Praveen A/L Ragupathi

What Is My Name Hidden Meaning

I came across this freaky stuff (What's Your Name's hidden Meaning?). I got to say not every tingy is true about me about 50% only .Others are just nonsenses I think!

You Are Charming and Eloquent

You are influential and persuasive. You tend to have a lot of power over people.
Generally, you use your powers for good. You excel at solving other people's problems.
Occasionally, you do get a little selfish and persuade people to do things that are only in your interest. (Not Sure)

You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something.
You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense.
You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. (Not sure)

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are very hyper. You never slow down, even when it's killing you.
You're the type of person who can be a workaholic during the day... and still have the energy to party all night.
Your energy is definitely a magnet for those around you. People are addicted to your vibe.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.



You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.
You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.
Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way.
And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life.( this is totally opposite) I think it is incorrect
You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it.

You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.
You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. (this is incredibly true)

You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.
Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.
Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.

You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.

You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. (Hmm..this amazingly true ..not bad!)

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Sleepy Heads

Baha'i Conference Held in Malaysia!

I was sleeping most of the time in the conference trying to be honest here!(damn every 10 to 15 minutes knockout..aiyoO). Anyways,the conference was very great and i had the opportunity to meet my long lost friends like Kaniska, Nurvin, the friends from Malacca duno la so many more (tooo many to mention..lazy me!)

Children class was wonderful, i was terrified at first but later on it was okay (Because earlier on i had a bad dream about children that week {small children tried killing me with wat crayons!!! weird nightmare..not lying).

Having to mention i had the chance to take care a physically disable child that was interesting and quiet challenge also. Not bad for a start as a young children class teacher (lots more to learn from Auntie Peng..my Cik Gu) i have learned that children class You need Alot of 'Patient' (got to add that to my virtue list).

Anyways, the conference really pump up my spirit as a Bahai Youth all thanks to the Heroes Are They Project(Planing to start something in Nilai)At least something in Nilai.

Youths Can Move The World!

Youths Forever Rock!

Hell Yeah!

( i'm super high spirit and also abit crazy today! Beware) I think it is because of 3 cups of coffee (Caffeine)

To End,this Conference is the best ever held in Malaysia fullstop!

Myths about the Brain

Can Get Holes in Your Brain Through Drug Use?

Exactly how different drugs affect your brain is a pretty controversial subject. Some people claim that only the most severe drug use can have any lasting effects, while others believe that the first time you use a drug, you're causing long-term damage. One recent study states that using drugs like marijuana only cause minor memory loss, while another claims that heavy marijuana use can permanently shrink parts of your brain. When it comes to using drugs like cocaine or Ecstasy, some people even believe that you can actually get holes in your brain.

In truth, the only thing that can actually put a hole in your brain is physical trauma to it. Researchers do claim that drugs can cause short-term and long-term changes in the brain. For example, drug use can lower the impact of neurotransmitters (chemicals used to communicate signals in the brain) like dopamine, which is why addicts need more and more of the drug to achieve the same feeling. In addition, changes in the levels of neurotransmitters can result in problems with neuron function. Whether this is reversible or not is also up for debate.
On the other hand, a study in New Scientist from August 2008 states that long-term use of some drugs actually causes certain structures in the brain to grow, resulting in a permanent change. They claim that this is which is why it's so difficult to change the behaviors of addicts.
But although the jury's still out on exactly how different drugs can affect your brain for the long term, we can be reasonably sure of one thing: No drug actually puts holes in your brain.

An Exam That Is Not Worth Taking

WELCOME to stPM

I got a call from my long long friend (best friend actually) saying to me that he is coming to INTI to study (SAM) South Australian Matriculation . And I said what the hell (I though You where doing STPM!!) And he goes on telling me that he was not the only one coming to college to start all over again but majority of them are doing so ~( Omg! Wat On earth have Malaysian Education have been?) Why is it STPM tat freaking hard? Is it to kill the NOn-Malays is it!

I simply don't understand the reason behind it ! Damn............Malaysia B*LL SH*T

Bored? Your brain is disconnecting

PAY attention please, using as much of your brain as possible.

When your mind wanders during a boring task, it may be because parts of your brain simply disconnect.
Knowing that activity in different brain regions changes when attention lapses, Daniel Weissman of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, wondered if there were also changes in the crosstalk between regions.
Weissman asked volunteers to spend a tedious hour in a functional-MRI brain scanner, identifying letters that flashed on a screen.

At times, their reactions slowed, showing that attention was wavering. During these lapses, communication between regions related to self-control, vision and language processing died down. "Attention failed to grease the connections in the brain.

This is equivalent to these regions disconnecting, he says. Weissman presented the results at a recent neuroscience meeting.
Attention is like a communication amplifier that only focuses on the connections between certain regions at certain times, says Weissman.

When the amplifier switches to a new set of connections, existing ones weaken. Communication between those regions slows and attention lapses.
The researchers also noticed one particular region "lit up" during lapses, and used this to predict when the mind would switch its focus.

My Opinion

SO all this while my brain is disconnecting when i am bored la.. Okay fine, i can live with that..!

