Filler

What good is a blog if you have no idea what to post on it?  Nothing much seems to happen in my life these days, which is also a good thing, but does nothing to my post list.

The only thing that I can think of are gripes, all negative and angry about minor upsets that happen all the time.  For example, the perfectly horrible time I had with SBI. I could go on and on about it. My request for a new ATM PIN took 4 months, and the staff's helpful reply to my query - 'How can you lose your ATM PIN?'. (According to them, I shouldn't have torn up the letter telling me my PIN, even though it was their firm instruction to do so.) But who wants to listen to just another nobody ranting uselessly against the world?

So the only solution in these wordless days are pictures, and who's a better candidate than Ruatfeli?

With some of her cousins.

2010

The maid went home for New Year and I reminded myself how terribly ill-tempered I am. Thank God she's back now.


Mizoram, full of meat-enthusiastic Mizos, is once again threatened by 'Food and Mouth' disease. Our locality, for one, had to go without beef on our Christmas and New Year feasts. It was just two meals but I did miss the beef. H does not take it, so an opportunity to have the dish is always looked forward to.

The Director of the Veterinary world said on the local news last night that eating meat of FMD-infected animals is not advised for many reasons, although he didn't (couldn't?) go into details. On curiosity's sake I looked it up on the net, FMDinfo.org  clearly says...... 
Food Safety While the FMD virus may be present in the uncooked meat and some types of milk products from contaminated animals, it would be destroyed when these products are cooked. The virus does not affect humans and the primary risk of raw products is transmission of the virus to susceptible animals.

So we could merely be overreacting to the epidemic, although obviously the butchers and the meat-handlers could be at some risk.

Anywhichway, it's a new year, and most of us haven't gotten used to writing the date yet.  The future is full of hope, and it's a mystery what this year is going to bring us. I hope the happy times will far outweigh the sad ones, and that you'll spend more time laughing than worrying.

Read this little speech by Chetan Bhagat, who is currently big in the news for mostly the wrong reasons.

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis


Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ....................

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? ................

It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices........." :)

"Don't be serious, be sincere."!!