Swarnhastkala

paper paper every where …all of it to waste!!!

Swarnhastkala — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:56:00 +0000

Hmmm… we all know its happening. The whole “Global warming” thing….i mean except for some characters from maybe south park, who say that there’s no valid proof. Well if you live in India, you would definitely know… every year rainfall in areas where it is less it becomes lesser…sea level rises….more kilometers of the coastline gets flooded every year….summers get hotter n winters get colder.
No one takes action….we still use poly bags at the same rate or even more….still use primitive vehicles having bad fuel efficiency n use fossil fuels….etc etc….n then there are thing that cant really be helped. Like using Ac’s n Refrigerators…which cant just stop using…something will happen very soon n we all know it.
Yet we do find someone trying to do the needful. Yes not someone actually but a company rather.
Airtel the telephony company in Inda has recently taken measures to reduce the amount of paper consumed due to the billing for the customers. The company has straightforwardly asked its customers to stop demanding –

Low value bills(bills that can be carry forwarded to the next month)
Not to encourage paper bill(opt for e-bills)
Not to request for itemized bills(Detailed bills which require lot of paper.)

Backing this they state that–
Each ton of paper can save

17 trees to produce more oxygen
1438 litres of fuel to run industries
3 cubic yard of landfill space(can be used for housing of the homeless)
4100 kilowatts of electricity(to light a blub in the villages)
Over 26497 gallons of fresh water(to provide for drinking or irrigation)

they also say that one tree is used to produce only 3000 sheets of paper.
Yet there are a few people who believe that it falls really expensive for the company to print so many bills n hence it has taken such an action….i dunno i feel how does it matter as long as it helps.

And then there are global companies like “Reader’s Digest” oh my god these guy must be the gods of global warming by the amount of paper they waste on their totally bogus and as i must say fraud promotions, advertisements, competitions. They send you a mail not less then twice a month and every time it weighs atleast 400 gms!!! Full of glossy ads about their totally useless new books…n then they have other coupons that are supposed to get u huge discounts on it…but that too only if u participate some money related competition whose result never ever comes out so u keep replying to them n order even more products….i swear those guys should be ashamed of the amount of paper they waste….even after being such a big, old, famous, rich, universal organization.

Black future = Bright future!!

Swarnhastkala — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:33:00 +0000

Ever wondered whether we could save electricity only by selecting carefully the color scheme of a web page?? Think for a minute and you already know how.
Let me explain. It is a fact that an average CRT monitor uses atleast 1/3rd more electricity while displaying a white page than a black one…simply because more number of pixels need to be illuminated. Try n hook up a volt meter and check if you don’t believe me. Now considering most major websites like google, microsoft etc all have white based pages.

Goolge recieves over 200 million hits a day. Each hit being 10 seconds long(least i could assume).

Thats 200 X 10 = 2 billion seconds!! 2 billion divided by 3600 = 5555.5 hours. average rate of electricity = Rs 3.5 per watt hour….therefore
3.5X 5555.5= RS19444.4…..which would be approx Rs 12963 if the page was black.

But isn’t that for one CRT for 5555.5 hours…for one hour it would be Rs. 3.49 only(white page).

And how many CRT’s are we talking about?????….consider 50 million ppl in india using comouters…80% having CRT’s that is 6250000 in india alone!!!

6250000 X 3.49 = Rs 218125000 per hour which could have been Rs 7270833 less.
I geuss thats a huge price for just a lil change in color.
Well then im doing my part in saving electricity. Makes me feel a lil better bout my self.
bye bye.

still a kid online!!

Swarnhastkala — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:13:00 +0000

i guess i have to post more mature n relevant stuff in the future!! :p
trust me i think very much more maturely in my day to day life.
just that when it comes to writing i pick up lame topics.

