My first thoughts !!!

This feb 14th I became a father. My wife gifted me a baby boy. I reached there and I don’t know how to express the feeing of holding him for the first time. (Yes I was the one who first held him!!!)

He was looking at me and all the other faces around me. I was wondering!!!, what would be there in his mind ?

I spoke with him..(Never mind he understands that or not!!!)I felt that was one of the best moments in my life. I kept my ear near his heart to hear the beatings…

i feel like writing something. I don’t know what to call it…

God!!! You sent me an angel…

You gave me heaven here on earth

Looking at my parents my mind said…

Come closer and meet my baby…

I will keep him safe..

I will keep him warm in cold..

I will tell him new stories..

I will scold him when he is wrong..

I will be his first friend..

I will be the best till my last breath..

I will give whatever you gave me..

I will teach whatever you taught me..

And I love to call that…

Life’s best payback!!!

Whatever paths life takes me

Whatever twisted roads i may travel

I won’t feel the pain or gain

Because, when I look into his eyes..

I can see his eyes saying..

“I am the reason why you are here”…

Unsung Heroes of Oscar

I normally don’t believe praising an individual or those who are there in the lime light for achievements. (Yes I do understand their hard work and I do respect them)If a firm achieves something it’s basically a collective effort rather that the ability of a CEO or any such names… ( i am not saying that a CEO is not playing any role.. but still )

Ok.. Now back to business.. I was watching Oscar this morning and in between some 2-3 minutes caught my attention. I don’t know whether everyone knows the way how Oscar award happens.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uses proportional voting (also known as a preferential system) for the selection of Oscar nominees. The idea of a proportional (or preferential) vote is that nominations represent an outcome with multiple winners, and a proportional system more accurately limns the collective judgment of AMPAS voters. In a proportional system, individual voters have more of a chance to have an influence on the outcome.

Under the AMPAS nominating system, the Academy’s approximately 5,500 members receive their ballots in December. Each AMPAS members is allowed to vote as many as five times in their occupational category (actors for actors, directors for directors, writers for writers, etc.). The candidates that the member votes for are listed in declining preference, from the voter’s first choice through the fifth. To determine nominations, the votes will be counted according to the level of preference (first preference before second preference, second before third, etc.).

PricewaterhouseCoopers manually tabulates the responses according to Academy rules. Each year, it takes approximately 1,700 “person-hours” to count and verify the ballots by hand. It takes seven days to count the ballots for nominations and three days to count the ballots for winners.

So forget about the super stars. It’s the PWC Partners from the LA office does this work!!! Three days before the voting they move to an undisclosed location and do the counting manually!! Sunday morning, they’re each picked up by a bodyguard — an off-duty LAPD officer, who shadows them through the day, ensuring no one tries to steal the results. They walk the red carpet, their tuxes accessorizedonly by their Longchamps black leather briefcases, each stuffed with a set of the 24 envelopes. They each stand on either side of the stage, and they hand the appropriate envelope to the presenter before they walk out on stage.

Nice isn’t it ?

The first step..

I was speaking with one of my friend (at a tea shop) and he was shouting about the current Indian scenario. He said.. “look at our land. Poverty is still there. Lots of people don’t get proper education… (Mean time one kid came to us with two teas…)Child labor is everywhere..”

After half n hour of speech ( i was pretty bored with that..)We left the shop. That kid was looking us for some tips. But we didn’t paid a single penny..(that’s how we, we speak a lot .. but never act ..)Good… Isn’t it?

After this, while riding home i was thinking about him. He got a very good job (i don’t know, but people say that IT jobs are the best. I love to call them IT slaves…)with almost 70-80K per month. since he is one of my best friend i know about him. I never noticed him paying something towards charity or something of that sort. He still complains about this housing loans and cry for more salary..

i am left with some questions here..

By speaking publicly about helping others will stop the problem?

i can see people with 4-5k running a family in bangalor..so why we cry more ,when we get more ?

The problem is no one wants to come out of their comfort zones (this includes me as well..) But the same time wants to show that they care this world. I think the guilty feeling inside their minds makes them to speak about all these..

As some one wrote ones:

Death is a hope, the only hope

for the wretched and the poor

People that strive and strive in awe

But never get to tie their knot

Death reaches out and console

the poverty that surrounded them about

It’s the only thing that makes

a destined wretched life worth it

It’s the only thing on the other side of

the poverty line that blurres the line and cured it…..

In the Rain …

I had a dream yesterday.. i was standing in the rain ..
The is one of the best things i always do.. dont know why ? i love rain..

it comes…from solitude and finds me
it speaks…as if it is holding me like a friend..
it sings…the same song which i sing..
it dance…with the same steps as mine..
it washes…all the guilt and all the pain..

Jodhaa Akbar …..entry restricted :-)

Screening of Jodhaa Akbar was banned in Madhya Pradesh.The reason is rajput community threatened that they will set fire to cinema halls…

”The government has suspended the screening of the movie in the state with immediate effect as protests at cinema halls have posed a threat to maintenance of peace,” Commercial Tax Department Addition Secretary said. In his order banning the screening of the film produced by UTV Software Communications Ltd, Parihar said the decision was taken in accordance to provisions under the Madhya Pradesh Cinema (Regulation) Act, 1952.

