Tomorrow it does goanna be a big day for everyone especially lovers. Yeah you are rite, its Valentine’s Day. Usually this day is celebrated February 14 of every year in which lovers express their love in a way of sharing greeting cards, flowers, and gifts or maybe kisses . Love never cares about time or age, if you are young at heart and have the endurance to express pure love for your partner then you too can celebrate it. As you all very well know that I don’t have a girlfriend till now nor or a lover so usually I am idle tomorrow and watch others fiddle their lovers. Yeah, that’s what I am doing for years.

Ok I will keep aside my stories and come to the point. Usually during Valentine’s Day people used to judge others love status by the color of dress they wear and so this year they have coded a new info for different colors of dress. Check for yourself the colors below and make sure you don’t get into other people’s eye.

And one more thing, I wanted my blog readers to ask some questions! Some of them are

1.Are you in love with someone? If so express your story.
2.What’s your opinion about love?
3.If you are not in love, do you have any determination to fall in love with someone?

That’s it! I am very curious to read your replies!

This tagging game has been highly influenced by bloggers especially personal bloggers as I have been tagged by Shankar Ganesh and RishiRaj who made me reveal some random facts about me.

I am inspired by technology:

It all started when I was in sixth grade during 1999 I created my first email address with usa.net which is known to be the turning back of my life thus changing my attention and focus towards computer, internet and technology. I am very much inspired about technology and can’t live up without it. Since i love technology i am doing my engineering in information technology.

I am basically a gadget freak:

Whether it’s a personal gadget or any kind I love to have cool gadgets, wanted to try, use and own them whenever something comes new. Gadgets usually make our life easier and flexible. Currently I own nokia 6680, Nikon 6 mp DSC and USB flash drive with mp3 player.

I love music:

Never concerning about the genre I love all kind of music especially when it is composed by my legend A.R Rahman. Music keeps my life cool and relieves my stress and mental tension.

Regular Chat and snack Eater:

One thing I won’t miss in life is eating all kind of chats and snacks. Some of my favourites are Pani Puri, Masala Puri, Bhel puri, Dabeli, Mushroom Bonda and soup, Onion and Banana Bajji and Bengali sweets. If you want to try these then visit my place.

Freaking outside:

It’s usual for boys to freak out and roam and so the syndrome has impacted me to freak out. Generally we don’t know where we are going to or just passing our way and stopping some where.

No girlfriends!

Yep, it’s true I don’t have girl friends* (someone special) although I do have friends who are girls but I don’t want to waste money and time for them! What do you say guys?  But I ogle at nice and beautiful girls …lol

Being open:

I don’t want to hide anything in my mind or in heart, whether it’s sensitive or not I’d always be frank to tell what I think about them and what I wanted to say.

I love animals:

Basically some like animals at zoo some don’t but I love them. I think animals are just like a neighbor if you are kind to them then they do so. I love dogs; I have a cute little doggie called Nancy (named after famous Nancy Drew). Basically I am a PETA member I hate people who are cruel to animals. I am a vegetarian from childhood.

And my tags for this posting are Srinivasan Paul Joseph, Thilak, Mayank Gupta, Haochi and Ashish Mohta.

Its celebration time since I crossed one year of blogging successfully. Success is not because of what I posted a whole year but factors that encouraged me to post continuously especially visitors, guests, friends who felt to leave their suggestions and comments in my blog. Actually my addiction towards blogging was from many great bloggers including my inspiration towards technology.

It all started during the mid of year 2006 when I first established my technology forum called CESWAP which was sold later in the year, then after setting up my own hosted domain I decided to start a blog. During the initial stages of blogging, I used this platform only for my personal blogging like things happening around me and simply about myself but later on I thought of making it more useful then a personal blog without the influence of pro-blogging. Here is the result of what I desired, although I placed some ads which help me motivate towards blogging and the motivation has been working well after I received my first check from Google Adsense.

My special thanks to Srinivasan Paul Joseph without whom this blog wouldn’t be standing here since he was providing me hosting, domain and all the support regard of technical and moral. He is one of my well wisher encouraging me in all aspects of technology. He is also one of my inspirations which I would like to reveal now.

