Sifaarish

Don't know what I resist more, asking for recommendation letters or writing them for others?

I quote

Hunting for a quotation for the class before the mid-term exam came across a nice one: “ Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask something that wisest can’t answer”. As expected students thoroughly enjoyed being referred to as the wisest or was it us being called fools.

The next one that caught my fancy was “Its ok to kiss a fool, its ok to let a fool kiss you, but never let a kiss fool you”. Very sex and the city type wisdom but for some strange reason made lot of sense.

"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man." Totally agree, if there was one behavioural difference betweens the genders that I had to pick it would be this one.

Then I saw “Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.”

Cricket talk

On the dining table, RRS and myself having a relaxed chat is not allowed in the house. In the sense that RRJ feels the need to make his presence felt. At suitable intervals we are informed things like which team he is playing for at the moment and what score his team has made so far and how it compares with the other team's performance etc. etc. It can also be something related to the cricket that is coming on TV.

And when he finds that our conversation is not getting derailed enough he puts in a question or two which requires more than a aha, oh no, hmmm, wow from our side. The other evening:
RRJ: Achcha, Rahul Dravid is a fast bowler or a spinner?
RRS: Rahul Dravid? I think he is a slow batsman.