Some Sizzling Scintillating Speculations

Thought for the day: Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. ~ George Burns (Quip:No, I never resented the SI issues yet) Did you feel bugged when the person listening to you suddenly yawned at you? Well,don't be..he or she might be doing just to keep his or her brain cool. It is not promoting sleep,nor is it a sign of weariness or irritation at your monologue(however boring it might be). Researchers have concludes that yawning involves opening the mouth involuntarily while taking a long,deep breath of air, and helps the brain work more effectively. Thinking back,my yawns during the day come usually when I'm in the co bus on the way back home..it's like a sudden stoppage of continuous,err,work like staring at the computer screen,which makes the brain feel overwhelmed with relaxedness.:) And,voila-there's the yawn. It's been good even to get rid of headaches,sometimes.What about you? When do y...

Thought for the day: We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend. Do you like monkeys? Can you catch them? According to a report in today’s local papers, there are many vacant posts, in our capital city of Delhi . There are around 15-20,000 monkeys, and only 3 monkey catchers. There have been tenders put out, and no-one responded. Finally, a team of people has been sent around the country, to look for these ‘specialists’. Imagine this line being part of the vocations up for grabs, when the 12 th standard results come out. Like, mechanical engineering, Arts, Fine Arts, Monkey Catching, Medicine…. --- Life is a circus..LOL…In my previous company, I’d earmarked everyone, as being a particular member of the circus..right from the ringmaster(That’s easy), to the lions to the usually docile parrots who suddenly let off a mini-cannon in the circus, to the friendly pommies to the clowns. So, look at it this way. The day begins with your getting into...

Thought for the day: Sometimes I think I understand everything,then I regain consciousness. -------- Television news is no longer what it used to be. Isn't it a fact? Earlier, the only news we could look forward to was what politicians did during the day. Now, we have everything in the news,in fact,sometimes,I find news channels more entertaining than the entertainment channels. Take,for example, NDTV-they give live temperatures from around the world, along with a video of the place too,right from Holland to London to Jaipur....that's much more exciting than a guy pointing at a map and showing clouds or the sun,na? Or, take the Bollywood gossip on another news channel,which had as it's highlight, the fact that Mallika Sherawat is busy slapping these days. No,no,not slapping as in angry slaps,but,slapping as in,part of her role in a movie called 'Ugly aur Pagli'(What a title!), where she has to keep slapping Ranvir Shenoy. It also pointed out that she took slapping...

(Quip: Now, that's advertising, I say!) Thought for the day: "See the perfection in the seeming imperfection that seems to be." ~ Lester Levinson Whew- after a month of reduced working hours, ending with three holidays, it’s tough to get back to the normal schedule. (And, I just noticed that I haven’t posted since 11th - Arghhh), but, as they say ‘and this too shall pass’. Do you have issues with caps? I refer, of course, to all sorts of caps, and, the fact that the caps keep getting lost. Perhaps we've developed an art of losing them. Like, take these uniball pens- the caps are a typical case of ‘here today, gone tomorrow’. Or, take water bottles – another case of the caps being ‘here today, gone tomorrow’. Be it a tin of ghee, or, a box of biscuits, or, an airtight container, I always find their caps missing. Where do they vanish? Are there tiny pixies around, who remove them and hide them around the flat just for fun, I wonder? Being a stickler for perfection, I a...

Thought for the day:Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. I really think that there exists a 'song dissection committee' in Bollywood. Their job is to catch hold of good ole songs, and use different words/sentences from them, to create titles for new movies. How else can you explain, for example: Chalte Chalte: Generating a movie titled 'chalte chalte', another titled' kabhi alvida na kehna'....I'm sure, we'll also see movies titled 'Rote Jaagte', 'bas yun hi tum', ' mere yeh geet yaad rakhna'(Probably starring Himesh Reshamiya), 'Gungunaate rehna', etc. Or, how about 'Le jaayenge, le jaayenge, dilwaale dulhaniya le jaayenge(From the ole Chor Machaaye Shor') Or, 'laaga chunari mein daag', which is also part of an ole song? Perhaps the fact is that they've run out of titles to be recycled, or, the Hindi dictionary doesn't have any more exciting titles for them? ----- Do you thi...

(Quip: I wouldn't be surprised if the above drawing was made by a kindergarten student) Thought for the day: If at first you don't succeed...so much for sky-diving. Over the last few days, I picked up both the prizes for which I'd won vouchers. Whew- I never knew it's so difficult to pick up things for free, until now. I mean, both the places are one of the 'cream of the lot' kind of shops(It sounds demeaning to call them shops.. have a look and see why I say this). Anyway,so, we ended up getting some nice books, and a Tshirt. Amongst the books, the one I'm excited about is' It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be', by Paul Arden. Another one is 'The definitive book of body language'. Believe me, I need to brush up on these skills. It helps so much to know that a supplier is calling a bluff, if he puts his hand across his mouth while talking, or, if he tweaks his hair while standing, etc. Suppliers reminds me, I h...

(Caption for the pic: The latest in 'giving hafta(bribes): Direct money transfer. Thought for the day: You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else for it. This incident had me grinning away, by it’s memory which came flooding back yesterday, for some reason. The Boss in my previous company, called the Procurement Department (There were six of us, I believe) into his office, and (after giving me a wink, since my equation with him was better than others..ahem), he said’ I’ll be happy if I never see any of you in my office again’. ‘But’, he continued’ the way things happen, I cannot avoid seeing your faces everyday. ‘. Saying this, he burst out laughing uproariously like I’d never seen him laugh before, immediately making me wonder whether he was a member of some laughter club. I looked around at the startled faces of people, and believe me, if I’d been in his place, I’d have said something more at the motley crue that we were...hehe...

(Caption for above pic:Happiness) Thought for the day: I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? -- Jean Kerr Reference: The five questions of the previous post: The five questions are: 1 - "What are you thinking?" 2 - "Do you love me?" 3 - "Do I look fat?" 4 - "Do you think she is prettier than me?" 5 - "What would you do if I died?" What makes these questions so bad is that every one is guaranteed to explode into a major lovers tiff and/or divorce(In case of married ones) if the man does not answer properly, (Read: Dishonestly) . 1)"What are you thinking?" The proper answer to this question, of course, is, "I'm sorry if I've been pensive, dear. I was just reflecting on what a warm, wonderful, caring, thoughtful, intelligent, beautiful woman you are and what a lucky guy I am to have met you." Obviously, this...