Travel Deal Finder

When searching for Flight Fares i found this cool site. Please check it.

India VS Pakistan Day - 2

India started day 2 very much postively after loosing the top order. Ganguly and Yuvraj very playing a good stroke play. After loosing Ganguly, Yuvraj, Dhoni. Pathan and Zaheer shown a great resistant. Pathan is grooming as a good All rounder. Good batting display. A flat six of Shoaib has shown his batting excellence. This match had everything in it. Initially it started with India having a upper hand after pathan's Hatrick. Later pakistan bounced back with great batting by kamran. Pakistan bowlers ratteled the top order of india and got the upper hand. Then india bounced back with batting by yuvraj, ganguly,pathan and zaheer. Then Pakistan got the upper hand with great hitting. Now Pakistan has scored 180 runs as lead and three days left. Looking for 400 and above target for india. Lets seeee.

Rang De Basanthi

Though i liked this movie very much i don't want to write about it. Coz i know i am a poor writer. After seeing Ferrari's review i was really worried that my review might spoil the movie. So what i say is Go watch it. You will like it. To see the best review go here. So My one line review is the movie is simply the greatest i have seen in near past

India VS Pakistan Day 1

As the Final test began today, there were lots of expectations.
1. Ganguly was in team and Harbajan was dropped
2. Pitch to support bowlers
it was a good toss to win and Dravid has put pak to bat on a swinging track. Pathan was fiery in his opening spell he took three wkts on a row. He was well supported by khan. RP singh has done well. At one stage pak was struggling for 6/39 and i was expecting an allout for 150. then comes Akmal this guy has played in such a ease. Good storke play and supported by razaaq and Akthar. he built his 100 without much struggle. Pak did a good comeback into the match. India started the batting and my eyebrows went up to see Laxman opening the innings with Dravid as we have a specialized opener why laxman and our top order collapsed. I haven't seen dravid getting out in this fashion. Laxman pity he missed the line. As a experienced player how he can get out on this situtation. Now india in 74/4 with Yuvraj and Ganguly on the crease. Ganguly might be demoralised after knowing that he is not in the oneday squad. Let us see how this match goes. But for sure there is a result in this match.

Poor Traffic Police

Yday i was returing from the movie. On my way i picked up my dad from railway station. It was 10 PM and while crossing Ukkadam (a place in Coimbatore) a gang of police cops has stopped my vehicle. Immediately i took my license and Vehicle documents. But they denied for it and asked whether i have drunk, i said no. Suddenly one of the cop has asked me to blow air in his face. I did and they left me. But i felt pitty for this policemen. As the technology has grown to this level why can they carry some instrument to find out whether the people has drunk or not. We know that many disease spread thru air. Govt has to think about this. When i was in chennai i used to see police check peoples in ECR using some instrument. Why not in coimbatore. Police has to think about this.

P.S. I went to Raang de Basanthi movie. Will write in detail about that later. Really a nice movie.

India VS Pakisthan Day Two

Once again in a Flat pitch pakisthan shown their batting skills. Inzamam with his hatrick ton in this ground and Afridi with back to back firing centuries. Pakisthan set a total of 588. As per indian bowlers RP. Singh has attracted the show. Took four wickets and good that he took at good time. Pathan went with no wkts and his bowling is trashed by the batsmen. Long way to go for india and they last their in form batsman Shewag. Let see whats in store for india.

India Pakisthan First Test

Batsmen dominated first test came to close with draw. Asusual Weather played a great role in this match. Weak points of test matches in subcontinent is the pitches are mostly flat. No support for Seamers. so we don't see a early breakthrough. I strongly belived there will be a change in pakistan pitch preparation as it holds lots of seamers. But they prepared a pitch which doesn't have support for any kind of bowlers.

Indian's responded well with postive batting. It was happy to see this kind of play from india. Normally when the target is set to higher score, indian's use to play a negative game and hit the dust so fast. Pity is we missed the opening partnership by 3 runs. Anyhow the match is full of run fiest.

