The Sri Lankan Cricket board says it's ready to send its team to Pakistan, if India refuses to tour the world's new found punching bag.

Not surprising! having borne the brunt of LTTE for decades, Pakistan could well be like a second home to the Lankans!

Amidst all the seriousness of carbon trading, CO2 emissions, global warming, The Kyoto Protocol and the efforts of scores of environmentalists world over, the nonchalant common man in India still burns his share of dry leaves and other "easily bio degradable" wastes, daily.

Today, I extinguished one such burning pile; mainly due to the nuisance from the smoke. It should still count.

To end on a funny note :-

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in the name of security

A few interesting observations about the security system at the office gate

- It doesn't matter what a visitor enters in the security register. He could carry a bomb in his bag, write Osama as his name, put 911 as his contact number and doodle a cartoon as signature, and security will promptly give him a visitor sticker and let him through.

- You could keep a bomb in the passenger seat beside you and sit smugly while the security checked the boot and admired the chassis using the roller-mirror. No problem sir! drive on.

- You can flash any colourful, embossed plastic card as ID and sail through.

for the numerically challenged

......presenting 'lift-boys'!! They will press the button on the control panel that you tell them to. how brain-dead a concept is that? Add to that those 2 times out of 10 when they'll mess it up and send you in the opposite direction or zooming past u'r floor, as u look at the LCD display in despair. The worst is when you enter the lift to experience a rather unpleasant smell, crudely put namely 'fart-filled air'. They're human, after all. High time they're done away with

New Photo Album Updated!

I think I got you with that one Mohit!! ;) Pray tell me how you update a new photo album. This is in the same category as "new and improved" xxxx'l'.

Sreesanth, king of gaffes

Shantakumaran Sreesanth is all but his namesake. Where 'Shantakumaran' literally means 'silent boy', our S. Sreesanth is as depicted in the pics above. What you see are his actions on the field. What is more potent, however, is when his mouth does the talking (pun intended). Sample these

"If you are asking me, it was just an event and nothing else. I don't need to run after actresses"

this, after being linked with Priyanka Chopra post a promo event in Mumbai. Surely he should have spared a thought for the former Miss Universe. she must have been devastated!!

"Is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this imposter, moving around
nervously"

this, after beating Lara one ball. He was promptly pulled past the boundary, the very next ball. No one messes with Lara!!

"The Aussies should be worried I'm coming"

this, before the recently concluded Australia tour. Rajnikanth has competition!

There was this one time when, Sreesanth came good on a nel bowl, belting it straight over the bowler's head for six. He'd made a statement, a tremendous one at that. You're standing up to applaud when you see him perform that disgusting prolonged dance. The guy needs to develop some class!! He wasn't short of words this time either

Nel: (tapping his chest)"You need a big heart to play", I smell blood(sniffing the air)
S: (sniffing) "where, where?"
(after that memorable SIX)
S: "How was that slap and where is your tongue now?

But i still admire this guy. I think he has single handedly brought aggression into the Indian Team.

Quotable Quotes -3

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan, writer (1895-1947)

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top.
Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience.
Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

A good listener helps us overhear ourselves. Yahia Lababidi, author (b.1973)

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take
it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The knife disappears with sharpening.
James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

i now realize how important a right setting is, to write. This template i have here feels so uninviting that i'm giving up every time i feel the urge to write. ho hum!