Hats of to a legend

The top headlines in the cricket column in all the papers in India is the retirement of the former cricket team captain Sourav Chandidas Ganguly. My nerves stars triggering as i spell the name Sourav. Its was his aggression that have transformed the look of this current Indian team. One may argue that he is not in the best of form of late. But that dose not matter for a legend. He has left nothing to prove to anyone. How can one forget his ton on debut, his roaring march in Australian fields, his unique leadership which took India to the world cup final. His job for the cricket of India is more than done. Now its up to these young lads to take over from these senior players. Hope India will march towards the image of invincible. We love you forever.

Journey with some purpose

Since I completed my high school in 2004, its been several times I made trips to Chennai(260km). I do remember the first time, I went for the admission of my bachelor degree to the management office of Crescent Engineering College. It was about 5AM i reached the capital city and the sun was coming out of its shell giving rise to a bright day. I was imagining of my future career too will be as bright as that day. God's grace i got admitted in the major I preferred.

The next trip was with my parents to get admitted in the campus hostel with all my luggage. I would pay all my life if i could get that day now.

In the next four years i have been to college in bus,car,train,van,lorry and even by bike. In all those trips if i think back and recollect my memories, I have been ecstatic, adventurous, happy, joyful, coward and even piled up with sadness. But I guess there had been no purpose in all those trips.

Now, being out of college with all my colleague distant to me, I have to go to college all alone. The reason behind is to appear for my exams(so called arrears). This trip is different to those before as I am being scanned by my parents, relations, society and even more. Here comes the purpose to finish off my degree. I believe I have been up to the expectation of my parents till date and hope to do even better in future. May God help me out in this purposeful trip.

Psychology- a look into it

Today we notice a number of branches developing in science. Right from the physical science to the technology up to date we have numerous branches of science.

The basic branches of science are
Natural science,
Formal science,
Social science and
Applied science.

From the above for major branches Psychology arises from Applied sciences. One hundred years ago, people viewed the workings of the human mind as a great mystery. An Austrian doctor named Sigmund Freud made sense of that mystery. He is called the Father of Psychiatry for his innovative ideas.

He researched the meaning of dreams,
How the unconscious mind works?
How the events in our past influence the actions we take?

He spent most of his life in Vienna. He believed that beneath our conscious mind is a submerged unconscious that governs much of our behaviour. Early in his career, Freud attracted intense hostility to his work, but gradually his ideas were accepted. In 1920, Freud developed a new theory that the mind is made up of three parts,

• the id, which contains impulses,
• the ego which represents reasoning and
• the superego, the self critical idea.

In my point of view these psychiatrists should form a society and engage in social service. Today many a people get affected from stress, depression, loneliness etc. For instance, considering a college many students get deviated from their path. Its not because they go wrong intentionally rather the situations which affect them. Such a society will help many out of their problems. Lets hope that many a number of psychiatrists graduate in equal number of doctors and engineers, which will help reform this society.

Cricket - no longer a Gentleman's game

For all those cricket followers it would be interesting that the Australian team is being challenged these days. The results speaks out. They haven't won the last four tests. That is not the result we see often in the last decade. Anyhow what makes India challenging the aussie. May be we can argue that its due to the send off of Warne and Mcgrath.

But the obvious reason behind the game is that, the opponents are starting to play aussie in their own way. Its aggressive and tough cricket. This unique way of playing the game is appriciatable provided aggression is within the limits.

Usually we find on field spat, sledging, footing and many more in different games, but not in cricket. That is why cricket is called gentleman's game. It seems now the tag of cricket is fading away. We remember the Sydney test last year which made to the headlines for various reasons. Not even an year has passed by, another verbal dual and suspension have come by the way.

The latest buzz is the biography "True Colors" of the great Australian wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist. Already Gilly had apologized to the little master for commenting on him. Now the new one is involving ganguly and Harbhajan, commenting they were chickened out in 2004 Nagpur test in fear of defeat.

If this culture goes on then cricket will no longer be a gentleman's game. Authorities concerned must inquire into this developing culture. Lets hope cricket to be played in the spirit of the game.

ANACONDA or PYTHON

Hi everyone. Here i would like to post an interesting fact about snakes.

Many people believe that the South American Anaconda is the longest snake in the world. But its not been proved yet. May be we would have seen in the Hollywood movie. The reason behind the above fact is that once the US President Theodore Roosevelt offered $5000 to anyone who would produce the skin of vertebrae of an Anaconda of more than a 9m long. The US wildlife Conservation Society increased this offer to even $50000,but the prize has never been claimed.

Then which one is the longest..?
Its the reticulated or Royal Python is probably the longest snake up to 10.7m.
But Anaconda succeed Python in weight as it weighs up to 230kg.

Tsunami in 2004 "Not the first"

Hi everyone. I believe all would remember the worst memories of the huge natural disaster that took away more than hundred thousand people and leaving more than an equal number in the streets. Hope everyone got it. It is the Tsunami which shacked the islands of Indonesia and coasts of east India.

Many would have wondered that this type of disaster in a new one and the word tsunami would be new to their ears. But researches have revealed that this type of major disaster have happened before.

A research team was deployed and were working in the post tsunami struck areas. Usually when a major tsunami hits a shore it leaves a layer of soil in the attacked areas. The scientists on examining those lands found a number of such layers and have concluded that there had been a major attack some 600 to 700 years ago.

Its really frightening to think of those bitter memories. Let us hope that this never happen again. May God save us........

Improved version of OS

Microsoft have unveiled its new version of operating system "WINDOWS 7". It is studied that this version of OS will be more user friendly than the previous version Vista, which claimed to have many attractive features than XP but failed to come high in the market. Usually the corporates were slow to switch from XP to vista as it had a lot of feedback.

Hopefully Microsoft has promised that their new version will hit the market sometime late next year. It has some new features like

• Zoom in on an image by moving two fingers closer together - a technology first introduced to millions of users by Apple's iPhone.
• A new taskbar aims to give more rapid access to files and programs, with each open window appearing as a graphic thumbnail.
• HomeGroup, allowing users easy sharing of data across PCs and other devices in the home.
  
• More support for devices such as cameras, printers, and mobile phones with a product called Device Stage offering a single window to manage tasks for each device.