Category — Informational

So, I am here after centuries months to writer another piece of article on my personal blog. I am too busy, is the reason for not updating my blog.

Not that I am building a Time machine or working with NASA on a space mission or something, but I am busy doing nothing, away from the internet world, actually the real world also.

I am in Assam, a North Eastern state of India. and to be more specific ( if you want to keep a tab on my from Google Earth) I am in Gerukhamukh, which is 460KMs away from Guwahati (a big city of Assam).

After a full week of sitting at Home ( now why I call Home here is another Big story and you have to read my about page for that), Sunday was the day we decided to visit the local Tea factory.

This article is not about How to make tea, but it’s about How tea leaves are prepared in the Factory.

On my way from Guwahati to Gherukhamukh which is about 460KMs, I saw many Tea Gardens, and Assam is the largest producer of Tea.

So the Tea leaves make their way to the factory by local worker who are paid Rs3 for plucking 1KG of tea leaves from Tea Garden.

Now here in the Factory, the tea leaves are then crushed into small particles so that they can be processed further

The tea is then kept on the floor for sometime so that the color turns Red from Green.

It is then taken further for making it even more fine, and then Big Machines separate them according to their sizes,

Which again goes to different big machines where it is separated according to the quality of the tea.

Then they are Filled in the Big Bags which are then bought by Different Companies who sell it with their Labels.

 Not all of the part of tea leaves make it to the Shiny packets of tea, that is not a mountain of tea but tea dust.

Which is then packed in these Bags and GOD knows what they do with them, I mean why do I care?

Can anyone count how many times I have used the word Tea in the article?

Ah! Why would you care?

Do you?

You don’t need to be Einstein to differentiate between a fake appointment letter and a real one. But I still have heard of may people and even my friends falling for these Spam email which send you appointment letters directly to your inbox, mostly they are filtered to a spam folder, but few of them manage to hit your Inbox.

Just to make you understand, how can you recognize a Spam email, I am attaching an email which I got from a spammer who is claiming to be from Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Looking at the present scene of the market, we know how tough it is to get a good job, and if you get a random email from a Big company like Maruti Suzuki, its to tough to believe.

The email above was sent to thousands of email IDs by using a Mass email sender, (Even the footer of the email says its been sent using the Internet Messaging Program).

Another thing to notice is that the email is sent using a hotmail.co.uk email, which can be created for FREE.

You should always check where is the email sent from and keep in mind that no company send appointment letters randomly.

So, if next time you get such email just Mark it as Spam.

There are many type of Spams happening on the internet, read about the other Spam I wrote about few years ago.

People will laugh at you if you say that t you haven’t heard of MTV Roadie, For all those people (who were living under the rocks) If you ask me, it’s totally a nonsense fake reality show where people are tortured till the end and the judges do every possible thing to make it their (contestants’’) worst experience in their lives.

But if you still want to consider as I reality show then here are few facts that can prove you wrong. Here is an Interesting Wrap up Story from Roadies 4 to Roadies 7 (Opens in new tab).

Roadies 8 Auditions

It’s the time when the bald brothers again started screwing people with their shits. I have watched couple of Episodes of MTV Roadies myself and have observed that only people whom they (judges) think will be some entertainment to them or people would be interested to see them further in the show, are selected and others are sent home.

Raghu and Rajiv are two people who get a lot of entertainment for free, even I enjoy watching it, I mean I love when they screw guys who try to be cool or disrespect girls, but sometimes it pisses me off when I see these two bald boys going completely *ssholes making fun of people and abusing them for no reason.
Okay guys, you have a popular show in your hands and the show has a great following.

Watch on YouTube

Here is an the video of Roadies 8 Auditions where a guy Suraj aka Nagesh trying to get the sympathy of the judges and he actually gets it, but the sad part is, He is a Fake. If you watch the above video, do you think he is that unlucky? I mean Okay, you are from a village and you don’t have any friends, you worked as a floor cleaner, dish washer and even sweeper. Before going inside the dark room he said he never watched any episode so far and when he is talking to these three idiots (R, R, and R) he mention that he made a decision to go for Roadies after watching it on TV. You can read more here.

If the show is not scripted

So, this leads me to say that Raghu and Rajiv and also Ranavijay (R, R, and R) are the biggest fools who were not able to catch or point out any lie of this guy.

And if the show is scripted

I would say again, these two Dumb and Bald ( R and R) know nothing about life, all the statements which impressed me and made me think that Raghu is the creator of a popular show for a reason. But hey Raghu, if you shout about something which is already planned and reading all those statements form a Script, you are just Barking like a DOG.

If I still believe that the show was not scripted when it started but you guys started adding masala to it which really bores. I would prefer to watch a saas bahu show which I can watch with my family.

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.