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PJ Games / Re: What color are you wearing today... ????
« on: January 27, 2013, 06:33:28 AM »
Brown kurta pjaama :happy:

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Travel / Re: The world’s most beautiful buildings :)
« on: January 27, 2013, 12:24:24 AM »
:laugh: dekhi jaau fer bai..
Jk :hehe:

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Travel / Re: The world’s most beautiful buildings :)
« on: January 26, 2013, 07:32:18 AM »
Teri angreji di mainu smjh nhio aauni beeba :hehe:

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Religous Videos / Re: Shaheed Baba Deep Singh ji
« on: January 25, 2013, 10:03:19 PM »
Waheguru ji.. Congratsss sbh nu :happy:

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Travel / Re: The world’s most beautiful buildings :)
« on: January 25, 2013, 09:17:18 PM »
:D: :D: rang bhrne v aukhe ni bai.. Bsh ah photoan jyian te tym lgda.. Baaki matter kito na kito mil e jnda.. Jisdin khud nu enna likhna aa gya odde GS nu kehna "hatt piche".. :D:

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Travel / What’s in a place name?
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:41:20 AM »
    *Laconic: ‘using very few words’ (OED). Laconia was the homeland of the Spartans in Ancient Greece, who were famous for the brevity of their communications. The Dictionary of Word Origins gives a great example of their laconic sensibility in a reply to Philip of Macedon, who boasted: ‘If I enter Laconia, I will level Lacedaemon to the ground.’ The Spartans’ reply was ‘If ‘.

    *Ghetto: ‘a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group’ (OED). Ghetto originated in Venice. Ghetto is a part of the city where the Jewish population was forced to live.

   *Shanghaied: ’1. force to join a ship’s crew by underhand means. 2. coerce or trick into a place or action’ (OED). Shanghaied originates in the shortage of crews in the 19th century for ships (including those bound for China) on the west coast of the USA. During the latter half of the 19th century many able bodied men sought their fortune in the gold fields of California, making it necessary for boarding masters to Shanghai those who remained.

    *Coventry: ‘refuse to associate with or speak to someone’ (OED). Being ‘sent to Coventry‘ is an expression believed to originate in the 17th century during the English Civil War when Coventry had a prison for Royalist troops.

    *Doolally: ‘temporarily insane’ (OED). This term is derived from the British Army transit camp of Deolali, which was famous for driving troops to madness from boredom.

    *Jeans/Denim/Dungarees: ‘Denim: hard-wearing cotton twill fabric, typically blue’ (OED). The cloth that jeans are made from originated in Nîmes (de Nîmes means ‘from Nîmes’) and Dongari Killa in Mumbai. The blue colouring of denim was referred to as bleu de Gênes - that is, it came from Genoa.

    *Stockholm syndrome: ‘The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken in Stockholm, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage. The victims became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six-day ordeal’ (see Wikipedia).

    *Solecism: ‘grammatical mistake’ (OED). The citizens of the ancient city of Soli spoke differently from the Athenians of the day. The more influential Athenians viewed ‘different’ as ‘ungrammatical’, so the term solecism came into being to describe such ‘mistakes’.

    *Neanderthal: ‘an extinct human that was widely distributed in ice age Europe between c.120,000-35,000 years ago’ (OED). The close relative of humans (Homo sapiens) was discovered in Neandertal (then Neanderthal) in Germany, near Düsseldorf.



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Pics / Re: ki kehna thoda es baare ? ( 18va tappeya layi )
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:33:20 AM »
ah theek kita.. :D: :D: hunn aapa safe aa,, :D: :D: ewe kise jwaak di ghrwali di haa lagg jani c samay nu

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Pics / Re: ki kehna thoda es baare ?
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:29:14 AM »
mere jobang dia mashooria i jndia bai.. nay be country de hisab naal aa :wait:

bai topic de otte 18+ likh dena c.. ewe koi jwaak na khraab hoje :D: :D: ki aa eh mshoorian bjurga nu dikhonde hona

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Pics / Re: ki kehna thoda es baare ?
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:23:38 AM »
:D: :D: badkismti smjhla bai :D: :D: nhi tan ewe searcha maarnia paindia .. eh aape dikhonde aa :laugh:

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Travel / The best countries for food :)
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:22:23 AM »
1. Thailand

Standing at the crossroads of India, China and Oceania, Thai cuisine is like a best-of of all three’s techniques and ingredients. Dishes generally go in hard with garlic and chillies (especially the phrik khii nuu variety, which literally translates as ‘mouseshit peppers’). Other signature ingredients include lime juice, coriander and lemon grass, which give the cuisine its characteristic tang. Legendary fish sauce or shrimp paste looks after the salt.

