Yesterday while I was watching TV an idea flashed through my mind, its simple a very simple one. Idea was to promote any type of talent through my blog. It can be of any type, any mode like photography, your webdesigining skills, a story, an article, a poem, a digital design, a painting, a digital painting, a video shot by you, a song sung by you anything! Theres NO BAR on the category or type of talent. All humans are talented in multiple ways, I do believe theres no one in this world without any talent. ALL HUMANS ARE TALENTED IN MULTIPLE WAYS! – I believe in that.
What you have to do?
If you wanna promote or expose your talents through my blog – just mail me to jojojosonm@gmail.com or just make a comment in my blog like “you wanna show up something” & I will get back to you.
I will show your works through my blog & will give a breif description about your work. In addition I will link to your personal websites & social network profiles. A naughty comment from my side about your work can also be expected! So if you have something to show me dont wait a second, just contact me!
So to beging with, I must show you something..rite? I decided to begin with a photograph took by one of my friend. Just see it below
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This is a very different perspective of Marine drive – Cochin. The shaded sunlight that comes out from the skyhole in a black&white mood & traversing vertically to the centre portion of lake shows up a mysterious silence of cochin! The black&white light gives the picture a life, it seems like “light from heaven falling straight onto the water surface” It might be the light house of heaven, searching all round the Godsowncountry for the safety of his own people!
Meet the Photographer: Lijo George
To know more about Lijo: Visit his website: www.iamlijo.com
Just check the above photos!! so you gonna ask me “how you did that?” why doubt? Its pure photoshop – No one can do that so easily!! (that will be my answer) …LOL! Theres a small incident which made me to write this post! 3 or 4 days back Lijo (one of ma best friend) showed me these type of tricked photos with his photo embedded in it. I made a quick look through all & it sounded cool. I didn’t asked him “how he diid that?” because I am not that interested in these type of photo tricks! Later when we were sitting in our office, I heard Charles (another great friend) asking Lijo “How did you do that?” I heard him saying to charles “Its great lijos photoshop work, cmon do it if you can!” Charles took a 2nd thorough look into pics & said “No way!! these tricks can’t be done in photoshop…its too difficult” haa…a spark fallen & what abt a fire?? LOL! It was no different, Lijo challenged charles to make such a pic!! damn…charles took it as a challenge & immediately he moved onto computer..started photoshop…hmm!! will he make it? To add oil into burning fire lijo said he used some kind of photoshop filter…Blaah! I dunno much abt photoshop & to work on photos but charles’s (as hes very good in photoshop) & lijos conversation gave me an idea that it will take too much time to create such an item in photoshop. Me too thought a little (with my lil knwldge)…yaa! Charles might be true!! It may take time! So I started on thinking “how lijo did that?”As I know “lijo – the hardworker” very well, I know he wont sit long time & will take much pain to create such photos!! So where will be the key to open the treasure box? As its Lijos number, I was damn sure it will be some online tools. So I started Googling (Google is answer to every questions…hehe..sure!) After googling 5 minutes I got to www.magmypic.comwhere you can fake magzine cover pages & can add your sexy pics infront of magazine. Ahh!! You are a cover boy/girl now..show it ur beloved ones & be a star! But it was not the right answer, I couldn’t make many fancy tricks that Lijo performed with Magmypic, so i continued my search with king of searches! Haa..atlast I got it…not one… a ton of such photo manipulators!
So Google said me Lijo used www.photofunia.com to do such photo pranks! Ofcourse its a great application that allows you to do a lot of tricks by just uploading your pic! What you have to do is, just get into the site, select a style or an effect that impresses you. Now upload your pic & see the magic! You can add more quality to the pic that you make by selecting the right effect & uploading a matching photo of yours!
Wanna more?
Just go to sites like http://www.dumpr.net & http://gooifier.com/ and see what all tricks you can do!
