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What women want

Wed, Aug 18 06:20 PM

IT'S THE million dollar question - what do women really want? In a new book, psychologist Paco Underhill examines this very topic. MAIL TODAY took some inspiration from the book and asked women in Delhi about the simple things that can make them happy.

1. An automatic fat elimination process in the body.

"If scientists can discover superbugs and name them after good old Delhi, they can surely find the bug that can automatically eliminate all the fat the moment I bite into a burger with extra cheese," says Neha Rameja, 25, a marketing professional.

2. Husbands to be a little more appreciative of our cooking.

Please grow up guys, not everyone can cook like your mom - she spent 40 years in the kitchen. Can't you give us some more time?

3. A maid with a silencer attached.

Available 24x7, this wonder maid should keep her mouth shut and work for nothing. This is what men call a wife. "It is amazing how all the Ramu kaka s in movies are so obedient and pampering - too bad they don't exist in real life," says Sharada Ramakrishnan, 26, a software professional.

4. A man.

It is not too difficult to get one - but if you want one with the following features, you may have to look for him on another galaxy. "He should love you like you are the last woman in the universe. He should multitask, be amazing in bed and know exactly what we want," says Moushumi Gongopadhyay, a corporate trainer.

Nidhi Batra, brand manager at a food retail chain adds: "They should be there only when we need them because they can't stop nagging at times.

5. Not to be asked 'Where's my wallet/ glasses/ car keys/ handkerchief?' every single morning by the other half.

It is because of things like these that women sometimes wish they had a punching bag! Can men ever learn to take care of their precious belongings (no puns intended)?

6. Zero-calorie versions of hot chocolate fudge, chocolate truffle cake, and everything else in chocolate.

We'd love to live on pure junk food - potato chips, cheesy pizzas, fried chicken - on a regular basis without feeling guilty about it.

7. Holidays that give us the chance to read just one book, without being interrupted with 'I am HUNGRY, Mom?' or 'I am BORED' every few minutes.

"I have not read one good book since I gave birth to my precious little," says Malavika Datta, teacher and mother to an eight-year-old girl.

8. A body of our choice.

It could be Angelina Jolie's one month or J Lo's the next, depending on the kind of look we take a fancy to.

9. A long, hot bath with a glass of wine and aromatic candles all around and a scenic view from the bathroom.

No one knocking at the bathroom door, no barging in.

10. A decent home-cooked dinner prepared by our better halves.

When we are too exhausted to cook, men should chip in and prepare a meal for us and clean up the kitchen for a change. Note: Maggi is excluded from the list.

11. To be able to admire the dishy buttocks and the smooth skin of a younger man without feeling terrified when we realise we could be old enough to be his mother.

Just appreciating a hot bod doesn't mean we are cougars.

12. No backseat driving please.

We love the idea of long drives but constant criticism of our driving skills really puts us off. "If men have a problem with our driving, why can't they get us a dishy chauffeur or a car that drives by itself," says Rameja. Women can drive and that's the reason why the government decided to give them a driver's license.

13. No backbiting, tutting or arched eyebrows from male colleagues when we have to dash off from work to pick up a sick child.

It is a genuine problem, we would never go out shopping on the pretext of our child falling sick.

14. One fruitful, decent conversation with our husbands at least once a day.

Communication is the key to a successful relationship but competing with the latest man gadget - whether an iPhone or iPad – really gets on one's nerves.

15. To go out on the roads of Delhi and know we won't be stared at or eve-teased or mugged; to talk to the bankers without being asked 'Can we talk to your husband?'.

It is a man's world, we agree, but people should consider the fact that we might, just might, bring in half the household income, if not more. We do wish at times that we are spoken eye to eye rather than eye to breast.

16. Meaningful, loving sex, with a long, endless foreplay, preceded and followed by candlelight conversations, cuddles, chocolates and kisses.

It sounds cliched but women love cliches and have all the right to get a little selfish in bed once in a while. PS: A quickie will do only if we have to get up earlier than usual.

17. Endearing and well-thought out surprises.

Women love surprises and it is high time men understood this. We don't want diamond rings. An empty laundry basket, a bottle of that Sauvignon Blanc, possession of the TV remote for a whole evening, and a day to be spent exactly as we wish - just once in a blue moon.

18. A wardrobe that refreshes itself after every six months, says Rameja. "Who wants to wear something that is oh-so-last-season?" she asks. True. Everyone wants new clothes that can suit every occasion. But on the contrary we end up with a pile of not just last season’s clothes, but last decade's. It makes us feel dull as dishwater.

19. Good obedient children who are loving and appreciative, who don't treat their mothers as slaves. Can't children go to bed with a smile on their faces rather than crying at the injustice of their mothers? We've read 100 parenting books, for goodness sake. None of them seem to be working on our children.

