Holiday Time!!! njoi maadi

Its Holiday Time!!!

Finally a long leave from tomorrow.
So I'm going on a trip for this Christmas holidays.I've got leave from 24th to 1st of Jan.Me & my family have planned a trip for South Karnataka(Dakshina kannada)..
Well,would write about my trip once I'm back.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Cya
in 2009

Coloring Pages for Kids

Coloring Pages

Here you can download and print free coloring pages for kids, you will find over 3.000 coloring pages here. So you can make your own coloring book! All color page sections are shown below. From cartoon coloring pages to transportation coloring sheets, everything you want to color you can find here.

Goolge's Image Labeler

Google recently started a small interesting game. The game is Google Image Labeler.

How does the game work?

The game is like you can select a nickname or it will be guest. You are randomly paired with partner who is online playing the same game. You can play game for a period of 2 minutes time. During the time both the partners will see same image. We can suggest relevant labels. You will get point if your partner type the same label. We will fail if we type the label which Google already labeled. You are about to gain maximum points within 2 minutes. Number of points you receive will be depend upon the how descriptive your label is? If your pair type the same descriptive label(If your figure is Car. Pair will get more points if he/she type specific car name say for instance Honda Civic instead of Car as label) you will receive good points. Top pairs will be listed at top right corners of the application.

After the game you can see the images you labeled and site in which images resides and its labels.

What is the intention behind?

The original intention behind the game is to label all the images to show better image search results. If you logged using the your Google account, Google will track the points.

Dr.Sydney Brenner at Philips Healthcare,B'lore

Sydney Brenner

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

Today we had Dr.Sydney Brenner a Nobel prize winner in Physiology or Medicine visiting our Company(Philips Healthcare)..It was a great pleasure to meet a Noble Prize winner in my Lifetime :)

Brenner was born in a small town, Germiston (South Africa). His

parents were Jewish immigrants. His father came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910, and his mother, from Riga, Latvia, in 1922.^[1] Educated at Germiston High School and the University of the Witwatersrand, he went on to complete a D.Phil. from Exeter College, Oxford.

Together with Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and

Beryl Oughton he was one of the first people in 1953 to see the model of the structure of DNA, constructed by Francis Crick and James Watson; at the time he and the other scientists were working at

Oxford University's Chemistry Department. All were impressed by

the new DNA model, especially Brenner who subsequently worked with Crick at Cambridge.

Brenner made several seminal contributions to the emerging fie

ld of molecular biology in the 1960s. These include the identification of messenger RNA, and in the elucidat

ion of the triplet nature of the code of protein translation through the Crick, Brenner et al. experiment of 1961, which discovered frameshift mutations. This insigh

t provided early elucidation of the nature of the genetic code. Brenner then focused on establishing Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of animal development including neural development. Brenner chose this 1 millimeter-long soil roundworm mainly because it is simple, is easy to grow in bulk populations, and turned out be quite convenient for genetic analysis. The title of his Nobel lecture on

December 2002, "Nature's Gift to Science" is a homage to this modest nematode, and he considered that having chos

en the right organism turned out to be as important as having addressed the right problems to work on.^[2] For the latter work he shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston. In recognition of his pioneering role in starting what is now a global research community that work on C. elegans, another closel

y related nematode was given the scientific name Caenorhabditis bren

neri.^[3]

Brenner founded the Molecular Sciences Institute and is currently associated with the Salk Institute, the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and the Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also on the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute. Known for his penetrating scientific insight and acerbic wit, Brenner for many years penned a regular column ("Loose Ends") in the journal Current Biology; he wrote "A Life In Sci

ence"

(ISBN 0-9540278-0-9) paperback published by Biomed Central Ltd. in 2001.

Brenner was awarded the National Science and Technology Medal by A*STAR, Sing

apore on 11 October 2006 for his distinguished and strategic contributio

ns to the development of Singapore’s scientific capability and culture, particu

larly in the biomedical sciences sector.Few Pics..

