Experience counts….Respect it….

 

  A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.
Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.
Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.
"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"
So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."
The man sent a bill that read:
Tapping with a hammer...... ........ ......... $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap......... ........ ........ $ 9,998.00

Moral Of The Story

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference!

Who is responsible?

Finally Mumbai has got its much need additional road for travelling from suburbs to the city. With the new road have come up new signboards. And with the new signboard has come one more renaming, that of Mt. Mary Church at Bandra. The spelling mistake seems to be overlooked by the department incharge of putting up the board. Howelse can such a goof up come up on public display.

Isnt it the responsibility of the person who gives the order for such boards to verify if all the spellings are correct or not? Or that person just sits on his chair and passes off the payments? Will any action over even this “trivial” thing be taken? Who knows…till then…let Mother Mary be “MERRY”:)

Lookalikes

My brother recently went on a trip to Mahabaleshwar. Today he showed us one of the snaps of his wife, and behind her, in the snap, is a person who looks like me!!!! I am finding it very funny actually. While discussing the same with my brother in law, he asserted that we all have lookalikes, in different parts of the world, not one or two , but many. He further explained to me that just because we are not famous we don't come to know about it.

We in India, clap our hands, and enjoy shows where lookalikes of Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachan, Shatrugan Sinha etc. We enjoy their mime. But we have never given it a thought, that there might be a few more, who have preferred to keep quite rather than benefit from the alikeness. Similarly, there might be people who might be looking like us. We sometimes, say hi to a person, and then realize, its not the same person, but looks like him or her.

So what is it that we have lookalikes? What factors come into picture? Our ancestors? Laying the seeds all over the world? Whatever it is I would surely like to meet atleast one of my lookalike in my lifetime.

Television present and future….

Today in the morning, at around 7.30 am, my mother came running to me and wifey and happily announced….some xyz was pregnant. Both me and my wife were not able to understand who, and asked her the name again. Then she told us one of the central characters in one of the television serials is pregnant…in the serial. The happiness on her face was amazing!!!!!!!

What struck me is the time at which she was seeing this serial. As if letting go of afternoon sleep for serials was not enough, compared to seeing the same episode the previous day, now serials are being seen early in the morning also.

On the other hand, I am amazed at the popularity of seeing the serials over the net. Practically I found this a better option. You can view the episodes, at your time, pause and restart at your whim, not having to worry about missing which saree the main protagonist is going to wear while facing another melodrama, and repeating a particular scene which one likes. With the advent of high speed internet and affordable rates, I feel, cable tv will surely be facing a slow death soon. Live TV is also available on the net. The only hindrance as of now is the reach of internet to the common housewife and the awareness of seeing the serial online. Once it is known to them…..I feel the future of television will be similar to what the Radio faced…..

Just a thought…

Khushi hurt herself when she fell down in the bathroom. We rushed her to the doctor, where she received stitches on her chin. The best part is the next day she was back to her mischief. We are more on tenterhooks because of her. Khushi don't do this, Khushi don't do that. Khushi don't touch this. But she is the least concerned.

We as parents are over concerned no doubt, but in their playfulness, children tend to forget things more faster than us. We elders tend to sit over our pain for more than 24 hours, while children tend to get back to their games immediately.

Similar is our nature when we interact with people. If we fight with them, we tend to stretch the matters endlessly, while children tend to forget their fights and start playing immediately. But then weren't we the same when we were kids. Didn't we used to forget about our fights with other kids and start playing immediately. So why do we extend our fights now. People tend not to talk to their blood relations till death.

As elders we will always say, children are not mature enough to understand life. But what is the use of our maturity if the relations are kept sour. I feel we were better off as children.