Is Metro a success?

No second thoughts on whether Delhi Metro is a success. Every Delhitie will proudly say YES. You can see hundreds, no thousands of people traveling via Metro each passing day. Kashmiri Gate comes and the train gets filled up, gets empty on Rajiv Chowk

Kashmiri Gate is the largest metro station till now. Metro is going to be extended upto the NCR region soon and Delhities are eagerly waiting for it.

Why Metro is success?

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Fully Air Conditioned
4. Connects major places
5. Secure

Problems?

The Metro is constantly becoming popular, but Govt is not able to cope up with this. The security checks are good, but lose sometimes. The trains are late and late (actually on time according to Indian punctuality).

If you are interested in reading more, try reading

http://www.delhimetrorail.com/commuters/whats_new.html

I’ll keep updating on Delhi Metro when Common Wealth approaches.

Jai Hind

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1. You eat rice for breakfast.
2. Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
3. You remember or still use “the bowl” for haircuts.
4. Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
5. You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
6. Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
7. You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
8. You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
9. Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
10. You never made the school football or basketball team.
11. You have two middle initials instead of one.
12. You have an inherent “fear” for bamboo feather dusters.
13. Your “hot” date is going to your parent’s house to have “jook”.
14. Your living room sofas have covers on them.
15. You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
16. You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
17. You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
18. Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
19. You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and “popo” would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
20. You were told you all look alike.
21. You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
22. You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
23. You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
24. You have a hard time pronouncing “aluminum” and “lobster claw”.
25. You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
26. You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
27. You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
28. You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
29. You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
30. You still have your old slide rule.
31. You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
32. You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
33. You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
34. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
35. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
36. Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
37. You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
38. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
39. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
40. Your stove is covered with tin foil.
41. You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
42. You have never used your dishwasher.
43. You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
44. You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
45. You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
46. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
47. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
48. You eat all meals in the kitchen.
49. You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
50. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
51. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
52. You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
53. You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
54. You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
55. You only call long distance after 11 PM.
56. You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
57. You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
58. Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
59. You know what the term “FOB” and “ABC” means.
60. You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
61. Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
62. You own a wok.
63. You know what a “bow” is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
64. You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
65. You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
66. You never discuss your love life with your parents.
67. Your parents still use a clothes line.
68. You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
69. You keep most of your money in a savings account.
70. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
71. You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
72. You keep used batteries.
73. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
74. You’re always late.
75. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
76. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
77. Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
78. You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
79. Your parents house is always cold.
80. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
81. You never use measuring cups.
82. You reuse tea bags.
83. You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
84. You never call your parents to say hi.
85. You always cook too much.
86. Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
87. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
88. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
89. You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
90. You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
91. Your parents never go to the movies.
92. You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
93. You iron your own shirts.
94. You play a musical instrument.
95. You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
96. You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
97. Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all “Price Club-size”.
98. You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
99. You never order for room service.
100. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
101. Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
102. You own a rice cooker.
103. You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
104. You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
105. You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
106. You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
107. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
108. You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
109. Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
110. You know what MJ means.
111. You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
112. You have a piano in the living room.
113. You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
114. You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
115. You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
116. Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
117. You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
118. You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
119. You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
120. You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
121. Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
122. You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
123. You know what the term “lemon” or a “banana” means.
124. You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
125. You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
126. You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
127. You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
128. You either love or hate “mooncakes”.
129. You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
130. Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
131. You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
132. Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
133. You never drank milk after eating cherries.
134. You’ve swallowed those tiny “BB’s” with hot tea for a tummy ache.
135. Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
136. You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
137. You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
138. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
139. You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
140. You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
141. You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
142. You have no eyelashes!
143. Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular “ching chong woo bok chi”…etc.
144. Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
145. You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
146. You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
147. You like $1.75 movies
148. You like $1.50 movies even more!
149. Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
150. Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
151. You call all your parents friends “auntie or uncle”.
152. You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
153. Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
154. Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can “grow” into them and wear them for years to come.
155. Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
156. Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
157. Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
158. Your parents collect jade jewelry.
159. Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered “good stuff”.
160. You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
161. You always drink tea after a meal.
162. Your dad owns at least one bird.
163. Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
164. You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
165. Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
166. You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
167. You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
168. Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
169. You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!

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If you see the many payment processors they are having little tough time of making money. Many pyment processor like moneybooker.com , alertpay.com are struggling to take the market share. But paypal made a million $ profit from indian market in just 10 days that to from only Indians.

you can see one blog post about paypal tactic of making money by holding users money in bank and enjoying the interest of that money.

