Just when the winter is freezing things up, it appears that some thoughts in my brain decided to thaw itself in here! For those that follow my blogs, a warm welcome back!
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It was certainly some fall cleaning at my office desk and I proceed to find out there is something packed in a nice neat cover and labeled as if it were a gift. Not the one that has been a recipient of many wrapped gifts, I knew something was not right. But nonetheless, as always, curiosity (s)kills the cat you see!
So - there I go, with my decision to quickly peel off what looked like a gift wrap from the outside. And viola! It was not one, not two, but THREE packs of Lindt Lindor truffles!!! Was I in heaven?! I don't know! When it is chocolates, everything else has to come later! I swiftly open up the pack and before the wink of an eye, one milk truffle is already down my throat. There were still 12 more pieces to go in just this box. But this is the blue box. There was a red one too! Variety, they say, is the spice of life - or in my case, the chocolate of life!
With a gleeful grin from side to side on my face and thanking the fact that there is visibly none that were around at that hour to share this with as well, I decide to open the red box. And when doing so, I accidentally flipped it to the wrong side and what did i see? Absolute fun! This box clearly indicated "Best by Jun 2017". And it was clearly dark and bold faced marking that cannot escape one's eye!
Yikes! I immediately look at the other box I opened up and noticed that one was supposedly good until Mar 2017! :D Anyway, I was just plain happy that my alimentary canal didn't particularly despise me for this and I escaped unhurt. That was some learning for sure - love can be blind but not foolish!
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It appears that somewhere down the road with the advent of social media, the discourse across the globe with access to the media is also getting extremely digitized (I would hate using the term polarized, though that's what it is precisely getting to be!) You find swathes of people who are in need of identifying themselves and also out to mark others into an all or nothing bucket! I mean, you are either a right wing or a liberal. You are either communist or a capitalist!
To me, this seems to be losing a remarkable sense of balance that a human mind is capable of! And strange though as it seems, the levels of education seems to have no bearing on this kind of thought processes whatsoever. Ah, but do I care? I would probably just continue reading both sides of the world as I always do and carry on :D
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I am no movie buff. And unless someone drags me by the collar into one, I am kind of unlikely to get talked into watching full blown movies for even a complete 2 hours. But there was one day when it all had to be completely different - and this one, was post a nice round of cycling that I had with my group of friends at the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
Having done with a lot of physical exercise, it was time for some rest and relaxation. And one of us in the group decided it was best to do so watching a movie in the theaters. And given the physical condition of myself at that hour, it was decided that nothing other than a recliner seating would be deemed acceptable! Thus we wound up in the UA Oxford Valley @ Langhorne, watching the Bladerunner 2049!
I wouldn't discredit the movie so much for the first half hour or so! It was fairly tolerable. But then came a point where one decided to completely turn in and sleep in the recliner chair, another was leaning up and trying level best not to snore (that's yours truly!), another one tried taking a break despite a knee injury from the bicycle ride in the afternoon - only to return and find the scene hadn't pretty much moved at all and literally the same two people were on the screen from the point of break to the point of return and probably stating the same dialogue as well. And the person who recommended the movie to the group? Oh well.. the poor chap was trying to bite his fingers and move himself to the edge of the seat and stay attentive and tuned while getting visibly sucked into the boredom of what Bladerunner landed up to be!
Now, there was suddenly something that I realized... the movie name, in hindsight, had its fair share of warning I must say! After all, it had "blade" in it :D
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