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Posted Feb 11, 2013 | General | 6307 Views   

JK Vectra Tyres- Worst in its Class

Title of this review is self-sufficient to explain but with this review I am going to put some shocking facts about this tire model that might help others to take a right decision while changing tires of their cars. After running almost 45000 Kms... Title of this review is self-sufficient to explain but with this review I am going to put some shocking facts about this tire model that might help others to take a right decision while changing tires of their cars. After running almost 45000 Kms on my car with company fitted tires, I decided to change all of them. Though, they were in a condition that I could run 5000 more kilometers with them but I firmly believe in safety and security of all the passengers who they are travelling including me. I didn’t do much search and discussed it with one of my colleagues who suggested me MRF, CEAT, or JK Tire if am looking moderate tires in budget. I landed at a Tire Shoppe, compared prices, and asked representative to fit JK tire in my car. From here the SAD part begins. I paid my bill and came out driving. I took NH-24 to reach my home; it was 8:30 pm in winters so traffic was not much. As I touched the speed of just 60 kms I started hearing a rubbing noise from tires those were coming inside the cabin while all window glasses were closed so you can sense the loudness of noise coming from tires. I increased my speed and the noise was louder, I slowed down to 40 and then noise decreased. With my previous tires I never observed such a bad and perturbing noise so I thought the tires were new so might be making noise but that assumption was quite wrong. A series of bad experiences started from the very next day. To give an ease and better understating am going to classify them here under – Unpleasant Noise- Shared earlier in this review but this factor is very annoying especially when you are driving between 80 -100 kmph on highway. Sound got worst on cemented road. Maneuvering of Car- First thing I observed very next day that my steering was behaving bit hard than earlier. I got that checked and came to know that JK tires are made with very hard rubber and that impacts on maneuvering of vehicle. Pseudo Tubeless- These tires do not show even a single sign of being tubeless. In general, if a nail gets inserted in tubeless tire it takes sometimes to get deflated. In the case of JK tyre, it gets deflated right away like ordinary tube tire. Bad Rubber Quality- You must appreciate that tires are not get punctured every day. They all are bit robust so small nails or other sharp objects of smaller sizes cannot puncture them easily. With my previous tires with over 45000 kms I observed three punctures and all of them were after running 35000 kms. With JK tire Vectra, I observed 5 punctures in first 10000 Kms and with very small nails. Weak sidewalls- Last but not the least, this is most dangerous factor with JK Vectra tyre. Its sidewalls are thick but not robust. If you are driving even at a normal speed 50-60 kms, and if your car somehow comes on a brick or any hard object, sidewalls get swallowed and increase the chances of burst. In my case, it remained swallowed. After running 12000 Kms on the worst JK Vectra tires, I have decided gifting them to any rag picker or any scrap dealer and buy new. Read More
Posted Aug 10, 2009 | General | 506 Views   (Updated Aug 10, 2009 12:43 PM)

