Instant Justice like Instant Noodles!

Its old news but quite interesting and hence am reproducing it here -

Instant justice for using foul language


Applying the principle of instant justice, Sharjah Police made a woman passenger beat a taxi driver in the streets in public for using vulgar language when she told the driver to drive safely.

This is surely something we can emulate. Especially considering the rude responses one get when one asks a cab driver or an autorickshaw driver to drive sanely.

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My First Wedding Anniversary!

Need I say more? :)

Keanu Reeves to be Shri Ram

Yes, Keanu Reeves for Ram, Salma Hayek for Sita and either Sylvester Stallone or Kevin Costner for demon king Ravana! So how would you like that? If you think I have gone bonkers read this report in the ToI.

With a little imagination and a few deft photoshop strokes, this is what it would possibly look like if the film becomes a reality.



Would they be able to recreate the same magic as Arun Govil & Deepika Chikalia? Well, that's for time to tell.

Are There More Cho’s To Come?

If some reports of the world press are to be believed psych drugs could be the reason behind Cho’s mindless killing in Virginia Tech. Shocking but it could be true.

Are meds to blame for Cho's rampage?
Experts say psychiatric drugs linked to long list of school shooting sprees

What is more shocking is that increasingly school children in US are being given psychiatric drugs. Why? Did you know - that the schools receive $400 for each child that is diagnosed as ADHD???

Whats ADHD or Attention Deficit Disorder? - In 1980, the so-called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which amounts to little more than a list of behaviors, was voted into existence as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association, so it could be included in the psychiatric billing Bible known as the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, DSM.

In 1987, an H was added to the label and the illness became, "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." Within one year, 500,000 children in the US were diagnosed with this cash-cow disorder.

On February 10, 2006, the Drug Safety and Risk Management advisory committee said that ADHD drugs should carry the strongest warning label that they may be linked to an increased risk of death and injury.

Here is a first hand account from Linda Danek -

However, here is something interesting. Did you know that the schools receive $400 for each child that is diagnosed as ADHD??? I will post the article shortly.

This really hits home to me personally. I experienced this crap when my son was in junior high. The school thought he was attention deficit and needed an evaluation. So off to the psychologist we go. Ten minute councel with both his father and I (we are divorced) and of course the diagnosis is that he is. Then off to the Psychiatrist so he can prescribe Ritalin.

My son was thrilled as he now was on drugs like most of his friends. His father thought great, insurance covered it and we won't have to deal with anything. Problem solved. I thought, "Something just doesn't seem right." However, I went along with their program for awhile.

To make a long story short, something inside of me bothered me about this whole situation. I went to every session with my son and the Psychiatrist for the little visits for the "med check."

One day, something clicked inside of me and I called the doctors office and I told them I would be over immediately for the transcripts of our visits. I told them it was an emergency.

How interesting it was that the transcripts of our visits were not of what actually took place in our sessions. The whole thing repulsed me. I slowly weaned him off this medication.

In the end, what I want to say from my own experience is that our son road the roller coaster of a divorce and break up. Of both a mother and father focusing on making a living instead of making a life. Our son was like a little bobber on a turbulent sea.

It is interesting how at one time he scored as a genius on school tests and then later was diagnosed as ADHD with a learning disorder.

This is my personal story. Thank you for listening. Below is the article that I would like for you to read.

Sincerely,
Linda,
WI USA

And just to reiterate, the point to be highlighted during recent killing in NASA is - He was unmarried, had no children and apparently lived alone. Another case of induced ADHD?

Take A Break - Indian Cricket Team style!

