Life is short; why make the hell out of it?

If you want to laugh, just speak to the person/people that are near you. You will never know that the person is best at cracking timely jokes. We cannot judge the book by its cover, and that is why you will be amazed to know that a person that appears quite is rather actually  fun. Auto-rickshaw drivers are the best comedians. If you ask them a route to a place, they point out their left hands, but ask us to go toward right. Of course, I have to mention one of my colleagues. He is one of the best at cracking jokes casually. Here is an example of his wit. 
We usually will have a send-off meeting when someone leaves the company. Everyone will speak about his or her experience working with that person and wish him/her luck. When he (my ex-colleague) got his chance, he said looking at the person (who was his team lead), "Of course you have to leave man. Then how will we become team leads?"

However, there are people that make sarcastic jokes such that we will be forced to handle/face embarrassing situations. Some people will never know when to speak what.

In an office, a man watches a lady going from team to team for some work (may be some official work, and that is none of anyone’s interest). When she comes near him, he asks her (in front of everyone), “Don’t you have any work? You seem to be roaming here and there.” Just imagine her situation. If you are in this situation, what will you feel? Many people still don’t know that it is very bad to ask a person (at work) whether he/she is free in order to help them. Everyone is of course busy with something or anything at work. Isn’t it really silly to ask that question?

Even those can be handled, but when people around you are egoistic, you will definitely have a hard time with them. Some people are sadistic by being egoistic. They enjoy hurting others by their ironic character. They will eat you out of their heads, that too, it is difficult to handle the person when he or she is a close friend or a boy/girl friend, or husband/wife.

Some people say that ego is innate, not acquired. Actually, it seems we tend to develop that trait as we grow. However, being egoistic is not healthy that it can affect one’s relationship. There are many stories of how one lost his/her relationship only because of his/her ego. Ego is devastating. It hurts the people around you.

A pregnant woman expects her husband to spend some valuable time with her, but her husband is always busy with his work, and he could not spend time with her even in the weekends. However, she understands his situation. She messages him in the morning after he reached his office (of course he never replies her), and she calls him at lunch to speak with him, and she expects him to message or call to inform her if he is gonna be late. The husband, but, could not act as expected by his wife. He could not respond her properly when he is at office, because there might be a client problem, delivery problem, or any other problem related to work, and of course the wife understands the situation and asks him nothing. But, instead of at least apologizing for not responding her or speaking about the day with her or asking her how she was doing the whole day, or explaining his situation for not calling her, he does not say anything or even care to explain his wife or comfort her. Is this egoism or laziness? Why didn’t he just understand that his wife has feelings too.

People tend to lose interest to share or to love or even care their (once) loved ones, because they are always near them or they live with them. But, I have always wondered why. The things we used to love in a person become the things we hate in that person after some time goes. We never understand the value of people when they are around us. No one can take back the fact or can “Ctl+Z” when one is hurt due to our actions (both physically and mentally). Once hurt is hurt, as it always remains as a scar in one’s heart.

No one is going to take anything when he or she passes away from this world. This is the common expression that everyone says today. But, according to me, we should be missed by the people we loved the most. That is, we should take with us one's feeling of missing us when we go (of course I don't mean in a negative way). Life is short and why make a hell out of it? According to me, it doesn’t mean that one should have the qualities of Buddha or Gandhi to make that person a good person, but a good person is the one that never hurts others by his/her egoistic attitudes.

Why Wear Makeup

Is it really necessary for women (some men too) to wear make-up? Apart from media people who must be presentable to the audience, I guess others should minimize (avoiding is best) wearing makeup. I recommend those people to not wear makeup often. They can minimize by not wearing makeup during their private hours.

