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Crybaby

I just love to cry. Whenever I’m really upset about something, tears come naturally. I cry to my heart’s content! It’s actually good to cry sometimes. Because the tears drain out your anguish, pain or anger. After you cry, you feel much better. You may like to know why I cry. Now that’s a very big question. I cry over things which may seem trivial to others. And I feel piqued very easily, though I don’t let others understand. Seldom will you find me crying in somebody’s presence. Most of the times, it’s the bathroom or my bedroom where I drench my pillow with tears. After such crying sprees, I usually get so tired that I fall asleep soon afterwards. And then I dream until (I don’t know if I snore too) my mum’s voice deafens my ears like the crash of thunder!  

The War of Siachen

The Siachen Glaciers

The war of Siachen has been the Indian army’s longest running military operation since independence, code-named Operation Meghdoot. Its objective is to prevent Pakistani intrusions into the Siachen Glacier, and to establish India’s right over the area ceded by Pakistan to China. The war has lasted for eight long years, and none of the sides has yielded. The Siachen Glaciers have an extreme cold and forbidding terrain. Since April 13, 1984, when Siachen became an active war zone, both countries have spent over Rs 15,000 crore here and both sides have lost over 2000 soldiers. The Indian rate is a staggering 63 per cent –of every two men sent up, one will be dead. Temperature in these glaciers can drop to forty degrees below the freezing point, when any exposed flesh will freeze within minutes. In such an extreme environment, normal livelihood is impossible because almost everything is solid; metal and the human skin become so chilled that when a jawan tries to load his gun, the bullet sticks to his bare hands. 

At Base Camp, the Siachen Battle School is responsible for training the men to survive the extremes of conditions on the glacier. The training culminates in a survival test. Sections of 10 men are asked to stay on the glacier for the night. If they survive, they pass. Almost all the food on glacier comes in tins, which taste all the same. In clear weather, the men are overworked, first repairing the damage cause by the last storm, then carting the supplies to the forward posts. Thousands of veterans have already sacrificed their lives for a war over a frozen, waste land.

 The government of both sides should take initiatives to discover a new way of settling the matter. I am touched by the plight of the jawans. I hope this war of agony and violence comes to an end very soon. I would like to make an appeal to readers to share their thoughts.. Fundaytimez pays tribute to all the martyrs who have sacrificed their lives, fighting for their motherland. 

Pigeons on a bathing spree

They say you got to be lucky enough to experience incredible things a second time. So, I think I'm lucky enough to watch pigeons at bath for a second time. But, I can ensure you that this time they look even more adorable and happier than before. These buddies really made me happy early in the morning and I loved watching them , splashing and dancing in the water. I hope you enjoy watching them, as much as I did!

Pigeons at bath

It was a cloudy morning, and as I woke up from bed, I was enthralled by the sight outside my bedroom window. These fun-loving creatures were having a wonderful time in the rain. It was something really worth watching so I captured a video to share it with my friends and my readers.

The Sound Of Music

We make memories and we live them

They say music is a universal language. Music is loved by all and it reflects different thoughts and emotions of  life.

Music often reminds us of sweet memories. Has it ever happened that you have switched on your i-pod to a tune you haven't listened to for a long time, and suddenly it reminds you of some blissful days, which you would like to cherish again? 

I've always experienced it. Music makes sweet memories even more memorable. Music always gives me company in different moods of life. How can I forget the numerous meet ups with my friends?  All had a different fun, and some special music which made them so enjoyable. 

Music has added different colors to each day of my life. It is because of music that I can say "I make memories and I live them."

Google-The Internet Experience

Can we ever imagine a world without the internet? And thinking a little more internally, can we imagine our lives without Google? Starting with Gmail to Youtube, Orkut and Blogger, Google gives us everything. Whether you want to know the location of your doctor's chamber or which is the best restaurant in your city to dine in; whether the car you're buying is cool and efficient enough or you want to know the top rated movies of the month .You get it all on Google. Well the list is endless.

All the credit goes to the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin who began a research project in 1996. Later this project yielded to Google.

Both Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at Stanford University in California. They introduced a new system that analyzed the relationships between websites .They called this technology PageRank, where a website's applicability was determined by the number of pages, and the significance of those pages, that linked back to the original site.

   

Page and Brin cognominated their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.

Eventually they  switched on to the name Google  ,originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros ,which conveyed that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people.

Now Google is not just “search”. It is social search. The “+1” button and the panda algorithm is sure to bring about drastic changes in the search paradigm.