Answers!!!!

Ok, Its been a long wait and I am able to get only three questions (I expected atleast Five). I cant wait no more. So here are the answers to the three questions. If anybody still want to ask me questions (depending on whether you like my answers or not), go ahead and post a question in the comment. Thanks for your questions, I am feeling better now. :)

1.Mr.Unknown asked...although he was kidding...:
"What is the result of 34343+645453*432432432-9433+

5893483*42232323 = ??"
Answer:
The first thing that came to my mind was my maths sir in school who taught us the BODMAS rule.
Brackets Of Division Multiplication Addition Substraction, the flow to be followed while doing a solution. But then I saw that huge numbers are involved...
7 digit number * 8 digit number will give me 14 or 15 digit number.
We normally use calculators that use 10 digit numbers, beyond that it gives an error.

Then I thought of doing it in C language, but upon learning I got that we use a 32-bit processor, and in C language, even a long int datatype can store a number as large as 2^32 which is equal to 4294967296(10 Digits). (As long int stores from 0(zero), so the maximum number would be 4294967295)
Then I thought, hmm. Let try out in Windows Calculator first...And Voila...
The answer is: 528010288207615 (15 Digits)

The reason being Windows Calculator uses 128-bit floating point precision that allows it work with numbers as long as 32 digits..
Looks like same is the case with Excel Sheet.. :)

2.Swetha Asked..."why do we sometimes feel sad,frustrated or low.. for no reason at all? "
Answer:

(Basically my perception, there can be others answers too for this Question)

Let me put my answer as a flow of events.Humans need attention, humans have relations with people at various levels and all maintained simultaneously, at home, at school/college, at office, friends circle, at a religious centre, in the market and finally with strangers. All these groups of people again contains closed ones, elders, buddies and young. Lets just say, my wife, unusually, gave me coffee(which I dont like) from two days instead of tea (probably just for a change of taste), my mother, unusually, didnot talk to me much since two days (probably her health is not good, but I dont see that at that time), my friend, unusually, went on to have lunch with his friend leaving me behind from two days (probably a closed one to him gave him a visit), my colleague, unusually, didnot ask me any doubt or question from two days (probably he is busy or he didnot have any doubt), myself, unusually, had a fight with a stranger on the road for not driving properly (not sure if it was my mistake). All these 'unusual' events, that took place around same time, will leave me thinking, "Whats going on. No one thinks I exist. And nothing is going my way." I will be left 'unattended' and hence bored, sad and frustated. Nothing has gone wrong with me, everything is normal, yet I feel low.

Hope my answer makes sense.

3.Sanjay asked me...(on Gtalk while chatting and after reading my previous post)..."Do you know what am I going to ask you?"

This is the chat :)

santapse: :) ek question poochu

as ur blog was saying

me: haa puch

santapse: so here goes.....

DO U KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO ASK U?

me: "melody ki choclatey kaise bani?

santapse: :P

Answer:

This is one of the trick questions that any body can ask. As I has said in my previous post that I will try to search and research to find an answer, I did. When he said, "here goes" only thing I understood was he was going to ask me a 'bablaboo' question and so I guessed and asked him whether he was going to ask about melody choclate (Remember the Ad??).
So only thing to note is that, I correctly guessed that he was about to ask me something weird only by a sentence of his, "here goes." He was not face-to-face with me and even if he was I am not a good face reader neither a good observer of body language.

So whats my point??? My point is that people who claim that they can foretell future, i.e., Fortune Tellers, are nothing but good observers. My perception is that, these people are very, very good readers of demeanor of the body. They read body language, face expressions and make a few roundabout general statements that seem to be specific about a person and makes him believe that he is foretelling future. In fact he is just pulling a fast one.

I am not sure if someone can tell the future, but I am sure that most of the 'professional' fortune tellers canNOT tell the future.

I need not research the answer to this question as I know the answer and that is, NO.

I didnt know that he was going to ask me, "Do you know what I am going to ask you?" :P

Please ask me a question.

I am down in confidence, I dont know why.
I feel like I dont have enough knowledge about things in the world and beyond.
I dont know what to study and what not to.
Basically I want to know about things.
What things, all Sort of things.
So Why am I posting this on my blog, Coz I need your help.
How can you help me, hmmm.

Why dont you ask me a question,? Any question.
Any question that can give me knowledge, probably to you and others too...
Any question that comes to your mind right now or any question that has troubled you since ages...
Any question that you want to test my efforts to search for an answer or any question that you are genuinely seeking an answer....
Please excuse questions like the ones on TV show 'The Moment of Truth' (Sach Ka Saamna->Indian Version)
Please excuse questions like "Why did the chicken cross the road, Or Whos first, Hen or an egg?"

Just post the question as a comment to this post.. As soon as I get minimum five questions I will try to search an answer for them and Post it on this site. If I cant find the answer myself I will ask others to answer it.

This way I think I can learn a lot. Main idea behind it is learning..

Really hoping that you people will help me get out of my frustration...

Why do we fast?

Today is the first day of Ramazan (or Ramadan), the ninth month of Islamic Calender.

Just yesterday people at my office asked me, "Why do you fast?"
And before I could reply I got an answer from another colleague, a non-muslim, saying, "Prophet Mohammed(Peace be Upon Him) Ke liye." That is, "For Prophet Mohammed(pbuh)."
Another friend also said something which unfortunately I couldnt understand and he wouldnt repeat again.

