World's famous people together how many do u recognise ????

Here's the list:

1. Socrates
2. Cui Jian (father of Chinese rock music)
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. Prince Charles
5. Ramses or King Solomon or Sinuhe of Egypt
6. Bill Clinton
7. Tsar Peter The Great Of Russia
8. Charles de Gaulle
9. Margaret Thatcher
10. Ulysses S. Grant
18. Bill Clinton
11. Bruce Lee
12. Winston Churchill
13. Raphael Sanzio or Matisse (French Painter)
14. Robert Oppenheimer
15. Elvis Presley
16. William Shakespeare
17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
18. Genghis Kahn
19. Napoleon Bonaparte
20. Che Guevara
21. Fidel Castro
22. Marlon Brando
23. Lao zi or Hokusai
24. Marilyn Monroe
25. Yassar Arafat
26. Julius Caesar
27. Mike Tyson
28. George W. Bush
29. Luciano Pavarotti
30. Salvador Dali
31. Empress CiXi
32. Liu Xiang
33. Kofi Annan
34. Prince Charles
35. Ariel Sharon
36. Ho Chi Minh or Qi Baishi (Chinese painter)
37. Osama Bin Laden
38. Qin Shi Huang
39. Mikhail Gorbachev
40. Mother Teresa
41. Song Qingling
42. Otto Von Bismarck
43. Saint Peter or Rabindranath Tagore
44. Li ZhenSheng
45. Voltaire
46. President Hu Jintao
47. Dante Alighieri or Julius Caesar
48. Pu-Yi or Dai Dudu
49. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot)
50. Yi Sun-sin líder or Yue Fei
51. Michael Angelo
52. Hideki Tojo 0r Hiro Hito
53. Michael Jordan
54. Dwight Eisenhower or John Calvin Coolidge
55. Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter
56. Claude Monet
57. Mahatma Ghandi
58. Vincent Van Gogh
59. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
60. Marcel Duchamp
61. Confucius
62. Noah
63. Li Bai the Chinese Poet or Caravaggio
64. Mao Zhedong
65. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German Writer
66. Zhou Enlai
67. Marie Curie
68. Abraham Lincoln
69. Pablo Picasso
70. Stephen Spielberg
71. Freidrich Nietzsche
72. Karl Marx
73. Leonardo Da Vinci
74. Josef Stalin
75. Queen Elizabeth II
76. Lu Xun, Chinese Comunist Writer
77. Jose Francisco San Martín
78. Deng Xiaoping
79. Sun Yat-Sen
80. Theodore Roosevelt or Gen George Custer or Maxim Gorky or Philippe Pétain
81. Saddam Hussein
82. Benito Mussolini
83. Adolf Hitler
84. Guan Yu
85. Pele
86. Bill Gates
87. Audrey Hepburn
88. Ludwig Van Beethoven or Chopin
89. Charlie Chaplin
90. Henry Ford
91. Lei Feng
92. Victor babes or Norman Bethun
93. Mike Tyson
94. Sigmund Freud
95. Erich Honecker (leader of the GDR from 71-89)
96. Vladimir Putin
97. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll)
98. Shirley Temple
99. Chang Kai Chek
100. Leo Tolstoy
101. Albert Einstein
102. Ernest Hemingway
103. Franklin Roosevelt
104. Woman from photograph by Cartier Bresson or Mother Teresa
105. Dolly (the cloned sheep)

FIVE-THINGS-EVERYTHING Wednesday,May 13 2009

It’s been a hiatus, a long one. I haven’t been busy or anything for that matter. I mean, not the no-time-to-scratch-my-butt-busy atleast and nor have I been sore-in-the-eyes-from-major-studying. I just haven't been in a good frame of mind, I guess. It’s been one hell of a lazy, boring, monotonous, annoying month with absolutely nothing (=ZILCH) happening. Orkut says I’ll have a nice old-man-life. If I don’t, help me sue the damn site.

Hmm, I should probably just do a tag. I have like over a zillion pending anyway!

