Hi Stranger!

I am hooked to Omegle! Omegle connects you to random strangers from across the world and lets you chat anonymously without divulging any private details. There is no need to sign up and you begin chatting in an instant. Its fun!

Met lots of interesting people over the last three days. Discussed Oktoberfest with an Austrian, argued about what's Rock, what's not with a New York music student and trashed the Dutch football team with some help from a man hailing from Netherlands. I have also staunchly refused invitations to, (you know what)from many a promiscuous individual.

One question I put forth everytime was what came to their mind whenever they heard one mention "India". The answers ranged from stereotypes like 'Turban' 'Elephants' and 'Snake Charmers' to imaginative ones like 'Girls with long black hair' and 'Bhindi!'. India, to them, is an intriguing and mystic country or as a furniture salesman from Finland put it, "an entirely new world". One thing was that everyone held some myth or the other about India. One bass guitarist from Finland thought that weed grew everywhere and all that people needed to do was to pluck them from the roadside!

Its fun and its safe, as long as you don't touch the toffees the strangers give!

On the Rocks

Listening to 'Socha Hai' from Rock On on my way back made me pause and take a little note of the questions raised in the song. A little googling later, this resulted.

1) Aasman hai neela kyun - Why is the sky blue?
Light scattering. Light from the sun strikes numerous gas and dust particles present in the earth's atmosphere and the blue coloured wavelength component of light is scattered the most, giving the sky the blue colour. In space, where there are no gas particles, the sky is pitch black.

2) Paani geela geela kyun - Why is water wet?

Actually, it isn't. Water wets things but water itself is not wet. Water actually does not wet substances like fat and wax. The wet feeling is our sensation due to the attraction of water molecules to the molecules of other substances.

3) Gol Kyun hai zamee - Why is the earth round?
Gravity. Gravity pulls with the same force in all the directions and any variation from a spherical shape will lead to self adjusting corrections. Again, this is only an approximation. When the rotation of the earth is also considered, the centrifugal force causes the earth to bulge at the equator and shorten at the poles.

Spitter Spatter..

‘Sometimes words are hard to find,
I’m looking for that perfect line,
To let you know.......’

plays the Bryan Adams number on my player as the rain begins to pick up more than gentle pace, forcing me to rush to a nearby coffee shop for cover. The cool breeze and the weather in b’lore is back in full glory (for now).. and the smell of rain, like every other time, stirs me up to do all that is simply out of this world (read otherworldly!) while i settle myself in a corner outdoors.
In fact if you were one of them sitting around and watching me right then, you’d be sure i was a lunatic grinning to himself, with the feet tapping to the song so obvious I could’ve advertised for Woodland’s right then. My head meanwhile as always, was scheming of things like which song I’d play once back home, what food to gorge on, what SeQueL to work on tomorrow(!!) and what next I’d post on my blog, if at all.