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