Are you married?

Recently I took my wife to visit a doctor since she was not well. The doc diagnosed her and wrote down a few medicines and then the conversation began.

Doc: You need to take minimum 3 days rest

Wifey: No way! I need to get back to work on Monday. So its a maximum of Sunday that I would be resting.

Doc (with a sad look towards me): What should we do now?

Me: I do not exactly have a successful history in arguments with women. You can give it a shot if you do.

Doc: No man ever has.

Me: Anyone who has, has never married.

One can imagine the look I got from my wife

Julie and Julia (2009)

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Directed By: Nora Ephron

Written By: Nora Ephron

Genre: Biography/Comedy (Light)

Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams

Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is a budding writer who works at a call center. She has previously tried writing a book but was unable to finish it. She just adores Julia Child (Meryl Streep), who is the author of the book ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’. So Julie decides to start a blog and write about her experience as she tries to cook very recipe given in the book. The ups and downs she faces while going through this project along with the similarities in those ups and downs with Julia’s life is the rest of the story.

Where are my brothers?

Another of those conversations between my dad and my kiddo:

Dad (trying to get my kiddo to eat something) : मेरा 1 ही बेटा है और वोह भी कुछ नहीं खता है (I have only 1 son and he doesn’t eat anything)

Kiddo (very seriously): बाकी कहाँ गए? (where have the rest of them gone)

Kids!!

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

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Directed By: Karyn Kusama

Written By: Diablo Cody

Genre: Horror

Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried

Anita Needy (Amanda Seyfriend) and Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) are high school best friends despite having nothing in common. Jennifer is the one who is dominating in the friendship and always forcing her to do things her way. One night they decide to go to the local bar to attend a concert by Low Shoulder. The bar catches fire and almost everyone is dead but the band takes away Jennifer.

Up in the Air (2009)

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Directed By: Jason Reitman

Written By: Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman

Genre: Drama/Comedy

Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) works for a firm which provides services to the bosses who do not have the guts to fire their employees. He is a guy who wouldn’t spend a nickle if it didn’t earn him air miles. His aim is to reach the magical number of 10m miles, a feat only 6 people have done so far. He also gives motivational speeches telling people to let go of their relationships as they are baggage. He calls his philosophy “Whats in your backpack?” Ryan meets Alex (Vera Farmiga) and they both are suckers for elite status and have a lot in common. They becomes fuck buddies and see each other as the same soul but just of the opposite sex.

Made it to Avant Garde Bloggies Awards 1st cut

Avant Garde Bloggies Awards 2009 final nominations are out and couple of my posts made it to the list.

The post that made it were:

Best Short Story Post:

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Best Visual Post:

One Face Many Expressions

I am not really worried if I would make the top 6 list and win it or not but its worth a start. As someone said, ‘one should celebrate the smallest achievements you make’ and so here we go.. Yipee…….

Be careful

As much as I luv writing posts on my blog I luv reading them as well. And recently I stumbled on this particular post which kind of shocked me and forced me to write this post.

Before reading this post I had no idea that mobile usage can have adverse affects on pregnant women and their babies (unborn and born). But a simple search for keywords mobile usage and pregnant women on Google would list you loads of articles giving the effects this combination can have. And its not just the pregnant women who suffer, even children below 7 years of age can suffer due to mobile usage.

I am not saying do not use mobile phone at all as they are now a very important part of our lives but we can always have some moderation with their usage. Always remember prevention is better than cure.

Save the tiger – our national animal

Some time back there was a contest by Google named ‘Doodle 4 Google  – My India’ contest. I wrote a post about it which can be found here. But why am I talking about that contest now? Its been long over. Give some thought to the image below:

Indian Icons

This image was created by Dhananjay B who is in 3rd standard and is from Coimbatore. This image shows the national symbols of India – Lotus, Mango, Peacock, Tiger, Banyan and Hockey. Tiger, as the national animal of India, symbolizes India’s wildlife wealth but what wealth are we talking about here? There are only 1411 tigers left as per National Tiger Conservation Authority census report released on Feb 12, 2008. This number is only 3.5% of what was the number of tigers a century ago (approx 40,000).

• Number of tiger deaths (poaching) reported in 2008 – 29
• Number of tiger deaths (poaching and mortality) reported in 2009 – 85
• Number of tiger deaths (poaching and mortality) reported in 2010 – 6

Anyone with a simple mathematics calculation can see the number has come down by close to 10% since this report came out. At this rate I am pretty sure our children or grand children would only be speculating through fossils and old archive of images as to how tigers used to look since there would be barely any tigers left alive.

I am 28 and my son is 2 years old. Will any of us ever see a real tiger with our naked eyes? I am not very sure about that considering the current situation.

What can we do to save the tiger? Well, we can’t keep the tiger as our pet but we definitely can spread the word and discourage the trade of tiger skin and bones. So spread the word as much as you can and help save the tiger.

It was a first and the best

Games featuring Manchester United and Arsenal are always a joy to watch no matter what the position and condition of both teams is. Manchester United haven’t won at Emirates Stadium since Arsenal moved to their new stadium. Considering the form of Arsenal team, many pundits were not considering a United win and definitely not an easy win. I for one considered this to be a good opportunity for Manchester United to make a statement that we haven’t lost sight of our title and are right in the race. But did I think it would be such a performance by United against Arsenal at their home ground? No but was it a joy to watch? Definitely yes.

Ecstatic over United win but still sad

Carling Cup never really mattered to me as a Manchester United fan and I am sure it doesn’t matter that much to other United fans as well. But it did this time around. Why? Because it was Manchester City who we were playing. Its not that I really want United to win this Cup, but its that I didn’t want Manchester City to win this cup or even have a chance at it.

The build up to the game was full of Carlos Tevez and his antics. I really don’t want to go there since he doesn’t deserve that attention. Before the game Ferguson called for fans to be United as Manchester United will need every fan of theirs to be with them in this time when the club is surrounded by financial trouble. And weren’t the fans with the club. The noise, the atmosphere. The good thing is that Old Trafford is not a closed stadium with a roof, otherwise the roof would have been ripped apart with the noise caused by Rooney’s winner.