Flowers say it all !!!

Just a pretty gift from someone very special for a very special occasion.... another year with promising dreams and hopes. I read this somewhere today, not quoting it since I dont remember exactly what it was and where I read it... It goes, "Dreams just occupy as much space as that occupied by the brain cells unless they are fulfilled." So dream and make them come true. Count the number of flowers and you'll get my age !!! Hey do not count them all ;)

How boring can boredom get?

Ever wondered how relaxing and joyful would it be if you didnt have to work? Do you get TIME TO DO ALL THE NOTHING YOU WANT? ( i found this on my fav t-shirt) I have always wondered who took away my time, why is that I dont get time to engage myself in my favourite passtimes and hobbies.

The truth is people have become so lazy because they think they are over-worked, while the truth is that people are not spending quality time in their office-work and they dont do any physical activity while working. The result, lack of sleep, lack of energy and less productivity... and the end result hard working people eventually become "Zombies".

So I started this blog talking about boredom and not hard-work and lack of sleep. But the point I am tryin to put is the level of activity people have today. People take vacation to relax coz they need a break from their work and give their brains some good food. Thats leisure time activity. How about classifying leisure as active and passive, sounds logical. Now describe passive activities:-

• Watching television
• Spectator games/sports
• Shopping/spending money
• Gambling/betting
• Getting drunk/hogging on food.

If you agree with that, then think whether they give our brain some relaxation, yes they do, but do these feed the brain well and make us energized? Then the answer is no. Research (not mine) has shown that 90% of Americans today are active but passively...In the 1930s and the WWII people used to spend time reading, going outside, visiting friends and picknicking, dancing to pursue their interests after expending their activites doing manual work during the war times, but now lazing around is all we do in the name of relaxing. Kill the time, but do it efficiently; relax but enjoy outdoors; cherish moments, but challenge yourself !!!

What people search for?

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Ask, the most popular search engines, but what do they all do? What do people want to find over the internet? Did you know that Archie has been claimed to be the 1st search engine started as early as 1990. Later technologcal advancements made them obsolete and the evolution of technologies led to the now popular google and such search engines. There is also an internet site maintaining the rankings of the popular search engines website, which claims Google to be the leader with almost 50% of the search engine share. So what is that which makes google the top in search engines, its nothing but the "Pigeon Cluster" technology, which made is so popular ever since its launch in 1998... unfortunately a sad joke by Google for April fool's day in 2002. In fact it uses a different technology called page rank...

I was just trying to "google" the most popular searches in internet and the most common mistakes people make while searching, and found this. http://www.portalmix.com/english/searched.htm

Finally why did I write about this subject, well the title of my blog is itself something to share, and I wanted to share it...

How do I describe this?

Even wondered why it feels so beautiful, why it brings a special feeling, something really refreshing and pleasing?
So what is that I am talking about, its the nostalgic smell of the wet earth after the first rain of the season. Its June 1st and there is the official monsoon season. Global warming did change much of nature and disturbed her a lot, but still nature continues her cycle. Yes it is here in my place, drop by drop it was building up in the clouds all this while and then it started to give way...

I was always thinking of how to explain the feeling you get when you sense the smell, its neither sweet, nor unpleasant and I couldnt find a better ajective to explain that smell, but I found a whole word to explain it, "Petrichor " from the greek root "petros - stone" and "ichor - the fluid believed to run in the veins of Greek Gods". So why do we feel it so special and what makes it so distinct? Well it is coming from the soil of course, due to the oils and other chemicals absorbed by the vegetation. Well scientists have conducted much research and coined the word long back, in the early 1960s, and I'm not going into the chemical details of it... for the moment just enjoying the drippetty droppetty rain and her dance in the wind.