Delayed #LentenRants

Once upon a time, there were three friends: Eep, Opp & Ork. Opp was a very very pious man, he prayed, he read The Bible, went to church etc etc. Eep only went to Church, and as for Ork, he did guest appearances at Church mainly for Easter & Christmas.

Opp always practised abstinence during Lent & Advent . Which means, he would abstain from all things pronounced evil by The Catholic Church, namely, women, wine and all things fine. This was a little too much for Eep & Ork to do. If they considered Church a forced obligation, abstaining from all the fine things would kill them! During one of the many outings & chain mails, Eep & Ork also decided to join Opp in his Lenten sacrifice.
The rules of the 'abstinence' for 40 days were :
- No Meat
- No Alcohol
- No Sex (no pornography, no wanking off etc)
- Read The Bible
- Do one Good deed a day

and the rest as they say was a facade.

However, Eep realized that this abstinence was more about controlling her will power. After attempting to stay off the fine things life had to offer for about 10-15 days, she gave up.

The year after her failed attempt at abstaining from the good stuff, Eep decided to ask Opp for help. Opp himself was having a difficult time, but being a pro at it, he somehow managed to give Eep tips.

Eep declared to her mum that she would not be eating meat for the next 40 days & nights. Her mum laughed. Her dad laughed. Her brother laughed and so did all the people who knew Eep and thought she would never be able to survive without meat & beer. But to their astonishment, Eep survived. She stuck to her decision and did not have meat or alcohol for more than 40 days!

While Opp did it for religious purposes, Eep decided she would do it more as a way of getting a detox in the year and also a way of testing her will power. Ork tried & tried & tried again but always ended up failing.

So for all of you who didn't have faith that I could survive, Take a Walk.
For all of you who supported me , I love you guys!
For all of you who think I was being religious. I wasn't. Trust me. I am not a daily church goer. I have faith & I Believe.

To all of you who successfully gave up something during Lent as a sacrifice, Kudos to you all!

Now, since I am done with testing my will power, may I remind you, Being Vegetarian is against my Religion.

On that note, Cheers! 

The Cow,Lizard & Other Escapades...

I have a confession to make. I am scared of cows. but not like loony who jumps around even if she is in the car and the cow is 500 feet away. I am scared when I have to cross a road and the bloody animal is standing right there..mooing itself to glory and swatting the flies away only to reveal an ugly butt crack. Anyhoo, one fine morning, I am happily walking in the park, the weather is perfect, the play list on the ipod seemed to be churning out good numbers, basically, everything was good until a cow decided to merrily take a stroll in the park.


For some odd reason, she decided to scare people that day and began running about in the opposite direction (at this point I had frozen in my way because I wanted to see in which direction she was running) ,suddenly out of the blue, this wicked creature decides to run in my direction which resulted in me running (given my knee injury I am not allowed to run, but hell, its a cow we're talking about here!!!) So yes, you can laugh now trying to picture me running and the cow running after me.

I tripped, and my beautiful silver chain got caught in a shrub and broke :(  thankfully, some boys playing in the park managed to get the cow to chase them (the creature seriously must've thought we're playing a game of Tag) Managed to get my broken chain and the pendants back but after a nice session of verbally abusing the cow in my head, i walked home only to have a pathetic day ahead.

Trust me, a cow chasing you is NOT funny. I repeat NOT funny.

For some very strange reasons, I have never been afraid of lizards, but I do know a lot of people who are absolutely terrified of this reptile. One in particular (now) being a very close friend @zenmaster3 , zenny and me started our twitter conversation with him yelling at me in public (on twitter) because I teased him about how the lizards in his room would now start a family under his bed. Zenny thinks lizards belong to the dinosaur family (most likely true, he also believes the Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami is because of Godzilla deciding to awake from its slumber). So, this Saturday, while India battled it out against Sri Lanka in the finals of the Cricket World Cup 2011, i was battling the urge to play a prank on zenny. I managed to click a picture of a lizard crawling on the window and forwarded the same to him. Little did i know, my prank would gross him out..and yes, once again, i was yelled at and was told that I would no longer be spoken to. After a round of apologies, zenny still wouldn't come around to talking.

So zenny,whenever you do come across this post, I am very sorry for the prank I played. It was all in good fun and no hard feelings. :)

Oh, and India won the cricket world cup. 28 long years. 28 bloody long years and the team finally tastes sweet victory. The below few lines are something which I received by a proud country mate settled in Australia...every word makes sense and so..These are some of Life's lessons from My Country's world cup victory:

1.Success is a long term story. Dhoni (the team captain) & Gary Kirsten (the coach) had a 3 year game plan. The win was a culmination of their game plan.
2.When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Whenever there was pressure,someone stood up and fought. One classic example - Dhoni walking in ahead of Yuvraj in the final, to maintain the left-right balance.
3.Thinking & strategy beats posturing. Dhoni was calm, rarely made the wrong call,and played to a plan.
4. Stand by your mates - So what if Nehra had a bad day versus South Africa. Pick him in the crunch game against Pakistan and expect him to rock. He will.
5. Transcend your limitations - An Indian fielding team diving,sliding and throwing themselves all over the field? They did it because they believed they could.
6. Let the team bask in the glory. And here's the challenge - spot Dhoni in the winning celebrations.Low key & in the background.
7. Praise rather than critic. Dhoni's public statements, only positive. All the good stuff said in public. All the not-so-good stuff, reserved for private discussions.
8. Delegate. Let the senior members of your team know that you need them,the team needs them and let them contribute.
And finally when you win, it is okay to cry.Lots.

Cheers to a well deserved and a wonderful victory!!

~Shine On~