WHAT IS GOING ON??!!

This year definitely has babies in the news!!

A couple of months ago came the news of a lady delivering her baby in the train washroom and realising it only when she comes back to her seat. Miraculously the baby lived, unhurt. Now its called "Rajdhani Radha" in memory of her birth.

Right.

Hardly a month later comes another toilet baby. But this episode unlike the other one evoked fury and disgust in me. A 11th Grade girl whose parents are doctors apparently, says she didnt even know she was pregnant and was shocked to deliver the baby in her house's washroom. Sorry, girl but you seriously need to keep an eye on your personal hygiene!The parents remark irked me more- "Our daughter has always been plump, we didnt realise she was pregnant, else we would have definitely done something about it." I'm stumped.

Sometime in between, babies got swapped and parents fighting that "the boy baby" was theirs. ARGH!! I so ache to ask the parents-"Whats wrong with a girl baby u fool? you are a girl yourself!!" Unfortunately i cant.

Next, on June 30th, Kolkata, India a woman gave birth to a premature baby boy who was declared to be a still born only to be found alive 6 hours later by a child specialist. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE???!!! As if that aint bad enough, the Chief defends his staff. Mister, what happened to your doctor on call? Why arent your nurses efficient? "Maybe the signs of life were too feeble to notice" What?! Lets say a dumb person has a heart attack. Are you going to say, sorry, we didnt hear him so we couldnt treat him?Duh!! he cant talk remember! What crap are you people dishing out?! To think that they think that this country of such huge population is gonna accept rubbish, THINK AGAIN. Atleast i wont! Seeing the Media reports(even if exagerrated) most of the country aint okay with it either!

Sigh..these four were the ones which got media attention. Goodness knows how many more..

Head or heart?

Whom do you allow to rule?

A common question for which i have no definite answer. Most people I know dont. Maybe even you dont. I suppose the reason is that we never follow only the head or only the heart.Its generally a mix of both or the situation is such that we go with one of them. The heart. Hmm.. i have always wondered is it the "intuition" or the "impulse" or "emotions" they refer to when they talk about the "heart" ruling.I still dont know. What i do know is that there are a few people who go about saying that being impulsive is a quality of our ancestors and animals in a degrading manner. As usual, i disagree. How can one deem something like impulse as low? When you come to think of it, more often than not, a person's most important decision, however well thought of, is done on impulse and that impulse is covered with explanations.By the way, arent we born because of an impulsive action?(well, maybe not always..)I find it pretty sad that most people dont have guts to accept their impulsive action with pride. Trust me, life is far more fun when you are impulsive. Being impulsive does not mean u have to be foolhardy. You do have to apply your powers of forethought and figure when it is fine to be impulsive and when its not. Assuming, your brain konks out(mine is prone to)trust your intuition. Somehow or the other, life is beautiful. Have fun. Let loose:D and when you do, you would discover a whole new range of emotions making life all the more exciting and colorful.

But coming back to the initial question, when a person talks about the "heart" ruling what is being referred to? Impulse? Intuition? Emotion?or a combination of all three?

A question which has long been in my mind has yet not been answered. I must say its not like i havent tried.

How did language evolve? yes, i agree from sign language to pictures to symbols to alphabets etc My question is how is it that one person understands what the other person is telling. i mean if its an object,someone kept in a leader's position may have said the word and voila! it stuck on. Ofcourse we cant ignore the borrowing of words from other languages. But when it comes to emotions or basically intangible things how is it that early men and women understood what is being referred to?

Thats the big question.

If there is a complex play of words or ambiguous statements,i understand how there are several chances of misunderstanding the statement.However how did it all start? Just nature's beauty? OR does science have an answer? a logical answer as it forever proclaims?

You are a friend. You bitch behind my back about me and yet hesitate to tell me my faults at my face. You still call yourself a friend. Are you?

I believe a friend is one who tells you your faults at your face and helps you improve yourself not one who bitches behind your back.Its even worse when you deny it or act ignorant when i have heard it myself.tut tut. When are you going to grow up friends?What you can do both at my face and behind my back is make truthful compliments.Not praise or flatter but give credit which is rightly mine. A friend I believe is one with whom you feel comfortable and is comfortable with you. Not any acquaintance. Everyone I meet does not become a friend. A friend, isnt just someone you can crack your dumb jokes with but someone you can trust with your problems, your worries and your plans without worrying whether its going to be leaked to someone whom you dont trust.That, according to me is the basis of friendship.Trust. After trust, its the wavelength. As friends, two people, in my opinion,should be of somewhat similar wavelength. Else its difficult, not impossible, but difficult.The next thing, I'd say would be the interest in each other. Friendship, just like any other relationship is two way.A healthy friendship develops when the two of them are as interested in the other as the other is in them. Apart from these three, I dont see any other universally common requirements. The rest of it depends and differs according to the person.Like for me, I like people to be empathetic not sympathetic. Others like their friends to be spmpathetic to their situation.The rest of it doesnt matter. The rest develops over time.

