Happy Ugadi

The World : Man-made Islands

Pic courtesy : getty images

Ever wish the world was smaller? This group of more than 250 man-made islands was designed to resemble the entire world when seen from the air. The islands, which range from 250,000 to 900,000 square feet, can be bought by individual developers or private owners -- starting at $6.85 million.

The only way to get between each island is by boat...or yacht, given the clientele. A notable engineering feat: The project incorporates two protective breakwaters to protect the islands from waves, consisting of one submerged reef (the outer breakwater) and an above-water structure (the inner breakwater).

From : Businessweek Online.

Tom or Jerry

Cool game...

Wat do u see

Pic of the day

Can u guess wat he might be doin...

Very Addictive Game

Click and hold the red square.
Now , move it such that you will neither touch the wall nor hit by the blue blocks.
See how many seconds you can survive...

Transparent Butterfly

Greta oto is one of a number of similar transparent winged butterflies. It comes from central America, and is found from Mexico to Panama. It is quite common in its zone, but it not easy to find because of its transparent wings, which is a natural camouflage mechanism.

Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ithomiinae
Latin name: Greta oto
Common name: The Glasswing

Wood Art

Forks Can u believe this...

Thought of the day

Apperance & Reality

To appear wise, one must talk;To be wise, one must listen.

To appear to do good, one must be busy;To do good, one must know when to stand aside.

To appear to lead, one must put oneself first;To lead, one must put oneself last.

To appear caring, one must give advice;To be caring, one must give space.

To appear to love, one must know how to give;To love, one must know also how to receive.

To appear happy, one must smile;To be happy, one must be free with tears.

Today's Art

HAPPY HOLI

Holi or Phagwah (Bhojpuri) is an annual Hindu spring festival. It takes place over two days around late March or early April. As per the Hindu calendar, it falls on the last day on the month of Phalgun (फाल्गुन), which is a Purnima (or Pooranmashi) Full Moon on a Purnima (or Pooranmashi) Full Moon, and on the first day of Chaitra (चैत्र). It is a celebration also of the Hindu New Year, as Chaitra is the first month of the Hindu Year. It is also called the festival of color. On the first day, a bonfire is lit at night to signify burning Holika. On the second day, known as Dhulandi, people go around until afternoon throwing colors at each other. A special drink called 'thandai' or bhang (Cannabis sativa) is also consumed sometimes, which actually contains small amounts of marijuana. People invite each other to their houses for feasts and celebrations later in evenings. Rangapanchami occurs a few days later on a Panchami (fifth day of the full moon), marking the end of festivities involving colors.

Amazing Foto

This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point. And you also see the sun below the moon.

Funny Pic

Divorce Blackmail

After 48 years of marriage, an elderly Sindhi man in Bombay calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day son, but Ihave to tell you that your mother and I are getting a divorce; 45 years of misery is enough!"

"Dad, what are you talking about?" the son screams.

"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says.

"We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Hong Kong and tell her!"

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care ofthis." She calls Bombay immediately, and screams at the old man, "You are not getting divorced.

Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow.

Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR??" and she hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay", hesays, "It's all set. They're both coming for Diwali and paying their own airfare!!"

From one of my Fren's

One of my dear friends said to me one night when I was thinking of the life and the different troubles people face and was getting depressed ….

She said that everyone is a PENCIL…..!
Yes, I am not joking, she said we are all pencils.

Well Shakespeare said we are all puppets, that I can understand, but we are pencils….
Well I laughed!What were you expecting me to do?

But then she shut me up by saying that all the sharpening that is done on the pencil is to get the led sharpened which is the sole purpose of the pencils life. To be so sharp that it can be used to write legible & beautiful writing.So, according to her the troubles make humans so sharp that they can be perfect in what ever they are supposed to do!

I was absolutely stunned by her simple example. I felt this inner peace that I have some purpose in life that I am working hard towards it & the troubles in my life or any one else’s is to make him / her, a stronger & better human in their respective life.

From Sumi

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we will be back soon...

Microsoft launches Windows Live...

Microsoft Windows search engine and many more go check out clik on the pic for more info.

