Though my life is short, my journey is long.........

xaries posted at 3:47 AM

Children these days seem to be able to get away with just about anything. They can do just about anything and their parents don't seem to mind them doing it either. They can run around screaming, pull someone's hair, spit in people's faces etc. and the parents don't seem to mind them doing that but what if thats being done to somebody else. The parents look at it as their kids being cute and precocious but whatabout the person whose getting the blunt end of things, like in his/her eye or other body part hmmm? So who is to be blamed? Why of course the parents, the kids don't know any better not to cause anyone else discomfort, pain, agony etc. Their little minds are like clay waiting to be molded either the right or wrong way. What they learn early on in life will stay with them and become a part of their characteristics as an individual. If a child sees thats it ok to cause inconvenience to another person and is not corrected about it, he/she may develop the idea that it is ok to do so. Chances of this developing into further acts of annoyance is very possible. Children don't know what their limitations are but parents should. Nip it in the bud I say before what might be perceived as being cute exasperates into something worse in future years. So when kids grow up and do things they regret later on in their lifes and end up going for therapy for it, it eventually boils down to what limitations their parents set out for them when they were growing up. Children are very impressionable so don't leave them with the wrong impressions, leave them with the right ones.

xaries posted at 2:11 PM

Hmmm I came across an article recently that puts a whammy on the modern dating and marriage scenario. Apparently in Kyrgyzstan the norm is that if you like a girl and want to marry her, you just kidnap her and take her home. Hmmm and here I was thinking gone were the days of the cavemen with their clubs who clubbed their mates and dragged them off, apparently not. More than half of Kyrgyzatan's married women were snatched off the streets by their husbands in a custom known as ala kachuu, which translates roughly as "grab and run". So how do they manage to keep the abductees from leaving besides marrying them? Well once a woman has been snatched and taken to her would be husband's home, her in-laws try to calm her down and get a white wedding shawl onto her head. (Imagine you're mom telling you, ahhh you've got a good one this time, hold her down while I get the shawl, hmmm) The shawl called a jooluk, is a symbol of the abductees submission. 80% of the abductees eventually give in, often at the urging of their own parents, who have been summoned to make their daughters stay. Makes you think of the culture when you have old Kyrgyz sayings like "Every good marriage begins in tears". The custom is deemed practical although it is illegal, most people don't know its illegal (hmm I wonder why?) Families use force to keep the abducted women from leaving by resorting to force or threatening them with curses which seem to have a powerful impact in this superstitious land. (Wonder what the divorce rate is like, practically nil perhaps). Putting bread on the doorstep or having an elderly woman from the family lie across the threshold are some of the ways they keep the abductees from leaving. Its a life time of bad luck to step over either. Hmmm imagine you calling your grandma out "Hey granma, its time for you to sleep outside the doorway"(wonder why the brides never used the windows) either way the abductees are tainted for life if they leave with their virginity suspect and her name disgraced, she'd find it difficult to attract another husband. So I guess another saying that would go well in this culture would be "If you can't beat them, join them"

xaries posted at 2:12 PM

It seems that the comic book hero Spiderman has gone indian. Yup, thats right, imagine Spiderman in a 'dhoti' swinging between rickshaws and dodging cows. The Spiderman alter ego Peter Parker will be known as Pavitr Prabhakar, hahahahaha. In a bid to cash in and tap a market where nearly half the billion plus population is under 25 GEG (Gotham Entertainment Group) based in Bangalore in a deal with Marvel Enterprises will introduce the new cross cultural superhero in India next month and has already launched four issues of the comic book in the US, hmmmm from Peter Parker to Pavitr Prabhakar, so whats next? Would people really like to see Spiderman swinging around in a 'dhoti' ,what if it should fall or a gust of wind should blow us a view of Spiderman's spidey sense tingling. It would definitely give some more to think about when they hear the words " Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman" hahahahh

xaries posted at 7:29 PM

Thinking as I usually do at the oddest of hours I came up with the conclusion that I know what a man's and woman's weakness is. So how did I arrive at this conclusion? Well I based it on none other than our first couple Adam and Eve. Man's weakness is simple enough, its woman (I'm talking about heterosexuals of course), well it was Eve that convinced Adam to take a bite out of her apple didn't she? Not to mention she didn't have the fig leaves on at the time either. So she was convincing enough to entice him to do the unthinkable. So that was Adam's weakness so what Eve's? Well after giving it some thought and wondering what could it be, it suddenly hit me. What can no woman resist???Are you ready for it.... well its really simple. No woman can resist a bargain. Thats right, a bargain in any form seems to be a woman's weakness. If you're a woman and you're reading this, you know its true. How hard is it for you to tear yourself away from a bargain, hmmm?? So why did Eve take the apple? Simple because the serpent told her for a bite she was getting the whole 9 yards, she could make her own paradise, she could have her own damn apple orchard for that matter, in other words she'd be just like god. If that didn't sound like a bargain to her then what would have??

xaries posted at 2:53 PM