Mizo Market

If you are shopping in a mizo market don’t be surprised to see these for sale.

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Kolasib Web Portal

Way back in 2003 when i started "Kolasib Web Portal" it was like a dream come true. I stared with spunge.org (www.spunge.org/~kolasib) hosting and then after few months i requested for a subdomain. The site was built on Flash (with swift) and had about five pages. From there we moved on. public_html was about 700kb and now its 500+ MB. Things have changed. Our data have grown. Back in 2003 i was thinking of making a big project (mizoram based website) but i didn't have the skill nor money. At that time izawl.com was very popular and the one stop for mizo netizens. It was the time when IRC was more popular than Web site, forums, blogs etc.. Nothing much was done to popularize kolasib.com as its a town/district news site and that everyone will not benefit much from it.
Moving on as a small closed community of about 3 regular visitors, kolasib.com now have more than 500 registered users. What does it takes to maintain this kind of website which don't earn revenue? We are still moving just for the sake of it. With less enthusiasm then what we had 4 years back. I cant leave it in the middle. Many people have joined as "the team" and many have gone. From day 1 i was assisted by Zoliana (Kolasib CIC Operator) and then many good friend have taken the trouble to update/maintain the site. Friends like Raymond, Ngura (spelljammer), Zaitea, Highway Juliet, Benjamin, Zothana, Lal, Mnowluck were the ones who made kolasib.com what it is today.
These days claiming "first among mizo's" have become "in". Lets see what I have to claim. :)
1) think we are the first among the 8 districts of mizoram to have a website. Informative websites like izawl.com, zoram.org, hmar.net, maraland.net etc.. were there but you wouldn't browse aizawl.com (though it was there, some non mizos registered it in the hope of selling it at high price latter??), lunglei.com, serchhip.com, mamit.com, lawngtlai.com, saiha.com, champhai.com.
2) We were giving out free email from our own hosting space. Here again hmar.net and maraland.com were giving our free emails on their domains but that was hosted somewhere else
as as you would expect, they were with adds. We had about 35 pop3 users given 2MB each.
3) We started giving out hosting space to individuals and association/organizations for free. george.kolasib.com mnowluck.kolasib.com aizawlchat.com thalaieng.com computer-nest.com zoram.org were just few of them. Some of them are still hosted with us while some of the have moved to a new host.

For bearing the financial cost, at the beginning Rs 1500 was donated by Kolasib Cable Network and around Rs 20,000/- was donated by our Honourable MLA Mr. K. Lalrinliana in words (as you would expect MLA to do) but not a single Rupee reached our hand (This itself is another story, i may write some other time) .

Kolasib.com have moved on. We are now hosting professional sites like
lelte.net - Lelte Weekly Magazine
zolife.info - Zolife Magazine
webspidey.com - a Web hosting project with my friend Lalremlien
zoram.org - another news site co founded with my friend Lal
Aizawlchat.com - #aizawlchat channel website,
drthangte.info - Minister Dr. Thangtea's family website
mizolyrics.com -right now in negotiation with another for development and maintainance drdachamphai.in - Department of Rural Development Agency, Champhai
Maryma.net - Mizoram, Aizawl, Ramhlun North, YMA Website
thalaieng.com - Ramhlun TKP Website
gkc.ac.in - Govt. Kolasib College Official Website

Thanks to all thos who hosts their website with us. With your support Kolasib.com can be financially Independent.

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MNF, MCP to abstain from voting

You may have known that the election for the President of India is over and results are out. on the day before polling begins i read the new that MNF & MCP MLA's will be abstaining from voting (link)
The MNF Party President justified their move saying that both of the candidates for the President of India cannot be voted by their party because while one was against the Christian community the other is against North East People. Mrs Pratiba Patil backed by the UPA cannot be voted on the ground that UPA Govt proposed to enact a law suppressing the rights of religious minorities by amending the Constitution (Satana Bill as Pu Zoramthanga mentioned) which should be opposed by all Christian community. Mr Shekawat too while holding the office of the Vice-President & Chairman Rajya Sabha is against the North East People.
The Big Question is "Is the good enough for not voting against the First Person of the country?". When i read about this news at misual.com i thought comments will be pouring in, but only 2 comments on the post till date. I wonder where are those "Thalai ram vei" who kept complaining about politicians in the state. Is this not a big issue?. Mizo Peoples are deprived of voting for the President of India. I'm from Kolasib Constituency. our MLA is Mr K. Lalrinliana (MNF). Since he have not voted for the President, it means that non of the Kolasib people have voted for the President.
The Right to vote is a Fundamental Right. If I or any of the common man have declined to vote in any election then its purely our choice; but MLA abstaining from voting cannot be justified as they are our representative and that their vote is our vote. The People who are supposed to uphold Democracy are themselves not following the principles of democracy. If this is the Level of our MLA/MP then its hight time we get someone who is a Mizo (Indian) first and then a Political Party Member.
Anyway Congratulations "Madam President", wish i had the right to vote for my country's First Citizen!

