The Star of Hearts...

He was born in 1972. July 8. No one thought he would be a star. His elder brother introduced him to cricket. Now he is the 5th highest scorer in ODI, 5th person to score 10,000 runs in history. He is none other than the former captain of the Blue Team " Sourav Ganguly".

 I came to know about Ganguly and became a fan of him on watching the match India against Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup. His batting thrashed Srilankan bowlers. He scored 183 runs from 154 balls. India was achieving easy victory with his help. Due to World Cup money scandals, the team was totally down. Many players were out of team. at that time Sachin Tendulkar was the captain. He resigned due to health problems. Finally the board decided to make Sourav Ganguly as the captain of team INDIA.

 There was a time when team India was beaten up by weakest teams Kenya and Bangladesh. Fans of India were really feared on seeing India's each game. There was a time when audience throw bottles on ground as protest when India was near to failure of match.
All those bad times were made history by the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly.
Indians started loving India's match after 1999. Indian team started rising to the top both on ODIs and Tests.
Many modifications were made on the team by Ganguly. The King of offsides Sourav Ganguly started losing concentration on his batting. He scored less runs. But the team India will win.
I still remember the match in which Zaheer Khan was given the last over even if he was too expensive in that match. That was his confidence with his players. That match was also won by India.
Many new and young players found seat in team India. Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj, even the King of Captains Dhoni was also brought to the team by Ganguly. With the help of a good coach Wright, Ganguly made the team reach to 2003 WorldCup Final. But India lost the flow with Australia in the final and lost the World Cup. Usually all captains will resign from the team when the team fails in world cup or board changes the captain. But Ganguly was really appreciated by both board and the Indian cricket fans to bring India back with full recharge.
   All captains including the Worldcup 2003 champions Australia's captain Ricky Pointing feared his captaincy.
  After 2003 Worldcup, Wright resigned as coach of India and Greg Chappel was appointed as the coach. That was the fall of Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly. Problems easily spread within team. Ganguly's ability was  not at all remembered by the team mates or board. The young players whom Ganguly introduced were also against him. Finally Ganguly was out of team for his bad batting. Some of the team members complained that Ganguly was very harsh to them.
   Ganguly appeared in a few matches after a break. Fans were expecting his full return. He couldn't reach. He was avoided from Indian team. He was not ready to retire. He was having full of expectations about his return.
 He was selected to play in World Cup 2007. But he couldn't do much. His bad scores over ruled his good battings at that time.
 Finally IPL , Indian Premiere League was a chance for Ganguly. He was made the captain of his Home Team. KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS. The owner of KKR bought Ganguly, but no other strong players. Still Ganguly managed to get the good out of it. It was really challenging. Finally KKR was out of both IPLs early. The last match of KKR on both IPL witnessed Ganguly's super batting ruling the off sides.
  Finally he was out of KKR. Now in 2011, he was avoided by KKR and other teams. Finally KochiIPL team planned to get Ganguly as captain. But the opposition made by other teams made his way to the IPL closed. Still hi fans expecting him on any cricket.

 You watch India's match and enjoy their victory. The reason behind such a best team is the one and only star Sourav Ganguly. He is still the star on every cricketer's heart.
Salute to the great man from every cricketer.
Hats off...


RAM

THE ESCAPE - A Gift from God !!

This is not a story, but a real life situation in my life happened 5 years ago. ie; when i was doing my 2nd year B.Tech. I was going for maths tuition on all Saturdays and Sundays. It was series exam time. Series starts on Monday. The first exam is maths. I was attending the tuition on Sunday  with 5 of my friends of my batch. Others were studying at home. 5 boys and 1 girl was the batch.
 
 The studies were going on with heat on our heads. At that time students of other college who came for tuition there had a quarrel with one of the local person living there. These boys of other college hurt him entering his house. The tuition class was on the terrace of a rented house. Those boys were enjoying the victory over the local. At that time we heard a great sound coming towards the building. We saw a group of goons coming towards our building. There is only one way for exit. No other way because it was terrace. The goons entered the class and hurt those two boys of other college. And they also hurt one of the faculty. They entered the class and destroyed tables and chairs. We were shocked to see such incidents really for the first time. The goons were attacking all the friends of the boys. They came near us and destroyed the tables and chairs and went back. By Gods grace we escaped. After all the incident, as usual the police came. And we all went home. That shock affected our Maths exam. All our parents were afraid hearing this incident. Many stopped coming to class after that.

