Year: 2008

Festive Five days

/ Guttu / Leave a comment

Glad to be blogging again. After being offline for five days here I am with a dose of nonsense. It is amazing that the five days ended very quickly. I woke up yesterday morning just to see that it was the last day of the festival. Gosh!!! It should have been more. All the hard work in preparations, in prayers, in the rituals, in the aarti’s was fun to do. Meetings in join family always rejoiceful.

Yesterday was the immersion day. Rains for the past four days were not in the picture. To our surprise rains god wanted to give us company for the immersion ceremony. The close by river where we immerse the idol was almost flooded within no time. When I went there and saw the speed of water I thought we’ll be having trouble today. Thankfully rain intensity reduced and it was all good in the end. It was 2 o’clock by then.

I came home today and first thing was as usual to be online. A flood of e-mails and messages was waiting for me. And there is still the subscriptions of the blogs which I haven’t finished. It’ll take sometime to complete. I wish I owned a laptop so that I could finish them in my free time at work. It’ll take 2-3 days maybe.

The first thing I noticed was my e-mails where “chromed”. Many e-mails regarding this Google browser which I won’t be using. Secondly due to lack of publicity there was not much response to “Talking Picture 05”. So no results this time. It seems nobody liked the snowman drinking beer. =] I’ll be trying different traffic source from next month and will slow down use of entrecard till the big announcement.

The last five days were great. Chatting with my siblings, uncles, friends, some other relatives really pulled of everything that was on my head. It feels much more relaxed. Now I am ready for routine life. Such breaks in the routines should be made compulsory. Now have to see where my work has reached?? I’ll have to wear a bulletproof jacket tomorrow. 😆

Think Nonsense…

Womanist Musings

/ Guttu / 2 Comments

There are times when you get closer to the reality it hurts. Very few tend to write on the real things and express it in a way that will leave a place somewhere. I like to read such writings and believe me they are getting very rare. Most of the times writer tend to write on fantasies and own creations. That is because it sells faster. Believe me that a good writer will try to write something on reality. This blog is something about such thing.

Womanist Musings is one of the blogs which goes towards the reality and tries to bring out some issues which were never in focus. When I first hit this blog i thought it’ll be just another political blog expressing blah blah about democrats and republican parties. When I started reading carefully and peeking through archive gave me an idea of how good the blog is.

Everyday stories with a different perspective are common but these are not just everyday stories. As the name suggests most of the stories are related to woman. I am confused though that the blog name is due to the above reason or because they are being written by a woman. Almost every story will strike you. If you re a good reader then you’ll be back. Continue reading →

Power from Sun – Solar Cells

/ Guttu / Leave a comment

Energy is life and it’s precious. Most of the energy is derived from non-renewable sources of energy like coal and petroleum products. Now to some extent Natural gas also. Most of us are aware that these sources are depleting day by day. Very high usage of energy for a good life style have lead to this situation. I have been writing about this in between my posts so that at least one will try to save energy.

To keep up with demand and supply curve , now the energy is collected from sun via solar cells. These solar cells are there for quiet a long time. Due to high cost in manufacturing and then as a product very few were buying these. Most of the times they are used by laboratories or by the peoples who can afford those. But the new breakthroughs will change the current situation and may increase the penetration of solar cells.

The first breakthrough is by a Canadian base company who is successful in creating a solar cell which will reduce the cost by 25%. It will also increase the efficiency of solar cells up to 19%. Currently the efficiency of solar cells is about 15%. The new Generation II technology will also speed up the manufacturing process reducing the production costs by 25%. The current Generation I cells have an efficiency of 14.7%.

Another breakthrough is by an Australian PhD student who is successful in creating solar cell out of everyday used items such as inkjet printers, nail polish and pizza ovens. He calls this technology as iJET which is really helpful to developing countries. This technology uses the current low-cost inkjet printing process to create the cell. The beauty of the iJet is that it can be made at room temperature and without high-tech environments or components.

I will surely buy solar cells if their cost reduces to an extent where I can afford them. This energy is renewable and comes free. There will be also less or no hard to our environment.

Behind the bars

/ Guttu / Leave a comment

Animals….They are amazing and interesting. Most of us love to watch them. I’m one of those who love to watch them but not in the cage. They should be free like we are. We don’t have restriction of any cages unless we are criminals. It’s a different thing that now a days criminals roam freely and innocent are put behind the bars. But are these animals criminals?? Nope.

Then why are they caged?? It’s really a pleasure to watch them roam freely in open environment. I know this because I’ve seen some animals and birds in cage and out of the cage. I remember the peacock I saw in wild life sanctuary. And then in the jungles. There is a lot of difference. The one in cage lacks the class and of course the freedom enjoyed by the one not in cage.

It’s a pleasure to watch a peacock dancing with few others in an open environment. I could never get close to him as they run away from humans very quickly. And they disappear very quickly. Most of the time you’ll find a feather fallen off in the way. That’s a gift he want to give. It’s precious as it’s not been taken away from the bird.

There are these rich peoples who want to show off by having a wild animal in house. And due to their needs there are markets where you find such animals. They are kept in brutal conditions and many of them loose their senses and health there. Also the lack of food or improper food is another reason. I’ve heard that you can find almost any wild animal for sale in Thailand. I don’t know why actions are never been taken on these.

Then there come some NGO’s and animal rescue squads to rescue the animals from cages. It’s a really difficult task to put them again in natural environment. they need to adjust to the natural environment. That is tragic thing. There may be an animal who is used to drink Coke or Pepsi. After the rescue it’s very difficult to find it in jungles. No one will open a stall for animals.

If you have wild animal(I’m not talking about wife’s) in your house then please free him. Let him enjoy a free life as you do.

Talking Picture 05

/ Guttu / 3 Comments

Talking Picture 05 Snowman

Sorry. It was too much yesterday night.

Rules :
1) One entry per user, per blog. Don’t use multiple blogs as separate entries.
2) Caption may contain humor or may not. In the end best will be chosen.
3) You should have an Entrecard account for the winning prize.
4) Entries open till Sunday 23:59 UTC
5) Winner will be announced on Monday.
6) At least ten entries are required to decide winner.

Winner gets 300ec !!! So what are you waiting for?? Suggest a caption and make the Picture talking.