2. Greece

From olives to octopus, the true taste of Greece depends on fresh, unadulterated staples. Masking or complicating original flavours is not the done thing, especially when you’re dealing with oven-fresh bread, rosy tomatoes and fish fresh from the Mediterranean. The midday meal is the main event with a procession of goodies brought to the table as they’re ready. With Wednesday and Friday traditionally reserved as fast days (ie no-meat days), vegetarians are also looked after.


3. China

From back-alley dumpling shops to four-star banquet halls, China has one of the world’s finest palates. Cultural precepts of Yin and Yang (balance and harmony) are evident in the bowl: with food for the day including cooling foods such as vegetables and fruit to counter warming spices and meat. The Chinese revere rice but also choose noodles, with either almost always accompanying a meal. A range of regional specialities exist, variously influenced by geography and history.


4. France

From cheese and champagne to snails and baguettes, the French are famous for their foodstuffs. French cuisine has long distinguished itself for dallying with a great variety of foods. Each region’s distinct climate and geography have influenced the array of regional specialities. Many in France consider lunch as the day’s main meal, though the two hour marathon meal is increasingly rare. The crowning meal is a fully fledged home-cooked dinner comprising six distinct plats (courses).


5. Spain

Best in Barcelona, Catalan cooking is racking up the accolades from gourmands around the globe. Like other regional Spanish cuisines, Catalan cooking favours spices such as saffron and cumin, as well as honeyed sweets. A mixture of ingredients and traditions adds flair to Barcelona’s fare: using seafood and meats in a rich array of sauces. Dinner is the main event, but never before 9pm.


6. Mexico


Would you like some magic-realism with that enchilada? The Mexican sensibility for enchanting influences is also brought to the table in its food, particularly during celebrations. Mexican cuisine has an overriding Spanish influence, with a twist of French and African thanks to its history. Corn and bean-based dishes are prominent – prepared in a multitude of world renowned ways including tacos, enchiladas and quesadillas. And who could forget the worm that waits at the bottom of a bottle of Mezcal?


7. Italy


Its food is arguably Italy‘s most famous export, and it’s with good reason that the world wants it. Despite all the variations that exist between regions, some common staples bind the country’s culinary creations. Think thin-crust pizza and al dente pastas and risottos. And to drink? One word: coffee. The Italians do it best – from perfecting a distinguished roast to the gentle extraction of its essence into the cup. Perfecto!


8. India


India’s protean gastronomy changes shape as you move between neighbourhoods, towns and states. The basis of all meals is rice in the south, and roti in the north. These are generally partnered with dhal, vegetables and chutney. Fish or meat may also be added. Whatever the ingredients: the dish usually contains a heady cast of exotic spices that make the taste buds stand up and take notice.


9. Japan

If you can wrap your tongue around pronouncing the menu, Japan’s cuisine is a most rewarding mouthful. Most Japanese restaurants concentrate on a specialty cuisine, such as yakitori (skewers of grilled chicken or veg), sushi and sashimi (raw fish), tempura (lightly battered and fried ingredients) and ramen noodle bars. The pinnacle of Japanese cooking, kaiseki (derived as an adjunct to the tea ceremony), combines ingredients, preparation, setting and ceremony over several small courses to distinguish the gentle art of eating.


10. Indonesia & Malaysia


Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines are one big food swap: Chinese, Portuguese, Indian, colonists and traders have all influenced their ingredients and culinary concepts. They are nations well represented by their food. The abundance of rice is characteristic of the region’s fertile terraced landscape, the spices are reminiscent of a time of trade and invasion (the Spice Islands), and fiery chilli echoes the people’s passion. Indonesian and Malaysian cooking is not complex, and tastes here stay separate, simple and substantial.


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Pics / Re: ki kehna thoda es baare ?
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:16:54 AM »
mere tan kdde ah photo i ni jehri gagne ne payi aa :sad:


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Pics / Re: ki kehna thoda es baare ?
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:12:19 AM »
punjabi culture jindabaaad :D: :D: :D:

PJ aaleo munde khraab na krrro

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Travel / The world’s most beautiful buildings :)
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:01:25 AM »
Museo Guggenheim, Spain




Some critics might argue that Frank Gehry’s Museo Guggenheim in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, opened in 1997, looks as though it’s been taken to by a can-opener, but this is one of the most influential and striking buildings in modern architecture. With its ribbonlike sheets of titanium and its collection of interconnecting blocks, the museum gives a nod to Bilbao’s industrialism but also to the saucerlike curves of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York. Oh yeah…nearly forgot. There’s art inside, too.

