WINTER DREAMS

A handsome blind person was allowed to stay as a paying guest by a lonely land lady. Being blind, he was considered as harmless creature free to move any where in the house.

Once he comes back to house from out side. The moment he enters the house he starts shouting happily and searching the land lady in the house.


He is asks impatiently. “Madam where are you I am very happy today. I want to give very good news to you. Where are you madam? Please tell me.”

The madam replies, “Just wait. I am in the bathroom. I will come with in five minutes”


He was anxious. He says, “No. No. Madam. I can not wait. The news is so good and I want to share it with you instantly. Please come out immediately”.

Madam thinks, “Let me honour his wish. Any how the poor fellow is blind. “


So she comes out of the bathroom naked and asks the blind person, come here tell me what the good news is?

He replies, “Madam, do you know? My vision is back”

Everybody wants to live to 100, but do we really have 'time to live'?

A man stood at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand seven hundred people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.


Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule. A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk. A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.


In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace.. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there recognition.

The exact analysis would betray the fact that this was a social experiment.


This is a real story. No one knew this at the time but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theatre in Boston and the seats averaged $100.

Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organised by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people.


The question tested were:
* In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Yes/no
* Do we stop to appreciate it? Yes/no
* Do we recognise the talent in an unexpected context? Yes/no


Point to Ponder: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing in our life?

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.

The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at the minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day."

Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.

To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like ours, that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address, you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."

Stunned, the man leaves. !!!

Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmer's market and sees a stand selling 25lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes.

In less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes and makes a 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.

By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up, he sells the cart to buy a broken down pickup truck.

At the end of a year, he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep the books for him.

By the end of the second year, he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.

He continues to work hard.

Time passes and at the end of the fifth he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse which his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed a million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.

Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances.

Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn't have the time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned.

"What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"

"Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago, I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour."

Which brings us to the moral: Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it also.

Love is photogenic it needs darkness to develop.

A good discussion is like a miniskirt, Short enough to pertain interest and long enough to cover the subject!

Children in backseats cause accidents, Accidents in backseats cause children!

"Your future depends on your dreams" So go to sleep!

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning!

"ALCOHOL KILLS SLOWLY", So what? Who's in a hurry?

"Hard work never killed anybody", But why take the risk! (I don't want to be an exception!)

"Work fascinates me", I can sit and watch it for hours!

God made relatives, Thank God we can choose our friends.

My girlfriend ran away with my best friend and I really am sorry for him!

God is Alive! Speak to Him!, (It's cheaper after 9.30 p.m.!)

When two's company, three's the result!

A designer dress is like a barbed fence, It protects the premises without restricting the view!

Well, Bill," said God, "I'm really confused on this one. I'm not sure whether to send you to Heaven or Hell! After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in the world and yet you created that ghastly Windows. I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to let you decide where you want to go!"

Mr. Gates replied, "Well, thanks, Lord. What's the difference between the two?"

God said, "You can take a peek at both places briefly if it will help you decide. Shall we look at Hell first?" "Sure!" said Bill. "Let's go!"



Bill was amazed! He saw a clean, white sandy beach with clear waters. There were thousands of beautiful women running around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about.

The sun was shining and the temperature was just perfect!

Bill said, "This is great! If this is Hell, I can't wait to see Heaven!"

To which God replied, "Let's go!" and off they went. Bill saw puffy white clouds in a beautiful blue sky with angels drifting about playing harps and singing.

It was nice, but surely not as enticing as Hell. Mr. Gates thought for only a brief moment and rendered his decision.

"God, I do believe I would like to go to Hell."

"As you desire," said God.

Two weeks later, God decided to check up on the late billionaire to see how things were going. He found Bill shackled to a wall, screaming among the hot flames in a dark cave. He was being burned and tortured by demons.

"How ya doin', Bill?" asked God. Bill responded with anguish and despair.

"This is awful! This is not what I expected at all! What happened to the beach and the beautiful women playing in the water?"

Amazing but true.... How you get undressed reveals your personality ........!!


