Once, there was a poor farmer in a village. He had a hen that laid one golden egg every day. For some days, the farMer sold those eggs and became relatively richer. But now, he was tired of taking care of that hen and waiting for each egg day after day. Also, he wanted to become rich quickly. So he decided to rip the hen apart so that he could have all the eggs at one go and become rich overnight. But to his disappointment, when he slit the hen, nothing came out. And now, the hen is also gone!
Now you must be wondering how does it relate to marriage…right?
Its pretty simple…. any Marriage is like that hen laying golden eggs in the form of security, companionship, fun, intimacy, togetherness,etc. However, these golden eggs are only a result of the care, efforts and time given to it. Just like that farmer got tired of taking care of that hen, most people get tired of taking due care of their relationships and start taking a lot of things for granted….which is like killing that hen!
In the beginning, every marriage has its rosy days but you gotta nurture it forever if you want it to continue giving those ‘golden eggs’ forever!
Keep nurturing your relationship……
Src: Monday Mantra
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Books : Best Friends ever
Reading id fun.. a sure fun..Fro me its d way to release my entire stress of a busy day..I’m an addicted reader of fiction and enjpys book that transports me, that is so gripping that I can’t put it down. But I also enjoy a good non-fiction book, from self-help stuff to philosophy to biographies to just about anything that makes me think…(pause) serious thinking..
It would be hard to be comprehensive..& compile a short list of Books you must read ..There are many classics fictional m non-fictional books that u must n must read before you die. seriously..
This list is just a few of my favorites. I hope you enjoy them, find inspiration from them, and share some of your favorites in the comments below!
Non – Fictional ( By Indian Authors)
• THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN by Nirad C. Chaudhari
• WRITERS WORKSHOP by P.Lal.
• MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN (Salman Rushdie).
• Raja Rao's KANTHAPURA
• A Better India, A Better World written by Narayan Murthy
• A SUITABLE BOY(Vikram seth).
• RED SUN:TRAVELS IN NAXALITE COUNTRY(Sudeep Chakravarti).
• CURFEWED NIGHT(Basharat Peer).
• THE OTHER INDIAN(Vinay Lal).
• Stay Hungry Stay Foolish written by Rashmi Bansal
• Black Swan
Fictional
• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, (‘Name Sake’ was also good..)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Chetan bhagat Collection (I bet all of u must hav read atleast one of it..)
• Da Vinci Code
• To kill the Mocking Bird
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (loved it..)
• The Confession (John Grisham)
I can keep on adding to the list..but these are d books I will recommend to read..must read..
It would be hard to be comprehensive..& compile a short list of Books you must read ..There are many classics fictional m non-fictional books that u must n must read before you die. seriously..
This list is just a few of my favorites. I hope you enjoy them, find inspiration from them, and share some of your favorites in the comments below!
Non – Fictional ( By Indian Authors)
• THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN by Nirad C. Chaudhari
• WRITERS WORKSHOP by P.Lal.
• MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN (Salman Rushdie).
• Raja Rao's KANTHAPURA
• A Better India, A Better World written by Narayan Murthy
• A SUITABLE BOY(Vikram seth).
• RED SUN:TRAVELS IN NAXALITE COUNTRY(Sudeep Chakravarti).
• CURFEWED NIGHT(Basharat Peer).
• THE OTHER INDIAN(Vinay Lal).
• Stay Hungry Stay Foolish written by Rashmi Bansal
• Black Swan
Fictional
• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, (‘Name Sake’ was also good..)
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Chetan bhagat Collection (I bet all of u must hav read atleast one of it..)
• Da Vinci Code
• To kill the Mocking Bird
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (loved it..)
• The Confession (John Grisham)
I can keep on adding to the list..but these are d books I will recommend to read..must read..
Monday, May 9, 2011
DEfinatly you are addicted to Internet when
You wake up at 3 a.m. go to the bathroom and stop to check e-mail on the way back to bed.
2. You get a tatoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher."
3. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
4. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
5. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
7. You laugh at people with 14.4 modems.
8. You start using smilies in your snail mail.
9. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem... And you succeed.
10. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
12. You start introducing yourself as "JohnDoe at AOL dot com."
13. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
14. Your cat has its own home page.
15. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
16. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
17. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
18. You don't know what sex three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
19. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
21. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
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2. You get a tatoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher."
3. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
4. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
5. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
7. You laugh at people with 14.4 modems.
8. You start using smilies in your snail mail.
9. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem... And you succeed.
10. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
12. You start introducing yourself as "JohnDoe at AOL dot com."
13. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
14. Your cat has its own home page.
15. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
16. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
17. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
18. You don't know what sex three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
19. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
21. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tweeter Vasio : citizens of Tweet-Villa
So well, we all need to Admit it. After all that pooh-poohing about jobless people loitering on Twitter, you’ve graduated into acknowledging it’s a fun place to hang out. While it is a lot of fun to engage in banter with some of the best minds out there, I’ve come to realize this is one terrific place to observe human behavior and make up for those Anthropology classes you were too cool to take. Just sit back and watch for a while; you’ll be amazed how much – and what – you learn. In the meantime, I present to you to the seven deadly kinds of new followers you may (not) have come across:
THE ANGLERS: They will follow you and give you a day or so to follow them back. When you don’t, they will promptly unfollow you, but their offer hasn’t expired just yet. They will give you time to regret that you didn’t follow back when you had the chance, and will follow you again after a few weeks. This is your chance – follow them back, or they won’t follow you again. Forever, or till the next chance they decide to give you, should you be worthy – whichever they think comes first.
