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This picture made me wonder, how many times we judge a stranger by only the external appearance.
Like this other day I careless bumped into a guy walking on the street. The guy was carrying a bottle of liquor which broke. Since I had not seen the guy before the accident, its most likely my fault. Yet, seeing the broken bottle I pretended as if this lunatic blocked my path (even though there was no way I could conclusively prove that the guy was intoxicated). I am pretty much sure I would have apologized if the guy was carrying a Cold Drink bottle instead.

I know this is going to be a biased group of readers, but what do you think is better: Writing a book or Writing a Blog?

My friends these days are trying to convince me to write a book. They say that a book a more structured and the author actually thinks before writing a line in a book. As compared to that, the blogs are random rambling of a person who himself might have never even proof-read his posts.
They also say that a book is very difficult to write, because the person actually has to take time out everyday for a month/year to write, while a blog is something that is written while killing some excess time between flights/busses or even while waiting for the coffee to be served in a coffee shop.
A good author chooses quality over quantity. While writing a book, the author needs to handpick from his thoughts and observations and write only about them. While a blogger uses a shotgun approach. He/she would write anything and everything under the sun, to maintain their ratings they need to saturate the minds of the authors with daily/periodic updates. No wonder, like a newspaper, once read their posts are deleted/forgotten for ever. While a good book is always stashed. A whole library often grows around them.
Bloggers can be find a dime a dozen. Everybody and anybody, irrespective of whether they want to say anything or not. While a good book is a real treat to the eyes and the senses of the reader. Their words alone are so powerful that they do not need to use aids like colorful fonts, and pictures to prop their deficiencies in writing.

Although most of the points are valid and strong, in my defense I could only mutter:
Blogs is all about brevity. A serious blogger knows that nobody has the patience to go through 300 pages of blabbering and repeating of the same point. Hence the blogger condenses the essence of that 300 page book in catchy title and 100 words of post.
A blog is a two way traffic, while the author of a book rarely gets a feedback and never gets a chance to elaborate/correct his stance. If I write a post titled “Books are obsolete”, within 24 hours I would get several comments/feedbacks from the fellow readers both ridiculing and elaborating the idea. However even after months of writing a nice book about “Blogging is for Losers” the author won’t be begging for any response from the audience. You can be assured that half of his friend (even after being gifted a free copy of the book) won’t bother to open the cover page.
Most ideas are not worth writing a whole book on and not everyone is fortunate enough to lead such a colorful life that he/she can collect 50-60 such ideas and then spend tens of thousands of bucks to get it printed. Hence blogging is the most cost efficient and productive way to express oneself.

What do you think is better spending time writing a book or spending time updating one’s blog?

♫ a modest girl never pursues a man; nor does a mouse-trap pursue a mouse

Forwarded by Amit

29 ~ The advertised age of a woman in her late 30’s.

39 ~ The advertised age of a woman in her early 50’s.

Athletic ~ Term used by people who have been to the gym once in the previous calendar year.

Attraction ~ the act of associating horniness with a particular person.

Average ~ A term referring to someone’s weight if they are within four sigmas of the middle of the bell curve.

BBW, “Big Beautiful Woman” ~ A term used by women who have discovered that it’s easier to euphemize than it is to hire a personal trainer.

Birth Control ~ avoiding pregnancy through such tactics as swallowing special pills, inserting a diaphragm, using a condom, and dating repulsive men.

Cheating ~ Having a 1979 issue of Playboy somewhere in the house.

Curvy ~ What a woman who is at least 40 pounds overweight calls herself.

Dating ~ the process of spending enormous amounts of money, time and energy to get better acquainted with a person whom you don’t especially like in the present and will learn to like a lot less in the future.

E-mail ~ Form of internet communication that is intended to be deleted without a reply.

Easy ~ a term used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.

Eye Contact ~ a method utilized by one person to indicate that they are interested in another. Despite being advised to do so, many men have difficulty looking a woman directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman’s eyes are not located in her chest.

Friend ~ a person in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

Game-playing ~ Failing to decide halfway through the first date to be in an exclusive relationship.

Indifference ~ a woman’s feeling towards a man, which is interpreted by the man to be “playing hard to get”.

Interesting ~ a word a man uses to describe a woman who lets him do all the talking.

Irritating Habit ~ what the endearing little qualities that initially attract two people to each other turn into after a few months together.

