It's Christmas Time Again!

Put your problems on probation
Run your troubles off the track,
Throw your worries out the window
Get the monkeys off your back.
Silence all your inner critics
With your conscience make amends,
And allow yourself some happiness
It's Christmas time again!

Call a truce with those who bother you
Let all the fighting cease,
Give your differences a breather
And declare a time of peace,
Don't let angry feelings taint
The precious time you have to spend,
And allow yourself some happiness
It's Christmas time again!

Like some cool refreshing water
Or a gentle summer breeze,
Like a fresh bouquet of flowers
Or the smell of autumn leaves,
It's a banquet for the spirit
Filled with family, food and friends,
So allow yourself some happiness
It's Christmas time again!

"The Road Not Taken"

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

--------------------------------------

Guys I thought this would be a good moment to look back and see whether you have missed any roads that was not taken by choice or intention....chose this poem as it talks about woods and my imagination flew to MCC campus......you are free to speak your mind...AM

dear all

this is venky. happy to meet you all through this media. let me also try to contribute and add falvour to intelligent minds. i read rajiv's shakespeare after a decade's gap, i think we can name him "rajivspeare", he has literally swallowed shakespeare. good i am not his student, i could not have passed my degree with such a scholar.

ok you confirm my post, let me see you soon.

bye

venky

Floating Chennai

H1N1 Remedies

Simple steps to increase ur immune power and precautions to be taken
which is recommended by a prominent doctor: -

1) Please drink as much as water , Hot tea .

2) Regularly wash your hand.

3) Eat Halls, Strepsils.

4) Drink atleast 1 glass of lime water daily.

5) Every night gurgle with salt water(hot).

6) Take Vitamin B & C tablets or any other health drinks.

Some more...................

1. Inhale Clove Oil (Lavang) For 1 Second.
2. Chew 1 Clove In a Day
3. Eat Raw Garlic (Lasun), Onion, Ginger (Aale) (1 to 5gm)
4. Drink Hot Milk With 2gm of Turmeric
5. Consume Plenty Of Vit C Fruits-Lemon/Avala



Ayurvedic way:

This is a way where swine or any such pandemic flu can be prevenrted. The only way to prevent any infection is to boost your immunity. Hence we go back to Ayurveda text and come back with a simple remedy if followed for 21 - 48 days will prevent infections. So here it is

Tulsi leaves (crsuhed paste) 1 spoon (approx 1gms)
Yashtimadhu (Jyeshtmadh) powder 1/2spoon (1gm)
Harada powder 1/2spoon
Turmeric powder 1/2 spoon
Saptaparna powder 1/2 spoon (Alstonia scholaris)
Vidang powder 1/2 spoon (Embelia ribes)

This mixture to be mixed with honey and taken 2 times a day. Will improve immunity. Especially useful if you are working in A/C environment which results in polluted air and spread of epedemic all herbs available at ayurveda herb store

Please take care of yourself with this simple routine.

H1N1

This virus is really hitting hard here. A teenage hockey kid in Toronto suddently died at 13 years of age because of H1N1. His dad says he was a healthy child who died within 2 days of contracting H1N1.

A bunch of students at YAK's college residence have got this now. At my workplace, we have lots of hand sanitzers, posters reminding people to stay home if they are sick, wash hands, etc. I am really worried because I deal a lot with public and they don't stay home. The other day a woman was visiting the library with her child who had just been diagnosed with chicken pox. She wanted to get some books for her child before going home to rest. Urgh....

Schools keep reminding children to stay safe too. Of course the media only reports bad situations and forgets many who have recovered from it. Still, all the hype is working and I am worried.

Meeting in Dubai

When we were in MCC we never dreamed that we will meet in Dubai, well that is what happened......

Ugh!$#@*&

While we grapple with language and literature, here is some more for enlightenment and mirth :) ... Rosh

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about England in the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to overcome the body odor. Hence the custom even today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, followed by grown up sons, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
Houses had thatched roofs (thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath). It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pets and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying .. It's raining cats and dogs.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more and more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. To prevent it, a piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the term, a thresh hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the 'upper crust.'
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out fo r a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather a round and eat and drink and wait and see if 'presumed dead' would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is an old and small place. The local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the in side and they realised they had been burying people alive . So they started tying a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, 'saved by the bell' or was considered a ...'dead ringer'..

p.s. If there is a duplication of this blog post I will delete it later.

