Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Looking Forward - 2009!
when we got a job.........
when we passed out of college....
when we made new amazing friends.....
when some of us moved to a new city.....
When some of us celebrated our 21st - 25th birthdays.....
When we waved good bye to our buddies leaving to the states for higher studies...
when some of us fell in love........
when some of us fell out of love
when some of us got hurt
when some of your 'friends' screwed up your love life.
when some 'one' you liked, did not like 'you'..
when we would have made mistakes
when we made life decisions.......
when these decisions turned out to be a tragedy when some of us felt lonely ....
when some of us made an amazing friends in a new city when some of us would have learnt to be stronger.....
when some of us would have realized that everything happens for a reason.....
when some of us let out our anger.....
when some of us never opened up to our friends about how we felt.... when some of us felt so glad and happy to be the way they are..... when we go out everyday and meet up with our friends...
when we had serious talks with our dad about our future.....
when we missed each other when we were at hometown.....
when we missed our mom here ...
when we cried for each other ...
When we celebrated our first Christmas with our friends ..
When we were jobless all the time in office ....
When we walked around the streets late in the night ..
When we put budget for the next month (but strictly not following it) Last year has taken us through all our ups and downs we faced in our life...
2009.......one more year.....A year to....
To find our life partner (might be)
to forget old crushes.
to smile........
to let people know how much u care...
to learn from our mistakes.......
to cry when we are feeling down.....
to follow our dreams.......
to fight against everything for our dreams to come true.....
to be more confident.........
to be more strong at heart and mind.....
to enrich our knowledge.........
to make others happy....
Lets take each day as it comes........
Forget about the downs we came across in the past year........
And remember every lesson we learnt through them........
Let's Enjoy Life to the Fullest............
LET'S WAIT FOR THE WONDERFUL YEAR AHEAD - 2009!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Time to laugh
"I want a place to stay", said the Ant...
"I have a vacant room which you can occupy for free of cost", said the owner. Ant went inside and occupied that vacant room.
After some days, the Ant brought in another Ant and requested the owner "Can you please allow this Ant to stay along with me".
"Oh sure, you can do so without paying any rent" said the owner.
After some days the Ant brought one more Ant and requested the owner to allow that Ant to stay with it. Owner agreed to it without asking for any rent. This continues and Ant brings in one more Ants and owner agrees for it. On one fine day, the Ant brought in the tenth Ant and requested the owner to allow that tenth Ant also to stay with it.
The owner said "Ok, you all can stay here but you need to pay rent".
Now the question is: Why did the owner ask for rent when the tenth Ant came in?
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Because they are now Tenants (Ten ants)!!
SUPER PJ #3
A Lady is on top of a hill and she is going to push her Father down from the hill top.....
So what is the name of this evil lady???
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Well, her Name is PUSH-PA!!!!!!!!!!
SUPER PJ #2
Other than being fruits, what is common between an Apple and an Orange?
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They Both Are Not Bananas!!
SUPER PJ #1
Cow, ant & a Donkey are debating on who is the greatest among three of
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Cow: I give 50 liters of milk every day and that's why I am the greatest.
Ant: I work day and night, summer and winter, I can carry 52 times my own weight and that's why I am the Greatest.
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It's your turn now--- please speak up.........!!!!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Are you ready for marriage... 3 ways to find it out..
This one is for all those, who have been bluffed by their partners, that they are ready for the Big 'M'. Believe me you can always fool yourself to think that you are, but there are some Scientific Techniques of finding out the truth.
So it's simple now, just follow any of these listed techniques, and find it for yourself.
1: The Room Trap Technique
Technique Summary: This is a very easy and efficient way to find out.
Here's how you can do it.
One fine day enter into your bedroom, take a big iron lock, and lock your
room from inside. and then throw the key outside from the window. make
sure that you don't have anything of interest with you in the room. No
laptops, mobile,etc...
Now if you are able to stay in that room, without any problem, till
someone discovers that you have been in that room for last 2 days, without
any food, water and entertainment. It means that you are ready to Go!
