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YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW

CIVILIZATION: Harappa, Mohenjedaro (Indus Valley)
Knowledge of metallurgy, making of alloys was known, when whole of Europe was living in caves, India had trade links with Egypt and Mesopotamia (Iraq and Middle East).

POPULATION: 1 Billion and above melting pot of Aryan, Dravidians and many races mixed into the beautiful body India. Mother India gave birth to 2 children, who are asking to come back to the mother.

LANGUAGES: Primary 14 languages linking North, South, East, West. Hindi, Urdu, English these 3 languages are the medium of Mass Communication in India, the biggest and most beloved arm of mass communication in India is Hindi Film Industry.

GEOGRAPHY: Himalayas and many other beautiful mountain ranges decorate the crown of India. 50 and above river and tributaries, dense rain forest and biggest variety of flora and fauna in the world are the clothes of India.

ENVIRONMENT: It needs immediate preservation, not much is being done, if left as it is it will effect the weather cycle of the whole world, needs big fund urgently to manage all corners north, south, east, west, before it is too late.

TYPE OF GOVERNMENT: 1 Billion population votes from all corners of India Members of Parliament, 575 or around, who make the Lower House (Lok Sabha) here the bills, articles, amendments, laws, rules are suggested and passed. No other nation in the world has such big electoral franchise, every Indian Citizen 18 years of age take part in voting. Upper House (Rajya Sabha) has power to suggest amendments to bill and laws being made, apart from other functions.

Independent Judiciary, Independent defense, Independent internal affairs, Independent foreign affairs, Independent State Legislative assemblies (Members of Legislative Assemblies) these assemblies regulate resources and departments coming under state jurisdiction in cooperation with Central Indian Government (Elected Parliament).

On the whole Airways, Railways, Waterways, Roadways, Economy, Commerce, Industry, Banking, Individual citizen guarantees are more representative of population than any other nation.

I am an insignificant person to describe the beauty inherent in the foundations of this modern India. If Indians themselves do not love freedom and representation all this systems could never have taken the strong roots they have today in modern India. It is the populations love to be a representative picture of the whole which made this all possible. This fantastic system is a tribute to the people of India.

Is there any other nation in the world with so big democratic exercise and so many shinning lights attached to its name. I have not covered yet the education system, Indian administrative system, the public service commissions system, agricultural system, the irrigation systems, and the public transport systems all these gigantic mammoths are not present anywhere.

You may have 4 Million kilometers of Railway lines or fiber optic cables or electricity distribution networks, irrigation networks, but still India will top everyone because Indian systems are supporting biggest number of human beings per kilometer than anywhere in a democratic world, every balance is tilted in favor of India.

Don’t worry if we find flaws and some bad spots now and then, the size of India and its foundations are capable of erecting a structure sound and firm in all aspects of nation building, the systems with so much mass support will outlast and out perform and out build and out develop because of its sheer size and dependencies of so many souls.

We only need one right minded visionary to see the sleeping potential in this lean, mean, fighting, struggling, improving, building, progressing, moving nation India is today. Young eyes see well than old eyes, clear eyes see better than blurry eyes.

Once India come into the hands of a young, sincere visionary, who can see the length and breadth of India, I promise you there wont be hunger, draughts, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Destructions and calamities, this is the result of just bad KARMA. What goes around comes around, just let hand of god decide the fate of India, depending of humans is not good, humans are weak, born weak and die weak.

I am nearing end of my allotted review length, but I did not cover many parts of this tricolor nation, forget tricolor, and forget India.

History repeats itself, if India was able to build Qutub Minar, Ajanta Ellora, Red Fort, Taj Mahal, Gol Gumbaz, Charminar, Bhakranangal Dam, Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam, please don’t forget Dr.Kalam is the genius created by India, he has trained thousands and thousands more youngsters will follow the road paved by him, Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam is the jewel in the modern crown of India.

Future Indians will build better Tajmahals, better Qutub Minars, better dams, and better whatever they want to build with their hearts and minds. The foundation has taken root.

This is just the beginning, infant India has so much potential, what about adult India. I don’t mind calling India infant. The new foundations are only 59 years old; America required 200 years to reach adulthood.

Please if you can add other aspects of Indian beauty, leave them in the comment section to make this review one complete description of INDIA IN GENERAL, My efforts are wanting I know.

Yo wisdom is not a tooth but it is the right thinking.

INDIAN IDOL
Is Abhijeet the Indian Idol ?
The main host of this programme is Shaan, A very talented singer, he has so many shows to his credit, he has music albums, he is in the Indian television since now 15 years, He was very young when he started hosting programmes, he was around 19 years at that time.

THE FIELD
Lets check out the field, there is a programme on American Television, called American Idol and there are some other ameature participation programmes on different channels of India, it usually takes America a lot of time to copy Indian shows, but this time around they have a quickly copied T.V.programme anyway best of luck to all the contestants of Americal Idol and Indian Idol.

THE GOAL
Indian Idol is a programme aimed to demystify the field of actors,singers and other artists, they all look like super men in the eyes of Indians, they have enormous following. This programme attempts to present new talents, attempts to search new people and let the whole of India participate in this search, in their trials and in their struggles, this is a showcase for understanding the meaning of talent and probably inspire other youngsters to see the requirements of art to reach the stages of India and stages of Indian Television.

THE FORMAT
There are Judges who fight with each other to prove how good their trainee is, there are some who do not hesitate to be mean to the budding artists to show to India, how actual the real field of art and films is tough. There are some Judges who criticise other judges who are a guest on the show, showing ADITI DEVA BHAVA , there are some very sincere senior artists who really come as good judges and good trainers to youngsters, they participate in different cities to cover the whole of India.

THE ART
The participants are given some tests like songs and some moods to replicate in their own style or some style of past masters, the are invited to sing in front of cameras, their head are usually tainted with peraoxide (red) and they are made to wear very shiny and uncomfortable garments, I am sure these garments takes away half of their talents, they must declare on the mike how much respect they have for their adopted gurus right in front of the cameras and let the whole of India watch it. They should declare their love for their programme guru. These boys and girls who learned their art by their own hard work must give the credit to the guru. They cannot claim anything good for themselves on this show. This will be very bad to say Lata Mangeshker owes her voice to somebody or Mohammed Rafi is indebted to some guru. Respect of guru and elders is ok, this programme is promotion of youngsters, when these boys and girls are made to show like they are promoting gurus is not ok. That too in front of whole of India. What career they will have after this show. Their guru's work will grow , their guru's offers will grow, the purpose of the programme is to promote youngsters. A guru is a guru is a guru.
If there are winners on this show, till the day they die they cannot claim indipendence from the confessions they made on the show, they will be accountable to their words all their life. This is not a very good mood for talent to flourish, he will loose very little he has. Grooming talent needs indipendence and breathing space, give them the stage, some hints and let them breath, see what a wonderful programme was BOOGIE WOOGIE, there was no meddling by programme producers with the talent of the performers. That is the best format of all for grooming new talents in India. A engineer becoming a builder, what will he reply to the professor when he will claim the earnings of engineer as his guru.

REAL IDOL (SHAAN)
My 1 crore votes will go to this humble servant of art SHAAN, he is the real INDIAN IDOL, he is a very good person, his hosting is good, because of him this programme reached the finals, if this person was not there, the judges would not have become judge, the boys and girls would not have become known faces in India, the show would have failed long time ago, this person has grown up in front of India hosting many many shows and we have watched him interacting with participants, we have watched him interacting with elderly ladies, we have watched him interacting with elder persons, we have watched him interacting elder artists, he is a pure pleasure to watch and he is smiling and very sociable and very very humble, I have never seen him angry in front of the camera in the last 15 years, he has wonderful manners, I will advise all Indian youngsters to get inspired by him and try to copy him and try to emulate him, he is more talented than all the judges who came on the show, he is a better host than the host of American Idol show, he is a better judge than the judges of american idol show, my choice of INDIAN IDOL is SHAAN. Because he is the glue who has kept this show on air since the beginning.

REAL IDOL (SONU NIGAM)
This is another personality, grew up on Indian television, he started same time shaan started and we have seen this person as a host as a artist as a singer as a youngster and as a established star, these 2 people gave Indian television a image of young India specially the culture of India, the respectful nature of India and their good smiles. My choice of Indian Idol is SONU NIGAM.

Please all the young budding artists of India, you can inspire to copy these 2 guys, copy their smiles, copy their talents, copy their struggles, copy their sweat, copy their efforts and copy to become like them. The other trainers and gurus want to imprison you and make you their subjects all their lives. who wins on this show is a poor guy, he will never be able to attain his freedom from what all they said on this show. Only BOOGIE WOOGIE was a programme which did not look like shylock in permoting youngsters. All other programmes are a trap, please beware of the traps youngsters.

Before I end this useless review, as we are on the subject of Indian Idol, I would like to add another fantastic human being India can be proud to copy is Dr.Abul Kalam, this slave of knowledge and learning will be remembered till whatever time India will remain. He will be the hero of India

Yo India copy Dr.Abul Kalam if you can !!!

WHO ARE WE TO YOU ?

HUM APKE HAI KAUN ? tomes can be written on analysis of this film, my present approach will be just touch and go for the review body, This film is about family relations, a very decent and well respected production house made this film. They are RAJSHREE PRODUCTIONS, this house specialize in making good clean family films, their main focus has be rituals and traditions prevailing in India. The presentation here is of culture of values in joint big families.

Instead of talking about other films from this reputed production house, I will jump right into the story of this film, it has 2 families busy in arrangements of engagement between a girl and boy. Now a series of ceremonies take place between the wedding families.

There is a younger brother to the prospective groom, Salman Khan, there is a younger sister to the prospective bride, Madhuri Dixit, mind you this film was made before Salman Khan met the Body building guru of Sanjay Dutt who transformed his body into present shape, that is where Salman Khan got his muscles and bare chest followed.

There are no bare chest on display in this film, a short description of the wedding families, there are parents, house workers, pets and many close cousins, relatives of both bride and groom families. Many pre nuptial ceremonies are shown in very minute details in a fun and appealing way, In India every marriage has all these ceremonies, in fact these celebrations are held to bring closer and expose to understanding all important family elements to future 2 big joint families, its an indirect way of studying friction points or future compatibilities.

