Day: June 10, 2013

In The Zone Of Day Dreaming

- Roshan

Tell us about your favorite way to get lost in a simple activity — running, chopping vegetables, folding laundry, whatever. What’s it like when you’re in “the zone”?

I think I day dream more than the average person. Ever since I can remember I day dream. I do it when I’m even reading a book – in my mind I put faces, voices, mannerisms to the characters and I even dream up how the houses & places will look like as I read the chapters. I can get lost in several activities the most common is ofcourse when riding the bus. I don’t drive and don’t have a vehicle and so I usually take the bus to & fro work. For closer places in the vicinity I take an autorickshaw but I never day dream in there. So in the bus, in care rides to & back from work during night shifts, I zone out completely. I am in my own universe and it is big and it is grand and it is so exciting to be there. Why the fuck would I want to come back to reality? I love long rides as long as the bus / car can move freely and we are not stuck in crawling traffic.

My next favourite time to be in the zone is when I am in the loo. Yes pooping especially in the late evening or night times is a perfect time for day dreaming and I get lost in my universe and I dream up a lot of things. I particularly find it even more relaxing when I go to the loo and it’s raining quite a bit outside. It just adds to the atmosphere if you will and now that it’s the monsoon I am sure to enjoy quite a few evenings when I go to the loo to do my business and day dreaming. Although I hope I don’t lose track of time and stay in there too long, which has happened to me many times before.

Sometimes it has happened to me on slow work days at the office where I have nothing much to do and it’s a boring day. I can settle in after lunch and while waiting for more interesting stuff to come my way, I can daydream for hours. Although those are few and far between, if I want to break out of the zone I just look for something to do to change the monotony.

It’s Boston vs Chicago

- Roshan

Wow, I did not see that one coming. The Boston Bruins lam-blasting the favoured Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 and white washing their way through to the Eastern Conference title and hence the Stanley Cup Finals which are to start on the 12th of June. Honestly I am shocked that the Penguins who looked heavy title contenders lay down like sheep and were mowed down by the physical brute force of the Bruins. The Penguins will have some name changes in the squad during the offseason and some players will be looking for new homes for the next season. Expect some trades and some free agents to not get offers to stay.

Meeting the Bruins in the finals will be the Chicago Blackhawks and although they had a much tougher conference finals against the defending champions the Los Angeles Kings, I think it will be the Hawks celebrating on the ice at the end of the finals. Atleast I hope so as I do not much like the Beantown bullies. Chicago had a 4-2 series win against the Kings and will be a bit more tired than the =ir opponents but having done it all in 2009 the franchise will want to drink from Lord Stanley’s bowl once again. I hope it’s a 7 game series with Chicago coming out on top.

Dog Saves Baby From Thrash In Bangkok

- Roshan

On June 1st of this year, I posted this message on Facebook : “Every little boy should have a dog to call his own. Every little girl should have a dog to call her own. You believe in angels with wings and all that. I KNOW that the only angels are actually four legged furry & tailed kind.” along with two rather cute photos of a 3 year old girl hugging her equally beautiful Husky and a 3 year old boy walking with his St. Bernard. I meant it wholeheartedly. And then I read this bit of news today :

A dog in Thailand is being honored for rescuing a newborn who had been wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown into a garbage dump. Pui, a male Thai Bangkaew who regularly wanders around his community, found a white plastic bag at a roadside dump in the Tha Rua district and took it home to his master, Gumnerd Thongmak, according to the Bangkok Post. Thongmak’s niece heard the pup barking outside the house and went onto the patio to find the dog with a plastic bag. Inside was a newborn baby girl. The dog’s owner rushed the baby to the hospital, where doctors determined she had been born prematurely — at around seven months — and weighed just 4 pounds 8 ounces. On June 3, Pui received a leather collar and a medal from the Tha Rua district Red Cross Chapter for saving the girl’s life. Pui’s owner got a $300 reward, per the Bangkok Post.

Police Lieutenant General Jitkasaem Sonkom told Khaosod that investigators are currently working on finding the baby’s biological mother, who they think is a teenage girl who works at a nearby factory. Thongmak said she wants to adopt the child. This is not the only amazing canine rescue story to make headlines recently. Snickers, an adopted dog from Canada, was honored in May for saving his owner’s life after the man collapsed. Neighbors heard the animal’s frantic barking and pacing and checked inside the home to find Gregory Gould, who suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, on the floor. Another dog was credited earlier this year with helping save a 3-year-old girl in Poland after she wandered from her home and spent the night out in freezing temperatures in March.