Archive for November, 2008

Keep dreaming!!!

Walking in the rain
I came close to nature
Walking in the park
I came close to nature
Walking along with radio in ears
I got to know what the world hears!
I got to know life is filled with music
I got to know life is full of fun!
There is lot to share
There is lot to think!
Life these times have become complicated!
Take time from busy schedule
Take time to dream
Dreamers get all
If you have a dream
You get everything!!
Keep dreaming!!!

 

Petrified!!

I was walking along a straight path through the jungle at night……
I saw a tiger in front of me…………
I tried to shout out loud….
I prayed for one of my brave friend of ORKUT………..
He saved my life………….
I also fought along with the big cat!
With scream and range, I threw the tiger in air!
I felt this night is the right time to share
I felt it is the time to chill out at Tala Park
Where there are lot of trees
Where there is a pond filled with fish!
But nothing is fishy!
Only as the evening sets in
Hundreds of lovers, boys and girls
Sit in benches beside the pond
To correspond!
To share their soft feelings with their sweethearts!
Sharing their hearts!!
Having flirts!
Not online but face-to-face!
Their love is never lost in this rat race!
Anyway…Have a pleasant weekend ahead!!

 

As I See Mandarmoni on Sea

Mandarmoni sea beach is broad

Travellers using it as road

With foot marks and wheel marks all over

The beach is full of shells big and small.

No one is there to collect

Only the sea shell shops

Waiting for some visitors to buy!

But everyone saying them "Hi!"

And telling "Goodbye!"

The green coconut sellers have some buyers

Couples having them in share

Walking with the coconut in cool air!

Some trees have thin long leaves

Some trees have protruding roots!

Some roots are wiry, some curled

There are a lot of bushes

But nowhere you find a snake

Your mind may be awake in fear

In the sea, the water was crystal clear!

The mud and sand mixture is the geology of the soil

Hardly there is any rain to foil!

Being birds of fair weather many visitors come and go!

They come as tired patients

Go to their homeland really fresh!

 

The gentle breeze of Mandarmoni

Will light up your senses

Just as the fluroscent lamps

Light up the shops and our guest house.

Our house is far way in Kolkata

But mobile phones draw the dear ones

Bridging the gap of hundreds of kilometers

Just as the Orkut and Myspace

Filling up the space between 2 friends

Their identities may be true or fake

But their bond is true!

 

Sailing on the sea

Many people discover new lands

Sailing on the World Wide Web

Many people establish new contacts

Some contacts are temporary, some permanent.

Some become fossilized and permanent in our memories

Some shortlived and easily get deleted along time!

 

Memory, as I see, is a virtual book

Just like computer with RAM and ROM

Memory can be increased with technique

Memory of Mandarmoni cannot be forgotten.

Due to the cool, blue, calm sea

Due to my father, holding his hand I traveled like a small boy

Along the beach where Kingfishers flying high!

I relax in the beach with sweet memories

Sitting under the umbrella lit by fluorescent lamp.

 

Probably I am waiting for a mermaid

She will arise from the sea

I will tell her this poetry

With a smile she will bless me

She understands how much I love the sea.

She has seen me in Bakkhali, Digha, Puri and nowhere.

But in this resort of four-and-half bigha

I am like a kind with my father as my minister.

My court musician is Rohit

Whose songs bringing smile in everyone's face.

There is a large garden with pink hibiscus

With flowers of all color

I feel I am a butterfly

Hovering here in the right hour

But this butterfly will fly on November

Feeling absolutely fine.

This butterfly will fly to his own garden.

Where his parents are his guardian

Telling him to read more books than internet.

This guy being a virtual worm

Turns himself into a bookworm

Reading from cover to cover

Of his favorite books.

 

The memories of Mandarmoni

Can never fade away

In photos and poems

Its getting etched in my mind like glass designs

With memories of garden, sea, resort

All frozen in my digital camera!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talking 10 minutes to improve memory



The scientists think that you only need to talk with your
friend for 10 minutes to stay mentally fit. 
The researchers in the United
States
have carried out the survey.  They found that ten minutes of talking with
another person can improve the memory. 
Socializing is effective way of boosting memory.  In the University of Michigan,
Oscar Ybarra lead the study.  They
conducted a test of 76 college students aged 18 to 21.



