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It was perfect weather last Saturday. I wasnt sure where my skill levels had fallen to since I hadnt climbed all winter, but this climb put my mind to rest.

P.S: Sorry about the chatter in the background. I am also not that fat as I appear in the video. In fact now theres proof, cameras do add 10 pounds.

Misnomer

I was talking to my mom this morning and during the course of conversation she mentioned how her "Aadu Sadhai" was hurting. I quickly corrected her saying it was her"Kannukutti Sadhai" not "Aadu Sadhai", since it is her "calf muscle" not "goat muscle".

Anybody agree/disagree/agree to disagree ?

What are you, a Gay Fish?

One of the funnier episodes of South Park, featuring Kanye West.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/220762

What do you do when the mob comes after you

I got into a fight last Saturday with a bunch of people. I would say about 100 of'em. Fortunately, I had a weapon handy.





It was world pillow fight day. I came out with a shiner around my left eye. I had so much fun that evening, felt so good to beat people up. I am kidding of course, but seriously...

This does not mean you don't have to work today

Me and another colleague decided that enough is enough and turned one of colleagues office by 180 deg. I was standing at the entrance when I took this picture. Every little detail has been rotated 180 deg. If you can make out, the screen is upside down and mouse left handed (I forgot to move it to the left side but it's a left handed mouse).

Unfortunately, I wasn't in early enough to see her reaction, but she was mad for sure. She sat in front of her computer unable to do anything until I got in. I waited for a hour pretending to be busy before setting it right.

Well, I did buy her lunch to make up for this.

The prank just happened to occur on April fool's day.

It only took me 17 years

But I finally understood one of my English lessons from 5th std(grade) maybe. It was called "Stone Soup", heres the wikipedia link(don't go there just yet). Just to be clear, I googled the link only after I figured it all out by myself.

My lesson was a little different than the one in Wikipedia. It goes about like this. A waylaid traveller, hungry and tired, knocks on the door of this miserly woman's house on a cold, dark and rainy night. He asks for food which she denies, so he asks if he can just cook some stone soup for himself. Now, she is curious, since she can save a lot of money by drinking this instead, so she lets him in.

He starts boiling a pot of water, and then puts the stone in it. He keeps her engaged during this time, the topic, I cant recollect. Anyway, he pretends to taste the soup, then says, "mmm..tasty, but if I had some carrots and some other vegetables, it will make it even better". The lady hands him some vegetables. A little while later, he tastes the soup again and says, "Wow, amazing, if only I had some lamb chops(or something), it would be delicious".

Well, you get the point. In the end, the man drinks his soup and goes his way.

I never quite understood the meaning behind this story during class. I just nodded when the rest of the class did. I never did quite well in English(thats a whole another story), but I don't think I did miserably in the test either.

Fast forward to two days back. It was about 2 a.m, I was at the squad, just about to fall asleep. I have no clue as to why, but this story flashed in my head and I had my own Eureka moment. Now, I can claim I have fully understood what the story is all about.

For the less gifted(people who take more than 17 years to get a story), the reason is that the man was trying to get some free food but ended up eating his stone.