Has anyone ever wondered why the government spends on researches as obvious as "smoking can cause death" or "cars that won't start when you're drunk will reduce drink driving". Yes...you have read that right, these researches were given grants. There was actually money spent and people who apparently spent a good deal of time in universities not only completing their degrees but doing their PHDs working on this. Now I may not be a PHD but then I could really give them my two cents on these researches. I should probably start applying for grants for these kinds of researches too, I wonder what topic I should choose though. I have a few ideas, something like, "walking too much might be healthy but it will cause an ache in your foot" or "if we watch too much TV we might be just wasting time". If those ones could get a grant, I am pretty sure I should get one for my researches. There have actually been studies conducted for the following:
- Faraway Objects Are Tougher to See (No shit sherlock!)
- Swallowing More Than One Magnet is Dangerous (because magnets are so delicious..right!)
- Smoking Cigarettes Costs You Money (you don't say!!)
- Time Flies When You're Busy (Fly away by Lenny Kravitz anyone?)
- Combining Drugs and Alcohol is Bad For You (does this mean taking it individually is alright?)
- Gun-Toting Drivers are More Prone to Road Rage (who would have guessed that happening!!)
- Memory and Concentration Fade With Age (what were talking about again??????????)
So the next time someone close to you says something stupid, don't discount it as being stupid as you never know, there could be money made from it!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
I...Me......Myself
Ok this entry again is for me....about me.....and is probably only going to be read by me. I have been meaning to write for sometime but I somehow get distracted by different things. TV comes among the top contenders for the distraction. Has anyone wondered what it is about mind numbing senseless TV shows that make us feel so good and happy? I mean I could sit through hours of shows like Family Guy, Simpsons, How I met your mother, Two and a half men which when you look back made and still not make any sense yet there is something about them that makes you go back and watch it.
The second on the brilliant list of distractions is Facebook. Yes, being addicted to facebook I CAN make ridicolous claims like, Facebook is the best thing to happen to the world since.....well since the internet. It keeps me entertained for hours with its senseless quizzes, the hilarious results bring out a smile 9 out of 10 times. Waiting for status updates, people commenting on your status, quiz results, the writings on the "wall". The best thing about is getting in touch with friends who you lost touch with years ago and the worst thing is people who you made sure you forgot finding you there. Truly the world has come closer at least for some because of Facebook or so is my view in any case.
The third reason on the list is nothing but procastination....a very very personal favourite hobby of mine. There is nothing more fun than procastinating where there is always time to do something and yet there is none. Just today I have pushed the urge to run, do a bit or work out and yet here I am making an entry after a few....well more than a few tries. So for this I deserve a pat on my back and if you really have the misfortune of reading this I can assure you it can't get any worse. But if you are anything like me you would be sitting in front of the TV or sitting on the computer logged in on facebook or doing both at the same time like me :)
The second on the brilliant list of distractions is Facebook. Yes, being addicted to facebook I CAN make ridicolous claims like, Facebook is the best thing to happen to the world since.....well since the internet. It keeps me entertained for hours with its senseless quizzes, the hilarious results bring out a smile 9 out of 10 times. Waiting for status updates, people commenting on your status, quiz results, the writings on the "wall". The best thing about is getting in touch with friends who you lost touch with years ago and the worst thing is people who you made sure you forgot finding you there. Truly the world has come closer at least for some because of Facebook or so is my view in any case.
The third reason on the list is nothing but procastination....a very very personal favourite hobby of mine. There is nothing more fun than procastinating where there is always time to do something and yet there is none. Just today I have pushed the urge to run, do a bit or work out and yet here I am making an entry after a few....well more than a few tries. So for this I deserve a pat on my back and if you really have the misfortune of reading this I can assure you it can't get any worse. But if you are anything like me you would be sitting in front of the TV or sitting on the computer logged in on facebook or doing both at the same time like me :)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
To Read or Not to Read
I am going to come out straight and say it out......People these days can't spell a sentence properly because they don't read anymore than that abbreviated monstrosity termed "TXTING", yes it does miss an "e" because guess what.....that "e" takes a bit too much of space. Yeah that "e" got punished for being too eager to expand the existing terms of agreement on space!! I have no clue what that line meant but if we look closely it has a lot of "e" there!!!!
