Fun Feng Shui Horoscope : Make a wish

Take just a minute to take this test & see what happens!
If you are honest this tells the truth -- it's pretty good.

Write your answers on a paper, NO cheating!!

There are no tricks in this, it is straight forward !

The answers are at the bottom...

1. Which is your favorite color: red, black, blue, green, or yellow?
   
2. Your first initial?
   
3. Your month of birth??
   
4. Which color do you like more, black or white?
   
5. Name a person of the same sex as yours.
   
6. Your favorite number?
   
7. Do you like California or Florida more? ( You might not know the difference ! but does not matter)
   
8. Do you like a lake or the ocean more?
   
9. Write down a wish (a realistic one)

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Answers:

1. If you chose:

   Red - You are alert and your life is full of love.

   
   Black - you are conservative and aggressive
   
   Green - Your soul is relaxed and you are laid back
   
   Blue - You are spontaneous and love kisses and affection from the ones you love.
   
   Yellow - You are a very happy person and give good advice to those who are down.

2. If your initial is:
   
   A-K - You have a lot of love and friendships in your life.
   
   L-R - You try to enjoy your life to the maximum and your love life is soon to blossom.
   
   S-Z - You like to help others and your future love life looks very good.

3. If you were born in:
   
   JAN - MAR: The year will go very well for you and you will
   discover that you fall in love with someone totally unexpected.
   
   APR - JUN: You will have a strong love relationship that will
   last forever.
   
   JUL - SEP: You will have a great year and will experience a
   major life-changing experience for the good.
   
   OCT - DEC: Your love life will be great, you will find your soul mate.

4. If you chose...
   
   Black: Your life will take on a different direction, it will be
   the best thing for you, and you will be glad for the change.
   
   White: You have a friend who completely confides in you and
   would do anything for you, but you may not realize it.

5. This person should be your best friend.

6. This is how many close friends you will have in your lifetime.

7. If you chose:
   
   California : You like adventure.
   
   Florida : You are a laid back person.

8. If you chose:
   
   Lake : You are loyal to your friends and your lover and are very
   reserved.
   
   Ocean: You are spontaneous and like to please people.

9. This wish will come true if you send this to 1 person in one
   hour. Send it to ten people, and it will come true before your next
   Birthday.
   Enjoy...

Google Gmail New Feature multiple panes inside mail box

Google has come out with another cool feature in its ubiquitous mail application GMail. It is multiple panes inside mail box.

It is interesting that Google is bringing out more interesting features for GMail like

• Offline Gmail
• New Shiny Buttons and drop down boxes for various actions
• Themes and colors to decorate the email box
• Color Palette for Labels
• Add any gadgets by URL
• etc...

Some of these are already available and remaining are part of GMail Labs. Well , not all the features of Google Labs will work on all of the browsers. As well as , if these features are not liked or need modifications, it can be taken away. But still, there are lots of cool functionality for online email application here. The latest feature from Labs is to display multiple panels in your mail inbox. GMail team call it as the Multiple Inboxes. Interestingly it allows you to open different emails in different pane. Help you organize your mail box conversation thread wise. In turn improve readability and productivity. Plus it is fun. :D)

• How to enable Multiple Inboxes in GMail?
  • First go to your gmail and click on settings.
  • Then choose Labs Tab.
  • Find "Multiple Inboxes"
  • Then click "Enable" radio box.
  • And click on save changes button at the bottom of settings panel.
  
  • Once you save changes, check for a small green Lab container sign on top right corner.
  • Also you will notice a new tab on Settings Panel. It is Multiple Inboxes.
  
• How to configure your multiple Inboxes?
  • Change to Multiple inboxes tab
  • Below you will find the various personalization attributes for configuration:
  • You will notice five panes with two text boxes filled with is:starred and is:drafts.
  • It will allow you to choose maximum page size. That is total number of mails/items per pane.
  • Next thing it will let you do is to choose where the extra pane would be positioned.
  • You can configure panes to show mail items grouped under labels, or to display mail folders or to check chat records
  • Play with it and come up with your choice of mail box.
  
• How does GMail with Multiple Inboxes look like?
  • The picture is worth 1000 words. Here you go...
  

Another interesting fact is that Octavian "Vivi" Costache the Software Engineer who has developed this feature has implemented this cool Labs feature in his 20% time. This feature will allow to reduce time monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away and focusing on more important conversation. Enjoy...

Lists : For success, To measure Success and To repeat Success

Lists are so important. They already part of our life day and night. List of daily life chores, items, tasks, bills, receipts, photos, memories and everything. That gives us an idea what we are up to, where we need to go.

I would categories list into two categories. One is list of items to-do. Another is list of items which are done/accomplished/achieved. The list of items to-do shows us what need to achieved. It allows us to remain focused and stay aligned with the goals and objectives.

The list can start in morning with various simple tasks, get each task ticked off when complete, while items will be added depending on day's progress and then remaining tasks from the list will formulate the part of next day's list. And while looking back through the time and sighting those marked lists, it will give the sense of completion, progress and accomplishment at personal level and at team level too.

Each list may have some tasks which we do not like to do et all but needs to be done. Some tasks, we like to repeat endlessly but does not fits into the life and the concept of society. And sometimes the list has tasks which are important and which we like to do. Lists are either containing one time tasks like getting married or repetitive tasks like going to office/school everyday. The lists keep running and moving forward.

The lists can be prepared on paper, online on Internet, offline on napkins or might be inside our own mind. The place does not matter as long as the lists are followed to the end, completed tasks are marked and remaining & additional items are carried forward.

I have noticed the list gives senses of having in control of what need to be done in this world where the consistent thing is the change. It allows us to look forward for sensing what need to be done in future. The completed list gives us much needed feeling of accomplishment and energy to rise for the occasion for the tasks on the list in hand.

The list for shopping keeps the needs and the wishes pretty separate. It allows to achieve the budget. It allows to bring the items which are required and are urgent.

The list for daily tasks gives the glimpse of the day ahead. Each task then can be broken into small sub lists and can be executed one after another. Or the most difficult but important task could be performed earlier while leaving the smaller task for later part of the list. This reminds me a story.

One day a father approached his family. He had a glass jar, some stones and lots of sand. He asked his family to fill in the jar with all those items. Those who filled in the sand could not get stones in. While bigger stones took almost all the space. The father shown a trick. He broke the bigger stone and pushed the smaller stone pieces down in the glass jar. Then poured sand and then remaining stones. Voila, the jar been filled and nothing remained outside. :D)

Another observation, when there is a project... anything from cleaning house to achieving certain highly sought after deliverable with certain deadline, instead of breaking it in small task list and execute it at a time, mostly tendency is to wait till last moment and try to do that in one big bite. Well, not always this leads to success.

We need lists for success, to measure success and to repeat success. Isn't that your observation ? Can you tell if list make any difference ? How you list the items/tasks?

Cheers...