Month: January 2011
My Letters – GULF NEWS – Dt. 18.01.2010 – Don’t read and drive
My Letters – GULF NEWS – Dt. 18.01.2010 – Don’t read and drive
Gulf News reader Mohammad Ansar Basrur Habibullah said he was horrified
to see a motorist engrossed in reading material while driving. He said: “I took this picture from my mobile phone while I was on Shaikh Zayed Road, driving towards Abu Dhabi. I was watching the [motorist] for quite a long time. He was actually reading something while driving. We were at a speed of between 80km/hr to 100km/hr and there was light traffic. [The sight] shocked me. People need to drive more safely.”
– The reader is a businessman in Dubai
My Comments as follows:
Added 12:44 January 18, 2011
What the driver was doing is absolutely wrong. We get to see many drivers texting while driving, which is another danger. I request the community reporter too to not take photos while driving, if it was he who clicked, it is also a mistake. Safety First – let that be each drivers motto.
Ramesh Menon, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
To read it in original, please visit GULF NEWS Online.
World Recession Day – 17 February
World Recession Day – 17 February
Why not? Just suddenly this thought came to me. Many are affected by recession and joining the un-employment group. Even then, crazy about these artificially created days, we tend to explore the width and breadth of our purse and credit/debit cards – just for the sake of it. An article written by Sri Joy Mathews in his blog, prompted me to create this special day ” World Recession Day – 17 th February”. Let us participate and share our knowledge to not face another year of Recession.
വരവായി വാനരക്കാലം blog post dated 13 February 2009.
Thinking about it, do we need these special occasions to remember our mother, father, children and loving wife? It is a daily affair and it should be the case.
So, wish your friend, relative, brother and sister a Happy World Recession Day – 17 February.
We need a special day for everything. Thus, we need a day to remember and warn the realities of things happening around and a siren of the alarming economically tougher days that we walked past and the days coming ahead till the global situation is accustomed and worked over by all. A day to remember our dear friends who lost out in the great battle of recession during the last several month. A day to support and cheer those who are still fighting to survive it and look ahead.
So, let us all mark 17th February as WORLD RECESSION DAY.
The day is chosen as the third thursday in February. Thursday being a universal working day, will be suitable for all to share and spread the importance of due diligence in finance management.
A day to remember:
* the importance of diligent saving
* the importance of efficient spending
* the importance of long term and short term planning
* the importance to educate our children the value of money
* the importance to not get carried away by PLASTIC MONEY
* many more financial principles that we learn on a daily basis.
Here it is, one more day in our life to remember. If you feel this day has to be remembered, include it in your diary, and spread the word around.
Ramesh Menon
18.01.2011
Mind Speaks – Sreesanth will come in to the team for the final eleven of World Cup 2011
Mind Speaks – Sreesanth will come in to the team for the final eleven of World Cup 2011
As a cricket lover from Kerala, it is sad to see the 15 names announced for World Cup Cricket 2011 without Sreesanth in it.
I believe, Sreesanth lost the chance not because he lack ability but because of “his mind’s extra agility” which is making the Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni vary of his plans. Two years ago itself he has told in an interview and I have quoted his statement in a blog post as early as October 2008 (I was reading an article in which Mahindra Singh Dhoni was expressing his comments about his wish to have a good bowler who bowls according to the captains plans).
(To read the above comment – please read my post Mind Speaks – Unsung heroes and untimely aggressions http://clicksandwrites.blogspot.com/2008/10/mind-speaks-unsung-heroes-and-untimely.html )
He at that time clearly mentioned, I want someone who bowls each ball according to the instructions I give. I am not negating here that Sreesanth bowls against Dhoni’s will. But, within his mind Sreesanth has an aggressive player and the conflict to overpower the opposition batsman on his own skills, he end up going against the tide, which may indirectly making his progress difficult. This is an example. However, it doesn’t mean that it is the end of the world. He will fight and come up. As each time, or time has proved that end of the day, Dhoni had no other options, within Indian Fast – medium Fast bowling resource, other than Sreesanth to look forward to when it matters aggression and skills combined within one.
Hope, this treatment, or experience in life will make Sreesanth a more striking bowler in terms of economy and wickets than in terms of hits on twitter and media.
