When you are learning language, pay attention to grammar. Those were the words of my English teacher. No guesses for what I did. I ignored and here I stand before you with my poor grammar skills. I knew this when I started this blog and I thought I’ll improve. I have improved to some extent. That’s enough. Now about the “And”.  Sorry for ruining the lyrics of that rocking track by Linkin Park. That tops my favorites list.

What to do? I couldn’t think of any better title. This “And” became my topic when I was having conversation on twitter. One tweet appeared on my twitter homepage.

“If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you need to count to find the first letter A?”

I knew the answer and I replied “thousand”. And one twitter replied with “one hundred and one”. Now comes the confusion. Which one is correct? I knew it was “thousand” but the one who asked the question got confused. Moral is “Having bad grammar helps you to stay away from confusion”.

Improper grammar leads to funny incidents also. It can be embarrassing if you don’t take things lightly. (I am very serious kind of person. Don’t make fun of me.) Take this candidate’s application :

“This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ‘typist and an accountant – Male or Female’. As I am both for the past several years and I can handle both, I am applying for the post.”

When I was in college, there was a legendary workshop supervisor. His English was very bad. In the first workshop class he said “Machine the on”. It took all the courage and effort in the world to stop myself from laughing. I’ll never forget this incidence.

This post is just for fun and not at all to show my hate or love towards English. It will be always the language which is my mother tongue. I just took this as a challenge to write a post from a simple ignorable tweet. Oh!! And to clarify all the doubts about the riddle. In the end the “And” doesn’t matter.

I cannot say “Till my next grammatical mistake”. It will be in the next post itself. So I’ll say,

Till English is a funny language…

Think Nonsense…

Everyday, Everyone goes through usual or some unusual circumstances.  Some become victim of the circumstances and some perpetrator. For the victims, these circumstances are like Hitler, who dictates them, who controls them. He attacks through the U-boats of lack of confidence, lack of faith and brings the victim down to the knees. Victim is unaware that this Hitler doesn’t exists.

In such cases, there forms a circle of circumstances. While running from an event another event from past is just ahead of us. It’s like your back* is on fire and you are running towards fire. This circle is often hard to break. It requires lot of courage(and all the positive stuff you can recall) to get out of this. But wait!!! There is a simple solution to turn this Hitler into Charlie Chaplin.

It’s simple. Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances. You’ll say this looks good when it’s in words on a paper or on this blog. But in real life it is difficult. That is not the case. When you are thinking of such a thing your back* is already on fire. You are waiting for fire engine to blow out. Keep waiting. That wait may last forever. Or just oppose the circumstances.

Let the Charlie Chaplin make you laugh. Then the U-boats will take a U-turn and will vanish deep into the sea of happiness. The circle of circumstances will turn into a ring with which you can play as you want. Just like the dancers in the circus who rotating it around the waist. That will also keep you fit by loosing some fat around that area.

* :- You can replace this word by “ass” for better understanding.

Till the next Chaplin adventure…

Think Nonsense…

I have already written some posts regarding language. But this is a vast subject which is sufficient to give you topic everyday. If you know more than one language, which most of you do, then you have a potential to write about language. I am good at four languages and about five of them i am in learning stages. So I have good material to write about though I choose not to write often. That would convert this blog into “The Language Blog”. After some days I’ll get some eggs and tomatoes at me.

This incidence happened yesterday while I was talking to my friend. Yeah the same friend who own a pharmacy. I talked to him after so many days due to my busy schedule. (I hate to use this “busy” word.) I was standing there and doing the thing I liked the most. Observing peoples. I do it unconsciously now as it has turned out to be my habit. After a few minutes an old woman entered the pharmacy. This is the woman whom I helped to get to the clinic. (Are you listening Santa?? I deserve a gift here.)

She gave her prescription and started talking. A bit surprised, she couldn’t talk properly. The last time I met her she was talking good. This time she wasn’t able to pronounce properly. Every word she uttered was incomplete and used to end abruptly. Try to speak without using your tongue. Something similar happened. What amused me that we were still able to get what she wanted to say.

This mystery will stay with me for long. How can we just interpret when we are unable to get the whole word? Of course it was not 100% correct interpretation but close to that. Its the beauty of a small part inside our head, that we call brain. A while back I read an e-mail where the words had the first and last letter in correct position and rest all altered. I was still able to read the paragraph without any mistake or without much effort. I hope to solve this mystery in this lifetime.

Request to all search engines: Don’t mark this post as spam due to the use of the word pharmacy. There are pharmacies which exists offline.

Till I solve the mystery…

Think Nonsense…

Talking is an art which makes us different from the animals. We can talk and animals cannot. Actually they can but we don’t understand their language. I don’t know Chinese. That doesn’t mean that they are animals. Whatever language it is, we talk. That is the prime medium of communication. We express all the good and bad (I’ll not use ugly) through talking.

Talking involves two persons at least. That way we are able to share our views and ideas. We share our happiness. We share our sorrows. This talking helps us to know the other person. Relations are often founded by the way the other person talks. Looks and other things come in second. Sadly talking also leads to break-ups.

What about talking to yourself? Do you ever talk to yourself? I’ve seen persons who talk to themselves. Not just in their minds but they churn out the words through their mouth. What we think about them is they are crazy. They are mad. They need psychiatrist. What we don’t know is all of us have this habit. We talk to ourselves.

This happens when you don’t have anyone to share your feeling with. Like I said we talk to share happiness and sorrows. We reward ourselves when we do a good job. “You were f*****g great man!!!” Isn’t that what you say? I don’t hesitate to say that i do talk to myself. Almost everyday. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have anyone to share my feelings, but I don’t want to share some things. When you talk to yourself you try to pull the pressure down. It’s good. Don’t hesitate to talk to yourself.

You can read the following article related to this topic. I thought of posting this to stop people calling me crazy. Hey!! I am not crazy.

Does talking to yourself means you are crazy?

Winter is here. It will be here for four months, celebrate Christmas and New year with us and then go on a eight months vacation. What I like about winter is that it cools down all the thing around. Baked by the October heat, I was eagerly waiting for this. For the last few days I am feeling winter. Now I am waiting for Santa. Few days to go now.

With winter falling of leaves starts. Some actually divide the season into Fall and Winter. I am not a poet or a novel writer. So winter it is. Trees go naked after shedding their leaves. There is no censorship for this. If one tree looks ugly then other looks beautiful after shedding. It’s like comparing Big Momma with Jessica alba. The fallen leafs have their own beauty. I love to stand below a tree and watch a leaf falling. Going left… and then right… swirl… to the ground.

When this happens I feel the presence of wind element. Wind starts dancing with the leafs. If observed carefully it looks better than what we dance. (Dance?? No. Not me.) What I like about wind is it takes a fallen leaf from the ground and takes that towards the sky. Like a true supporter who keeps faith in you, guides you, and make you taste success.

Have you ever tried to do this? Have you ever supported someone who fell??(Maybe over a banana peel) and that too without laughing at him? You may have done that with someone in your relation. not with anyone else. I cannot tell you to be like wind else you will blow away anything that’s coming in your way instead of just going around it. I’ll just tell you to help someone.(that someone can be the person fallen over banana peel).

Think Nonsense…