Call your son and tell him that you are not coming. Tell him he is alone now and his mom and dad are not coming back”.

Will john be able to succeed with escaping his wife from jail and flee out of the country and find a new identity for his family and live happily ever after? Or is he going to get caught at the end?

Watch the movie for answers and to see if it is a happy ending or not. What I can promise you is that you will not be disappointed after watching this movie. I haven’t watched a movie twice this year other than this one. After watching this movie, you will ask yourself this question.

How far can I go to save everything I live for?

Picture of the Day

2011-08-18T11:11:00.000+05:00

Paradise Island Resort, Maldives

Why Do You Use Facebook?

2011-08-16T11:43:00.004+05:00

FB has grabbed a huge share on our daily lives and we are addicted to it. At work and before going to bed, we sneak for the latest status updates and profile pictures.

I’ve come up few of the reasons from A to Z why we use Facebook. Enjoy!

A. to chat

B. to stalk others

C. to pick girls or guys

D. to pretend you are not home alone and doing nothing

E. to play various games which leads no where

F. socialize with friends virtually

G. add as many as you can and stalk to their pictures

H. because everyone else uses it

I. to promote or market something

J. to beg for attention

K. to press the "like" button on everything everyone else does

L. to stare at your own profile picture

M. to hide how much problems you have in your life

N. because you are just bored and has nothing else to do

O. to see how many comments you get for your profile picture

P. because your own life sucks and wants to see how everyone else is doing

Q. to have a bit of fun while you are at work

R. to advertise your own wedding pictures

S. to stalk at your ex

T. to update your status in every five minutes

U. to show others how much you love your partner

W. to dig other's personal information

X. to get comments for your kid's picture (Eg: oh he is so cute)

Y. because you don’t know any other social network

Z. to be popular

So which one are you?

Picture of the Day: Sunset

2011-08-06T22:47:00.000+05:00

Sunset at Paradise Island Resort & Spa

Picture of the Day: Paradise Island Resort

2011-08-02T13:08:00.001+05:00

I will be showing you some of my captures as "Picture of the Day". This was from my Album of last weekend to Paradise Island Resort.

Ramazan Mubarak

2011-07-31T15:04:00.000+05:00

Tomorrow is the first day of Ramazan and I wish you all readers a very Happy Ramadan.

There are few of the scenes I am hoping would repeat this year also:

You will see excess of food items from every where. From your kitchen table to the mosque where you go for prayer.
Mosques full of people on the first ten days of the month and it will reduce to less than half on the last 10 days.
Local markets, corner shops, shopping centers full of people shopping for food related items and home appliances.
High tempered locals everywhere. (The Excuse: “I am fasting you idiot”!) As if the rest of us are not.
Youth’s motorbike rides every day evening around Male’ before fast breaking but with no purpose. Just for the sake of killing time by wasting expensive patrol/gas.

Basically your life will be on a slow motion throughout this month just like what they show on Hindi Drama series. If you want to go deposit some cash to Bank of Maldives, you will see half of the counters closed because it is Ramazan. If you have to go to a shopping mall where you buy a specific detergent powder which your wife usually use, you’ll see a huge queue of minimum 20 people with two to three baskets full of food items.

Yet we hear from every corner that how expensive a can of tuna is and they can’t afford it to buy. But we see excess of everything from everywhere. Excess of people from shopping malls to excess of food items on their basket yet we complain non stop about the economic down turn. But we don’t see that from around us.

A friend asked me yesterday what I did for this Ramazan. My response was I did nothing. I did not clean my apartment especially because it is the holy month of Ramazan. I did not buy excess of food items by expecting tuna cans will be out of stock after one week. I did not buy a new sofa because I will need to sit on my sofa more than I usually do on this month. For me it is same as yesterday. Maybe it is because I have no money to spend extra other than what I usually spend for. Or maybe I don’t understand the prime motive behind this. What ever it is I did nothing especially for this Ramadan.

Welcome to the month of slow motion. Ramazan Mubarak readers!

