Sweet Deepavali

Deepavali is near; we can hear the bomb sounds in every corner in the evenings and night. Every shopping malls are fully occupied by peoples wave, the shoppers went to the high of discounts, the television are full of cloths and domestic thing AD’s. People started greeting there loved ones, even we also started to greet each other’s. Cinema fans are advancing booking to their favorite movies; the television channels are in front to give us different programs. As the festival was in weekends there must be much plans how to celebrate the diwali. I too have decided to visit the beach a night before the diwali to watch the firework on the sky. This is the first time I am going to celebrate diwali in a flat, let me see if some neighbor people will also join with us!

I like to recall my childhood memories of diwali, think I was in UKG or in 1st Std when I realize the diwali. I used to sit in front of the cycle and dad pedal me with him to the nearest cracker shop; it’s not a shop, a palm leaf tent where an old woman used to sale Clay pots, when ever I leave from school I used go inside the tent and come out on the other side to reach our street easily, she will not scold me, because mom will buy pot form her. Dad buys me only small crackers like flowerpot, changu charka, wire sparkles and needle crackers. I just carry the small cover happily to the home and used to arrange the crackers in our cupboard near my dress, mom used to warn me not to keep near the cloths, but who hear her, At least 5 to 6 times I will arrange the crackers every day. Those days I don’t have any friend’s or brothers (my bro was 1 year old that time), so no one to fight with me to pick the crackers from me.

In the morning dad used to nip the wick of the cracker and one by one I will place it in a platform and fire it and go inside the house and close my ears. By closing my ears with the hand of cracker’s medicine, my ears will be turned into black. In evening mom lit a lamp out side near the front door, I used to burn the wire sparkles one by one and rotate to see the design. I really fear to fire the flowerpots and chackra, I just enjoy watching form a distance, when dad fire. I allot some cracker from that and burst on the Karthikai Thipam. This year I have planed to avoid over sound crackers, and buy colorful fireworks, which bring much lighter to the night. My hear full Diwali wishes to every one. (will be update after diwali....)

Specail News

Breathing Earth

The recently launched Breathing Earth.net shows in 'real-time' people being born, dying and the amount of carbon being emitted using the most up-to-date data available. You can also find facts about each country by hovering over them.

Smallest Horse In The World

Standing just 17 inches tall, she is never going to be a champion show-jumper.In fact, the tiny mare is so small she would struggle to leap over a bucket. But such things are of little concern for feisty Thumbelina who has just been officially recognized as the world's smallest horse. The five-year-old received the title from the Guinness Book of Records after her astonished owners realized she was never going to grow any bigger. She was born on a farm in America to a couple that specializes in breeding miniature horses. These popular show horses usually weigh about 250lb and reach a height of 34 inches when they are fully grown. At birth she weighed 8lb - the weight of many newborn babies - and eventually she grew to a mere 60lb. Because her legs are proportionally smaller than her body and her head, she has to wear orthopedic fittings to straighten them a lot of the time. She expects to live up to the age of 17 instead of 35 years of normal horse. The tiny mare has become sometime of a celebrity in her hometown in America.

October 7, 2005 has marks the 30th anniversary of the one of the hottest consumer electronic products in the world today the digital camera. In 1975, the world’s first digital photograph was taken at a Kodak lab in Rochester, NY, USA, in an event that preceded the Compact Disc, the Personal Computer and the Internet. In 1974 Steven Sasson, an engineer at Kodak’s Applied Electronics Research Center, was tasked with devising an electronic handheld still camera. The following year his first working prototype weighing 8.5 pounds, powered by 16 AA batteries and recording images on a cassette took the first ever-digital still camera photograph. That’s Steve, the world’s first digital camera and the world’s first ever-digital photograph on the picture above.

Thief Burn On Cross

A suspected thief screams as villagers set fire to his legs after stripping him and tying him to a cross in Pelileo Grande, Ecuador, 75 miles south of Quito. Mario Quishpe had been caught stealing and locals took summary justice. A priest, along with other villagers, extinguished the flames and he was taken to hospital where his burns were treated.

