Today's feel good factor (read: feel funny factor) was this read. I couldn't help but smile at the author's astuteness! ;)
Ah so.. sometimes in spite of trying to wear rose-colored glasses, blackness can creep from nowhere. Today is one such day and I'm battling it. The strategy I have implied today is ward off the darkness with a dark rich chocolate cake. With about 00:53:46 minutes of surfing the net, 40, 345 packets sent and 54,897 packets received; here I am with quite a bunch of Chocolate cake recipes.
I have piles to bake before I sleep, I should say? :D
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Voted... and made it count?
I had my march to the polling booth, had my finger marked and voted. Talking of the elections. The media tried to prop up more awareness than they had in the yesteryears. Right from the jagore campaign to TOI's full first page advertisement about "Making your vote count".
Also, there were a few advertisements splashed on the newspaper reading "Make your vote count. Show your marked finger to avail 25% discount on the bill". Apparently by one of the food giants "Dhaba Express" [It is unfortunate to think that one has to lure people, by such perks, to make one vote].
There are enough problems already. The common ones being : Voting machine problems, Voter bribing, Voters name missing; of the many. It occurred to me today that one must not give room for anyone to cast a "Forged vote". How do you do that? Educate people? Conduct workshops and campaigns??
NO.
Just wake up early enough, walk up to the polling booth and cast your vote before someone else does it :D
When it comes to voting, I believe, the uneducated at least go by what their heart says. But the educated man keeps thinking of all the pros and cons of a candidate from N different points of views.. Ultimately ending up in saying "Why should I vote? Anyway another corrupt big bellied bully is on the way". Yeah, many a time I felt the same too. But, today I did make my vote count. Just because, I did not want anyone taking advantage of "my NOT voting" and using the opportunity to cast "Forged votes".
The poor turnout of votes, so far in the other Metros, stunned me. As the cliché goes : Small drops of water, make a mighty ocean.
Of course, who knows what the voter turnout would be in my city?
The future's not ours to see... que sera sera!
Also, there were a few advertisements splashed on the newspaper reading "Make your vote count. Show your marked finger to avail 25% discount on the bill". Apparently by one of the food giants "Dhaba Express" [It is unfortunate to think that one has to lure people, by such perks, to make one vote].
There are enough problems already. The common ones being : Voting machine problems, Voter bribing, Voters name missing; of the many. It occurred to me today that one must not give room for anyone to cast a "Forged vote". How do you do that? Educate people? Conduct workshops and campaigns??
NO.
Just wake up early enough, walk up to the polling booth and cast your vote before someone else does it :D
When it comes to voting, I believe, the uneducated at least go by what their heart says. But the educated man keeps thinking of all the pros and cons of a candidate from N different points of views.. Ultimately ending up in saying "Why should I vote? Anyway another corrupt big bellied bully is on the way". Yeah, many a time I felt the same too. But, today I did make my vote count. Just because, I did not want anyone taking advantage of "my NOT voting" and using the opportunity to cast "Forged votes".
The poor turnout of votes, so far in the other Metros, stunned me. As the cliché goes : Small drops of water, make a mighty ocean.
Of course, who knows what the voter turnout would be in my city?
The future's not ours to see... que sera sera!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Goal.
After making up with the man who was generous enough to let go of the hard feelings. I felt SO rejuvenated and inclined to start something afresh in life. So I signed up at www.sparkpeople.com with the hope of losing 10 pounds in three months.
My current BMI is 22.5 which is "Healthy" and BMI <= 25 is considered healthy universally. However, the healthy BMI for an Asian body is reported to be below 23. Of course, I am below 23, but only by a marginal value.
After child birth, Asian women on an average put on 8 kgs (18 pounds). In that case, my BMI would rise up to 27.4 and voila, you'd see me in the overweight zone (or nearing the obese zone which is 29). Hence I decided to lose the extra pounds, so that I give some room for "gaining weight later".
He was kinda against it, of course, he finds me perfect. I, certainly, am not bothered about looks, I am just worried about the health complications. I do want to be medicated for diabetes and high blood pressure at 30, when I can very well do my homework now.
