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Accident prone ME

Posted on August 9, 2012 | 12 comments

I am not sure what is going on with me these last few weeks. I have been accident prone and the winter here is not helping me at all. I have to say, it hurts double in winter for sure.

So the accidents started with me hitting myself with my car. Don’t worry, I am fine but the way it happened was so stupid. After work one evening, I was getting into my car and can you believe it, I hit my head really hard with the door while opening it. I thought I cracked my forehead as it hurt so badly. Tears were rolling down my cheeks and I had no control over them. I didn’t know what to do so I got into the car, sat on the seat and put pressure on my forehead with my palm to prevent swelling. Thankfully, it didn’t swell but it was painful for the next 10 days or more.

I had already forgotten about the incident by the next week when another accident happened. I do need to admit that it was stupid as well. AS was working that day so I decided to clean the house on my own. One of the things that were bothering me was the drawers in my dressing table was coming off. It really need fixing and I thought that it would be an easy fix with the help of a hammer. So I decided early in the morning that I should fix the drawers.  I took the big hammer from AS’s hardware box and started fixing the drawer. As I didn’t want to put dents on it, I covered it with a cloth and started to hammer. It was working fine until suddenly I felt this pain in my hand and I could barely breathe. I looked down and saw that I had hammered one of my fingers by mistake and my hand was blazing with pain.

I so wished AS was home that day as I couldn’t control the pain and started crying. I just sat on the floor and did nothing for a while. When I gain my composure finally I went to the kitchen and ran cold water on my finger.  I hoped running cold water for a while would make sure that my nail wouldn’t come off as it was turning a bit by then. It was one of the coldest days of winter and my hand felt almost dead after the ordeal. Thankfully, there was no blood but my nail turned black. It is still black and I am hoping it will not fall off as it doesn’t hurt any more. But for the first few weeks it was hard for me to pick anything up with that hand.

To add the crème to my accident incident, last night I did something stupid AGAIN.  I was home from work and had just changed. I was walking from our bed room to the living room and my feet hit the cupboard on the way. Can you believe that, I can’t even walk anymore? It was really, really painful. AS was home at that time so he came running to see what had happened when he heard my scream.  Thankfully no blood again but it was really painful for a few hours.

Seriously, I don’t know what is wrong with me. I have never had so many stupid accidents in my life. If it was in Nepal, they would have told me that my dasha (horoscope) is not good these days so we would need to perform some puja to God but here I am not sure what to do to stop all these accidents. Hope that is all I have in store for me and it will not happen again.

Wish me luck guys.

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Friday the 13th

Posted on July 13, 2012 | 22 comments

This morning I came to work and was making breakfast in the kitchen. I was talking to my colleague while she was making her breakfast. She accidentally knocked her coffee cup and it smashed into a gazillion pieces. She was quite annoyed that she had to start the Friday morning cleaning the mess and was complaining about it. Just then one of our colleagues came in and remarked that it’s Friday the 13th today so a smashed cup isn’t unusual. It hadn’t occur to me before but after hearing him, I did some digging on the internet about it so here you go.

Normally, western society seems to be less superstitious than eastern society but Friday the 13th is a date considered to be bad luck in western superstition.

Does Friday the 13th freak you out? If so, hold on to your rabbit’s foot extra tight, because there are three of these supposedly unlucky dates in 2012, and today (July 13) is one of them, but the good news is it’s the last.

Read on for 13 strange facts about this day of superstition. (www.msnbc.msn.com)

1. This year is a special one for Friday the 13ths: There are three of them: Jan. 13, April 13 and July 13. The dates fall exactly 13 weeks apart. That hasn’t happened since 1984.

2. If that scares you, you may have paraskavedekatriaphobia (also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia). Those are the scientific terms for fear of Friday the 13th. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

3. It’s not clear when or why Friday the 13th became associated with bad luck. The association may be biblical, given that the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus. His crucifixion was the next day, apparently a Friday. Or maybe 13 suffers from coming after the more-pleasing number 12, which gets to number the months, the days of Christmas and even the eggs in a dozen. (There are also 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labours of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel and 12 apostles of Jesus.)

4. Whatever the reason, fear of 13 has spread far and wide: Hotels and hospitals often skip the 13th floor, and even airports quietly omit gate 13 sometimes.

5. The next year in which we’ll have three Friday the 13ths is 2015. They’ll fall in February, March and November.

6. If you think your Friday the 13th is likely to be bad, be glad you aren’t a 14th-century Knight Templar. On Oct. 13, 1307, officers of King Philip IV of France raided the homes of thousands of these Crusades warriors, imprisoning them on charges of illegal activities. Though the charges weren’t proven, more than 100 died of terrible torture, according to “Tales of the Knights Templar” (Warner Books, 1995).

