Why should the popular media have monopoly over fearmongering? Hence I too shall contribute to the sense of paranoia out there.
Off late I have seen a growing trend among the health conscious to 'walk in reverse'. Not just spinning their arms and stretching whilst walking but actually walk in the opposite direction to where their eyes are pointing.
(ridiculous definition # 1 - conscious - any ditz with the subjective awareness of the aspects of cognitive processing and the content of the mind - I wonder if anything walking on the street is processing anything other than getting through the day).
The trend is pronounced in the Asian community surely due to some Yin yang in central China having propounded the belief that this is good for you ..
(ridic def # 2 - Asian - people hailing from China, Mongolia, India and other island nations in the South Asian latitudes - too many to name).
Now its catching on - More Indians too are falling prey to this ritual. I am no health expert but I can see this getting to Epidemic proportions like the Whole Foods movement did.
Now in the civilized societies like America we are used to stop for pedestrian crossings and people crossing across using these marked lanes. However we have never seen one going in reverse - not turn around and walk back type - simply a person walking backwards.
(ridic def # 3 - Civilized - countries that practice the law of issuing a ticket for jaywalking to fellow humans absent the Jay of course).
Imagine that along with the sign spinners on the sidewalks we also now have to contend with folks that you would never know were coming or going? Imagine sitting at a light and the person goes walking backward in the sidewalk...what are the laws about this approach?
Not a problem in third world countries who are used to this and much more by way of unimaginable obstacles occupying their modes of transit but to us coddled versions where even a vehicle with 'odd' number of wheels tends to bring stares.
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
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