Documenting Observations

March has been complete dry while April has been frequently wet. However, there is one thing that has not changed in these two months. Red medium sized ants have been all over the place. On roads, dead leaf spreads, on rocks, inside home or in short wherever you look. Luckily these don't bite even if you step on some of them. They climb on you and run around. Sometimes you would feel that a thread or string has got tangled on your legs, when you look down, you would see their circular motion causing the feeling. It's interesting on how the mind gets tricked.

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Hens seem to like one part of the jackfruit than the other. The seed of a jackfruit when pulled out from the fruit has a covering. Hens seem to like this part more than the rest of it if it is not feed the fruit in itself. Now if you have big seeds, the covering will make a little pop sound when the seed is pushed out of it. If you have hens around you waiting to be fed, they seem to identify this pop and seems to be more alert and waiting for the drop from your hand than otherwise. This is more observable when you have just one hen waiting and there is not much sound in the surrounding.

1. Priests visiting home for prayers demand for an image before the prayer could begin. Do they not know the second commandment: Deuteronomy   5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Deuteronomy   5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Looks like the lords mercy is not sought in the RC world. 2. Sabbath is observed on Sunday instead of Saturday. Many work and make their servants and animals work ignoring the fourth commandment: Deuteronomy   5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.  5:13 Six days thou s...

My wife has been a teacher at a couple of schools. So the three stories that are narrated here are actual incidents that terrified both parents and the school staff. No schools are named here and the names of the children involved have been changed. #1 : After school Nishchita is brought back home by the aaya at school at 3:00pm. She has been doing this for quite long. However, on that fateful day her parents were not at home. She waited for sometime and then knocked on a neighbor’s home. The neighbor knew the child and the child knew the neighbor. The aaya found the neighbor ready to take custody of the child and so she left the child there. She returned to school but did not share with anyone of the incident. Nishchita’s parents who did not return home until 5:00pm had not bothered to call and inquire of their daughter until then. When they remembered of their daughter they called up the school authorities to enquire. Panic started when the school authorities responded that Nis...

I never get irritated when the phone rings. Even when people try to pester selling products over the phone, I sometimes, take delight to talk to them. However, recently one call started annoying me at my office desk. I have changed the name of character involved in my narration. “Am I talking to Amir Abraham?” became a constant inquiry everyday. Initially, I tried to look for the person in question on the company intranet. However, Amir was always offline. The caller wanted to reach the Amir as his SBI credit card dues were not paid on time. One fine day when I got the call I found Amir online. I started to chat with him on the online communicator while on the call. I got Amir’s mobile number and desk number and passed on the information to the caller asking him to contact him directly. The next day however the question was repeated, “Am I talking to Amir Abraham?” Every call from SBI would come from some new guy. So I checked with him if he had the new numbers updated the day bef...

My wife had this burning sensation above her stomach during both her pregnancies. During the first the doctor simply said it can occur in some cases and she suffered it all nine months. The second was with a different doc and she asked her to stop food that are sour & tart and that which are hot. She stopped with such food and so did her burning sensation