Middle Class Families - Unveiled

I believe that you would have heard the following words from your Dad or Mom at least once in your childhood or when you were studying– My dear son not this month, but next month it is confirmed. These are very common words in a middle (or lower... I believe that you would have heard the following words from your Dad or Mom at least once in your childhood or when you were studying– My dear son not this month, but next month it is confirmed. These are very common words in a middle (or lower middle class) family to postpone any out-of-budget need of the kids. Interesting part is, kids are getting persuaded with these words and start daydreaming but again they hear the same words in next month. The story goes on till the time Dad or Mom does not provide the asked (or requested) thing to the kid or the kid give-up as the requested thing gradually stops alluring him or her. Now these days, accessibility of a middle class family has been increased, as it was 20 yrs ago. This is just because of globalization and rise in living standard. Now parents never stop their kids to cook noodles/macaroni at home, while 22 yrs ago situation was entirely different. I can clearly recall that a noodle packet that you can get in 10 bucks today was of 5 Bucks. In these 20 yrs, the purchase power of a family has been increased at least by 4 times, while prices of such commodities have been increased by 2 or 3 times. Take another example of Soft drink that was costing us 4 bucks in 1992/93 while it is of 10 bucks after 16-17 yrs. So, many of the commodities, such as branded apparel, food, beverages, electronic gadgets, and other items those (unfortunately) signifies the living standard, are in reach of a common salaried families. Though, the living standard of a middle-class family has been improved still you will find that the difference in mindset is not as much significant. Middle-class families believe in show-off. One family will never say to other that they are in a tight situation, especially females. They always show (or pretend) that things are pretty smooth in their family. Even if they ask for a bowl of sugar from other house, they start saying, “he is very busy, not even getting time to go market and get some sugar. Could you please fill this bowl, I will return it tomorrow.” Other lady will start pretending that her house is filled with tones of sugar, and start saying, “Sure…Sure. He is very finicky and cannot see that the ration is not available at any time. He brings the ration before its level goes down half of the container. I always say to him, ration is available don’t bring anything but he never listens to me.” She filled the bowl with sugar but with thoughts what if she doesn’t return tomorrow, as the sugar left in container is not sufficient for two days, and 4 more days to go in his salary disbursement. This mentality transfers to the kids as well. As their father got any item for them, they did start showing off- See my new shoe-shirt-trouser-cycle-cap-and the things that I can’t write here. Since, getting a good eatable (like chocolate) was also a matter of status, so they did start eating when their maximum number of friends could see them. Wrappers of maggi, chcolate, branded biscuits were thrown just in front of house, so others could see that the family was having all modern eatables. Since, these families live in a colony or little bit dense environment, so the chances are very high that 4 or 5 kids are studying in the same class. Now, an unwanted pressure is always on all the kids due to a hidden competition among the kids caused by their parents. This undue pressure would not allow the kid to play, watch television, and do whatever s/he wants. But, when two females will be talking, they will always praise their kids, as they got the best kids of the world. Again show off. Any additional expense, like attending a marriage function works like a negative catalyst, in family budget. And if the marriage is in a nearest relative then it sounds like hell, as an expensive gift becomes must. Expensive gift is a must because ‘She’ doesn’t want get down in any case. Now, the He, started doing maximum possible juggling that he could do to get the family ready for the function and buying a significant gift. Another good mean for show-off or a painful effort to maintain status. But, such families are value driven, and kids are taught to give respect to older and others. Saying only Uncle and Aunty sounds bad, so Uncle Ji and Aunty Ji is the right term to address neighbors parallel to Dad and Mom. It is strictly no-no to address older siblings with their names. Kids are taught not to be demanding, and stubborn. Despite all the situations that I have discussed, these families are where love and respect for other family member exists. You will find the true relationships and bindings with flavor of family values. The important thing is, if you do belong to such family and gradually moved at good position in business, govt, public, and private sectors, never forget what you were. Never stop loving each other and paying respect. Never ever let the values died that you have inherited from your ancestors. Read More
Posted Aug 07, 2009 | General | 1186 Views   