Recent research studies have told us that some components in the makeup such as coal tar, heavy metals (mercury, lead, and cadmium), and other preservatives can cause problems to our health. The first credit for producing the world's killer makeups goes to the Romans. Queen Cleopatra was known for her beauty, especially for her smoky eyes. But do you know that the eye makeup was made from a copper ore? The eye makeup color called udje was made from a copper ore called malachite (green-colored compound). Kohl, which was made from soot, animal fat, and any metal such as lead, antimony, or copper, was used as eyeliner or kajal. However, many of the people of those times were never aware of the fact that a prolonged exposure to these killer cosmetics will lead to eye irritability, insomnia, and eventually mental disease. 

 The improvisation of the modern cosmetics had led to more delirious health effects to people. How many of us know that our lipstick contains lead, or our mascara contains mercury? Ignorance and narcissism have played their role through some modern-day cosmetics.

According to Dr. Joel Schlesinger, a dermatologist in Omaha, Neb, the eye skin is so naїve such that it is so transparent enough to beautifully absorb those harmful materials. Also, the mucous membranes found in our eyes and nostrils also wonderfully take part in the job of creating serious problems.

Many of us do not fully understand the labels such as "contains SPS and SPF" and "nonallergic". When a cosmetic says it is nonallergic, it does not mean that is completely nonallergic. It means that the cosmetic product is less allergic. Instead of applying artificial sunscreen ointments, topical application of Vitamin C along with Vitamin A can do wonders to your skin without causing any damage.

I want those days where we use to apply mehandi instead of nail polish, and instead of cosmetic mascaras and eyeliners, we used kajal made from original castor/sesame oil, and instead of artificial cleansers and face packs, we used multhani matti, cucumber and curd. I wish people should start accepting what they are (in terms of color) rather going for problem-causing whitener, foundations, and creams. One of our assets is our body. I think we should really take care of our body, in terms of good health.

I’m HoTTTT!!!

I guess many of you are aware of extremophiles. However, let me give you a brief description. Extremophiles are super-hot super-small guys that can survive in extreme environmental conditions from hot springs, deep thermal vents, and volcanoes to the frozen waters in the Arctic and Antarctica. These tiny weenie little things can overcome these extreme stressful living conditions and can survive even at high temperatures (thermophiles), high salinity (halophiles), and high pressures (barophiles).

I recently read an article about an extremophile that has been recently added to the list of the newly discovered species Pyrolobus fumarii Strain 121, which is a super-hot thermopile. It seems that this guy loves to live a life in the hell. It is the first ever known living thing that is found to live in the hottest conditions on earth (about 121°C). 

It has been found deep down in a thermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. 

One of the unique features of this organism is that it feeds on iron. Usually, other microbes metabolize food by breaking down the organic matter and transfer electrons to a network of molecules to produce carbon dioxide. Usually, this network of molecules is found in the cell membrane. When electrons flow through these molecules, an electron transport chain (ETC) is thus observed in the cell membrane and inside the cell. But, this guy seems to be a little different from the others. This microbe seems to deliver electrons to the iron molecules that are found outside the cell, that is, the environment surrounding the cell. Usually places such as thermal vents seem be iron- and sulfur-rich. Thus, an ETC occurs outside the cell, rather inside the cell. 

During an ETC, an electron flow is observed, thereby creating electricity. However, the electricity generated inside the cell is not of much use, but we can use these microbes to generate usable electricity from organic matter, since the electron flow is outside the cell.

Also, these microbes can be used to transfer electrons to radioactive waste materials such as uranium. Therefore, when we put these microbes in the water that is radioactive contaminate, they help to drop down the uranium levels in the water, and even in soils of the areas that are radioactive contaminated.

