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October 30, 2009

Will the World Really End on December 21, 2012?

Filed under: Blogroll — Avinash @ 6:16 pm

World Ending theories:

In 2012, the world shall witness a fight to finish between Christianity and Islamic Dharma… 1200 million people are expected to perish! A full-scale nuclear war… the third world war shall announce the end of the present era!

The massive nuclear explosions would cause a slight tilt in the rotation of Mother Earth. Unbearable global warming, melting of icecaps, massive floods, earthquakes, sea waters rising by 10 to 12 feet, waves as high as 1000 feet would be witnessed all over! Nothing would result on its own… all is the result of mass karma practiced by 6500 million people existing on Mother Earth!

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December 21st, 2012 has been part of not only the Mayan calender, but also the Tibetin, Egyptian, and Chinese calendars. This is not a doomsday theory, but a reality caused by a natural cyclic event that we just happen to be living through. The natural frequency of the earth is increasing steadily and has been for the last 2000 years, (50% higher then it was 1500 years ago). Why? This is something I nor anyone else will be able to explain. Some things just are not meant to be understood, they just are. It has already been noted within the scientific and shamanistic communities that the earth’s magnetic energy is rapidly dropping and will reach a magnetic 0 on or around December 21st, 2012. This is also included in the mentioned calenders. With the decrease in magnetic energy, we find the life force energy increasing, this is only natural as a balance will automatically re-establish itself. As we get closer to December 2012, a series of spontaneous awakenings and leaps in consciousness will take place in the human realm of awareness.

I have been so enthralled with the concept of this date and the more I research it the more I find that there are so many things tied to this date. You have the Earth’s alignment with the galactic equator, which no one knows for sure if it will have an impact. 2012 is the next solar flare cycle which poses the potential to mess with our magnetic field and satellites to name a very few. Just recently stories are emerging about the tremendous numbers of vanishing honey bees. Billions upon billions of bees, reduced anywhere from 40-80% in certain parts of the US and Europe. These bees are vital to the pollination of our crops. How does this tie to 2012? Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have 4 years of life left.” Look it up. I couldn’t believe it when I read it. At the rate they’re disappearing, should they vanish in 2008, 4 year would be…you guessed it master mathematician, 2012. These are but a small handful of the scenarios that we are faced with in addition to the many listed above. If you believe in the Book of Revelation, the signs of the end times are more prevalent now than ever before. As we approach the thousand year age of Aquarius, this falls right in line with the tribulation and the good vs. evil battle that will end with…a thousand years of peace. If one theory fails there are several backing them up. I truly believe we are in the midst of the end of the world “AS WE KNOW IT,” which isn’t to say we are doomed to annihilation.

I too had a tremendous fear of this date and it began to eat away at me. In some regards it is still very unnerving not knowing what’s ahead. The fact is, what will happen will happen. Live your best, do what’s right, and in the end, right should come to you.

October 3, 2009

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October 1, 2009

The (LOST) DAN BROWN Template

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The-Lost-SymbolJust finished reading ‘THE LOST SYMBOL” last night, one of the most awaited books from one of my favorite authors- DAN BROWN.

Although expectations were sky high with this one, esp. after Angels & Demons (my fav of the lot) and Da Vinci code, this book does not fulfill my expectations.

After so many surprises in his previous books, the reader gets so accustomed to the surprises, that surprises become obvious,which i think in case of Lost Symbol has encouraged such an average response.

Also,after building up super suspense and with all that hush hush about lost word,ancient mysteries etc. etc……….finally just reveals its JUST the XXXX.(Sorry,No spoilers here!)

Now, what does Dan brown have for us here?
Having read all of Brown’s earlier works ,now, if i may say , the STANDARD DAN BROWN TEMPLATE goes something like this:

The stereotypical Dan Brown Template-

All this happening in a day’s time…

‘Random’ologist summoned by (Dr/Father) XYZ to embark on mission to save (Earth/Religion/God) from ‘till recently dormant’ enemies….

An impossibly ‘Brainy Beauty’ enters scene….

Random + Brainy Beauty set off for wild adrenalin filled goose chase ….

