Category — Informational

I have been living in different parts on India from the time I was born. I have lived in Kashmir in early 90s when the Terrorism was at peak. I was living in Baramulla when Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991. I was there when Hazratbal in Srinagar was taken Hostage by few handful militants.

I was in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh when Kargil War was going on in 1999.

The War was very important for us to win. I too believe that Wars should never happen, but when someone enters your home and refuse to go back, there is only one option left, which is to throw him away. This is what Our Heros did.

I am a writer, all I can do is Write about it, this is the way I am paying a tribute to them.  Here are our Real Heros.

Capt.Vikram Batra    Param Vir Chakra(Posthumous)	Karigil’s First Hero Lt. Saurabh Kalia	Grenedier. Yogendra Singh  Param Vir Chakra
RFN .Sanjay Kumar  (Param Vir Chakra)	Major Padmapani Acharya,    Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous)	Lieutenant Balwan Singh,    Maha Vir Chakra
Major M Saravanan,    VirChakra,	Lieutenant Kanad Bhattacharya,  Sena Medal (Posthumous)	Captain Saju Cherian,    Sena Medal
Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nangrum,  Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous)	Captain R Jerry Prem Raj,    Vir Chakra (Posthumous),	Major Sonam Wangchuk,    Maha Vir Chakra

Capt.Vijayant Thapar (Robin) 
He Laid down for OUR BETTER TOMORROW   
At the age of only 22

This is his last letter to his parents.

They are the people who sacrificed their lives for us. it is because of them we are able to live this kind of life. 

• Apple didn’t have two founders. It had three. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
• Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive share the same middle name: “Paul.”
• Before working at Apple, Jonathan Ive worked for a company called Tangerine.
• The original Apple 1 computer sold for $666.66.
• The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (the cube) is said to be one of the most photographed landmarks in the world.
• Nine U.S. states don’t have Apple stores: Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
• Before co-founding Apple, Steve Jobs worked for Atari.
• Jonathan Ive has worn the same shirt in every Apple product intro video since 2000.
• Steve Jobs is a Buddhist.
• Steve Jobs’ birth father was a Syrian Muslim, Abdulfattah Jandali.
• Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak when Jobs was 16 and Wozniak 21.
• Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million and sold it to Disney for $7.6 billion.
• Steve Jobs has four children: one son and three daughters.
• Jonathan Ive has twins.
• Steve Jobs originally denied he was the father of his first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
• Steve Jobs sold his apartment in New York City to U2 frontman Bono.
• In 1998 Steve Jobs let Bill Clinton use his mansion in Woodside, California.
• Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in 2009.
• Apple was established on April Fools Day.
• Apple has more than 35,000 employees worldwide.

• Apple once disposed of 2,700 unsold Lisas in a Utah landfill. The computer originally sold at $10,000 each.
• Only 30-50 of the original Apple 1 computers still exist, with originals selling for up to $50,000.
• Apple’s original logo in 1976 featured Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
• Apple’s current logo was designed by Rob Janoff.
• First slogan: “Byte into an Apple.”
• Apple was the first company to introduce the mouse and the trackpad.
• After being kicked out of Apple, Steve Jobs started an unsuccessful company called NeXT.
• In 2001, Apple’s stock price was less than $8 per share. In April 2010 the price reached $272.
• In January 2007, Apple Inc. dropped “Computer” from its corporate name.
• Apple.com is in the top 50 websites visited worldwide and in the top 30 visited in the United States.
• Apple wasn’t started in a garage, it was started in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos.
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both worked together as summer employees at Hewlett-Packard.
• The longest-lived Apple computer of all time was the Apple IIe, which was on sale for nearly 11 years.
• Apple didn’t sell a Windows-compatible iPod until nine months after the iPod was introduced.
• The time shown on all of the devices in pictures on Apple’s website is the same (9:41 a.m. for iOS devices and 10:50 a.m. for Macs). The time is coordinated with when the pictures will be shown during Steve Jobs’ keynote address.
• Apple once created a stand-alone game console called the Pippin.
• The famous 1984 Macintosh ad was directed by Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Gladiator.
• Apple created the Dogcow in 1983. The sound she makes is “Moof!” 
• Steve Jobs pays himself an annual salary of $1.
• Steve Jobs’ annual income from Disney shares is $48 million.

