Mark Zuckerberg gets married at surprise wedding

By almost any standard, Mark Zuckerberg has had a week to remember. Yesterday, he started his day off by ringing the Nasdaq bell and taking his social-networking company public, raising $16 billion in the process. Earlier in the week, his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan graduated from medical school. And today, just for good measure, the two shocked a bunch of friends and family with a surprise wedding in the Facebook CEO’s backyard.
A look at Zuckerberg‘s Facebook page reveals that he is now “Married to Priscilla Chan.” That was not the case yesterday, the day that the company went public in a spectacularly hyped IPO that may have ended up a bit of a dud.

 

 

Quotation of the day

 

BCCI suspends 5 cricketers after sting operation

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday suspended five cricketers, T.P. Sudhindra (Deccan Chargers), Mohnish Mishra (Pune Warriors), Shalabh Srivatsava and Amit Yadav (both Kings XI Punjab) and Abhinav Bali (Delhi Giants in the erstwhile Indian Cricket League) from all forms of the game till a special panel completes a preliminary enquiry into alleged corrupt deals.Following a sting operation by news channel India TV that showed these cricketers allegedly entering into murky, illicit practices, an emergency meeting of the IPL Governing Council, via video-conferencing, was convened.After deliberations lasting around six hours, the Council said Ravi Sawani, head of BCCI’s anti-corruption wing, would table his findings in 15 days.

BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale said Board president N. Srinivasan had “immediately” appointed Mr. Sawani (retired CBI officer and former Head of Anti Corruption and Security Unit, ICC) as the Commissioner to make a preliminary inquiry as per Rule 32 (ii) of the Memorandum and Rules and Regulations of BCCI on the involvement of players in illegal activities or activities against the interests of the BCCI and the game.

The Commissioner’s report would be forwarded to the BCCI’s Disciplinary Committee for a probe.

 

Just an Average

You would see so many people who work hard in their life and give there best in every possible way but still falls into the average category. Their hard work is not recognised because of the average output.Everyone wants to be better than the best. Welcome to the new age of “no scope for being an average”.

Our humans society is changing fast and so our behaviour and perception. Once there is a change we all becomes a part of it eventually. We are living in such a competitive and aggressive environment that we are in a competition with some other person everyday. This a blind race where everyone wants to secure the first position and nothing else is credited. One interested thing is that we all are part of this race. We are overjoyed when we are at top but utterly dejected when we land up to anything else first slot even though we worked hard enough to relish our efforts.

This race begins at very early age, where we as a children needs to get excellent marks in every subject and in every class. Just an average marks is not acceptable as it would put you in a different category. Anything less would dampens your future prospect. We are in a constant state of tension,pressure and stress. What is the reason that makes us so aggressive about our future?Why we only wants to be at the top? The reason seems to be perception of the society which applauds for the winners only and mediocre is sidelined.
Every game has rules and the rule for such a race for brilliance (which we tends to forget) is that there can be only one winner. When we don’t realise this fact and we fail to achieve the target , we feel unhappy and sad and sometimes demotivated. We are living such a relative life where our credibility is not established by our own achievements but by comparison to someone else’s achievements.

Why we are in such a state of mind where we are always occupied with plans to shine our future? We are never happy what we have achieved so far and never satisfied with our efforts irrespective of the outcome.Its always good to be a part of the society but we all have independent life where we have to satisfy ourselves rather than satisfying society’s benchmark.

We need to fix a target where we can stop this race. Remember ,a race without a target can be endless. The only fruitfull target would be to be HAPPY IN OUR LIFE.
This life is about lot of things but mostly is about being HAPPY!

 

It a one of the upcoming Romantic Bollywood Movie which stars Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Kabir Khan, the film marks the third collaboration of Kabir Khan with Yash Raj Films after Kabul Express (2006) and New York (2009). 

Watch the official trailer of Ek tha Tiger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqz5WTJMLEw

It has been reported that its shooting has been done in countries including Ireland, Turkey, Cuba, Iraq and India.

Film’s plot:

The film’s fast paced storyline involves a world renowned scientist working at Trinity College Dublin who is suspected of selling missile technology secrets to Pakistan. The Indian Government sends an Indian secret agent, Salman Khan, to find out about the Professor’s activities. The agent, codenamed Tiger, falls in love with the Professor’s caretaker Zoya, Katrina Kaif, who is studying at a fictional dance academy located at Trinity College Dublin, and together they embark on a rollercoaster journey that takes them from Dublin to Istanbul, Kazakhstan and Chile

As we look for the shooting locations of the movie,we come across Ireland which shares some part of the shooting.

