Expectation leads to disappointment. No expectations -> Not only no disappointment but double madangu happiness when something you don’t expect will happen, happens! 😀

Why does jeera/cumin seeds sold in most of the shops have saunf/soambu/fennel seeds mixed in them? I hate the taste of saunf while I love jeera. Be it Foodworld or More or some other supermarket or a small provision store, nowadays, saunf seems to be mixed with jeera almost everywhere. If I buy jeera once from a shop and find that saunf is not mixed with it, the very next time, it too seems to be having saunf in it. Using the jeera for cooking spoils the taste of the dish. 🙁

Images Courtesy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fennel_seed.jpg
http://www.seedfest.co.uk/seeds/herbs/cumin.jpg

As most of you might have noticed, ‘Ask Shahnaz’ is a weekly column in Metro Plus in which beautician, Shahnaz Hussain, answers questions on beauty tips. I am not interested in any of those beauty tips or home remedies. Boredom was what prompted me to read the questions and answers in that a long time back. When I next read the column, I found that only a few questions were new. For almost a year now (or more than that?), I have been browsing through the questions in that quite often. I see most of the questions are getting repeated too often. The most common questions are “Skin is oily/dry/dull, there are pimples/pimple marks on face, hair is dry, hair loss, hair has split ends, has dandruff, etc. Please suggest some tips/home remedies.” There are very few questions apart from the ones above. I wonder how long she is going to answer the same set of questions again and again! I have no clue about the answers that she gives since I rarely read them. Anyway considering how long this column has been on and how so many questions are pouring in, seems those are the most common problems people have and there are way too many people obsessed with ‘looking beautiful’. 😛

School & College: You paid
Work: You get paid

School & College: You are a student
Work: You are not only an employee you are sometimes referred to as a resource as well!

School & College: Bench, chair, black board, chalk, duster
Work: It’s only cubicles and computers here and bench takes a new meaning altogether 😉

School & College: Address teachers as Sir/Ma’am or even Miss
Work: Age is not given any consideration whatsoever and you are on a first name basis with everyone.
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Nowadays, my day begins with the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip in Metro Plus. Here’s today’s:

Reading this, that too on a Monday morning, isn’t going to help you in any way. 😉 What say?

I have often wondered why many generally use the words climate and weather interchangeably.

Quoting the meaning given in the dictionary.com from The American Heritage Science Dictionary,

Weather – The state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place. Weather is described in terms of variable conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind velocity, precipitation, and barometric pressure. The average weather conditions of a region over time are used to define a region’s climate.

Climate – The general or average weather conditions of a certain region, including temperature, rainfall, and wind.

Why do many say that the climate on a particular day is nice or bad when weather is the word that should be used? Talking about weather, I hate the weather in Chennai today! I wish it would stop raining. Roads are so messy.

Why are some people hell-bent on irritating others ALWAYS?! 😡

Malaroadu malar ingu magizhndhaadum boadhu
Manadhoadu manam inRu pagaikoLvadheno
Madham ennum madham oayattam
Desam malar meedhu thuyil koLLattum

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! 🙂