Food for thought - 3

'Do one good deed and you'll get ONLY one back in return.
Do one bad deed and you'll get a thousand in return.'

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Re-runs can be heart-warming

The last time I watched this movie, I must have been in 7th or 8th grade. Watching it again yesterday, brought back some wonderful memories. If you're a Classics person, get your hands on this one. You won't regret it.

Song: Edelweiss
Movie: Sound of Music
Year: 1965

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever

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For all 'Book-Lovers'

True, we're a net saavy generation. True, we spend 3/4 of our time (or should I add more to that figure?) browsing, emailing, working online, etc. True, we depend on our systems/laptops today.

And yet (I wish I could emphasize more on that 'yet'), when it comes to books, there's a whole lot of us longing to flip through pages rather than use the scroll-bar; those of us who love the smell of paper, who'd drive that extra mile to visit a bookstore!

It's such people 'Librarywala' will always find a true customer in. Kudos to you guys! And thanks Pooja, you're an angel!

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A 'Sudi-story'...

I've known Sudi through college. He's been a dear friend ever since. We've always known the artist in him -

Sudi Art 1

Sudi calls this one - EyeSpy

...and today he's revealed another talent - 'Story-Telling'

Update (1st February, 2008): So it's not a 'Sudi-story' :(. And that doesn't make you any less talented :)...

Here's one of his latest tales forwards (edited version)-

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it, God had put all human 'qualities' in a separate room.

All qualities were bored and they decided to play 'Hide-n-Seek'. 'Madness' was one of the qualities and he shouted, "I want to seek, I want to seek!". Since nobody wanted to seek 'Madness', the other qualities agreed.

So 'Madness' leaned against a tree and started counting, "One, two, three..."

As 'Madness' counted, the qualities went hiding. 'Treason' hid in a pile of garbage, 'Lie' announced he'd hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of a lake instead. 'Madness' continued counting, "... seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."

By this time, almost all qualities were hidden - except 'Love'. For stupid as 'Love' is, he couldn't decide where to hide. (And this shouldn't surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide 'Love')

'Madness', "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven...". Just when 'Madness' got to one hundred, 'Love' jumped into a rose bush.

'Madness' turned around and shouted, "I'm coming, I'm coming!". 'Laziness' was the first to be found; he was too lazy to hide. 'Madness' searched madly and found 'Lie' at the bottom of the lake. One by one, 'Madness' found them all - except 'Love'. 'Madness' was getting desperate, unable to find 'Love'.

Envious of Love, 'Envy' whispered to 'Madness', "You only need to find 'Love' and he's hiding in the rose bush". 'Madness' jumped into the rose bush and heard a loud cry. The thorns in the bush had pierced 'Love's' eyes.

Hearing the commotion God came in and saw what had happened. He got very angry and cursed 'Madness'. He said, "Since 'Love' has become blind because of you, you shall always be with him".

And so it came to be from that day on - 'Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness'.

Where he comes up with gets these, is hard to say. Appreciation, suggestions, comments, brick-n-bats, can all be sent to Sudi directly.

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Please spread the word

Apparently, the Govt. itself authorizes this!!


Maybe it's time we re-define the word 'humane', if this is what we've come to.

How do those people sleep during the night?!

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A Tracy Chapman fan

...all over again!

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Dear Mister God

"The difference from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside." - Anna

This is how Fynn's - 'Mister God, This is Anna' begins. An exceptional book! Do read.

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For a long lost friend

It's your birthday today. Here's to you -



May you have many more!

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Air Sickness

It's been a crazy weekend. And an even crazier start to the week.

Last Saturday, we were to fly to Pune on an Indigo flight. It was scheduled at 3:30PM. On arriving at the airport ofcourse, we recieved news the flight was delayed for about half-an-hour (managable I'd say). At 4PM we boarded the aircraft & were expecting it to take off anytime. 30 minutes and the pilot says he needs to move the flight to a different bay due to some technical problems. Another 2 hours and they decide to cancel the flight. If you think that's crazy, wait till you read more...

So we got out of the flight and walked upto the ground control personnel to guide us to the cancellation counter. Apparently, there was none! So we had to wait in the line meant for booking tickets on the next flights. Another 2 hours, some frustrated passengers, drained personnel & broken glass later, we managed to cancel our ticket for the day, collected new tickets for the following day (Kingfisher this time) & drove back home.

The next morning, back at the airport, we met half a dozen people from our previous evening's flight. They were taking the same Kingfisher flight to Pune. Again, on arrival, the trian flight was announced as delayed due to bad weather. 2 hours on the airport & we'd seen every nook & corner of the place. No plane still. Another 2 hours & we were in the flight hoping this one would take off! It did.

A night's stay at Pune and we're back at the airport. This time it was worse. The bus plane was delayed 4 hours! 4 hours later - another hour! So a 1 hour 15 minutes trip from Pune to Bangalore had taken us 6 hours 45 minutes! Like that was not enough, we had another flight the next morning. This time to Bombay.

Again, flight delayed by 15 minutes (shortest so far). A day at Bombay and we're back at the airport by nightfall. I guess God really didn't want us to sit at another airport counting books on a shelf in a bookstore or wondering what the person sitting across us was thinking at that moment, so our plane was on time! And surprisingly landed before scheduled time!

Back home, mom's vowed not to visit the airport for a LONG, long time.

I don't have to tell you what was bad about those trips. But what was good was that I managed to complete Khalid Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner'. Good book.

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Feeling Blue?

...get a piercing!


P.S.: Don't let anyone tell you it's painful... 'coz it's not!

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"Where did I go wrong..."

Artist: The Fray
Album: How To Save A Life
Year: 2005

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

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...and he's back!

Thank you all!

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