Man Yeh Bawra ...

Mind .. heart ..soul.. they need a break sometime , from all the craziness and chaos around .. and a random good act can do precisely that for you sometimes.. it doesn't necessarily have to be a deed, can just be some simple good words , that go a long way in making a difference in someone's day..

Like yesterday morning.. I must have surely got up on the wrong side of the bed after having terrible sleep night before last. Disturbingly ridden with visions of sharks eating sharks.. and as if that wasn't sufficient the sharks were after me too with insatiated hunger.. talk about a nightmare with and appetite!! .. But it would not have been so bad if I hadn't watched Deep Blue Sea before hitting the bed .. although, I would not have really watched it if I hadn't had a terrible argument with my sweetheart about why he can never ever say the right things at the right time .. and picked the first dvd on my shelf to watch.. But geez, all I wanted from him was some good old mollifying , and well to tell the truth I would not have needed that if it weren't for the terrible time I had completing my project at work.. and feeling miserable about my uselessness and underproductivity.. which soon transformed into depression and better more terrible rage by the time I took the phone call in question ..

However it wasn't entirely my fault that I wasn't able to focus better at work.. it was the by product of the horrid migraine I has picked up waiting for my train at the station.. in what I call the "worst weather joke" by God or Mother nature.. whoever designs these storms!! One full week of lovely sunny weather.. and then the next morning its whizzing chilliness all over the land !! People say I am crazy.. did y'all take a look at the weather today ?!

So you see it really wasn't my fault that I was in a bad mood the next day morning.. I told myself I need chocolate .. just what the doctor ordered for the depressed heart ..I opened the refrigerator and reached the chocolate milk carton, cursing simultaneously over some email that popped up on my iPhone ( amazing how many instruments I have to make life complicated!) . I kept groping in the fridge but no chocolate milk .. just leftovers .. At this point I could have started crying.. but the clock in the microwave said 'not now.. no time' . Miserable , I picked my bags and decided to pick milk at the nearest grocery store . So I did. I picked up a bottle of my anti-depressant chocolate milk and headed straight for the cashier with a really morose, dejected, life's-so-not-fair expression..

I looked up as I was being billed by an elderly lady , she gave me a smile filled with care and said 'What happened dear .. itna serious kyun ho ? Sab theek hai na ?' I stared at her surprisingly .. Not that it was difficult to understand my miserable self from my expression, but I did not expect a complete stranger to ask me if all's well .. !!

I stared at her for several seconds before she smiled warmly again , like the wise folk often do, and said 'Sab theek hojayega .. Whatever it is it will be alright' I let out a deep sigh, and smiled at her , the first one in several hours. I payed my fare and left.. and I felt lighter, like a helium balloon, that's just been untied from its weights.. Was it the chocolate milk ? I think not ..

I held on to the smile till I reached work, I looked down at my half done project .. sighed again and sat down typing furiously when I heard a knock on my cube - my boss! I was sure to get beaten for my 'intolerable procrastination' ..so I gave him a huge smile with a dash of sorry-sheepishness , and said I will deliver the results by the next day .. Surprisingly he returned my smile, and went away , not before giving me 'friendly reminders' about deadlines.. Hah! I thought to myself, that went well.. pleased at it I was going to return to my work , when my phone rang , it was my sweetheart , he said something so absurd that I started laughing out loud .. no anger, any other time I would have retorted with 'What the ... ' But today my heart went out to him... I was smiling.. I could almost hear him relieved and well smiling!! ...

So you see.. a random good act can bring more smiles than you expect ... Crazy isn't it?

Allah Ke Bandhe Hasde....

Uncertainty - in everything! Every place I go I see so much to make me upset forever.. and throw me into maniacal depression. And I am not even talking about the real problems .. no poverty, no global warming, no terrorism yet in my list. Simple things make me depressed these days.. two failed marriages of people whom I hardly know.. relationships that are based on absolute zilch.. shaky job scenario around the US and the world in general.. old missed opportunities that haunt and taunt me.. Nice people with real bad luck.. bachelors with bad bathrooms!! You name it and I am depressed with it.. and sometimes (especially on full moon nights) I seem to be unable to shut my brain and say stop it! that's enough! I want to not think about depressing things. As it is the everything from economy to rice supplies in Indian stores are down.. I don't want to bog myself down too.. but the brain ah .. it ofcourse has a mind of its own!

You must be thinking .. PJ.. yes the famous acronym for a Poor Joke.. or the way I put it silly rotten jokes.. and that's when it hit me.. a light moment that's all it takes to bring a smile back to a depressed face. Imagine couple angry with each other and have just finished a real WW III type argument and one of them does something silly or funny.. I bet you the anger goes out the window.. at least temporarily.. Ofcourse this ain't a fool proof solution.. but then light moments are unbeatable when it comes to minor repairs!!

So this blog is dedicated to PJ's!! Use without caution!!

Q:what do monsters make with cars?
A:Traffic Jam!!

Q:what do sea monsters eat?
A: Fish and Ships!!

Q:what is black white and red all over
A: A zebra wearing too much lipstick!

Q:why do mummies like chirstmas
A:Because of all the wrappings!

Q:why did the hen cross the road
A:he had to prove that he was not chicken!!

Q:why did the chewing gum cross the road
A:because it was stuck to the hen :-o .. That is a true PJ

Q:why did king kong climb all the way to the top of Empire state bldg?
A:because he was too big for the elevator!!

Q 1 :I buried a stone in a park.. and looked for it 10 mins later.. but it was missing what happened to it... (wait for the answer (its marked as A1))

Q:what makes an octopus laugh
A:ten tickles (tentacles)

Q:when can u put pickles in a door
A: when its ajar (a jar)

A1: The green eyed stone eater ate it :D

Q2: Ok now I picked the stone up and put in another spot and when I checked after 10 mins it was missing and Green eyed stone eater had an alibi so be assured it did not eat it!!
A2 : A red eyed stone eater ate it!! :-o

Q: why do african animals not play games
A: because there are too many cheaters (cheetahs)

Q:why does batman keep cancelling his fishing trip
A:because robin eats up all his worms!!

Q: All you engineers this is for you...What happens when I dig a hole through the earth (pole to pole) and throw a stone in ..? .. answer will come later

Q: what is an elephants favorite game
A: Squash!

Q: why did the elephant paint its toenails red?
A: Because it wanted to hide in a raspberry bush

Q: why did the elephant want to hide in a raspberry bush?
A: So that it can jump out and stomp people

Q: why did the elephant jump out and stomp people?
A: Because that is the way elephants play Squash!! :D

Answer to the engineering question .....if I dig a hole through and through in the earth and drop a stone in.. all you engineers , I hope you recall this from your gravity based physics classes: the stone oscillates pole to pole before it settles in a equilibrium .... ahem. but that's not the answer .. we ain't geeks! we are silly people at present so.........the answer is.. the green eyed stone eater gobbles it up!! :D


Alright.. I think you get the point .. a little laugh a little fun is the way to go!