Eight Tips for dealing with criticism...

The Happiness Project is a blog I read very often, Gretchen Rubin has very interesting things to say and deal with every day life circumstances and remain happy through those experiences.

She has a useful post on how to deal with criticism. I don't handle criticism particularly well, though consciously I've tried to improve myself in this department for last 2-3 years. There are some tips which I've applied on ocassions and it has worked, but discipline and patience is missing during most times.

Please read her post here.

Top 3 Most Watched Sports in the World

Since the Cricket World Cup is beginning in next few days, a debate at work about the most watched Sports started my quest to find out the Top 3 Most Watched Sports in the World. Someone asked me this question and my immediate reply was:

1. Soccer
2. Cricket
3. Was not sure, Tennis or Golf

Being from the Indian sub-continent Cricket had to be in the list, I even joked that if the population of India increases further it can be the most watched Sport.

My colleague asked me a valid point, What do the Chinese and people in Far East follow? I was not sure what sports do they watch. This can change viewer-ship rankings. She told that Tennis might be No 2 and Cricket might be No 3. Seems reasonable, but does anyone have a better answer to this question.

Which are the Top 3 Most Watched Sports ?

A thumbnail of a 20-20 cricket match between England and Sri Lanka (Image Courtesy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:England_vs_Sri_Lanka.jpg)

Best Photos from the World Press

We all take lots of pictures of ourselves, when we travel, when there's an occasion, party, marriage, birthday and with the world going digital it's been very easy to store and share these memories. Sometimes the best pictures are taken by random amateur photographers and whenever I see these random pics on Flickr or Photobucket I get encouraged to learn and better understand the art of photography rather than just clicking them from a distance without any understanding of the camera, lens or the light.

I came across the website for the World Press Photo organization (non-profit) which organizes the worlds largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. World Press Photo of the Year 2006 goes to a picture by a US photographer of some young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by war. Also while you're there don't forget to check out the Prizewinners Galley 2007 There are some mind-blowing pictures especially of the US marine returning back to marry (Portraits), Darfur Refugees (General News), Settler woman struggles with Israeli security officer (People in the News).
Go help yourself and see something nice! (Winners of the contest from 1955-2006)

While on the topic of pictures/photos, Techcrunch gives a nice overview of the Online Photo editing websites. This is a very hot space and there are lots of Web 2.0 companies in this area.

Anyone wants to share any of their random work ?

Quote of the day

First of all, I'm back after my 2 month long hiatus. I'm all fine, nothing happened to me, BUT But but I did get into trouble. The trouble that I've got myself into is to be HAPPY, CONTENT and SPARKLING henceforth with this nice and beautiful person. Most of my friends know but for all that who don't I did meet this amazing girl who I've decided to spend my life with. And I'm all happy, excited, ecstatic, cheerful for this new life ahead. I hope to continue with my regular blogging going forward.

So the random saying that I remembered when I overheard something was

"It's not what you don't know, it's what you know that generally lands you in trouble"
- Some random website which I don't remember now.

There are so many occasions in life where you're like..... 'GOSH, It would have been so much better had I not known about this thing'. Well, personally I feel that so many times; at work, with friends and family. Its just so much better if you don't all the complex details and politics of human relationships with each other. I hate times when I've to behave as if I don't know about some news, issues when I actually know them. I would rather like to be surprised by not knowing them than to put up a false face. Anyways, that's me.

What are your thoughts ?