P.S. I have been trying to write a few posts but they are still on the bullet form on my writing pad. But I surely will post soon about my hideaway to one of the tourist resort in Maldives. I am excited to show you all those wonderful pictures I captured.

Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/asam/248894630/

Which part of the world are we living in?

2011-07-25T16:02:00.002+05:00

This is a real incident which happened to a work colleague of my wife.

Let’s call the victim as Miss B. Miss B is a full-time working mother and in her spare-time, she enjoys baking. I had a chance of tasting her birthday cake twice this year and I definitely loved it. It was so good and by looking at it you will realize that those are not the typical birthday cakes you get from bakeries. The taste of it proves that someone has put an extra effort in it.

So last week Miss B got a wedding cake order which is very unlikely because so far no one has placed an order to her. But due to the fact that she baked few cakes for office mates, she thought someone became to know about her cakes from a work colleague.

Now, the customer well explained about how they want the cake has to look like and about their expectation of every little things. As her first cake order, Miss B also doesn’t want her customer to be disappointed about the quality of the cake. It was a three layer cake with a lot of hard work. But with the help of her sisters and a huge sum of money, they finished the cake on time and it was time to collect the cake.

The mother of the customer came to collect the cake and it happened to be their long distance relative and it is her daughter who is getting married. So the mother came and was really impressed with the cake. While she walked out with the cake, Miss B heard the mother saying to her colleague that “See how generous they are. They did this cake to us for free”. Miss B was shocked with disappointment and told her that she never said that it was for free. What she said was she doesn’t know the exact price of the market and they can agree on a price after they see the final product.

Now it has been almost a week and Miss B hasn’t heard from the customer so far. Due to the fact that they are long distant relatives she is hesitant to call them because she doesn't want to make a scene. But she is worried that she spent a lot of money in it and there is no way she is going to recover financially anytime soon.

So this got me thinking “which part of the world are we living in that we are willing to free ride on every aspect of life”

Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7518775@N04/2757021844/

Weekend Movies

2011-07-24T16:45:00.000+05:00

Shor in the City

Rating: 3/5

This was my third Hindi Movie this year. Compared to the previous two movies (Dhobi Ghat and Udaan) I would rate this one as average. This might be one of the “watchable” movies of Tusshar Kapoor. Sendhil Ramamurthy performed well as usual with his performance on “Lost” and “Covert Affairs”.

The movie is about how we struggle and dealt with situation of life and how the result of these related situations effect with people around us. It is a very simple story but I am impressed with how they delivered it.

Shaitan

Rating: 3/5

A very young and talented cast I must say. I was very impressed with the performance of Kalki Koechlin. She was perfect. I watched her on DevD and the reason I decided to watch this movie was also her.

The movie is about a group of friends who met an accident and a cop blackmailed them for 25 lacks Rupees. They are being forced to pay him in order to avoid jail time and finally decided to fake a kidnap and how this plan turns in to a huge life threatening situations. Rajeev Khandelwal played the role of a cop and this was my first movie of him. I was impressed with his acting on this movie as a cop who has anger management issues.

You’ve Got Mail

Rating: 3/5

I started watching this movie yesterday night. But due to the late night and how much I was craving for my sleep, I decided to conclude and watched the rest of it last night. Maybe this isn’t the right decade to watch this movie due to the fact that this movie is about the technology and it was released on 1998. After more than 12 years it was a kind of a joke to watch it now.

But I am a huge fan of Tom Hanks and the movie is still watchable because of him and Meg Ryan. It is a very dramatic comedy of how “someone you pass on the street may already be the love of your life”. Also to mention that I find it a bit odd that Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) has eleven-year-old Aunt Annabel (Hallee Hirsh) and four-year-old brother Matthew (Jeffrey Scaperrotta). That was a bit disgusting to me when his father and grandfather have a four and eleven year old.

Other than that, I bet this will be a fun movie if I got a chance to watch this 12 years back.

