Remembering those days in college

Those days like a dream to reach the College due to various reasons, one of them is study, though the main aim will be studying further once we passed out either in 10th class or 12th class to reach college. But, we have again different reasons to reach the college beside study, it is just like an entertainment, new place after a long gap from same school study, show the world that you become youth by entering college and possible to get revenue in future from business or work once college study over in very near future, dreaming world and so on.

However, we need to think on this topic about two different views, one is college perspective and the other one is student perspective. I have stated here both. Some state’s education pattern says that the College entry is once we passed out 10th class to reach the Junior College like Pre-University Course (PUC – 10+2) and some state’s education pattern says that the College entry would be once we passed out 12th class to reach the College for Bachelor’s Degree by choosing related subject.

However, as per recalling, I would like to state something about the college days when I passed out in 12th standard with first class marks / percentage (fortunately) to enter the Bachelor’s degree. In general, student has to face lot of new challenges beside dream, dream and dream upon entering the college. This includes day dream, night dream and the future dream in unknown atmosphere. Other than this, student will be on teenage with glamour, realizing reality or truth compare to childhood or early days where everyone or everything was good, old school mates separated, future or scope thoughts, new atmosphere, new faces as college mates, lack of understanding, solo on ground, ragging by seniors, disappointment on course selection, disappointment on instructor or professor or even Principal sometime, hatred on class projects, possible for new and useless love, roaming with friends, tour and travel, student election campaign, delay for class, nothing to worry on exam despite not studied, love with arrears, love to pass the time including in cafeteria and so on. We just happy to pass 3 to 4 years in the college whether we achieved our main aim or not but we were ready to achieve rest of the things.

I was afraid to enter the college due to ragging than any others; I tried to avoid going to college for first few days after Admission. Later, I had been to college regularly though I got struck with minor ragging which I could lose nothing but Rs 20 and some question from senior to answer where HoD (Head of the Department) entered upon. He, hee, heeee. My college was famous in two things, one is ragging, and the other one is the college surrounded with reputed girls’ colleges and girls’ secondary and higher secondary schools which helped our collegians as an entertainment, fun and even sometime love source for few (I will tell you later about me). Now, you have to identify my college or its name where I would have studied or passed the time – he hee heee. You have to understand that study is different in such atmosphere, so, if you are solo and interested in study then doesn't matter, you can study and pass out – it is just like it is in your own hand to pass or fail to get Degree, as usual. At the same time, we used to see the release of the movie related to college during entering or joining the college, as same as, for e.g. Jo Jeetha Wohi Sikander movie and eager to watch it despite getting from black ticket.

During college days, we sometime used to think that we are broadminded or well matured compare to our parents or elders or seniors around, sometime we used to even think that we are master in teaching than the college instructor or principal though not studied as we supposed to be. Sometime it became true in few cases but not for all.

Now education, our country education system is little different and late updates on eco-system or international educational eco-system. How? When I was in abroad a decade ago, I heard about B.Sc Accounts subject (remember - BSc Accounts) degree in their colleges from well known countries, I surprised on Degree title and realized that this will not come to India unless we spend few decades and education pattern changes here slowly by Ministry level which they will know it first before me. Also, our citizen will laugh and surprise when we talk early about BSc Accounts. Why BSc Accounts? It is not related to Bachelor of Science? Finally, after a decade it came to India following western education pattern by Indian Govt, which our current student follows too for various other degrees and education level.

This post is my entry for 'My College Diary' contest held by travel blog My Yatra Diary in collaboration with Collegedunia.com'.

My choice of bloggers are as follows;

Arvind Passey from http://passey.info/
Saru from http://www.sarusinghal.com/
Suresh from http://jambudweepam.blogspot.in/

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Go anywhere and stay for less, from Airbnb

I am actually one of the travel lovers and would like to roam all over the world. I had been too few foreign countries beside local trips in India. The International trip was to Singapore (tour visit), Brunei (tour visit), Bahrain (tour visit), UAE (tour visit), Saudi Arabia (for work), and Kuwait (for short-term work). These all happened few years back and would like to still roam in India and other foreign countries when time permits. However, I won't give up to travel anywhere in the future.

When I recall the past, some of the best trip in India was, Shimla, Jammu, Sri Nagar, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Munnar, Goa, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore and other small and less known tourist places, on.

Wherever we go, the important one other than travel is of unique accommodation and suitable food, or boarding and lodging or bed and bread beside a wonderful sightseeing, experience and remembrance for many years as I recalled this one. I used to see trip photos which was taken long back to recall the older excitement and happy days. Still you can enjoy it, and age doesn't matter to go around. 

There are few travel companies that assist online for such trip and to get unique accommodation with lesser price. One of them is Airbnb. All these fun together, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 34,000 cities and 190+ countries. Why don't you utilize this facility?

