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He looked into the mirror and he knew something was wrong. His tie had an ink stain, hair looked ruffled and his cheeks had pillow creases. Yet, that wasn’t worrying him, it was the mirror…it wasn’t reflecting his room…
Where am I? Did I get drunk? Is this a friend’s place?

“Hi daaaarlling…” a voice called out from the living room, “Did poochies have a good nap..”

Poochies!! Yuck. This is not going well

“You’ve in there for ages…come and play sweets,” the voice cooed.

Ok, I got to be brave... Don’t panic. I obviously was drugged or was dead drunk and am with some nutcase.

“I’m coming!!” I yelled.. Ok brave face..brave face..

“Hi sleepy head!! Want to grab some cornflakes?”

“But you’re.. you’re… why?” I was started and confused. This was my dog’s vet.

“Why? God look at your face… ”

I still can’t comprehend a thing…did a doc just abuse ME. I mean, yeah she is hot as hell but, why the f88k can’t I remember?

“Dammit I am a doc, I did nothing to you…… Hey idiot.. Look here, you came in with him,” and pointed to my pet dog, “for his health check. However, you just dozed off right in my waiting room. I had the guard outside shift you to the patient room, because you were scaring the others…”

“Just a minute… ok yes I remember being tired, and I think I had closed my eyes for a nap…but that still doesn’t explain poochies”

“Poochies.. hey that’s what I called your dog. She also napped near your bed while you were sleeping… I was calling out to her.. .”

Ok, I am now totally embarrassed! I had been taking my dog to her for a year now; I thought she fancied me... But now I had dozed off at my doc’s place…a real hot doc, mind you…and I ask her if she molested me and effectively killed all my chances of ever dating her… Wow, what a day of realizations!

Hello Temptation ;-)

A 24-year-old who loves to listen to hip hop music on his iPod and plays war video games to soothe his nerves. This is the revered Karmapa Lama, Trinley Dorje - a Buddhist monk who can be true to his beliefs, and yet enjoy the perks of the 21st century.

We often think of salvation as giving up of worldly desires. A trip to the mountains, where lies no temptation. There was a very interesting question asked years ago at a Miss India beauty pageant. The question was, “Adam and Eve were warned with dire consequences against eating the apple. Yet the snake in the park was persuasive, he tempted them into eating the forbidden apple. Now you are the police; whom would you arrest for this act?”

The ladies were clear, “Of course, the snake. He tempted them, and he knew it was wrong. God had forbidden it.”

You know what they missed? Adam and Eve. Temptations are presented to you in life to test your courage, ethics and faith. You trip, and you fail! You cannot banish all the snakes (temptations), but you must learn to control your desires. Simple example, you are on a diet and your friend sends you a box of Belgian pralines. What do you do? Live with it! Let your family enjoy it, but don’t break your diet because, hey, this is Belgian pralines duh…!

I think living in the real world, with your desires is far more difficult then retiring away in the hills with basic necessities. A holiday is welcome, but a lifetime…hmm, too early to decide!

Annals of the Ladies Washroom

We have common rooms, cafeterias, malls, lounge areas, but yet I have seen scores of ladies chattering happily inside the washroom. Bedroom stories are swapped, new fashion trends and make tips are freely exchanged, plus a lot of not-so-nice things are spoken about some colleagues, bosses and even the neighbour’s wife. I have seen a maid once sitting in the corner of a large washroom at a mall, and painting!

Tell me is such banter restricted to us, or does the men’s washroom pretty much follow the same routine?

In fact, to think of it, some people take enormous pleasure in locking themselves in their ‘glamour rooms’ at home and preening themselves. SRK is supposed to have got a lot work done on his laptop, check mails etc during his alone time in the washroom. My husband, and I think a thousand others, like reading the morning newspaper inside the toilet!

Why?!

