Build Happy Earth Links!

[akhilis2cool]

good one sir

[Happy Hyderabadi]

good one sir

Thank You, A2C, As Cool As Ever!

[Happy Hyderabadi]

Pleasant Days ALL!

Pleasant Days ALL:

- Merry Monday

-Tuneful Tuesday

- Wonderful Wednesday

- Thunderful Thursday

- Funful Friday

- Smileful Saturday

- Sunny Sunday!

Playful People ALL, Cheerful Full FH Members!

[Happy Hyderabadi]

"Chucker's" Chuckler!



Murali's Marriage Spoof!



World's Top Test Wicket-Taker, Sri Lankan Cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, is Looking / Hooking for a Bride.



A matchmaking website features a purported profile of the Sri Lankan off-spinner, an ethnic Tamil who is single and has said in the past he has no immediate plans for marriage.



"International Cricketer Muralitharan looking for a life partner," it reads. "Interested?" Then it lists several castes from which the 32-year-old sports star might find a suitable partner.



But Muralitharan said he had not taken to cyberspace to seek a bride, and the ad at http://www.tamilmatrimony.com must be a joke.



"It's not true," he told Reuters on Friday. "It must just be people making fun."



Long a hero in cricket-crazy Sri Lanka, Muralitharan has been increasingly in the international spotlight since becoming Test cricket's highest wicket-taker last month, by amassing 527 wickets in 90 Tests, ten more than Australian Shane Warne, and over investigations into his controversial bowling action.



Visit:

http://in.rediff.com/cricket/2004/jun/19murali.htm

[Happy Hyderabadi]

Nobel Prize ... "Ig Nobel" Recognition!



* Nobel Likelies in the Next 20 Years

Twenty Indian Science Luminaries Likely for the Nobel in the Next 20 Years:

1. Vilayanur S Ramachandran (51) 2. C N R Rao (69) 3. Shrinivas R Kulkarni (47) 4. Ashoke Sen (47) 5. E Premkumar Reddy 6. Lalji Singh 7. J V Narlikar

8. G Padmanabhan 9. Goverdhan Mehta 10. M S Swaminathan 11. M K Chandrashekaran 12. K Vijay Raghavan 13. Mriganka Sur 14. Jainendra Jain

15. V Ramakrishnan 16. Lov Grover 17. Abhay Ashtekar 18. S Chandrasekhar 19. Gurudev Khush 20. K R Srinivasan

Only three Indian Scientists of Indian Origin - Sir C V Raman, Hargobind Khorana and Subrahmanyam Chandrashekhar – have won the Nobel Prize in its 102-Year History, Chandrashekhar being the last in 1983.

- Outlook, 15 July 2003, p 34-44.



* “Ig Nobel” Awards

There is a Journal called “Annals of Improbable Research” and an “Ig Nobel Board of Governors”. The Board selects Research Work for “Ig Nobel Prizes”. One Such “Research Work” selected from India was “Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants (‘Elephas Maximus Indicus’). The “Reasearch Scientist” was told by the Board: “Whether your achievement is for the public good or bad may be difficult or even painful to explain. But the fact is, you did and have even been recognized. Let others make of that recognition what they will.”

- Outlook. 15 July 2003, p 88-89.



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Look Out ... "Ig Nobel" more likey

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[Happy Hyderabadi]

Of Bully Bosses!

* The Bully Boss

We have seen. A Boss who makes subordinates squirm, who sends workers scurrying for cover, whose very voice causes stomach muscles to clench and pulses to quicken. Very soon dissatisfaction spreads, rivalries simmer, sycophants flourish. Even, self-confident professionals dissolve into quivering bundles of neuroses.

A manager may bully to swat down a threatening subordinate …He may look for a scapegoat … He may bully subordinates for the sheer power of exercising power … “a kind of low grade sadism”.

However, “The Bully Boss” pattern does not appear to undercut productivity. Workers may loathe “The Bully Boss” and hate going to work each morning, but they still perform.

But the organization may not get help from some employees who MAY NOT:

• be courteous to customers

• help co-workers with problems ,or

• speak well of the company.

- TNIE, 24 June 2004, p 9.

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[wizzy]

i am bored!

[Happy Hyderabadi]

Edward de Bono! ... "Thinking", "Interesting" Author ...



Edward de Bono is known as a leader in thinking about thinking. He is the originator of lateral thinking. There are more than four million references to his work on the Internet. There is also a minor planet named after him. He has stressed that Judgement alone is not enough. We need the skills of Constructive Thinking, Creative Thinking and Design Thinking.

Edward de Bono says: “A beautiful face and a boring mind is boring, boring, boring.

“A beautiful body with a boring mind is boring, boring, boring.

“A fit and healthy body with a boring mind is boring, boring, boring.

“A clever mind can also be boring, boring, boring.

“How much time do we spend on developing an interesting mind ...