Mistakes are reports of your progress towards success if you haven’t done a mistake then it simply shows you ain’t progressing. Over a year of blogging, some of my posts might be useful, hateful or hurtful to someone or something. I feel apologize and thank you for being a source of identifying my mistakes. Last year my first post was on july 07, 2006 and now I am completing my final year of blog post i.e the current post on 7/7/7 which I posted at 7.07 am today IST.

Thanks everyone for your support especially Srinivasan Paul Joseph, Thilak Raj, Shankar Ganesh, RishiRaj, Haochi, Amit Agarwal, Peter Dawson, Ankur Raheja and others who’s been sharing your suggestion.

I am already fed up with my study holidays with 10 days remaining for the university exams and the hot climate made my day very long and slow. So just for a change I thought of doing something different and as a result, i pierced my ear. The idea suddenly striked my mind that i should pierce ears.  At last I started my bike, went to the nearest men’s parlor and pierced my ear.

Will it be really painful?

No! Not even a bit. With modern standards of ear piercing and its instrument you won’t even feel a bit pain while piercing. A special type of medicated gel is applied over the area to be pierced, which after a while makes the area insensitive. With an ear piercing instrument which looks like a gun, your ear will be pierced less than a second without feeling even a micro pain.

Why should you pierce your ear?

World is changing everywhere and so do you, with the change in modern history and social attitude why don’t switch yourself? Fashion is not permanent which means you don’t have to worry about your ear. Some see the practice as a form of artistic or self-expression. Others choose to be pierced as a form of sexual expression, or to increase sexual sensitivity. I am not forcing you into other body piercing while ear piercing is just a trendy way to show you.

Will other bother about your ear being pierced?

Who cares about others? It’s all your personal attitude and interest. Personal attitudes vary actually because some regard the practice of piercing or of being pierced as spiritual but I pierced for modern primitive.

Still waiting for your parent’s permission? Ok here is a Satan’s advice to pierce first and show your parents second like I did.

Some times you don’t have a subject or idea to blog about. Don’t you? Well it’s all because we don’t set our time to search for an interesting story.  My blog has been inactive because I don’t usually set my time to search for a useful or interesting story, maybe to post mine. I am not a pro-blogger but I don’t like my blog indexing others story so I avoid that news middle man kind of post most of time. People always welcome unique and interesting posts which are hard to post regularly.

But sometimes I fear of losing my blog page rank and feed readers, which induces one to post something.  A technological blog posts any news related to technology keeping the fact that there are new news on this category every second. Best example is DIGG even though my blog is not categorized as single genres I still don’t have any interesting posts.  Well there are some who are of monkey blogging type posting anything that covers their mind; excepting all cases I still cannot concentrate my mind on blogging. Day by day I am losing my pressure due to increased work pressure both in college and other activities. Loads of projects are dumped in my to-do list but I cannot set the initial point to start the correct work. Life is all about how you organize your time and giving priority to your works.

Generally in my experience what I learned is we have to classify our activities based on the priority and assign the time according to it. 24 hours a day is not extendable and everyone knows it. The mistake I committed is saying YES to all the offers that knocked my door. Never minding the type of work, I used to accept the offer but soon I realized that it’s completely wrong. Everyone has their own talent but people do not tend to realize it properly. Say for example if you challenge with your mates for a cook then to their surprise and yours, the food you’re cooking was delicious which made them mouth watering. In this case you are not goanna change your current profession to a cook since you cooked well.  

Likewise came this blogging along, some say me as a good graphics designer, some accept me as a computer expert while some part express me as a blogger. Which is my profession? How to find which is better for me? When some people still not able to get through in which they are talented I am confused out of which field I am talented!  

Please comment me your suggestions! Can I blog? Am I a good blogger?

After seeing 300 film today, it came to my mind to write a short review about the film overall from my view. I never expected this movie to be this much superb actually, I thought the movie was kind of legendry fighting like in Gladiator, Alexander where the movie is fully focused on the leader only whereas people don’t care about the soldiers but to my surprise this is not that kind, here 300 soldiers are the role models about how they strived hard to fight their enemy etc.

300 the movie is actually the adaption of a novel called 300 which is inspired based on the Battle of Thermopylae. This battle has some unique things to note about that according to Wikipedia “the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history’s most famous last stands.”

