Go ahead .... you wont have shortage ... but are you sure ... your children wont

Year… 2999- Old Woman in the corner of stage  trying to make a fire. With 2 sticks, nothing happens. Again with 2 stones… nothing happens again…

A small kid comes to her.

Kid: Granny … Whaaaaattt u doooooooing

Granny: trying to make a fire Honey, it’s getting cold.

Kid: Hmmm I am hungry.

Granny: Let me find something to eat,

Kid: Let me help you.

Both go to different corner and start searching. Kid comes running back

Kid : Granny!! Granny!!– Look what I found … a paper … when people in it and there are colorful Suns everywhere.

Granny: What where…

Kid: here here …

Granny: Ah!! My last Christmas with lights…

Kid: lights???

Granny looked at the confused face  

Granny: Na nothing honeys. Leave it…

Kid : Noooo I wanna know .. please tell me

Granny: OK OK !! When I was of your age, We use to have something for The electricity

Kid : The Electricity … ooooooo

Granny: Yes! It use to bring light in this little glass balls called bulbs …

Kid: Bulb !!

Granny: But honey. We didn’t value electricity. We didn’t value any of you natural resource and all got over when I was 20.

Kid : Got over!! So So .. I can’t see THE ELECTRICTY  the light in the bulbbb

Granny:  No Honey, you cant

Kid: Why did you use it all… don’t you love me ,,, you should have kept some of it for me right ??

Granny : I… I…

Granny  keeps her head down… Kid leaves the stage in tears .

Final Note:

This Granny might not be you… but DO you want your kids to have a sorry face in front of their Grand kids.. Then Go ahead !! Use it lavishly. Or you think your great grand kids are worth having Electricity. Please work towards saving Electricity!!! 

Photo: Courtesy: makrandmane.com

Yawwwwnnnnnnn Marriage

My mom called her usual call in every 3 days. After the regular conversation about how things there are and here, how is the weather here and there. Finally she said “that guy whose photo we showed you last Sunday, the horoscope matches”.  I to myself “Haven’t I heard these words before “

This is one of the hundreds of conversation I and Mom had about my marriage. Few day after I turned 20, the 1^st guys who came to see me. Why??? Marriage …..

This way the saga started and continued for 6 year. Acted in the drama with 5 men so far, rest 200 was rejected by my sweet horoscope on my behalf

Everyone needs partner; I don’t reject the idea of having one. But why do I have to hurry to chose one … it’s not choice when one is given less time to choose.

My questions:

1.       Why a girl has to compromise and get married because she has crossed 25 year’s threshold

2.       Why she has to meet unknown people with expectation of “ Oh please god, let him not be a moron “

3.       Why horoscope of to decide if the people are made for each other , why not the people themselves

4.       Why can we get courtship period. - I act like a good girl in front of the men I meet with regards to arrange marriage, how can I trust he is not.

I don't  even feel like explaining how arranged marriages work… below is the pictorial representation. J

How do I care…

Today some asked me “What will you do? “. I was surprised by the questions as that was the first line of our conversation. I asked her “About?” She said “to Bring peace to the world”. I promptly answered “ I will try to bring peace to the people I know. However I gave the question a thought later. Was my answer correct? Is this what she was looking for? I didn’t know.

Most of us give lots of lecture about being environmentalist and being a humanitarian. But how many of us really are?
What qualifies us to be environmentalist or humanitarian?
1. Stopping a Car. Because I saw 2 water bottle being thrown out its window and asking them to pick it up?
2. Seeing a lady faint and moving on with our walk since her mother asked us to. Then later on thinking … was there something that we could have done.
3. Make a friend pick up the trash that he just had thrown on the road, with out caring that he is 2 feet and 20 kgs bigger than you.
Or Do we have to join a peace rally or a environmental protest ?

Anger Managment - Who??? me ???

Work has always been my passion. Working late was never an issue for me. But I didn't realize that I was absorbed in my work so much that I have turned into a monster with a label on my head " Beware witch is pissed".

Once in a while some self proclaimed intelligent sheep falls into the trap. The sheep thought the he knows the world. and all he know was the pasture he lived in. He came to the witch and said ... "Hey! Witch... you are wrong, I am right". Witch spitted stream of fire and the sheep ran away. Witch knew that she was right but unfortunately , in the lion's kingdom stupid Sheep had more power than the witch.

Witch didn't know what went wrong, All she knew was, she was right. Witch was prosecuted.

Moral of the story Around 90% men pee in their pants when the confront women with high will power and intelligence. All they do is run back to their Mamma and say ... " she was mean to me ".

God created idiots and then ask us to go for anger management.

Reality TV Helping or hurting ?

I have been hearing about the reality TV show called “Emotional Athyachar”. Read couple of News articles also. While browsing through the channel on a jobless Sunday, I came across this show airing on UTV Bindass. I thought what the heck!! Let’s watching it!! I never watch Reality shows, but I thought I will make an exception.

