Hilarious Status messages :-)

Owing to absolute and complete boredom, I decided to share the following here. These are some of the funny status messages I found people using on their IM and social networking sites.

• A bad thing about a good thing is that it always comes to an end.
• If a cop stops me and says "papers" and I say "scissors" do I win?
• Why be difficult, when with a bit of effort, you can be totally impossible.
• Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.
• One day your prince will come. Mine just took a wrong turn, got lost and too stubborn to ask for directions
• Taking a picture of a flower does not make you a photographer......
• A guy knocked on my door today asking for a donation for the local primary school's pool. I went away and came back with a cup of water..... Is that wrong?
• Dismayed! I don't even know how to spell anymore. I type the 1st half of the word and wait for auto correct to do the rest.
• Moving sucks! Why didn't anyone invented copy and paste for real life?
• Dear Mathematics, please grow up and solve your own problems.
• If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito
• The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.
• Insert coin to view my status message.
• Most of us can keep a secret. It's the people we tell it to who can't.
• My computer just beat me at chess...but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
• I like to stop the microwave with 1 second to go. Makes me feel like a bomb defusal expert!!
• I tried comforting my buddy who was waiting for the results of his HIV test. I guess "think positive" wasn't what he wanted to hear!
• Happiness is a failure to understand how bad things really are.
• I’m on "Starts Tomorrow" diet. 

Hey...please smile!!!

Has anyone noticed this about certain people? By certain people, I really mean it...I do not have anyone particular in mind (of both the genders....just in case you were wondering :-P) Smile at them and all you get is an angry look as if you were the dirt on the floor or the last person on this planet they would acknowledge! Why can't some people smile back? It's not as if their smile is a precious commodity to be used only sparingly (My aunt uses "onions" more lavishly these days!).

C'mon people....it's just a simple smile....this little courtesy/civil conduct is what separates us humans! And if you are wondering whether I've written the above paragraph in a little anger....yeah you are right. People seem to have become selfish - some don't acknowledge even relatives or friends.

So very sad!

Too comfortable with discomfort!

I wear spectacles only while working on my laptop or while watching TV to avoid headaches later on.

Today I switched off the TV to get my laundry done. While on it, I suddenly realized that those spectacles still perched on my nose! Well...I can ignore them while working or watching TV because I get engrossed in the work or some movie. But they sometimes grow increasingly uncomfortable. How I could forget I had them on, I have no idea except that I'd become too comfortable with the discomfort!!

This pretty much sounds like life, doesn't it?? How often do we learn to put up with things we don't like? Just learn to overlook how uncomfortable we are and just get on with our life?

If there are areas of my life which I've grown used to overlooking....things that cause discomfort and things that I have the ability to remove from my life.............I would like to do it.

Sounds like a good thing right???

Pulse Polio drive in the city

The annual National Level Pulse Polio drive happened on the 23rd of January and Bangalore was no exception. There was a massive drive and lots of awareness spread by the media well in advance. But what really amazed me was the extent to which the doctors, the nurses and the anganwadi workers in Bangalore went to ensure that the children below the age of five were administered the vaccine.

I was at the Bangalore City Railway Station on that day and it surprised me to see numerous Polio vaccination stalls at various entrances and exits of the premises. There were even stalls inside the station on the platforms. The job of some of those doctors who voluntarily went to the parents of children below the age of five and administered the drops was commendable. Moreover I saw many volunteers visiting each and every house in my area making sure that children get this vaccine. All this effort being made is really appreciable.

I learnt from one of the doctors that this time, instead of the usual vaccine, they were using a new vaccine called the "Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine" which fights against the P1 and P3 strains of the deadly Polio. I was also told that this vaccine had already been tried in high polio prevalent states.

Hoping that every parent with kids below the age of five would have visited such stalls and help reduce the incidence of Polio in our country.

Realization of the day!!

I've lost it again!

Well, it's not as if all my 27 years of life till date has been wasted; My mom, apparently, was very sure I was no way close to 27!! She was wondering which of the two I resemble the most - a 5 year old or a 2 year old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beyond my control

Sometimes,

things just don’t go the way we want.

Sometimes,

things are beyond anybody's control.

Whatever happens… happens for a reason.

My mom always reminds me that "every cloud has a silver lining"....hmmmmmm

Just thinking out loud...

1. If there was no internet, what will we be doing with our time? 
2. What is it that the internet offers which our real life does not? 
3. Is the bond between our Facebook, Orkut or Twitter friends more real than our friends who are physically present in our life? 
4. How many servers does it take to hold up all the data on these social networking sites?
5. What damage is all this ( the power used to maintain all those servers, the energy expense) causing in terms of  the carbon footprint?
6. What did we do with our time and life before Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Blogger etc. and this trend of over sharing on the internet?

I am not at all judging, just thinking out loud and wondering... even guilty of having a blog!!!

A funny conversation

I was at a mall a few days ago. At one of the crowded restrooms, the following conversation happened between a mother and her little kid. The kid was hardly 3 or 4 years old. I could not help myself but post it here :-)

Kid : Ma, why is your p*ss different from mine? 


Amidst the muffled laughter from all the people in the restroom, the kid's mother patiently explained "because you are a kid and I am a woman and God made us different."

Kid : You are not a woman. You are a mom!

There was more muffled laughter because the conversation was clear and a little loud too!

"Kids are so tough to handle with these kind of questions...I've been there too!" laughed another female voice from the stall next door. 

:-) :-) :-) :-)