 



After controlling for a wide range of mental variables,
including education, race, ethnicity, gender, marital status, income, physical
health and depression, the scientists looked at the connection between
frequency of social contact and the level of mental function on the mini-mental
exam.



 



The study was conducted in the following way:



  1. Each
    student was assigned one of the three groups. 
  2. Those
    in social interaction group are engaged in 
    social issue discussion of 10 minutes before taking the test. 
  3. Those
    in the intellectual activities group, completed 3 tasks before taking the
    test.  The tasks are reading
    comprehension exercise and solving crossword puzzle. 
  4. The
    control group watched a 10-minute clip of Seinfield. 
  5. The
    participants had 2 different sets of intellectual performance that
    processed mental processing speed and working memory.



 



Conclusion of Experiment:  The short-term social interaction lasted for
10 minutes can boost your intellectual performance as much as engaging
intellectual activities for the same amount of time.  Higher is your social interaction, better is
your cognitive functioning.  This is
reliable for all age groups.  This
experiment proves that the social interaction helps your memory to improve and
you can try this in your practical life.



 



Now, the things you should do are
the following:



 



  1. Using
    internet for social working is good, but try to use phone to contact your
    friends and not with them for some time. 
    This will help you de-stress.
  2. Open
    up your mind and talk with your parents. 
    Always remember that they can be the best friends of your life
    giving time and money for your mental and physical growth. 
  3. Read
    newspaper and talk about different topics with your friends.  This study has enlightened me and this
    will enlighten the life of others. 
    We don't need a Bodhi tree like Buddha to get enlightenment but
    good thoughts that will help benefit the intellectual growth.
  4. Living
    a lonely life is strictly prohibited. 
    Talk with people and make friends just to chat. 



 





 

Kali Puja 2008



I usually had my work in the Kali Puja every year.  I work in a back office.  I usually had morning shift on this day when
the Goddess Kali is worshipped by many people in India followed by Diwali.  Houses are decorated with lights and people
burn crackers to celebrate this auspicious occasion.  In this year 2008, I had the opportunity of
having not only one off day but 3 off days and I felt great!  I thanked my company, Infovision Software
Private Limited for giving me the opportunity to enjoy this festival of
lights. 



 



I woke up on October 28. 
In the morning, I took some photographs of the park near me.  I took tea and read the newspapers.  Generally during the office days, I leave my
home at 6 a.m to attend the office at 7 a..m. 
I usually catch a bus that moves parallel through the Metro
Stations.  I  go to Rashbehari Avenue crossing from where I
take one auto that takes me to my office at Gariahat. 



 



On this morning of Kali Puja, I heard the sound of fire
crackers are much less compared to other years. 
In the evening and late night, the noise of fire crackers forced me to
pass the night on a sleepless pillow.  I
took the breakfast around 9 a.m. and then did some maths.  I realized that this training of maths which
I avoided in my higher secondary level will help me to understand life in a
better way. 



 



I was watching through the window the bright sunlight!  What a beautiful morning it was!  I went to the rooftop and was overwhelmed to
see the shining silver plate in the sky! 
It seems to brighten up the lives of that part of the earth and
illuminates the depressed souls with seeds of optimism!  Sunlight seems to bring freshness in the
lives of trees of the nearest park called Tala Park!  The thousands of trees around me seem to
have  new life each time the Silver Coin
rises up in the sky!  The sun is a
diamond that glows every morning.  On the
other hand, the moon is the pearl of the night! 
Its cool and you feel great when you are sitting alone on the rooftop
flooded with moonlight.  You seem to feel
the music of the Moonlight Sonata. 



