So much for the laugh

My God! I have laughed a lot from Sunday to Monday. On Sunday, we went to Meenoo, Shyamakshi and Mousmi's house for the lunch. Boy, are these girl mad! For full 5 hrs, I made fun of them and they kept on giving me a lot of opportunities. Mousmi acts so stupid that I just can't stop laughing whenever I am with her.
And today, Chanu was at her best. She told me that she dropped her iron today causing it to break. Then she went to make "Pulao" and found something lying beside the box of rice, when she poked at it (No joking! she really did it.), it started to move!! Big wonder :)
Bloody worm was eating her sweater as well - that ugly, distasteful, sinful buster. So she bought some naphthalin and put it in. My first response was - what? you put naphthalin in rice? And her response - that's what mom said, "have you gone crazy?". I was speechless .... I still am.

Feels great to see my posts in my rss feeds

I am going to let out a secret! It feels great to see my own posts in my own rss feeds a.k.a. G-Reader. Every time I see my post followed by the no. of new items, my heart leaps. Today it's showing 3 and after this post, it would be 4. I don't want to read them and make them disappear.

I know it's stupid but that's how it is. Today was a typical Monday, I got stuck heavily in traffic and reached office at 11.30 AM. Then did a few things, Mario wasn't in office. I am re-reading Calvin and Hobbs and it's great. The only thing remaining is the book, "World is flat" which I need to finish. Lets hope I do that.

Scott adams advising another cartoonist

This is a new form of reality shows... Scott Adams has found one cartoonist guy (also named as Scott) and is giving him advice. If things stopped at that, there would have been no news at all; but he is giving him advice in public i.e. - he gives him advice and then updates it on his blog and then ask his readers (including me) to give advice too.
This new Scott guy would be happy about it - after all, he is getting free publicity. And Adams is gaining the pleasure of knowing that he is helping a new guy. If he makes it big, Adams can always say that he is his "God-Father" and the readers are happy too giving free advice on a matter none of them has any experience at all.
What ensues, is really interesting - just like some reality tv show, Adams keeps us informed by his blog updates and asks us to comment. So far 6 updates have been posted.
I am writing this because I want to keep writing. Its not that I particularly wanted to write this thing, but I had to do my daily writing and all I could summon was this. :)
Hopefully, within 1 week, my writing will start showing some improvement.

Benefits of working

"Teach the thing you want to learn yourself." Lets discuss why I consider working better than non-working.
1. It gives you happiness - Think about it, when were you very happy? Was it the day in which you did nothing, or was it an action packed day? Even if your answer is earlier, I am sure it happened after some very hectic days.(There is nothing like rest after a long day or week).
2. No mental blocks - When you do work, you don't feel guilty - you have completed your duty. This relieves all mental pressure.
3. It's the most natural thing - "A man's basic nature is to act and not to be acted upon." - Steven Covey. So, you are being more natural when you do things as opposed to when you don't. Active voice is better than passive.
4. Feeling of worthiness - When you do work, it feels that you are worthy and not piggybacking on the world. You are carrying the world along with you. You can make things change... It is such a nice feeling that I can't explain it.

60th independence day

So, its 60th independence day of India. Everybody is doing analysis of these 60 years. I don't understand what they are talking about? Take, for example, Times Of India - the newspaper has its front page D.O. - what does this mean? We are not doing anything up to now? Or does the paper think that after we read this message, we will start doing 'stuff' instead of sitting on our haunches as we (supposedly) do now?