I feel blessed that it happened to me..

There are things that people want not to happen to them, for instance, if someone experiences poverty, not able to do the things just because of lack of money, he/she certainly doesn't want to be poor again in any life. If someone experiences so much of sorrows, he/she doesn't want to cry again.

Likewise I wanted not to fall in love with a girl, not to feel the pain when you know that she's not going to be with you, not to wait for the moment so eagerly for just her call or message, not to see her in pain. But that happened, although it felt strange first because I did not have any intention to do so rather let it happen to me, but it did. These words generally strike our ears "Love at first sight", means you will recognize the special one in your life by just having a first glance on her. I didn't feel anything like that. Even I don't know if I had an impression on her when she looked at me or vice versa. We were just like any boy & girl whom we come to see in our daily life.

But then, a little spark is enough to spread the fire in the forest.

We became friends, then good friends, then very good friends, then special friends but I didn't expect for a second that I would feel so deeply for her. During first three months of job, which is nothing but a darkest part of my life, my feelings for her were getting strong day by day. We used to talk for hours on phone, shared every thing, happiness, sorrows, cries, pain etc.
That thing took us so close to each other that if one is feeling something, the other will know itself.

But....
You're most hurt, when you feel that you've everything you desire and the next moment you're empty handed just like a beggar, you can't do anything like a handicapped person can't, you can't think of anything like someone has shoot your brain pointing the gun straight to your head. Just like that, when I came to know that she doesn't have any feelings for me like I do, it felt like I had done sin by loving someone. I'm not destined to fall in love in this life.

Well, who am I to blame her? She didn't feel the way I did. What's strange in that! She had feelings for someone else. Let her. If I love her truly, I must ensure that she gets whatever she wants in her life. And that's what I am doing till now. We still share everything we experience. We still share our happiness, our sorrows, our pain. And most important of all, we still share a healthy and strong relationship. Now I know, although I decided not to fall in love, but it happened to me. Now I know what is it like wanting someone without expecting anything, what is it like waiting for just one glance of hers, what is it like sharing little things, difficult things with her. Moreover, I know what is it like loving someone so deeply, so purely.

And that's why I feel blessed that it happened to me!!!! :)

Questionnaire?????

• How is the age of the earth calculated?

The concept of radioactivity, according to which atoms of certain heavier elements like uranium and its salts have the power of emitting some penetrating radiations spontaneously and gradually change into atoms of stable elements, is an excellent tool which can throw light on the age of rocks or the earth. If a radioactive isotope and its decay products remain trapped in a rock, the measurement of the portion of the parent isotope that has decayed enables the age of the rocks to be determined. For example, in uranium bearing rocks, U238 reached equilibrium with its decay products in about 2 million years. After this time, the net result of the disintegration process is the production of Pb206 from U238, while the intermediate products remain in constant concentration. The measurement of the ratio of Pb206 to U238 enables the age of the rocks or the earth to be established. The measurement of the oldest rocks have established that age of the earth must be about 4,500 million years.

• How is an American diamond different from ordinary diamond?

Synthetic diamonds are called American diamonds. Although now they are manufactured by various countries. Synthetic diamonds are man-made diamonds and they differ from naturally found one in shape, size and impurities. Synthetic diamonds are produced by putting fraphite to very high pressure (10,000 atmospheric) and very high temperatures (above 3,000 degree Celsius). Du Pont, De Beers, GE(General Electric) are some of the companies producing synthetic diamonds for commercial purpose.

• What is reservoir-induced seismicity?

The filling of lake water in a dam site and its pressing down the ground with its load, generating new stresses underground is responsible for reservoir-induced seismicity(RIS). It is noticed that the stresses build up to the peak slowly over several years after the initiation of the filling and then there is a sudden failure of ground, releasing these stresses in the form of earthquake. The earthquake that occurred in the Koyna dam site, near Shivaji Sagar lake in Maharashtra in 1967 as an example of this. RIS depends on
(a) Rate of increase of water level,
(b) Duration of high water level maintained,
(c) Maximum height attained,
(d) Deeper infiltration of the impounded water through passage provided by faults, joints, fractures, shear zones and cavities,
(e) Existence of deeper tectonic conditions such as stresses build up in pre-existing fault planes and wark zones,
(f) Brittleness of the rocks such as quartisites, granites, basalts etc. Only if all the last time conditions are present would there be an earthquake.