India VS Pakistan Day Three

Day three's main player is Rain and Bad Light. This match is completly dominated by Batsmen. Pakistan saw 4 hundereds. I felt pity for Younis khan. He deserved the 200. But it looked like some communication problem between the players that time. But Afridi and kamran built a great innings and put on 100's in lesser balls. In return there was great display for batting from Shewag. He played a great innings. He respected the bowlers and punished the odd balls. We lost much time of the game in rain and badlight. I feel the match is getting close to Draw. Have to wait and see

India VS Pakisthan Day two

Day 1 of the match went in favour of Pakisthan. I expected some early wickets today. But Pak is going in great guns. Continuing with Younis khan, Mohamad Yousuf also completed his century. Yousuf played a remarkable innings. He played like an Oneday 173 in 199 balls is good batting display. The pitch has no support for the bowlers. I expect an 600 run declare from pakisthan in tea of day 2. Don't know how our batsmans are going to behave. Current score is 475/4 (116.1 overs) and the run rate is good 4.09. Yuvraj is down on the ground on injury.

India VS Pakisthan

Today the match Started with a surprise. India is playing with Ganguly and both the specialist openers are out of the match. As expected Dhoni got a berth in the team. The team looks like this
V Sehwag
R Dravid
VVS Laxman
SR Tendulkar
SC Ganguly
Yuvraj Singh
+MS Dhoni
IK Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
AB Agarkar
A Kumble.
So the team comprises of 2 Pace Bowlers, 2 Spinners
the 5th bowler can be compramised with Ganguly, Tendulkar, Shewag, Yuvraj. Lots of Batting hopes. Lets see how it goes. Currently the score is 34/1 in 12 overs.

Pongal Wishes

Wish you all advance Pongal Wishes. I will not be available tommorow so wishing advance.

Test

Test Post Through email

--
Regards,

Prasanna V

A.P.J Abdul Kalam and his vision for india

Today i got an Forward mail from my friend. I liked that very much and its very true. So wish to share with others

"I have three visions for India".

In 3000 years of our history, people from all
over the world have come and invaded us, captured our
lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards.
The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the
British, the French,the Dutch, all of them came and
looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not
done this to any other nation. We have not conquered
anyone.

We have not grabbed their land, their culture,
their history and tried to enforce our way of life on
them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others.
That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I
believe that India got its first vision of
this in
1857, when we started the war of independence. It is
this freedom that we must protect and nurture and
build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.

My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For
fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is
time we see ourselves as a developed nation.We are
among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP We
have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty
levels are falling. Our achievements are being
globally recognized today. Yet we lack the
self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed
nation, self- reliant and self-assured. Isn't this
incorrect?

I have a THIRD vision.

India must stand up to the world. Because I
believe that, unless India stands up to the world, no
one will respect us. Only strength respects strength.
We must be strong not only as a military power
but
also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand.
My good fortune was to have worked with three great
minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of
space,Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and
Dr.Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was
lucky to have worked with all three of them closely
and consider this the great opportunity of my life.

I see four milestones in my career:

Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the
opportunity to be theproject director for India's
first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one that
launched Rohini. These years played a very important
role in my life of Scientist.

After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a
chance to be the part of India's guided missile
program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its
mission requirements in 1994.

The Dept. of Atomic Energy
and DRDO had this
tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on
May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The joy of
participating with my team in these nuclear tests and
proving to the world that India can make it, that we
are no longer a developing nation but one of them. It
made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we
have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for
which we have developed this new material. A Very
light material called carbon-carbon.

One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam
Institute of Medical Sciences visited my laboratory.
He lifted the material and found it so light that he
took me to his hospital and showed me his patients.
There were these little girls and boys with heavy
metallic calipers weighing over three Kg. each,
dragging their feet around.

He said to me: Please remove the pain of my
patients.

In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction
Orthosis 300-gram calipers and took them to the
orthopedic center. The children didn't believe their
eyes. From dragging around a three kg. load on their
legs, they could now move around!

Their parents had tears in their eyes. That was my
fourth bliss!

Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in
India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths,
our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have
so many amazing success stories but we refuse to
acknowledge them. Why?

We are the first in milk production.

We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.

We are the second largest producer of wheat.

We are the second largest producer of rice.

Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the
tribal village into a self-sustaining, self
driving
unit. There are millions of such achievements but our
media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures
and disasters.

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the
Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of
attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place.
The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the
newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in
five years had transformed his desert land into an
orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture
that everyone woke up to. The gory details of
killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the
newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness,
terrorism, crime.

Why are we so NEGATIVE?

Another question : Why are we, as a nation so obsessed
with foreign things?

We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We
want foreign
technology. Why
this obsession with everything imported. Do we not
realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance?

I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a
14 year old girl asked me
for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life
is.

She replied: I want to live in a developed India.

For her, you and I will have to build this
developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an
under-developed nation; it is a highly developed
nation.


Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back
with a vengeance.
Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read;
otherwise, choice is yours.


YOU say that our government is inefficient.

YOU say that our laws are too old.

YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the
garbage.

YOU say that the phones
don' t work, the railways
are a joke, the airline is the worst in the world,
mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our
country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute
pits. YOU say, say and say.

What do YOU do about it? Take a person on his
way to Singapore..... Give him a name - YOURS. Give
him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and
you are at your International best. In Singapore you
don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the
stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as
they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs.60) to drive through
Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder
Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU comeback to the
parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have
over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall
irrespective of your status identity. In Singapore you
don't say anything, DO YOU?

YOU
wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan,
in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go out withoutyour
head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an
employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10
pounds (Rs.650) a month to, "see to it that my STD and
ISD calls are billed to someone else." YOU would not
dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington
and then tell the traffic cop,"Jaanta hai main kaun
hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son.
Take your two bucks and get lost."

YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell
anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in
Australia and New Zealand.Why don't YOU spit Paan on
the streets of Tokyo? Why don't YOU use examination
jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston???

We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who
can respect and conform to a
foreign system in other
countries but cannot in your
own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the
road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be
an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien
country, why cannot you be the same here in India?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal
commissioner of Bombay, Mr.Tinaikar, had a point to
make. "Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to
leave their affluent droppings all over the place," he
said. "And then the same people turn around to
criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency
and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers
to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels
the pressure in his bowels?

In America every dog owner has to clean up
after his pet has done the job.
Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here?"
He's
right.

We go to the polls to choose a government and
after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back
wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do
everything for us whilst our contribution is totally
negative. We expect the government to clean up but we
are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the
place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray
piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the
railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not
going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to
provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not
going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This
applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on
the service to the public. When it comes to burning
social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl
child and
others, we make loud drawing room
protestations and continue to do the reverse at home.
Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to
change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons'
rights to a dowry." So who's going to change the
system?

What does a system consist of? Very
conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors,
other households, other cities, other communities and
the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it
comes to us actually making a positive contribution
to the system we lock ourselves along with our
families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance
at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come
along work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of
his hand or we leave the country and run away.

Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run
to America to
bask in their glory and praise their
system. When New York becomes insecure we run to
England. When England experiences unemployment, we
take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf
is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought
home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to
abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding
the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought
inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and
pricks one's conscience too....I am echoing
J.F.Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate
to Indians.....


"ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE
DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN
COUNTRIES ARE TODAY"

Lets do what India needs from us.


Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead
of sending Jokes or junk mails.

Thank you,

(Dr.
Abdul Kalaam),

PRESIDENT OF INDIA.

Google And Logos

I always admire on Google. Its difficult to run life without google thats what my beleif. Even i thought to search my lost bike key in google. :) just kidding. But the day might come soon. This is post is about the logos that google use to have. They use to change the logos to represent the day to day happenings. Today they have a great Logo for the rememberence of Louis Brailee.



If you want to check out the different logos Click here

Happy New Year

WISH YOU ALL A VERY PROSPEROUS HAPPY NEW YEAR