INR vs USD

Rupee is appreciating day by day. In an effort to bring down the inflation to a desired figure (below 5%) Government is just watching the Rupee's appreciation with a mild smile.


Rupee has touched 9-year high against USD. Today Rupee closed at 40.15 against 1 USD.


While there is a straight forward benefit to the importers, experts say that there is indirect benefit to the exporters too. Still I am trying to figure that out. Still a novice, eh?

Trend of INR vs USD for different intervals is below:

Arase

Though I had written a harsh post on them, I have not stopped watching them. (please don't spit on my face). One improvement is I have stopped watching Kolangal and started watching Arase (actually Arasi, some numerology sentiment).

This post is to talk about the music of the serial Arase. I must tell that the background music of this serial is so good. Music is one strong reason that drives me to watch this serial (if not everyday at least on and off frequently).

Dividend Earnings

Mukesh Ambani - Rs 869 cr
Azim Premji - Rs 697 cr
Shiv Nadar - Rs 403 cr
Anil Ambani - Rs 87 cr
N.R.N. Murthy - Rs 33 cr
Nandan Nilekani - Rs 23 cr

This is dividend income of some of the big shots in India in year 2006-07.
Source: Business Today

What was yours?

Big Men

I have always observed that big fat guys have good sense of humor. I have seen many of my friends who are big having good sense of humor.

Is there any scientific reason behind this?

(It may sound absurd, both my weight and sense of humor are increasing steadily. There must be some relation between these two)

Crow-sin

A few months back, I was having a bad headache. I went to a pharmacist to get a Crocin for my headache. Suddenly a thought struck me that it's been really a very long time since I saw a crow. I tried hard to recall when was the last time I saw one. I couldn't really recall. I felt somewhat saddened. Because right from the childhood, crows are in my life in the form of stories (that old lady vada story) and superstitious beliefs (such as seeing a lone dark crow brings bad luck).

City has ruined birds' lives. This noise, this pollution are huge repellent to the biirds. I have read somewhere long time ago that the microwave frequencies (Barani - do you remember the MF Frequency range?) are affecting birds, making them to fly away from the areas where this waves are very intensive.

Few months back, I requested one of my colleagues who has a camera cell phone to take a snap of a crow whenever/wherever he sees it. So that I could use that pic in my blog to write about this sad story. Till date he has not got one.

Recently I saw a lonely crow outside my home. I caught that in my camera. Who knows, in a decades time I might have to go to zoo to take a picture of a crow.

May God bless crows.

My PMP Journey

I am writing a blog to log my experience in becoming a PMP.

Please visit http://becomingpmp.blogspot.com/.

Please do refer this site to anyone who is preparing for the PMP exam. I believe that this would be useful.

Point of View

What do you think?

Background of this post:

Background 1:
There is a book with a title 'Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It'. I was not aware of the complete title, I thought the title was just 'Why Women Can't Read Maps'. I thought women can't read maps.

Background 2:
I was showing the cluster map of visitor locations of my blog to a female and flaunting. While showing the map I just asked her to locate China. She pointed her finger at the location given in the map above. I suddenly rememberd about the book that I mentioned above. So, started asking her to locate few other countries (while controlling my laugh). Her answers are showed in the map above. I seriously started thinking that women can't read maps.

Conclusion:
I did a little bit of research to find out if there is any scientific reason behind this and found that it is just a hoax. Read this.

Above all, Anuradha's comment in this blog's comment section has proven that women CAN read maps. (Especially with that 'Zimbabwe' thing. I didn't know where Zimbabwe was until I read your comment).

ps: Anu & Arasan - sorry if you had expected something great from me about this map. :(

Elixir of life - Recipe

Required:
Red or black Grapes - 4 Kg
Sugar - 3.75 Kg
Cinnamon stick - 1 or 2 (of length 2-3 inches)
Wheat - 250 grams
Air tight Container - 1 (the old styled pickle jar suits well)

Making Procedure:
Remove the grapes from the stick (or stem?) and wash it properly. Dry the grapes to get rid of the moisture. There should not be any moisture at all on the grapes.

Put half kg grapes in the container. Add half kg of sugar on top of the grapes. Add a handful of wheat on top of grapes and sugar. Repeat adding grapes, sugar and wheat in the same manner until all this lasts. Add the cinnamon stick on top.

Close the container air tight. Note that there should not be any moisture at all. Keep the container in a place with no heat or moisture nearby. Once a week open the container carefully and stir the contents using a dry spoon. Do it carefully such a way that no moisture gets into the container. Repeat this stirring exercise once a week for 60 days.

At the end of 60 days, pour the contents of the container into a glass thru a filter. Just pour it do not squeeze the residues. Throw away the residues. The filtered liquid that comes out of the container is the elixir of life, it is also known as Wine.

End Note:
More the number of days you keep tastier the wine becomes.

Champagne is a variance of wine. If you want to have Champagne....well, go get it in liquor shop.

Thank Note:
Thanks to Jack & Ancy for educating me with this wine making procedure (or should I say vinification process?)

Film Industry Stats

Year 2006 Statistics of Telugu, Tamil & Kannada Film industries. I don't have data for Malayalam.


Source: Business Today

What do you think?

Burger King Outsources

Watch this.