CK ¿ uNpluGGeD ¿

Hello all,

An idea of building a dream home has been popping into my Mind, right from my school days, when I used to draw my simple architectural drawings 😉 as to where does what goes. Ofcourse just when I finished my idea, my Mom would pop out saying that doesn’t go well with vasthu stuff.

Various situations have now led me to hate the vasthu and hororscope stuff than ever recently.  A few months ago, my dream home plan started kicking off with all set. But now it s a bit postponed., due to various happenings of beliefs of Mom and Dad I couldn’t refuse. After all, with only they being happy I can build a Dream Home, else I can build just a house with bricks. So the plans is kicked off to atleast 1.5 to 2 years.

Now, to take everything in a postive sense, I am taking this oppurtunity to make the Dream Home the DREAM HOME. As I was always interested in interiors of the home., I surf through and get the knowledge, and read through, “Inside Outside”. I am gathering as much knowledge as could to make a good house. Now as a blog visitor you get that free..

When I started to search for this, I got up with a different article a “Washup” – Toilet and Washing Machine in one.. This may suit you if you are an eco friendly and space stringent persons.

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For more info, http://freshome.com/ and http://gizmodo.com/370458/washup-toilet-and-washing-machine-all+in+one-oh-yes

Thats it for today..

Packing off. CK.

Peter Roebuck would not have thought even a whisker before he wrote about Him recently just before the famed CB triseries finals. He was quoting about need of Him to retire and concentrate in the family., rather than playing in international matches. And as Dhoni rightly quoted, “You must be careful when you criticize or evaluate Him, he can return to form in no time”.

Sachin’s Bat did the talk for Roebuck and the rest is history.

The quality of Him which made me and many others like the most is His humble nature, with childish smile, quietly passing through sorry paving a new way through in the religion of Cricket. He is a messiah. I wonder how I would bear the feelings after some years, when I would miss Him from International cricket. But I dont think, now there is a room for my feelings. There are enough years that He would play, making runs and records that a fresher of cricket would ever dream of making. Especially the total number of runs ( ODIs and Tests ), only God can beat that. A true inspiration to me. 

Recently there was a news regarding UK in an idea of giving the honourary ‘Sir’ award to Sachin. There is no room for any astonishment here. even if someone has. just if you look at the records he holds, you would twist your heads.Records Held by Him:
1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI’s
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI’s
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI’s
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of <> 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI’s 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI’s 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
17. Most number of 100’s in test’s 38
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI’s 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI’s most by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost. <>
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the “Greatest Sportsman” of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named “Sports person of the Year
34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches – a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999). <>
47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
49. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar’s record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
55. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side
56. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs – 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara’s (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar <>
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. Tendulkar’s 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI’s, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket.I dont get words to say how much he means to me.. Sachin, you are my dream..

Inspired CK…

Dear all,

Just 3 things to share with you today…

1. What can a 20 year gap do?

 Click to enlarge and see how a 1GB is transformed to.

2. An inspirational PPT. Have a look if u are ready to spend 3 min to motivate yourself.

Pursue your Dream

3. A quotable quote., “Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs” – Michael Levine.

BRB,

CK.

Hello all,

Some Rapid fire questions..-

• Will another XP revolutionize the electronic industry? 
• A samsung phone to compete N95?
• A symbian OS Samsung phone?
• A Windows OS Samsung phone?
• A love at first sight phone for Rs.7500 with FM and 2GB Card support?
• A 3D surround music specific phone other than Walkman series?

Even if any of the answers you said were NO, you are kicked out of the ‘Geek of the Week’ contest. 

These would be hitting the Stage soon. Time to spend some time for Mobiles. Let us view some of the mobiles recently released and the ones to be soon released., and recently revealed in ‘Mobile Asia – 2008’ held in New Delhi. Let us look at the phone and some of its specs announced.

Samsung F490:

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3.2 inch TFT screen – Triband HSDPA/EDGE – 16:9 Screen – 130 MB onboard memory – 240*342 display – 5 MP Camera with LED Flash – Video recording MPEG4 clips with QVGA resoltuion – 3.5 mm Jack output – Net front 3.4 HTML browser for effective browsing – Supported video formats: WMV, MPEG4, H.263, H.264.

Price: (Not yet announced firmly)

Samsung i550

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2.6 inch display – 240*320 pixels – 109 g – HSDPA – 150 MB memory – Wifi – Symbian 9.2 OS – 3.15 MP – WMV, 3GP, MPEG4 Video Player – FM – 3.5mm audio jack -WMA/MP3/AAC/AAC+/OGG/ASF audio player – Google maps installed.

Price: Rs. 14000 (approx)

Samsung i780

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3G support – 2.55 inch display – 320 * 320 pixels – QWERTY keyboard – 256 MB ROM , 128 MB RAM – Windows Mobile 6.0 OS – EDGE – Wifi – Opera mobile 8.65 – 2MP Camera – GPS Support – Finger mouse – MS Office mobile – Smart converter – Windows Media Player – 120g

Price: (Not announced yet)

Samsung i450

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2.4 inch screen – 240 *320 pixels – 3G – EDGE – 114 g – 40 MB memory (expandable) – Symbian OS 9.2 – 2MP Camera – FM radio – 3.5 mm jack – WMV/3GP/H.263/MPEG4 Video player – WMA/MP3/AAC/AAC+/OGG/ASF Audio player – Document viewer (MS Word, Excel, PPT, PDF) – in-ear earphones – 3D surround sound powered by ICE power amplifiers by Bang & Olufsen.

Price: (Not confirmed yet)

Sony Ericsson Xperia

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iPhone looks – 3G – EDGE – 145 g – 3 inch display – 800 * 480 pixels – TFT touch screen – QWERTY Keyboard – Qualcomm MSM7200 528MHz processor – 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM, 400 MB internal memory – Wifi – Windows Mobile 6.1 professional – 3.15 MP camera – Inbuilt GPS – FM radio – MP3/AAAC Player.

Price: (Not confirmed yet)

Nokia N96

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125g – 2.5 inch display – 240*320 pixels – 16GB internal memry – Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (Symbian 9.3)- Flashlite 3.0 – Play Youtube videos inside browser  – Quadband 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens with VGA video recording at 30 FPS -Dual LED flash which can also be used when video recording – Built in GPS – DVB-H TV broadcast receiver – Stereo FM Radio with RDS – TV out – 3.5 mm jack – Office document reader

Approx price: Rs.32000

At one thought we can go for a cool Laptop in the price of these high end phones., at the other end, you are virtually carrying a mini laptop around. So the choice is yours and ball is in your court. And a personal advice 😉 (Dont buy a phone as soon as it releases – Wait for atleast a month – Watch out for the bear trend in price)

Thanks to GSM Arena for specs and pictures.

Readers queries regarding the phones are most welcome.

Love,

CK.

Dear all,

 I feel to share with all two articles I loved most,

1. A short story(இது காதல் செய்யும் நேரம்) by a blogger Durga in her blog http://arisuvadi.blogspot.com/ 

2. A life of an IT guy (http://cyberabis.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/sila-naatkalukku-piragu/) – very similar situation as of mine.

I am sure you would enjoy both.

Catch you l8r. Love. Ck.