To avail the facilities at Airbnb and its booking through online or from a mobile phone, you can visit Airbnb booking. I too have selected few foreign location and two local locations as follows.

Spain, Ireland:

Ireland: This is one of the best places to visit due to various reason and one of them is naturally beautiful. It has various sightseeing and soft people around.

Ohaupo, New Zealand:

New Zealand: You can either visit Australia or New Zealand which is great to be there as long as you would like to realize natural rich atmosphere.

Luxemburg, city:

Luxemburg: International travelers never forget to enjoy the beauty of Luxemburg. This is one of the best hospitality and tourist places in the world which real traveler never misses the opportunity to enjoy.

Kodaikanal, India:

Kodaikanal: Although it is famous location in India for coolest place and try to stay over there during Summer, this is one of the best location in southern India to experience lush green and hill station with beautiful atmosphere.

Hyderabad, India:

Hyderabad is actually a different city to visit, it is unlike some peace and quiet tourist location but it is a city which contains some of the historical places, architecture, mixed with nature and most importantly growing IT sector which called Silicon Valley of India.

You may also register with Airbnb to enjoy the holidays with very low expenses. Ref https://www.airbnb.co.in/?af=3330229&c=IndiBlogger

This article is written for Airbnb contest in association with IndiBlogger.

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Don’t Circus on road

Whenever I talk with friends and relatives on the topic of Road safety, I will remember few bitter incident and accident that happened in front of me and would like not to disclose here except hint. A small rose was smashed by giant stone in front of me while travelling on the bus, no one could help it at that moment for that rose and other stone which crashed, I was able to see it since I was sitting on the front seat which is near the bus driver.

I was unable to forget for few long days, unable to have food on time and often discussed with near and dear about it, and still I used to recall it once such topic arises. It was a horrible experience though a small school rose was not my relatives but unknown rose which didn’t grown as it is supposed to be and big lose for their family members. There are so many incident as such for my native / city people and those were behind my seen but still painful whenever I recall it. Oh God.

Drive(r) with care

Whenever I drive the vehicle on road or while traffic, the first one is remembering God, the second one is utmost care about who is approaching me to hit my vehicle / car rather than whom I am going to hit anyone. However, overall vehicle care, driving care and vigilant is there for which I suppose to drive well without hitting anyone following the driving guideline and fasten seat belt etc. Doing silly mistake in a second can harm many like attending mobile calls can cause severe damage including life threat.

If you want to drive vehicle upside down, wheeling, jumping, racing, showing and stunning etc. then you may join at any nearest Circus or bike racing center or formula one group etc. There are some expert who could assist you on this and I am afraid you won’t show such talent over there since you can do it at Road show only which can kill you and some on goers.

Courtesy: Nissan

Ten Commandments for Road safety:

1.     Traffic Authority should be vigilant – round the clock

2.     Long Signal process must not irritate travelers

3.     Highways shall not have speed breaker or hump 

4.     Driver shall have all valid papers to drive the vehicle

5.     Driver must know the road and driving discipline 

6.     Driver shall observe the side and rear mirrors beside front area

7.     No health issues including poor vision, cardiac, drowsy and madness

8.     Speed thrills but kills adherence, follow fasten seat belt term

9.     Fitness certificate, Insurance, Emission, DL and so on.

10.   Driver shall not use Phone on driving or stop vehicle to use calls.

Wish you all a Happy Journey – Bon Voyage.

This article is written for NissanIndia NSDF (Nissan Saftey Driving Forum) contest in association with IndiBlogger. Thanks to all visitors.

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Beyond the dirt – where else we can reach

There are lots of buzz around on ‘Clean India’ campaign and it looks like we however need to get up at this moment to make clean our home, street, road and country. Anyhow, the main concern over here is, make it clean India understanding individual responsibility and contribution toward this campaign, at least. It is better late than never, as we know face is the index of the mind, thus cleanliness shows an individual status to country status.

What we learnt in these days is horrible due to unclean habit and atmosphere which affected overall nature cycle and destroyed many natural resources. Where are those birds and its quantity that we used to see couple of decades ago? Due to unclean, impure, contaminated, dirty, infected, grimy, polluted and unhygienic habit and its atmosphere, we bear many losses which are unaccountable. Disease spread in such a way that there won’t have any medicine except anti-biotic as temporary solution for it. What else?

This campaign would like to wake up those who are not ready to get up on time or not really interested toward clean atmosphere, this is especially for those who are not ready keep clean surrounding at home first. Other than individual contribution, team work plays very important role on everything, only discussion and performance matters. As said, team work means ‘less me and more we’ and team work means dream work. What we do in our team work is (there is saying) as below which failed in everything rather success.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. 