Else, if you start feeling TRAPPED! and you start crying for help, you
want to get out, but you have no key and you feel helpless....then you
have got it, it's what the marriage is all about! stay away from it
2: The Credit Card Abuse Technique
Technique Summary: On one fine day go to a busy market street, and drop
your credit card on the road and you are all set, just come back to home.
and sit relaxed for month, and wait for your credit card statement to
come.
Now please go through the bill and details of how your credit card got
abused. If you can take all this and still smile and are in position to
pay the bill, then you are ready! just say those words "I do"
Else please understand that your credit card will be abused like this for
the rest of your life, and you will have to take all this with a smile on
your face. so think twice before you do the DO!
3: The Chewing Gum Technique
Technique Summary: A very simple, quick but effective technique. Go to
your nearest super store and buy a single chewing gum. Now put into your
mouth and start chewing it, enjoy the sweet flavored juices, which will
flow in your mouth for sometime, then the chewing will start turning
tasteless, and bland. now you will be tempted to spit the gum and replace
with a fresh one. so the real test starts now. You have to keep chewing
that gum for the rest of the day. no sweetness, no artificial flavors, no
juices, Just a piece of rubber in your mouth.
If you can do it successfully, then the gates of marriage are open and
also welcoming you in. Else, some relationships can become like a stale
chewing gum, and you have to get used to them, before you get into them.
Hope the above mentioned techniques, will help you in take this important
decision of life. These techniques are certified by ISO 2008 Indian Govt
Quality Process. Please note that the govt. officials were not bribed to
get this done!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Healthy Heart!!!
A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.
Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
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1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar
Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Ans: No
Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.
Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Ans: Yes
Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.
Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?
Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints
Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?
Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient
Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Ans: Extremely rare
Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?
Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.
Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ?
Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.
Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.
Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?
Ans: Yoga helps.
Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.
Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
Ans: All oils are bad .
Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?
Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.
Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.
Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?
Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.
Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.
Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, s edentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.
Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes.
Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?
Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child
Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.
Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short / long term)?
Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.
Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
Ans : No.
Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Ans : No.
Qn: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala dosas.
Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.
Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
Ans : No.
Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?
Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.
Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?
Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.
Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.
Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.
Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cholesterol, BP, weight.
Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?
Ans : No.
Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?
Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.
Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?
Ans : No.
Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.
Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ....
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Serious security flaw found in IE(courtesy:BBC)
Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.
READ THE FULL NEWS HERE....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm
Sunday, December 14, 2008
For God sake dont let this anger die
We are smart, impulsive, self-centered people .. What a way to describe ourselves .. but if we see the reaction to Mumbai terror and a series of sms and mails going around, we don't look like this .. we seem to be very responsible citizens, fighting every moment for our rights and committed for a change .. Critisizing every single person in the government & the system ..
After a few days - a new cricket series will change the priorities for the media, the newspapers will come out with half page luring and attractive advertisements for Christmas and New Year eve celebrations. When our children will get a winter break and we'll start exploring the best deals for Manali & Shimla and we'll be worried again for our performance in our respective offices ..
But what about the quintals of wax we burnt to show our solidarity, the disgust, the call for change, millions of sms of hatred against the political system which made the mobile companies a few crore richer or the series of endless chain mails of saluting jawans and throwing bricks on politicians and systems ..
And what about intellectuals who suggested boycott of polls and the system, as a solution to get rid of these dirty politicians & I salute these intellectuals; what a suggestion.. Dont fight- run away .. go and have a picnic but dont vote .. ESCAPE & since every single person you vote for does not deserve it.. Let s create a vacuum .. Let the country be governed by the people from their drawing rooms or coffee homes ..
I often feel why do we always need a disaster to wake up, that too for a few days? Why dont we understand that there are certain disasters, which remain with us, which have become a part of our life BUT we dont want to work on those since we are too comfortable in our cocoon ..
