Its Quiz Time

You are sitting in a room with three switches. 3 bulbs in an adjacent room are connected to these three switches. Now you need to tell which switch is for which bulb. You can go only once in the other room.

A man dies and goes above. There he finds two doors - one to Heaven and other to Hell. There are two persons standing - one each in front of the door to Heaven and Hell. One of them speaks a lie and the other speaks truth. Now you can ask only one question to any of them and you need to tell which is Heaven and which is Hell.

A king gives a horse each to his two sons and tells them that they need to race to city X. The one whose horse is SLOWER will win. The sons are wandering over for many days. When they are dead tired and have no hope left, they meet a wise man. As soon as both of them have talked to the wise they, they jump onto the horses and start walloping towards city X. What did the wise man say?

Duniya Gol Hai Mere Dost

Once upon a time, when we used to go to school, we used to study Geography. The name of our Geography teacher was Mrs. Purewal. She was very strict but she used to take us to wonderful places near our school so that we could learn things. Once while we were having our Geography class, she asked us to open our Atlas. She took us to the page where the map of the world was drawn (something like in the shown image). Then she decided to test us and our intelligence. She asked us to pick the shortest path through sea from Japan to the West Coast of America. Some answers:

a) Japan to India to SA to US
b) Japan to India and through the Mediterranean Sea to US




I won't mind if you cannot stop laughing reading the above answers. I also laugh at it, but it was tough to remember this simple thing back then:

Duniya Gol Hai Mere Dost

Thing of the day

While going to my office in the morning, a policeman standing at a traffic light asked me if I was going straight. I said Yes and he asked me for a lift. I welcomed him in and we started talking (rather he started talking :)). As soon as I mentioned that weather has become old and in the newspaper there was a report yesterday that it was the coldest day for the past 5 years, his stories about the press began. These guys need to fill in all the pages. They need some stuff to write. Some of them just call the policemen and ask them about what happened and they would get a story sitting at home. They ask for a Crime Report which is published by the police everyday and make their stories out of it.

This reminds me of the famous saying:

Is duniya ka kya hai sabse bada gam
Ki uska gam hai mere gam se kam

Even if half of this negative energy could be converted into positive, India would march ahead at double its current speed.

Ga Ga Ga Ga

A colleague of mine has a one and a half year daughter. As she is growing up, she is learning new things and this includes the mobile phone. She has managed to learn to play with it and accidentally dial a number using the phone. On one such occasion, she dialed the number of another colleague of mine. When he picked up the phone, he started hearing voices of a small baby going "Ga Ga Ga Ga".

Similarly my wifes sister has a one year old son. He is also enjoying the world of mobile phones and thinks about it as more of a toy than a thing used to communicate. If you put a phone on his ears and someone from the other end speaks, he would listen for a couple of seconds and then remove the mobile from his ears.

A little older kids love the ring tone of the mobile phone. They would start from the first stored ring tone and keep playing each and every one of them.

Thing of the day

I had gone for the monthly hair-cutting ritual to my nearby barber shop. After the usual wait for a few minutes and enjoying the sun for the first time this winter, my turn came to get the hair cut. As I was getting it done, a young man was getting a massage done on the nearby seat. It was an interesting process. The person doing the massage took a machine, put it across his hands (like a glove which is open at the fingers) and plugged it into a socket. When he switched on the power, the machine started vibrating and so did his hand. He then used that vibration to do the massage on different parts of the body of the person. Saw such a machine for the first time....

Tagging my posts with labels

On last Friday, I was busy tagging all my posts on the blogs with labels. It seems easy but it is not. Arranging yourself and your life is one of the toughest jobs. Anyways, I managed to do it this time for at-least the posts I have made. Following are the categories till now:

1. Bollywood: My all time favorite category.
2. Finance: One of my favorites these days.
3. Humour: My kind of humour, which only probably I can understand. And now my biwi too because she has to laugh at it :)
4. Information: General information that I want to share
5. Learn One Thing: Tag the thing which I learn every day into a separate category
6. Personal: My personal life information
7. Philosophical: Kind of person I am, this category will beat all the others in its numbers.
8. Professional: Tids-bits from my office life
9. Religion: Not one of the most interesting categories for me, but I do believe in that force which makes us all follow the right path
10. Sports: Wowwww

Thing of the day

While watching Navjot Singh Sidhu on Aap Ki Adalat, I was amazed by the changes he has gone through his life. If he really changed the way he portrays, then he has done a great job. One incidence, about his meeting with Shahrukh 25 years back when Shahrukh was not a super-star, which was striking was:

I do not compete with anyone. I compete only with myself.

Call this comment arrogance of Shahrukh or his supreme belief in his abilities, the place where he sits today is really appreciable.

It also completely cuts the negative energy that might be present in your life totally.

As Sidhu puts it aptly in his own style:

Duniya ka sabse bada kya hai rog,
yeh soch ke mere baare mein kya kahenge log