List 5 things that you want to say to people but never will. Don’t say who they are.
I eventually will, whatever tis, in whatever tone! If tis to people who I REALLY can’t be COMPLETELY frank with, then sarcasm-loaded-sentences would compensate whatever I want to convey. Sometimes its more about getting it out, THAN the person UNDERSTANDING it. I can be quite an Umbridge, yea! :P

Five Things I’d Love to Do before I Die:
1. Get a tattoo on my bicep! :D
2. Learn to play guitar! :P
3. Host a show!
4. Have a book published.
5. Do the Hula dance in Hawaii! :D

Five Things I Will Not Do Even If It Kills Me:
1. Cheat someone:P
2. Cheer for Govinda, in public. :P
3. Go behind a baba/guruji/astrologer/numerologist. No offence.
4. Encourage racism/unfair-ness.
5. Turn vegetarian! WHAT is the point of being at the top of the food chain if you don’t want to eat meat? :\

Five Things I Do When I’m Away From The Public:
1. Have a conversation in my head!
2. Look into the mirror and thank god. :P Rofl. I didn’t mean that.
3. Practice the moonwalk move. :P
4. Daydream about Pounds-in-Dollar-land! :P
5. Fantasize! :P

Five Favorite Sentences (most often used):
Keeps varying with the season. Anyway:
1. Rama rama Krishna krishna!
2. You’re my lil’ goobyhead! (a word I made up :D)
3. Hey baby, you wanna go for a ride? *winks* .. Lol, I’m not kidding, I really use that line on all my girlfriends :P
4. You know, this *pointing at his face* is my “I am smirking at you cause you are so fuckin lame” expression.
5. I love you.

Five Things I’ll Make You Wish You Didnt Do, If You Did:
If I didn't tell you this, would you shiver in your underwear and be scared to talk to me for fear of doing something I don't like?

Five people I wish to tag:
1. Cinderella.
2. Bluebutterfly.
3. Solitaire.
4. Adicrazy.
5. Xh.

Toodles!

TAG: Random Questions

TAG: Random Questions

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

1. Are you violent? NO! I'm so bad that I literally close my eyes when I c a violent scene! No kidding.

2. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Yea, good-sarcasm is the best substitute for diplomacy.

3. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be? Green! You know, paint the paper(town?) Green. :P

4. Scary movie or happy ending? Scary movie with the Girlfriend where she pretend to beon-the-verge-of-peeing scared. And happy ending with friends who have a tendency to sobsob! :P

5. Summer or winter? WINTER! Even if Summer clothes are tempting, the heat super-sucks.

6. Do you like to cook or bake? Eat?

7. Which gadget or electrical device do you resemble the most? A video player stuck on the play button forever! :P

8. Do you drink a lot of water? Nooo, the loo at school stinks major!

9. List three things in your freezer. I only know that there is no ice-cream.

10. What sort of clothes do you wear? Armani Exchange .My sis says that I look exceptionally good! You will believe me no? ;)

11. What are the last three things you purchased? GAP Slim Fit blue Jeans, Armani tee and Sub at Blimpie.

12. Do you carry your umbrella with you or do you just put up your hood? Neither! I love getting drenched. I super-love it when it happens when am still un-bathed. :P

13. What does the nicest text in your inbox say? YOU WON A LOTTERY! Lol. I wish. :P hmmm… I-love-you and something more on the same lines. :)

14. What does your last received text message read? "busywriter!! Whr r u? I miss u so much :( :( muahh cal me asap! lurve u :)" –Pooja... LOL i wish i c this

15. What time do you go to bed usually? Depends. Sometimes I stay up chatting(phone or internet) and sometimes, on those life-sucks days, do my homework all night.

16. If anyone bugging you right now? Bob( my boss) have a project delivary this friday.

17. What annoys you most in a person? Indecisiveness. Un-sportive-ness. Negative-ness. Can't decide which one takes away the crown!

18. Have you ever done cocaine? Nooo, are you insane? I won't do it ever either!

19. Do you want someone you cannot have? Haha, no, I'm not any dejected aashiq, thank you. :P

20. Which language other than English do you speak? *straight face*

21. If you had to choose between a best friend and your Girlfriend, who would you go for? Whoever asked me to choose would be dumped!

22. Which emoticon(s) do you use most often? :P, :D- every sentence. :), :O, :\ -every conversation.

23. Your first ID? And your first chat-name? sreekanth.cops@gmail.com. Sree:-) is/was my first chat name!(i remember) :D

24. List the people you want to tag. swa,roop,buss!

Toodles!

Happiness...

Blogging was never an issue with me.. and yet, i look back at this blog today, and i suddenly realize i haven't been too regular, certainly not as regular as i was a year ago. And i set out wondering why. Why is it so hard for me to come up with something to write when there's so much going on in my head?