We would probably send a hate mail to anyone who said we are the most self-centered people on this earth. When we find our house full of mosquitoes we bring a good night, if that doesnt work we bring a spray, BUT when the municipality guy comes and fines us Rs.500/- for leaving some water in our cooler, in the name of breeding mosquito-do we ever question them on the drains maintained by them, with millions of mosquitoes & If you want water you buy a bottle or a cane, if you want in bulk you fix up an expensive RO system. Ironically the government sells its own
brand of packaged water .. Have we ever questioned why is the tap water not drinkable? The water bill doesnt say - bill for washing and bathing water so why should we pay separately for drinking water?
Good for us since we can afford all this .. I guess one of the reasons we the rich, the middle class dont fight all these things is because we have no moral right since we are the ones responsible for
many of these evils. How many poor people kill each other in over speeding cars? How many poor people have the confidence to jump red lights and break traffic rules since bribing a traffic cop Rs 100/- is the easy way out? How many poor people do you see standing in the middle of the road and throwing tantrums, blocking the traffic if another car make a small scratch on their vehicle and how many have motorbikes to overtake from the left at high speed??? For most of us showing concern about the country and its people means sending a chain mail of a well designed power-point, giving some ugly details or sending a series of smsand we the responsible citizens adhere to our responsibility by sending it further and &&. further.
poverty and you get a new national news- but what about millions of children dying or deserted in similar conditions?
How many of us are raising a voice against the callous and highly unprofessional attitude of most of the electronic media, where a 20 years old so called journalist with no background knowledge shows you the live commentary of Mumbai attacks with most important- first ever visuals of blood soaked faces of dead terrorists & mutilated bodies. I remember in my mass communication days there was a chapter on ethics in journalism and we often used to hate the preaching but to score marks we had to read .. and these days when most selections are based on ones acting abilities and voice quality instead of your journalistic knowledge, who thinks of ethics ? But, have we ever told the channel guys that well boycott your channel if you keep showing these dirty, misleading, dangerous and often fake stories ?
Why dont we put pressure on the authorities to cut the electricity to hundreds of offices and houses of big people for not paying their electricity bills for years.. When the same authorities fine us for a delay of two days.. Why dont we ask the municipality the reason behind breaking the same footpath or road ten times in a year and rebuilding & what about the police stations across the country where we feel scared, to go and file a report? Why are we not raising the issue of police reforms and forcing our police to pay attention to the safety and security of people rather than hounding trucks for the extra bribe money ..
Its time to get up, wake up & and change the way we do some things in our own lives. If you disagree with me on some points dont waste your energy in replying back or sending a chain mail .. work on the points you do agree on .. Its time to take a positive action. We cant spend time in criticizing the system, the bureaucracy, the administration and so on ...
We all know the realities and we also know that the people behind these failures are enjoying themselves. They know us well, they know how good we are in criticizing them from a distance. They also know that we are busy people, we are too involved in our personal lives, office etc. Top of all they know that we are impulsive and highly self centered people & If we are able to develop our own comfort zone, we will not confront with them for the life of others ..
I somehow see the biggest fault in ourselves, in the masses, in the so called middle/upper literate class .. We are not angry enough and even if we are, we dont express it at the right place ..
In every field we need reforms &. even if we forget about the theme of India as a developed nation or a shining vision of 2020 & first lets make it a normal nation where children stop dying due to lack of 100 grams of rice, where people are not forced to eat rats due to poverty, where a lady does not sell herself for 10/-, where countless people dont suffer due to lack of a piece of second hand cloth, where children dont have to walk 5 kms to school, with no notebook or
pencil. Where a women does not become a bonded labor for a saree, or a lady does not die due to non availability of a clean piece of cloth to use as a sanitary napkin, where a family get at least a few litre of drinking water a day or where we have the basic medical facility so that people stop suffering due to non availability of basic medicines like Crocin ..
And believe me there are good hopes and chances rather a surety that all this can be changed .. We all have a series of success stories to follow- we all know a number of people who have taken initiatives and have changed the lives of millions. We are also familiar and were there, standing with the families of Nitish Katara, Priyadarshini Mattoo and Jessica Lall. Many of you were writing, walking and protesting in the heat, lighting candles, putting pressures on the authorities and the system and we all saw the results .. It was our collective power that worked &
This is the time to do it all over again, the task is much bigger and the path is too long & this time our target is not a spoiled child of a politician or a senior officer or a few terrorists who take us for
ransom, this time we are talking about changing the system, the machinery, the way we all work and think.
