German had the fish

1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Nor	Dane	Brit	German	Swede
Yellow	Blue	Red	Green	White
Water	Tea	Milk	Coffee	Beer
Dunhill	Blend	Pall Mall	Prince	Blue Master
Cat	Horse	Bird	..........	Dog

Answer to the quiz below

http://parinrshah.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/intelligent-quiz.html

Happy New Year - see list if you do not understand English

Dear Friends,

Happy New Year to all

I thought as a child that if you do something on the new year day, you may have to do it for rest of the year.

I am working tomorrow..........................

Adhola: Bothi Oro Manyeni

Afgani: Saale Nao Mubbarak

Alsacian: E Glecklichs Nej Johr!

Albanian: Gezuar Vitin e Ri

Arabic: Kul 'am wa antum bikhair

Armenian: Snorhavor Nor Tari

Assyrian: Sheta Brikhta

Afrikaans: Gelukkige nuwe jaar

Assamese: Rongaali Bihur Xubhessaa Lobo

Azeri: Yeni Iliniz Mubarek!

Bamoun: Poket Lum Mfe

Bafut: Mboni Alooyefee

Banen: Hion Hios Hes

Balochi: Noki saal mubarrak bibi

Bengali: Shuvo Nabo Barsho

Breton: Bloavezh Mat

Bulgarian: ×åñòèòà Íîâà Ãîäèíà(pronounced "Chestita Nova Godina")

Cambodian: Soursdey Chhnam Tmei

Catalan: FELIÇ ANY NOU

Chakma: Nuo bazzor bekkunore

Chinese: Xin Nian Kuai Le

Corsican: Pace e Salute

Croatian: Sretna Nova godina!

Cymraeg/Welsh: Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

Czech: Stastný Novy rok (or Stastny Novy rok)

Danish: Godt Nytar

Dhivehi: Ufaaveri Aa Aharakah Edhen

Dutch: GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR!

Eskimo: Kiortame pivdluaritlo

Esperanto: Felican Novan Jaron

Estonians: Head uut aastat!

English: Wishing you all happy new year!

Ethiopian: MELKAM ADDIS AMET YIHUNELIWO!

Ethiopian/Eritrean Tigrigna:RUHUS HADUSH AMET

Finnish: Onnellista Uutta Vuotta

Flemish: Beste wensen

French: Bonne Annee

Gaelic: Bliadhna mhath ur

Galician: Bo Nadal e Feliz Aninovo

German: Prosit Neujahr

Georgian: GILOTSAVT AKHAL TSELS!

Greek: Kenourios Chronos

Gujarati: Nutan Varshbhinandan

Hawaiian: Hauoli Makahiki Hou

Hebrew: L'Shannah Tovah

Hindi: Naye Varsha Ki Shubhkamanyen

Hong kong: (Cantonese) Sun Leen Fai Lok

Hungarian: Boldog Ujevet Kivanok

Indonesian: Selamat Tahun Baru

Iranian: Sal -e- no mobarak

Iraqi: Sanah Jadidah

Irish: Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit

Italian: Felice anno nuovo

Japan:: Akimashite Omedetto Gozaimasu

Kabyle: Asegwas Amegaz

Kannada: Hosa Varushadha Shubhashayagalu

Kisii: SOMWAKA OMOYIA OMUYA

Kihaya: Waihhuka n'Omwaka

Kikamba: Na Mwaka Mweu Museo

Kinyarwanda: Umunsi Mwiza

Khasi: Snem Thymmai Basuk Iaphi

Khmer: Sua Sdei tfnam tmei

Korea: Saehae Bock Mani ba deu sei yo!

Kurdish: NEWROZ PIROZBE

Latvian: Laimigo Jauno Gadu!

Lithuanian: Laimingu Naujuju Metu

Laotian: Sabai dee pee mai

Macedonian: Srekjna Nova Godina

Madagascar: Tratry ny taona

Makassar: Salama' Taun Baru

Malay: Selamat Tahun Baru

Malagasy: Tratry ny taona

Mandarin: Xin Nian Kuai Le

Mangolian: Shine Zhiliin Mend Khurg'e

Marathi: Nveen Varshachy Shubhechcha

Malayalam: Puthuvatsara Aashamsakal

Mizo: Kum Thar Chibai

Maltese: Is-Sena t-Tajba

Nepal: Nawa Barsha ko Shuvakamana

Newari: Nhu Da Ya Vintuna

Norwegian: Godt Nyttar

Oromo: Baga Wagaa Hara Isinin Gaye

Oriya: Nua Barshara Subhechha

Papua New Guinea: Nupela yia i go long yu

Pampango (Philippines): Masaganang Bayung Banua

Pashto: Nawai Kall Mo Mubarak Shah

Persian: Sal -e- no mobarak

Philippines: Manigong Bagong Taon!

