Life of an adventuress

I don't know if there is a word called adventuress but I'm gonna run with it cause thats the only thing to describe my friend Stacey.

I met her through a cousin of mine who gave her my info just in case she needed some help in the other city that never sleeps (Mumbai) and oddly enough, she's never really needed it.

Anyway, I will be hard pressed to find anyone having more or as much fun anywhere as she does. From running marathons to hanging out with tigers to learning the sitar, she does it all. But today she topped it all in a crazy conversation.

Here is the gist:-

me: so, take part in any new marathons or learning any new instruments?

Stacey: hehe nope

nothing like that recently

me: what? nothing? not the answer I expected... I would have thought you would have been running around in Tibet playing with tigers right now

Stacey: well, next month i'm climbing everest

so i'm planning that now

this weekend i'm in delhi, tuesday i'm in bangalore, next friday i'm in goa

no time for instruments

Just insane. You rock. Cheers to more insane fun.

Quotes of the day

To all fathers and sons out there, courtesy of Qotd again.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
- George Herbert, 1593 - 1633

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
- Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 - 1695

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
- Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963

You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way.
- Sherwood Anderson, 1876 - 1941

Quotes of the Day

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809 - 1894

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- George Santayana, 1863 - 1921

Quote of the Day

This just in from an Esquire article abt the 60 things worth shortening your life for.

Number 42 is Secondhand Smoking:-

The smoker has the best stories, tells the best jokes, and laughs the hearty, hacking laugh of someone wise beyond his dwindling years. If black lung by proxy is the price we must pay for staying close to this dying breed, so be it.

Awesome.

Straight from the Heart

I'm not really a subscriber of the whole Valentine thingie... it's just not a part of who I am.

But I will use this occasion to wax poetic abt some awesome quotes related to today's theme. I'm tired of the day already with tons of people wishing me Happy Valentines... I mean I've been hearing it since I was driving home at 5 in the morning from work.
Some people were starting their days, I was ending mine. It was just not the time.

Thanks qoTd once again.


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
- Irving Stone


Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
- Anita Brookner


Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
- Elinor Glyn, 1864 - 1943

The Time Traveller

Just read an awesome short tale from the master of combining religion + sci-fi elements - Arthur C. Clarke.

It's called The Nine Billion Names of God

I want to read all of his books now. Anyway, in the meantime here are quotes uttered by him:


The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Quotes of the Day - Chess

Since I'm once again become obsessed with it, today's them is rightly Chess.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
- Anatol Rapoport

Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science.
— Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa

Chess is mental torture.
- Garry Kasparov

When you see a good move, look for a better one.
- Emanuel Lasker