Huge Billboard (click the pic to see big)

They say everything is big in Texas, but when compared to Dubai, the Longhorn state is a midget. Courtesy of the emirate, we have seen the world's biggest theme park, shopping malls and even indoor artificial ski fields. Now comes the Middle East's largest billboard ad. Weighing in at a whopping 400 meters long and standing 20 meters high at its highest point, the billboard is promoting one of the cities development projects named 'The Lagoons’. Using the more than 2,880 hours of manpower, the billboard is positioned in a marketing traffic gold mine on the infamous Sheikh Zayed Road.

Diwali Special Magazine

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Hero turns 75 today

Our President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, celebrating his 75th birthday Today. Let we all Wish him and bless to live long, To encourage our Children and Youth.

Happy Birthday To you my Dear Kalam

A tag about Blogging

I was tagged by my friend Velu

Here is my answers:

1. Are you happy / satisfied with your blog, with its content and look?
I am not happy, but very very happy to be here with my friends. This template looks better to my eyes and the words on the side are in my favorite rose color, so I chose this. I have tried to change new template, but dint, because if some thing goes wrong and if my blog didn’t open what can I do.

2. Does your family know about your blog?
Yes much of them know, but no one will visit except my cousin bro. I used to tell my mom that I wrote about this and some times I show her my friends blog if they did any thing new and different.

3. Do u feel embarrassed t let your friends know about your blog or you just consider it as a private thing?
Why should I think like this when all my friends are bloggers!

4. Did blogs cause positive changes in your thoughts?
Lot!! Some times when I write negative feels about my health and chaos, my friends encourage me that we are here for u, don’t feel dear. Many blogs made me think positive. I can tell I have much changes in my thoughts, I try to write poem only after entering blog.

5. Do you only open the blogs of those who comment on your blog or you love to go and discover more by yourself?
If a new blogger visit my blog and put comment, I will go there and thank them for dropping. If I feel there blog is very entertainment and interesting sure will continue reading their blog. If I get free time after reading my regular bloggers, I will search.

6. What does visitors counter mean to you? Do you care about putting it in your blog?
I don’t care about it, is increase or stay on the same number. Just being in a corner of my blog.

7. Did you try to imagine your fellow bloggers and give them real pictures?
Why not! I have imagined some of them in my mind; I don’t know really how they will look. Will I satisfy with my imagination when I see them, or they will look much better than my imagine, esp. I have a imagine of my dears Visithra, Uma and Smiley, that, they will look like this, let me hope one day will see them and conform. What surprises me was my Friend Arjuna; I have imagined him by reading his blog that he will look little dark, but he was totally different form my imagination. When he told me to find him I wrongly found Aatma as him. I think Keshi matches my imagine, but not fully I should tell she overtake mine.

8. Admit. Do you think there is a real benefit for blogging?
Yes!! There are benefits for bloggers, to share our happiest and saddest movement in our life; by reading blogs we can develop our readings and writings. Blogging is a world where we share our thoughts and discuss with people who are in next-door and milesssss ago.

9. Do you think that bloggers society is isolated from real world or interacts with events?
I don’t think like that! Blogging is a part of our life or world, for me it’s species because I got friends in this society.

10. Does criticism annoy you or do you feel it’s a normal thing?
It’s all in the Game

11. Do you fear some political blogs and avoid them
No! I like politics. I follow Our President’s way; he only said youth should come to politics and learn politics.

12. Did you get shocked by the arrest of some bloggers?
I was shocked when the blog’s from India was blocked by govt.

13. Did you think about what will happen to your blog after you die?
Hope some one (they can be my parents, friends, or my cousins) will continue my blog. Recently I went to a blog, where a mother continues his son’s blog with the memories of him, who lost his life last year.

14. What do you like to hear? What’s the song you might like to put a link to in your blog?
I like to hear Soft melodies songs. I like to link the songs Poovukul olinthu irukum…. form Jeans, and Dating song form Tamil film Boys. I like all video songs form Kathy and Keshi’s blog.

I dedicate this tag to my friends
Starry
Adi
Satu