Potala Palace, Tibet




Perched high above the holy city of Lhasa is the former seat of the Tibetan government and the winter residence of the Dalai Lama. More notable now for its imposing presence than its residents, this huge construction is 13 storeys high, contains thousands of rooms, and is styled like a traditional Buddhist gompa (temple), if significantly more elaborate. More than 7000 workers were said to have been involved in its construction during the 7th century AD. Potala Palace is now a state museum of China, and has been given a place on the Unesco World Heritage list.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt




Between the ancient pyramids and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt now has the best of old and new. Like a giant discus landed at an angle or an enormous light switch, Alexandria’s oceanfront library is arguably the first great design of the new millennium. Completed in 2002, it’s inspired by the original Alexandrina library, founded in the 3rd century BC and acclaimed as the greatest of all classical institutions. The building’s sloped design represents a second sun rising beside the Mediterranean. The vast rotunda space can hold eight million books.

Sagrada Família, Spain




Surely the most extraordinary church on the planet, from the mind of one of history’s most eccentric designers: Antoni Gaudí. With its tapering towers like the straightened arms of an octopus, construction of Sagrada Família began in 1882, though Gaudí’s vision was so complex that the church is still unfinished. It will ultimately feature three façades and 18 towers, the tallest of them (170m) representing Jesus Christ. Plans are to have the Barcelona icon completed in 2026, the 100th anniversary of Gaudí’s death, although it will almost be a shame now to see it finished.

Taj Mahal, India



Is this the world’s most famous building? And its most romantic (ignoring the sprawling, industrial city around it, and the hordes of rickshaw-wallahs and touts)? Described by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore as ‘a teardrop on the face of eternity’, the Taj Mahal in Agra was built by Emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial for his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to their 14th child in 1631. It’s an extravagant, whitemarble monument to love, which may explain all the young, starry-eyed couples wandering around it. If you’re heading to the Taj, read our 5 ways to see it as well as fantastic side trips in the area.

Imam Mosque, Iran




Headlining beside one of the world’s largest squares, Esfahan’s Imam Mosque is a tiled wonder. Completely covered, inside and out, with pale blue and yellow ceramic tiles (which are an Esfahan trademark), it’s a stunning 17th-century mosque, with its tiles seeming to change colour depending on the light conditions. The main dome is 54m high and intricately patterned in a stylised floral mosaic, while the magnificent 30m-high portal is a supreme example of architectural styles from the Safavid period (1502–1772). The mosque sits askew to the square, at about 45 degrees, so that it faces Mecca.

Winter Palace, Russia




Best known as the outer casing for the remarkable State Hermitage Museum, this pistachio-coloured gem on the banks of the Neva River in St Petersburg was designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli as the winter residence of the Russian tsars. Filling an entire block, it bears all the whimsy and ornamentation of the baroque period, and statues line its roof edges like divers about to plunge into the Neva. Little wonder it should be the showpiece of a city built specifically to highlight that Russia could match the architectural beauty of Europe.

Crac des Chevaliers, Syria



Described by TE Lawrence as the ‘finest castle in the world’, this hilltop Crusader fortress might be 800 years old but, like a good botox treatment, stands tight and taut against the ravages of time. It’s the classic blueprint of a medieval castle, its thick outer walls separated from the inner structure by a moat dug out of the rock. Inside, it’s a minitown, complete with a chapel, baths, a great hall and a Gothic loggia. The most visible sign of ageing is the vegetation that grows from its walls; nothing a good shave wouldn’t fix.

Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil




Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the celebrated architect behind the creation of the Brazilian capital, Brasília, the Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba will test your view of aesthetics. Like all great buildings – and probably more so – the art museum’s appearance has an element of love-it-or-hate-it, with its main gallery shaped like a reflective glass eye, balancing atop a yellow support, and approached on curving ramps above a pool of water. Once inside the building commonly called the ‘Eye Museum’, you’ll see that every aspect of the museum’s design seems to marry beauty with whimsy.

Aya Sofya, Turkey




Aya Sofya is the great architectural landmark at the heart of Istanbul, with its four minarets poised like moon-bound rockets. Constructed in the 6th century AD as an Orthodox church, it later became a mosque and, since 1935, a museum. The enormous structure was built in just five years, and its musk walls are topped by an imposing dome, 31m wide and 56m high. The dome’s base is ringed by windows, so that from within the structure, the dome seems almost to hover ethereally above the building.