There is engagement, then visiting of groom's family to see the girl and test her, then there is clothes measurement and shoes measurement ceremony, then there is date fixing ceremony, I maybe quoting some events in wrong sequence, me being light hearted person do not bother with too much nit picking, but please do not mistake my light hearted writing to be a reflection of these ceremonies, all these events are dead serious requirements of marriage, there is a lot at stake to be grasped during these functions and mixed with all these there is teasing, singing, dancing ,eating, cooking and a stage for young generation of both families to show themselves off.

The weddings are a platform open to both old age and young age members of family to display their talents, hosting abilities, art, creativity, performance, naughtiness, stress management, jesting, testing future conflict areas and over all and above all, get to know each and everybody thoroughly within the context of ceremonies in a cultured and controlled functions.

The evolution of these rituals took a long time to perfect, but swear me this is one way bride and groom will know completely everything about each other and the environment they are going to face in their future married world.

The 2 families go thru to marriage day, all joint family members are exposed openly and completely for the reading and study of everyone wise or otherwise on both sides. This film was a run away success, not because the audience was reliving their marriage experience or taking a peek into their would be marriage experience. No this film was hugely successful and it broke records of earnings and it was one film which was seen by every resident of body INDIA.

This vast viewer ship was because everybody was happy to see the wisdom these ceremonies gives the marrying families, it is artistically highlighted thru the genius of producer, director, story writer, the vastly talented actors and other important production sections of RAJSHREE PRODUCTIONS HOUSE.

Forget the romance of Salman Khan with Madhuri Dixit or any other thing this film you think offered, this film did not succeed because of all that, but maybe there is some minor credit goes to the lead pair, but the biggest reason for the success of this film stands tall : THE WISDOM AND THE STUDY OF MORE THAN 1000 YEARS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THESE RITUALS IN INDIA, forming our society to the country called India today.

This is just one aspect of Indian society and it was made beautiful by Salman Khan and queen of dancing Madhuri Dixit. Biggest measure of success is the money meter, but this film has greater credit than just money, the visual retention of this film in the memory of audience is very strong, every one of us
stored each song, each sequence, each scene of this good film into our long term memory, recalled on demand any time any where. This is a very big achievement.

Yo marrying is easy living together unto grave is difficult !!!

Broken hearts still beat.

No matter what happens our hearts don’t stop beating, the day it stops beating we are devoid of all sense and feelings. The topic points out clearly our heart breaks are painful and we need to deal with the pain and the resultant effects it leaves on our mind and body.

It is the people we love break our hearts, lets tackle love first, if I watch carefully infants when they are holding a bright colored toy, what they do invariably is put it in their mouth. He feels the urge to chew it, take it out look at it and again wet it with saliva and try to chew it, that is our first love, look at him for hours he keeps doing it, take that toy from him, he cries and the whole house can hear his tiny voice, that’s heart break.

When we desire a person very much and we try to find out does he desire us as such, then we let go of our caution and enjoy the company. I remember whenever I sit in the merry go round, the first cycle I am clutching at the iron bar very tightly and when I begin to feel safe and there is no harm is letting go the iron bar, I let up and relax and take the thrill of the ride.

Once upon a time I was standing at the crossroads of heartbreak, what I did is I plugged myself into the sufferings I saw since my childhood all around me, I recalled all the folks I saw dealing with heart break, I took deep breath and kept mum and I made myself loose the will to be hasty, I became deliberate with everything I am doing, even lifting a spoon I made it a point to do it in slow motion, I made myself numb to the stimuli and pondered and pondered.

2 or 3 days in this mood, I was getting back my footing and the fog was clearing, I heard my hidden self asking me is the person who was dear to you, is he the same, the eyes changed, the nose changed, I realized I am not able to chew him like I used to do before, only this reality changed but the person is the same.

The change in the person is difficult to cope with, the change in the eyes and in the tone of voice is difficult to cope with. What I realized that my person was capable of this change. But I did not expect it and I did not foresee this quality in him/her, I am to blame for my lack of doing proper homework, so I must face the change and the pain. What I decided then and there is if she is capable of change, I am capable of change too, why not her heart is tough and mine is tender no. I am a very competitive person, why should I give up the race, I will just let go of the person and suppress the pull of his/her addiction and go on with life. When There is no water in the well, what is the use of lowering the pail. I thought and thought till I understood the situation very clearly and I was able to note all the feelings of my body and mind and as soon I realized what is my body going thru and my mind going thru, I was able to evolve solutions for this changed circumstances

You see once I freed myself from the joys of the past, the happiness bygone, I started coming back to myself and started thinking should I hate this person, should I take revenge from him, should I insult him or should I hurt him ?

The echoes from the depths of my inner space were no, no, no, I cannot be disloyal to myself, I have enjoyed the company of this person, there were shared pleasure between us, there was my heart which is a witness to my previous feelings, if I regret the past I will be disgusted with myself, I cannot let that happen, I will not deny the past nor hate the present, I will just think the Rose I had in my hand lost its petals and its beauty. It is easy to let go of dried up flowers, what I am going to do holding the stalk. I know there are other Roses out there in this beautiful wide world. I must keep hope and I must learn to live without my old Rose and go on with the daily grind. Even if I don’t find another Rose, I am a self sufficient person and that is enough for me to have a life, people will come to me desiring my love. It happened in the past and we all know HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

Believe me we don’t have gears or switches in our body, we have chemicals, hormones, spasms, all these require time, like the fever requires time to get healed, lets leave the control stick, no matter how much you crave to chew on your lost toy, you will get over it one day. The sooner the better.

Let the life reproduce juices again, let the thrills of bungee jumping, parachuting, the silent smiling, the senseless giggling overpower you once again and the past will look like a distant landmark, fading everyday and loosing its sting and the identity, we will reach a point in time where we will have to scratch our memory to recall what happened in the past. One day all this will look like your neighbors story, funny and curious.

Pride and Love cannot live in the same heart, a dog can be friend with cat and a lion can be trained to live with a goat but Pride and Love do not mate and will never mate, Love is to understand and provide comfort before the partner opens his mouth to ask ! It is simple when understood, it is pure without alloys.

The sun shines everyday it is our duty to keep a big window open to bring in the warmth and the light inside, let the shine enter your heart and reflect it from the face. A closed heart will have difficult time every time in life an open heart gives you the reason to giggle and hearty laughs. Keep the big wide smiles ready for your life in future.

Yo people tender hearts break early!!

THE GOOGLE STORY

There are 2 bright young men, the keep all decision making authority over GOOGLE public company
in their hands, their company has a total shares value $ 80 Billion, they are just 31 years old.
here are few points surmised out of this book.

1) What actually is the sauce briefly mentioned in this book.
2) Without becoming wayward, how did the 2 guys remained loyal to their core competency.
3) What prompted them to act with SEC the way they acted.
4) Why are their servers different from other people's servers.

The grail of Google seems to be the sauce, this sauce is giving them such a successful
application on internet. What is that grail ?

As per the confession of the writers of THE GOOGLE STORY David A.Vise and Mark Malseed
I am confused why a company whose revenue generation was nil, could get away with all their
demands against the 2 most powerful venture capital giant firms in the days of dotcom bubble bust
they were doled 25 Million dollars by John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) Michael Mortiz (Sequoia
Capital) and these two firms showed abundance of patience in the development stage with nil
revenues, they even teamed with each other (against their intentions) without seeing the real
sauce of Google. These 2 Investment firms just took the promise of Doctorate dropouts from
Stanford University, they even helped Google green horns in troubled days to hire the best
CEO in the Internet business, Mr.Eric Schmidt.

How come these 2 green horns scored on every front in their struggle period ? They won their
demands from old established business houses , it seems there is a MAVERICK guardian angel guiding them in all walks of their business, even the sauce is provided by that MAVERICK on the
conditions of secrecy, this angel knows the requirement of software industry inside out, it seems
he has guided Mr. Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop their company on every stage into a giant of
Search Industry, GOOGLE has exciting days ahead.

There is a shroud of enforced secrecy on every step, A man who was bled unjustly by the industry
has guided them and demanded them to keep his identity Anonymous, this is clear as daylight, come
on people 2 green horns cannot revolutionize search engine technology, without some secret
HANDSHAKE of machines, like our own fax machines shakes hands with tone of the receiving machine.

Good thinkers are seldom good businessmen, good businessmen cannot be good at politics, good
political experts cannot be good deal makers, good deal makers cannot be good at public relations
remember thinkers and doers are seldom combined in one human grain, I detect a supermen like
achievements in their GOOGLE story.

But I am glad Google's going to use all that computing power to empower us common men, they will
help out in human gnome project, in DNA mapping projects and other biological fields and
development of alternate fuel technology, there are human benefits to THE GOOGLE STORY. In India
a scientist developed fuel from plant leaves, someone ought to take a encouraging look at it.

GOOGLE can be used effectively in the following manner :
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Every political party is constantly complaining about poor voter turn out ( A fact in every
democratic country) Why not use Google to vote casting and counting with all their super
computing power, there wont be any case of booth grabbing, a experiment on small level can be
done on a district attorney level. (As for people who don’t have home computers can go to cyber
cafe to cast their vote) This will save $$$$ Dollars, Dollars, Dollars of hard earned tax payers
money, governments can used the saved funds in alleviating poverty. There will be first time in
history of elections transparency, free of strong arming of the voters, a true experiment in
democracy, 100% assurance of popularly elected representative. As it is now a days voter turn out
is 35% and to call a elected representative, people's representative with so low turn out is
unethical and unjustified and even undemocratic.
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When Mr. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were able to tackle SEC and WALL STREET with their IPO, thru
online bidding they were sure of secure servers and hack free environment, Yo! world give new
technology application in all fields, our old methods have become tiresome and corrupt, lets try
internet empowerment a revolution for benefits of COMMON MAN.

We common men are ruthlessly subjected to surveys and answering test questions, our ideas
expressed in our answers go unrewarded whereas someone is becoming fat with all the analysis at
their hands, but of course many of these points are not in the book I am reviewing but these
points came to my mind with the effect of this book on me. Our book under review simply says lot
of things like, Who said what about Google, this book is written in a reported form, it has used
lot of already printed matter, there are things said about parents of GOOGLE owners, there are
stories about what food is eaten in Googolplex, there is biography of chief chef Ayers of Google
kitchen, there are stories of who was the first employee. There are stories where the founders go
for their entertainment, what was the way a founder's birthday was celebrated, what were the
dishes served in the birthday party, there is a recipe of roast chicken, why was free ice cream
distributed in googolplex, what alterations were done to initial Google logo, all this is
important stuff, but no doubt without sauce.

My deep sympathy is with the 2 authors of this book, they might have signed no disclose contract
before getting the assignment to write THE GOOGLE STORY. But all this is reflection why we need
software like GOOGLE even more. Google EarthLink, Google news, Google desktop and other more
new innovations to empower us and make us free, but with the restrictions on our poor Authors
still this book was published by PAN MACMILLAN of Great Britain, they did a hard job well, they
have maintained pace in their writing and gave readers a few alms of information, I am willing
to take a dose of self induced happiness and give full 5 stars.

As for invasion of privacy controversy with GMAIL, it can be solved by just adding a clause in
user agreement, that ad sense will be used on email page, anyone who press the button I agree will not have any bone to chew, anyway our host scans all our emails everywhere. They have a right to it, as they own the resources we are using, it the right of the landowner and the tenant, this is the right of the possessor of the property. Under same rights dooyoo can partner with Google to use our reviews and produce ad sense, which will help dooyoo grow. But they should start paying us writers at 25,000 points, at present I think dooyoo is shelling money from their pockets, instead of distributing their earnings.

In conclusion I wish Google good luck with Library scanning project, they should scan Osmania
University of Hyderabad, Library, it is one of the oldest universities of India.

Yo ! good news is Google is making information bomb for common men !!!

GO GOA - TRAVEL GUIDE TO GOA
1987 Goa became the 25th state of India. It is known as Pearl of the Orient and Tourist Paradise, it is located in the Konkan area, which is western coast of India. It has beautiful old houses, churches and scenic beauty. It has prettiest natural scenery that India has to offer. Here in Goa festivals are celebrated in harmony such as Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali, Christmas, Easter and Id. Maharashtra borders Goa on the north, Karnataka on the south and east. The Arabian Sea on the west makes the big coastline of Goa.

Terekhol (Tiracol), Mandovi, Zuari, Chapora, Sal and Talpona are the main rivers adding beauty to Goa landscape, some rivers are used to transport Iron and Manganese ore to Mormugao Harbour. Along the way are the beautiful Coconut groves and fishing villages.

Panaji (Panjim) is the state capital, on Mandovi river and Vasco, Margao, Mapusa and Ponda are the other major towns. Goa is serviced by an international/national airport located at Dabolim near Vasco. An intra-state and inter-state bus network transports locals and Tourists around Goa.
The green Sahyadri mountain range gives abundance of water. The sea and rivers give seafood - prawns, mackerels, sardines, crabs and lobsters are the most popular with the locals and the visitors.

English is spoken all over Goa, Konkani and Marathi are the state languages. The national Hindi lanugage is also understood here. Goan cuisine is like this. The staple food in Goa is fish and rice. With a wide variety ranging from prawns to sausages, chicken to beef, and numerous vegetarian dishes, Goan cuisine is able to satisfy even the most finicky gourmet appetites. Goa has some magnificent culinary delicacies like the prawn balcho and sorpotel which have become famous around the world. Goan food it is chili hot, spicy, and pungent. Items made from rice, fish, and coconut abound in nearly every Goan meal.

Seafood such as prawns, lobsters, crabs, pomfrets, clams, ladyfish, mussels, and oysters are used to make a variety of curries, fries, soups and pickles. Besides fresh seafood, dried and salted fish dishes are also highly prized by Goans.

PEOPLE VISITING GOA
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The arrival of the Hippies, made Goa a major destination on international and domestic circuits. The tourist season in Goa begins in late September and carries on through early March. The weather in these months is usually dry and pleasantly cool.

Hot weather is in May and by end of June, Goa receives the Indian monsoon with downpours and tropical thunderstorms. During the monsoon Goa is probably at its most beautiful, with greenery sprouting all around. The fabulous beaches and sunshine are loved by travellers to Goa the laid-back, peaceful, warm and friendly nature of the Goan people is a plus point.

CALANGUTE BEACH is the favourite of GOA, its a 45 minute bus ride from Panjim, Calangute beach is the busiest & the commercialized resort. Calangute beach was once the peaceful fishing Village, but later it became the haven for foreigners.

SOME TRAVEL AGENTS IN GOA ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS
GOA CODE : 0832
Fernandes Tours & Travels Shop G-59, Gr. Floor,
Block B, Alfran Plaza, Panaji. 2225372, 2223374, 2225372, 5642557
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Agnelo Tours and Travels Polvaddo St. Esevam,
Ilhas Panaji 7 Airsonic Travels Pvt. Ltd. 10, Rayu Chambers,
H.S. Road, Panaji 2428085, 2423339
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Heritage Holidays and Travels Patto Plaza, Panaji 2225048 Fax: 2225048
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Indo Saudi Services (I) Pvt. 101 Rizvi Sadan, Panaji
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M/s. Passages Goa Treevent Bldg., Flat No.4, St. Inez
email: pgoa@sancharnet.in 2234060, 5641540
Fax: 5641450
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NKC Travels Flat No.A-1, Poonam Apts, Kaziwada, Ponda Fax: 2312211 Ph.: 2313179
e-mail: nkcgoa@vsnl.net
nkcgoa@sanchaernet.in , web: www.nkcgoa.com
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Speedbird Travel & Tours F-10, 1st Fl., Opp. Municipal Garden, Panaji
e-mail: speedbirdtravel@hotmail.com
speedbird-travel@yahoo.com 5642314, 2228274
Fax: 2237543
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Vishwakamal Travels 4, Kazi Bldg., Ponda
e-mail uptodategoa@sanchernet.in 2314554 / 2315445 / 2312056 / 2312724 Fax: 2312454
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M/s. Aury Mendes Representatis Mahalasa Residency, Gr. Flr., Margao
email: amrgoa@sanchernet.in 2270035
Fax: 2700356
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All flights, national and international, to and from Goa, operate from the Goa Airport at Dabolim near the port town of Vasco-da-Gama. The airport is about 30 kms from the capital city of Panaji and is owned by the Indian Navy. Major airline operators such as Indian Airlines, Jet Airways and Sahara Airlines, Spice Jet, Air Deccan and Kingfisher Airlines have flights carrying passengers and cargo in and out of Goa. Besides these, a number of chartered flights land in Goa from UK and other European countries. The national airline Air India also lands a few international flights, especially from the Gulf countries.

Goa Arrivals :
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Mumbai . New Delhi . Bangalore . Chennai . Kochi . Ahmedabad . Hyderabad . Kozhikode . Kolkota .
Lucknow . Kuwait .

Goa Departures :
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Mumbai . New Delhi . Bangalore . Chennai . Kozikode . Kochi . Hyderabad . Ahmedabad . Kolkota .
Lucknow . Kuwait .

There are many flights in a day, you can contact your travel agents to see what are the flight timings and schedules and different rates. The telephone numbers are below.
Indian Airlines 242 6363 or 242 8282
Air India =243 1100/1/2/3/4
Jet Airways= 243 8792/3/4
Air Sahara =223 0237 or 223 0634
Air Deccan =243 8950/1/2 or 080 3900 8888
SpiceJet =1600 180 3333 or 09871 803 333
Kingfisher Airlines =1600 1800 0101

HOTELS AND ACCOMODATION
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INEXPENSIVE ROOMS:
This can range from simple, bare rooms in regular guesthouses to cosy well furnished rooms in family-run guesthouses. This kind of accommodation is costlier in the city and popular coastal belt areas and cheaper if you go off the beaten track in the rural areas. A decent double room with a fan, attached bath and toilet typically costs around Rs. 200/-. The prices usually double in the peak season period. If you want to get a taste of the typical rural Goa, try accommodation in a family house with mud-floored rooms. The water supply is usually the common village well and baths/toilets are in small outhouses.

BUDGET RANGE HOTELS:
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Budget range hotels which are to be found all over Goa and form the major portion of the available accommodation. These have proper reception areas, well appointed rooms, room service and usually a restaurant. Off season, these hotels are the best bet for your stay. But, most of these hotels are fully booked with hordes of Charter tourists from Europe during the peak season, so finding a room might be a little difficult. However there are still rooms to be found for the walk-in tourist although at a slightly higher tariff.
The tariffs for rooms at such hotels range between Rs 400/- to Rs 800/- for a good-sized room with a fan, en-suite bath/toilet, a balcony and hot and cold running water. There are optionals such as cable TV and air conditioning also available. Most 1-star and uncategorised hotels fall in this category.

CLASS HOTELS:
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The modern 2-star and 3-star hotels which can be found in all the major towns as well as all the popular coastal belt and the high-priced international standard 5-star luxury resorts which cater to the rich and the famous. The luxury resorts are all located in the coastal areas within easy walking distance of a beach. Resorts in this category typically have their own restaurants with different cuisines, coffee shops, large swimming pools, sports and gym facilities along with shops selling everything from books to carpets. The luxury rooms at these type of establishments range typically from Rs 2000/- to Rs 10000/- per night and it is often best to stay at these hotels on one of their special packages available at a much lesser rate.

LONG-TERM RENTALS:
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Rents are different from area to area and even village to village, but you can expect to get accommodation for around Rs 3500/- to Rs 5000/- a month depending upon the season and the facilities included in the cost.

Goa Tourism Development Corporation
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the state tourism corporation, runs its own chain of resorts, similar to standard midrange hotels, but providing cheap dormitory accommodation alongside pricier air-conditioned rooms. These provide good, well-maintained rooms at much more reasonable prices even during the peak season.

BIRD WATCHING
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Goa is a bird watcher's paradise and keen bird-watchers will be in seventh heaven, and even those who have previously had little interest in birds will wonder at the richness of the birdlife.

Common varieties of birds to be seen in Goa include four different species of eagles, as well as other birds of prey such as kites, buzzards, kestrels and ospreys. There are five types of pigeons, six types of doves, five varieties of cuckoos, six of kingfishers and another six of woodpeckers.

Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary on Chorao Island is recommended. Other sites of interest are the wetlands at Carambolim (12km east of Panaj and at Shiroda (40km south-east of Panaji, in Ponda taluka). Bondla and the other wildlife sanctuaries near the Western Ghats are also useful. For seabirds, Morjim beach is recommended.

The Damodar temple at Sanguem, the Church of Our Lady of Miracles in Mapusa, the Shantadurga temple at Fatorpa in Goa are some worth visiting places. Ancestral Goa is miniature Goan Village as it would have existed 100 years ago. It is located on a nine acre verdant hillock at Loutulim ins South Goa, about ten kilometers from Margao.

Graceful swans charm the entrance to the reception. Elephants carrying flowered pillars with multi-hued and decorated beams deck the entryway.

A spacious room redolent of the Goan - Portuguese aura replete with a palanquin, sepia-toned photographs, domed lamps and a designed marble floor feeds one the anticipation of a moment when a whole treasure in the book of history will unfold. The traditional 'aarti' is performed as part of the greeted welcome by a sari-clad goan girl.


The Ancestral Goa project, the brainchild of Goan artist, Maendra J. Alvares who has used his family's ancestral property to keep Goa's culture alive and is a place worth visiting as any lay visitor can get a glimpse of Goa in its original grandeur and authentic form.

This place also gives visitors a glance of a sight other than beaches, churches and temples which Goa is famous for and imparts a culture based education about the roots and heritage of Goa. Ancestral Goa is included as one of the sight seeing spots by Goa Tourism Development Corporation's buses in their cultural tour package.

ANCESTRAL GOA
Next to Big Foot Dance Floor,
Near The Saviour of the World Church,
Loutolim, Goa

Tel No.: 2777034/ 2735064
Website: www.ancestralgoa.com
Email: info@ancestralgoa.com

LOVE KEEPS KICKING AND ALIVE

This movie goes to prove my conviction, one person is enough a lifetime to love and be loved
back emotionally, psychologically, wantonly and physically.

We humans operate to optimum capabilities, when we have central focus, our lives grow more full
and meaningful with focal point well defined. We grow up focusing on mom/dad and later on
life partner, this is healthy way of life, children must focus on parents not vice versa.

I will take my last breath believing decent one person love is enough lifetime and beyond. Our
story under review has shades of deep emotional attachment between MAN and WOMAN.

MAN (Patrick Swayze) WOMAN (Demi Moore), what a woman she is !!

I admire a woman whose face can be cupped in palms of your hand, Demi Moore( Molly Jensen)has
such a face, her charm in this film is very memorable, boy cut hair. T-Shirts and simple dress,
it was sufficient for her image to linger in the senses, her natural pink lips and average eyes
with the most beautiful nose has the right blend to generate possessive feelings in any normal
viewer.

Patrick Swayze (( Sam Wheat ) is not bad himself, good built, dancer walk, long hair ending in
curls, milky face, good features, they all tug at your romantic strings, a pair must look good
together on screen, this gives our body chemistry reason to create juices and when that happens,
we will not be able to forget a film, we cannot deny our sense reactions for a thing.

There is twisted fate of hero in our film because of it, we are left groping and
intrigued with each and every development of this unique love story. It is a challenge to write
such a story for commercial sale, it is a challenge to direct such a story, it is a challenge
for actors to emote to such roles, it is a challenge to give music to scenes unfolding thru
the major portion of our film. Everybody associated with the production of Ghost done a
fantastic job. There is so much fun incorporated in Ghost, that this Ghost is believable.

The ending is believable, the struggle to push the can is believable, friends of Ghost are
believable, there is nothing parallel with real world in this film, but the art has made all
believable ! Is that a wonderful achievement of movie magic ?

Our bodies are full of toxic acids gnawing at us all our wakeful hours, we have so many muscles
demanding constant attention and energy we require air, liquids, solids etc., We are a constant
reactor from our insides, we loose all that watching GHOST. one and half hour you loose track
of your living body, we are lost in a world without existence and start believing the romance
the kisses, agony of helpless watchers, we become a bystander in front of assassin, it is pure
movie magic created by Jerry Zucker direction.

Tony Goldwyn (Carl Bruner) the villain is as good as a lead actor, Whoopi Goldberg (Oda Mae)
brings relief with her unique comedy, mind you she does her role seriously but the laugh comes
by itself, that’s her achievement. Everyone did a fantastic job, the abundant assistants of
Whoopi (Rick Aviles)Willie Lopez looked menacing and real spooky, bankers intoxicated memory
lapse was beautiful, the conversation conscious lift riders, the sarcastic lady cop. Vincent
Schiavelli the teaching Ghost mixed so well with great photography, fantastic dialogues, special
effects and the movie is really low budget, simple locations and no high production costs.

"Your snoring sound made it clear how much you enjoyed the musical" This is a sample dialogue.
Let me come to the soulful music and songs specially title song and some other sweet melodies
the MUSIC MAGIC of Ghost is the engine the movie rides on, there are some jarring notes to
support denizens of nether world entry, there are some sweet notes to highlight love flowing,
there are some transporting notes to prepare the arrival of upward escorts, the MUSIC MAGIC
runs in this movie like the backbone in human body. It takes over you right from the scene of
creating a hole in the wall during cleaning and discovering the big hall, to the clay statue
kicking looked magical, Ghost has everything strong, story, acting, music. Each of this so well
played for our fun craving senses, we are left satisfied and happy by the end.

It will be very selfish of me to give away the plot, I will enjoy discussing it in detail but I
wont, I am side stepping everything to let you have the joy of discovering it yourself. Why is
DITTO a special word, do old Ghosts teach new Ghosts the ways of the world ? I must confess
I succumbed to the charm of GHOST.

Yo! romance elevates sense and spirit combined with mystery !!

SCIENCE JUSTIFY=STAFF OF MOSES !!
ISBN 0-689-81235-3

GALAX ARENA by Gillian Rubinesien

Muslims, Christians, Jews believe in Staff of Moses and what it did to the river, how do modern science justify the rod or the parting of river. this is no legend, lies do not survive epochs, lies fizzle out. Fathers have been telling their families the story till it reached us, this is one source of scientific history, no one can deny its existance.

Galax Arena actually confirms many psychological points, I believe them to be instinctively correct, a book written by anyone is like an EGG, all its readers minds are incubators different chicks come out for different people from their eggs, violent people may incubate a eagle, docile people will incubate sparrow, neither here nor there people will incubate a space alien.

Any thought in anybody belongs to a source, nobody has sure knowledge till today where the thoughts evolve from, some say psyche, some say there are ethereal specks in the air around us and these specks are thought carriers, some say Oedipus fuzz, as many the people as many the dissertations.

I for myself tuned my soul/self to vibrate or excite with only pure or beneficial for all concepts and thoughts. I had to rake thru tons of chaff to attain this tuning, Gillian Rubinestien writings do have excitable vibrations, she knows her own pulse well, it is important for a writer to either vibrate with themselves or to excite the pulse of the mass (reader), she projected her character Joella into her self image, I grudge only the thought that source of Joella's special attributes are plugged into Dogs and Cats.

Forget this wrong information, we as humans are not going to learn anything beneficial from insourcing into Apes, Dolphins, Cats, Dogs or any other animal. It is despicable and down right degrading to think we will acquire knowledge thru animals, the laws of logic nullify that, Greater Voltage flows towards a lower voltage point not vice versa, we cannot break the laws of nature, not at least on Earth, Magicians who seem to do that are tricksters.

We as human beings deliberately lead our fellow neighbors away from the source we learned our own knowledge, that is the reason hard sounding biological names have been kept for all plants and body parts of us humans by the people who are in the business of know how. If the names were easier and nearer to day to day use, all of us could have been doctors. But humans are humans. I wont stop grieving for the upliftment of greater good, my goal is to spread happiness and wellness to the widest possible base. Amen.

All what I said above is not me saying it, it is the effect of GALAX ARENA the book, this is what came out from my Egg. I have a backward incubator. Perceptive qualities like Joella are not rooted in fleshy roots but are originated from the firmaments cool blue above us. I do not subscribe to Marvel Comics, my Supermen come out of Bible, Quran and Mecca, all the holy people who I heard of are my SUPERMEN.

GALAX ARENA has 199 pages of engagingly reading material, the plot is not racy, but the interest in reading do not seep out of you, reader may not identify with characters, but the struggle to visualize the scenes is always dominating the senses. There is good attempt on the writer's part to elaborate and sugar coat the principal of domination politics. Like if you want to learn about real business world, kids play the game of MONOPOLY.

The ARENA is far away from believable, the characters are far off and the language invented do make this book itching the mind, a itch constant all thru the reading, the mind groping and grasping, this book is very much ok. The plot is simple abduct promising kids train them to perform death defying acrobatic tricks and tap the adrenaline in their bodies to inject it into ageing owners of this place on Earth. It seems the drug is working and the ageing process is hindered. The print quality of this book (my Egg) has unique fonts which lends the book a distinction, the age of characters are not anything like Hardy Boys books or Harry Potter books neither Nany Dew.

But the involvement of every reader is thick and requires a tall plane of understanding.
The whole read do not force you into joy or sadness, but till you reach page no.199 you are still clean, clear and have a good feeling for having read this book. Any age reader will enjoy this book as there is something for all and I could appreciate the advanced topics touched and left like a offering to all of us.

PETER, JOELLA, MARIAM, ALLYMAN, LIANE, LEEWARD, HYTHE, ASHMAQ, PRESH, VEXA, PEBS, EDUARDO are some characters and things belonging here. You will know some experimental writing, there is a attempt to visualize mixing of world children in one place and their mutual mingling, our perceptive senses are inversed. We are made to understand that we are pets for some abducting aliens and what thoughts we as humans go thru being in that state. Provocations to us are mild and reaction generating.

This book is mild, modern, experimental, I do recommend it reading very much, if I have to compare the taste of this book for you to get an idea about it, I would say mix up Coca Cola, Fanta, Seven up and any other soft drink and taste it when you are thirsty. You will not anticipate what taste is going to come out of this drink. Even after drinking it you will not be able to describe the taste. Be sure the taste you will think is better than all those separate soft drinks. Better than the plain old drinks we take every time we are thirsty.