“Interesting jobs, interesting feats and interesting experiences can all make someone more interesting. But it is also possible to be interesting doing an ordinary job and living in an ordinary suburb.”

That is what Edward de Bono’s Book, How To Be More Interesting is about! – Viking, c. 1997.

To begin with, if we get ourself interested in something, I think, E de B's Book will help us to be "more interested" and hence "more interesting"!

[Happy Hyderabadi]

i am bored!

Dear "wizzy" ... Thank You ... You Are With Many Alike "Boreds" ... Try Them ... Try To Make Things Interesting ... Through Your Wizardry ... Pl see if E de B can help - vide the previous Post!

Greetings!

[xylocaine]

God never meant for us to face tough times alone, that’s why he gave us WHISKY, BRANDY, RUM, and BEER……… Be Happy!!!





I know alcohol is bad. I take alcohol only days starting with “T”. Like Tuesday, Thursday, Today, Tomorrow, Taturday, Tunday, and every Tingle day…!!

[Happy Hyderabadi]

... every Tingle day…!!

Thank You, "xylocaine"! Only Till the 'Tingle' Lasts ... Then, Hang-Over ... Finally, Knock-Out! 'Spirit' may warm You ... But will Surely Harm ... The Answer Lies Within ... Explore This Possibility. As E de B puts it, Possibilty and Speculation "can make anything interesting". Be Happy ... For Ever!

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[Happy Hyderabadi]

Television!

"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."

-Raymond Thornton Chandler

(From AWAD Newsletter)

[HH]

[Through: E-mail]





Place your mouse on the X below and drag to the O.



X Even though you can't see Him, GOD is there! O



Please forward this to everyone you know and something good will happen to you in the next hour.....just watch and wait for it.



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[HH]

* SERVICE POWER:

# You are vulnerable at your lowest perception point



Do your job well, your company will prosper and your customers will return, right?



Not necessarily. It depends how well your colleagues do their jobs, too.



You may be the best chef in town with fresh ingredients and fabulous food, but if the waiters are rude, your customers won't come back.



The chef may be great and the waiters polite, but if your cleaner leaves the restrooms a mess, your customers won't come back.



Your chef may be great and your waiters polite, the restrooms sparkling clean. But if your service is s-l-o-w and the billing is wrong, your customers won't come back.



Your entire enterprise is vulnerable at the lowest "perception point" your customers discover: your slowest system, dirtiest floor, darkest corner, worst driver, least competent

technician or most unfriendly staff.



This is true for organizations. It's true for individuals, too.



Have you ever been served by someone capable and skilled, but with strong body odor or bad breath? Would you call them again gladly for service?



Key Learning Point: Customers form opinions through a series of "perception points" - every moment they see, hear, touch, feel, smell or taste your products, people, packaging,

places, promotions or procedures. Your entire business is vulnerable at the lowest point in that chain.



# Action Steps:

• Review every point of customer contact.

• Start with your products and systems.

• Identify everything that is obsolete, incorrect, difficult to read, hard to use, confusing or just plain ugly.

• Choose the worst. Make it better.

• Next, examine your people. Find those who are slow, late, uncaring, unpleasant,

de-motivated, impatient or just plain rude.

• Teach them, train them, coach them, motivate them, reward them, encourage them, inspire them.

• But if all that doesn't work, then fire them.

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[HH]

Of Diet & Deity!



* “Desh Kal” Formula for Food!

Foods are Neither “Good” Nor “Bad” … “Desh Kal” Formula says, “You should Eat what Suits the Place, Time of Day and Body ‘Comfort’ Level!” You should have a Balanced Diet. Be Fit … Eat Food Locally Available. Exercise to be Fit … Eat “Tasty” Food … IN MODERATION! - DC / W&D, 3 July 2004, p1.



* Ayodhya Twist: Sena Wants Memorial!

Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray, in an interview broadcast on 2 July by the BBC, “Build a National Memorial on Ramjanmabhumi-Babrimasjid Site and name it after Mangal Pandey, who fired the first shot against the British for Our Independence. Give Land for Babrimasjid somewhere else. We need Land somewhere near the original Ram Mandir only. … Those (Muslims) who stayed back (after Partition) Belong to Us, They Are Ours.” - DC, 3 July 2004, p 13.

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[HH]

Scholl Student's Maturity!

* School Student’s E-Mail to President!

“In our school, classes are not held regularly. Teachers are frequently absent and courses are never completed,”, a Class IX Student of a School in Siliguri, West Bengal, eMailed to the President of India. He had managed to track the email ID of the President. The President, too quietly and promptly responded by requiring corrective action to be taken by the Education Department of the Government of West Bengal. “Someone has to protest,” the Student says. Message for Mature People, too! - TNIE, 3 July 2004, p 8

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[cooljack]

one man show......hmmmm impressed, but really cant reply to any post r cant discuss anyhin', anyways keep up the gud work

[HH]

one man show...... impressed ... keep up the gud work

[b] Thank You! You Are Also Welcome To Help Build The "Good Sense", CJ!

