Friday, December 31, 2010

River Under Water (Probably Mexico)

Can you imagine there can a river under water? It’s amazing but no word on where is it located. Some believe this heaven-like place is located somewhere in Mexico. Most probably inside a cave. The water is crystal clear.

Whatever! This is one of the most beautiful natural sceneries I have ever seen.




Monday, December 27, 2010

Armenians Make World's Biggest Chocolate Bar

Switzerland and Belgium may be the world's most famous chocolate-making countries, but tiny Armenia has just stolen some of their spotlight by creating the largest chocolate bar, ever.

The sweet event took place in Armenia's capital of Yerevan, and was organized by the Grand Candy Factory a local chocolate making company, as a way to celebrate to celebrate its 10 years of existence. Guinness Book representatives were invited to take part in the unveiling of the chocolate monster created, and to make sure this event goes into the record books.

The giant chocolate bar weighs 4,400 kilograms, is 224 inches long, 110 inches wide, 10 inches thick and is made from cocoa beans from Ghana. In the following weeks, the world’s biggest chocolate down will be chipped into pieces and handed out to freely around Yerevan.

The previous record for the world's biggest chocolate bar was set in 2007, in Italy.



Saturday, December 25, 2010

Shanghai Project - Vision 2020

With over 20 million people in its extended metropolitan area, Shanghai is China’s most populated city. With an area of nearly 5,300 km2 (2,046 sq mi), it is also one of the world’s largest urban areas - and it’s growing fast. On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, there is what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city. The room-sized model of central Shanghai in 2020, as envisioned by the urban planners, fills an area larger than 100 square meters.






Thursday, December 23, 2010

Law of garbage free truck ...

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.


We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.


My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.


My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.


So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'


This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'


He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.


As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.


Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.


The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.


--


Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,


so ... Love the people who treat you right.


Pray for the ones who don't.


Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!


Have a garbage-free day!


--


Laughter is still the best medicine !

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Long live Bachelors !!!! (Just for fun :) )

Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life!!

--Anonymous

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should
be happier than others.

--Oscar Wilde


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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.

--Scottish Proverb


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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

--Sam Kinison
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Men have a better time than women; for one thing,
they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

--H. L. Mencken


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When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why.
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why.

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Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener.

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When a man opens the door of his car for his wife,
you can be sure of one thing:

either the car is new or the wife.

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I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding
her way back to home always.

--Anonymous

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I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our
anniversary?" She said,"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her,
"How about the kitchen?"

--Anonymous

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We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

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My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours.
That was only for the estimate.

--Anonymous

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She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then
the mud fell off.

--Anonymous

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She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too
late for the garbage?"
Following her down the street I yelled, "No, jump in."

--Anonymous

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Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses
to get to married.
He says "the wedding rings look like minature
handcuffs....."

--Anonymous
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If your dog is barking at the back door and your
wife yelling at the frontdoor, who do you let in first?
The Dog of course... at least he'll shut up after u
let him in!

--Anonymous

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A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly
parted mother and started back toward his car when his attention was
diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be
praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to
die? Why did you have to die?" The first man approached him and said, "Sir,
I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this
demonstration of pain in is
more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so? Deeply? A
child? A parent?"The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then
replied "My wife's first husband."

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A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband
leaned over, made a wish
and threw in a coin .
The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned
over too much, fell
into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned
for a while but then
smiled "It really works ! "

Sunday, December 12, 2010

3 mysteries science can't solve

Scientists have yet to answer these three really, really big mysteries :)

How did the universe begin?

It's only in the past 80 years that experts have lined up behind the big bang theory, which took off after Edwin Hubble's 1929 discovery that the billions of galaxies in the universe are not fixed in place but rather moving away from each other, presumably launched by the explosion of some very hot primordial atom.

More recently, astrophysicists including the great Stephen Hawking have suggested the possibility of a "big bounce," during which the universe contracted to infinitesimal size before expanding again. Whether or not the physics will ever make sense to mere mortals, this much is certain: One of the best places to feel awed is the planetarium.

Do aliens exist?

Only conspiracy theorists believe in extraterrestrials. Right? Not so fast, says Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at MIT, who points to a slew of recently discovered extrasolar planets -- planets outside our solar system -- with earthlike properties.

"It's been a major development," he says. "If I had to guess, I'd say there are thousands, maybe millions, maybe billions of planets in the galaxy with some form of life, and maybe hundreds or thousands with intelligent life."

How many species live on Earth?

There could be three million, or there could be 100 million. Scientists agree only that there are a lot more than the 1.9 million we've already named (and that possibly one-third of all species on Earth are tropical beetles).

One of the reasons we haven't been able to get an accurate count is that most of the world's creatures are very, very small. But new technologies, like DNA sequencing, are making it easier to discover more and more about our planet's treasure trove of biodiversity.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

This is how the World Is Using Cellphones ! (Demographics)

The infographic illustrates, among other things, the number of cellphones per capita in various countries, the rate of cellphone adoption in the U.S. during the past decade and the acceptability of certain behaviors regarding cellphone use.

According to the infographic’s sources, there are nearly two cellphones for every one person living in the United Arab Emirates (1.95 to be exact) and Estonia (1.94). By comparison, there are .87 cellphones per person in the U.S. China has the greatest number of cellphones within its borders (640,000,000), followed by the U.S. (270,000,000).

In addition, 15% of Americans take phone calls during sex, according to a survey (although 6% to 10% think it’s acceptable, according to another survey), and three in 10 Americans used a cellphone in 1999, versus nine in 10 a decade later.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Effort is Important

A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!

A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for $10,000.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer...... ...... ...... ...... $1.00
Knowing where to tap...... ...... ...... ...... ..$9,999.00

Moral of story is:
"Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference"

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Innovative Advertising by a Job Portal in Copenhegan, Denmark

Here is an amazing example of creative marketing. Given below are few amazing realistic 3D advertising hoardings put up by a job portal company in Denmark's capital city Copenhegan.

These advertisements look so real that they attract the on-lookers so much they are compelled to take multiple glances toward the ad. Have a careful look toward these ads.











Thursday, December 2, 2010

Weird Facts ! :O

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.



It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.



Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.



The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!



February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.



Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"



Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.



A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet



No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy



Earth's oceans contain 7,500,000,000 kil grams of gold, dissolved in the water



Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not



If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.



To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers



Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.



Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.



Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.



Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.



The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!



Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.



Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros



Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years



Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

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