WISH MY BLOG HAPPY ANNIVERSARY....!

Hi readers....did you kno that my blog celebrated its 1st birthday on the 19th of july??

Well..for those of you who regularly visit my blog, i'm happy to inform you'all that my blog now is one year old and i hope it has been a gud start fr a beginner like me to hav been able to keep it updated unlike my other blog buddies who had started to blog along wid me but had lost interest eventually! (no offense though!)

I did want to write a long and elaborate post on how i started this blog writing and a lot more on that to make it special, but unfortunately, i'm pretty held up with my college works at the moment.

i hope i get time to do it as soon as possible!

P.S: comments regarding my work for the past one year wud be greatly appreciated :)

and ofcourse....

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOGGIE"

IF ONE CAN DO IT U TOO CAN DO IT.....read it if u r really low...i assure u u'll feel a lot better!

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. Sleep for 7 hours.

4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

5. Play more games.

6. Read more books than you did last year.

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us

with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food

that is manufactured in plants.

11. Drink plenty of water.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.

14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your friend with his/her

mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead

invest your energy in the positive present moment.

16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems

are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like

algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime..

17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a

beggar.

18. Smile and laugh more.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Don't hate others.

20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their

journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Forgive everyone for everything.

26.. What other people think of you is none of your business.

27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

28. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

29. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

30. The best is yet to come.

31. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

32. Do the right thing!

33. Call your family often.

34. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.

35. Each day give something good to others.

36. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

37. Always remember this friend who thinks of you

IF ONE CAN DO IT U TOO CAN DO IT,

IF NONE CAN DO IT THEN U MUST DO IT '

CRESSIDA 2K9 - not just a symposium.....

SRM University, a silver jubilee institution proudly presentsCressida 2k9, a national level technical symposium organized by Department of Information Technology during 7th and 8th of August 2009.

In our pursuit of goals and aspirations, we have prepared several activities to be shared with other university/college students. The events in Cressida 2k9, are designed to realize the objectives of Information Technology among the Universities at National level.
The symposium will not fail to portray the importance of cutting edge technologies in the field of IT, with invited talks and guest lectures.

In this regard, we invite you become part of this great event Cressida 2k9.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

For more details log onto www.srmit.ne

Host:	Department of Information Technology, SRM University
Type:	Other - Carnival
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Friday, August 7, 2009 at 9:00am
End Time:	Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location:	SRM University

Phone:	919884489424
Email:	it.cressida09@gmail.com

NO TIME TO POST :((

Hello people :) its been so difficult pulling out time for blogging since a couple of days..actually speaking, i havent been upto anything really useful but then, something has kept me away from blogging...and as a result, things that i shud hav been posting here...about all the fun i'm having....are yet to be posted!

Hopefully, i draw some time for blogging this week....

ciao ppl!

cheers!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN HOROSCOPES???

Dear jayashree, here is your horoscope for tuesday, july 21:

You're feeling the buzz today, and you cant help but share it with others! Now is the best time for you to get folks together and see if you can't make something extra-crazy happen.

This turned out to be true today....and i really had a gaala time wid friends :)

POTTER POTTER POTTER .....

I very badly wanted to watch the half-blood prince right on the day of its release but very sadly...i am still yet to watch one of my favourite books being screened. Hopefully i get to watch it sooooon..really soon! And sure will post its review ...I just heard that the movie is a lot different from the actual story but yes...how cud one expect to stuff such a big book into a 3 hours film? As for all the harry potter fans...how ever the movie is....its always a treat to watch!

EVERY ONE MUST READ IT ...

hello people...its been so long that i had posted anything here..and that's because i was busy wasting time ....lol! I finally found some time to read novels (my usual favourite passtime hobby) and cudn't resist posting about the latest novel i read.

Its Paulo Coelho's THE ALCHEMIST. A "must read" novel which i'm sure will inspire you in many ways. It is a remarkable tale about the most magical of all journeys-the quest to fulfill one's destiny.

I recommend THE ALCHEMIST to anyone who is passionately committed to claiming the life of their dreams!