Enna Vaazkada Idu

25 March, 2012, 2:30 pm. I'm sitting at my desktop, trying to finish off my day's target. I'm a language editor in a 10-year-old e-publishing company. I'm working for the US clients. The irony of my job is that I'm an ESL (English as a Foreign Language) person who should correct the language errors in the documents/articles that are written by the native speakers (most of them). However, I love my job. It's always interesting to find and correct one's mistakes. LOLZ. But, believe me. There are lots of comma, semi-colon, subject-verb agreement problems that you have face while language editing an article.
Today, but, I don't have the mood to work. I don't know the exact reason. May be today is Friday, the last working day, or I'm tired due to cold and fever, or I don't have any reason for my mood shut down. Sometimes we don't know why we lose our interest or why our mood goes off. Still, I want to go home, grab an extra large cup of drinking chocolate, and cuddle myself on the bed with my sweet heart at my side. Sounds awesome, doesn't it? But, I know that is not gonna happen now. Strange isn't it. I could not do what I want to or what I think to do, because of the notion  we are not allowed to do what we think of doing.
I recollect the summer times during my school and college days. Either I'll spend my summer vacation with my grandmother, uncle, and cousins at hometown, or my family and I will go for a vacation trip to any cool place. Spending my summer vacation at Darjeeling and Kolkata was the best trip I had. However, life was not the same always at all points of time. Now, I'm working all day at office, and then I should work at home, set dinner at table, and go to sleep. This life cycle is continuing and I know that it continues my whole life time. I always use to think why life has become so hectic and why I could not enjoy my time the way before I used to. Is that because of the commitments I had committed myself into? May be. But, at one point in my lifetime, I start to feel that everything is monotonous, and I feel bored. We are rushing to mend money, not realizing what we are losing today. However, I 'm not saying that everyone should not work every day and should be a merry-making without doing any work. We can take a vacation once in a while. Of course, taking some time off from the regular life would help us rejuvenate ourselves from the stresses, and we can gain some energy to re-enter the cycle of our life. 

Dark chocolate reduces blood pressure

Now-a-days, life has become so hectic such that we end up stressed out at the end of the day. People are prone to a lot of stress due to their nature of job, life-style, pollution, and eating habits. Of course, urbanization has its own stress-inducing role. Prolonged exposure of stress can cause serious health-related problems. One of the major health issues of stress is heart-related disorders, particularly hypertension and plaque formation. High time we should find ourselves some ways to reduce stress. Of course, a healthy diet and exercise are must. Apart from these, I recommend you guys to eat a small bar of dark chocolate, 2–3 times a week. Research has shown that dark chocolate has a potential to reduce your blood pressure (BP), thereby making your arteries flexible and dilated.

Dark chocolate or cocoa contains large amounts of the antioxidants polyphenols. You can find these compounds even in vegetables and fruits like oranges. Also, a subclass of polyphenols called flavnols (also found in tea and red wine) is found in dark chocolate and cocoa. Flavnols have the capacity to flush out free radicals, which are really bad guys that can hurt your blood vessels and heart. The free radicals are unstable molecules that react with the cell membrane, causing the cell to rupture and die (apoptosis). It has also been found that free radicals can stimulate the bad cholesterol (LDL and VLDL) to deposit in the walls of the arteries, leading to clogged arteries. This can finally lead to atherosclerosis, arterial injury. The antioxidants in the dark chocolate are found to stop this process of artery clogging.

A high intake of cocoa in diet could be a reason for reducing blood pressure can be concluded from a study on Kuna Indians of San Bans Islands. The study showed that Kuna Indians do not tend to develop heart disease or high BP even they grow older, because their diet comprises of drinking about 5 to 6 cups of a cocoa-based beverage every day.

A recent research has also shown that flavanols in chocolate tend to promote the nitric oxide production. Nitric oxide is a gas that promotes the relaxation and widening of artery walls, thereby allowing easy flow of blood and decrease in BP.

Longevity and reduction in cardiovascular risk are associated with the maintenance of low BP, and this can be achieved by consuming cocoa- and chocolate-based products. A small bar of dark chocolate everyday can do wonders to your heart. People that have sweet tooth can satisfy their sweet craving by preferring dark chocolate rather than other oil-based and high glucose-based high-calorie sweets.