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AMERICAN ASS

Donkeys are great lovers. At a time, a donkey remains constant to its particular mate.  No swapping. He-ass loves the she-ass wholeheartedly -one to one at a time. They often love to graze in pairs with their respective partners. Male Donkey is called Jacks and female is called Jennie or Jennet in man’s narrow world 

By Mukesh Sharma

Driving through picturesque hills nearby Lake Pleasant Regional Park, a large outdoor recreational area and also the most visited place by the locals in northwest, Phoenix, Arizona(US), this blogger caught the sight of an ass walking silently with head downcast and ears picked up beside the road with no master around. The roaming stray animals is a rare sight on American roads. This blogger pulled up his car and got off to take a few pics of Mr. American Ass (the original name of donkey is ass and the scientific name is equus africanusa sinus)

Blood brothers: American and Indian Ass

 

While clicking the pics of sweet and cute American Ass, the picture of Indian ass also flickered across the mind. There was no discernible difference between American and Indian Ass. Both appeared blood brother. “Aaa Aaa”, this blogger shouted out of affection. But it would not heed. Suddenly this blogger realized that he was addressing an English knowing American Ass. So Hindi words would not do. Surprisingly, when this blogger yelled, “come on” the ass stopped for a while and twisted it ears bit but soon continued its onward journey towards some undisclosed destination. Even animals understand and respond in English here in US, the most coveted language, Indian students struggle a lot to learn in India.

Though in the world of man ass or donkey is used rather pejoratively, this wonderful creature which has been braying on the earth since pre-historic times, has many great qualities. Frankly speaking, if imbibed, these attributes have potential to change the life of the man.

Donkey/ass  is known for its dedication and diligence. It never shirks it duties and work. In the third world countries, donkeys engaged in carrying loads through narrow zigzag stretches or through trails up the hills, are the assets. As an honest and hard-working animals, they earn their ‘bread’ by the sweat of their brow. Very recently, Pakistan was in news for exporting donkeys to China to work on difficult and treacherous terrains. Donkeys are in abundance in Pakistan. It’s a fact that donkeys have played a key role in the progress of the man.

Donkeys are very stubborn; it never lets its stubbornness die even in  the face of death threat. In jungle, whenever other animals come across wolves or snakes, they choose to flee from the scene. However, the brave heart donkey doesn’t leave the ground. It stares the wolf down in an act of silent defence and remains ready to use its leg power to full throttle. Mahatma Gandhi must have got the superb idea of ‘passive’ violence from an ass only.

Donkeys are said to be the social animals; they enjoy the herd living.  But they are intelligent enough to maintain and assert their individuality. Even in pack, they don’t go by herd thinking. They follow their own whims and wants. Man must learn this art from donkey for the betterment of self and the country.

 Like dogs, donkeys also love to live with man. They are great pet. No doubt, they are loyal and loving creature. People describe donkeys as the dogs of livestock world.

 Donkeys are great lovers. At a time, a donkey remains constant to its particular mate.  No swapping. He-ass loves the she-ass wholeheartedly -one to one at a time. They often love to graze in pairs with their respective partners. Male Donkey is called Jacks and female is called Jennie or Jennet in man’s narrow world.

 Yet another good quality of Donkeys is that they never complain; they are not demanding; their expectations are too low; they just live in present and enjoy to its optimum; they adapt themselves to prevailing circumstance in no time. Resigned to divine providence, they just live and work without caring about its ‘fruit’. It seems that the tenets of the Gita run through the blood of Donkeys. Donkeys are above ego and desires. Perhaps they know that these ills are the root cause of all the sufferings. So whenever, their master canes them, they don’t take it as a punishment but as an stimulus for work. Great are Donkeys.

If man embraces all the qualities of the donkey, this world would become a wonderful place to live in.

 According to the Domestic Animals Diversity Information System ( DAD –IS), there are 189 breeds of Donkey on the planet. Irrespective of their domicile country, this blogger salutes all the donkey of the world.

Self-made Billionaires (series)

A Man Who Dreams to ‘Conquer’ Earth and ‘Colonize’ Space

As a President and CEO of Amazon and with reported net worth US $ 196.6 billion till July 13, 2020, Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world.

With 5,66,000 employees, Amazon operates in 14 countries across the world.

