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Words that don’t Mean what you think they Mean…!!!

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1. Awesome

Neil Patrick Harris’s character Barney Stinson is perhaps singularly responsible for the misuse of this word.

More often than not, awesome is used interchangeably with ‘excellent’ or ‘great’.

Eg. X: I’ve completed the assignment

Y: Awesome

Ouch!

What ‘awesome’ means: something that inspires awe or an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear.

2. Literally

It is amazing how often we say ‘literally’ when we mean something figuratively, its exact opposite.

For eg. When Katrina Kaif sat next to me I could have literally died.

Now this would’ve been perfect if Katrina Kaif was, let’s say, infected with a deadly virus capable of killing anyone she sat next to.

Except, the last time we checked, she isn’t. 🙂

When you say literally, you mean something that is word for word.

Eg. When he heard the story, he literally fell off the chair laughing!
3. Anniversary

Some of us just look for reasons to celebrate… stuff like our five-month anniversary of our first date… don’t we?

The thing about anniversary is that it comes once a year. Quite like your birthday!

An anniversary is when you celebrate or commemorate an event that occurred on the very same date and month.

So you celebrate your first wedding anniversary or the third anniversary of someone’s death.

Just like you don’t celebrate your ‘three-month birthday’ you also don’t celebrate your ‘three-month anniversary’.

 

Though we suppose if you are one of those who love celebrations, you’ll find a reason to pop the champagne anyway. 🙂
4. Travesty

Here’s another oft-misused word.

What most of us think it means: a tragedy, an unfortunate event

What it actually means: a mockery or a parody

You could argue that Salman Khan being granted bail was a travesty of justice.

But to say that his running over a group of homeless people was travesty would be, well, murder of the English language.

5. Irony

The Oxford English dictionary defines irony as ‘a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result’.

For eg. It was ironic for Tony Stark to think that Ultron would protect the world from destruction.

What we often think it means: a funny coincidence

For eg. Isn’t it ironic that we should meet Amitabh Bachchan in an elevator just after having spoken about him at dinner?

The answer to that question is no 🙂

Though it would be a wonderful coincidence.

6. Ultimate

It is fitting that we end this list with ‘ultimate’.

What most of us think it means: The best

What it really means: The last item on a list 🙂

Source….www.rediff.com

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Jokes For the Weekend….!!!

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A guy bought a new fridge for his house.
To get rid of his old fridge (still working), he put it in his front yard and hung a Sign on it saying: ‘Free to good home. You want it, you take it.’
For three days the fridge sat there without anyone looking twice.
He eventually decided that people were too mistrustful of this deal.
So he changed the sign to read: ‘Fridge for sale $50.’
The next day someone stole it!
…………….
One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when someone shouted…..
“Look at that dead bird!”
Someone looked up at the sky and said…”Where?”
……………….
While looking at a house, my brother asked the estate agent which direction was north because he didn’t want the sun waking him up every morning.
She asked, ‘Does the sun rise in the north?’
My brother explained that the sun rises in the east
And has for some time. She shook her head and said,
‘Oh, I don’t keep up with all that stuff……’
,………….
Source….Input from a friend of mine
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Joke of the Day….” Do You Sell these Medicines…” !!!

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Bob, age 92, and Mary, age 89, are all excited about their decision to get married. While out for a stroll to discuss the wedding they pass a drugstore. Bob suggests they go in.
Bob asks to speak to the pharmacist. He explains they’re about to get married, and asks, “Do you sell heart medication?”
“Of course we do,” the pharmacist replies.
“Medicine for rheumatism?”
“Definitely,” he says.
“Medicine for memory problems, arthritis, jaundice?”
“Yes, the works.”
“What about vitamins, sleeping pills, Geritol, antacids?”
 “Absolutely.”
“Do you sell wheelchairs and walkers?”
“All speeds and sizes.”
“Good,” Bob says to the pharmacist. “We’d like to register for our wedding gifts here, please.” ….
Source…..www.ba-bamail.com
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World’s Tastiest Vegetarian Dish….

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Misal Pav, the delicious Maharashtrian snack served at Mumbai’s Aaswad restaurant won the prize at the global Foodie Hub Awards in London. 

The humble misal pav served at Dadar’s Aaswad restaurant has been named the world’s tastiest vegetarian dish at the Foodie Hub Awards in London.

Misal is a spicy curry made of moth beans or dried peas and served with boiled potatoes and garnished with raw chopped onions and farsan.