• Despite being one of the biggest companies in the world, Apple’s current board of directors (at six) is among the smallest in the Fortune 500.
• Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is on Apple’s board of directors.
• Steve Jobs was a college drop out.
• Steve Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology from Ronald Reagan.
• Steve Jobs commonly dons a black long-sleeved mock-turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi’s 501 blue jeans (he owns more than 100), and New Balance 992 sneakers.
• In 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published a 2,500 word obituary of Steve Jobs in its news service, leaving blank spaces for his age and cause of death.
• Steve Jobs traveled to India looking for enlightenment in 1974.
• Steve Jobs is dyslexic.
• Steve Jobs said he let snakes loose in his third grade classroom and “exploded bombs.”
• While Steve Jobs worked at Atari, he was moved to the night shift because he had poor personal hygiene and smelled bad.
• Steve Jobs and his wife are strict vegans.
• Apples are Steve Jobs’ favorite food.
• Steve jobs convinced the president of PepsiCo to work for Apple.
• During the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs used the phone to call Starbucks and order 4,000 lattes to go.
• Steve Jobs has big feet, at size 14.
• Steve Jobs often parks in Handicap spaces at Apple headquarters.
• Steve Jobs’ sister, Mona Simpson, is a novelist.
• Apple is now a $50 billion company.
• Apple sells 91 percent of $1,000+ PCs.
• Apple’s idea for the graphical user interface actually came from Xerox.

• John Hodgman, the  PC in the “I’m a Mac” commercials, uses a Mac.
• Apple has been in the retail store business since 2001.
• Apple has had six CEOs: Michael Scott, A.C. “Mike” Markkula, John Sculley, Michael Spindler, Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs.
• Philip W. Schiller, senior vice president of marketing, began but didn’t complete a Ph.D. in English.
• Steve Jobs was portrayed by Noah Wyle in the film “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”
• Macs last an average of six years. PCs last an average of four years.
• The average PC owner spends 50 hours a year troubleshooting. The average Mac owner spends 5 hours a year.
• Teachers and students using Macs are found to be 44% more productive.
• When it was first released Steve Jobs gave every Apple employee a free iPhone.
• Apple began work on a touch-screen tablet before work began on the iPhone. The iPad wasn’t released until three years after the iPhone, however.
• The iPod’s codename was “Dulcimer.”
• Gonzo, Jedi, Malibu, Peter Pan, Rosebud, and Yikes! have all been codenames for Macs.
• The signatures of the Macintosh hardware team were originally engraved inside the computer’s case.
• Steve Jobs originally considered “Macintosh” to be a code name and wanted to rename the project.
• Time Magazine considered naming Steve Jobs “Man of the Year” in 1982, even sending a reporter for interviews multiple times, but instead, the magazine named “the computer” the machine of the year.
• Susan Kare once created a computer icon of Steve Jobs while she worked on the Macintosh team.
• Anya Major, a discus thrower, threw the sledgehammer at the screen in the famous 1984 commercial.
• The 1984 ad was originally proposed to be used as a print advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to promote the Apple II.
• Apple’s Board of Directors hated the 1984 commercial when they saw it but decided to take the risk anyway.

• The very first image shown on the Macintosh was of Disney character Scrooge McDuck.
• In 2010 Apple’s market cap exceeded Microsoft for the first time since 1989.
• Apple’s online store began on November 10, 1997.
• The first Apple retail stores opened in Virginia and California.
• Apple’s Cupertino campus has six buildings that total 850,000 square feet and was built in 1993.
• Steve Job’s birthday is February 24, 1955.
• When he was growing up, Steve Jobs lived on 45th Avenue in San Francisco.
• In his childhood Steve Jobs swallowed a bottle of ant poison and had to go to the ER.
• While in high school Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made and sold Blue Boxes to get free calls from public telephone systems.
• In 1972, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak took $3 an hour jobs dressed as “Alice in Wonderland” characters at the Westgate Mall in San Jose.
• At the first Apple Halloween costume party, Steve Jobs dressed up as Jesus Christ.
• When the first IBM PC debuted, Apple took out an ad in the Wall Street Journal with the words “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.”
• In 1982 Steve Jobs made Bill Gates and Microsoft promise never to work on any business software that would use a mouse unless it was for Apple.
• Steve Jobs dated singer Joan Baez.
• Steve Jobs once stared as President Roosevelt in a war-themed 1984 ad parody called 1944, where Macs start a war with IBM computers.
• Paul Rand, the creator of the IBM logo, was hired to create the brand identity and logo for NeXT.
• Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell were married at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park on March 18.
• Jonathan Ive’s first piece of work at Apple was the 20th Anniversary Mac.
• Steve Jobs once sold the King of Spain a NeXT computer at a party, even before it was released.
• Steve Jobs once tried to get NASA to let him ride the space shuttle.