I hope and wish he comments no further as it may reduce his chances further.
I still believe, before the tournament begins, there will be omissions and Sreesanth will play in the final eleven for India in the 2011 World Cup tournament.
Best Wishes to Team India.
(picture courtesy cricinfo.com)
Poste Note: In the current sereis between South Africa and India, including this 3rd match Sreesanth did not play. If the team combination before the selection to the final 15th for world cup was an indicator, it was clear that Sreesanth was not in the scheme of things planned by Mahendra Singh Dhoni. In a way it is good for Sreesanth too, as the playing conditions in South Africa are not the same as that of in India. So, the more these selected bowlers play in South Africa, the more the chances for injuries, which may help him to get his spot back into the 15 member squad.
Indian Bloggers Nest – Inviting Bloggers to submit their blog links
Inviting Bloggers to submit their blog links
Dear Blogger,
To get your blog listed here, please send your blog URL to team1dubai@gmail.com and also a short profile with the following details:
URL of your blog:
Your Name:
Location:
Category/topics you cover in your blog:
Blogger since:
E-mail:
Contact Address:
Contact Phone:
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Chevrolet beauty on the road
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Weather – whether to rain or not
e Nidhi SREE Nidhi – an opportunity to support children who wants to study
e Nidhi SREE Nidhi – an opportunity to support children who wants to study
Dear Friends,
On behalf of Team 1 Talent Share group and blogs, I wish to encourage, motivate and support poor children to study and progress well in the life. With this in mind, I wish to initiate:
• A Scholarship in terms of a variety of assistance (monetary benefits, books, uniform, support etc) – to those children from families with difficulties to educate their children in the 10th, 12th and Degree education.
The idea now is to plan and provide:
- The child’s extracurricular abilities like skills in sports and arts will get extra rating.
- His/her parents education (the lesser the education of the parent and the higher mark he gets, he will get a higher rating)
- Any physical disabilities he/she has in life will get special consideration and rating
The above are the basic criteria I have thought about for initiating this scheme for the first time.
- If interested, you may join hands with me are welcome to contact me by email team1dubai@gmail.com.
- You may identify a needy child and introduce him/her and his/her parents to me so that as a team we could finalise what are their requirements for a successful educational environment to come up in life.
If identified, children in earlier classes of education will also be supported under this scheme.
Looking forward to your positive reply in this regard and then we will work on further to make it a reality.
Ramesh Menon
E-mail: team1dubai@gmail.com
An opportunity to learn Indian Languages – Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme
An opportunity to learn Indian Languages – Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme
Here is an opportunity for you to learn Indian Languages. On behalf of the Technology Development for Indian Languages Programme, Department of Information Technology (DIT), Govt. India is distributing free language learning CDs to your home address.
It is very easy for you to obtain them.
– Log on to http://www.ildc.in/
– Click on to any language listed on the left side.
– On right side you will find a button for registering your details. Register with a user id and password.
– Once registered, log on and then request for any number of languages, that you may wish to learn.
Why hesitate, give it a try and learn one (or many) new language in 2011.
This is what the introduction on the site have described about this programme:
India is a multilingual country with as many as 22 scheduled languages and computer technology breaks the language barrier and bridges the gap between the various sections of the society through easier access to information using their respective languages and hence language computing becomes central to the exchange of information across speakers of various languages.
Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme initiated by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Govt. India has the objective to develop information processing tools to facilitate human machine interaction in Indian languages and to develop technologies to access multilingual knowledge resources. Department of Information Technology launched another major initiative called National Rollout Plan to aggregate these software tools and to make these available through a web based Indian Language Data Centre (ILDC). This activity is being executed in close coordination with CDAC,GIST,Pune. Under this user friendly software tools and fonts are being made available free for public through language CDs and web downloads for the benefit of masses.
The availability of these software tools, fonts and resources in local languages at no cost is intended to motivate general public to use ICT tools and technology in their day to day work like Word Processing, Presentation preparation, Spread Sheets preparation, Web Page Surfing & Designing, Messaging etc. in local languages. Further, the consolidated availability of linguistic resources and tools at one place will help researchers to carry out their research in a smooth and efficient manner.
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