Washing clothes is therapeutic

I am never too sure exactly how much detergent should we use for a bucket of water.

Staying in the hostel away from home, I have learnt that I am not good at something- adding right quantities of things like sugar, detergent, milk powder, salt, etc in water/milk. Its an art only some people possess.

Anyway, I got some interesting fact. Washing clothes can actually positively affect you psychology. This is because when you see dirt come out of your clothes as it is getting cleaned, you feel good about it. It send a very subtle impulse to your brain and you feel cleansed.

I got this information over a coffee chat at work. For some reason my friend had downloaded a Korean movie previous night where apparently one of the actors was a psychologist and happen to wash his own clothes. I was very concerned about one thing.

"By Korean you mean South Korea or North Korea?"

Mr Bush called North Korea axis of evil. As a democrat, how can I believe in what any North Korean say. Karl Marx would never build a nuclear weapon but only fight for the rights of the workers building it.

What would North Korea know about washing clothes?

No man can ever think of himself as non-existent

I have many useless thoughts including this specific one.

Are my thoughts really useless? What is the primary objective of thoughts?

Annie Besant (she is truly the master of fundamental thinking) said it was about defining yourself. All that is is defined by all that is not. So self can be defined by not-self. This not-self is in turn defined by thinking of things as all what I think, are merely thoughts. Thoughts cannot be thinkers.

To sum up knower is not the known by definition.

Knower, knowing and known are different. Thats how I define myself. Thats how I find my separation. Thats where my search for identity ends- by having useless thoughts.

Annie Besant made a very redundant statement-

"No man can ever think of himself as non-existent, or formulate himself to himself in consciousness as "I am not". "

Probably thats why I will never meet my death.

A crisis and a game of monopoly

I remember playing monopoly. It was buying and selling land with made up money.

To quote Marge simpsons- "The game's crazy enough ..... How can an iron be a landlord?"

Its similar to the sub-prime crisis. People created false money to buy and sell lands. The money could either be traced to a loop of creative financial instruments or US Dollars which in turn would lead us to Fed Reserve's overworked dollar printing machine. Everyone felt good for some time. Then, the game got over.

Then they put the money back into the box, and closed it.

Maths can explain why Gabbar laughed so loudly

Hindi movies are more than we give them credit for.

There are always reasons why things get famous. I am talking sholay.

Everyone remembers this scene. He took a six bullet pistol and put in only three bullets and tried shooting his fellow dacoits one by one. None of the first three tries were a hit. Then all of them burst out in uncontrollable laughter.

Why did all of them laugh?

Lets see the probability implication of this evet. The probability that first fire would be empty is 3/6. The probability of second fire being empty is 2/5 and the third fire is 1/4.

Total probability= (3/6)*(2/5)*(1/4)

The probability of that happening was only 5%. Gabbar found humour in the probability trying to protect them from his terror. He laughed at the laws of the universe which thought could defy him. Then he shot them anyway.

Einstien agrees for a completely different reason. To quote him-

"God doesnt play dices."

Cycle seller

There was a boy who wanted to sell his cycle.

I wanted to write a play on him. It was a story about a boy who wanted to write a play about a boy who wanted to write a play about a boy wanted to write a play about a boy who wanted to write a play.......

I think this play can only be acted out in black holes, where circular loops of light are not necessarily connected. Where things travel faster than the speed of light, making time travel possible. A place with no design.

So much for the cycle seller.

Zimbabwe declared inflation illegal

What about the fundamental rights of the economists?

Inflation is a natural occurring economic phenomenon. How can it possibly be declared illegal? They actually arrested some company officials who increased prices.

The inflation of Zimbabwe was so high, the company that printed Zimbabwe currency refused to do so anymore. Government promoted using currencies other than Zimbabwe dollars. Even so, that Zimbabwe's National postal service started charging people postage in US dollars.

It took me some time to count the zeros in their economic numbers. 231000000% is not a very appreciative inflation figure.

This is what a real crisis looks like. A land where probably the cost of paper is more than the denomination of currency printed on it. A land of starving billionaires.

People in Zimbabwe are still not sure how to react-

"I just bought a chicken burger which cost me 30 million Zimbabwean dollars "

And we call what happened in US a crisis? I am not a pessimist, but lets all stop printing dollars.