 



Around 1 p.m., I took my lunch and checked the newspapers
and took a nap!  I woke up and went to
take a stroll around the neighborhood and check out how the local clubs are
celebrating the Kali Puja.  I moved out
and started walking towards the BT
Road
.  I
went towards the Dum Dum and took a Metro to Jatin Das Park. 
I saw some puja of Bhawanipore. 
In this Bhawanipore, I used to go to Sarat Bose Road at a music institution
called Saurav where V. Balsara, a famous Indian musician, used to teach.  I often visited my friend's house, Saumya
Bose whose used to live in this Sarat
Bose Road
. 
He was a Post Doctorate in Mathematics from Boston. 
He had the savings when he stayed there and he used to lead his life
from the tuition that he did and his savings. 
He never tried for a job in India.



 



I went out from home with the Kodak Digital Camera.  I took photographs of the Goddess Kali and
this is the first time I am traveling on this auspicious occasion.  I used to stay in my home with my
family.  I used to illuminate my house
with lights in the evening.  I started
lighting up the house from the day before Kali Puja.  I had 2 chains of electric lights.  One chain glitters and the other chain has
balls of red, green, yellow, blue, which illuminates making the windows look
wonderful! 



 



In the evening, my neighborhood was decorated with
lights.  On the right hand side, the puja
of the Bengal Boys Club was going on. 
The sound of the drummers could be herd. 
I could hear the sound of the drums coming in front of my house.  The showroom of Zeon Infotech is used in the
puja.  The relatives of the owner of the
house comes and on this day and the day after the Kali Puja they celebrate
immensely to make it memorable every year. 
The size of the deity every year is big. 
They worship the deity at night! 
Their children enjoy burning crackers and playing among themselves.  The seniors chat sitting in the chair in
front of the pandal. 



 



I went on the rooftop in the night.  It was lit with moonlight.  I felt great in this soothing
atmosphere.  The moon is such a wonderful
satellite.  It glows in the light of the
Sun.  It gives you high tide and low tide
if you live near a sea or river!  The
tides are like good and bad times of life. 
The high tide being the good time and the low tide being the bad
times.  It seems that the moon glowing in
the night sky is like a single child of the parents glowing in their sky above
to show them light when they grow old. 
But now in this materialistic world, children leave their parents when
they are mature.  Few children stay back
with their parents.  Most of them get
technical degrees and go to Bangalore, Hyderabad for jobs.  Information technology has caught the
attention of the masses and the key of being rich and successful!  Ultimately it is money that drives your
life.  If you sound financially, you can
pursue a good hobby, you can travel frequently and have a wonderful life! 



 



I enjoyed this Kali Puja. 
I feel great traveling on this day and felt the three days leave help me
to relax and unwind after a hard work.  I
felt great to travel and enjoyed the morning of the off days with music and a
lot more.  I feel that this Kali Puja
2008 will never fade away from my mind!





 

out of body experience



The doctors in Belgium implanted electrodes in the
brain.  The case was ringing of ear.  This sparked an out-of-body experience.  This out-of-body experience happened to me
when I was asleep in the night, I felt sometimes I am in a totally different
world.  Once I felt I am in a desert and
drowning in the sand.  This dream cropped
up when I was in high fever.  Sometimes I
had unusual diabolic experiences of death and unusual storms and natural
catastrophe.



 



The 63-year-old man was stimulated by the electrodes.  He felt like he was outside the body twice
for 15 and 21 seconds.  This allowed the
doctors to use a PET scanner to know which part of the brain was active.  This out-of-body near death experience have
been felt by people whose hearts have stopped for a certain time.  The scientists doubt that during epilepsy,
brain stimulation and migraine headache, an out-of-body experience occurs.  In Antwerp
University
, a team lead
by Dirk De Ridder studied this supernatural experience.  This finding has been published in the New
England Journal of Medicine.  The effort
of trying to cure a man of tinnitus in one ear lead to this phenomenon.  Unusually the treatment did not work.  The man felt like he was 50 centimeters
behind his body and off to the left.  The
portion of the brain called superior temporal gyrus produced the
sensation.  PET showed other parts of the
brain remained active.  It included the
supramarginal gyrus.  This part processes
the information from the inner ear designed to detect head movement and
position. 



 



The neuroscientists speculate whether these regions of the
brain are activated leading to disembodiment. 
There are many things in life which are unresolved.  There are many things which make us think how
this happened.  It might be beyond the
understanding of our brain.