Soulmate-A gift from God

"I have never been in a relationship (or true relationship) till the time I met him/her. I saw him/her first time and there was a spark within me somewhere that ignited a different kind of feeling that I had never felt. Positive vibes were emergi... "I have never been in a relationship (or true relationship) till the time I met him/her. I saw him/her first time and there was a spark within me somewhere that ignited a different kind of feeling that I had never felt. Positive vibes were emerging from him/her that I was able to sense and feel, and a charisma was developed around me. I felt like, I know him/her since ages. S/he was the one who was here for me." I believe, all of you have been felt the same once in your lifetime. Is that feeling because of soul urge? Is this how we react when we meet our soul mate? What is soul mate? I am trying to find out the definition of the term and pertaining questions spiritually and logically for last couple of weeks. I found few answers that I want to share with you through this post. Different brains thinks differently, so it is quite natural that I could create controversies in this post. In my thought, a soul mate is finding your soul's counterpart. Finding someone who makes you feel good about yourself. Caring about someone else more than you care about yourself. Someone who makes you feel like the best is yet to come. Soul mate is an eternal partner made and gifted by God. I believe that soul mates are two souls from a previous life, re-fixing because they were meant to be together in a love or any other strong relationship. Though, I recently understood that even though this can be the case, it can also simply be two souls from a previous life getting connected again for the purpose of resolving previous issues, as well as to grow, teach, and learn from one another. So, soul mate can be any one who has a strong binding with you. Up until recently, I believed that my soul mate was someone with whom I have this intense and enigmatically strong connection that was felt by both of us (and sensed by others as well). I interpreted this to mean that we were meant to be together forever in this lifetime. Being together specifies here that our souls will be together even we are physically far apart. You can treat this as a flame burning continuously at distance that is visible always but you cannot feel the heat, and as you come closer you start feeling the heat. Once you have that sense of heat, whenever you see the flame, you feel the heat every time without getting closer to the flame. For soul mates, the depth of Love for the person is such that every moment is a torture if s/he is apart. The heart aches when s/he is not with you. Let me clear it more that your heart can get ached for your love, spouse, frineds, or any family member. I never thought it was possible to literally feel my heart aches over someone, but that is true once your soul mate is not with you. I have realized many time recently and I guess if you've never been with your soul mate, it's hard to understand but believe me it happens. For true love, perhaps laws of attraction works well and seems that both the persons will have been met time and time again life after life, and we meet that person again in future. Is it right to say "OH, it's my soul mate (in that we've known each other before) and let's be one this time." But, unfortunately, doesn’t get together in this life, and still feel it's best to, although the connection, to not actually be together. Must be God is thinking in a different way. True soul mates can simply become one at any given time in their light body. Soul mates are sanctified with extraordinary gifts to support and maintain their celestial relationship for the benefit of conception. They can communicate through telepathy, and knowing at any given time the needs of the eternal partner and being a living medicine for the partner. The partner can get treated as the one and only true eternal spouse or binding, given by God and the relationship is remained eternal. I would like to say that the eternal relationship is celestial in nature. However, we run naturally and because of that find our soul mate in life after life with the possibility of not getting one. But there is an end, and this would get happened in one life. I wish that everyone would get his or her soul mate in this life only. Read More
Posted Aug 06, 2009 | General | 466 Views   

A Night with the Messengers of Death

I heard that people were mourning and it woke me up. I found all my family members were crying and I was wondering what had happened at a sudden. To know, I left the bed and rushed towards the drawing room. There were lots of people in the room a... I heard that people were mourning and it woke me up. I found all my family members were crying and I was wondering what had happened at a sudden. To know, I left the bed and rushed towards the drawing room. There were lots of people in the room and were crying. My mouth got opened to see that I was lying in the center of these people. My body was lying straight on the floor, wrapped with white bed-sheet with opened face, and my eyes were closed. My face was expressionless and my lips were glued together. Ahh… Am I Dead? Is this my (dead) body lying at the center? I started yelling, “ Hello, I am alive. Look behind, I am alive and talking to you.” But, nobody is looking at me nor listening to me. I saw an old man in white beard came to me. His forehead was broad and full of wrinkles. There was a glow on his face, and he was wearing a pristine white gown. I asked, “ Who are you, Sir?” He said very calmly, “I am the messenger of death, please come along with me.” I couldn’t protest, and started along. I came outside of my house, and there was a grand all white spotless wagon with white and tall horses. The old man asked me to step in the wagon, and with a jolt wagon started. After few minutes journey, a huge gate appeared covered with white clouds. The ole man opened the gate and took me to a man with long beard. The long beard man touched his beard twice and said, “Mr Shah Rizwan, there is a question to you and the decision will be based on the answer of this question.” I asked, “What decision, Sir?” He said, “Sending you Hell or heaven. If you are the most accurate, you will go to Heaven else be ready for the Hell.” He asked, “ How many time have you wasted the things? You can take 1 logical unit for each item, as measuring units for different items are different.” I did want to accurate at the level maximum as any slippage could lead to hell. I started recalling events when I had wasted any resource but I was finding me numb. Was I nervous or it was really difficult to calculate the items that I had wasted? An idea lightened in my mind, “ Give a utmost higher value. It is better if actual value is lesser than the quoted value. I said strategically, “Sir, I think I have wasted at least 300,000 units of all the items.” The long beard man instructed another man standing there with a list to get the answer validated. The man said, “Sir, the quoted value entirely different from the actual value. Actual value is 445,749,463,915,732,679 units.” I started crying, Sir please check, this cannot be happened. This difference is very huge. I just want to know the parameters. Please tell me Sire, please. The long beard man took the list in his hand and said, “let’s start with natural resources. You have wasted at least 4 liters of water everyday apart from your need. So, you wasted 4 units everyday, 120 units every month, and 1440 units every year. This further adds that you forced a person to live without water for 36 days every year. These 36 days will also be added in the form of seconds in your wastage list. You never switched off your vehicle while standing at red lights and wasted around 2 liters petrol every month. So, you wasted around 24 units of petrol every year. This further adds the effort for digging it out, refining, transportation. You never switched off your TV, fan, AC, and bulbs when you were not in your room. This each unit has been added as well as the tasks that could be done with the wasted power also be added. You wasted food many of the times that forced many of the people to sleep without food. Their foodless times have been added. Also, you wasted efforts for cropping and cultivating of cereals that also have been added. You wasted paper a lot with out any reason. Due to which many of the trees have been cut down that further led to less rain and deterioration of earth, and imbalance in nature. My dear son list is end less, so whatever our list says that’s correct. And I have no doubt saying that you must go in Hell as you have never cared the things and wasted them without any reason. He instructed two of his bodyguards to take me to the hell. I started crying but the bodyguards were not listening to me. I said, “Sir, please give me a chance, only one chance….” There was dark all around, and my wife switched the light on. I was sweating. She asked me, “Was I dreaming bad?” I said, “Yes.” I saw, bulb in balcony was On, I asked my wife to switch this off. This was just wastage of electricity. I lay down again and was thinking about the dream, and decided No More wastage of resources if I want to enjoy heaven. Read More
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Posted Aug 04, 2009 | General | 457 Views   (Updated Aug 04, 2009 09:59 AM)