20 Bras that fit.

We wonder why it is so difficult for us to get bras that are of the right size. Fancy, lacy, sexy bras that lift our cleavage and our moods would do wonders for sure. We hate it when someone points out bra straps peeping out of our sleeves.

21. Unlimited free local and international calls and a cell phone that upgrades itself every six months.

Women TALK and who wouldn't want to talk in style. But the exorbitant bills are a pain in the neck.

22. A high paying, stress-free, enjoyable and a satisfying job that needs the least amount of work.

"One can go off on vacations every two weeks," says Ramakrishnan. "And of course, I should be the boss," she adds.

23. A bed meant for a princess/ queen and for a change readied by the man of the house.

Huge fluffed-up pillows and a luxurious duvet that is changed regularly. Have men wondered why we don't want to spend time in bed?

24. Silver and bronze artefacts that never go dull... never a layer of dust anywhere, even after a dust storm. And white linen, upholstery and tapestry that never get dirty.

25. A day at the spa.

We need at least one day in a month at the spa, getting pampered without worrying about the fat bill we have to pay at the end of the day, says Ramakrishnan.

26. Lifelong supply of matching footwear, bags and watches.

It is a headache to get accessories that go with all our dresses. "Wouldn't it be great if our accessories changed colours according to the dresses we wear?" asks Gongopadhyay.

27. A Saturday night out dining with friends or at the movies rather than ending up watching television at home because the husband is busy at work. That would be the perfect way to end the week.

28. Jam free/clutter-free roads where we can drive without hearing swear words being used freely. Or else, be prepared for us to retort in similar fashion.

29. Pay our bills whenever we want to.

We hate being bugged by banks, and mobile phone service providers. We know we have to pay our bills and we are not running away with your money. "I wonder why these people don't go after the guys who give fake addresses and don't pay their bills regularly. We are law abiding women and we will give them their money when we have it," says Batra.

30. A clean home.

When a woman goes out for the day and leaves her husband in charge of the kids, she does not want to come back and see the children hungry and awake, tomato ketchup stains on the bed and messy bottles in the kitchen (including beer bottles). She wants the tables cleared of dirty dishes and no piles of dirty clothes on the floor.

A woman can always dream, can't she?

anindita.choudhury@ mailtoday. in With inputs from Daily Mail Reproduced From Mail Today. Copyright 2009. MTNPL. All rights reserved.

Source - http://in.news.yahoo.com/267/20100818/1774/tls-the-30-simple-things-women-really-wa.html

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SDLC gO gReen, originally uploaded by subhendubiswal.

I have design a concept of gO gReen with SDLC (( System Development Life Cycle )) that is used in Information Technology. The picture I have designed is an interpretation of this. Hope this would make some sense.

By one of my client, Mr. K C Khanna

(By K.C. Khanna)

FAMILY HOUNER IS THE FAMILY PROPERTY OF THE HIGHTEST VALUE

In recent past family members who creates love and affections, trust and harmony and dismantle hatred, always used to appreciate other view points that bring prosperity and seek to add new dimensions to the relationship among themselves.

The tide is shifting. Families are no longer about unity. It is about individual isolation. Among the blood relations there is a collective paralysis of Will, Trust, periodic out breaks of suspicious and double speaks. They share the same intensity of hatred, suspicious, revenge among themselves. We are blindly following the West. We have made the West our role model, irrespective of whether the ideas are working for us.

The negative thinking and wrong impression of the present generation is that they consider and compare their parents with a ladder to climb up in life and once the goal is achieved either the ladder is thrown out or put in a corner, as if the parents are born to perform only duties and have no rights . Parents who have not saved for old age and are entirely dependent on their children are much affected. Thus yesterdays masters have become slaves and live a miserable life. Fathers appear to be worse off when it comes to communicating with their children. We must understand the parent does not belong to us; we belong to parents.

In certain cases, the parents are equally responsible for unrest in the family. They are not able to adjust themselves in the present environment where the influence of western culture has played a major role, in the living- style, relationship and behaviour. There are dramatic changes in the development of science and technology, pattern of livings, standard of education, culture and transportation etc. The media and internet service is also playing an important role by high lighting the events and happenings occurred any where in the world with in minutes. It has changed the entire thinking and approach in the day-to-day’s life and in living style. Actually our present education system teaches students how become talented and successful, though it is equally important to learn the virtue of patience, peace, tolerance and gratitude. Life in the metros has become faster. Due to the long working hours and traffic hazards people gets tired resulting frustration and misunderstanding which is also the cause of prevailing family problems. . Certain parents expect more attention and tolerance etc, from the children, which some times due to some reason not possible and they get upset. The dowry system, disrespect towards women, false ego and rigid and orthodox thinking etc. still prevails in some parents. Instead building bridge, they complaint that road is bumpy. As such any move, to over come the misunderstanding miserably fails and the gaps widen.

