Fire Waterfall

Yosemite National Park, California , USA



This park was gazetted as a national park in 1890. It is world famous for its rugged terrain, waterfall and century-old pine trees. It covers 1200 sq km and the "fire" waterfall of El Capitan is one of the most spectacular of all scenery.

The spectacular view of the waterfall is created by the reflection of sunlight hitting the falling water at a specific angle. This rare sight can only be seen at a 2-week period towards the end of Feburary. To photograph this rare event, photographers would often have to wait and endure years of patience in order to capture them. The reason is because its appearance depend on a few natural phenomenons occuring at the same time and luck.

1st, Is the formation of the waterfall - The water is formed by the melting of snow and ice at the top of the mountain. It melts between the month of December and January and by the end of February there might not have much snow left to melt.

2nd, is the specific angle of the sunray hitting the falling water - The sun's position must be exactly at a particular spot in the sky. This occur only in the month of February and at the short hours of dusk. If it is a day full of clouds or something blocking the sun, you can only take pictures of your own sorry faces on the waterfall. It coincides with the fact that the weather in the National Park at that time of the year is often volatile and unpredictable. It compounds to the difficulty of getting these pictures.

Someone did !!! and we all get to see it !!!

Bangalored - an adjective

An interesting fact:



Did u know that?..."Bangalored" is an adjective which recently got added in the dictionary. A person is said to be bangalored
if he lost his job because the work got outsourced to Bangalore or any other city in India (Asia) .

"He got Bangalored last week" is an example of its usage.




You can also type this word "Bangalored" in Google search and see.
Lot of people in US got Bangalored that it became an issue during the US Presidential election. That's exactly when this word was coined.

Four wives

" It is actually the only thing that follows us wherever we go.Perhaps it's a good idea to cultivate and strengthen it now rather than to wait until we're on our deathbed to lament"

The story begin here....
There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best.

He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He's very proud of her and always wanted to show off her to his friends. However, the merchant is always in great fear that she might run away with some other men.

He too, loved his 2nd wife. She is a very considerate person, always patient and in fact is the merchant's confidante. Whenever the merchant faced some problems, he always turned to his 2nd wife and she would always help him out and tide him through difficult times.

Now, the merchant's 1st wife is a very loyal partner and has made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and business as well as taking care of the household. However, the merchant did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.

One day, the merchant fell ill. Before long, he knew that he was going to die soon. He thought of his luxurious life and told himself, "Now I have 4 wives with me. But when I die, I'll be alone. How lonely I'll be!"

Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I loved you most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No way!" replied the 4th wife and she walked away without another word.

The answer cut like a sharp knife right into the merchant's heart. The sad merchant then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you so much for all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No!" replied the 3rd wife. "Life is so good over here! I'm going to remarry when you die!" The merchant's heart sank and turned cold.

He then asked the 2nd wife, "I always turned to you for help and you've always helped me out. Now I need your help again. When I die, will you follow me and keep me company?" "I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!" replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most, I can only send you to your grave." The answer came like a bolt of thunder and the merchant was devastated.

Then a voice called out : "I'll leave with you. I'll follow you no matter where you go." The merchant looked up and there was his first wife. She was so skinny, almost like she suffered from malnutrition. Greatly grieved, the merchant said, "I should have taken much better care of you while I could have !"

Actually, we all have 4 wives in our lives

a. The 4th wife is our body. No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it'll leave us when we die.

b. Our 3rd wife ? Our possessions, status and wealth. When we die, they all go to others.

c. The 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how close they had been there for us when we're alive, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave.
d. The 1st wife is in fact our soul, often neglected in our pursuit of material, wealth and sensual pleasure.

"Guess what? It is actually the only thing that follows us wherever we go.Perhaps it's a good idea to cultivate and strengthen it now rather than to wait until we're on our deathbed to lament"

Interesting facts about tamilnadu

Interesting facts about tamilnadu which makes every tamil people to be proud of their culture, traditions and the language...

• Tamil Nadu is often referred to as 'a land of temples' and Tamils are proud of the religious traditions and follow them strictly. The Tamils have been the greatest of temple builders and its rulers have always been the patrons of art and architecture including the Pallavas, Cholas and the Pandyas.

• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

• Tamil tradition dates the oldest works to several millennia ago; the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BC, which are written in an adapted form of the Brahmi script (Mahadevan, 2003). Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the language to around 1000 BC.

• Tirukkural, which was written nearly two millennia ago portrays a universal outlook. This is evident as the author, Tiruvalluvar, does not mention his religion, land, or the audience for his work. He is often portrayed as a holy saint of Tamil Nadu today.

• Carnatic music is the classical music form of Southern India. This is one of the world's oldest & richest musical traditions.The Trinity of Carnatic music Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri were from Tamil Nadu.

• Bharatanatyam is a classical dance form originating from Tamil Nadu. Bharatanatyam is thought to have been created by Bharata Muni, a Hindu sage, who wrote the Natya Shastra, the most important ancient treatise on classical Indian dance. In ancient times it was performed in Hindu temples by Devadasis. In this form, it as also been called sadir or chinna melam.

• Marina Beach(which is in tamilnadu) is the second longest beach in the world, after Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
• Tamil is the first Indian Language to attain Classical Language Status. Isn't it Interesting?

