WHAT WOMAN REALLY WANTS

Young King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a neighboring kingdom.

The monarch could have killed him but was moved by Arthur's youth and ideals.

So, the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he could answer a very difficult question. Arthur would have a year to figure out the answer and, if after a year, he still had no answer, he would be put to death.

The question was: What do women really want?

Such a question would perplex even the most knowledgeable man, and to young Arthur, it seemed an impossible query. But, since it was better than death, he accepted the monarch's proposition to have an answer by year's end.

He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everyone:

the princess, the priests,the wise men, and even the court jester.

He spoke with everyone, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer.

Many people advised him to consult the old witch, for only she would have the answer.
But the prince would be high as the witch was famous through out the kingdom for the exorbitant prices she charged.

The last day of the year arrived and Arthur had no choice but to talk to the witch. She agreed to answer the question, but he would have to agree to her price first.

The old witch wanted to marry Sir Lancelot, the most noble of the Knights of the Round Table, and Arthur's closest friend!

Young Arthur was horrified. She was hunch-backed and hideous, had only one tooth, smelled like sewage, made obscene noises, etc.

He had never encountered such a repugnant creature in all his life.

He refused to force his friend to marry her and endure such a terrible burden, but Lancelot, having learnt of the proposal, spoke with Arthur.

He said nothing was too big of a sacrifice compared to Arthur's life and the preservation of the Round Table.

Hence, a wedding was proclaimed and the witch answered

Arthur's question thus: "What a woman really wants," she said,

"is to be in charge of her own life."

Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch had uttered a great truth and that Arthur's life would be spared.

And so it was, the neighboring monarch granted Arthur his freedom and Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful wedding.

The honeymoon hour approached and Lancelot, steeling himself for a horrific experience, entered the bed room.

But, what a sight awaited him.

The most beautiful woman he had ever seen, lay before him on the bed.

The astounded Lancelot asked what had happened.

The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to her when she appeared as a witch, she would henceforth be her horrible and deformed self only half the time and the beautiful maiden the other half.

"Which would you prefer? she asked him.

"Beautiful during the day ... or at night?"

Lancelot pondered the predicament.

During the day he could have a beautiful woman to show off to his friends, but at night, in the privacy of his castle, an old witch!

Or,

would he prefer having a hideous witch during the day, but by night a beautiful woman for him to enjoy wonderous, intimate moments with?

(If you are a man reading this ...) What would YOUR choice be?

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(If you are a woman reading this ..) What would YOUR MAN'S choice be?

What Lancelot chose is below.

BUT ... make YOUR choice before you scroll down below........OKAY?
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Noble Lancelot, knowing the answer the witch gave Arthur to his question, said that he would allow HER to make the choice herself.

Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be beautiful all the time because he had respected her enough to let her be in charge of her own life.

Now ... what is the moral to this story?

The moral is ..

1) If you don't let a woman have her own way, things are going to get ugly.

2) There is witch in every woman no matter how beautiful she is !!

How Google works

This is how Google works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thought: Does Love need a Reason?

Once a lady when having a conversation with her lover, asked:

Lady : Why do you like me..? Why do you love me?

Man : I can't tell the reason.. but I really like you..

Lady : You can't even tell me the reason... how can you say you like me? How
can you say you love me?

Man : I really don't know the reason, but I can prove that I loveU.

Lady : Proof? No! I want you to tell me the reason. My friend's boyfriend
can tell her why he loves her but not you!

Man : Ok..ok!!! Erm...
because you are beautiful,
because your voice is sweet,
because you are caring,
because you are loving,
because you are thoughtful,
because of your smile,
because of your every movements.

The lady felt very satisfied with the man's answer.

Unfortunately, a few days later, the Lady met with an accident and went in comma.

The Guy then placed a letter by her side, and here is the content:

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Darling,

Because of your sweet voice that I love you...
Now can you talk? No! Therefore I cannot love you.
Because of your care and concern that I like you..
Now that you cannot show them, therefore I cannot love you.
Because of your smile,
Because of your every movements that I love you..
Now can you smile? Now can you move?
No, therefore I cannot love you...
If love needs a reason, like now,
There is no reason for me to love you anymore.

Does love need a reason? NO!

Therefore, I still love you...

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"Sometimes the best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be
seen, cannot be touched, but can be felt in the heart"

Sometimes we want to tell this to the one we love, but as said love is to be felt and not forced...

Frozen Sea...

Have you ever seen a frozen sea?

Water Bridge

Water Bridge in Germany

Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

This is engineering!

Source : Net

BULLET-proof USB drive

Pretec have made a flash drive called as i-Disk Bullet proof, which comes in sizes from 128 MB to 2 GB.

It is claimed to be resistant from water, ice, fire and of course, bullet. No word of being grenade proof though.

It can transfer data at the rate of 20 Mbps and has write speed of 12 Mbps.

Some bloggers are planning to test the product for their claim of being bullet proof at their local rifle range.

Source : Net

Face Painting

Hi Guys,

Check the photos that won 3rd Prize in Face Painting Competition today.

Plz add your words as comments.

Where u defends?

