Some Sizzling Scintillating Speculations

Observation 1: Have you ever seen a residential building under construction? It's amazing. The worker teams are nothing but families. The man (or men) of the family are the skilled craftsmen/workers- masons, for example. The wife(wives) will be carrying the bricks and stones from their storage space to the place of work, whichever floor they're required on. The kids (Anyone 5 plus) would be doing the cleaning up of the areas, bringing tea, etc. And, the babies would be swaying happily in the jhoola made between two pillars, using a sari/dhoti/lungi.The residences of these families also change constantly based on the sites they're working in. Observation 2: Work stops every hour or so- tea time/beedi time/sitting in squatting position time/chatting time. Work also stops if there's Amavasya. It also stops(for 2-3 months) when it's the harvest season in the fields at their villages. It also stops on Diwali/Dussera/Rakhee/...and any festival they feel they need to...

Thought for the day: The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop..... Quentin Regestein (Isn't that so true? What do you do?) ----- Next letter for April: From: Health- April'10 ---- Had a fun time with observations- eye and ear related. At the barber shop yesterday. There was this guy who came in and told the barber- please take care- last time you left my hair too long and I found out when I reached home...seeing that he was half-bald(You know, that front bald pate, and then that C-shape of hair that goes from one ear, round to the other ear), I smiled wondering which ones he felt were left too long?  There was this other guy who became so fascinated listening to Bhoole Bisre Geet on Vividh Bharati(yes, the station is very much alive and on FM now-this is progress..:)), that he closed his eyes and began humming to it, till he finally dozed off-the...