We (me & john) were having a coffee in Aanandamandiram hotel, Kottyam at 11.00 AM today. While enjoying the hot taste of tamilians coffee, John said “Hey daa, what if we go & ride the new Yamaha FZ-16?” As we had nothing to do for the next 1 hour, I said “Yes! y not? lets go & have fun!” after finishing the coffee & a single vada each we got out of hotel. I kicked the “synonym of power on the road” (Bullet) with John on its back! After making a little sound pranks that every bullet guys will do (especially in cities with a lot of beauties) I drove the naughty green horse through the “very low” traffic of Kottayam. A 15 mins ride was enough for us to reach the Yamaha service centre @ Kanjikuzhy. As I was expecting, I met the new beauty (FZ-16) from Yamaha family at the very entrance of service centre. It seemed like 3 beauty queens standing side by side on the fashion ramp wearing chilly red, metallic black & shining orange! An outstanding design from Yamaha with all features blended to make the youth fall in “Love @ first sight” We put sidestand of the “Wild Horse” without taking eyes from the 3 beauties! We went straight to the FZ-16 & had a close look! No doubt design is awesome but that doesn’t matter to me, I need both, sexy look & power performance! will i get? We met the service executive Mr.James & had a chat about the new lady of Yamaha. As Yamaha eyes purely on the market of Bajaj pulsar (me too own one!) I had its features rewinded to my mind for a damn comparison. So after going through all its features, I felt like Yamaha manged to override Pulsar in many aspects. The new FZ-16 is 160CC with more torque than pulsar of same class (pulsar 150). It has radial tyres on both sides & tyres are of giant sizes. Front tyre of FZ-16 has almost the size of back tyre of pulsar, so there’s no need to talk abt back! LOL! Front brake is disc (better than pulsar) & back is drum. They managed to keep the bikes weight 10 kg less than pulsar, might be to attract all types of people (but I beleive dry weight of pulsar – 136 Kg (atleast) is needed for good biking!) Yamaha says a fuel efficiency of 50 to 60 KM per litre for ideal conditions. So thats all in brief & I know you are waiting to hear its price..rite? On road it will cost 72K (Rs.72000) !
ATTRACTIONS!
Sexy design & styling – especially the “catchy” big tank
This time Yamaha managed to design the “back” of the beauty in a unique style – which was always a headache for their design parents!
More over the reliable “Yamaha Engine” which’s far far better than that of Bajaj will keep Yamaha “LIVE” in the competition – an “inch to inch” race with pulsar can be expected!
DRAWBACKS!
Dry weight is less – 126 Kg
In order to reduce weight Yamaha made most parts in fibre & the disaster is that they made silencer too in same fashion. Even in small accidents silencer of the bike will get damaged easily & this will keep the maintanence cost heavy!
Length of bike will not match with pulsar but height is okay!
Design of digital meter is not upto mark though its a fully digitized display!
To end with, most dissapointing was its “sound” – I expected a “roar” atleast like pulsar but what I got is a “whrooom” like Honda activa – LOL! (First look @ that silencer gave me flashes of scooters like Activa)
Hmmm! We have finished playing with our eyes through out her body & we didn’t even missed the color of her nail polish! hehe! Now comes the real game – “a ride“ With feelings that I m gonna ride a horse just caught from the wild I got seated, placed my hands on the tough handles & I gave a gentle trigger! Oh noo, what a damn sound!!! Soon I realised that I was not even riding a village brought up horse! FZ-16 will not satisfy the driver in you! But It will give you a very smooth ride, with full performance of Yamaha engine!
The result is, FZ-16 will give you a very smooth ride but it will not give you power biking experiance! But the very sexy design & Yamaha’s trust made FZ-16 to come out to the Indian market with a label on its head ” I AM NEXT” – Yaa! No doubt FZ-16 will raise very heavy competition to Bajaj pulsar who still struggles in engine quality.
After giving back key of the FZ-16, I asked James “When can I get one if I book today?” James replied with a sad smile, “If you book today by paying 1000 rupees, most probably we can deliver you by Xmas” wow! “So theres a damn rush for this bike, isn’t it Mr.James?” … “Yaa jojo, We already have 70 bookings in pending & we only got 18 bikes from the company in its initial delivery”
Hahaha! So Bajaj’s be “alert” – The game has begun!!!!
YOU HAVE DONE IT! You proved to be the real WARRIOR in the Indian Cricket team! There’s no need to show any records, any statistics or any analytical shit to prove that you are THE PRINCE OF KOLKATA! Just last century is enough! You are the MAN! who fought like a brave warrior – Congrats brave heart!
Even after performing too much during last year the “avoidals” given to ganguly was damn cruel! Its not the way that the ever greatest Indian captain should be treated! Its not the way the worlds second highest run getter in ODI’s should be treated (Next to Sachin). Its not the right way to treat a man like SOURAV GANGULY who brought in the “FEARLESS ATTACKING” nature to Indian Cricket team!
I still remember Dileep Vengsarkar’s (Former Indian team selector) comment on avoidal of Sourav in the Srilankan series
In 2008, Dileep said, “Ganguly might have scored a few runs! but hes not needed in Indian team” Hey Idiot, aren’t you aware of the fact that SOURAV GANGULY scored 1106 Test runs at an average of 61.44 (with 3 centuries and 4 fifties) in 2007 to become the second highest rungetter in Test matches of that year after Jack Kallis. He is the 5th highest rungetter in 2007 in ODIs, where he scored 1240 runs at 44.28.
Haa! Mr.Dileep, You might not be aware, bcz you are a FOOL! otherwise you will not have made a comment like that…lol!