Law of Relativity ~ how attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.

Love at First Sight ~ what occurs when two extremely horny, but not entirely choosy people meet.

Love Handles ~ What men call the rolls of fat that obscure their belts.

Nymphomaniac ~ a man’s term for a woman who wants to have sex more often than he does.

Phone Number ~ A random string of numbers a woman gives a man to get rid of him.

Player ~ Term referring to any man who has decided, after one or two dates in which sex may or may not have been involved, not to pursue a relationship with the person using the term (see “slut”).

“Prefer Not to Say” ~ A term that warns people to assume the worst.

Slut ~ Term referring to any woman who has decided, after one or two dates in which sex may or may not have been involved, not to pursue a relationship with the person using the term (see “player”).

Sober ~ condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.

Stud ~ What a man calls himself when he just had his first date in two years.

Somehow it seems that my stomach is sensitive to hygienic food. I eat all sorts of crap (including food from roadside stalls and from my office cafeteria). Sometimes when I travel, I have to eat food whose name I cannot even pronounce, yet I rarely get stomach upset. However, everytime within 24 hours of my visiting my parents house, I get a stomach upset. Usually its loose motions, but recently its also accompanied by food poisoning.
The strangest thing is that the same food is eaten regularly the rest of the members of the family (that also includes my grand parents who are in their late 80s) and they never get ill. My mother cooks real hygienic food and also does not deep fry or add too much of ghee in my meals. I used to enjoy it during my childhood, but now it seems like my stomach cannot tolerate it any more.

My mother has a conspiracy theory that I am allergic to Hygienic environment. What do you think it is?

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce .

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse .

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his company in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present , he thought it was time to present the present A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind in the kite.

1 Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let’s face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’

I don’t know how many of you follow the UEFA cup 2008.  But here is one thing that made me wonder.

The World cup takes place every four years.  And so does the UEFA cup.  The two tournaments are planned such a way that in every two years, one of them takes place.

Football is probably comparable to the amount of Money that flows into the game.  There are umpteen number of sponsors.  Considering the fact that there are 16 countries that have qualified for the game, one can imagine the number of sponsors.

But, during the game, there is not even a single commerical Break.

Probably because there is no time for a commercial break.  But one could always come up with a commercial or two between player changes, fouls etc.,

Why can’t the same stand be adopted when broadcasting cricket too?  One could really enjoy the game then.  Right?

To start with, here is a dilbert strip trying to explain what usually the managers think about the output we produce.

I was just wondering why my office has a concept of Leaves and vacation.
Here is a background:
I work in a product company and out here, every single person has different sets of responsibility and areas of specialization. Net result is that a manager cannot offload one engineer’s task to another engineer easily. (unless he accounts for the time that would require to train that new engineer to get familiarize with the setup.)

So the net result is that an worker here is responsible to get the work done. It does not matter how many long hours he takes, how many weekends he works (and yes, there is no overtime). If I want to take a vacation, then I am expected to work a little harder before the vacation and after that so that the project deadline does not suffer because or me.

This phenomenon makes me wonder:
Since I am responsible for my output and that does not suffer because of the fact that I had taken a week off, should my company deduct no of leaves for that period?
How is it in your office?

i am wondering what is more important…
being a nice human or being an effective one?

background:
I have talked for weeks politely over call centers of ICICI Bank,
Makemytrip, dell, Citibank and even my office… nothing gets done .. but the moment i
lose my temper my problem is resolved in a jiffy. So essentially in the past 7 days I have lost my temper 7 times.

I feel guilty everytime i raise my voice or talk rudely to anybody, but if that is the only way if I can get my work done, I wonder if that is what I should do

In North India, there is a game where the cousins of the bride would steal the shoes of shoes of the groom. In this cat and mouse game, the family of the groom would be engaged in putting up decoys and preventing the bridesmaid to steal the shoes. If the shoes are stolen (which invariably happens), then the groom has to pay and he is also allowed to punish (in a funny way) his shoe-keepers.

Here is a famous song starring Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit which depicts how much fun both sides have in this game.

Recently my very good friend got married and her cousins were finding a tough time in being able to get hold of the shoes. But this did not stop them, they went ahead and stole the car tyres of the grooms vehicles.

I love when people do things differently and think creatively. When was the last time did you see somebody following the traditions differently?