THE HAMMERERS: These are the social media equivalent of corporate climbers. They know exactly who and how many people they want following them within the next 6 months. If you are what people consider The Elite, they’ll follow you, and focus exclusively on you till they have your attention. All their RTs and adulatory mentions will be for you. They’ll reply to almost anything that you say (If you don’t believe me, try tweeting “I had cereal for breakfast this morning” or “Brad Pitt rocks!!” The first one to reply “with whole milk or 2%?” is the Hammerer you’re soon going to succumb to.) They’ll do what it takes, praise you, interrupt converse with you, reply to every tweet, heck even prepare the topics you like, and RT you left and right till you are finally a sucker obligated – or flattered – into following them back.
THE SEDUCERS: Clever lot. They’ll watch you for a long time. They won’t follow you, but they’ll observe who you converse with, and carry on extensive dialogs with them. Occasionally, they’ll throw a casual tweet your way and go back to ignoring you – or start a gradual dialog (but still not follow you yet), until one day you happen to follow them. Rest assured, they’ll follow you “back.” It was all so smooth, you didn’t even realize it.
THE REDUCERS: These are people who want to expand their horizon while narrowing their focus – all while maintaining a high follower to followee ratio. They keep preening their list obsessively time and again to see who they can unfollow every time they follow someone new. If you haven’t been on your toes tweeting to their interest or interacting with them, off with your head!
THE CHINESE CHECKERS: These are the guys, who like the hammerers know who what they want. They don’t really care to follow you; your role is only to stay put so they can jump across you and land right under the nose of that coveted celebrity who happens to be your friend. They will find their way in a conversation, @reply to you like it’s you they want to talk to, and sneak in a courtesy @reply to your friend on the side. From there on, it’s just a matter of hammering. Or seducing. They will know exactly which. And now you will too.
THE VOYEURS: Oh believe me, these guys admire you. They want to follow you. Why, they even would, had it not been for the fact that they have a whopping 850 followers – as opposed to your paltry 64. Now how will that look on their résumé? But do not be deceived by these Tweeting Poms – they may not follow you, but they will go tippy-toe and peek at your tweets every now and then.
THE MUTUAL NON-FOLLOWERS: Technically, these guys don’t quite need a title to themselves. They’re only a sour-grape version of the Anglers above. They’ll follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow till they finally realize you aren’t really going to follow them unless they start tweeting topics of your interest. They’ll then take this casual approach of “Oh it never really mattered anyway! We don’t follow each other, but we still converse; there’s mutual respect and it’s all good.”
THE ANGLERS: They will follow you and give you a day or so to follow them back. When you don’t, they will promptly unfollow you, but their offer hasn’t expired just yet. They will give you time to regret that you didn’t follow back when you had the chance, and will follow you again after a few weeks. This is your chance – follow them back, or they won’t follow you again. Forever, or till the next chance they decide to give you, should you be worthy – whichever they think comes first.
THE HAMMERERS: These are the social media equivalent of corporate climbers. They know exactly who and how many people they want following them within the next 6 months. If you are what people consider The Elite, they’ll follow you, and focus exclusively on you till they have your attention. All their RTs and adulatory mentions will be for you. They’ll reply to almost anything that you say (If you don’t believe me, try tweeting “I had cereal for breakfast this morning” or “Brad Pitt rocks!!” The first one to reply “with whole milk or 2%?” is the Hammerer you’re soon going to succumb to.) They’ll do what it takes, praise you, interrupt converse with you, reply to every tweet, heck even prepare the topics you like, and RT you left and right till you are finally a sucker obligated – or flattered – into following them back.
THE SEDUCERS: Clever lot. They’ll watch you for a long time. They won’t follow you, but they’ll observe who you converse with, and carry on extensive dialogs with them. Occasionally, they’ll throw a casual tweet your way and go back to ignoring you – or start a gradual dialog (but still not follow you yet), until one day you happen to follow them. Rest assured, they’ll follow you “back.” It was all so smooth, you didn’t even realize it.
THE REDUCERS: These are people who want to expand their horizon while narrowing their focus – all while maintaining a high follower to followee ratio. They keep preening their list obsessively time and again to see who they can unfollow every time they follow someone new. If you haven’t been on your toes tweeting to their interest or interacting with them, off with your head!
THE CHINESE CHECKERS: These are the guys, who like the hammerers know who what they want. They don’t really care to follow you; your role is only to stay put so they can jump across you and land right under the nose of that coveted celebrity who happens to be your friend. They will find their way in a conversation, @reply to you like it’s you they want to talk to, and sneak in a courtesy @reply to your friend on the side. From there on, it’s just a matter of hammering. Or seducing. They will know exactly which. And now you will too.
THE VOYEURS: Oh believe me, these guys admire you. They want to follow you. Why, they even would, had it not been for the fact that they have a whopping 850 followers – as opposed to your paltry 64. Now how will that look on their résumé? But do not be deceived by these Tweeting Poms – they may not follow you, but they will go tippy-toe and peek at your tweets every now and then.
THE MUTUAL NON-FOLLOWERS: Technically, these guys don’t quite need a title to themselves. They’re only a sour-grape version of the Anglers above. They’ll follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow till they finally realize you aren’t really going to follow them unless they start tweeting topics of your interest. They’ll then take this casual approach of “Oh it never really mattered anyway! We don’t follow each other, but we still converse; there’s mutual respect and it’s all good.”
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