Some thoughts too lengthy for Facebook post and too short for their own blog entry:
A few observations about the things I like in other blogs/ articles.
1. Don't have too many pictures: These days I almost exclusively use smartphone, and something with a lot of pictures takes forever to load. And most of the times the pictures aren't even original, just something from stockpile. Yahoo is a major culprit here. I have to scroll through 10 slides to read 10 lines: Its a major time waste.
A good article is concise, and doesn't beat around the bush.
Antithesis of the above: If its a DIY article, I like the ones which really go down to the basics. I went to a woodworking studio recently, and to put it in their words: The instruction is targeted for: "Haven't touched wood before" audience. Most of the times the readers don't know a thing about it. That's why we are reading the article in the 1st place.
An important lesson learnt - do not use Flouride based mouth rinse in the morning.. it messes up your taste buds the whole day!
A typical weekend started with waking up at Noon, and then attempts to find a restaurant close by for the brunch. I settled with a Middle eastern cuisine one and chose a grape-leaf thingy on the menu. Remember those grocery-store-wallahs who used to give a chocolate instead of returning the 25 paise? Small shops here take it to a new level - pay only cash unless the bill is > 10$. Good way to get people to eat a dessert or 2 to make it to 10$. Anyway, so this mid-day sunny walk left me n my roomy tired so it was time for a homemade limbu sarbat. Btw my roomy has never heard of a limbu sarbat before!!! So it was up to me to advertise the oh-so-great concoction. But thanks to the FMR, I could not even guess whether the white powder in that glass बरणी is sugar or not, nor could I tell whether the lemon tastes sour or not.
The founding fathers of the Indian Constitutions were aware that the American constitution asked that the head of government be native-born, yet such a clause doesn't exist in the Indian constitution.
Lol 1. Native born americans were American Indians, and none has been the US President.
Lol 2. who knows if when the US constitution was written, masses were already flowing into the US, and then it would make sense to add the clause.
Lol 3. Indian constitution can be ammended to reflect the changing times. At the time of writing the constitution, the winds of "swa-raj" were blowing, and the constitution-makers might have thought that the Indians would never again accept a foreign ruler. Possibly they under-estimated the Indian attraction for "gori chamdi", or dynasty trends.
As an active gator, I had heard of OAR, but never took it seriously till a few other Indian kids went on an OAR trip to the Carribs. I went to an OAR meeting and the next trip they were planning was to meet the rainbow people in Ocala National forest. I googled the rainbow people after returning home, and that sounded highly hippie-ish to me, plus the website "proudly" proclaimed that they have no regard for laws. (I had recently seen Martha Mary Marcy Marlene movie that time, and the commune concept freaked me out!!). Two years later, while searching for "Things to do in Florida", I stumble upon a community that stays in tree houses. People can rent those tree houses and stay with the community for a few days to learn their way of sustainable life. While this sounds interesting, and I dream of staying in a tree house, staying with a commune and having my car parked a mile away from me scared me, and I decide to give it a pass. Fast forward two more years later, my colleague is going to the Burning Man festival and I am piqued enough to consider giving it a try in the future.
A few observations about the things I like in other blogs/ articles.
1. Don't have too many pictures: These days I almost exclusively use smartphone, and something with a lot of pictures takes forever to load. And most of the times the pictures aren't even original, just something from stockpile. Yahoo is a major culprit here. I have to scroll through 10 slides to read 10 lines: Its a major time waste.
A good article is concise, and doesn't beat around the bush.
Antithesis of the above: If its a DIY article, I like the ones which really go down to the basics. I went to a woodworking studio recently, and to put it in their words: The instruction is targeted for: "Haven't touched wood before" audience. Most of the times the readers don't know a thing about it. That's why we are reading the article in the 1st place.
An important lesson learnt - do not use Flouride based mouth rinse in the morning.. it messes up your taste buds the whole day!
A typical weekend started with waking up at Noon, and then attempts to find a restaurant close by for the brunch. I settled with a Middle eastern cuisine one and chose a grape-leaf thingy on the menu. Remember those grocery-store-wallahs who used to give a chocolate instead of returning the 25 paise? Small shops here take it to a new level - pay only cash unless the bill is > 10$. Good way to get people to eat a dessert or 2 to make it to 10$. Anyway, so this mid-day sunny walk left me n my roomy tired so it was time for a homemade limbu sarbat. Btw my roomy has never heard of a limbu sarbat before!!! So it was up to me to advertise the oh-so-great concoction. But thanks to the FMR, I could not even guess whether the white powder in that glass बरणी is sugar or not, nor could I tell whether the lemon tastes sour or not.
The founding fathers of the Indian Constitutions were aware that the American constitution asked that the head of government be native-born, yet such a clause doesn't exist in the Indian constitution.
Lol 1. Native born americans were American Indians, and none has been the US President.
Lol 2. who knows if when the US constitution was written, masses were already flowing into the US, and then it would make sense to add the clause.
Lol 3. Indian constitution can be ammended to reflect the changing times. At the time of writing the constitution, the winds of "swa-raj" were blowing, and the constitution-makers might have thought that the Indians would never again accept a foreign ruler. Possibly they under-estimated the Indian attraction for "gori chamdi", or dynasty trends.
As an active gator, I had heard of OAR, but never took it seriously till a few other Indian kids went on an OAR trip to the Carribs. I went to an OAR meeting and the next trip they were planning was to meet the rainbow people in Ocala National forest. I googled the rainbow people after returning home, and that sounded highly hippie-ish to me, plus the website "proudly" proclaimed that they have no regard for laws. (I had recently seen Martha Mary Marcy Marlene movie that time, and the commune concept freaked me out!!). Two years later, while searching for "Things to do in Florida", I stumble upon a community that stays in tree houses. People can rent those tree houses and stay with the community for a few days to learn their way of sustainable life. While this sounds interesting, and I dream of staying in a tree house, staying with a commune and having my car parked a mile away from me scared me, and I decide to give it a pass. Fast forward two more years later, my colleague is going to the Burning Man festival and I am piqued enough to consider giving it a try in the future.
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