The One With Monika' Boots..

Remember the F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode :
"The One With Monika's Boots"....where she buys an exceedingly expensive pair of Boots but l8r they hurt her feet soooooo much that she cudn't even wear them??

well.....smthing of that sort happened to me last week.. :)

i bought a fancy pair of shoes and flaunted it everywhere..... :P

But one day when i wore them to CP in delhi (where u HAVE TO walk a lottt..).....then..
i wud say..(in Jennis's tone)
" OH....... MY..... GOD !!"
My feet hurt so bad that i cud not walk a step further...
but little did i know that worst was yet to come:
At lunch in a fancy restaurant, i took off my shoes to give my feet a lil rest.....
but after the lunch, to my dismay, my feet had swollen and refused to get into my shoes!!
and when they did, they hurt even bad!!

I exactly understand how Monika wud hv felt then...u cannot keep them, but cannot also throw them!!
They are just sooo precious!!
:)

SMS B For Honey

(Source : TOI)

I remember the day when seeing a blue backlight on my friend’s mobile phone stupefied me.
It seemed such a large step forward from the green backlight one saw on other phones.
I’m today sending e-mails and watching video clips on my phone with a colour display that turns my TV red with embarrassment. However, not everyone is amused by the overabundance of mobile phones and network operators.

A recent study conducted by a group of environmentalists in Kerala concluded that honeybees are rather disconcerted by the rising number of network towers all over the place.
Apparently, the electromagnetic radiations from these towers and our cellphones collide with the navigational capabilities of honeybees and prevent them from getting back to their hives, essentially destroying numerous colonies. Unfortunately for these bees they are not equipped with GPS or a map to give them directions once they lose their way. A couple of wrong turns and, they probably give up and tell themselves “We’ll never get back home. Let’s just sting some guy and kill ourselves.”

Scientists who have devoted themselves to the study of bees believe that the alarming rate of decrease in honeybee population over the past decade or so is the forewarning of the doom of the human race. They believe the honeybee community is an integral cog in sustaining the balance of nature. And if you think about it, the behaviour of honeybees, to some degree, resembles human behaviour. The worker bees pick a queen bee who they hail, nurture, and revere for a particular period of time. Once the queen becomes old and relatively useless, they find a younger queen to venerate and subsequently engage in the methodical murder of the old queen. The phenomenon is called supersedure and a sizeable number of celebrities and social figures would vouch for its existence.
The really bad news for the honeybees is that it is unlikely that cellphone usage is going to dip. We’re constantly being informed about the various downsides of mobile phones.
Frankly, if human beings are shrugging off threats of brain tumour and infertility, then the news of the imminent extinction of honeybees has very little chance of seeping through to their consciousness.

Perhaps, someday in the future when we’re craving for honey and we have none left, we’ll start wondering what happened. And on that day the only thing buzzing would be our phones!!

... journey to a dreamland ...

a child is born as the most beautiful gift of god....but in the most daunting world of expectations, competition, career, success...and what not...:I

her first smiles, first mumbling words, abstract patterns on a drawing sheet.... suddenly see a way to morning school buses, homework, exams....and the inevitable : COMPETITION!!

From the starting one thing is made sure :" U hv to win!!".
There is NO place for "LOSERs"...
Study, play, participate, win badges..... do everything to make ur profile luk good!
And before we realized, education system had changed!!
studies became smthing not to "learn" frm...but jst to SCORE good marks!
sports rather than a recreational activity, became a fight!!

12 years of tough struggle and u stand at the crossroads between school and college to choose ur career!
AND my dear... do not jst choose any career......u have to choose the most lucrative career...
money is all that matters, interests can be developed! :)

do a professional course, get gud marks...get a JOB!
and that is not it , dear..
work harder, do overtime, wrk for promotion, get raises... till u become the CEO...
wrk, wrk, wrk, and then wrk a lil more....
coz there is noooo end to this heedless strive for MORE!!

But will u, jst for a moment , take a breath..... and take a deeper look at LIFE!
What do we want in our lives?
to be around the people we love...
to be happy in whatever we do...whatever we have...
and to do what we like to do...

but where are we all running to?
We do the work we which we hate, try to fit-in with the people whom we don't like, live in all sorts of tensions and pressures..... and in the process, forget entirely the real AIM of our life...

let us create our dreamworld ourselves....lets not LET the mundane life take away from us....our real LIFE, which we all have dreamed of!

all the best..
god bless!