Safety

This is not a simple article or story, this is something what we see (me and my friends) daily when we go to our class. This is more than an article/blog, cos I really hope somebody would notice this.

So we go via Narayanaguda to Kachiguda where our classes are. Our class timings have become almost permanent, starting at 2 pm and ending at 9 pm. There is a school just 100 m away from the Narayanaguda circle, and this school disperses around 2 pm, I am still not sure what the school name is, but the uniform is pinkish coloured. Everyday when we go we see children, [lower primary kids.] coming out of the school campus and crossing the road. The most shocking thing is there is no security for the school building, nor there is a ‘school ahead board’ or any sort of safety. They simply walk out into the bustling street. The other day I saw a bike  slow down with screeching brakes, because 4 kids were crossing the road. There is the Narayanaguda police station about 100m back, at least the school authorities can ask some personals during those times.

Where I come from there is strict police guidance when the school disperses, so I feel it really irresponsible on the general public to not take notice about this. What is the use of aggitation and protest after something bad happened when you can prevent it now.

-- Ricky freelancer!!

Raksha Bhandan

This time around I am at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh as I write this [not sure if it come under the state of Telengana]. So its that time of the year when people celebrate Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi. August 20th is observed as Raksha bandan, the main theme of the festival is sisters would tie a ribbon (‘Rakhi’) around their brother’s wrist and in return the brothers would pledge to protect them. There are many stories regarding the raksha bandan, but the one that touched me the most was when I saw a news in which the women in Punjab would tie these bands on the soldiers wrist.

We also observed Raksha bandhan, Mini (my sister) gave a rakhi to Abhay (my brother). I was really the first time I am seeing this up close. Things are different here at hyderabad. There were many small shops selling different types of Rakhi’s. Never knew it was this big a festival. I didn’t get any from class this time too lolz..

Ricky ;) Signing off

Lyf ..

ദൈവം ഒരു വികൃതി കുട്ടിയായി തോന്നിയ നിമിഷങ്ങൾ  ഉണ്ട് , മറ്റു ചിലപ്പോൾ എന്ത് ചെയ്താലും അതിനു പിന്നിൽ ഒരു നല്ല ലക്‌ഷ്യം ഉണ്ട് എന്നും, ചിലപ്പോൾ ഒരു ക്രൂരനും കഠിന ഹൃദയനും ആണന്നും. എന്നാൽ ഇന്ന് , 4 വർഷത്തെ കോളേജ് ജീവിതത്തിനു വിരാമം ഇട്ടുകൊണ്ട്‌, ഒരു ഫോട്ടോയും കൈയിൽ  പിടിച്ചു ഈ വരാന്തയിൽ നിൽകുമ്പോൾ, ദൈവം ഇത് മൂന്നും ആണ് എന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. കേരളത്തിൻറെ പല ഭാഗങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും, പല വ്യത്യസ്ത സാഹചര്യങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും ഉള്ള ഞങ്ങളെ, ഒരു നിയോഗം എന്ന പോലെ ഒരുമിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് വന്നു, ഇണങ്ങിയും പിണങ്ങിയും ഒരു കുടുംബം പോലെ ജീവിക്കാൻ പഠിപ്പിച്ചു, ഇപ്പോൾ ഇതാ ഒരു സാടിസ്റ്റ്നെ പോലെ വേർപെടുത്തുന്നു.....
ഒരു നെടുവീർപ്പിട്ടു കൊണ്ട്, ഒരു ബുദ്ധിജീവിയുടെ ലാഖവതോടെ കൂടി,  മനസ്സ് മുറിഞ്ഞു പോവുന്ന നോംബരതോട് കൂടി  പറയാം "ദാറ്റ്‌ ഈസ്‌ ലൈഫ്.. എന്നായാലും പോവേണ്ടതല്ലേ "
ഒരു കാര്യം എനിക്ക് ഉറപ്പുണ്ട് ജീവിതത്തിൽ എനിക്ക് എന്ത് പ്രതിസന്തി ഉണ്ടായാലും എന്നെ സഹായിക്കാൻ നിങ്ങൾ കൂടെകാണും എന്ന്  ...

Your Destiny

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your Character,
Your Character decides your destiny.”

First learn to believe in yourself, it maybe sometimes a friend who helps you understand your potential. But believe!! These belief’s form your thought, believe good things, think good things. because your mouth is controlled by your brain, and it speaks what you think automatically and is not in your control sometimes.

