Sketches of Raj: March 2006

31 March, 2006

Yahoo! Avatar!

: Thank you for Sara's Comment which forced me to post this entry.

Do you like the above Avatar ?

I was wondering how this avatar system works. So just going through the Avatar pages, trying to create new avatar and analyzing how it changes the image depends on click.

Its really cool and very interesting. Developed with Flash and html link .

This Avatar in my profile, shows a Prince/hero just landed in a island after a victory. so you can see the shower of ribbons etc.

I don't know what is the meaning of 1620! Anybody know what is 1620?

Friday, March 31, 2006 | Permalink |

27 March, 2006

Some more interesting facts.

Posting some more interesting facts from my database :)

[31] The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

[32] Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

[33] It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

[34] The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

[35] Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

[36] The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

[37] Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

[38] In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is
10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling.)

[39] Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself.".

[40] The only 2 animals that can see behind it without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Monday, March 27, 2006 | Permalink |

23 March, 2006

Kerala God's Own Country

Nova's Arc!
Uru (big boat)-Bepur, Calicut.............

Row Row Row Your Boat...
Champakkulam Boat Race, Alappuzha..................

Elections!?
Election Campaign Ending in Kerala...............

Waaavvvvvvvvvv
Trissur Pooram

Jackssssssssssss

Thursday, March 23, 2006 | Permalink |

Remember the Revolutionaries

: March 23rd is the 75th anniversary of Martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, SukhDev & RajGuru . On this day in 1931 these young revolutionaries were hanged in the Lahore Central Jail.

If you can please dedicate a entry in your blog, so that we remember them when whole country forgot their sacrifice for the country

Thursday, March 23, 2006 | Permalink |

20 March, 2006

ISKCON Temple - Bangalore

A wonderful glimpse of ISKCON Temple – Bangalore.

ISKCON, an abbreviation for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, popularly called Hare Krishna after the mantra that they chant, is a worldwide religious organization founded by Prabhupada in 1966 in New York and is based on the Gaudiya Vaishnavism sect of Hinduism inspired by Chaitanya's life and teachings in the 16th century. The organization has the stated aim to foster bhakti (devotion) towards Krishna that it considers a personal God and the supreme Godhead.

The Best place to visit. I am not basically from Bangalore but its really a nice temple. I also like Hare Rama Here Krishna Temple, Mumbai also :)

Monday, March 20, 2006 | Permalink |

15 March, 2006

God's Debris Free e-Book Offer

God's Debris:
A Thought Experiment
- Scott Adams

A nice book in a form of free e-book

Got this information from a dearest friend of mine.

Hope you like this book like me.

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Synopsis:
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 | Permalink |

10 March, 2006

Some Interesting Facts about Our life...

[1] If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side

[2] If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

[3] Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

[4] Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

[5] The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.

[6] The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

[7] The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

[8] The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

[9] Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

[10] Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."

Friday, March 10, 2006 | Permalink |

09 March, 2006

Be compassionate!

I am not sure

how for this is true, but, we can avoid this type of accidents.
Please join with me to stop these type of accidents.

This real incident that happened in a local hospital in Bangalore.

A four year old girl was admitted due to leg fracture.
As it was an open fracture, she had to undergo an operation to
stitch the protruding bone back in place.

Though it was quite a minor operation, she was hooked on to a life support system, as a part of the process. The doctors had to input some data prior to the operation to suit different conditions.

Thereafter, the operation proceeded. Half way through the process, the life support system suddenly went dead.

The culprit: "Someone was using his/ her mobile phone outside the operation theatre. And the frequency had affected the system. They tried to track the fellow but to no avail. The little
girl, young and innocent as she was, died soon after. Sad to say, she was the only child.

Message :- Be compassionate! Do not use your mobiles Specially at any hospitals or within the Aircraft or any places where you are told not to use it. You might not be caught in the act, but you might have killed someone without knowing.

Sometimes it's a matter of Life & Death....!!!!

Thank you manjula for passing this info.

Thursday, March 09, 2006 | Permalink |

Do you know...

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax,

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
ADIDAS- Always Do I Dream About Sports
   "ADIDAS" is All Day I Dream About Sports..

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
Satellite Television Asian Region

5. What is expansion of "ICICI"?
Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot- India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
That match was abandoned after the ppl heard the news of indira gandhi being killed..

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
  Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is    for Bangladesh-(Amar Sonar Bangla)

9. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you',

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
South Korea

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
'cause 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR, as it was known during the cold war)

13. who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
Geoffrey Boycott

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?
John Traicos

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican)?
Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa.

17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
Polo is not allowed to be played in Southpaw fashion.

Thursday, March 09, 2006 | Permalink |

08 March, 2006

Water Bridge in Germany

Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long....... now this is engineering!

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

To those who appreciate engineering projects.....

Source: mail

Wednesday, March 08, 2006 | Permalink |

06 March, 2006

Akshardham Temple Monument to World Peace. Delhi, India

After 5 years of non-stop, round-the-clock construction, the massive and awesome Akshardham Temple Monument to World Peace was inaugurated today. The Akshardham Temple in New Delhi, India, constructed by the BAPS foundation -- the builders of the various Swaminaryan Temples across the world, is truely a modern day Wonder of the World.

It is one of the biggest and most intricate religious places of worship ever constructed. Combining several completely different and contrasting architectural styles of Hindu temple architecture of northern India -- Rajasthani, Orrisan, Gujarati, Mughal and Jain -- the Akshardham Monument is entirely constructed of marble and the red-sandstone that Delhi is famous for, and that so many of her monuments are constructed of. It was completed in only 5 years a world record of sorts

So after years of waiting, the Temple was yesterday opened to the public -- and to photographers. Below is the New Delhi Akshardham Complex as seen through the eyes of a BAPS photographer. The pictures are a great many and will take a long time to load, but totally, totally worth the wait!

At its inaguration, it is widely being heralded as one of the greatest monuments India has ever produced. I hope you enjoy viewing this architectual marvel as much as I enjoyed having the honor presenting it.

Monument of Akshardham

The Akshardham monument, built without steel, is entirely composed of sandstone and marble. It consists of 234 ornately carved pillars, 9 ornate domes, 20 quadrangled shikhars, a spectacular Gajendra Pith (plinth of stone elephants) and 20,000 murtis and statues of India's great sadhus, devotees, acharyas and divine personalities.

The monument is a fusion of several architectural styles of pink stone and pure white marble. Pink stone symbolizes bhakti (devotion) in eternal bloom and white marble of absolute purity and eternal peace. The monument was built after over 300 million man hours of services rendered by 11,000 volunteers, sadhus and artisans.

It is the one of the wonders of the modern world, and the wonders of modern India.

Glimpse of the Temple