1) If you throw your clothes all over the place, you are a friendly, life-of-the-party type. You are free with your thoughts and opinions, not caring much about what others think of you. Your parents might think your room looks like a cyclone hit it? But it actually represents your happy, individualistic nature!


2) If you remove each piece of clothing and put it away carefully, you are a serious person who likes her life to be very calm. You are comfortable with routine, and you believe that the best way to deal with life's problems is to prevent them in the first place. You are a perfectionist. By nature you are quite shy. You are bservant and you know more about some people than they think, just because you've watched them. You are dependable and sometimes intense. You think carefully before making decisions. You go about your tasks methodically, with concentration. You know how to pay attention.


3) If you take off the shirt, and ten minutes later get around to the pants, you are an extremely self-confident person. You are naturally bright and intellectual. You are also a deep thinker who loves to ask questions and ponder the meaning of things. You hate being rushed and you do not like to be hassled. Usually you like a lot of free time for yourself.


4) If you get out of your clothes as quickly as possible, you are concerned about others and what they expect from you, but you're worried about your own needs. You are family-oriented, and stay extremely busy. You often feel stressed, but most of those heavy expectations come from your own head! Give yourself a break; you don't have to be perfect.


5) If you take off your rings, earrings, necklace, watch, etcetera before anything else, you are a warm and sensitive person. You are considerate and thoughtful, and you give good advice to your friends. You are a natural born romantic.


6) If you don't have an undressing routine and you never do it the same way twice, you are a very curious and interesting person. You enjoy a broad range of activities. You take risks and enjoy fun and adventure. You are very social.

In photography, a filter is a camera accessory consisting of an optical filter that can be inserted in the optical path. The filter can be a square or oblong shape mounted in a holder accessory, or, more commonly, a glass or plastic disk with a metal or plastic ring frame, which can be screwed in front of the lens or clipped onto the lens.

Filters allow added control for the photographer of the images being produced. Sometimes they are used to make only subtle changes to images; other times the image would simply not be possible without them.

The negative aspects of using filters, though often negligible, include the possibility of loss of image definition if using dirty or scratched filters, and increased exposure required by the reduction in light transmitted. The former is best avoided by careful use and maintenance of filters, while the latter is a matter of technique; it usually will not be a problem if planned out properly, but in some situations does make filter use impractical.

Stunning Examples of Long Exposure

A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor,

"Do you need two statues of the same idol?"

"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.

" The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage.

"Where is the damage?" he asked.

"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

"Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.

"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."

1. The number of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE.


2. Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.


3. With 800 movies per year , India's film industry overshadows Hollywood.


4. The organized lottery market in India is US$7bn (2% of GDP)


5. India consumes a fifth of the world's gold output.


6. Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year


7. Growing at 6%, in 25 years Indian GDP(on a PPP basis) will be at the same level the US is at today


8. Six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.


9. Bank deposits in India roughly equal 50% of its GDP C again, among the highest in the world.


10. Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management


11. India has the third largest army in the world, nearly 1.5 million strong.


12. India is the largest producer and consumer of tea in the world, accounting for more than 30% of global production and 25% of consumption.


13. India is the world's premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India.


14. India has the highest number of annual bulk drugs filings (77) with USFDA.


15. India is home to the largest number of pharmaceutical plants (61) approved by USFDA outside the US.


16. India's Hero Honda is the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer, with 2002 production of 1.7m units.


17. Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.


18. Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world, with a staff of 1.6 million people.


19. India is the second largest cement producing country in the world, producing more than 110 m tones.


20. Of the fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India .


21. There are 8,500 Indian restaurants in the U.K.15% of the country's total dining-out establishments.


22. India is the largest democracy in the world, with nearly 400m voting in the last national elections.


23. India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world.


24. India has the third largest investor base in the world


25. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds.


26. The Kumbh Mela festival, held every 21 years in the city of Allahabad, attracts 25 million people CE more than the population of 185 of the 227 countries in the world.


27. The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Banaras , is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world today.


28. There are 3.22 million Indians in the US.


29. Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires.


30. India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches.


31. There are over 70,000 bank branches in India - among the highest in the world.