7. Fittingly, director of psychological thrillers Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th — Friday, Aug. 13, 1999, would have been his 100th birthday. Perhaps aptly titled “Number 13,” a film that was supposed to be Hitchcock’s directorial debut never made it past the first few scenes and was shut down due to financial problems. He allegedly said the film wasn’t very interesting. (Meanwhile, Fidel Castro was born on Friday the 13th, in August 1926.)

8. Why does the Friday the 13th superstition stick so firmly in our minds? According to Thomas Gilovich, who chairs the department of psychology at Cornell University, our brains are almost too good at making associations.

“If anything bad happens to you on Friday the 13th, the two will be forever associated in your mind, and all those uneventful days in which the 13th fell on a Friday will be ignored,” Gilovich said in a statement.

9. For pagans, 13 is actually a lucky number. It corresponds with the number of full moons in a year.

10. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to have avoided travel on the 13th day of any month, and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.

11. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. “It was bad luck,” Twain later told the friend. “They only had food for 12.” Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.

12. Stockbroker and author Thomas W. Lawson, in his 1907 novel “Friday the Thirteenth,” wrote of a stockbroker’s attempts to take down Wall Street on the unluckiest day of the month. Reportedly, stock brokers after this were as unlikely to buy or sell stocks on this unlucky day as they were to walk under a ladder, according to accounts of a 1925 New York Times article.

13. This fear of Friday the 13th can be serious business, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N.C., which, among other things, offers therapy to help people overcome their fear of the freaky Friday. Their estimates suggest hundreds of millions of dollars, up to $900 million, are lost due to people’s fear of flying or doing business as usual that day, though that number isn’t backed up with other estimates.

Do you believe in Friday 13th being unlucky?

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Jaywalking

Posted on March 16, 2012 | 14 comments

Jaywalking is an informal term commonly used to refer to illegal or reckless pedestrian crossing of a roadway. Examples include a pedestrian crossing between intersections (outside or, in some jurisdictions, also inside a marked or unmarked crosswalk) without yielding to drivers and starting to cross a crosswalk at a signalized intersection without waiting for a permissive indication to be displayed

I have seen everyone jaywalking, men, women, boys, girls, old women and men, men in suit, tradies, students, take you pick.

I know we are time poor but I don’t think I am ready to get hurt just to save a few minutes or seconds in most cases. My friends sometimes make fun of me when I refuse to jaywalk with them when we are out and about but I am not ashamed to leave them jaywalking and go to the nearest crossing and wait for the sign to turn green to cross. The funny thing is that they will be waiting for me on the other side of the road anyway.

In NSW, Sydney there is no law against jaywalking but in Victoria,Melbourne they fine $60 on-the-spot if cops see you jaywalking. A few of my friends have paid that fine before. I am so supportive of that law and wish we have it here as well. By jaywalking, one is not only risking oneself but also endangering other people like the drives and other pedestrians on the road.

I don’t see why it is so hard to be patient when crossing the road. It might be a few minutes of the wait in the crossing but that might save you from being hurt, disabled or even death. Isn’t your life more valuable?

If you still think jaywalking is ok, please read the story below and think again.

This is a story of a mother who lost his son because she decided to jaywalk with the kids. This mum had 3 kids aging from 5 – 11. She decided it was safe to jaywalk in a suburban road as it was not busy. The nearest crossing was 500m down the road in the other direction they were going so she held the hands of the two youngest kids and ask the oldest one to hold one of the other kids’ hand.  They cross half of the road and stopped on the divider island in the road. When she decided to cross the other half and was about to cross the road, she saw a car coming towards them  so she held back and pulled her children back to the island but unfortunately the oldest child whose hand she was not holding couldn’t make that judgement and kept going and was hit by this oncoming car.

I know it must be a great pain to loose a loved one especially kids, but to feel responsible must be the worst feeling in the world. So just because she decided to save a few minutes, she is suffering the consequence for her whole life.

Please think for a second before jaywalking again. There are loved ones waiting for you at home who rely on you and love you so much that their world would fall apart if something happened to you.  Be responsible and be safe.

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Good Samaritan named Jack

Posted on March 14, 2012 | 8 comments

Sometime we meet strangers who help you when you fall down or who picks up the papers you dropped in the street or offers you a hand when you are carrying a heavy load, who offers you water in a sunny day or just gives you a seat in a bus /train when you are tired. You don’t know these people but they were just there when you needed help and they helped you. You might thank them when they helped you but sometimes you are so busy trying to fix the problem that before you gather your composure and look up to thank them but they are gone.

I am sure all of us can relate to these kinds of people who we don’t know but who is such a Good Samaritan that without them this world would be an evil place.

