A PAIR OF EYES

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she's blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He's always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she can see everything, including her boyfriend.Her boyfriend asked her, "Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?" The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend is blind too, and refused to marry him.Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying, “Just take care of my eyes dear.”

Collected and emailed by :
Ravi Kumar Alampally. 3rd Batch Student

SENSE AND NONSENSE

1. If all the nations in the world are in debt (I am not joking), where did all the money go?

2. When dog food is new and improved in taste, who tests it then?

3. What is the speed of darkness?

4. Who copyrighted the copyright symbol?

5. Can you cry under water?

- Collected by : K.Sathyu & J. Narasimha. XII Science.

Mr.Gumuthe's wish : When I die, I want to die like my grandpa who died peacefully in his sleep not screaming like all the passengers in the car he was driving.

Mr.Gumuthe at an Art Gallery: I suppose this horrible looking thing is what you call modern art?
Art dealer: I beg your pardon sir, that's a mirror!

Mr. Gumuthe was writing something very slowly.Friend asked:" Why are you writing so slowly?

Mr. Gumuthe: "I'm writing to my 6 yr old son, he can't read very fast.

- Sathyu and J. Narasimha. XII Class

INTERESTING FACTS

v About one-tenth of the Earth’s surface is permanently covered with ice.
v Baby elephants can drink over 80 liters of water a day
v A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
v A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50 kms into the sky.
v The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon. It measures three and half miles in diameter.
v It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

- Collected by: E.PRASHANTHI. VIII-A

Mathemagic

37037 x 1 = 37037 x 3 = 111111
37037 x 2 = 74074 x 3 = 222222
37037 x 3 = 111111 x 3 = 333333
37037 x 4 = 148148 x 3 = 444444
37037 x 5 = 185185 x 3 = 555555
37037 x 6 = 222222 x 3 = 666666
37037 x 7 = 259259 x 3 = 777777
37037 x 8 = 296296 x 3 = 888888
37037 x 9 = 333333 x 3 = 999999

- by Jagan Mohan IX-A

Mathemagic

37037 x 1 = 37037 x 3 = 111111
37037 x 2 = 74074 x 3 = 222222
37037 x 3 = 111111 x 3 = 333333
37037 x 4 = 148148 x 3 = 444444
37037 x 5 = 185185 x 3 = 555555
37037 x 6 = 222222 x 3 = 666666
37037 x 7 = 259259 x 3 = 777777
37037 x 8 = 296296 x 3 = 888888
37037 x 9 = 333333 x 3 = 999999

- by Jagan Mohan IX-A

Why do we offer food to the Lord before eating it ?

Indians make an offering of food to the Lord and later partake of it as prasaada - a holy gift from the Lord. In our daily ritualistic worship (pooja) too we offer naivedyam (food) to the Lord.

The Lord is omnipotent and omniscient. Man is a part, while the Lord is the totality. All that we do is by His strength and knowledge alone. Hence what we receive in life as a result of our actions is really His alone. We acknowledge this through the act of offering food to Him. This is exemplified by the Hindi words "tera tujko arpan"– I offer what is Yours to You. Thereafter it is akin to His gift to us, graced by His divine touch.

Knowing this, our entire attitude to food and the act of eating changes. The food offered will naturally be pure and the best. We share what we get with others before consuming it. We do not demand, complain or criticise the quality of the food we get. We eat it with cheerful acceptance (prasaada buddhi).

Before we partake of our daily meals we first sprinkle water around the plate as an act of purification. Five morsels of food are placed on the side of the plate acknowledging the debt owed by us to the Divine forces (devta runa) for their benign grace and protection, our ancestors (pitru runa) for giving us their lineage and a family culture, the sages (rishi runa) as our religion and culture have been "realised", aintained and handed down to us by them, our fellow beings (manushya runa) who constitute society without the support of which we could not live as we do and other living beings (bhuta runa) for serving us selflessly.

Thereafter the Lord, the life force, who is also within us as the five life-giving physiological functions, is offered the food. This is done with the chant

praanaaya swaahaa, apaanaaya swaahaa, vyaanaaya swaahaa, udaanaaya swaahaa, samaanaaya swaahaa, brahmane swaahaa
After offering the food thus, it is eaten as prasaada - blessed food.