Polish: Szczesliwego Nowego Roku

Portuguese: Feliz Ano Novo

Punjabi: Nave sal di mubarak

Romanian: AN NOU FERICIT

Romansch: Vantirevel Bumang

Russian: S Novim Godom

Samoa: Manuia le Tausaga Fou

Serbo-Croatian: Sretna nova godina

Sindhi: Nayou Saal Mubbarak Hoje

Singhalese: Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa

Siraiki: Nawan Saal Shala Mubarak Theevay

Slovak: Stastny Novy rok

Slovenian: sreèno novo leto

Somali: Iyo Sanad Cusub Oo Fiican!

Spanish: Feliz Ano ~Nuevo

Swahili: Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº

Swedish: GOTT NYTT AR! /Gott nytt ar!

Sudanese: Warsa Enggal

Tamil: Eniya Puthandu Nalvazhthukkal

Tibetian: Losar Tashi Delek

Telegu: Noothana samvatsara shubhakankshalu

Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai

Turkish: Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Ukrainian: Shchastlyvoho Novoho Roku

Urdu: Naya Saal Mubbarak Ho

Uzbek: Yangi Yil Bilan

Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Tan Nien

The list is not validated so there will be mistaken please spend tomorrow correcting them.

In-depth 2012 analysis: a lot to be thankful for.

For 2013 I am going back to the drawing board, and back to the blog.

Happy New Year everyone.

Parin 

thanks Kristof - the spelling has been changed

Intelligent Quiz

please post the answer if you get it

Einstein's Intelligence Quiz 

Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.

• There are 5 houses in 5 different colours
• In each house lives a person with a different nationality
• These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
• No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here's the question: Who owns the fish?

1. The Brit lives in a red house
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. The green house is on the left of the white house
5. The green house owner drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.

Bar Stool Economics

 A new post after a long time some thing which I have dug from the past

 

A professor of economics put this together to show how our current tax system works based on each segment of our population.

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Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

 

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay $1.

The sixth would pay $3.

The seventh would pay $7.

The eighth would pay $12.

The ninth would pay $18.

The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

 

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers, he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

 

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.  But what about the other six men - the paying customers?  How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

 

And so:

 

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).

The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).

The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25%savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59  (16% savings).

 

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

 

'I only got a dollar out of the $20,' declared the sixth man.  He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

 

'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I did!'

'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two?  The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

 

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

 

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

 

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics, University of Georgia

 

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Happy Diwali and A Very Happy New Year

I am probably one of the last ones writing and wishing people happy Diwali. exciting day yesterday.
Parin Shah and two junior Shahs went around half Cardiff for more than an hour to look for firecrackers - Sorry fire works to be correct
First time my kids wanted it. guess where did I find in my garage enough to last for more than an hour. I am getting SMART.

This is my first message of the New year with a wish for a very prosperous new year for all ahead.
There was very poor attendance to Badminton last night only 6 showed up  and hence got a chance to play toooooooooooo many games - NICE. wish there is Diwali every Tuesday

It is said if you do something on New Year day than you have to do every day for next whole year and hence I am leaving for work. Lucky who are on leave of whatever kind................

Monday

Nice start to the school holiday week with good 12 hours of sleep.

Have listened to songs, played my pc game,  worked on a paper and bought a nice £ 1 pound currency yesterday from Scotland waiting it to be mailed to me

By the way Sidney Sixers won the Champions trophy - but who cares, wasn't aware that the competition exists. But surely my friends in Sydney know all about it.

Last week I was upset with my little one so I deleted all recorded cartoons and this morning elder one managed to retrieve all. Even I don't know how to do it. Now he is hero and I am Monster!!!!!!

 but is going in the right direction. If you have a gadgets, you should know how to use it.

Anybody has tried Google scholar nice stuff - please see attached link

http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=MKTKgXQAAAAJ&hl=en

Parin

Champions League Twenty 20

October

28

15:30 GMT

17:30 SAST

21:00 IST

V

Highveld Lions v Sydney Sixers

Final

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

ON CHANNEL 411

Never heard of them 

Unusual Penny

I am visiting Barclay's now on weekly basis to get more 50 pence coins to complete my another set of Olympic coins.

