26 Letters and A Talkative Hand

When I was walking, I wished to have a bicycle. When I got a bicycle, I wished to have a bike. When I got the bike, I wished to get a car. When I got a car, I wished to get back my cycle again. When I was a kindergarden, I wished to be in high school. When I got into the school, I wished to be in the college. When I got into the college, I wished to get a job. When I got a job, I wished to go back to the school again. When I was crawling, I wished to walk. When I learnt to walk, I wished to run. When I learnt to run, I wished to fly. When I learnt to fly, I wished to crawl again. When I was a dumb, I wished to learn words. When I learnt words, I wished to speak. When I spoke, I wished to be a dumb again. When I was into isolation, I wished to be in the crowd. When I was a part of the crowd, I wished to be in my isolation again. When I was imperfect, I wished to be a perfectionist. When I was a perfectionist, I wished to be an imperfectionsit again. When I was nothing, I wished to be ev...

You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When… 1) You know the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart 2) Cricket is almost a religion for you, and you idolize at least one of Rahul Dravid/Sachin Tendulkar/Saurav Ganguly 3) You have read at least some Chacha Chaudhary or Tinkle comics 4) You’ve watched Shaktimaan on TV at least once in your life. And you can immediately recognize the character when you see him. 5) You have some ‘NRI’ relatives. 6) You couldn’t wait for it to be December so you could have the Toblerone chocolates your NRI relatives brought you 7) You watched Cartoon Network, and then the late night movies on TNT that came after Cartoon Network ended. 8) You watched corny dubbed versions of Small Wonder, Silver Spoon, and I Dream of Jeanie 9) You were THRILLED when McDonald’s opened in your neighborhood (or even eight kilometers away) 10) A visit to Pizza Hut used to mean a special treat 11) You have seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun at lea...

I believe in a time-tested maxim: if you have nothing good to say about someone, it's best not to say anything at all. In short, what we call "bitching" is quite an unhealthy practice. Some compulsively speak ill of people, others do it for fun or for personal vendetta; to score one over another or to rocket one's ego; the sense of "I am Right, you're Wrong." Before you know it, it becomes a habit & the habit transmogrifies into a negative character trait, hence opening up a Pandora's box .We often mistake "venting" for "bitching". Venting may be good, the latter is not. One need NOT translate into the other. It's a personal choice, and I'm sure we're mature enough to make the right one. Spread the good word!

Statistics are interesting things. If we accept 99.9% accuracy as being ok then:- * 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. * 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year. * 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour. * 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year. * 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers. * Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day. * 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. * 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year. * 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips. * 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year. * 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat. * 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly. * 3056 copies of tomorrow's The Times of India will be missing one of the sections

Interesting words and languages 1. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay". 2. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language. 3. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 4. There are only four common words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There's also annelidous, which you probably won't need - ever (unless you're a biologist (see comments). 5. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. 6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. 7. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 8. The symbol used in many URLs (Web addresses) is called a tilde. (~) 9. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 10. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its...

Don't abbrev. Check to see if you have missed any words out. Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. About sentence fragments. When dangling, don't use participles. Don't use no double negatives. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. Just between you and I, case is important. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary. Its important to use apostrophe's right. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase. In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart. Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Avoid unnecessary redundancy. A writer mustn...

Before - You take my breath away. After - You're suffocating me! Before - Twice a night. After - Twice a month. Before - She loves the way I take control of a situation. After - She called me a controlling, manipulative, egomaniac. Before - Saturday Night Live. After - Sunday night football. Before - He makes me feel like a million dollars. After - If I had a penny for every stupid thing he's done... Before - Don't Stop. After - Don't Start. Before - The Sound of Music. After - The Sound of Silence. Before - Is that all you are eating? After - Maybe you should just have a salad. Before - Game for a Laugh. After - The Weakest Link. Before - It's like living a dream. After - It's a nightmare. Before - Turbocharged. After - Needs a jump-start. Before - We agree on everything! After - Doesn't she have a mind of her own? Before - Victoria's Secret. After - Fruit of the Loom. Before - Feathers & handcuffs. After - Ball and chain. Before - Idol. After - Idl...

--Men Are Just Happier People-- What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and thin k of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress Rs.10000. People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If s...

What would you do if a close friend suddenly started ignoring all contact from you and you had no idea why?

Glorious Namesake Recently I met one of my old friends from school. We had the usual exchange of info as to who is doing what etc etc. When I asked him what he is doing nowadays, his reply was ,”Oh, I am into a very important job.” “Oh, is it? What job?” “I work as a senior graphical content representation editor for a reputed magazine.” “What is this ‘graphical content representation editor’, I mean what work you have to do?” “You see, I cut, paste, arrange and try my best to make the crap written by those paltry reporters viewable.” “You mean, you edit the headline stories and news reports?” “No, no, the lexical editing, I mean the content editing is done by the chief editor and his assistants. I make the articles sizeable, attach them with the photos and put them on a magazine size paper and make it print ready. Did you get that? Leave it. Log heads like you won’t get.” Well, well, if he would have said it in a simple language that he is a cut and paste DTP arti...

You think you are the best. You think you're just the way one ought to be. Just the way you want to be. The one with principles and ideals and things like that. The one untouched by worldly pleasures. (Okay..ye nahi but still I like saying this :D) The most intelligent. The flawless. The perfect one. Not like the others. The others are mad people. Mad but cute, happy and lovable. =) =) Ahem.....mad, nonetheless. THEN, all of a sudden, you go mad. Why? Because you start living in the moment and just enjoying stuff without thinking of consequences and all that blah. You say what you want to, you do what you want to and exit stage. Simple. Things that regular people do. Normal stuff. You throw away your rulebooks and become impulsive and reckless and start doing things totally Dil Se. Yes, this is an extension of that last post. :-P And then, you REALIZE that you've gone mad and go ahead and acknowledge it to yourself. The time has come for the world to end people..the time has co...