Depression Vs Creativity

I am writing daily posts from past two months.

Do you think that it is a way to escape depression, tensions and frustrations of life or it is creative flow of emotions?

BYE 2010

Word verification

While posting a comment on a blog I have to go through word verification for three times as the word that appears on screen was not clearly written and was jumbled too much that I can’t interpret it correctly.

Do you think word verification before posting a comment is mere wastage of time or protection from spam?

An endless fight!

“You want to stop a fight between father and son, Chandrika. Hmm….Can you stop the fight? NO! No, you can’t. Fight is constantly going on.” An elderly saint told me. “Our heart is divided into two parts. One tells us to do a thing and other one tells us not to do that. This is continuously going on. An endless fight! If you can’t stop the fight inside you than how can you stop an outside fight?”

Do you agree or disagree with the saint?

lol

My latest facebook status :
Most popular dialogue on facebook is 'where is unlike/hate button?'

Mr. ‘N’ commented :
The most popular response is ‘lol’ which today means that I have nothing to say !

lol. Hahaha

Even your lol above meant the same thing I guess

Now what is your response lol or :D?

I know you!

As soon as I was about to cross the road in Gurgaon than a white colour car stopped in front of me. An elderly man was on driver seat and the rest of the car was empty. He gestured me to come. I thought that he might want to seek some information regarding way. He put down the glass of the opposite seat and asked, “Kya aap Allahabad se hain? (Are you from Allahabad?)”
“I have never been to ALLAHABAD and knew only about its geographical situation on the map of India.” I thought, so I replied “NO!”.
“I know you!” He elatedly said.

How can he recognise me as I havn’t uploaded my photograph on my blog or is this his favourite line which he says to everyone (she) with whom he wants to be acquainted?

Love reading all posts

Love reading all your posts.
A gal left this much comment on a guy’s blog.

Do you think she has read all the posts thoroughly or was just commenting to seek his and his blog reader’s attention?

Human touch

“Do you think its only your work which is to be done?” A bureaucrat shouted on me when I requested for doing my work. “Sit sown and wait till your turn come.”
I wasted my three precious minutes in getting the glimpses of the room. She sneezed. I broke the silence. “Oho! You are having cold.”
“Yes. I am not feeling well today.”
“Tomorrow is a holiday. At least then you can take rest.”
“Come with me. I will do your work first.” She said.

Was I buttering or giving a human touch to the whole scenario?

Santa caps

On a traffic light signal, a five year old boy was wearing bright red coloured Santa cap with a pompom. He was holding ten more such caps in his little hands for selling.

Do you think it is his age to wear such caps or sell them?

Whistling

“This lift is making a clear, shrill and sharp musical sound.” Mr. ‘Y’ said when lift was not working properly and we both were getting late for work. "Oho! So, lift is whistling for you, Chandrika!”

Reading this blog do you want to whistle or no? ;-)

Swamiji

“I have a good collection of books.”
“Will you lend me a book?” I asked.
“I am very possessive about my books. Fool buys books and wise reads them and I don’t want to be a fool!” A swamiji (saint) said.
“Knowledge is the only treasure which increases on sharing but not by saving.” I thought.

Do you think this person deserves to be called a swamiji as he has a strong desire for accumulating and not sharing or a swamiji can also be possessive about his belongings?

Click! CLICK!!

A husband lifted his wife in arms; his one arm supporting her back and other holding her from knees. Their family friend clicked the photo of newly wed couple. Suddenly the husband turned around so that his wife’s legs were now towards the camera. Before she could even protest this, zoomed in scene was captured.

What do you think clicking such photos in a public place looks decent or odd?

Dark circles under eyes

Awe!! Dark circles under my eyes!

Do you think these are the signs of aging and ugliness or signs of hard work?

Great saints

All great saints of India are on facebook. Hari Om!

This is my recent facebook status.

Do you agree or disagree?

Dad is dude

“Dude, lets go.” A young girl said to her father with whom I was discussing some business related thing. Her immature behaviour surprised me.
“Wait for some time.” He told his collegiate daughter.
“Dude, We are getting late for the market.” She insisted.

Do you think Dad is dude or Dad is dad?

My aimless life

My life is aimless. I do not have any definite target to achieve. I am moving where life is taking me. I am like a traveller who doesn’t know towards which destination I am heading. My life is not directed to achieve particular goal.

