Quarter-life Crisis

Being a twenty-something

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at wat ur studying or ur job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone! but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you're doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you are scared just to be a contender!

What you may not realize is that every one reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your friends... maybe it will help someone feel like they aren't alone in their state of confusion...

Its called "Quarter-life Crisis." nothing is constant......except change.
what’s life without a few risks? Keep playing the game !

Courtesy : Misc

Gone are the days

Gone are the days!!! My Friend...

When
The school reopened in June,
And we settled in our new desks and
benches!

When we queued up in book depot,
And got our new books
and notes!

When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet
managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.
We learnt writing with
slates and pencils, and
Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!

When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to
Color pencils and finally sketch pens!

When we started calculating
first with tables and then with
Clarke's tables and advanced to
Calculators and computers!

When we chased one another in the
corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms
Drenched in sweat!

When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,
Playgrounds,under the trees and even in cycle sheds!

When all the colors in the world,
Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!

When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,
Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!

When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,
And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!



When few played "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,
While others simply played
"book cricket" in the
Confines of classroom!

Of fights but no conspiracies,
Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!

When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,
In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!
When few rushed at 3:45 to
"Conquer" window seats in our School bus!
While few others had "Big Fun", "peppermint",
"kulfi", " milk ice !" and "sharbat !" at 4o Clock!

Gone are the days Of Sports Day,
and the annual School Day ,
And the one-month long preparations for them.

Gone are the days Of the stressful Quarterly,
Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most
enjoyed holidays after them!

Gone are the days Of tenth and twelfth standards, when
We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!
We learnt,
We enjoyed,
We played,
We won,
We lost,
We laughed,
We cried,
We fought,
We thought.

With so much fun in them, so many friends,
So much experience, all this and more!

Gone are the days
When we used to talk for hours with our friends!
Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'!

Gone are the days
When we played games on the road!
Now we
Code on the road with laptop!


Gone are the days
When we saw stars
Shining at Night!
Now we see stars when our code doesn't Work!

Gone are the days
When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!
Now we chat in chat rooms.....!

Gone are the days
Where we studied just to pass!
Now we study to save our job!

Gone are the days
Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!
Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!

Gone are the days
Where we shouted on the road!
Now we don't shout even at home

Gone are the days

Where we got lectures from all!
Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!!

Gone are the days
But not the memories, which will be
Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and

Ever and ever and ever .....

Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!

NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE ,
DONT FORGET TO
LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL
EXISTS.....


Courtesy : Misc.

Its all in our Perception

Imagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport.... While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies.

Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out your box of shortbread cookies.

As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely. He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and takes one of your cookies from the box, and eats it! You're more than a little surprised at this. Actually, you're at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but he alternates with you. For every one cookie you take, he takes one.

Now, what's your immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's got some nerve?! Can you imagine the words you might use to describe this man to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue eating the cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man reaches over and takes it. But then he does something unexpected. He breaks it in half, and gives half to you. After he's finished with his half he gets up, and without a word, he leaves.

You think to yourself, "Did this really happen?" You're left sitting there dumbfounded and still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk and buy another box of cookies. You then return to your seat and begin opening your new box of cookies when you glance down into your traveling bag. Sitting there in your bag is your original box of cookies -- still unopened.

Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by mistake. Now what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant? You've just experienced a profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view.

Is it time to change your point of view? Now, think of this story as it relates to your life . Seeing things from a new point of view can be very enlightening. Think outside the box. Don't settle for the status quo. Be open to suggestions. Things may not be what they seem. Unless and until, one realize about the fact, no one will change his/her view of thinking in spite of lot of external factors.

.........Every Point has 3-sides; Your Side, My Side & the Right Side.

To understand either the Other's Side or the Right Side, one needs to
leave His Side.........

Courtesy : Mail forward

Is God Partial?

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Special prayers and offerings at the Sree Krishna Temple in Guruvayur on Thursday(July 14 2006)marked the beginning of purification rituals for the Sabarimala Temple.
The process is being followed in view of the claim made by Kannada actress Jayamala that she had entered the sanctum sanctorum of the hill shrine and touched the idol of Lord Ayyappa.Now the Parihara Kriyas or remedial measures will be held in 50 temples across Kerala and would be completed within two years.

"

Does GOD really doesn't want women from entering temples. People here are just mad.
Same people say that GOD is 'just' and treats everyone equally. Did GOD change his mind anytime for them. These people act to be very holy and do crazy things in name of Him.
'Womenhood' is thought to be the Godly feature. Then why discriminate women.
In this regard i would surely support women.
And why are muslim women not allowed into the mosques. They are not given same rights as their counter-parts.WHY?

I want all women to ask 'WHY?' against this discrimination.
Its high time they fight for these fundamental rights rather than fighting for 33% reservation.

