In a recent development on Poonam Pandey stripping case, in an unique and distinguishing act of unity between India and Pakistan, TV celebrities Rakhi Sawant and Veena Malik have joined hands to protest against Poonam whom they find guilty of garnering cheap publicity and upseting the sanctity of Indian society. While both are not available for any comments, one of the close relatives of Veena Malik has reported that Veena is currently having a overnight meeting at Rakhi house and they are planning this protest and “fast-unt0-next morning” from next day night at Jantar Mantar. They have named their campaign as “India against Poonam”

 
I woke up the morning with this news that Pakistan bans Facebook and is planning to ban Youtube which may extend to banning Wikipedia, Flickr, Picasa and what else. Not sure, if this is all rumour where news frenzy media has gone extreme with extremist Pakistan but who cares … and thus this haha !!!  Oh My poor boy Pakistan, you remind me of my 14 year old cousin who gets offended by every second thing in the world … bless you !
There is so much to write on this …

I love to write, yet I have not turned to the only place where do I write since last so many weeks or months?? I love to live free, yet my alarm always wake me up at 7:00 and after snoozing, I get up at 7:20. I have just read the blog of one of my friends and started feeling how different and yet how similar the lives have become?

But I don’t wish to make this a crib writing, instead I am looking for some solution, something positive. Fine, I am in hustle-bustle but this is me who has choosen this life over other things and I have to manage this, perfect it to the point it could be, correct the mistakes and ease out the pain. But how would it be ?

This is a guest post by my wife. She chooses to put a poem written by her -

एक दिन अचानक यूँ ही सोचा मैंने
काश कही ऐसा होता
इस दुनिया में कोई गम ना होता
कोई प्यासा ना होता
कोई तरसा ना होता
हर होठ पर शबनम और हंसी होती
इस दुनिया में सिर्फ ख़ुशी होती
हर दिल में सिर्फ मोहब्बत होती
नफरत की कोई जगह ना होती;
फिर तभी सोचा मैंने
अगर कही ऐसा होता

Caught this picture during my net surfing and couldn’t stop sharing with you all … Mother Nature rocks !

This is a guest post of one of my dear friends , Amit Goyal. He is sharing his admisson interview experience for Rice University, USA.

Amit writes,

Interviewer – I am Kolin from Rice University and currently a second year student here. I am basically from States only. I did my under graduation from Purdue University and worked for few years at P&G before I joined MBA. I just did my summer internship at CITI Group and looking forward to join them by August. So why don’t you walk me through your resume -

Happy Republic Day !
I recall to dedicate a post  on Republic Day in 2007. I would say things have not changed much or should say that things have improved by far or ohhh no …. things have deteriorated a lot…. err, am I confused? Guess, no …. let me explain !
Things have not changed much:
Things are same as they have been three years back.

We are growing steadily, being seen as world’s future economy, maintaining the recession proof growth etc etc.
There are no changes in corruption, terrorism, population, floods, all the …

Science of motivation

With recent responsibilities, I have taken the resolution to take my finances more seriously (sadly, which I have never!). With this, I have opened one more joint bank  account, applied for a joint credit card and this time, have not got with any pre-approved offers but selecting from couple of choices available. Thanks to my in-time credit card payments !
Honestly, being in US on working visa doesn’t leave much of a scope to have long term house mortgage but still there are other small loans, that I may need from time to time e.g. …