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T. S. Eliot had once remarked “Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” How true in today’s time when we are bombarded with reality shows. Big Brother Controversy has rocked not only India but the whole of the Britain so much so that Channel 4 is thinking of taking the most popular reality TV show in Britain off air. The remarks of Jade Goody to Shilpa Shetty have been termed as racist by the latter. Though I have not seen the Big Brother episode but whatever bits and pieces are available on Indian television do not portray a good picture at all. Jade has been finally evicted and the most shameful thing for her must have been that nobody came up to receive her after the show. The mass hatred for her is visible everywhere. After being evicted from the show even she has confessed that some of her remarks to Shilpa were indeed racist. A bid to patch up things I suppose… Hellen Keller had said that “The best result that education can provide to anyone is tolerance.” Going by this notion, the participants are not that well educated. But the fact remains that it is a reality show and things are supposed to go off the mark!

A nice thought-provoking poem to start the new year with…I received this as a forward.

I have in my hands two boxes,

Which God gave me to hold.

He said, “Put all your sorrows in the black box,

And all your joys in the gold.”

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes,

Both my joys and sorrows I stored,

But though the gold became heavier each day,

The black was as light as before.

With curiosity, I opened the black,

I wanted to find out why,

And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole,

Which my sorrows had fallen out by.

I showed the hole to God, and mused,

“I wonder where my sorrows could be!”

Technology has for sure has grown by leaps and bounds. To quote famous author Arthur C. Clarke “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I came across this sort of technological advancement in relation to a programme on pets aired on Animal Planet. Anyone who owns a pet might be interested in reading this. These days people can go to any extreme in order to take care of their pets. People who own them know that they are almost a part of their family providing love and affection and seeking nothing in return. As I myself own a dog so I was very keen to watch this programme. It featured new tools and techniques employed to take care of your pets. The scene of action was Japan where a working individual had to find out ways to take care of his dog who had to stay at home alone the whole day. This is a common dilemma that working people have to deal with. It was incredibly interesting to see what happened when this guy went out to work.

PIXBUDDY

I have been dreaming of having a photoblog for long and finally my dream has come true! Me and my hubby had to work on this together to make this possible. In fact, the idea of having a photoblog led us to buy a new camera with advanced features.

You are most welcome to visit our new blog at www.pixbuddy.com. We have uploaded some photographs and will be adding new ones whenever we get time. I can’t promise for a daily update as this is one of our hobbies. But yes, we sure want to learn the tricks of the trade so that every new snap on the website has a new dimension to it and is worth a second look. You are also requested to post your comments on this site. This feedback will help us improve and gain insight into our hobby. Happy viewing!

The ‘Bigg Boss’ series has off late attracted my attention and I look forward to watching it daily. I had almost left watching television literally, but I must say that the promotion or the time of this serial prompted me to take this risk of putting in my time to such an activity. Of what I gather from the Internet, it is an adaptation of ‘Big Brother’ which debuted seven years ago in Netherlands. Of course, the series has been suitably ‘Indianised’.

In recent times, the television audience has been bombarded with the too much of such reality TV shows such as Indian Idol, Fame Gurukul and so on, but this one for sure has a different flavour to it. To start with it is not a talent show that is based on selection of the best rather it is a it is a reality show that is based on elimination of the weakest. That is what that drew my attention to it.

I have not been a regular blogger and that is one of the reasons why sometimes feel very guilty to the point that I have even thought of selling it off. But as I had started it long back, and due to some sort of sentimental value attached – of which too I am not sure – till now I have not gathered the courage to sell it. I am sure I might earn cool money from this!!

So, just for the sake of keeping the blog going, I am penning down some thoughts about something which I wanted to share for long.

Got this interesting forward, and enjoyed reading it again.

Imagine you’re in London’s Heathrow Airport. While you’re waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies. Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out your box of shortbread cookies. As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely.

He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and takes one of your cookies from the box, and eats it. You’re more than a little surprised at this. Actually, you’re at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but he alternates with you. For every one cookie you take, he takes one.

The last week was eventful enough in more ways than one. For not only the sea water at Mahim creek turned sweet but the Gods also started drinking milk the second time round. After the despicable rains, the traffic woes, and not to forget the bomb blasts, Mumbai wants to attribute a couple of things to some magic from the heaven’s above.

I was quite intrigued to see the media flooded with the news that the Mahim creek has suddenly turned sweet. On one side, the doctors were cautioning the general public not to drink that water as it might lead to several water-borne diseases, and on the other side, there were hundreds of people flocking the filthy creek and drinking the yellow water which they said has turned holy. Even the business of empty bottle sellers boomed!

There are times when we take our parents for granted, but they are the only ones on whom we can fall back upon!! Here’s a message for my father, today being Father’s Day.

Dad, a lot of things have changed through the years,
But there’s something that has never changed,
And that’s the bond we share,
Missing you on Father’s Day!

Though we have imbibed this concept from the west, but I find it an excellent way to remember that our father has been the strength behind us and made us the person that we are today. I came across the real story behind the origin of this day.

Some of my friends have been eager to see latest pics of Beetle, my pet dog. These are the latest that i could manage to get from my phone. He looks cute na…:))