Another reason for the differences in the family is mainly due to unnecessary interference of the in-laws. The trend is, that after marriage girl always likes to have frequent visits to her parents’ house but would not like her sister-in-law to visit her parents and would rather object. The couple is guided by their in-laws for differences in the family. The parents are, as such, morally bound to give the proper counseling and advice to the children to behave gracefully and avoid unnecessary tension and differences in the family for a peaceful life.

Another main factor for family dispute is the assets of the parents. The law permits equal shares of the all the moveable and unmovable property of the parents to all the children. But as per old precedents, the sons still do not want to part with the assets with the sisters resulting courts cases.

Ironically, if the parents have the assets, some smart/excited children try to grab it, while the parents are alive. In case they have nothing to give, none of the children would like to take the responsibility to take care of them.

The simple truth is that one can have differences, but still be friends or relatives. Let brothers and sisters should not forget that once they were part of the same family and enjoyed equal love and affections from parents. Either they should live together as brothers and sisters or dies together as fools. Collective efforts should be made to move towards normalisation in relationship until terms and promises are achieved. We must lower the wall so that conversations continue with a desire for normalization and respect for each other. Instead giving excuses and blaming try to spread love and affections among themselves and dismantle hatred, revenge and anger.

For living a peaceful and tension free family, some thoughts are:

v Live in peace and let the others also live in peace.

v Create habit to forgive and forget in relationship.

v Hatred brings sufferings, and loving and kindness brings happiness.

v Without give and take there is no life.

v Goal should be for creation of a modern family.

Simple Twipple

used Twitter terminologies for you, with examples:

Tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter users

ronnie051178:Pleasantly surpised seeing IPL and KKR as globally trending topics on twitter. Looks like Indian Tweeple are assuming global proportions

Tweeter/Twitterer: A Twitter user

playpiece: One of my followers is an Indian Recipes Tweeter. I get why I might follow the recipes (sure, why not?) but why would the recipes follow me?

Tweetheart: A special tweeter who makes your heart skip a beat

JuNeTipKer: Having sweet chit chat wif my tweetheart! Hooooooh... What a beautiful morning!

Twitterati: Top-tier Twitterers

llef: Hia Twitterati - any of you guys own a campervan? Seriously considering one instead of a car. Advice, prices, pros and cons welcome!

Tweetup: A Twitter meet-up in person

prempanicker : @ Bangalore airport, en route Delhi. Tight two-day schedule, so no tweetup possibility this time round.

Co-twitterer: A partner who tweets on your Twitter account

Calice_: Stressing for my co-twitterer @at0me... She has to finish her thesis for tomorrow. :-/

Tweet-dropping: Eavesdropping on Twitter

infidelqueen: @DoctorOHM 10 piercings? Ouch. (Tweet dropping, lol)

Twaiting: Twittering while waiting

tohxinyi: @sgBEAT:twaiting for NR7 at the bus stop outside TANGS. Lol. It's quite a wait.

Tweeps: Short for Tweeple (Duh.)

MusicPrincess96: Help me tweeps! I need 9 more followers! Just 9 more! Thanks & I'll give my new followers a shoutout & I'll follow them back (no random ppl)

Mistweet: A tweet mistake, which one may regret later

Tstvns1: Of course the problems with a couple of accounts is keeping up with potentially 2 lists of friends. And the chance of a mistweet.

Tweetaholic: A problem of Twitter addiction

hamsav: @cubicile_blues Do you work 24x7 by any chance?? :) you seem like workaholic + tweetaholic :D

one Saturday

One Saturday morning when I woke up early at 11.56 am I thought should I sleep a bit more and make it past 12 so that I could set a land mark for me to cross it,next time. But my devil inner heart didn’t let me lie on bed and my brain dispatch the leave order to move out and have a look on others in my building which is a kind of hostel consisting employed and students of different fields and backgrounds. We are a complete crowd of 19 from different backgrounds like

Management, engineering, telecom, politics, loafers, unemployed grads and legal consultant. I can say this place is a complete data ware house only needed to be mining.

When I went and make a round I found only 7 people were there in the building and busy. I came back and sat and asked my brain which was still suffering from a recession crash of ideas inspired by the current market situation. Then I buy back my shares and put my thoughts into action and dialled to my girl friend. Girls are always a good medium of time waste unless you have Madonna as your girl friend.

