Anima Christi

Holy Communion

For the many years that I have gone to church and received communion, I have always wondered what is the protocol to be followed in terms of prayers to be said after such a holy act. Strangely enough, I wasn't even quite sure if there was any.  I guess I missed the Sunday class when they taught us this prayer. 

Today, out of sheer curiosity, I finally decided to Google this and I came across "Anima Christi". Suddenly, it rang a bell somewhere deep in my subconscious. Up untill now, I have always maintained a conversation with God after receiving Holy Communion. I guess I should have googled this earlier instead of waiting for so long for an answer!

This beautiful prayer, often said after receiving Communion, dates from the early 14th century. St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was particularly fond of this prayer. The translation given below is by John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of the great converts to Roman Catholicism in the 19th century.

The prayer takes its name from its first two words in Latin. Anima Christi means "the soul of Christ."

Soul of Christ, be my sanctification;
Body of Christ, be my salvation;
Blood of Christ, fill all my veins;
Water of Christ's side, wash out my stains;
Passion of Christ, my comfort be;
O good Jesus, listen to me;
In Thy wounds I fain would hide;
Never to be parted from Thy side;
Guard me, should the foe assail me;
Call me when my life shall fail me;
Bid me come to Thee above,
With Thy saints to sing Thy love,
World without end.

Amen

More Power to You my ASS!! Vodafone India SUCKS!!

Today, it is exactly 7 months since I originally filed a complaint with Vodafone (I had to do this atleast 3 times before they actually contemplated that they had to do something about it!)

The problem I have is very simple and one that Vodafone acknowledges as well. The area that I stay in simply does'nt have good cell phone reception. Infact, I cannot receive any calls at home and due to this, I am forced to keep going down to the parking lot of my building premises simply to make and receive important calls. All this has just ensured that I have increased my outgoing calls thereby hiking up my bill charges. I have even tried to threaten them with non-payments of bills so they take my complaint seriously (in reality, after I delayed payment on one of my bills in a particular month, is when Vodafone really took notice of my plight and decided to pay attention. Till then, they were just faffing around!)

For the most part, I have been following up with Vodafone religiously regarding putting up a Cell Site in the nearest vicinity possible. Infact, forget a costly solution like a cell tower, I have even given them an option of putting in a Cell Fone Booster at my residence as a temporary solution (one they can take back once a Tower is put up!). This too has been turned down by Vodafone with an excuse that they do not have devices that can match frequencies of their broadcast towers anymore as they are dynamic in nature.

That's just rubbish! The towers operate on either 900 or 1800 Mhz. It does'nt take a rocket scientist to figure that one out or find a device that will help amplify that. Also, if finding compatible devices was such a problem, then how is it that big corporates or malls or even parking lots of these malls are able to have these so called Boosters that work like a charm with Operator frequencies?

So far, I have gone through 2 site surveys (with a recent suggestion of a third) to deduce a problem that Vodafone (by their own admittance!) knows is a problem in terms of reception. I have had 1 person come over to scout for a possible Cell Tower location in my colony (Nilgiri Gardens, CBD, Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra) and I have been regularly following up with another person for progress of the Cell Tower installation that doesnt even belong to me! Vodafone only started to take steps to appease me after my third stinker of a visit to their Showroom in Nerul, Navi Mumbai, which was roughly in the 3rd month after my first complaint.

Now I have been extremely patient with Vodafone, but as a heart patient and a lone crusader in what seems to be a lost cause, I really would like for Vodafone to man up and give me an instant solution of a Booster till such time they figure out a Cell Site Location. I am sick and tired of going through Vodafone Red Tape in what seems to be a problem that Vodafone should have rectified themselves without any customer intervention. My sources in Vodafone clearly tell me that I am not important enough for them to put up a Booster at my place (market costs for this are roughly 18-25 thousand rupees as opposed to a cell tower installation which costs atleast about 1.5 Crores and atleast 2-3 months to set up due to pure levels of red tape!)

Now I know what most of you are thinking. Why am I whining so much when I can just go ahead and possbily get another number with a provider who has network in my area. I simply cannot. The number in question is really old and having both personal and business contacts shift to that would be a pain. Also, why should I? Vodafone keeps on suggesting that the network would follow me wherever I go through their advertisements. So it's simply time for them to live up to their promise instead of misleading people.

I for one will see this to the very end, even if I have to take legal recourse for this. Vodafone cannot simply take it's customers for granted anymore.

Show your support and join the support group on Facebook (Anti-Vodafone Support Group on Facebook) to let Vodafone Essar Limited that we customers cannot be taken for a ride

Godrej wants you to GoJiyo

Godrej has finally lost it!

Here's a rather feeble attempt by Godrej to try and desperately connect with the youth by trying to build their own Social Networking platform which seems to be based on Secondlife. At a time where brands are trying to figure their way around in the current maze that is Social Networking, Godrej believes in jumping the que altogether and creating a destination that will hopefully help Godrej touch base with the consumers of tomorrow.

Currently, its open up for pre-registration. I'm pretty curious to see how they plan to get people to sign up with them. Surprisingly, for a destination that's online, I am yet to see any online communication heralding it's launch... Surely they're going to have to do better than the current STUPID television teaser ads...

Only time will tell how serious Godrej is about this. For all you curious people, here's the URL:
http://www.gojiyo.com/

It already claims to have 17k + users on board and is due to launch in the next 7 days.

Memories

What makes me remember,
those wonderful moments not so long ago,

All those years gone by, without you,
You'd think I would have gotten' used to just remembering...
All that remains, are these little memories.

It's feels empty to know that you were once here
That my life was once complete,
That I once had hope to share,
That I once had someone to share it with.

Sometimes I sit up and try to remember, all that was,
All that felt right, all the laughs,
And then I grow sad, as it dawns on me,
You are but a memory, fast fading away.

I keep trying so hard to remember, but sometimes I cannot,
I'm overwhelmed with the feeling that you aren't there,
That there is no more conversation to be had, no more fights,
Nobody else to tell me what to do...

I try and talk to you every now and then; without no reply,
Just a hope, that someplace, somewhere, your listening.
I have so much to say, so much to prove,
But for now, all that I must be content with, are memories..

Dedicated to my Father...

World's Best Firewall

Came across this Gem on a Techie Forum...

One human cell contains 75MB genetic information.
One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB.
One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms.
An average ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen.

This means that the through-put of a man's member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1,687,500,000,000,000 byte/second 16875 Тerabyte/sec
This means that the female egg cell withstands this DDoS attack at 1,6875 terabyte per second, and only lets through one(!) data package, thereby
being the best frigging hardware firewall in the world!

The downside of it is that once in a way this one small data package gets through
and hangs the system for the whole of 9 months!

he he he :)

Somebody To Love - Queen

A great song that says it all:

Can Anybody find me somebody to love?
Each morning I get up, I die a little
Can't barely stand on my feet
(Take a look at yourself) I take a look in the mirror (In the mirror) and cry (And cry)
Lord what you're doing to me? (Yeah, yeah)
I have spent all my years in believing you (Ooh, believing you)
But I just can't get no relief, lord
Somebody, (Somebody), oh somebody (Somebody)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

I work (He works hard) every day of my life
I work 'till I ache my bones
At the end (At the end of the day) I take home (Goes home) my hard earned pay all on my own
(Goes home on his own)
I get down (Down) on my knees (Knees) and I start to pray (Praise the lord)
'Till the tears run down from my eyes, lord (Ooh, lord)
Somebody (Somebody), ooh somebody (Please)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

(He works hard) Everyday (Everyday)
And I try and I try and I try
But everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm goin' crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
I got no common sense
I got nobody left to believe (He's got nobody left to believe)

(Ooh lord)
Oh Somebody, ooh (Somebody)
Anybody find me somebody to love?
(Anybody find me someone to love? )
Got no feel, I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat (You just keep losing and losing)
I'm ok, I'm alright (He's alright, he's alright)
I ain't gonna face no defeat (Yeah, yeah)
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
Someday I'm gonna be free, lord (One day I'm gonna be free, lord)

Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love (Find me, find me, find me)
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love (Somebody, somebody, somebody)
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody find me, somebody find me somebody to love
Can anybody find me somebody to love? Somebody to love?
(Find me somebody to love)
Ooh
(Find me somebody to love)
Find me somebody, somebody (find me somebody to love) somebody, somebody to love
(Find me somebody to love)
Find me, find me, find me, find me, find me
Ooh- somebody to love
(Find me somebody to love)
Ooh
(Find me somebody to love)
Find me, find me, find me somebody to love
(Find me somebody to love)
Anybody, anywhere, anybody find me somebody to love love love!
Find me, find me, find me love.






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Happy Valentines Everyone! :)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

Finally, something that makes sense! :) Thank you Mr. Deeds!

It's been almost 4 years since I created this Blog (February 2006), and contrary to my needs for doing this, I have never quite managed to post even a single entry here. Don't get me wrong, I have gotten quite close to doing this soooo many times, but somehow, something's always stopped me from doing that.

This year, I told myself that amongst other things, I will finally start making this blog function like... erm... well... a blog! So here goes, to kickstart my incessant need to ramble about all things strange and wondrous, I'm going to quote a little poem from the movie "Mr. Deeds" :

"Hard to breathe, feels like floating,
So full of love, my heart's exploding!

Mouth is dry, hands are shaking,
My heart is yours for the taking...

Acting weird, not myself,
Dancing around like the Keebler elf!

Finally time for this poor schlub
To know how it feels to fall in lub"

Hmmm... I wonder if Hallmark would take some of my poems...