Ireland is acknowledged to be one of the friendliest nations of the world and one among the most beautiful islands of the world.It is very famous among tourists due to its weather and flora and fauna.

Here are some of the pleasing pictures of Ireland

 

 

Its all in the mind

You would have heard about this saying many times and really wouldn’t have thought about it much.
There are endless ways to interpret a particular situation but we pick a particular way to look at thinks. Are we picking it randomly ? Whose is deciding which is wrong and which is right when there is no clear answers. I guess the answers for all such questions is “OUR MIND”. Yes we all the slaves to you mind, we do what our mind says to do. This is where all the processing of inputs happens.
One thing that really intrigues me whether we control our mind or does our mind controls us.
When we receive external stimuli we react to it, but who decides how to react. Its the mind that commands us to respond to the event. The external stimuli is received from our sensory organ and it is then send it to the brain to me processed and then the body reacts accordingly.
But how our brain processes these unbiased events and creates a perception?
We tend to think a lot of negativity which is shown by our perception to an event or our reaction.
So how do I force my mind to think positive? The answer to this question is YOGA and Meditation

YOGA is a is the Hindu practice of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on the Hindu concept of divinity or Brahman.
Modern life style has high exposure to anger, hate, fear and other negative emotions. These human emotions have a high tendency to duplicate and spread. For example, when a person gets cheated, he starts to suspect everything around him. This also has an impact on people around him. These emotions form strong impressions and opinions on an individual and social level. The result of which is an insecure individual and an unstable society.
Meditation helps an individual overcome these emotions to facilitate a calm peaceful mind and a healthy and stress free body

MEDITATION is nothing but to relax your mind. Its purpose is to remove all the negativity that our mind has captured .
The blessing from GOD would be humans enjoying there life and live happily which can only happen through a healthy mind.
If you wish to ask one thing from GOD, don’t ask for wealth( because it may not make you happy at some point in your life) but ask for a good Sense.

LET GOD BLESS US ALL WITH A BEAUTIFUL MIND.

 

Leaving you with some mindful of quotations :

“A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.”

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones

 Its True,Samsung has launched its latest phone which runs on Latest Android version.

With the launch of Samsung Galaxy S III which runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the fight between iphone vs samsung smartphones is becoming red hot.

iphone seems to be winning the race for best smartphones with strong sales of its iphone 4s ,but with the latest Samsung Galaxy S III you may want to ditch iphone for it.

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London updating the most direct rival to Apple’s iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor.The new Galaxy SIII model will have a 4.8 inch touch screen, 8 megapixel camera and will use the latest version of Google’s Android (Ice Cream Sandwich)

 

 

 

Android’s new ally against the iPhone: Ubuntu

Strong sales of the iPhone 4S are putting renewed pressure on Android to innovate. Ubuntu for Android could give the platform a key capability iPhone is still missing.

Last year was a long time ago for Android.

That was when Google’s mobile platform was stealing market share from all the other smartphone platforms — winning even against the iPhone — and beating a path toward market dominance.
But Android is now facing a renewed challenge from its archrival. Android’s vulnerability against the iPhone can be summed up by looking at the two biggest wireless carriers in the U.S. — AT&T and Verizon. At AT&T, the iPhone represented 78% of all smartphone sales in the first three months of 2012. At Verizon, which had been an Android stronghold since the launch of the original Motorola Droid in October 2009, the iPhone has picked up over 50 percent of all smartphone sales for each of the past two quarters (Q4 2011 and Q1 2012).
How’d that happen? Android won over more users than Apple during 2010 and 2011 because Android devices were available on more carriers and there were Android phones that cost a lot less than the $200 base model of the iPhone. But now the iPhone has spread to virtually all of the major carriers and there are now iPhone models available for under $100.
Android badly needs a new advantage against the iPhone in the next stage of the mobile platform fight. It may get it from Canonical‘s Ubuntu for Android.

