This got to be the biggest joke of the year. Or probably in the history of Nobel Prize. Obama and Nobel Peace prize? Dont get me wrong. I do like what Obama is doing but I certainly dint think he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.
President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
I strongly disagree with the above statement. I doubt if Obama has done enough to strengthen international diplomacy or cooperation.I do agree that he probably has potential to do that. Yes, he does give speeches (definitely great ones) about furthering diplomacy.Yes, he is making efforts to bring parties together for negotiations and peace talks. He may be trying to get more peace into the world. But I dont see him deserving Nobel Peace Prize. He hasnt done enough to deserve it. There are a lot more people who did more than what he did and deserve it more.
To me it appears like a political move. In some sense, it might be a good thing since now he would be forced to keep up the image. He probably would pull the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. I do commend his decision to shut down Guantanamo bay. Hope he continues to do much more such things to at least deserve Nobel Peace Prize.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Microsoft Help??
Ever wonder why MS is perceived with such derogatory sense? Take a look at this link
I wanted to find out how to create an auto table of contents page in power point. I went to MS website and was baffled to find the answer. I guess that is the level of intellect that they expect from their users. Grow up MS!
I wanted to find out how to create an auto table of contents page in power point. I went to MS website and was baffled to find the answer. I guess that is the level of intellect that they expect from their users. Grow up MS!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Weird Status messages!
Have you ever seen very weird status messages on facebook or orkut or any of such social networks. i wonder what people think when they put up those messages. Interestingly, there are people who comment on those statuses. I wonder where people get their time and what makes people think that other people might be interested in knowing what they are doing. Here are few examples:
- xyz is watching TV: *Wow! Really? How interesting? WTF should I be interested in it?
- abc is reading a novel in the bathroom: *Mindblowing... fantastic.. never knew you can even read a novel, let alone in bathroom
- jkl is dying to watch Harry Potter - *wish you would die right now..
- iuoi is loving every moment of time spent on the beach - *yeah, really? are you serious? if you are loving every moment, why the heck are you updating your facebook status?
- Eating pistachio cake. Very yummy
- Teaching xyz how to waste time using iPhone.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Agatha Christi novels!
Hello people!It's been a while since I bogged! Hope I biog more often.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I realized that my vocabulary going down, deteriorate slowly and steadily. I realized that I need to do something about it. That's when I realized that it has been so Long since I read a good novel (read it has a novel). I remember my English professor at university say that people who read more often has better vocabulary and sentence creation. So I decided to need novels. I am very find of reading anything that can stimulate me. Then I remembered Pairot who always says "Little grey cells!" So I decided to need Agatha's novels.
Two weeks and I am done with two and a half novels. The once I read are:
Death on the Nile, it was pretty obvious from the beginning who the culprits are. But I wasn't ask to put together all tm details to prove them as culprits.
Murder on the links, even though I was able to guess the murderer, it did take a lot of deliberation to arrive at it.
murder of Roger Ackroyd, all along I was dole to guns that nom of the people really at the household were the murderers, but it did come to me as a jolt who the murderer was. I never even considered that person could be the culprit.
Anyway, it has been a lot of fun reading Agatha Christi's novels. She has a knack of giving you the facts and yet leave the interpretation to the reader until she reveals the mystery. Its been great fun to employ my little grey cells to solve and put the facts in an order. Its been fun taking an hour everyday to employ my grey cells. Hope to finish her series this year.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I realized that my vocabulary going down, deteriorate slowly and steadily. I realized that I need to do something about it. That's when I realized that it has been so Long since I read a good novel (read it has a novel). I remember my English professor at university say that people who read more often has better vocabulary and sentence creation. So I decided to need novels. I am very find of reading anything that can stimulate me. Then I remembered Pairot who always says "Little grey cells!" So I decided to need Agatha's novels.
Two weeks and I am done with two and a half novels. The once I read are:
- The Death on Nile
- Murder on the links.
- Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Death on the Nile, it was pretty obvious from the beginning who the culprits are. But I wasn't ask to put together all tm details to prove them as culprits.