This particular episode was about “Hunter being hunted”. So out so called boyfriend wants to get a loyalty test done on his girlfriend. So the TV crew plants a hunky TV start to woo the girl. The girl came out clean. It seems that she has been the only girl who has come out clean … But the crew realized that the boyfriend is flirting with a crew member. The stress on that, and finally the result was the boyfriend cheated. Then there was huge drama, fist fight and swearing.
But picture abhi baakee hai mere dost..
Next episode, they show this same couple. They are back together. She accepted him back in her life. And she brought a friend who wanted to do loyalty test her boyfriend, who again didn’t come out clean.
People say this show is opening eyes of those in relationship. But I feel they are actually killing the trust that people have on each other. Yes it’s true that 90% of the people who came in show were cheaters. But that is less the 1 % of total population.

My Question
1. We already have terrorism and politics to kill our trust. Do we need more reasons to hate each other?
2. Seeing all this, will you be able to trust the next person who comes close to you???
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Emotional Athyachar - Do we really need it

Yesterday while chatting with my friend I came across one incident. He was telling me about how his friend stopped drinking because of his wife. So I said “what’s wrong in that “. His answer was “She never asked him to “.

You know how men always say” we are not mind readers.” Well it is actually true, at least 99.9% of them are not and the rest 0.1 % are also not, they just get lucky with their guesses. They have no clue what’s going on in our mind. And we always think “They don’t understand!!”
Our hero here was lucky with his guess. How did he know she didn’t want him to drink??? Thats the famous tale of “Emotional Athyachar.”(Emotional Blackmail). He was recently married, happy and joyful. But after few months he saw that his beautiful wife was crying frequently. Sitting in one corner, not letting him know why.
Worried husband came asked my friend what to do, the guy who never had a girl friend in his life had nothing to say. Finally the sweet hubby found the pattern; he saw that she cried only on those days when he came back home after drinking. One day he asked her, “Honey do you cry because I drink “. She said nothing but the light reflected from her tears said it all. He sighed in relief “You should have told me this earlier, I would have stopped that moment itself. I am not addicted “.
This story had a happy ending, not because he read her mind. He analyzed the patterns in her behavior.

My questions to all the girls are
1. Is the guy sleeping next to you is as Patient as this one to analyze?
2. Why can’t we just go ahead and tell him what we feel, why do we need to use tears as weapon?
3. Why we expect him to read our mind?
My questions to the guys are
1. When we are upset, why don’t you come and ask us what happened?
2. And if we change and tell you what we feel, will you reciprocate like this guy?
3. And if we stop crying, will you give us more reasons to smile?

Speeding through the Jungle

Morning breeze was chilled. Crossing a ring road, I saw 2 cars facing each other, Dismantled face of the cars made it clear that someone was not careful. Someone was speeding.... as the auto passed by the cars, I left my thoughts with the car and was trying to remember what all I had to do in office.

Hmmm I had to return my friend's call. I was fooling around the roads, when he called last evening.
This guy was one of the most interestingly talkative men I have come across but today he is silent, giving me one word answers for all my questions. Mr. Martian was in his cave, but I being a Venusian was not ready to give up until I know what was going on. I said “Come on dude, what happened, are you ok??” He " Yeah not feeling well, recovering " I " Recovering from what , you were fine couple of days back" He " Well I kind of had an accident ".

And then the story starts ... 4 guys in a Zen at 120 to 140, I wonder what good will come out of it. 3 of them, safe divers, drive with utter caution. The 4th one was the culprit; he takes the car at high speed in the Jungle of Wayanad. Didn't see the turn .By the time he realized that it was the end of the road, it was too late. He tried turning the car, but at that high speed even the steering gave up on them. The car took off from the road flew over a small canal and banged on to the concrete wall on the other side.
All of them, in Shock. The back seat passengers checked their injuries, and thanked the lord for saving their life. The car jerked again by the front door opening, the driver walked out of the car. Before they could ask “you ok", the driver falls on his face. They ran towards the motionless body on the jungle floor. They turned him, only to see his face red with blood, and more red oozing out of his mouth.
Suddenly they remember that there was one more person in the Car, they looked back and saw him, with his face with blood and pieces of windshield. One of the back seaters ran to check on him, it was his bother.
The help arrived in half hour. When they reached the local hospital, the doctor had another tale to tell. The driver's tongue was cut in half and the hospital didn't have facilities to attend to that. The doctor checked on others, the injuries were minor, just that one had all on his face.
They had to save their friend; they went to the next city hospital. After more than 3 hours operation and 40 stitches just on his tongue our thrilled driver is recovering. No one know if he will be able to talk the same was he use to talk. Or look the way he use to look. But everyone is happy, because they know it could have been worse.
Speed thrills, it actually does. Even I had my experiences. But next time I get on a machine with wheels, I will think “Do I wanna come back home in one piece or several pieces?”
Every time I will see a damaged car. I will remember someone was having thrill of his life, which I don't know might have taken his life.