While on the run Solve a couple of puzzles that baffled men for centuries …

A hidden treasure/secret that no one will find..

A weirdo assasin communicating with Random…..

Secret rituals combined with a new scientific technology…

Get betrayed by XYZ….

Enter a “i am always strict and maintain a ginger eaten face” officer

Sudden flashes of seminars while running for life…

Miraculously escape…..

Random n Brain Beauty make out…..

and Dan Brown lives happily ever after on royalties received from the next Tom Hanks dud.

Having said all this, i m still a DB fan and hope that DB trusts us, his avid fans,who will not ditch him IF he writes a novel,which,just for sake of argument,does NOT hold at stake USA’s national security,or so to say end of the world !!

September 30, 2009

Farewell Yoshito Usui : Creator of SHIN CHAN

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shin-chanThis post is to pay tributes to the Japanese Cartoonist Yoshito Usui whose death (Sep 30 2009) has left many mourning. The announcement of his passing came following confirmation that the bruised body of a man found on a mountain was that of the creator of the popular Crayon Shin-chan manga and anime series.

Usui made his debut as a manga author in 1987 and sprang to prominence in the 1990s with Crayon Shin-chan, which features the daily life of Shinnosuke, a mischievous five-year-old boy. The series ran regularly in a magazine and was later made into a book and anime.

The manga, which has sold 50 million copies in Japan alone, has been translated in 14 countries, while the anime has been aired in 30 countries.

Shinnosuke (SHIN-CHAN) embarrasses his parents and kindergarten teachers as he often pulls down his trousers and shakes his hips while cracking indecent jokes.

Yoshito Usui will always be remebered for giving us our favorite character Shin-chan.The hearts of all his fans go out to his grieving family.
R.I.P.Yoshito

December 12, 2008

“Hello..It’s kshitija calling..”

Filed under: Blogroll — Avinash @ 12:55 pm

The day had a very lazy start, was outta bed around 11 in the morning but was quite lazy to go hunting for grub.. made a couple of futile attempts but on each occasion my relatively high inertia persuaded me to stay indoors… so I jus decided to stay in my room till 12.30 and then head to college for lunch.(free food from dabbas ”u know..)

Was tryin to browse the net on my lappy in  my room while cursing myself for choosing bsnl net connctn( connection drop frequecny:- 87 %)  when my cell rang.. was a bit surprised that somebody was tryin to reach me on my private mobile and not my  general mobile.. it was even more stranger cuz the only people who reached me this way were the close ones in college and most of those had packed off for their homes the night before, following the end of the trimester 3 exams and were heading for Summers.. a bit confused I answered the call.. a very strange voice on the other end quipped “Hi Avi, How are you doing?”. Me still confused replied, “I’m doing good, who’s this?” and it did sound a bit strange when I heard “It’s Kshitija calling from Delhi!”. Why would somebody who’s never called me from Pune now call me from Delhi!!

I’ve never been gud at recognizing voices on the phone and it gets even worse when I’m speaking to a person for the first time, but kshitu’s voice on the phone was a bit of a turn off to say the least. I said to myself ‘How could somebody who sounds so good in person have such a squeaky voice on the fone!’ Nevertheless, she said that she was getting bored in the new place and just decided to gimme a buzz and was about to hang up asking me to call her later. Just then I realised I didnt have a number to call her on and asked for her if this was her mobile no, but she was a bit zapped at this request and did sound a bit ‘off-guard’ and hung up sayin ‘Nope..this is not my number..I dont remember my number, maybe you could get it from Suhas!’

I got back to my lappy, thinking it really was a bit strange for someone who remembers my mobile number to not remember her own mobile number! About 15 mins later my ‘not-so-perfect’ afternoon was disturbed yet again and this time it was somebody knocking at my door. As soon as I opened the door I got the answer to why kshitu’s voice sounded the way it did and why she did not remember her own mobile number.. the answer was all of 5 feet 5 inches tall standing at my door – Siddhu. As soon as I saw him, I knew beyond a touch of doubt that it was he who’d tried to pull a fast one on me. But he continued with his all-too-innocent look pretending to be absolutely clueless about what I was talking, but after a few mins he did confess the call he’d made from his new cell number and we both exploded into peals of laughter.