• Why are T-shirts and bush shirts called so?

Col Bush, a British Army Officer attached to the Indian Army in the early 1930's invented this kind of coat-cum-shirt for wear during the summer. It became very popular and came to be known as bush shirt. Originally it had four pockets, a belt and shoulder straps. T-shirt is so called because when it is spread out, it looks like the English letter 'T'.

• How is jogging different from running?

Jogging implies running at a slow, steady and gentle pace, especially on regular basis as form of physical exercise. The word 'jog' originated in the 14th century. It is probably a variant of dialect 'shog' meaning to shake. Running implies going faster than walk, espeacially going steadily by springing steps so that both feet leave the ground for an instant in each step. The word 'run' is derived from Old English 'rinnan'.

• What does devil's advocate mean?

Origin of the term 'devil's advocate' lies in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church wherein a person appointed to challenge a proposed beatification, canonisation, etc., is known as devil's advocate. Beatification is an act by which a dead person is formally declared as blesses while canonisation is the process through which one may be declared as saint in Christian tradition.

• Why is acid test called so?

An acid test is a rigorous or decisive test of worth or quality. It is so called due to the fact that in earlier days, gold was dipped in Nitric Acid, whenever there was any doubt about its purity. Nitric Acid damages every metal except pure gold ( hence the latter is called the noble metal).

"...mumkin hai"

• Chahte ho toh sochna kya?

The moment one identifies an opportunity, one should head straight for it. Mumkin hai. People call him a prodigy, but science accepts his feats. Just a boy next door, Tathagat Avtaar Tulsi holds a Master's degree in Physics. And he's not even 12 years old! Already in the Guiness Book for having successfully cleared his call Xth exams at the tender age of 9-and-half years. On being asked, he attributes it to his confidence and determination.

It's all about knowing what all is possible. Making the right moves. Being updated. And of course, creating wonder all around.

• Dooriyan banee nazdikiyaan!

Wishful thinking can take one to the farthest of places. Mumkin hai. Chloe Ingham from Ribchester, Lancashire, was just 9 years old when she cycled 1056 miles with her mother and two sisters. Even tender age couldn't deter the young one's determination to achieve this feat. Undoubtedly, it was the will to do it.

It is about people who desire, want and pursue their thoughts and equip themselves to do so.

• Baaton baaton mein aavishkar!

Sometimes the need to do something makes way for a new way to wlife. Mumkin hai. A vacation in Hawaii interested Richie Stachowski (aged 11) into snorkeling. But when he needed to share his amazing underwater discoveries with his father, he realished he wouldn't be heard underwater. So he went on to dedign a prototype of an underwater megaphone. Today commonly known as Water Talkies. Sheer need sometimes makes it all so much possible. isn't it?

Get talking with life the way you want to. Share, care and make things happen.

• Jo bhi chahoon, woh main paoon!

Discovering the lack of something ofter leads to getting it by all means. Mumkin hai. Take for instance Jacob Dunnack, all of 8 years, who had a unique incident. While he went meeting his grandma, he forgot to take his baseballs. So he was stranded with his baseball bat alone. Realising that he can't play baseball without a ball, he felt extremely disappointed. He went on and invented JD Batball! It's a uniquely styled baseball bat with a removable cap. In the space provided inside the bat, one can store the balls inside so they won't get lost. So kids can have as much fun playing baseball without having to forget or lose baseballs.

A plethora of services makes life more enjoyable. And as you move ahead in life, things will happen. Just as you want.

• Balance bhi carried forward, aur kaise!

Can any person really walk across water? Mumkin hai. Charles Blondin, the celebrated acrobat and tightropewalker did just that. He stopped his way over a rope stretching across the roaring Niagara Falls not once, but a couple of times. He even did it blind-folded!! Of course, looking down those thousands of feet below at the swirling waters wouldn't have helped at all, so he really was better off!

A commitment of going farther, both in technology and services, because that's where you want to take your life.

Customized Search Engines.

Hey there..
Now you can make your search engines, one of the facility provided by google.
Try it once, its interesting.