I had run in with a few people like that who came with an umbrella on a rainy day so I could cross the road; helped me to my car when I was carrying heavy grocery bags, stopped the car for me to cross, paid my bus fare on prepaid bus by using their pass and declined money or the ones who helped me fill air into my car tyres.

But today I want to share an incident of one of those Good Samaritans named Jack who made me smile and made this world a better place all over again.

One of my colleague’s wife, let’s call her Anna, had a car accident on Monday. For some reason she lost control of her car and hit a tree at the side of a street. She was driving with 2 kids, boys, 9 and 11. When she hit the car, the only thing on her mind was her boys’ safety but then she realised she was hurt and she couldn’t move. All three of them were in shock so that they didn’t react quickly. They were still inside the car. When you are in shock it is normal for people not to react and that was what they were going through.

Anyway out of nowhere, there was this guy who came and helped the kids out of the car. When he was trying to help Anna out of the car, he realised that she was hurt so she dialled ‘000’ for help. All Anna could hear at this stage was the guy talking on the phone and telling that his name is Jack. Anyway, the ambulance came after a few minutes and took Anna and both the boys to the hospital. The ambulance officer helped Anna, to call her husband, my colleague.

My colleague went to the hospital and found out that the boys were ok but Anna had some fractured bones so they were treating her at the hospital. He was thankful that it was not a big injury and glad that there was a guy who helped all of them. Once all the shock was absorbed, he asked Anna if she remembered who the Good Samaritan was as his quick thinking and help made sure Anna had proper medical help in time. But all Anna could remember was his first name. He even tried calling hospital to get the name so he could contact Jack and thank him. But no one knew who he was.

Yesterday he was so restless because he couldn’t  find any detail about Jack that he decided he would make a board that said ‘Thank You Jack!’ and stuck that on the tree where the accident happened. He told me that he really wanted to make sure that Jack knew that the whole family is thankful for his help.

Anyway he stuck the sign on the tree on the way to work yesterday. Guess what he saw on the tree when he was was driving home? Yes, Jack had replied and put a poster saying “It’s Ok. 🙂 I hope the kids r doing good.”

My colleague was so happy that his message was conveyed. He even took a picture of the tree and I am sharing that with you.

People like Jack make this world a better place and it makes me proud that we are human beings and haven’t lost our humanity.

Do share if you have any stories similar to this.

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I’ve been tagged

Posted on March 9, 2012 | 12 comments

First of all I want to thank Autumn and Janie for being so nice and tagging me in their blog. I am honoured and pleased to be a part of this game. Also I apologise for not doing this post sooner.

As any other award, this one has some rules as well.

Rules

1. Post the Rules.

2. Answer the question you were tagged with and then create 11 new questions for those you are going to tag.

3. Tag 11 people and link them to your post.

4. Let them know they have been tagged

Here are the questions Janie asked, with my answers.

  • What is your biggest regret in life? Not spending lots of time with my family.
  • What makes you angry? Selfish people.
  • Are you capable of forgiving and forgetting? Yes.
  • What do you consider the biggest fight you’ve ever had in your life? I fought a lot with my brother when we were kids
  • What is the ugliest part of your personality? Short temper.
  • Do you choose to see the best or the worst in people? Why? Best as I am a positive person.
  • Do you think other life forms exist in the universe? Yes.
  • If God were to grant you a wish, what would it be? Happiness to everyone.
  • What would you do if a stranger threw a spoon at you? Scream.
  • You are sky diving and you realize that you can’t open your parachute so, in a few moments you are about to die. What do you think would be your last thoughts? I will miss my family but  I died doing something I love 🙂
  • What will you do tomorrow? Weekend so just having fun 🙂

Here are the questions Autumn asked, with my answers.

  • Your Nickname? M
  • The wildest thing that you have ever done? Black water rafting.
  • Have you found true love in life? Yes. I am married to him now 🙂
  • Your special quality? Honest.
  • Your most clear memory of your childhood? Time spent with my brother.
  • The colour which describes you best? Red.
  • Your favourite novel? Sands of Time By Sidney Sheldon.
  • Your favourite movie? Sex and the City
  • One thing you would like to change about yourself? My temper
  • A song which describes you?  I am woman by Helen Reddy

Here are my questions for the people I’m tagging.

  • What makes you laugh?
  • What is the best part of blogging?
  • What makes your day?
  • What is your worst fear?
  • One famous person you want to meet.
  • If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
  • What do you think is the single best decision you’ve made in your life so far?
  • What song always makes you happy when you hear it?
  • What are the things you always take with you?
  • What do you know about Nepal?
  • What are you thinking right now?

 My Tagged Bloggers

Thank you all the readers for reading my blog. I couldn’t have done it without you guys.

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