Happy New Year to all of you ............


how's new layout ?? it made me feel like Hippie .... i can't explain this feeling ... its something like feeling more free from world and come more closer to you soul ... its guy who wishes nothing but peace and live in his own world of fantasy , doesn't interfere other's life ...

Actually this layout is designed for wordpress , but some good guys make it available for blogger too ... but still i need to do some "research" on it .. and i am not good neither at XML nor at HTML ... for example , the search button is not working , plus my tag cloud need to be setup .. also i want to add some other stuffs too .. i hope , i will do it soon ...

till then enjoy new Hippie look ...

DST ... its Daylight Saving Time ... we advance our clock one hour during summer and at start of fall, we change it to original one hour back position ... that is basic definition of DST.

But DST has a very brief and controversial history ... it was firstly proposed by William Willett an english builder ... but it has been said that DST has roots to romans too !!! William as a visonary , realized that most of the people sleep during sunny summer days' mornings which was waste of energy for him !!! so brought up with an idea to forward his clock an head of time !!! ( was a simple but effective solution right ?? ) ...





Since then , almost all europian countries and USA has adopted DST standards ... but it is not an easy job to implement that time ... because , they need to calculate sun rise and fall time and also need to co-ordinate with all govt. departments and lot of other stuffs ... even at time of first implementation , it was opposed politically too !!!




and Today , Nov. 02 ... at night of 2 a.m. clock is set back to 1 a.m. .... end of DST ...

i found one interesting website for getting for information about this ... they have done it with nice interface ... check it out ...


Keep reading ....

This tuesday , 28th october , was "diwali" .... the festival of lights ... being majority populated by hindus , diwali is major festival of india and is celebrated all over it with joy ... well , like almost all festival, this festival too has ancient roots joined with religion ...

But for me , its just festival of lights and i simply love its celebration ... not as hindu or as an indian ... i bet , if anyone around the world has ever visited india at diwali , surely they would have loved it ... and perhaps its true for all festivals , like ... holi or navaratri for example ... when i was kid, we used to say , we indians don't feel good if we don't have anything to celebrated at least once in a week ... and its almost true that we always have celebrations ...( ah .. old days ... i miss them ... :( ) ...




We follow lunar calander , and hence all festivals are calculated based on moon phase ... we celebrated diwali for 5 days ... the first day is "dhan teras" ... its 13 phase of moon, on that day we pray deity of "dhan" .. Money ... thats goddess lakhami ... we pray her to not to leave us !! ( ha.. it sounds funny ... but in real life , i guess we all do that every day .. right ?? ) and to drive away evil spirits.

The next day is "kali chaudas" , 14th phase day of moon... the day of evil spirits ... when i was kid , my mom used to force me to stay at home at night at that day , because it is believed that on this day evil spirits are on their maximum power. People who pray goddess of black magic and evil spirit "kali" , do special religious ceremony on this day ...

Diwali is the third day , and its no moon day , that we call "amavasya" ... this is also last day of one of the old indian calander , "vikram samvat" ... ( btw, vikram was name of the king who was said to be one of his kind .. ahh ... its another story to tell you guys ) ... so this is very special day for us ... we lit "diyas" everywhere ... actually "diyas" are symbolic presentation of light , which represents meaning that by lighting "diyas" we are trying to drive away darkness that is surrounding us in our life !!!

Next , fourth day is ... any guess ????? ........ ya .. its "new year" ..... my most fav. day of the year perhaps .... this is the day when celebration is at peak i guess ... families go out to meet relatives , and that relatives too come again to meet them !!! , we have already made special snacks and sweets for this days ... actually these snacks are not made other then for diwali so .. when i was kid .. i used to eat them lots because, we never get chance to eat them again till next year !!! ( sometimes .. i hate traditions ... ) ... another good thing was , as a sign of good blessings elders give $$$ to younger ones .. ( now you know why i liked this day ?? ) ...

The last and fifth day is "Bhai beej" ... well this day is also celebrated in special way ... actually this day is for brothers and sisters ... at this day , sisters invite their brother/s for special meal ... and in return brother give gifts to sister !!



Overall , it is perhaps the best time of my life .. i enjoy typical indian traditions for 5 days at every moment ... we make traditional dishes of celebration ( though some are now available though out the year ) ... at india some people make a colored design "rangoli" near their entrance of their home , which is basically a free hand design made from color powder and chalk .. to keep evil spirits away ... we lit our house with lights and diyas ... visit temple on new year day ... but as said by someone ... when you're in rome , do as romans do ... so living at usa , its never so fun to celebrate that i had at india ... but still i try to "feel" that i used to feel at india ....


always love your traditions ...

I don't think that angels are some kind of spirits ... but they are real people just like us , they are someone who makes us feel happy ... someone who makes us feel full of life ... someone that brings smile on our face ... someone that ease our pain at bad times ... that's what i think an angel is.


you know ... I can see two angles always near me ... they make me smile when ever i talk to them !!! ... and i tried to catch them on my mobile's cam in action !!!


Haaa ... You are right , they are just a kids !!! But you know , kids are the angels that brings joy to our life ... don't you think so ?? well, they are my nephew (2.5 year ) and niece (2 months) ... they are so cute .... ain't they ??? .. ow in the last pic , someone "caught" me playing with my angels ... hehehe ...














