ma storage

1.44MB floppy once could hold all the data you had and still would have space left in it!

I still remember the joy I felt when I was presented with a 256MB pen drive. I thought I would never own enough content to fill her up.

Now four years into the future, the very thought of not able to fill even a 256MB sounds silly. With storage devices beefing up with a lot of storage, I started chasing all the films, music, pictures, ads, albums, wallpapers I wanted to see and have in my personal collection.

I pursued every director I adored - Spielberg, peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, ... I collected all the actors and actresses whose performance I loved the most - Clint eastwood, tom hanks, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Hilary Swank, ...

I went onto music, ads, albums, talks, seminars, ... and god knows what else. It slowly became evident for me that I need to have a gatekeeper for my sea of data.

Whom to trust with my precious collection?

I googled to see what others are saying. For "most reliable external hard disk manufacturer" keywords, google produced a ton of results. I found references to many products but what caught my eye was that there were hardly any complaints against a Seagate product.


And for good reasons.

Sturdy and trendy design coupled with great software makes it the ideal device for all your backups. The five year warranty reflects seagate's confidence on their engineering.

When you plug it into the dock, it immediately lights up as if it is smiling at you. Also its easy to carry around with formfactor comparable to an iPhone.


I can make a lot of people happy with my tera bytes of quality entertainment stuff. when people are happy it shows on the world.

girl friend-no chance

“Hey bro, don’t you have a girl friend?” Fathulla asked looking at me.

We were out of tavels and discussing the rain. Suddenly when he asked me this, I was taken back.

He was still looking at me. I hesitated a little thinking what I should tell him. (Every Maldivian had –which I get to know later)Before I could decide what to say, he added, “You know, with the glamour of yours …”

He shouldn’t have said that.

“Yeah. I know it and so do you. But these girls, they don’t know it. Idiots!”

I was smiling when I said this.

He was smiling too. He knew he had company.

Marriage-o-girlfriend!

What are these girls up to? I can’t help wondering, marriage invitations are poring in on the dozens. Why is everybody in a hurry? Is something going on without my knowledge? Am I being kept in the dark deliberately? Hmm ... that’s not possible. Why would anyone want that? Hard to say.

But seriously, why the rush? Half the girls in my class have either got married or at least got betrothed. But soothingly enough, not even a single boy of my class is not even a mile near this. He he. Boy am I glad or what?
I am also noticing that most of the alliances are happening with NRIs only. Statistics are really frightening. What is wrong with the local boys? The only good thing is that I now have classmates all over the world. I can go on a trip around the globe without any worry of boarding. Free stay! Man ain’t I lucky?

So, where does that leave me? By the time I want to get married two things can happen – either there won’t be any girl left or being a home-grown local could ruin my chances. From the sounds of it, it is true they say that the future is indeed bleak.

location map f tiny land in world map

Maldives is a beautiful group of coral islands that is situated in between 3° 15' North latitude and 73° 00' East longitude. The capital of Maldives, known as Male has a slightly different geographic coordinates. The latitude and longitude reading of Male is 4° 10' North and 73° 31' East. Maldives latitude and longitude has placed the country in such a place that it has been decorated with exotic natural beauties and enjoyable weather .
Maldives has a weather that is tropical and influenced by monsoon climate as well. As a result summer weather here is very hot and humid. But ceaseless cooling breezes from sea mitigates the heat and creates an enjoyable weather. There are mainly two seasons in Maldives which are the rainy season and the dry season. Rainy season is however, preceded by the summer weather . Maldives gets a high amount of annual precipitation that reaches to almost 4,000mm.

land f wonders

Maldives—a chain of 1190 small coral islands, grouped into 26 atolls

The Maldives holds the record for being the lowest country in the world, with a maximum natural ground level of only 2.3 m (7½ ft) with the average being only 1.5 m above sea level, though in areas where construction exists this has been increased to several metres. Over the last century, sea levels have risen about 20 centimetres further rises of the ocean could threaten the existence of Maldives. However, around 1970 the sea level there dropped 20-30 cm.In November 2008, President Mohamed Nasheed announced plans to look into purchasing new land in India, Sri Lanka, and Australia, due to his concerns about global warming and the possibility of much of the islands being inundated with water from rising sea levels. Current estimates place sea level rise at 59 cm by the year 2100. The purchase of land will be made from a fund generated by tourism. The President has explained his intentions, saying "We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades".