Mosquito the Menace

Its high time we declare the state bird of Kerala....The Mosquito.

More mosuitos are there in Kerala than any other birds. Now you would walk up to me and say that mosquitos are insects and not birds. But when u get to see mosquitos of the size of a bird flying around your head you would actually mistake it for a bird.Thats what happened to me when i went home this weekend.

We stay in the 9th floor. Closer to God than most people in our flat. I thought mosquitos were incompetent to fly all the way up to 9 th floor and suck our blood.But I was in for a surprise. Forget flying all the way up to 9th floor.I was surprised to see that they were more aggressive and vibrant when in high altitudes. Maybe its cos they dont actually fly all the way up as they use the lift . That way they conserve all the energy required to fly and use that energy on us.Strategist!!!

Looks like some chinese guy ended up in Cochin and had an encounter with the mosquitos . And like the Chinese Fishing nets, he left us with a Chinese bat.Looks more like a raquet and like all chinese products it has some dual utility or the other and so this one has a torch attached to it.So even during Power cuts you can hunt down the mosquitos. Another Strategist!!

Now, In addition to all this it also helps you improve your badminton skills,play air badminton around your house for 10 mins trying to hunt down mosquitos before going to sleep and in 6 months you'll be ready to compete in Olympics. No kidding.Try it.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

If anybody happens to watch the Weather and Pollution levels of each city which they show in NDTV and you see that Bangalore has high sound pollution... I know who is spreading the love of sound in Bangalore

My driver....the driver who drops me to office everyday.

Whoever goes to Old Madras Road area at around 6pm on weekdays and hear an irritating honking sound (sounds something like kkkeee kkkeee kekekkkeee and mulitply that by 1000) will tend to agree with me. and if anybody sees a tall lanky fellow in there seated in th backseat , well he is innocent. Its the guy behind the wheels who is the culprit.

Now, apart from all the honking and abusing the people on the road another important charecteristic of the driver is that he does not like the roads empty. If he doesnt find any car on the roads he feels bored. Something similar to the drivers i have noticed in Delhi. They just dont like 'em empty.

The moment they see roads are filled with cars and people some kind of a mad spirit enters their body, the ones which you see on tv where people start acting weird when they go to a durgah and all.

Anyways, my point here is people have started losing patience here. There is this another case which i'm sure most of us would have come across in our daily life. There are people who keep constantly pressing the lift button expecting the lift to come to their floor faster. but the fact is that it actually comes late. Thats because the lift does not like constant reminding of what it has to do. Something similar to human mind. We dont like being reminded of what we have to do.do we? Now the key here is Patience. You just need to tbe patient till the lift arrives to your floor.

Now when my computer at work gets stuck trying to multitask and my directors are waiting for the report at that point of time i try banging my system hoping it will bring some sense into my stupid computer. well you know what, no banging brings your system into your senses. It will come back to life only when it feels like. Sometimes it likes to act dead and doesnt come back at all. Thats when you confirm a system has crashed. Now take my advice, its not good to bang at something which is dead.

There will be other instances when you feel the whole world is against you.especially in situations like when you have to reach some place urgently(most of the time office) and you get stuck in maddening traffic, or waiting to get a haircut done on a sunday and realising that 3 people have already arrived before you, or calling up a call centre for a very minor info and ending up going through all the option from 1-20 or when you are at a public place and you have to use the restroom urgently and then realise you are in queue.... hmmmm..maybe that has to do more with self control than patience.

Patience is one thing which cannot be inherited. It has to be learned and experienced. and for that too one needs patience. Now if you ask me how to get that initial patience ...I'ld just say...Read my blog.