A tweet that went too far

A little educated birdie opened his mouth and what a furor it created! And all this probably because majority of the fellow birds are graduates from places not known to many and for whom the tweet went way over their so called educated brain cells. And maybe all those who are graduates from the so called Mecca’s of education and who understood the tweet, have either lost their sense of humour or are just looking for a reason to get themselves and their flock at the forefront.

The educated birdie must be regretting having opened its beak and tweeted on a social forum. His little sense of humour was taken too far. But he is a newest amongst the Indian political flock and will take time to adjust to the ways of the flock.

Or for all you know maybe he found all the tamasha funny and will continue tweeting and giving us a regular dose of political tantrums and dramas!

Stay away you swine!

Swine! That word till now has been used by everyone to curse or abuse. Looks like a swine did take an offense to the frequent use of its name as an abuse and decided to give it back to us humans. So what we have? A flu...to be precise swine flu which has taken a number of lives in India and around the world till now and has infected and is still infecting people at an alarming rate. And for someone who lives in a city which is always laid back in its attitude to everything, seeing people all panicky and hyper is something new. Now everywhere you go in the city all you see is masked people. Not surprising considering the fact that the city leads when it comes to the number of infected cases of the flu in India and the number of casualties increasing with almost each passing hour now.

The panic and frenzy has reached a point where if someone sneezes or a coughs, everyone jumps and looks around suspiciously. Coughing and sneezing has almost become a crime now. But can't really blame anyone. No one wants to be that one more name added to the list of infected.

But amidst all the panicky people we as usual have our chilled out government babus. As usual their actions to tackle the virus have been delayed. And their buzzword is 'Don't Panic'. Wait till one member in the parliament gets infected and then we will see whether they panic or not!

And till then let's all hope that the swine does stay away from us.

The Eternal King of Pop!

I still remember those times when there weren't many television channels and channel V was more an English music channel. Every time a Michael Jackson song was playing we used to sit glued in front of the television set. His trademark moonwalk, his pelvic thrusts, his screams...all of it was a craze. And like his singing and dance moves, his music videos were also quite a rage. Be it Thriller or Billie Jean or Black or White. Each and every song and video was a cult in its own way. Any dance competition and there had to be an MJ act. Such was his following and such was his music.

And then came the time where we heard less and less about the King of Pop. Whatever we heard was not his iconic singing but about his turbulent and highly controversial personal life and his ever changing appearance.

Over the past few years, MJ kind of existed in oblivion. His name popped in news columns once in a while, but again for everything else than 'MJ the King of Pop'. Even his much publicised comeback tour did not really create the kind of frenzy, which so much used to be synonymous with an MJ tour.

Today, when he has left for heavenly abode, all we can say is that MJ you might not be present in person, your songs will always be with us. There was and never will be anyone like MJ. You surely were the King and will always remain the King of Pop!

Humouro'us' education

She zoned out for a few seconds and then she said this really funny statement. A while later I asked her, "Why did you zone out suddenly?"
"Oh I didn't really zone out I was just thinking which type of humour would fit this situation perfectly. I was thinking of which line I should say here. Just went back to my books you see!"
Yup that's what will happen soon. People will boost of XX degrees in humour and creativity. What with institutes now offering courses to teach people how to be humorous! Nope I am not kidding. I saw an ad of an educational institute for a course on creative writing which had humour as a syllabus subject. And to think we were of the opinion that humour and creativity were inborn!

I didn't really know whether I should be laughing at it or not. For me that line itself was humour. A course for humour and creative writing.

Of late, my belief that educational institutes and those teaching professional or niche subjects, are no more that money minting industries had been getting stronger. And then I saw that ad in the newspaper. Yes my belief is indeed reality!

Something different

Do something different I want;
but dunno what.
Options galore;
but none come to the fore.
O how can I find the one,
that will be the one;
and make me feel like the chosen one!