I could put it in some other way, somebody who is lead by good thoughts have a better control over their tongue.

Your words can be reflected by your actions.

When an action is done, over and over again it becomes a habit. And these habits forms a part of your character.

Thus from the simple thoughts out destiny, the high goals in life can be attained.

CrossRoads 2013

Crossroads, the college fest of mar Baselious College of Engineering, is one of the annual events I haven’t missed in my B.tech life. The main reason being it is one of the occasions where I get to meet my classmates, we joke and tease and relive a night we used to have in the school days. Being brought up under the management of a Christian school had its effect on us in a very good way. This year might be the last year I can attend the event,

At around 5:30 my friend called and asked me to come to the main gate, I was teaching my brother and his friend some computer. I wrapped up the class and bathed and set out. Decided to take a short cut through the cemetery. Reaching the college gate at 6 05, short by 5 mins. They locked the gates and we were outside, despite having college ids and all. I don’t know why but this year they increased the security and getting in seemed impossible, still we didn’t give up hope. So we decided to try the back gate or the offroads (name of their auto show) entrance. The offroads entrance got closed by the time we reached there so we kept moving further north to try the back gate.

After a couple of minutes reached the back entrance of the college, but it seems that this entrance has more students than the front one. This one also was locked up. Funny thing was one of their HODs was also outside the gate. The security refused to open it for him lol. Made 2 new friends, Abu and Cyril, Abu is doing his MBBS. So it was me Cibin and Abu, at the closed entrance of MBCET joking and talking with the ones already inside. Unfortunately there seemed to be no way to open the gates.

So we were like, lets go back its just a waste of time, just then the manager (who is a priest) came to the gates and asked the securities to let the teaching staff in. Again we were disappointed, the gates were opened and the guards (there were about 10 at each entrance) cleared the route to let the staff in, and there were like 2 staffs and their family to my right, and they were all moving to the gates. Made up my mind to move with them, the stats were senior and they seemed old enough to be my grandparents, smoothly moving behind them I walked to the gates on the way tugging at Cibin’s arm to indicate I am moving in. I made sure to avoid eye contact with the securities not wanting to arouse suspicion, heart was thumping cos if they find we are not with them then its embarrassment in front of them all. But we made it, after making a couple of steps into the college, I turned back an emotion filled with the rush of adrenaline, and joy, sly grin covered my face ear to ear. I turned back to see Cibin made it with me but Abu didn’t hear us calling and he was still in the opposite side.

It was quite some fun night that awaited us inside the college, glad to see all those old faces again, and some new ones. The fast fingers of ‘Stephan devasi’ and voice of ‘Rahul Nambiar’ kept the night alive. It was really special. thanks guys

adios and have a nice day
Ricky !!!

My Christmas Tree

Too lazy to type this down, so posting the link.. and wishing you all a merry christmas !!
Enjoy the video...

Steroids

A steroid is a type of organic compound with a cycloalkane group or in layman terms, with a lot of Carbon atoms and the compound resembles some of the naturally produced hormones and thereby driving the body system. From dietary Cholesterol to the hormones testostrone and estradiol can be classified as Steroids. Hundreds of distinct steroids are found in plants, animals, and fungi.
Steroids can be broadly categorized under two heads:

• Anabolic Steroids -are drugs that mimic the effects of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in the body. They increase protein synthesis within cells, which results in the buildup of cellular tissue (anabolism), especially in muscles. This was isolated and synthesized in the 1930s, and is used in treating chronic wasting conditions, such as cancer and AIDS. It is said that the gains in muscular strength achieved through high-intensity exercise and proper diet can be additionally increased by the use of AAS in some individuals.
  Long term use of the Anabolic drug results in many adverse health risks such as harmful changes in cholesterol levels, acne, high BP,liver damage, dangerous changes in the structure of the left ventricle of the heart, hormone imbalances.
• Corticoids -are a class of chemicals that includes steroid hormones naturally produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and analogues of these hormones that are synthesized in laboratories.These are used to treat a variety of diseases ranging from brain tumors to skin diseases.

Windows Azure

Not the conventional topic of interest this is, but a slightly different one. Most of you might not be familiar with this word, and probably not aware if windows has launched such a thing. Yes windows has and has been used all over the world for more than 2 years.