The faint itch in your brain will remain with you always about this book, so this is as much I could write in its review here, in fact this is my state of moods after my read. You can plug into cool blue above and raise yourself higher with this book.

Yo an itch in the brain is hard to scratch. !!

Frontline: in line with the times.

www.flonnet.com
This magazine is sold for Rs.15, published every fortnightly (14 days) its email is
frontline@thehindu.co.in, you can check this magazine online on www.hinduonnet.com/fline.

Their coverage of news comes under following headings :

cover story.
politics
A ministry report
spotlight
the states
analysis
world affairs
music
public interest report
tribute
cinema
media
events
debate
technology
interview
perspective
special features
essays
agriculture
column by regular writers
This book is usually 134 pages thick, it has lots of interesting reports from many experts
some of the contributors and journalists of frontline are as follows :-

Editor-in-chief : Mr.N.Ram
Praveen Swami
Haroon Habib
Shanker chattopadhyay
T.K.Rajalakshmi
Dionne Bansha
N.Rahul
Ravi Sharma
Anupama Katakam
T.S.Subramanian
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
P.Venkatesan
Ravi Sharma
Aman sethi
Prafulla Das
A.G.Noorani
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Aijaz Ahmad
and many other well established names in Indian journalism. Some of the names here many not be
employees of frontline, they are contributors, my purpose to give the names is to bring to the
attention of the readers of my review, the BLANK, BLANK, BLANK, BLANK............

We in India do not know any face attached with the above names, a magazine as old as frontline
and a publishing house as good as HINDU, we don’t know their leading men faces, they never print
the pictures of their writers or reporters.

The people we read, we must know their faces, the photos must be printed along the column, this
is the age of computers and information, some writers can put their email address with their
names, so the subscribers who purchase this magazine can have a live face to connect the write
up with a person.

We are in the world where amateur journalism has scored big success, people are becoming famous
and becoming journalists over night, these new kids just out of school are making their names
recognizable all over the world, we in India are still persisting with medieval publishing
policies, suppose I do not like a write up or I have additional information which can help
the writer, I am connected, I have so many wires attached to my PC how do I contact the writer
of a very prestigious magazine called FRONTLINE.

When I am able to submit my viewpoint, with no cost to anyone, this precedent will create a
healthy exchange and who knows the writer is getting proximity with the public and this will
benefit him infuse new ideas in his columns, right ideas are hard to find today.

Many write-ups I read, I feel a isolationist sense in the words expressed in them, the facts are
good but words are devoid of feelings, they are bland and dead, the written words do not evoke
any sense of participation with the ideas expressed in it, the intention of the write up for
public participation is lost. This is happening with all major magazines and regular writers.

Leaders of mass media do not open up and show the world the way to liberate their writers and
expose them to freshness, excitement, harmony, sympathy and proper use of technology, who will
do it, if the educated fail what else remains ? I have seen this magazine since 10 years there
is no change at in the look of FRONTLINE but our world has changed a lot since 10 years.

How can anyone justify the name FRONTLINE, this name must give you a sense of FRONTLINE, I am
not qualified to give these comments, but qualified people do not take the imitative, that makes
me restless, democracy needs healthy exchanges and useful innovations every hour. Let the
people of FRONTLINE show us rest of India how to do it ? I judge frontline to be highly
professional magazine with highly accurate figures but there are no feelings in it. I want to
read 135 pages of feelings. Every write-up must let the public see thru the eyes of FRONTLINE.

Education demands expression, applications demand utilization, a magazine with TLD (top level
name) to its credit must show Indian readers what is true India, but wishful India. A media
magazine has cream of best educated folks working with it, it must lead, make us Indians feel
pleased, show us that India is on the FRONT LINE. We the readers are on FRONTLINE.

I know the magazine is doing good business, why disturb the steady income, that is precisely
the reason to change FRONTLINE, it is well established magazine with top money and education
backing it, this is enough qualification to initiate change, pre condition for change is to
seek BETTERMENT. You have the tools, show us your efforts.

At a junction we all face decision making times. No one is free of this obligation.
MULTINATIONALS cannot dent a reputable and established magazine like FRONTLINE, the potential
to grow even with stiff competition on the doorsteps is a enjoyable challenge ! are you its
equal ? Do you have the fonts and the fronts to capture the global India and the world ?

Yo! good fonts are a necessity not a choice !!!

FREE CELL
FREE TIME, FREE CELL
Don’t Yawn, don’t look disinterested, don’t look bored ever, you work hard to put your company where it is today and now you have free time in office or elsewhere, don’t know what to do, do free cell it is a liberating game, free is a word with happy feelings attached with it, it exhilarates your emotions whenever you hear it.

Free cell is a game of cards; no it is not a usual game of cards, in card games virtual or real
Everybody deals the cards, computers, players, casino workers everyone, in this game there are no card dealings, just randomly arranged cards. The word cell has many connotations , old days it meant only dark gloomy room, but modern days, cell is very high tech, area covered by mobile telephone transmitters and receivers that area is also called cell, hence cell phone.

GAME BOARD, FREE CELL
4 Empty slots to the top right and top left a king in the middle watching over his courtiers, the animations are rather cute and almost like a king if you have seen a live king, like that of the king of Brunei. Bottom 8 rows with 4 rows with 7 cards and 4 rows with 6 cards, face up mocking you and waiting to test your solution finding abilities.

GOAL OF PLAY
Pick cards ace up 4 suits and arrange them in 4 empty slots in top right, spades, diamonds, hearts and flowers, ace unto kings. 4 suits complete it and you win the game.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN
This was what the original host of Crystal Dome used to say, he was a very unique host in the world of game shows, he was bald and very entertaining, in our game you use the 4 empty slots on top left to drop and rearrange the cards another aid you have is rearrange the cards in the lower 8 rows itself black on red in sequence for example black 9 on red 10, dig to reach an Ace, you get ace stack it in the top right slot and then the 2's and 3's which ever is in your reach, complete the 4 four suits in sequence on top right stacks you are home fee. This means you have basically 2 tools empty 4 slots in top left and arranging top down black over red in sequence in the lower 8 rows.

Suppose you dig and a row becomes empty in the bottom, this is an advantage, you can use this spot to rearrange the jumble in proper order. Let me tell you many times cards which are open to be stacked on top left usually fly away by themselves by the game itself, the trick is to dig them out properly. It needs you to plan 5 or 6 steps ahead always.

THE PROGRAM OF THIS GAME
This game program has 1 Million (1,000,000) card jumbles in its database, every time you start the game, you are asked to select a jumble number from 1 to million or the game selects a jumble for you automatically, if you are a person who do not like to repeat yourself, even while playing then please note down the game numbers you already played and select a different jumble every time you are on FREE CELL. There is one irritating message you get do you want to move column or single card. It is best to move single card.

MENUS AND TRIVIA
The Game is a gift with service pack 1 along with windows XP or few previous versions, Microsoft has given this game free with its XP setup program, this is a very beautiful software, there is on the outer frame of this game board the number of remaining cards to be solved are shown constantly and is being updated as you play, this to help you know where exactly you stand from the end of your goal.
If other card games are GO CART racing then FREE CELL is the formula one of all card games in the PC GLOBE, Solitaires are prep school and FREE CELL is a university course.

THE HARDWARE USE
Single click on a card drag it on top of another card or drop it in the left top empty slot and single click to drop, the single clicked card turns into reverse colors and the dropped card turns back to multicolor, the mouse pointer turns into large upward pointing arrow to indicate a card is already picked by you.
There is no time limit and no points for the games, however if you do a wrong pick or wrong landing a error is calculated, the screen blinks to indicate your error and 4 or 5 errors you get a message you have lost the game, do you want to play again the same game.

You also get a screen blink if you don’t have any landing space left or no possible moves left, its like reaching a dead end, you cannot win the game but still the game is not over, it is best to end the game and start a new one, there are statistics under game menu, it gives you the number of games won, lost and loss streaks and win streaks and over all percentage of win and loss of all your games every played on this board. Mine are today: 60 won lost 121, 33% wins and win streaks 3 and losses 8.

CONCLUSION
The game format is like hand of God arranging all the human race, Diamonds, Spades, Hearts, Flowers some ages men are successful they go to neat disciplined top right boxes and some ages men are deceitful and cheating and lying and hand of God cannot solve the mess and you loose.

Yo be successful humans don’t try to succeed at all cost that is the biggest loss.

LOVE IS OVERPOWERING

Salma Hayek is super beautiful in her youth, she is without comparison, the word beauty is insufficient to describe her, she dances in her kitchen in this film, just fantastic looking woman, being Indian I have a fixation for brown skins.

Salma Hayek (Isabel Fuentes) Matthew Perry (Alex Whitman) they are the lead pair, the only injustice is half the time she is shown as pregnant in this film, why take a healthy beautiful actress, restrict her bodily to walk pregnant, anyway pregnant woman don’t look sexy, they look motherly. The pairing of Perry and Salma was beautiful, they both have good looks and there is something very contrasting when 2 skin tones pair up. It makes the canvas light up with delight.
Perry is an actor who can do a role of a king, minister, cowboy, comedian, thug, robber or anything, he will do the role well. What with so much of experience in acting, he was good in this film, when he hiding that he married from his parents or just being funny with Chuy everything is involving in the acting of Perry (Chandler of friends).

Perry and Salma in the same frame the movie becomes unforgettable, this is why FOOLS RUSH IN will be a unforgettable movie for me. The story is boy meets girl and give themselves to each other, this is unrealistic as the girl is so religious, but the story goes on, they meet again after sometime and Alex comes to know that Isabel is expecting, they get married with Elvis as a witness, whatever the story the film is very happy and funny because of the lead pair, I can recommend this film, just because of the lead pair.

Boy has his work in west coast but his home is east coast and Alex works in a construction company as construction supervisor. There's just something so delightful and enchanting about FOOLS RUSH IN, take the title itself, Fools rush in is incomplete proverb (where angles fear to tread) Alex and Isabel don’t fear to tread with the decisions they make, both are sometimes confused and sometimes frustrated with the way their impulsive decision is taking shape.

