So I'm reading the news and I discover that the drought in India is because the Chief Minister of the State of Bihar ate a biscuit during last week's solar eclipse. He was accused of doing so by an opposition politician. I completely believe the accusation because the article includes a picture of the Minister doing the deed. In the full-colour photo he is shown actually eating a biscuit. A Real biscuit. I don't need any more proof than that.

Elsewhere I read that women who drink moderate amounts of beer may be strengthening their bones (according to researchers from the University of Extremadura in Spain). The Spanish study showed that test subjects who were 'light to moderate' drinkers i.e. drank upto 5 units a day (!!) had superior bone density to non-drinkers. However, the UK's National Osteoporosis Society said that an alcohol intake of more than 2 units per day actually increased the risk of breaking a bone. How does one explain this contradiction?

- Perhaps 2 units a day cause your bones to break but once you reach 5, they start getting stronger.
- Perhaps 2 units a day cause women to fall down more contributing to higher bone breakage but once they reach 5, women just pass out where they are sitting without breaking anything.
- Perhaps spanish women just hold their drink better and don't fall down so much even after 5 units.
- Perhaps everyone should just quit beer and drink vodka like Real women do.

I brought the monsoon to Delhi. I take full credit for it. I just packed some of the rain from London. Its not like they'll miss it there. Yesterday was Independence Day here in India. So if its raining heavily and the whole country's celebrating independence, what do we do in Delhi?
We fly kites.

Flying kites is, of course, not compatible with heavy monsoonal rain.......nor a particularly solemn way of commemorating independence. The guy on the roof of my building is trying though. He's got a kite in the colours of our national flag. Or at least, he had one. He just lost it and now its fluttering away. I wonder why he let go. Maybe he saw the Monkey on the A.C! Maybe the monkey got him!! Yet another martyr for the nation. जय हिंद!

There's a list out - of the most burgled postcodes in the U.K. As some of you may know, the house at Fairbridge Road in North London was burgled a few months back and some of our laptops got stolen. I checked to see if our N19 postcode was on the list. It wasn't..........but neighbouring N8 (Hornsey) was. No.8 on the Burglary Hotspots List of U.K. Those burglars should really learn how to read a map and know where N8 stops and N19 starts. Idiots. I propose we blame Gordon for the illiteracy of British Burglars.

And for all you non-believers out there, I just have one thing to say to you.

Everton 1 - Arsenal 6

posted by shahana at 11:39 AM