Author: aabhashg

Aabhash is a tech savvy student and entrepreneur. He contributes to several technology sites, build websites and lives in technology. Master of some arts and also jack of most essential trades in the world. From Kathmandu with love :-)
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Pashupatinath in Pictures

Well, this time, it’s like a photoblog on Pashupatinath. Pashupatinath is one of the most sacred Hindu Temples in the world and one of the UNESCO world heritage sites. It’s in Kathmandu, (in a walking distance from my home) and from a long-long time, I wanted to take go to Pashupatinath and take pictures, a lot of pictures. Today, finally I had the opportunity. Even though it was rainy and the camera battery died before I could be safisfied fully, I have taken so many pictures. Some of them are good and many of them are blurry, fuzzy, dark and out of focus images (I should work a lot on my photography skills).
Camera: Fujifilm Finepix JV1004 (Many thanks to Natalie Blockley for the camera. I brought this precious little thing from her)
All the images were shot at 12Mpixel with Auto/SR Auto and Natural modes. For uploading and web purpose, these images were batch resized to 1600X1200px using Phatch application on Ubuntu.

For now, please enjoy the drive around Pashupatinath temple and may Pashupatinath bless all of us!

UPDATE:
I’ve been tinkering around the image gallery to enhance the visibility and today I deleted all the photos and again uploaded. This time, the pictures are cropped 1024*768 px using Picasa and slight lighting adjustments are applied. I realized that my hosting is not as fast as clould solutions like google or yahoo. So, I decided to put the same photos on the google plus/picasa album as well. Please feel free to view and comment on whichever is convenient.

Pashupatinath: Pashupatinath means the ‘god of the animals’. Pashupatinath is the name for Lord Shiva. There are many legends on how lord Shiva came to be known as Pashupatinath and how the present day Pashupatinath temple is made.
The golden Pagoda temple of Lord Pashupatinath lies on the bank of Holy Bagmati river. On the same river bank, below the temple lies Aryaghat, which is regarded as holy cremation place for the Hindus. Gaurighat, Guheshwari, Kirateshwar, Gaushala, etc are some other holy places around Pashupatinath temple.

Further reading are available on:

Wikipedia Article on Pashupatinath Temple
Pashupatinath information on SAARC Tourism website
Pashupati Development Trust Website (in Nepali only)

Photos will be available here as gallery when we sort out things properly. We’ve just moved in here.

If you want to see them, here’s the link in Google photos.

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What you are to me

My sweetheart,
You are my everything. Everything I am is you. Every bit of me from inside-out, from top-bottom, the breathe I take is yours. I think of you a thousand times in a second, and it's all the same I feel. I am you. My love, I am indebted to you forever.
I love you.
The feeling that you love me  more than anything else, is the reason what makes me live. Your love keeps me alive. I wouldn't breath, if it weren't for you.

My love for you is higher than anything else. It's always your love for me deeper and stronger, always far more than my love for you. I always try I give you more and more. My love, my life, it is just you and it's all in you.
Sweetheart, the feeling that I have you in my life is my life itself. It is my life, my inspiration, my energy and my only hope to live this life. It is amazing. I live for you and I die for you.

I am forever yours and I am heavenly blessed that you are mine. Together we are, forever and ever.
In our nearly perfect love, there are many things, trying to keep us apart. May it be mountains or deep oceans, may it be infinite skies, nothing separates us. We are always ONE. We are eternally connected. What our hearts beat, your heart knows mine, and mine yours. We were never two, merely two bodies, for we are only one.
You smile, I smile, you cry so do I. When I hurt myself, you feel the pain. I feel your agony, when you are in pain. When we make love, we reach happiness together. From the happiest moments to the darkest times, we are together. I am always with you and you are with me.

The smile I see in your face, the moment I realise it is my ultimate happiness. What makes me happy, makes you the same. I long to make you smile and to your happiness I live. Your love for me, the passionate, pure in its form,  true in essence, never ending and never fading, is all I have.
My love, you are the only one. You are the light shining in my heart when darkness covers entire me.  You have always given me hope and meaning to my life. When I see nothing, I see you, when I have everything, I see only you.
When I am feeling lonely and in despair, you hold me like you never let me go. Your touch, the way you look at me with love, your innocence and a little feeling of shyness, is unforgettable. What you make me feel in your arms, is my heaven. My chest for you is where you dwell eternally. How many lives we live, we be the same.

You are the most beautiful girl in the world. Your eyes, when I look at them, I see me and all the love for me. Your lips always longing to kiss mine and your hair underneath, we vanish from this world to ours. Your cheeks, ears, neck, chest, shoulder, waist, thigh, legs, hands, fingers, nails and everything has my name and when I touch all they would recognize me.
I miss you every second. I hear you saying my name everytime your heart beats. I miss you.
Dear, our bodies are not near. But I am there with you and so you are with me. Despair not, please wait a little. I am always yours. I love you.
Your sweet Arjun

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A (mini) Graphene talk

Graphene, the wonder material, one dimensional single atom layer thick, sp2 hybridized Carbon atoms, has been the hottest topic in research these days, since the discovery of its exceptional properties in 2004 by Professor Andre Geim and his team at University of Manchester. Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 was awarded jointly to Professor Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”.

There are now thousands of researchers, scientists, engineers and students who are working on the efficient and commercial production, synthesis, and application of this material. Though graphene applications have remained only inside the laboratories till now, it is expected that, within next few years, we shall see some flexible displays, solar cells, energy storage devices, etc made of graphene.

So what is graphene?
It is harder than diamond, but can stretch like rubber. It is superb conductor of electricity, better than Copper wires. It is almost invisible and weighs almost nothing.
The very same pencil lead (yes, it’s graphite!) that we use for  writing is made of millions of layers of the same material ‘graphene’.

As a student, my encounter with graphene is very new and currently being involved in graphene led me to dig in to the root of the graphene foundation, that is today. From the biography of Professor Andre Geim to the recent studies in production of graphene, I am a learning kid, one of those thousands who are now walking in the graphene road.

Suggestions for further reading in graphene and more:

Graphene (wikipedia article)
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010
Professor Andre Geim (Biography)
Random Walk to Graphene, (Nobel Lecture by Prof Andre Geim)
Professor Andre Geim

And of course there are thousands of publications, many pioneer scientists and researchers and wide range of publicity about graphene, which I am not able to mention here. If you have (further) questions about this exceptional material after reading this post, my objective is fulfilled. I simply wanted to express how I started and how one could start. If you are now following any of these links above, you are already on the road to GREPHENE.