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my roll model Sachin Tendulkar....... He is the best

Dedicated to Sachin fans... ......

"Destined to be a great" -Barry Richards.
 

"He is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him" - Viv Richards.
 

"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours" - Michael Kasprowicz.
 

"It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him" -Allan Border.
 

"There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn't lose to Team India . We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar" -Steve Waugh.
 

"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball  so hard" - Dennis Lillee.
 

"I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd  do okay" -Greg Chappell.
 

"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he   played in my time" - Wasim Akram.
 

"The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him" -Mark Waugh.
 

"Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person I've admired over a 15-year of period, it's definitely Sachin." - Brain Lara
 


"I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player" -Shane Warne.
 


"I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel" -Sir Donald Bradman.
 

"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?'" - Adam Hollioke
 

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it arounad like it's a toothpick? -Brett Lee
 

You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway? -Micheal Kasprowicz
 

Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ? Nothing is a problem? -Geoffrey Boycott.
 

His life seems to be stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one
man. The people see him as a God... ?     Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar.
 

"The fact of the matter is that India still needs Sachin in a big way. All this talk of the youngsters taking over is very foolish. The reason why Tendulkar is so important for the team is because of his ability to inspire others and make them perform under pressure" - Some day on "Times of India".
 
 
 

And, this is the best!!! (A True fan of Sachin carried this Banner in a match..)
 
"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is busy watching him batting!!!."

life requires goal.... how small it is

કોઈ એક ગામમાં અજરામ નામનો એક ભાટ રહેતો હતો. તે આળસુનો પીર હતો. ખાવુંપીવું અને ઊંઘવું એમાં એ આખો દિવસ પસાર કરતો હતો. એ સિવાય એને બીજું કાંઈ કામ નહોતું. એ મોટો થયો ત્યાં સુધી એના પિતાએ એનું પોષણ કર્યું. એના પિતાએ કામધંધો કરવા એને ઘણું સમજાવ્યો પરંતુ એ માન્યો નહિ. એ તો આળસુ જ રહ્યો. એના પિતાના મરણ પછી એની કફોડી સ્થિતિ થઈ. ઘરમાં જે ધન હતું તે બધું ખરચાઈ ગયું.

એક દિવસે એની પત્નીએ એને કહ્યું : ‘આમ આળસુ થઈને ક્યાં સુધી બેસી રહેશો ? ઘરનું બધું ધન ખાવાપીવામાં વપરાઈ ગયું છે. હવે શું ખાશો. ધ્યેય વગરનું જીવન નકામું છે. જીવનમાં કોઈ ને કોઈ લક્ષ્ય હોવું જોઈએ. લક્ષ્ય વગરનું જીવન સુકાન વગરના વહાણ જેવું છે. ગમે તે બાજુ તણાઈ જાય ! બધા લોકો પોતાના જીવન સાથે કંઈક લક્ષ્ય રાખીને જીવે છે. જ્યારે તમારે તો લક્ષ્ય જેવું કંઈ છે જ નહિ. હજુ કંઈ બગડી ગયું નથી. જીવનમાં કંઈક લક્ષ્ય રાખશો તો સુખી થશો.’

અજરામ આળસુ હતો તેથી જીવનમાં મોટું લક્ષ્ય તો તેનાથી પળાય એમ હતું જ નહિ. છતાં કંઈક લક્ષ્ય તો હોવું જ જોઈએ એવું તેને લાગવા માંડ્યું હતું અને પત્ની પણ આખો દિવસ દબાણ કર્યા કરતી હતી. જીવનમાં જેનાથી ઓછી મુસીબત પડે એવું લક્ષ્ય રાખવાનો અજરામે નિર્ણય કર્યો. પત્નીને બોલાવીને તેણે કહ્યું : ‘તારી ઈચ્છા હોવાથી આજથી મેં મારા જીવનનું ધ્યેય નક્કી કરી દીધું છે. આજથી હું આપણા પાડોશી ધનજી કુંભારના ગધેડાના કાન પકડીને પછી જ ખાઈશ. જ્યાં સુધી કાન નહિ પકડું ત્યાં સુધી ખાઈશ નહિ.’ અજરામની પત્નીને અજરામની આવી પ્રતિજ્ઞા સાંભળીને હસવું આવ્યું, પરંતુ તેણે મનમાં વિચારીને કહ્યું : ‘ભલે, જીવનમાં કશું ધ્યેય ન હોય એના કરતાં કંઈક પણ ધ્યેય હોય એ સારું છે.’