Keep looking for more posts about the novels i'll be reading this week.

Father of the bride (a) Abhiyum naanum

         

       I happened to see this movie called 'FATHER OF THE BRIDE' which only after watching i realised that it had been the same story that was remade into the recently released tamil movie 'ABHIYUM NAANUM'. The latter one ofcourse i liked very much and saw the movie more than twice. But i liked the english version even more. 

  Not only this movie but i have started watching a lot of english movies these days and finding so many stories being copied straight away by the kollywood directors as in the tamil version of 'sleeping with the enemy'  being remade as 'urchagam'.

What ever it is...as far as the movies are a gud time pass, i enjoy watching anything and everything any number of times :P

so wats wid all of you people? Any gud movies that you hav seen lately?

JAYASHREE IS BACK TO BUSINESS :)

     Hello people. :) I am very happy that my exams are over now and i hav completed THREE successful years of my college life in the most enjoyable way!  Its vacation time again and i'm back to my own 'time-spoiling' business :P

    I had posted many topics which i said wud be updated once my exams are over and here they are for a short re-cap:

1. The soul hacker's new venture

2. The "BBB" - my b'day bash

Apart from these, i gave a classical music performance at a temple and i'l be posting about the concert as well. there are lots more to come in and plz do keep coming in and post ur comments! 

CHEERS!

SILVER FOILS ARE NOT VEGETARIAN

The silver foils are not very expensive. They are sold by weight. Ordinarily, you can buy a packet of 160 foils for a price between Rs.100 to 200. That is, approximately one rupee per foil. Not only the sweets, now a days it is also applied on fruits. Some Ayurvedic medicines also are wrapped in silver foils.

They are made by hammering thin sheets of silver in middle of booklets made of a bull's intestines. In other words, after slaughtering a bull, quickly his intestines are removed, and sold to the manufacturers of foils. The skins made of old intestines are of no use. Even one-day-old intestines can not be used, because within a few hours they stiffen.

The foil manufacturer removes blood and stools from the intestines, and cuts them into pieces. Then he puts one piece over another, making a booklet out of it. At his home, or in the factory, he puts one silver (or gold) sheet in-between each page. Then he hammers it hard until those metal sheets turn into thin wafers.

The intestines of bulls are so strong, that even repeated hammering do not destroy them, or they do not let the foils move around inside. Because of the hammering, some tissues of the intestine mix with the foils. After that the foil manufacturer sells the bundle of foils to the sweets manufacturers. 
Some small foil manufacturers sell the foils to the temples.

This foil is not only dirty, it also is non-vegetarian. Even the meat-eaters do not eat intestines. Use of these foils turn even sweets into non-vegetarian food. A few years ago the Indian Airlines learned about this, and since then stopped using them on the sweets served in their planes.

Source of Silver Foil in Sweets

Indian Airlines, the domestic air-carrier of India had issued instructions to its suppliers to supply sweet without silver foil called VARAKH. Do you know why? Silver is widely used for various purposes in the market today. 

Silver is considered precious and its utility is enormous. The reason behind this is that silver reflects back 95% of the light energy that falls on it. The silver foils used for edible purposes is called VARAKH So what's so special about VARAKH? If you keenly observe this VARAKH under a microscope don be perturbed if you happen to see traces of blood, stools and saliva of a cattle or ox. 

VARAKH is a silver foil and we have no second questions on this, but to prepare this VARAKH important parts of the CATTLE/OX is made use of. 
Intestines of Cattle/OX are obtained from the slaughterhouse. This is obtained after butchering to death the cattle/ox for beef and the part, which cannot be consumed: the intestines are pulled out of the animal and handed over to the manufacturers of VARAKH. Before handing over the intestines, they are washed in the slaughterhouse to get rid of the blood and other remains on these intestines in the limited facility that is present in the slaughterhouse. We are not sure how neatly this job is carried out. Intestines are cut into small pieces and then are bound together as pages in a notebook. 

