What you Give, So you Get.

A poem written by me and a friend of mine. :)

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Since ages and ages it has been said;

If you do wrong, you should dread.

For the forces of nature do not spare,

Any person who’s been unfair.

If a person is a crook or a bluffer;

Then it's bound that he will suffer.

If a person is noble and behaved;

Fame in his destiny is engraved.

Ever heard about the ancient man,

Who killed the albatross without a plan?

He cried and cried, his mouth dried,

He suffered a lot but he never died.

The good and kind never despair,

As to do wrong, they never dare.

Nature always helps them through,

Wars, problems or even a curfew.

Respect nature and her creations,

For her authority is free of interrogations.

Its your choice to - cheer or fret,

Remember, what you give so you get.

                                                                "

All for a cause!

We usually sit in the comfort of our homes, not facing any hardship in life. Then there are others who crave for two morsels of food a day.

We say, education is a necessity for all. How will these underprivileged kids get a fair chance? They need support! For the very same cause, 'The Joy Run' has been planned.




'The Joy Run' is a special concept where people from various cities run at the same time on the same day with everyone running for a cause. “The Joy Run” is a pure fund – raising event meant for charitable causes and an opportunity for hundreds of NGOs across India to promote their causes and also raise funds through a 7 - 10km run. 26th of February, 2012, will have superstar film personalities, sports celebrities, mega TV stars and various other eminent personalities supporting the causes of various NGOs. The first of its kind, this noble effort will add more cities across India with every passing year. With the support of every citizen who enjoys giving back to the society, 'The Joy Run' will be the largest run in history and the most important day in the NGO calendar. By 2016, 'The Joy Run' will take place simultaneously in various countries.

The initiative is a joint effort of “I Love My Mother Earth” Foundation and Gul Panag’s SOAP (Social Outreach Accreditation Program)

The 'announcement':

"Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (University of Delhi) in association with ILMME & SOAP presents The Joy Run (Delhi).

The Joy Run - a one of its kind concept that uniquely entwines sport with spirit. It is a multi city run in which participants run at the same time on the same day and that too for a cause.
www.facebook.com/thejoyrundelhi
"Thousands of runners,
Myriad causes,
7 kilometers,
8 cities,
1 aim"

This, 26th of February, run to celebrate and make every step count.

The Joy Run starts from India Gate (tentative) at 7 AM.

Shri Sandeep Dikshit, MP, has kindly consented to grace the event as our Chief Guest. "



What this program needs, is YOUR participation.
I, being a school student, would be unable to take part in this run, hence I am doing my share by telling the world about it.

GO FOR IT!

The root of all societal problems: Intellectual Corruption.

Lack of money is the root of all evil. Money is where it starts and money is where it all ends.
Each and every person considers money as their sixth sense without which they cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Corruption of any kind corrupts. It costs us either money or confidence or both. But intellectual corruption is far more dangerous. It ruins and costs lives.
Intellectual Corruption, in simpler words is a term lumped together from the words of Plagiarism and Fakery. In the domain of ethical and intellectual corruption, few would find their hands unstained.
In the present scenario, Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev have taken the nation by storm against monetary corruption. However, Intellectual Corruption is ignored a lot, although it is the root cause of almost all types of corruption.
The Satyam scandal, the 2G scam, the Harshad Mehta fraudulent embezzlement, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy which led to global financial crisis or the so called Recession are all examples of malified intentions.
The produlent intentions hidden behind all these quandaries comes from the intelligent, smart, intellect but corrupt and immoral minds.
It is nearly impossible to avoid the phrase ‘Culture of Intellectual Corruption’, it’s a bit of a smear, but surely it applies anywhere and everywhere, its not that it is do with money only, it is corruption which is to do with thought. Breach of trust, conspiracy theories, cheating and falsification of records on the face of economic, political and global strata accounts for the dimensions of Intellectual Corruption.
Intellectual Corruption is an intractable problem. It is like diabetes, can only be controlled, but not totally eliminated. It may not be possible to root out corruption completely at all levels but it is possible to contain it within tolerable limits. Honest and dedicated persons in public life, control over expenses could be the most important prescriptions to combat corruption. Corruption is a global problem that all countries of the world have to confront, solutions, however, can only be home grown. We have tolerated corruption for so long. The time has now come to root it out from its roots.

The Best Days.

How did it all start? Well, one of my friends at school registered me along with him for a Double Delegation at DelTech MUN '12. My interest in MUNs was waning away bit by bit, and another MUN was the last thing I wanted to do. A couple of days later, he called me up and told me that we had been given USA. The first thought that struck me at that point of time was: 'Hmm, this should be good'. And so, I decided to give it a try.