Cop Out

Rating: 4/5

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan starring “Cop Out” is a perfect movie for a weekend night. Tracy Morgan’s non-stop humor made me watch this movie and Bruce Willis is still good with his action moves.

The movie is about these two NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card. This baseball card was Jimmy’s (Bruce Willis) one and only option to finance for his daughters wedding by selling it after he got suspended without pay for failing to capture a suspect of causing a disastrous neighborhood shootout and beating up a child.

It was a fun movie and from the beginning to end, you will find many hilarious situations of Tracy Morgan and few funny appearance of Seann William Scott. I recommend this movie for anyone who is a fan of Tracy Morgan and willing for a good laugh on a weekend.

The Joneses

Rating: 4/5

I watched this limited release on High Definition and I must say Demi Moore looks very appealing as usual. I loved the character of David Duchovny after his role as Hank Moody on “Californication”. He and Demi Moore made justice on this movie as well by acting as a group of “Stealth Marketers”

This movie is about Stealth Marketing (Under Cover Marketing) and how it effects negatively to a high income suburb when they do not realize they are being marketed to the most luxurious products on the market.

The Joneses are a group of these kind of Marketers who pretend to be a family and display their products from their clothing, accessories, furniture, food and basically from each and every gadget they use in their daily lives and recommending them to the suburbs. The movie is very attractive with these expensive gadgets and picture perfect suburb with the beautiful family of “The Joneses”. Especially Demi Moore I must mention.

You will learn a lesson from this movie that sometimes the Riches are not the happiest and they also have problems in their lives. This is a movie with a good message that materialism is not everything.

So what you guys did on this weekend and I have “The Kings Speech” “My Sister’s Keeper” and few other movies in line for next weekend.

Images taken from Google Images.

Does my motorbike looks like a trash bin to you?

2011-07-21T16:53:00.000+05:00

This is not the first time I am stuck with a trash can or a bottle in my motorbike basket. Every now and then a looser throws their trash to my basket and leaves it there.

I wonder about the mindless and selfish morons who are too lazy to move their ass’s to a bin. Yes I know for the fact that we don’t have dustbins around Male’ City. But when did it become my responsibility to trash you fagots empty can or bottle to a bin? Why can’t you be a responsible citizen for once in your life time and dispose your own trash can?

Do any of you have similar experience?

A Barrett’s Update

2011-07-20T16:58:00.001+05:00

Its being a while since you heard me ranting about my Barrett’s condition. I dedicate this post to the readers who want to know about my current situation and in general how things happening on this side of the world. Which basically means me and about myself.

As you may aware of I have explained well what Barrett’s is from this post and I expect now you have a clear idea of what it is and how it made my daily life to a living hell. But let me tell you that things have progressed and changed positively and I feel much better than how I felt a year back on March last year.

I still can remember of my situation on that specific period of time. There were days I was struggling to sit in my classroom due to the uneasiness of the stomach growling. For the fact that how much of an embarrassment it is I was always waiting for the breakpoint of when will I need to get out of the class room and go somewhere that no one can hear the disgusting sound of my stomach. There were many days of I could not control my mental stability due to the anxiety and left class. I faced a huge problem of not attending enough classes of 80% to get approved for the exam and had to explain about my health condition.

After more than a year, now I am taking 20mg of Nexium instead of 80mg a day. I’ve completed my Advance Diploma and it has being more than a year on my current job too. Things happened for the better and life evolved positively in more than I expected. There are few obstacles which I need to destroy. But when looking back to where I was on a year back, I am on a much better position today. Yes the growling is still there. But it does not affect to my daily lives and it is no more a daily habit of sitting inside the toilet until I feel fine. It comes and go once a while. I don’t have to excuse from a meeting because of the fear that other attendees will hear the sound of growling. It is not a daily worry of my life anymore.

Today life is good with a 20mg of Nexium a day with 8 hours of work, 1 hour gym + 1 hour yoga on 3 days of a week with good food, a caring partner and taking good care of own self.