Here is a sample transaction from my paypal account

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -$200.00 USD

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Cancelled Transfer Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details $185.22 USD

i lost 14.78$ for their crappy processing system

so just imagine how much money they have made from this kind of scam from all paypal indian users.

when we withdraw they gave currency rate 44.7817

now when they adding to amount they want 48.35 ( even now it is 46 )

so basically it is a well planned scam from paypal company.

After these lot of idiotic moves this company not given any explanation still. Because it knows how effectively scam users withouth being caught in the legal way.

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22. Use Nope for No and Yep for Yes.

21. Tries to use credit card in road side hotel.

20. Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.

19. Sprays deo such so that he doesn’t need to take bath.

18. Sneezes and says ‘Excuse me’.

17. Says “Hey” instead of “Hi”.
Says “Yogurt” instead says “Curds”.
Says “Cab” instead of “Taxi”.
Says “Candy” instead of “Chocolate”.
Says “Cookie” instead of “Biscuit”.
Says ” Free Way ” instead of “Highway”.
Says “got to go” instead of “Have to go”.
Says “Oh” instead of “Zero”, (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven
Zero Four)

16.Doesn’t forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.

15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)

14. Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible (but deep down the heart multiplies by 43 times).

13. Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk pocket.

12. When need to say Z (zed), never says Z (Zed), repeats “Zee” several times, if the other person unable to get, then says X, Y Zee(but never says Zed)

11. Writes date as MM/DD/YYYY, on watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY, says “Oh! British Style!”

10. Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and Indian Road Conditions.

9. Even after 2 months, complaints about “Jet Lag”.

8. Avoids eating more chili (hot) stuff.

7. Tries to drink “Diet Coke”, instead of Normal Coke.

6.. Tries to complain about any thing in India as if he is experiencing it for the first time.

5. Pronounces “schedule” as “skejule”, and “module” as “mojule”.

4. Looks suspiciously towards Hotel/Dhaba food.

3. From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of Airways by which he traveled back to India, even after 4 months of arrival.

2. Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India, tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.

Ultimate one:
1. Tries to begin conversation with “In US ….” or “When I was in US…”

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Dear SENDER,

Your payment of $XX.XX has been returned to you. If you sent the payment with a bank account, the funds will be returned to your PayPal balance. If you paid with a credit card, the amount will be credited back to your card.

We returned the payment to you because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may resend the payment to the seller by following these steps on the PayPal website: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment, such as a gift to a friend or family member, then we request that you find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,

PayPal

Now, thats really unfair on Paypal’s part. People are contacting paypal with literally no good support apart from copy pasted content.

Here is the digital point thread – http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1681660

If you want to raise your voice against the discrimination, spread the word!

Here is paypal’s comment on this – https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/personal-payments-and-local-bank-transfers-in-india/

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Airtel’s shares plunged over 6% on Friday. With the latest round of tariff cuts impacting the financials of all companies, Bharti Airtel’s CEO Manoj Kohli talks to ET NOW on the road ahead and how India’s largest telecom company plans to respond to competition. Excerpts:

Bharti Airtel’s shares crashed close to 7% despite posting profits. The stock has closed at year’s low and has lost 18% this year. Are you concerned?

At Bharti, we don’t look at our performance based on the reaction of the stock markets. We look at the real market and we are satisfied that we have improved our marketshare even as competition is heating up.

But, your market share has fallen over the past 12 months…

When we refer to market share, we refer to revenue share. Bharti accounts for about 32.7% of the mobile sector’s revenues. This indicates the quality of our customers are better and that their usage is higher. Over the next few quarters, our primary objective is to improve our revenue market share.

How long do you expect the ongoing price war to continue? What is Bharti’s strategy ?

The tariff war is set to continue for the next few quarters. This will lead to a natural and spontaneous consolidation in the Indian telecom industry. It is very difficult to predict as to how many operators will survive the price war, but the larger operators will emerge stronger. Also, tariff war is not a new phenomenon — we have seen several such rounds in the past. We will not get into offering irrational pricing or free minutes. Our response will be segmented. We will rollout specific tariff plans for select geographies and certain segments of our customers… The company has a three-pronged strategy for growth. The first is to remain the leader in market share — both subscribers and revenues. We are also working towards creating new revenue streams. Bharti is already one of the lowest cost producers of telecom minutes in the world and our objective is to become the most efficient operator in the world.

Is the honeymoon period for Indian telecom sector over considering all the recent developments?

I do not agree with that. This sector remains robust and offers a great growth potential of touching a billion mobile customers. The tariff war is a temporary phenomenon as we have seen similar incidents in the past. The sector will bounce back soon — in the medium to long-term perspective, telecom holds massive opportunities for growth.

Bharti has cash reserves of over Rs 6,000 crore. The base price for pan-India 3G spectrum is Rs 3,500 crore and even if the bids were to go up to as high as Rs 5,000 crore, Bharti can meet it from its reserves. Does this imply that you will not be required to raise funds for the upcoming auctions?