Under Blue Origin, a flagship company of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has also started selling commercial spaceflight tickets for US $ 200,000 to 300,000 per passenger.

Jeff Bezos also owns a widely circulated American English daily, The Washington Post which he purchased on August 5, 2013 for US $ 250 million cash.

In this corona time when the most of the business has gone nose dive, Jeff Bezos has seen a rise in his fortune by US $ 74 billion this year.

Alexa, a household name in US, an Amazon product looks after the household of Americans.

By Mukesh Sharma

In this shop keeping society, everyone is selling something for their daily bread. Of course, business lies in selling something to somebody. But genius Jeff Bezos went ahead of sheer selling; he made service a giant global phenomena; in his game, he decided to play a ‘carrier’ between the seller and buyer. And this idea turned out to be super hit.

Jeff Bezos, man who dreams to ‘conquer’ the earth and ‘colonize’ space

Naming his business after the name of Amazon river, the biggest river in the world, Jeff planned the biggest store in the world.

On July, 1994, Jeff got his Amazon incorporated as a company and started it from the garage of his house on 28^th street in Belleue, Washington in September, 1994. Since then he never looked back. Today US based Amazon operates from 13 countries  -- Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain and UK.

In September, 2000, Jeff also founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company. In July, 2018 , the company announced that it had priced commercial spaceflight ticket from US $ 200,000 to 300, 000.

Early life of Jeff was not without struggle. Born on Jan12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and his biological father Ted Jorgensen,his mother remarried another man, Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant when Jeff was just 4. Thus Jeff got his surname Bezos.

While at High School, Jeff worked at Mc Donald as a short-order line cook during the breakfast shift. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Rest is history.

Jeff says his goal is to create “the Star Trek Computer.”

Genius Jeff Bezos knows how to have Big Dreams, live for them and fulfil them. He is the man who dreams to ‘conquer’ the earth and ‘colonize’ space.

Self-made Billionaire (Series)

Cleaner to Billionaire

Jan Koum worked as a cleaner at a store, a college dropout who created whatsApp, got the billion dollar idea over a cup of tea; co-founded whatsApp with a friend Brian Acton; the Facebook that rejected his candidature for the job once, bought the App for US$19.3 billion and today the duo founders stand with reported net worth US$10 billion and US$ 2.9 billion respectively

By Mukesh Sharma

 

With one billion daily users across the world, WhatsApp has become a part of day-to-day life. Where ever one is, one remains in touch with one’s near and dear ones round the clock. Indeed WhatsApp has created a sense of togetherness in the world.

Jan Koum & Brian Acton who have created 
the sense of togetherness in the world

The life story of genius Jan Koum reads like a rags to riches.

Born on Feb24, 1976 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, he moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, California(US) in 1992 at the age of 16. Before his father could join the family, he died in 1997 in Ukrain.

Young Jan worked as a cleaner at grocery store. His mother worked as a babysitter in early days of struggle.

Battling for better life, at the age of 18, the promising Jan developed interest in computer programming. So he enrolled himself at San Joe State University and also continued a job with Ernst and Young as a Security Tester. At this juncture, Jan met one Brian Acton. Soon both became good friends.

Later in 1997, Jan got a job in Yahoo as an infrastructure Engineer. So he dropped out of college. Brian Acton also joined Yahoo. Both worked with Yahoo for a long nine years. In September, 2007, both left the job with Yahoo and applied for job with Facebook. The candidatures of both were rejected.

In 2009, Jan got an idea for an App over a cup of tea at his friend’s Fishman’s kitchen counter. Jan decided to name it as WhatsApp as it sounds like what’s up.

Later on Feb24, 2009, Jan Koun incorporated whatApp as a company with tittle WhatsApp Inc in California. Further he also convinced his friend Brian Acton to join the company with a co-founder status after Brian managed to bring in $ 250,000 in seed funding.

On Feb9, 2014, Zuckerberg of Facebook invited Jan Koun for dinner at his residence and formally proposed a deal to join Facebook as a one of board of directors with profit share. After 10 days Facebook also announced that it was acquiring whatsApp for US $ 19.3 billion.

Another co-founder of whatsapp Inc Brian Acton is an American computer programmer. Born in Michigan and grew up in central Florida. He studied at Lake Howel High School and also graduated from Stanford University in 1994.

A momentary idea over a cup of tea changed the destiny of Jan Koum and Brian Acton.