I am writing this post for people who are already on twitter, (and if you are not create one for free).

Well, twitter is in news every now and then, twitter is actually a micro-blogging platform, which lets you publish one liners, it has a limit of publishing 140 characters only.  Almost every blogger is using twitter, and it has become much more than a micro-blogging platform. People find it easy to tweet as it is less time consuming and it is lot more easier to publish your tweets.

Many celebrities and politicians are using twitter to connect with their fans/followers respectively. It is famous throughout the world.

Many people who have got a larger number of followers, have started making money by tweeting sponsored products/services. For example: a celebrity who has around 100,000 followers on twitter, tweets about a product he is trying his hands on, a majority of his followers would want to try the same product. This would not come as a surprise if the celebrity has been paid for tweeting about the product.  He might have been paid $1000 or so.

In the same way, if you have a big number of followers on twitter, you can also get paid you tweeting.  Sponsored Tweets is a service that can get you advertisers. There is a condition to get advertisers, you twitter account should be six month old. with a minimum of 100 followers. you might not get paid $1000 for a tweet, but you will definitely get paid something.

PS: For those who have landed on my blog for the first time, I am a Full Time Blogger that means I make full time living fro my online activities, like Facebook, Twitter and Blogging.

It is said that first impression is the last impression. Few have proved it wrong, but usually this is true, at least for people like me and you, that is why we take the first impressions so much seriously. In India, it is taken more seriously. This is the way you gain confidence in something. So, try making as good first impression as you can.

Confidence plays an important role in getting success in every field, the more confidence you gain, the more success you achieve, or vice versa. If you are confident about the interview you are going to appear in, you will definitely crack the interview.

There are tons of coaching institutions set up for the purpose of coaching personality development and they all aim to fill confidence in their students, this shows that how much important this Confidence is. If you are not confident enough about anything, you will hardly achieve it, there are few key points which are needed to be noticed in order to gain confidence.

Love you life

The first thing you will have to do is to love you life, you can’t gain confidence if you don’t love your life. And to love your life, you need to accept all the negative and positives about you, you need to work on your negatives to balance your life.

Clothing

The other thing affect your confidence is wearing sense, clothing, if you are not feeling comfortable in what you are wearing, you will never look confident. So choose clothes to wear in which you feel comfortable walking and going out.

Looking Fresh

Another important point to gain confidence is to look fresh, that does not mean that you will look fresh if you take bath regularly, looking fresh is much more than taking bath regularly. It’s about thinking positive, staying fit, getting up early in the morning. By practicing all the things you look fresh and that increases your confidence level.

Knowledge

I read somewhere that a fool is not recognized until he speaks out. Because, on whatever topics he speaks, he will lack knowledge on that topic. So, if you among those people who speak on the topic where u lack knowledge, step doing it and stop making yourself recognized as a fool, try learning things and gaining knowledge before speaking out.

Eye Contact

The other big things for gaining confidence is eye contact, it does not mean that you keep staring people you come across on the road. It means, look straight into the eyes while talking to the person, it gives you a confidence of staying in the conversation and sometimes helps you in dominating a discussion

Well this is the question every insomniac would be eager on ask in order to correct his or her insomnia and get some good night sleep and go to work or college without dosing off in front of that hot chick/cool dude.

The answer is very simple and everyone knows about it,

To wake up early, you have to sleep early,

There is something we all used to think when we were in KG classes. Early to bed early to rise make a man healthy wealthy and wise.

Could be true, how its same like which came first, the Hen or the Egg. I mean what is it? We get up late because we sleep late or se sleep late because we get up late.

Coming back to the solution, which is, to wake up early, you have to sleep early,

Has anyone tried it? Yes, I did, and you know what, I did not succeed, I ended up wasting four hours in my bed calling sleep.