And then there's the friend who read my blog and asked me why / how i can be so open, why i'm willing to let my deepest fears and personal life transpire in a web page. I think, in a way, that made me more conscious of what i write.. besides, what i write about has changed too. Sometimes, even i can spot the faintly pessimistic outlook peeping out from between the lines. Lets face it, i'm not happy-go-lucky anymore. And by the way, friend who said i reveal too much - i dont. This is me, i talk, i write, i reveal as much as i think fit. I disguise the parts i wish not to, and the only people who get the message, are the ones who really do know whats going on in my life. Which narrows it down to about one or two, in most situations.

And back to the topic at hand.. i decided to write, because i stumbled upon this:

You can outdistance that which is running after you,
but not what is running inside you"

Fits to a tee. Back to the thing running inside - what do i do, then? If i run, it runs with me. If i stop, it still runs within me. How do i get rid of something like that? How long do i let myself believe that i havent visited certain parts of hyderabad (that used to be my favourite hangouts) in almost two weeks of being here, simply for lack of opportunity? How much longer do i attribute something that actually is fear, to self-control? How do you deal with something that cannot be spoken about? And how do you accept something so blatantly unjust as the verdict, simply because it has been passed, without so much as an attempt to put up a fight and honor yourself?

Theres a thin line between giving up and accepting something for what it is. I'm still confused about what i'm doing, and if it turns out to be the former, this is by no means the end.

I - me - myself in pictures

I am taking it up because, one, it is really interesting, two, Aditi inspired me to do this real quick.

Anyways, the rules are:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

This is really interesting. See my image-answers , looks so cute. :)

The questions:

1. What is your first name? (well dint like it, but still)

2. What is your favorite food? right now? (yummmmm)

3. What high school did you go to? (schs)

4. What is your favorite color? (Apple green. Notice my certainty and poise and 'as a matter of fact' look)

5. Who is your celebrity crush? (lets see who's pic is the best. I have lots of crushessss :P )

6. What is your favorite drink? (Guess?hehe)

7. What is your dream vacation? (Amazon)

8. What is your favorite dessert? (God of icecreams Cassata. Delectable picture)

9. What do you want to be when you grow up? (Can I like, opt out? I dont want to grow old now!!)

10. What do you love most in life? (Cute one!)

11. What is one word that describes you? (Happy? Confused? Outgoing? Dancing? tough call)

12. What is your user name? (Embarassing still like it)

Why people say GOD BLESS YOU when u sneeze?

This question used to bug me so much that i had to write an article on this. Woooo its been almost a year and half , i have been using this and finally needed som research to pen this down.
well i cannot imagine, how intense the response will be for this article from my friends.

First time i heard this from my brother-in-law , might be the 1st week of my arrival in the US.
Wow great memory ha! remembering the first time u sneeze in the USA??LOL.. I juss dint understand why he said this! GOD BLESS U!may be i thought he was talkking to somone else.. :-)
Since it was august, its getting colder out there and my sneezing dint stop..i was sneezing in the library, in the class, in the lab, at the cafeteria, in side , outside, anywhere i go , i was sneezing , sneezing and more sneezing..Oh no! i am making a real mess with my article..sounds disguisting for myself,May be it sounds even worse to the readers..A big SORRY for alll of u.. So plz maintain distance with my article or else u'll catch cold..

So my point is that im getting a lot of GODBLESSU's from many people. Thought for a second about india! Getting ass kicked by people for a sneeze before they start any work. How mean???what a people americans are? a blessing for a sneeze?Man i wish i catch cold all thru the year and recieve more n more blessings :-)

Now lets discuss about the sound!

Some common English onomatopoeias for the sneeze sound are "achoo", "atchoo", "achew!", and "atisshoo", with the first syllable corresponding to the sudden intake of air, and the second to the sound of the sneeze.

A similar linguistic approach has been taken with several other languages; in French, the sound "Atchoum!" is used; in German "Hatschie!"; in Polish, "Apsik!"; in Turkish, "Hapşu!"; and in Japanese, "Hakushou!". In Cypriot Greek, the word is "apshoo", incidentally also the name of a village, which is the cause of much mirth.

Ok now getting into the matter ..or else my aim in writing this article is THE REASON..

Why?
In English-speaking countries, a common response to a sneeze by those around it is "God bless you", or more commonly just "Bless you". The origins and purpose of this tradition are unknown, and several competing explanations have been proposed over time, with the majority focusing on the idea of preventing the soul from departing one's body. Today, it is said mostly in the spirit of good manners. In various other cultures, words referencing health or good health are used instead of "Bless you".


