My First Interview

March 3, 2007, the day I will remember all through my life. Have any of you guys attended an interview without preparation; this is one of those kinds. But I was looking very professional with a neat full sleeve shirt and dark trousers. It was a pleasant experience to write an aptitude test, which I loved a lot. I love mathematics and that was a good challenge. First I kept the paper aside and started thinking about the game I had played the day before. Then I started it; the time allotted was 45 minutes for 15 aptitude, 20 on English and 10 on quantitative. I finished it in 40 minutes and gave the paper, but many had given before the time I gave it.

Then the results came of the 250 who had attended 70 where short-listed. They told the first round was the crucial and most of them from it would be selected. The second round was a group discussion. Topic given to us was the hottest topic in colleges of my university “should mobile phones be allowed inside the colleges”. We were a group of 10 and only 7 spoke out of it and 3 where rejected in that round. Then my friends and I went to play cricket in our college ground as they had given us an hour break. Third round was the technical round where I was questioned technically for half an hour. Then I got through to the final round where I had to meet the HR. Then results came after a long wait of 3 hours. The results were convincing, 58 had been selected from our college and I was one amongst them. The joy on face could not be expressed again. Hope to enjoy the day of my first job.

World’s Largest Hotel

Burj Al Arab is a luxury hotel located in Dubai. This is now the world’s largest hotel with a height of 321 meters. Rose tower, Dubai an unfinished building in progress is to be about 333 meters is about to take away the title on its opening. The Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 meters (919 ft) out from Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is an iconic structure, designed to symbolize Dubai's urban transformation and to mimic the sail of a boat. The total hotel construction cost 640 million to build.

Several features of the hotel required complex engineering feats to achieve. The hotel rests on an artificial island constructed 280 meters offshore. To secure a foundation, the builders drove 230 40-meter long concrete piles into the sand. It is one of the most expensive hotels in the world. The cost of staying in a suite begins at $1,000 per night; the Royal Suite is the most expensive at $28,000. It has a place on the top where the helicopter can be landed. There was an exhibition match played between Roger Federer and Andre Aggasi which was won by Federer. The royal suite day living in the hotel means he is to be millionaire or the one who dares to play with his money. But every penny spent is worth.

A Film For National Award

The story of the movie Naan Kadavul is about a father for spiritual and astrological reasons drives his son away from home. The boy leaves Tamil Nadu and takes refuge in Kasi. He grows up in the midst of Saadhu and Sanyasins and becomes one with long hair and gory looks. Meanwhile realizing his folly, the father goes in search of his son. Shocked to see his son in such state, he decides to bring him back to his hometown. His encounter in Tamil Nadu and turn of events after he leaves to Varanasi forms the story.

Ilayaraja has scored music for the movie. He was mightily impressed seeing the film and wondered the work to be done for re-recording. For the first time, a full-fledge song in Sanskrit is feature in a Tamil movie. The movie is shot in Varanasi, Kasi, Kanchipuram and Periyakulam. A total of 450 physically challenged children and elders form part of the movie. Bala was felicitated for his mammoth effort on World Handicapped Day celebrations recently.

Indian Maestro Up To A New Level

A.R.Rahman has done it again. The best musician India has ever produced; Rahman has won the Golden Globe award for the Best Music Composer for his amazing music in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. The film tells the heart warming story of an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who goes on to win a staggering Rs.20 million ($420,000) on India's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" game show. Rahman’s music has helped the movie to show all the emotions and thinking of a slum orphan. This earned him the prestigious award. Now Rahman is all set to be nominated for next month’s Academy awards.

Winners of the Golden Globes are determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and are often considered a precursor of contenders for the Academy Awards. The earlier week, Slumdog Millionaire had won two awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Director for Boyle and Best Music for Rahman

The Pursuit Of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical film directed by Gabriele Muccino about the on and off-homeless salesman-turned-stockbroker Chris Gardner. The story starts in 1981, with the home where Gardner is in a big trouble after investing his life time savings on a device known as the Bone Density scanner. He feels like he has made these devices. However, he is not able to sell them, as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. On top of that, one of these does not work, As Gardner tries to figure out on how to fix the faulty one and sell the others, his wife leaves him, and he loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn't seem to come together for him. Gardner is desperate to find a steady job. Chris gets an opportunity to be a stockbroker but first he has to go through six months of grueling internship, which means no pay.