Steps:
1. go this link http://www.google.com/coop/cse/.
2. click on the create a custom search engine.
3. get started customizing your ideal search engine. put the settings and click on next button, then on the next page you can see how it works.
4. click finish. now you can make it your homepage by copying the url of your search engine and pasting in the options under the tools menu(mozilla firefox) or it can be embedded into your webpages or blogs.

Fact of the Matter...part 3

1. Due to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.
2. Glaciers occupy 5.8 million square miles, or 10 percent of the world's land surface - an area as large as South America.
3. The colours in a hummingbird's feather are created by tiny platelets, called interference colours, and are much like the shimmering colours seen in a soap bubble or in a drop of oil.
4. The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea, It takes its oxygen directly from the air.
5. Playing cards were invented by the Chinese as early as 1120.
6. A person's nails and hair continue to grow throughout his or her life, and even after death.
7. Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
8. The world's fastest reptile (measured on land_ is the spiny-tailed iguana of Costa Rica. It has been clocked at 34.7 kmph.
9. A snake's stomach is located in the front one-fifth portion of its body.
10. The North Atlantic Deep Water Current is an oceanic 'river' that carries twenty times more water than all the rivers of the world put together.
11. Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year.
12. A thousand tons of meteor dust fall to Earth every day.
13. The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day. This means that 54,000 horse power is delivered to every person in each 24-hour period.
14. Pet parrots can eat virtually any common 'people-food', except for chocolates and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic for the parrot - can even by fatal.
15. The 1988 movie Titanic lasts 3 hours and 14 minutes. The actual ship took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink after hitting an iceberg.
16. Rubies and sapphires are made of corundum - the hardest known rock after diamond.
17. If you were to rub garlic on the heel of your foot, it would be absorbed by the pores and eventually show up on you breath.
18. Rivers in the northern hemisphere scour their right-hand banks more severely than their left-hand banks. This effect is due to the rotation of the Earth.
19. The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies, depending on the temperature, by as much as 6 inches.
20. The Dead Sea is not a sea, but a landlocked salt lake, 72 km long by 14.5 km wide.
21. On the stone temples of Madurai, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
22. The owl parrot can't fly, and builds its nest under tree roots.
23. In the time it takes to turn a page of a book, we lose about 3 million old red blood cells and our bone marrow produces the same number of new ones.
24. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
25. Lightning bolts generate temperatures five times hotter than the 6,000 degrees Celsius found at the surface of the sun.
26. Jupiter is the largest planet, and it has the shortest day. Although Jupiter has circumference almost 11 times that of Earth, it makes one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.
27. Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language - 823 words without a period.
28. The average adult stands 0.4 inch (1 cm) taller in the morning than in the evening, because the cartilage in the spine compresses during the day.
29. When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.
30. The phrase 'a red letter day' dates back to 1704, when holy days were marked in red letters in church calendars.
    

