A Lawyer & A Policeman.

If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the policeman's credibility. ..

Q: "Officer -- did you see my client fleeing the scene?"

A: "No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away."

Q: "Officer -- who provided this description?"

A: "The officer who responded to the scene."

Q: "A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?"

A: "Yes, sir. With my life."

Q: "With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?"

A: "Yes sir, we do!"

Q: "And do you have a locker in the room?"

A: "Yes sir, I do."

Q: "And do you have a lock on your locker?"

A: "Yes sir."

Q: "Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?"

A: "You see, sir -- we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room."

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The courtroom erupted in laughter, and a prompt recess was called. The officer on the stand has been nominated for this year's "Best Comeback" Line -- I think he'll win.

A Millionaire & Three Beggars

There was a good-natured millionaire in the town. Three beggars thought of approaching him for help. The first man went to the millionaire and said: "O Lord! I want five rupees. Please give me." The millionaire was taken aback at this man's impudence. "What! You demand five rupees from me as though I owe you the money! How dare you? How can I afford to give five rupees to a single beggar? Here, take these two rupees and get away," he said. The man went away with the two rupees.

The next beggar went to the millionaire and said: "Oh Lord! I have not taken a square meal for the past ten days. Please help me."

"How much do you want?" asked the millionaire.

"Whatever you give me, Maharaj," replied the beggar.

"Here, take this ten rupee note. You can have nice food for at least three days." The beggar walked away with the ten rupee note.

The third beggar came. "Oh Lord, I have heard about your noble qualities. Therefore, I have come to see you. Men of such charitable disposition are verily the manifestations of God on earth," he said.

"Please sit down," said the millionaire. . "You appear to be tired. Please take this food," he said, and offered food to the beggar.

"Now please tell me what I can do for you."

"Oh Lord," replied the beggar; "I merely came to meet such a noble personage that you are. You have given me this rich food already. What more need I get from you? You have already shown extraordinary kindness towards me. May God bless you!"

But the millionaire, struck by the beggar's spirit, begged of the beggar to remain with him, built a decent house for him in his own compound, and looked after him for the rest of his life.

God is like this good millionaire. Three classes of people approach Him, with three different desires and prayers. There is the greedy man full of vanity, full of arrogance, full of desires. He demands the objects of worldly enjoyment from God. Since this man, whatever be his vile desires, has had the good sense to approach God, He grants him some part of the desired objects (even these very soon pass away, just as the two rupees the first beggar got are spent before nightfall).

The other type of devotee prays to the Lord for relief from the sufferings of the world, but is better than the first one, in as much as he is ready to abide by His Will. To him the Lord grants full relief from suffering, and bestows on him much wealth and property.

The third type he merely prays to the Lord: "O Lord, Thou art Existence-Absolute, Knowledge-Absolute, Bliss-Absolute, etc., etc." What does he want? Nothing. But the Lord is highly pleased with his spirit of renunciation, of desirelessness and of self-surrender. Therefore, He makes him eat His own food, i.e., He grants this man Supreme Devotion to Himself. Over and above this, He makes the devotee to live in His own House For ever afterwards this devotee dwells in the Lord's Abode as a Liberated Sage

Financial Help for Under-Previleged Children.

I DUNNO IF THE SAME IS TRUE FOR STUDENTS FOR ANY OTHER STATE BUT STILL AM POSTING IT HERE.

Anyone interested in the same may contact the undermentioned people directly in case of any queries.

Tejas

NGO-Prerana (supported by Infosys foundation)-FOR PUC STUDENTS

DEAR FRIENDS,

If you have come across any bright students coming from poor financialbackground who have finished their 10th standard this year (April 2009) andscored more than 80%, please ask them to contact the NGO-Prerana (supported by Infosys foundation).
The NGO is conducting a written test and those who clear the test will beeligible for financial help for their further studies. Please ask the students to contact the people mentioned below to get the form
#580,shubhakar,
44th cross,1st main road,
jayanagar 7th block
Bangalore-
mob no- 9900906338(saraswat i)
Mr.Shivkumar( 9986630301) – Hanumanthnagar office
Ms..Bindu(9964534667 )-Yeshwantpur office

bofirebear: The Power of A Badge

Read this..... awesum... this is simply hilarious.

ROFLMAO

bofirebear: The Power of A Badge

Wife Stories.

Another one of the forwards you get in you e-mail daily in your box.