The world shall remain grateful to Jan Koum for instilling the sense of togetherness in the world what even different religions failed to do.

Self-made Billionaires (Series)

The Infinite Google

The ingenuity of two college friends  -- Lawrence Edward Page and Sergey Brin who created Google while studying at Stanford University, has, no doubt, bounded the ‘infinity’, and today their reported net worth stand at US $ 63.3 billion and US $ 62.3 billion respectively; the duo fly by their own boeing 767 jet

By Mukesh Sharma

Google sounds like the genie of Aladdin. Just ask anything, Google has it. Any information is just a few clicks away. Nothing seems to be beyond the purview of great Google. Over 300 million use google daily across the world.

Larry Page & Sergey Brin -two genius who created infinite Google

Larry (short name of Lawrence Edward Page) and Sergey first named their ‘Search Engine’ as “Back Rub”, for, it was dependent on backlines to estimate the importance of sites. Later in 1996, they renamed it as Google after the mathematical term ‘googol’ that refers to No.1 followed by 100 zero.

And thus Larry and Sergey co-founded Google in 1998 - a search engine to access any information.

Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973 in Michigan in a family of computer scientist – the father Carl Page was then a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence and was a computer science professor at Michigan University, and Gloria, the mother was also an instructor in computer programming at Lyman Briggs College of Michigan University. Lawrence, nick name Larry learnt first lesson in computer programming from his mother. After graduation from University of Michigan, Larry went to Stanford University as a PhD scholar where he met another scholar Sergey Brin.

Born on August21, 1973 in a Jewish family in Moscow, Russia, Sergey Brin’s father Michael Brin immigrated to US when Sergey was just 6. His father joined University of Maryland as a professor of mathematics. So Sergey grew up in Adelphi, Maryland. After the completion of graduation, Sergey as a brilliant student and scholar went to Stanford University to earn PhD degree where he met another genius Larry Page.

The favourite Google phrase is:

Maintain a healthy disregard for the impossible

The world is grateful to these two genii who have made an impossibility a possibility by creating an infinite Google.

Self-made Billionaires (Series)

He Became World’s Youngest Self-made Billionaire at 23

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, a ‘’programmer prodigy” created Facebook from his dormitory room while studying at Harvard University; his net reported worth is US $ 88.2 billion as on July14, 2020

By Mukesh Sharma

The most of the people in the world remain mute witness to happenings; some express awe and dismay at the happenings; but a few make things happen. Those who make things happen, think beyond impossibilities; they look beyond present to peep into future; they don’t tell the world what they can do, they just do it. Of course the young and dynamic Mark Zuckerberg who needs no introduction, is the one who has set rather unbeatable records with his stunning ‘feats’ in the world of computer communication, and has shrunk the world into tiny a mobile. Mark Zuckerberg is a success personified; his life is an epitome of inspiration to young minds.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, who has shrunk the world into a tiny mobile

Surprisingly enough, at the young age of 23, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Forbes listed him as the 4^th richest person in the world. In 2010, Time magazine named him among the 100 wealthiest and the most influential people in the world.

The New Yorker magazine says:

Some kids played computer games, Mark created them.

In a yet another observation, the New Yorker says:

By the time Mark began classes at Harvard, he had already achieved a reputation as a programmer prodigy.

Born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York (US) in a family of doctors - his mother Karen a psychiatrist and father Edward Zuckerberg a dentist. Mark was raised in a Jewish household and his ancestors hailed from German, Austria, and Poland.

Mark studied at Ardsley High School and was a brilliant student. On his college admission form, he mentioned that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin and ancient Greek.

After  schooling, Mark studied at Harvard University where he launched the Facebook Social Networking from his hostel dormitory as a student on February 4, 2004 with his roommates.

As a co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg serves as a Chairman and CEO of Facebook. Inc. He is also the co-founder of the Solar Sail Spacecraft.

Indeed, the world of communication owes a lot to genius Mark Elliot Zuckerberg! Hats off to him.