Fact of the Matter...part 2

1. Because its eyeball is fixed, the whale must move its huge body to shift its line of sight.
2. Blype is the skin that peels off after a bad sunburn.
3. Drusus Caesar, son of the Roman emperor Tiberius, so loved broccoli that he ate little else for more than a month. He only stopped when his urine turned green.
4. Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temperature of 0.4 degree Fahrenheit.
5. If the Antarctic ice cap were to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230 feet.
6. Winking at women, even to express friendship, is considered bad manners in Australia.
7. The shallow champagne glass originated with Marie Antoinette, from wax moulds made of her breasts.
8. An adult female ladybug will eat about 300 medium-size aphids before it lays eggs. About three to ten aphids are eaten for each egg the beetle lays.
9. Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars and it is estimated by astronomers that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.
10. Next to wood, coal is the oldest of fuels. The Chinese mined it as long ago as 1000 BC nad used it to smelt iron and copper.
11. The Japanese word for chef, itamae, literally means 'in front of the cutting board.'
12. Paul Gauguin, the French painter, was a labourer on the Panama Canal. About 25,000 workers died during its construction.
13. A species of starfish known as the Linckia columbiae can reproduce its entire body - that is, grow back completely - from a single severed piece less than a half-inch long.
14. Bugs hold special places in the hearts of many Japanese, who often keep crickets, beetles and fireflies as pets.
15. Most insect repellents used by humans work on the principle of either masking odours that might attract insects or by creating smells that are repulsive to them.
16. A quarter horse gets its name from its speed in running the quarter-mile.
17. The American opossum, a marsupial, bears its young just 12 to 13 days after conception. The Asiatic elephant takes 608 days to give birth, or just over 20 months.
18. Moonstones are so named because they have a soft, luminous glow, like moonlight. The Greeks believed that the stones became brighter or dimmer with the phases of the moon, A moonstone was also believed to be a good luck charm, and wearing one was considered to guarantee success in any endeavor.
19. As a rule, many birds generally lay fewer eggs in a clutch in the tropics, where the amount of daylight is shorter than in northern latitudes.
20. Cattle branding was practiced 4,000 years ago. Old tomb paintings show Egyptians branding their fat, spotted cattle.
21. Did you know that even a racehorse loses weight? A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 6.75 and 11.25 kg during a race.
22. Chocolate has over 500 flavour components, more than twice the amount found in strawberry and vanilla.
23. At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
24. The letter 'O' is the oldest letter. It has not changed in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet in circa 1300 BC.
25. The term 'rhinestone', from the French caillou du Rhin, came to be because the colorless, hard-glass artificial gems were originally make at Strasbourg (on the Rhine).
    

Fact of the Matter...part 1

1. Soap was considered a frivolous luxury of the British aristocracy from the early 1700s until 1862, and there was a tax on those who used it in England.
   