Often served with curds and pav (or bread), misal is a breakfast snack that is also eaten at lunchtime.

With its roots in the Kolhapur region of Maharashtra, the dish has several variations across the state.

Some variations get their names from the ingredients that go into it: Dahi Misal is misal served with curds and Shev Misal is, well, served with sev.

But most variations simply take the name from the region they are served in:

Puneri misal: Pune.

Khandheshi misal has its roots in Khandesh, the region in northwestern Maharashtra.

Nagpuri misal: Nagpur.

In Pune the spices are toned down but Mumbaikars prefer it spicy, says Kalyan Karmarkar who is the Foodie Hub Expert for Mumbai and who nominated Aaswad’s misal for the awards.

Kolhapur, largely believed to be the home of the misal, serves the spiciest variation of it and is called the Kolhapuri misal.

Located in the heart of Dadar in central Mumbai, just a hop-skip-and-jump from the headquarters of the Maharashtrian right wing political party, Shiv Sena, Aaswad was inaugurated by the late Bal Thackeray in 1986.

Today, Aaswad serves some 400 plates of misal pav every day.

Suryakant Sarjoshi, Aaswad’s owner who seems rather chuffed with this honour, tells us that it earns the restaurant about Rs 19,000 daily.

Then there is Vilas Taral who gives us a crash course in making the misal:

First moth beans, garlic and onions are boiled in water along with curry leaves.

Add grated coconut and misal masala and continue to boil.

Separately heat two tablespoons of oil and add mustard seeds, asafoetida, cumin seeds and garlic and add to the curry.

The final flourish comes in the form of farsan, sev, onions and tamarind chutney.

The dish is typically served with bread and butter.

Among several patrons of the restaurant is Vilas Gurav (62), a former police officer who was enjoying the dish when we arrived.

“I travelled all the way from south Mumbai just to have this misal. The quality is outstanding,” he says.

It is a sentiment that Kalyan Karmarkar echoes.

“Aaswad’s misal is always fresh, the amount of spices added is perfect and the quality of the farsan is very good. It doesn’t make you feel heavy because they don’t use inferior oil,” he says.

Besides misal, Aaswad is also famous for several other Maharashtrian dishes such as the thalipith, kothambir wadi, piyush and aam panna.

Aaswad
Shivaji Park, Dadar (W)
Mumbai
Tel: 022-2445-1871/2445-1876

As with all Indian dishes, misal is made differently across the state.

Every home has its unique misal recipe.

Source……www.rediff.com

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Message for the Day…” Start Practising Some Spiritual Discipline to realise HIM …”

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These days, people are content to visualise and experience evanescent worldly joys. People have no rest. Spending the nights in sleep and days in eating and drinking, they grow and grow, until, in old age, death pursues them. Then, they can’t decide where to go or what to do; all senses have weakened. No one and nothing can rescue them, so they end as obedient meat in the jaws of death! How sad it is that this human life, precious as an invaluable diamond that can’t be priced at all, has been cheapened to the standard of a worn-out worthless coin! There is no use repenting later without meditating on God or practising some spiritual discipline to realise Him now. It is the right of the aspirant (sadhaka) to have the vision of God and not the sight of death (Yama-darshan)!

Sathya Sai Baba

A Water Colour Painting Depicting Kanchi Maha Swamigal….

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As we are all set to celebrate Sri Maha Periva’s Jayanthi , 2nd June, we are pleased to share this beautiful water-colour painting which is the creation of none other than our respected moderator and artist Sri Narayanan Bala (anusham163). On behalf of all members of our Forum, we thank him for this remarkable painting which in his own words depicts 1) Sri Maha Periva 2) His Divine feet, amidst 3)Sri Dhakshinamurthy, 4) Sri Kamakshi and 5) Sri AdhiSankarar

Source…………www.periva.proboards.com

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A Moon is a Moon….

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June full moon

Full moon was Tuesday, June 2 at 12:19 p.m. EDT (16:19 UTC). From across Earth, the full moon is shining now from around sunset to dawn.

Beautiful image from our friend Nikolaos Pantazis of the rising moon on June 2, behind Poseidon's Temple in Cape Sounion, Greece.

Beautiful image from our friend Nikolaos Pantazis of the rising moon on June 2, behind Poseidon’s Temple in Cape Sounion, Greece.

Full moon on June 2, 2015 at Hartman Rocks, Gunnison, Colorado, by Matt Burt.

Full moon on June 2, 2015 at Hartman Rocks, Gunnison, Colorado, by Matt Burt.

