The Best Reality Show Ever

We have had Fear Factor, where people face their fears. We have had Temptation Island, where people brave temptations in the form of... well, you get it.

But now, I have the idea for the greatest Reality Show (notice the caps) ever. I present...

*drum roll*
Temptation Factor...

The basic idea behind the show: place 4/5 ladies/females/girls in a house together, and the one who can be silent (that's facing fear for you) for the most amount of time, wins. The winner gets free coupons to shop in dress/saree stores (depending on the country) and jewellery shops.

And wait, that's not all. For all people who fear that the temptation to shop will win over the innate fear of silence, there's more. There's the temptation part, you know: at specific intervals, we will be feeding juicy bits of gossip about other girls to everybody. So, everybody will know one fact about all other girls, which is unknown to other girls (except the one about whom it is, of course).

I am sure this is one show which need not be limited to one country, without changing the concept in the least. And think of the rip-offs. We can have "saas-bahu" special, "desperate housewives" special, "sex and the city" special, "bollywood" special and what not (don't make me write any of those serial names again). And all this can be done in one season, can't expect one round to last long, can we?

And we can get the winner of the season to write a book, "How I Kept Silent Despite All", a surefire best-seller gift item (from husbands to their wives). Just the part of royalty from the books will be enough to float our own television channel.

TV award shows, here I come....

Weird Day for My Blog

Today was a crazy day for my blog. Bored at work, I decided to make some invisible changes to my blog(s). Unfortunately, I hadn't counted on the PC account having no administrative privileges and no pop ups allowed. Worst of all, there was no Firefox installed, so I had to work on IE.

So, there I was, jumping between 3-4 IE windows at a time (since no pop up links anywhere work), trying to cope with IE's habit of jumping to wrong window at wrong time and putting all the text you enter directly to address bar. Believe me, it is not good for your BP to enter some complicated thing in (you think) a text box, and on hitting enter, come face to face with 404 page or some weird sites with weirdest URLs.

All in all, the effect was à la the headless chicken getting in the way of the bull in china shop...

Luckily, being a software engineer, I had taken a backup of my template(s), and so, I am glad to see that everything is back in line now, with the changes which I finally succeeded in making having caused no major problems.

Living on the cutting edge of technology causes some nasty cuts ;)

Associative Learning

One more recipe (or non-recipe if you would)...

Egg Fried Rice

Ingredients: Some eggs, Rice, Vegetables, any spices you want.

How not to make it:
DON'T add all the stuff together in a bowl and just put it in microwave. You will need to make the egg fry in a different pan, and rice in different bowl and add them together.



Now, my biology professor tells me, that by a process called "Associative Learning", I will next time (if I want to survive) be less lazy in cooking something new. And I will know that not all my new recipes work (unlike the famous Coffee-icecream).

But, let me tell you that Associative Learning doesn't survives first contact with nature. After lugging a bag full of folders, a laptop and a jacket around for 2 cloudy (and hot) days, I finally decide to lighten the load, and keep the jacket (which is in way every time I need to get anything out of my bag) home. Now, that's a classic example of Associative Learning, and adaption at large.

Result? You must have guessed it by now. The same as my eggs and rice fried together...

Recipie( and a r)ant

Ever wondered what to do with the coffee remaining near the bottom of the pot, when it is a bit too less to drink with cream and sugar, and a bit too much to drink just like that before going to bed? Here's a recipie for you:

Coffee-Icecream

Ingredients: The irritatingly small amount of coffee, chocolate ice-cream

1. Take some chocolate icecream (vanilla might also work) in a bowl.
2. Pour the coffee over it, making sure you pour it uniformly over the ice-cream. (just for the heck of it)
3. Enjoy...



And while you are enjoying this, just ponder on why people send forwards? I mean, I enjoy good jokes/ good forwards, but the best way to ensure I will delete the mail ASAP is add the lines "Send this to n number of people and..." (Fill the blanks with anything). I am a tempter of fate, and I proudly attribute the fact that I am single, the girl(s?) I love have never called me, I have never got any Good News (note the caps) in under 5 minutes etc. to the fact that I never forward such mails.

Ok, to the point... I get two forwards from an acquaint. on Orkut today, the first a general one with the usual reminder and the other one stating that "Mumbai ICSE books mention Bhagat Singh etc. as terrorists" (Please to check, I doubt this highly). What got my goat about this was the last line in the mail said, "Please be a good Indian, and forward this to everybody instead of sending the usual love/fun forwards"

I guess this is one of the moments for Savepoint, right?