The method is take the good as it comes and do the required adjustments to everything else later at your leisure, the pair do this with everything, the different cultures they come from and the final adjustments of both their families to the fact that they are relatives now. Alex's mother looked a wonderful woman (Jill Clayburg) she is willing to bend a little extra for the happiness of her child. The wonderful dialogues like my family is the size of a small village or some such thing is very appealing, the house being painted as a present to the newly weds by the in-laws is too good to believe, imagine you coming to the house and finding it repainted.

The unprepared joy gives its own difficulties, like Alex not being able to tell his work tensions to Isabel, Isabel's father not being able to treat his in-laws like a family as is their tradition in Mexican people, all this and Salma and Perry in the same frame is too delightful to just say it in words. I know we as people are different to each other, but that is not all which is important, the hearts we have run on its own logic, we cannot ignore our hearts, when it feels joy for something and somebody we ignore our heart at our own peril.

Don’t ignore the heart full of love is one side message of this film, I don’t want to go in the actors or their acting details, the film provokes in you so many emotions and it has some tense moments when Isabel and Alex give up on themselves and think it is best for both of them. But heart overtakes them again, in the end there is the delivery of baby on Hoover Dam on the highway , I also liked the outing of Alex with Isabel brothers in the desert that was super, almost all contrasting things in this film are super. DONT FORGET YOUNG SALMA HAYEK is always worth watching.

Marriage is not a short 100 meters race, but it is a test of endurance like marathon, short races demand quick action and they are over, but marriage you have to perform everyday of the week with full application of energies for a long long time, marriage give us focus a central point to hook ourselves, it surely beats posing like a puffed up peacock and acting like a stud all the time, that is tiring and very bad for health. I do not know why this film makes me think about marriage.

I will end this review with the saying of ISABEL: You have to be there everyday Alex.

Yo marriage is the bliss of life (opposite sex marriage) heheh !!!

INTERVENTION IS THE WORD.

THE FAMILY MAN
Oprah Show, Dr.Phil, Tyra Banks and countless other shows on TV, what all of these shows and this film has in common, Its the intervention, how come everyone on the waves are talking about Intervention. It seems everyone was inspired to use this word at one and the same time. We have lost touch with ourselves, know thyself is the meaning of word INTERVENTION, we could be different inside from what we are posing to be, it could be just a vaneer, it could be a mask, we could become WHOLE again, undivided and complete, being whole in soul, mind, heart, feelings is most important than any other reality, no peer can change it, no mass can divide it, no other realiaty is more important than us becoming WHOLE, many super halves active, talkative, planning, playing with peril can never equal the undivided whole.

Cash is the man with the WAND (Don Cheadle) he actually has a ticket worth $ 238 and wants to cash it from a coffee shop sales counter, the attendent is rude to him, he pulls out his gun, Nicolas Cage (Jack Campbell) intervenes and saves the situation, not only this but he runs after Cash and tries to talk to him not to carry guns with him in future and save him. Cash says you are a good man, I liked your INTERVENTION and dont blame me, because you are the one in need of saving, you are going around with cocky attitude saying I dont need anything, I have everything. Oh boy.

I gave you the crux but the film begins like this : There is Nicolas Cage (Jack) and Tea Leoni (Kate Reynolds) at the airport right after college, Jack is going to London for Banking course, Kate wants him to stay back, Jack says one year is no big deal, I wont forget you in a life time, he forgets her for 13 years and becomes a Billion Dollar deal maker on Wall Street, he himself is a millionaire, he is about to cut a deal worth 122 Billion next day, his well wishing secratery says he had a call from Kate Reynolds and asks Jack to return the call. Jack does not want to bring the past in the present and keep it safe in the past. He does not call her back. Jack goes to a mall to buy EGG NOG. Its Christmas Eve. At the mall incident of intervention happens.

Jack comes back home goes to sleep on his highrise apartment's bed and wakes up in a homestead house's bed and is surprised to find a woman and kids calling him DAD and HONEY, he borrows a car goes searching for his Ferrari and high rise building apartment, but there are no traces of Jack Campbell in his building nor there are any traces at his office. His neighbours do not recognize him, he realizes its to do with Mr.CASH he wants explainations and searches for Mr.Cash and finds him. He wants to get back to his previous life, as he does not know anyone or anything in his new life and he is afraid of the new role, he does not even know he is a car tyre salesman, he is married for 13 years. Interesting or what ???

Me start smiling at whatever follows from here onwards in the film, Jack goes back to his HOMESTEAD home by the help of a street map given by Mr.Cash, he stops near a good looking couple and asks them direction to the street, they turn out to be his neighbours since 13 years and ask him Jack is something wrong with you, are you feeling all right.

Jack starts doing his regular house and family chores, see his father-in-law and his wife's face, this face is familiar, she is Kate Reynolds the one he left on Airport 13 years back, but there is a little problem here, she knows him since 13 years and they have 3 kids but our JACK has a awareness gap of 13 years of this new life. He tries to cope with things by his ears and eyes. Whatever hints he could gather about what he used to do all these 13 years he asks his daughter, sometimes his work mates, one time he asks his workmate the location of his office. He tries to fit himself as good as in the role of Bowling alley Jack the Hammer Campbell. He does not know he sings things to his wife when they are happy togather, the acting is superb both by NICOLAS CAGE and the fantastic beautiful TEA LEONI. There is still hope as Mr.Cash the angel said to him, you will find your way back to old life and the hint is bicycle bell.

A few months in his new life and after seeing old family Video cassettes Jack falls in love with his wife and bitten by the charm of his new life and starts applying his old Millionaire learnings to his new simple middle class life, he starts crying and stops using bad girl langauge and stops resenting the change in life style. He becomes afraid to go back to his old life and wants to find a way to remain in his new life with a wife loving him and he loving her back finally. The dreaded BICYCLE BELL ring comes and JACK is afraid to go back to sleep, he is afraid he will be back. He sleeps finally. I wont spoil any further your taste for this film.

It was a wonderful intervention story by Director Brett Ratner and 2 writers David Diamond, David Weissman. I enjoyed the playing by ear of Jack it was new and out of the box situation. It was amusing, there was this beautiful scene where Jack tells his daughter that he was abducted by Aliens because she says you are a changed DAD. She understands that her dad is not the same man, he always takes her daughters advise to guide him in his new life, like what present he should give mom on wedding annivarsary. Cho Chweet.

One day his wife come running to him saying kids are asleep, that was very good acting by Tea leoni, she really has a very beautiful face, deep blue bedroom eyes, her features are well chiselled and good body, she was doing wonders to the screen and the hearts of all people who were staring wantonly at the screen. The chemistry between Jack and Kate was magical, Jack feeling akaward with the shared intimacy with his wife was simply superb, there was only one scene pandering to the gallery, it was the shower scene. The film is good without it too.

Well I am afraid I must stop here, the plot is beautiful, so is the lead pair, I will try to give maximum stars to this film as is my nature, I am difficult to make angry and easy to please. I will remain pleased till I see next film.

Yo !! intervention is the new age mantra.

RAMBO ONE -1
by smisbahuddin - written on 30.10.06 - Rating: (5 of 5 possible stars)

Advantages Great Music, Nice town location, Fights with purpose and absorbing
Disadvantages Nothing
RAMBO ONE -1
There was a time we had Video Parlors, a Video Player used to cost US$ 1,000/= in India, it was the beginning days of Video, now it cost us just US$ 190/= I was going to my regular swimming pool, the Video Parlor owner called me, said you can see the film free of cost if you like, I asked him why, he says the film is very good. This is how I saw RAMBO ONE, this is were RAMBO began, now RAMBO means a man of action, a man of strength. This name has become a word and quality, it all started with the film FIRST BLOOD.

Before this film I knew Stallone, I had seen Escape to Victory and Rocky, after 4 years from my first Video viewing, This film came to Theaters and rest of my friends came to know about this film and they all liked it very much. This is a film I saw sequels of and I realized sequels are boring to watch.

Director: Ted Kotcheff, Brian Dennehy (Sheriff Will Teasle) Richard Crenna (Col. Samuel Trautman ) are 2 very interesting characters in this film, infact because of these people this film went on to become very huge success. These 2 people one opposing RAMBO and one supporting RAMBO make the reputation of JOHN RAMBO in this film.

GREEN BERET, MEDEL OF HONOUR, ARREST FOR VAGRANCY, VIETNAM VETERAN all these terms I learned from First Blood, things build on you, a story builds on you, a writer builds on you, a person builds on you, so also this film build on you.

Hope town sheriff says he is the law and arrests John Rambo takes him to police station, the chiding starts, friendly tapping on the back by baton starts, finger printing starts, all this because Sheriff says we dont like people like you with your flag on the jacket in our town, people in authority behave like him with their own citizens, God takes away their power to distinguish between right and wrong. When God abandons someone they is truly lost.

Rambo breaks free in the only way he knows how, Law of the town do not know what hit them, Rambo leaves the police station and grasps a motorcycle heads for the bushes near the town. Law men still think they have power over him.

Rambo prepares himself for the jungle knife and the cold, police dogs are called, Rambo cripples the chase party and asks Will Teasle (Sheriff) to back off, otherwise he says I will give you a war you will not forget. Rambo says he is the LAW in the jungle.

Many of my friends said the town police should have given up the chase after knowing Rambo is war hero, but film goes ahead and Rambo is pushed to edge of the ravine dogs behind him and search helicopter in front of him. He jumps from the edge to solve the problem. This scene is pure magic and very beautiful to imagine, please do not try it in your backyard, you will break much more than Rambo. First Blood lets Rambo over power helicopter police party. National Guards are called into action, media is alerted and Colonel Samuel Trautman offers to diffuse Rambo and help the town law. The town law are more certain of their superior fire power his help.

This film has evolutionary pace, it starts on foot, accelerates on motorcycle and ends on a military truck, shattering road blocks and cripple the pride of superior fire power. If you ask if this film is violent, I say easily no, there is some action but you cannot call it violence, there blood shown in the context of the story seems to be a necessity, so everything looks arty and classic. By the way this was a classic film, as it spurred the whole world to copy it and remember it a long time after the screen read THE END.

Some points I enjoyed are Colonel, stitches, the dive, Rambo beating cordoned of National Guard submerged, police arrogance, the misery of Vietnam veterans after their war, do you use your knife to hunt elephants, giving away of friends photo by Rambo to the woman is like giving up the thing which is most dear to a person because of circumstances of life.