This wonderful shot from Chris Hartley in Queensland, Australia shows the constellation Scorpius - and the planet Saturn - inside a moon halo. Thanks, Chris!

This wonderful shot posted to EarthSky Facebook by Chris Hartley in Queensland, Australia shows the constellation Scorpius – and the planet Saturn – inside a moon halo.

Full moon setting on June 3, 2015 from France by Patrick Astronomie.

Full moon setting on June 3, 2015 from France by Patrick Astronomie.

Full moon setting on the morning of June 3 from Paco Telescopios in Spain.

Full moon setting on the morning of June 3 from Paco Telescopios in Spain.

Full moon over Rillings Hills near Colorado Springs, Colorado by Forrest Boutin Photography.

Full moon over Rillings Hills near Colorado Springs, Colorado by Forrest Boutin Photography.

Full moon rising over Tucson, Arizona by Sean Parker Photography.

Full moon rising over Tucson, Arizona by Sean Parker Photography.

June 2, 2015 full moon behind the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas, from Chicky Leclair.

June 2, 2015 full moon behind the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas, from Chicky Leclair.

 

 

Not a full moon, but pretty close, from Odilon Simões Corrêa in Brazil.

Not a full moon, but pretty close, from EarthSky Facebook Odilon Simões Corrêa in Brazil.

Source….www.earthsky.org

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Message for the Day…” What is ‘ Turiya ‘Stage in one’s Life …? “

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They are, according to the Veda, four stages – the waking, dream, deep sleep, and the liberated stage (turiya). In the first stage, one is awake to the objective world and is oriented outward. Since one identifies with the gross body complex at this stage, the experiences are also gross. In the dream the self is in-faced. Reactions, responses, and experiences are all self-contained. They do not belong to the area outside of oneself. Next comes deep sleep (sushupti). This stage is free from even dreams. There is no feeling of either separation or identity, the particular or the universal, experiencer or experience. There is only the Atma, in which one has temporarily merged. In the fourth step (Turiya), the individual is no more so. It has attained the basic truth of life and of creation. Those who have reached this step no longer have concern with the individual self. These are four states one experiences, but they are also stages one has to go through in search of Self-Knowledge.

Sathya Sai Baba

படித்து ரசித்தது ….” வாழ்க்கைப் பயணம் …”

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வாழ்க்கைப் பயணம்

அமெரிக்க தொழிலதிபரான ராக்ஃபெல்லர், முதுமையிலும் கடுமையாக உழைத்தவர். ஒருமுறை, விமானத்தில் பயணித்தார். அப்போதும் ஏதோ வேலையாக இருந்தவரைக் கண்டு அருகில் இருந்த இளைஞர் வியப்புற்றார். அவர், ”ஐயா, இந்த வயதிலும் இப்படிக் கடுமையாக உழைக்கத்தான் வேண்டுமா? ஏகப்பட்ட சொத்து சேர்த்து விட்டீர்கள்… நிம்மதியாக சாப்பிட்டு, ஓய்வெடுக்கலாமே?!” என்று ராக்ஃபெல்லரிடம் கேட்டார்.

உடனே ராக்ஃபெல்லர், ”விமானி இந்த விமானத்தை இப்போது நல்ல உயரத்தில் பறக்க வைத்து விட்டார். விமானமும் சுலபமாகப் பறக்கிறது. அதற்காக… இப்போது எஞ்ஜினை அணைத்துவிட முடியுமா? எஞ்ஜினை அணைத்துவிட்டால் என்னவாகும் தெரியுமா?” என்று கேட்டார்.

”பெரும் விபத்து நேருமே!”- பதற்றத்துடன் பதிலளித்தான் இளைஞன்.

இதைக் கேட்டுப் புன்னகைத்த ராக்ஃபெல்லர், ”வாழ்க்கைப் பயணமும் இப்படித்தான். கடுமையாக உழைத்து உயரத்துக்கு வர வேண்டியுள்ளது. வந்த பிறகு, ‘உயரத்தைத் தொட்டு விட்டோமே…’ என்று உழைப்பதை நிறுத்தி விட்டால், தொழிலில் விபத்து ஏற்பட்டு விடும். உழைப்பு என்பது வருமானத்துக்காக மட்டுமல்ல, உடல் ஆரோக்கியம் மற்றும் மன நிம்மதிக்காகவும்தான்!” என்று விளக்கம் அளித்தார்.

Source………………unknown…. input from a friend of mine
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