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And all the men and women
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
How do you kill time?
Time is eternal; can we kill something that’s eternal?
Does the inability to kill it make it eternal or does its supposed eternity make it impossible to kill??
Common sense says you simply can’t kill time.
But we’ll figure out a way around it pretty soon.
Time is also precious they say.
So simply how precious is it?
Time once lost can’t be regained right.
Like melted ice-cream!!!
You know for sure that no matter how much you freeze it again, its simply not going to taste as good.
So is time as precious as ice-cream??
More appropriately, is ice-cream as precious as time??
Back to square one, I suppose.
how should you manage/kill time?
In spite of the lunatic nature of this post, I would like to introduce a quote which might be mistaken as a sneaky trick by the author just to add a little credibility to this post.
(not the exact words)
" NGOs need more management because they lack the discipline of the bottom line"
- Peter Drucker
Well you can see where I am getting at, right..
For those of you who are still perplexed as to why that this wonderful quote is doing in the middle of this rubbish..
well its pretty simple actually.
so figure it out yourselves!!
So how do you kill time?
…….
….
If you have managed to read this crappy post without winking, blinking or thinking…
Trust me, you have well and truly killed time ;);)...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
I know.
Ah this 2-word marvel has saved me from tight corners more than once.
It’s longer than an “ok” making it more serious but is shorter than an “I understand” making it more refined.
It’s perfect for almost every sticky situation you can possibly get into.
“Dude we have gotta study for the surprise test tomorrow!”
I know. (But who studies for a SURPRISE test anyways?)
“Hey don’t forget the onions at the mart!”
I know.
“How many times have I told you not to keep food on the bed!?!”
I know.
This subtle but serious (looking) remark has become my elixir nowadays.
So the next time people disturb your peace babbling about the industrial revolution or how the price of onions have skyrocketed, go ahead give it a shot!
It works.
Trust me, I know.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
A Cynic's day out
Because of my lackadaisical approach to anything closely related to planning we ended up entering a clothes shop just a couple of hours before our flight. The ever opportunistic salesman sensing my dad’s fidgeting looks figured he could make a quick deal. I suddenly found myself being bombarded with shirts that would make my dad’s old tweed suit look like Armani. The guy said “Cool choice!”. Hey! I don’t need a 50-year old’s take on what looks good on an 18-year old... Thanks but I can choose for myself. Having not found anything remotely mediocre we left the shop empty handed.
“Namaste!” greeted the hot chick in skirt-and-tops as I boarded the flight. Talk about culture intersection. No welcome cookies, no free beverages!! Welcome to the world of no-frills travel. “Only a five-hour ride”, I lulled myself and already, I was getting bored. How long do I stare into that smiley-faced air hostess! Bored and almost driven to insanity by a toddler who thinks he’s on a bird and “Wooosh!!” goes his mom into an animated description of what I assumed to be Tweety, the canary. I totally flipped out.
Only now did I realize that in-flight magazines ( I’d rather call it picture galleries) were there for a reason. Producing an in-flight book must be really easy don’t you think. Throw in some beautiful locales, hot chicks at a disco, a sun signs page and voila!! It’s done! There’s no motivation to improve it either, obviously you are stuck with it and has absolutely no competition unless momma’s brought her knitting kit along.
With hardly any written text save the editor’s page, I settled on reading the forecast for the month and I was not too enthusiastic about it. I dived straight into my sun sign Sagittarius.Hey most of it was pretty cool. They even guessed it right. “You are going to travel this month to far off places. You might be going on a holiday. You will find happiness in what you do. You will meet a lot of people who ….”
Ahah! They might have got away on any other day, but my mind was just itching for an exercise. Here I am reading an in-flight magazine and guess what predicts, travel!! How convenient, Mr. Nostradamus!!
“You might be going on a holiday”? That’s an awesome prediction too especially in the month of Diwali!! I couldn’t resist it. I skimmed through all signs. They had practically the same content. The guys who made this collection of crap clearly understood the self-centered human mind. We don’t care too much about others and we believe that the world is wholly and fully binding to us and us only. Nice attitude.
Its funny, just a little thought on how things work can get you to believe that there’s someone up there, watching all this madness with a sardonic smile….
“Please fasten your seat belts”, I heard the drone of the animated smiley. Thank God I am saved!
Labels: Humour, Sarcasm, Travel
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