Probably yes, but I cannot comment on that. We will definitely participate in the upcoming 3G auctions and this opens up a new revenue stream for us. Yes, we have cash in our balance sheet, but for strategic reasons, we cannot reveal as to how much of it will be utilised for the 3G auction. We maintain our earlier position that Bharti will rollout 3G services by October 2010, if the auctions are held on time.

There has been a freeze on 2G spectrum allocations for the past couple of months. This may continue for the next one or even more quarters. Bharti’s adding close to 9 million new customers every quarter. Can you sustain this growth without additional spectrum allotments?

It has been several months since we and the industry have been allotted 2G spectrum. This sector requires regular flow of spectrum to support growth as well as the quality of services. Since airwaves allocation has stopped, we have been forced to install more towers and take other steps that have increased our capex. A majority of the growth is coming from rural India and we are not confronted with a spectrum scarcity in these regions.

Personally i would like to put up a question.The 4g has been introduced abroad.THEN WHY THE HECK DON’T WE DIRECTLY SWITCHOVER TO IT INSTEAD OF IMPLEMENTING 3G?

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“A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”

The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.

“Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps. As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the ’60s to imitate analog formats — email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication had been invented — blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. — and computers and networks had dramatically improved. So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point; I was immediately sold,” .

Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

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“We were able to make only limited progress at Copenhagen summit and no one was fully satisfied with the outcome. Yet there is no escaping the truth that the nations of the world have to move to a low greenhouse gas submissions and energy efficient development path,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in the southern Indian state of Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram.

India and developing countries wanted developed nations like the United States to make commitments on the Kyoto Protocol but that failed to materialize at Copenhagen.

The prime minister said that global warming has been posing fresh challenges to India.

“Climate change is a problem that is challenging the knowledge and wisdom of humankind. India now faces new challenges of climate change and the management of our scarce water resources,” he said.

“As far as energy is concerned, renewable and clean energy supplies will need to play a much bigger role that what they do currently. Nuclear and solar energy supplies will need to increase considerably,” Singh said.

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Upholding its engineering reputation, BMW fits the 4.4-liter V-8 with its double-VANOS continuously variable valve timing and direct injection, making for an engine that produces plenty of torque at low speeds. The twin turbos, one for each bank of four cylinders, force air into the engine at 22 psi, cranking up overall engine output to 555 horsepower and 501 pound-feet of torque which is incredible.

Given the similar power train and chassis, the X6 M should be virtually identical to the X5 M.The X6 M’s roofline, sloping radically down toward the hatchback, tortures rear-seat passengers with minimal headroom. Cargo space is also limited to things that can lie flat.

The X6 M seems designed with the sadist in mind, a person who would welcome people into the back seat, grin, then proceed to drive like a madman until the rear-seat passengers were suffering neck pains that would keep a team of chiropractors in business for 50 years. And on arriving at a destination, said sadistic driver would look in the cargo area and say, sorry, couldn’t fit your suitcases in, guess you’ll have to live in those clothes for the next few days.

BOTTOM LINE!!!

The 2010 BMW X6 M is one of the more impractical cars, the X6 body design having the stance of an SUV but none of the interior room. However, it is also incredibly technically advanced. From engine bay to suspension, BMW poured the expertise of a small country of engineers into its development. That a heavy pseudo-SUV can carve corners and blast to 60 mph in well less than 5 seconds like the X6 M is nothing short of a technical marvel. Too bad about the fuel economy.

The cabin tech is also very good, although we wish BMW wouldn’t nitpick over each option. Fortunately, navigation and Bluetooth do come as standard in the X6 M. There are a few useful driver aid features, such as a rearview camera, head-up display, and automatic high beams. But what’s missing in the X6 M are features such as blind-spot detection, adaptive cruise control, and lane drift warning, which are features that can be found in much less expensive cars.

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“This is the most perfect and logical language in the world, the only one that is not named after the people who speak it. Indeed the word itself means ‘perfected language.” –Warwick Jessup, Head, Head, Sanskrit department

“The Devnagri script and spoken Sanskrit are two of the best ways for a child to overcome stiffness of fingers and the tongue,” says Moss. “Today’s European languages do not use many parts of the tongue and mouth while speaking or many finger movements while writing, whereas Sanskrit helps immensely to develop cerebral dexterity through its phonetics.”

Gives a great pride as being Indian right? Obviously

Just stay tuned with more news and more views on India by the youth. From now on, I have got a cameraman with me (my Nokia 6208c) So you’ll find great pics and nice articles soon.

Jai Hind

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