6 May 2015

Puzzle – numerical one this time

This week I was with Arijit and he mentioned that he had not seen me posting puzzles in some time. And that is true. I had not received much answers or attempts for the last few ones. I figured nobody was interested. Let’s see how this one does. This is dedicated to Arijit.

Send me answers as personal messages on FB  instead of comments.

Can you come up with a ten digit number where the first digit is also the count of 1s in the full number, the sound digit is also the count of 2s, the third digit is also the count of 3s and so on and finally the tenth digit is the number of 0s in the number.

Three years and two months back, I had posted a variation of this problem.

4 May 2015

If Carly becomes the President…

I understand Carly Fiorina today announced that she is going to stand to become the President of USA.

My guess is after becoming the President, she will force an unwanted merger of Mexico with USA, resulting in USA losing half its value and 15% losing their jobs and then eventually forced to resign from her post.

You know, like she did last time she was President of something about ten years back. ๐Ÿ™‚

2 May 2015

Now I have to figure out how to survive!

I was torn between putting in a 5K race for a great cause or keep focusing on my long runs on Saturdays. Came to the venue and got so confused with all the people and energy and music that apparently I have signed up for the 15K race! I really should be thinking these things thru a little more!!

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30 April 2015

In all fairness…

… I am not the one who can claim to be an inspirational or influential leader. But boy, have I found out how to get a large segment of my FB friends to do what they would not have done otherwise?

All I need to do is write a post and mention “you can hold back all those blah blah blah…”

And everybody seems to want to make a beeline for expressing those blah blahs ๐Ÿ˜‰

All the same, thank you all!

29 April 2015

How can I forget, if you do not give me some time? :-)

In the recent past, we had our anniversary day. Okay, since I did not post any cute pictures of Sharmila and myself from our wedding day or something, you can hold back all those Congratulatory messages ๐Ÿ™‚ I am trying to tell you something very funny that happened on that day.

First, you have to realize that in our house, unlike every other house, I am the one who remembers dates and Sharmila is the one who forgets them. You might recollect how she gave me our 20th anniversary gift โ€ฆ on our 19th anniversary day. Or how she picked up a fight with her own brother about his birthday (which, I might add with great self-satisfaction, I had correctly remembered) ๐Ÿ™‚ I think there was a time she started writing down dates in a journal but she kept losing the journal ๐Ÿ™‚

My usual practice after she forgets about a day is to wait for the day to get over and then just to rub it in, next morning I would remind her that she forgot the important date. And then she would berate me for not reminding her the previous day and accuse me of doing it purposely (which is absolutely true, by the way).

Against that backdrop, this anniversary day, as always, I got up early in the morning and before going for a run, went down to the kitchen and started making a cup of coffee for myself and one for her. It is then that I realized that she had woken up too and was coming down the stairs.

I was thinking to myself that I might have to rearrange my running time by half an hour so both of us could have some quiet coffee time early in the morning before the kids woke up. You can only imagine my surprise therefore with what happened in the next few seconds. She came down straight to me, gave me a kiss and straightaway accused me โ€œYou forgot today is our anniversary day, didnโ€™t you?โ€

I was like WWWHHHHHHATT????? We just woke up! The day has just begun!!! And in any case, last twenty one years you did not remember!! What are you talking about? I had no idea what hit me!

Evidently, she was so excited that she remembered this time after waking up, she was hoping against hopes that I would not and then she would turns the tables on me!! And in all that excitement, that was the first thing that came out of her mouth!! It is like wishing each other on our anniversary day has become something like calling dibs !!!

I simply went out for a run!!! ๐Ÿ™‚