One more proof that I am not one of the average women! I had been to the Lakme saloon last weekend when I saw the following on the wall - An Average woman spends 2000 hours annually caring for her nails.

5 minutes of nail-clipping and 10 minutes of applying nail-polish - twice every month. That works out to be 30 minutes per month and 6 hours per year, as far as I am concerned. Ample proof that I am not an average one, what say? :-)

I had thought that 'The Lazarus Vendetta" by Robert Ludlum had a complicated plot. Now I realize that it was a hasty judgement on my part. "The Rhinemann Exchange" seems to have a more convoluted one :-)

You must have seen one of those movies in which parallel worlds collide. I never believed any of that until 2 days back when on my way to Pune for a client meeting I saw what must surely have been a scene from the Heaven!

The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is a sight to behold during these months – a lush green carpet everywhere the eyes can reach and the mountains standing guard over the horizon. But I was a little distracted what with new Swine Flu cases still being reported in Pune. And then at a little bend in the road the car stopped abruptly. This normally doesn’t happen on the Expressway so I craned by neck forward to check out if there was an accident. It looked like a truck was taking a U-Turn and that’s what had caused the holdup.

With nothing better to do for the next 5 minutes, I turned to my left and came across a little patch of green – emerald green, a refreshing shade that gives you a cool feeling. A number of white and yellow butterflies were prancing about in the tall grass. And in the distance, the mountain-tops were surrounded by dark rain clouds.

I couldn’t take my eyes off the scene. I could have sat there forever in the car without a care in the world. For a moment, it really looked like my world had collided with Heaven and I was getting a glimpse into its beauty and peace.

Then, unfortunately, the car started and the spell broke। But I know in my heart of hearts that whenever I travel by the Expressway in future I will be forever on the lookout for that small bend in the road because tucked in its corner, is my very own heaven! :-)

Why do we say that “it’s not rocket science” when we have to indicate that something isn’t very difficult? God knows the things that hum and whirl and tick in a pilot’s cockpit in a commercial aircraft are way beyond the comprehension of mortal beings.

I realized it when I watched the program “May Day – Hanging by a thread” on National Geographic. This was about an accident in Hawaii in which the top portion of an aircraft got blew away by an explosion in midair. What saved the lives of the passengers and most of the crew was the 4 beams that held together the cockpit with the rest of the plane.

The original footage was something straight out of a nightmare – an aircraft with no roof over part of its section. What made the program interesting was the investigation and the testimony of the experts. Don’t miss this one if you ever get a chance to watch!

I haven’t come here for a week. And Bill Gates is responsible for that! Don’t believe it? Here’s what he has said:

Every morning get up and look through the list of richest people in the world.
If your name is not there, please go to work!

That’s why I have been going to work every morning and that’s why I haven’t been able to come here :-)

And now some forwarded food for thought:

If you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone like a tree।

If you fall on the ground, fall as a seed that grows back to fight again.

लोग पढ़ लेते है आखो से दिलों की हालत
अब मुझसे तेरे गम की हिफाज़त नहीं होती