This is not the first time that I was asked this question. Another answer which I have heard from a friend is, "When you fast you know what its like feeling hungry and you remember those unfortunate people on earth who are poor and hungry and then you will help them more."

Some say, "Fasting is a way of worship, in almost all religions, this way you come closer to God."

In a way all these reasons or explanations look fine, but either these reasons are empty or incomplete.

Fasting, as defined in Islam, is to 'completely' abstain from food, drinks, intimate intercourses and smoking, from the break of the dawn till the sunset for the entire month of Ramadan, which basically is of 29 or 30 days.

I said, "The primary and the only reason a muslim observes fasting is to increase the fear and/or the love of God in him."

The ordain of Fasting in Ramadan comes in the Holy Quran:
" O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, so that you may develop Taqwa. (self restraint) [2:183]"
When the companions of the Prophet(May Allah be pleased with them) asked what is Taqwa to Prophet Muhammad(pbuh), the Prophet (pbuh) replied "Taqwa ha huna", "Taqwa ha huna", "Taqwa ha huna" (Taqwa is here) pointing to heart (3 times).

So a muslim only fasts to attain the Taqwa, which is nothing but God Consiousness.
All other benefits comes attached to it but they are not the reason why a muslim fasts.

Some ask, "How come staying hungry in the day increases fear of God in you?"

Simply staying hungry doesn't.

Abu Huraira(May Allah be pleased with him) related that Rasulullah(pbuh) said: Many people who fast get nothing from their fast except hunger and thirst, and many people who pray at night get nothing from it except wakefulness (Darimi).

Meaning apart from abstaining from food and desires, we should abstain from backbiting, gossiping, usage of harsh words, vulgarity and all such things that nullifies fasting.
And we should follow the prayers in time and the special night prayer of Ramazan, called as Taraweeh, is also mandatory. Basically the heart and mind should be filled with humility.
Only then the true values of fasting can be attained.

I need not list the worldly advantages of fasting and control. It is known to all.

Hope this article was useful.
One suggestion at the end:
Just yesterday my friend was saying, "People who have a little knowledge never think or never take interest in things."
And I agree with him.
That is the reason why people who gave answers above never increase their knowledge database as they think they know the complete answer but in fact they don't.
So never be complacent with what you know, as there is a ocean to be known about.

Seven Years in Tibet-Synopsis

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber, heads out from his home land, leaving an 'expecting' wife, to hoist the national flag on the peak of Nanga Parbat and thanks to Adolf Hitler returns only after 12 years, that too without conquering the feat. But he brings back home something more valuable and cherishable.

When I started this movie first thing I did was scold my friend to bring such a boring and slow movie but then I realised this was brought by me from somewhere I dont remember. Then I started scolding the 'unknown' source. But I continued only to watch Danny Denzongpa, an Indian Actor, to work along with Brad Pitt. As the movie continued I was feeling what Harrer would have felt. Until half of the movie I didnot know that this was a true story.

He was captured before he could climb the whole of the Nanga Parbat as the Second World War had started and the then British Government of India took the climbers as prisoners of war for steping into their soil. He had spent two years in a Dehradun jail where he received divorce notice from his wife through post. The scene where he jumps on barbed wire to break it and burst out his sadness is one of the great scenes in the movie. With the help of a fellow climber, Peter Aufschnaiter, who later on becomes his good friend, he escapes the prison. Both of them land into Tibet and enters the mysterious city of Lhasa where still a child, the 14th Dalai Lama was given the knowledge of religion. Dalai Lama used to watch the people through a telescope and this is where he sees the only two foreigners ever to put foot in the forbidden city. He liked the 'yellow' hair of Harrer observed him everyday. Meanwhile Harrer and Peter meet the only cloth designer and tailor in the city and both fall in love with her. But Pema falls for Peter and Harrer is alone again. So he writes to his son. And then the War ends and all seems to be going good for Harrer as he prepares to travel back home. But one night he recieves a letter saying, "You are not my father, so stop writing letters to me." Everything ends again. The next morning he receives another letter from a kid, the Dalai Lama, showing his interests to meet Harrer.

Harrer meets the Dalai Lama and becomes his tutor, teaching him almost anything. And his seven years of stay in tibet finds him a very good friend in the Dalai Lama. He returns back to Austria to meet his son, just before the Communist Chinese capture of tibet and the Dalai Lama becoming the leader of the government-in-exile of Tibet. Tibet still remains under China and the Dalai Lama lives in India still fighting for the liberation of Tibet.

Harrer went on to conquer many mountains after that along with his son and died in 2006 at the age of 93.

This is a movie made in great detail and brings out very strong human emotions to life.

You hate when the chinese commander makes the statement, "Religion is poison."
You get inspired when the Dalai Lama preaches, "If some problem can be solved, its unnecessary to worry about it and if some problem cannot be solved then it is useless to worry about it."

Later on I went to Wiki pages to study about Tibet and its history and got to know about the Dalai Lamas (Gurus) and that every Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessor. Although I dont believe in reincarnation, yet it is fascinating to study about it.

It is unfortunate that this world makes the most peace loving people, who cares so as not to hurt even an earthworm, enter into war and struggle.

With a hope that Tibet will be liberated soon.