Its difficult to find a true friend, harder still is to lose them.

Disagree? A true friend would know you and would be empathetic to your situation. Thats why its difficult to lose them. If you lose a "friend", trust me they never were your friend to lose a friend.Im talking from experience. I cant ever thank God for helping me find one good true friend with whom i could fight, laugh,cry, fume, go nuts and still be sure, iv got someone to lean back on.Thank You God.

Wishing You too find your true friend,
PrincessSnk

Thanks to Discovery's Travel and Living, I was able to revisit some rural parts of the country through my TV set almost after a month of physically visiting them. Thats when I remembered I never did put up the post I had wanted to.

I noticed rural areas where apart from a few poor farmers, civilisation was non-existent but what showed its presence was rubbish and garbage. Its sensible to come to the conclusion that the roads could have been littered only by those who travel? Why? Why is the only question i have. Why? Why do people want to throw garbage on the way? why cant they carry along a bag and put their rubbish in it and then throw the bag in the dustbin? Its not much trouble. I do it. Its disgusting to see even the "greenery" messed up.

I'm really getting bugged.

Next time, I am going to try and bring together a group and go clean up the mess myself. Someones got to do it and I dont mind.

Any volunteers?

Iv always been daddy's lil girl but in the morning today it almost felt dad became lil girl's dad

it was interesting to see him, sip his cup of coffee relaxing early morning listening to music as though he is embracing retirement with pleasure. the funny thing is though he is sort of retired except for the occasional consultancy work he does as and when he pleases, he has more or less been off full time employment for 2 years now. I suppose I'v noticed it only today when i was taking a tea break myself. the man i adore, respect and would do anything for, the person whom iv hardly ever seen weak or fragile, the one person who always supported me no matter what kind of stupid mistakes i made, suddenly seemed more majestic than ever, gently fragile and if i am to be extremely honest, as good as any grandpa could be the thought of my dad as grandpa came about when the kids at my mum's playschool referred to him so and to see the joy on his face when they did call him so.it just seemed right.

Maybe it is right.
Hes done enough.
Time for his break.

Its our turn now.
Time for me to go tell him just that

The cheery smile,
the twinkling eyes,
the active body,
with a happy heart
and a content soul
living a calm peaceful life
Now gives way,
Way to a hurried life
with a stressed heart
and a worried soul
mirrored by dull eyes
and mirthless smile
encompassed in a diseased body

Is this what life has become?
Or is this what we think it has become?

VOTE!VOTE!VOTE!

You can hear the campaign everywhere, anyday anytime.

Today my maid servant (in India) was telling me how upset she was that all the money and food given by the political parties,in the name of their wanting to improve the poor people's lifestyle is being taken by a lady in their locality who refuses to give the money or the cash. She talks of the injustice. The injustice of that lady. The injustice of her neighbours who take money and food from all the parties but dont know whose vote they are going to put.Soon my mom was telling how she saw alcohol being sold on the streets in secret which soon became obvious due to the huge crowd assembled. Is this the way to ask for votes? Is this what we, as a nation, as humans been reduced to?

She(My maid servant) talks of that injustice,the injustice she knows and experiences and is in the midst of. I speak of the injustice we can sense within the political system. Bribery. Deception. Fraud. Corruption. What is not there? This I am sure is not only my opinion but that of people all over. If this is the general opinion, Why are the elections taking place? where is the trust in the govt? The poor decide on whom to vote depending on who gives them more money.Some are coerced into voting for a particular party by the area bully coz the bully has recieved more than a pocket full from the party.The educated do so to exercise their right. In my opinion, i would prefer to shut up and not exercise my right than to choose an unworthy candidate.

WAKE UP!

Its not about the best among those who stand for elections,
Its about the best for the country.

Oooh..i better control my language before the expletives start flowing freely

One thing which gets my blood boiling would be when people are indecisive, ask u to make the decision nd once u do take a decision,all their smartness (which was on leave till that moment returns) and they start to reason why your decision is wrong. knock knock bozos? if u cant decide, coz u dont have the guts to accept the responsibility of the consequence of the decision u are to make, then shut your stinky mouth and move your fat ass! dont be around commenting on someone who does have the guts to make a decision and stick to it.

oops-looks like i didnt manage to control my language all that much ehD

Just a random thought which struck me-

extra-ordinary is a term we generally use to say tht somethings fantastic, above average/ordinary etc but we actually split the word it would mean "more of the ordinary" if we take the literal meaning.

hmm.. a logical error or a deceptive word?