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my next-door neighbour has no heart or ears for that matter. he has bought his 10-year-old grandson a cute white puppy and housed the poor darling in a cage! inhumanity reeks from that bungalow, and reminding me that fact every minute are the pitiful yelps and high-pitched whines..and the only time that ceases is when the poor creature falls asleep out of fatigue.

i'm thinking of entering his house, and asking him in a very formal tone, how he would feel if I locked his grandson up in a cage because the brat runs around, yells juvenile nonsense, and throws stones at birds - things worse than what the pup's doing.. so if the caging was a form of reprimanding the pup, going by analogy, the kid should be tied up and hung upside down for a week every month.

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looking back now, I realize how silly the education system was and continues to be.. atleast those in schools and junior colleges. They place so much importance on academic excellence that kids are finding it so darned difficult to hold on to this runaway train! The pace is so blinding, I feel as if I gave the SSC ages back!

Getting an 80-85% then assured one a seat in any good college in the 1st or max. 2nd merit lists; but, today, that sort of number on your marksheet will place you in the league of yesterday's 60-70% scorers.. Its really sad. And besides, these marks hold no water, they're just numbers reflecting one's memorization ability. Nowhere is it clear that academic excellence at age 15 paves a concrete path to success in later-life.

Its high time the government devalued the SSC and HSC exams, made them optional, or devise a system that evaluates a child on his/her own nook of excellence.. how on earth is a 15-year-old supposed to know whether commerce, science, or arts or whatever is their field of future expertise? How can one decide then and there!?

The education system encourages the harvest of students into stereotype streams, making students believe there are only certain things they can be good at, and deciding that for them on the basis of a geometry problem or social science short note.. now thats scripting a crazy tale..

feuer frei!

how do you remain undetectable to cockroaches and mosquitoes? The bane of every household--multiple clans of these 2 species can wreck havoc and melt the resolve of even the strongest of minds.. the universally hated duo...i, like most, like to eat at my desk, watching some movie, videos, listen to songs, surf the web, whatever,.. and yes, no matter how drab or delicious the food is, the invisible trail of aroma will bring these 2 out of their lairs.. so they say that roaches can survive a nuclear war.

bah! how i wish one could just collect ALL the damned specimens of each, and roast their sorry microscopic arses alive.. mother earth can sure do without these 2 clogging her ecosystem.. no-one needs them.. im sure they dont belong or form any integral part of any life cycle.. they're the nature's version of the appendix or tonsils.. tolerable when unnoticed, a pain-in-the-neck when they start acting up.

roll the mumbai mirror, and BAM!.. and the dead roach elicits a sort of twisted sick form of joy.. as u find yourself think "thats one less creature in this house" but no..u kill one, there's some mamma roach producing a battery of little roaches.. the real terrors are the flying roaches.. u mishit and your chance for the day is squandered.. mosquitoes are like sedated houseflies.. they dont have impressive reflexes.. always floating around disinteresed.. playing with their lives everytime they're in the vicinity of humans.

how i wish geneticists engineer an anti-mosquito gene for roaches and an anti-roach one for the mosquitoes.. divide and rule.. yeah!