Koi smart koi dumb

In our regular coffee place,“ no change for 1000 rupees, can you pay by card please?” The card never came back and the fool I am, I never noticed until the e-statement reached me this morning. Someone has been on a shopping spree. Seems to be a first timer as thankfully it all adds up to within 5 thousand rupees in two weeks. Could have been so much worse. Blocked the card but wondering should I go and give an earful to the coffee shop staff or just forget it as a stupid, expensive mistake.

The R-word

Seeing children actively participate in religious activities makes me very uncomfortable. I wish parents, if at all they must influence, would let the child see themselves being religious and let the child choose for herself. To me it seems any child who follows religion because of her parents would follow the same religion irrespective of the religion type. Wouldn't it be wonderful then to have the common factor of all religions, the value system, to be passed on rather than what makes a religion distinct from others, the rites and rituals.

WC-I

With each match of the world cup, RRJ finds the playing countries on the globe. And we get to see the tiniest of countries, so tiny that their names don’t fit the space available on the globe, having made it there. Hugely depressing. Turns out we are participating after all, that too in each game! The jabulani soccer balls have the their latex bladder made in India. Hmmm... I want to cry now.

Happened to see the German match against Australia. The unearthly hour and my rotten mood could not get in my way of thoroughly enjoying the superb game that Germans put up. An absolute delight.