A silver block is placed in the middle of these bound intestines, and the whole thing is placed in a leather bag and sealed. Experts, who know how to make VARAKH, pound the bag with wooden sticks, till the entire bag flattens out. The silver block would by this time be turned into silver foil. This Silver foil would now be separated from the intestine pack and will be placed on paper. 

This is VARAKH, which reaches the market ready for use. Even staunch vegetarians, who shy away from egg, unknowingly consume this as a part of sweet, pan and arecanut. Some unknowingly consume this because of the additional taste that VARAKH provides. 

Now the question is "Why the intestines of the cattle/ox? Why not something else?" The reason behind using the intestines of the cattle/ox for preparing the VARAKH is because of the elasticity of the intestines. 
They do not get cut even after a severe pounding. 

This aspect is brought out in the magazine "Beauty without cruelty" and the Television show of Maneka Gandhi, "Heads and Tails". In India, on an average an estimate indicates that 2,75,000 kilos of "VARAKH" is consumed. Can you estimate how many cattle/ox are sacrificed for just a bit of taste? If you are surprised as I am, after reading this article please inform as many as possible so as to ensure that we unknowingly don't consume beef.

Pan

By now, a pan-lover vegetarian person may have eaten equivalent of many miles of oxen intestines! For them, here is an another bad news - the Chuna that they apply on pan, also is not vegetarian! That is made from the shells of living insects. These insects are taken from the ocean, killed, and removed from the shell. Then the shells are softened in water, dried, and ground into white powder. When you put this Chuna in your mouth, you are participating in killing of many insects. This is no different from taking life of a goat or a pig. Everyone wants to live, no one likes the pain of death.

Indian Sweets and Varakh

Silver foil, or varakh, as it is generally known in India, adds glitter to Indian sweets, betel nut (Supari), Paan (betel-leaf) , and fruits. It is also used in Ayurvedic medicines. The silver-topped sweet is even served as prashad in many temples and on auspicious and religious occasions. Varakh is also used in flavoured syrups as in Kesar (saffron) syrup.

If one observes Varakh under a microscope one will find traces of blood, stools and saliva of a cattle or an ox. Varakh is not derived from an animal source. However, a crucial material of animal origin, ox-gut, is used in its manufacture. This ox-gut is obtained from the slaughterhouse.

The intestine (ox-gut), smeared with blood and mucus, is pulled out from the slaughtered animal by the butcher at the slaughterhouse, and sold for the specific purpose. This is then taken away to be cleaned and used in the manufacture of Varakh.

The gut of an average cow, measuring 540 inches in length and 3 inches in diameter, is cut open into a piece measuring 540" x 10". From this, strips of 9" x 10" are cut to give approximately 60 pieces of ox-gut, which are then piled on top of each other and bound to form a book of 171 leaves.
Next, small thin strips of silver are placed between the sheets and the book slipped into a leather pouch. These bundles are hammered continuously for a day to produce extremely thin foils of silver of 3" x 5".
The leather and ox-gut, being supple, can withstand the intense manual hammering for up to 8 hours a day till such time as the silver is beaten to the desired thickness. When ready, the foil is carefully lifted from between the leaves of ox-gut and placed between sheets of paper to be sold to the sweet shops. A booklet of 160 foils weighs approximately 10 grams and costs few hundred rupees.

To make a single booklet of 171 sheets, the guts of 3 cows are used. And the yield per book is generally 160 foils of silver, the rest of which may be damaged or unfit for use. Thus one book, used on an average of 300 days of the year yields approximately 48,000 foils of silver which means that each ox-gut yields an estimated 16,000 foils.

The leather used for the pouch to hold the book (made from ox-gut), is cowhide or calf leather, and uses about 232 sq. inches of material. Assuming the size of an average cowhide to be 18 sq. ft or 2,600 sq. Inches, the yield per hide will be approximately 10 leather pouches.
Usually 4 foils are used per kilograms of sweets and the ox-gut of one cow is used to produce foil for approximately 4,000 kilograms of sweets. It is estimated that the average consumption of sweets by a middle class family of four in India is about 100 kilograms per year.

