If looking at the stranger in the mirror wasn’t enough, there are always infrequent observers(aka cousins and relatives) and the visits to barber which serve as a cruel reminder that I may be going bald.

A few months ago, on a visit to my home for a family event, a cousin observed, “Arre you have lost so much hair!”. Not only did i want to retort back by saying,”Oh yeah! When did this happen, they were all there like last night when i checked! Strange, I didn’t know!” I also wanted to top it off by boxing him in the face.

A few months later, a visit to the hair salon(the frequency of these trips have already dropped now!), the barber giggled and said,”Arre Sir! What happened, you have so little hair left on the scalp!” I just muttered,”You that means less revenue for you and more savings for me!”

Last month my sister send me a big bottle of shampoo from the US(yeah imported shampoo!), and it struck me…it could very well be the last bottle of shampoo I’d ever need!

Even dad now looks weirdly at me, I know he’s looking at the scalp and its last few battalions. I know that he is thinking, how could this egg-to-be ended up in my family of good haired people. Frankly, I haven’t gotten a clue, maybe its genetics or maybe its water…all I know is that with each passing day my head is getting smoother.

I know everyone would reach there in another decade, its just that I am reaching there first! I always liked to get attention, but being the only egg in the house doesn’t do me much good. Of course I’d expect the ladies to look beyond the obvious in me(while I may not be reciprocating that!)…and yes research says that balding is also a sign of virility!(Okay my only selling point!)

Neither is it controllable, nor did I bring it upon me! But my hairs have decided to flee.

PS-Did you ever notice, that the MD of Marico(of all hair products like Parachute etc…) is bald!

http://www.helpgaurav.com

So here I was returning from breakfast, limping my way back to the hostel when I somehow managed to slip in a part of my walking stick into one of the 6-7 circular holes of this cement manhole cover! Before I could realize the implications, I pulled the stick out..and Lo behond it came out sans the ferrule!

Mortified, Petrified and stupified I went back to my room…attempting to find a temporary fix to the problem. For this I also raised a question on Yahoo! Answers.

Current update is that I do have a temporary fix in place. Still looking for a better one.

My Jones Fracture

This is my first fracture and I hate troubling others for my petty needs

This threat is real, tropical diseases like Chikungunya have started moving to Europe. Thanks to the warmer tempratures which now enable carrier insects like the tiger mosquitoes to survive in places where they aren’t normally found. In a recent news from Italy, the village Castiglione suffered an outbreak of Chikungunya, a disease which they had never heard of, from the carrier mosquitoes which earlier had never thrived there.

This is the beginning of the threat of tropical diseases spreading over to warming europeans countries, its no more a threat, its happening.

It also reminds of a news earlier this year which talked about snowfall in Dubai, something which never ever occured earlier in recorded history! All these news articles just take up a minor part of our newspapers, while they are nothing  but a hint at the shape of things to come.

Global warming is REAL.

Today I came across a Discussion on Junk Food; and someone mentioned a movie ‘Super Size Me’. It kicked up my curiosity and I surfed up on the same.

This crazy guy Morgan Spurlock decided to subside on McDonalds junk food for 30 days 3 times a day; he started as a healthy 33 year old and by the end of the month he had gained over 11 kg, was at a high risk of liver damage.

Not satisfied enough; I went further down to YouTube to have a look at the clips from the movie…and I was shocked and surprised.

In one of the clips; Morgan interviews a few school kids. He shows them a pictures ofGeorge Washington which a few could recognize, he then shows the the picture of Jesus Christ, surprisingly none of them could recognize him, and then he pulled out the picture of Ron MacDonald, the result was as expected, they all could instantly recognize their favorite icon in the Junk World!

The movie was nominated for the best Academy Award Documentary in 2004, its really a shocking outcome contrary to what the big corporations claim.

While the movie is in an American Setting; the results are applicable to all of us around the Globe, this isn’t about McDonald’s but for all junk food.

Today I decide to ditch McDonalds food except for its Ice Creams….do view the trailer.

Also visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me