The Ubuntu factor

Ubuntu is a friendly version of Linux aimed at the masses. Unfortunately, the masses have never embraced it on a large scale, but it has proven to be usable enough that even your technophobic uncle can easily use Ubuntu to do things like surf the Web, check e-mail, and download photos from a digital camera.
While the iPhone is winning on simplicity, Android is winning on expanded features (and it’s still expected to have a 50 percent market share this year). One of those expanded features that the iPhone doesn’t have is the ability to dock and act like a computer.However, Ubuntu has an alternative vision for smartphone/PC convergence and it’s teaming with Android hardware makers on devices that will hit the market later in 2012.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has slowly and quietly evolved the Linux desktop into a legitimate low-cost alternative to Windows and Mac. Ubuntu’s focus on usability with its Unity Desktop and Heads-Up Display (which is like a Google search for all of the menus on your computer) has given Ubuntu the simplicity it needs to compete in an era that’s about to be dominated by touchscreens and cloud computing.
That’s why when Canonical announced and demonstrated Ubuntu for Android at Mobile World Congress in February, it generated a lot of interest across the mobile industry. Android phone makers liked the idea of using the software to build high-powered multi-purpose devices and make more money off smartphones accessories like desktop docks. And, wireless carriers loved the idea of powerful smartphones running desktop-level applications that will demand more data than ever

“The feedback has been great,” Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth said. “People that really got their hands on it have raved about it.”
After the announcement, the Canonical booth at MWC 2012 was flooded with interest from corporate tech managers, consumers, and representatives from telcos and handset makers. All of them wanted to see what Ubuntu for Android could do.. Ubuntu takes the concept a step further by opening it up to more apps and to all Android phone makers.

When Ubuntu is loaded on an Android phone, the two platforms share the same Linux kernel, so it’s not like running two operating systems. The two pieces act like complementary partners. The Android phone functions normally when used as a smartphone or when making calls, but when it docks then the Ubuntu desktop pops up and acts like a standard computer. You can open a desktop Web browser, but you can also install and run standard Ubuntu desktop software for photo editing, word processing, etc.
Because Ubuntu is so lean, the entire Ubuntu software stack only takes up about 2GB, and that includes apps for e-mail, Web browsing, photo editing, music, and other basic stuff. If you install more applications from the large Ubuntu repository of open source apps then that will obviously take up more space, but there’s still plenty of storage on most modern smartphones to handle it. While Ubuntu takes up more storage than Webtop, it’s also giving you a lot more capabilities.

“The Ubuntu solution is providing a complete PC operating system,” said Richard Collins, the Product Manager for Ubuntu for Android. “Canonical has always seen the opportunity for Ubuntu for Android. It’s something that’s always been discussed, but once the hardware was ready then we realized the timing was good for this. [The software] is mature enough for us to engage with an OEM today.”

But, while the Ubuntu solution doesn’t alter Android, it provides deep integration with Android on the Ubuntu side, and that’s where Canonical is bringing value that goes above and beyond what Motorola accomplished with Webtop.

 

Change

This world is continuously changing and with it our life is also changing .We may feel change in every second of our life or we may not feel the change at all, but in both the case you are a part of change.
Changes are meant to be happened and we are destined to be part of the change.
Change brings a new environment in life which may be vulnerable at first sight. Change may makes you unsettled and may also bring fear. Change may force you leave things which you like, but at the same time change can bring an opportunity of more sunshine.
Even I am going through such mixed feelings of change but as rightly said “Life is like riding a bicyle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”

 

A Trip to Nandi Hills

Yesterday I got a chance to visit nandi hills which is around 60 km from Bangalore,Karnataka.
Nandi hills is famous for its scenic beauty and excellent climate conditions. Many people visit Nandi Hills to experience the picturesque view of Sun Rise. Nandi Hills, at the height of 4851 feet above sea level is, very popular picnic spot .
It was Sunday morning when we set out for our Trip
We started our journey at 2:30 am in the morning so that we can reach Nandi hills around 5 am to see the sunrise. I was accompanied with my 7 other team mates from my workplace. We picked up everyone from their home.
Weather at the outright itself was very cool and windy. We were all packed up will some snacks and beers. The highway to the Nandi hill was really smooth and with low lighting conditions and really cool breeze, we were enjoying the moment a lot. Once our beers were opened ,i knew this would one of the best time we ever had. I felt high after having a beer and was in another world.
We were all talking about our life when we were together in the project and this was really a pleasant escape from our hectic office work during weekdays. I personally felt that nothing is more important than enjoying our lives.
We had a small pit stop before our destination, where we all clicked photographs. We were 8 people and we had 4 cameras and everyone was fighting to click a photograph from his/her camera.
We didn’t even realise how time was passing and how infact we were getting late for our destination.
We finally reached Nandi hills with all excitement and charged up to see the majestic view of the sun rising from the clouds.
It was all foggy in and around nandi hills. When we reached the hill top ,we were just a little late for the sun rise and it was already rising above and anyways the view was magnificient and we all enjoyed the scenic beauty and company of each other.
That beautiful red coloured sun coming out of the clouds really mesmerised us .
Everytime we see sunrise or sunset ,its always seems to be reddish in color, why?