This was the incident happened. But today i had a talk unfortunately with one of the neighbors of that building. From his words i understood that its by Gods grace, we all escaped. He said, On that day all the local gangs were attending a marriage that no one could reach there on time. Only a few who didn't attend came to the class. If all the goons were there at the situations, we also could have got hurt very badly. That was a real luck.
  On the day of incident we thought why God is doing this to us disturbing our exam. But the truth was that, we went home early only because a small group of goons attacked. Otherwise we would have faced Medical Aids.
Really God's Grace...

Thank God

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One day at hospital...

Recently i went to a private hospital to see my friend's father who was admitted there. I was there only for a short time, but i could witness different people with different situations. But many of us relax in home without knowing any thing. I was thinking about the situation of those persons. Really bad situations...
This post is nothing but different situations i witnessed there.

I went to the hospital at night. I was talking with my friend. A nurse came with a slip which contained a list of medicines to be bought. I took charge of buying the medicines from the pharmacy. My friend's mother gave me the money too. I was in queue at the pharmacy. 2 persons were in front of me. The first person's list contained 15- 17 medicines which cost him only around Rs 700. The person who was in front of me had only 4-5 medicines to buy. But when the cashier told the price, i was shocked to hear that which was around Rs 5700. So imagine the shock of the person who was buying that. He didn't had enough money in his hand. So he kept the medicines there itself and went.  It was my turn. After buying medicine when i was about to leave the counter, a woman of around 40 years old came there. She looked so tired and weak. Her left hand wrist was dressed with tight bandage. It was a suicide attempt by cutting vein. I confirmed it when she answered to the query of the Pharmacist. I was thinking about her situation of facing others after surviving a suicide attempt. I left the place.

    Suddenly an Ambulance came with emergency. An old man with bleeding head was the patient. He was left in the casualty for a while with first aid. After a few minutes his health condition became seriously weak and he was moved from there to emergency ward. After that an unconscious old woman was brought to the casualty. Nurses rushed to her and started checking her pulse rate and blood pressure. Suddenly she woke up from unconscious state. The problem with her was she took insulin medicine without taking food which made her fall down unconsciously.

 Many of the patient' s relatives were rushing in search of money for treatments.

  I was thinking the situations of all these persons individually. Its really like a fire on our tail if we are involved it.

I could understand one thing from all these. Many of us don't care of our health which leads us to hospital.
Take care of your own health. If you don't get the seriousness of taking care of your health then i would advice you to go to the hospital and watch these directly.

Take Care. Be Healthy.


RAM

20 - 10 turns 11. Its Another New Year...

The whole world is celebrating to welcome the 11th year of the 21st century, expecting a good time throughout the year.

 All medias will have full time turn back to year 2010 reminding us of the past.
I am thinking different. Read it out.

When we were born we don't know about month,day or date. But in Kinder Garden, teacher taught us about Date, Months, and year. We learned New year start with January. After that lesson, New Year was just January 1st for us. Gradually we learned time, hours, minutes & seconds. After few mistakes in the beginning, we started telling the time looking at the clock. We learned counting down from 10 to 1.

    During lower primary, new year celebration was just in writing date to the left of margin in our notebooks.
Once school reopened on 30th December. 31st December before the classes winded up teacher said that we could meet next year. All students were confused, and whole class thought that the teacher had a wrong statement. Teacher itself corrected our confusions. But we started confusing our friends with the same dialogue.

    During upper primary we sang during the Christmas song. Most probably last song will be wishing Christmas and New year. We started wishing our friends a new year before they wish us.
   During high school we started buying greeting cards of  range Rs 1 to Rs 3 just printed Happy New year. Close friends were wished Christmas too.

