Aparna’s Blog

Wishing Madhavan a very happy birthday!

I got a nice forward that had a list of 28 beautiful words in English with a good, apt picture accompanying each word. As I scrolled down and read the words, I realized that most of the words in that list were the ones that I consider to be beautiful too.
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I took up this tag from Nithya’s blog.

Rules:

1. Put your MP3 player on shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write the name of the song no matter what. No cheating!
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In Wordpress, :-x/:x represent angry smiley ->
In Yahoo, X-(/X( represent angry smiley ->
In Yahoo, :x/:-x represent love-struck smiley ->

Imagine typing [:-x] in Yahoo instead of X( for an angry smiley!

Why isn’t a standard symbol being used everywhere? It’s so confusing

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

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?!