Orkut: The Match Maker

Hey friends, these days we often find many hacked profiles while surfing on orkut… these profiles necessarily have a link insisting the visitors to click on them. Once we click on them we reach an orkut-like window where we are asked to enter our user ID and password, once we enter this information, our profile is hacked.
If you are lucky, the hacker won’t reset your password and you can recover your account by simply changing your password. In case you are not that fortunate, your password is changed by the hacker and you lose your account forever. You also have to face an embarrassment among your friends for showcasing the links of vulgar websites and links, also the hacker puts an indecent display picture on your profile to attract attention.
The best way to prevent your account from such hacks is to follow a simple rule: Don’t click on any suspicious link on orkut. And don’t enter your user ID and password except the orkut window where we login. Please note that while logging in on orkut your address bar must display either google.com or orkut.com and nothing else.
Keep changing your password every month and keep a tricky one so that no one can guess it. Include mixed values including both characters and numerals and also the special symbols in your password. Talking of orkut, let us also discuss another crucial feature about which only a few of us know. It is the “crush list”. Most of us fear including anyone into our crush lists because we think that orkut will notify him/her about our action. It is correct that orkut will notify your crush about his/her inclusion in your crush list but only if the crush is mutual. i.e. he/she will be notified only if he/she has also included you into his/her crush list. This way orkut helps you in match making. Orkut opens the hidden crush only if two persons are having a crush on each other. Single sided crushes are kept hidden.
There is a simple way in which you can find out the people who have included you in their crush list. It can be done by following simple steps:
Just add all your friends as your crush and if any of your friend's choice matches yours, then you will get a mail from Orkut saying “Congratulation, you got a match”. The mail also describes the person’s orkut profile link who has added you in the crush list.
Once you have checked the mails, you can remove all friends from the crush list.
Is there any downside of this trick? Probably only this one that when there is a match, the mail is sent to both of the friends, so your friend will be more than happy to find himself/herself in the crush list of somebody who he/she has a crush on.


P.S.: Unfortunately when I used this trick I didn’t get any notification from orkut, suggesting that no girl added me in her crush list. :(
P.S.: I emptied my crush list after this heart breaking revelation so don’t be sad if you get nothing after trying this trick on me. Let there be hope…!!;)
P.S.: Trick courtesy: /www.rainbowskill.com/

Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals lost to Kolkata Knight Riders in the last over of the match. And all hopes of RR winning the trophy for the second consecutive time went home with the players. Lakshmiratan Shukla played spoiler. But it was nice to see that the royals fought till the end, they didn’t let their chances go in air like many other teams. They played like true champions and were the real fighters.
From the very beginning of the tournament it was clear that RR will miss the presence of the players like Shane Watson (player of the tournament last year), Sohail Tanvir (Last year’s purple cap holder), and Kamran Akmal (both for gloves and bat). And to add to the miseries, Shaun Tait denied of his availability for the tournament. As if it wasn’t enough there was an injury waiting for Kamran Khan(the super over bowler who held his nerves at that moment) and also a suspicious action complaint by the umpires, a few more players faced the axe for the same but were relieved later.
Shane Warne was at his best as far as the captaincy was concerned. In the match against Mumbai Indians he brought a lost match out of no where and converted it into an unbelievable victory. He also managed to take Sachin Tendulkar’s wicket which was taken as the battle of the old rivals. And how can we forget that glass of beer??...:)
In spite of all the problems Royals managed to give a good fight to the rivals and made a mark. Super over against the Kolkata knight Riders and Sachin’s wicket by Warnie are going to be among the top ten highlights of the IPL-2009.
After winning the match against the Royals the celebrations by the KKR camp could misguide an ordinary person to think that they have won a berth into the semi-final. Someone should have told them that they were last on the tables. But we can’t take away the credit from these guys, Lakshmiratan Shukla held his nerves in spite of the fall of their top order, even the bowling department did well though most of the wickets were taken by our own Ravindra Jadeja. Viewers wondered if he was playing for Royals or Knight Riders. The way he got Yusuf and Henderson out was really foolish. He wanted to run on every single ball.
Well it is very difficult to see your favourite team falling flat in front of the Biggest Losers and I am still to come in terms with that defeat. It was completely unbelievable for me to face this harsh truth. Arey yar itne saare matches me se in riders ko yahi match mila tha kya jeetne ke liye..??:x
But it’s over for now and all we can do is wait for the next season. I hope things will work in Royals' favour once the IPL comes back to India, especially Jaipur. Hopefully full strength team will join the Royals in the next season and they’ll bring back the trophy to the place where it actually belongs..
HALLA BOL…!!
P.S.: Rajasthan Royals is the highest profit making team of the season, we are first again but in a different field.