However, my co-delegate chickened out (Like the Delegate of Turkey did in committee), around 12 days before the conference. I was pretty outraged, but then I reminded myself about our very own Mr. Teletubby.
I called up Anup, and voila! He agreed. I knew he was good enough because I had lost to him in a different MUN!


Then came out the Background guides. Trust me, I could not get a word out of the first agendum's explanation. Ultimately I did figure stuff out, but I was dependent on Anup for it for quite a while. Leaving all that aside, we researched as much as we could, blah blah... In the meantime, we troubled Vivek a lot for all stuff.


Then came the day of a conference. We boarded the Metro at 6:30 in the morning, and managed to reach on time. I was expecting it to be another MUN for me, but what happened was quite contrary to my thoughts. It was a COMPLETELY different experience.


Every person in our committee taught me a lot of stuff. Ranging from Anmol scolding me due to my lack of respect for Amrita to our chair explaining other stuff, it was quite amazing.


What I learnt from this is that there's a lot more to life and MUNs other than just proving yourself. People will respect you if you respect them. I was a cocky person before coming to DelTech, but things have turned around, and I consider myself to be a better person already!


Earlier, people in our school had instilled a thought into me. People who I considered to be great MUNers. What they told me is that dissing people in committee gets you awards. But oh boy, the last thing people wanted here was dissing around.


All said and done, I want to say just one thing. DelTech MUN '12 was the time of my life.


PS: Sorry if I missed out on stuff. G-20 FTW!
PPS: This comes a tad bit late, sorry for that!

Julius Caesar- A spoof.

LOCATION: Roman Assembly Hall.

CHARACTERS: Caesar, Metellus Cimber, Brutus, Decius Brutus, Casca, Cinna.

CAESAR: Are we all ready? If we aren’t, get me my iPhone. I wanna play angry birds.

METELLUS CIMBER: Well, everything’s ready, so yeah.

CAESAR: Shucks dude.

METELLUS CIMBER: O great Caesar,

I plead before you to---

CAESAR: Hahahahahaha Metellus. That’s so melodramatic!

(calling Casca)

Do you have popcorn? I’m enjoying this! (still laughing)

Metellus, you should propose a woman in this way, understand, but I’m not one.

METELLUS CIMBER: Caesar, just release my brother. He’s tired of counting the bars at jail and drawing spongebob and Patrick on the walls.

CAESAR: Nope. Plead more, this is better than Talking tom or angry birds.

METELLUS: (whispering) O man, why doesn’t this dude listen!?

(calling Brutus) Aye brutus, convince this dude! He’s so pig-headed.

BRUTUS: Come on Caesar. I’ll gift you something on Farmville, release this guy!

CAESAR: Wait a bit Brutus. Calpurnia’s still texting me constantly warning me about my murder.

What a strange woman huh.

CASSIUS: Aww come on Caesar. Release Publius, we’ll play on your Xbox after that ok.

He’s the only one who can defeat you at FIFA.

CAESAR: NO WAY! Publius will not be released!

I will be the only one to have the crown of the master of FIFA here!

CINNA: O Caesar, Publius is telling you to calm down. He just texted me about all the noise you’re creating which is disturbing his sleep.

DECIUS BRUTUS 

Great Caesar,--

CAESAR: Chuck Publius. I am the king! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

CASCA: OK enough Caesar. Now I’m gonna kill you.

CINNA: Any last wishes Caesar?

CAESAR: Yeah, let me play GTA IV. And let me text Calpurnia about it.

DECIUS: Ok here you go.

*hands over iPhone*

*15 minutes later*

CINNA: I will record this. Will get quite a few views on YouTube huh.

BRUTUS: Enough now Caesar. You cannot break my record in it, freak.

CAESAR: I’m done. Now time to run!

*Caesar tries to run out of the assembly*

*His Toga gets stuck in his throne*

EVERYONE: Not so fast bro!

*stab stab stab!*

CAESAR: *cough* I was supposed to say something here, ain’t it so?

BRUTUS: Whaaa?

CAESAR: Yeah. You too Brutus?

BRUTUS: Yup. Ok bye now. (laughs).

CASCA: Yaay. Mission accomplished. We win.

BRUTUS: Woohoo.

CINNA: Now what are you waiting for? Get the champagne!

DECIUS, METELLUS and the OTHERS: AWWWWWW YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

*enter Antony*

ANTONY: Mother of God.

Caesar, why do you have ketchup spilled on your toga?

BRUTUS: You mad Antony? It’s blood!

ANTONY: Whose?

METELLUS: Mine.