The story behind my blog name

2011-07-08T01:42:00.000+05:00

The story starts as a beautiful evening of one day with the circle of friends having a cup of tea. I poured my need of starting a blog and in desperate need of a suitable and interesting name. That’s when the brain storming started and after a good portion of time, yet I wasn't satisfied with any of the suggestions they made. Almost they gave up on trying suddenly one suggested the name “vathuthashi”and it just hit me. That is the exact type of name I am looking for. That was love at first sight. I fell in love with my current blog name since then. Not to forget that I had to change the name few times due to some pathetic reasons.

The literal meaning of word “vathuthashi” is SAUCER. (It is a Dhivehi word if you are wondering what language it is) “SAUCER is a small type of dishware, a plate that is specifically used with and for supporting a cup. A cylindrical cup intended for coffee or a half-sphere tea cup of tea. (Source: Wikipedia)

So how come I decided to use the name “vathuthashi”? Saucer is something very unique for me and no one will assume that someone will use the name of “Saucer” as their blog name. (By the way, did you assume that the literal meaning of my blog name will be saucer? I guess not). That is the exact reason why I decided to use the name. Also I liked it because it sounds nice if you pronounce it correctly. “Vathuthashi” is something very useful and almost incomplete without of it when you have your cup of tea or coffee. We don’t normally appreciate the use of it because we don’t usually drink from saucer.

Long story short, I used this name because as a person I want to recognize and appreciate the little yet important things in life. I want to discuss and argue about those tiny and simple things that usually no one else’s eye catches on. As someone who doesn’t want to be on the center of attention, this is a good platform to share my thoughts anonymously.

(Image stole from Google and edited)

Dengue Fever Outbreak – Whom to blame?

2011-07-07T23:21:00.000+05:00

We faced a critical condition of a Dengue Fever (DF) outbreak all over the country with the current statistics of deaths of 7 children and 1 elder who died earlier this morning.

I am keeping a close eye on what media is reporting regarding the matter and its seriousness and as well the response of community and government. What I’ve read so far from different media is that no. of cases is not increasing rapidly. But I believe with the heavy rain of last two days, there is a possibility that these numbers will be sky rocketing with in next few days.

Community’s accusation is that government is not doing enough in order to control this virus. They are being busy counting on no. of heads that are infected rather than putting an effort to control spreading it. This is partly true.

On situations like these, I believe it has a huge role that a community can play in order to be prevented. We all have to agree on the fact that no government can spray mosquito repellent to every household individually.

As there is no way to tell if a mosquito is carrying the dengue virus, people must protect themselves from mosquito bites. The highly domestic mosquito AEDES AEGUPTI rests indoors. In closet and other dark places. In outside it rests where it is cool and shaded. The female mosquito lays her egg in water container in and around houses and other dwelling. These eggs will develop become larvae and further develops in to adults in about 10 days.

Male’ (capital city of Maldives) became a concrete jungle and there are construction works going on 24/7 almost every day and there are many concrete sheets which are ready for mosquitoes to lay their eggs on. As someone who worked in the construction industry for several years, I have a basic understanding of how long these concrete sheets are kept on water. Normally they will water for a concrete sheet for minimum of 10 days in order to strengthen the concrete. It is a normal procedure every contractor will follow.

Now 10 days is more than enough for a mosquito to lay eggs and develop in to an adult to be ready for spreading the disease. We are still blaming of the government. We don’t even care to check on our roof top concrete sheet or pot of plant to make sure that no mosquito larva is present. We are being too lazy and expecting that our whole life is a government’s responsibility.

Dengue does not spread directly from person to person. It only spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito. It is time to stop accusing the government and spread the word about the seriousness of this outbreak before we lose another life.

Awareness and prevention is the key.

S.E.X

2011-06-30T17:14:00.000+05:00

Few days back I was back from work. Exhausted and was flipping channels when my wife wants to watch the movie “Sex and the city 2”. I agreed to it not because I want to watch that movie, but because I had no interest of watching anything. It took a while for her to fast forward and resume where she ended previously. Basically the movie is full of crap which involves everything about sex. Just simple facts of life become complicated when it is with these old women who are on their menopause.