The reasons for not reading can be many, why should I read a book when I can watch the movie which would eventually be made if it is such a damn fine book. I could be playing on my XBox/PS 3/Wii rather than sitting somewhere doing something as nerdy as reading. I am too stupid to read. I don't really know but someone told me the answer to all my problem reading related lie in one word ----- DYSLEXIA. Oh yes, the last reason has become somewhat of a popular choice of excuse/answer to ward off the evil notions of reading.
But to be fair to this lot who don't read, the whole notion of reading is being killed by our lack of imagination. We can't really keep anyone's attention for a whole 10 minutes and we are trying to get them to spend a few hours with a book. The only worse turn we have taken is to get over reading nice books, we have turned to Magazines. Ahh the blesses world of magazines where we get to start our introduction lesson into stalking. How you ask? Well when you start getting obsessed about what your favourite "star" eats, drinks, drives, where they dine, what colours they like, if they sleep on the left side or the right, then my friend you have started on that path. How would I know.....well lets not go there and just a word of advise, you should really switch off that light while you change, that's the last thing I wanted to see.
Coming back to magazines, it has now become your advisor on everything, it will tell you what to eat, how to get that six pack abs you have always wanted but spent too much time reading magazine to obtain it, how you can make the missus (broadly used includes girlfriends, wife, partner) scream for more. Yeah some of them have got porn stars to give you tips coz who else would know anything about that one than them. Another word of advise, stick to wild life and nature photography, you are pretty useless when it comes to clicking.
I have just noticed that I have written a bit more than even I would want to read so my last words here would be.....avoid the pain, just watch a movie for anyone who watched the "Da Vinci Code" was well punished for it.
As for some tips on stalking.....watch out this space.
The reasons for not reading can be many, why should I read a book when I can watch the movie which would eventually be made if it is such a damn fine book. I could be playing on my XBox/PS 3/Wii rather than sitting somewhere doing something as nerdy as reading. I am too stupid to read. I don't really know but someone told me the answer to all my problem reading related lie in one word ----- DYSLEXIA. Oh yes, the last reason has become somewhat of a popular choice of excuse/answer to ward off the evil notions of reading.
But to be fair to this lot who don't read, the whole notion of reading is being killed by our lack of imagination. We can't really keep anyone's attention for a whole 10 minutes and we are trying to get them to spend a few hours with a book. The only worse turn we have taken is to get over reading nice books, we have turned to Magazines. Ahh the blesses world of magazines where we get to start our introduction lesson into stalking. How you ask? Well when you start getting obsessed about what your favourite "star" eats, drinks, drives, where they dine, what colours they like, if they sleep on the left side or the right, then my friend you have started on that path. How would I know.....well lets not go there and just a word of advise, you should really switch off that light while you change, that's the last thing I wanted to see.
Coming back to magazines, it has now become your advisor on everything, it will tell you what to eat, how to get that six pack abs you have always wanted but spent too much time reading magazine to obtain it, how you can make the missus (broadly used includes girlfriends, wife, partner) scream for more. Yeah some of them have got porn stars to give you tips coz who else would know anything about that one than them. Another word of advise, stick to wild life and nature photography, you are pretty useless when it comes to clicking.
I have just noticed that I have written a bit more than even I would want to read so my last words here would be.....avoid the pain, just watch a movie for anyone who watched the "Da Vinci Code" was well punished for it.
As for some tips on stalking.....watch out this space.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Of being spoilt but not rotten
Time and again, someone or the other always comes up to me and goes "You know what, you seem to be a nice guy but you are very spoilt...aren't you?". Now this isn't a question....or well doesn't seem to appear like one, coz I for one am not going to answer that in the postive yet I know that the remark is not entirely incorrect........I am a nice bloke to say the least.
