Stupid Questions anyone?

Have you ever come across someone asking you or you asking someone stupid questions to which there is only one obvious answer? Like the time when your best friend calls you at 3 in the morning to speak to you and her first question is “Were you sleeping?” Hello! What else would one be doing on a week night at 3 a.m.???? :-)

I did something like this a few days back. After working late, as I approached the station, I ran into my “morning train” friend and innocently asked her “Are you going home?” to which she answered the obvious answer “Yes!” After getting onto the train we realised what a stupid question I had asked her and we spent a good 10 minutes of our travel time giggling away like two school children much to the amusement of the ladies in the compartment.

This made me think of the other stupid questions that we ask in our everyday life which on retrospect brings a huge Smile on our faces! :-)
“Are you hurt?” after seeing a bloody knee on a little boy’s leg..
“Did I wake you up?” when you call your friend at 4 a.m. in the morning..
“Are you awake” when a mother shakes a child awake..
“Are you feeling hot?” after seeing your friend’s face streaked with ringlets of sweat..

And these are the sweet, stupid nothings that give our life the much needed injections of smiles! So, go ahead make someone's day - ask a stupid question!

50 and counting!

As I looked at my blog today, thinking of my next post, my eyes strayed to the right hand side column and I saw that I had written 50 posts till date (this being the 51st!). Wow! That is an achievement for me as I never felt that I would have lasted so long!! I remember when I started blogging and I had these numerous questions thrown at me, asking will I continue to write after a while… will I still have thoughts to pen down.. Won’t I get bored of this “blog” fixation? Well all I can say is I am 50 posts old and still blogging!!! :-)

This blog has helped me improve my creative writing, has helped me put my thoughts into words and has polished my English too!

But these 50 posts would not have been penned if I hadn’t received support and encouragement from my readers and friends! So, THANK YOU! to one and all of you! Sounds like an Oscar acceptance speech – doesn’t it? ;-)

Crush that light!

Poof! Off goes the light at the end of your cigarette. Yes, the smoking ban has arrived!! The papers have been following this story for the last 10 days with the implementation finally happening all over India last Thursday.

So, is this good or bad? From a non-smoker’s point of view – it ROCKS!! But from the smoker’s point of view – it SUCKS! :-) There have been varied reactions to this ban, some have supported it blindly, some have supported it in a 50-50 way and some have ridiculed it. My reaction? Well, I think I fall in the middle reaction bracket ;-) I support it in principle as I feel that the ban will help people like me getting saved from being passive smokers.

I wonder how it will be to step into a pub or a disco where I can actually "see" the people around me without a smoky halo around them! Or sit in a restaurant without coughing on the cigarette smoke from a nearby table... Though to be fair to all my smoker friends there should be a little more places where they could light up and enjoy their 5 minutes of nicotine fix :-)

Cheers to the Government for this initiative!