I wanna buy a camera. Its current price is Dhs. 1099. I dont have the money to buy it now.

So I go to the shopkeeper and tell him that I would like to buy this camera, but I dont have the money now. He then suggest I buy a call option. For this option, I have to pay him Dhs. 10 and he sets the expiration date as June 30th 2007. The option is that I can buy this camera for Dhs.900 after 6 months.

Lets see what happens. What do you think abt this deal?

The merry family gatherings –
The old, the very young;
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonize in carols sung.
For Christmas is tradition time
Traditions that recall
The precious memories down the years,
The sameness of them all.

-Helen Lowrie Marshall

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

There was a time... (and let me emphasise on the WAS again )...when I was Thin - Lean and Lanky. That was another time ,another world almost... when gorging pizzas, burgers, coke and the like, was done without the slightest sense of guilt - almost smug in the realization that I would never put on weight. Metabolism was something I took for granted.

Woe! Alas!..and all those other words which indicate shock/sorrow...that is no longer the case. Fact - I've put on X* number of Kilos in the past X*/2 months - and this having stayed on a plateau of 12X*+3 kgs for the past X* years.


The unthinkable must now be done ...exercise (ouch!) and eat a "balanced diet" (yuck!)...The good news is, I've yet to begin the former ( though sadly its inevitable ), the ugly news is...I have begun adding more fibre into what I ingest. I hit upon the superdiet forumla on one of those Kingfisher Airline superchannels...and the superformula is as follows. Take a plate...mentally draw a diameter across the plate. On one half, stuff it up with salad. Divide the other half into 2 quadrants - one filled with card, the other with protien.

I've just started on this diet (only for lunch mind you) and hopefully with the right kind of cardio workout..things should...er..work out.


So the next time, you see a lean, mean machine walking down the road...that's not me...I'm the fat log jogging on the other side of the road.

*number has been alphabetized to protect the innocent

Here I am..supposedly a "comeback" , as some UK residents claim...

Anyways...well, as with any "comeback", there has to be some jing-bang, and hence the flashy template ( as UK residents would know, this not at all my style...but other ready made ones were prosaic...and make one of my own, u ask?...I cant even write in my own mothertongue, let alone HTML)

The "comeback" is in place and the jing-bang is in order. Sadly though, I dont have content. No fodder to chew on...yup, Life's been fairly, if not very, uninspiring off late (if you discount the leftover pizza in the fridge).

Been helping Dad in renovating the flat. That's been keeping me busy doing something I'm particularly bad at...home improvements. And I've learnt a lot! For eg: I now know that a door is not single slab of wood cut out from a tree. It is actually planks of wood stuck, hammered, filed, etc together. Honestly, how many of you guys knew this??

I also now know, asking the carpenter silly questions like, which tree did he cut out that door from...will prompt a smirk on his face, which reads " What a moron!".


In other news, my Christmas vacation - a full 16 days - is around the corner. It will be the longest vacation (16 days) I've ever taken since joining NITIE. Looking forward to a Merry Christmas and hopefully, if all goes well, a Happy New Year!


So until inspiration strikes me next ...I take your leave. Have a nice day!