On this post I am not planning to talk about the movie “Sex and the city”. But about the three words that is in our mind 24/7. S.E.X. Not the city.

There was a time it was sacred in our community to talk and discuss about sex publicly. But it is up side down on today’s “Sex and the city” modern environment. Every where around you, you are forced to see something related to sex. From roadside billboard to TV programs you watch.

Today, we rarely get to listen to a song with good lyrics. Music also has become sex or something that doesn’t make any sense. Good examples of this category are lyrics of Snoop Dog, Akon, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga and so on. I honestly have nothing against with these artists. Not have being a huge fan ever. But what I don’t understand is why it all has to be about fucking and punching.

My point is when we talk about these famous female artists, it seems they are on a huge competition of who can reveal their clothes better and the more you show your skin, the better it gets. I want you to open a new tab and youtube some of these artists latest videos. Especially of Rihanna, Britney Spears, J LO, Lady Gaga and Beyonce’. I might miss some of the top characters on this category on today’s environment. (Not a fan of them but you guys are most welcome to add any to that list) Of course we as guys love to watch those sexy moves. But when we think from a matured and normal mind, is this the right message we want to carry with us for our next generation. I don’t think any parents wants their twelve year old daughter to dress like Beyonce’ on Single Ladies and come in front of you. But the reality is that is the message we are giving to our daughters. The message that sex is about everything. From the way you dress to the subject you study in class. Whom to blame? The directors of these music videos and movies or the artists and actors who are in it for fame, money and success. Or is it about us. Aren’t we the one who to blame? Us as the society. If we did not support for these, do you think SEX would become one of the world’s most profitable industry. I doubt it and I hope not.

The reality is we all are blind folded and craving for sex. Our genitals are begging for the dose. If we did not get that dose from home, we are willing to get it from anywhere possible. I am not going to go on the details of the possible ways to quench this thirst. But the truth and bottom line is we all are addicted for it. At work we sneak peak to a porn site. At home we stare at Kim Kardashian’s big booty from channel "E". With this addiction how can we concentrate on other things on our daily lives? Things those are more important than the sexual desire.

It is really sad and we shouldn’t be ashamed of ourselves to talk about this sickness of us. This is the truth and it shouldn’t be sacred to talk about what we put ourselves in to. I am not saying this is something we should totally be ignored from our lives. Of course it is a basic need for us as mentioned on Hertzberg’s 'hygiene' needs. But we shouldn’t ignore the rest of the priorities of our lives. We should start encouraging ourselves not to watch that Kim Kardashian’s booty show in front of our kids. Or watch that music videos and TV series “Californication”.

Let’s take few seconds from our busy lives and think about this issue for just few seconds. If we start thinking about SEX and THE CITY together at the same time, I am sure we can bring some good changes around us.

Assessment Fever

2011-06-14T13:21:00.003+05:00

It has being more than a year since I’ve being asked to do these trainings. Now that it will effect to my performance evaluation form, I’m forced to complete it before end of this month and submit all the certificates.

This is just one and I have 8 more other online trainings to do. (It might be more than 8, haven't yet checked) Each training takes about 2 to 4 hours. While doing my daily tasks, this is nothing easy to do. I was never good with MCQ’s and I don’t know how I am gonna get through this time. Unless I pay someone to do it for me and that will cost me a good fortune of meal for every exam.

Update 1: I guess that was better than previous attempt.

Third Attempt. Improving.....!

Just an observation

2011-06-06T18:34:00.001+05:00

There are two types of students who come out from an examination hall. The ones who likes to wait in front of that hall and discuss about the paper and bring the “I wish” word for one hundred times by hoping that what ever they wrote on that paper will change miraculously.

The rest of them are those who don’t bother of discussing what they wrote on their paper and rush to disappear. They know no matter how much they discuss about that paper, nothing will change from the answer booklet.