Yes , i believe that kids are angels .. its because as a kid they are so pure by heart , they don't judge people from their intelligence , or richness or power ... their measure is love , more you love 'em more they make your life pleasant ... they are messenger of happiness , the finest creation of men and women , a gift of god ...

I am , lucky to have angels near me !!!

Ahh ... couple of weeks ago i saw a movie , Journey to the center of the earth ... in which they picturized theory to travel to the center of the earth via volcano tubes !!! Well , its not whole ridiculous idea ... may be you don't know , but Nazis too believed that " Hollow Earth " concept and firmly believed that there is hidden world beneath the world on the surface of the earth !!! Even some peoples claim that , Hitler didn't killed him self , the guy that Allied forces found was dummy of him and he was successfully able to escape to that hidden world ... ( ahh ... paranoids ... they even can see him walking at the time square !!! ) ...

Actually the journey that i am talking about doesn't lead to the center of earth ... ( gasp , i wish it could lead me there so i can skip my classes for a while or i can give good excuse to my professor for submitting my project report late .... ) ... it was just a tiny tunnel that i always need to pass near exit 59 of route 15 ... When i got new license and took car by my self for the first time to my school ... i was a bit of scared ... i thought i will be suffocated to death in this tunnel ... actually it remind me one old movie of Sylvester "rocky" Stallone .... " day light " , in which they showed how he rescues people from massive accident in a busy tunnel !!! ( that movie was super flop though ) ... i thought its gonna be my end ... coz this tunnel was not even big like that shown in that movie .. damn ... But after couple of times i passed thought that tunnel now i am comfortable with it ... they call it .. "Heroes' tunnel" ... ( don't ask me why ... ) ...


The tunnel from far ...



I am indside !!





During maintenance work in tunnel , they closed one entrance and diverted both incoming and outgoing traffic through only one line !!! ... ( Do i need to say , because of that i got stuck near half an hour at night of 10 pm ?? )






May the force be with us ....

Like many other students , I also don't live on campus , and so i have to driver about 35 miles when ever i have classes ... ( luckily i have taken classes only on monday and wednesday so its not a big deal ) ... but this driving is a little fun and little boring part too ....

When weather is good and my fav. radio station is playing nice songs , i love to drive ... but i hate it really when its heavy raining or super snowing ... i mean , on that time instead of enjoying i have to be more careful because roads get risky during those times .... also , i really hate these low frequency FMs when i can't signals properly when i m about 15 miles closer to you college , so those 15 miles i have to switch over another station / stations ... because others are pretty boring :( ...

And perhaps the worst part is getting stuck on traffic jam on highway ... if you are proude citizen of some ultra metropoliten cities like NewYork or Las Vegas then , you might be habituated with jams .. but since my city is very small .. ( the city's welcome sign board says it has only 17K population !! ) .. it makes me a bit nervous .... god , i really hate it ... and i wish , how great it would be if my car can fly just like Sci-Fi movies ..... by the way i loved star wars , hmm .. may be its my "source" of inspiration !!! ... but unfortunately , we are still using gasoline as fuel and since its prices doesn't seem to be gonna reduce soon , i think i have to wait for about 20/30 years more till they find some other means to dump people from one place to another .. may be something like " teleportation " ... huh ??? ... ah , just a day dream , coz of games i guess ...

here is the snapshot that i tool during my eternal journey back to home !!!





its near , exit 54 ... well , there was whole lane jammed from exit 53 to 54 .. about more then a mile , like you can see ... i got stuck here for about 45 mins ... ah ... being a poisitive guy , instead of saying being stuck there , i would like to say , i got plenty of free and plesent time to enjoy nature's beauty around me on that exists !!! but i hope that i face it again ... but being commuter i know that its gonna happen again and soon !?!?

njoy ...

Hey all ....

This is my second blog .... but it is little different then my blog "cyber junk" which is all technical blog ... because this blog is something more about the other side of my personality ... sometimes , i feel like there is something inside my soul that encourages me to do things that are not of my "type" ... ( well , this blog is also reaction of that kind of encouragements .... ) .... being "emo" , is not a good sign if you want to be "successful" in you life .. ( yah .. lots people think this true ) ... but let me tell you that its not true at all ... you might have heard of that old greek story of Kind Midas ??, he was guy who was gifted by god and so what ever he touches becomes gold ... when he got that gift , he thought he would be happiest man on earth , ofcourse who would not be happy having tons of gold !!! but can you eat or drink it ?? no.. right ?? king midas thought same ... but the tregic part of story was that , at the end he mistakenly touched his little daughter and she too became 100% gold statue !!! and so he realized his mistake and found that he was perhaps the most unfortunate man on the earth ... he request god to take back his wish and make him poor, god did so and he became poor , but in heart he felt he's the richest person now !!! ... so all i mean to say is ,so metimes just a feeling of being emo , makes you happy ... if feels good when you help someone , or atleast tried to help someone ... after all , EMOs are not useless at all !!!

This "other" soul of mine thinks that , to be happy in life there is only one key ... try to "let go" things ... ow .. let me make clear my self here ... becase this word is a bit "mis-leading" , to let go something doesn't mean that , you just let go the time and don't do you assignments ... it also doesn't mean that if someone slap you and you just let go ... but , to let go something means ... try to avoid conflicts with others ... and try to do something , that even you don't like to do but you do because that makes others happy ... ( phew , that was complicated ) ..

well .. lets hope that i will be able to keep writing on this new blog ... my other side... there is one nice saying in japannese ... which means ..