We Need to Support People Like Her

An enlightening example

EXCELLENCE: Renuga Devi of Karur.
Eager and haltingly, she runs her hands on the dotted lines of the Braille book and at the end of a search lasting a minute or two, her face lights up. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - , I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference,'' recited R. Renuga Devi, who has just celebrated her 15th birthday which was a pretty special, coming as it does after her sparkling show in the recent SSLC examinations, in which the visually challenged student of CSI Girls Higher Secondary School here secured 445 out of a possible 500. And not many in the State like her would have surpassed her total.

Renuga Devi was not just reading out a poem but was succinctly pointing out the sort of stuff she is made of.

Resilience seems to be her middle name, as one finds that she not only had to contend with the visual challenge but also had to weather other socio-economic factors to achieve what she has.

Her parents, R. Ramamurthy and Kanthimathy work as casual labourers in a bleaching unit at Balambalpuram near here and they all reside in a nearby shed, the air filled with the strong odour of the chemicals.

Visually challenged since birth, Renuga Devi, undaunted by the obstacles, was determined to score pretty high marks in the SSLC examinations.

The task before her was simply colossal. First she would attend regular classes where she would listen the teachers.

Then she would meet her resource teacher under the Integrated Education Programme, G. Beula, to get the English lessons transcribed into Braille besides tape recording the lessons in Tamil.

The Lions Club of Karur Majestic had got her tape recorder and some cassettes, besides a few Braille books. Mrs. Beula also prepared the teaching material for Renuga Devi.

She goes home to play the tapes and imbue the lessons in her mind.

All the labour recurred day after day and at the end, she took her examination with the aid of a scribe.

Her efforts have now borne fruit as she came out with flying colours. She has scored 90 and above in Tamil, Mathematics and Social Science.

Renuga Devi, whose preferred subject is history, hopes to become a civil servant one day. While she is determined to achieve that, her immediate priority is to score heavily in the higher secondary examinations too and then become a teacher. "Renuga Devi is also deft in undertaking woollen works, flower vase arrangement, weaving plastic wire fancy bags.

India Today

Read the following Story and One Word that can Explain the Whole Story...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long building his house and laying up supplies for the
winter.



The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The
grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in
the cold.

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MODERN VERSION...

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold
and starving.
BBC, CNN, EURO-NEWS, NDTV, FOX NEWS show up to provide
pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video
of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled
with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can
this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to
suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticizes the
Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of
the grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking
support to thegrasshopper.

Opposition MP's stage a walkout.

Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal
and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention
of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with
effect from the beginning of the winter.
The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,
his home is confiscated by the Bush Government and
handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered
by BBC,CNN, AAJ TAK and NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice".

Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN
General Assembly...

Got The Answer...???

YES... You Got It Right...

Some call it RESERVATION n Some call it QUOTA!



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(Thanks to Adarsh for the story)

Quota Issue

RAGING ISSUE: See the picture above. It was a pro-reservation congregation at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on Monday.
Can u find atleast a countable number of young educated people in this picture? No not at all. It is very much evident that politicians who fight for reservation can only pull a crowd comprising of uneducated people, who easily fall prey to the words of these dirty politicians.

Its good to see that anti-quota fighters are very strong in their deed.If each and every student raises his/her voice against every evil happening in our country,then one day these politicians won't be able to survive.

Come on...Lets fight together against these dirty politicians.

Are politicians good?

What do u think about few politicians in TN who say they are pro-Tamil
Don't u think all his statements are just political stunts, to woo the votes.
It is because people like him and few other politicians that, even today people of TamilNadu are not able to know the importance of National Language 'Hindi'. I am myself from TamilNadu, but just because of these thoughts i don become an anti-tamil.

I just want to expose the problems faced by Tamilians residing outside TamilNadu.
Because we don know Hindi,we just cant communicate with people and basic living becomes difficult.

I don mean to say that Tamil should be optional, but both Tamil and Hindi should be made as compulsory languages in schools.

And another issue: reservation.

See...it does help in few parameters but not entirely. We are in 21st century and still the politicians are playing dirty games with Castes and religions.
we need to reserve the seats on economic basis.How does catse based reservation does justice.
For eg: A temple priest is generally a brahmin and falls under FC. But he doesn't earn more than evn 5000 rupees in a month. And u expect him to fight for his son under open quota.

Great GodFather of Gujarat(NM)...
He is the biggest threat to secularism in India,who is always mooting communal violences.

Well...there are lot more politicians who do lot more bad than good to society.

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Good MCA Colleges In TamilNadu

The list includes only Engineering colleges and Universities

1. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

2. Anna University, Chennai

3. NIT Trichy, Trichy

4. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

5. Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai

6. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

7. Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

8. SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

9. Vellore Institute of Technology(VIT), Vellore

10. Velammal College of Engineering, Chennai

Good Emerging Colleges:

1. Kumaraguru College of Technology(KCT), Coimbatore

2. Amrita Vishwavidyapeetam, Coimbatore

All the good colleges are not included. So do help me in identifying good MCA colleges.