I went to 300 pennies last week and the penny normally we find are

let have a look at the unusual  one

It says Bailiwick of Jersey

Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery Course and Masterclass 2013

After the success of the last masterclass, we have started plan for one in 2013

please watch this space or doctors academy website for update.

Alternatively please contact me via this blog if anybody is interested

Mind Game 2% or 98%

This is strange...can you figure it out?    Are you the 2% or 98% of the population?   Follow the instructions! NO PEEKING AHEAD! Do the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.   There's no trick or surprise.   Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can!   Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each of them ... really. Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss something). Think of a number from 1 to 10   Multiply that number by 9  If the number is a 2-digit number, add the digits together  Now subtract 5  Determine which letter in the alphabet corresponds to the number you ended up with (example: 1=a, 2=B, 3=c,etc.)  Think of a country that starts with that letter  Remember the last letter of the name of that country  Think of the name of an animal that starts with that letter  Remember the last letter in the name of that animal  Think of the name of a fruit that starts with that letter  Are you thinking of a Kangaroo in Denmark eating an Orange ?    I told you this was FREAKY!! If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think of something else. 98% of people will answer with kangaroos in Denmark when given this exercise. From a Friend

Surgeon

Wanted to be Physician but became a surgeon, don't know why????

What is a Surgeon?

"A surgeon should be youthful or at any rate nearer youth than age; with a strong and steady hand that never trembles, and ready to use the left hand as well as the right; with vision sharp and clear, and spirit undaunted; filled with pity, so that he wishes to cure the patient, yet is not moved by his cries, to go too fast, or cut less than is necessary; but he does everything just as if the cries of pain cause him no emotion".  

published in BMJ,     --------   can somebody please translate in English

I also found a nice English Proverb 

"A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

This must be an animal lover lets send him to jungle

Than I found something nice

A physician is someone who knows everything and does nothing. 

A surgeon is someone who does everything and knows nothing.

A psychiatrist is someone who knows nothing and does nothing.

A pathologist is someone who knows everything and does everything too late. 

Looks like somebody missed my anaesthetist & gynaecologist friends

Personally

"A surgeon can only be a surgeon if he has an EGO”        

 Parin Shah 2012

BUT the best was yet to come

                                                                                                                ThankYou

T20 to Champions trophy

Well done West Indies for winning the T20 world cup. Big achievement, they won the last world cup in 1979  and  ICC champions trophy in 2004. This team has come a long way. I still remember the small miniature pepsi bottle, cricket ball and cricket bat signed by Kapil dev. This was the time when Malcolm Marshall used to be terror fast bowler with strong Windies batting line up. of 80s.

feel sorry for Srilanka, having lost world cup last year with India in Mumbai and now losing second time against West Indies in their Home ground.

could only watch few over but enjoyed it

Champions trophy is being played in the UK with opening game being played in cardiff June 6th. I think this is the time to go for tickets. India is playing South Africa. Any body interested .....................................

http://www.icc-cricket.com/home  This is the official site of ICC for fixtures

In the closing note, ENGLAND is coming to India,  cheering for white wash.

By the way got my album for the Olympic coins - shall update pictures later

Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery Course and Masterclass 2012

An excellent course this year with 4 live operating cases in two days and good discussion from all faculty.
19 Delegates from across the UK and one from Canada attended the course
We had faculty from Cardiff, Swansea, Manchester, Newport and Of course Merthyr Tydfil

Thanks to all faculty, organisers, secretaries, doctord academy,Theatre and wards staff,  IT dept and wonderful Postgraduate education Centre at Prince Charles Hospital - Lot of effort went behind the scene to make this course successful.

Anybody want to learn please contact via this blog with email address and will send details

Will upload photos Later once I receive them and now for preparation for next year.

Hope India will win tomorrow match against Pakistan, my son plays better cricket than what they showed on Friday  at least he tries HARD.

Hwyl fawr  - Means good bye in Welsh.................................................I guess

TEAMS FIXING

T20 SUPER EIGHTS STAGE

Group 1

England  - New Zealand - Srilanka - South Africa

Group 2 

Australia - India - Pakistan - South Africa

May catch glimpse of India - Pakistan on Sunday - T20 actually starts now - draws in cricket world cup are always designed to get this these eight teams in the super eight. 

I call it TEAM FIXING

Would you imaging who will watch Zimbawe and Afghanistan final - it will never happen just e.g. 

Back to work for the Laparoscopic colorectal masterclass working on some presentation for two day course in the hospital

Ganesh Festival

2012 glimpse

Pasta

Just wondering would you invite your friends at home and feeds only pasta........................                                

