Some Sizzling Scintillating Speculations

(Quip for the pic: Shell-shocked!) Thought for the day:Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." Whew-if I hadn't seen the ad, I wouldn't have believed it.There's actually a movie which has broken Sholay's record for longest running movie? This movie is 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge', released in 1995. It's still running at Maratha Mandir, week number 646 and going strong. I almost felt like what people say when they see someone after a long time, namely' kal tak to yeh itna sa tha'(He/she was that small till yesterday(when I last saw him/her)...the same goes for the movie,I guess- it's like it was released just yesterday and now see how many weeks it has run. I'm surely going to see it,when I visit Mumbai next, just to see the audience which trickle in/pack the aisles. How about it,Mumbai bloggers-Austy,et al? Have you seen the movie at MM recently? --- Still on ads in Midday(Where I saw the above one),...

(Above pic: Look carefully-is it a view from the top or the bottom?) Thought for the day:I feared change,until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly had to undergo a metamorphosis before it could fly. Hi,all..How's the 'season to be merry' treating you? How's the year going to end? With a bang or a whimper?It all depends on you, of course. With most of the people on my blogroll being on a holiday, and, me feeling too lazily peaceful to think and post, I decided to do a bit of surfing to find some unusual/bizarre/zany events of year 2007. And, here are some of them: - An Australian bank was embarrassed when it emerged that it had issued a credit card to a cat. The owner of Messiah, a ginger tom, had put in the spoof application to test the bank's security system. - A 100-year-old woman in Germany moved out of her retirement home after six weeks saying she found the other residents not only boring but also "too old". She returned home to her cat. -...