Beliefs and Cultural Aspects

In Indian culture, it has been a common superstition that a sneeze taking place before the start of any work as a sign of impending bad interruption. It was thus customary to pause in order to drink water or break any work rhythm before resuming the job at hand in order to prevent any misfortune from occurring.

In Hellenistic cultures of Classical Antiquity, sneezes were believed to be prophetic signs from the gods. In 410 BC, for instance, the Athenian general Xenophon gave a dramatic oration exhorting his fellow soldiers to follow him to liberty or to death against the Persians. He spoke for an hour motivating his army and assuring them of a safe return to Athens until a soldier underscored his conclusion with a sneeze. Thinking that this sneeze was a favorable sign from the gods, the soldiers bowed before Xenophon and followed his command. Intersting Ha!

Another divine moment of sneezing for the Greeks occurs in the story of Odysseus. When Odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar and talks with his waiting wife Penelope, she says to Odysseus, not knowing to whom she speaks, that "[her husband] will return safely to challenge her suitors"". At that moment, their son sneezes loudly and Penelope laughs with joy, reassured that it is a sign from the gods. Man is it not like WOW!

Anyways, taking into this historical beliefs lets use this 'GODBLESSU'or if u dont bellieve it lets assume it as a cultural manners, or atleast use it bcoz ur buddy has published a 250 word article in his blog at 8: 15 am, without having his breakfast. Man its 8 : 15 am, hurry up, i ve a class at 8 :30. I have to rush to school before Mr. Li kicks me out of the class.

Seeya guys.

aah

aah

aah

"Acheee"------ ( Oh This sound was not mentioned anywhere in the context,may be my style of sneeze) Man seems like i caught cold.

OOOh i heard u say

"___________________". what was that? reply on my blog

Thankyou folks,

Have blessed day!

Internet Outages Could Occur By 2010 As Capacity Stalls :

Booming demand for Internet services combined with insufficient infrastructure investment could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years, a study released Tuesday predicted.

Nemertes Research said Internet providers need to invest from $42 billion to $55 billion -- or 60% to 70% more than current plans call for -- to stave off interruptions to the digital economy that could happen if the 'Net bogs down. "The next Google, YouTube, or Amazon might not arise" if the situation isn't fixed, Nemertes said.

The problem, the group said, is that bandwidth usage is outpacing infrastructure build outs. While core fiber and switching/routing technology "will scale nicely," Internet access resources could soon be overwhelmed in three to five years, Nemertes said.
The trouble could be particularly acute in North America, the researchers said.
"Rather like osteoporosis, the underinvestment in infrastructure will painlessly and invisibly leach competitiveness out of the economy," said Nemertes.

Nemertes conceded that its study, in many ways, represents a best guess at what's happening with the Web. "The Internet is almost opaque to serious researchers, even those with the necessary technical skills, integrity and desire," said the group.

That's because commercial Internet providers closely guard information about usage and technology roadmaps. "Carriers and content providers refuse to reveal their inner workings," said Nemertes, adding that it's understandable that service providers are reluctant to reveal data that might undermine their competitiveness or compromise user privacy.

Nonetheless, "we conclude by urging content and service providers to cooperate with researchers in sharing data," said the study's authors. Nemertes also said Congress should consider tax credits to spur Internet providers to add more broadband capacity.

thanks,

Sreekanth

My Favorites:

Here’s my list.

My favorite smells

1. My father's perfumed sweater

2. The crook of my neck after bath.

3. Babies.

4. Petrol.

5. Rain

6. Mud

Tastes

1. hot mirchi

2. Chicken prepared very well(by me).

3. Cold metal spoons.

sounds

1. The gate clicking open.

2. My mother singing along with AIR in the kitchen while she cooks.

3. The laying out of the dishes again the table.

4. The beginning of favorite songs.

5. Voices on the phone.

6. Laughter.

Sights

1. My primary school,and the stage i used to perform .

2. My parents together on the lawn laughing.

3. Sleeping babies.

4. The beginning of a smile.

5. The super star KOPS dance dance.

6. Photographs where I look unexpectedly smart.

Touch

1. When people I really really like tuck me under their shoulder.

2. Non wet kisses on the cheek.

3. 100 percent cotton shirts.

4. Floaty skirts.

5. A babys bottom.

6. Behind a dog’s ear.