They are friends aren't they?

Cricket T20

India, England, South Africa and Sri Lanka are definitely moving to Super eights.
A big match tomorrow between India and England. have cleared afternoon to watch the game.
England are |T20 champions and they are playing well. Lets see..........
Hope they had got their pads with them

 thanks to Cartoon stock

Wasted Trip

wake up early to go Exeter to see this exciting new operation being done.
Did all the home work last night - usual habit,  internet search, anatomy etc.
Some SMART rep forgot to mention that the case has been cancelled and hence had to drive all the way to Exeter and than drive back without seeing operation.
218 mile of joy ride with waste of valuable 5 hours on the day when you are officially not working.
Isn't it true
"Common sense is not that common"

Hope I am not rude...................

T20 World Cup

So finally T20 world cup is underway with Srilanka winning the first match. Shame just came home after badminton and has no energy to watch highlights.
Founds one more Olympic coin today and a 2011 WWF - 50 pence coins from a friend
Need to work on the course manual tonight for our 3rd Laparoscopic colorectal course and masterclass - but findings some energy to start work at this time.
have a long operating list mane
Disappointed as my son had a bump on the head by one of careless student who pushed him very annoyed with school - will see them mane
Now back to work with some light coffee

Happy Ganesh Chathurthi 

Cricket is back

Exciting times next week. T20 is back. Thanks to sub-continent countries for building stadiums with light so we in the UK can watch this games being played in the day time. Looking forward to catch some games at the least the end of most of T20 games when I come home
I am on call on the day of final - hope I am lucky to watch some.

This is the official site of the game - Best of luck to all teams
http://www.iccworldtwenty20.com/

Still hunting for 50p coins but more importantly album to keep this coins now..

CRICKET BECOMES A GLOBAL  GAME »

Even if purists don't like it, it's the advent of T20 cricket that allowed 81 nations to make an attempt to qualify for ICC World T20 2012 - Very true

Good night

Review week: Olympics coins

Review week: Olympics coins: Nice week over with some good memories.  Received my first set of 29 50p olympic coins this morning. they look lovely. Kids very excited...

Olympics coins

Nice week over with some good memories. 

Received my first set of 29 50p olympic coins this morning. they look lovely. Kids very excited. Will need to collect a second set rather than buying it. Three generation now involved in coin collection. I am pleased that I did not have to teach my son, he was motivated by himself when once in leisure centre found a Olympic 50p coin and rather than spending decide to donate it to his stupid brother. Not realizing that his DAD will be in his way. 

This are all the coins I have 

Aquatics ~ 1,010,000

Archery ~ 1,010,000

Athletics ~ 1,010,000

Badminton ~ 1,005,000

Basketball ~ 1,005,000

Boccia ~ 1,005,000

Boxing ~ 805,000

Canoeing ~ 1,010,000

Cycling ~ 800,000

Equestrian ~ 1,005,000

Fencing ~ 1,005,000

Football ~ 500,000

Goalball ~ 1,005,000

Gymnastics ~ 1,007,313

Handball ~ 1,005,000

Hockey ~ 1,001,000

Judo ~ 1,005,000

Modern Pentathlon ~ 705,000

Rowing ~ 1,005,300

Sailing ~ 1,005,000

Shooting ~ 1,005,000

Table tennis ~ 1,010,000

Taekwondo ~ 1,005,000

Tennis ~ 605,000

Triathlon ~ 1,011,000

Volleyball ~ 1,005,000

Weightlifting ~ 1,105,000

Wheelchair Rugby ~ 505,000

Wrestling ~ 505,000 

The numbers indicate the coins released in circulation in the UK. Once I have album shall show it my friends

Now going for hunt.........

Week or Weak

After last week of busy brain training back to the hands on with operating, endoscopy, badminton etc. Not sure if any body has RSI in wrist due to laparoscopic surgery. I will explore the way to improve surgical techniques..... I want to spend some time with kids and cricket hopefully beginning of T20 world cup will improve our social relationship.
Some how as winter approaches my days are getting longer with 7 0 clock finish most of the days this week and I think even tomorrow.
Looking for the nice weekend of rest ........ May be

Guys very long week
Been with some smart people in Cardiff University learning Systematic review. It sounds like piece of cake but when you start doing you finding you have no clue how to do it.
Team is smart with good academic record no where near to what i have got on Google scholar
Now going to work on some papers for deadline and may be nice movie in the night.
Babysitting tomorrow...........
Bye