   After high school, we started buying greeting cards. This time range was Rs. 25 and above. Good words, with our words too filled up the cards. But the number of friends whom we plan to give the cards will decrease. New Year was celebrated with friends in some near by bakery.
    During college,  we started celebrating New year in Hotels, some boys with beverages and some celebrating at home with there parents. Email or E- greeting cards were used to wish our friends.
After that, New year was wished through orkut scraps and status messages, or post in Groups. After orkut season, New year was wished writing on walls, of Facebook. or status message of Facebook or tagging new year Photos. If you like you will click like button, and also leave a comment. And also the celebrations are at pubs, or clubs, or star hotels with a great dinner or heavy drinks.

    SMSs was rocking all the time. Once it jammed the whole network. So that now the sms charges are costly on 31st Dec & January 1st. All the SMS wishes will be ended by 30th December. And also the celebrations will be by turning off lights during last 10 seconds before 1st January counting down from 10 and turning on lights at counting 0 with heavy screaming HAPPY NEW YEAR. Fireworks at some places, and so on. And land phones and mobile phones will be busy, with wishes. And some people wishes New year through their blog, like me. The whole world waiting for the new technology, to wish next year.

  After all, during all the new year time, everyone will have their own "New year resolution".  Hope you have one this year too and is good. All the best for that.

 A very warm wish for all my friends and a special wish for my supporters of this blog.
    "HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011"

May you have one of the best times of your life this year.


RAM

A world without pens & pencils....

When i was in class last Sunday  i was thinking about the speed of technology being part of our life. I was writing notes after a long time. At that time i found difficult to get my usual speed of writing and getting the correct spellings, etc. Then i thought if there is no pencils and pens....

My thought went like this. I am finding it difficult to write after a long time. So if technology take over the places of our pens and pencils with laptops and computers, our ability to write will disappear for sure. In future, the next generation children will carry laptops to schools. Teachers will have power point presentations instead of notes. Online exams. As the civil drawing was made easy with autocad, the drawings will also be electronic. So just think if we tell the next generation students to write alphabets, they will take the whole night to complete from A to Z, but less than 10 seconds to type.

Our signatures in certificates and papers will be taken over by the E - identity cards. Kinder garden students will talk about laptop standby time and speed instead of pencils and rubbers. They will start borrowing laptop chargers instead of sharpeners.

The old composition writing will be replaced by the email. Students will type the composition. Attach it and send to the teacher. Assignments through email. or transactions through bluetooth.  Mark sheet back to you through email.

University exams online. Attendance marking with id cards. No additional sheets. No delay of results. You dont have to wait for your results in front of the busy website.

When all go electronic your ability to draw, to write etc, will lose.

Grow with technology, but also try not to lose your ability.
Otherwise tomorrow stationery will be history.


RAM

My last drawing competition....

Drawing is the art which i like very much, but my hands never flow when i sit for drawing. I have attended drawing competitions only 3 times. During onam holidays comes the onam celebration at my mom's office. Celebrations consisted of various competitions. The only competition i performed well was music competition and won prizes too, but the worst was for drawing.

 There were 3 categories (Lower primary, Upper Primary, High school)

When i first attended the competition i was in the lower primary group. That was the last time i could attend in the lower primary group. I drew a hut with flower pot outside. Behind scenery was hills with sun rise and 3 V shaped birds flying, as usual. The usual drawing of a lower primary student. But when i submitted the paper, i was amazed to see other paintings. Great paintings...

Didn't get prize last time. Next time upper primary category. My sister was in high school category. My aim was to get prize next time. My sister, my twin brother and me went to my dad's friend's home to learn drawing. He taught us a painting of a red speed boat with wind direction expressed in trees at background. And waves formed by the speed boat, etc. It was a great painting. We became expert in it. But we could not learn any other painting because we didn't attend any other class.

During second time we three drew the same picture, red speed boat with background trees, waves etc....
When paper was submitted, the staff who collected noticed our pictures and told our mom that same picture was drawn by her 3 children. But one of the picture had a difference, that wind direction was opposite. That was my twin brother's picture.

