Joel I Fernandes

A crow has built its nest on a tree that is growing right next to my room’s window and it f***ing annoys me so much that it starts crow-ing in the middle of the night. It does a job of an Owl, where it sits and crows at around 2am and I freakin’ get no sleep because of that. (ya I know, owl’s don’t crow!)

Shut the windows, put extra curtains, covered with pillows but the damn irritating sound still enters my ears… And this makes me feel like getting up and throwing heavy bricks at it and burn the tree out of there… Damn, if my parent’s weren’t at home I would have seriously shooed that crow away from there by throwing stones… But also destroying else’s house isn’t good too. (Need to think that way also)…

But I need to do something of this crow. 2am in the night? Is it kidding? Is it playing a prank on me? And that too, it doesn’t shut its mouth after crow-ing for a while. It crows 3 times, takes a break for 20 seconds (in which I think that it has gone… ) and starts again . Damn! and this goes on till 6am… How the F in world am I supposed to sleep? Can’t it just shut its mouth and go to sleep… (Do they sleep btw? ) or go somewhere else and do whatever it likes..! I am fed up…

Is there any way so that I can shoo this annoying piece of shit by not harming it? Any ideas? Any experts out there…?
Or may be I should use the crow chaser which you can see in the pic below..!

Image credit: www.cbarks.dk/thehelpershelp.htm and www.yankeegardener.com

Ok, I have ditched the plan in changing the theme as I am not getting enough time for it to sit and play with it… I guess I’ll do it some other time…

Now back to posting… I had taken 3 tags on various blogs and I’m doing those tags all in one post… So here they are…

This is a tag that I took from Lemonade almost a week ago. Well, its a simple one and very interesting enough…  The rules are pretty easy. Here’s how you have to do it..!

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

1. What is your first name?
Joel. (I loved the pic btw )
2. What is your favorite food? Right now?
Pie pizza. Edit: actually Hot chocolate fudge after answering the 8 question..
3. What high school did you go to?
Jesuit. Was in Joesph’s for 8 years…
4. What is your favorite color?
Red. Also have mentioned in my previous tag…
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
Scarlet Johnson.
6. Favorite drink?
Pineapple all time..
7. Dream vacation?
Madagascar.
8. Favorite dessert?
Hot Chocolate Fudge. Wow… I just love this dessert. My mouths watery now…
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Artist..if possible.
10. What do you love most in life?
My family of course…
11. One Word to describe you.
Irritating. I just love to irritate…
12. Your flickr name.
Joel I Fernandes.

LMAO… Take a look at the sixth pic..

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Ok, here’s the next one.

A tag I took form Arvind’s blog and that is, I have to write down 5 types of PEOPLE THAT I HATE…! Ok then here it goes…
Backstabbers: Grr… My humble request to these type of people is to better stay out of me… I wouldn’t tolerate such ones..!

Self-Centered: Another type of species whom I hate the most. These are the people who care only about themselves.

These type of people are those who use you; especially in case of money. If you have money you’ll see all flies running around you. And at times when you need help, these flies are no where to be seen.

Politicians: Well, I guess I don’t have to comment anything on this coz you people already know how well our politicians are in our country.

Lastly, not to forget those Attitude+ kind of people. I hate them to the core. Whenever I come across these kinds, I start fuming (the ones who show dada-giri). Feel like slapping them in front of a huge crowd.

Ok, I guess I have another tag but I have forgotten what it is. Will do it once I remb it..And BTW, please ignore the errors if you find any… was in a sleepy mood while I was writting it…

EDIT: Anbody willing to do the tags please do so… Will not mention anybody’s name this time…

Tomorrow (messed up with the codes.. might be a lil late but will try my best) I will be changing the design/theme of this blog. I’m excited, I can’t keep my mouth shut in revealing it…
Here’s a top portions as well as the logo on the new theme. Any changes to be made so, you can suggest me by leaving a comment….

Well, this is not the final theme. There’s a little bit of finishing touch to be given. So will be changing the theme tomorrow…

Yep! its Reema again who has tagged. This is pretty long though…took around 1hr to write it up..