Yo correct vision and correct actions is next to godliness. Summary: Birth of RAMBO, converted the name into adjective meaning ACTION, TOUGH

VALUE ADDED TAX = VAT

Old Indian Governments were considered always by the western world as insufficient income governments, they always considered 1 billion population of India and the income by taxes and various other channels are not sufficient for the government to do well.

In this scenario enters Mr.P.Chidambaram who had to tackle the outdated machinery and the flab which got accumulated from the previous regimes and also make India credible in the sight of the global world.

This is the first time Mr.P.Chidambaram had a Prime Minister who understood the macro economic equations, he saw this as a god sent opportunity never has happened nor it can be repeated in 100 years, he took the prickly task of raising the income of Government of India.

He had to tackle a giant dump of problems and make a radical infrastructure change in the tax structure, for the information our tax structure is the same from the times of Indian independence and every body used to shake at the thought of shaking it up, there are so many demands on Indian government, improvement of infrastructure, improvements of employment generation, implementing of social security network etc.

No one had a hint how to go about changing all that without causing disturbance to the stock markets and to the foreign investors, he is educated from Harvard University and he had the guts and the foresight to see everything clearly and he took the step of implementing VAT (Value Added Tax) this one step caused flow of income to Indian Government and this one step initiated a flow of FDI (Foreign Direct Investments) to the tune of Billions, this one step (half implemented) caused the coffers of Indian Government to be filling up. What Mr.P.Chidambaram had the guts to do; its effects will be enjoyed by future Indians for time to the end.

A India loving Patriot is not a person who makes slogans but is a person who goes sleepless nights and finds solutions to its problems covering everything as they are, not advising superficial slogans and keep ignoring the needs of the times, the image of India is suffering everywhere because of few people who are bothered about their own ends. Mr.P.Chidambaram is a true patriot, so let patriots like him prosper and help them to help India become strong.

Now Mr.Jhunjhunwala is predicting sensex will cross 25,000 mark before 2010 and Mr.Zakaria was able to raise Venture Capital in America within just 20 days a whopping 500 Million Dollars, why people trust India now, because of Mr.P.Chidambaram and his wise moves.

Don’t tell me now population is a problem for India, now in this new system of VAT (Value Added Tax) each and every Indian whenever he buys or sells is providing Indian Government with money to look after him, now is the time to go marry and increase the population as much you desire, because the income problem is solved. This is not my slogan or thought, this is what is endorsed by all India experts in the world, now is the first time Dr.Manmohan Singh is invited by ASEAN and other trading groups to be a part of them. India is there since long why not it is being honored by these groups because we have shown we have the will to be respected.

Since the visit of King of Saudi Arabia, 19 other Muslim nations see India as a possible friend to their economic activities. When was this possible before, the real wisdom of India is on display in the real playing fields of the world. There is no empty rhetoric now. India is serious to progress, India started walking the walk and talking the talk.

If ever you said Jai Hind and meant it, then see that this system gets applied all over India as urgently as possible, love India and love VAT, there is no Income Tax, there is no Sales Tax all those systems made few people rich and kept the government of India poor. Only this VAT will make India very strong and a super power.

This is what you call solution findings to problems, let us make the hands of patriot Mr.P.Chidambaram strong and pledge to help him, we cannot waste our time in black mailing other nations or threatening other nations to give up their products and make revolutions for nothing, we will loose face with all those senseless slogans, we make this VAT system strong and all nations will listen to India when she talks.

Whenever we make a phone call, whenever we pay for a cup of tea, whenever we buy something we are helping India and make it more respectable and more genuine in the eyes of the world. Don’t know what I am talking about, ask the Indians who live abroad they know the image India had before and how slowly it is changing now, within few years people will start applying for immigration to India.

Jobs guarantee, Social Security net, infrastructure, sovereign worth, bonds and funds are all within reach of present India, it needs to be improved and very soon the proper steps should be taken to speed up the process and let the initial step of VAT be successful as soon as possible, we all will have to stop worrying about filing the returns of tax forms. This is all in the ages gone by, future India means business.

FATE TAKES A HOLIDAY (The Novel) Dixie Browning (The Author)

For many generations The Author lives in North Carolina and She Wrote :

Her Serene Highness SOPHIE PENNYBAKER works in Kellyco Dye and Finishing, FATE RIDGEWAY a comptroller is sent from New York office to TURBYVILLE, South Carolina , A Town of
20 Thousand friendly Souls. Where Sophie is working since 16 years, at present she is Secratery to the CEO (Cheif Execution Officer) Because Fate is sent here for a period of 5 Months to cut out the deadwood and streamline the whole operation and their office is on the 5th Floor of the only building with 5 Floors in the Town and Kellyco Dye and Finishing the only Industry.

The habits and society of this town as described in the book looks like protestants everything about the attitude of these people is protestants , simple and hardworking and very devoted to the work. The Author does not mention Protestants anywhere in the book , but her discriptions are so vivid, I could easily deduce as much. All characters sketched in the novel are so effecient in their work and they have a no nonsense attitude, I read all books of Poldok
series Ross Poldok and Demelza Poldok, I enjoyed this book, its dialogues are crisp Potatao
Chips keep you interested till the last page which is page no.188.

About the HOLIDAY : Sophie and Fate go to FLORIDA on a 4 day holiday, Sophie wants to see the Beaches, This is her 1st visit outside South Carolina and Fate wants to see the 1st.European
settlement in America, their plan is everyone to himself as they both know Fate will leave
Turbyville soon.
They book 2 seperate rooms at Hotel De Aviles on Avenida Menendes because its close to Saint
Augustine meeting the needs of both the Sophie (Beaches) Fate (Museums).Sophie enjoys seeing
Florida : Horse Carriages on the Roads, Sailboats in the water, The palm trees, The Restaurants
on the Pier, Crenellated Towers, Narrow Cobblestone Streets and going to Anastasia
Island.

Fate : goes to Lightner Museum and driving around town smelling, mingling of Ocean and River waters, going zigzag on Cadiz Street.Next day they go both togather to Matanzas Fort and State Park Beach and finally they return back to TURBYVILLE without LEIS AND SOMBREROS.
In Turbyville Fate start accusing Sophie that ; You have been seducing me with that cool little smile and with your tricks of deliberately not wearing revealing Clothes and not using make up
and perfume. This is your way of trying to get my attention

Poor Sophie with her mouth dropped open asks; Do you honestly Believe that I guess FLORIDA can
make people like that.

ESCAPE INTO THE STORY.
THE GREAT ESCAPE

I can just visit IMDB.COM and get the names of actors and their movie names etc., but I am a purist, I like unadulterated feelings and unadulterated emotions.

Shallow waters are for floaters, nobody is a floater here we are all divers.
Steve McQueen is bought in a military van to the new prison made especially for all those who have made many attempts to escape from German prisons. Steve McQueen gets down from the van in the new prison with his ball and catching glove and goes straight to the fence throws the ball near the outer fence checks out that it is charged with electric current and right in front of the watch tower guard, crosses the inner wired fence (warning fence) to pick up his ball, the new jailor pulls out his revolver, the watch tower guard, points his machine gun at him and the prisoners are all suddenly tense and every jail officer has their hands on their revolvers, the watch tower guard fires his gun near the feet of Steve McQueen, he is chewing his gum and the jailer announces 1 month solitary confinement (Cooler) for Steve McQueen.

The cooler is a small pen like dog house, where disobedient prisoners are sent to drill some sense in the prisoner and the daily rations are cut into half to make the person feel the pangs of hunger and get tamed. Like curfew of British Era in India, the curfew was made by British administrators in India to tame the non-cooperating Indians.

The role of devil of the prison is Steve McQueen, all the prisoners are from the allied forces meaning British and American, this story is based on the times of world war 2, this we all know was between Germany and Britain, so the prisoners are a bunch of American and British one of the Britishers is Richard Attenborough, later he became Sir Richard Attenborough, he is the organizer, his struggle is to unite all the allied prisoners into one disciplined civilized trained unit of men, he speaks to them and says we are all part of a trained military and air force, don’t divide ourselves on the pretext of laughing at each other how each of us got caught in the hands of Germans and stop trying to make individual efforts to escape, we all unite and plan like military and that may give us best chance to escape for all of us or some of us from this maximum security prison. This prison was supervised by (SS) secret service (Gestapo).

Germany under Hitler maintained 2 organized units in their national defense, one is the Nazi Army and the other is the (Gestapo) the secret service, the Nazi army was most tough as any army ever trained in the world, they overcame within a short time armies of France, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Yugoslavia and much of Europe, they reached up to st.Petersburg in Russia. Gestapo (SS) was an officer who used to report to Hitler directly or to very high commanding officers working under Hitler. No officer in this unit was more than 33 years old, so each Gestapo officer was automatically a superior or commanding officer of where ever or which ever unit he was present near, they were like roaming supervisors over the whole national defense systems of Germany.

Donald pleasance is the official forger who has vast knowledge of dyes, documents, symbols, emblems and has the keen eye to copy anything on paper in front of his be speckled eyes.

James Coburn and I don’t care a heck American, accidentally trapped in German hands, he is ready to make a buck anytime and any place the commercial man of the prisoners. He is selling Cigarettes and buying things for the escape unit. The currency of the prison is Cigarettes.


Charles Bronson, the mine specialist, he is the engineer who is given the charge of digging tunnel and securing it with wood and sticks to be wide enough tunnel for a man to crawl on his belly and pass long enough below the electric fence out in the open tree cover beyond the eyesight of the watch tower guard.

The goal is to reach Rome from inside Germany with whatever means and whatever clothes and whatever identification papers made out of the prison rations and prison supplies. Incidentally Rome was declared by all nations a neutral city for anyone wanting to escape the atrocities of war being waged in whole of Europe. Rome was then a city of refuge.

In this story the plans are shortened and so the length of the tunnel is shortened and the D DATE is brought forward and things happen when the news of commanding officer of the prison is going to be changed by Germans, the fun part is everybody pitches in their goal to escape the prison, the tunnel is dug with spoons and little metal pieces or some gardening tools cajoled out of the prison officers, the mud dug out from the tunnel is carried in trouser pockets and dropped in flower beds outside sleeping quarters, the fresh dug out mud is slowly mixed with dried outside mud by rubbing the feet tro and fro without letting the ever watchful guards know anything.

