Rainwater Harvesting

Rainwater harvesting is one of the best system, introduced in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. This system is basically designed to collect the rain water and storing it for future purposes. Tropical countries like India should follow this system as the scarcity of water is increased in recent years. The failing of monsoon and other changes in climatic factors has disappointed humans in every possible way. So it's better to have a solid backup plan to store the resources and use it for future purposes.

Plucking mangoes

Plucking a mango is a tricky thing. As the mango falls from the top to ground, it’s basically shattered within, inside, so to avoid the collapse, we have invented a tool which can catch the mangoes without its being broken. The tool is made of steel for its rigid and is circular in shape with a line drawn is drawn at its diameter. A cloth is tied to the edge of the circle, allowing to collect the mangoes when it's been plucked. This steel circle is tied to a long stick to pluck the mangoes which are far of a reach. It's been a simple mechanism to follow in plucking mangoes.

Try to place the mangoes on either side of the D-part of the circle and gradually pull the circle towards you. The mangoes are basically drawn into the cloth, thus preventing it from falling on the ground. Later, pull the stick towards you, to reach the mangoes by your hand or keep it in a container. There are cases where people, climb trees to follow this mechanism, in this case to avoid the intake of more storage, generally mangoes are thrown to the ground, with any of your partner collecting it by waving the sack or catching it.

Mobile data usage in andriod phone

Mobile data are switched on and 3g watchdog is installed in the android phone.

Halebopp balance before : 0.27  Sek.

The 62.7 KB is used for sending  and receiving a message in viber, after opening a viber.

Halebopp balance after : 0.27  Sek.

Wonder, how the data usage is calculated?.

Booking a flight ticket

If you are planning to book a flight ticket, plan your schedule much earlier and book the tickets in very advance stage. It's always better to be aware before the time one travels. There are few airlines like apollo.se which provides very cheap tickets to various destinations during the winter months and they also offer the last minute tickets for a very cheap price. Be cautioned while booking tickets during winter months, as the travelling is a bit riskier if the flights won't departs at the right time of the scheduled time, which  in turns cause interruptions or overlap in time with the next schedule.

It's always better to start looking the tickets in the portal websites like Momondo or Skyscanner etc. These websites usually compares with all other websites, which offers for cheap tickets. I usually run a scan by selecting a flexible date, so that it can lists the day, when they can provide prices for a much cheaper price and we can plan the schedule accordingly.

There are some websites which have coupon codes or discount code or voucher code, which offers reduction in the rates of the flight ticket. If you are a frequent traveler, it's advised to travel with the same airlines or the same portal to various destinations, as we saw in the movie "up in the air" the passengers can avail special offers from them, through a points system with the each trip we make.

It is also advisable to check the flight tickets very often before we book them, few airline companies have a reduction in their price system, during the night hours, so it's better to have an eye on the price of the ticket around the clock. I also found a solution with the browser google chrome, where we can open different airlines websites for booking tickets and we can save the whole session and use it to view the same session later. This helps in by saving time and makes the process much easier.

For the students or for the person under 25 years age, there is always a discount available through their student card or mecenat card. There are few travel cards like ITYC or International Youth Travel Card, where the students can shop the card once and avail all the offers in their flight travels.

Supermarkets and their labelled products in Sweden

There are many supermarkets around Sweden to shopping, grocery items and other household stuffs. ICA Maxi, Willys, Netto, Coop Forum, City Gross, Lidl and the list go on, but there are only a few of them are the brands of Sweden and they operate in a much different way. Say for example, Ica Maci and Willys are some of the Swedish brands, who do the production and sales by considering the well fare of the ordinary citizens, which they can afford to for a least living. ICA Maxi produces their products labelled, ICA basic which looks like of the cheaper price, but they can offered by any person with less than a normal income. Similarly Willys offers Eldarado products for the fare amount. Many students, free movers and other local immigrants, who don't have much financial status can get benefit from these locally labelled brand products. These kind of labelled items are not only limited to cosmetics, food or cleaning stuffs, but to any consumer product in that shop. The motto of these products is to provide cheap products with a good quality. There is a rule in Europe, where the items before they go for sale, have to meet the least expectation of marketing standard, before they even go into products, so these kinds of products are trustworthy and reliable. Also the best things of these supermarkets are that they offer a shopping card, where the individual purchases is taken into consideration and discounts are made available with the points scored in total. Sometimes, coupons and discount vouchers are sent to the customers to get both of them benefited and few of the offers are only made available to the customers who hold the shopping card. There are other grocery shops in Sweden like axfood, which only support for bulk orders and they only support for restaurant and other hotel and food businesses. They too offer similar kind of offers to attract customers a help each other’s for good business. Apart from these things, there are many marketing strategies followed in Sweden, like delivering the weekly offers provided by each grocery store and these are made by third party companies like svensk direkt reclaim and posting.

Note: If you have any items purchased earlier or if you purchased items in the other shop and tried to enter a new supermarket, please leave the stuffs outside the shop to avoid complications and embarrassments. 

Is there any real Indian Restaurant in Sweden?

There is "NO" single real Indian restaurant in Sweden as per my knowledge. I have been in Sweden for more than four years and I have travelled places around Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmo in Sweden. What I can find is, most of the Pakistanis and Bangladeshi running the Indian restaurant, with the name of "Indisk restauarang" or ”Indisk Mat". Pity! The same situation continues to be found down in Cph as well. Speaking about authentic Indian restaurant, it's tough to have to in Sweden. As per my experience, many of the swedes are little stereotypic in sticking to very few common food dishes like "Naan", " Chicken Butter masala", "Chicken korma", " raitha" etc and they feel very hard to try any new cuisines introduced to them in the Indian restaurants. Trust me, my friend had a bad experience in selling few of our south Indian dishes in his Indian restaurant in Halmstad, Sweden. Moreover Swedes are not used to eat much hot/spicy food; there are few exceptional ones, who would taste the same amount of spicy food, tasted by any Telugu guy in India. I knew few of the swedes compares the naan bread with the one served in other restaurants in Sweden. Actually this should not be the case, they can only judge or compare, after eating food in any of the 28 states in India. In general people should have a little knowledge, about what kind of food they eat. Talking about Indian food, there are many traditional Indian food in our country, myself from Chennai(Madras) have our own cuisines like "idli", "dosa","sambhar","vada" any many other  varieties of food, which at least 98% of the swedes would have never come across in their life. Most of these foods are supposed to be eaten by hand, which hardly any western would prefer in the first case. The restaurants in Sweden provide the food with the mix of indo-Pakistani/ Pakistani and indo-Bangladeshi/Bangladeshi. Most of these people set their business for their livelihood, rather providing the authenticity in the taste with the food and culture, which they believe to do. There won't be many years to come, where their real identity would be lime lighted to the public.

Youtube, 502 error

Surprise to see that youtube being crashed and left with a page like this below, here in Sweden.

502.
That’s an error.

The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.

That’s all we know.


To check the status of the YouTube in other countries,

Check the website: http://downdetector.com/status/youtube

People can get into the website and make their complaints and also see the status of YouTube in other countries.