Annie's song.

Just sing along. This is one of my favorite english songs. And just like any other song, I like the Vikram Hazra version better than Denver's. Anyway, here is mine:

You fill up my senses
like a night in the forest
like the mountains in springtime,
like a walk in the rain
like a storm in the desert,
like a sleepy blue ocean
you fill up my senses,
come fill me again.

Come let me love you,
let me give my life to you
let me drown in your laughter,
let me die in your arms
let me lay down beside you,
let me always be with you
come let me love you,
come love me again.

P.S.
A rocking Yes+ course has started yesterday i.e. on 9 feb in Bangalore with the awesome JD bhaiya leading some 50+ youths through the thrills and learnings typical of a Yes+. We are planning a grand Valentine's day satsang on the 14th in the beautiful IISc campus. Let us come together and celebrate love!!!

Yipeee! I am going home!!!

After almost one and half years I am finally going to Sikkim, my home. It feels that it has been ages since I have been home. A lot has happened since the last time I had gone, my brother promoted himself from school to college, the expiry of my grandfather and so on....

 

A file photo of the "RAI Brothers"

Well today was a nice day as we had gone to the airport to see off Bawa n Dinesh.They are going to Delhi and from there to Shimla... I asked "when are you coming back Bau?"
and he said "In march"... So enjoy their presence Delhiites, till he is there...
And a superb lunch followed at Hema didi's place. I am now packing to leave for Sikkim. I will be back to Bangalore on 5th Feb. And a rocking Yes+ course is starting on 9th Feb at Malleswaram,Bangalore which will be taken by noone other than the uncomparable "Mr. Rashmin Pulekar".
But before I land up at home I am making a brief one night stay at Malda which is a small town in West Bengal.
Ashish from IISc has organised a satsang there and i would definitely like to soak myself and to soak others in the divine music, before I head on to the Himalayan Mountains.(And also give a feel of what YES+ satsang is..)
So guys, I most definitely would like to post something from Sikkim and not to forget some stunning photographs of the landscape there(but all these will depend on the availability of an internet connection there).
So until further notice, KEEP SMILING!

Track visitors to your blog in real time(LIVE)!

Google Analytics is great to track your blog statistics at the end of the day. However it would be interesting to know how your visitors drop by to your blog IN REAL TIME.
This is specially important if you want to know how quick the response is to any traffic generation method you are using. For example, how quick the response is if you are declaring that you have a new post in Facebook?
or How quickly people know about this if you are using Twitter?
You not only get to know the location of your visitor and the source( e.g. twitter,entrecard,google etc) but also lot of other statistics such as the browser and the operating system used and also how did the visitor exited from your blog i.e. after clicking which link. This service is provided by FEEDJIT and the page looks something like this:

The best part of all this is, it is a completely free service and you don't even have to give your email or register or any such thing. You get the result instantaneously.

So are you eager to try this for your blog. Follow the following steps:

1. Cut and paste the following url in the address bar:
        http://live.feedjit.com/live/yoursite.com/
( Replace 'yoursite' in the above url with your website name)
       For blogspot blogs use:
         http://live.feedjit.com/live/yourblog.blogspot.com/
2. Click on the 'Turn Sounds On' button.
3. Now start a discussion in some Blog Directory such as Mybloglog,Blogcatalog etc, or send a Tweet giving a link to your blog, or submit an article to Stumbleupon or digg or do something so that visitors find a link to your blog NOW!
4. That is it, just enjoy the sweet sound everytime a visitor drops by .

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The blue planet.

Today I went up to my terrace. The sun was about to set.A few bunches of cumulo-nimbus could be seen in the distant horizon.Suddenly a sense of awareness dawned on me and I smiled, I just noticed how beautiful is this place where we are living right now. Most often we are so lost in our own little worlds that we forget that we live in the BLUE PLANET. The third planet from the sun. In a solar system in the Milky Way. We forget to notice its beauty and the joy of living in the BLUE PLANET!

A little awareness about our own identity in this vast UNIVERSE can give a lot of solace and put a halt to the constant bickerings,complaints and worries of our little minds.

Just now somebody tweeted this link which I would like to share with you all. After a glimpse of these images, I think you will appreciate this post better.

Visit: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/earth_observed.html

How often do you post?

Though it is important to keep up the posting on your blog in a regular pace but I find that it is not at all necessary to be posting twice a day or even everyday.
Though this is a delicate topic and some may argue that the most successful blogs have many posts coming up in a day, I feel that it is a matter of your convenience and the target audience.If your blog is about blogging tips then it makes sense to post daily because the readers will be very active online and may visit your blog even several times a day,  but if you blog about your holiday adventures then I don't see the urgency to post everyday.

Regular readers of this blog might know that I keep up posts roughly around 2 days apart because I simply don't feel like writing everyday and also quality suffers if I force myself to write something just to make up for that day. But I also make it a point that two posts are not very apart. Long absence from posting may make your readers feel that you are disinterested and you can lose loyal readers.(there are always a few)

So guys , the bottom line is QUALITY and also your interest.If you don't feel like posting today,just don't do it! I see several blogs where the posts are simply written to cover some space. I never visit those blogs again!

What do you do? Do you post everyday?