What’s the point?

Have your cake and eat it too!

We’ve all heard this age old proverb or adage or whatever you call it these days. Well here’s my two cents worth…

What is the point of a cake if you can’t eat it!!

What; are you going to sit and admire the icing, the sweet (and usually round) shape of this slab of scruption and watch while others peg away at it slice by slice??

Here’s what I simply say:

I want my cake and I an going to eat it too! Simple. Prophetic; maybe, but simple!

I want my cake and I want to eat it too!

Hmm I feel better suddenly!

The day I got pepper sprayed!!

Firstly for all you fools who might think I was stalking someone and got what I deserved; this note is about an accident!

So here I am with my friend at an accessory store getting a cleaning kit for my pistol. While I was curiously checking out the different array of knives, holsters and handgun gizmo’s my friend Anwar was busy browsing in those areas of the store where normal people don’t ponder looking.

To his luck (and my misfortune later) he found US manufactured pepper spray bottles which I must tell you are deceivingly small for the potency they pack! While I’m closing the deal on my newly acquired cleaning kit I hear an ominous ‘pssst’ and seconds later I see Anwar going out of the store with his face red and eyes watering. I ask what happened (though somehow I already knew the answer); he mentions hurriedly in his wake that he sprayed himself in the face with the pepper spray!

Before I could start rolling on the floor laughing my ass off I sense a distinct tickle in my nose and whoosh I am hit by the remnants of the spray still looming (and spreading) in this 10X20 shop.

All I want to tell you is that these little buggers pack a punch and I soon join my friend on the curbside washing out my eyes and nose with water (generously provided by the neighboring restaurant).

Honestly, I would hate to be at the receiving end of, as the instructions on this three inch gold and black bottle state, ‘two or three concentrated bursts close to the assailants face’!!

Aahchoo

I tell you the effects are there even while I am writing this note. Looks like I have had my capsicum fix for the rest of the year!

It always helps to party

Yes that is the finding for today. Whether you may be a brain surgeon, an accountant, lawyer or the steward on the red-eye out of New York headed to Australia; one night out at a decent lounge or bar with friends and you are ready to hit the rat race again on Monday.

And hey, I am not excluding any non party-iers from this mass group of fun-finders. Everyone has their own way of recharging their batteries but heck in the words of Frank Sinatra “I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”

That be said I am glad the weekend is here again, right on time, as per expected schedule and I have plans of how to splash the next two nights away!!

Cheers!

Mimicking is indeed the best form of flattery

That’s what the saying goes like (or at least similar). Well let’s see who is flattering who here.

Man (and I mean mankind here for being slightly politically incorrect) inherently mimics! Period.

I got this epiphany a while back but have been on hiatus from writing for some odd reason or another. The moment was riding a subway in Barcelona, with a colleague (also an avid blogger at http://howmanyroads.blogspot.com/ ) and as the train snaked its way in these tunnels I couldn’t help but think I was riding inside a well lit centipede’s belly! (I had a late previous night at the bar and I guess remnants were still flowing through my veins)

Then during my ride-in-the-centipede’s-belly I began to think and came up with my list of Man-mimics or Manimics as I would now like to call them (that’s my 2 bits of creativity thank you)

Here goes that list:

Subway – Centipede
Sky scraper Window Cleaners –Spider / Scum sucker fish
Helicopter – Dragon fly
Morse code – Fireflies
Rock climbing – Praying Mantis
Society – Ants
Scuba - Fish
General Male Habits – Apes
General Female Habits - Cats

Maybe these animals know something we dont! But heck I guess we are just flattering a better species

Wanted is definately wanted here!!

What is it about a good looking woman with a weapon that just makes a movie so watch-able?

Saw wanted over the weekend and boy were there some farfetched-physics defying turning Newton in his grave kind of stunts and scenes. I’m talking about cars being flipped over other cars and people being shot through open sunroof’s because the side windows were bullet proof. I’m talking about bullets doing things even boomerangs can’t while swinging through the air. I’m talking about guys jumping over bridges, buildings and alleys and landing on moving subways like they skipped a puddle after a light drizzle.

Enter Angelina Jolie:

Now I’m talking about her driving the red dodge viper through busy what-looked-like-New-York-streets at 100 mph without batting an eyelid on her Venus De Milo face. I’m talking about Angelina shooting a fat-ass gun that I want to buy just because she makes it look so good. I’m talking about Jolie making a simple act of ‘leaning back to duck under the bridge while the subway goes under’ look like a Bach symphony played by a 40 person orchestra at La Scala in Milan.

And yes I am talking about her walking out of a hot water and wax healing bath with tattoos that would get Michelangelo woken from his tomb to brush up on his painting skills!

Aah yes this was a good movie indeed and I’m headed to see it again later this week.




p.s. I did head straight to the gun club after the movie and no there is no possible way to curve a bullet around a corner and hit your target!!