1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
I am a legend. Not in a theater but had got a DVD. Will try for Jane Tu ya jaane na…

2. What book are you reading?
Currently none. Was thinking of getting Brida by Paulo Coelho

3. Favorite board game?
Chess all time…

4. Favorite magazine?
Hmmm… Chip-India and Digit.

5. Favorite smells?
Wet mud. The one which you get right after it rains. And I guess most of them like this smell.

6. Favorite sounds?
Thunder…

7. Worst feeling in the world?
Betrayals by the ones who are close to me…

8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
Check what the time is. If its 9 or less, then back to sleep…

9. Favorite fast food place?
Sub-way.

10. Future child’s name?
More than 13+ years to go for that. Why take tension now only…

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The Diamante (dea-man-ta) is a poetry pattern invented by Iris M. Tiedt. It is a style of poetry that is made up of six or seven lines which usually is in a form of a diamond when aligned centered. I just gave try and composed quite a few poems. I tried my best with it and came up with 4 poems. They are all made up of seven lines and are based on one topic and that is“Relationship” . I hope you people would like it.

Friend
Kind, good
Loving, caring, helping
Enjoy, party, destroy, hurt
Jealous, wicked, greedy
Hatred, bad
Enemy

Father
Cheerful, Happy
Thinking, working, earning
Car, money — TV, Books
Loving, caring, helping
Kind, grateful
Mother

Brother
Stylish, brave
Earning, spending, earning
Gentle, Benignant — kind, good
Earning, spending, earning
Beautiful, intelligent
Sister

ABC*
Clever, Beautiful
Speaking speaking speaking
Make-up, Dress — style, looks
Listening, listening, listening
Cheerful, handsome
XYZ *

*ABC and XYZ are couples. So you can add up names who are in love or something like that…

Also, ABC is a female person and XYZ a male… DUH!!!

Let me explain how to read and understand it. Let me take the last poem as an example. There are 2 nouns here; one ABC and the second XYZ . That makes the first and the last line. The second and fifth line are adjectives where words here describes the nouns… The third and the fifth lines are the participles (words ending with -ing ). The center line again contains four words and all are nouns. First two describing the first noun and the other two describing the second noun.

Thanks to Sean Pollock from whom I learnt this. She is just amazing (she is just 14 ) and has put up a brilliant tutorial on how to learn poetry.

There are varieties of such poems that can be learnt. Click here if you also are interested in learning them.

I’ll be also coming up with different kinds of such poetry. But before that I want to know how these sound, so that I may continue it by learning by my mistakes.

P.S. Poets out there, please forgive me if I have composed it in a wrong way. You can always correct me though. BTW these are my first ever poems I have composed in my life. So please excuse me if I am wrong somewhere…

EDIT: As Shrinidhi had asked me to explain this poem in normal English, I have done it by taking one poem from the list and here it goes….

Brother
Stylish, brave
Earning, spending, earning
Gentle, Benignant — kind, good
Earning, spending, earning
Beautiful, intelligent
Sister

Ok, This is a poem related to my brother and my sister.

Brother, who is stylish and brave. Who earns and spends it and earns it back again (money). Who is gentle and also benignant.

Kind and good, who also earns, spends and earns it back; Who is beautiful and intelligent is none other than my Sister….

Ok, I hope you got the idea now…

I see that most of my readers and blogs that I follow use Blogger as their blogging platform. WordPress is great, user friendly, more efficient and yet you choose Blogger. This makes me wonder what is so good about Blogger than to WordPress and always there’s one question running in my mind and that is, why do you prefer Blogger but not WordPress? Well, you might ask the same question back to me… Why I prefer WordPress?
Ok, here’s why I prefer it. I have made a small chart which shows the comparison between WordPress and Blogspot.

go to the table!

You can see the number of red marks in Blogger column when compared to WordPress. Well this is not the end of the comparison. There are more and you can find them here.

Ok, I have edited the post by adding this particular chart, which gives the comparison between Blogger, Typepad, BlogWare, WordPress and Expression Engine.

Blogspot users, now its your turn to tell why you prefer Blogger. Well, I am opening a poll on this topic and please vote of your choice.

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Chart credits: Tablefy and user Bingo.

The 25th of June 1983. No Indian cricket fan can forget this day. The day when India won the 1983 World Cup against England West Indies at Lord’s which was marked as an unforgettable moment in the history of Indian cricket.

Here’s a glance to the members of the `83 Indian World Cup team:
Kapil Dev, the captain of that World Cup winning team; Sunil Gavaskar, an incomparable batsman; Balwinder Singh Sandhu, the man who started it all by bowling out Gordon Grenidge; Syed Kirmani, the finest wicketkeeper India has ever seen; Yashpal Sharma, one of the most astounding heroes of the ‘83 triumph and the charismatic Sandeep Patil.

