Author: akshay

  • The Don’t Quit Poem

    When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
    When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
    When the funds are low and the debts are high,
    And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
    When care is pressing you down a bit,
    Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.

    Life is queer with its twists and turns,
    As every one of us sometimes learns,
    And many a failure turns about,
    When he might have won had he stuck it out;
    Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
    You may succeed with another blow.

    Often the goal is nearer than,
    It seems to a faint and faltering man,
    Often the struggler has given up,
    When he might have captured the victor’s cup,
    And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
    How close he was to the golden crown.

    Success is failure turned inside out–
    The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
    And you never can tell how close you are,
    It may be near when it seems so far,
    So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
    It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

    – Author unknown

    The above poem has been very successfully used in a motivational presentation at thedontquitpoem.com Go there and be motivated.

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  • Thanks to Mallya, Gandhi Lives in India

    The personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi was bought by Vijay Mallya for $ 1.8 million (1 800 000 U.S. dollars = 93.0232558 million Indian rupees) from James Otis after bidding over the phone.

    James Otis had said to the Indian government that he would give the properties free of cost to Indians, if the government decide to allocate more resources for eradication of poverty than for the development of warfare.

    Seems like the intentions of the man was very good. For, after seeing Slumdog Millionaire he would’ve understood the anatomy of the pocket and stomach of Indians in the long forgotten corners of India. But, as there was no constitutional provision for agreeing on a resource allocation change with a foreign blood, our government could do nothing to make James Otis return those priceless possessions free and unscathed.

    That’s where the auctions come. The question whether Gandhi would’ve accepted a bar tender save himself is meaningless. For, if Gandhiji was living now, we would be seeing him ally with drunken men to fight the corruption and negative growth that governments are alternately providing us with. Selling our liver is much less worse than selling our consciousness.

    But on what basis is UPA claiming everything that worthy self-raised Indians do, as their achievements? When Rahman and Pookkutty won Academy Awards, they said that they were providing them with the environment. (Of enough atrocities so that these men are touched in their hearts about the well being of their neighbours and this pain makes them create pieces like broken hearts do?)

    While Vijay Mallya said he had not been approached by anyone in the Indian government in the matter, Indian Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni took credit for the bid and said in New Delhi: “The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government has successfully bought the personal items gifted by Mahatma Gandhi to a person during his lifetime. (Source: The New Indian Express)

    So what is this government aiming for. The copyright of everything that we produce? It seems natural to them that everything that is made in India is born by their governing. If a tree bears a fruit, they say the government has brought water, air, and soil. That’s why.

    One day an ox will bear and UPA will be searching for a rope to tie the calf.

  • Home

    Since there is a basic limitation with blogging that doesn’t allow a static home page, this page will henceforth do the function of the home page.

    So, what should I introduce first? You can navigate through various important places like my profile, feeds, contact me, etc. through the buttons on the top. Also there are many gadgets on the sidebar that gives you useful information or other controls like following, commenting, etc.

    Make sure that you read these posts:

    Then read the best of my posts

    Know about the Quotable Quotes Archive , In the Spotlight Archive and the Miscellaneous Page
    And then go into this incomplete index

  • Schedule of Lok Sabha Election schedule 2009 General Elections 2009 Constituencies, number, facts, Kerala, single voter

    The election schedule for the Lok Sabha general elections 2009 was announced along with other details, a few minutes ago by Dr N Gopalaswamy (chief election commissioner) at Chief Election Commission.

    To get the press release given by the election commission, click here (pdf)

    The elections this year will be conducted in 5 phases.

    Phase

    Date of polling

    1

    16th April

    2

    23rd April (22nd April in one constituency of Manipur)

    3

    30th April

    4

    7th May

    5

    13th May

    Counting

    16th May

    The new government will come in power on the 2nd of June.

    Different states will have different number of phases depending on the size and other issues.

    Number of phases

    States

    5

    Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh

    4

    Bihar

    3

    West Bengal, Maharashtra

    2

    Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand,
    Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Orissa
    and Punjab,

    1

    All the other states including Kerala

    Facts:

    Of the 543 constituencies,

    • 84 will be reserved for Scheduled Castes (This is 5 more than last election’s in 2004)
    • 47 will be reserved for Scheduled Tribes

    714 million people will vote in this election, 43 million more than 671 million people last time.

    All villages with 300 or more voters will be given a separate polling booth.

    If there is any problem of intimidation or such, a polling booth will be awarded even if the population is less than 300.

    Thus, a polling booth in Gujarat has a single voter. There are only two voters in a polling booth in Chhattisgarh and only 3 voters in polling booths of 3 other states.

  • Blogs of Celebrities, Indian actors, Malayalam actors, sports players, super stars

    So. Are you bored up with reading blogs of common men like me?
    Then see these blogs.
    Aamir Khan (posts come once in a while, but they come from heart)
    Amitabh Bachan(At least one post per day)
    Mammootty
    Roger Federer
    (My personal favourite)

    Too little? First read these. More to come in coming days

  • തൊന്തരവ്: മൊബൈല്‍ ദുരന്തങ്ങള്‍ ‍- 1 :

    തൊന്തരവ്: മൊബൈല്‍ ദുരന്തങ്ങള്‍ ‍- 1 :
    തലവാചകം തന്നെ പറയും ഉള്ളടക്കം എന്താണെന്ന്. ധൈര്യമില്ലാത്തവര്‍ വായിക്കാതിരിക്കുക

  • Know Your Value…………

    A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note.

    In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this Rupee 500 note?”

    Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this note to one of you
    but first let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the note up.
    He then asked, “Who still wants it?”

    Still the hands were up in the air.
    “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and
    started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all
    crumpled and dirty. “Now who still wants it?”
    Still the hands went into the air.

    “My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
    No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not
    decrease in value. It was still worth Rupee 500/-.

    Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt
    by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as
    though we are worthless.
    But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose
    your value.

    You are special. Don’t ever forget it! Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.

    ” VALUE HAS A VALUE ONLY IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED”

    From the Orkut community Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s Fan Club (Thread:Know your value TS:Shabbir)

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  • Noticed your Followers Gadget is Slightly Different? And mine too?

    Blogger has updated its followers gadget to include the Google FriendConnect feature too, so that everybody with a gmail, yahoo or aim open id can now follow the blogs.

    It’s just very simple, earlier you could follow only if you had a blog for yourself. But now, you can follow with just an open ID that almost all of us are having (or that can be created easily)

    And also, now we can invite friends to read a blog, which was earlier difficult (I used to email all my contacts about my blogger post, and once, I even mailed Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, unknowingly to his email apj@abdulkalam.com because he was in my contacts list.

    The best thing about this change is that, now you can extend your friendfeed account to your blogspot blog, which was earlier almost impossible for beginners due to the necessity of uploading two files to the website.

    Now if you want to read more from the authority follow this link: Blogger Buzz: Friend Connect: Grow Your Blog’s Community

    Or if you just want to check out how it works move the mouse towards your right.

  • Bucephalus and Kanthaka – two Horses from History

    Heard of Bucephalus or Kanthaka. From the title you’d have understood that they are two horses. But the fact is that they are not just horses. They are the horses of two great men.

    Bucephalus was Alexander the Great‘s horse and the most famous actual horse of antiquity (a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome).

    Now, Kanthaka was the favourite horse of Prince Siddhartha, (who came to be known as Gautama Buddha)

    Two creatures etched in history by the grace of their masters.