So, what I learned is, you can’t sleep when you don’t feel like sleeping. So, you will have to take action against your laziness, and have some less sleep for a week or two. What I mean to say is, go to bed at the same time you are going, but set an alarm clock, and wake up accordingly, and for God sake, don’t let you sleep for an extra minute. Get out of your comfort zone. And believe me, when you do this 1,2,3,4…….10 times in a row. You will certainly learn to wake up early.

My personal experience,

At the time of writing ,it’s 11:55Pm, and I need to wake up a 6Am, that mean I have got 6 hours to sleep, this is the 8^th day I am doing this, and it’s working, now I am getting dizzy and I am going to crash into the bed as soon as I publish this post on the blog. I am going to complete my sleep in these 6 hours. I will not waste any time in calling for my sleep and getting into the dreams, which is the best part of the night.

So, instead of sleeping early at night to wake up early in the morning, just wake up early.

Its Exactly 8AM Right Now, I Think Today is going to be a big day for me, A whole long day, as I am Up Early. 6th Day of 2010 and it’s going good. I think I’ll reach where I want to be.

Anyway, I Start my Day like any other guy Cleaning myself Up. Then Comes The breakfast time, I hardly had breakfasts in 2009, and I want to change this in 2010 by having it every morning.

I still remember the days at AMU, where We (I with my Friends) Used to have Jalebi and Bread for the Breakfast, Few look at is as an unusual combination, but it’s quite famous in Aligarh. We accepted this kind of breakfast in our first year stay and we started linking it in the second year and now after 5 years I am missing Bread Jalebi, there is one more reason for it, you don’t have to do anything on your own, i mean you don’t have to cook anything Just buy and eat it and you are done with your breakfast within 5 minutes. Pretty Good for bust people like me.

Now I am really craving for it, but I know I am not going to get Jalebi at 8 in the morning in Delhi, yes I have already tried it in 2007, the last time I was craving for my Daily breakfast.

For those who came to the blog from Outside India, Jalebi is an Indian Sweet, which is orange in color and is made of Sugar.

Let me save some of my effort in Defining it by Linking the WikiPedia Definition of Jalebi.

Time will keep changing and many companies will hit the competitive market for consumers by introducing their Sweets or Chocolates in India, but Jalebi has it’s own place.

I’ll try to Have Some in the evening. It’s 8:30 Am Now, Time to arrange some breakfast, yes, I know I won’t Get Jalebi.

This one should be a Quick Post, A Real Short Post.

Ever Heard of “Time Management”

Its something related to managing your time.

Time is fixed, its the same for everyone.

Yet, few people achieve so many things in the same time and So many people get few things on their right side.

Why is this so?

All The credit goes to Time Management.

Today, Someone asked me Why god has created few intelligent people and made rest of them stupid?

Do you agree with it? is God Unfair to most of the people.

No, I don’t think so,

Intelligence varies. For few people You are intelligent, but for few you Dumb. for few you are Beautiful, for few you are Boring.

Why people under estimate themselves, why they crib! why they care what other think about them?

This is life and this is the way it is. Not everything can be perfect, just let it be.

Yes, Moving On would be the right word for it.

Move On. Don’t try to make it perfect, because i won’t be.

Headline:Michael Jackson Died today, it came as a shock to me as he was just 50 an was rehearsing for his comeback tour which was supposed to be started on 14th of July

Does anyone know why this plant is called the Money Plant?                Well Not because if grows money on it, no it doesn’t.

So why the hell it is called “The Money Plant”?

Anyone in the Class?, No! Well Let me tell you then.

It is called the money plant simply because it has round, plump, flat leaves that might, with a bit of imagination, look like a coin! This plant is usually kept as a dwarf in the house but can be grown in the garden too. — Mahendra Rawat, via e-mail. I got this answer while searching on net.

After reading this, I went to my the Balcony where we have got two money plants, which grow faster than my hairs. Anyways, I went there and applied my Imagination at max, unfortunately, I couldn’t figure it out. I mean couldn’t imagine money on my plant.

There is one more reason they call it money plant, i am not sure about other countries, but in India, I have seen people talking that if they have money plant in their Homes, they will never run out of money.

What the hell, how foolish it is. Oh wait, they are at my home also, two of them, maybe they are for decoration stuff.

But, if its true, We should place them at BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange).