72 Days and counting?

It’s been 72 days since i last made an update to my blog. I realized that it was high time to stop the count. I guess, the last few (unapproved) comments, made me change my mind and come back to my blog to start blogging all over again. Last few comments being questions like “Are you alive?” “Is it a shutdown?” “Are you selling this site?“….etc etc. To answer a few, Yes i am alive and kickin. In fact i have never been in a better health since last three or four years. So thanks for asking! And God no! I am not selling this site! Who in the world can buy a personal blog? Where the hell do you come up with such questions anyways? LOL

A lot happened in my life since i last made a post. Some of which i should mention, probably in the up coming updates on this website. By the way, i turned 27 this July 11th. I did celebrate my birthday in style. Had lunch with my love of my life, Simran. Followed by dinner with my family. And the following next day had dinner party with my friends. So yes, it was a great birthday this year.

I have watched lot of movies as well. If you are a movie maniac kid just the way i am, you’ll be amazed to read the list of movies that i have watched this summer. I really cannot name all of the movies that i have seen but i think total should come close to 35 movies in all, in last 70 days. That makes it a movie in two days. Not bad, haan! Okay, so just to name a few (specially the ones i super-liked) movies that i watched this summer : Angels n Demons, City of God, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fast & Furious 4, Kambakht Ishq (Hindi), Madagascar – Escape To Africa, Night At The Museum – Battle of the Smithsonian, New York (Hindi), Notorious, Paying Guest (Hindi), Pink Panther 2, Quantum of Solace, Terminator Salvation, The Reader and many many more. I guess the best of these all were “City of God“, a 2002 movie which i guess is a must watch movie for everyone. I think it’s a little on the 18+ mature audience side as the movie has lot of bloodshed and shocking violence. Another movie is the John Abraham starrer “New York“. I think it was great movie and it perfectly shows how Muslims were treated back in USA, after the 9/11 incident.  The brutality and torture to Muslim communities in America surely brought tears to eyes and of course John Araham did a fine job in the movie. Another must watch movie!

Moving on from entertainment to my health stuff. Well, i have been a little health conscious this time around. I am exercising enough to get back into shape. Hopefully the results will be seen very very soon, i hope. I do wish to shed some 10 kilos by two months! God willingly, it should be an easy task!

As for my spondylitis problem, i guess it’s here to stay. It’ll stay as long as i do not lose some weight and get my body weight in to right proprtions. After that i guess only time will tell if i can really get rid of spondylitis. Even now, as i am writing this post, i really feel heat in my neck and pain in the spine.

I have lot more to say, i even bought some new gadgets in last few days. I’ll blog about them pretty soon! Till then, i’ll have to say goodbye and take care!

Right back in February 1976, a 19 yrs old, Army recruit Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass. complained to his drill sergeant that he felt very tired and weak but not sick. 24 hrs later, he was dead, killed by what health officials disclosed as “Swine Flu”. Such deadly influenza was last seen in the “Great Plague” of 1918-19 which took almost 20 million lives worldwide. With that disaster in mind, everybody started considering “Swine Flu” as a big scare and epidemic. Apparently, no one could trace where the virus came from back then. Except for Pvt David Lewis, there were no other casualties however his few colleagues did catch the flu, still they remained unharmed. The virus and the story ended with that. Now guess what? “Swine Flu” is back again and it’s bigger and better, so to speak.

So what exactly is “Swine Flu”?

Symptoms Of Swine Flu (Wikipedia)

Basically, when pigs get influenza or flu, it is said to be a “Swine Flu”. According to a reliable resource, Swine Flu viruses often does not infect people. The few rare human cases that have occurred in the past have mainly affected people who had direct contact with pigs. So it was not as dangerous as it looked like. Perhaps not. But this swine flu virus has behaved differently. It’s actually spreading from person to person irrelevant of whether the person infected was in contact with pigs or not. Apparently it all started in Mexico and then moved onto United States, Canada, United Kingdom and even Australia. There have been some suspected cases reported in South America and one confirmed case in Moskva, Russia. If you are wondering how it is spreading, well you can pick up germs directly from the infected person. Sneeze, cough or even by touching an object they recently touched. It becomes airborne when the infected person send the germs into air, when coughed or sneezed without the mouth being covered.

“Swine Flu” has caused many deaths in Mexico which apparently has been worst effected. Both in UK and USA, there have been various reported and confirmed cases of Swine Flu, however big majority of people survived the flu in those countries. Researhers have no clue why effected Mexican were not able to survive this flu while most effected Americans did. Of course the research has been going on and some reason or other will come up soon.

I really believe you should know the symptoms of “Swine Flu” and keep up to date with the latest on this deadly virus. Apparently the symptoms are almost similar to other regular flu symptoms. It includes fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue. It is also reported that Diarrhea and vomiting are associated with “Swine Flu”. Now what worries everyone is that such symptoms are common for every kind of flu. And neither you, nor your doctor can easily tell you whether you have Swine Flu or not. The doctor has to send a sample for lab test in order to ascertain the disease.

It’s always better to take precaution rather than find a cure. The advised precaution are to wash your hand with soap on a regular basis, specially after sneezing or coughing. You may want to use some alcohol based hand cleaner for that matter. You should also avoid getting too close to sick people and of course avoid touching your mouth, nose or eyes at least when you are not at home. As for the treatment, may people who were infected by this virus, recovered fully without any medicines or treatment. However it is suggested that antiviral drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza should be taken within 48 hours when the symptoms develop. These medicines treat or prevent swine flu. However there is no vaccination for “Swine Flu” as on yet. Since it is a totally new form of virus, therefore the vaccinations should be out within few months. And in case you have been vaccinated already with this season’s flu vaccine and you think you won’t get this swine virus, well, think again! The vaccines does not have any fighting power against these new viruses.

One more thing. You cannot get infected with “Swine Flu” if you eat Pork, Bacon or any pig product. However i would say, what’s the rush? Why take chances anyways?..

Alright, so that is all things important that i knew about “Swine Flu”. If you are wondering why have i written such an article then here is the reason. My father is a Doctor and it is important for him, professionally, to keep up to date with all such diseases specially with flu and viruses outbreak. So, today, early morning, i researched lot of reputable websites in order to find information on this influenza. When i was done with it, i felt the need of spreading to message to everyone. If even few of you read this article on “Swine Flu”, I’ll believe my hard work on this research has been paid off. Just don’t forget to spread the message to as many people as possible. Tweet it, Digg it or mail it or just word of mouth. I will be happy with anything!

Please Note: It is also important to mention that my research has been from reputable websites like Wikipedia.com, WebMD.com and Google.com. So i think the article is pretty accurate as far as symptoms, stats and treatment is concerned. However you might want to double check it again! Thanks

Google Maps is being updated regularly with people who are suspects or have been confirmed for “Swine Flu”. It also marks the areas where cases have resulted into deaths. The legends used for your convenience are : Yellow for those who tested negative, Pink for suspects, Purple for confirmed cases and markers with no dots in between are death cases.

I am sorry for such a stupid title to this thread. But since it’s first post in the year 2009, i couldn’t work up my mind to get a better title.

It’s 10 days since i last posted. So i feel sorry for my blog and myself. As Amit Bhawani says, i am creative and talented but wasting my talent. I totally agree with him. So i think, i would be posting more on this blog and other blogs of mine once i am totally fit and good enough to take daily toll of blogging on my health.

I recently talked by my ill health in probably last two blog posts. Fact is that i haven’t still fully recovered. I am still ill. But i don’t want my blog to turn into some kind of health blog, so, i am going to stop elaborating on my health issue and move onto other important things!

In entertainment, i have recently watched few movies this year. I guess that would make one movie a day. To name a few i watched Juno, Jumper, Ghajini, Mementos, Rab ne Bana di Jodi, Cloverfield, Hitman and 21. Juno was a great movie about a 16 year old girl getting pregnant and actually going ahead and giving birth to the baby. Jumper is an okay super-hero kinda movie. Ghajini is a bollywood movie starring the perfect Aamir Khan while Mementos is the actual english version of Ghajini’s story. Both are good movies. Rab ne Bana di jodi is another good movie. Cloverfield is a very realistic movie. Nice story, nice concept. Takes time to get interest in it but once you have it, the movie beomes enjoyanble. As for Hitman, well i already watched it befor but it was nice to watch it all over again. Lastly, the movie named 21, as the name would suggest all gamblers is a blackjack based movie. It’s all about card counting and beating the dealer.

Coming onto my online business. Since this post i have started posting on my blog. I have been more active on my other blog named 1 Main Street. That blog is turning out to be the first Affiliate marketing blog i ever made. I hope i can learn rapidly and make it a sucessful blog. Onto directories, well my two directories are doing alright, those being Ally Web Directory and Strongest Directory. I have one directory of directories called Top Directory List and apparently it looks like it gained PR in this recent google pagerank update. That leaves one free directory at XHII.com. The directory was receiving lot many submission recently and i had to temporarily disable all kind of submissions. I have nearly 22000 listings to review in there. It’s a tough job maintaining a good free directory that actually follows tough submission rules that i have on the that directory. Honestly, not many free directories follow it’s own submission rules and majority approve all the listings they get. So XHII is an exception but it looks like Google is unwilling to give PR back to XHII. Although i do have good rankings for keyword “free web directory”. Last i checked i was on 9th rank in Google but hufff… the fluctuation in results never let me stay i same position.

Google

As for Google, i see them getting a new logo. Which is actually better than before. I am posting the new favicon but it’s not best of quality by any means. However congratulation to Google team for finally getting a better favicon.

Anyways, moving onto some other niche. Well, let’s say friends. Nothing much happening. It’s cold. I go out at 8 in evening and come back at 10. That’s what i have been doing recently. I played snooker thrice in the first 10 days already and i guess i will be heading today again after i complete this post. It’s weekend and i like to play snooker. Yesterday i went for a party as my very close friend Amit Aggarwal celebrated his birthday. Today, i am again going to some party of my other close friend, Sumit Bahl, who will be celebrating his birthday today So that makes two borthdays in two days!

Happy Birthday To Amit Aggarwal!

Happy Birthday to Sumit Bahl!

I have to really rush now as Sumit Bahl, the birthday boy is waiting for me at Snooker bar already. And before he becomes fast and furious, i think i should be there. Besides, i think will be losing to him today in Snooker. I think it will be fair if i let him win today on his birthday.

Okay, will come back and blog more later but sooner! Goodbye

P.S. i was lying about me winning in Snooker. Usually i lose to him very often!

“Are you dead or just bored of blogging? – Aaron”

Thanks to Aaron’s e-mail here, i realised that i haven’t been missing from blogging world for quite a while. Well Aaron and everybody who is concerned, i am still alive and still blogging. However, i do agree that it has been long since i posted on this blog! So here i am…posting about not so important things at the moment!

Life has been hell this December. I have been sleeping 14 hours a day. I had cold, cough, fever, lower back pain, chest pain, chills and body aches. On 17th of December i coughed up blood. And that really made me worried. However after check up it turned to be an injury in throat due to aggressive coughing. Boy! was i relieved. Anyways, the medicines and cough syrups still keeps me dizzy and in bed for half of the day. But good news is that i have been recovering well and recovering fast. Last night, i even want partying out. So that tells you my health condition! Well, enough about my health.

Thing about a webmaster life is that even when we are ill as hell, we still can’t stop working. While taking bed rest, etc, i used my Sony Vaio notebook for blogging purpose. All this time that i was ill, i actually didn’t stop blogging. I have other blogs too and they need some regular blogging as well. So consider that as an excuse for my not blogging so much on this blog. I recently started blogging on this new site called 1 Main Street.com Just a casual blogging site but i do surely hope to make it bigger and better with time. I hope to see your comments and regular visiting to that site as well!

I really don’t have much to say right now! It’s been tough last few days. I did nothing much that i could really talk about. But i do apologize for not wishing Christmas greetings on time to you lovely friends. But better late than never. So truly, deeply and heartily, i would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. Enjoy your New Year celebrations. Take care and do well in year 2009!