2. Every second, a hurricane releases as much energy as the explosion of a Hiroshima-type atomic bomb.
3. The highly seasoned stew of meat or fish called ragout(rhymes with 'blue') is prepared without vegetables. The name is derived from French and means 'to restore the appetite of'.
4. Since white tigers have pigmented stripes and blue eyes, they are not albinos.
5. A tanka is a Japanese verse form of 31 syllables in five unrhymed lines, the first and third having five syllables each, and the others seven.
6. The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome in 133 BC. London reached the mark in 1810 and New York City made it in 1875. Today, there are over 300 such cities in the world.
7. Originally a palace, the Louvre was made into a museum after the french revolution.
8. Light from the moon takes about a second and a half to reach the earth.
9. Grey whales migrate 12,000 miles each year, farther than any other mammal.
10. Polaris is the closest visible star to true north and is thus called the North Star. By about 2100 AD, the wobble of the Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris.
11. The herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world. Nutritionally its fuel value is that equal to that of a beefsteak.
12. Uncontrollable winding is the physical symptom of those suffering from blepharospasms.
13. At one time it was believed that citrus fruits could provide protection against poisons.
14. No matter how popular the show, a serial (or soap opera) on Mexican television runs no longer than just one season.
15. The natural diet of lady beetles consists of soft-bodied insects, such as aphids, spider mites, and young caterpillars, Adults can consume up to 100 aphids a day.
16. Bananas do not grow on trees. They grow on plants that are giant herbs and are related to the lily and orchid family.
17. The Hope diamond was acquired by King Louis XIV in 1668. It was wore 120 years later by Marie Antoinette and now resides in the Smithsonian Institution. It weighs 44.5 carats today.
18. While the bones of most airborne birds are hollow for lightness, penguins are endowed with solid bones for ballast when they dive, sometimes to 850 feet or more.
19. Dinner guests in medieval England were expected to bring their own knives to table. The fork did not appear until the sixteenth century, and fork-and-knife pairs were not in general use in England until the seventeenth century.
20. Pleonexia is a clinical term for morbid greediness.
21. Sunflower seeds in bird feeder will attract the greatest variety of wild birds.
22. One of Napoleon's drinking cups was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
23. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
24. The first college on record to use the word 'campus' to describe its grounds was Princeton in the USA. 'Campus' is Latin for 'field'.
25. Some form of bowling is played in more than 90 countries around the world. Approximately 100 million people participate in bowling today.
26. The number two is the only number greater than zero that, when added to or multiplied by itself, gives the same result: 4.
27. When traveling in Jordan, it is important for foreigners to know that the host may ask a visitor to stay for dinner. It is customary to refuse twice before accepting.
28. Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used for barbequeing. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food.
29. The whale has the slowest metabolism of all animals. Despite its great size, it lives on one of the smallest of all creatures: the microscopic plankton, found throughout the sea.
30. In 1986, Rob Angel, a 24-year-old waiter from Seattle, Washington, developed Pictionary, the game in which partners try to guess phrases based on each other's drawings.
31. All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
32. A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
33. The Nile is the longest stretch of river in the world without any tributaries.
34. Horse racing is one of the most ancient sports, originating in Central Asia among prehistoric nomadic tribesmen around 4500 BC.
35. Evergreens, because of their long life span and their needles' year-round exposure to pollution are the trees most vulnerable to air pollution.
36. Jupiter is the largest planet, and it has the shortest day. Although Jupiter has a circumference of 280,000 miles, compared with Earth's 25000, Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.
37. Lightning bolt charges can propagate for up to 160 km; however, the actual channel of lightning is rarely larger than the width of a pen.
38. Nyctitropism is the tendency of the leaves of petals of certain plants to assume a different position at night.
39. The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just to handle the substance can put one in a coma.
40. Increasing herbicide use has created a jungle of at least 48 'super-weeds' that are resistant to chemicals.
41. It takes approximately 69000 venom extractions from the coral snake to fill a 473 ml container.
42. It was reported that Napoleon carried chocolate with him on his military campaigns, and always ate it when he need a boost of energy.
43. Nine ways to pronounce 'ough' - A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after failing into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
44. The alteration of the architectural appearance of a city by the contruction of skyscrapers and high-ride buildings is known as 'Manhattanisation'.
45. During World War II, the US Navy commissioned the world's first floating ice cream parlour for service in the Pacific theatre. It made ten gallons of ice cream in seven seconds.
46. Winds ten times stronger than a hurricane on Earth blow around Saturn' equator. Wind speeds can reach 1760 kmph.
47. Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine's Day candy box in the late 1800s.
48. The winning term in chess, 'checkmate' comes from the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning is dead.
49. Apricot trees were first cultivated in China, then they made their way to India, Armenia, and Persia. Before the thirteenth century, they arrived in England via Italy.
50. Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
51. In France, chocolate was initially considered a barbarous, noxious drug. The French court accepted chocolate after the Paris faculty of medicine gave its approval.
52. Some insects, after their head is severed, may live for as much as a year. They react automatically to light, temperature, humidity, chemicals, and other stimuli.
53. The body has 120000 km of blood vessels. The heart pumps blood through this labyrinth and back again once every minute.
54. Just 50 years after Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in the mid-15 th century, more than 6 million books had been published on law, science, poetry, politics, and religion.
55. There is just one known species of ostrich in the world-it is the one called Struthioniformes.
56. An elementary rule of mushroom collecting is never to place edible and poisonous specimens together. The slightest tough may contaminate.
57. 73 percent of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27 per cent are women.
58. Left-handed people are 20 per cent more likely to sample a forkful of food from the plates of fellow diners than are right-handed people.
59. Notre Dame de Paris ranks as one of the greatest achievements of Gothic architecture. The massive interior can accommodate over 6000 worshippers.
60. Redhaven, fairhaven, elberta, desert gold, and sunhaven are varieties of peaches.
61. Birds may travel great distances on their migrations. The Arctic tern travels from the top of the world, the Arctic, to the bottom, Antarctica. Round trip in a single year: 40000 km in all.
62. Hail destroys crores of rupees' worth of crops and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by tornadoes.
63. The hides of mature female blue sharks are more then twice as thick as those of males, probably as a protection against courtship bites.
64. There are mice that nest in trees. These creatures may spend their whole life without ever touching the ground.
65. After his infamous 1997 attack on Evander Holyfield, the Hollywood Wax Museum moved boxer Mike Tyson's figure to the Chamber of Horrors-next to the figure of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
66. To make a daguerreotype, an early photograph, required a 15-minute average exposure time.
67. The first bit of gold that Christopher Columbus brought back from the Americans was used to gild the ceiling of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The ceiling and the gold are still there.
68. The islands of Bermuda have no river or lakes. The inhabitants must use rain for water.