Good workable blazers are stitched with just needle and thread out of the blankets and bits and pieces of clothes found inside the prisons. The digging of tunnel sounds is camouflaged by practicing choir singing of national anthems by prisoners outside the wall of digging cabin. Everything was done in this film very efficiently.

Each simple scene is so thoroughly researched, scripted and filmed; it is a study in the art of film making for anyone and everyone in this whole world, the scene of James Coburn escaping quietly on a bicycle, the motor cycle ride of Steve McQueen, and the flight of Donald Pleasance are quiet exquisite. The escape and getting caught of Richard Attenborough and their execution by machine guns by Germans, each scene and every scene is a study into visual arts.

The film reel is not Eastman color; it is just Kodak color, still you do not feel one dull moment in this film. This film got many awards and accolades all these years, you can find out about in if you are interested. This it seems is a true story as credits of the film say in the end. Mind you the star cast was full of many super stars but no rivalry is visible anywhere between the actors inside the story of the film.

It is sad India cannot make a movie of this quality even after being the biggest film industry in the world. The direction is a study, the photography is a study, the script is a study, the plot execution (visual) is a study, and the acting is a study for each of these fields of film making.

A handsome is he who handsome does. Yo let us all escape to quality!!!

NEW MEANING TO EATING OUT
Eating out in Hyderabad, you have restaurants like Seasons, Minerva, Dakhini, Chaitra, Chinese Pavilion, Noodle Bar, Fusion 9, Khana Khazana, Eat Street.

Eat Street is a whole new meaning in eating out, its in my opinion very eating out, the combination of many food stalls with lakeside view and random spread tables and chairs and beach umbrellas overhead is located on Necklace Road, if you enter Necklace Road from Hyderabad Secratariate side you go up a kilometer and park your car or whatever in the first available parking space, even if it is a paid space, it is a blessing to find one on weekends, you will have to park the car on the opposite side of the road, otherwise you will have to go a long way up and come back down the road to park near eatstreet. But whichever way you will have to walk around 300 meters to reach the entrance, the entrance is a throng of people, it is 300 feet wide and once you enter. The carnival begins.

From your left to right you have around 20 food stalls, each stand with 7 or 8 people behind the counters with one cashier but wait ! you are not in a hurry to self serve the food yet, lets take a look that is what catches your eye right from the entrance, nobody is in a hurry to eat in eatstreet, the place itself is a stretch of 400 meters long and 50 or 70 feet wide land neatly arranged beside iron railings bordering the lake are seats, 6 seats and a stone top tables, 4 seats and a table, 2 seats and a small table, colourful, happy beach umbrellas shaking wildly with the cool breeze coming from the lake side which is Hussain Sagar, there are some moveable chairs lying around and there are some chairs arranged around a wooden platform fixed to the poles supporting half covered roof to the whole structure, there are covered areas, semi covered areas and open to air areas to sit. All beside the railings of the lake.

Budget Rs.500 for 2 people, you have light snacks like chat and puris, Rajasthani bhel and other serious South Indian foods and North Indian foods, Biryani, Idly, Puloa, Samosas, Dosa etc.,Jeera rice, Lemon rice and many variety of rice and sandwiches, cheese coffee, soft drinks (No hard drinks) you can have fried chicken of the Kentucky fried chicken kind etc.,

All this arrangements is noise free except near the entrance, there are no traffice sounds or anyother sounds except the chatter of eaters, even that is not very diverting because of the openness of the place, you can have serious conversation with your partner, its not a place to go when you are in a mood to be served and bugged by a tie wearing waiters, its where you go when you dont need anyone to bother you when to order or what to order !!!, its your place.

All food stalls take cash and give you token number, get your dish delivered in a neatly arranged plastic tray, carry it and float towards the table or spot beaconing you. It is a place to unwind, if you require some sauces or paper napkins, there are some uniformed guys who will do the needful for you, or you take a few steps to the counter and get it done. the stretch of 400 meters, very long place right !!!

Each stand is a seperate business and managed by different people, their establishment names are painted boldly and the menus and the prices are painted in big letter is very convenient if you ask me. If all this is difficult, just go to the display of foods where there are dishes in the final form are waiting, just point at it and the staff will smilingly tell you the cost and direct you towards the cashier, no need to remember some complex names of dishes. Spare the memory for other useful things.

The place is throbbing with people, many are youngsters and others who are not so young look like youngsters from the ambience of this place. The age is reduced from your face once you are inside, you will notice people walking to and fro holding hands and weighing the possiblities of future togather. Between the stalls and the seats there is a walkway, well decorated and uniformed boys efficiently clearing the mess of people and dumping them in covered bins , they are fast, this place is free of garbage spilled or chucked.

There is a boat restaurant near the entrance, it serves all type of roasts, its a climb of 2 level of steps and many chairs and tables have people enjoying. Its a structure permanently fixed maded to look like a boat. Rs.500 (US$ 12) is not a bad bargain if you eat something in this place, just snacks will cost you less, this figure is what I assume I will need in this place to eat, but if you dont eat anything nobody will eyeball you to order or ask you to leave the chair for other customers, this place is a cross between a park and a bunch of good hotels, the offspring is EATSTREET.
Park, Walk, Sit, Unwind, Buy food, or dont eat anything, its the formula for good time, maybe every city in the world needs eat streets.

YO EAT STREET IS EAT WHEN YOU WANT, WHAT YOU WANT, HOW YOU WANT OR JUST LEAVE WITHOUT EATING.

Dubai - True Melting Pot.

The power boat world championships at Dubai International Marine Club, Dubai Marina, Dubai
Festival City, Palm island towers, Villa Moda, Emirates tower shopping Boulevard, Dubai is
reclaiming sea faster than sea is claiming lands around the world.

Be it Golf Professional Circuit.
Be it Motocross formula one.
Be it Air shows top class
Be it Trade fair top class
Be it best airlines of the world.

Multinational companies, Multinational Banks, Investment Bankers everyone loves Dubai, Stars,
Super stars, celebrities, Heads of states everybody loves Dubai. No one is complete without Dubai
connection. All fortune 500 companies has regional head office in Dubai. Money turnover in Dubai
is phenomenal, Dubai is closely following New York, Tel Aviv, and other cities of our world.

Just 35 years old city, Dubai has every credit to its name, it is becoming a leading name every
where for quick business, best transport, best air waves, best satellite connections, best GPRS
systems, best real estate investments. The volume of contracts, conferences, meetings,
exhibitions from diverse fields has made DUBAI a very modern city today.

Dubai was the first city Indians started working abroad, this generated a lot of foreign currency
for India, Dubai was the first city to start investing in India, Dubai created greed for money
in India, any Dubai returnee was distinct in his looks all over India. Pulse of middle east is
Dubai.

Any modern technological gadgets first come to Dubai, its become the first place for fashion
products launches, yachters, electronics, marketing concepts, real estate projects, if a thing
is successful in Dubai, it is a guaranteed success all over the world else where.

Dubai is thermometer of modern business world, every well to do person has a second home in
Dubai, the climate here is sunny and hot and a few days of cool air in winters, Dubai is located
in Arabian Gulf, it is a hub for cargo containers, air cargo, now it has sophisticated internet
city, air traffic transit hub, Indian business hub, Pakistani business hub, turkey business hub,
American business hub, European business hub, African business hub, it is truly a melting pot.
This is the reason general Abi Zaid had his head quarters here in Dubai.

I will just adopt the method of touch and go for the places to visit in Dubai, there are 2 routes
of BIG BUS service in Dubai city when I was there, this bus service is for TOURIST coming here
they take you on a tour of the city. Visitors or residents can board a double-decker bus, costing
US$ 30 for a validity of ticket of 24 hours from the time you first board one of this buses.

You are a visitor on a short trip, buy this ticket and you do not need car or other services to
have a good time in Dubai, minimum expenses you can take home a feel of the full city, there is
perfect security here, it has legendary peaceful times. No need to worry what you will come
across on the streets, you are SAFE, A bus starts at WAFI city every 40 minutes, this terminal
is near famous hotel, PLANET HOLLYWOOD, the tour can be completed in one stretch in a period of
3 hours, but without shopping , the fun part in this city is SHOPPING, you can hop off and hop
on these buses for 24 hours time, where your heart desire you hop off, I have never heard some
one felt sleepy during his visit to DUBAI. Sleep abandons you when you are here, don’t worry about sleep board our bus and go to KARAMA MARKET (Little India) restaurants and shopping everything is here, then Dubai creek, Fort, Museum, Old Souk then from here you can take a ABRA.

Water taxi go across take another BIG BUS, go to heritage village, Gold Souk, Deira City centre
Al Boom Tourist Village, Wonderland etc. You have Disneyland, Finger ring hotel, Iceland which
is also called snow world. Snow world has some very fun giving activities, there is ice skiing,
buggy slide and many fun activities. Cable cars take you to top of the slope and there you can
practice your ice skiing skills, imagine you are in Dubai a desert country.

Many nooks and corners may have wonders in store for you, no problem if you like to explore, you
are spoilt for choice in Dubai, so many activities and everything looks beautiful, tranquility
is what you feel during your stay here. Danger is non existent and PEACE is all prevalent here.

Another BIG BUS route when I was there takes you down SHEIKH ZAYED ROAD, this road has many tall
sky scrapers lining it all along, Trade centre, Emirates Tower and you can reach Jumeirah Beach
this is CLUBS country there is a spread of many clubs here with white sands and blue green
waters pleading you to splash in them. There are gardens here, then the bus takes you to other
beaches called Golden beaches, you have water sports here, Parasailing, Jet-Skiing, Scuba Diving
Wind Surfing and many new evolving forms of having fun.

Our Bus passes in front of 5 star hotels, there is a array here, there is the 7 star BURJ AL
ARAB, then go to AQUA PART and Palm Island homes and residences, Dubai Marina is another
attraction in itself. Just for the records on arrival transit visas are given on the airport
itself for many nationals, This city is ideal for honey mooners, Dubai is made by love and made
for love, finally leaving Dubai you almost feel you are leaving a loved one behind.

Yo! world Dubai has divine charm sprinkled all over it !!!!!