Windows Azure is a cloud computing platform used to build, deploy and manage application through a global network. It is mainly used by industries all over the world, to improve their services with clients. Citations and Case studies given in their site. so you can say, windows Azure is Microsoft’s application platform for public cloud. Windows Azure can be used to build a web application that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or to map between different sets of identity information. The latest version of windows Azure was launched on June 2012. You can compare it with the  apple I-cloud. It uses an operating system named Azure to run its resources. You can program and deploy web applications in .NET, Java, Python and Node.js languages.

Aer Lingus (a company in Ireland) is using Azure to create an interactive web application that integrates route maps with their reservation and booking process.

HR Locker provider of HR solutions to small- to medium-size companies, was built on the Azure platform.

The features offered by the new windows Azure are:

• Websites allows developers to build sites using ASP.NET, PHP or Node.js and can be deployed using FTP, Git or TFS.
• Virtual Machines lets developers migrate applications and infrastructure without changing existing code. Can run both Windows Server and Linux virtual machines.
• Cloud-Services - Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment that is used to create scalable applications and services. Supports multi-tier scenarios and automated deployments.
• Data Management- SQL Database, formerly known as SQL Azure Database, works to to create, scale and extend applications into the cloud using Microsoft SQL Server technology. Integrates with Active Directory and System Center and Hadoop.
• Media Services - A PaaS offering that can be used for encoding, content protection, streaming and/or analytics.

For those who are interested in reading more about it please do visit : http://www.windowsazure.com

Google Doodles

Google's Doodles, not a new concept but been there since 1998, when the Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo at the ‘Burning Man’ fest to indicate their attendance there. That’s how the concept originated. It took two more years for the doodles to become more popular and over the years different doodles were created for anniversaries and birthdays of famous persons, e.g. On the 96th birthday of guitarist Les Paul, wee could strum the strings on our homepage. Doodles have made the fact searching more fun and enthusiastic.
I never thought I would spend more than seconds in the Google’s simple and blank page, over the past few days I spent more than an hour trying to better my score and brag about it via Google+ or post in fb, competing with my friends.. The idea of doodles, reflecting the major events at London Olympics is a really brilliant move. It makes me feel I am a part of the Olympics even though on a large scale. Shooting at the hoops, canoeing or playing the 110m hurdles previous week made my direction keys and spacebar really exhausting, but that isn’t going to stop me from playing the doodles.
Addictive it is on a larger scale, but the true victory of the doodles, I think is because, of the lucid structure and we don’t require to download anything or accept a long list of terms and conditions. Also it loads fast with the Google homepage, I think the programmers at Googleplex or lets simply call them doodlers, then again I will be avoiding the masses that play the doodles with such passion, please don’t feel offended you all. the Doodlers at Googleplex require appreciation with the ideas they come up with.
If you have a doodle Idea, then you can send them as well to : proposals@google.com .

hurdles doodle: http://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012
canoe doodle: http://www.google.com/doodles/slalom-canoe-2012

sayonara from Ricky!!

halloween doodle

diwali doodle 

Friendship Day

Initially created and popularized by the greeting card industry In the 1930s, it has always been the business. The first sunday in the month of August is selected as the day. In 1998, Mrs.Annan, announced Winnie the pooh as the official ambassador of friendship day. Today friendship day has grown from the greeting card industry to a large business hype.

From my point of view, Friendship day is nothing more than a day created to exploit the youth and their crazy friendship attitude. People used to buy cards and gift them in the old days, but now the story has changed. Playing movies with friendship themes to attract the young viewers. Social media is the once who exploit the speciality of theses days now. when you consider the statistics, the rate of users at theses time ( on this day ) is a lot more than the usual days. people rushing to update their statuses and sharing and uploading would create a crazy atmosphere. Also the online stores are particularly cunning to make exclusive offers and special products for the youth. Their profit is really a fortune, but that’s another topic to blog.

How relevent is the friendship day in modern times? I would say we are living in a fast word, speed is very important factor, we would get frustrated if our mobile is a little slugggish. friendship at many levels has shrunk to mere “hi”,“bye “, the development of “wassap”ism all contributing. We should take time to appreciate and spend time with our friends, As college-rs we get a lot more time and we know these will the best times we are going to have. But out of the campus, how good are we at maintaining these levels of intimacies ?? That’s when such special days come to as a boon, a little rain to the hot and shivelled desertish life of ours..

My Quote about the day is “I don’t particularly celebrate a day as friendship day, cos every moment with my friends is a special day for me”

Leaving a lot more for you all the think about, and wishing a very best Friendship day .. Adios.