Today's message forward

One day LOVE asked FRIENDSHIP,
"why are you in the world when i am here?" Friendship smiled & said "
TO SPREAD SMILES WHERE YOU LEAVE TEARS...!

Questions that screw ur mind...

First Question:
You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are...?

Third Question:
Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper! and pencil or a calculator. Try it.

Fourth Question:
Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

Okay, now the bonus round.!
There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?

Answers in comments

Don't look back

Cool Illusion

New Fashion

10 best excuses

10 best excuses when you get caught falling asleep on your desk:

10. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."
9. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to."
8. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You probably got here just in time!"
7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm."
6. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."
5. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga?"
4. "Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."
3. "The coffee machine is broken..."
2. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot..."
And the #1 best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk...
1. " ... in Jesus' name. Amen."

Todays Art

Cartoon of the day

Think b4 u do...

>A woman wanted to reach her husband on his mobile phone but discovered
> that she was out of credit, She instructed her son to use his own phone
> to pass across an urgent message to his daddy who was on site. After
> junior had called, he got back to mummy to inform her that there was a
> lady that picked up daddy's phone the three times he tried reaching dad
> on the mobile. (Women!!)
>
> She waited impatiently for her husband to return from work and upon
> seeing him in the driveway, she rushed out and gave him a tight slap,
> and she slapped him again, for good measure.
>
> People from the neighborhood rushed around to find out what the cause
> of the commotion was. The woman asked junior to tell everybody what the
> lady said to him when he called.
>
> Junior said "The subscriber you have dialed is not available at
> present.
> Please Try Again Later"...

This is how china gets Gold medal

Cartoon of the day

Banta Singh writes to Bill Gates

Dear Mr Bill Gates,
This letter is from Banta Singh from Punjab. We have bought a computer for our home and we found problems, which I want to bring to your notice.
1.After connecting to internet we planned to open e-mail account andwhenever we fill the form in Hotmail in the password column, only ****** appears, but in the rest of the fields whatever we typed appears, but we face this problem only in password field. Wechecked with hardware vendor Santa Singh and he said that there isno problem in keyboard. Because of this we open the e-mail account with password *****. I request you to check this as we ourselves do not know what the password is.
2.We are unable to enter anything after we click the 'shut down ' button.
3.There is a button 'start' but there is no "stop" button. We request you to check this.
4.We find there is 'Run' in the menu. One of my friend clicked 'run'has ran upto Amritsar! So, we request you to change that to "sit", so that we can click that by sitting.
5.One doubt is that any 're-scooter' available in system? As I findonly 're-cycle', but I own a scooter at my home.
6.There is 'Find' button but it is not working properly. My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot for tracing the key with this 'find', but unable to trace. Is it a bug??
7.Every night I am not sleeping as I have to protect my 'mouse' from CAT, So I suggest u to provide one DOG to kill that cat.
8.Please confirm when u are going to give me money for winning 'HEARTS' (playing cards in games) and when are u coming to my hometo collect ur money.
9.My child learnt 'Microsoft word' now he wants to learn 'Microsoft sentence', so when u will provide that?
10.Whta is this, I brought computer, cpu, mouse and keypad lekhinthere is only one icon with 'MY Computer', where are the remainings?
11.This is strange, you say 'MY Pictures' but there is not even single photo of mine, So when u will keep my photo in that.An immediate response in this regard is highly expected with detailed explanation.
with sincere regards,
Banta singh.

Dont get frustated

A man comes running to the doctor shouting & screaming in pain "Pleasedoctor you've got to help me. I've been stung by a bee.

DOCTOR: "Don't worry; I'll put some cream on it.

MAN: "You will never find that bee. It must be miles away by now.

DOCTOR: "No you don't understand! I'll put some cream on the place youwere stung.

MAN: "Oh! it happened in the garden where I was sitting under a tree

DOCTOR (in anger): "No, no you IDIOT! I mean on which part of your bodydid that bee sting.

MAN (still screaming in pain): "On my finger! The bee stung me on myfinger and it really hurts

DOCTOR (banging his fist, abusing and shouting):"Which one?"

MAN (innocently): "How am I to know? All bees look the same to me."