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An hour in the life of Aaakash Gupta (All of 3.5 years)

© 2010 Manoj Chennamangalam Disclaimer : Any resemblance to anyone is purely coincidental -- Sunday morning on a cold winter day ACT 1 The wake up drill Aaakash (first 2 'A's for conquering the world numerologically and third as triple insurance to be first in the attendance roster) is sleeping blissfully on his double bed with his nappies on (the quilt is imported and cannot be risked for the one in a million statistical risk of him peeing in his sleep) Maid servant/ child governess enters (All of 7 years - you frown thinking child labor and I say aha!! read on for gorier crimes!) MS/CG: Aaakash wake up! Aakash, Akash (accompanied by pushes and shoves) - the most glorious one please wake up! Today is Sunday; you have to go for Swimming, Skating, Walking, Painting, Drawing, Piano, Football (in no particular order) lessons!! Hey @$%@^%# wake up you filthy rascal - I have to get you ready in 2 minutes!! That works. Aaakash (the most glorious one) replies: Brrr,...

Minor clean-ups

Minor clean-up done on a wiki link that badly needed a face lift. WIP as yet, but here is the current version authored by me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnayi_Variyar

Fragments of random thoughts

Thoughts - they come from all directions at almost all times ,some come straight at me and sometimes straight from me. Few have been captured and tied firmly to the letters below.Others ? well others I don't know - look around you , they must be floating around freely. -- Contrary to the majority belief, majority is seldom right. -- Many a times I hear an interview on Teli or read a famous person’s experiences and feel “hey, that has happened to me, still happens to me”. I feel slightly happy, gently elated and vaguely hope may be our paths will cross at some time so that you can share the experience and multiply the emotions. Thoughts like these, however are like unfortunate rivers that end in deserts – casually disappears into the maze of mind and life -- Purity is a myth, the closer you get to it the farther it goes away -- No man is an island, hell - neither are they Oceans !! -- Inside of Aero planes, new bags and air conditioned data centers smell the same to me an...