Mathematic Magic

Mathematical Magic

259 * (Your Age) * 39 = ?

Try it and you will be suprised to see the result.

Speed up your NET Connection

Who does not like to have an Internet Connection with a good speed? Hmm……Probably, No One……

A simple trick which will help your system in increasing the net speed by 20% or more......
.
1. Run Gpedit.msc from Run
2. Go to local Computer policy >Computer Configuration and Then move to Administrative templates> Network
3. Select QoS Packet Scheduler from the left Window
4. Now double click the "limit Reservable bandwidth" setting.
5. A dialog box will appear. On setting tab check the "enabled" item.
6. After that, Change the Bandwidth limit to 0%
7. Restart your PC, Optional

Check out...

Desktop wallpapers !!! Cool one's

Choose a theme like sunset, flowers, lightning, rainbow, sunset or something else -
or make your own set with your personal keyword: Desktop Pictures & Wallpapers.
For download the picture select the filetype and resolution (up to 2560/1600).........

Cool!!! :)

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables.

Checkout this link...

VegetableOrchestra



The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.

Cool Blog Widgets !!!

I found this cool website Wowzio that offered some useful widget to be used on blog.
I have used several of their cool blog widget on my blog.
I really love these kind of blog widgets which I don’t have to mess with codes or install a plugin just to get the same results and function.

Wowzio offer's you with 5 useful blog widgets to be used which are:

1. Gallery Widget
2. Panoramic SlideShow Widget
3. Live Activity Widget
4. Tag Cloud Widget
5. Feed Content Widget

Currently, I’ve just used two of their blog widgets on my blog which is the Live Activity blog widget and also Panaromic Slideshow blog widget where you can check it out on my tab sidebar. To get this blog widget,check on their website Wowzio.

In the Jungle.. With Junglee's .. Galibore Fishing Camp - Day 2

Sorry!!! I couldnt complete this .. I Just got busy with my work .. :)

At around 6am we heard a person waking us up,to have Coffee.. Wasn't that cool.. But i didnt get get up as i have no habbit of drinking coffee or tea.. ha ha ha ha

Meanwhile i could hear some guys of our troop shouting , few of those guys planned for a Morning trek.. At around 7:30am myself and Minu got up... We got freshened,oh god we had to take bath in that cold water.. uuuhhhhh!!!

Breakfast was ready at 8:30am,idli sambar,Poori ssagu,Bread Omlete,Lime Juice,Tea or Coffee,pappaya,bannana.. oh,lots of things to eat.. :)

At around 10am we decided to go for Rafting.. This was arranged by Outback Adventours group...Wow,just couldnt imagine how enthu coud that be.. Had seen those just in movies or on Discovery ...

We filled up the indemnity bonds and put on the buoyancy jackets and helmets. There was a photo session. We had a briefing on the equipment and usage by one of the navigators.


Once we got into the water various commands and the responses were explained. We went in two rafts,8 of us in each and Vijeth and Rag's went on kayaking ..Vinod and Vinay was our lead rafts....It was fun all through. There was little bit of rafting, little bit of cheering, little bit of water splashing wars with the other rafts.. You will never feel tired! After 1km of rafting, they made us get into the water for swimming... I have no words to explain,how i enjoyed it... Superb... Me and Minu didnt know how to swim,and the guide thought us how to float on the water with the help of bouyancy jackets... After sometime,we somehow managed to float on water.. :) We had

After maneuvering through 3-4 small rapids, we came across a sharp turn.
Our guide gave us instructions on how to balance during higher grade rapids and we were all set for the last 3 rapids with last but one being the biggest among all the rapids on the strech.
Just before our last rapid,our guide asked us to get into the water.. Which was really deep.. He asked me to get down too.. Oh god,that was scary... After sometime,the guide pulled us back into the rafts... :) It was great fun... I'm Loving it!!! Tharth tha ra ra... :)

Last but one was really good. That might be a rapid close to grade 2? One more rapid and it was all over.:(
We had already reached Galibore and rafted for 8kms and for more than 2 hours!

