Modern astrology
We Indians have a firm believe in astrology, numerology, palmistry and every other logy that can make you believe that you are either too lucky or too unlucky. If you are lucky, which every one is some times or the other that is your good luck and if you are not that lucky that is the sign of good luck for the astrologer or palmist whoever is predicting your fate with the help of your signs or palm. That would give him chance to make your stars right for you and charge a reasonable fee from you in return.
This was only yesterday while I was going through a newspaper, suddenly a headline caught my sight that read, "You share your Birth day with Kajol -Actress" therefore, you love to live life by your own style, you do not like any restrictions and you have your ideas simple and plain. So that was it, just because some one was born on a particular day and he or she shared his birthday with a film star simple that was a clear indicator of his or simplicity.
Suppose some one was to share her or his birthday with Lady Gaga, what would she or he would be like? I am sure he/she would be known for his or her weird dress sense or the dresses she wears made of different materials including Yak Nipples! I shiver with fear while imagining that what would have happened if I shared my birthday with Shakti Kapoor, probably no one would allow me to sit near HER! (Please keep an eye on her that is the catch of the story)
I then decided to give a look to all the star signs for that particular day and was amused to see the predictions. There is another fact that has always made me feel so confused about such predictions that I never even try to read leave apart having a trust in these. There are more than seven billion people in the world who share these twelve signs now, how do they manage to share the same fate is some thing so strange for me.
This is simple mathematics, which every one can calculate easily; there is no logic in such predictions even for one percent people who read these predictions. Just have a look and decide for yourself whether you would like such a prediction for yourself or would laugh it out taking it for a fun read only. I am keen to give you an example of such a senseless astrology or prediction for your ready reference
Aries
You shall not get as much support from seniors as you generally used to get previously. There are chances that your work may not get as much appreciation as this is not up to the mark. However, you should not feel disheartened because there are chances that your aim would be accomplished by weekend. You must avoid company of friends with negative approach.
My two bit question:
Just what do you make out of this prediction?
Taurus
You may feel worried due to health problem of a family member but your self-confidence would take you out of this problem without much problem. This week you shall meet with new friends who will make a positive impact on your future life in long run. This wee is good for your carrier.
My question:
I am as puzzled as to what made them read the future of relatives who may fall ill to create problems for a Taurus!
Gemini
There is every chance that you shall commence this week with big surprises. You may find this week a little extra expensive but do not worry as there are chances that you shall have some extra income to meet them without any problem. Investment in property may prove very profitable in coming times therefore this is right time to make an investment now. You should be careful related to your health issues as there are chances indicating a road accident.
My opinion
People coming under Gemini should stay home and invest online to utilize this prediction.
Cancer
We can see clearly that you may get involved in court procedures without your fault therefore this would be wise to stay clear from such activities. There are also chances that you may incur heavy financial loses if you trust others’ advices. Do not fall prey to undue greedy suggestions otherwise, you shall loose a heavy amount.
My wish
I had heavy amount and fallen prey to such a temptation however, that won’t happen to me because I am not in this particular group.
Leo
Speak carefully and with your special relations because this week is crucial about how you speak! This week has a clear indication that you may loose relatives if you speak in a bad way. However, the work you shall be doing this week would make long-term gains for you. Avoid being emotional.
My humble opinion
One who comes under this sign should go for a week’s vacation to keep his relations intact.
Virgo
This week is very crucial for your mental status. This may relate to your family, carrier or friends’ circle but you shall have to face lots of tensions and mental stresses that would affect your self-confidence ultimately. However, proper guidance from elders may keep you away from such problems.
My advice
Although this is not easy to follow my advice but people should stay with their elders for the whole week to avoid any mental problem although staying with elders for a week is not good for our mental status.
Libra
You should listen to your brain this week that would be of much help to you. This would be best for you to follow your heart rather than listening to others. Listening to your own heart and following it would help you take right decisions for your future life. You shall have a nice time this weekend with your intimate friends.
I think
This is a good suggestion, listening to our own heart always helps us.
Scorpio
You shall have benefits of traveling this week. This week is good for developing new relations. Revival of old relations is on the cards while you shall be traveling to new destinations. You shall achieve your targets easily this week.
I am sure marketing personal would have many hopes reading this but in case a shopkeeper goes out on a tour, I am not sure any of the above will help him.
Sagittarius
You may become week emotionally because the people you trust most may not support you when you shall need them. This is better to be a little selfish because that would help you identify your true friends.
I like this one because I am a Sagittarian and want to be a little selfish.
Capricorn
You shall be on peak of the success this week. You shall enjoy the benefit of past hard work that you have done so faithfully. A promotion although out of turn is on the cards. In case there is no promotion, they may reward you with paid vacations. Your confidence should be at the top-level during this week.
I sincerely hope they do not reward you with a permanent vacation with two months notice salary.
Aquarius
You shall be more successful in matters where you have been trying for long but not getting success. This would not only open new doors for you but would increase your confidence level too. You shall be able to spend more time with your family now.
