Year: 2008

Telecom Day Gift

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I don’t know how many of you knew this. But yesterday, 17th May, is supposed to be world telecom day. And do you know what gift I got?? My net connection was down for whole day. And it started working just a few minutes ago. Maybe  my ISP wanted to show their importance.

I usually post very early in the morning. That way the post published can be read by users in offices. Many of us just login to some daily blogs and news before starting the work. So for me its better to have my post published before the working time. One of the tricks I’m using to increase the readers to my blog. Not sure how far this works. But my guess that it works.

I waked up and turned on PC. Opened the browser and nothing is working. I thought it may be down for sometime. But no. I waited for an hour and it still didn’t work. I thought may be its an OS problem or a router problem. Somehow I came to know they were ok. So it was ISP that was having the problem. I tried to contact some of my friends who have connection with same ISP. But I couldn’t reach them. Then today morning called my friend who owns a cybercafe. And he told me that it’s not working since 8pm on 16th. Must be some major problem.

Whenever I’m offline I’ve great time. I watched some movies and was able to concentrate more on my .NET project. Things always happen for good. May be I should thank my ISP for that gift. It turned out to be a good one.

Think Nonsense…

Mules Think Positive

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A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule.The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule ‘braying’- or- whatever mules do when they fall into wells.After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.

Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened…and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery. Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back…a thought struck him.

It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back…

HE SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP!

This he did, blow after blow.

Shake it off and step up…

shake it off and step up…

shake it off and step up!

He repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought panic and just kept right on

SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!

You’re right!

It wasn’t long before the old mule, battered and exhausted,

STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL!

What seemed like would bury him, actually blessed him…
all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.
That’s Life!
If we face our problems and respond to them positively,
and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self-pity…

THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY
HAVE WITHIN THEM THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT AND BLESS US!

So better to be like a mule. My father used to say me donkey every now and then. Now he doesn’t say that to me. Else I would have been proud that I’m donkey. Donkeys and mules are almost same.

Think Nonsense….

Bootplant

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It was raining. And raining heavily. And someone asked me for my boots. Well I thought that since it’s raining he’ll need it to go out somewhere. And I gave it. But look what he did..

Now that’s a bootplant. I’m not worried about boot but the plants. Will they survive from the terrible smell of my a year ago washed shoes. And that too were washed due to rains.

Famous Patelbhai

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Patel is a Gujarati-bhai. Patel was bragging to his boss one day,’ You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them.’ Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff,
‘OK, Patel how about Tom Cruise?’
‘Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it.’
So Patel and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise’s door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise shouts,
‘Patel! Great to see you. You and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!’
Although impressed, Patel’s boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise’s house, he tells Patel that he thinks Patel’s knowing Cruise was just lucky.

‘No, no, just name anyone else,’ Patel says.
‘President Bush,’ his boss quickly retorts.
‘Yes,’ Patel says, ‘I know him, let’s fly out to Washington.’
And off they go. At the White House, Bush spots Patel on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying,
‘Patel , what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let’s have a cup of coffee first and catch up.’
Well, the boss is much shaken by now, but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds, he expresses his doubts to Patel who again implores him to name anyone else.
‘The Pope,’ his boss replies.
‘Sure!’ says Patel . ‘My folks use to live in Germany, and I’ve known the Pope a long time.’ Continue reading →

5000 Hits

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I’m Just stunned with the response to my nonsense. 10 days ago the counter was at 4200 and now it crosses 5000. And lucky me the 5000th hit was by me. It’s not a great achievement for many. But it is for me. The response to my earlier blog here was poor. But after learning things i started to blog again. And the success. This time the credit goes to Linkreferral. 800 Hits in just 10 days. Now I’m looking forward to such traffic building sites to get more hits. So far the rating to my blog is 4.93/5. Pretty good after 48 reviews. Almost no negative comments makes feel proud. Now have to live upto the expectations and improvise more. Thanks all the visitors for the response.

Think Nonsense….