We did some swirling of the raft like the one they do it on a coracle at the end.

We went back to our tents and took bath.. And again it was cold water.. :(

It was already 2 o clock,and lunch time.. I was really hungry!!! Had heavy lunch and did some chit chatting and slept for a while.. And it was time for us leave Galibore.. Bye bye!!!

We reached bangalore at around 7..

And my sweet hubby came to pick me up... :)

Nature at its Best !!

Smiling Moon...

On 1st Dec 2008

Oops ! This was actually Moon,Venus and Jupiter which I saw on 1st Dec..

Cool,isn't it.. You would see such things once in life time..

ಇದೊಂದು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಾ !!!

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದು ಅದ್ಯೆಷ್ಟು ದಿನಗಲಾಧವು ...

In the Jungle.. With Junglee's .. Galibore Fishing Camp - Day 1

I spent my last weekend at the Galibore Fishing Camp which is approximately 130 km from Bangalore past Kanakapura and Sathanur.
This is very close to Bangalore.The Camp is covered with trees lining both sides of the river. This is indeed a rough country.An absolute place to be away from the maddening crowd.
This trip was organized by our company. And this was the first trip that I've attended with my team.

We started off at 7:30am and reached Galibore at around 1 o clock in the noon.We had to stop in between as we had to pick up all of them.
Almost 9kms away from the camp is the Entrance,where you have to pay them the Entrance fee to the Forest.
Then we decided to walk 5km till the camp along the river side to get the feel of this superbly rustic paradise..This was really tiring ... Finally we ended up reaching the camp.

This camp was really awesome. We had booked all the tents in the camp.

The Accommodation in Galibore is spartan but well-equipped. Simple twin-bedded cottages with attached baths.
There was a hurricane lamp at the front of the tent and the back of the tent, which were set at around 7 PM. There was an electric fan provided in the tent (no light though)
The tent itself was clean with nice beds and good towels. The bathroom was also clean. Was I not surprised !?

The environment was very conducive to inducing a calmness in one’s thoughts.
It's a beautiful place to do nothing.Just laze around and read a book on the hammock !

As soon as we entered one thing that interested me was the swing,i just ran towards that to swing on it.But unfortunately sprained my leg :(

To once notice,there is no mobile coverage.And the whole camp operates with just single telephone line.

All of us choose our tents and went to freshen up and later all of us gathered at Vinod's[Bossy boss :)] tent.

Later we made Rag's to get on to the swing and gave him proper birthday bumps by throwing football...See the pic [:)]

After few minutes Gibu[Junglee friend :o) of mine] entered and he didn't realize what exactly had happened to Rag's. he he he
What we did was ,we made Gibu get on the swing and later,my god!!! people gave him left & rite man!!! He just became a "Bakra"... It was great fun :).Thanks Gibu,for giving us an opportunity.

By around 2 o clock lunch was arranged for us.And food was really good.. And i actually liked the Jungle Lodges hospitality towards their customers.

After a heavy lunch,we just sat near the river listening to the rhythmic flow of water in the river and chirping of birds..

And we were strictly instructed by the officials not to get into the water as Crocodiles were wild and they would come anytime.. Initially these crocs used to feed on fishes,but recently they started eating Deer's which come the river bed.So it was risky to get into the water

In the evening at 5 we went for a coracle ride.It was a superb experience!! As i've never gone in a coracle in my life time :)

We went on the other side of the river and lazed around for a while. And later saw Smitha fishing, so even i wanted to.
So i asked the official who drove us on the coracle to help me out to get at least one fish.My bad luck,i couldn't catch a single fish there.And later whoever joined me caught at least one fish.

After fishing,we drove almost 5 kms on the coracle,meanwhile we spotter 2 deers :) and Great Indian Guar. The nature by itself looks awesome.And it started drizzling.. It was something like i was in a dream world..