Feedbacks-Good or Bad

For last couple of weeks, a thought was residing somewhere in my Mind, what is feedback? How it works? Does feedback really help to grow or discourage? What is the difference in feedback and criticism? So, I am sitting at home and writing this po... For last couple of weeks, a thought was residing somewhere in my Mind, what is feedback? How it works? Does feedback really help to grow or discourage? What is the difference in feedback and criticism? So, I am sitting at home and writing this post to give a shape to my thoughts. What is the origin of the term Feedback? I went through various journals, and found that the term Feedback first appeared in the 1920's and grew out of the broadcasting industry. When the volume of a microphone is set incorrectly, unpleasant squawking sounds will result. Since the sounds that enter a microphone are referred to as feeds, it followed that the unpleasant sounds heard after the feeds would be called feedback. It took several decades for the term to be borrowed electrically and used eclectically. Lets discuss the Positive feedback first. Positive feedback consists of praise, appreciation, and the term More than Enough. This is a normal human tendency that if someone does anything remarkable as per his/her parameters, wants to get appreciated. You can take example of any thing. If some one feels that s/he looks good in Black then s/he appreciates himself in mirror first and gives first positive feedback to him or her. But, when you are exposed to others and a person genuinely says, you look good in Black, this is called true positive feedback. You can receive positive feedbacks for impressive dressing sense, effective communication skills, flawless work style, remarkable PR skills etc. But being addicted for positive feedback can discourage a person in longer run. Lack of positive feedback can start crashing people those are addicted only to positive feedback. Consider a stereotypical scenario of a couple who has been together for many more years. Ms. begins to feel that Mr. doesn’t love her or think she’s pretty simply because he has stopped saying the positive words. The positive feedback, at early stage of relationship, built her confidence up SO high that when the words stopped, she came crashing down, bewildered and even wondering what she’s doing wrong. The same could be said of children, co-workers, and just about anyone you could name. Children often become reluctant because they don’t feel appreciated. Co-workers and friends get to the point that they quit trying because nothing they do is ever “good enough.” I think, one should open his/her ears for positive feedback but always ready for the situation when the praising words could get stopped. In this case, a thorough self-analysis is highly required or the time has arrived to rejuvenate the style. Now come to the Negative feedback. In general, people are not ready to receive negative feedback as it shows that the person is lagging in an area. Couple of weeks back, I shot an e-mail to client keeping my Boss in CC list. My boss called me up and told that the mail could have been written in more effective way, and I was not ready to accept his words rather defending me hard by giving excuses. When I came back at my workstation and looked at the mail again, I found he was right. There is always a scope of improvement. In my opinion, negative feedback should be received without making comments or statements rather asking questions to clarify the things because negative feedbacks help you grow. In contrast, it is important how you are giving a negative feedback to others. The only thing more dangerous than a lack of positive feedback is a steady stream of negative feedback. When a spouse, daughter, son, friend, co-worker, etc. only hears negative comments – they begin to believe the words and come to believe that they are as worthless as the words say they are. And when someone believes the worst about themself, they stop even trying. However, if they get positive feedback – even if it’s for the smallest possible thing – their confidence and self worth begin to grow. So, be careful at the time of giving negative feedbacks. Criticism-last but not the least. There is a thin line difference in Negative feedback and Criticism. In my opinion, criticism is something when your pitfalls are discussed at your back. The person(s) who is (are) criticizing you, is (are) discussing your pit falls to others especially when you are not present. One can criticize you by writing as well. A negative feedback turned to criticism when things are written about your pit falls and sent to every one other than you. I believe, people start criticizing when they don’t have enough strength to give negative feedback. Now, I am a firm believer that receiving and giving feedback is an essential part of life. It helps you improve your work style, strengthen your bonding with your loved ones, and set a next milestone in any area of life. Stop criticizing and start giving/receiving feedbacks for mutual development and growth in work, life, and relationship. Read More
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Posted Aug 03, 2009 | General | 434 Views   (Updated Aug 04, 2009 10:02 AM)

