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The Curious Case of the Nimbu Lemon

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I have spent my childhood reading endless stories of Mr Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson , of how Ms. Agatha Christie solves the most baffling of mysteries so easily. They have always inspired me to solve if not murder than at least the small everyday mysteries that surround us. ( Wow I have already used the word Mystery a lot . But again I DIGRESS) So getting back on topic on what I am calling as ' The Curious Case of Nimbu Lemon ' It all began one fine day when I started seeing a lot of posts on ( where else but ) Facebook about a funny picture which you can see below. I felt very angry and amazed at all my friends who were making fun of this simple road side vendor who was clearly onto something which we all the EDUCATED LOT didnt and couldn't comprehend.  I tried to convey my feelings by convincing the people who were making fun of ( what I was convinced was ) the sheer genius ( although no one knew how it was genius ) of this Humble man from India....

Its a Macro world after All

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This is turning out to a Good week so far. In the past couple of months I have turned into somewhat of an Amateur-Wannabe Photographer. I just own a simple point and shoot, a CANON IXUS 105 which I carry around everywhere now a days. Now I follow the site called Gizmodo  religiously and they have these Photography contests every once in a while based on different themes. This time around their theme was Macro Photography , and I decided to send one of my pics as an entry. I didn't win of course being the complete noob I am (just look at the other entrees and the brilliant work they do in clicking those pictures, I can't even imagine to win anything there), but the good people at Gizmodo published the picture I had clicked on their site. Which is as good as the grand prize for me.  Thanks Guys :) .. Your motivation is motivating me to put on a DSLR soon on my Christmas Shopping List. Link to Contest . Link to My Entry THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

The WTF Moment !!!

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Good Morning my millions and millions of readers. (Atleast the 324 of you who read my blog yesterday) Its winter in Sydney as of now, and so being a True Indian I am sick and cold with a throbbing head and a leaky nose so had to bunk office for the day.  Came back home and was going through the Google Analytic data for my Blog and noticed that a lot of new traffic and visitors are arriving at my Blog through a site called  http://www.bindass.com .  Now since I had never heard of this site decided to investigate further. (Why the sleuthing you ask me.. Well there have been cases in the past where my blog posts have been posted as reference material for company info .... Weird considering how much I blabber and know about my own job ... But again.. I Digress) So on reaching this site, I realized that it belongs to a TV channel by UTV, and on digging in further reached this place.  http://www.bindass.com/blog/ Which ranks the Best Youth Blog...

Cold Lazy Guy...

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Yes it is cold and so I am tucked in my quilt and using my mouse to type this out using a Virtual Onscreen Keyboard, as it is uncomfortable to type when its this cold THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

Wassa/What doing ?

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So this is a common question which I get asked or I ask multiple times a day. What are you doing ? One of the most common responses I have received or that I provide is “ Nothing ”.  But how is that possible ? How can someone at any point in their existence be doing Nothing or in other words Not be doing Anything. Speaking in Biological terms ( which I don’t know any )  We are always either awake or sleeping ( or few other conditions like High, Unconscious etc etc, But you get my drift ).  We are always breathing. We are always metabolizing. We are always thinking. ( Although in my case I doubt this one ) So the next time when I or someone tells you that they are doing Nothing, well they are LYING . For the few pious souls out there who do not know what a lie is, Please refer to the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy . We usually provide this response in two completely contradictory scenarios: When we would like nothing better then to chat with the Qu...

At a movie theatre, which arm rest is yours ?

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Most of my blog posts are a direct result of Emails or IM conversations which I have with my best friend. I either copy the mails with lots of what I call Gyaan and what my friend calls NON-Sense or I take some small line from the Chat Conversations and turn them into full-fledged Gyaan. Today is another one of those days. This is a result of a Facebook Status Update which was: The Great Unanswered Question in Life 'At a movie theatre, which arm rest is yours?' Now what I am writing here is an elaborated version of what I commented on Facebook. Assumption : The theatre is full and there are no empty seats available. I will be addressing the person who has gone to see the movie as what else but PERSON. Scenario 1 : Person goes to the movie theatre alone.  So there would be two unknown people sitting beside Person, with whom Person is not acquainted with and has never met them before. Solution : With some luck or some fast movements in this situation Perso...

Irony

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