Mobile boom!!

Mobile boom!! Boon or a bane?? !! There has been a tremendous growth in the mobile phone usage for the past few years. Competition among the service providers, avialability of mobile phones for cheaper rates , free talk time, Closed User group facilities, SMS, various attractive schemes and offers, Radio and Internet facilities etc., etc., tempt people towards its usage.

Last week in Young World,I read a short storyof a student whose studies is spolied by mobile phone.That's true I would say. Once used to it, they are getting addicted to the use of mobile phones. That too when they start chatting by sending the text messages. When the sms is free of cost,tats it... (Ketkave vendam)!! That story clearly explains how a guy who scored good scores in his twelth standard spoiled himself by getting addicted to the mobile phone. They think that by continuosly sending messages, they are staying in touch with their classmates or so called friends. But they really miss many good things like talking with their parents, sharing with their true friends and relatives who have helped them, reading good and valuable boks etc., etc., I think this is a high time to realise the importance of time, its proper usage and balance the life without getting addicted to all these things by the name of modernisation. The ultimate aim of using the mobile phone is not attained I fear. People tend to think that the mobile phone they use, its cost and its features play an important role to reflect their position in the soceity. Though the aim is to contact a person whenever required irrespective of where they are, Sending some stupid forwards, transferring obscene pistures and vulgour jokes has become a part of its usage which has to be avoided. Also there is a saying in Tamizh which highlights the importance of Dressing :"Aadai illa manidhan arai manidhan". Now I would like to reframe that as "Mobile illa manidhan manidhane illai". The boom has been so much that if you don't have a mobile even after employed, people will look at you like anything. It has become a very basic thing which everyone has to have by default. The last few lines out of my own personal experience!! :) . In this context, I would like to thank Anna University and other colleges which strictly banned the mobile phone usage among the college students.

A few days before, I read an article that mobile phones are coming up with advanced features like, the message(sms) sent can be heard as voice messages so that visually impaired can make well use of that. There are pros as well as cons for any technology. No exception to this mobile phone and its usage as well.

We do know that mobile phones emit radiofrequency radiation from the handset and that these low-energy electromagnetic waves travel into the head. But do they cause injury to living tissue, possibly triggering a brain tumour or other disease? There has been contradictory answers to this.
Where ever possible:
1.use a land line;
2.use text messaging rather than voice;
3.and for voice calls on a mobile, use a headset.

I strictly follow point number 1 and use my home land line to make calls as my dad takes care of paying the phone bill :)

Do you Know ??

Do you Know:
How Internet was born?
The History of @ sign?
How VOIP Works?
How the Search engine answers to our queries?
About VoIP and Wi-Fi??

Wanna know??
A single click here will do:

Hope this will be useful to get an overall view about the terms that we hear day-to-day in this techy world.

Sources of Inspiration

Right from the Childhood, We are inspired by so... many. Mom,Dad and other relatives will be the initial source of inspiration for a kid. As we grow up, we learn many things from our friends, relatives and others whom we come across in our day to day life. Certainly inspired by certains thoughts and actions of others and we will try to mould ourselves. Same case in me too.. Inspired by lotsa people right from the schooling. When it comes to Tamil Grammar and poem (Ilakkanam and Seiyul) I always remember my Tamil teacher Mrs.Revathi who is no more. When it comes to speaking the truth, being loyal, pious etc., my parents are my role model. (So many things I have learned from them..) . If I start mentioning everyone, it will be a difficult task and the readers (if any) will get bored.

The main reason why I thought of blogging in this topic is, my relative "Sujatha". Only with very few, we get inspired just by talking for a few minutes. With few others, even if we talk for hours together we don't feel happy. Sujatha sister whom I have mentioned here is the former type. I met her for the very first time when i went to my relative's home. Though she is a C.A graduate, married and well settled in life, I could find her behaving in a very humble and modest way. After we got introduced to each other, we started discussing things with the main focus on the work, life and the balancing art of official life with the personal one. When she was telling about her life, few facts she narrated reminded me "Narayana Moorthy" and "Sudha NarayanaMoorthy" life story (/love story) which i read long back in the Net. Too good it was. Each and every line in that story carries sense and it is quite enjoyable. A very healthy relationship I would say. As a daughter, as a lover, as a wife, as a mother the role palyed by Sudha would be amazing. No words to describe.

