Larger Than Life

25th of May 2008 would be the day Force India Formula 1 team would like to forget. Getting some points in formula 1 is hard especially if you are a backmarker. Only first eight get to score points and more often than not these places are already occupied by Ferrari, McLaren , BMW and either Renault or Toyota or Williams . It is really hard for any other team to score points by defeating these already established teams in formula 1.
They have so much power, so much traction, and so much aerodynamic efficiency that they are literally unbeatable. But the situation changes in tracks which require none of these attributes to win. This diminishes even further if the track conditions are slippery or there is some rain around. At this time all comes down to talent of driver and strategy of the team for the race. One race this year where we had such conditions was Monaco GP 2008. Adrian sutil of force India was driving the race of his life and was in fourth position getting 5 points for the wonderful race he drove. But with just 12 minutes to go he was hit at the back end of his car by KImi who wasn’t able to control his car while braking for the chicane coming out of the tunnel. It ended the race of Sutil right there and all hopes of scoring some points were gone as well. Sutil was rightly disappointed as it would be highly unlikely for him to score any points later in the year.

With great power comes great responsibilities, and with more money power come more expenses. Ha ha. I have been facing this story for long time now. Earlier I used to work like a donkey the entire month and when I got my pay check, they money used to get over within 10 days. I fine day I was returning from my office when my mobile rang.
I picked it up. It was from a nearby hospital saying that your son has had an accident, please come and fill up the form and complete so that we can start the procedure. I went to hospital and enquired about the condition of my child, they said he had a major fracture in his right leg and needed immediate operation. The operation would cost about 4000 dollars. I was asked to submit an advance of $2500 for the operation to start.
But all I had in bank account were 3000 dollars. I was in a huge mess. I was a 1000 dollar short and I needed them within two days. Payday was 20 days away and there was no hope from my friends either. When I contacted my friend, he said that he would be unable to help at this moment because he had bought a new house recently and was running short of funds as well, but he did show me the way. He told me to apply for a payday loan and so I did. I applied to one of the private lender and my loan was approved within a day. I submitted the money at the hospital and I it saved my child’s leg. He is up and playing again. The loan amount gets deducted from my salary every month in bits and pieces.
The whole incident has opened my eyes and now I make my family budget more cautiously. You never know when an urgent situation might show up.

IPL is sure going great guns and sponsors are banking on it. Amidst all this success, money making, run scoring, marketing and entertainment, IPL has gained some applaud from audience worldwide for altogether different reason.
Recent terrorist attacks at Jaipur, killed over 50 people. It was an event that left entire world shocked. Jaipur has been known for its culture and peaceful environment. Lively people, beautiful scenery, a tourist paradise, were the words that defined Jaipur to the world audience. No doubt these attacks have been condemned worldwide.
Returning to the main point we were discussing, IPL franchisee owners have contributed Rs 50 lakhs each and all the major sponsors Rs 40 lakhs each to help the blast victims. All this has added up to Rs 6 crores. Not only this, the TV crew as well contributed Rs 52000for the victims. This was a great gesture on part of the IPL owners and sponsors. They were able to connect with the ailing and crying hearts of the relatives of people, who died in the blast.
We also extend our heartily regards to the relatives of people, who died in the blast.

Blogging I believe is a medium to express yourself. a medium where u can connect to people , open your heart out in front of them, listen to their views about the topic and then take it from there on. You not only get different perspectives on an issue but attain develop a mindset where your surroundings play an important role in whatever you decide to do. I mean you begin to care for people around you more when you meet people with absolutely similar mindset explaining how they would feel when subjected to such crisis. A feeling of unity, a felling of indifferent behavior starts to develop in you and you show them in your future decisions.
Some take it as an opportunity to get to forget incidents that were unfortunate in their lives. I remember a lady who used to blogged about her problems and the treatment that she and her husband were going through. How she managed the entire thing. One unlucky day, her husband died, and she blogged about it as well. See, there are different mindsets of people and how they deal with it problem is purely unique. It is sometimes inspirational a sometimes not so inspirational but there is always something to learn.

Blogging is not limited to a country or a continent. If you have bloggers in US you also have bloggers in a country as small as Nepal. But the major point is that the blog audience is as global as the bloggers. You have readers in every part of the world and therefore it is important that you convey your message in the language they understand. English is most preferred language and therefore I personally prefer writing in English and I also appreciate that my fellow bloggers write in English as well.
However for most part of the world as we all know English is not the first language and this is where some of the bloggers feel isolated from others. If you want to blog and make some money out of it your English has to be good and if you know the basics it is not a hard thing to achieve. For a start I would recommend all you to write in MS word itself. It rectifies all your spelling and most of your grammatical mistakes. Once you are done with writing I would also recommend you to proof read your article at least twice or thrice before publishing the article. If you are not satisfied the article even after publishing it please do not hesitate to edit and correct it down. And lastly if you fell that you are weak at English you should join a night school or some sort of a coaching institute.

I hate summers and I believe as a season they are just disgusting, stinky and sticky. I generally don’t go out anywhere in these sky high temperature but when my friends asked me to make it out at a resort I just couldn’t resist. We planned and went to a resort in the suburbs of the city. It is the best resort we have (and it charges one fourth for students, yippee!) in the 200 km range of our town. We had a seven day trip and I must say I am out of words to describe the joy and fun that we had in the complete trip. There was nothing that we left out untried; we did rock climbing, horse riding bungee jumping, kayaking, shooting, and many more of the fun sports. i am having a real hard time trying to reflect on those moments right now and I am waiting for the next opportunity to raid the resort.