Sky

Ever seen Moon ?? No no I am not writing like a poet or some lover looking at moon and remembering his gal. 2 months back I had a flight at night I happen to see moon from flight and I was awestruck !!! Its amazing !! Looks so different from what we see from earth. Luckily It was a full moon night. It was looking so big and of jet-Orange color. Wow !! Do give it a try.

I am just wondering if moon can look so beautiful, how would nebulae and galaxies would look if you are in outer space !! I envy all those astronomers.

Harry Potter Craze

Just few facts first.

July 16th will be the official release date for Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince (HP6). This was announced about 9 months in advance. People stood in queue at midnight of 15th to buy the book.
Amazon.com had to dedicate an entire separate section for HP6 online booking and on time delivery.
JK Rowling has become richer than the queen of England by writing these series.

Whenever any book is published there are reviews in some side column of page 9 in newspapers. But HP6 release got the front page in almost all the papers of the world.
I don’t want to add another anecdote praising Rowling which just goes in those umpteen HP-fan-club sites. (Though it is very difficult to stop this instinct). But I surely will write that she has created such a feels-like-real magical world that sometimes I feel bad being a Muggle.

Rowling has written it so perfectly that even though there is magic involved but everything is so well placed and well explained with absolutely no loop holes that you tend to believe it to be real. And by the amount of theories and thesis people have developed on HP, I am sure that about 300 hundred years later (if Human race survives), people will believe that HP was a real boy and all this actually happened. Hey, don’t give me that look !! So many people believe that the story of Ramayana actually happened. So why can’t our future generation believe HP to be real. There is Ram, Sita and Laxman in this also (Harry, Hermione and Ron) who are fighting the evil Ravan (Lord Voldemort who infact is also immortal and with a secret as Ravan had). There is an expected-double-agent Snape here as we had a back stabber Vibhishan in the previous legend. There is a breed called Gaints (same as those of Rakshas). And above all there was magic used in Ramayana and here HP himself is a great sorcerer.

I am sure there will be a day where people will go out to find the exact location of Hogwards.

Finally I have it :)

It all started almost 2 years back, my boss called me and asked me to get it as I’ll be needing it in my next assignment in Germany, I knew this will happen some day and I’ll have to get it but dint see it coming so soon…. After 1 hour of serious thinking I decided to go for it. So I called those guys, they agreed and said my training starts the very next day, just after lunch time. Time flashed and here I was, standing there just to start it… I was nervous, getting goose bumps but then I thought everyone does it so why can’t I ? So I started with my training, it went for 10 days, then came the test day, I was confident, after all this practice they can’t fail me !!!
The officer came and asked me to perform. I started but boooom, It dint move a single step, I was sweating, could see a devilish smile in the officer’s eyes… NO !! This cannot be happening !!! I immediately realized I have flunked. All hopes (high hopes) down the drain, everyone laughing at me, How can someone flunk this test ? Got so depressed that dint even think of trying again for more than one year.
Then I gathered some courage and thought now its high time I NEED to have it, I called those guys again and went to their office, after a small revision I was asked to re-appear for the test. This time I knew I’ll get it. I HAD to get !!. They called me at some place I thought I knew but I went to the wrong place and my absent was marked as a failure in their records.
But this dint discouraged me … “Come on !! even spiders don’t give up” said one of my friends, so after preparing myself and practicing for about 4 months I shamelessly went to their office again and I could read “Oh she is the one who have failed twice” in their eyes. But by now I was in “don’t care” mode and I knew it if I don’t get it this time, I’ll never try again. The officer smiled and asked me to reverse park the car and bingo !!! I did it perfectly :). My Driving License, its just kept in front of me and I am staring with a big smile from it.