I have selected a target of moving to Naxalite area. There, I wish to teach poor children and serve underprivileged.

Do you think it is a good target to determine at a young age or should put it down for some time till I am older?

Basic necessities of life

Basic necessities of life :

Then : Food, clothing and shelter
Now : Laptop, vehicle and girlfriend/ boyfriend

Do you agree or disagree?

Fall in love

“Please see my birth-chart and suggest me what should I do after retiring.” A good friend of mine asked.

Although we had good terms from past 6-7 years even then I didn’t know much about her personal life. I only know that she was unmarried. I never inquired nor tried to know the reason behind that. On seeing her birth-chart I found that she would fall in love and might get married after retirement.

Should I tell her that such a good period is ahead in her life or should I keep it a secret as my predictions can be wrong?

Blogging as a career

You should adopt blogging as a career.
A young woman commented on a blog of General Manager of a company. On an average he wrote only one post per month.

Do you think in the time of competition, writing one post per month is sufficient to adopt blogging as career when professional bloggers are writing high-quality posts per day or is she encouraging him to write more frequently like professionals?

Mysterious search

social networking sites in goa india

A person from Pune, Maharashtra asked google, reached the post 'Goa, India' on my site and spent 8 minutes and 34 seconds reading various pages.

Do you think there are different social networking sites in Goa and Pune or the visitor’s search and visit was mysterious? ;-)

Removed me from his blog roll!

Nov, 2009
And yes I have added your blog to my blog roll (the blogs I follow, depicted on the right side of my blog) without your prior permission, hope you wouldn't mind it.
This was the reply to my mail by a senior blogger whose blog I love to read. At that time I was a begginer and doesn’t know much about blogging, wrote to him to seek help.

Dec, 2010
A few days back he visited my blog read 56 pages. After some time, visited again and read 46 pages. He visited the sitemeter of my blog. And then deleted me from his blog roll.

I wote an email to him.
Thanks for keeping my blog in ur reading list for nearabout one year. :) I will be glad to hear any suggestions from ur side.
He didn’t reply.

Should I write one more mail to him as he was the first person to motivate me when I started writing and at that time it was needed the most or should not worry about that at all as nobody visited my blog via his blog except his visits?

Mud cocoons

Phew! An insect prepared earthen cocoons on the cloth which I used as cover.

Should I remove the mud cocoons or keep them till adult insects break the cocoons?

Gud nite

Gud nite…
This message appeared on my mobile from Mr. ‘J’ which I read in the morning. Yesterday, I first time met Mr. ‘J’ during a brief business meeting. There was no conversation with him before, personally or virtually. This was the only message which I received from his side.

During the daytime I didn’t receive any message. In the evening I received one more message from him as :
Gud nite

Do you think I should respond to that person for courtesy sake or just ignore such stupid messages?

Honk! Honk!!

Red light
A gal repeatedly honked the car. In front of her car were two guys on bike. They were irritated because of her misbehaviour. Hot words were shared between the bike and car drivers.

Green light
The guy on bike kicked it again and again to start but it didn’t start. The gal honked more.

Do you think that guys did ‘tit for tat’ or it was coincidence that bike didn’t start because of some difficulty in its ignition system?

Sewing Needle No. 18

At last I found time to sew the curtains! Because of my busy schedule this was one of my pending works. For sewing thick fabrics like curtains sewing needle no. 18 should be used in sewing machine. I took out my needle box and searched for that needle. To my surprise I couldn’t read the number written on the sewing needle with my naked eyes.

Can you read the number written on sewing needle with your naked eyes or no?

Meditational experience

Millions of sun shinning on a starless night!
This was my status on a social networking site.

Mrs. ‘Y’ commented :
If the sun is shinning how it could be starless? :-p

I replied :
When one closes one’s eyes for meditation, one sees only darkness. This situation is quite similar to a starless night. During meditating one rarely experiences the shinning of millions of sun. It is a unique meditational experience.

What do you think I was serious or kidding?

Add up

With a few more grey hair, with setting of dark circles under my eyes and with ONLY ONE break up, I add up one more year to my life. ;-)

Injection

A 7-8 year boy screamed, shouted, cried, moved his hands and legs irregularly as he didn’t want to give his blood sample.
“It will pain me.” He said as tears were flowing from his red eyes. Tears covered his chubby cheeks.