15 can save you a 1000

Swarnhastkala — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:58:00 +0000

Yesterday….
I did not sleep in the afternoon as i had missed two classes earlier because of it!
So i stayed awake till 5 pm n then picked up my book put on my shoes… got on my scooty n left for my class. The place is very close to my place but i prefer not to walk. Just across the small two wheeler bridge “used” to be a police checking barrier… but now for a month or so it wasn’t there
so i had my license, registration, insurance… but not my pollution under control receipt….n this time the cops were there … so i thought i’ll take a chance n went on hoping they wouldn’t ask for it. I had hoped for a bit too much i guess. They cut a ticket for me. I had requested the officer to try n find an alternative(read bribe)…well maybe because it was independence day or maybe some stupid reason he refused my offers!!… so i reached my class a lil late n my friends tell me that i’ll have to pay Rs.1000 got get my license back(had never ever dreamed it would be that much).
Then i went home. I knew i had to pay from my own pocket money but i still tried my luck by asking my parents for some financial help. Then i thought i’ll get the pollution check up done n get the receipt. The gey at the booth took Rs 15 n gave my a receipt. Yes he did not even checkmy vehicle!!
it was a sad day.

I think i’l smoke…………………….NOT!!!!

Swarnhastkala — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:52:00 +0000

Smoke n you’ll die!!……………………………If not, you’ll surely be a lil poorer!!
Yes smoking kills. We all know it. Its all over the place on the cigarette packs, on billboards, on tv, in the paper…But the people who smoke already know that. They smoke because they want to. When a young smoker see the warning on a pack, he tells his friends “hey did you know…smoking kills” n they say “ha ha hah ah…ya man its dangerous ooooohh” and it becomes a nice little joke. Those who don’t want to smoke please DON’T. No ones telling you to. Heck smokers don’t want you to linger around when they smoke n then make faces at them as tough you were choking to death. Go a way.

So what do we do about it??
We don’t do anything, the government does. The government puts a ban on smoking in all public areas including pubs, clubs, cinemas, restaurants….any place you can think of except for your home n probably your car. But the ban is not nation wide oh no afcourse not…go to any other city of the same magnitude and people smoke like there’s nothing better to do.

Its only here because its chandigarh the capital of Punjab where smoking is a serious offence according to the Sikh religion …and even otherwise it is frowned upon by all.
So does it help?….MAYBE. I’ve started seeing more n more people smoking in their cars.
Mocha’s(the place where u get hookahs/sheehsa) guys also have to follow the ban. Though hookahs are allowed….but when there’s less rush they let you smoke cigs in the open area at the back(probably only if you know the guys well.). My friends smoke in small corners, alleys, parks, gardens, near bushes, toilets etc etc.

So what does the government achieve(coz no one else does)?? Revenue! Yes the government does not put a ban on the sale of cigarettes. No that would affect the state economy. Cigarette vendors are to b found at every damn corner. So now what you do is, you buy a cig and smoke it in some corner or any where because you will, that’s what you do, that’s why you bought the damn thing….and then a cop comes n charges you a fine for Rs. 200 /- !!! More money for the government. Yippie!! So go ahead n smoke that cig, make your government richer, you don’t need to live for ever do you?? For the record – I don’t smoke!

Hair-ttitude

Swarnhastkala — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:28:00 +0000

How many guys in India do you see having long hair?? – Quite a few. How many guys in chandigarh do you see with long hair?? – not so many. The ones that you do see have a typical straight hair, clean shaven, fair complexion look also known as wannabe John Abrahims. I don’t have straight hair and I don’t want them to be straight. I don’t want to be called “aye john abrahim” or “ aye hero!!”. I like my hair the way they are. I had tried to grow them earlier when I was in a hostel but they didn’t come out right(lack of care)… then when I came home I had to cut them short because my parents didn’t agree. Now slowly I have grown them again and surprisingly they are ok (atleast texture wise) and my parents don’t bother anymore! So why do these people have so many problems with my hair? Its not like they’re gonna marry my hair…I mean everyday when I go to college and meet the same people they just have to tell me “get your hair straightened”, “why don’t you get them cut”…At first I thought I would just ignore them, but it seems it does not work on these guys(ya its guys I talking about, the girls don’t mind)

People I will get something done to my hair please stop giving a shit about my hair and live with it. I mean when I was in Pune or Mumbai with the same hair no one ever even thinks about my hair. Heck some of them say they are nice!! Why here when will people change around here. Personally I don’t think they’ll ever change. Nothing around here will ever change. They’ve got clubs now but all they do is drink n fight n tease girls… they’ve got money so they have thety’re big cars with even bigger woofers n drive around the same place over n over again thinking they’ll get some chicks..bah… I might get them a trim might get some thing done..but all in all my hair are mine n they’ll remain the same.