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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri
Rui And Merab
Rui's prayers evening are legendary
"God, thanks for the ceiling, Amen"
or
"God, thanks for the the place to keep my TV, Amen"
Merab
Met Merab over the weekend at Kotagiri.
Went on a long walk around the hills with this angel and Mr. Pluto, who's the friendliest Dalmation ever.
Swapnil: What's your favorite subject?
Merab: History.
S: What are they teaching you?
M: History's just started. First there was the early man. He roamed around all over the place, they called him Nomad.
S: Who's the first man that who stood upright.
M: (thinking) Huh!
S: Who started walking on two legs.
M: Hmmm .... Hmmm.... I dont know his name.
S: okay, what happened to early man.
M: He used to roam all around and then he discovered fire by accident.
S: Was it a TRAIN accident?
M: NOOOO... He took two flint stones and rubbed them together.
S: Flint stones the cartoons?
M: Hmm....May be.
S: Wilma and Freddie?
M: They took the both of them and rubbed their noses together and there was fire.
S: !!!
M: and thats how they became husband and wife....
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Storyteller...
Aditi's latest book is out...
Penguin Books India > Book Detail: "Timeless tales from all over India
From Bengal to Bastar and Kashmir to Coorg, there are stories that have been handed down generations: bedtime stories for children, fireside stories for travellers, who have heard these tales, wondered at them and repeated them to others. In A Twist in the Tale: More Indian Folktales, Aditi De collects forty such stories from various parts of India and retells them with dollops of humour.
A friendless crocodile, a timid mouse and a vain fox are among some of the eccentric characters that appear in this book. There is also a clever princess, a hapless priest with heron feathers flying out of his mouth, and galleries of rogues. Strange happenings are not uncommon, so a nail tree grows out of nail clippings and a beetle saves a man from the dungeons. Full of the details of everyday life, festivities and food, these ageless stories have seldom been so exciting and such fun. Accompanied by Uma Krishnaswamy’s brilliant illustrations, this book will introduce the magic of Indian folktales to a new generation of readers."
Book can be ordered online at
Indaitimes
Penguin Books
NBC India
Penguin Books India > Book Detail: "Timeless tales from all over India
From Bengal to Bastar and Kashmir to Coorg, there are stories that have been handed down generations: bedtime stories for children, fireside stories for travellers, who have heard these tales, wondered at them and repeated them to others. In A Twist in the Tale: More Indian Folktales, Aditi De collects forty such stories from various parts of India and retells them with dollops of humour.
A friendless crocodile, a timid mouse and a vain fox are among some of the eccentric characters that appear in this book. There is also a clever princess, a hapless priest with heron feathers flying out of his mouth, and galleries of rogues. Strange happenings are not uncommon, so a nail tree grows out of nail clippings and a beetle saves a man from the dungeons. Full of the details of everyday life, festivities and food, these ageless stories have seldom been so exciting and such fun. Accompanied by Uma Krishnaswamy’s brilliant illustrations, this book will introduce the magic of Indian folktales to a new generation of readers."
Book can be ordered online at
Indaitimes
Penguin Books
NBC India
Monday, May 09, 2005
Normal is...
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
~Ellen DeGeneres
~Ellen DeGeneres
Friday, May 06, 2005
Agelessbonding
Today's Usha's Birthday and Rabindranath Tagore's too.....
Happy Birthday Usha...
Some e-Mail signatures from Usha...
One thing you're never going to see is a hearse with luggage racks."
--Eric Atchison
"Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now."
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know so it goes on flying anyway.
-Mary Kay Ash
"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy." - Oscar Wilde
"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
--Denis Waitley
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which those who dream only by night may miss."
---Edgar Allan Poe
No matter how you think it is,
it's different than that! (This was new year's greetings)
"You've heard that before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes? This is true. It's called living."
In the beginning the Universe was created... This made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones
Happy Birthday Usha...
Some e-Mail signatures from Usha...
One thing you're never going to see is a hearse with luggage racks."
--Eric Atchison
"Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now."
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know so it goes on flying anyway.
-Mary Kay Ash
"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy." - Oscar Wilde
"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
--Denis Waitley
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which those who dream only by night may miss."
---Edgar Allan Poe
No matter how you think it is,
it's different than that! (This was new year's greetings)
"You've heard that before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes? This is true. It's called living."
In the beginning the Universe was created... This made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones
Monday, May 02, 2005
Yahoo! Search Results for motto for life
Yahoo! Search Results for motto for life: "Results 1 - 10 of about 4,190,000 for motto for life - 0.12 sec. (About this page)
WEB RESULTS
Number one search query that lands people on my blog is "Motto For Life". For some starange reason Yahoo ranks my blog as the number one result.
Its amazing how many people are looking for motto for life and the start searching on the net. May be i should redirect them to Mathieu, Agathe and Blaise. Never seen people more content with what they are doing. Young Musicians of the World is looking for volunteers who can teach ,Music or otherwise.
WEB RESULTS
Number one search query that lands people on my blog is "Motto For Life". For some starange reason Yahoo ranks my blog as the number one result.
Its amazing how many people are looking for motto for life and the start searching on the net. May be i should redirect them to Mathieu, Agathe and Blaise. Never seen people more content with what they are doing. Young Musicians of the World is looking for volunteers who can teach ,Music or otherwise.
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