Nobel laureate may be next US energy secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen a Nobel laureate for US energy secretary and is likely to pick an environmental veteran to serve as coordinator of climate policies, Democratic Party officials said on Wednesday.
Rounding out his cabinet, Obama planned to announce at a Chicago news conference on Thursday that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, would lead efforts to improve the health care system as the secretary of Health and Human Services.
Simmering in the background is the scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested on Tuesday and charged with attempting to sell the US Senate seat that Obama had held until he was elected president on 4 November. Obama on Wednesday called on Blagojevich to resign and has sought to distance himself from the disgraced governor.
Announcements to come in the days ahead include several key environment-related appointments - Steven Chu as energy secretary, Carol Browner as energy and climate coordinator, Nancy Sutley to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Lisa Jackson to run the Environmental Protection Agency.

Steven Chu shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for figuring out how to chill atoms to a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero.His undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics were from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D from UC Berkeley. He has been awarded ten honorary degrees and has held numerous visiting lectureships at universities including Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and the Collège de France. (Dude this guy is smart!! No joke.)

Scientific Solutions

They will be charged with developing policies to reduce carbon emissions blamed for global warming, develop new sources of energy and create new jobs - a top priority for Obama.

Chu is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was an early advocate for scientific solutions to climate change. Go Obama>>

10 Years of the International Space Station (ISS)

Floating 190 miles above the Earth's surface, the extraplanetary crash pad known as the International Space Station careens through the sky at an average of over 17,000 miles per hour, making almost 16 Earth orbits a day.
Set for completion in 2011, it's been 10 years since construction first began on the ISS. The final version will double its current capacity of three residents to six and provide incalculable contributions to science. In honor of its 10th birthday, I've assembled some of my favorite photos from the space station's . A glimpse at one of the world's most impressive sci-fi realities.

The International Space Station is seen here in front of the Earth's horizon

Ooops! Cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin (right) and Oleg V. Kotov (center), Expedition 15 commander and flight engineer, respectively, representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor *pose* for a photo in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station(ISS).(Still duno why Malaysian government sent this guy to space that also (tumpang wan), I my opinion it is just a complete waste of peoples money!!) "Malaysia Boleh" I guest!

Ten ways to save the world

Ten Technologies to save the planet, a new book by a business man and climate-change commentator Chris Goodall, says climate change can be over come if we adopt the following energy source and technologies :

1. Wind power
Despite a reputation for being unreliable, wind power has the potential to provide more than 30% of the world's electricity. The wind does not blow constantly, (of course) so we will need to develop better ways of storing the energy we generate with it. And rather than being used purely locally, wind energy will have to be distributed between different states and countries.

2. Solar energy

The sun provides more than enough energy to power the world many times over - we just need to come up with an effective way of capturing this energy. Current solar panels are relatively inefficient, but increasing investment in solar cells is producing better models which capture more energy and cost less to produce.

3. Power from the oceans

Tides, waves and currents possess huge potential for low-carbon energy generation, but efforts to harness them have been hampered by the difficulty of designing devices that can tolerate harsh oceanic conditions.This year, however, power-generating buoys that harness wave energy 50 metres underwater were put to the test in the UK, and the world's first commercial-scale tidal turbine delivered electricity to the UK national grid.

4. Combined heat and power

Waste heat accounts for about 40% of the energy produced by power stations. One way to avoid this is to bring the power station into the home( by installing domestic microgenerators). These miniature power plants are almost as efficient as huge generators and the heat they produce can be used to heat our homes and water.

5. Super-efficient homes

Instead of building new houses that are "zero carbon", a better - and cheaper - way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from domestic housing is to eco-renovate existing buildings. Germany is leading the way with the PassivHaus movement, which aims to reduce emissions by 80-90% through measures such as insulating walls and windows and using improved ventilation methods that don't lose heat.

6. Electric cars

Electric cars have a bad reputation when it comes to style and speed, two factors that matter to car enthusiasts. But electric sports cars like the Tesla Roadster can give petrol-powered models a run for their money. Though they're (not cheap at the moment), prices are likely to come down as batteries improve.

And with running costs as little as 5% those of diesel models, electric cars will soon start to look like a more viable option. Recent research has even suggested that electric cars could act as energy stores for the power grid when not being driven.

7. Second-generation biofuels

Making fuel from food crops is now almost *(universally regarded as a bad idea) , encouraging deforestation and potentially leading to food shortages. But the next generation of biofuels made from agricultural waste shows real promise. Using new cellulose-cracking technologies, waste wood can be broken down into liquid fuel, and with US venture capitalists investing heavily in these technologies, it won't be long until this idea becomes a reality. However, with the global appetite for fuel on the increase, careful management of cellulose production will be vital.

8. Carbon capture

With the growth of renewable energy sources failing to keep up with world demand for electricity, finding an effective way of capturing and storing the carbon dioxide produced by power stations is one of the most important challenges we face. Investment in carbon-capture technologies has been slow to pick up, but governments around the world are starting to understand the importance of funding this research, and promising new technologies are already emerging.

9. Biochar

With predictions of climate change getting increasingly urgent, we desperately need cheap, simple and fast ways of reducing greenhouse emissions. One idea is to sequester carbon as biochar, a charcoal made from burning agricultural waste in the absence of air. Biochar is exceptionally stable and can be stored underground for hundreds of years without releasing its carbon into the atmosphere - and it improves the fertility of the soil.

10. Biogas stoves

Deforestation is a complex issue, and it's looking more and more likely that we will have to pay people to maintain forest lands. But until such a system is up and running, we will need to focus on technologies that reduce the need to cut down trees. One such technology is biogas stoves, powered by methane released from rotting organic waste, which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Leading the way is China, which is heavily promoting the use of biogas technologies.