NIshikanth N

Free Rice In TamilNadu

All eligible cardholders to get 10 kg rice free

Jayalalithaa clarifies on earlier announcement

SEEKING VOTES: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa addressing an election meeting at Allinagaram on Wednesday.

THENI: The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday clarified that all eligible cardholders could draw 10 kg of rice free and payment would have to be made only for further drawals.

Addressing an election meeting at Allinagaram, she claimed that the media had distorted her earlier announcement, made in Andipatti on Monday, that 10 kg out of the 20 kg a cardholder is eligible for would be supplied free of cost through the public distribution system.

She said that there was no condition that a cardholder should pay for 10 kg and get 10 kg free.

She made it clear that a small family of four members need not pay for rice, if 10 kg sufficed for it for a month. It would be enough if the card was produced at the shop while drawing free rice.

Ms. Jayalalithaa announced that centres to produce biofertilizers, organic pesticides and micronutrients would be started at block and panchayat levels, if the AIADMK were voted back to power. These centres, she said, would strive to fill the gap in supply and demand.

Special schemes

They would create two lakh employment opportunities, with one member from an unemployed family getting work. She said special schemes would be formulated to make Tamil Nadu the production hub of organic farm products.

Narmada River Issue

Medha Patkar ends fast

Challenge is bigger, she says

PHOTO: S. SUBRAMANIUM

WITH AFFECTION: Narmada Bhachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar breaks her fast by having fresh lime juice being offered to her by one of the activists as CPI leader A.B. Bardhan (left) looks on at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Monday.

NEW DELHI: "The fight is not over [yet]. This challenge is deeper, larger and bigger," Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar said on Monday at the Jantar Mantar dharna site after breaking her 20-day-old fast. She had undertaken the indefinite hunger-strike for getting justice for the displaced families of the Narmada valley.

Along with her, Jamsingh Nargave and Bhagwatibehn also gave up their fast.

A frail-looking Ms. Patkar accepted juice from a displaced tribal from the Narmada valley.

Government "happy"

Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz said he was "happy" that Ms. Patkar had given up her fast. The tension had now been defused and the Supreme Court could take various points of views into consideration.

He said nobody in the Congress or the Government was against raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, but proper rehabilitation of displaced families was equally important. That was why the Government sent a Group of Ministers to Madhya Pradesh to assess the situation. "Even the court has said that rehabilitation should be done in the letter and spirit of the Narmada award and its orders."

Ms. Patkar said the Supreme Court had not stayed the construction of the dam and left it to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "The State had not responded favourably to a non-violent people's movement. We urge the Prime Minister to invoke the authority vested in him by the Supreme Court, the Constitution and his own commitment to development with a human face. He must not bow down to the fascist and communal forces and must intervene to ensure that the poor affected by the dam's construction get justice."

Thanks all

She was persuaded by former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, journalist Kuldip Nayar, Rajinder Sachar, B.D. Sharma, Amar Nath, Surendra Mohan, CPI leader A.B. Bardhan and Swami Agnivesh to give up her fast. The support given by actor Aamir Khan, Rahul Bose and writer Arundhati Roy "had done more than our fast," she said.

Ms. Patkar thanked the doctors at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences for not forcibly giving her intravenous drip despite her failing health. "And, that is why my blood is strong even today."

The NBA and displaced families would return to the valley in two days and prepare for the next phase of struggle arising out of the Supreme Court order.

Virus... Help Please...

Hello Everybody,
I have a got a problem in my PC where, whenever the internet is on, a warning message box pops-up. It says" Your system has got serious registry errors. Repair the registry from www.registry32.com".

Similarly different sites are displayed for every pop-up. All the websites lead to same home page...

please some one help in removing this virus...

Thank You,
Nishikanth N

Cricket Game

1. Brian Lara Cricket 2005 is a very good cricket game. It has got extremely good graphics.

It consists of 3 countries for demo version. We can chose any two teams for a 6 over match. It allows to change team. The playing options very easy. The graphics is lot better than EA Cricket.

It can be downloaded from

www.codemasters.co.uk

In fact this site consistes many other good games. It has got games of all sports in this world.

For downloading BLC(Brian Lara Cricket), there are two demo versions. One with Commentery and other without commentery.

Some of the requirements:

Minimun 256MB RAM,
Direct 9x graphics.

2. EA Sports Cricket.

Here the demo consists a match between Australia and England. England has 3 overs and around 25 runs to win. There is no other game. It has good movements of players with emotions. But the graphics are not as good as Brian Lara Cricket.

You can Download at

http://www.download.com/Cricket-2005-demo/3000-7414_4-10410004.html?tag=lst-0-2


Thank You,
Nishikanth N

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