Knock Knock!

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Madam!
Madam who?
Madam foot is caught in the door.

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Police!
Police who?
Police let us in, it's cold outside.

The Wikipedia definition of Knock knock jokes is - a type of joke which is simply pun intended and time honored. It's like a role-play between two people where in one person knocks on the door saying, "Kncok knock!"and the other is supposed to answer it saying - "Who's there?" . It's typically a five liner joke with a standard format. Knock knock jokes are silly and whacky. Every kid probably goes through a stage of telling knock knock jokes in his life. It's all good humor. A few months ago while I was watching TV I happened to stumble upon an edition of Mad TV on Zee cafe, cracking up with knock knock jokes. It it took me down memory lane. Instantly, I googled knock knock jokes and then there I was, reading so many of them and I couldn't stop laughing. They are adorable! Reading them just threw me back in time. It was so much fun and later that evening I started playing all these role plays with my friends and it was awesome. Silly yet awesome! It's good to be silly sometimes. You don't always have to act all mature, it's good to loosen up sometimes.

If you're interested in some knock knock jokes, I recommend that you go to this website. There are some 100 pages and a wide variety of the 'Knock knock' jokes. They are dumb, they are funny, a little silly, some whacky and the others stupid and annoying. But hey, it's good to lighten up in life sometimes.

http://www.knock-knock-joke.com/

All in the name of good pun!

Randomness - I am who I am!

So a few months ago on face book, we had people mentioning all sorts of random things about themselves. It sounded fascinating but I could just never get around to bring myself to pen down any random things about me. But when I finally did, I totally surprised myself. And here are a few random things about me -

I 'm fascinated by watching airplanes go by. I always get distracted by them when driving or if in conversation with someone.

I love watching romantic comedies. I could watch them over and over again. And I hate watching gory action movies with murders and blood. I try not to make a big deal about it anymore by closing my eyes or else by simply reminding myself - that it's just a movie!

Throughout my school life I was majorly into singing but somewhere down the line I lost in touch with that hobby of mine. After all these years I have rediscovered the joy of singing and now whenever I'm driving, I search for songs on the radio that I know and sing along with them. I love singing!

So every time I talk to my sister, over the phone, she keeps telling me that my phone is screwed up. She can't hear me and neither can I. The voice is always muffled. So once we hang up I have to call up someone else to check if my phone is working fine or not.

I love it when someone plays with my hair. I wish they would never stop. And especially after a hair wash. That's when I feel the sleepiest. No matter how late I'm running I stick around till it's fully set. Oh ya, and now I've finally learned how to wash my own hair. Yay!

At some point in time in my life I became an insomniac and those were the times when I could go 4 days at a stretch without a wink of sleep. It's a marvel how that got cured. Anyway, but even now I need a background score to put me to sleep. I can't sleep in silence.

No matter how tired I am, when I come back from a party, I always arrange and fold my clothes and put them back in my wardrobe. And in the morning before leaving for work I HAFTO make my bed, even if I'm running late.

All these things are a part of me and they make me the person that I am. And I would change nothing about myself. Cheers!

Dubai - The city that rocks 24*7

I sit in the back seat of an Audi as we are traveling down the 50 km long, Sheikh Zaid Road. The road has 6 lanes. The speed limit is around 120 kms/hour. As we are cruising down the road I notice the tall buildings. The Burj towers, the tallest building in the world, still under construction though. It stands 180 floors high. No matter where you are in Dubai, you can spot this tower. We cross other buildings like the twin towers, DIFC, MOE (The Mall of Emirates), my brother in law's office, my friend's office. I hear stories of these places. Things that fascinate me like Skii Dubai. I sit there looking out, looking at the buildings. Looking at the lit up buildings and wonder how pretty they look at that moment. And that if there was any way I could capture that moment. I open my bag and my hands fumble through the things in search of a camera, but as my luck has it, I am unable to locate my camera. Not wanting to take my eyes off this pretty sight, I stop looking for the camera and instead just sit there staring out of the window of the Audi. To add to this, the cars that I see on the road is something which again catches my interest. I see a Porsche, a BMW. I spot a hummer driving beside us. Just then something that catches my attention is the photo of this person (Sheikh). I ask who is he and i learn that he is the ruler. And that every shop, hotel or any establishment has to have the photo of the ruler. Sheikh Mohammad, is the name I am told.

As I look at all of this and as I hear the stories, I am sleep deprived since I have had a long day, a long flight. And I crave for nothing but a bed and a quilt to snuggle into. But as one part of me wants this the other still wants to stay up and not loose sight of what my eyes are witnessing. A battle that's taking place in my head. The human mind, always wanting everything and always wanting more han it can possible handle. My mind, half sleepy half excited. It becomes difficult for me to keep y eyes open any longer than now. I slowly drift away to la-la land...

86,400 seconds in a day...Idle time?

Look up the definition of the word HOBBY and this is what you will get on Wikipedia – a spare time recreational pursuit. Essentially it is what one likes to do in their spare time. One could either be fond of watching movies, dancing, playing some sport, anything. There are various types of hobbies – indoor activities, outdoor games, creative hobbies and many more. Like reading, collecting stuff, dancing would form a part of indoor hobbies. Any kind of sports or shopping, traveling etc would constitute outdoor hobbies. And creative hobbies are like cooking, pottery, knitting, glass painting, etc. It keeps one busy and occupied (meaning the same thing). I have lots of hobbies and since childhood they have been changing. At the moment I enjoy watching movies and reading, perhaps even writing. However, as a kid one of my hobbies was collecting stamps.

Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone has ever watched this movie or for that matter even heard of it. It’s called - ‘Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler’. It’s another one of my favorites. As kids, many of my friends and I had a hobby of collecting stamps. It’s very interesting to collect stamps of different places. It was a hobby which we all grew out of eventually. Then, there was this movie which was released in the late 80s. It is about a few friends and their fascinating summer adventure. Tommy, who is a stamp collector, gets one of his friends, Ralph to trade him a stamp from his father’s precious stamp collection. From fear of getting into trouble for it, he and his sister (Nancy) try to buy the stamp back from the local store; however they are handed over a stamp collection in exchange. This contains a letter from a little boy named Charles. The letter contains magical rhymes, on reciting these rhymes, the person shrinks and he/she is then able to travel around the world on various stamps to different places. During Ralph’s journey, he finds out that he needs to get to Australia since a rare collection of stamps awaits him. And what happens next is something that even I don’t recall very well and to refresh my memory I will have to watch the movie again.

It’s an amazing movie and truly hilarious, which gets you laughing all the way till the end with the dragons, kangaroos, boomerangs, stamps and postcards. The chase, the suspense, the adventures are absolutely mind blowing and will certainly sweep you off your feet. One needs to watch the movie to figure out what I am saying. If memory serves me right, it also had a sequel. Something like - ‘The Return of Tommy Tricker’. I tried really hard to find more clips of the movie but this is all I could get. Check it out…