Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning.
The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.
4 minutes later: the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.
6 minutes: A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.
10 minutes: A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the other pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children.. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly..
45 minutes: The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32
1 hour: He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theatre in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities. The questions raised: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment was this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made.... How many other things are we missing????
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Halloween...
A couple were invited to a swanky family masked fancy dress
Halloween party. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband,protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, woke without pain and as it was still early, decided to go to the party. As her husband didn't know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice 'chick' he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there.His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself,he left his new partner high and dry and devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband.
After more drinks he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she reed, so off they went to one of the cars and made passionate love in the back at. Just before unmasking at Midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and was sitting up reading when he came in,so she asked what kind of time he had.'Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there.Then she asked, 'Did you dance much?'He replied, 'I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening.''You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing Poker all night!' she said with unashamed sarcasm.
To which the husband replied,'Actually, I gave my costume to John my co-worker... Apparently he had the time of his life!!
Halloween party. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband,protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, woke without pain and as it was still early, decided to go to the party. As her husband didn't know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice 'chick' he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there.His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself,he left his new partner high and dry and devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband.
After more drinks he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she reed, so off they went to one of the cars and made passionate love in the back at. Just before unmasking at Midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and was sitting up reading when he came in,so she asked what kind of time he had.'Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there.Then she asked, 'Did you dance much?'He replied, 'I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening.''You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing Poker all night!' she said with unashamed sarcasm.
To which the husband replied,'Actually, I gave my costume to John my co-worker... Apparently he had the time of his life!!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Esp for Ppl who r falling in love! :)
This song is stuck in my head. Something about it.
The other songs in this album are also great. I just happen to like this one the most.
Give it a shot. I think you'll like it too.I really liked the simple straight forward lyrics of ths song!!
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Zindagi dho pal ki,
Intezaar kub tak hum karenge balah,
Tumhe pyaar kub tak naa karege balah,
Zindagi dho pal ki..
Dil mein tumhare chupa di hai maine toh apni yeh jaan,
Ab tum hi isko sambhalo humain apna hosh kaha,
Bekudi do pal ki, zindagi do pal ki,
Intezaar kub tak hum karenge balah,
Tumhe pyaar kub tak naa karege balah..
Ek chota sa vaada is umar se zyada sachcha hain sanam
Har mod par saath iss liye rahete hain ab dono
Dosti dho pal ki, zindagi do pal ki,
Intezaar kub tak hum karenge balah,
Tumhe pyaar kub tak naa karege balah,
Zindagi dho pal ki..
Love..
The other songs in this album are also great. I just happen to like this one the most.
Give it a shot. I think you'll like it too.I really liked the simple straight forward lyrics of ths song!!
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Zindagi dho pal ki,
Intezaar kub tak hum karenge balah,
Tumhe pyaar kub tak naa karege balah,
Zindagi dho pal ki..
Dil mein tumhare chupa di hai maine toh apni yeh jaan,
Ab tum hi isko sambhalo humain apna hosh kaha,
Bekudi do pal ki, zindagi do pal ki,
Intezaar kub tak hum karenge balah,
Tumhe pyaar kub tak naa karege balah..
Ek chota sa vaada is umar se zyada sachcha hain sanam
Har mod par saath iss liye rahete hain ab dono
Dosti dho pal ki, zindagi do pal ki,
Intezaar kub tak hum karenge balah,
Tumhe pyaar kub tak naa karege balah,
Zindagi dho pal ki..
Love..
Saturday, April 3, 2010
WTF***!!!
Well nothing so very big to write about either, but this is the best i can do right now.
Mom’s watching this super-lame tamil program on some lame channel.. It’s about how women today aren’t being feminine enough..(to put it )
But why so?
Cos they wear pant-shirt.
Cos they have boy-cut-hair
Cos they wear shoes
Cos they try to ape men
Cos men are the dominant personality in our society and nobody will marry a girl with the above mentioned attributes.
Somebody please for God sake ask them to grow up!!
The Sunday-morning show almost every week on another lame channel with the why-should-women-work-to-when-they-better-watch-the-kids-at-home was way way better trust me…
I would groan every time somebody goes "But why aren't women being women? It’s their duty to serve their husband cos he is like God "
But today's was the limit. The limit.
