a bit of sunshine http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine everything under the sun Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 HOW IRONICAL!! http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/08/19/how-ironical/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/08/19/how-ironical/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:04:22 +0000 Sun Shine http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/?p=318
1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tyred.
 
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
 
3. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
 
4. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
 
5. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
 
6. A calendar's days are numbered.
 
7. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
 
8. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
 
9. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
 
10. When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.
 
11. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
 
12. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
 
13. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class
 
 because it was a weapon of math disruption.
 
14. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
 
15. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
 
16. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.. 
 
The police are looking into it.
 
17. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
 
18. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
 
19. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.
 
When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, 
 
a nurse said, 'No change yet.'

 

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Indian Middle class of the 70’s http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/08/14/indian-middle-class-of-the-70s/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/08/14/indian-middle-class-of-the-70s/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:25:03 +0000 Sun Shine http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/?p=315 Friends,
i would like to share this forward received by me. - The right people will

enjoy reading this, the wrong un’s will laugh uproariously at these facts.

Rgds
Sunny

For those who grew up during the 70s in middle class India, here are some
things that you can identify with – atleast I do! Some never had a thing
and went house to house to enjoy them.

1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12-17 years,
you were very proud of your first “Bellbottom” or your first “Maxi” or
your first Apache jeans.

2. Phantom and Mandrake were your only true heroes. The brainy ones
read “Competition Success Review”.

3. Your  “Camlin” geometry box and Natraj/Flora pencil was your prized
possession.

4. The only “Holidays” you took were to go to your grandparents’ or
your cousins’ houses.

5. Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick –
 ora Choco Bar if you were better off than most.

6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a ‘c/o’
 written against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago
and were still waiting for your number to come.

7. Your first family car (and the only one) was a Fiat or an
Ambassador. This often had to be pushed by the entire family to get going.

8. The glass windows in the back seats used to get stuck at the
two-thirds down level and used to irk the shit out of you! The
window went down only if your puny arm could manage the tacky rotary
handle to pull it down. Locking the door was easy. You just whacked the
other tacky, non-rotary handle downwards.

9. Your mom had stitched the weirdest lace curtains for all the windows
of the car. They were tied in the middle and if your dad was the
comfort-oriented kinds, you had a magnificent small fan upfront.

10. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You “earned” yours
after SSC exams.

11. You have been to “Jumbo Circus”; have held your breath while the
pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed
the elephants hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the
“Mautka Gola” and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at
 dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!

12. You have atleast once heard “Hawa Mahal” on the radio.

13. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighborhood to gather
around to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn’t have
 a TV, you just went to a house that did. It mattered little if you
knew the owners or not.

14. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi
or even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with
two side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!

15. Black & White TVs weren’t so bad after all because cricket was
played in whites.

16. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own
(the family’s; not your own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started.
Everyone else got the same idea as well and ever since, no one came over
 to your house and you didn’t go to anyone else’s.

17. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning
 they would announce on the TV. After all how much “Shashtriya Sangeet”
can a kid take? Salma Sultana also didn’t smile during the mourning.

18. You knew that “Indira Gandhi” was somebody really powerful and
terribly important. And that’s all you needed to know.

19. The only “Gadgets” in the house were the TV, the Fridge and possibly
 a mixer.

20. All the gadgets had to be duly covered with covers and sometimes even
with ingenious, custom-fit plastic covers.

21. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of
 the movie you always had to watch the obligatory “Newsreel”.

22. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs
of Abba and Boney M.

23. Your hormones went crazy when you heard “Disco Deewane” by Nazia
Hassan and Zoheb Hassan.

24. School teachers, your parents and even your neighbors could whack
you and it was all okay.

25. Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family
owned a camera. A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified
the half hour preparation & “setting” & the “posing” for each picture.
Therefore, you have atleast one family picture where everyone is holding
 their breath and standing at attention!

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AN AWARD WINNING POEM BY AN AFRICAN KID http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/04/03/an-award-winning-poem-by-an-african-kid/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/04/03/an-award-winning-poem-by-an-african-kid/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:13:44 +0000 Sun Shine http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/?p=312

This poem was nominated
by UN as the best poem of 2008,
written by an African kid



When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black

And you white fellow
When you born, you
pink
When you grow up, you white(white)
When you go in sun, you
red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you
yellow
When you sick, you
green
And when you die, you gray

And you calling me colored ?

 

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The Lure of Green Grass http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/03/12/the-lure-of-green-grass/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/03/12/the-lure-of-green-grass/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:36:18 +0000 Sun Shine http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/?p=310 http://datastore.rediff.com/h5000-w5000/thumb/686B656B61636961702E30/9vbp4nsotazf3h8b.D.0.bull1.bmp

Sometimes, we try too hard to get to the greener
grass.
 
 
In the process, we end up in
trouble…….. 

