Cake, Santa And Animal Rights

Merry Christmas, folks!

Here's a little treat for you:

A Christmas Cake!

Thanks to my sister's photography, it hardly looks like a cake. She took the photo from the displayed cakes of a bakery at our place. Yes, that's right. We didn't buy that cake and we never do.
Every year for Christmas, mom's best friend Rose auntie buys us a cake :)
But now she retired from work, has terrible leg pain and she hardly goes out for shopping. So I get the honour of choosing her cake for our family (and she later pays for it)
Today, after class I went to my fav bakery and ordered a cake. They packed it before I could see the icing. But that wasn't an issue. I could go home, look at the cake as long as I wish to, and even upload a photo of it in the blog.
I reached home, took a bath and with much expectations came to the dining room to admire the beauty of the cake I bought today. What I found was just one slice of cake they left for me :(
I fumed with rage and shouted at everyone at home. Protested to have the piece of cake they left for me.
Yes... I know it was a foolish thing to do, and realized the mistake within seconds... But expectations can be devastating and they can make us do the most stupid thing! :/

One moment I was thinking about the cake I'll never eat because of my unwanted pride. The next moment I found myself trying hard to remember some Xmas carols I learned at school. Then again, the thought was about Santa's reindeers.
Did you know that Santa's reindeers had names? Of course I did and know it by heart too ;)

The association of Santa Claus and reindeers were popularised with 2 songs.
The first one is the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" where Santa is said to have 8 reindeers. Their names are given below. There may be slight variations in spelling, but this is what I learned at school:

The other is a carol "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" where Santa is said to have a single reindeer. The legend goes like this: Rudolph, was different from all others in that he had a red nose. All the others made fun of him and isolated him (Great people are different from others; applicable to reindeers too).One Xmas eve Santa came and asked him if he could ride Santa's sleigh. From that day on everyone started respecting Rudolph!
I'm glad that he finally got accepted! :)

Santa may be a great man. He comes every Christmas and spreading love and joy, rewarding good kids with gifts. But looking from another perspective he can be a very bad man himself. Santa rides around the world in a sleigh PULLED BY REINDEERS! Isn't that something cruel, considering his reputation? It's obvious from the available photographs on Google, that he is an obese person. Just imagine, 8 reindeers (or even worse, just one poor little reindeer Rudolph) carrying his 150+ Kg body and the infinite number of gifts he carries around! Man, that's pathetic :(
Where's maneka Gandhi? Where's PETA? Where are the other Animal-Welfare organizations? :P

Let's hope that these poor creatures get justice by next Christmas. :P

Okay.

So how was 21-12-12? Yes, I know... I'm alive too! :/
That day, a friend's tweet read:

Look at the sky for God's LAST MESSAGE.

and a photo attached to it. Loved that photo; it brought back so many sweet memories of childhood.I'm ending this post with the same photo............

The Post From A Pedagophobic

Google says I'm suffering from PEDAGOPHOBIA, which is the fear of teachers. That's the only fear I've ever had.
But that wouldn't stop me from publishing this post :P


Here is a collection of some funny dialogues by teachers. They are not just made-up jokes. They actually happened! 

• Tomorrow will submit your assignments.

  
  
• Another dialogue by the same teacher

  Tomorrow will complete your notebooks.

  Whoever this guy/gal Tomorrow is, (s)he sure is a hard-working, selfless person and obviously the teacher's pet!
• Whenever she doesn't know the answer to the doubt we ask, this teacher says

   You needn't think so much!

• Teacher was drawing a diagram on the board.Our class topper interrupted

  Student: Ma'am, this figure is different from that given in our prescribed textbooks...
  Teacher: Don't look at that figure. Look at my figure.

  Did I mention she had a perfect figure?...like a beer barrel

• Tomorrow I will be conducting a surprise test for you on the topic Photosynthesis.

  Whoa! It sure did surprise us and we loved it! Expecting more 'surprises'...
• One of my project-group mate was running errands and bringing us connection wires, IC etc. for the purpose of project

  Teacher to her: So, you're carrying, aren't you?

  This girl stood there dumbstruck for a moment.

  Student: Ma'am... But......
  Teacher: I see you're carrying every components and supplying it to your group.

  So that's what you meant by "you're carrying". Gross! And FYI... This girl is not pregnant!
• I've received this dialogue in a funny sms some time back, but never believed any teacher would say like that. One teacher actually did!
  Teacher shouts to the student who littered through the class window:

  Put is put. No more put.

  Hard to explain... no words...
  
• Instead of asking "Did you understand?" or "Have you understood?" this teacher always asks

  Are you understood?

  No sir, I'm Anagha :P
• The same teacher has another problem.
  He explained the topic. But a girl student named Anna looked confused.

  Hello Mr Anna, are you understood?

  At first I thought he was kidding, but no, he was damn serious!
• There was this Mathematics teacher who covered up almost entire part of the blackboard while writing on it. Her writings and drawings were hardly recognizable and while explaining, she mostly used "this" or "that" instead of unknown variables (e.g. a, x), names of line segments or polynomials (e.g. AB, PQRS). So we hardly understood what she was talking about.
  One day, she was explaining some theorem that she scribbled on the board. As usual, we couldn't understand or at least see what's she's talking about.
  Teacher was pointing to something she scribbled on the board trying to explain how the theorem was proved by her.

