Monday, June 28, 2010

Efficiency Guide: 1

    Laziness manifests itself in the most sought after luxuries of our lives, the want for betterment has its roots in the desire for an easy and comfortable living. 
    Simply put, our day to day luxuries like cars,gymnasiums, GOOGLE, food delivery, washing machines, remote controls, scrubbers and almost anything was certainly developed by a lazy bugger trying his luck at avoiding some serious labor and struggle.
     These luxuries can today be given credit for our efficient way of life.My modest self will never claim to belong to the likes of the heroes of yesterday who gave us Maggi, but in my own humble way would like to share my efficient manner of living with you:

1] The first in the series of efficiency guide is for those who waste precious time everyday in washing their underwear as they bathe. The solution is: Dont wash it daily! stock them up till one day prior to the day you run out of clean underwear. Then wash them all together, this way you save on time, money and detergent as well!



This is a result obtained by keen observation of my fellow hostel mates emptying my detergent boxes in a time span  as quick as three days!

Statistically
1. An average person uses an excess of 272% of detergent daily per washing of underwear everyday.  
2. He/She owns a minimum of four underwear
3. Washing of underwear one or more in number requires a min of 4-5 mins.

Now my solution offers luxury of saving time:

Four underwear washed daily would require a total of 16-20 mins over four days.
Whereas washing three on the third successive day( why third not fourth?) would require 4-5 mins! so   
you save a whooping 300% on you time!

Also saving on detergent use,

Every four days an approximate 272*4% of detergent is wasted. whereas every third day you use the same amount i.e 272% excess for another two pair of underwear reducing wastage by 200% and only using an excess 72% per wash( once in three days)
This would reduce your detergent use from 372 units per day to 124 units per day reducing usage by 66% and thus saving on your cost as well

Moreover 

This technique ensures every underwear being used over every four days and not a single underwear wearing off earlier than the others.

Thus, if you are running too late and also out of water today, worry not just pile em up!



Monday, June 21, 2010

The KungFu Kid!

Everything is Kung Fu!
          A pleasant and modern remake of the 80's 'The Karate Kid', the 2010 version offers a lot more than chops and kicks. The Karate Kid keeps the vibe of the 80's cult classic alive in the most pleasing way. With the same story line and a lot more in common the newer version has Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith giving spectacular performances, not to mention the awesome Kung Fu moves.
         An emotional connect between the maintenance guy Mr.Han(jackie chan) and the new-in-Beijing Dre parker(jaden Smith) reminds of Mr. Miyagi and Daniel to the many like me who watched the Karate kid movies over and over again. The action sequences between Dre and his Bully buddies is gripping with the finale' i.e the tournament showing some real ass kicking kung fu in a Mortal Kombatish ruthless style.
        The most striking of all the performances is that of jaden smith, he shares the same charisma and presence of his dad and has trained himself in hard core Kung Fu. His performance brings out humor and succeeds in gripping the audience in a few sequences. Jackie Chan is best suited for the role of the master,calm composed and humorous, chan has convincingly portrayed the master.
        The villain, i.e the bully opponent as well has some really ruthless fights and kung fu sequences.Also new, is the way China is picturized. training sequences at the great wall, the forbidden city, shaolin temples, the streets, etc.
        All in all, its an awesome movie and certainly worth a watch. There's a cool rap by Jaden along with Justin biber, the young smith has some cool dance moves as well and is certainly someone to watch out for in the coming years.
       Go watch it for yourself!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Myopic Wanderers

        Its that beautiful time of the year again. The heavens are pouring, the fact that light travels faster than sound validated again and again with every lightening, offering bright glimpses in the dark, as the electricity boards issue black outs without having to give any explanations.

        Rains have never failed to amuse me, the dusky evenings, the bright mornings, the pleasant gusts of wind, the lighting of the candles as the outdoors rumble, the sweet aroma of nilgiris, my stinking pet stray dogs, the pleasant excess of greens meeting the eye in every direction, the mucky shoes, the abusing pedestrians as every car flies by mercilessly, the shutters down on every shop, the choked drains, chirping birds perched on branches, the raging dark clouds, getting drenched till the crotch (yes, that's when you can claim to be completely drenched), the reappearance of leakages and water seepage in walls.
Monsoons indeed sustain life, physiologically, emotionally and philosophically.

         Within hours of the rains, we'll find the house outdoors, the lamp posts, the playing fields all shrouded by swarms of winged ants fluttering ceaselessly for hours, and then in the mornings leave traces of wings and ant corpses with no signs of live ants to be found anywhere. These ants leave me baffled. They metamorphose, swarm, go distant places, a few lucky ones mate, and then? the males die and the mated females disperse to attempt establishing a new colony.
       
         Drawing analogies in a more homely species we find striking similarities. There is so much a man could do on the look out for 'action' sights. For one, as the parents put it a kid does sprout wings. He is then blinded, and ceaseless in his efforts(for procreation alone). On finding a mate, he mates and then looks for another, and then yet another. The 'nuptial flight' ends only with the demise of capabilities, but the will -survives.

         The garden of life sustains itself with the race of men. It blossoms as men gawk at bosoms and chase curves. The race of men is relentless and selfless. Never bothering about subsidiaries, they are blinded by the motive of survival of the species. Its no wonder that the myopic wanderers that we are, have our pursuits in life focused at just one point of climax-coitus.

          Its only for the greater good, that every dick has a head of its own!