The toilet industry is a billion dollar one. People spend millions purchasing the perfect Jacuzzi, showers, basins, mirror etc. Supposedly half your life is spent on the pot! Makes sense then to spend, right? (Check this for how much thought some people have given to turn a bathroom, into a work of art: http://adelto.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/luxury_contemporary_modern_bathroom_bath_agape_bonatti_ponsi_scoop_minimal.jpg)

There is a home near London that supposedly devotes 1000 sq ft of space just to the bathing area (that’s the size of a 2 bed apartment, in most places!). Italian marble and precious stones find their way here; and so do interior decorators.

In fact, have you heard of the toilet rolls that can be customized for your needs – colour, fragrances, paper quality, all of them to suit your bum’s delicate needs. Of course, for a pretty hefty price. And yes the all gold toilet seat is a reality; a jeweler’s glamorous idea obviously.


See, now you can work on a new business model. A commercial toilet with gold leaves and diamonds with a sign – shit, but for a fee. I am kidding; or am I ;-)

40th Anniversary of the Moonwalk... Where are the aliens?

It has been 40 years since we had our little stroll on the moon. It was giant step for mankind, remember. Space tourism, they say, will soon be on the menu. You will replace the term globe trotters to universe trotters…

Yet what we await is sign of intelligent life out there. Personally even an alien goldfish swimming around out there in a space bowl sounds good enough. Have you ever taken a leap of faith and believed in something no one ever did?

If you had to imagine aliens, how would they be? Maybe they have pink skin like ours, three small eyes, but no lips. They can read minds and send signals, but they cannot express themselves like us. We have emotions that make us vulnerable and well, human! And this facet attracts them…

Maybe they listen to our radio and television broadcasts and wonder why Joey and Chandler laugh apparently for no reason. Maybe they want Angelina Jolie to adopt a few space kids and are reviewing her profile. Yet again they might love Mozart, but have planned to hit Prince with a meteorite.

Who knows we might one day have a new MySpace social network, where your profile page would ask for your home planet, and current planet. We’d have travel sites where you could choose a freezing stint in former planet, Pluto or a hot bath at Venus. Maybe a 2 night, 3 days package on the Saturn rings, before you start another interstellar operation…

I would ask them to just tell me how to make all fatty calorie rich food into zero calorie deserts. Dreamy, ain’t it?

Aliens if you reading this, please pay us a visit sometime before we trigger-happy earthlings blow all of us up or melt all the polar caps and be one with the fishes…

Courageous or sheer stupidity?

I have got an interesting question – what is courage?

Bill Maher, a talk show host, said that it took “courage” for the terrorists to sit in an airplane, bang into the WTC and well, commit suicide. Of course, he received serious flak for his comments.

However, I would like to debate this. Is courage an attribute of the morally just? Or can it be seen as morally neutral, even though you may not agree with the outcome of the ‘courageous’ act?

Suicide is cowardice – accepted.

Yet is being courageous also stupidity? Is it safe to assume that only in hindsight can we really label an action as courageous or one of sheer stupidity….

Perplexing, isn’t it?

Let’s take an example of war. Country A invades Country B. Country B soldier knows that the only way to warn his fellow soldiers is by running across bunkers to where the only satellite phone is kept. If he runs, he may be shot. If he stays put, he can run out towards the night, when the ‘enemies’ have moved ahead. However, it means the others are not warned, and there would be heavy causalities... Country B soldier decides to risk his life, and warn the others. He runs… He gets shot.

Was he silly, stupid, brave, courageous?

Some may say he was being stupid – the odds were against him, he could have saved himself and others, if he had waited. Some may honour him with a medal, and say the risk was worth taking and he put his country, before himself.

Courage is such a deep, personal thing that defining it would be difficult. It depends on perspectives.

Life guards day-in and day-out put themselves in danger – is that stupid or courageous? A fire fighter runs inside a burning building, when every one else is running out, to save another…he may be the single bread winner, and has a large family support – smart idea or bad choice?

What is your opinion…think…debate..share..