Later in the evening we had Bonfire and Barbecues arranged for us.They had prepared some chilly bajjies,pea nut masala & chicken kababs.. :)

All guys were busy pouring Bear,Rum,whisky into thier glasses.Meanwhile Vinod was explaining me & Minu how to play "teen pathi"..

Vijeth and Sanjib were entertaining all us with some strange songs and dance.. Two gays :) che che (Vinod was calling them as gays ;) )....

After the Bonfire we had our dinner,by then Minu was not feeling well.. She was literally shivering.. She just wanted to go to bed. :(

After dinner all of them went near Vinod's tent to play "theen pathi".But me and Minu stayed back in our tent.I didnt want to leave her alone in that condition.Later we went off to sleep.. But heard that people had great fun playing "theen pathi".Many loosing their money,and some enjoying looking at them... :)

Satisfaction & Excellence !!!

A man once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.

Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"
"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked.

"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

"Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.

"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
Moral of the story:
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside.
Excel at a task today - not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and Excellence...

Good Morning Msg to my sweetie!

Good Morning Sweetheart
I awoke this morning thinking of you and wishing I could see you and feel you close to me.
I thought about your smile and your eyes so full of life and love and about your kisses so sweet and tender,
I remember how good you feel in my arms and wish I could hold you now and forever.
I see your sweet face in my mind and feel honored that you chose me to love and be a part of your life.
I miss you immensely and can't wait until the next time I can tell you in person how much I love you and need you and how lovely you are.
I love to hold you in my arms, kiss those sweet lips, hear the sound of your gentle sighs, and feel the warmth of your hot breath as you tremble to my touch.
I thought of you this morning as I do almost every minute of every day, My Love.

Love to say these words to my sweetheart... And he likes this :)
[Just love these quotes and wanted to share with you all...]

Living happily !!!

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage.” she offered.

“Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”

The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.

“I’ll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husbands eyes.

“What’s wrong?” she asked. “Nothing” the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it.

“Now, you read your list and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists.” She said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don’t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.”

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

"In Life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking for them"

"We are Happier when we see and praise the good and try our best to forget the mistakes of our spouse. Nobody’s perfect but we can find perfection in them to change the way we see them. It is necessary to understand the difficulties and be a helping hand to each other….THAT BRIGHTENS THE RELATIONSHIP."

Miss you Sony!!

I used to have the most brilliant and lovely doggie in the world. Sony was a Pomeranian which my bother had got when I was in Primary school if I remember. She stayed with us almost 14 years which is unforgettable. Sony was a lively little dog, intelligent and very loyal to all of our family members. She was a white little angel, very pretty to look at. The picture that you see here was her recent snap.Will upload her other snaps later on.

Initially when my bother got this white little doggie to our house, I didn’t even like to get around her. I was really scared of dogs, because I was hurt from one of the stray dog in my childhood. And my brother used to have great fun scaring me along with Sony. As time passed, the fear about dogs went away in me.

Sony loved my brother like anything. My bro was everything for her. Believe it or not, she was the most intelligent dog I’ve ever seen. If we had been out of house for a day or two, Sony used to be all alone at home and till we return back she never used eat or drink. She used to wait for us to be back home.

Sony was always scared of my mom, because she used to never let her sit inside the house. But still this white little angel was so clever, that she was able to recognize when me and my bro used to have holidays from school/college/office. She was least bothered even if my mom shouted at her, because she knew that I & my bro would protect her :)

One more thing to mention was, I have no clue how she used to realize that my dad was coming back from office. She used to start barking when my dad was on his way back home almost when he was still in the main road. That was really amazing!!!

