Exhilarated

So I finally got to a bookstore... Yay! I was hoping to pick up one other book along with 'god is not Great' and my mind was trying to choose between - 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Maximum City'. I ended up buying - 'The Secret'! And WOW!... what a book this is!

I'd only heard of the movie (in passing) from a friend sometime in 2006, but never really had a chance to catch it. The book is exactly or maybe more that what I've been looking for! I immediately began reading it and wasn't able to put it down until I'd finished!

Whether it'll ring with you or not, I'm not sure. I sure hope it does :)! Fill me in on your experience!

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6 months and counting

I've been trying to get a snap of his for a whole week now. All I manage is him sleeping or barking at Munnu (he hates it when Munnu barks at strangers! Weird dog!) or hidden under some chair. So finally today, I put my efforts to rest. I bribed him with biscuits for snaps! Here's Sheru, 6 months old -


I'll try and put up a slide-show here sometime soon! This one looks like he changes every other day!

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Hot under the Collar

I came across this post today by another of my own species. The title reads - 'Awesome girls' profiles ........taken from Shaadi.com!!!'.

For a moment it didn't register. And when it did, I could feel blood rising to my head! Reading the post initially made me sick, then hateful and finally pitiful towards the author. To my dismay, the author turned out to be a woman too!

It's such a pitiable society we live in, isn't it? Here are some women trying to rise from their otherwise mundane and ignored lives to find a special someone. Agreed, their choice of words isn't anywhere close to yours or mine. Or even the author's who wrote that post! But hell, how good are you or me or she when compared to let's say Tony Morrison or Ayn Rand or Pearl Buck?!

How can you possibly find humor in something that could mean the world to another?! It's just beyond me! Oh and ofcourse, I'm sure there would be the lot that comes up with - "Hey, it's just a gag!" Sheesh! Where do these specimens come from?!

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Sarcasm

Another forward from my brother -

A world-wide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure! Here's why:

In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant,

In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant,

In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant,

In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant,

In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant,

In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant

And in the USA they didn't know what 'rest of the world' meant!

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Take Heed

This is a report produced by 'The GreenPeace India Society'. It gives a detailed survey on the effect of climate change on the Indian Subcontinent.

Not interested?! How about this - Atleast 120 million people will be rendered homeless with the rise in water level, in India alone! Still no effect?! Consider this then - People are expected to migrate inland from as early as 2045! That's the same 120 million people who might lose their homes.

Think we're prepared for that?!

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Fussing over food

Aai has always complained about my eating habits. I've always had a sparse appetite, but that's just one of her concerns. She's making a big deal about what I like and don't almost every other day. Well, I guess that's quite understandable being my mother and all (and I guess I should appreciate the fact that I'm quite lucky in a million ways), but I thought I'd put the matter to rest once and for all. If I'm really that choosy, I should make room for more variety, right? So letsee, I'm making a list of things I think I consume & not -

Consume -

• Milk & milk products
• Eggs
• Cereals & Pulses
• Green Vegetables AND Other (er...um) selected Vegetables

Don't -

• Beans
• All types of 'gourds'
• Vegetables that appear as fruit of a plant - Pumpkins, Eggplants, etc.

Hmm. I still think I have a healthy diet. My mom should see this list maybe! (Heh!)

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City Cleansed

Bangalore still looks beautiful when it rains. Many might say there's trouble with roads, with basements in apartments, with traffic - which is all true and yet, there's something mystical about the rains in this city. It's almost spiritually healing! Ofcourse, you're looking at Bangalore from the stand-point of someone who barely gets out of home (no traffic nuisance!), is pretty much confined to one room that overlooks a beautiful garden (thanks to Aai) and enjoys her mug of hot-coffee, all alone, slumped in a bean-bag at 2:30am, watching thunder and lightning from this confinement of hers! Rains are fun, aren't they?!

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