A short trip back in time

As a child, if there was something I never failed to read it was a book of quotes.

While picking up one to gift somebody, I made sure I gifted myself one too. Carried a maroon pocket diary with hundreds of them scribbled on it. My room, among posters of sports stars and George Michael (gush ... yeah that was before I found out I could not contend for his affections :-) always found space for yet another quotes poster.

I would always find something that I could totally relate to and, I confess, get inspired by.

Somewhere along these years, owe it to busy work hours or newer interests, I completely lost touch with the quotation world. Occasionally I crossed paths with ones featured in Reader's Digests which, in my opinion, kept growing more and more lame over the years (who wants to hear about what Paris Hilton said on Larry King!) . And about the seeming abundant reserves of quotes on the web, oh well they are sooooo repetitive and the ten thousand sections I need to browse to find one good one ... annoying.com. No time. No patience.

So today while deleting some files, I found some quotes which I must have saved earlier and completely forgotten about. Oh, the wave of nostalgia that hit me of how if I would sit and paint posters with my favorite quotes and put them up on walls or make some for my friends. And it made me wonder if it's just me or does everyone feel the same way about a good quote ... that strong, sometimes powerful, feeling of "WOW".

Here are some quotes from the file I was talking about , not quite the "wow" quotes but just enough to wet the palette :

* In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

* You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

* There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

And here is my all time favorite :

* Be brave. Even if you are not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

'Rain or shine, I'll take this'

"Did I just sleep through the summers and wake up in Dec?" I texted my jolly-natured landlord this morning after a crazy party weekend. I was still trying to get my bearings right. Is it still Aug? Was I reading the room thermostat correctly? What happened?! It was a nice and bright 80 F until one day before and whoaaaa ... it's freakin' 53 F today!

I walked down the stairs feeling like Rip Van Winkle to get the post and he greets me with a 'Merry Christmas' ! Thank god he didn't have his Santa costume on . I would have so fallen for it. Geeez.

So here I am in one of the supposedly hottest months of the year, under a warm throw sipping चाय and wondering if I should first delve into RVW's psyche or find out if the current weather condition is because of Hurricane Dean.

Or maybe it would be best to let RIP R.I.P. and let nature takes its own course while I go snooze some more. Rain or shine, I'll take this.

Forget about the Polls.

Little deeds of kindness...

It’s peak-time on an interstate with bumper to bumper traffic, everyone in a race against time wanting to reach their destinations before the clock strikes late. Suddenly you hear sirens wailing from behind and all cars dutifully move to the side of the road to let these emergency vehicles pass before the engines rev up again.

And while it may be the law that requires you to do so, it’s this basic goodness or call it a simple act of obedience that leaves me feeling warm and content knowing that I played my part in doing at least one good deed that day. I’ll never know but I might have just saved a life by sacrificing ten seconds of my time.

While there are countless such things people do in their everyday lives which, I’m positive, add value in one way or the other I find this the most touching. Almost makes me wish that every country had a law like this to make sure timely attention got to the needy.

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Don't vote.Yet.

So, I'm trying to figure out how to get the poll working. And it's damn annoying. Firstly it doesn't show all the optional answers that I keyed in and now it is not letting me edit anything. Not even delete.

So until I fix this thing, please do cast your precious votes. Will let you know once it's up and 'polling'.