News: SENSEX – the Mumbai Stock market index – crashes a record 780 points…
"Indian market indicators must basically reflect Indian market conditions. They should not be so sensitive to data coming out of the US" P. Chidambaram, Union finance minister, on the sharp fall in the Sensex.
(Me: No one really knows why the Sensex goes up or down. The index is all a sham and purely speculative and is often triggered by rumour).
**
"The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood" –Buddha
**
A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, "Mom, guess what! We learned how to make babies today."
The mother, surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting," she said. "How do you make babies?"
"It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change y to i and add es."
**
"Modi is like a frog just out of th well and at a loss to find the right place for himself in the big wide world" – Salman Khurshid.
(Me: One begs to differ. We Indians are all frogs in the well. Examples: Bollywood – we take so much unalloyed PRIDE calling our Hindi film industry so! – is the BIGGEST film producer in the world; its latest blockbuster, Chennai Express's collection of 150 crores of rupees is considered record-breaking, while in comparison the latest James Bond flick collected over 6000 crores! Kamal Hasan, a fine actor, no doubt, but not widely known in the rest of India, but for the Tamils, he is the Actor of the World. Our generic drug makers, Wokhardt, Ranbaxy, are considered 'World Standard', yet they were fined over Rs.3,000 crores by the US FDA for pushing poor quality drugs; our FDA inspectors, overawed by their reputation or the mega bucks they get as bribes, would with pleasure issue quality certificates to these companies without ever even bothering to visit them…. The LOUDEST of all our claims that is we are the BIGGEST democracy – no one pauses to ponder whether it works at all).
**
Tongue in cheek..
No good deed goes unpunished!
**
" Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance , elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment." : ENGEL
**
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
**
Sweetness is my weakness..!!
(of course, everyone else's, too!)
**
From the world of science…
Immunotherapy could make cancers a thing of the past…
Washington: Scientists may have come across a new type of cancer immunotherapy, where they can harness body's immune system to attack tumours. To accomplish this, they had to thread a needle in immune function, shrinking tumours without triggering autoimmune responses.
**
How can I maintain a healthy prostate?
Maintain healthy vitamin D levels, ideally 50 mg/ml. Eat a healthy diet of organic, unprocessed foods, limit sugars and grains. Manage your stress. Exercise regularly, drink enough water to flush wastes from your system. Maintain a healthy sex life to 'exercise' your prostate.
Clean your computer screen regularly, this helps reduce eye strain.
**
A good way to combat fatigue in the long-term is to ge a good aerobic workout
**
Brain waves differ in people who recall dreams…
Researchers at Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre and University Lyon I France, have found that people who regularly recall their dreams have different alpha brain wave patterns than those who rarely recall their dreams.
**
Weird world…
Wife pays $50.12 in pennies as divorce payoff…
An angry wife, ordered to pay her former husband $50.12, got so furious that she repaid him in plastic containers filled with rice, beans and pennies. The woman also left her ex-husband a note, telling him to have a nice life and how much better her's would be now he wasn't in it.
No comments:
Post a Comment