  Teacher: THIS plus THIS is equal to THIS. Also, THIS plus THIS is equal to THIS. So... obviously, THIS plus THIS is equal to......?

  and she turned to us to get an answer. Everyone were minding their own business. I had a sudden whim to reply to this

  Me (pointing vaguely in the direction of the blackboard): ...THIS
  Teacher: Yes, THAT'S IT Anagha!!!

  Oh... THIS is sooo stupid... God bless her soul.

Paris Hilton was always the perfect choice for bashers ;)

Here are some evergreen dialogues by teachers......

• Silence!!! Is this a class or a fish market?
• If you want to talk you can go outside and talk.
• Tell me when all of you have finished talking. Only after that I'm continuing with the class.
  Finished???
• If you are not interested to listen, you can get out. I won't force you to sit here.
• If you don't like to study, then why do you come to school?
• Is this what your parents send you to school for?
  Are you here to waste your parents' money?
• Do you think teachers are fools?
• Don't try to act over smart.
• You, yes, you! I'm talking to you only. Don't look back.
  Do I have squint-eyes?
• Why didn't you do the homework? What did you do the whole day?
• I can't hear you.
  Didn't you have breakfast today?
• (When the teacher makes a mistake and the students identify it)
  I was just testing whether you guys are actually listening to the class. Good!
• When you're talking in class, you talk very loudly.
  When I ask a question, where does all this volume go?
• You always forget to take books to class. Why don't you ever forget to eat or sleep?
• This is the worst batch I've seen in my teaching career.

Serendipity: A vid that was once my fav

YouTube is a wonder, I’d say! Many a times, simple browsing through the videos has led me to some wonderful discoveries. May be an amazing unbelievable video, or may be a beautiful song/dance, or maybe some new interesting bits of information.

Once I’ve seen a video in which our newly-wed class tutor and her hubby enacted a famous Malayalam film song! It was really weird and embarrassing! :o

Good for her that she resigned from the college before we discovered this video.

(Well... the video is no longer available. Probably they both took it down after reading all our comments. But I should agree that her acting skills are excellent, unlike her teaching skills)

One of my all time favourite songs, WHERE YOU ARE by RIE SINCLAIR, from one of my favourite TV series, GENERAL HOSPITAL, was also serendipity. Watched a video, then watched another video in the suggestions by YouTube, then it connected to another video and so on and finally happened to watch this particular episode, got so addicted to the song played in the background and that’s how I collected all the words I could pick up from it and googled them. Since then, not a day in my life has passed without listening to WHERE YOU ARE. Currently I’ve got all episodes of GENERAL HOSPITAL. And I’ve become a die-hard fan of Rie Sinclair!

Something happened last day in YouTube. I was wasting my time idly browsing through YouTube videos when I finally reached a mind-blowing Tango performance by Rachel Stevens and Vincent Argentine. The lady looked very familiar. I visited her YouTube channel and watched one of her videos. Instantly a smile blossomed on my face and I drifted back to the good old times...

She was a member of the former British teen-pop band S Club 7 whose TV series was broadcast in Nickelodeon India more than a decade back. Yes, it was one of my favourite shows  and the ones that introduced me to the world of Music Bands and TV Series :) :) :)

Tina, Jon, Paul, Hannah, Bradley, Rachel and Jo - Oh! How I loved watching those seven youngsters dance and sing and have all the fun together... I used to try dancing along with them (Once, while dancing to S Club Party, I even accidentally hit the glass on the table, cracking it into pieces! From that day onwards dancing was almost banned at home :P)

This TV series featured the band as an aspiring group living in Florida. During every episode they’d play one song of the band. It was a fun series... :)

Often I’d fancy having a boyfriend who looks like Jon 3:)

 Jo was the best singer, Tina’s dance was great and Hannah was very cute.

But my personal favourite was Rachel as she seemed extremely cute and pretty, there was something special and unique in her dance moves and I loved the way she shakes her hips and "do her thing" ;)

Though I don’t remember much about the story and other characters, a professor who showers saliva fountain while speaking is still vivid in my memory :D

Guess it was one of the best kids’ programs in Nickelodeon at that time.

You know, I felt so lucky and really very happy to be the kid of '90s who grew up watching and enjoying S Club 7; something that the new generation kids cannot claim!

Missing those times when I used to rush home after school, not wanting to miss even the title song of S Club 7! Wish I could relive those moments......sigh!

Thank you guys - Tina, Jon, Paul, Hannah, Bradley, Rachel and Jo - for making my childhood very special... and thank you YouTube, for helping me rediscover my childhood! <3 <3 <3

The gorgeous lady at the bottom right corner is my fav Rachel <3

“There ain’t no party like an S Club party” B)

Well, do you have any such special songs/series/films that take you back to some treasured moments? What are they? Care to share...... :)

കോഴിക്കോടന്‍ ഭാഷ...... :D

ഇതൊന്നും പഠിക്കാതെ ഒരൊറ്റൊരെണ്ണം കോഴിക്കോടു കാലുകുത്തിപ്പോകരുത്!

