Thursday, June 26, 2008

I FOUND MYSELF IN WIKIPEDIA...!! LOL!!

Just for curiosity, I searched my name in Wikipedia today, to see what the search result is. Here’s what I got!!! According to Wikipedia I’m a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. Check this out.

Hemigrammocapoeta kemali is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is found only in Turkey. Its natural habitats are swamps and freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Moreover, the ray-finned fishes are so called because they possess "fin rays", their fins being webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines ("rays"). This specie is even included in 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Rare and valuable. That’s me in Wikipedia. Interesting!!

JUNE... THE MONTH OF THE BRIDES... MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS....

It’s June.. the month of the brides. I guess it’s the luckiest month of the year .. with the maximum number of wedding and to add up.. a month very lucky people were born too.. (Ahem..!! Like me that is!!) Throughout the month, you see loads and loads of weddings.. wedding cars here and there… studios filled with photo shoots… the full schedules of reception halls.. hotels.. busy wedding planners… a large number of wedding cake orders…No wonder it’s a busy month. Maybe you also got invited to a lot of weddings too.. I was too. Weddings are so glamorous and majestic.. but the part I hate is where you have to dress up well & go… Oooo I hate dressing up for weddings..

Anyway… lets get back to the topic again. In my blog, I talk a lot about love and relationships. It’s always a good topic to talk about. This time, I’ll just talk a bit about what fate has to do with relationships and marriages. There was this very pretty girl, who was a friend of mine, having a long term relationship with a medical student. We both studied in the same class for a degree in English. After a while, she stopped the class, and we lost contacts sometime after. Yesterday, after 3 years, a friend of mine told me that she got married. I was like “That medical student guy is very lucky. She’s a very good girl”. Then she said, “No.. she didn’t marry him. It’s a businessman”.. It was like a bit of a shock to me. They were having their affair for nearly 10 years. Hmmm… Strange? No I guess.. People can move on with their lives no matter what…

Perhaps you all have noticed this too.. Take the love affairs in campuses.. Out of them, how many of the relationships still exist?? As I know.. only a very few. There were so many couples in our batch, who were going steady. Most of them have drifted apart, after they left the campus, due to many reasons. This guy.. started an affair with a very good friend of mine. That was the girl’s 1st love. 2 months later, the guy realized that his parents won’t allow his affair. So.. simply, he broke up with her. It was so hard for her since it was her 1st affair. Till the final year ended, she had to bear seeing him around, and since they were in the same gang, she had to stick with them too. Now.. she has made up her mind.. ready to move on and accepting proposals for marriage with a whole new heart..

In another case, this couple..they had their affair for the whole time they were in the campus. The poor girl was doing all the work for the guy too. He passed the exams well, just because of the girl. After the graduation day, the guy simply dumped her, saying his parents don’t like her. This guy has even talked to the girl’s parents about marrying her. I got to know that they broke up, through face book. A few days ago, she has changed her relationship status in face book as “in a relationship”. That’s when I asked what happened. Now she’s completely in love with a guy whom she met through a proposal… and she’s very happy. They’re going to marry next year. Fate gives you wonderful things.. see?

When I see most of my friends, they’ve met their future wives/ husbands in most miraculous ways. This couple… they were sworn enemies. Recently… when I got to know that they got married.. I was like “him and her??? OMG!!”.. Now, they’re living happily ever after with small kid too.. Sweet!! That’s fate doing wonders..

They meet… they love each other.. perhaps for years.. then they break up… and there comes heartbreaks… But sometimes later… they’re happily married to someone else and living a wonderful life. This is how the circle of life goes… I sit back and watch all these changes in peoples’ lives… In the end… things are sorted out in some way. I guess this is a universal truth for all… Love happens.. Hearts break… but still… life goes on…

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A LITTLE SEA TOWN BY THE SEA….

I have no idea why I’m writing a post out of this. But you know.. I fell in love with this place, and seriously, added this place to my want-to-visit list. For you, maybe there’s absolutely nothing wonderful about this little place. But you know… it’s kind of breathtaking.. A little sea town by the sea. Just like in an “once upon a time” story.

It’s called “Pennan” and it’s a small village in Scotland with a little harbor, a row of identical houses and a single hotel. It used to be a traditional little fishing village in the past. Even now, fishing is done in the sea of this small heaven, as a way of continuing the tradition. This heavenly place is closer to the town of Aberdeenshire, and is situated in the north coast of the country. The most obvious reason you can find about this town in the internet is the movie “Local Hero”. It was done in 1980, making Pennan as the key location. It represented the legendary village “Ferness” with a special landmark; a red telephone box and it’s still there for the public too see, after the movie became a hit.

So.. that’s it. A little fishing village by the sea. Beautiful and charming.. with a nice view of sunset, they say. I seriously want to go there, but don’t ask me why…. I just want to…

NAZCA LINES?? WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY??

I’m usually concerned about the weirdest things in this world, and as a result, I go deeper and deeper to find whatever remain as mysteries and hidden in the hands of history. Uh.. does that sound like boasting? No I guess. Ok people.. Simple! I once came across these strange ‘markings’ in Peru, and wanted to find out more about what it’s all about.Have you heard about them too?? For those who haven’t I like to share this with you. Worth to know a little about the yet to be solved mysteries around you. So.. it’s like this.

The Nazca lines are a series of “geoglyphs” (that’s how they have named the shapes) located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 km (50 miles) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. They are believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and AD 700. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, llamas and lizards.

Who actually created these lines, still remains a mystery. The lines were believed to be made by removing the iron oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the Nazca desert. When the gravel is removed, the lines contrast sharply with the surroundings because of the light-colored earth underneath. There are several hundred simple lines and geometric patterns on the Nazca plateau, as well as over seventy curvilinear animal, insect, and human figures.

Why the figures were built remains a persistent mystery. A leading theory is that the Nazca people's motivations were religious, that the images were constructed so that gods in the sky could see them. Kosok and Reiche advanced one of the earliest reasons given for the Nazca Lines: that they were intended to point to the places on the distant horizon where the Sun and other celestial bodies rose or set. Sounds interesting isn’t it? There are many theories about the purpose of these lines. But the actual truth still remains a mystery (This line.. you see in most of the history books I guess..So here it goes again!!)