Murder on the links, even though I was able to guess the murderer, it did take a lot of deliberation to arrive at it.
murder of Roger Ackroyd, all along I was dole to guns that nom of the people really at the household were the murderers, but it did come to me as a jolt who the murderer was. I never even considered that person could be the culprit.
Anyway, it has been a lot of fun reading Agatha Christi's novels. She has a knack of giving you the facts and yet leave the interpretation to the reader until she reveals the mystery. Its been great fun to employ my little grey cells to solve and put the facts in an order. Its been fun taking an hour everyday to employ my grey cells. Hope to finish her series this year.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Words for the day!
I pledged myself that I would keep a log of the words I came across which I either forgot the meaning, or I am not sure about it.
machiavellian - using unscrupulous ways to get ahead
delectable - delightful, highly pleasing
imbecile - A stupid or silly person; a dolt
machiavellian - using unscrupulous ways to get ahead
delectable - delightful, highly pleasing
imbecile - A stupid or silly person; a dolt
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Things to do when you get bored!
The other day I got So bored that I started wondering what I can do to get out of the boredom.I was scratching my head when I logged into my gmail accountand saw my brother online. So, there I realized.That's the first thing I can do. catch up with my friends and family.So I started talking to him and were discussing how to get oneself out of boredom.Here are Some of the things we came up with!
- Find synonymsfor boredom.
- why do people get bored?
- Think about your favorite cartoon.
- Read an article on boredom.
- Learn to unite a simple story.
- Read news
- play poker online
- Solve Sudoko
- Solve crossword.
- Read jokes
- try poetry
- Practice speech
- plan a vacation
- Think about a possible business idea
- Romance a thought.
- Write blogs on these :)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Rational Communication
Many a times simple communication can solve a lot of problems. Situations that fall into this category occur almost everyday. A little patience and expressing yourself and listening to others completely would help clear up a lot of misunderstandings and bad feelings. The key point is, though, to listen with your head in right place. Many a relationships could have been saved if only the parties involved would listen to each other.
Take for example a couple, wife and husband. Husband is at work attending a meeting. Wife is at some place trying to get back home by bus. She is not sure if she missed the bus. She calls up husband, who is on a phone meeting. Knowing that she is probably calling for an urgent reason, he picks up the call. She tells him, she thinks she missed the bus and wants him to pick her up. He says he is in the middle of a meeting, it would get over in another 15 mins and then he would come and pick her up. She says if you start in another 15 mins, it is going to take another 15 mins to reach here. I need to wait for 30mins. At this point, he tells her, there is nothing he can do; either she has to wait or find out some other way to get home. She gets angry and hangs up.
This is a typical scenario. Husband at work, wife somewhere trying to get husband's attention. It is understandable that girls need attention. But girls need to think whether in their pursuit of attention from their boys, they are distancing themselves. No guy would like a girl if she is encroaching it into his space.
Lets breakdown the incident described earlier:
Wife is desperate at the bus stop since she doesnt know whether she missed her bus. If she did, she is concerned how she is going to get home. So she calls husband to ask him to pick her up, but mainly to share her insecurity at the bus stop. From an outsider and fair perspective, she has two choices. Wait and see if she missed the bus. Wait for her husband to come and pick her up. Or call another friend or cab which would take about same time as for her husband to come and pick up. So no matter what she has to wait. Hence there is no need to argue with her husband about 15 more minutes that she has to wait if she starts after 15 mins. And especially so if he is in a meeting. She should understand that and not argue it.
Lets take another example. Husband doesnt like shopping. Wife loves it. Husband thinks it is total waste of time while it is an activity, kind of must for wife. Husband gets dragged inevitably to shopping mall. Everywhere he goes he shows no interest in being there, doesnt participate in shopping, doesnt show any interest to talk to wife and nags about being in the shopping mall. Is this not common? What can we do about it?
Well, lets see. First, what are your alternatives? Send her alone? It is pretty obvious that if it is possible, you would try it on. Lets say you eliminated all your possible tactics to escape going with her. Now what? Step back and think about it. What are you really achieving by sulking there? The more you sulk, the more she is worried. She has to divide her attention, enthusiasm and energy between looking at you and her shopping list. She is looking for your reassurance (probably the most expected thing by girls) just about everything, shoes, dress etc. And you are standing there sulking, yeah, ok, whatever kind. The best thing to do is, now that you are already there and have no way out, work with her, tell her your opinion, expedite the process so that she makes her decision faster and you can be out faster. Search the store for her if required. It shows you are interested in her, and would help you get out of there faster. May be you can use this next time saying remember I came with you last time and I was interested, can we take an exception today? something like that.
