Is Diwali Aap Kisse Khush Karenege ?

To Dosto Zindagi ki es daud me daud ke karna kya hai ?

Is Diwali Aap Kisse Khush Karenege ? Look at this awesome ad from Cadbury and also below are few pictures taken by me. :-)

Happy Diwali.

I am the King

How do kids learn their mother tongue? No one teaches them what the meaning of each word, grammar or how to form a sentence; still they would be able to learn the language and start speaking. It seems kids while growing first observe, then listen and then learn new things. Sometimes the cute / innocent / intelligent / smart answers or replies you get from kids make you wonder did anyone taught them to answer or reply in that way. Like all kids, my nephew who is five and half is no different.

On the last day of his kinder garden school, he said, “Today is my last day to go to this school, after that I will have lot of holidays and then I will go to first class in the new school”

“Great! Till you complete first class, you will be King”.

“I will be King? What does that mean”, he asked. My nephew asks so many questions, some one kept his nick name as “Question Mark” :-)

I replied to him, “Till you complete first class, you will be treated as King that means, what ever you do no one will say anything, you get what ever you ask for, and no one will say anything to you. After that you will be treated as servant by your mom and dad till you complete 16th class, that means you should listen to what ever your mom and dad says, you MAY NOT get what ever you ask for and you should go to school regularly do all the homework and study well. After that your parents treat you as friend till they get old, and when they became old like grand parents you should treat your mom and dad as kids, and take care of them”.

My funda of treating as king, servant, friend, kid probably he may not have understood and he just left.

After a month or so when I called my sister, my nephew answered the phone.

“Who is speaking”, I asked.

“This is King speaking”, he replied

Father of C

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
    printf("Hello World");
} 

Many of us would have started with this program to enter into the world of computer programming language.

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, is reported to have died. "The C Programming Language" book written along with Kernighan is an amazing reference to C programming language.

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." - Dennis Ritchie.

Dennis Ritchie's death leaves a "void" in the "main" of the computing industry, undoubtedly one of the greatest computer engineer and Genius.

/* Thank you Dennis Ritchie, RIP */

Body Mess Indicator

I never saw her before as much preoccupied as she was on that day. I know curd rice is one of her favorite food but ordering that for dinner in a Chinese restaurant? visibly embarrassed waiter left 12 pages menu card on the table which does not contain curd rice item, when I asked him to give us some more time to order.

“What’s the matter, all izz well?”
“I told you that my parents are looking for a groom for me and yesterday I met a guy”
“Aha! So, your mind is occupied with him, dreaming a romantic song with him and you are ordering curd rice in Chinese restaurant”, I said pulling her leg.
“Shut up! I am not going to tell you anything!”
“Sorry, Sorry! Go ahead, so, you did not like him?”
“No, Not like that, he is good, he looks different from the photograph they have given us, must be the old one. The way he looks now, I don’t know what to say, going forward this guy is going to become fat. Yeh banda aagey jaake mota ho jaya ga, and I cannot imagine myself next to such fat guy”, replied my figure conscious friend looking at herself.
“I think, you should ask your parents to find out what is the guy’s BMI along with photo and other details”
“So funny, @#$#$%%”

Body Mass Index or BMI or Body Mess Indicator (as I call) is one of the parameter that can be used to evaluate your fitness. There are several parameters that are considered to evaluate the physical fitness of a person. Some of them I have mentioned below. The first two you can calculate yourself.

Body Mass Index or BMI – A parameter that measures a person’s “fatness” or “thinness”, it is calculated as BMI = [weight (kgs)] / [height (meters)]^2. In India, Normal BMI is less than 23, Overweight is above 23 and Obese is above 25, less than 18.5 is underweight.

Waist – Hip Ratio - is the ratio of the circumference of the waist to that of the hips. Ratio more than 0.95 for men & more than 0.85 in Women denotes risk. Studies have shown that people with more fat accumulation around their waist are at a higher risk of developing coronary vascular disease as compared to those with fat accumulation elsewhere in the body.

Cardio Respiratory Endurance – It is the ability of your heart, lungs and blood vessels to supply sufficient oxygen to the muscles and their capacity to utilize the oxygen to generate energy.

Muscular Strength – Capacity of the muscle to generate force.

Muscular Endurance – Capacity of the muscle to perform work over an extended period of time.

Flexibility – Range of motion around the joints.

A friend of mine has called me for a dinner, even though we were in touch by mail and phone, the last I saw him in person was around 8 years back. He moved to US long back. Even tough he was visiting India once in a year, we could not meet. He has put on lot weight and as soon as I saw him, it reminded me of what my friend said, “Yeh banda aagey jaake mota ho jaya ga”. 

Just to tease him, I said “Oh Man! You have put on lot weight, reduce your weight other wise your wife will go away with some one else”.
“Me! Overweight? You must be joking”.
“No, I am serious, if not obese, at least you must be grade 2 overweight”, I said trying to make a rough calculation of his BMI looking at this height and guessing how much his weight would be.
“Shall I say you something, if your wife does not say you are over weight, then you are not, if she says you are over weight then better consider reducing your weight”, he winked at me.

I guess each one have their own definition of BMI.

Priceless :-)

My pencil sketches...

Research and Conclusions

How our mind reads?

Airdoccng to a rsrechecah at Cadmrbige Ustvieriny, it deson't matetr in waht oedrr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny iemorptnt tinhg is that the fsrit and last letter msut be at the rgiht palce. The rest can be a ttoal mses and you can siltl read it wtuhoit ploberm. Tihs is bseauce the hmuan mnid does not read evrey letetr by itlsef, but the word as a wlhoe.

Are you able to read the above sentence?

Now read the sentence below in the triangle.

Are you sure you have read the sentence correctly?

Read it once again word by word. There are two ‘the’ in the sentence, if you have missed that when you have read it for the first time, your mind does not read every word by word, but the sentence as a whole  :-)

Santa and Banta were also approached by some organization and funded the study on cockroach.

Santa, Banta started their research work.

Banta placed the cockroach on the table and cut one of its legs. And he said to him, "WALK!”.
The cockroach moves forward.
Then Santa cut its second leg and shouted, "WALK!".
The cockroach manages to move forward.
Banta then cut its third leg and commanded, "WALK!" The cockroach manages to wriggle forward on one leg.
Finally Santa cut its fourth leg and shouted, "WALK!”.
The poor cockroach could not move and lay helplessly on the table.
Santa, Banta repeated the same experiment with over a hundred cockroaches. And they found all results matched.
Santa, Banta were jubilant, "Now! Our research study is over!"

They proceeds to write down the conclusion of the study: "When all four legs of a cockroach are cut it becomes deaf!"