One down, two more to go

2011-06-06T18:16:00.000+05:00

So as you may have seen from my count down, my final exams started today. I am on leave for more than a week now and I am supposed to be studying for my exam. But honestly I am not. Every time I sit to study, I find one hundred thousand other things to do. Like oh well I haven’t checked today’s news. What is on facebook? Do I have any new emails? So it is much more like to do everything else other than studying.

This is my last semester of my advance diploma and I wanted to work hard for a good grades. But as usual things weren’t happening as planned. As of today’s exam, I studied few topics that I was almost sure that would come on exam. But guess what? Not even a fucking single question was there from the topics. Just the random human resources strategic shit I obviously don’t know much about. I don’t want to bring a “fail” on my last semester. I have got through on previous four semesters and I hope it brings the favor this time also.

So one is down and two more to go. I can’t wait to be over with this semester. It is a long wait of two and half years. I want to sleep and wake up of Friday after 5pm.

Time to find my books of next two exams.

We hear what we want to listen only

2011-05-31T16:39:00.001+05:00

It is a normal day of studying for exam and my father gave me a call and asking for a favor. A favor of something I can do only while I am at work. So I told him that I am on “Study Leave” and I might not be able to do it. But I said somehow I will email it to him sometime tonight.

The problem solved and I got back with my studies again. After few minutes another phone call from my father again. This time asking for a favor of dropping by to his office for some random work which anyone else also can do. But his conversation was somewhat like this. “Son, since you are on leave, can you come by to office right now and do a random work which anyone can do for me”

My reply was “Dad, yes I am on leave but it is a “Study Leave” and I have to sit for my final exam on next week”

“Oh, okay. I thought you said you are on leave”

As usual, we only hear the part that we want to listen. Which is on this conversation “Leave”. Which means I am off from work and supposedly to be free.

Final exam - After 18 days

2011-05-18T12:52:00.000+05:00

A crappy picture from my mobile

This is the last semester of my advance diploma and it is the end of a journey I have started on two and half years back. I still can remember the day I decided that I am going to join on this program and how I have planned the next five years or so from my life with in five minutes.

But I am glad I made that decision and thanks to my wonderful friends. I couldn’t ask for more from you guys. I am happy how things turned out on the last two and half years. I have improved and developed myself in so many ways. I still have few more steps to climb on before I want to look back and measure my performance and what I have achieved. I know that the next few steps will be the toughest ones and I have to be ready for it, mentally and physically.

Some of the plans didn’t go as planned, but I have no regrets. I know things turned out for the better and I am extremely happy of where I am today. For the fact that I planned to finance for my final year by the help of my family, but with the current economic crisis of the country it is almost impossible. So the only option I have now is to apply for as many scholarships as I can by hoping that I will get selected for one soon. But the basic criteria of the most government scholarships have far beyond of my qualifications. Today I am not going to complain about the fact that government has no scholarships for mature students like us who are above 25 years. But holds a diploma and advance diploma and still struggles for their undergraduate degree.

I hope things turn out well with me and I will be getting a chance to pursue my undergraduate degree soon and not have to wait until I am 35. As for now I have to focus on my final exam which is going to be starting on 6^th June. I will be taking leave from work on 29^th of May and just a week before I sit for my first paper.

I hope things turn out well just like old times.

CRUNCHED!

2011-05-12T23:39:00.000+05:00

I know it has taken long enough till my last post. It is not that I haven’t tried to write anything. I have written a few blog posts, but after a very careful consideration I decided to delete those posts or not to post what I wrote her at all. The reason is because my blog is not an anonymous one anymore. A lot of my friends and people who know me became to know about my blog and it restricts the topics I intended to talk here.

It bothers to know that what I write here effects to the people around me and it doesn’t feel right at all to write what ever I feel like to. I have written more than five blog posts with in last month. Some are while I was in class with a boring lecture. Also some are while at office or in a meeting. The bits and pieces are somewhere in a notebook or in a piece of paper. I don’t bother to gather all and post it in here. Because I know that the outcome by posting those will not be positive.