:P

Show Some Love

Think about the last time you read about something good. It will be difficult, as the world is going through some dark times and rarely do we hear hopeful news.

Yesterday I happened to go through a short but sweet article. Haven't read anything like this in years!

The writing given below is about something that has actually happened.

They say humans are growing selfish, narrow-minded, moral values are degrading and the world is becoming a horrible place. Believe me, this article is going to restore your faith in humanity:

My little sister came home from school one day and demanded I take her to the library so she could get books on sign language.

I asked her why? She told me there was a new kid at school who was deaf and she wanted to befriend him. 

Today I stood beside her at their wedding, watching her sign "I do".

 If one of us dare to go out of our way to show compassion to our fellow living beings, that could trigger many other people; similar to a chain reaction. Let us perform some random acts of kindness every day. Make the world a better place to live in. 

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

-William Wordsworth

The Versatile Blogger

Hello......!!!

I was out of touch of blogging for a while. Final year of college was totally different from the previous 3 years. So fast, so busy, so hectic. Also, many good things happened and now I have a handful of good memories about college life. All thanks to my 4 friends. College life was a book of regrets, if you had asked me last year. But now, my regrets are down to one... not being close to them earlier. That would have solved most of my problems.

Well... It's no use crying over spilled milk.

About 4 months back, I had received a so-called blog award. It is more like an honour. Thank you Devan, for choosing this blog for the honour of The Versatile Blogger Award. His blog can be accessed here: eurEKA, devan expresses...!

It seems there are a few rules and conditions for the acceptance of this award, which are:

1.Paste this award on your blog.

2. Thank the person who gave you this award.

3. Pass this award to 15 fellow bloggers. 

4. Share 7 random facts about yourself.

Choosing 15 fellow bloggers was a tough task. Actually, I don't know much blogs. Here's a random list of blogs I selected for passing on this award:

1. an accidental Engineer..

2. മായാലോകം

3. The PsyKiK Writer

 4. ബഷീറിയന്‍ നുറുങ്ങുകള്‍

5. ജീവിതത്തില്‍ നിന്ന്

6. വളപ്പൊട്ടുകള്‍

These are the seven Random Facts about me:

1. Can't stand spelling, pronunciation and grammar mistakes.

2. Hate it when people throw away wastes (even chocolate wrappers) carelessly or spit on the road.

3. Use a lot of punctuations and smiley while typing.

4. Can sleep early, but can't get up early :P

5. Extreme fan of Julia Roberts, Sushmita Sen, Nana Patekar (I was never able to see or contact them), Padma Subramaniam, Divya Dutta, Nandita Das, Rie Sinclair, Madhuri Dixit, Surya Dinkar and so on (forgetting the fact that the latter had to block me in Facebook, I've contacted or at least seen once all these 6 people)

6. Love TV series like FRIENDS, House MD, Avatar-The Last Air Bender, Vampire Diaries, I Dream Of Jeannie, General Hospital etc.

7. Really really hate this name of my blog, cRAZY THOUGHTS oF aNU. Will change it soon :) 

Congratulations to you guys... Pass it on...... :)

A Tribute To Shreya Ghoshal

 

Translation:

This Bengali lass, who came into our lives yesterday,

is the new Voice and Face of Kerala!

Hats off to you, sister!!!

Oh! BTW, I had tweeted Shreya Ghoshal this photo. She replied with a thanks and I got more than 50 retweets for that :)

The Oprah Mahal

MY LIFE HAS BEEN A TAJ MAHAL.

-OPRAH WINFREY

What does that even mean??? Well… Here are some possible guesses of what’s in her mind…

Would you dare to spot out  the differences???

1. She was born in 1631 (Ooh! She must be older than the oldest living turtle!)
2. After Oprah’s birth, the fingers of the doctors and nurses were chopped so that they would not deliver another master piece like her.
3. Her dad created her in loving memory of his 3^rd wife.
4. Around 20,000 people worked on her.
5. 1000s of elephants were employed to transport materials required to construct her (Well... at least she doesn't look so heavy)
6. She appears in different colours during different times of the day (Hmm... That explains 'the changing moods of women' stuff)
7. She is a mausoleum.
8. Some important studies reveal that she is sinking.
9. She attracts about 2-4 million visitors annually with over 200,000 from overseas.
10. She costs around 100 million American dollars (That may be true)
11. She is one of the wonders of the world (I should agree to that!)
12. The pollution is turning her skin yellow, which was originally white.
13. Acid rain deteriorates her.
14. The legendary musician A R Rahman has composed an Oprah Anthem, supposedly to make people aware of the importance of saving the great OW.

There are so much more possibilities to think of, as long as she doesn't cares to explain what she actually had in her mind!

Anyway, I'm happy that Oprah Winfrey at least cared to visit India. (And this, most probably, is going to be her last visit too!)