- Neetu Shilpa Reddy [5th Batch Student] Wichita University. U.S.A.(through e-mail)

World's largest Tiger Sanctuary - Mannanur

Dry deciduous mixed forest along the river Krishna which cuts through a picturesque gorge of the Nallamala hills with deep valleys on sides. The sanctuary with a wide area of 3568 Sq. km. spanning Guntur, Prakasam, Kurnool, Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda districts. About 130 km. south of Hyderabad. Animals found : Spotted Deer, Mouse Deer, Black Bucks, Sambhars, Chousingha Nilgai, Wild Boar, Indian Giant Squirrel, Tree Shrew, Rayel, Mugger Crocodiles, Wild dogs, Jackals, Wolves, Foxes, Sloth Bear, Panthers, Tigers.

Accessibility: 130 km. by road from Hyderabad. Well connected with State owned buses. Contact: Field Director, Project Tiger, Achampet/Srisailam

Season: October to May.

- Collected by: K. Karthik VIII B

TECHNOTHLON RESULTS DECLARED

Master. M.K. Surya and Master. B. Aravind Reddy of class IX cleared the Technothlon-2009 Preliminary Examinations – The National School championship conducted by Indian Institute of Technology [IIT] Guwahati on 19th July 2009 and they were selected for participation in Technothlon-2009 Mains Examination to be held at IIT Guwahati from 3rd – 6th September 2009.

Technothlon-2009 Preliminary Examinations was conducted across 70 cities in India with a huge participation from the government and public schools. 43 teams of Junior Squad and 06 teams of Hauts Squad of JNV Mahaboob Nagar took the exam and the Junior Squad Team of M.K. Surya and B. Aravind Reddy topped our Vidyalaya and were eventually selected as one of the top teams of 10 JNVs across the country.

The selected students will be participating in various technical events like Robotics, Crime Scene Investigation and Structure Building etc. they will also get to take part in lectures by Nobel Laureates; interact with Mike Finke, an astronaut of NASA who has been in space for more than an year; get to attend workshops on Robotics, Vedic Mathematics etc. and also take part in the festivities of the Techniche at IIT Guwahati.

- CMV Seshu. TGT Maths

VIDYALAYA TOPPERS – UNIT TEST NO – 2

The new season of ‘testing times’ started with the Unit Test No – 2 held in the month of July 2009. The toppers among the toppers of the previous academic year proved once again that they are invincible. The entire Vidyalaya wished to see new faces in the list of Vidyalaya toppers, but given the track record of the toppers of the bygone year, this feat remains difficult though not impossible.

As always, the performance of the lower class students was praiseworthy and the students of the higher classes did not lag behind. Initial hiccups are traced in the performance of class XI students since most of the students were admitted through lateral entry. Once they come to terms with the medium of instruction, there would be substantial improvement in the overall results both in quantity and quality.

Based on the overall performance in all the subjects the following students were adjudged the “The Toppers of the toppers.”

Rank Name of the Student Class Marks [240] %
First RANJITHA. K 8 B 233 97
Second HEMACHANDER. CH 7 A 230 95.8
Third KALPANA. K 7 B 228 95

It is interesting to note that these students were the Vidyalaya toppers of almost all the Unit Tests and Term Tests. They remained the toppers of toppers in the final standing of the Academic Year 2008-09. The Vidyalaya fraternity congratulates them for their unremitting performance.

- Harika & Harini. X- B Section.

C.C.A. COMPETITIONS

The CCA Club of the Vidyalaya conducts various competitions to bring out the innate talents of the students. Telugu Essay Writing Competition was held on 10th July and the topics of essays were PRASAARA PRACHAARA SAADHAANAALU and GRANTHAALAYAALU for seniors and juniors respectively.

Solo Song competition was conducted on 17th July and the audience was enthralled by the melodious folk, patriotic and devotional songs. Towards the end of the competition, the judges found it very difficult to decide the winners since the margin of errors was very less.

As an initiative to develop English communication skills, a “Pick and Speak” competition was conducted on 24th July. The topics given were general and informative. The competition revealed the fact that the Vidyalaya has no dearth of talent and given proper guidance the children can achieve excellence with little efforts.

-Pranitha. G. & Haritha Amrutha. Student Editors.