Antarctica

Antarctica is a new happening place on world & lots of job openings coming in the region too....

Tourists do not visit Antarctica during winter, when the pack ice extends its frozen mantle for 1000km around most of the continent. In any case, few people would pay thousands of dollars to experience the Antarctic winter’s near round-the-clock darkness and extreme cold – the thermometer can plummet to -50°C.

The Antarctic tour season is short – about five months, with each offering its own highlights. November is early summer: the spring pack ice is breaking up, and birds – especially penguins – are courting and mating. December and January, when penguins are hatching eggs and feeding chicks, are the height of the austral summer, bringing warmer temperatures and up to 20 hours of sunlight every day. In the late summer months of February and March, whale-watching is at its best, penguin chicks are beginning to fledge and adult penguins are ashore molting.

Cruises later in the season may be less crowded. However, the longer you wait to go, the more wildlife will already have headed out to sea.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Antarctica/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0Xy_6WIY0 [Video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwADGPfjerI [Video - Antarctica in 5 minutes]
http://www.coolantarctica.com/
http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/Antarctica_gallery_home.htm [Pictures Gallery]
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/ [Virtual Tour]
http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/index.html
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/antarctica
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0911/gallery.south_pole_job.fortune/index.html

New Jokes

Interviewer: what is your birth date? Sardar: 13th October Which year? Sardar: Oye ullu ke pathe _ _ _ EVERY YEAR

Manager asked sardar at an interview.. Can you spell a word that has more than 100 letters in it? Sardar replyed: -P-O-S-T-B-O-X.

After returning back from a foreign trip, sardar asked his wife, Do I look like a foreigner? Wife: No! Why? Sardar: In London a lady asked me Are you a foreigner?

One tourist from U.S.A. asked Sardar: Any great man born in this village??? Sardar: no sir, only small Babies!!!

Lecturer: write a note on Gandhi Jayanthi So Sardar writes, "Gandi was a great man, but I don't know who is Jayanthi.

When sardar was traveling with his wife in an auto, the driver adjusted the mirror. Sardar shouted, "You are trying to see my wife? Sit behind. I will drive.

Interviewer: just imagine youare on the3rd floor, it caught fire and how will you escape? Sardar: its simple. I will stop my imagination!!!

Sardar: My mobile bill how much? Call centre girl: sir, just dial 123to know current bill status Sardar: Stupid, not CURRENT BILL my MOBILE BILL.

Sardar: I think that girl is deaf... Friend: How do u know? Sardar: I told I Love her, but she said her chappals are new

Friend: I got a brand new Ford IKON for my wife! Sardar: Wow!!! That's an unbelievable exchange offer!!!

Teacher: Which is the oldest animal in world? Sardar: ZEBRA Teacher: How? Sardar: Bcoz it is Black & White

Sardar attending an interview in Software Company. Manager: Do U know MS Office? Sardar: If U give me the address I will go there sir..

Sardar in airplane going 2 Bombay .. While its landing he shouted: " Bombay ... Bombay " Air hostess said: "B silent." Sardar: "Ok.. Ombay. Ombay"

Teacher: "What is common between JESUS, KRISHNA , RAM, GANDHI and BUDHA?" Sardar: "All are born on government holidays...!!!

Sardar: Miss, Do u called 2 my mobile? Teacher: Me? No, why? Sardar: Yesterday I saw in my mobile- 1 Miss Call". (Had never thought of it)

Sir: What is difference between Orange and Apple? Sardar: Color of Orange is orange, but color of Apple is not APPLE

Diwali Greetings

Wishing all Clients, Relatives & Friends...

KVK ki Yaadein

Check out music video of Doordarshan hit song "Ek Anek" during our childhood time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaTYLy1Jgio

Yeh hai S.S.C. ka Hall Ticket jiska exam center Hindi High School mein aaya tha... Aur sab ke sab itne darre huve thai ki parents ya fir brother/sister ko first day leke aaye thai... :-))






Aur yeh hai school ka logo & letter head jo har ek result aur certificates pe chhap ke aata tha...










Aur yeh hai sab se purana document.. Kinder garten ke progress report ka front page:








Aur yeh hai Nataraj ka pencil jisse 3rd ya 4th grade tak kaam chalaana padta tha before they allowed pen writings in notebooks....