Recently we shifted from our own house to a rented house far from Koramanagala. Here we had to keep her tied all the time, which she hated the most. Neither we liked tying her . Now she was really old. She was not able to hear properly. Since we used to tie her all the time, she had lost her enthusiasm about everything. She used to sit quietly in a corner. It was just 15 days before she died, she fell ill. It was when I just got married and later she fell ill :(.Even the doctors were surprised that she was alive for almost 14years ,that too very healthy.

My dad used to take care of her everyday and take her for daily walk, every morning, noon and evening. Just before she fell ill, my dad had beaten her very badly since she was barking all the time. And none of us realized that she was barking because of pain in her stomach. :(. Later she couldn’t even eat or drink, not even drink water. We had to give her food through drips. She survived for another 15 days without food and she left us all alone on 16th Sep 08.My bro didn’t know that she's was no more nor did I. Later that night my mom informed my bro and he just couldn't control his tears. He cried & cried, later went off to sleep.

The bad thing was the day before she died me and my husband had been to mom's place. I was sitting with her and cuddling and she couldn’t even recognize it was me. The next day she died somewhere in the morning elevenish. My parents didn’t even tell me about this. When I had been to my mom's place again on Thursday, i was looking for Sony; and my dad said "She's no more" :'(. I used to pray for her daily, that she should get well soon. Later I realized that she was so clearly free of her pain and the weight of her sick, damaged body.

Wish to see her again!!! All of us were very attached to her. We miss you a lot sweetie! We miss you……..

5 things about myself....

I wanted write this post, because I had nothing else to put on the blog. I am not sure what five things I can write about which gives insight into my nature or behavior to others. Hmm, let me try.

1. I love having food at restaurants. I think I’ve tried out all the hotels in Bangalore. And in place like Koramangala where I stayed ,all people in restaurants know me .One more thing to add on to this, I usually go to restaurant not to fill my stomach but just to taste all varieties of food .. Ha ha ha!!

2.I love dancing and that's one of my passion. I've learnt Bharathnatyam for almost 10 years and I used to participate in all dance competition. I’ve won lot of medals and appreciation from people.

3. I'm a person who cannot express myself through talks and I would prefer expressing myself through writings. And I get angry very soon, but I do cool down very quickly. I am extremely sensitive and emotional and think too much about any issues. But then I forgive people very soon, even though if they would have hurt me very badly. And I want to live life to the fullest. :)

4. I was never into sports nor did I like anyone of them. I think it was when i played Badminton for my team at office and won the match, is when I started like sports (not all sports). But I hate cricket, just can’t withstand that game.

5. I can’t get up early in the morning. And I don’t like the alarm ringing at my ears early in the morning. I get really irritated, but I still have to get up early, else I would miss my office bus . I wish i could sleep still longer... Hmmmmmmm I would love to.......

Being Mrs..........

Just completed one month and 2 days now... Yes it’s been one month of my marriage.

Do congratulate me for completing one month of married life successfully.. Yippee!

I got married to the person whom I loved a lot. And I adore him a lot for what he is!!!

As soon as we got married within a week both of us had to get back to work, since we had no holidays. And immediately we had to look for a new house wherein we had to buy each and everything and make our new house. It was like lot of responsibilities for me, even for Harish. I still feel I am a small kid who can’t handle so much of responsibilities.

From when my marriage dates were fixed its been very hectic, running around for shopping and everything. And we didn’t have a single break :(

And from when I’m back to work, I’m not able to concentrate on my work!! I have no clue what’s wrong with me. I keep forgetting my tasks that i have to do. I used to never be like this before. I was always perfect at work. God should only help me out.

When i was at my mom's place i used to never do any work at home. Everything mom used to keep ready for me. But now since I and Harish live separately, I need to do all house work and then rush to office. But my sweet hubby helps me a lot. He is really sweet. But he is a bit high temper. He always wants things to be perfect. That's ok; i can convince him later if he shouts at me, since i know him from past 4 years now. But still after marriage you get to know the person more than what you knew about him. You need to change a lot for the other person's happiness.

Its a new experience and i'm loving it...

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My First Blog.
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