A wife is a wife,

no matter who the hell

you are ;)

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The 100 Euro Note.

Received VIA E-mail. Origins unknown.

The 100 Euro Note

It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea . It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to choose one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. No one produced anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.....

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

Mr. X saves the Earth!

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Added the Tweet This button to my blog footnotes. Now you can directly tweet my blog posts to your twitter status updates.

I will add more functionality to the blog as n when I get time.

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Updated Blog !!

As you might have noticed, I've recently updated the look n feel of my blog. Also, I've removed a lot of gadgets that I think were cluttering up the view. I mean who needs a facebook badge, n what you're reading on feeded to u the reader from weRead. Also removed a few Adsense widgets, as the famous saying goes, "Art for art's sake" eh? ;) I don't need to make money from my blog.

If anyone does read it well n good. If he doesn't, well......

I'm also in the process of adding a few more features. Watch out this space for more...

Till next time ciao,

adios amigos

Tweet Tweet Tweeples... I'm on Twitter too now.

A very lovely Hi to all.

I am trying to get a hang of the social networking scene and have recently joined twitter, you can find me @tthakker.

Twitter is a social networking site where you can send instant message to people directly, comment on what others are doing and just about everything under the sun.

But the icing on the cake is that the interface is a simple no-nonsense that has really appealed to me a lot. There is a lot that you can tinker under the hood.

You can read a very wonderful tutorial on The Basics of Twitter at http://twitter.mashable.com/ by @mashable.

Happy Tweeting People or shall I say tweeples..... LOL

Gmail leaves beta, and I want to party.

Official Gmail Blog: Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature


After being 5 or so years in the development phase... Gmail Google's E-mail service is now finally out of the beta..... I was signing in today and notices this small Post in the corner.

Gmail leaves beta,launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature.

I was like wtf, but then I noticed the new Google logo, and bang it hit me.... where is the nitty little BETA...

All said and done, I would like to thank Google, and commend it on the amount of time and efforts it took to test the endurance of its services (both Apps as well as Gmail) the results of which as we all can see is self-evident.

Congratulations are in order for the Gmail as well as Apps Team for their tireless efforts which have now come to fruition. I think now is the time for them to bask in its glory.

After all they've earned every second of it.......

Official Google Blog: Email in Indian languages

Official Google Blog: Email in Indian languages

Now use google's transliteration facility to type in five indian languages .....

check it out......

Something to make you smile.

This morning when I fired up my Gmail something caught my eye. An e-mail had arrived from one of my family members, one of those countless forwards as some may call it .... Carrying a Subject

"Some Thing to make you Smile."

My first thought was to delete it right away. I mean when you get about a hundred n fifty e-mails a day, who's got the time to go through each n every forward.

But just out of curiosity I went through it. what I found in there I have reproduced here. hope you like it too.....

The Gujarati Story of Valentine's Day.

In spite of what you have been told by everyone, the truth is that Valentine's Day originated hundreds of years ago, in India, and to top it all, in Gujarat!!

It is a well known fact that Gujarati men, specially the Patels, continually mistreat and disrespect their wives (Patelianis). One fine
day, it happened to be the 14th day of February, one brave Pateliani, having had enough "torture" by her husband, finally chose to rebel by beating him up with a Velan (rolling pin).

Yes....the same Velan which she used daily, to make chapattis for him....only this time, instead of the dough, it was the husband who was flattened.

This was a momentous occasion for all Gujarati women and a revolt soon spread, like wild fire, with thousands of housewives beating up their husbands with the Velan.

There was an outburst of moaning "chapatti-ed" husbands all over Anand and Amdavad. The Patel men-folk quickly learnt their lesson and started to behave more respectfully with their Patelianis.

Thereafter, on 14th February, every year, the womenfolk of Gujarat would beat up their husbands, to commemorate that eventful day. The wives having the satisfaction of beating up their husbands with the Velan and the men having the supreme joy of submitting to the will of the women they loved. Soon the Gujju men realised that in order to avoid this ordeal they need to present gifts to their wives....they brought flowers and sweetmeats. Hence the tradition began.

As Gujarat fell under the influence of Western culture, that day was called 'Velan time' day.

The ritual soon spread to Britain and many other Western countries, specifically, the catch words 'Velan time!'. Of course in their foreign tongues, it was first anglisised to 'Velantime' and then to 'Valentine'. And thereafter, 14th of February, came to be known as Valentine's Day!