What Facebook can do !!

F -funny
A -adorable
C -chat stricken
E -elegant
B -boring
O -on my nerve
O -on my desktop 24/7
K -killing my precious sleep time

So it has been facebook, an application to which i have been glued to me for quite sometime. I am amazed at what this new application system has done to me. I am always playing games! It is surprising though, but these games are not just addictive but extremely contagious. The names of these two atrocious games are as follows:

MAFIA WARS
FARMVILLE

My friends have been literally cursing me for the same. I dont usually have special posts on the wall of facebook. It is usually the achievments i have accumulated over the last few weeks in games, piling up on the wall. It is a pity, but i have no choice, i have been trying to restrict myself from playing, but it has been of no help!!
This very moment i am at my lab, writing this piece of article on to my blog and hoping to find a soul who shares the same story.
Among you guys is there anyone who share a similar story ?
I dont watch movies, read books, or listen to music on the laptop. My food comes to me, but i usually dont remember what i am chewing on to ! I am off to sleep late in the night, but at the same time, i dream of Mafias, and collecting milk from the cows. I am all the time harvesting, ploughing and sowing seeds on farmville. On the otherhand, i am looting sincere fools, and robbing pimps, attacking and earning a lot of virtual money.
I have no idea till when this is going to go on and on with me! But for sure this is one thing which has kept me busy for a while this semseter in australia !

Some jokes my cousin Vigi shared with me this monsoon

Sardar's wish: when I die, I wana die like my Grandpa who died peacefully in his sleep not Screaming like all d passengers in d car he was Driving..

Sardar visits Chinese friend dying in hospital.
The Chinese friend just says "CHIN YU YAN" and dies.
Sardarji goes to China to find the meaning of his friend's last Words.
And finds It means "U R STANDNG ON the OXYGEN TUBE!"

A sardar was drawing money from ATM,
The sardar behind him in the line said, "Ha! Ha! Haaa! I've seen ur password. Its 4 asterisks (****). "
The first sardar replies, "Ha! Ha! Haaa! U R wrong, Its 1258"

Q:) How do U recognize a sardar in school or College???
A:) They are the ones who erase their notebooks when the teacher erases the blackboard... BOLO tarara!!

Santa Singh MBBS
After finishing his MBBS, Dr. Santa Singh starts his Own practice.
He checked his first patient's Eyes, then the tongue, and finally the Ears using a torch.
Finally he said Battery is Ok !!!

Books or its Movies - Which one you think is better ?

Suddenly I have realized that i have lost my love for reading somewhere. It has been sometime since i actually held a book in hand.

The last book that i tried to read was in the month of January and it was TWILIGHT. I just could not manage to read more than 25 pages of the book and feel really sorry for myself.

The books that i enjoyed the most in the past were :

DAN BROWN series.

I simply loved all the books
Digital Fotress
Angels and Demons
Deception Point
The Da Vinci Code

However it is come into my knowledge that Dan Brown would is about to complete another novel " THE LOST SYMBOL"
which is based on the Solomon key. Sounds interesting to me. However this book again would have rituals and practices and beliefs in regards to self harm and harm to others. Well desperately waiting for the 15th of September 2009 when this book is expected for release.

What is your reaction to making movies that are inspired from books?
I think they are wonderful, until and unless they are made in the right spirit.
As a spectator i love these kind of movies only when i have not read the books.
That is, as a reader i hate these movies.

The Da Vinci Code, was a good movie, but dark and i think somewhere down the line, the movie makers have not made justice to the book.

On the other hand i loved the Harry Potter series, though i have not read a single book from the series.
I love the characters and the plot.

I think my opinion would change once i read the book. As most of my friends who have read the book and watched the movie find that the book was a thousand times better and the movie could no where match it.

But for a person like me reading all the books from the series would be monotonous at this time, especially keeping all the work and study in mind. So i would go for a movie, than the book.

What is your take on such issues ??

Rainbow

I remember the day very well,
It was the 15th of February 2008.
I was traveling to a new land,
To a strange new place.
I was on a voyage to Brisbane,
For the first time ever.
It was cloudy above,
It was deep sea below,
All misty, all green, full of ripples
As if heaven was just some feet beneath.
There amidst the clouds,
Danced one gigantic scoop of a cloud fully saturated,
And as if a needle like wind struck it mischievously
And it burst to release drops of rain.
The glory of nature was to behold,
Showers of blessings on me.
And there reached a ray of sun from above
To create a marvel with VIBGYOR
I felt as though I was on a date with a rainbow,
So close yet so far,
So magnificent yet so elegant,
I shall never forget the day,
I shall never forget the moment,
That blessed me before I landed,
On the sands on a new strange land,
- Australia

Stretch of Brisbane close to my heart – Shops on focus

It is one short stretch of street, which has the NSW bank on its right and the coffee club on its left. Let me begin with the shops that I love the most on this small stretch.

There is a Subway restaurant two shops away from the coffee club where I usually dine alone. I just love the veggie delight on oregano bread, toasted with all the salads, extra jalapenos and extra olives, with mayonnaise and south west sauces. As I write my mouth is watering and hopes to have some of the same today. It is cheap and filling. Hence it is a must on the day I go shopping on the queen’s street mall.

Once stomach full, I make an entry to the Elle world opposite to subway. There is this range of cheap set of trendy clothes from china. They are worth the money and look trendy as well. I spend hours there and decide on nothing and move to Ally next door, which is slightly higher on its prices but has a good range of clothing. I find nothing there and I move to the Valley girl two shops away from Subway. So it is this triangle that keeps me busy round the clock. So many times I have gone back to Elle world and back to Valley girl, and still not bought anything.