The third time was when i was in high school.. And it was the last time i could attend the competition there. Age limit was 15. This time me and my twin brother attended the competition. The topic given for our category was "Love (Sneham)".
Hmm.. Love was just a red heart during that age. (its not lie... Ok)
So the competition started. Since i was not in touch with drawing i was thinking of easy pictures that i could draw. Then i fixed the picture in my heart and started drawing. A boy with umbrella during rain. Back ground was same as lower primary, hut with hills at back. But, no sun this time. I need a dog also to complete my picture. I tried a lot of times to draw it. Could not do... Finally started from drawing the tail of the dog. When completed, it looked like a sheep.  But it was not under the umbrella. I didn't take any risk erasing it. I erased the boy and drew it again to make the sheep under the umbrella. Hoh...  God... Finally done it. On the way to submission i watched the lower primary students coloring the sunset again and again making it more beautiful.. They were playing with colors and i was playing with drawing sheep. All were staring at my picture drawn by a 15 yr old boy. I couldn't look at others... I escaped from that area after submitting. My brother drew the same red speed boat with a girl and boy in it. Background was trees showing the wind direction. Waves also expressed.

Results were announced the very next day. 1st 2nd and 3rd prize paintings were superb. But i was also amazed  to see my picture too on the board. The duty person of the board told that, there are two 3rd prizes this time, one was mine... The fact was that my picture was expressing the real meaning of love. This was judge's comment on the picture.

I was flying... Took a decision, never to attend more painting competitions.
I thought never ever try drawing in my life.
But now i am playing with scales and pencils to teach my students "Engineering Graphics".
Amazing right??? Still i don't want to play with paintings. Thank god that there is no pictures of hut, boy and dog in the subject.


Great God...

RAM

Hungry Stage Performance...

Being hungry during a stage performance is one of the most difficult situations to overcome. Even if we eat well, the energy we utilize in the stage will make us hungry again.

I am a singer and i do stage performances with my troop. Yesterday evening i had a similar experience of being hungry during stage performance. But this time it was much more worser than previous experiences.

 Before starting the program itself the auditorium was filled with audiences. When the program started, and when i finished my first song, it started raining outside the auditorium. So all the persons who were standing outside came inside. Hunger started disturbing me. Next 2 songs was sung by other members. Then i entered stage for my second song. Suddenly the coordinator told me to pause the program for them to conduct some honoring programs. After their 10 minute program i entered the stage for my second song. At that time i was more disturbed by hunger. Again after 2 songs i entered  stage for 3rd song, hunger was about to kill me. I managed it without caring and started singing. At that time they supplied food for the audience. Since it was raining outside, everyone was taking their food sitting inside the hall. The good smell of the food pierced into my nose. Hunger which i managed to keep it silent became violent and my hunger became worser. I managed to finish my song without problems.  Performers take food only after program so that they can perform well.. Finally after 1 hour program ended, and we had our food. 

Thank god that hunger didn't make any problems for me and my performances.

RAM

Nescafe - Know your Neighbor Story ........ Story No : 1

 Nescafe is conducting a contest for " Nescafe - The Neighbor story".

I wrote a story within 10 minutes that came suddenly to my mind. So i don't know whether you will like it or not. But i am sure that in the contest my story will be long back. But i should not waste my story. One of my friends told me to write a story in my blog, who believes in my ability to write one. So i am sharing it for all my friends. My first story in my blog. So please write your comments after reading this.

 
My story starts when i saw a beautiful girl at my bus stop. From that day i started seeing her everyday. Her dad will be always with her. So i hesitated to talk to her. One day when i was going with my dad i saw the girl standing alone. I was missing all chances. But we both started noticing each other. One day when my mom came back after shopping, she bought a pack of nescafe coffee as requested by my neighbor aunty. I went to my neighbors house to give this pack of nescafe. When the door opened i was shocked to see the girl at the bus stop there in neighbors home. Aunty said," She is my daughter. Hope u know." Aunty gave her daughter and me a cup of nescafe coffee. I started my conversation with the girl there. Girl asked, "Hows the coffee?" I replied "Superb like you". She smiled. My tensed heart relaxed and smiled. We enjoyed a long conversation.