As a creative stupid I always think sleeping may increase the level of creativity innovating new ideas to explore the thoughts into reality as I am portraying my thoughts in words, thanks to Microsoft for MS office which is reducing my pen and paper work otherwise I would have gone for a different work rather than putting my thoughts in to the digital interface. Not necessarily I want to tell that as a lazy guy I choose to lie on bed for few more time within which my brain could function and assign me some task other than offering some food to my hunger. Then suddenly my hands touched something, ahh..don’t get it other ways, it is not any biological human instrument but a book written by one of the great man of my country Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, who does not need any introduction. Being a visionary, a scientist, an innovator and lot to his credit I admire him and sometimes read him when my laziness wants to get rid of my body. The book was IGNITED MINDS (( Unleashing the power within India )) it was chapter no 3, the

topic was “Visionary Teachers and Scientist” where he was telling that it is more important to find out the real intellectual minds from our school age. And suddenly I got inspiration for my article (( Education beyond syllabus )) which I am writing because I felt there are a lot more lies in the corners of India what we can really identify seeing the results of students in examination.

There was an example of Srinivasa Ramanuja who only lived for 33 years ( 1887-1920 ) had no practical formal education or means of living yet he was incredibly agreat talent to Indian Mathematics what is known for its greatness to the world.

The matter of fact, I still remember the kid of standard 2 who taught me to write from different angles on the blackboard that could solve the purpose of teaching them, lines and its utility.

The movie 3 idiots was the first to leave a great impact on people’s mind but before that several attempts being taken by many a people but failed to execute them. Problem is “courage to lead” it to reality what they had thought off in a different way and bit input of society & circumstances also add essence.

The question arises that who want to be an Idiot in its own way of defining self when we have only one life to live (( unless you have seen Raaz Pichhle janam ka )) one life to experiments our strengths and one life to live with our passion. Our education system does not allow us to explore, Race is the only way to reach at the top. Class by class, exam by exam and the numbers just make a long list. In the entire process we forget that in standard 4th I had an innovation of picking sticks and arrange them into an architectural brilliance, my friend told me how to

spin the ball and how different angles of holding pen can result a good handwriting but finally these innovations of different talent turns into careers forced by their parents and ended up with a sales profile or something else which is poles apart from his real talent.

To understand in what I am good at cost so much time and value that you cannot come back to your real strength and finally decide to stick with whatever hell you are now. Cause it takes so much guts and courage to excel your soul from a sold body.

To be continued –

Education beyond Syllabus

Subhendu Biswal

www.subhendubiswal.in

Copenhagen 2009 Climate Conference in Copenhagen 6. - 18. December 2009

In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the process on the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in Copenhagen 2009 the parties of the UNFCCC meet for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed.

Climate friendly city car in front of the Bella Center

Therefore the Climate Conference in Copenhagen is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government and UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes.

The Climate Conference will take place in the Bella Center. The conference centre is placed not far from Copenhagen and near the Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup.

Governmental representatives from 170 countries are expected to be in Copenhagen in the days of the conference accompanied by other governmental representatives, NGO's, journalists and others. In total 8000 people are expected to Copenhagen in the days of the climate meeting.

Minister for Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard. Photo: Jakob Dall

The host of the meeting in Copenhagen is the government of Denmark represented by Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister of Climate and Energy and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The official sekretariat is placed in connection to The Prime Ministers Office in Copenhagen. Originally the hosting of the climate conference was initiated by the former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Photo: Hung Tien Vu

The Danish Government has decided that not only the subject of the conference should be focused on the climate but also the conference itself. Among other initiatives the organizers work on mounting af windmill near the Bella Center to produce climate friendly electricity for the conference.

The conference in Copenhagen is the 15th conference of parties (COP15) in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The recent meeting in United Nations Climate Change Conferences was held in December 2007 in Bali.

Danish Prime Minister

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

The secretary for the climate conferences is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC - based in the German city Bonn.

An important part of the scientific background for the political decisions taken on the conferences is made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The IPCC is Established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 2007 the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Price).

The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is organized in cooperation between the Ministry of Climate and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister's Office.

The adress of the secretariat for the Climate Conference is:

COP15

The Climate Secretariat

The Prime Minister's Office

Christiansborg

Prins Jørgens Gård 11

1218 København K

Denmark

Tel (+45) 33 92 33 00, Fax (+45) 33 11 16 65

The Official secretariat of the 15th Climate Conference in Copenhagen.

Copenhagen Climate Network

Ehlersvej 11

2900 Hellerup

Denmark

Tel (+45) 39 48 18 10, Fax (+45) 39 48 18 01

A Danish network that will underpin the Copenhagen Climate Summit, thus making the 2009 UN climate summit a success for the benefit of sustainable climate policy. The network will use the period before, under and after the Copenhagen Climate Summit to establish networks among businesses, individuals and organisations supporting a climate policy focusing on the environment.

Copenhagen Climate Council

c/ Mandag Morgen

Valkendorsgade 13

Box 1127

1009 Copenhagen K

Tel (+45) 33 93 93 23, Fax (+45) 33 14 13 94

An initiative founded in May 2007 by a group of business leaders and scientists with the aim of helping make the case for a new global climate treaty that will come into force when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end in 2012.