Blissful Ignorance

I woke up rather early this morning. It was a bit chilly outside with a light drizzle. Seemed like perfect weather go out for a drive & grab a bagel and some coffee from Einstein's (they're the only ones who'd be open at 530am). Nothing beats sipping hot coffee on the patio on a chilly morning. There were hardly any vehicles on the road at the time. Everything was so quiet except for the occasional chirping of the birds. I just sat there, enjoying the moment, blissfully unaware of everything else. I know all this sounds too trivial but moments like these are so far and few that you need to savor each one. Just relax and let go of everything. You have enough time in your day to worry about everything else. For those 30 minutes, let your mind be free.

Too bad I can't 'make' this happen everyday.

Perennial Infatuation

OK, now I get why girls have the "hots" for doctors !!! Apparently, I have a thing for doc-chicks too. And it's not limited to those on-screen. Casually thinking about all the crushes that I have had in the past few years, I realised that more than half of them either were doctors in real life or wanted to be one or played that character on screen. Maybe it's the power to sustain life that they have, maybe it's those non-descript scrubs that they so subtly flaunt. This area definately needs some research. Should contact the psychology department at CU & ask them to write up a proposal for this ;).

Currently fixated on Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy) & Cobie Smulders (How I met your mother)

ElizabethTown

I'm a sucker for (sentimental but not quite teenie-pop) romantic movies. Sleepless in Seattle, A Walk in the Clouds, Serendipity, Kate & Leopold......and now ElizabethTown !!!

Oct 14th seems simply too far away. I dunno if I can wait that long.

Apples and Oranges

Most Forwarded Email to me in the last week

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I couldn't stop making this comparison..

inches of rain in new orleans due to hurricane katrina... 18

inches of rain in mumbai (July 27th).... 37.1

population of new orleans... 484,674

population of mumbai.... 12,622,500

deaths in new orleans within 48 hours of katrina...100

deaths in mumbai within 48 hours of rain.. 37.

number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire city..whoa !!!

number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000

Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless

Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE

Time taken for US army to reach new orleans... 48hours

Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach mumbai...12hours

status 48hours later...new orleans is still waiting for relief, army and electricty

status 48hours later..mumbai is back on its feet and is business is as usual

USA...world's most developed nation

India...JUST A DEVELOPING NATION..

oopss...did i get the last fact wrong??? Or am I just being proud of being an INDIAN?
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No offense anyone else who forwarded this email to me ( i got this from a dozen odd people) but this was one of the most blatantly jingoistic emails I've seen in some time....you're comparing apples and oranges and concluding that oranges are sour....well apples simply CAN'T be sour, can they??

And taking glory in the fact that only 10,000 odd people were evacuated in a city of about 13 million is absolutely shameful. Much more people SHOULD actually have been evacuated. I dont know if its because of our perennially surging population but we've not quite learnt to place a premium on loss of life yet.

Finally some closure!!!

Thanks to this wonderful, wonderful old song by GreenDay. Had to dig this out from my HUGE music archive. Here's how it goes:

Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
Directs you where to go
So make the best of this test
And don’t ask why
It’s not a question
But a lesson learned in time
It’s something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life


You bet I did :)