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Travel / Top 10 dream business destinations
« on: January 25, 2013, 10:44:40 AM »
1. Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru

With several conference-sized rooms, and private sea plane transfer from capital Malé, end your working day by dipping your toes in the Indian Ocean, then refresh for another day of discussion back in your serene thatch-roofed water bungalow. Visit the Marine Discovery Centre, which pioneers research into white sharks and manta rays, and consider persuading your company to give a little something in support of the Maldives’ environmental efforts.
2. Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar

Only fourteen guests in total are accommodated on this coral-fringed island floating just off Tanzania’s fabled Zanzibar Island. With no mod-cons to disturb you, this is the place to go if intimate, barefoot strategising is the order of the day. Simple, eco-friendly and exclusive, you’ll soon be resorting to good old fashioned pen-and-paper, then making up for the inconvenience with some of the world’s best snorkelling and a home-cooked dinner by candlelight.
3. Ireland

With sprawling country castles and wild, rain-lashed scenery in abundance, Ireland’s the place to get down to work beside a roaring log fire with perhaps a tot or two of local whisky to grease the cogs. Consider Castle Leslie, the perfect 1000-acre estate for a larger corporate retreat, or Tankardstown, a smaller, stunningly restored Georgian mansion complete with meeting room and set amid glorious parkland.
4. Clayoquot Sound, Canada

At the mouth of a river off the western coast of Vancouver Island, you’ll find the Clayoquot Sound Resort, a series of truly luxury tents harking back to the grand Victorian days of travel. Build team spirit with surfing, kayaking or horse riding adventures, then socialise over a sumptuous locally sourced grilled oyster chowder.
5. Goa, India

Easy to reach with Kingfisher flights from Mumbai or Delhi, retreat to the Park Hyatt Goa for fabulous food, extensive grounds, plenty of space for meetings and a quiet, calm beach to explore once the working day is done. For something more unusual, rent Aashyana, a luxurious villa in Candolim sleeping up to 13 guests, with extra cottages dotted about the grounds and a staff of 19 to cater to your every whim.
6. The Pampas, Argentina

If your idea of relaxation after a long day’s deal-making is a quick game of polo, followed by another of Scrabble, whisk your important colleagues to the red-blooded Estancia El Rocio, where the steaks are juicy and the welcome warm. With just a handful of rooms and few distractions save mile upon mile of grassy Pampas, this is the perfect place for a few people to knuckle down and get things done, stopping for a bracing gallop whenever the adrenalin needs pumping.
7. Conrad, Bali

With a solid reputation for its business traveller-friendly facilities – including its own dedicated meeting planner – along with the perks of a beachfront Balinese location and its fabulous Jiwa Spa, the Conrad is the perfect destination for a tropical conference.
8. The Nam Hai, Vietnam

Stunning villas set along a mile of central Vietnam coastline – and within easy reach of several UNESCO World Heritage sites for those moments off work – the Nam Hai, now offering corporate facilities, makes for a thoroughly tranquil retreat, with the option of a few five o’clock rounds on the nearby Casuarina-brushed Montgomerie Links golf course.
9. Nikoi Island, Bintan Islands, Indonesia

Hold important talks uninterrupted on this incredible island just one degree north of the equator; eco-friendly and with no in-room television to disturb you, it’s a massage rather than CNN on the menu during downtime. Don’t worry, though: there’s cell-phone reception so the office can still reach you – if you choose to let it.
10. Hollywood, USA

Though it might not be strictly conducive to getting much work done, credit yourself as Executive Producer no matter what your real vocation at the venerable Chateau Marmont, the stuff of real Hollywood legend. With secretarial services readily available, you can make that once-in-a-lifetime deal at the Bar Marmont then have someone else type it up for you whilst you discretely spot celebrities around the pool.



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wow,,
thnkss veer..
akhan khol ditian :)

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PJ Games / Re: This or That
« on: January 24, 2013, 09:51:44 PM »
Bike :hehe:

bullet or karizma.. :wait:

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PJ Games / Re: This or That
« on: January 24, 2013, 09:36:08 PM »
Math :he:

long drive or nikki jyi :he:

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Congratttsssss bai oyyee :hehe:

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PJ Games / Re: which pj member do u miss ryt now?
« on: January 23, 2013, 10:32:35 PM »
Kamal :) silky :) param :) sekhon :) mehak :) pindu :)

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We all love Sardar jokes. But do you know that Sikhs are one of the hardest working, prosperous and diversified communities in the world!
My friend told me about the following incident which I wish to share with you. It has had a deep impact on my thinking.

During the last vacation, a few friends came to Delhi . They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar and boys being boys, these pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to tease the old man. But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed..

At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid the cab hire charges. The Sardar returned the change, but he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said,”Sons, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in bad taste. Still, I don’t mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world. But I have one request. I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this or any other city !!!”

My friend continued, “That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn’t find a single Sardar begging anywhere.”

MORAL:
The secret behind their universal success is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication and pride. A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, run a fruit juice stall, take up small time carpentry, … but he will never beg on the streets

Because Sikhs contribute:

* 33% of total income tax
* 67% of total charities
* 45% of Indian Army

* 59,000++ Gurudwaras serve LANGAR to 5,900,000+ people everyday!


& All this when THEY make only 1.4% of the total INDIAN POPULATION..


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