Howzzat!

The Bee in my Bonnet….  Here are some really cool “BUZZ-ES” I came across, ~There is a city called Rome on every continent. ~Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. ~Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." (August begins on a Sunday. Hehehe!) ~Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it. (Will the Greenpeace folks be happy if it were?) ~The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra. ~Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam. ( Pay back time!) ~Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader . (Tere Bin Laden) ~The deadliest spider on earth is called the BANANA spider. (I am dead serious) ~And fi...

Before I wrote it all in the Laptop: Believe it or not, I’m writing this post under the well seated bus stop at Vadavalli, the place where all the ‘1c’s in the town queue up. I don’t mind being stared at by some nearby school girls who, I guess, aren’t used to seeing a girl in her uniform, scribbling away in her notepad, staring blankly ( I mean, thinking hard). It’s been a hard week. I post an average of 3 posts each month. But July’s been real tough - tests, exams and I wrote the last exam (maths) this morning. And I’m sitting here, writing this while fretting over my lost marks in that exam. I always miss my marks in the objective type questions but never mind, Que sera, sera…. I had to stop by a friend’s house with my gang (at mid day, after school). It was the last day of our first mid-term tests and we really had to make up for the lost fun (sigh!) somewhere. What better way to travel, than in a town bus? There’s no dearth of amusement, once you get to know where your feet...

The Sheer Pleasure of The Old World... The innumerable books written in English… Biographies, Memoirs, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Novels… And a ‘novel’ has much more – mysteries, romances, war tales, sci-fi, horror, chick-lit..the list is endless.. And the unadulterated old world ones make my bookshelf. Bookworms who’ve read every other book keep themselves away from classics and I hope the number is few. An ideal bookworm must undergo the ordeal (or pleasure, it depends) of reading classics, obviously, Brit ones. When it comes to music, each one has a liking for different genres. If I like pop in music, I like classics in English Literature. One might think, “What’s so cool in those big boring books full of words that can’t be spelled or pronounced, even?!” It’s like a jigsaw; one who spends time putting it together, sees the picture. The reason I like Brit classics is that I was introduced to those uncool books at the very start (right after those t...