Innovation in what? Matchbox design. Yep, innovation is everywhere. Pramthya and Daddu (smokers) are going to love this.
Lucifer matches, a company producing matchboxes has designed a clever matchbox where a matchstick is already lit by the time you pull it out of the matchbox. No need to drag its tip across the rough surface to light it.
Check the picks and visit the link at
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/04/lucifer_matches.php
It took about 10 secs to get this. It's actually a fruit bowl with a hollow ring. Fruits are placed in the bowl all through the ring.
If you need to pick up one and eat you use the opening at the bottom.
If you need to refill it, you just add more fruits from the top.
Absolutely unique and a fantastic innovation !! I'm sold out on this one.
A long time friend of mine, Kartik Jayaraman has launched a great site called Desifitness.com. Kartik has been researching on Health and Nutrition since a few years now and Desifitness has hit the nail at the right spot at the right time primarily because it targets not only exercise and fitness but also the diet and nutrition of desis which is so much different from everyone else.
The life style of desis in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh etc (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desi, especially in foreign countries like US or UK can be fairly lethargic. Since things are situated pretty far away people end up traveling everywhere in car. Sometimes even a couple of minutes brisk walk is also a far cry. Moreover, work pressure adds increased stress. Less time for day to day activities like cooking means eating mostly outside (burgers , pizza, KFC etc).
All this collectively leads to complete neglect towards health. As a result most of the desi junta ends up having a big belly which later is hard to shed.
DesiFitness.com offers a forum where Desi's can discuss, ask and opine on different issues they face as far as health is concerned. I'm subscribed to the forum. It has some of the best health and nutrition experts on-board, who can be consulted easily.
Overall I highly recommend this site to Desi professionals no matter which part of the globe they are from.
Every now and then this Osho makes me realize that life is worth living and nothing is wrong in this world. In fact everything is right. All you need to do is stop compromising with life and everything will be right.
Here is another gem:
"There has never been a person like you before, there is not anybody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you. Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece — unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique. Even the hardest heart,
the rock-like heart, will start melting in gratitude"
My Dear NRI
You leave me speechless at times. Your concern for your homeland and patriotism gives me goose bumps. You are forever obsessed with anything and everything Indian – cricket, bollywood, kollywood, corrupt politicians, carnatic music, and everything else which one would associate with the word INDIA.
But somewhere in this love affair, you lose your objectivity. Your obsession for anything India gets transformed to a nit-picking campaign which you brilliantly blow up to ridiculous proportions. For example, if a kid gets lost in an Indian city even for a moment, for you that’s a sufficient enough evidence to conclude India is unsafe for children. Going by this logic, if an adult loses his way in an Indian city, I guess we should all conclude India is unsafe for adults too.
Every third post in your blog would be about the lack of discipline in Indian roads, the corrupt political system, the unscrupulous bureaucracy, the snail’s pace functioning of government departments etc. If only the rating agencies like Standard and Poor or Moody’s got a chance to read your blog, I guess India would be downgraded from ‘Sumaara Irukku’ to ‘Naasama Pochu’.
It is an irony that in this very nitpicking campaign, you betray the same Indian trait which you decry with all your heart among your resident brethren. I mean, you sit safely in a developed country and keep on gossiping about your underdeveloped motherland. How useful is that? Look at it in another way, you make a living in a foreign country and all but obsessed with your home country when you could do a lot to better your adopted country – typical Indian trait again.
The Govt wants the land cleared for building some complex. The family living there won't budge. This is in Chongqing, central China.
For a complete read of the article read here
There is this Sardar who's started Sikh Park on the grounds of South Park. Check one of his riffs.
Existence is abundant - millions and millions of flowers,
millions of birds, millions of animals — everything in abundance.
Nature is not ascetic, it is everywhere dancing — in the ocean, in the trees. It is everywhere singing — in the wind passing through the pine trees,
in the birds....
What is the need of millions of solar systems,
each solar system having millions of stars?
There seems to be no need,
except that abundance is the very nature of existence;
that richness is the very core; that existence does not believe in poverty
Just read an article at esakal.com . The article is linked here.
Maharashtra Bank, a bank which caters to the banking needs of mostly rural and urban Maharashtra is embarking upon a new Solar Loan Policy where-in they are willing to give loans to people who are willing to switch to solar power equipments at affordable interest rates.
Maharashtra has had a electricity shortage from times unknown. As a backlash of this there have been many programs started where-in people are being encouraged to explore alternative modes of energy so that the dependence on the State Electricity Board reduces considerably.
This program is one such example. Although the program concentrates on the needs of the rural areas, the loans are nevertheless available in urban areas as well.
Anybody who really feels about the environment should really go and check the terms of this loan and make use of this offer.
Its not many a times that these run-of-the-mill banks do such new and innovative programs.
In fact hardly any bank does it at all !
