Sugar - Sweet or Bitter ?

We were on our way to Shani Shignapur to take blessing from Shani God. Our Maruti halted at its destined location for refreshment. I was thrilled to see sugarcane juice extracted using animal power. Juice was extracted by making the cow move round the wooden rollers which crushed the sugarcane. We had a refreshing sugarcane juice.

The juice did refresh me but then I felt, how monotonous it was for the animal to move round the rollers for the whole day and then get a hit on the back for every increase in demand for juice from the people.

Sugar may be sweet and refreshing for us but bitter for them.

How to quit smoking?

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
                                     -- Vince Lombardi

This is not true always. It all depends on what is quit.

There are lots of reasons for smoking and very less for quitting smoking. If ever one needs the reason to quit smoking one can think of following:

1. Just read the Statutory Warning “Smoking is Injurious to Health” on the cigarette packet and think why should I smoke?
2. Watch the others smoke and start thinking why should I be a copycat?
3. If ever there is craving for smoking, think of the smoke emitted by the vehicle.
4. Never quit smoking for reason someone near and dear but for oneself, because when one is hurt he/she gets a reason to smoke.
5. If there is post on how to quit smoking ignore it and stop such post by quitting smoking.

If nothing of the above works then let’s check Other Sides Now for smoking.

How to smoke quietly?

1. Keep a match box or a lighter handy (not in the pocket).
2. While going for a smoke take only friends who smoke.
3. Smoke away from public places. This ensures minimum people staring at you.
4. If at all any friends come to you while smoking just keep the cigarette aside and start abusing the person who left the cigarette there.
5. If ever you think of smoking again read the above post "How to quit Smoking".

These are the some ways to QUIeTly smoke/ING…considering Both Sides Now.

Monday, January 01, 2007

31^st December is the day when everyone plans for the night to welcome the New Year.

People remain awake the whole night. They join New Year party and then return back to their nest around mid night or probably in the morning to sleep and wake up in the afternoon. SMS, calls are all jammed pack for these occasions. Everywhere there are wishes for New Year through cell phones, landline and SMS. There are recorded wishes from the celebrities on various TV channels flashing in every five minutes. Everyone is in the party mood dancing all the way. There are traffic jams on the way back home at night. Some are drunk and stranded at places. Police are on the roll to witness and catch hold off any illegal activities going on during night.

A very different kind of mood is set only to welcome New Year.

A New Year has come as a new beginning for all. New Year brings along with it new expectations, new challenges, new hope and new goals.

And today January 01, 2007, the beginning of a New Year we get the zeal to start off with something new.

Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Concluding line...

Finally the concluding line is:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

First Time...

We all decided to go for a picnic to Arnala beach. After a very long time I was actually going for a picnic and that too with my office colleagues, so was very excited. We were supposed to meet at Virar station and then take a rickshaw to Green Paradise resort. We were 13 friends and the rickshaw was an eight seater Dukki (type of rickshaw in Virar). We adjusted ourself in a Dukki to make it look small. The picnic had already started in the Dukki itself with a dozen plus people cracking jokes.

We reached the Green Paradise Resort which was really green with trees. This one was a water resort with swimming pool. All were very excited to get into the water. Some started hitting the ball against the bat as a warm up session. While some started measuring water depth and the amount of chlorine in swimming pool. "It’s not very deep, let’s go" shouted one. Every one was finding reason to get into the water except for me. I always watch people enjoying in water while I start guarding their mobiles, watches and spectacles. But this time it was different. I was not willing to waste my day. Before any one hands over his mobile and belongings to me, I handed over mine to one and slowly stepped into the water. The water started grabbing me slowly as I stepped into the swimming pool. My colleagues were ready to drench me with water. I was wet allover and found myself enjoying and playing with water. I started stroking my legs in an attempt to swim in water but could only manage splashing water on others. After the water game we went for a rain dance.

Everything was first time for me. I forgot that I could catch a cold in water or I am allergic to chlorine. One of my colleagues encouraged me to plunge into the water through the water slider and I was brave enough to accept the challenge and climbed up the slider to slide down into the water. I was holding my body tight, which led me straight into the water and hit the floor of the swimming pool. I tried coming out of the water like James Bond would have done in any of his movie but could not and came with my hands at the back. Water was dripping down from the nose and ears and my back was paining. But this pain dissolved in the water itself and I again joined the rain dance.

Sometimes kickoff is required to come out of the state of inertia.