Live and let dye.

My wife adds so much more colour to my monochrome life.
And so do her clothes when washed along my white shirts!!

Biasing potentials

My mood swings as a bachelor were like a sinusoid with average of zero -sometimes happy, sometimes depressed. Now the sinewave still continues but there is just enough positive DC bias applied on the mood signal, so that I seldom go negative.
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ok, the above is for EEarthlings only.. the rest forget all attempts to understand it.

Earth's darkest Hour ? March 28 2009 - 8.30-9.30pm

So many advertisements, so many inspired conversations, so many associated thoughts of optimism/hopelessness... How did one idea capture so many people's imagination ? I have not read much about this event in news, but am here to report my own story.

I had marked 'Earth Hour' in my calender alarm, and planned to switch off not just the lights but the mains switch to maximise the power shutoff . Despite dangers of stuff ending up rotting in my fridge, I hoped the insulation would help for atleast an hour.

And what happened ?

Went outside to a visit to the temple at 7pm, almost forgot all about it till the alarm sounded near the altar. I felt rather glad that we had remembered to switch off all the lights before we left home, so we were actually celebrating 'Earth Hour' in absentia..

Visited a friends place, then had dinner in a restaurant, celebrated the good news of my sister's birth to a baby boy, returned home tired, slept fitfully, and woke up next morning -
-- to find that the adjacent room was unusually warm- I had forgotten to switch off the electric iron after using it the previous evening !!

A misstep of one man's stupidity,
But a giant leap for humanity !

Behold the miracle - Today

If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity.
To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heights of Eco-friendliness.

Caption for a plastic can to hold water in a western toilet -

"Love Nature. . . Hate Paper"

Reverse aging potion

I happened to be in a party where

      there were food and drink galore.

But it turned out to be little food,

      but alcoholic drinks - more and more.

Being a teetotaller, I could only watch

     as all that happened, to my utter dismay-

That the revellers tried to challenge each

     other's macho-ness in a nasty nasty play.

"Drink it bottoms-up if you are a man"-

     one of them did very loudly proclaim,

But the more they consumed, 

     the more juvenile they all became !

Not this time

Familiar are these waters and mild ripples on it
But this time, the lake fails to calm my heart.


Deserved attention the full moon would get,
But not now, when it just blends in the palette.


To listen to some insects in the forest at night,
No longer do I stop breathing for a minute.


The soothing joy of solitude is what I sought,
But with you in my arms, noone's going to miss it!

Fat Boy Swim

Weight gain thru fat accumulation may finally be useful..
fats/oils are lighter than water = less effort needed to swim and stay afloat..
This is based on personal experience..!