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Curiosity Moves the World

It is the curiosity that guides love birds to know about each other physically, psychologically and emotionally; it further leads to intense and intimate desire to see, feel and experience each other’s body. When a young man looks at a young woman with prying eyes, he doesn’t look at her simply but desires her; his lusty eyes run over her contour and curves; in a quick succession of thoughts he tries to feel and experience her coveted body with nothing on

By Mukesh Sharma

Curiosity is an inner urge of a human mind to know about unknown, to see unseen and to hear unheard. What is within four walls ? What is behind the curtain? What is what? Who is who? When will it occur? How will it happen? These questions often occur to everyone’s mind. In fact the curiosity is a wishful desire to go beyond 5Ws and I H. It’s an inquisitiveness to look beyond present and to peep into future and far off. All the discoveries and inventions made by the man so far are the result of continued curiosity only. Curiosity rolls the wheel of progress. 

Of course, curiosity changes with age and circumstances. A baby gets attracted to different colors, movements of an object or any sound, for, it bubbles with curiosity for anything around.

To a child, a balloon might sound the most enticing thing in the world. In fact, a child grows up with curiosity; it learns about things around through curiosity only. As a first teacher, curiosity teaches a child to use the pronouns like ‘I’, ‘My’ ‘Me’, ‘We’, ‘Our’ ‘Us’ ‘He’, ‘His’ ‘Him’ ‘She’, ‘Her’,  ‘Her’, ‘They’, ‘their’,  ‘Them’, ‘It’, ‘Its’ and ‘It’. A child learns to identify itself with these syllables. And thus the small world of a child begins to broaden, lengthen and deepen. A child is a baby of curiosity.

 

If the sun stirs the world, curiosity moves the world

What is more, a young man and woman learn their first lesson of love through curiosity only. What the people call love-at-first-sight is too born of curiosity only. The celebrated writer G.B.Shaw says:

My first love is a little foolishness but a lot of curiosity

Evidently enough, it is the curiosity that guides love birds to know about each other physically, psychologically and emotionally; it further leads to intense and intimate desire to see, feel and experience each other’s body. When a young man looks at a young woman with prying eyes, he doesn’t look at her simply but desires her; his lusty eyes run over her contour and curves; in a quick succession of thoughts he tries to feel and experience her coveted body with nothing on. John Donne, a metaphysical poet in his poem “To his Mistress going to bed “ says:

 O my America! My new found-land

Yet another English writer ironically says:

Men are attracted to women navel because of curiosity of thoughts that ‘Heaven’ is not far off. 

Feared by the society, law of land and social ignominy, a man pretends to be a gentleman in the absence of opportunity  -  opportunity gives rise to thoughts, and thoughts give rise to desires and desires give rise to action. Opportunity can make a saint a devil. The possibility of an Aasharam cannot be ruled out hidden in  Baba’s clothing. Here curiosity is the main culprit.

All the successful writers/film makers know how to create and sustain curiosity through the story line till the end; it is sheer curiosity that makes a reader to read a book to the last page for the final revelation; it is the curiosity that makes the audience to stick to their respective seats in cinema hall to know the end of the story. Curiosity nurtures creativity which is essentially a baby of curiosity.

Even scientists are goaded by their curiosity to know, discover, experiment and invent on an unknown terrain and territory. NASA named its lander on Mars as ‘CURIOSITY’ that signifies the role of curiosity in the world of science too. Albert Einstein philosophically says:

Never lose your holy curiosity

Endorsing the significance of curiosity, Zora Neale says:

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with purpose.

In other words, it won’t be wrong to say: Curiosity is the mother of all the discoveries and inventions.

In a democratic dispensation, wily netas use this powerful element of curiosity to get elected and rule over the unsuspecting masses. False promises are made to create curiosity in the populace that makes the public to think that this neta might emerge as a ‘savior’ and that remains a possibility all through years. Democracy is the game of curiosity.

Never let anyone or anything crush your curiosity. What Bill Gates is today because he never allowed anyone or any circumstances to suppress his curiosity for the computers. What Sachin is today because he sustained his curiosity for cricket right from his younger days. So is the success story of almost all the big names in the world. Who are you? What are you? What can you do? How can you do it? These pertinent questions that nag the head of each man and woman, can’t be answered by any guru or any book. Only your live curiosity can answer these questions.

This blogger maintains that even almighty God must have created this universe out of curiosity only. That is why each and every thing in the nature arouses nothing but curiosity.

Undying curiosity for success can take anyone to dizzy heights. A man can learn only as an ideal student of curiosity. A man without curiosity is a dead man. If the sun stirs the world, curiosity moves the world.