So that’s Sourav – THE PRINCE OF KOLKATA! or DADA or BENGAL TIGER or MAHARAJA – Every titles are apt for this FIGHTER!
He is no different on declaring his retirement also. See a fact that, players usually announce retirement after a successful series! They make sure that they retires with a good performance! But SOURAV announced days before start of Australian series that this will be “MY LAST TEST” – Later in the second test HE PROVED – Hes the real WARRIOR – by scoring a classy century against Australia – become the top run maker of the innings! Consider fact that even players like Sunil Gavaskar was not able to retire with a good performance!
GANGULY’s ACHIEVEMENTS
CLICK HERE to see the wonderful achievements of Sourav Ganguly.
Though a number of 50+ records exists in his name the most one’s I admire are -
1. Second highest RUN getter in ODI – over 11000 runs & next to Sachin Tendulkar
2. Second highest number of centuries (22) by an Indian in ODI & 4th in the world. 1st being Sachin with 48 centuries.
3. Highest opening wicket partnership ever recorded in the world – Sourav & Sachin – 255 runs against Srilanka – A true classy performance!
4. The BEST INDIAN captain ever made – Lead India in 49 tests – won 21+
5. He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
& LAST but the GREATEST OF ALL RECORDS – First Indian to score an ODI century against Australia in Australia.
THE ROYAL TIGER!
During 2003 worldcup, former Indian “keep“er & former selector KIRAN MORE said ” India is expected to go upto supersix levels, not any more than that!” Its Gangulys powerful mind & determination that made the Indian team to unite & to fight like a wounded tiger – remember that India even struggled to a pretty new team like HOLLAND in the start of WC from where Ganguly drove the team like a TOOFAN to the world cup finals!
Another feather to his crown is the WIN of NATWEST series – It has shown Gangulys TRUE captaincy & the ability to RULE – Its him who nurtured careers of young players like YUVRAAJ, HARBAJAN, ZAHEER,KAIF etc. He was a very supportive & aggressive captain.
He ENJOYED WINS like a roaring LION & fought back on FAILS like a Wounded TIGER! (remember his shirtless performance after WIN of NATWEST series)
Now see the latest news, the same Dileep Vengsarkars latest comment after seeing Gangulys fighting power & spirit & his classy century,
In an interview to a private TV Channel on Saturday Vengsarkar said, “Though the decision to retire from cricket depends entirely on a particular individual, considering Sourav’s present form, I feel he could have played at least one more year.” DILEEP YOU PROVED TO BE THE MOST COWARD & see Gangulys response “No, this will be my last series,” Ganguly said when asked if there is any thought of reconsidering his shock announcement the Australia Test series would be his last.
You all know the stories well through newspapers, TVs & other medias! Its a debateless fact that Sourav ganguly is treated in the most dishonoured way by the selectors! Selectors could have given even a simple consideration that he has been honoured with Padmasree & Khelratna by the Govt.of India. Hey selectors, You all played a very DIRTY game with this highly talented powerful cricketer & the most beautiful LEFT HAND batsman more over the SECOND BEST batsman ever produced by INDIA!
So to END, SOURAV is retiring like a REAL PRINCEwho conquered THE WORLD – The HEARTS of all CRICKET LOVERS!
YOU CAME LIKE A PRINCE, YOU WALKED LIKE, YOU TALKED LIKE, YOU BEHAVED LIKE & YOU LIVED LIKE A TRUE PRINCE – HATS OFF TO YOU – THE ROYAL BENGAL TIGER!
SEE THIS TRIBUTE VIDEO to memorise GANGULY – A CHALLENGE TO THE IMPOSSIBLE!
We all know about the Global financial crisis that exists & still getting worse! Have you ever thought How this will affect our life?
Before going into this, let me say in a few words whats this crisis!
The Subprime crisis
“subprime” thats the name of the beauty! Unlike the dotcom bubble (which was unexpected) this one is a fully predicted type. We all were knowing that such a crisis is gonna happen!
Actually whats this?
A simple observation will bring you the knowledge that the core affected one is US Banks & Investment sector banks in united states. “so banks are the villain!?” hehe! Nope! The real villain is the attitude of “PROFIT….AGIAN PROFIT….AGAIN & AGAIN PROFIT”
What happened is, the US banks let people to take loans against their property to build homes, buy flats, buy apartments. Is that the big fish? Noo.. I will explain.
Suppose you have taken loan from a bank 5 months before (thats on June) to build a home. You have borrowed 30 Lakhs agianst your 10 cents of land & building. What happens in normal case is, you get a loan of 30 lakhs, you build your home & you have to repay this 30 lakhs+Interest by some 5 or 10 years.
Instead what happend in the US?