Drinking and Smoking Part-II

After reading my previous post on drinking and smoking I realized that it was missing something. I missed a lot of points related to stress busting and drinking/smoking. But what else would you expect from a 3-post old time pass blogger?...
I think apart from the two ways suggested by me in previous posts i.e. meditation and happy friends’ company there are many other ways in which one can de-stress oneself.
I was writing the previous post half sleeping. So don’t mind the mistakes and typos. But on the whole it was in the right direction and it said 80% of the entire matter. This supplement is for the remaining 20%.
I mentioned to stress busters mentioned above, let us talk about few more effective stress busters,…
Cut down our commitments. We must learn to say NO.
Calm stress with good nutrition.
Rub tension away with a healing massage.
Don’t bear grudges. If something is bothering you, clear the air there and then; be it with your friend or boss.
Find comfort in a crowd. Popcorn at the movies, plays, concerts, magic shows relax and rejuvenate.
Keep comic books by Ur bedside, and enjoy a good laugh before u sleep.
Walk up to someone u love, put Ur arms around them to do the same to u. this is called a hug, and it is the warmest, most soothing feeling in the world.
Music is one of the most effective ones, listening to your favourite songs helps in a great way.
Alcohol and smoking comes no where in the above list although the list is not exhaustive.

Typos

Please ignore the typos in my previous three posts, i'll try to improve upon them,,..

Drinking and Smoking

Well I don’t know why but I have always hated people who drink or smoke, may be because this is what I have been taught from my childhood. That drinking is a bad habit, so is smoking, that they are bad for health, and they cause you some really deadly diseases. Its not that drinkers and smokers are unaware of the negatives of these. But they say that they’re addicted. Some start drinking at hostels, some others with the company in which they’re in and then there are some who start drinking because they think it’s a status symbol. Some others drink because it’s a part of their work like in business meetings, alcohol is served to all and since all your mates are drinking even you start up as you get an excuse to deal with it. Some say that they drink in a “limit”,. But then if they know that its excess is harmful and they are also upto their senses then why do they drink even, why not control your addiction beyond a “limit”??

Well the above discussion is useless, we know that the people who are addicted cant stop drinking and even smoking if they lack the will power to do so, in fact many of them don’t even want to leave. They say that they forget all their worries and anxieties after drinking, I ask if you really have so much of stress, why don’t you switch over to meditation to get rid of it within minutes??

Meditation has mystic powers, so strong is the impact of meditation that it can de-stress you within the same time span irrespective of the amount of stress or anxiety, and then comes the simple philosophy of being happy. I love those people who live simply and enjoy each and every moment of the life which God has gifted them. There are so many people around me who are happy in all circumstances no matter whatever is going on in their life, and trust me each and every one of us is engaged in some other worry, some are worried about their carrier, some about the education, some about the family problem, some about their spouses, some about the thought whether or not will they find the partner of their choice, some are worried because the cut off so and so place is just a few points higher than what they have been socring, some are worried about the college of their choice, some about their bored exams, some about their call letters, about their low salary package, about the loss in business, about what the boss will say the next day, blah blah…..there are so many worries and anxieties that its impossible to list them all, each person has got his worst.

And then there are a few people who don’t care, they know that it’s a part and parcel of everybody’s life. Life is a journey and there are difficulties, speed breakers, and other problems but at the end of the day, what counts is the courage to move on. You’ll never find such people stressed or crying for what life has done to them rather they will help you out of your small troubles even in the worst times of their lives. They always greet you with a smile and welcoming gesture. These are the people who ask you about your health, about your family members, about how things are moving rather than shifting their anxieties on you.

Benefit of befriending such people is that they are very good decision makers. Their thought process is very simple and plain. Let us suppose a situation where you have to take a very important decision and you are thinking about it day and night unable to reach any conclusion. Ask these “happy go lucky” people about it and they’ll tell you exactly the right thing to do in just a second, without even thinking. Because they know what is right thing to do for long term benefits. I can give you a large number of examples where such people have helped me out of serious troubles, and for them it was just like any other thing.

Now the question arises how to find such people??

One way I told you, they will always ask you about your health and your family members.

The other way is even simpler. They are always happy. You’ll never find them crying in public. They never hesitate in asking for your help if they need it. They ask for help only when they actually need it. And in that case they know that there is no way but to ask for help. They wont burn there energy in thinking whether  to ask the other person or not. They don’t have any egos. They will never engage in any sort of gossiping about any person.

Company matters no matter where you are. Most of the times a person is not only identified by what he is, but also by the company he keeps. So avoid people who drink and smoke because there is actually no need of alcohol and smoking to de-stress, you can siply avoid it by meditation and if you are lazy enough to reject that, then you can make friends with the kind of people I have described above.