So the total numbers of soldier for the Spartans were only 300 who fought against the Achaemenid Persia containing 60,000 - 300,000. It is highly impossible to tackle that much soldiers just by having 300 on your side but this film has made you proved how it is possible.

Also one thing to be noted in this film is that one cannot win the battle just by having an highest number of soldiers until make sure they are efficient. There is no word about visual FX which has played a very big role than the artists.

CBFC India has rated this movie as A, so it is recommend for children and pregnant ladies to avoid watching this movie since it contains explicit violent. My overall verdict is that this film is completely new and superb with high end visuals which will surely enrich your entertainment.

It was last week that my brother ordered a new digital camera Nikon Coolpix S9 with 6.1 mega pixels. We ordered it via Sify Online mall which costs around 10k in Indian rupees. The camera is really a worth piece when I added 1GB SD card that costs another 1.5k. Although I am not an expert in photography I have passionate to take photos.

This gadget has all the features that simulate the photo taken and makes your look like it was taken by an expert photographer. From one touch portrait to automatic red eye corrector with various modes for different occasions.

As the first part of trying this camera I took some snaps here. To store these photos online I brought a pro account for $24 in Flickr (A yahoo company) which is one of my favorite photo sharing sites.

I like photography very much and fanatical with it since childhood. Especially when you see something beautiful and if you want to reproduce that vista then the only way is to take a photograph of it. Actually a picture says 1000 words but nice photographs express more than that.

I am now working ion digitalizing all my past golden times via digital storage. We can return back to our past hood only when you see those photographs that capture the memories in it. So my kind request for everyone is whether you have hard copies of your old memories or under developed stage of negative rolls please scan it digitally and store it in secure place so that you can retrieve it whenever you want and it remains undestroyed.

A.R Rahman does magic again after Vande Mataram now its UN Anthem.

My music Legend A.R Rahman about whom I blog often, now gave me a chance to write about his recent magic which made me to unknowingly publicize, since I am affected by Rahmania (People addicted by Rahman’s Music).

This post is about his “Pray for me Brother” Song dedicated to UN’s anthem for its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign. According to A.R Rahman he strongly believed that Music had the power to change the lives of the people and I too agree that.

A report from Zeenews says that Rahman has sung this song in english to indicate that statement from India for which english is choosed as best form of expression.

This is Rahman’s First English song, released by Universal Music that was shot in black and white by Bharatbala Production (Vande Mataram). This is the world’s first music video shot in the mobile cinemascope format. This song was written by Blaaze and composed by our legend.

“Poverty and hunger have no religion or gender and this song is to inspire people to do a little bit about the world. We all believe in a creator and even a prayer can change things,” – A.R Rahman.

Do you personally feel that Music has the power to change the lives of people ? Are you agreeing to A.R rahman? ok Why don’t watch the video below and speak out your comment !

Watch the “Pray for me brother” Video in YouTube | Download |

            I am going to Attend the unconference of Wikicamp, a one day event which is scheduled for the 25th of February at the Tidel Park, Chennai. I think the event will hopefully be interesting where all the participants might have a good time meeting new people all around the world. Actually it was Thilak who forced me to come there and so i am. If any of you attending the event please let me know so that i can meet you there.

Actually WikiCamp is

A one day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Wiki/Internet space to talk about issues, opportunities and what the future and evolution of this valuable tool looks like.

Registration for the event is on the spot and it costs only Rs.200. If you are in Pondicherry and willing to come there do contact me i will accompany you. Some of the participants of Pondicherry are listed here. You can check out about other participants from your city there and also they have posted about the hotel accommodation details in their event page.

Meet me there if you are attending, i am eager to meet you all.

Today i am very happy that i received my Adsense Check from Google Inc. This is all because of your valuable support, encouragement and comments received from my valuable blog readers and friends.

I promise you to deliver and continue to post some useful and interesting stuff in this blog like i did before with great expectations. Without support from readers like you, this blog could not have stood live. I am very privileged and grateful to Srinivasan Paul Joseph who came forward to sponsor me hosting and domain name. He is the one who is base support for all my technological activities. My lifetime debt to you my friend….

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.  ~Malayan Proverb

Once Again thank you…..

                                        – Sankar Anand