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. 

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. 

Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. 

Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. 

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done it.

The real story goes like that. I think people (except few) don’t take personal responsibility for general success on social services because they want others to do the work for them. To get work done and success on my effort (no personal or self boast over here), I tried to start to clean Bathroom at home which is very small, this one also done due to family member ill at home. However, co-incidence would work sometime while such (Clean) campaign is going on altogether. The next one is, beginning of cleaning home and nearby atmosphere though there are many commercial items help to do for cleaning task but we need little effort to keep clean surrounding which could help to avoid various diseases and threats.

The next one is, I was going on nearby street where I observed that sometime garbage cleaning and sometime not from the authority. Here, one is authority shall do it and if they fail to do for any unknown reason then we shall request and remind them to do so in a right manner. You can see the below photos where once the trash / junk was huge, only one initiative and step from me (common people) to nearest Municipality helps to clean garbage regularly. We will go with Banega Swachh India and its campaign.

This article is written for Clean India campaign on Swachh India from IndiBlogger.

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Ab Mai Bolega - My Voice to Clean India campaign

I remember four things whenever I read or hear about ‘clean’ topic. One is, almost every religion says neat and clean is very important beside our routine practice, the second one is Singapore and my visit over there during Apr 2001, the third one is Saudi Arabian Airlines Catering unit in Riyadh and the fourth one is Tamil veteran actor Kamala Hasan.

What does religion says about Clean:

I can say no religion forget to says about clean, as clean is half Imaan (belief) and the rest half belief is individual soul’s choice toward almighty. I feel sad myself also that we are not following our own basic principle on this, fully or partially.

What does Singapore says about Clean:

I remember one incident while one evening walking on the Orchard road in Singapore in April 2001 (a decade ago that too), I once spitted aside on walking over there and immediately I afraid and remember the country’s different strict rule and disciplinary action compare with back home, though I was safe over there. As you may know that making bad atmosphere or creating pollution in Singapore is against their law and strict disciplinary action will be taken for the concern. So, each human being carry their responsibility set by the nation thus they are in a good atmosphere including neat and clean surrounding.

What does Saudia Airlines Catering Riyadh unit says for clean:

Though it is a five star hotel level unit, thus it is normal that one can find neat and clean nearby. That is not the surprise here, the astonishing thing is the one which this unit create and practice everyone to be neat and clean beside some disciplinary measure when required. One example is, if you have a long hair or good hair style and working in Admin than Food production area which is far located, still Hygiene Inspector will roam, monitor, catch and warn you first to cut the hair (if so) as per company policy, if fail to do so then disciplinary action would be taken. 

As usual, food production area will have so many rules for handling food that can be found herein India’s five star or three star hotels too and forget this one in local hotels. Beside this, the Managers and above posts (mostly Saudi citizens) of each department will monitor for neat and cleanliness in their respective area, they will handle alone some cleaning task in the office premises and make changes the office atmosphere often as simple look and nice decoration.

What Kamala Hasan says for Clean topic:

I don’t know whether you are aware or not about actor Kamala Hasan and his discipline, India’s PM is taking clean initiative now but this veteran actor is talking and taking ‘clean’ initiative since few decades. He always used to give some hint or message or a song or even a film for only ‘clean’ topic.

So, when an actor can take an initiative for a long term on ‘clean’ India with social motivation, why individual shall not take an initiative on this, which is every citizen’s responsible too. We have 24 hours a day; we spend almost 24 hours a day in every other task, why shall not we spend at least half an hour to one hour just to keep cleaning in domestic and nearby area or outside, as responsible. 

Note: Starting from now, I will try to clean my home first and nearby area next.

This article is written for IndiBlogger for Indi-Happy Hour contest associated with #AbMontuBolega from Strepsils on Clean India Campaign, so let us work with Swach Bharat. You may also visit their website at http://www.abmontubolega.com/ and  Strepsils on Facebook and Twitter.

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How to bring back the touch

My grandma used to massage my hair and body with pure Coconut oil during childhood, it given me relax, cool, refreshes and healthy. Those days are gone since we grown up and time changes everything, now once or twice in a week, I have to apply hair oil by self and rare self-massage too.

Whenever I apply hair oil (unlimited like waterfalls from my hair) two hours before sleeping at the night time then my closed one used to run away immediately and used to return as bring back the touch on the next day after shower and re-freshen.

My alternate usage for pure Coconut oil from village is Parachute oil which we can get it easily from nearest shop, this one helps me to remember my childhood and grandma beside same habit and healthy experience, to get back the touch again. Parachute oil massage on hair helps to relieve the stress, help for scalp, strengthen hair and cool for eyes etc. Parachute oil has fragrance in addition to same man made quality of pure coconut oil which helps me for closed one to bring back the touch at night time too.

