Slices of my daily life

I seem to have an unusually high number of funny telephone-encounters ! In fact, long ago, I had written a post on telephone manners . What happened a short while ago is yet another incident in the growing list :) My cell phone rang. I saw a cousin's name flash on it. We haven't spoken for ages. In fact we usually meet and chat only at family functions...the usual reason being busy schedules etc. So, I received the call and very cheerily said, "Bol S!" There was this heavy silence for about 10 seconds...during which a thousand thoughts came to my mind...ranging from...is there any sad news and did I sound too cheery for that...to...perhaps she's called to invite me to some function. The 10-second silence seemed a wee bit too long and I heard myself say uncomfortably, "Kay ga ?" ("What's up ?) Then she said, "Oh wow ! Its you ! For a second I wondered why my bai's daughter is sounding like this !" To this, I could only burst into lo

I got this as a forward...the source is mentioned as National Geographic. A female leopard hunts a pregnant female baboon. While the leopard is dragging the dead baboon, she notices a day-old baboon baby... Leopard leaves the hunted mother and starts taking care of the newborn baboon. When I shared it with my colleagues, one colleague RP remarked, "As some humans are turning into animals day by day in our society, somebody needed to compensate !"