The cloth-clip story

I had been wondering from many days how to reach to the ropes tied in my flat’s balcony to put my clothes to dry. They are two high and every time I’ve to use the only plastic chair in my house to reach to these ropes.

I, sometimes, tried pulling them down through a cloth hanger but as soon as I left the hanger to put the cloth on, the rope went back to its position. It has been weeks that I am questioning what to do with this situation? The only plastic chair is a solution but it belongs to my mother-in-law and she doesn’t like anybody putting his/her dirty feet on it. I do not want to spend money in buying a new stool or chair.  Plus, buying another plastic chair is as tough as a gladiator’s fight. We don’t own a four-wheeler, so I alone cannot buy and bring it home on my two-wheeler. My husband has Sunday as his weekly off and loves to spend it on the couch, watching TV. He is never interested in going out that day and buy something as silly as a chair or stool.

But, amazingly an idea poped in my mind a few days back. I haven’t had any creative ideas since my marriage (that period is by the way a year and a half). I hung the cloth clips with waste wire pieces on these ropes. These were very thin wires and fortunately there were holes in the clips already. Awesome, now I just hang the clothes with these clips and hurray no more jumping around or getting on and off the chair. 

Can you imagine the relief I got? And it saves me a lot of time every day.

Restart – The Indian Way of Resolving Probs

This weekend I made a revelation. I came to know that I'm an Indian by heart, mind and soul. And what helped me realise this, is my laptop. Yes, I love my laptop and it works fine...most of the time. And when it is not working or connecting to the internet or slow or stuck…what I do? No points for guessing… I RESTART it. Usually it works after restarting once, however there have been times when I've to do it twice…or thrice…not more than that…because then I just quit trying.

So why am I boring a small of amount of visitors of my blog by all this…BECAUSE I want all of you to give a thought to it, isn’t this the way we all operate in our day-to-day lives? By words like ”us” & “me” I mean Indians. We all make things work by JUGAAD. By the way, in case if you are not familiar with this word, let me have the privilege to introduce its meaning to you. Jugaad means a locally made solution, basically for machines around us.

This mechanics is a proof of creative minds. We think all the way...in a full circle around the problem. And this creativity is all acquired and then inherited due to the Indian circumstances of lack, less-facilitated backgrounds and a whole system of deficiency in the society. Whereas our developed counterparts don't enjoy this mind frame as they have all the facilities given to them, all the technologies in hand, adequacy in all senses.

It is very Indian, very desi, very apna. So here is for all the Jugaad minds… Keep It Up because “necessity is the mother of invention”. Cheers!

Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows

Has Robert Downey Jr. grown old since the first Sherlock Holmes? Well…I felt so, however, he was as stunning and mysterious as always. The movie once again takes you to your childhood; it surely took me to the days we used to borrow such books from school library. But somehow Rajinikanth kept on flashing in front of my eyes during action scenes. I wish I could calculate that much before a fight even starts and on top of it if my foes too could think like that and we would finish a fight in our thoughts than in reality. This has a deeper meaning too. It proves that thoughts have frequencies and that is what manifested in the reality.

Anyway, back to the movie…I am so fascinated and attached to the British style and accent of English. Splendid! I can watch this movie over and over again just for that reason. But the first film was far much better in understanding of the characters than this is.

I also have no clue why there can’t be some people in a gun factory, no guards and the huge cannons just lying there as if it is a scrap yard. But hey, shouldn’t I have habit watching a movie with lots of loose ends as I belong to group of Bollywood watchers!

I wanted Sherlock Holmes to be a detective not a super hero, I already have a few to count on like Spiderman, Batman and Rajinikanth. They all are capable of saving the whole world. I just want Sherlock to solve criminal or murder mysteries.

However, the movie has its own pace and it is worth watching a couple of times. It has a funny angel too. GO, give it a shot, feels like an oasis after blunders like RA One.