Advanced one: other than Parachute coconut oil for good and healthy experience, Parachute Advanced Body lotion helps to get rid of rough skin and tiredness. I can assure you that such lotion apply / massage helps to relieve the roughness of the skin specially during winter and helps to get rid of body pain and tiredness etc. We can find additional help from Parachute Advanced Body Lotion is that our skin become smooth, glow and natural one - like #BringBackTheTouch.

This article is written for #BringBackTheTouch from IndiBlogger.

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Porcelanosa dream 24K home for me

I almost forgot the home which I have in my native though rare visits over there and just dreaming to get a new and own home (at least 600 sq ft) in the city where I live in right now or at least own 1BHK flat with reasonable rate with quite and pleasant atmosphere. 

By the graces of God, it looks like my dream is coming true very soon and the matching one is a special idea what I got recently from this latest contest for interior from Porcelanosa via IndiBlogger. Hopefully, Porcelanosa's interior for Kitchen, hall and bathroom may match for my dream home to come.

Image courtesy: Porcelanosa

Most of the time, I supposed to be at home and work from home for official work beside blogging / online job. Thus, I would like to have a nice hall and a separate room as my small office and work in pleasant and heavenly atmosphere. 

Everyone’s dream to get own home rather than staying in leased one or rented one or staying with relatives or dependent etc. It applies to me as well, so, I have to look into it very carefully and get the best one at the right time including dream interior items from here.

Image courtesy: Porcelanosa

I love to keep neat and clean the kitchen since we have to maintain hygienic everywhere and its priority is at kitchen too. I can use Porcelanosa's Kitchen Furniture as New Cocina Gamadeco which can help me for easy maintenance and very much attraction. I can enjoy the food at kitchen itself.

Image courtesy: Porcelanosa

This is what I was looking for, this is nothing but metal finished interior wall at hall. If you would like to go with this one then you have to reach Porcelanosa's metal effect wall tiles design. All of them combination will wonder you and will suit for space and budget.

This article is written for IndiBlogger contest on My dream 24K home with Porcelanosa.

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Lesson for a cleaner and safer India

We used to hear campaign about Clean India everywhere but we forget our own responsible on this. To recall our responsible, kindly read this short article to learn some lesson on this subject.

There was a big place where the preacher used to preach about all human kind wellness and do’s and don’ts for everyone’s future sake. Generally people used to come from various locations as mass crowd, listen the preaching, appreciate, few of them follows practically and some just listen then forget it. In such place, there would be normally basic facility arranged for free such as seating facility, fan / electricity facility, food items, water facility, bathing facility and toilet facilities etc. Those days (80 years ago), there were no Indian Toilets but either man-made toilets in some of the places which manually used to clean when needed or an open defecation which affected health for those users including kids and women.

The head and preacher arranged manpower for everything to assist for the crowd on food service, water facility, bathing facility except the cleaning of the toilet / sanitary task. Still local people and other concern used to think sometime about mass crowd and their sanitary cleaning taking place and ignore that task since an old man alone (clothes covered with head / nose with different uniform dress wearing) used to arrive in the very early morning with kit to do the concern task. The days and years were gone as such, one fine day the old man didn’t arrive at the location and visitors started to talk about the sanitary / toilet cleanliness issue at that place on the following day itself.

Concern authorities were searching for that old man and unable to complain to head and preacher since head was out of station and preacher was very recently died. The concern authorities tried to hire local labor temporarily to clean it, also they approached the home of the head to inform about it since those days tele-communication was little tough one. They again approached to Preacher’s house to know the address of the old man who used to clean to reach him out for seeking usual assistance. The Preacher’s wife permitted them to enter the home and check the uniform / clothes to identify whether this is the person they are looking for? They identified that “Yes”, he is the one with the same uniform and covering clothes. Then Preacher’s wife told them ‘keep it secret’ this matter whether it could be of scandal or prestige matter but the fact is that Preacher used to clean those toilets / sanitary every day and showered before preaching people, since long. They were shocked about it, they realized about their own responsibilities and wellness of whole mankind which lies within. The old man very well aware about the cleanliness too which helps to help human being and eradicate the various dreadful diseases and air pollution beside preaching.

To avoid the various dreadful diseases and air pollution in India beside major issues related to health and safety, now few companies like Domex has taken an initiative to eradicate open defecation in villages and other towns. You can feel own responsible and bring changes in the lives of millions of people including kids, women and elders by supporting for the Domex Initiative. All you need to do is “click” on the “Contribute Tab” on www.domex.in and Domex will contribute Rs.5 on your behalf to eradicate open defecation, thereby helping kids and others live a dignified life.

This article is written for Domex Initiative from IndiBlogger. Thanks to visitors.

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