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Pabulum or the lack of it !
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Food for thought or food for survival? ... though the creation of thought is definitely dependent and influenced by the presence /absence / quantity or quality of food .

The first half of my day was spent casually going about my reading and other mundane chores and anticipating the culinary delights that I might be savouring in the evening.
So much was the anticipation that I and my friend practically starved ourselves thinking about the treat..."we better prepare ourselves ...adjust the space in our tummies... make way for the excess calories that were going to be added in the evening"...

Ah ...well the wait for the food stretched so much that sitting in the restaurant we could think of nothing but food....food that was travelling from the kitchen to the tables with eagerly awaiting palates, ready to gobbled, munched or chewed carefully( depending upon on the time-lapse between their previous bite).

For a moment we looked at each other, sparks flying????
...ummm no ...
we just couldn't take our mind off food...we just smiled .... " Ohh I wish the order comes or I swear I am going to snatch that next plate that passes by me! " screamed my "on-the-verge-of-a-major-social-breakdown" friend.

We tried to shift our gaze to a particular loud table where a few drunkorexic two-pot screamer kids were practising the art of "Yo/hey-man-ing" [screaming the words "Yo/hey-man" accompanied by the hip-hop hand gesture (
it is the arm bent at around a 90 degree angle out from the body and being moved up and down :)) or as a 'disillusioned-with-rap' guy describes "making a pouty-kinda face and waving their arm in the air like they're swatting flies")......

no it doesn't work!!!!....
the aroma of freshly baked cakes with pinguedinous layers just filled my senses immediately reminding me that our order had still not arrived...
I looked at my companion who had turned atrabilious for the lack of food and summoned up the greatest gravitas that I could accomodate on my face in that situation and enquired about our order to which I got a polite but firm reply that "'it's almost ready ma'am".

June 29, 2008 | 1:41 AM Comments  0 comments

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Standard Deviation???
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"There is a good deal of the yahoo in every gang of adolescents that goes berserk, whatever their color(sic)"

Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels(1726)

The quote rings a bell when I ponder over the misfortunes that "man"kind ends up inviting on itself on a remarkably regular and consistent basis. ... be it ignoring the climate crisis or orchestrating and fanning strifes in various corners of the world for selfish reasons or planned or random acts of violence...
The scale on which such issues come up poses a question to my mind ...

Is it human to be so selfish or is it a standard deviation?

I know reducing the problem to selfishness is very simplistic yet it could also be the key... we are all born selfish... the values of sharing and giving are instilled in us during our rite of passage into the adult world...
A child learns to share and give while trying to protect herself/himself from a perceived danger that is displeasing the parents... she/he learns the first lessons of moral responsibilty at this young stage...Yet the basis of this very act of learning is a selfish urge to protect oneself...

and no I am not a misanthrope ...au contraire ....



April 29, 2008 | 2:25 PM Comments  0 comments

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An Eternal Optimist
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With all the threats of an imminent disastor resulting from global warming, especially living in a coastal metropolis in a flat overlooking the sea on three sides and being threatened with the possibility of one's habitat being engulfed in the rising sea .....it's sort of difficult to stay positive ...

But for an eternal optimist 'like me' ...I 'm supposed to be happy at the fact that they have found another planet worth living in another solar system in some "impossible-to-reach-in-this-lifetime" corner of the universe.
amen...

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070425-habitable-planet.htm


April 29, 2008 | 2:24 PM Comments  0 comments

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One of my favourite english essays
About the book: "Book of English Essays (Penguin English Library)"

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"On National Prejudice", Oliver Goldsmith
http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/goldsmithessay7.htm


Some snippets ....


Among all the famous sayings of antiquity, there is none that does greater honour to the author, or affords greater pleasure to the reader (at least if he be a person of a generous and benevolent heart) than that the philosopher, who, being asked what "countryman he was," replied that he was a citizen of the world. How few there are to be found in modern times who can say the same, or whose conduct is consistent with such a profession! We are now become so much Englishmen, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Spaniards, or Germans, that we are no longer citizens of the world; so much the natives of one particular spot, or members of one petty society, that we no longer consider ourselves as the general inhabitants of the globe, or members of that grand society which comprehends the whole human kind

April 29, 2008 | 2:19 PM Comments  0 comments

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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Related to country: Botswana

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This is really a very funny and interesting movie. A must watch....:)

The Gods Must Be Crazy.


February 2, 2008 | 12:54 PM Comments  0 comments

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