10 pounds (5kgs) in 3 months works at the rate of 1 pound a week (0.5 kg a week) I understand that weight loss is not a linear variation but exponential. Shedding off the first 4 pounds is going to be easier than the last 6 pounds. But if not now, when else? ;)
So. 14th of July 2009, is the target (weight loss) date.
I am going to enjoy this tightrope walking, I guess :D
Especially when it involves exclusion of Colas, Tofus and Cheese.
My current BMI is 22.5 which is "Healthy" and BMI <= 25 is considered healthy universally. However, the healthy BMI for an Asian body is reported to be below 23. Of course, I am below 23, but only by a marginal value.
After child birth, Asian women on an average put on 8 kgs (18 pounds). In that case, my BMI would rise up to 27.4 and voila, you'd see me in the overweight zone (or nearing the obese zone which is 29). Hence I decided to lose the extra pounds, so that I give some room for "gaining weight later".
He was kinda against it, of course, he finds me perfect. I, certainly, am not bothered about looks, I am just worried about the health complications. I do want to be medicated for diabetes and high blood pressure at 30, when I can very well do my homework now.
10 pounds (5kgs) in 3 months works at the rate of 1 pound a week (0.5 kg a week) I understand that weight loss is not a linear variation but exponential. Shedding off the first 4 pounds is going to be easier than the last 6 pounds. But if not now, when else? ;)
So. 14th of July 2009, is the target (weight loss) date.
I am going to enjoy this tightrope walking, I guess :D
Especially when it involves exclusion of Colas, Tofus and Cheese.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Anger is deadlier than Cyanide.
...even though it doesn't kill man at once :(
“Speak when you are angry -
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
American "hierarchiologist", Educator and Writer.
1919-1990
Nothing can be explained better than this quote and how much I regret has absolutely no words. Initially I was playing the silent-bird to him. Of course, he could understand there was something nagging at my mind. So he insisted that I pour out, to which I refused like a darling. How long can one put up an act, when your heart is seething with anger?
Thus, it happened.
I explained him that I never liked the way he justified his loved ones behavior. He could do nothing more but justify again. In response to the topic (spoken on May 1st) I gathered incidents ranging the last six years, how things were and how things are. Sporadically diverging from the topic under discussion is an inherent nature of a woman. I say so as I am a woman and may be that's why I can very well understand the truth.
So a trivial issue, which could have easily passed for a tiny rebuke, which could have been easily swept under the carpet was dug SO deep that there were holes in our hearts.
Irreparable, irrevocable damage done. I am repenting now. What the heck is the use? Where was my sanity when I was pouring out my accusations? Uh. To all the wonderful women out there, we know that we are the most beautiful creatures of the animal kingdom. So able of creating lives. Nothing comes without a price right? The price we have paid to our creator is the slashing tongue.
God! I'm seething with anger now, apparently at me.
“Speak when you are angry -
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
American "hierarchiologist", Educator and Writer.
1919-1990
Nothing can be explained better than this quote and how much I regret has absolutely no words. Initially I was playing the silent-bird to him. Of course, he could understand there was something nagging at my mind. So he insisted that I pour out, to which I refused like a darling. How long can one put up an act, when your heart is seething with anger?
Thus, it happened.
I explained him that I never liked the way he justified his loved ones behavior. He could do nothing more but justify again. In response to the topic (spoken on May 1st) I gathered incidents ranging the last six years, how things were and how things are. Sporadically diverging from the topic under discussion is an inherent nature of a woman. I say so as I am a woman and may be that's why I can very well understand the truth.
So a trivial issue, which could have easily passed for a tiny rebuke, which could have been easily swept under the carpet was dug SO deep that there were holes in our hearts.
Irreparable, irrevocable damage done. I am repenting now. What the heck is the use? Where was my sanity when I was pouring out my accusations? Uh. To all the wonderful women out there, we know that we are the most beautiful creatures of the animal kingdom. So able of creating lives. Nothing comes without a price right? The price we have paid to our creator is the slashing tongue.
God! I'm seething with anger now, apparently at me.
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