This time let numbers do the talking. Take a look here on the extraa in(come)nings of our star cricket players -

M.S Dhoni - 8 Crores!
Days spent in Advertising: 75 days
No of Brands - 15 [Reebok, Reliance Comm, TVS, GE Money, Siyarams, Brylcreem, Titan Sonata, Exide, Castrol, Pepsi, Seagram etc]

Rahul Dravid - 13 crores
Days spent in Advertising: 60 days
No of Brands - 12 [ Bank of Baroda, Max New York, Hutch, Britannia, Pepsi, Reebok, Citizen etc]

Virender Sehwag - 5 Crores
Days spent in Advertising: 40 days
No of Brands - 8 [ Adidas, Pepsi, Boost, Hero Honda, Sahara, Britannia]

Yuvraj Singh - 8 Crore
Days spent in Advertising: 40 days
No of Brands - 8 [Microsoft, Pepsi, Seagram, SBI Cards, Reebok, Marico, Trent etc]

Sourav Ganguly - 5 crores
Days spent in Advertising: 35 days
No of Brands - 7 [TCL, Hero Honda, Tata Indicom, Sahara, Puma etc]

Dinesh Karthik - 40 Lakhs
Days spent in Advertising: 5 days
No of Brands - 1 [Nike]

And brace yourselves for the heartstopper of them all:

Sachin Tendulkar - Whopping 40-45 crores
Days spent in Advertising: 70 days
No of Brands - 14 [Pepsi, Cannon, MRF, Adidas, Pantaloons, Sunfeast etc]

So they have all the time in the world to endorse and make money but have nothing but lame excuses when it comes to performing for the country. Remember folks this money is apart from the hefty retainer fee from BCCI and per-match fee's they get.

Why Should India Be "Grateful" to Sachin Tendulkar?

CNN IBN runs an article - 'India ungrateful to Tendulkar'. Pray, tell me why in the name of the good Lord should India be grateful?

He sure has played some good cricket and he has received loads of accolades as well as compensation for the same. He is treated nothing less than a demi god in this part of the world. So if he has given his all to cricket, so has cricket given him everything be it fame or money. So where does the question of being grateful arise?

Sachin does not even bother to play domestic cricket. He has the audacity to ask for a tax waiver for his Ferrari!. And our government hands it to him in a silver platter and makes a proud statement of it to the media too!.

Wow, it surely pays to be a cricket star in India!

This SMS received on the eve of India's shameful exit from the World Cup surmises everything that needs to be said -

Arjun: Mama see baba is on TV
Anjali: Yeah
Arjun: He is hitting many sixes.
Anjali: Must be an Ad beta...


[Statistics source: India Today]

Sales Yoga!

Surely no one these days need to be 'educated' on Yoga. Another 'export' from the east to the western world that has gone on to being one of the most popular activity today.

The practice of yoga helps improve health, mental peace, emotional strength and intellectual clarity. And there are different types of Yoga's that has been spawned to cater to all kinds of audience - Power Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga etc. and one also has a choice of branded Yoga's - Iyengar Yoga based on teachings by B.K.S Iyengar ; Bikram Yoga or "Hot Yoga"

So here comes another "Sales Yoga". Now, why not?

Salespeople need to be creative, resourceful, aggressive, brave, and more importantly enthusiastic. They need to really fight every sale before it translates to income for them. Sales is about pushing oneself against the odds and making the customer feel victorious! A lot depends on how to ask the right questions, listen, analyse, strategize, integrate and believe. And what can be a better training ground than a Yoga that free's the mind and reinvigorates one to face the world.

Now if some Yoga guru does come up with something like this, you surely know where you heard it first! Right?

The "Andaa Tamaatar Jury" & "Purple Nuts Awards"

Since time immemorial we have been aping the west shamelessly, I think there is nothing wrong in taking a cue from them once again. Having been subjected to horrible movies time and again, its about time we have an Indian version of the Razzie awards and honor these film makers with something similar to "The Golden Raspberry Awards".

My suggestion would be to start the "Andaa Tamaatar Film Review Jury" and give away "Purple Nuts" award, earnestly with pomp & show to the worst film-makers!


Hopefully that might teach them to give a little credit to audience's intelligence.