Blabberings

 

 

Was watching a film yesterday ‘Love and Other Disasters’,seemed pretty nice-intelligent romantic comedy types.Anyway there was this conversation in the movie which I found pretty amazing,its on Farting & Relationships :-).

(The conversation takes place between lead character-Peter Simon & his therapist)

“Therapist: Relationships are best measured by farting.
Peter Simon: Excuse me?
Therapist: The stages of a relationship can be defined by farting.

Stage one is the conspiracy of silence. This is a fantasy period where both parties pretend that they have no bodily waste.

This illusion is very quickly shattered by that first shy, “Ooh, did you fart,” followed by the sheepish admission of truth.

This heralds a period of deeper intimacy. A period I like to call the “Fart Honeymoon”, where both parties find each other’s gas just the cutest thing in the world.

But, of course, no honeymoon can last forever. And so we reach the critical fork in the fart. Either the fart loses its power to amuse and embarrass thereby signifying true love, or else it begins to annoy and disgust, thereby symbolizing all that is blocked and rancid in the formerly beloved. Do you see what I’m getting at?”

…source IMDB

 

Was having a conversation via facebook  with my friend aditya zutshi on corporate blogging.Plan has always been not to talk about my work here,but in case it helps someone- a link for the top corporate blogs:

http://corporate.alltop.com/

And while I am at it-check this link out:

Sex,Lies & Global Financial Crisis

We all go down,& whenever I do…something inspiring like this helps.

A list of Abraham Lincoln failures (along with a few successes) follows:

• 1831 - Lost his job
• 1832 - Defeated in run for Illinois State Legislature
• 1833 - Failed in business
• 1834 - Elected to Illinois State Legislature (success)
• 1835 - Sweetheart died
• 1836 - Had nervous breakdown
• 1838 - Defeated in run for Illinois House Speaker
• 1843 - Defeated in run for nomination for U.S. Congress
• 1846 - Elected to Congress (success)
• 1848 - Lost re-nomination
• 1849 - Rejected for land officer position
• 1854 - Defeated in run for U.S. Senate
• 1856 - Defeated in run for nomination for Vice President
• 1858 - Again defeated in run for U.S. Senate
• 1860 - Elected President (success)

 

 

 

Being in digital media has it’s advantages,I come across these really interesting sites at times. Sample this one which I stumbled on yesterday night.

The basic concept here is that these guys run a story writing competition with the catch that the story has to be 160 characters or less…to be honest i was circumspect about the results but these stories proved me wrong. Sample this stuff from the winner’s stable:

• ‘The baby's fine,' the midwife says, touching her hand. 'Bit of a scare there, but he's a little fighter.  Have you decided on a name yet, Mrs Hitler?'
• Hi there, beautiful! Let me introduce myself, I'm Chromosome X. You're Y, did you say? How lovely.  D'you fancy getting together sometime?
• Shaky fingers grip the forbidden with desperation. Tearing the wrapper, I insert. Finally, a hit of heaven shoots through my veins. I love you chocolate.
• First came darkness. Then light. Finally sound. An assault on the senses! Ben reached over and switched off the alarm. Monday morning again - oh no!
• 'Aren't you the musical one son' said Dad. 'Don't know where you get it from.' Mum's blush rose as the postman passed the window, whistling tunefully.

 

courtesy: ad agency Grey

 

Apart from the above pic which via the depiction of a white Obama & a black McCain asks voters to focus on the real issues,there were some other interesting links about the election in the last few days.

• The Indian perspective-Talks about the different policies of Obama & McCain & who is best for us in India

click here: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obama-or-mccain-who-should-india-root-for/77392-2.html

• A CNN reporter’s candid views on the buzz created by the US presidential elections in India which major channels devoting 1/3rd of their time to cover these elections-unprecedented by any standard.

click here: http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/indias-media-tuned-to-us-election/

• And finally this one which is pretty good. ‘What the next president should do in the next 100 days to change the world-opinions of some bright minds.’

click here:  http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008925.html

 

Posting this just as Obama has won & for some time now the blogosphere will be buzzing with this news & the repercussions. So instead of talking about any of those aspects which a lot more learned people will be doing anyway,just thought would dwell on the lighter side of these elections.

check out these humorous videos:

my favourite-a singy-songy satire on the presidential process:

 

the next in series:

expressing the funny side of what actually happened :

& finally one about sarah palin:

 

I love coffee!!...along with a book,black forest pastry (or make that truffle) & some attractive company its all you need in life. (Some of this you might have guessed from the previous post)

But this post is not about my love of coffee or related stories. Its about this nice forward which was sent to me about a lesson we can learn from the coffee cup. Here goes:

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic,
glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -
telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: ‘If
you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want
only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and
stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you
consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the
cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life
doesn’t change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to
enjoy the coffee in it.’