Abhimanyu's death

just saw this posting in a community on orkut .. on a discussion abt Abhimanyu's death

"Krishna was teaching Arjuna and Uttara was also seated with him who was pregnant at that time.Both started sleeping and Krishna still found a voice of nod which was from Uttara's womb.

He stopped it there as abhimanyu was not of age to study chakravuh yudh as it is taught after 16 only.(*it is also being said that as krishna killed his uncle (kansa)also and he was afraid of a repitition as he was the uncle of abhimanyu*) this caused incompleted learning which led to abhimanyu's death "

see the line in the paranthesis .. :D

'My financial career'

A recent incident that happened to me in a bank reminded me of this story :)
This is a story that I had read long time back and I read it again today and I enjoyed it even now. If you want to read it, it is here .. http://students.iiit.ac.in/~nirnimesh/Literature/MyFinancialCareer.htm

What happened to me was something similar.. well I won't write it here in detail I guess... but I have it written down and you can email me if you would like to read the full story :D

'How are you?' and 'It was nice meeting you!'

I am never able to utter to anyone the above mentioned phrases. These phrases have been thrown at me various times but the frequency has increased many times since I have come here(Zurich)!
"How are you?" .. If someone meets you 10 times in a day .. he would ask this question 10 times .. it is so weird to keep on repeating the same words .."I am fine! How about you?" .. However I ask myself .. does he really care how I am .. of course not .. then why do this .. just to be nice .. it is too pathetic!!

And also the phrase ...'It was nice meeting you' ... that is uttered to every person you meet the first time .. this is ridiculous .. it can't be nice for you to meet every Tom, Dick and Harry .. if someone says this to me after meeting me the first time .. I can't just help thinking .. "what was so nice about having met me?" .. Why do people have to say this????

Salt in milk

I don't know if it is a good idea to proclaim yourself as a 'fool' .. but here I do it

Yesterday at breakfast time .. after boiling milk .. I put 'sugar' in it (2 spoons :)) ... then I put chocolate into it and I was so happy(swiss chocolates generally make me happy!!) .. and then as I tasted it, I got the shock of my life (slight exaggeration)... it was salty .. I tried it again .. it indeed was salty ... I normally am not used to wasting food .. but I couldn't do anything about this .. I had to throw it .. why do these people have sugar crystals and salt crystals of the same size.. ok maybe I am making a lame excuse .. maybe no one else would make such a mistake

So here I have described how I tasted salty milk for the first time in my life .. so much for 'living-in-zurich-and-cooking-on-my-own'

Ich wohne in Zurich (Switzerland)

"Ich wohne in Zurich" is German for "I live in Zurich" :)

I moved to Zurich (for a few years) a few days ago. Before coming here, I was a little skeptical about how it would be to live in a foreign country .. everything will be so strange, so unusual all around .. I was almost certain that the hard life will begin now!! ... but I must admit that things haven't been too bad till now .. things certainly are unusual and strange .. but some are unusual for the better!!

Cars stop at the crossings to let pedestrians cross .. this to me was really really funny in the beginning
Also I have never held a map open in a public place for more than a minute .. everytime I find someone coming over to help .. this is again something quite unusual!

Hmm .. so I do miss quite a few things from India .. one thing I miss quite a lot is of course Bollywood .. yahaan to Hindi movies bhi German mein dub karke dikhaate hain [:-(].. but then as they say .. 'you win some, you lose some' .. but I think I will be able to spend good time here!

The thing that keeps me really happy here is, of course, 'Swiss Chocolates'

My first post :)

First thing .. I am beginning to write something after 7 years (yes it has been 7 years since I left high school) ... so in case you are looking for some good piece of writings, I am very sorry to tell you that you are at the wrong place. However if you like me and/or are interested in knowing what I write .. you are welcome to stay for more :) So, what is the reason for starting this blog .. so that I can improve my writing skills .. and to make myself muse(sometime later in life) at the kind of things I used to write and think at some point of time.
If you don't know me this blog would hardly make sense.. so I won't introduce myself.

Also all of my posts would be a random outpour of thoughts and not some well structured essay .. so please bear with me :)