Greetings

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[HH]

* “Who is Wickeder?!”

(Quoted from Tintin’s “Flight 714” – “Confession” Effect of “Truth Serum” injected deliberately into Mr Laszlo Carreidas, “The Millionaire Who Never Laughs”, and accidentally into “Papa” Rastapopoulos, who was thought to have been eaten by the Red Sea Sharks and now the Master-Brain of a Hijack - Kidnap Drama.)

R - Me? Bad? … Bad? Me? … Bad? … Me? Bad? Of course I am bad! I am the devil incarnate … that’s what I am. And let’s hear anyone to deny it!

C – I beg your pardon! I am the devil carnate … and I am richer than you are, too!

- So what? Listen to this! I ruined my three brothers and two sisters, and dragged my parents into the gutter. What d’you say to that, eh?

- Peanuts! Kid’s stuff! My great-aunt was so ashamed of me she lay down and died! Beat that!

- Amateur! You’re not in my class. Think of my scheme to kidnap you … that took a man of real cunning, a man without a shred of decency … a fiend!

- All the time I made plans to eliminate ALL when the job was done … Diaboloical, wasn’t it? … Don’t you agree? … Ha! Ha! Ha! The Devil himself couldn’t do better!

- Pooh! You aren’t out of the nursery!

- Now let’s get this straight. Yes or no! Do you or do you not admit that I’m wickeder than you?

- Never! … Never, d’you hear? … I’d sooner die!

- All right, if that’s what you want! Die!

T – Quick! Time we intervened! …

(The “Truth Serum” seemed to work in fiction … can it make our “Criminals-Politicians” ever “Confess”!)

[HH]

* Lalu’s “Kulhad”

# Plastic Cups can stay in the Environment for Centuries … The humble Kulhad Biodegrades in 8 to 10 Years … Even Food-Grade Paper Survives 5 to 6 Years because it is Waxed.

# The Red Kulhad, however, takes nearly a decade to return to its Natural Form. This is because it is fired and exposed to Temperatures of 150 deg C to make it stronger. There is technology available that can make a Kulhad Sturdy and also Biodegrade faster. Another Technology can Recycle Kulhads.

# The Furnaces in which Kulhads are made can be Polluting … Most use Wood Dust mixed with Coal Dust and thus Cause Much Pollution.

# The Artisan gets just 20 – 25 Paise for Each Vessel, while the Middle-Men get most of the money. This can hardly “boost” the Economy! - TNIE, 6 July 2004, p 7.

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[HH]

DC Delights!

* “Counterpoint” Fine!

# Subhani’s Cartoon: Laloo’s Speech for Railway Budget: “ Special Concessions in Fares For Senior Citizens, Freedom Fighters, Journalists, BIHARIS …!”



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Can “State-Man” Ever Become “Union-Man” / “Country-Man” / “Nation-Minded”?!

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# Oops: Photo of Bollywood “actor” Riya Sen at the Launch of Airtel’s Mobile Entertainment Portal in New Delhi on 5 July. … “Riya” ‘actor’ Or ‘actress’?! - DC, 6 July 2004, p 1.



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[HH]

VAK - Wise Words!

* Value Added Knowledge

# Before …

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. – William A Ward

# Finish …

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and some absurdities no doubt creep in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

From VAK # 25 - VAK, Vol 5 / No 7, July 2004, p 9.

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[HH]

* P Chidambaram’s Wise Words!

In the Concluding Remarks of his Budget, the Finance Minister P Chidambaram quoted from Tamil Saint Poet Thiruvalluvar, “They are Good Rulers Who Observe Ethics, Commit No Crime and Walk the Path of Honour and Courage ... We Can Make the Future Happen. And this Century will be India’s Century.”

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[HH]

* Gems of Wisdom !?



The following gems of wisdom were gleaned from test papers and essays from elementary, junior high, high school, and college students of USA.

As one teacher noted, "It is truly astonishing what weird stuff our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades!"

1. "Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water."

2. "Blood flows down one leg and up the other."

3. "Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire."

4. "Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas."

5. "Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away."

6. "To prevent milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow."

7. "The parts of speech are lungs and air."

8. "The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes."

9. "A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population."

10. "Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris."

11. "The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom."

12. "The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom."

13. "Iron was discovered because someone smelt it."

14. "Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners."

15. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.



16. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire's in the East and the sun sets in the West.

17. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the fall when the apples are falling off the trees.

18. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offence.

19. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

20. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

21. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large.

22. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

23. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.

24. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years

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[xylocaine]

Hey HH you most of time give us a newspaper full of inofo, though some of the writings you provide are sensible...



I just do a save as and read them later and are good... but my net is a Sify package that doesnt allow me a full freedom so I do read off line big articles like that ... anywaz good work...