You are pregnant, You are on the BART, why won't you sit when someone offers you a seat!!

Yes, it's a long title. However, this is exactly what was going through my head 2 weeks ago during the tiring BART commute which used to be nap time for me before the BART started experiencing issues and Richmond trains were dropped from Fremont route. There was a mob of passengers standing in every coach, with dying hope of finding a seat. In the midst of this was a lady who was very visibly pregnant, she hops onto our coach and obviously a seated passenger begins to get up and offer her a seat, she refuses to sit.. huh? Another older lady does the same.. she refuses again with a smile.. I am baffled by this as we are being jerked around by the bumpy ride. I want to ask her.. what is the matter with you? It bothers me .. what is going on in her head? You may want to be strong and tough but you do realize there is baby in you.. a living being who is fragile , who is not going to benefit from the bumpy BART ride.

After learning of my confusion as to why the lady would happily refuse to take a seat, one of my good friend responds "but may be she was not pregnant" .. . I think about this ... but there was a visible baby bump on her.. we argue about this .. after a set of back-and-forths my friend sends me a picture of her acquaintance who she thought was pregnant and even called her so... only to hear not so pleasant words in a reply... the acquaintance was not pregnant .. she clearly looked pregnant... I refused to believe this .. until I saw the picture.. my friend suggested I blog about this .. get an opinion or something ... according to her I can use the picture freely on the internets as the girl in it will never learn to use a computer....regardless I have blurred the face .... and the shoes ....and the handbag.. sometimes you can tell with the handbag and all..

Most perfect song in the world??

Kabhi Kabhi mere dil mein... oops.. typo jee.. I mean, the song Kabhi Kabhi Aditi from Jaane to ya Jaane na can be deemed by me as the current most perfect song.

Everything about this song is great... When the singer goes 'haste haste haste...', oooh, sooo smooth.

I have a weird feeling that this was originally a Tamil song and the song was redone in Hindi (ex. Alaipayuthey --> Saathiya). True?

You listen to the song, and you just want to sway back and forth and back and forth. It's only 3:41 in length but is such bliss.. The last 41 seconds of the song are pretty much the same words being repeated in different variations and you just want to float. Every time I listen to the song, I feel like I'm sitting on a cloud and being lifted in the blueeee sky. cheesy eh? heckz yea!

One of my many favorite parts in the song is when the singer, Rashid Ali, goes 'everythinggg's gonna be ok'. The everythinggg's part has a Jamaican feel to it.. Download that song peeps. There's also some parts that has a ding-dong kind of a music. It's the cutest sounding thing.

Go Brown Go

Wow. Check out this wonderful beta who must've made his parents proud...

Akshay Rajagopal from Nebraska, 11-year old, won the National Geographic Geography Championship. "As he blitzed the competition, his family looked on from the front of the auditorium at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington. He boned up for several months by studying geography DVDs and textbooks." More details here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_re_us/geography_bee

My daddy, on the other hand, always told me to focus more on 'Maths'. Anyway, before I teeter into my self stories, congrats Akshay!.





Well, my eyes would not have drawn as much attention to the article if the boy in the picture wasn't brown, carrying that big beautiful check, looking ever so cute in the direction of perhaps his parents, and siblings...



In other news, b-check b-out b-this b-video: http://www.hulu.com/watch/1792/saturday-night-live-bush-twins

Would you Walk Away?

Following incident happened over the weekend...

Couple of my friends and I went to a club/bar where a certain ethnic group were the majority in the crowd. My group of friends and I were probably the only ones that were not part of the majority ethnic group that was present at the club. Two of my friends stepped out for a bit, and while standing outside, they were called a very racial, derogatory term by a few people.

One of the friend's instant reaction was to punch that person in the face, but the other friend held back, calmed the friend down and both decided to leave the place immediately.

My question to you blogtopia is, would you also want to leave such a place immediately and walk away?

Or would you prove your point in another way, perhaps by sticking around to show that being labeled does not effect you. You paid for the service to enter the club, so don't you deserve to have a good time just like everyone else in there?

Would making a stand, not being phased out, and continuing to stay at the club make a stronger point? Or is walking away and avoiding other situations the answer?

Thanks.

Reason for a Lawsuit?

I never usually drink soda but was very excited to see the Transformers being advertised on Pepsi bottles again. So I decided to buy one at the cafeteria at work. Looky at the bottle..

After drinking about a 1/3 of it, I noticed the expiration date. Looky now:

The image is fuzzy thanks to my cheap ass cell phone camera. But if you can decipher the above picture, you will notice that the Pepsi actually expired on October 10, 2007. ewww. It expired 7 months ago but the cafeteria still had it in the refrigerator along with other beverages and other Pepsi bottles with Transformer pics on them. ewww. Blasphemous! Should I sue the company for not changing its the bottles regularly?

Oh, and the pepsi tasted normal. At least to me it did. It was still carbonated and all, but ewww.

And the government was trying to get rid of them....

click on image to read the full article

Related post : http://stopbywhenever.blogspot.com/2007/09/let-it-not-be-unnoticed.html

Multi-tasking a little too much

Ah the stories I hear at work...

Co-worker came up to my desk and narrated the following:
She was on her way to the bathroom and came across another co-worker who was apparently having an intense convo on the phone. Little did he realize that while he continued walking, and talking on the phone, he started to unzip his pants before even entering the bathroom. He was apparently 'still 10 feet away from the bathroom door!' claims astonished co-worker.

She didn't want to disclose the name of this guy. Damn corporate ethics!