HALL OF FAME - No. 1 !!

Dear All, Starting with this great stuff I got from Col Deshpande, I will select mails and SMS I receive for my Hall of Fame ! So mail on ! Here it is, the mail labelled HOW TO DANCE IN THE RAIN...

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman, probably in his 80s, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's disease. As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now. I was surprised, and asked him, 'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?' He smiled as he patted my hand and said, 'She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is.' I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, 'That is the kind of love I want in my life.' True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be. With all the jokes and fun that are in e-mails, sometimes there is one that comes along that has an important message. This one I thought I could share with you. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. I hope you share this with someone you care about. I just did. Remember - 'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.'

Huge Asteroid Will Pass Closer To Earth Than The Moon In Coming Days !!

An asteroid a quarter-mile-wide will, astronomically speaking, narrowly miss Earth next week. And while it is the closest an asteroid this size has come to the home planet since 1976, there's no need to call Bruce Willis ... yet. "There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program office, told Reuters. But that doesn't mean the asteroid -- named 2005 YU55 -- won't be a threat to earth in the future. Lance Benner, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a video from NASA (available below) that scientists haven't been able to reliably compute the asteroid's path beyond a couple of hundred years from now. At its closest point, the space rock will be about 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers) away, which is 0.85 the distance between the moon and the Earth. NASA says that the asteroid will reach this point at 6:28 p.m. EST on Tuesday.

Stunning desi stationery from Rubberband

I have been using Rubberband stationery for a year and the products are simply wow, in my words. Now how does a professional put it ? From the Rubberband website...

Rubberband - keep it together is our exercise towards re-interpretation of products from a new perspective. The relationship between context, content and the container is rebalanced to adapt to the constantly shifting global changes leading to new product development and the way products are perceived or used. Within the existing framework of archetypical objects we strive to explore a language of visual simplicity, intuitive functionality and a naturally progressed formal language.

WOW WTF !! go HERE to buy this great range

WISH LIST - Antica Cartotecnica Vintage Pencils

Founded in 1930, Antica Cartotecnica is a multi-generation stationery seller and collector based in the heart of Rome, Italy. This vintage pencil set from Antica Cartotecnica includes a variety of 5 vintage pencils dating from the early 1940s all the way to the late 1960s. The elegant folder that houses them is also vintage, made from cardstock that is 50-60 years old. Each set is unique, consisting of a random selection of pencils from countries like England and Czechoslovakia, and made from manufacturers that include Cumberland Pencil Co. and L & C Hardtmuth. Most pencils in the set are standard No.2/HB grade. If you are a stationery aficionado like me, buy it from HERE !

The Latest in Army Food Technology: Caffeinated Meat...DRDO are you listening !!

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U.S. military rations have evolved from merely filling to nutritionally balanced and varied. It's not Grandma's pot roast, but she didn't have to drop hers into the desert from a cargo plane. Take a graphic look at the evolution....CLICK HERE !

Free eBooks ...and legal !

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. They even offer audio-books. Worth a visit. CLICK HERE !

The Best Cologne You've Never Heard of !!

Does it really require a team of scientists to come up with something as simple as a nice scent? Apparently not. The difference between the major perfume designers and D.S. & Durga is that the latter is made by, well, just those two — and from the packaging to, of course, the smell, they prove that four hands are capable of a whole lot. Produced in small batches of hand-numbered bottles, the newish brand brings fragrance back to its origins, combining flowers, herbs, spices, oils, and plant extracts in a method that dates back to the pre-industrial cottage industries of North America. Boston Ivy, uses green moss, clover, and ivy, producing a smell that's reminiscent of the Boston Harbor. Another, called Burning Barbershop (spearmint, lime, vanilla, and lavender), replicates the smell of a half-full charred bottle of shaving tonic that was found after a fire broke out at the Curling Bros. barbershop in Westlake, New York in 1891. Now, that's specificity in action. It's also pretty awesome (the fragrance, not the fire). Ladies have their choice, too: The artwork for Siberian Snow alone makes it an appealing purchase. Even their website itself is a piece of art !! CLICK HERE

China has some nerve ! Thank God our journos are more aggressive than our Babus !

Jai & Ija's Spaceship Launched !

Ija and Jai launched their Sky Lantern today at 8:30 pm. Was a perfect launch and went quite far for almost 15 mins ! Lovely sight ! Last seen over KV Panagarh !

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Our Pigeon brings home a friend !

We had recently kept a pigeon in our bird-house, which used to fly away in the afternoons and return at night. Well guess what today afternoon, he returned with a friend ! Yes sir, and I must he has some taste ! He's a handsome bloke , isnt he ?

 
 
 

Document & Discover the World Around You With Project Noah by NatGeo

Today, we’re going to step away from the world of buttoned-up web apps and take a look at a truly unique app: Project Noah. It’s a cooperative science project that will motivate you to get away from your screen and spend more time in the great outdoors! Whether you’re a nature lover or simply would like to know what that plant in your yard is, Project Noah is an app that can be both educational and fun. Let’s take a look and see what Project Noah has to offer.

This is great for kids and everyone. Jai loves spotting new life-forms and since you can click a photo from a mobile phone and submit the same, it doesnt get any easier than this ! Go ahead join it today ! CLICK HERE !

Stunning Khalsa Kirpans !

Saw this amazing site ! Some amazing creations by Jot Singh Khalsa.. Take a look @ http://www.khalsakirpans.com/