In fact, our topic switched over to Sudha's story. One of my friends gave me the print out of this story a few days back which I was having in my bag itself. Almost I have read that story four to five times with my friends, parents, realtives etc., Once again I read it with her and we were quoting the lines we liked the most and chatting. The time I spent with her was really valuable and her humbleness increases my respect on her. Each and every word she uttered has some sense in it and it was purely practical. I couldn't spend much time talking with her. Though its a very short duration, I couldn't forget those golden moments and she is one of the great women I have met.

My dad always used to quote these words "Adakkam Amararul Uikkum" from Thirukkural, which I remembered once again after meeting her.

In this context, these lines from a Carnatic song also comes to my mind:

Thaanenum agandhai thalaikkul eradhu
Thaazhndha nilayilum dharmam maaradhu
vaan pugazh valluvan vagutha nal vazhiyil
vaiyagam vaazhndida varam arul thaaye...

I can continue mentioning everyone's name who has inspired me by leading an example, but as said it will be a lengthy one and I would like to dedicate this post especially to Sujatha. This post may sound so simple, funny or even stupid to others. But I couldn't stop myself from publishing this... Those who have felt wasting time after reading this, kindly pardon me...

Honesty is the Worst policy :)

"Honesty is the Best policy". Isn't it? But certain bitter experiences of being honest and true to our consience makes me feel honesty is the worst policy and better not to follow that, though i can't. Be it a formal or an informal relationship with a known or an unknown person... i have felt in all the cases.

I would like to share a small experience that i came across.. One fine morning when i was on my way to office, i took my usual route to catch the bus. I need to pass by the nearby Devaki Hospital which is well known for the name as well as the cost they charge (as far as i have heard) . When I was hurrying up, an old woman with a child in her hand stopped me. She said that the child was suffering from some problem in the nostrils and it has to undergo some treatment. Also she said she came to Devaki hospital and the doctors have asked her to take the child to Royapettah Government hospital. And she added that she does not have the bus fair to commute. So i gave her ten rupees for the bus fair and left the place. But, for a moment I thought how this poor lady was able to consult the doctors in this posh hospital. However, I didn't try to analyze more on that.

Two days later, I saw the same lady with a child in front of the same hospital. The worst part is that she started narrating the same story again to me. I really got tensed. In a angry tone I said "Enma rendu naal munnadi dhaane idhe maadhiri kettenga?" (You asked me the same two days before also). She answered "Dharmam dhaana ma" . Right...I do dharmam but she is doing Adharmam..!!

Funniest part is when my friend said yesterday that she met the same lady in the same place :)

Chennai gave a good experience of studying the people!!

I have few other experiences too....!! So i may update this post later.

Dumping files in Desktop

Most of us have the habit of dumping files in the Desktop.If you also fall in this Lazy category :) here are the few DOS commands which can be clubbed together to create a batch file. A single click on this batch file will group all the files and folders with the timestamp. So before saying "bye-bye" in the Friday evening just a single click will take a backup.

1) To create a folder with the current date and time stamp.
Since a folder can't have \, : etc., we are repalcing them by "-"

md c:\"\%date:\=-% %time::=-%"

2)To copy the files and the folders in the Desktop to c:
copy *.* c:\"\%date:\=-% %time::=-%"
b) To copy a folder

xcopy /e *.* c:\"\%date:\=-% %time::=-%"

That's it..

A folder will be created similar to this:
Thu 06-08-2006 16-20-37.30

Deleting of files can be implemented after this to make the desktop a clean-Desktop :)

First Post

This is my very first post in this blogspace. I have never even thought of blogging . I certainly need to thank all my friends who has inspired me by blogging(A big list... so not mentioning their names). Also a special thanks to writer Sujatha (who has mentioned the blog's importance in his Katradum Petradum book)and Vadivel who has made a special post regarding blogging. So thanks inturn to my friend who lend me that book :)