Ba(r)d bloopers

Shakespeare never made much money and is famous only because of his plays and sonics. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing hysterectomies, tragedies, comedies, and errors. I don't see why he is so popular when his writing skills are so low. He wrote in Islamic pentameter, and you can't hardly understand what he is saying.

In one of Shakespeare's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. A soliloquy is a conversation between one person. Hamlet has an edible complex, and his mind is filled with the filth of incestuous sheets which he pours over every time he sees his mother. Oedipus and Hamlet really had a lot in common, even if Freud had not yet been invented.

In another play, Macbeth was from his mother's womb untamely ripped. He is a brave and strong man who turns bad and gradually gets worse. After Macbeth becomes the Thane of Candor, King Duncan wires Macbeth that he will be spending the night at his castle. Then Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan by attacking his manhood. All Macbeth does is follow his wife's odors. He kills the king on page 14. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth then suffer from quilt. In fact, they have so much quilt between them, they can't sleep at night.

During the banquet scene, Lady Macbeth is afraid her husband will expose himself in front of his guests. Then Lady Macbeth gets kilt. The proof that the witches in Macbeth were supernatural is that no one could eat what they cooked.

Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. This story presents a one on one situation between a man and a woman. Romeo and Juliet belonged to the families of the Montages and Copulates, and Lady Copulate disliked Romeo.

Romeo saw Juliet for the first time at the massacred ball. They tell each other how much they are in love in the baloney scene. After much fighting in the pubic square, Romeo's last wish is to be laid by Juliet. When Juliet died, they had a funeral in her wedding dress.


In Julius Caesar, Brutus is a tragic hero despite dying at the end. In Julius Caesar, the toothslayer warned Caesar to beware the March of Dimes. He is murdered by the Ides of March because they think he is ego-testical. Dying, he gasps out the words "Eat you, Brutus!" Then he dies with these immortal words: "Veni, vedi, vici."

In The Merchant of Venice, the Rialto is the business part of Venus. Bassanio loved Portia, but he had no money to press his suit. Taming of the Screw is a play about Petruchio, who takes Kate from a bitter screw to an obedient wife. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck turns Bottom's head into an ass. The clown in As You Like It is named Touchdown. In that play, Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage, and everyone is just acting."

In Anthony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra reclined to become Mark Anthony's mistress. She took the Roman Empire one man at a time. The barge she shat on, like a burnished throne, glowed on the water. The poop was beaten gold.

Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.Source: www.verbivore.com.

Lessons in Logic...

I was born intelligent -
education ruined me.
........................................................................
Practice makes perfect.....
But nobody's perfect......
so why practice?
........................................................................
If it's true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?
........................................................................
Since light travels faster than sound,
people appear bright until you hear them speak.
........................................................................
How come "abbreviated" is such a long word?
........................................................................
Money is not everything.
There's Mastercard & Visa.
........................................................................
If your father is a poor man,
it is your fate but,
if your father-in-law is a poor man,
it's your stupidity.
........................................................................
One should love animals.
They are so tasty.
........................................................................
Behind every successful man, there is a woman
And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
........................................................................
Every man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in
life.
........................................................................
The wise never marry.
and when they marry they become otherwise.
........................................................................
Success is a relative term.
It brings so many relatives.
........................................................................
Never put off the work till tomorrow
what you can put off today.
........................................................................
"Your future depends on your dreams"
So go to sleep
........................................................................
There should be a better way to start a day
Than waking up every morning
........................................................................
"Hard work never killed anybody"
But why take the risk
........................................................................
"Work fascinates me"
I can look at it for hours
........................................................................
God made relatives;
Thank God we can choose our friends.
........................................................................
The more you learn, the more you know,
The more you know, the more you forget
The more you forget, the less you know
So.. why learn.
........................................................................
A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a work station....
what more can I say........