And when you find yourself in trouble and
you’re stuck in a 
 
situation that you can’t get out of, there is one
thing you should 

 
always
remember…….

 


Not everyone who shows
up……. 
Is there to help you!!!!
  
 

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Thinking is Association http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/02/23/thinking-is-association/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2010/02/23/thinking-is-association/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:43:14 +0000 Sun Shine http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/?p=306

I have an habit of immediately recording some interesting
articles, especially the interesting paragraphs. I do not remember from where I
got this one – but I wanted to share it with you. So please read on…

Thinking is Association

FREUD says: all your thinking is association. If you see a dog in
the street, you start thinking about all the dogs you have seen from childhood.
Then you remember your childhood, you remember a teacher when you were a child.
There is no logical connection. When you start verbalising you miss reality.
Every day the sun rises; every day the sun sets; every day something new
happens. To you it’s one more Friday, one more Saturday, another Sunday. The
moment you label it as Friday, you think you know everything about that day.
You just take it for granted. Because you take people for granted you don’t
enjoy your relationships. You judge people first and collect arguments to
support your judgment.

 You can never step into the same river twice, because by that time it
has moved. People also move, they change, they are not the same as who you met
before. By the time you meet them again your husband/wife has changed;
something is added to them; either intelligence or foolishness. But you don’t
agree. You hold on to the same mental setup.

Sushruta wrote 5,000 years ago. He talks about open heart surgeries and
transplants. He was a great enlightened Master. He said: every six months your
liver replaces itself completely. Not even one part is same. Once in 21 days
your intestine replaces itself. Modern day physiologists agree. Every cell is
replaced continuously.
 
Sushruta says: your mental structure plays a major role when these changes take
place. A disciple asks him: why do we carry diseases over a number of years?
Why does the new liver carry the same disease? Sushruta replies: you don’t
believe you have changed, that’s why. You carry the same mental frame despite
body change. That mental frame retains the disease. You don’t let go of that
frame, you don’t let go of that disease. You don’t let go of your samskara.
Samskara is the powerful mental root that drags you to travel the same. path.

 Like Pavlov’s dogs which came running and salivated even when no food was
served but the bell was rung, whenever you remember that past situation or
person you react the same way, you move in the same rut. In the morning you
worry about office, by evening you worry about your wife and children,
unconsciously, without reason. The mood remains low even if you do not realise
why. You do not live based on intelligence, you live based on information.

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MOTHER I MISS YOU http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/11/24/mother-i-miss-you/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/11/24/mother-i-miss-you/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:08:23 +0000 Sun Shine

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SUCCESS http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/29/success/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/29/success/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:55:15 +0000 Sun Shine Success is just like
being pregnant
;



Everybody congratulates you



But nobody knows



How many times you were fuc_ _d…



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ITS A MUSHROOM!! DAMN IT!! http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/21/its-a-mushroom-damn-it/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/21/its-a-mushroom-damn-it/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:25:31 +0000 Sun Shine

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HAS ANYBODY SEEN A COCK?? http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/18/has-anybody-seen-a-cock/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/18/has-anybody-seen-a-cock/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:08:14 +0000 Sun Shine



HAS
ANYBODY SEEN A COCK???





The
priest in a small Irish village loved the rooster and ten hens he kept in the
hen house behind the church.





One
Sunday morning, before mass, he went to feed the birds and discovered that the
cock was missing.





He
knew about cock fights in the village, so he questioned his parishioners in
church.





During
mass, he asked the congregation, ‘Has anybody got a cock?’





All
the men stood up.





‘No,
no,’ he said, ‘that wasn’t what I meant. Has anybody seen a cock?’





All
the women stood up.





‘No,
no,’ he said, ‘that wasn’t what I meant. Has anybody seen a cock that doesn’t
belong to them?’





Half
the women stood up.





‘No,
no,’ he said, ‘that wasn’t what I meant. Has anybody seen MY cock?’





Sixteen
altar boys, two priests and a goat stood up.





The
priest fainted.





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SHIP.HIGH.IN.TRANSIT. http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/11/shiphighintransit/ http://blogs.rediff.com/abitofsunshine/2009/10/11/shiphighintransit/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:21:02 +0000 Sun Shine




SHIP.HIGH.IN.TRANSIT.



 



In the 16th and 17th
centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before
commercial fertilizer’s invention, so large shipments of manure were
common. 



 



It was shipped dry, because
in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit
it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of
which a by product is   methane gas . As
the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did)
happen. 



 



Methane began to build up
below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern,
BOOOOM! 



 



Several ships were destroyed
in this manner before it was determined just what was happening



 



After that, the bundles of
manure were always stamped with the term ‘Ship High In Transit ‘
on them.



 



This was meant for the
sailors to stow it high enough, off the lower decks, so that any water that
came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production
of methane. 



 



Thus evolved the term
S.H.I.T which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very
day.



 



You probably did not know
the true history of this word. 



 



Neither did I.  





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