So it goes like this..
It’s a cheap imitation of a debate.
On one side there are women dressed in pant-shirt with boy-cut who speak english (yeah right..if saying "i am kind of like this" counts). Yeah they look sick. Big time wannabes. i mean why dress that way just for the heck of it??
On the other side are behenjis (the tamil version, well M mixed version of both behenji n Tom) wearing saree and choodidar (lol!!! gimme a break!!) with flowers on their head who think they impress men and are the most perfects daughters-in-law designed by mother earth (tamil nadu rather).
So a saree says to pant-shirt, "being a girl how can you dress this way ?"
Pant-shirt: Cos I am comfortable in it.
And so immediately there’s this huge discussion on how the pant-shirt women tend to be more arrogant and don’t respect men (cos the anchor was a man).
So after a while they come back to the debate
Saree : how can you wear pant-shirt being a girl
(well thats all they said all through the show trying their best to rephrase it by blaming pant-shirt)
Pant-shirt: I’m comfortable in it. You can’t drive in saeree. But you can in pant-shirt. (Felt like gtng into the TV n slapping tht Tom-Tom.. I can go zoom on my bike or car even when m wearing saree or chuddi)
Saree : So why can’t you wear choodidar and drive?
Pant-shirt: I’ve seen many women doing that but they have to tie back their duppatas. So this is a permanent way of getting rid of it. (sounded like sme Carefree add BullS***t) even when i drive a car, my duppata will keep slipping and ill lose my concentration in pulling it back and Madam chudidhar say something else lame like why should you drive? and they reply cos we have to work.
so next big question: why should women work at all odd hours? and something lame and uninteresting happens..
and then a saree who unfortunately happens to be wearing salwaar kameez chooodidar says something stupid to pant-shirt who says "but why are you wearing choodidar ?? You should also wear saeree" and dumb choodidar is gaping at the camera speechless unable to say anything but trying to act as if it’s too stupid a question to answer. I mean how can she be so goddamn stupid so as not able to say "cos its Indian!". What the F**** does she think she is arguing about? ok debating!!!!!
Whatever, another one says cos they have moved from saree to choodidar. (ROTFL)
So they say "and we haved moved on from choodidar to pant-shirt"
and about female says, being born as a girl is a boon and wearing pant-shirt is abusing their feminity!!!
And they ask a guy if he would marry a pant-shirt and he says no and another saree tries to justify his answer. They say that every household likes to see other daughters-in-law wearing pant-shirt. However they couldn’t accept such a person as their daughter-in-law..
They even ask the pant-shirts how their husbands accepted them they way they were!!!! And they say the pant-shirt women look like men from behind and well i don’t remember the rest... it just goes on and on.... I mean it stretches over an hour, probably close to two too but it never seems to end.
And finally the anchor says "we've had women change from saeree to choodidar and future maybe to pant shirt "... (in which world he is)
Well ... Isn’t that the lamest thing ever???? All i can say is "Somebody please ask them to grow up!! To wake up!!! For heaven’s sake!!!"
This shows how stupid people can be, and not a single pant-shirt there could say "It’s my life, so what i wear is entirely my choice, be it a sari or not. And if you have anything about it, keep it to yourself (maybe not, cos it was a debate)"
But really with all the confusion in the country is this the MOST important or even entertaining program they could find????
And to think loads of mothers-in-law sit and watch it with eyes wide open thinking of how bad their daughter-in-law was..
By the way, i did not watch the whole of it... that was just around 15 or 20 minutes of it.
????? GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Mom’s watching this super-lame tamil program on some lame channel.. It’s about how women today aren’t being feminine enough..(to put it )
But why so?
Cos they wear pant-shirt.
Cos they have boy-cut-hair
Cos they wear shoes
Cos they try to ape men
Cos men are the dominant personality in our society and nobody will marry a girl with the above mentioned attributes.
Somebody please for God sake ask them to grow up!!
The Sunday-morning show almost every week on another lame channel with the why-should-women-work-to-when-they-better-watch-the-kids-at-home was way way better trust me…
I would groan every time somebody goes "But why aren't women being women? It’s their duty to serve their husband cos he is like God "
But today's was the limit. The limit.
So it goes like this..
It’s a cheap imitation of a debate.