By then it was around 12.30 and the two of us headed out for college and as we were approaching the parking lot, I thanked God that it was siddhu and not kshitu who was sounding so squeaky on the fone… and coincidentally as I type this I get a call from kshitu and this time it really is from Delhi and after having spoken to her on the phone for the first time, I am quite relieved to say that she not only sounds gud in person but also really does sound just as gud on the phone as well :-)

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May 15, 2008

Awesome Dilbert comics…

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November 6, 2007

Happy Diwali & trimester exam postmortem

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First of all, whoever is reading this Wish you a very happy Diwali and prosperous New year from my side .. and if your reading this post-Diwali then wish you a very belated happy diwali and a belated happy new year!

Happy diwaliu

well, myself just finsihed with exams on 3 nov- first trimester @ PUMBA

please dont ask how were the papers? ..Grrr.. that question is the last to be answered on my priority list. Gosh! AFAI rem , evrytime my papers used to be bad.. i hope someday i can say yess my papers were really good this sem..wonder when that day will come( or will it come or not?)

But then coming back, i really wonder if the papers were as bad as i think..cmon i was always good in “feku” subjects n we had subjects like Principles n practices of management (PPM), Organizational behavior (OB) , and Legal Aspects of Behavior(LAB).. out of which the first two i have written completely on my imagination..

i developed this “feku” skill in my engineering itself..when for most of the papers i just used to write whatever i used to feel (imagination power!) , irrespective of what was there in the books. This approach ensured that i almost every time got a 40 in that subject. Needless to say, any engineer reading this will know the importance and value of “40″ .

For Legal Aspects of Behavior(LAB) i.e LAW we were supposed to rememeber the Sections of the different Acts which i think was asking for too much.. Ther are more than 100sections under different Acts which are written in “LAWFUL ” language which takes hours to decipher the real meaning. Why do they have to write in such a manner that nobody can understand.. i beleive thats a “Crime” in itself.

The other three subjects were managerial Economic- ME ,SQM -Statistics and Quantitaive methods and MA- Managerial Accounting.

ME was good as it makes sense- demand , supply, pricing, production…its logical and practical so not a problem. the nest two SQM and MA are supposed to be the most dreaded subjects in MBA ( for first sem ). just like we had Graphics and Mechanics in First yr of Engineering.

SQM is again supposed to be “easy” for engineers..but again that’s a common misconception just like Accounting is supposed to be easy for B.Com’s ..

SQM was good..all problems..while Accouting was a disaster, which is not surprising at all. Terms like “debit”,”credit”, Ledger,journal ,balance sheet.Cash budget, marginal costing, Flexible and fucntional budgets, cost/labour variances may be easy for a commerce student, but i was hearing it for the first time in my life.

well i practiced and practiced and still more practiced , all to get my final answers wrong in the paper. c’mon i cant ever have that Accounting brain..so am just hoping to sail through this paper.

All said and done we have holidays from 3rd – 15th nov..i hope to utilize most of this time in productive things like sleeping , sleeping ,watching TV, orkutting, meetin old pals and not so- old pals ,watchn new movies and not so- new movies, etcetra etcetra….

bye for now..time to doze off..Zzzzzz

August 6, 2007

Is Shin Chan a bad role model for kids?

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Don’t know if many of you watch cartoon shows or not. But if nothing interesting playing on the idiot box, then cartoon channels are my only savior. I know we all are expected to grow out of them but then some of us still remain a child at heart.

Cartoon shows are no more what they use to be, at least not from what I can remember from my kiddy days. Today in India we have tons of TV channels which are solely targeted at young children as their main audience, all thanks to the Cable Network revolution. These channels not only showcase Indian programs but bring together various kinds of shows from all across the world.

Most of these shows provide nothing more than innocent entertainment value, while some are more focused on spreading basic education and good manners. However over the recent months, the actual impact of some of these fictional characters on young minds has resulted in a great deal of worry for parents.

