Author: manuscrypts

  • An eternal twist

    Read something that i thought was definitely worth sharing.
    If you had to choose between a woman you had met the day before and God, who would you choose? And the weaver said, The woman. Is there any doubt about that?
    And the mullah asked him, If you had to choose between a song and God, what would you pick? And the weaver said,The song, of course.
    And the priest from the temple asked him, Weaver, if perforce you had to choose one or the other, a beautiful sunset or God, what would your choice be? And he said, Isn’t it obvious? The sunset.
    And they asked him how he could blaspheme so. And the weaver said, Why sirs, God has eternity on his side, he can always wait. Will the woman, the song or the sunset wait for me?
    God’s Little Soldier, Kiran Nagarkar
    until next time, maybe there is no right answer…

  • Life is like That?

    Heroes – the only show i watch regularly.. like i’ve said before, i’ve always been a sucker for the superhuman variety… but okay, thats enough for context…
    last week, i heard a very interesting argument on the show. and since the premise was the choices we make in life, i was intrigued even more, and enought o make it a debate..it went this way..
    every person has a choice – he can have a life full of meaning or a life full of happiness… if he wants a life of happiness, he has to live in the present and if he wants a life of meaning, he has to wallow in his past, and obsess about the future.. both cannot happen simultaneously…whaddya think?

    until next time, the choices we make…

  • Heresy

    Not that i spray the entire area with snowflakes, or carry the flakes around on my black t-shirts, but yes, they say prevention is better than cure and i agree…
    and that is what took me to the clinically clear shampoo…. and i’ve to admit they have got the formula perfectly right.. if i continue using it, i’m sure i’ll have no dandruff problem..after all, if i have no hair left, where will the dandruff stay?
    Please note that this has nothing to do with the latest playa on the endorsement scene.. well, there’s the Big B, then there’s SRK, and then there’s tralalala….SwB !! Don’t believe me, read this… 🙂
    until next time, hair today…..

  • The new magicians

    Sometime last week, saw a photo of P C Sorkar passing his magic wand to his daughter, apparently a passing on of the baton to the next generation…
    A long long time ago, i think a couple of decades back, i had gone for one of his shows, in my hometown… that was still a generation that was eager about magic.. i even had tapes of david copperfield, doing much more complicated stuff… and yes, magic did leave me wonderstruck then…
    A few months back, i saw a show on axn which revealed the tricks of the trade, they also mentioned that there were a lot of stores that sold magic kits… but i wonder how many kids would be interested in them… aren’t the days of pc sorkar and co. over?
    the new kind of magis is perhaps being created by a different kind of pc.. and thats just the bottom of the chain.. for there are much more advanced and specialist comps that are making break throughs indifferent kinds of technologies at a much faster rate than ever before…and like many other things, an innocent old art that has been entralling generations is in the process of getting relegated by the wonders of technology….
    and we become part of a world which has no time for magic… or maybe its just that even magic aint what it used to be…
    until next time, abracadabra…..

  • There goes our culture….

    Heres one for the moral police…
    I read this a few days back on the ‘age no bar, sex baar baar’ scenario- More youngsters are experimenting with casual sex than they did five years ago, according to a survey commissioned by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).The Behavioural Surveillance Survey (BSS) 2006, conducted on 40,000 people between the ages of 15 and 24, found that 8.4 per cent, or 1.5 crore youngsters in the country, are snuggling up for pre- and post-marital sex.
    A few days back, i heard a contest on our only 24-hr english music station- it was something to do with a new store that has opened here. The question was what the store – ‘apple of my eye’ into – apples, ‘mom and child’ shopping or apple pies. Sarika, who called in, answered correctly – a ‘mom and child’ shop and she got a gift voucher from the store…
    only, sarika is a 2nd PUC student.. now, purely out of humanitarian concern, i’m worried about sarika, will she gift it to someone else, or will the voucher encourage her to get herself a kid to redeem the voucher herself?

    until next time, not just kidding 😉