Children's innocent intelligence..!

A first grade teacher had twenty-five students in her class and she presented each child the first half of a well known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb..

It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders..Their insight may surprise you..While reading these, keep in mind that these are first graders, 6-year-olds..The last one is classic!

 1. Don't change horses..................until they stop running..

2. Strike while the.........................bug is close..

3. It is always darkest before.........Daylight Saving Time..

4. Never underestimate the power of.......termites..

5. You can lead a horse to water but.........how??

6. Don't bite the hand that...........looks dirty..

7. No news is............impossible..

8. A miss is as good as a .............Mr..

9. You can't teach an old dog new...........math..

10. If you lie down with dogs, you'll..........stink in the morning..

11. Love all, trust...........me..

12. The pen is mightier than the............. pigs..

13. An idle mind is.......................the best way to relax..

14. Where there's smoke there's..............pollution..

15. Happy the bride who.....................gets all the presents..

16. A penny saved is..................not much..

17. Two's company, three's.................the Musketeers..

18. Don't put off till tomorrow what.................you put on to go to bed..

19. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry..........and you have to blow your nose..

20. There is none as blind as.......Stevie Wonder..

21. Children should be seen and not......spanked or grounded..

22. If at first you don't succeed...............get new batteries..

23. You get out of something only what you..............see in the picture on the box..

24. When the blind lead the blind...................get out of the way..

     And the last one...THE WINNER..!

25. Better late than.....................................pregnant..

Jaishree Ram,

Prats..

Sholay...!

This time while returning back to Chennai via train from Jamshedpur I saw a few guys in my  train compartment seeing the age old super hit movie, Sholay..!!Although I had seen the movie say a zillion times before but still I could not resist myself from asking my fellow passenger to give me the movie print..I got the movie print to the hostel and it soon became a rage among the people in the hostel to keep the print with them in their laptops..Everyone, before taking the movie used to say that the movie is 3 hours and 18 minutes long, but no one could resist themselves from taking the movie..

This epic movie released in the year 1975, the year my dad passed his 10^th std.!!The movie an occult in itself, starred the mighty Dharmendra as Veeru, the tall Amitabh Bachchan as Jaidev aka Jai, Sanjeev Kumar as Thakur Baldev Singh aka Thakur saab, the Dream girl Hema Malini as Basanti and above all Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh..I am pretty sure that all of you have seen and known these characters but I am one of those many people who have eaten, slept and dreamt these characters..

The legendary dialogues of, “Kitne aadmi the?”, “Yeh haath mujhe de de Thakur”, “Yeh haath nahin, faasi ka phanda hai”, “Ek ek ko chun chun ke maaroonga”, “Basanti, in kutto ke saamne mat naachna”, “Hum angrezon ke zamane ke Jailor hai”, “Holi kab hai?” and “Tum ek maaroge toh hum chaar maarenge”, force you to stay glued to your seats and don’t allow you to know when the popcorn,  you were having, got over ..

The music of the movie, by R.D.Burman, keeps ringing all day long in my ears..Songs such as “Yeh dosti hum nahin todenge” and “Koi haseena jab rooth jaati hai toh” can be safely assumed to be one of the best friendship and romantic songs ever made in Bollywood..The song, “Mehbooba mehobooba” is still the best item number ever made..

To top them all the beautiful scenery of the village of Ramgarh is awesome..The Suicide scene enacted by Dharmendra on top of the water tank is the best drunkard scene ever filmed up..The dialogues of “Chakki pissing and pissing and pissing” still make many a Mausi’s shiver..

The movie is so gripping that every time you feel like leaving the movie midway you’ll again push yourself back to the couch and would not leave unless the movie is over..I do accept that there were a lot of glitches in the movie but still that time the audience was not that into finding faults in the movie..They would rather enjoy the movie rather than proving themselves to be the best critic ever..

Whenever, whoever sees this movie a chill is sure to run past their spine..

Jaishree Ram,

Prats..

Why Beg…??

Begging as defined by the dictionary is the solicitation for money or food..This is the stance by which people who are incapable ask for alms from fellow human beings and thus fill their tummies..I firmly believe that we eat to live rather than live to eat..Thus food is the basic requirement for any human being to survive on the planet..

But don’t you think the job via which you earn your bread and butter should be a dignified one???

I know it that not everyone has a well classified job which pays them a 5 figure salary..But people work hard to go small jobs even and earn their living..

But there is a certain category of people who want to beg and earn their living only..I am ok with people who beg because they are leprosy patients or they are castrated eunuchs..When they beg its moral to pay them up as people don’t want to give them jobs..But when a perfectly able person with all his limbs and every body part intact comes up and asks for alms, I feel it’s very immoral to pay them up..

It so happens that these category of people don’t feel like doing hard work and earning their living..They beg once and they get an addiction for earning their living free of cost without any hard work..I have many a times seen my mom-dad ask these people to come and work for us at our home but they openly refuse to work..Once or twice we even feel that may be because of their family entanglements they don’t want to come up and work at our home but that is not the case always..Many of them have no family attachments and still then they don’t want to work and earn their living..

As my dad has taught me from my childhood that “No job is bad, just that the hard work should be seen”..These people seem to have never put a thought to work hard and earn their living..They are addicted to the free fund meal that they get by begging and enjoy the life without doing any work..These kind of people are the worst kind of human beings possible..When you are capable of earning a livelihood then why beg????

Jaishree Ram,

Prats..