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Playing with Mimi Renthlei

[I got the original pic from a Journalist friend.]
As i have written before, I'm learning Photoshop. So while searching for a suitable photo to play with, Mimi Renthei's pic (which i have in my PC) came into my mind. It not because the picture will look good (after editting) but because i like this little cute girl. So here is my final touchup.

Edited parts
1) Changed (whiten) eye, teeth.
2) Changed Eye to a dark blue colour.
3) Applied lipstick.
4) Touched up the skin (Lighten), including the dark areas around the eye (dark circle)
5) Changed colour of the hair, clothes
6) a small tatoo on her belly.

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Fiddling with V3i

This afternoon a my friend Cathy came to my house to get her v3i fixed.
Though i'm not a profession, i can flash, edit seems etc on a motorola L and V series phones. She complained that the keypad "2" is not functioning properly. I checked her phone and it was indeed not functioning as it is supposed to. Repeated typing of number "2" was the problem. At first i though of opening the phone and cleaning the keypad. So i headed to my PC and opened google. i got the Information that i wanted.
http://www.themotoguide.com/razrdisassembly.php
I saved the webpage so that i could refer to it later.

Next, i thought why open the phone when it may be a software problem. remembered that i once unlocked a V3 phone and after a successful unlocking the keypad was not functioning so i flashed the keypad fix. SO i searched for the fix file in my computer. After 5 mins of search i got what i wanted. I flashed the keypad fix flex.
Here is where i made the mistake. Afeter Flashing the LCD is not working anymore. I realised that v3 and v3i flex are not compatible.
So i made a backup of the full flash (firmwire, flash, flex etc...) with Flash & Backup. then headed google again for a new original flash. I came to know that v3i have 2 main version one with itune and the other which they call it DAP (i don't know what this is).
My phone is a v3i Itune version. I searched modmymotto, motox, and other motorola modding sites. It was very difficult to get. At last i got R47A_G_08.D9.3DR_REFLASH_JOKER from here which was the closest to my current version.
I downloaded for 2 hours with my airtel gprs connection and then flashed the file. To my surprise my problem was still there. i called up my frient zoliana (co-founder kolasib.com) as he is a Motorola Handset expert. He came within 5 mins and together we worked, searched the net for forum posting of similar problems. Cant find a good result so i posted a new thread here . They refered me to http://www.motox.info/showthread.php?t=47350 .
I went there editted the seem and eventually it (LCD Problem) was fixed. Now at least the phone is at the stage where i got it.
I followed the instruction on how to open the phone. I opened the phone and found that there was a scratch behind the Button "2". I removed that and assembled the phone again. Hurray its working now.
Thanks goes to Zoliana, google, and friends at modmymotto.
It took me the whole afternoon and evening to get this fixed

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Working with photoshops.

It have been a long time since i touched Photoshop. Last evening while i was browsing through orkut Mizo Grafix Designer (?) and chating with a close friend Alexxfender, i saw many great works of my fellow mizo. Their works were too good to be true. From the community was very much impressed by the works of John and Father_spinx. Alexxfender's work is not bad either. They really impressed me and encourage me to start off learning. I immediately opened up google.com and browsed for photoshop tutorials. Some of the site that really interest me were

1) http://retouchpro.com
2) http://www.photoshoplab.com
3) http://www.photoshoproadmap.com
4) http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials
5) http://www.dphotojournal.com/category/tutorials/
6) http://www.photoshop911.com
7) http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/

It took me the whole night to download 17MB of tutorials. Lets hope that i will be learning fast and you will see lots of good grafix works in here.

Till then

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If I said you had a beautiful body

Hman zan ah Zonet fakselna ah nge LPS KVZ ah an rawn play kha... a nalh ka ti lutuk a, thianpa zaian min lo download sak a, hei nimin leh vawiin ah ringawt pawh vawi 20 chuang ka ngaithla ta. A lyrics kan post ange.

If I said you had a beautiful body - bellamy-brothers

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

Now we can talk all night about the weather
Tell you 'bout my friends out on the coast
I could ask alot of crazy questions
Or I could ask what I really want to know

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

Now rain can fall so soft against the window
The sun can shine so bright up in the sky
But daddy always told me, "Don't make small talk"
He said, "Come on out and say what's on your mind"

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel,
Would you treat me like the devil tonight
If I were dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me

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My First Post

This is My First Post in this blog.

Blog / Blogging have become very Popular within the Netizens. Due to lack of time and unavailability of a stable Net Connection at Kolasib i have not started blogging (maintaining a blog) till today. Instead i write down my thoughts on websites like kolasib.com , misual.com, zoram.org and some other mizo and Technical related websites/forums.

Today I, formally declare myself as a Blogger and will try maintaining my blog and update them with my thoughts. Remember I may be very extreme with my thoughts but my words die out soon with my anger.

Till then

Bye

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