I am sure he would leave marketing department and join accounts section as a trainee, this must open the door of accounts department for him and this being a 9 to 5 job would allow him to spend more time with family.
Pisces
We can see you succeeding in your love life this week. This week will see you better off with your love relations and lesser bad incidents, which were part of your life until this wee. This week is going to be the best week of your life as far as your personal life is concerned.
I am confused seriously
if every thing best would happen this week itself, what is going to happen next week or next month for that matter.
PS - I have no intention to shake any one's trust in his/her belief. They are free to continue having their full faith in such astrologers.
India is country where people believe in one is to one relationship. We, Indians believe in holistic love more than in physical love. Love is divine. Love is faith and love is belief. God respects and help people who love each other by heart and soul. Ancient history and puranas has depicted many such incidents of past which proves greatness of India in love. However, their are many people who get themselves married twice. Marrying more than once is shameful deed. In some cases, such incidents just happens. When first wife comes to know about her husband's second marriage, she goes out of control . This creates lots of problems, quarrels and disturbances in house. House becomes a battle field. Just for them, I have some ideas and tricks to manage their wives from quarreling.
You can very well avoid quarrel between two wives in following ways :-
1. Both wives should be a working women. One should work in night shift and another should work in day shift.
2. You should have your own vehicle which will help you a lot. In Sundays, you can quietly take your wife (working in day shift) for long drive.
3. Both should be from different family background. If possible from different countries. You can send one of them to their father's house.
4. Both should have different mother tongue. They should not know each other's language.
5. Both wives should stay in different houses.
6. Try your level best to keep both wives away from each other. They should not see each other's face.
7. Make both of them busy with some different but serious responsibilities.
8. Make both of them happy by presenting same gifts if both are staying together.
9. Divide your salary into two equal half and give it to your wives.
10. Avoid your in-laws to interfere in your married life. Live away from your relatives, etc.
There are many more ideas first try out these. The best idea is to marry one woman and be happy. Otherwise, don't marry.
India is the land where you can crickeat, cricketalk and even cricketweet or in a nutshell you can crickenjoy. I hope I do not have to break down these words further and try to make their meanings more understandable or else it will become a matter of ridicule in cricket savvy India. Let us see how people are developing a cricketing lingua-franca of their own in the country:
1. Doctor(explaining to the deceased man's brother): Your brother died due to excessive consumption of alcohol in the SLOG OVERS of his life.
2. My friend(Tweeting his love story): When she proposed to me I found myself on a sticky WICKET . Where ever I went she tried to CATCH me. The day I was rowing in the GULLEY she followed me closely. At first I tried to HOOK away all her BOUNCERS but was CLEAN-BOWLED by her smile towards the end of the INNINGS.
3. Nidhi: Are you going to throw a party?
Rani: No, I am short of money, so I shall rather OVER_THROW it for the time being.
4. Ankur (to his friend in Mumbai): I shall arrive by 10 O'clock tomorrow, how is the weather over there?
Friend: It has been slightly DUCKWORTH-LEWIS sort of weather for the last two days.
5. I along with my son was at the confectionary shop when we saw a glutton gulp six big chocolates and four pastries in succession. My son commented,"This is perfect T20 BATTING."
6. Teacher:How was the question paper today? How was your performance?
Student:Sir, I started the INNINGS well but by the time I reached the middle OVERS, all my WICKETS had fallen.
7. Recently a tweet depicted a multiple choice question :
What do you do when ever you are losing something to someone?
a. Slap anybody who comes your way like HARBHAJAN SINGH.
b. Start chewing gum like RICKY PONTING.
c. Do frog jumping like JAVED MIANDAD.
8. The chief judge opined," Whether or not the bullet has touched William's shoulder has to be found out in the ACTION REPLAY of the SNICKOMETER."
9. He is a real punishing sort of teacher. In the last tuition class he stood up from his seat and was about to punish a sixth standard student when the back of his head accidentally struck an almirah and an ink bottle from the top fell on to his head. As the ink trickled down his forehead he overheard a murmur,"HIT WICKET".
10. Our boss is so obsessed with cricket that we sometimes find ourselves in the mid of a cricket match in our weekly business coordination meetings. A typical session has been reproduced along with the actual implications:
Boss: Have you all observed our SCORE BOOK? It shows a TIE?
(Have you all observed our balance sheet? It shows a no profit-no loss situation.)
We are not SCORING in any format of the game.
(We are not earning profit from any sector of our business.)
I can only tell you about the game plan but FIELDING performance....er....you know what I mean, is the actual thing. Top management has only a role of 3rd UMPIRE.
(I can only tell you about the business strategy but the field performance is the actual thing. Top management keeps vigil only.)
BATSMEN on debut must learn all sort of strokes.
(New recruits must learn the tricks of the trade).
Even though we are short on STRIKE RATE, I hope we shall be able to clinch a victory in a nail biting finish.
(Even though our current production figures are not up to the mark , I hope we shall somehow achieve the target before 31st March.)
An officer(trying to interrupt): Sir don't you think your language is a bit too much cricketing?
Boss: Don't raise any SILLY POINT.