Thus, an average middle class Indian family of four consuming approximately 100 kg of sweets per year for forty years consumes silver foil produced with the gut of 3 cows and one-tenth of a cowhide!

In India 275 tons of silver is transformed into Varakh that utilises the intestines of 516,000 cows and calf leather of 17,200 animals each year

HAPPY MOMMY'S DAY :)

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A POST WORTH READING...

My wife called, 'How long will you be with that newspaper? 
  
Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food? 

I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. 
  
My only daughter, Sindu, looked frightened; tears were welling up in her eyes. 
  
In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with curd rice. 
  
Sindu is a nice child, quite intelligent for her age.

I cleared my throat and picked up the bowl. 'Sindu, darling, why don't you take a few mouthful 
of this curd rice? 
  
Just for Dad's sake, dear'.

Sindu softened a bit and wiped her tears with the back of her hands. 
'Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls,but the whole lot of this. 
  
But, you should...' Sindu hesitated. 
'Dad, if I eat this entire curd Rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?' 


'Promise'. I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, and clinched the deal. 
  
 Now I became a bit anxious. 
  
'Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items. 
  
Dad does not have that kind of money right now. Ok?' 

'No, Dad. 
 I do not want anything expensive'. 
  
Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity.. 
  
I was silently angry with my wife and my mother for forcing my child to eat something that she detested. 
  
After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation. 
All our attention was on her.

  
'Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!' 
was her demand..

'Atrocious!' shouted my wife, 'A girl child having her head shaved off? Impossible!'

'Never in our family!' 
  
My mother rasped. 
 'She has been watching too much of television. 
  
Our culture is getting totally spoiled with these TV programs!' 

'Sindu, darling, why don't you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head.'

'Please, Sindu, why don't you try to understand our feelings?' 
  
 I tried to plead with her.

'Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that Curd Rice'. 
Sindu was in tears.

  
'And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for. Now, you are going back on your words. 
  
Was it not you who told me the story of King Harishchandra, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?'

It was time for me to call the shots. 
 'Our promise must be kept.'


'Are you out of your mind?'  chorused my mother and wife. 

'No. If we go back on our promises she will never learn to honour her own. Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled.' 

With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful. 


On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. 
  
It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom.. 
  
She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile. 
  
Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, 
 'Sinduja, please wait for me!' 
  
What struck me was the hairless head of that boy. 
  
 'May be, that is the in-stuff', I thought. 


'Sir, your daughter Sinduja is great indeed!' 
  
Without introducing herself, a lady got out of the car, 
 and continued, 'that boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish. 
  
 He is suffering from... leukemia'. 
  
She paused to muffle her sobs. 
  
 'Harish could not attend the school for the whole of the last month. 
  
 He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. 
  
 He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel teasing of the schoolmates. 
  
 Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue. 
  
 But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son! 

Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter.' 


I stood transfixed and then, I wept. 
 'My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!' 

"The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms 
but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love !!" 
  

THE MOST ENTERTAINING SHOW I"VE EVER SEEN...!

    There is this show on kalaingar tv called "VPL" from 9:30 to 10:30pm thru out the week and i just had a chance to watch it today. It is the 1st time i'm watching it and lol...watta comedy! 

   Its all about 4 people chatting, debating and gossipping about the IPL and what makes it so lively is the comedy and fun they portray!

 It was so funny that i cud'nt stop laughing for continuous 10 mins...It is a really great show and the cricket lovers (who know tamil) would definitely enjoy the show as i did! Do watch this show once and you'll become a great fan of it! 

Have fun! CHEERS!

THE SOUL-HACKER'S NEW VENTURE

       Well, if you have been a follower of my blog so far, there's something interesting coming up for all of

 you specially "the novel lovers" ... My brother, nick-named as "THE SOUL HACKER" is venturing on the

traditional way of novel writing and i must agree, that he has come up with some really interesting stuff!

 Hope even you appriciate his work that i'll be posting here in my blogspace as and when he's ready with the

 scripts. :)

  CHEERS!!