હવે દરરોજ સવારે અજરામ ધનજી કુંભારના ગધેડાના કાન પકડીને પછી જ જમે છે. આવી રીતે કેટલાક દિવસો પસાર થઈ ગયા. એક દિવસે વહેલી સવારે ઊઠીને ધનજી કુંભાર પોતાના ગધેડાને લઈને દૂર માટી લેવા માટે ચાલ્યો ગયો હતો. અજરામ ઊઠ્યો ત્યારે એને ખબર પડી કે ધનજી ગધેડાને લઈને માટી લેવા ચાલ્યો ગયો છે. આજે ધનજી મોડેથી ઘેર આવવાનો હતો તેથી અજરામ ગધેડાનો કાન પકડવા માટે ધનજી જ્યાં ગયો હતો ત્યાં ચાલી નીકળ્યો. ધનજી કુંભાર જ્યાં માટી ખોદતો હતો ત્યાંથી તેને માટી ખોદતાં ખોદતાં જમીનમાંથી સોનાનો ઘડો મળ્યો હતો. જમીનમાંથી ઘડો કાઢીને ધનજી ગધેડાની ગૂણમાં મૂકવા જાય છે ત્યાં અજરામ ભાટ આવી પહોંચ્યો. અજરામને જોઈને ધનજી ગભરાઈ ગયો.
અજરામે પૂછ્યું : ‘કેમ ધનજીભાઈ, આ ઘડો ક્યાંથી લાવ્યા ?’
ધનજી કુંભારે કહ્યું : ‘માટી ખોદતાં જમીનમાંથી ઘડો નીકળ્યો છે. એમાં સોનામહોરો છે. તમે રાજાને કહેશો નહિ, નહિ તો તેઓ ઘડો પડાવી લેશે. આપણે બંને જણા અડધી અડધી સોનામહોરો વહેંચી લઈશું.’ અજરામ તો ખુશ થઈ ગયો. બંને જણા અડધી અડધી સોનામહોરો લઈને ઘેર ગયા. અજરામને એના જીવનના ધ્યેયનું ફળ મળ્યું હતું. એ પછી અજરામ ભાટ પોતાના ધ્યેય પ્રમાણે વર્તીને આનંદથી રહેવા લાગ્યો.

New virus:..... beware if u get mail

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Snopes was also apparently checked, and it is for real. Get this E-mail message sent around to all your contacts ASAP.

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!

 

You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK, regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C drive of your computer.

 

This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address on his/her contact list. That is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it!

 

If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even if it is sent to you by a friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN.

 

It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.

 

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Good news for CAs: CAG called for an increase in statutory audit fees of public sector undertaking

The country’s apex audit body Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has called for an increase in fees paid to statutory auditors of all government companies. In a communication sent to managing directors of public sector undertakings (PSUs), the CAG said that with high inflation leading to audit cost escalation and increased compliance burden on auditors, it was “prudent’’ that the fees paid to auditors should be raised. 
“Considering the volume of work, category of professionals deployed, growth in companies and rise in cost of audit due to inflation, it is necessary that the audit fees are increased,” a CAG official told , requesting anonymity.

While it is for the managements of the respective companies to take a call on the issue of fixing audit fees, a missive from the CAG is likely to be taken seriously by PSUs, the official said. There has been negligible increase in audit fees paid by PSUs over the past few years.

The CAG’s suggestion on increasing audit fees follows a series of correspondence it carried out with the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) which has been pushing for a hike to make the job of carrying out statutory annual audits for PSUs lucrative for the domestic CA firms.

Statutory audits of big PSUs often involve more than one CA firm. For instance, NTPC had engaged 6 firms in last year’s annual audit while IOC and ONGC had employed 3 and 5 audit firms respectively. Although larger firms are more generous with the fees paid to auditors, the problem lies with the smaller PSUs which shelve low amounts.

“We take PSU audit as our responsibility to the society and not as an opportunity to make money. But with the cost of compliances increasing, we feel that adequate compensation should be given to PSU auditors,” said ICAI president Uttam Prakash Agarwal. He said that with greater compliances being undertaken to keep up with the stricter norms introduced by the CAG last year, there was a need to adequately compensate auditors for it.

With PSU audit fees often as low as Rs 20,000-25,000, the increase in the fee structure will surely improve quality of the audit process, another official said. Since government auditors are being paid substantially lower fees as compared to CAs working in the private sector, the CAG’s proposal, if taken in the right spirit, will help enhance the quality of audit in PSUs.

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