[Once again, writing a blog after a very long time! 7 months plus! Wow- time flies]
Today (October 22, 2009), i visited a doctor in the U.S for the first time in 6 years of my stay here. During the past 6 years, whenever i fell sick i've always found comfort in the fact that i can always go to India and see my father-doctor if ever things became serious. But by God's grace there hasn't been any such occasion. So it was indeed ironic that i had to make my 1st doctor's visit when my father-doctor was right here in the U.S., he, mom and my wife were visiting his cousin in California while I was home-alone in Maryland. Such are the beautiful vagaries of life!
By the way, the visit was to an ophthalmologist to remove a thought-to-be foreign body which woke me up at 4 AM but turned out to be just a scratch from eye-dryness which is healing on its own.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Mind
I did not particularly like my last blog "A Snowy Day" probably because it was a forced attempt. The words just wouldn't come and i had to manufacture them. It felt awkward. I am now thinking why i wrote it in the first place - probably because of friendly taunting by the better half or perhaps my own guilty conscience of not having written a blog for so many days. But i realize that one's best work comes out when one is in the right frame of mind. With the mind in the right frame, there is no dearth of words or ideas,creativity shines at its best. The mind is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal - train it to be under your control with positive thoughts and the potentials are unlimited.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
A Snowy Day
It snowed heavy the other day, i think for about 12 hours.
My wife rushed infront of the TV in the morning but was disappointed to note that only her school was not closed. The balcony turned into a thick white blanket. The weather channels caught prime attention. Children in the neighborhood enjoyed sledding. Snow-remover vehicles were busy. Ghost-trees looked attractive in their white coats. Heaters were turned up. My car got dirty. People spoke only and only about the weather.
It's fascinating that the snow catches your attention.
My wife rushed infront of the TV in the morning but was disappointed to note that only her school was not closed. The balcony turned into a thick white blanket. The weather channels caught prime attention. Children in the neighborhood enjoyed sledding. Snow-remover vehicles were busy. Ghost-trees looked attractive in their white coats. Heaters were turned up. My car got dirty. People spoke only and only about the weather.
It's fascinating that the snow catches your attention.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Credit Card Perils
It was extremely disturbing and unsettling to find an "Important Security Alert" message when i logged onto my online credit card account the other day. A panicky call to the customer care representative revealed that there has been a security breach in some of their database transactions and as a precaution they were replacing the credit cards of those vulnerable accounts. This obviously put me in a fix for i have to inform my regular "monthly- account-drainers" (Internet charges, DVD charges, water charges etc) of the new number. I wondered aloud when credit cards were discovered and whether we will ever be safe from such online predators. I also wondered if it would be nice to have a "cash-only" world!
The only good that came out of the fiasco was the exercise which my idle brain-cells received when i "deleted" my old number and "added" a new one into them.
The only good that came out of the fiasco was the exercise which my idle brain-cells received when i "deleted" my old number and "added" a new one into them.
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