And to start with, people like you and I need to start understanding our own power- the power to change. The value of our voice- the voice to scream on injustice, the responsibilities of a citizen- not just to live for self but to let people around also live ..
Its time to start using some of our unwritten fundamental rights-to get angry, to question, to raise a voice, to ask and match it with a fundamental duty: To ACT &.
With hopes & lot of confidence in us !!!
Friday, December 12, 2008
A Hard Slap!!! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!
me tell in this way..No Slap by any female ...Now ok?
So exactly what happened? Again a nice incident from Delhi Diary...
We are movie freak,movie lover,movie mania or you can say we love movie...we means?are yaar my friends ..You people can call us "Shaitoon ki tooli" yes but obvious at this time now everyone is setteled in their life and of course they are enjoying a lot.....Year of incident i don't remember but it was terrific friday of winter Season...A new release ..yup
very famous movie.."TITANIC"..if you people remembered the year of release than that is the year of incident.We used to go either PVR or PRIYA Multiplex..Both were very close to our location as well as we used to find good crowd over there...Especially Girls..Mind Blowing....
Then and Now..What the HELL?????
Anyway..So we went to PVR(SAKET) to watch the movie...first day first show..sometimes last show also...it was our passion or now i can say craziness...There was only three category of ticket 10rs,120rs,190rs...and very obvious we preferred to buy 10rs ticket..as we were student and there was no much difference in seats ..so we never wanted to waste money ...
But at that day we were little bit late and the queue was too long to queued..it would have been
waste if we queued up for the ticket..so we started searching the blackier to buy a ticket.
At one place we found some people were arguing about something.
We needed around 5-6 ticket...we went over there and one of our friend RajKumar jha asked them what is going on here?one of them replied that they have some extra ticket and this man...??? before he completes RajKumar told them we want some ticket can you give us those ticket.....and That's it....And that BullShit....A hard Slap on his face....we all were stunned...it was quite unexpected.....
Sometimes it is very wise to listen full sentences...The person who slapped him was a ploice man in civil dress and he is on vigil to stop black marketting....When one of them replied at that time we would have to listen what exactly he was trying to say...before that only RajKumar demanded for the ticket...and that policeman hold them because they were trying to sale those tickets......Now what?Of course not...yes.. yes we thought about this as he was in civil dress so we can do that if we had some extra guts.....do what? i mean we Started thinking to return back with better punches..But it didn't happened...we followed him for quite long time but we were not able to boost up our courage to do that......
Finally we returned back without seeing any movie....that was the Cool Friday ever i enjoyed...
Amit
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
She Called Me an "Agent".
No..No i don't want any explanation....why she called me agent...how she can call me an "agent"..Am i look like any agent? You are the culprit Boss...Definetly you would have told her ....No yaar not at all..why will i told her?No no definetly you are culprit..How mean she is??????
Listen Sonu...don't be panic..Its not like that..you are overconscious about this...jaane de na...aisa kuch nhai hai...
I never forget this incident..It happened around NOv-Dec of year 2001 i believe.I was in delhi living with my friends .I was there to prepare for IIT entrance exam..but apart from that i did all other things..We are around 6-7 friends living together...And Believe me we were there either for engineering or medical...But none of us was serious except Abhinav(Mithu)...he was very career oriented person..still he is..so at that time he was doing graduation from Delhi university.....But But But ..don't think that he was not doing masti or not involved in our deeds..graduation was just a side business as he was in the first year itsef..So no much pressure of study......
So the point is She needed a flat on rent..so she asked Abhinav about the possibilites in our surroundings...And of course like others how could abhinav say "NO"....So he asked Sonu one of our best friend and also he was living with us to find any flat in our locality.....