Aur yeh hai Stamps ki viraasat jo school time mein collect ki thi...

Aur yeh woh diamond comics hai jisko hum S.S. (Social Service) aur W.E. (Work experience) ke classes mein padhte thai jab Phatak sir "mishaal ke taur pe" ke examples dete thai....

KVK May 90 Batch Contacts

(Last Updated on: 16/11/09)
Anil Bhanushali
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Bhavesh Savla
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Chandrika gada
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Chetan shah

Darshan Shah
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Hema
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These are the extracts from my autograph book & I see date entered as 20/2/1990 by H.M. Shah Sir... This is really cool & awesome... I guess I've saved the autograph book 20 years for this day only, so it can be shared with you all.... You bet, these are the best quotes & autographs we ever received in life... Just click each image & check it out...

1> C.S. Shah Sir 2> H.M. Shah Sir 3> Usha ben 4> Rajguru Sir



5> Hansa ben 6> Principal 7> Pandya Sir

8> Thakur Sir 9> Tara ben 10> Sudha ben 11> Chhaya ben



Missing Contacts:
Please SMS me , the name & no. of any of following people in case some one has:

Class ADilip(Mini plot), Dilip(1st bench), Bhavesh Savla, Gor Rajesh, Nilesh, Kalpana, Kavita, Bharti, Chhagan, Neepa, Reeta, Charu, Parul Jatakia, Parul, Amita 1 & 2, Manish Vyas, Parag, Jayshree, Kumar, Sameer, Mohamad, Shailesh, Amit, Uday,Sonal,Ruhi,Chetna, Deepti

Class B
Dipak (Dipoo), Jignesh Desai, Ajay, Pranay, Shukla, Vipul Rawat, Dinesh Panchal, Dayalal, Kishore Savla, Jigna Bhatt, Beena, Manisha, Minal, Savitri, Amiksha, Sameer, Parul Gala,Dhan Laxmi

Past Event Details for Get together (School reunion) with family & friends are as follows:

Total RSVP(confirmations) received: 43
Total attended: 32
Date: 15/11/09
Time: 11.30 to 1.30 afternoon
Venue: Terrace of Kar-ke-raas hotel, Near Odean cinema, Next to R-Odean mall & swimming pool, Ghatkopar(E).
Charges for Unlimited Lunch: Rs. 160 per person (Ages 5 & above)

Money making ideas

Just to share few ideas of making money:

1. Although never tried personally but I met a man in U.S. who made a lot of money just by registering web site domain names of popular companies, brands, movies, T.V. shows etc. & then approaching those companies & selling them at higher price.

2. Garage Sale is a good option to sell out used & bulky stuffs while relocating in U.S. & to make some extra money.

3. You can sell out your unwanted books or audio/video CDs, DVDs at www.HalfPriceBooks.com store outlets in U.S.

4. To sell out car on the spot, visit Car Max Outlets in U.S. Their site address is http://www.carmax.com/

5. There are lots of home based businesses running in U.S. One of them is by Auto Guard, California based company. One can opt for that by sending mail & cheque of some 20$ & they will send the detailed instructions booklet on how to make car anti theft alarm stickers & sell it to public or to Auto Guard. One can find more info of such type of home based businesses by visiting any public library of local county.

6. By joining membership of multi level marketing like AmWay. They have presence in U.S. as well as in India. I got first time introduced to it by one desi guy at Houston.

7. If you have hobbies of collecting coins/stamps then there are stores whom you can sell & make lots of money. Especially in Melbourne, Australia such stores are easily visible.

8. eBay has some outlets in Melbourne where you can sell your stuffs but it normally takes 3 weeks to get money. If you are putting some hand made arts/paintings on eBay for sell then you can make good money.

9. By taking work at http://www.rentacoder.com/

10. By taking work at http://www.earnparttimejobs.com/

11. By writing the blogs. There are people who hires writers for writing blogs....

12. By investing in silver (290% returns in 5 years between 2003-2008)

13. Major events specific investments in shares like election, budget etc.

14. Shifting assets from based country's currency into major foreign currency like Dollar, Euro just 6-8 months before election & shifting it back to base currency at higher rate 2 weeks before election.