On one side there are women dressed in pant-shirt with boy-cut who speak english (yeah right..if saying "i am kind of like this" counts). Yeah they look sick. Big time wannabes. i mean why dress that way just for the heck of it??
On the other side are behenjis (the tamil version, well M mixed version of both behenji n Tom) wearing saree and choodidar (lol!!! gimme a break!!) with flowers on their head who think they impress men and are the most perfects daughters-in-law designed by mother earth (tamil nadu rather).
So a saree says to pant-shirt, "being a girl how can you dress this way ?"
Pant-shirt: Cos I am comfortable in it.
And so immediately there’s this huge discussion on how the pant-shirt women tend to be more arrogant and don’t respect men (cos the anchor was a man).
So after a while they come back to the debate
Saree : how can you wear pant-shirt being a girl
(well thats all they said all through the show trying their best to rephrase it by blaming pant-shirt)
Pant-shirt: I’m comfortable in it. You can’t drive in saeree. But you can in pant-shirt. (Felt like gtng into the TV n slapping tht Tom-Tom.. I can go zoom on my bike or car even when m wearing saree or chuddi)
Saree : So why can’t you wear choodidar and drive?
Pant-shirt: I’ve seen many women doing that but they have to tie back their duppatas. So this is a permanent way of getting rid of it. (sounded like sme Carefree add BullS***t) even when i drive a car, my duppata will keep slipping and ill lose my concentration in pulling it back and Madam chudidhar say something else lame like why should you drive? and they reply cos we have to work.
so next big question: why should women work at all odd hours? and something lame and uninteresting happens..
and then a saree who unfortunately happens to be wearing salwaar kameez chooodidar says something stupid to pant-shirt who says "but why are you wearing choodidar ?? You should also wear saeree" and dumb choodidar is gaping at the camera speechless unable to say anything but trying to act as if it’s too stupid a question to answer. I mean how can she be so goddamn stupid so as not able to say "cos its Indian!". What the F**** does she think she is arguing about? ok debating!!!!!
Whatever, another one says cos they have moved from saree to choodidar. (ROTFL)
So they say "and we haved moved on from choodidar to pant-shirt"
and about female says, being born as a girl is a boon and wearing pant-shirt is abusing their feminity!!!
And they ask a guy if he would marry a pant-shirt and he says no and another saree tries to justify his answer. They say that every household likes to see other daughters-in-law wearing pant-shirt. However they couldn’t accept such a person as their daughter-in-law..
They even ask the pant-shirts how their husbands accepted them they way they were!!!! And they say the pant-shirt women look like men from behind and well i don’t remember the rest... it just goes on and on.... I mean it stretches over an hour, probably close to two too but it never seems to end.
And finally the anchor says "we've had women change from saeree to choodidar and future maybe to pant shirt "... (in which world he is)
Well ... Isn’t that the lamest thing ever???? All i can say is "Somebody please ask them to grow up!! To wake up!!! For heaven’s sake!!!"
This shows how stupid people can be, and not a single pant-shirt there could say "It’s my life, so what i wear is entirely my choice, be it a sari or not. And if you have anything about it, keep it to yourself (maybe not, cos it was a debate)"
But really with all the confusion in the country is this the MOST important or even entertaining program they could find????
And to think loads of mothers-in-law sit and watch it with eyes wide open thinking of how bad their daughter-in-law was..
By the way, i did not watch the whole of it... that was just around 15 or 20 minutes of it.
????? GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Rain-Rain-Pls-Come-Again!
It was raining and I couldn't stop myself from going out and dancing and then coming back inside and drinking a hot cup of cocoa sitting huddled up near my window with a book.
Theres no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes, someone had said.
B-A-C-K aftr a short B-R-E-A-K!
Ok I'm kind of back. I was travelling like crazy, bored of office and when i came back our year end closure started and when they got over, well I just couldn't get myself to blog.
Thats a Lot of excuses but I'm not lying :D
I have a lotttttsssss of stuff to write so I thought I'd come back to blogging before I developed one of those blocks again.
So I'm back!! :D
Thats a Lot of excuses but I'm not lying :D
I have a lotttttsssss of stuff to write so I thought I'd come back to blogging before I developed one of those blocks again.
So I'm back!! :D
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