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In this summer – don’t forget to water your plants.

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Most of us have plants in our homes. The indoor plants are a rage nowadays, specifically the good luck bamboo plants. The indoor plants such as the bamboo plants are needed to be watered every three to four days. As we all know, one has to be very careful with them during this hot and humid summer season. These plants need to be watered regularly. If you live in a place with the temperature rising above thirty degree Celsius, you will see that the plant has sucked all of the water in a day and it’s stems are dry and in need of water. These plants are sensitive to their needs and to keep them healthy, regular maintenance is needed. Same with the outdoor plants. They too need regular care. If you have a garden, whether big or small, appoint a gardener to care for your plants or you will soon find them withered and dying in this ruthless summer.

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A letter on a popular social media site- Can you sing a song nicely?

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I received a letter in my account on a popular social media site. It was from an old friend. I hadn’t like the tune of a song and he was upset with me. I did my best to make him understand my view , but he cut off all his relations with me. For him that song was more like his favourite football team and there it ended. This had happened long back. We both had nearly forgotten about each other and suddenly, out of the blue, he posts a letter to me on social media site and it contained three lines –

Can you sing a song nicely?,

Your old friend,

XYZ.

I was baffled and I didn’t know what to reply. I left it there.

After thirty minutes there was another message from him, stating that he had become a successful music director and was creating more indie songs than the commercial ones and he was interested to know,if I would sing a jingle for his production.

 

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I politely declined.

He replied-” I knew it, so I had the jingle recorded by a famous new comer,boo-boo and boo and go to hell.”

I didn’t reply.

I still don’t understand where was the need to contact me, if he had already recorded the jingle.

Sometimes tunes are more important than true friends.

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POTATOES

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Due to continuous blog writing, we (i.e. Ma and me), we both forgot to have our lunch.By five in the evening, hunger was growling inside our stomach and by five-thirty it had turned into a roar. Ma was not feeling well. So, i got up saw a beautiful scenario. Nearly every sort of instant food was over.Even the always and evergreen eggs. Now what to do? The answer was – big round potatoes. In an urgency people generally make french fries; but I decided against it. No more oily foods.

Took the peeler and peeled them off. Took a four of my peeled potatoes and chopped them nicely and setting the pan on gas I made a potato curry sort of thing.

With the other few peeled potatoes I made them into smashed potatoes sort of a ball of potato mix

garnished with salt, coriander, onions and black pepper. We had them at six in the evening. By that time our stomachs were like a dehydrated patients, but once we had the potatoes we were energized for the evening.They tasted yummy. Then I made the simple and glorious black tea, which tasted bland. After eating so much of potatoes, my mother decided to cook.

Now I am waiting for my dinner which Ma has cooked, despite not feeling well.

 

 

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Went for a walk at eleven instead of six

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I usually go for a walk at six’ o clock in the morning. The weather is nice at that time i.e. pre dawn.The streetlights are still on and it feels good to walk a mile or two sometimes. Today, instead of walking up at five in the morning, I woke up at five past ten and understanding my folly, got ready and having a glass of milk I went out for my walk at eleven am. As soon as I stepped out from the air conditioned lobby of my building, the sun was blazing on my head like a hot furnace. Only ten minutes into the walk and I had to retreat my steps back to my home. Now after that walk, that same milk is churning in my stomach, my head is paining and throbbing and I don’t know what to do. Then I asked myself that what caused me to sleep so long? Maybe the road, the lanes, I travel everyday had given me a few hours to rest or had I got a lesson that I should keep an automatic alarm in my mind, so that I can get up at my scheduled time. It is true that when a person is habituated for something, his mind doesn’t allow him to refrain from the same, even if it is odd in time and does not get the desired result.pexels-photo-723675.jpeg

 

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00Complexity

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People need to simplify things rather than diversifying things but people with simple need often tend to diversify things. When a lot of diverse things is present in your mind, go and sit on the bench near any river, water bodies,water falls,gardens, sea sides, public amusement parks and follow the waves, the children, the adults, the rides,feel the air and drink and breath it in and after ten minutes or so you will see that nothing exists. In your mind you are cool and calm. Within half an hour you will be so refreshed that your batteries will be more charged up than your mobile’s. 0 or zero is the beginning of everything, so 00complexity in your mind means your life is very much less complex or you are very good at handling complexity and multi-tasking things.