What is beauty? This is the more subjective question. Every material in this world has an attribute called beauty associated with it in one way or the other. However depending on the nature of the material the attribute beauty might be termed differently. We say that a girl/boy is beautiful, a home looks good, food is nice. However every material has a common attribute which expresses the pleasant feeling that we get or the pleasure that we feel on seeing/feeling or interacting with it in some form or means.

wikipedia says the history of beauty as follows:-

"The earliest theory of beauty can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the pre-Socratic period, such as Pythagoras. The Pythagorean school saw a strong connection between mathematics and beauty. In particular, they noted that objects proportioned according to the golden ratio seemed more attractive. Ancient Greek architecture is based on this view of symmetry and proportion. Modern research also suggests that people whose facial features are symmetric and proportioned according the golden ratio are more attractive than those whose faces are not."

So is beauty a concrete thing? Is it a more generalist term or definition that every one can agree upon? No.It cannot be generalized to a greater set of audience however it can be assumed to be perceived in common among a group of individuals who share the same set of behaviors, likes and dislikes or atleast a subset of it. A thing or material or person that/who appears to be beautiful in the opinion of one person might not look as beautiful for the other. Every one has their own set of sub parameters that defines this attribute called beauty. This more often gets influenced by the personal interests of the observer. Is this the reason that some of us are not in agreement with the selection of the most beautiful woman or the most handsome men in Miss Universe or Mr universe contests. Probably might be. Or at times we also get influenced by the thoughts of the others in perceiving the beauty. A material or thing or person looks to be beautiful when someone whom we respect or believe feels that it is beautiful and says it so. This is a kind of bias that our internal thoughts creates and considering the fact that we might not be in a position to understand and analyze what really it constitutes to be beautiful.

It has always been my feeling that what appears not to be so beautiful suddenly starts appearing to be beautiful when a couple of my friends says that they feel it is beautiful . not sure of why is it that I have this kind of feeling. Is it me alone? No. This is more or less a common tendency of man that we get carried away or get influenced by many facts. So the beauty is determined by a couple of factors but not limited to, the observer or the person who determines its beauty and also the time. So it is a figure that has 2 or more dimensions. In the perspective of a person the beauty of the thing generally increases over time to a certain extent and then decreases gradually. With only 2 dimensions of the beauty being considered at this point, it can be considered to be following the path of inverted parabola. Lets not consider the fact that Time by itself has multiple dimensions attributed to it at this point of time which will lead to a more obscure problem statement. probably this may not be an exact inverted parabola however it can  be a normal curve also.

Is beauty an absolute or relative value. If it is absolute do we have a measure for it. If it is relative do we have a measure by which we say that a particular thing has ‘x’ factor of beauty when compared to the other thing. Beauty is more often than not a mere relative factor. Though the term Beauty is not a comparative degree in English language. The Term ‘More beautiful’ elicits the relative part of it. So what constitutes a beauty... Nothing. but the perception of a man. It cannot be defined as a set of features or points . It depends on how it is being looked upon by a particular person.  It probably sticks to the definition of WordWeb 'The qualities that give pleasure to the senses'. Probably this is one of the most confusing words that does not have a concrete definition however it has been more widely used.

Disclaimer:- The entire writing is based on my perception alone.

Why does corporates conduct contests???

1. For advertisement by spreading the name.

2. For recruiting talkented individuals.

3.For bringing in more awareness about their products.

4. For getting some of those fresh ideas from the general public...

and the reasons can be many.. its a never ending list....

www.Guruji.com  the Indian search Engine has launched a contest.. And it requires two things to be done by participants..

1. Attempt 5 questions

Here you are required to search for some specific terms and some specific landmarks which ensures you that by the end of answering the 5 questions, you are made to use al the features of Guruji.com and also brings a feeling in you that you should use guruji.com the next time for an Indian specific search..... wowow.. a great innovative idea.. it does not test any capability of an individual.. however Guruji.com is able to achieve its objective... bring people to their site and make it the number 1 search engine in India.. A great marketing mind.....

2. Refer friends:-

Make more people to visit guruji.com... simple business strategy.. Hats off to Guruji.com Team...

Persons who would like to participate in the contest.. mail me at

sundararajan_online [at] hotmail.com . I will send you a link which you can click and continue and try out if you are that lucky person....

yesterday I tried out some of the features of the online web office  by thename of Thinkfree.. It gives you spreadsheets, word docs and also Powerpoint(google does not provide this). It is awesome... the UI is exactly the same as MS office 2003.

visit www.ThinkFree.com for more info....

Once there was a guy and girl who fell in love...

They did NOT marry each other..

They lived happily ever after... :-)   

When we join our first job we continue to believe that this is the best and probably this is our destination. however it does not remain the same throughout.. during the course of time our mind changes. we start to see the opportunities that other jobs provide... somehow we miss to see the opportunities that we are provided that others are eager to have.. things start to take a turn. we start believing that there is something better. Then at one point in time we believe that this job does not fit us any more.... we start searching for a job... however the mentality changes again.. during the course of time if we survive that phase of demoralized attitude in our job , we again start to believe that the job suits us in some sense.. we start deriving some sense out of our current job which was very much explicit earlier also. This phase continues in ones life.... it follows a general Wave pattern...

However after a certain point of time we are sure of some better opportunity or some opportunity that always we dream of... we go in for that... That's the same stuff that has happened to me..We know that what we have is gold... the same gold that we were proud of earlier.. Man is never contented.

Ok having said all that... how the first week of a job is like for me... Yeah a great place to work for...First day when I walked in everything seemed to be new... new energies.. however we get to hear a lot in that place. My mentality relates everything to how I was in my earlier job...suddenly there comes a feeling "Is this the right move???". I definitely know that "It is".. however a slight confusion comes in.. it becomes difficult to digest some of the new stuffs.. then a couple of days passed.. Started liking things.. probably the sequence of events that happened out here might have left a positive impression. luckily I have got 2 good friends out here who have joined with me..  Friday evening when I was returning from my office, i felt that knowingly or unknowingly my mind started thinking in the way of my new company. Started liking the company. Enthusiastic about the new challenges ahead... Also felt like the Monday should come soon.

Looking forward for some interesting stuffs...

 Windows live writer is coool... it is very easy and appealing... my first post from windows live writer