दिवाळीच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा!

माझ्या सर्व गुणी मित्र-मैत्रिणींना दिवाळीच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा!
आपण रोजच बाहेर दिवे लावता
आता चार दिवस घरातच दिवे लावा :-)

एका मित्राने फ़ॊरवर्ड केलेलं काही.....

मैत्रीचे कट्टे आजकाल ओस पडतात
कोणी ऒर्कूटवर तर कोणी फ़ेसबुकवर जमतात
प्रत्यक्ष भेटीत सगळेच बुचकळयात पडतात
कारण सगळे विषय चॆटवरच संपलेले असतात
मग चॆटवरच भेटू असं प्रॊमिस होतं
आणि संभाषणातून साईनआऊट केलं जातं

ऎव्हेलेबल आणि बिझी मधे प्रत्येकाचा स्टेट्स घुटमळत रहातो
आपणहून ऎड केलेल्या मित्रापासून लपण्याकरता इनव्हिजिबलचा आडोसा घेतला जातो
ताप आल्याचं आजकाल आईच्या आधी फ़ेसबुकला कळतं
औषधापेक्षा टेक केयर च्या डोसनेच तापालाही पळायला होतं

कधीतरी वाटतं पुन्हा कट्ट्यावर जमावं
चॆटला गप्पांनी आणि स्माईलीला हास्यानी रिप्लेस करावं
शब्दापेक्षा सोबतीचं सामर्थ्य जास्त असतं
मैत्रीचं खरं समाधान खांद्यावरच्या हातात असतं

चला तर पूर्वीचे दिवस पुन्हा अनुभवू या
मैत्रीला टेक्नॊलीजीपासून जपून ठेवू या

Quiz Show

Though the movie channels continue to air oft-repeated movies in the prime-time slots, they never fail to air good never-before-seen movies at other times. I watched a bit of one such movie - Quiz Show - last week. It is based on a true story about a fixed quiz show.

There is a scene in which Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) tells his father that he hasn't found anything which will make him as happy as he was when he used to come home from school and sit down to a plate of cookies and glass of cold milk from the fridge.

I liked that dialogue so much that I searched for it on imdb.com and on the net. But it is not mentioned in the Quotable Quotes from the movie anywhere.

Surprising? Maybe not.

Currently, I am reading a travelogue in Marathi. I came across references to 2 books in it. One is Deceit at Pearl Harbor. This one, written by Ken Landis - lone survivor of Admiral Kimmel's staff - claims that the attack on the harbor wasn't so much of a surprise as the US led the world to believe, but a ploy to enter WW2. Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Who knows? The truth, as they say in X Files, is out there.

The other book is The Third Eye which was supposedly written by a Tibetan monk, who upon later investigation turned out to be an Englishman who had never been to Tibet. And yet, the book continued to be popular.

Hope I will be able to curl up with these books on some rainy afternoon in not-too-distant future :-)

अर्ज है.....

गुजर गये वो चमनसे बहारकी तरह
आखोमे बस गये है इंतजारकी तरह
कैसे भुला दे उन्हे हम अपनी यादोंसे
उन्होने इन्कारभी किया इझहार की तरह

(From the internet)

1-Nod Ordering Patent

If sources are to be believed, even Mr. Spock would be able to order from Amazon.com soon by just raising his eyebrow.

I am talking about Amazon's 1-Nod Ordering Patent here, which, it is claimed, would let people make purchases with a nod, a smile, or even a raise of the eyebrow. This reminded me of my one of my ex-bosses - an American with 3 Indians in his team who were inclined to nod their heads instead of clearly saying 'Yes' or 'No'. 'Do you mean Yes or No?' he would often ask, perplexed - before he got used to the gesture that is :-)

In the meantime, I have found the perfect first order for Mr. Spock :-)

Someone caught cold in the office and now the bug is everywhere. I am, of course, one of the first few to fall victim. A leash on temper was never my claim to fame. And the temper seems to be on an even shorter fuse since yesterday because of the general fatigue that cold never tires of bringing with it. I have been trying to keep a lid on it. May God help my team!

And now the weather department has forecast 3 days of rains in the city. That, of course, means dark skies n cool breezes in the evenings, not to mention, the pitter patter of raindrops and smell of wet earth. Unfortunately it also means that I will have more members in the sick bay. In this case, the more is, definitely not, the merrier!