Does injection gives so much pain or just a slight feeling of insertion?

Disciplining of mind

Mind is monkey which can’t sit at one place,
Mind is a monkey which is drunk so will do all nasty things,
And mind is a monkey whose tail is on fire which will destroy everything.

That mind, which behaves like a monkey is to be disciplined. It can only be disciplined with practice and patience. Then only that monkey will become tame.
A saint told a middle aged man.

Do you agree or disagree with the saint?

Contradictory comments

Two passer bys most probably a grandfather and his grandson watched me with astonished looks as I was feeding cow with eatables which were placed on a piece of paper.

“Its good to feed cows. It’s good especially if fed on papers.” Grandfather commented.
“If you continue feeding cow on paper, one day it will die.” Grandson commented.

What do you think one should follow or not such free consultancy services? ;-)

Fireworks : Enjoying or scary

As soon as the stunning fireworks began than an innocent bird flew in front of my eyes, not knowing in which direction it desired to fly. It seemed that the bird was really very scared.

Should the innocent creatures like birds and animals be scared so much for a short span of enjoyment from fireworks or even short span enjoyment from fireworks is important in boring routine life?

Take a deep breath

In the morning if you are struck in a traffic jam then I can suggest you to take a deep breath and relax! This is the only thing I can suggest.
An fm radio station RJ announced this.

Do you think if you are caught in a traffic jam then you can do only one thing that is take a deep breath or can also do something else to pass the time?

My comments on other blogs

If you're going to comment on blogger blog posts, you might try reading the post first, moron. You're obviously on a mission to get readers. There's a name for people like you.

An Anonymous wrote on my previous post.

Do you think that I comment on your blog without reading it or I comment related to the post content?

Chicks story continued...

“Last Sunday, I returned from London. The house was dirty as it was closed for near about seven months. It took me and my maid three days to clean it. And these pigeons had made nests on air conditioners. I asked the maid to clean up all the mess and put the chicks in green cloth on the roof of the building.” A middle aged woman told me.
“The smaller chick died of hunger as it couldn’t eat the grains given by me. And the bigger one becomes the food of cat or a bird of prey.” I told her.

Is cleaning of house is important than the lives of chicks or no?

Only chicks! No nest!

Chirping of chicks attracted my attention. I moved towards that direction and found that two chicks of different sizes were squeezed one upon the other on a cloth in the corner of the building’s roof.

I was quiet shocked to see pigeon chicks without any nest near by.

Did you think parent pigeons were creative or lazy?

Measuring LOVE!

Chandrika Shubham is measuring LOVE!
This was my status update on one of the social networking site.

Ms. ‘F’ commented :
How long is piece of string, my dear friend?

Actually I was measuring it in Litres. :D

Can love be measured or no?

Comments on my blog

A middle aged woman was telling about the books of world’s famous authors. She was keenly talking about what she had read in her whole life.
After patient listening for near about an hour, I asked. “Have you read my blog?”
“Chandrika, you write, you mean to say you are a writer!!!”
“I know I can’t write well. I am learning ABC of writing. But if you haven’t read the comments on my blog then you have read NOTHING.”

This is 150th post by me. :)

Begging : art or pressure

“Give me some alms.” A kid came near me and asked.
“No.” I said.
“Please.” She brought the empty bowl closer.
“No” I repeated adamantly.
She bowed before me; her head was on my feet.

Do you think it is glamorisation of begging or it is the result of great deal of pressure on underprivileged?

Never seen such a Zebra zoo before!

“Zebra zoo!” The kid sitting beside me pointed towards a woman who was driving a scooter. The scooter was moving with almost same pace of our car because of traffic on the road. That woman was wearing a dark pink colored shirt on which numerous zebras facing all the directions were embroidered. She was wearing it with a white dupatta and salwar.

On returning home on that very day, we coincidentally met that woman again. And this time kid exclaimed, “Never seen such a zebra zoo before!”

Have you ever seen such a zoo or airport? ;)

I failed!

“These days you do not laugh as earlier you used to. The dark circles have appeared under your eyes and the cheerful glow on your face in no more.” A good friend of mine asked. “What happened, dear?”

“Nothing, just over burden of work and too much blogging” My mouth said.
“I failed! I failed!! I FAILED!!! And this is my life’s biggest failure.” My heart said.

What do you think will I be able to convert my life’s biggest failure into my life’s biggest success?