15. By investing in bank FDs, NSC, PPF, Mutual Funds, bonds etc.... For U.S. guys in bank CDs, High yield money markets, Mutual Funds etc.

Movie Reviews

New York (Hindi movie) - Being in U.S. at time of collapse of twin towers, I had got the chance to gauge the feelings of americans very nearly.. I was in Phoenix at that time & few of my colleagues were in NY & saw the plane hitting towers live & escaped narrowly in timing of coming out of WTC. After effects in terms of resentment & racism were there but never came right on to the face to us luckily. In one of the incidence, after couple of weeks has passed from 9/11, me & my room mate Ashutosh were driving in his Convertible Ford Mustang by keeping the roof open & playing music. Then one car having group of young guys passed us & they started shouting bad words at us & we were quick to realise our mistake that sentiments of these people are badly affected coz of incidence & better to maintain low profile for few more months.... Movie is also trying to say the same thing that it was the situation which was the problem & not the people or FBI... To protect interest of larger class of civilised people, a small set of suspects have faced injustice & poor treatment... Same way as innocent Shikh people were poorly treated after assasination of Indira Gandhi in India coz of resentment...

Love Story 2050 (Hindi) - Part before interval is in Adelaide, Australia. Then imagination of Mumbai in 2050 is shown. Shown some flying cars, robots, T.V. in air, interactive microwave etc. Nothing great in movie but good to see Adelaide city & have a feel of future technnologies.

Singh is King (Hindi) - Its bit comedy movie but personally didn't like much.

Cast Away (English) - This one has some unique story. Fedex Cargo plan crashes in Sea & one survivor lands up on a lonely island. There his fight for life begins & he lives for 2 & half years in Adam's age on that lonely island before returning back to his country. I liked the way they've shown him struggling hard to create fire & jumping with joys on succeding when fire gets generated after hours of hard work.

Born On July 4th (English) - This one is on Vietnam war & how injured army men gets poorly treated in U.S. hospitals. Also covers abt friendly firing & killing of innocent civilans n kids in the war.

Born to Free (English) - This movie is based on one true story in Kenya. Forest officer n his wife makes lion cubs as their pats after killing their parents who have turned man eaters. Whole movie is pretty cool. When 3 cubs grows, govt. asks them to shift to zoo. They send 2 & still keeps 1 until that lioness grows very young. Once she creates problems, so again govt. asks them to shift to zoo but officer's wife wants lioness to free in forest. So she can live more natural life. Then they starts trying hard to train lioness in hunting & making compatible for forest environment. So she can survive on her own. After 4-6 months of hard work they succeeds on same. Good movie to show it to kids.

Wolf Creek (English) - One of the state in Australia is western Australia where many people gets reported as missing every year. This movie is about story of 4 tourists who wants to explore wolf creek area in Western Australia. They come across a cruel psycho man who kills people by applying cruelty. There are some horrific scenes in the movie.

Cliff Hanger (English) - This one is a cool movie. Some bad people hijacks the plane carrying money & while transfering bags to other plane, it falls down in icy mountains. They try to chase for money & tries to use local rescurers for same by instilling fear of death. Eventually local rescurers win in fight against them. Some good scenes of rock climbing.

Gorillas in the Mist(English) is a 1988 film which tells the true-life story of naturalist Dian Fossey and her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas. It was nominated for five Academy Awards. A Kentucky woman, Dian Fossey, is inspired by an anthropologist Louis Leakey to devote her life to the study of primates. Travelling into deepest Africa, Fossey becomes fascinated with the lives and habits of the rare mountain gorillas of the Rwandan jungle. She becomes so preoccupied with her vocation that she loses the opportunity of a romance with National Geographic photographer Bob Campbell. Appalled by the poaching of the gorillas for their skins, hands, and heads, Fossey complains to the Rwandan government, which dismisses her, claiming that poaching is the only means by which some of the Rwandan natives can themselves survive. She rejects this, and dedicates herself to saving the African Mountain gorilla from illegal poaching and likely extinction. To this end she forms and leads numerous anti-poaching patrols, and even burns down the poachers' villages and stages a mock execution of one of the offenders. Fossey is mysteriously murdered on December 26, 1985, in the bedroom of her cabin.