“Hel”mets are much useful when the Hell meets you.
Its “Pis”tol because you might pee when someone challenges you with it.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. ie: its only necessity that drives friendship & nothing else.
Seeing a glass of water as “half-full” or “half-empty” is unimportant. “Will the water be enough to quench my thirst?”, should be the point of concern. - #
Your partner is a virus. Adolescence is the vector. Love is a symptom. Marriage is the disease. Divorce is a temporary relief & not a remedy. Children is the immunity. Dependents is the suffering. Relatives is endemic. Life is the Treatment with mere pain killers. Death is the ultimate medicine.
You have a music enabled mobile phone & you are on a long train/bus journey. You love to hear music on the go. But you rather, power-off the phone & slip it in your bag.
You do this because, you know that the battery will drain & you’ll end up with no connectivity, once you reach the destination.
Airplane mode in your mobile can come to rescue. This mode turns off all the radio-communications & keeps the other phones features such as mediaplayer, camera, memos, etc active. Enabling the Airplane mode will make your phone radio-silent & makes it to save significant battery power by not constantly tracking the cell towers that come in your way. So an Airplane mode helps even your train/bus journey.
Don’t want people to disturb you? Don’t switch off your phone. Airplane mode is handy. When you don’t want to disturb others, kick in the Silent mode.
Ok. Now enjoy a few extra hours of music & dream about flying in air.
Update #0: Airplane Mode is available in most of the mobile phones. For instance, my Motorola E398 has it in MainMenu > Settings > AirplaneMode
Like Aparna notes, Ambulances gets held-up in the traffic & fails to serve the emergency scenarios.
The casualty gets more worse if it happens in a city & that too during peak hours. Looks like an Emergency gets a trivial consideration by the inhumane fellow commuters. No it shouldn’t be!
What we need is a White signal in addition to Red, Green & Yellow to ease the emergency. On this signal, all traffic should steer themselves to the left, paving way for the flow of Ambulances, Rapid Action Forces, Fire Tenders, … Read the rest of this entry »
2 things that intrigued me in a recent train journey:
A slightly shabby man with a pair of worn-out rubber slippers & a raised dhoti (lungi) selling petty toys entered our coach in one of the stations. He had a long shoulder bag made out of cloth that had a print saying “Crorepati“.
The adjacent section of my compartment had a man with his baby. The baby drank something from a tumbler & spilled it upon himself. The father fastidiously cleaned the baby, changed its clothes & carried it to the toilet. When he passed me, I took a glimpse of his Tee. It read, “Great Dad 2006″.
