I am reaching the 30,000-page views landmark. Wish me luck.
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Month: March 2005
Taking it from where we left on Yahoo`s 10 years…here is a link that lists out 100 landmarks achieved on the net, in the last ten years.
Damn neat. If I have to quote Kiruba, from whose Blog I took this link…and if I have to believe my eyes and senses…it is a must watch! Click Here.
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Waiting . . . .
I am waiting for Rekha. I am home, and she is yet to come.
I can tell you waiting is bad. Before marriage, I waited long enough for her to say “Yes” to my question: “Will you marry me?” I think I had to wait for four years.
In the four years, I had started earning well and my complexion had turned wheat-ish, because of the Dove soap I had started using. Sometimes, I do wonder if she married me for my money and complexion. These girls, I tell you….
Looks like she would be home only by 10.30 p.m. and that means a long wait for me.
It was not always so. Before marriage, she would wait for my calls…she would wait for me to ask…”shall we go to the beach?”…she would wait for me to buy her an ice-cream. Now, the tables have turned.
So much so, even when she talks…I don`t listen. I just wait for my chance to talk back. I get to talk so little.
Before marriage, I always had wads of money in my wallet. Money flows like a dried up spring after she took over full control of the financial matters. Even as I type, I wait for financial prosperity.
I know…I am not as irritated as I used to be in the initial days of my marriage. Slowly, I am learning to be patient…and accept the way things are. The problem is, the more I learn to wait longer…the lesser I time I have with me. Man, ages after all.
Now, don`t ask me if women age. They don`t. They just turn into relics. Why do you think archeologists love their wives so much?
She has told me that she would be home at 10.30 p.m.. But I know she can`t be punctual. Perhaps, she agrees with Evelyn Waugh, who once said that ‘Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.` And no…. Evelyn Waugh is in no way related to Steve Waugh (Have you checked out my Cricket Blog yet?).
I am not trying to tell you that I am a cool punctual dude. Though, I used to be once; courtesy my Army-man father.
I would land up at the rendezvous ten minutes in advance…but the next person would come in at least 10 minutes after the scheduled meeting time. After a few years of being punctual…one fine day it dawned on me that there never was anybody to appreciate me being punctual. Now, I go late. Just like my wife.
Don`t ask me why I am taking this lying down (actually I am lying now and the proof is…one cannot type while lying down).
Why can`t I face up to my wife and say: “Hey, you! I have no compulsion to take this abuse from you. I’ve got thousands waiting to abuse me!”
Today Yahoo! is celebrating its 10th Birthday. Yes….it was unveiled on 2nd March 1995!
To see how Yahoo! looked ten years back Click Here. Funny, how fast things move on the Internet.
Don`t get the full import of Yahoo`s 10th birth anniversary? Try comparing the first and the existing version of Yahoo!.
All the very best Yahoo! You have been quite a pal.
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Fruits – some thoughts
Don`t you want to remind some friend of yours to eat fruit today?
I reminded my wife…and now she has asked me to buy some when I go home in the evening. Why do I always end up axing my own foot? Comes naturally to me, I guess. Just like the fruit.
BTW, did you know that a ‘fruitcake` is a term used to describe a crazy or eccentric person? In some parts of the world it is used to describe people who are not straight in their sexual preferences.
If you are a literate person you would have heard of fruit flies. Yes, the same one that is used for genetic engineering. Did you know that for a long time it was thought that fruit flies were generated spontaneously? For more on Fruit flies Click Here.
Why am I in a fruity mood today? I have no idea. Probably it has got to do with Rekha giving me fruits for lunch. Yes, it is true…I have been coerced, black-mailed and threatened to take lunch to office. That too, cooked by Rekha.
I have been suggesting that we get a cook, but she insists. She still thinks that the way to a man`s heart is through his stomach. Wonder when we getting a cook for the house. One cannot survive on good food once every week. BTW, did I tell you that Rekha and I go out for dinner on all Saturdays?
Here is an article on why we should eat more of fruits and vegetables.
Why am I being so erratic in this post? Why are my thoughts acting like crazy? Am I a fruitcake? If yes, where is the cake part of me? I like cakes.
Now…there is one more thing that Rekha and I disagree on….I think I am a fruitcake and she thinks I am a vegetable!
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
– Will Rogers
(You bet sir. For I don`t think what is happening to me is comedy…but these guys who are regular readers of my marriage woes think it is funny)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’
– Isaac Asimov
(I agree with you Mr Asimov (have read his book called ‘Naked Sun` – no it is not porn)
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
– George Bernard Shaw
(Now you guys know, I have been writing nothing but the truth)
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
– Peter Ustinov
(Did not quite gather this, but thought somebody among you would help me out)
They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
– Eeyore, Pooh
(Phew! Tell me about accidents. BTW….have you guys heard this one – Children in back-seats of the car cause accidents and accidents in back-seats cause children.)
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
– Horace Walpole
(Mr Horace…so you telling me that I am a thinker! You guys heard that?)
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
– Mel Brooks
(Very well said. Are you telling me that I am typing this from an open sewer?)
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
– Charlie Chaplin
(This Comedy King could not have said truer words. Comedy is really easy. I think that to make a comedy all I need is a park, a policeman, a pretty girl and my wife Rekha)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
– Charlie Chaplin
(Damn true. If you guys were in my place you will be seeing the things in my life as a close-up. Only then would you know the tragedy in my life. And you heart-less people…you have the guts to laugh at me)
Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
– Edmund Gwenn
(I would not want to question that. Never heard of anybody who has disproved that…probably coz nobody ever lived to tell that dying was difficult)