The weather is getting to me right now. Had to take the day off yesterday trying to sleep it off(which didn’t work out so good). Right now I am a little confused with the home remedies for it. In India my people say that one shouldn’t drink anything cold or have ice cream if one has fever and cold but in American, people ask me drink liquids including those with ice in them to keep myself hydrated. Should I go with ‘Mama knows best or …’ I like ice cream so I guess I go with that choice.

Is it just me or is that the job hunting phase always sucks. Well I am still learning lots of stuff that I need to know to get a job … wait a minuite … isn’t my masters supposed to have prepared me for that ??

Thought for the day

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

24 There are four things which are little on the earth,

But they are exceedingly wise:

25 The ants are a people not strong,

Yet they prepare their food in the summer;

26 The rock badgers[b] are a feeble folk,

Yet they make their homes in the crags;

27 The locusts have no king,

Yet they all advance in ranks;

28 The spider[c] skillfully grasps with its hands,

And it is in kings’ palaces.

Proverbs 30:24 – 28

Foreword : Before I start off, the above title is a literal translation of a Tamil saying. It is used when somebody makes a hilariously funny syntactic or semantic error in their speaking.

I just realized how non-native speakers of a language can twist a language when I was forwarded an email about the “golden utterances” of a person called Jeppiar in in Chennai(Madras). A virtually illiterate person he now owns and manages a host of educational institutions (Though this is not because of his educational skills but his political). Here is a selection of some of his best …

* All of you, stand in a straight circle.

* The girl with the mirror please come her…{Meaning girl with specs).

* I talk, he talk, why you middle middle talk ?

* There is no wind in the balloon.

* You three of you, stand together separately.

* Open the doors of the window. Let the Air Force come in.

* Take Copper Wire of any metal especially of Silver…..

* Close the doors of the windows please. I have winter in my nose today

* Shhh…Quiet, boys…the principal just passed away in the corridor

* Once he had come late to a college function, by the time the function

had started, so he went to the dais, and said, sorry I am late, because on

the way my car hit 2 muttons (Meaning goats).

* You three of you, stand together separately.

I know and Understand that English is a descriptive language and that it offers a lot of poetic license but this is stretching it a little too far. But then the sun has set on the British Empire so I guess anything goes…