Valley girl is one place where I have not bought any clothes as yet, but would buy soon. There is one thing that I noticed that with seasons the cloth range changes and there is sale on the previous season. So it is better to by summer clothes in winter and vice versa as they would cheap.

In Australia there is a SALE as in a DISCOUNT SALE round the clock, 365 days in a year. So it’s like the New Year’s sale in January, February the Mid season/ Easter sale in March and April. Well I would have to wait for May and June and the others to let you know what sale it would be. At the moment in fashion is Boots, scarves, cardigans shorts, leggings and huge belts. All of which I are on my shopping list.

Stretch of Brisbane close to my heart – Its timings don’t suit me

You can see a zillion different faces, a zillion different thoughts and hundreds of trends. It is just this one stretch of street in Brisbane called the Queens Street, where all the “hungama” of the city takes place.

You will find restaurants, pubs, discs, shops and even chemists on this street. Surprisingly all of them except the restaurants close by 5pm in the evening. I don’t get the logic at all. In India all the shops and the malls are open until 9pm and sometimes 10 -11 as well. Here the offices shut down by 5pm as well. I mean the point is, even in India it is a 9 -5pm job, yet people tend work overtime, or spend time travelling and only then reach home by 8pm or 9pm or even later. It is just the opposite here. Office goers reach home by 6pm, they have supper by 7pm and they are off to bed by 8pm. Why so early? I don’t know the answer. But I do know that they wake up very early. It could be as early as 4am or 5 am. They go jogging or spend time on household chores and attend to kids. Especially the gentlemen have to drop kids to school and then reach office by 9am.

So all I wanted to tell you is that Australians lead a very ROUTINE life during the WEEK and have a blast in the WEEKEND. May be that is why the shops are open until 9pm on Fridays on the Queen street.

Well I am not a shopaholic. But I do hunt for stuffs that I want to buy, it’s after a long search and depending on the worth of money I tend to buy the stuffs I like. Most of the time it is usually the split second decisions that bring out the best in us. It’s the same with me, if I spend hours on shopping; I usually end up buying NOTHING. Well it happens with everyone.

YAWN

I have always wanted to write about "Yawn"

The English dictionary defines it as "to open the mouth wide and take a deep breath usually as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom"

Well the funny definition has always been "An honest opinion openly expressed"

The medical dictionary defines it as "Involuntary opening of the mouth, often caused by suggestion. Yawning is characterized by breathing inward, then outward. Repeated yawning is often a sign of drowsiness. It may also sometimes be a sign of depression"

Blah Blah and Blah .. .. ..

Well I actually came across this belief someday that on yawing loudly there is every chance that one's soul can escape from one's body.

Hee hee !!! Sounds funny to me..

Well that's obviously not true and I am sure this belief has come up to avoid noisy and lengthy yawns.

Why is it that I am writing on "YAWN" ??

It is indeed an honest opinion of the kind of work I am currently doing at my laboratory – eagerly waiting for results.

Well in the mean time, in order to avoid yawns in front of my supervisor I have this wonderful opportunity to write on it.

I have come across a zillion people with a zillion different ways of yawning.

There is this category of people who yawn out loudly, so loudly that he or she can wake up a sleeping neighbour.

It must be so irritating for teachers to see kids yawing in the middle of the physics class. To be frank, I was one such kid. I used to have my physics class every day after lunch break. My mom made sure she packed heavy lunch for me and I could never ever make an honest attempt to stay awake, especially after having curd rice for lunch at 1pm in the afternoon. I can still remember the plight of my teachers. Well this used to be the case with almost every other student. It used to be only first bench students who would nearly stay awake. Surprisingly after the class there is no yawning, no drowsiness and no sleep. Hee hee hee

Yawn can be s contagious. There are times when I have yawned when a person on the other end of the telephone line has yawned. Even more stupid when there is someone yawning in the television. Well all these could have been coincidental. However it is funny, that have the capacity to yawn continuously for more that 10 – 15mins until I drop dead on my bed. Tears roll down uncontrollably and I just can't stay awake even for a second.

I still remember in my degree class, even if one student yawn the whole class would yawn, one after the other.

Surprisingly I did yawn as I was writing this.. (An honest opinion of what I have been writing.. hee hee ) I know this is a boring topic. But it indeed is my best time pass.

Well what other incidents do I remember on yawn? I wonder how team leaders react to yawning at a team meeting. I wonder how an executive can stay awake for hours during a presentation. I wonder how can, one control his or her yawn during mediation. I bet I can't. Frankly I can never mediate without going off to sleep. LOL hee hee

Well I did come across certain interesting facts about yawning that I would like to share with you here.

Interesting Yawning Facts

• The average yawn lasts about six seconds.

I wonder if there is anyone who has done it for more than 6 seconds. I would like to time my yawn the next time.

• Your heart rate can rise as much as 30 percent during a yawn.

Woah, so if one suppresses the yawn it could be dangerous.

• 55 percent of people will yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn.

A chain reaction - Why can't we have yawn chains just like human chains? Wouldn't that be interesting.

• Blind people yawn more after hearing an audio tape of people yawning.

That is but obvious. So it is not coincidental that one can create a chain reaction of yawn over the telephone.

• Reading about yawning will make you yawn.

Did you guys yawn on reading this piece of article?

Do let me know about the same.