He Says:
Ever noticed how women are choosy about friends?
Men just about bond with anybody and everybody. Men and women. Women are picky.
Men do not stay away from women who are not attractive or smart. Women are snooty.
Men do not assume that every girl who talks to them is hitting on them. Women can be so vain.
Men don’t see why they need a reason to be friends. Women need a reason.
They need to either find the guy intelligent or attractive or entertaining or helpful and caring and sensitive and all that you find them shopping for in matrimonial profiles and dating lists.
Isn’t it rather strange that most women try to find reason to be friends after you break up with them? Of course, it is difficult for two people who loved each other to be friends even if one of them still loves the other. But once they’ve broken up or decided against a relationship, its probably because they don’t really love each other any more, or, at least one of them doesn’t love the other enough for the relationship to survive, and hence, it becomes a pointless one-sided exercise which one must get over before they can be friends.
But the point here is, once you are over it, it doesn’t take much to be friends. Unlike a relationship, which requires people to share lives, time and space, friendship comes with no strings attached.
A friend wouldn’t even care if you don’t call him for a week. He knows you care even if you call him after two months. Because, for a man being a friend is as simple as simply being there. Unconditionally. Men are willing to be friends all the time. With anyone and everyone. Can a woman dare say the same?

She Says:
Dare? We wouldn’t dream of it. Of course we are snooty about our friends. We have every right to be.
Friends between women are very different from friendships between men. The most intense conversation I’ve seen between two men involved a certain scene from Star Wars.
Most of the time male bonding involves the spots channel, chips and beer. Guys rarely have deep meaningful relationship with each other. Heck, Guys barely have conversations with each other unless you count grunts and glugs as conversation.
Which probably explains why men need a ‘boys night out’ only once a month or so. Why telephone conversations between men rarely last more than five minutes. And why mn always, and I mean always, want female company – whether it’s in the form of girlfriends or just girl buddies – no matter where they are.
Try looking for a straight man who will willingly go to an all male party and you’ll be circling the globe forever.
Women, on the other hand, love Girls Nights. And this is regardless of whether they are pig-tailed horrors in flannel pyjama party; perfectly turned out, cocktail drinking hipsters at a nightclub, or dignified graying friends gathered around a card table sharing gossip and Darjeeling tea.
Because women truly enjoy each other’s company.
We do things together, whether its going for group beauty parlour binges or shoe shopping sprees. We make sincere efforts to keep in touch, even if it involves trans-At-lantic phone calls or taking a train, bus and auto rickshaw to share a pot of tea. And we depend on each other, being supported through break-ups and bad hair days.
Which is precisely why we’re picky about who we count among our friends. Because we need to have people we can count on. Not just go fishing with.
Thanks: Media.

Master Piece of Engineering

This bridge is half under the water, for ships to pass and then again, it comes out on the other side.
Truly a marvelous piece of engineering!

This bridge is between Sweden and Denmark.

Source: Net

Proud to be an Indian

Hiiiii

Do u fell proud to be an Indian. Here are some facts!!!

You may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD

HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as! the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst a! cademics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India.
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.Quotes about India.

Quotes about India.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.-Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.-Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.-French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.-Hu Shih(former Chinese ambassador to USA)

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

Hi friends,
It’s my pleasure to share my hearty time with you. Yesterday 30^th of March 2006, I had my induction program celebrate grandly by our employee care team.

The program starts with an introduction by one of our owner, Mr. Shiva. His speech explains the way he got into the field and the narrow path he traveled and how he made success etc. Really it attracted me so much. I would like to make it in my web area and to make it useful to all, but I am not supposed to do so. But the quintessence of the speech remains in my mind will guide me to the rest of my path.

Then the program continues with the speech of various managers from employee care, administration, transport, etc…here by I should remember our ETAS manager, who made a wonderful introduction towards Enterprise Technology Application Support. This program also contains some technical seminar about lotus notes and the network technology.
And the speech ends with a distribution of momentum (An induction gift).

We also had a wonderful, playful, swap program. It starts with evening snacks, we had 3 games Paper dance, Balloon bust, Ostrich-Elephant-fish, Rabbit-Wall-Arrow. We divided our self into two teams and participated init.

Paper dance: Here a full sheet of paper will be provided to a pair and they should dance with in the paper, then paper has to be folded as half and dance, then to half and its goes on until the paper is as small as possible.

I participated in it and placed second.

Balloon bust: each one will be provided a balloon and we have to bust the opposite teams balloon,

I bust about 5 balloons and finally our team won it.

Ostrich-Elephant-fish: each animal have a sign and we should show it on comment, the mismatch sign will be pulled out.

Our team stood second in this game

Rabbit-Wall-Arrow: Here the whole team has to show a single sign (rabbit or wall or arrow). There are some combinations, which win. Arrow wins the rabbit, rabbit win the wall and wall wins the arrow. It’s an interesting game.

Our team won it with a final rabbit.

I had a wonderful day; really it makes me feel free from my desk worries.

Picture: My Induction Gift.

Where is UR focus???

Hi friends,

Here I have a masterpiece to think before u act.

Focus on Problem Vs Focus on Solution.

We all meet lot of problems all over the day. It’s our task to go through it. I feel the following will help us.

There are two methods to solve a problem,

1. Focus on problem
2. Focus on Solution

Many of us Focus on problem, it’s also a way to solve it. But there is another way focus on solution.

Here is an example for it.

Example 1:

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.

Example 2:

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty.
No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee
amount to do so.
But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral : Always look for simple solutions.

On my First day of Slash

Er.Ganapathy Sankara Kumar Balakrishnan


Its 9:05 AM of 20t feb 2006, i logged into the main building of slash support, where i am going to work then. I am taken to the North wing of slash support for joing formalities, after waiting for more that an hour in reception. Really its a hard task to fill forms and to sign more than 30 papers. Every thing went write and i am provided free food and i am introduced to my team. Following that i am send to formal medical checkup. Its very late to complete the process and i reached home about 9 at Night.

Here by i should remeber my everlasting friend Mr. SathyaNarayanan, who made my day special introduction to Business Objects. Really Its an interested day and i learned a lot.