A Brahmin lived in a small village. He was an illiterate man. He was an idler. He never did any work and spent his time in day-dreaming. He earned his living by begging in village.
On the day of a festival the Brahmin would get a variety of delicacies as alms.
It was the day of Uttarayana. Now on this day, people donate generously to atone for their sins. `Today I will receive a lot of money,’ said the Brahmin to himself, rather pleased with the thought of receiving a lot of donations, `by the evening, I will be rich!.
Thinking thus, the Brahmin took his bag and his stick and set out to beg for alms. On his way, he first came to a potter’s house. In the compound of the house, under a big shady tree, there were many pots of different sizes and shapes.
The Brahmin stood in the compound and cried, `on this auspicious day of Uttarayana, does a righteous deed by donation generously to this Brahmin.’
The potter said, `If you want, you make a pot for yourself.’
The Brahmin up a pot went further.
On the day Uttarayana almost all the households in the village gave the Brahmin delicacies made from Jaggery, groundnuts and sesame seeds. At noon, his pot was filled with a variety of delicacies including his favorite laddoos. The Brahmin was very happy. But he had roamed so much to beg for alms, that his legs started pining. He could hardly walk.
While returning home, he again came to the potter’s house. `I am so tried,’ said the Brahmin to him. `Let me go to the potter’s compound and rest under the tree for some time.’
The Brahmin lay himself down in the cool shade of the tree. There were many pots all round him.
As the Brahmin was resting, he thought, `Ah1 I have earned so much today. Early in the morning, this potter gave me a pot… as if to fill all the delicacies in it. Almost all the household gave me something to eat end I filled the pot with it all.
`How can I alone eat all the delicacies’ thought the Brahmin, still feeling very pleased. ` I will eat some to fill my stomach and sell the rest. With the money that I thus earn,, I will buy many pots and jugs… I will sell them and buy betel nuts… I will sell the betel nuts and buy cloth…. Soon I will be a millionaire… and build a big palace for myself… and get marriage proposals from parents of the most beautiful girls… like kings, I will marry four women… But then the four of them will quarrel among themselves… and come to me with their complaints…
The Brahmin continued the day dream. `Oh, why are these four women quarrelling with one another? Have they seen this stick of mine? I will take the stick and … whack… smack…. Whack… smack… I will beat them black and blue…’
The Brahmin, who was sitting under the tree and day dreaming, took the stick in his hands and started swinging it and banging it round him. The stick hit the pots. And … smash … smash… all the pots broke into pieces. Even the Brahmin’s pot was broken and all the delicacies were scattered in the dust. The laddoos rolled on the ground and were smeared with mud!
When the potter heard the noise of pots breaking, he was agitated. `Has an animal entered my compound?’ he wondered. He took a stick in his hands and rushed of the house. And what did he see? -The Brahmin was swinging the stick around and breaking the pots!
`You scoundrel!’ cried the furious potter. `How dare you to break my pots? Now see how I break your head!’ saying this, the potter beat the Brahmin mercilessly.
The Brahmin said, `Why are you so angry? You have lost only a few pots. Look at me. I have lost my thriving business, my big palace and my four wives.
The potter was confused. He drove the Brahmin out of his compound.
A man is watching a house. Why is he hit on the head?
And then is he locked up in a room?
Where am I?
I do not know. I am lying in a bed in an old house. There is a window. The sun is shining. I cannot see anything except some trees.
Who am I?
I cannot remember. I cannot remember anything. My head hurts a lot. I am very tired. I am going too sleep.
It is morning. The sun is shining. There is food and tea on the table. My head feels better and I am not so tired now.
A man in drank cloths comes in.
Man- who are you?
Me- I do not know.
Man- who are you working for?
Me- I do not know.
He shakes me roughly. I feel a bump on the back of my head… now I can remember something. Slowly my memory is coming back to me. I am in a filed. I have got binoculars. I am watching a house. A man comes up behind me. He has a gun. He raises the gun over my head.
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I can hear voices outside the room.
Woman- is he going to talk?
Man: Maybe. He cannot remember anything.
Woman- we’ll wait till evening. Then we have to do away with him.
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The key is in the lock but is on the other side. I take out my pen and gently push the key. It falls on the mat outside. Carefully, I pull the mat to my side of the door. I quietly open the door and leave the room. I enter a big hall. It is full of beautiful statues. They are from our temples.
I spot a telephone. I quickly pick it up and dial 100.
Police: police. What is the matter?
Me- (the number is on the telephone) I am speaking from 2802131. I am a prisoner here. I cannot get out. The house is full of stolen statues. Come quickly!
I can hear the sirens of the police cars. The woman opens the door.
Woman: what can I do for you, inspector?
Inspector: we are looking for stolen statues.
Woman: but there are no statues in this house.
Me: (from behind the woman) the statues are in the hall. Please come in.
Twelve minutes later the man and woman are in the police van.
Inspector: well, Mohan, you have done a good job.
Me: is Mohan my name? What do I do?
Inspector: you are a private detective.
Me: what! A detective! A detective should get bumps on his head.
Inspector: you are lucky! They did not kill you.
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