Vijay For Victory

Recently I happened to come across an interesting site which gives you a Google Search Engine but with your own name

So nice, isn’t???

Go to www.googlealive.com, make your own Google Search Engine and bookmark as your homepage.

Enjoy!

A disappointed salesman of a famous soft drinks company returns from his Middle East assignment.

A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”

The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as my company soft drink is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem. I didn’t know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters.

First poster, a man is crawling through the hot desert sand; totally exhausted and panting. Second, the man is drinking our brand soft drinks and the third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place”.

“That should have worked,” said the friend.

The salesman replied, “Well, It is not only the fact that I don’t speak Arabic, but also I didn’t realize that Arabs read from right to left.”

Success formula may differ with different people and different places.

There was a man who worked for the railroad. One day as he went into the freezer compartment to do his routine work, the door accidentally closed and he found himself trapped in the compartment.

He shouted for help but no one heard him since it was past midnight. He tried to break down the door but he could not.

As he lay in the freezer compartment, he began to feel colder, and colder. Then he began to feel weaker, and weaker, and he wrote on the wall of the compartment, “I am feeling colder, and colder; and I am getting weaker, and weaker. I am dying, and this may be my last words”.

In the morning when the other workers opened up the compartment they found him dead.

The sad twist to the above story is that the freezing apparatus in the compartment had broken down a few days earlier. The poor worker did not know about the damaged freezing apparatus and in his mind the freezing apparatus was working perfectly. He felt cold, got weaker and literally willed himself to die.

Moral of the story : You can handle anything if you think you can. Just THINK POSITIVE.

Tamil month Puratasi started on Sep 17. This month is an auspicious month, and all perumal temples have some or the other festivals. Particularly Saturday is so special during these days.

I planned to go to some Perumal Temple here in UK. When I searched in GOOGLE, I came to know about the Balaji Temple in Birmingham. Birmingham is located in the centre of England. From Bristol it takes one and a half an hour of journey. Myself and my colleague Rajesh started by bus at 7:30 AM. We reached the temple by 10 AM.

The location of the temple is so good. It located in the urban part of Birmingham. It is the biggest Hindu temple in Europe. The architecture of the temple makes you remember the typical Tamil Nadu temple. Interior of the temple is fully made on woods. The main sannidhi is Thirupathi Vekateshvara. Some more sannidhis for Lakshmi, Hanuman and Durga. A seperate Navakraham also there. Still some more constructions are going on there.

To know more about the temple, please click here.

As it was a Puratasi Saturday, we could see a good amount of devotees in the temple. A lot of South Indians and North Indians; among north Indians so many are Gujarathis.

As it was a auspicious day, it had a lot of events which includes some special Abhishekam. A variety of Bhajans were sung by the devotees during Abhishekam which includes some Tamil Bhajans. The mangala Aarathi got over by 2:30 PM.

Then we all were given free lunch by the the temple devasthanam. That was a typical Tamil Nadu style lunch. Sarkarai Pongal, Sambar saadham, Thattaam Payaru Kari, Thair saatham, Appalam and Mango Pickle. Awesome luch it was.

Photographs are strictly prohibited inside the temple. So we could not take any snaps inside the temple. But we took some photos in the temple premises.

We started from the temple by 3:30 PM. Then we reached the city. We visited to some of the tourist attractions which includes Victoria Square, City Centre, High Streets and some Memorial buildings.

Then we captured some places in Birmingham and rushed to the coach station to get the bus.

Click here to see more photos.

A mechanic was removing the cylinder heads from the motor of a car when he spotted the famous heart surgeon in his shop.

The Dr was standing off to the side, waiting for the service manager to come to take a look at his car.

The mechanic shouted across the garage, “Hello Doctor! Please come over here for a minute.”

The famous surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic.

The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked argumentatively, “So doctor, look at this. I also open hearts, take valves out, grind them, put in new parts and when I finish this will work as a new one. So how come you get the big money, when you and me is doing basically the same work? “

The doctor leaned over and whispered to the mechanic…

“Try to do it when the engine is running”