ANTONY: Oh my.

METELLUS: I was being sarcastic, idiot. Get over it.

CASCA: Ok we’re gonna kill you now. We’re not dumb to let you live.

BRUTUS: No way.

CASCA: We’ll kill you too Brutus.

BRUTUS: No way. I’ll kill Antony.

*stab stab stab!*

*Caesar wakes up*

CAESAR

*dripping blood*

*looks at wound*

Brutus?

BRUTUS: What the hell! Caesar!?

CAESAR: Why this Kolaveri Di, Brutus?!

BRUTUS: What?

CAESAR: WHY THIS MURDEROUS RAGE, BRUTUS?!

BRUTUS: Just like that. Now be dead again.

CAESAR: Nope.

BRUTUS: Ok.

*stab stab stab!*

BRUTUS: I hope he doesn’t rise again.

CASCA: Word man.

CINNA

*looking up from recording the whole scene on his HandyCam*

That was some video! Uploaded it just now. 2 million hits already!

METELLUS: Some jobless people over the internet huh.

BRUTUS: Like our dear Caesar here.

CASCA: Ok enough chit chat. The point is that we won! Let’s dance to Chammak Chhalo now.

DECIUS BRUTUS: Make Caesar and Antony the Chammak Chhalos.

EVERYONE

(evil laugh)

*CURTAIN*

Mr. Thunder and the dark side of Edison.

Nikola Tesla. The genius. THE REAL ONE. Not a household name today due to Edison's jealousy.


Inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia in 1856.


He first went to the US in 1884  to work for Thomas Alva Edison, who had problems with the Direct Current system of electricity. He promised Tesla rich rewards if he could fix it. Tesla ended up saving Edison a fortune, but Edison went back on his agreement.
Tesla resigned, and devised a better system for electrical transmission- alternating current, which we use in our homes nowadays.


He then invented the motors that are used in all household appliances. He was using fluorescent bulbs in his lab forty years before industry 'invented' them.


It does not end there. He invented the first neon signs, and patented the first speedometer for cars!


In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a remote-controlled, full-size boat at Madison Square Garden, hence demonstrating the principles of radio 10 years before Marconi. Rightfully, in 1943, the US Supreme Court ruled Marconi's patents as invalid due to Tesla's previous work. Yet still, he is not credited with the invention of the radio.


During World War One, the US Government sought a way to detect German submarines, and put Edison in-charge. Tesla proposed the use of energy waves- what we know today as radar, but Edison rejected Tesla's idea, and the world had to wait another 25 years for it's 'invention'.


Tesla died poor, aged 86, in 1943. In his lifetime, he received over 800 patents. Scientists continue to scour his notes, and many of his theories are just now being proven. Tesla might just be the greatest scientist who ever lived. If it wasn't for a jealous Thomas Edison, he would be a household name today.

Suggestopedia!

Fed up of the constant nagging of teachers and the oh-so imposing workload? Fear not, 'cause SUGGESTOPEDIA is here! No, it's not a type of Wiki or anything else. It's a completely reworked educational system which tends to reduce workload, homework and what not!


By the definition,
Suggestopedia is a teaching method which is based on a modern understanding of how the human brain works and how we learn most effectively. It was developed by the Bulgarian doctor and psychotherapist Georgi Lozano. 

Although its main domain is language teaching, it has been proved to be effective in all types of subjects.

Its key features include a rich sensory learning environment (pictures, colour, music, etc.), a positive expectation of success and the use of a varied range of methods: dramatised texts, music, active participation in songs and games, etc.

Suggestopedia adopts a carefully structured approach, using four main stages as follows:

• Presentation
  A preparatory stage in which students are helped to relax and move into a positive frame of mind, with the feeling that the learning is going to be easy and fun.
• First Concert - "Active Concert"
  This involves the active presentation of the material to be learnt. For example, in a foreign language course there might be the dramatic reading of a piece of text, accompanied by classical music.
• Second Concert - "Passive Review"
  The students are now invited to relax and listen to some Baroque music, with the text being read very quietly in the background. The music is specially selected to bring the students into the optimum mental state for the effortless acquisition of the material.
• Practice
  The use of a range of games, puzzles, etc. to review and consolidate the learning.

So basically, it is the future of education! Thank god that the next generation wouldn't have to face the torment of current education systems. :P

Introduction.

Hey everyone! So yeah, I finally started blogging. This is more of an educational blog!
My target is one post a day. I will post facts, real incidents, world records etc. What I plan to do is to brighten up your grey matter in a fun-filled way. :)

So, read on!
PS: Today's an exception, I'll be adding more than 1 post. :)