Thanks for reading this long one. DON’T POST COMMENTS!!:P

My Best Enemy;)

This one goes for the person I hate most in life, don’t worry I am not disclosing your name (I am sure he will read this blog)..all throughout this post I’ll call him, which goes very well with his personality, “DHAKKAN”…

Lets discuss some characteristic qualities of Mr. Dhakkan,,,

1. Mr dhakkan thinks that he is a big flirt and girls die to see his big f**king smile, he think he’ll smile and girls will fall in his way…so he doesn’t smile at all...!!
2. Mr dhakkan thinks, he is a king on orkut who’ll send one friend request and there will be discussion about it on next day’s newspaper
3. Mr dhakkan is a big time beggar, he didn’t return loads of debt which he carries on his shoulders very proudly. He gets huge amount of pocket money, he spends it all on betting. He loves cricket satta, but never won any money.:(
4. He spends this money of rent on feeding his “girls-who-are-his-friends”, but sadly to no response in the way he wants,..
5. Last time Mr dhakkan used his brain was when he was asked to leave the classroom and he was thinking which way to go…
6. Mr dhakkan kills mosquitos with his head.
7. Mr dhakkan loves his only blue shirt which makes him look like a professional, which he otherwise cant even think of being.
8. Mr dhakkan entered engineering because he wanted to go in a college where no one had time to notice his dangerously kidding acts of “attention seeking”.
9. Mr dhakkan bought his bike by the money he collected from his friends when girls refused to eat more of so called “his” money because they had to bear him for that period, instead a few friends of mine offered him 50 paise to leave them alone.
10. Mr dhakkan is a big fan of cyrus sahukar and loves his shows on MTV (mirinda kikass mornings).
11. Mr dhakkan once drank alcohol, he broke the mirror when he saw his image in it.
12. Mr dhakkan’s favourite ipl team is “Dhakkan Chargers”, this is how he loves to pronounce it. Of course his favourite airline is “Air DHAKKAN”
13. Mr dhakkan cellphone is switched off since the battery got discharged for the first time.
14. Mr dhakkan drinks coke “on the rocks”, on the nearest hill, he likes his cold drink hot. He thinks it’ll make him hotter
15. Mr dhakkan stopped drinking milk when he realized that it was lassi.
16. Mr dhakkan thinks he can beat the great khalli, if only he joins gym.
17. Mr dhakkan eats food after keeping it in freezer for 2 hours, it makes him COOL.
18. Mr dhakkan’s favourite roadie was devarshi after he saw him “performing” the “coffin task”.
19. Mr dhakkan loves Buchanan because he made the best possible team perform poorly, made the IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE, no wait, POSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE.
20. Mr dhakkan thinks he is the fake ipl player.
21. Mr dhakkan takes bath every diwali, how long can u carry yourself with holi colours on your body?
22. Mr dhakkan loves this blog because he succeeded in his job of “attention seeking”

I know this post is lame but helped me lot in throwing away my frustration with Mr dhakkan, and I am feeling better now. Waiting for your COMMENTS.

P.S.: Read the above post in a marquee format..."Mr Dhakkan Reloaded" [june 2009]

Kolkata Knight Riders' Biggest Nightmare comes True

Nothing seems to be going in favour of the KKR in IPL-2009. Not that they did any good in 2008 version but this time they don't seem to be doing even that. They are currently at the bottom of the charts and are expected to remain there only in the rest of the tournament. coach Buchanan is enjoying his richly paid foreign tour after creating a controversy out of nothing by introducing the multiple captain theory. as if this wasn't enough there came a blog named "fake ipl player" whose author claimed to be an insider of the KKR camp and there he lashed out at the team management and increased the amount of public embarrassment for the SRK's team. SRK was very excited at the beginning of the tournament expecting his team to beat the others just like Australia used to do when Buchanan coached them. so excited he was that he didn't mind arguing with the cricketing legend Sunil gavaskar regarding the captaincy issue saying, "This is our team and we know how to run it". But the only match KKR won was by the mercy of the great mathematician in cricket Mr.Duckworth and Lewis. so is the intensity of the poor performance that the only way in which KKR can now earn points is that the rain must spoil the match so that one point is awarded to both the teams. The second half for this season has already started where every match is equivalent to a knock out. all the teams are doing their best, even Vijay Malya's Royal Challengers are trying their best to stay in the race. but KKR seem to be hating their theme song. i wonder if they'll ask SRK to change it, KORBO LORBO HARBO RE. 

cant say what the people of Kolkata might be thinking about their IPL team. after all its KOLKATA Knight Riders. AAMI KOLKATA WE LOSE!!

I have a few suggestions for the KKR team management:

1. They should forget about IPL and shall rather try their luck in ICL.

2. They should replace themselves with the playing eleven of the team representing Bengal in ICL

3. They should shoot a film where SRK is their coach and where they win the IPL final on the last ball of super over with SRK suggesting Mc cullum to hit a six on the last ball from the pavilion ( yeh lamba run up lekar aa raha hai yani fast ball, lekin iska pair to dheere chal raha hai yani slow, YANI YEH SPIN BALL FAENKEGA...mc cullum meri taraf dekho mc cullum...)

4. They should try their luck as cheer leaders in next season.

5. They should start a reality show to select the next year's coach (of course Indians wont be allowed)

I know there are many things where KKRs can out beat the other teams but its not CRICKET for sure..!! hope you can suggest me some more ideas,,..Do Post COMMENTS!!