Want to buy land but cannot afford it in Mumbai due to steep property prices, don’t loose heart my friend why don’t you buy some on the moon?
The Lunar Embassy claims that it is ‘THE ONLY COMPANY’ in the world to possess a legal basis and copyright for the sale of lunar, and other extraterrestrial property within the confines of our solar system. How can they sell you ask, read on..
" The UN Outer Space Treaty of 1967 stipulated that no government could own extraterrestrial property. However, it neglected to mention individuals and corporations. Therefore, under laws dating back from early US settlers, it was possible to stake a claim for land, and register it with the US Government Office of claim registries.
A declaration of ownership was filed with the United Nations as well as the US and Russian governments in 1980 by Mr. Dennis M. Hope of the Lunar Embassy, to ensure that a legal basis for the ownership of the properties sold here can be claimed. "
Now wait, that’s not all..
You can also name a star for 54$ and you get a certificate personalized with the star name, date and coordinates along with a sky chart containing the star name, the constellation and the location of the star circled in red in the sky! So for all you Romeos out there, this could be your next Valentine gift!!
And finally, last December, the Chaoyang District People’s Court ruled against the company’s proposal to sell green plastic bags full of air from stadiums that hosted matches in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Li Jie, the company’s chief executive officer, had planned to sell the bags to soccer fans for 50 yuan ($6.60) each.
Big deal! What’s new, we have been naming our mountains for ages and that too for free!
What, haven’t you seen names of couples on rocks in our hill stations?
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
The Big confusion...
I think the best example of a homonym is the word ‘Love’. How else would you explain the diverse feelings a single word can instigate?
Lets take some famous examples of men and women in love.
We have the famous Devdas and Paro story where the childhood sweethearts’ love end in tragedy with Paro marrying an older man and Devdas taking to the bottle.
You can almost feel Shah Jahan’s love for his wife Mumtaz when you stand in front of the breathtaking Taj Mahal. Imagine the intensity of emotion a man has to possess to build something like that for his wife after her death (lucky woman!)
The famous story of Lorena and John Wyne Bobbitt where the wife takes revenge for adultery will send a shiver down most men’s spines! (Though I personally think that it should be made an official punishment for crimes like rape and pedophilia)
The latest one to add to this list is the navy man Bharat Takur killing his girlfriend Koushambi Layek when she refused to marry him!
Now, Answer this:
If ‘Love’ means different to different people how can you be sure you are in love?
If you can love someone but move on and love another person then does that mean you dint love the first one?
If you can share your parent’s love with your siblings why is it so difficult to share your spouse’s? … Ok, guess I went a bit overboard here! :)
Lets take some famous examples of men and women in love.
We have the famous Devdas and Paro story where the childhood sweethearts’ love end in tragedy with Paro marrying an older man and Devdas taking to the bottle.
You can almost feel Shah Jahan’s love for his wife Mumtaz when you stand in front of the breathtaking Taj Mahal. Imagine the intensity of emotion a man has to possess to build something like that for his wife after her death (lucky woman!)
The famous story of Lorena and John Wyne Bobbitt where the wife takes revenge for adultery will send a shiver down most men’s spines! (Though I personally think that it should be made an official punishment for crimes like rape and pedophilia)
The latest one to add to this list is the navy man Bharat Takur killing his girlfriend Koushambi Layek when she refused to marry him!
Now, Answer this:
If ‘Love’ means different to different people how can you be sure you are in love?
If you can love someone but move on and love another person then does that mean you dint love the first one?
If you can share your parent’s love with your siblings why is it so difficult to share your spouse’s? … Ok, guess I went a bit overboard here! :)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Eureka
Imagine this scene, you are right in the middle of your chaotic life.. rush home from work, cook dinner , co ordinate between washing machine ,ironing, clean the house, buy groceries catch bits and pieces of the talk show on TV ..when all of a sudden there is a power failure! You are left in darkness and you have absolutely no way of continuing all those hajar things you had to do .. and somehow till power comes back .. they actually seem unimportant!
It was one such scene I experienced last week and I promptly threw open the windows of my living room, plonked myself on the window ledge and gazed out at the stars, the neighbouring buildings, the ever flowing traffic and the shadows of the hills on the horizon. All of a sudden I got this feeling that life just stopped! One minute you are caught in this maddening stream of chores that ‘have’ to be completed and the next minute since they cannot be done there is no urgency to complete them immediately.