Relationship- As I see

Being a human, I sometimes wonder if things and persons wouldn’t have been associated with each other then what would get happened. There were no relationships, bonding, obligations, and attachment. But, were we born not to be dependent or to be... Being a human, I sometimes wonder if things and persons wouldn’t have been associated with each other then what would get happened. There were no relationships, bonding, obligations, and attachment. But, were we born not to be dependent or to be associated with others. When I try to find answer of this question, I always perceive that a living being cannot survive without being associated or linked with other living beings or any objects. Relationship can be of any type, personal, business, professional etc. In my thought relationship is built due to the need. All living beings depend on someone for something. Can every one build his or her house? Can you service your car? Answer will be No, but the resources are there. People who they are trained in that field are able to mould these resources into product that others need. I am simply trying to say that, all human beings are talented and got the talent as a gift. We have these talents so that we can use them to serve one another. Few people are good in repairing cars, heeling others, comforting others, helping you find your True Love. The reason is we cannot do it all on our own. Truth is that the doctors also get sick and visit other doctors. I talked something nonsense in the above paragraph but I have written this paragraph to explain that there is a need behind every relationship. And If I think one step ahead and crossed the material, I found that we all are here to build a better relationship with all who they are around us else we will be individually experiencing our own joys, sorrows and love. But, the relationship that brings the most happiness and the one you pursue are entirely different things. If any relationship does not work well, there must be a reason. A couple that find successful relationship or marriage, put in what are the things they trust to be the right thing rather what they wish for. A winning relationship depends on the idea of not giving up trying right things to maintain the health of the relationship. We should keep revisiting the facts of healthy and happy relationship, and use it until it yelled result. It is quite often that people are willing to find love and happiness but are not ready to spend time so they reconcile with the Love at first sight. Shortly they find that the person is not so great and the relationship turned into break-up. Fortunately, resource to help each man, woman or couples are already there. We as human beings should have the inclination to try and implement to get the best result out. We should try to use the available resources at the level best and help our partner to develop a cozy and comfortable environment for each other. The most common words I heard for relationship is, Relationships should work. There is a admired saying-if you are doing something and if it doesn’t work, try a new approach. I think this is the only spirit of relationship. I believe, most common reason for a relationship to get failed is people find the person they want to be with and that is all they do care and love about. This approach to finding love is little bit risky because relationship is about two people who go with. Moreover, by this way the relationship bowed to one sided. This is the woman or man I want and that is it, is one sided. When you select a person you want, you may find you’re self-doing too much in the significance of love. This might cause the love to get power over you because the love knows- you want him or her so you are willing to do as he or she wants. You will find too many men and women who have given all they can and got dumped for another person. You can stop repeating the same fault only if you do admit that there is something you are doing that is not accurate. However, if you look for a relationship that is even- the love, affection, respect in the relationship will be given equally. The very meaning of essence of relationship is finding a relationship that is healthy and will work for both you and the other person. If you want to find relationship that will work ones and for all, you have to find you out of you. When it comes to finding that special someone, go about it the right way. Never forget that the word, it is SPECIAL not just any one pursue your love life the right way. You are not here to have failed relationships unless you made that choice. Read More
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