When do you pray?

I have also wondered what is the best way to make God notice our prayers. Even assuming a growing number of atheists, the number of prayers S/He is getting from the world alone will be in millions. Extrapolating from my own experience, each of those prayers will have complicated sub-prayers and at least two or three sub-levels of mini requests and what not!

My training for prayer started early in child hood. In the typical Hindu way. So, it is more ritual and does not lay much emphasis on the content. Having prayed routinely for many years in the morning, my prayers unconciously even today start with 'Should study well and do well in exams'!

It is a different matter that today's exams are much more complicated than those school days. Solving trigonometry or integral calculus will be quite easy for God to facilitate, but now...?

Intellectual Property

All Bloggers : Please Note!!

There is a loophole in the intellectual property regime. Dilbert has noticed that!!

So, if any of you want to copy anything from my blog, it is perfectly legal and you cannot be sued!!

Mischievous Only

Only he said that he loved her

He only said that he loved her

He said only that he loved her

He said that only he loved her

He said that he only loved her

He said that he loved only her

He said that he loved her only


Isn't it lovely?

Sports Fever

The betting scandal in Cricket is making me depressed. If our sporting idols fall from their lofty pedastals, what is left in the world to hope for!!

The stars of the game may cheat and fail us (and the doping tests), but there are common folks - ordinary ones - who keep the spirit up. Like this man in the story below :

A man had great tickets for the Football World Cup Final.

As he sits down, another man comes down and asks if anyone is sitting in the empty seat next to him.

"No," he says. "The seat is empty."

"This is incredible!" says the other man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the World Cup Final, the biggest sporting event, and not use it?"

"Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. My wife was supposed to come with me, we had booked tickets long ago and had planned to watch the finals together. But, you see ... she passed away. In fact, this is the first World Cup Final we haven't been to together since we got married.

"Oh ... I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. But couldn't you find someone else, a friend or relative, or even a neighbour to take the seat?"

The man shakes his head. "No. They're all at the funeral..."

People like this only keep the sporting world alive - err... even when their near and dear die!