Saturday, March 20, 2010

Chappathi diet versus Rice diet

In South India, there is a popular belief that Chappathi diet will help those with Rice diet, lose weight. Some dieticians say that Chappathi and Rice more or less are induce same level of calories into the body for equal quantities and it doesn't make a difference.

Assuming that is true, how come people who changed their diet from Rice diet to Chappathi diet claim to have lost weight?

I tried it and here is what I observed. Cooked rice, is soft and easily chewable. I could even swallow a lot of rice without having to chew it. So, I didn't even know how much quantity I was consuming. However, the case with Chappathi is I had to chew every piece. It would choke my throat if I try to swallow. For a lazy person like me, in order to avoid a hell lot of chewing, I cut down on the quantity of chappathi I could have.

There you go!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Bond without bonding

Discovery Science appears to be a new channel that got added up in the package we had subscribed to. While flipping the channels, I stopped by to hear some guy talking. Turned out that he was spy and an interview with him was on.

As I had interest in the way a spy works, I stopped flipping and tried focusing to what he was saying. He said the following, "Spying is one of the professions where you feel lonely. When you are spying in a different country, it doesn't happen like James Bond movie that you hang out with blond woman. The only companion is the mission to accomplish".

I flipped the channel and heard an IT engineer crib in a news channel. Some creatures are born to crib and most creatures who crib are from IT.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Truth about truth

So, you go somewhere, discover a truth and tell the businessman, "Your staff aren't smart" and the businessman says, "Sssh! I know that. We needed such people and they come at cheap cost".

You then go to the staff and say "Your boss thinks you are cheap staff" and they say "Sssh! I know that. All I needed is a job that ain't hard to do and a salary every month that takes care of some expenses".

In the context of trying to tell people about what you think is truth, you'd discover that what you thought as truth isn't the truth and people know about things much better than what you think they know.


In such a context, you'd know the truth about truth.