And here is one prime example.

 

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 Shin Chan

is one of most popular Japanese cartoon series across the world. Its Hindi version titled “Shin Chan” is aired on a popular kid’s channel, Hungama TV. Though Shin Chan may appear to be just another regular kindergarten going child but don’t they often say that “looks can be very deceptive”.Shin Chan often uses fairly impolite language, argues with his mother practically on all occasions, misbehaves at school with his teachers and friends – all of this obviously shown with the excuse of simple ignorance of correct behavior due to his very young age.

  Personally speaking, my neighbour  six year old kid is forbidden from watching Shin Chan. The reason is simple “He teaches bad things”, so says his mom.  And quite frankly I can understand why she feels so. In my opinion a character like Shin Chan is more apt for teenagers and adults who love watching animated series such as The Simpsons and South Park. But by allowing children below 10 years of age to follow Shin Chan’s lead could surely result in negative implications. Especially when the concerned character is shown disrespecting his family members, mocking and passing rude remarks towards strangers and his school teachers, pulling down his pants in class room, etc.

Shin Chan’s weird and extremely inappropriate behavior is exactly what makes him popular among young kids. For some he is just a cartoon but for many in that age-bracket he is a role-model.

Now whether Hungama TV opts to give into these complaints by taking the series off air or instead continues to carry on without any hitch – well it is something only time will tell and until then Shin Chan will carry on with his unruly ways.

May 15, 2007

Indis vs China

Filed under: Blogroll, Miscellaneous — Avinash @ 8:22 pm

 

  • i got my GD PI on 17th..so preparing for the same. and i reckon that INDia Vs CHINA is indeed a hot topic

    Here it goes…

     

    Why did the price of oil and other commodities rise in the last five years? Why is the US able to fund a massive external deficit without an increase in interest rates? Why have global prices of manufactured products declined in the past decade relative to other products and services? The answer, in part, to all of these questions is simple: China.

     

    Its emergence as a global power via its integration into the global economy has had significant implications. China’s strong growth has contributed to higher oil prices. Its policy of maintaining a low valued currency has meant accumulating dollars and thereby funding the US external deficit. And its massive investment in manufacturing capacity has put downward pressure on global prices and margins. It has become conventional wisdom that China is the biggest story of our time. Now, as India goes through a similar process characterized by historically high rates of growth and further integration into the global economy, it appears that the path that China and India follow will influence the global economy and business environment. Perhaps, then, India is the next big story.

     

    Yet China and India, despite their massive populations and growing importance, are quite different. Their economic structures, sources of growth, areas of competitive advantage, and the impact they have will remain different in the coming years. Today, many global business leaders believe that they must have a strategy for China and India. For many, China is seen as the place to produce or procure goods while India is the place to procure business and IT services. Yet in the future this discrete division of labor might not be so clear, or even relevant. Moreover, both countries are increasingly seen as burgeoning markets in their own right, although only China has attracted significant investment in this regard. After a long chill, China and India are developing a significant economic relationship with one another. Trade and investment are booming, potentially creating competitive challenges and opportunities for global companies based in developed countries. Moreover, this relationship will likely contribute to the rapid emergence of global companies based in India and China. The question, then, for global companies is what to do in each country. And the answer will depend on the circumstances of each company. But surely neither country can be ignored.

     

    Yet should they be compared? Is there any basis other than the fact that they are both big and growing rapidly? Perhaps not. If comparisons were made on the basis of a true symbiosis between countries then China might best be compared with the US, Russia, or Japan, but not necessarily India. Still, the size and sudden importance of China and India is reason enough to make a comparison. Moreover, the integration of more than one billion Chinese and Indian workers into the global economy in the past quarter century was one of the most important economic events ever. Indeed it can be argued that their addition to the global economy was, in part, responsible for the spectacular rise in productivity growth in the West. And as incomes in China and India rise, the addition of more than two billion consumers to the global economy will contribute to global growth as well. This post offers some thoughts on the future direction of India and China, the risks and opportunities of doing business in each country, and the likely impact they will have on global business.

    Source : Indo – china reality

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