Archive for September, 2007

Warning: This is a rare personal post and is also a (rarer) medical post.
This started off as the long version of my response to a question that JMB had asked while commenting on this post, where I had wondered if there is a word which is the antonym of serendipity. Cathy was good enough [...]

Book Quiz.

Sunday afternoon.
Nothing to do after a great meal of biriyani washed down with Bacardi Breezers (I had the Blueberry, Jamaican Passion, Orange & Cranberry flavours).
My idle mind was saved from devilry by the promise of a quiz on books (or that is what I thought).

You’re Siddhartha!
by Hermann Hesse
You simply don’t know what to [...]

Photo Hunt - ‘Music’

About | Theme: Music | Roll

My daughter’s music school students put up a performance of Carnatic music for Pongal this year. 

This was her first time on stage in a proper musical performance. She is the youngest in the group.

The boy in the front row of the audience seems to be very bored [...]

Smart-ant-ness.

Four Ants are moving through a forest.
They see an elephant coming towards them.
Ant 1 says: We should  kill him.
Ant 2 says: No. Let’s just break his legs.
Ant 3 says: No. Why don’t we just throw him away from our path?
Ant 4 says: No. We will leave him because he is alone and we are four.