Describing the depiction of the Jodhaa Bai as Akbar’s wife in the Bollywood movie as an ”insult” to the community, Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha has threatened to burn the movie reels and cinema halls screening the film, which has been directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar.

What a news.. this is called freedom.. one can make a movie the way he wanted .. others can set fire the cinema halls..

Get lost from your home land !!!!

Just fewer than 15,000 people have been moved from their homes to make way for Olympic venues, the organizers of the Beijing Olympics say.

Beijing’s Municipal Construction Committee said 14,901 people from 6,307 households had been moved.

The figures differ dramatically from those provided last year by an international campaign group.

The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) said 1.25m people had been displaced ahead of the Games.

Who told you that there is some value for human rights !!!!!!

To someone special…

You are my heart, my hope, my help,
The passion that is me,
The whole of which I am a part,
My peace, my ecstasy.

You are my future, present, past,
My ship, my sail, my ocean,
The wind that brings me home again,
The home for every motion.

You live within me, yet I am
Without you all alone.
With you I am full of light;
Without you I am stone.

Is this foolish? Yes, perhaps,
But also it is true.
I think of life as something I
Can spend with only you.

Ah, my love! Love longs for such
Sweet celebrants as this!
Love is a burden and a joy,
Slavery and bliss.

This day of love come love with me,
Come sing with me my song.

Nice Advertisement !!!!

No time for exercise!!!! Dont worry !!!!

According to the new studies by National Health Service (NHS), Sexercise can lover the risk of heart attack and helps you to live longer!!!

Endorphins released during orgasm stimulate immune system cells, which also helps target illnesses like cancer, as well as wrinkles, it states.

NHS Direct, however, told that this was “backed by science and clinical evidence” and “isn’t just a bit of fun”.

The advice, published under the headline “Get more than zeds in bed”, is one of several sexual health-related articles to be found on the NHS Direct website.

Sex with a little energy and imagination provides a workout worthy of an athlete, the article says. “Forget about jogging round the block or struggling with sit-ups.

“Sex uses every muscle group, gets the heart and lungs working hard, and burns about 300 calories an hour.”

The advice suggests “regular romps this winter” could lead to a better body and a younger look.

Increased production of endorphins “will make your hair shine and your skin smooth,” it adds.

“If you’re worried about wrinkles - orgasms even help prevent frown lines from deepening.”

The article goes on to say that orgasms release “painkillers” into the bloodstream, which helping keep mild illnesses like colds and aches and pains at bay.

The production of extra oestrogen and testosterone hormones will keep your bones and muscles healthy, leaving you feeling fabulous inside and out”.

so wanna feel young .. you know what to do now

Life of a Saint

Had fate not willed otherwise, Murlidhar Devdas Amte could have ended up as just another wealthy, arrogant lawyer wallowing in luxury. This eldest son of a Brahmin landlord, born on December 26, 1914, at Hinganghat in Wardha district, was completely insulated from the world of abject poverty and the inequalities of the prevailing social structure.
When he was a mere 14 years old, Amte or Baba as he was affectionately called by his family, had his own gun to hunt wild boars and deer. During his college days in Nagpur, he would travel in a Singer sports car with leopard skin-covered seats, and buy two tickets when he went to watch a film—one for himself and the other to stretch his legs on. He indulged his passion for cinema by writing film reviews and also corresponded with the reigning Hollywood stars Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer.
A visit to Shantinekatan and his brush with Tagore’s world of poetry and music and later his association with Gandhiji changed Baba. While poetry transformed him into a sensitive person, his understanding of Bapu’s relationship with God in the form of truth, love, morality and fearlessness inspired him to break the shackles of a secure life and dedicate it to the underprivileged masses.
Baba did well as a lawyer and took up criminal cases for the well-heeled during his practice at Durg in then Madhya Pradesh. But he was appalled by the fact that his clients often expected him to tell lies. “A client would admit he committed rape and I was expected to obtain an acquittal. Worse still, when I succeeded, I was expected to attend the celebration party,’’ Baba once recounted. He started working for Harijans in his own fields although he was not expected to mingle with them. With six leprosy patients, Rs 14 in hand and a lame cow, Baba went ahead to set up the Maharogi Sewa Samiti in 1949 at a time when leprosy patients were shunned and left to suffer supposedly for sins committed in a previous life. After shifting to Warora in the early 1940s, he set up Anandwan (Forest of Joy), the first fully integrated township for the rehabilitation of leprosy patients and people with disabilities. Today, Anandwan is spread over 176 hectares and houses 3,000-plus inmates. This ideal township demonstrated how persons with disfigured limbs could create a self-sufficient world of their own.
So sensitive was Baba Amte to the needs of Anandwan’s inmates that he even developed roses without thorns so that a blind inmate could touch the flower while enjoying its fragrance. Today, Anandwan boasts an orchestra of 150 members—blind, deaf, dumb and lame singers and dancers who enthrall large audiences with their talents. With his wife Sadhanatai standing by him through thick and thin, Baba went on to establish settlements in Somnath, Nagepalli, Hemalkasa and Ashokvan, camps with schools and colleges and hospitals for the tribals and poor in the inaccessible jungles of Gadchiroli. His two doctor sons, Vikas and Prakash, and their equally qualified wives and grandchildren are now keeping alive the flames of hope kindled by Baba. ‘Bury me so that the plants can get fertilizer’

Source : The times of India