To qualify as a classical tradition, a language must fit several criteria: it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own and not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature. Unlike the other modern languages of India, Tamil meets each of these requirements. It is extremely old (as old as Latin and older than Arabic); it arose as an entirely independent tradition, with almost no influence from Sanskrit or other languages; and its ancient literature is indescribably vast and rich.

Interesting sites

Here are some interesting sites . Check them out...

Quillpad is a free online typing tool. You can write in 10 Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam etc with its online editor. For example, type 'aap kaise hain' in the Quillpad editor and it will convert it directly into Devanagari script. You can save or email your message.

You can even download Quillpad SMS software from the site and send SMS on your own language.

http://www.quillpad.com/

Spypig is a free email tracking system that lets you know when the email you sent has been read by recipient. It works with virtually all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo Email, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others. Cool tool and it's free!

http://www.spypig.com/

Life briefed in five bottles

No words required to explain this...

Interesting Quotes -Mens' perspective...

Here are few interesting quotes from mens' perspective. This is to all the guys to give them good laugh and to those ladies with sense of humor.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-DavidBissonette

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
-Sacha Guitry

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
-Anonymous

The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?
-Dumas
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
-Sigmund Freud

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
-Anonymous

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."
-Sam Kinison

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."
-James Holt McGavra

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
-Patrick Murra

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...
-Nash

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
-Anonymous

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Henny Youngman

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Rodney Dangerfield

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
-Anonymous

First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
-Anonymous

The Semmozhi -The Classical language

POWER OF THAMIZH - The Semmozhi

1 = ONDRU -one
10 = PATHU -ten
100 = NOORU -hundred
1000 = AAYIRAM -thousand
10000 = PATTAYIRAM -ten thousand
100000 = NOORAYIRAM -hundred thousand
1000000 = PATTU NOORAYIRAM - one million
10000000 = KOODI -ten million
100000000 = ARPUTHAM -hundred million
1000000000 = NIGARPUTAM - one billion
10000000000 = KUMBAM -ten billion
100000000000 = KANAM -hundred billion
1000000000000 = KARPAM -one trillion
10000000000000 = NIKARPAM -ten trillion
100000000000000 = PATHUMAM -hundred trillion
1000000000000000 = SANGGAM -one zillion
10000000000000000 = VELLAM -ten zillion
100000000000000000 = ANNIYAM -hundred zillion
1000000000000000000 = ARTTAM -??????
10000000000000000000 = PARARTTAM --anybody know?
100000000000000000000 = POORIYAM -<>?#%^&
1000000000000000000000 = MUKKODI -&^*^%^#
10000000000000000000000 = MAHAYUGAM -????????????????

One of the oldest and greatest languages in the World!!! How interesting it is!!!

Definitions - Just For Laughs

Just For Laughs!!!!
School:
A place where Papa pays and Son plays.

Life Insurance:
A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse:
A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.

Marriage:
It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree
and a woman gains her masters.

Divorce:
Future tense of Marriage.

Tears:
The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture:
An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer
to the notes of the students
without passing through 'the minds of either'.

Conference:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise:
The art of dividing a cake in such a way
that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Dictionary:
A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room:
A place where everybody talks,
nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Father:
A banker provided by nature.

Governance System - a story

As a daily habit, the 10-year Old Pintu was reading newspaper.

Suddenly he asked his father, "Dad! What does it mean by 'Governance
System'? "

"It's like..." father said while thinking, "See! I earn and bring money
to home, mean's I am a 'Money Holder'. Your mother decides where and how
to spend that money and that means she is 'Government'. That maid in our
home is doing all the household works, so she will be 'Labour Class'.
You are a 'Common man' or 'Public'. Your kid brother is 'Future' or the
'Next Generation', understand?"

That day Pintu slept with all those thoughts. In the middle of the night
he woke-up because his kid brother was crying. He wetted the matrices so
he was crying. Pintu went to wake-up his mother. She was in deep sleep
so Pintu went to the Maid's room to wake her up. But there his father
was sleeping with the maid. So he came back with frustration.

Next morning father asked Pintu, "Hey Pintu Darling! You understood the
'Governance System'?".

Pintu replied, "Yeah Dad, I understood! Last Night, Money Holder was exploiting
Labour Class and our Government was sleeping. Future of our nation was crying
for not getting their basic needs fulfilled and in all this Common Man (I)
was suffering!"

Heart Attacks And Drinking Warm Water

This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about Heart Attacks . The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestinefaster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.


Common Symptoms Of Heart Attack...
A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting . Be aware of intense painin the jaw line.

ISKON Krishna Lila Park

Five thousand years ago ,Gokul was the home to Krishna 's magical childhood where he performed innumerable loving pastimes. When Indra threatened
the Vrajavasis with torrential rains, blasts of thunder and lightening, and the consequent over flooding of Yamuna - all to inundate the village,
And if you were present there how would you experience all this????? And the relief the village residents felt when Krishna lifted the Govardhan
Hill and protected them!

The proposed Krishna Lila Park will give such an experience to the visitors. The main complex building will be about 360 feet tall, with a viewing gallery
at 500 ft level. This hi-tech amusement park to be constructed in Bangalore on 28 acre will be the 1st theme park in India with the quality of world
class theme parks like Disney World and Universal Studios. Already Rs 4-5 crore has been spent on the design. The project will cost Rs 350 crore. Work on theme park to take off from, Sunday Jun 20th, 2010.