I think that’s the funny thing in life you set rules for yourself, sometime stringent ones and you try so hard to live by those rules, some of us killing ourselves in the process! We forgo the things we would love to do, just so that ‘we’ can live up to those rules that we have set for ourselves!What never strikes us is to question these rules or to relax them a little bit!
Nope, that never strikes our mind, but what does sadly is the failure if we don’t live up.. or the fatigue, which comes with trying hard to live up!
Hmm, the ‘bulb’ glows at last!
It was one such scene I experienced last week and I promptly threw open the windows of my living room, plonked myself on the window ledge and gazed out at the stars, the neighbouring buildings, the ever flowing traffic and the shadows of the hills on the horizon. All of a sudden I got this feeling that life just stopped! One minute you are caught in this maddening stream of chores that ‘have’ to be completed and the next minute since they cannot be done there is no urgency to complete them immediately.
I think that’s the funny thing in life you set rules for yourself, sometime stringent ones and you try so hard to live by those rules, some of us killing ourselves in the process! We forgo the things we would love to do, just so that ‘we’ can live up to those rules that we have set for ourselves!What never strikes us is to question these rules or to relax them a little bit!
Nope, that never strikes our mind, but what does sadly is the failure if we don’t live up.. or the fatigue, which comes with trying hard to live up!
Hmm, the ‘bulb’ glows at last!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Diet – A universal turn-off, after bad breath of course!
I have decided to diet again.
The first thing that came to my mind as i wrote the last sentence was the song "Its all coming back to me now" with my mind’s eye picturing flying bowls of morbid looking vegetables and more vegetables if you please .. not to mention steaming pots of funny smelling portions of soup with Celine Dion crooning in the background!
You think its disgusting ? I agree,but then you don’t get to hear people giving you frank opinions about how u look...“Oh did you say 28,” a sweeping look up and down “you are that young ..i dint know !? ”. and all you want to do is stick out your tongue and say, "oh shut up!" What ever happened to the good old days when people gave their opinions only when they were asked!
Ok let me shake aside my wounded pride and get on with the diet before i change my mind!
My diet for the next two weeks:
Breakfast - Cornflakes/ Oats porridge
Mid morning snack - sprouts or a fruit.
Lunch – will keep it very very light but need to eat what’s available in office
Eve snack - Soup
Dinner - 2 chapattis , subzi and a cup of curd.
I am a vegetarian so that helps I guess and need to make an effort to drink pot loads of water.
On the exercise front:
I have joined the dance class 3 days a week.
Add two days of gym to that for which will give me 5 hours of cardio in a week.
Lets see how I cope with that for now.
The first thing that came to my mind as i wrote the last sentence was the song "Its all coming back to me now" with my mind’s eye picturing flying bowls of morbid looking vegetables and more vegetables if you please .. not to mention steaming pots of funny smelling portions of soup with Celine Dion crooning in the background!
You think its disgusting ? I agree,but then you don’t get to hear people giving you frank opinions about how u look...“Oh did you say 28,” a sweeping look up and down “you are that young ..i dint know !? ”. and all you want to do is stick out your tongue and say, "oh shut up!" What ever happened to the good old days when people gave their opinions only when they were asked!
Ok let me shake aside my wounded pride and get on with the diet before i change my mind!
My diet for the next two weeks:
Breakfast - Cornflakes/ Oats porridge
Mid morning snack - sprouts or a fruit.
Lunch – will keep it very very light but need to eat what’s available in office
Eve snack - Soup
Dinner - 2 chapattis , subzi and a cup of curd.
I am a vegetarian so that helps I guess and need to make an effort to drink pot loads of water.
On the exercise front:
I have joined the dance class 3 days a week.
Add two days of gym to that for which will give me 5 hours of cardio in a week.
Lets see how I cope with that for now.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
I am Sick
This illness affects your mind and its called depression (have been having bouts of this off and on these days).
Symptoms include this feeling that the whole world (including your partner) has interesting things to do on a weekend except you and the feeling that life seems so boring with one week no different from the other.
Ok, Its not like I’ve not been doing anything over the weekend .. Let me see, what did i do yesterday and today?
· Met my college friend and her hubby
· I saw a movie Beija Fry (literally means ‘Brain fry’) and was just that, awesome!
· Attended dance classes
· Slept and ate like a pig
Thats not bad, what more could one ask for on a weekend!
Sigh, you see there is no treatment for this deadly disease...you have to watch silently while it attacks your mind and then chews your brain.Going to get something to eat now,do I recall reading chocolates and fried food if one is depressed .. and on a diet
Symptoms include this feeling that the whole world (including your partner) has interesting things to do on a weekend except you and the feeling that life seems so boring with one week no different from the other.
