Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day


A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 24

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
- Sri Ramakrishna

All that you and I have to do is to put up our sails and let the wind
of grace carry us across the sea of life to the other shore. But most
of us are firmly stuck on this shore. Our sail is in tatters and our
boat cannot move because of all the excess baggage weighing it down:
our likes and dislikes, our habits and opinions, all the resentments
and hostilities which we have carefully acquired. But just as
it is we, ourselves, who have acquired this baggage, it is we who
can gradually learn to toss it overboard. The wind is blowing, but
we have to make our boat seaworthy. We can patch up our sail, and
unfurl it to catch the wind that will carry us to the other shore.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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Any suggestions?
I am looking for good books on managing software companies....mainly focussed on financial side of it...

As part of traditional management...many books are written on justifying projects, capital expenses, cost control etc... I am looking for a book which shows the practical applications of those core concepts for s/w companies and busineses....

TIA

Cricket Trivia
Just for trivia lovers...

What is common between Gary Sobers and Ravi Shastri?
Six sixers in one over...

Who were those unfortunate bowlers?
Malcom Nash and Tilak Patel (respectively)

In what game?
English county cricket, Ranaji Trophy(respectively)

Commonality between Viv Richarads and Gary Sobers?
Many...both are west Indians (duh, PJ)
Both captained WI (duh)
Both had an Indian girl friend or mistress or whatever...

Who?
Neen Gupta (Richards), Anju Mahendru(Sobers)

Which cricketer of Indian origin led the first rebel WI team to SA?
Alwyn Kalicharan (in those Apartheid days..SA was boycotted from cricket world....those cricket loving SAs used to entice cricketers with tonnes of money)

Who was the other Kalicharan who played for WI?
Derek Kalicharan but not as famous as his bro Alwyn..

Who are two cricketers of Indian origin played for WI shared 'Shiva' as part of their name?
Shiv Shiv Narain...Shiv Chandrapaul......

Who used to be known as deadly quartet?
Micheal Holding, Andy Roberts, Collin Craft, Joel Garner....speedsters from WI

Who got the bat from Sunil Gavaskar after he beat the record of maximum centuries back in 1984?
Jeff Dujon, WI keeper

Where did G'kar score that centuray?
Chepauk, Madras

That's it for now....

Yours
Trivia Junkie

Thought for the Day
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A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 23

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the
mind. - Mahatma Gandhi

I first became interested in improving my diet under the influence of
Mahatma Gandhi, who used to include articles on diet and heath in his
weekly newspaper along with all the latest political news. I had been
brought up on traditional South Indian cuisine. I had enjoyed it all
thoroughly, but I had never asked what the purpose of food is. At
Gandhi's prompting, I started asking this kind of question and
concluded to my great surprise that food is meant to nourish the body.
I started changing. I began to eat foods that wouldn't have appealed
to me in earlier days. Now asparagus tastes better than chocolate
torte.

The palate is the ideal starting point for getting some mastery over
your senses. You have three, four, maybe more opportunities a day:
breakfast, lunch, dinner, and any number of between-meal snacks. No
need to talk of fasting or strange diets. Just resolve to move away
from foods that don't benefit your health and begin choosing foods
that do. With this simple resolution, you'll strengthen your will
and deepen your meditation.

-----
>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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Quote for bachelors
Marriages are made in heaven....wait till you get there before you can get married :)

Univ Inc
Heard parts of "On Point" program on NPR....discussing this book which appear to be causing major discussions about corps funding research in univs and how it affecting academia etc....should add to the list of books to read or listened to.....

"On Point" program regular JAck Beety made a point when he said " liberal arts graduates today are like beached whale" he was trying to say that they can not find jobs despite spending 4 years taking all sorts of courses....I do not think he meant to degrade any by that but "beached whale expression was kind a neat.....so powerful animal but once beached.....beached for good......

Cheers!

Nice Quote
"There is no one better for you to be than yourself"

hand written on the back of a van with Mass plate number H37-007.

What a meaningful quote.....I would change it a little bit to read as "Your REAL Self".

Real self is a might word understanding which probably takes one or more lives depending on one's spiritual potential, I believe.....

Anyway....thanks to the van in front of me on way back home.....

Cheers!

Thought for the Day
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A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 22

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm,
a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
- The Buddha

Time runs out so soon! In our teens and twenties, even our thirties,
we have ample margin to play with the toys life has to offer. But we
should find out soon how fleeting they are, for the tides of time can
ebb away before we know it. We live from moment to moment by God's
grace, and none of us knows when death will come to cut the thread of
our lives. death. As we grow older and our family and friends begin
to pass away, we see how relentlessly time is pursuing all of us;
every death should remind us of the imminence of our own. There is
no time to quarrel, no time to feel resentful or estranged. There
is no time to waste on the pursuit of selfish pleasures that are
over almost before they begin.