On the other hand, you could probably talk before you go to mall about what you are going to buy, how much time you willing to spend there, etc. This would give you a perspective of whether you are doing on time, spending more than what you wanted. If you see it overrunning, you can hint her about it. Wife on the other hand should realize that her husband is at shopping mall with her against his will for her. She shouldnt take advantage of it and extend the time as long as she wants. She needs to be considerate. She should realize that he would come more often with her if she sticks with what she promised at home before starting. Simple communication like this and sticking to it would help in a longer run. You would develop respect for each other, the love you had will always remain and you would have that spark going on and on.
Take for example a couple, wife and husband. Husband is at work attending a meeting. Wife is at some place trying to get back home by bus. She is not sure if she missed the bus. She calls up husband, who is on a phone meeting. Knowing that she is probably calling for an urgent reason, he picks up the call. She tells him, she thinks she missed the bus and wants him to pick her up. He says he is in the middle of a meeting, it would get over in another 15 mins and then he would come and pick her up. She says if you start in another 15 mins, it is going to take another 15 mins to reach here. I need to wait for 30mins. At this point, he tells her, there is nothing he can do; either she has to wait or find out some other way to get home. She gets angry and hangs up.
This is a typical scenario. Husband at work, wife somewhere trying to get husband's attention. It is understandable that girls need attention. But girls need to think whether in their pursuit of attention from their boys, they are distancing themselves. No guy would like a girl if she is encroaching it into his space.
Lets breakdown the incident described earlier:
Wife is desperate at the bus stop since she doesnt know whether she missed her bus. If she did, she is concerned how she is going to get home. So she calls husband to ask him to pick her up, but mainly to share her insecurity at the bus stop. From an outsider and fair perspective, she has two choices. Wait and see if she missed the bus. Wait for her husband to come and pick her up. Or call another friend or cab which would take about same time as for her husband to come and pick up. So no matter what she has to wait. Hence there is no need to argue with her husband about 15 more minutes that she has to wait if she starts after 15 mins. And especially so if he is in a meeting. She should understand that and not argue it.
Lets take another example. Husband doesnt like shopping. Wife loves it. Husband thinks it is total waste of time while it is an activity, kind of must for wife. Husband gets dragged inevitably to shopping mall. Everywhere he goes he shows no interest in being there, doesnt participate in shopping, doesnt show any interest to talk to wife and nags about being in the shopping mall. Is this not common? What can we do about it?
Well, lets see. First, what are your alternatives? Send her alone? It is pretty obvious that if it is possible, you would try it on. Lets say you eliminated all your possible tactics to escape going with her. Now what? Step back and think about it. What are you really achieving by sulking there? The more you sulk, the more she is worried. She has to divide her attention, enthusiasm and energy between looking at you and her shopping list. She is looking for your reassurance (probably the most expected thing by girls) just about everything, shoes, dress etc. And you are standing there sulking, yeah, ok, whatever kind. The best thing to do is, now that you are already there and have no way out, work with her, tell her your opinion, expedite the process so that she makes her decision faster and you can be out faster. Search the store for her if required. It shows you are interested in her, and would help you get out of there faster. May be you can use this next time saying remember I came with you last time and I was interested, can we take an exception today? something like that.
On the other hand, you could probably talk before you go to mall about what you are going to buy, how much time you willing to spend there, etc. This would give you a perspective of whether you are doing on time, spending more than what you wanted. If you see it overrunning, you can hint her about it. Wife on the other hand should realize that her husband is at shopping mall with her against his will for her. She shouldnt take advantage of it and extend the time as long as she wants. She needs to be considerate. She should realize that he would come more often with her if she sticks with what she promised at home before starting. Simple communication like this and sticking to it would help in a longer run. You would develop respect for each other, the love you had will always remain and you would have that spark going on and on.
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