Which brings me to the point as to what can be classified as "Spoilt". Is it when you have to have something you really want and end up getting it or is it when you throw the biggest, baddest and the shittest hissy fit to demand something which you want. If it is the previous one then I have to admit that I am partially guilty of being spoilt so to say. But if it is the later, then I am dead right in denying that I have anything even remotely close to be associated with that term. I mean that is just being spoilt rotten, yes there are apparently different variations of being spoilt or so I am told anyways.
Coming back to me being labelled Spoilt, it usually stems from people judging me on how I splurge money on items which I deem is essential and which they look at being luxury. How can spending on a TV (so its a 42 inch plasma...bite me), a mobile phone (am in the process of getting an iphone as my current contract has expired.....yes BECAUSE my current contract has expired!!), a nintendo Wii (everyone needs a gaming console.....its the core to being existent and in turn helping the economy.........of Japan, which has been pretty shit in recent times), a XBOX 360 (which I haven't bought yet but am thinking about it...again I am thinking about helping the economy...thank you very much) be viewed as being spoilt. In these turbulent times of the GFC, funny term that as in the beginning it always made me wonder what football club it was, the only way out is that if we start buying and thus pushing our economy to be back to its healthy state. If this noble cause is all that is required to be termed spoilt then my friends I totally accept the title and am very proud of it.
As of wanting things then and there and getting it, I totally lay the blame on the best two people in the whole wide universe..............................my Mum and Dad. I love you both! :)
Which brings me to the point as to what can be classified as "Spoilt". Is it when you have to have something you really want and end up getting it or is it when you throw the biggest, baddest and the shittest hissy fit to demand something which you want. If it is the previous one then I have to admit that I am partially guilty of being spoilt so to say. But if it is the later, then I am dead right in denying that I have anything even remotely close to be associated with that term. I mean that is just being spoilt rotten, yes there are apparently different variations of being spoilt or so I am told anyways.
Coming back to me being labelled Spoilt, it usually stems from people judging me on how I splurge money on items which I deem is essential and which they look at being luxury. How can spending on a TV (so its a 42 inch plasma...bite me), a mobile phone (am in the process of getting an iphone as my current contract has expired.....yes BECAUSE my current contract has expired!!), a nintendo Wii (everyone needs a gaming console.....its the core to being existent and in turn helping the economy.........of Japan, which has been pretty shit in recent times), a XBOX 360 (which I haven't bought yet but am thinking about it...again I am thinking about helping the economy...thank you very much) be viewed as being spoilt. In these turbulent times of the GFC, funny term that as in the beginning it always made me wonder what football club it was, the only way out is that if we start buying and thus pushing our economy to be back to its healthy state. If this noble cause is all that is required to be termed spoilt then my friends I totally accept the title and am very proud of it.
As of wanting things then and there and getting it, I totally lay the blame on the best two people in the whole wide universe..............................my Mum and Dad. I love you both! :)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Life's a Pie
Welcome to Life's a pie. What does it mean? Heck I have no idea, it could be that they both look good from where you see it but sometimes they don't taste that awesome. I believe it has got to do something with the ingredients used. Think about it, both life and pie need some finger licking, tongue clicking, gut filling ingredients to make it worth it.
For those thinking this has something to do with food, I am sorry to disappoint you but it doesn't neither does it have anything to do with life....well not in the literal sense....although everything we do has to have something to do with life so we come back in a circle. Now if you think about it both life and pie always have a full circle to it. Interesting isn't it.
For those thinking this has something to do with food, I am sorry to disappoint you but it doesn't neither does it have anything to do with life....well not in the literal sense....although everything we do has to have something to do with life so we come back in a circle. Now if you think about it both life and pie always have a full circle to it. Interesting isn't it.
Disclaimer : This individual bears no responsibility to the writings in this blog as it has been created by this organ named "the brain". Anyone trying pick up ideas from here is free to do so as I wouldn't be able to stop you any how. People who are conservative might want to stay away from here as some things might offend them to no end.
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