Hence to celebrate this graceful moment, Vijay Mallya the proud owner of the United Breweries Group together with the BCCI have joined hands to honor the winning team of the `83 World Cup to mark their 25th anniversary of this cricketing milestone on the 25th of June, Wednesday. Also said that the team will be on a tour to Lord’s on 25th to commemorate this special day and later a dinner will be hosted by the UB Group for the team in London to provide the event a perfect ending.

Images courtesy: pressmart.net and ekawaaz.wordpress.com

Finally I have started it!!! Have a look here. Yes, I have finally decided to start India Wake Up. This will be a blog that is dedicated to India and mainly for its youth to awaken them. Well, I wanted to atleast contribute something to my country. Thought and finally decided that a blog would be a great idea. But, I seriously have no clue how this will run. Not that easy job though. Had got this domain 3 months back and now I have made up my mind in starting it.

Ok, you can hang on there to know more about it. Guys, I need support. Hope you, being my readers at this blog, will support me handling that one. Well, I am alone there running that blog. If you wish to join me, you’re welcome… You can contact me either…

Some suggestions, views and ideas needed from you people to improve it. Hope you guys will suggest and also support me… Thanks in advance…

First of all, thanks to Rekha for providing a useful link in one of her blog post. Landed up on your blog from nowhere (forgot from where I came) and read this post and found a link to another useful post. Thanks for that.
Well have a peep into this post which made me think like a professional blogger for the first time. (no, I’m not saying that I have become a professional now… )
When I started this blog, (less posts) I thought visitors and readers are more important. I must some how get more and more visitors to my blog (every new blogger aspires it. Not just me). As time went by, I never bothered about the visits that I get. Readers would comment if they wished to and if found my posts interesting. Well, most of them realize it very late, I realized it very soon LOL…

Well I guess even Priya had made this point to me in one of here comments. (I thought about it a bit later :P Patience is what you need. Most of all the bloggers (newbie’s) are disappointed on not getting visitors and not receiving any comments. I guess you need not be. You’ll never be bothered about you stats after a few years… I bet..!

Here are some tips I would like to share with you:

• Post things that are interesting and not long posts all the time.
• Always stick to Original (At least to your personal blog)
• Read and comment on others blog. (Most important)

If you have read the post which I had mentioned above, Amit says that you need to post atleast 5-7 posts per day. Well I don’t think so that many numbers of posts are needed for a personal blog…or do we? Whatever it is, newbie’s shouldn’t worry about their blog stats. As time goes by, you’ll get everything…Have patience and that’s the main key to success as I have learnt.

P.S. Well, ok let me make one note. I am not a professional blogger to give tips. The tips mentioned above are just for reference and are to what I have experienced. It would help your blog in some or the other way (If you think it is useful, I’m happy) and ya, don’t just depend on them…DUH!!!

Happy Blogging…

EDIT: I have no intention in making money with my blog. I just wanna be a respected blogger….

Reema tagged me ( bakra ) on her blog asking me a few questions. So here they are…

One religious work from a non-familiar tradition you’ll read:

The Bhagavad-Gita.

One music video–which you like–from you’re “least likely to listen to’ genre:

“Blame on me” by Akon. I don’t like that guy…

A book from a genre you almost never read, that you have read, or you will read (promise!):

Hmmm.. Reading, Universe in a Nutshell by Stephan Hawking from my 9^th Grade. Haven’t finished it yet…     Ok wait…I have no clue where the book is now…

Somewhere you’d never thought to go on holiday/vacation, and why it might be fun to go there?

California… Fun??? Disneyland

A specific food you’ve never tried, but will because of this meme, honest!

I would like to have food once in a Dhaba… Never been to any..

A sport or games you really hate, or haven’t tried yet, but are willing to give one more go:

Squash! I would love to play this game once.

A style of dance you probably won’t try (we won’t make you promise on this one):

Not any of those Indian traditional Dances… phew..! Thanks for not making me a promise on it…

A career job you don’t feel you’re suited for, and why:

Doctor. OMG… Scared to go to a Hospital. And the smell…uh.! I just cant resist it + the blood (Haemophobia )… If I see it I’ll for sure faint… And BTW red is my Favorite color…

An item that’s “thinking out of the box’ for this meme that hadn’t been included:

What is it that you will dare to wear which you have never worn before?

Eh..! Do I really have to answer this?

One thing in life you wanted to do, and will do because of this meme, what will it be?

Well, I’ll see that all my wishes are granted in my wishlist…

I tag Priya (the other Priya), Jamie, Nikhi and Meg’s