Ok, Its not like I’ve not been doing anything over the weekend .. Let me see, what did i do yesterday and today?
· Met my college friend and her hubby
· I saw a movie Beija Fry (literally means ‘Brain fry’) and was just that, awesome!
· Attended dance classes
· Slept and ate like a pig
Thats not bad, what more could one ask for on a weekend!
Sigh, you see there is no treatment for this deadly disease...you have to watch silently while it attacks your mind and then chews your brain.Going to get something to eat now,do I recall reading chocolates and fried food if one is depressed .. and on a diet
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Walkference anyone?
Imagine walking around Colaba in a virtual park , You arrive at a "virtual gate", which is basically a guy standing outside Oxford Bookstore. He sells you the "delegate pass", for a small fee. The pass has a list of instruction on it that you must follow for the course of the day. The instructions are like a treasure hunt, they ask you to walk in a certain direction, or to a certain venue. Either at the venue, or on the road - you will meet other delegates and exchange information.
Why do they do this you ask? .. apparently the people you meet and information you exchange (you capture discussions via speech balloons mind you..) will lead you closer to your goal, requirement, etc.
“ Each card given to delegates is part of a larger "sorting algorithm" or system designed to match people based on their interests. It happens all the time on websites like Amazon (or AdultFriendFinder, if you like) but invisibly at the back end. Here we are creating a sort of computer out of a crowd of people walking around.”
Sounds like one of those dreams you have after watching late night Sci-Fi movies? that was my reaction too when a friend mentioned that he had been to a walkfrence last weekend.
I am still confused, but i definitely find the concept wacky!
Wouldn’t mind if some one throws more light on this one!
Link:
http://rohitgupta.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Comics%20AlgoYatra%202007
Gas talk..
A discussion with a friend on share markets made me stumble on the term ‘carbon emission trading’. A little bit of googling left me very interested.
“Carbon trading involves the trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases, calculated in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent,).It is one of the ways countries can meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon emissions and thereby mitigate global warming.
A country (or group of countries) caps its carbon emissions at a certain level (this is known as cap and trade) and then issues permits to firms and industries that grant the firm the right to emit a stated amount of carbon dioxide over a time period. Firms are then free to trade these credits in a free market. Firms whose emissions exceed the amount of credits they possess will be heavily penalised.
The idea behind carbon trading is that firms that can reduce their emissions at a low cost will do so and then sell their credits on to firms that are unable to easily reduce emissions. A shortage of credits will drive up the price of credits and make it more profitable for firms to engage in carbon reduction. In this way the desired carbon reductions are met at the lowest cost possible to society. ”
Interesting stuff here but is India a part of this Kyoto protocol?
Yes, but funnily exempt from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol because India and China were not the main contributors to the greenhouse gas emissions during the industrialization period that is believed to be causing today's climate change.
However, critics of Kyoto argue that China, India, and other developing countries will soon be the top contributors to greenhouse gases. Also, without Kyoto restrictions on these countries, industries in developed countries would be driven towards these non-restricted countries, thus there would be no net reduction in carbon.
Life is so complicated right ..but that’s what making it interesting!!
Article Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_trading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
“Carbon trading involves the trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases, calculated in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent,).It is one of the ways countries can meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon emissions and thereby mitigate global warming.
A country (or group of countries) caps its carbon emissions at a certain level (this is known as cap and trade) and then issues permits to firms and industries that grant the firm the right to emit a stated amount of carbon dioxide over a time period. Firms are then free to trade these credits in a free market. Firms whose emissions exceed the amount of credits they possess will be heavily penalised.
The idea behind carbon trading is that firms that can reduce their emissions at a low cost will do so and then sell their credits on to firms that are unable to easily reduce emissions. A shortage of credits will drive up the price of credits and make it more profitable for firms to engage in carbon reduction. In this way the desired carbon reductions are met at the lowest cost possible to society. ”
Interesting stuff here but is India a part of this Kyoto protocol?
Yes, but funnily exempt from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol because India and China were not the main contributors to the greenhouse gas emissions during the industrialization period that is believed to be causing today's climate change.
However, critics of Kyoto argue that China, India, and other developing countries will soon be the top contributors to greenhouse gases. Also, without Kyoto restrictions on these countries, industries in developed countries would be driven towards these non-restricted countries, thus there would be no net reduction in carbon.
Life is so complicated right ..but that’s what making it interesting!!
Article Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_trading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
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