7 October
2014
6 October
2014
“Raising” awareness for blindness
CBS and NBC reported yesterday that use of Viagra can cause temporary or even permanent blindness. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8004291/ns/health-mens_health/t/blindness-noted-men-using-impotence-drugs/
I was like – Wait a minute. Isn’t that how it works anyways? I thought he pops in a blue pill, loses eyesight, now no more cares how she looks like and the inevitable follows. That is not how it works? 🙂
I feel really sorry for the octogenarians and nonagenarians who had been taking low dosage of Viagra just to stop peeing in their shoes – now they will have no ability to decide which way to shoot. Remember those Haunted Mansion rides in Disneyland? You wait for an hour for a two minute ride in complete darkness? Yeah, they are going to rename that after Viagra now:-)
Evidently this was first reported from Improve Comedy clubs countrywide where small time comedians took Viagra to become “stand up” comedians and soon after getting onto the stage, reported many people yelling from their right side “We are here”!!! 🙂
I personally feel the solution could be as simple as making an eye ointment out of Viagra. That should make everybody look hard 🙂
5 October
2014
From the bartender’s corner – Boston Gold
5 October
2014
“Teenti montro niye jaader jibon”
5 October
2014
Nikispeak this morning
At the breakfast table, somehow the discussions got started around what Natasha was thinking about her choices of college. We know she wants to follow her heart into journalism and mass communication. I mentioned that a friend of mine had suggested that all kids should think of a second option to follow simultaneously because you learn a lot about yourself as you progress through college life.
Natasha: “Yeah! I am thinking of keeping Business as a major too”
Me: “That is a good idea. The good thing about Business is that it helps you in whatever profession you get into later – engineering, medical, journalism, movie making… whatever”.
And that is when Nikita piped up “What if Didi grows up to be a plumber? Or a street performer? I don’t see how a Business degree can help”.
Uproarious laughter and a little food fight between the sisters later, we left the table 🙂
5 October
2014
Durga Puja time…
5 October
2014
“Always do your best”
“There was a man who wanted to transcend his suffering so he went to a Buddhist temple to find a Master to help him. He went to the Master and asked, “Master, if I meditate four hours a day, how long will it take me to transcend?”
The Master looked at him and said, “If you meditate four hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in ten years.”
Thinking he could do better, the man then said, “Oh, Master, what if I meditated eight hours a day, how long will it take me to transcend?”
The Master looked at him and said, “If you meditate eight hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in twenty years.”
“But why will it take me longer if I meditate more?” the man asked.
The Master replied, “You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy, and to love. If you can do your best in two hours of meditation, but you spend eight hours instead, you will only grow tired, miss the point, and you won’t enjoy your life. Do your best, and perhaps you will learn that no matter how long you meditate, you can live, love, and be happy.”
Excerpt From: Don Miguel Ruiz. “The Four Agreements.”
5 October
2014
When the student became the teacher….
Showing how to light up a orange peel to a couple of fellow bartending girls. You probably are wondering why would anybody want to light up a orange peel (it is actually the oils that shoot out of the peel when you squeeze it). Well, many – like my wife – do not like the taste of their gins emasculated by the fruity taste of fruit-infused gins. But they like the aroma of a fruit – like orange in their drink.
So, basically, you are trying to create a sense of taking in orange gin without messing the taste of the gin. As you know, what our brain perceives as the “taste” of food is only a small part in what the tongue senses and a big part of what the nose senses. The solution is to let the customer inhale the orange fumes but drink the gin in its native form. And you do that by making a normal gin and tonic (Hendricks and Fever Tree is what I would recommend) and then light up an orange peel on top of the drink before you serve it. [The technique will require some practice though. And I learnt it from the venerable mixologist Bensan Varghese from Mumbai]
4 October
2014
Role Reversal
Usually, it is I who remember people and then search the whole world for them, arrange for a meeting, get somebody to take a picture and then memorialize it in my blog with the backstory. Yesterday was a role reversal.
I was out with a friend at a bar and he had invited another friend of his who was visiting Atlanta to the bar. I am not going to bore you with all the details but some parts of the conversations were memorable. As I got introduced to Russell (that being his name), he surprised me by saying, “I know you. I have seen you before. Where have I seen you before?”.
I had not the faintest clue. But certainly not one to give up on a chance to extract some laughter, I asked him “Do you watch a lot of adult movies?”
15 seconds of pindrop silence.
Followed by three minutes of non-stop laughter 🙂
“Were you in Equifax”?
“Yes”
“Were you in i2 before that?”
“Yeah. How do you know that?”.
To cut it short, it became apparent that we had met before!!! And he used to be in Dallas area. (He is still in Texas). We frequented the same bars, restaurants and Starbucks often!!! One by one, we found out we had way too many common connections from the past. It was like we knew everything about the other person!! We were almost high fiving each other everytime we found one more connection – much to the disbelief of our common friend.
Russell pulled one back on me as I got ready to leave – “Say Hi to Mom”, he said.
I frowned for a bit. Then laughed all the way to car thinking about his reference to “Brother from Another Mother” 🙂
4 October
2014
