Little known amusing truths

• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
• People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
• Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• Turtles can breathe through their butts.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• Wearing headphones for just one hour will multiply the number of bacteria in your ear 700 times.
• The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
• A 25 year old man from Maine is auctioning off the back of his neck as advertising space. The winner bidder can put a permanent tattoo ad on the back of Mark's neck.
• It is impossible for a human to lick their elbow.
• Like fingerprints, every one's tongue print is different.
• Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark.
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
• Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• Rather than bury or burn bodies after death, a Swedish company has come up with a chilling alternative; freezing them in liquid nitrogen, then using sound waves to smash the brittle remains into a powder.

More to come if this one turns out good... :)

Random stuff

Well having nothing better to do, I decided to return to my old passion :) and truthfully, I don't have a clue as to what I shall be writing from here. I am just making things up as I go.

So whats going on around here. I just finished watching the India - SriLanka one-dayer with over 800 runs scored and India emerging triumphant at the end. It was a thriller of a match, though I missed a chunk of it owing to throbbing pain in my toe due to my surgery earlier in the morning. Dhoni might have been complacent in the beginning of Lanka's innings but by the end, sweat creased his brows and the brows of the million Indians biting their nails glued to their TV screens. I must admit it was a brilliant effort on the Lankan's part... 400+ in a chase is nothing short of amazing.

What else... For one, the next semester for all of us in my year will be a run in for the future, for anything that anyone might choose to do. And its going to be a tough and hectic one. This will also be the last semester to "regrace" the dwindling GPA's, which appears to be an impossible task in itself. It is such a hopelessly mundane prospect coz however hard you try, you end up where you started from. Leaving aside the academic pressures there will be coachings of different shapes and colours and sizes, the most common being for CAT where people decide whether they have to join TIME or CL. To me both seem equally pointless, but nonetheless you end up joining one of them. Then there's GRE and IAS and GMAT and what not. So basically I guess we're gonna spend the semester pitying ourselves for our sad English and the virtually non-existent atmosphere of education in "English". All this is apart from the usual struggle in a semester... and upholding all the other interests one might have. But for me, the struggle would not be the struggle of coping up with these pressures. In fact, I would rather invite them, having endured torturous moments when nothing occupies my mind. The challenge would be to decide what is it that I want to coach for, what is it that shall be my bull's eye for the next year, what shall make me happy when I step out of my convocation. Once I conquer this quest all shall fall into place. Atleast, my time and my thoughts shall fall into schedule. That would suffice for the moment.

Between, suddenly out of context I am reminded of a little chat I had in a family marriage sitting in the back during some ceremonies. I was pretty impatient and was spending my time chatting. It was then that one of my shweet uncles said that you know, all the traditions and ceremonies that we honour have some reasonable basis. For example, why is there an age gap between the girl and the boy in traditional arranged marriages. It is because girls are usually more mature than guys of their own age and guys take longer to mature. In essence, guys are inherently dumber than girls. :) 

I suppose I shall take leave now :).
And hope to get back soon