Chris Gardner moves through a lot of difficulties in these six months, which show in the film very sensationally. He approaches in a way different from others in the stock exchange and claims the top spot among the 20 of the other trainees. The story is complete portrayal of how a person leads his life beyond a number of leaps in his life.

Birth After Death

A British ice-skater has given birth to a baby two days after dying of a brain hemorrhage. Ice-skating coach Jayne Soliman collapsed and died from a brain hemorrhage but doctors at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading managed to keep her heart beating long enough to deliver Aya Jayne by Caesarean section. Jayne was given big doses of steroids to help the child’s lungs develop and within 48 hours she gave birth to Aya. The kid, born 15 weeks prematurely, was her first child.

The couple married in Abu Dhabi in May 2007 after a brief courtship while Southampton-born Jayne was teaching ice skating in Dubai. She converted to Islam and the couple moved to the UK, setting up home in Berks. Jayne was only 25 weeks pregnant when she collapsed in her bedroom after going to bed complaining of a headache.

Science At Its Best

Recent satellite observations have revealed the largest breach yet seen in the magnetic field that protects Earth from most of the Sun’s violent blasts, researchers reported. The discovery, made last summer by Themis — a fleet of five small NASA satellites, was reported by the experts on Tuesday. Scientists have long known that the Earth’s magnetic field, which guards against severe space weather, is similar to a drafty old house that sometimes lets in violent eruptions of charged particles from the Sun.

Such a breach can cause brilliant auroras or disrupt satellite and ground communications. Last summer, Themis calculated a layer of solar particles to be at least 4,000 miles thick in the outermost part of the Earth’s magnetosphere, the largest tear of the protective shield found so far. The Themis results could have bearing on how scientists predict the severity of solar storms and their effects on power grids, airline and military communications and satellite signals.

The Discovered World!

Australian researchers have developed a device that allows household fridges to run on solar or wind power. The fridges are capable to switch themselves on and off regularly as they keep their temperature between 2°C and 4°C. A small box developed by the team led by engineer Sam West in Newcastle connects all the fridges in an area electronically. The fridges can talk to each other and decide when is the best time to turn on the compressor and cool them down. When there is plenty of solar power available, the fridges switch themselves on.

The developments that we have been seeing over the past two decades have been tremendous. Inventions have been flying car, AI robots, solar power bikes and now solar power fridges. These many development have been made but still the cost living is increasing. There are a number of developments lying underground which could actually reduce the cost of living and those are the one which should be brought out by the governments and people from the villages should be made aware of the need of education and developments in the country. This will make the world a better place to live in beyond the discoveries.

Little Master

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India, is an Indian cricket player widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the master of cricket and Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and One-Day Internationals and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. He started his carrier very early age of 16, where he scored his first century after only after 78 One-Day Internationals and then emerged to score most number of centuries by any other batsmen in the world.

He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in one-day international cricket history. Sachin is considered to be the Wisden No: 1 one-day international cricket player and No: 2-test cricket player after Sir Donald Bradman. He was named No: 1 by the legendary leg spinner Shane Warne in his book of his top hundred cricketers.

Preserving The Culture

The Indian culture is considered to be one of the oldest and best cultures in the world, which is now in danger. People from all over the world try to follow the Indian culture, whereas people inside India are attracted by the new traditional changes over a period of decade. The western culture has made a great impact over the people of India. I don’t blame the western culture to be worse however it is so that Indians are not fully equipped to acquire the culture.

Once a question asked by an Indian to the people in Sweden that Indians follow a great tradition of one for one relationship, while you don’t follow this. Reply came from the Swedish people, yes we don’t follow it but we don’t many having AIDS as that of your country. This I think is because of the traditional change, which has occurred. We must make sure that if we follow a culture it should be followed the correct way. People try to wear shorts with a sexy T-shirt to a temple, which considered being a holy place of purity. Though you may say people should not be induced; it is not possible when people of opposite gender pass through. So it is better if the impact made does not destroy the fame that India has got through its culture for centuries.