Corruption

Today everyone is speaking about corruption. It's not because they are concerned about it but because they have the habit of following. From Day 1, a child is taught to follow, may be his elder brother or sister, may be his class mate or it may be any other person. There are examples given - He studies for 10 hrs, you should also do. He is doing this, even you should try. My friend is supporting Anna Hazare, even I'll do. My father follows Ramdev's yoga teachings, so he'll follow even his unnecessary fast.
I want to ask a question to all my countrymen, will joining the protest of Anna & Baba remove corruption? I know many will say it'll stop to some extent or probably it'll ensure a proper punishment to the accused. But will that really solve the problem in the long term?
If you want a corruption free country, it’s you who have to change & not the country or the politicians. If you will not give, from whom will they take? I don't think if you want to protest, you should join these undemocratic movements, due to which the ministers have one more reason, to not look at, or do their regular work. Rather you should encourage yourself, your friends, and your colleagues to stop spreading corruption. BLACK MONEY does not only mean money in Swiss Bank or any other foreign bank account. The discounted money that you are paying to any shopkeeper for not taking the original BILL is also a black money of that shopkeeper. This is also corruption.
Money given to any traffic police officer just for not making the CHALLAN of your bike is also BLACK MONEY of that policeman. Even this is corruption. I would really be happy, if the troops of Anna Hazare & Ramdev would have started different camps, at different locations all around India, focussing & spreading awareness on different points where we unintentionally or just for our comfort are boosting corruption. If this would have been the situation, I think even the government would be embarrassed. The work that government should have initiated would have been started by the common man. But ALAS! We are still trapped in the dirty politics. We are still not grown enough to think beyond it. Just hope that all of us understand one day that corruption will not stop by making an institution that keep an eye but by changing ourselves by stopping it at grass root level. If it happens any lucky day I don’t think any more BILL will be required on this issue.

P.S. - It's completly my thought, no disrespect to the government, Anna Hazare or Baba Ramdev. Comments are welcome :)

The Judgement Day

What should be the fate of Kasab? Will he be given capital punishment or life imprisonment? I think whatever he gets it has to be somehow life imprisonment only. Even if he gets capital punishment, he can go to HIGH COURT, SUPREME COURT and even if, Supreme Court gives him DEATH SENTENCE, he can ask for President’s interference. He would be the 52nd person to ask for President’s consent. So eventually these three stages can keep him away from his death for years. You can call this Indian way of work or for now Kasab’s shield (which can come between him & his death).

Let’s hope the Indian government acts proactively in this case, till now around 35 crores has been spent only on Kasab’s security. The more he stays, the more India has to pay.

Let’s see what happens tomorrow.

How to show dates in different formats in MOSS 2007

Below are different formulae using which you can change the format of dates in MOSS 2007. This may be useful while displaying the birthdays of users etc.

To display Date as 01-23
=TEXT(Birthday,"mm-dd")

To display Month words as Jan
=CHOOSE(MONTH(Birthday),"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")

To display Date as Jan 23
=TEXT(Birthday,"mmm dd")

To display Date January 23
=TEXT(Birthday,"mmmm dd")

Quotations

'Disappointment, defeat and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.' - Paulo Coehlo.

'By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.' - Charles Wadesworth.

'I have not failed, I have merely found ten thousand ways that won't work.' - Thomas Edison.

'When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.' - George Bernard Shaw.

'Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.' - Elmer G. Letterman.

'What you can't enforce, do not command.' - Sophocles.

'Our great glory is not in never failing, but in getting up every time we do.' - Confucius.

'I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.' - Anwar el-Sadat.

'If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.' - Edgar Watson Howe.

'Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.' - John Lancaster Spalding

'The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.' - Michel de Montaigne.

'Behind every great fortune there is a crime.' - Balzac.

'By sacrifice you shall attain all things; let such sacrifice be your fulfilling cow of plenty.' - Bhagwad Gita.

'It's not the years in your life that counts, it's the LIFE in your years.' - Abraham Lincoln.

'You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.' - George Burns.

'Falling in love is easy but staying in love is something very special.'

'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.' - Pablo Picasso

'People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.' - David H. Commins.

'There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.' - Ruskin Bond.

'If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.' - Yugoslav Proverb.

'If you win, you need not have to explain..
If you lose, you should not be there to explain!' - Adolf Hitler.

'Life is like an ever shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change & all pattern alter.' - Sharon Salzberg.

'You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.' - William Henry Hudson.

'We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.' - Jonathan swift.

'A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.' - Arthur Golden.

'We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.' - Francis Bacon.

Your Thought Evolves

Flying birds, hopping frogs.
Whenever I see them, your thought evolves.

Be it night or be it day.
Whenever I think, your thought evolves.

What is it? Are you living in my heart?
Because, whenever I breath, your thought evolves.