The all-devouring jaws of time are following us always, closer
than our shadow. As long as I live only for myself, as a feverish
little fragment apart from the whole, I cannot escape the jaws of
time. It is good to bear in mind how evanescent life is so that we
do not postpone the voyage across this sea of separate existence,
the ceaseless process of birth and death.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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Nagma ka nagma
Topic: Underworld
NEWS

Who is the Nagma in the gutka storm?
Two actors, both from Tamil films, both with ties to Bandra (and Chennai), both furiously denying links to don Dawood's brother Anees. Over to the CBI.
Express News Service

Mumbai, February 19: Abhinetri Nagma Anees ki rakhail hai, ye mujhe maloom hai. Anees ne ek bar uske liye bhi hawala ke dus lakh rupiye mere pas bheje the, woh maine usko diye (Actor Nagma is Anees mistress, this I know. Once Anees had also sent to me hawala money of Rs 10 lakh for her. I gave that to her).

That was the sentence buried in the confession of Jamiruddin Rasool Ansari (alias Jumbo)--an 18-page confession his lawyer now says was given under duress--that sparked off a storm of denials from two Nagmas.

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Now in the custody of the Mumbai police, Ansari is alleged to be a key link in the case of the mafia links of gutka barons Rasiklal Manikchand Dhariwal and J M Joshi, both now evading arrest warrants and Interpol alerts somewhere in Dubai.

Ansari (36), who owns a sea-facing flat in Mahim, said he had delivered the Rs 10 lakh to actor Nagma in Bandra in 2000.

The problem is both the Nagmas have--or had--ties to Bandra, and both are actors.

Only the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has now taken over the case will be able to decide which one is the Nagma named by Jumbo.

In advance of those investigations, both the Nagmas are strenuously denying their involvement.

The more well-known of the duo is the oomphy Tamil star, once linked with Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly. The Congress hastily pulled Nagma--her real name is Namrata Sadhana--from campaign duty after the confession became public last week.

A furious Nagma said it was a case of mistaken identity, she had never met Anees (Dawood's elder brother), and the confession referred to another Nagma from Bandra, whose mother Tabassum was arrested for arms possession in 2000.

But on Friday night, the Nagma she blamed surfaced in a phone call to Newsline from Chennai.

``I've unnecessarily been pulled into this controversy,'' said Nagma Tabassum Khan. ``I am based in Chennai, how can anybody link me (to the confession) when I have not been to Bandra for five years?''

Khan said: ``The last time I was in Bandra was when I was 14 years old, studying in Mount Mary boarding school. I used to live with my mother in Versova. My mother, Tabassum, left India in 2000, and she is presently in London.''

Police sources confirmed that Tabassum had been arrested from Versova, something her daughter--who moved to Chennai after acting in only one Hindi movie, Boond--did not deny.

Nagma had a reverse journey: she moved to Mumbai after achieving fame in Chennai. She pointed to her address as defence. ``I don't stay in Carter Road (where Jumbo said he delivered Rs 10 lakh), Bandra. I stay at Mount Mary, Bandra.''

The money and the Nagma question will be just one of the many tangential questions that the CBI will now have to examine.

The Mumbai Police have been accused of going slow in the entire case, including not questioning Nagma or anyone else named in the confession since it was given to Deputy Commissioner of Police Amitabh Gupta in October 2004.

Gutka man Joshi emerged last week to give a television interview from Dubai in which he accused former partner Dhariwal of dragging him into dealings with Dawood.

Both the barons are accused of having supplied gutka-making machinery to Dawood's operation. Dawood's gutka brand Fire is a rage in Pakistan.

Sania Mirza
Karnataka govt today facilitated tennis star Sania Mirza..... I am so glad that they did...she deserved it....

Good luck Sania from all of us!

Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day

A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 21

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - The Buddha

When the mind is stilled through the practice of meditation, we are
lifted out of time into the eternal present. The body, of course, is
still subject to the passage of time. But in a sense, the flickering
of the mind is our internal clock. When the mind does not flicker,
what is there to measure change? Time simply comes to a stop for us --
or, more accurately, we live completely in the present moment. Past
and future, after all, exist only in the mind. When the mind stops,
there is no past or future. We cannot be resentful, we cannot be
guilt-ridden, we cannot build future hopes and desires and fears on
past experiences; no energy flows to past or future at all.

Past and future are both contained in every present moment. Whatever
we are today is the result of what we have thought, spoken, and done
in all the present moments before now - just as what we shall be
tomorrow is the result of what we think, say, and do today. The
responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands.
If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right.

-----
>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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Wow ! what a quote!
"No matter how happiliy a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she weren't"

Man this quote is simply powerful.....GOK (God Only Knows) where this came from....

But, nice one .....

Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day
A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
----------------------------------------------

February 21

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - The Buddha

When the mind is stilled through the practice of meditation, we are
lifted out of time into the eternal present. The body, of course, is
still subject to the passage of time. But in a sense, the flickering
of the mind is our internal clock. When the mind does not flicker,
what is there to measure change? Time simply comes to a stop for us --
or, more accurately, we live completely in the present moment. Past
and future, after all, exist only in the mind. When the mind stops,
there is no past or future. We cannot be resentful, we cannot be
guilt-ridden, we cannot build future hopes and desires and fears on
past experiences; no energy flows to past or future at all.

