Musings and Dreams...

Neutralizing Infidelity??

2007-12-13T02:44:00.000-08:00

Feeling guilty about cheating on your partner?? Now you can offset your infidelity by paying another person a nominal amount for staying single or faithful to their partner.

Sounds weird?? But then truth is stranger than fiction.

A Web site cheatneutral.com offers its members a chance to neutralize cheating by funding monogamy. So if you find it difficult to be faithful to your partner, you just pay another person to remain single or faithful. Single or monogamous people can just sign up for free and get paid for offsetting other people’s infidelity by promising to remain single or loyal to their partners until they have neutralized their promoter’s cheating. (If anyone does sign up, do share the story.)

I am still trying to figure out if this is meant to promote fidelity (as they claim) or to promote infidelity. I mean, if you could actually offset your wrongs by paying someone else a nominal amount to be good.. Wouldn’t you just go on being in the wrong (especially if its fun)?

Well, morality issues aside, this definitely does put a classic twist on the phrase Crime pays.

Note: Cheatneutral.com is actually a joke on the Carbon-offsetting industry.

Flyaway Phone

2007-11-23T13:48:00.000-08:00

I first met Atul outside a small bakery shop near my house.

As he waved to me, his phone apparently decided to wing it... and so it somersaulted a few times in the air, before neatly bouncing off the lid of the bin and landing behind it.

If a guy comes up with such umm.. different ways to get your attention.. you just can't say no to him.. can you??

2007-07-30T21:27:00.000-07:00

Two Little Raindrops

Two little raindrops were born in a shower,

And one was so pompously proud of his power,

He got in his head an extravagant notion

He'd hustle right off and swallow the ocean.

A blade of grass that grew by the brook called for a drink,

But no notice he took of such trifling things.

He must hurry to be Not a mere raindrop, But the whole sea.

A stranded ship needed water to float,

But he could not bother to help a boat.

He leaped in the sea with a puff and a blare--

And nobody even knew he was there!

But the other drop as along it went

Found the work to do for which it was sent..

It refreshed the lily that drooped its head,

And bathed the grass that was almost dead.

It got under the ships and helped them along,

And all the while sang a cheerful song.

It worked every step of the way it went,

Bringing joy to others, to itself content.

At last it came to its journey's end,

And welcomed the sea as an old-time friend."

An ocean," it said, "there could not be

Except for the millions of drops like me.

- By Joseph Morris

2007-06-27T22:01:00.000-07:00

DREAMS

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

- Hughes Langston

2007-06-17T22:08:00.000-07:00

Of Traffic Lights and (Delhi) Policemen...

On his way to office one morning, while my friend waited at a red light.. a car decided to give the red light a miss and even when the traffic inspector tried to stop it.. it didnt stop. Apparently the driver was in too much of a hurry and didn't notice the traffic policeman. Anyways.. this traffic inspector jumped on my friend's bike and asked him to give chase which he did.. and so ended up crossing a few red-lights himself.. They did manage to catch up with the car and its driver had to pay a heavy fine too.. after which the inspector turns to my friend and says "Beta, bike bahut tez chalate ho.. dheere chalaya karo aur dhyan se chalaya karo" (English translation: "Son, you drive your bike very fast, you should drive slowly and carefully.")

I am guessing my friend was lucky that he didn't himself get fined for jumping those red-lights while chasing the car... though apparently just that would have happened had he not refused to give chase by crossing that first red-light...