So maybe the topics about relationships, marriages or any other critical social related issues are over. I know that for the past year or so also I haven’t write any such posts. The blog started to become really dull and boring with the random I am back and life is busy posts. Maybe I need to reborn my blog with some changes.

I have few deadlines at the end of this month and also with first two weeks of next month. Maybe by then I will come back with something better than these dull posts.

Viewer discretion is advised to view this video

2011-05-02T22:25:00.000+05:00

This is a video showing a little baby is being abused by a women. I couldn't watch it for more than once. It is really very sad such a horrible incidents are happening on our daily lives and it is being said, this is very common in Asia. We all should stand against this. The comment below on youtube are the perfect words I want to express about this.

"If I could I would take this bitch and hang her From her tongue with barbed wire and beat her with a base ball bat with spikes, I would pause to laugh at her wile she utterly chokes on her blood that's draining from her mouth and then spray her with freezing cold water until she starts bleeding, then I would stick nails in her entire body and laugh. Thumbs up if u would do the same.

One question, why didn't u stop her??? U could have at least have thrown a rock at the bitch's head or something"

This will make you fall asleep with in seconds

2011-05-02T21:32:00.000+05:00

The most relaxing sound you can choose to listen while you have a busy day at work.
The sound of rain. Enjoy!

Self Exhaustion

2011-03-17T16:41:00.000+05:00

It is more than a month since my last post. Day’s passes by so quickly that it feels like you are a day behind when you close and open your eyes. For the fact that how busy my life is these days, there is no point of re-writing it all over again.

Few days back an office colleague came to our unit for an international interview and for some reason she had to use my computer and saw on the most recent websites I use includes my blog as well. She asked me the question of do we have time to blog with our busy daily schedules. Well, that made me thinking about it and the answer is I never was a regular blogger other than my random thoughts about anything once a while in every month. But I always have a look at my blog everyday and try to least have a look of the blogs I follow. There was a time when I use to read all the blogs I follow regularly every day. But it has been a while since I had time to ready any of the blog. I miss reading and writing blog. It is one of the things which I like doing for the sake of my self. It makes my mind free from anything when I talk about my thoughts in here and the fact that I know there is no one to judge me. But it takes mental and physical inspiration to write. There are a lot of things I want to talk about in here. As what happens with almost everyone, my most valuable thoughts also comes in when I am on bed to sleep or on taking a shower. And as soon I am done with it, the courage of writing something is not there. Sometimes it feels like I need to have a pen and paper in my brain, so that I can write it and keep it and when ever I am in the mood I can write about it in here.

Now I doubt that I can stick with my resolution for the year 2011. Already I am way behind it and it takes months for me to read a single book or write a blog post. I started reading “The God Father” on January and I am still sticking with it. It is not that the book is not interesting. It really is a very interesting novel, but as usual what I am struggling with is “time”. I have very few minutes to actually take the book and read it. Other than the time I spend inside the toilet reading. (Yes I do read inside the toilet if you didn’t know already). But I am hoping I will have some “myself” time after the first week of June. I need a vacation and my body and mind is begging for it. I am exhausted with the busy schedule of my life of working and studying at the same time for 14 hours a day excluding my sleep of 5 to 8 hours for the last two years or so. Luckily I manage to get enough sleep and I don’t know how I will deal with this if I don’t get enough sleep. For the last one year also I just had a vacation of 3 days and that’s all I had other than the 3 or 4 days I get before my every exam. I need some quality time for myself and to my Mrs. other than working and studying. I want to sit on a chair where the temperature is below 25 degree and where I can see a lot of green scenery. I want to hear the sound of water fall and not the sound of the keyboard or ring of the phone. I want my feet to touch on a green grass and where I can walk without being worried that I have a work deadline. For sure it is a dream for next three months.

A call to attend and bye for now.

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