"Whoever says money can't buy happiness , doesn't know where to go shopping"- read the 'about me' section of the Orkut profile of a friend.
The weekend was spent fiddling with the newly bought Sony Ericsson Cybershot. My dad and bro had gone to buy it, so I wasn't exactly aware of the features it was imparted with.
Zoom is an obvious feature and I used it for the first time, to get the snap of my pet crow.

Any doubts , as to how I get to identify my crow among many, should be ummediately scrapped off.

One of the unique feature available is 'Smile detector'(okay, its a year old technology)
This is the first smile it detected.

Since I decided to declare myself jobless on the Sunday afternoon and devote all my time to the newly added member of our family, thus followed some silly observations.
After a few pathetic search results, Google did deliver some read-worthy stuffs.

1)Smiles may involve up to 7 different pairs of facial muscles.
2)Its mainly the Zygomatic Major which plays the major role in one's smile.
3)The main role in a smile detector is played by the dataset. A huge number of smiling images under different conditions such as variable age, outdoor or indoor etc are loaded in the chips. The system just compares and clicks !
4)But the fallacy with this system lies in the fact that it takes white (or yellow) teeth as the only parameter of smile( thats what my practical handlings have revealed) . So no matter whether you smile or show out your teeth in disgust, with your eyebrows up raised , you will have your photo clicked.

Remember that Parle orange cream ad ? where a lady waits in a queue , and behind her is another young lady with her kid who has this biscuit packet in his hand. The old lady takes out the biscuits , eats off the cream in between and returns back the cream-less biscuits to the kid, and the kid starts crying !
Many a times, I've told myself , that since you've grown up , you must learn to eat a cream biscuit properly, and not like a two year old, who licks off the cream first and then dips the robbed biscuits into milk.
But, as the say, old habits die hard.

Now , when a public figure , makes some promise, however stupid it may sound, in full media glare , one must take that seriously, else lose some easy route to fortune. So months back, Ram Gopal Verma made a movie Phoonk , on some obscure subject and challenged the masses that whoever could watch it alone in a theatre , would win 5 lakhs for oneself. So while people were busy cracking jokes about the movie, one man in Bangalore booked a whole 247 seater and watched the movie alone and (must have) won 5 lakhs for himself !
Assuming each ticket cost atmost 250 bucks,
and number of seats 247 (given),
the total investment was 247 *250 =61750
and the output was 5,00,000
Therefore, total gain=5,00,000-61,750= 438,250 !

The other day, the back window of a car, before my bus , had these words written :
'Have you been tagged recently?'
Everybody talks in blog lingo, it seems !

This tag is courtsey Amrita

1.What have you realised recently?
that i've many tags pending and they are the only way to keep the blog going


2.Have you given your first kiss away?
yes, to my billi s


3. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 11 blog buddies you would take?
I'll go by Rikki Tikki Tavi's moto of "Run out and find out"

4.Where is the place you want to go the most?
English countryside

5.If you have one dream to come true,what would it be?
I once dreamt my maid is cooking some edible finger licking stuff

6.Do you believe in seeing the rainbow after the rain?
whats there in believing? its not "raat ke hi baad hi to savera hota hai" or "good after evil" kind of phenomenon

7.What are you afraid of losing the most now?
on non materialistic front, lots of things

otherwise, everyday i'm afraid of losing impotant papers, my library cards as my maid sweeps away anything that lies on floor without even having the final nod from me

8.If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Puja is coming, so shopping is not a bad option

9.If you met someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
This sentence is grammatically incorrect


10.List out 3 good points about the person who tagged you?
she tagged me
thus gave an option to update the blog
which made me happy


11.What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Wat exactly is the aim of this tag? a guide for the potential boyfriend?

12.What type of people do you hate the most?
umm...people who make me wait n wait

13.What is the one thing you can't live without?
Orkut asks for 5 ...this tag is smarter!

14. If you have faults, would you rather the people around you point out to you or would you rather they keep quiet?
Do as you wish !

15. Amrita's tag shows that this qwestun is missing. What do I do?
Thank God ! 1 question less

16.Are you a shopaholic or not?
not much


17.Find a word to describe the person who tagged you
nice :)

18.If you have a chance, which part of your character you would like to change?
low confidence at times

19.What’s the last shocking thing you've seen or heard?
my billi climbed up the coconut tree to fight with a crow ---believe it or not!

20.Would you rather have love but no money or money but no love?
Yawwn... yay ! the tag is done !

Anybody needs this tag? Take it up .

I’ve been deferring this tag for long, which Matangi tagged me ages ago ,having an illusion in my mind that I’m busy , but since I’ve to write something before this blog goes in to Google’s list of unwritten , unread blogs, I hereby thank her for her 2^nd consecutive tag to me !

This tag asks the concerned person to write 6 quirks about herself.

So here it goes :

1. Whatever exam it is, no matter how easy or tough the paper is, I usually never leave the examination hall before the final bell has rung.

2. I have this habit of feeling bad for anybody and everybody, even if I’m in an equally pitiable condition.

3.Fears: (i) My mobile will be snatched off while on road.

(ii)I’ll fall down while crossing road.

(iii) I’ll fall off the auto front seat due to some counter-centrifugal force while the auto takes a turn.

4. I have more than 2 dozen pairs of shoes which I seldom wear and lots of ear rings which I have bought as a child collects sea shells on the sea shore and later forgets about them.

5. I have a bathroom of my own in the house and that has made up all my pains of having to share my room with my brother. A private loo gives you more me-space, I tell you.

6. My handwriting is still to reach a stable state and still keeps on changing. Somebody had told me it’s a sign of a creative mind (!!) and I find it hard to write with a pen without the cap stuck at its top.

These are the few which could be written on a public forum, and dear reader, I know these are no quirks y worldly standards, so pick up the pen , and do the tag.

On the tagging part, I tag,

Amrita, ad libber, Raka, Tyro, and anybody who wishes to pick it up.