Old editions of magazines

Yesterday, a message appeared on my phone screen as :
grazia- march, april, july, 2010 adition, femina- june, august 2010 adition, bazaar- march, april 2010 adition these r the magznes names. From where we cn gt all books

I replied :
Book shops at Gurgaon.

Someone known sent me this message; I forwarded it to u as such. These will be available on railway platform bookstalls ONLY. That was to improve ur general knowledge. :)

What do you like to read magazines whose reading material never gets old or whose reading material fades with time?

A pencil sketch by me

“Looks like a king! Who is he?” A college passed out guy asked me on seeing the pencil sketch by me.

What do you think that am I such a terrible artist that person’s portrait can’t be recognised or do you think that guy has a poor level of knowledge that he can’t recognise such a famous personality?

No Traffic jam day!

“On Tuesday, while going to Delhi and coming back home, I didn’t find any traffic jam on highway No. 8 and roads.” Mrs. ‘S’ told me.

“Lucky you who had No traffic jam day!” I replied.

Do you consider a day without traffic jam lucky day or just normal day?

Urself is Yourself

"Don't you know the spellings of 'Yourself'?" Saying this, a staff member of a reputed bank rejected my cheque addressed as 'Urself'.
"Yup .......but these days both spellings work." I tried to justify myself.
"Its wrong. You have to fill up another cheque with correct spellings."

Does shortening of spellings save our time or lead us to trouble?

Gifts from blogger friends

Mr. ‘O’ wrote to me
I have many blogger friends even met one or two bloggers in real life, received letters and excanged gifts.

I replied
I haven’t met any blogger friend in person except my cousin.

Have you ever received gifts or met blogger friends in person or no?

Goa, India

Mr. ‘M’ updated his profile on a social networking site as:

Current City : Goa, India

On social networking sites such a mistake is a pretty one which is to be ignored or it is a BIG mistake which is to be corrected immediately?

63mago

Thinking about 63mago, I picked up a tarot card. The card showed a woman who was sitting in between the piles and piles of books, reading, researching and writing.

A regular reader of my blog, 63mago who may forget to eat or drink but never forget to read my blog. I love her humor, her genius thoughts and her irony. I do not know much about her except that she resides in Germany.

Does regular reading of a particular blog draws an image of the blogger or is it just a platform to share information?

Watching porn movies

“You got late. What happened?” I asked the college girl.
“Oh! Last night, I was watching movies.” She replied.
“Which?”
“Porn movies!”
“I read on net that Chuck Traynor was husband, manager and pimp of Linda Lovelace, a famous American porn star of 70’s who forced her to pornography at the gun point. She was ripped like a rubber doll. She was frightened, humiliated and disgraced. She admitted that she felt like garbage!”
“Hmm…”
“In later years of their age, such porn stars faced numerous health problems physical as well as emotional. If you watch porn it means more persons will be dragged into this dirty business. Do u want to watch porn movies or no?"

A few words of appreciation

I appreciate the message convey in the last two paragraphs of the article. The data depicted here is surprisingly alarming which show that a huge sum of money is wasted on crackers during festival season. It not only creates noise and air pollution but also increases unfortunate incidences of blindness, losing some body parts or other injuries.

It is nice to hear that you haven’t spent hard earned precious money of yours on buying crackers from the last 23 years. Instead of that you love to give money to the needy especially those who want to be self reliant.

I wish we all celebrate festivals like this. :)

Should I leave this comment on Mr. ‘M’ ’s blog or no as he has already rejected my earlier comment on his blog?

Dirty romance

Location : Swimming pool
A guy filled his mouth with water and spew out on his girl friend’s face. She too filled her mouth with water to repeat the game. Two girls must be their known who were watching all this screamed, “Dirty fellows!” The girl spit out the water in the pool and not on his boy friend.

Do you think this is romantic or dirty?

Autumn season

I had almost forgotten that there was a season called autumn... :P
Mr. 'A' posted this picture and caption on the social networking site.

Ms. 'C' commented :
Autumn is a season to forget and spring is the season to remember forever. :) But unfortunately autumn is too long and spring is too short.

Mr. 'A' commented :
Autumn is the season of preparations, to get ready to face the challenges of winter season. Moreover one can't appreciate the beauty of a flower until one remember a bare plant or tree.

Do you agree with Mr. 'A' or Ms. 'C'?