You got a loan in June..rite? A sum of 30 lakhs! This 30 Lakhs is actually the market value of your property in June! Now after 5 months in October its obvious that the market value of your property will be 35 Lakhs (it will increase..no doubt!) The US banks called people who took loan & said “Hello Mr.X , You can get a sum of Rs.5 Lakhs too against your property loan sanctioned on June” Mr.X will not think twice! He will rush to the bank & collect that money too. If you are aware of American life style then you will be knowing that their savings percentage is NEGETIVE (Thank God! we Indians have +30%…) So Mr.X & his family will spend this money in posh life style & later they struggle to repay the loan. After several months Mr.X will realise that hes trapped & in no way he can repay this huge amount! Now what happens if thousand & thousands or Mr.X exists! This is the way how american banks went into a huge amount of cash out flaw & later into such a worse stage that they were forced to file BANKRUPTCY! (Leeman & Merryl linch are examples)
Worse situation!
Such stage arised when the banks tried to sell out the properties (which was surrendered against loan). By that time the property market fell down & banks were forced to sell properties for half or even less prices. Eg: Mr.X got a loan for Rs.35 Lakhs, but property market fell down & now when banks try to dispose this they have to sell it for Rs.15 Lakhs or less… FULL LOSE!
The Derivative Market
Now to get rid of such a huge amount of cash drop banks did another trick. They brought up a derivative model in the stock markets. By this model, they tried to raise the value by projecting out the properties in stock market! This is the key activity that increased the pace of this unavoidable crisis.
So these are the core reasons that created the beautiful “SUBPRIME” crisis in the real estate markets of USA!
Why should I bother?
Haha! In a single look everyone will feel like that! Why should I bother if some banks fall out in the US?! Lets have an analysis!
Now many banks have fallen & the “SUBPRIME” that exists created a bottleneck in real estate market & so TRADE IS NILL. Suppose the market share of real estate sector is 500billion dollars, that much amount is gonna cut off in one shot! You might have seen in newspapers that US Federal reserve is pumping money (huge amount of dollars) into market to save these banks & to exit from crisis. They are doing this to keep the trade LIVE. Trading will not happen unless MONEY is live. Now this huge pumping of money will create another problem of LIQUIDITY (Liquid cash). There will arise a problem of “CASH AVAILABILTY”
Such a finacial crisis will create fear among people & they will STOP spending too much, they will stop spending on luxury etc. Most people will limit their shopping to “just their needs” This will heavily affect the LUXURY & PRESTIGE businesses & they will wipe out! Similarly this will spread into other areas.
How we Indians are ?
We all know that IT & ITeS sector is the fastest growing of Indian economy & its cent percent sure that this crisis will create a bottleneck to its growth. This crisis will affect the complete outsourcing sector for some time. similarly EXPORT & IMPORT business will be affected. Export trade will diminish because of crisis & Import will be costly as the value of Indian rupee is diminshing (1$ = 49 rupees now). This Export & Import plays a major share in Indian market & so you can guess whats coming?!!
Crisis in the IT sector will force companies to revise their payments. At present IT people are getting a hefty pay & this will be cut down. Many employees might loose jobs too. This cut down in salaries will force the computer geniuses to “limit” their lifestyle.
They will STOP going to Pizzas, Coffe days, PVR MUX, will stope hanging out & spending in malls. So such business will be affected.
Cut down in salaries will force people to limit spending on “not very necessary” needs like CARS,BIKES etc. This will affect the entire automobile Industry!! So the need & demand of TYRES goes down now! Now what if TYRES are demandles?? OBVIOUS…the price of RUBBER will go down drastically! It has started already! 1 month before price of rubber was above Rs.100 per kilo & now its Rs.93
So my generalisation is the “SUBPRIME CRISIS” that exists in UNITED STATES will affect even a SINGLE RUBBER TAPPING employee in this gods own country Kerala (whichs a bottom line of the world)! This will affect every individual You, Me, Our friends, each & every one. NO ONE IS EXEMPTED!
So is this worlds end???!!
Hahaha! Hope not! Just look into the fundamentals of economy. No one will stop trading on necessary goodies…rite? You have to eat, You have to drink, dress etc etc for your survival! So everyone will continue trading on the fundamental goods & products! So theres no doubt that market will reach a steady stable state…but it will take time! I dunno how long? some days…some months…some years! Its purely unpredictable. I only know if FUNDAMENTALS are STRONG you can regain from any fall backs!
So this financial crisis is not the worlds end! Dont worry on that! It will teach the world to SAVE money & it will uproot peoples thirst for LUXURY! Sure this crisis will create a hindrance in worlds progress but it will not KILL! It will find another path on its way to destiny…thats PROGRESS of all HUMANS!
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