Past and future are both contained in every present moment. Whatever
we are today is the result of what we have thought, spoken, and done
in all the present moments before now - just as what we shall be
tomorrow is the result of what we think, say, and do today. The
responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands.
If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right.

-----
>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
http://www.nilgiri.org/Html/Thoughts/today.html

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First break all rules
Topic: Audio Book
First break all rules....tries to be radical...questioning all conventional wisdom....makes you think at some times....

But, I will consider this as another book to keep you on the right track with regular dose of common uncommon sense.....

Don't swaet the small stuff
Topic: Audio Book
Good for regular dose of management best practices....

Quote
"Do first things first and seconds things not at all"
"If you are not getting better, you are getting worse"
"Continous learning is a pre-requisite for success"

from Eating That Frog....21 ways to address procrastination......audio book

New Quote
"If it is butter outside and gutter inside, it is no good" - Adam Bedi talking abt what kind of girls he likes..

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ADAM BEDI, Model

I believe that the personality of a girl is what's most important. However, a great pair of legs is what I'd go for. It's the shape of the leg that's important and not
how long or short they are. While you can cos metically enhance all your other body parts, you cannot fake the legs. The same goes for the personality. If it's butter outside and gutter inside, it's no good.

http://www.kingfisherworld.com/fashion/fashion-vidisha.htm

Buffalo addicted to BBC
After drunken bear, now it's buffalos turn to do something crazy......simply hilarious.....

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This buffalo is addicted to BBC (TOI)


RANCHI: This is the tale of a buffalo that simply refuses to be milked without its daily dose of BBC!

And it's not quite the British broadcaster that the animal is addicted to but khaini - a form of chewing tobacco that is popularly called " buddhi bardhak choorn ", or BBC, in Jharkhand.

For its owner Mangra Munda, a resident of Lohardagga district, the addiction has turned into a headache. For along with fodder, he has to shell out plenty of tobacco.

His buffalo demands the chewing tobacco six times a day and makes life difficult if it doesn't get adequate amounts.

"If we fail to provide chewing tobacco on time then it becomes horrible.

"The buffalo's strong urge for tobacco makes it wild and it can do anything for khaini . It starts to break the rope it is tethered with," Munda said.

"If it is not tethered, it smells out people consuming khaini and follows them around.

"Sometimes it wanders off quite a few kilometres and returns only after consuming some of it."

Munda himself does not know how the buffalo developed the habit.

"I came to know about its love for tobacco when I saw it snatching khaini from a person who was preparing it.

"I then asked the previous owner of the animal and he confirmed its addiction."

In fact, the buffalo does not like raw tobacco, but prefers it the way most people make it - by rubbing it between the palm and the thumb with some lime.

"It has become a headache for me. I have to prepare tobacco for her despite the fact that I do not take it myself.

"I am desperately looking for a buyer, but most people have come to know of her great love for BBC!" said Munda.

Buffalo addicted to BBC
After drunken bear, now it's buffalos turn to do something crazy......simply hilarious.....

===
This buffalo is addicted to BBC (TOI)


RANCHI: This is the tale of a buffalo that simply refuses to be milked without its daily dose of BBC!

And it's not quite the British broadcaster that the animal is addicted to but khaini - a form of chewing tobacco that is popularly called " buddhi bardhak choorn ", or BBC, in Jharkhand.

For its owner Mangra Munda, a resident of Lohardagga district, the addiction has turned into a headache. For along with fodder, he has to shell out plenty of tobacco.

His buffalo demands the chewing tobacco six times a day and makes life difficult if it doesn't get adequate amounts.

"If we fail to provide chewing tobacco on time then it becomes horrible.

"The buffalo's strong urge for tobacco makes it wild and it can do anything for khaini . It starts to break the rope it is tethered with," Munda said.

"If it is not tethered, it smells out people consuming khaini and follows them around.

"Sometimes it wanders off quite a few kilometres and returns only after consuming some of it."

Munda himself does not know how the buffalo developed the habit.

"I came to know about its love for tobacco when I saw it snatching khaini from a person who was preparing it.

"I then asked the previous owner of the animal and he confirmed its addiction."

In fact, the buffalo does not like raw tobacco, but prefers it the way most people make it - by rubbing it between the palm and the thumb with some lime.

"It has become a headache for me. I have to prepare tobacco for her despite the fact that I do not take it myself.

"I am desperately looking for a buyer, but most people have come to know of her great love for BBC!" said Munda.

Bhola In Bollywood
Topic: Movies
Bhola in Bollywood.....all newcomers.....

But, really a funny movie...especially certain dialogs....sure to tickle your funny bone.....no doubt....


All in all a great watch for full time pass and paisa vassool.....

4 stars