            When i was back home my mom told me that the girl and her dad goes jogging with my dad early morning.  At that time i will be in the world of dreams. And the girl comes often to my home in the evening to have a chat with my mom and dad.At that time i will be outside with my friends. I refused to go for jogging with my dad everyday and i also refused my parents words to reach home early.  I was melted. From the next day i started going for jogging with my neighbor and started coming home early. Had a nice time with her. A great relationship which lasted for a lifetime which was started by NESCAFE.


RAM

Girls with Knowledge & Boys with confidence !!

This is something interesting what i have noticed with my students. From my past 2 year experience in teaching, and 4 year engineering, i have noticed this interesting fact among boys and girls.

Boys are lazier than girls. Girls are hard working. But the problem is that the grasping power of girls is less than that of boys. And boys have a high grasping power, but no efficient trainers are available to train them. Girls learn themselves through their continuous reading.

Girls have knowledge about the topic, but they are not enough confident to bring it out.
Even though boys know only a little about the topic, they have huge confidence.
So during exams if a boy gets a single word from his friend, they could write a lot about the matter they know about the topic. But girls need the same sentence they trained themselves to satisfy their answers.

What i noticed in my class was, a topic was taught to boy and a girl. Boy was lazy when i was teaching. He understood something.
But the girl asked doubts and cleared it and she was ready to work out the question. But when they started answering, girl was confirming each step with me before proceeding. But the boy was confirming it after finishing.

This is not about just one boy and girl. But i was observing this fact with many,but not all.

Finally, after attending their university exams ,
Girls are tensed even if they write their exams very well. They will pass the exams. But before the results, they are tensed and i should cool their by saying that they will pass..
But boys will directly say, " Sir, I ll get marks to pass, thats enough". They will pass.
Hmm.. What should i say?? Anything?? No . Just Good..


RAM

Sleek 150cc Vs Huge 1300cc

CBZ Xtreme 150cc and Hayabusa 1300cc is mentioned as sleek 150 and huge 1300.


I dont want to compare anything between these bikes. I just want to share one of my experiences i had on the road. Hope you will enjoy it.

I have a 150cc Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme bike which i love very much. I spent some money for increasing the beauty of my bike a few days back. Yesterday on my way to the class, a vehicle was moving in front of me which had a huge rear tyre . The vehicle was full black in color. But the bike was slow moving. I was noticing that everyone is stunning and looking to his bike, but not mine. He had his headlights turned on to attract everyone. I didnt like his attitude because we both are having 2 wheelers. But he was going like as he is the owner of the road without giving side for me to go.  I went just behind his bike so that whoever notices his bike will surely look at the escorts. Here i was not ashamed to be the escort because, everyone should notice my bike too right?? :-P.  After some time i got a gap to move on through his left side. I went through that gap to reach his side. I asked him, which bike was that? He replied in style "Hayabusa". His reply also sound very irritating to me. He was still moving as he was. I asked again " What is the speciality? Just big tyre, right?". He replied "Hmm.. If i change the gear and gives the acceleration, you will stay long behind. By the time he finished replying we were near to the next junction. Slow moving traffic was increasing towards the junction. I touched my bike's petrol tank and said, " This is CBZ Xtreme, This can go through cities without staying behind anyother vehicle".  Telling this i changed the gear and "Whooommmmmmmm". Hope u could imagine that speed!!!
 He was long behind me. He couldn't come fast in that traffic because his bike was huge size. Finally at the junction, i was waiting for the Green signal. After some time he reached the signal, but he was behind a car. I could see him. I turned back, he was staring at me. I smiled at him. The green light turned on. I once again whoooooommmmm making him and other vehicles at the junction stay long behind.

He might have learned one thing.
Even an ant can give pain to the huge elephant. :-P
I was lucky that he couldn't reach me. :-P  And I was proud to have a ride in my bike through the city.

Hero Honda.. DHAK DHAK GO!!!
 
 
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