Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Harry Potter ...the Beginnin'...the Journey ...and the End !!!!


 


Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 

It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.


 Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him.
 Forced to spend his summer holidays with his muggle relations, Harry Potter gets a real shock when he gets a surprise visitor: Dobby the house-elf, who warns Harry Potter against returning to Hogwarts, for terrible things are going to happen. Harry decides to ignore Dobby's warning and continues with his pre-arranged schedule. But at Hogwarts, strange and terrible things are indeed happening: Harry is suddenly hearing mysterious voices from inside the walls, muggle-born students are being attacked, and a message scrawled on the wall in blood puts everyone on his/her guard - "The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies Of The Heir, Beware"


 It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry.

 Harry Potter is having a tough time with his relatives (yet again). He runs away after using magic to inflate Uncle Vernon's sister Marge who was being offensive towards Harry's parents. Initially scared for using magic outside the school, he is pleasantly surprised that he won't be penalized after all. However, he soon learns that a dangerous criminal and Voldemort's trusted aide Sirius Black has escaped from the Azkaban prison and wants to kill Harry to avenge the Dark Lord. To worsen the conditions for Harry, vile shape-shifters called Dementors are appointed to guard the school gates and inexplicably happen to have the most horrible effect on him. Little does Harry know that by the end of this year, many holes in his past (whatever he knows of it) will be filled up and he will have a clearer vision of what the future has in store...


 Harry finds himself selected as an underaged competitor in a dangerous multi-wizardary school competition.

 Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is about to start and he is enjoying the summer vacation with his friends. They get the tickets to The Quidditch World Cup Final but after the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldemort's 'Death Eaters' set a fire to all the visitors' tents, coupled with the appearance of Voldemort's symbol, the 'Dark Mark' in the sky, which causes a frenzy across the magical community. That same year, Hogwarts is hosting 'The Triwizard Tournament', a magical tournament between three well-known schools of magic : Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The contestants have to be above the age of 17, and are chosen by a magical object called Goblet of Fire. On the night of selection, however, the Goblet spews out four names instead of the usual three, with Harry unwittingly being selected as the Fourth Champion. Since the magic cannot be reversed...


  With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. 

After a lonely summer on Privet Drive, Harry returns to a Hogwarts full of ill-fortune. Few of students and parents believe him or Dumbledore that Voldemort is really back. The ministry had decided to step in by appointing a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that proves to be the nastiest person Harry has ever encountered. Harry also can't help stealing glances with the beautiful Cho Chang. To top it off are dreams that Harry can't explain, and a mystery behind something Voldemort is searching for. With these many things Harry begins one of his toughest years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.


 As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past. 
 In the sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, and in both wizard and muggle worlds Lord Voldemort and his henchmen are increasingly active. With vacancies to fill at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore persuades Horace Slughorn, back from retirement to become the potions teacher, while Professor Snape receives long awaited news. Harry Potter, together with Dumbledore, must face treacherous tasks to defeat his evil nemesis.





As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows. 
Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for the Trio, and the rest of the Wizarding World, so everything they do must go as planned.









The final chapter begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord's three remaining Horcruxes, the magical items responsible for his immortality. But as the mystical Deathly Hallows are uncovered, and Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the same again.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Top 10 Techies Who Changed The World!!!

1.jpgSteve Jobs, Apple Maverick entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs is the current grandmaster of technology. Business savvy and a risk taker, Jobs is the visionary who redefined technology with world changing products like the Personal Computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.





2.jpgMark Zuckerberg, Facebook Whizkid Zuckerberg almost single handedly transformed the Internet from a place people went to get information to a place they went to meet each other. Facebook gave the virtual world a patina of humanity, the real world a new medium of interpersonal relationships, and made Zuckerberg not only this generation's phenomenon, but also the second youngest billionaire in the world.
Interesting fact: The youngest billionaire is Dustin Moskovitz co-founder of Facebook and 8 days younger than Zuckerberg, his Harvard roommate.


3.jpgBill Gates, The Microsoft founder has passed the legion of supergeeks into the pantheon of technological demi-gods. The richest man in the world from 1995 to 2007 is currently the second richest. He holds 8 percent of Microsoft stock and now functions as the non-executive chairman of the company. Over the years, Gates and wife Melinda have made philanthropy their primary concern and recently pledged to give away at least half their fortune to charity with time 





4.jpgLinus Torvalds, Linux This Finnish engineer is virtually unknown outside the inner circles of technology, yet he is among the most influential figures in software development. A believer in open source software, Torvalds initiated the development of the Linux Kernel. He now acts as the coordinator of the project. The Linux operating system runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world and a diverse range of hardware including the smallest of devices. A modified version of the Linux kernel powers the ubiqitous Android OS.
5.jpgLarry Page and Sergey Brin, Google Co-founders of internet behemoth Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin ran Google from a rented garage in 1998. Twelve years later, Google has left it's Silicon Valley startup past way behind to become the world's largest media corporation.






