PD Ponders

Disclaimer: I wrote a series of articles for an online magazine called Cheers between 2004-2006, am putting them out here since I found them in Lockdown 2.0 What a man??? Not a hero!!! ‎27 ‎April ‎2005, ‏‎00:16:16 I remember the time when we as kids used to sit in front of TV hours before we hear our favorite song and cartoon serial – Spiderman… Spiderman… friendly neighborhood Spiderman… When I saw the first movie, I thought this is a good start, not an excellent one. When I saw the second movie I swear I did not have any intentions of being happy or satisfied. How many of us go to any movie excepting things? Not many I have realized. But at least with Spiderman we expect swinging and jumping around and quality action. Well what happens in Spiderman 2 is a disaster. I go to the hall as exited as the seven-year-old sitting next to me and wait for the movie to start in all anticipation. Image Courtesy - Rotten Tomatoes The first shock comes when Spiderman decided not to be Spiderman!! H...

I was recently passing time like half my awake time of the day on Facebook, saw Nagendra Shaan's post on how monkey's never go bald, hence Darwin lied to us about theory of evolution. Img Courtesy: globe-views.com Now this triggerd me to think about two things which I always want to talk about, I have seen so many videos of monkey's falling asleep but waking up with a huge jerk.  This huge jerk I have observed in Zoos too, I saw that in Mysore Zoo huge gorilla & recently Panda in Hong Kong zoo.  From many readings and hours on Discovery & NGC channel, plus my endless bantering with people who are as insane as me, I am in complete agreement with Darwin.  This could even be influenced from a programme or an article I have read some time back or even Sharon Stone from Basic Instinct.  I mean this is all part of our DNA and our Basic Instinct.  Where did monkey's sleep? on the tree's right? so what used to happen when they fell asleep.. they fell ...