I don't remember the date but i went with abhinav to pickup her and her mother..We went RK PURAM to pick up and we have to come back "katwaariyasarai"...Sonu was waiting at the ground floor as we were living at the second floor....from there we went to see some flats in our locality suggested by sonu....As she is abhinav's friend everybody was trying to be decent ..Sonu was little bit excited to pay some more attention...And here the much awaited thing comes...
"Are you Agent"...She Asked Sonu.....No No..he is my friend abhinav Replied.....And believe me Look at the sonu's face.....Dammm.....Just Like Somebody gave him a hard slap.......
Actuallly the way sonu was explaining all about the flats..about the sourroundings..anybody could be confused...
After that we used to tease him calling agent.....But that was Awesome.....I never Forget this incident....
Amit
Secret face of the Sphinx revealed
The Sphinx, one of Egypt's most famous monuments and an icon of the world, may be much older than thought.
A television documentary will this week probe the secrets of the Sphinx which towers over the Giza Plateau.
A new survey by geologist Colin Reader has put forward a radical new theory that the Sphinx might have originally had an entirely different face.
He says rainwater erosion on the Sphinx's enclosure is consistent with it being created before the first pyramid.
Historical architect Dr Jonathan Foyle believes the monument may have once had a much larger face. Visual effects artists have created digital images of what the Sphinx could have looked like.
Egyptologists believe the Sphinx was built shortly after the first pyramid 4,500 years ago by the pharaoh Khafre.
The new theory will be revealed in a Channel Five documentary on Thursday December 11 at 8pm made by Atlantic Productions.
Courtesy: Mirror.Co.UK
In Search Of Peace
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Enough is Enough.....
Life is about correcting mistakes(A Short Story)
Hi guys....
I just want to share this story....Somewhere i read it and found very interesting and also influencing .....Just read this short story and definetely you will find something to think....
Rutali married Hitesh this day. At the end of the wedding party,
Rutali's mother gave her a newly opened bank saving passbook with Rs.1000 deposit amount.
Mother: 'Rutali, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your marriage life.
When there's something happy and memorable happened in your new life, put some money in.
Write down what it's about next to the line. The more memorable the event is, the more money you can put in.
I've done the first one for you today. Do the others with Hitesh.
When you look back after years, you can know how much happiness you've had.'
Rutali shared this with Hitesh when getting home.
They both thought it was a great idea and were anxious to know when the second deposit can be made.
This was what they did after certain time:
- 7 Feb: Rs.100, first birthday celebration for Hitesh after marriage
- 1 Mar: Rs.300, salary raise for Rutali
- 20 Mar: Rs.200, vacation trip to
- 15 Apr: Rs.2000, Rutali got pregnant
- 1 Jun: Rs.1000, Hitesh got promoted
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However, after years, they started fighting and arguing for trivial things. They didn't talk much.
They regretted that they had married the nastiest people in the world.... no more love...Kind of typical nowadays, huh?
One day Rutali talked to her Mother:
'Mom, we can't stand it anymore. We agree to divorce. I can't imagine how
I decided to marry this guy!!!'
Mother: 'Sure, girl, that's no big deal. Just do whatever you want if you really can't stand it. But before that, do one thing first.
Remember the saving passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take out all money and spend it first.
You shouldn't keep any record of such a poor marriage.'
Rutali thought it was true. So she went to the bank, waiting at the queue and planning to cancel the account.
While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record. She looked, and looked, and looked.
Then the memory of all the previous joy and happiness just came up her mind. Her eyes were then filled with tears. She left and went home.
When she was home, she handed the passbook to Hitesh, asked him to spend the money before getting divorce.
The next day, Hitesh gave the passbook back to Rutali. She found a new deposit of Rs.5000.
And a line next to the record: 'This is the day I notice how much I've loved you thru out all these years. How much happiness you've brought me.'
They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back to the safe.
Do you know how much money they had saved when they retired? I did not ask. I believe the money did not matter any more after they had gone thru all the good years in their life.
"When you fall, in any way,
Don't see the place where you fell, instead see the place from where you slipped.
Life is about correcting mistakes."
Amit