6.jpgEvan Williams, Twitter & Blogger Virtually unknown in the real world, this college drop-out created two key communication technologies that shaped the Internet Blogger and Twitter. He no longer works at Twitter but he's left an indelible handprint on the cyberworld. 




7.jpgShigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Even if you've never played a video game, chances are you've heard of Super Mario Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto is the Japanese game designer behind popular Nintendo titles like Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and the grand old man of gaming, Mario.






8.jpgJeffrey Bezos, Amazon In 1994, this Princeton graduate started Amazon.com from his garage in Seattle and changed the face of online retail forever. He began with selling books online but soon diversified into, well, almost everything. Amazon made him a billionaire as well as Time magazine's person of the year in 1999.



9.jpgTim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web 20 years ago British physicist and computer scientist Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the first web server. This man is the reason we can access webpages and surf the Internet using browsers today.




10.jpgAkio Morita, Sony Former naval officer Akio Morita left his family business of sake, miso and soy sauce to co-found Sony Corporation in 1946. Most of Sony's path-breaking products like magnetic tapes, tape recorders, pocket-sized radios, the Walkman and the Discman were developed under his leadership.



11.jpg11th Man: was The other Steve who founded Apple with Steve Jobs was Steve Wozniak. Affectionately called Woz, he has been credited with developing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s. He no longer works full time with Apple, but is still a shareholder and employee of the company. 





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Monday, July 18, 2011

Pinics/Camps ....the best thing about Summers !!!

i love Spring and Autumn season...but i'm not a fan of Summer or Winter much....both seasons make me lazy and clumsy....but both have some positive sides as well....like in winters you get to enjoy the awesome snowfall(Sheen)....and in summers....you get tanned by the harmful UV rays of the sun :P....plus there are picnics/camps ....gosh!!! how i miss my camp life....We used to go for campin' in school days with all my FRIENDS and a few Teachers.....stay there for utmost 3 nights n 4 days....and explore the undiscovered land by means of trekkin'....ugh !! i hate trekkin' cause it drains off my energy....but at the same time i happen to see beautiful places....not visible otherwise....not to mention the fun all the way through....and the best night ...the camp fire night... when we used to collect fire sticks on the last day of our trekkin'....and then entertain ourselves with some hilarious skits/plays, music, etc. around the campfire…makin' memories of what we had seen so far …partly being happy cause the other day we were supposed to head back to the city life "Home sweet Home" and partly sad cause we were goin away from the so-called natural beauty!!!

The campin' session ended by the end of my school...no more camps for me now ...cause girls aren't supposed to go campin' alone....i mean not without anyone's supervision....not in Kashmir atleast =|….no matter how old you are…We go for picnics instead....at few times i do wish i was a guy who could go wherever he wants with whoever he wants !!! but at the same time i'd say i'm proud to be a girl....cause while in trouble girls find an easy way out ~_^ ...Girls Rock\m/...anyway....so much with the girl/boy thing goin' on my mind ....movin' on to picnics/excursions....i love picnics....picnics are fun!!! could it be with your classmates or your amazin' cousins…!!!!

two places that i visited so far this year ...!!!
Sonmarg
Glacier
Naranag
Kashmir is truly what we call HEAVEN on Earth !!!

If you think about it picnics are more relishin' than camps…just a one day adventure and you don’t get used to that LIFE ….While others may find it a perfect place to live or get settled in the mountains alongside the stream of fresh water…. i find the hi-tech world more peaceful...!!! :)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

the Computer Geek who changed the world !!!!

Bill Gates is known as the World’s richest man (although he was recently de-throned), yet most people really don’t know a whole lot about the name and face behind Microsoft.




Little Known Facts about Bill Gates :
  • William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
  • His SAT score was 1590. The top score for the test is 1600.
  • By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
  • Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30.  He became a billionaire at age 31.
  • While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s first product.
  • He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company.  They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.
  • In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tungin a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China.  The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.
  • He is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
  • Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year!
  • If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would’ve already earned it back. 
 
Source : Internet ;D

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Resolutions !!!!


i don't like transitions at all ....but i love to make resolutions....even if later i don't follow 'em completely ;)....after my new year resolution of talkin' less and being serious didn't work out well ....i decided to quit chattin' and facebook completely (: my b'day resolution you see :) ....so far so good...now since its my last year in college i've made some new sem resolutions as well....to start with i'll try to be a better daughter....a better sister....a better friend.....a better student...precisely be a better person/Muslim....may God be with me !!!! and yeah no personal stuff online anymore ....so this is me signin' off until i find somethin' really interestin' to share....tchao !!!!