One of the events that irks me most these days is that of Registering. I have a school going child and it is obvious we are registering for something or the other every other day. I mean a lot does not register for me every day what with so much registering every other.
From registering for the new school year in the middle of the year - that will throw you for a time loop what with added Daylight Spending Time (or was it savings - does not seem likely what with our penchant for the former than latter) and what not added to the mix - to the registration for after school enrichment programs there seems to be a lot of onus on the entire family to ensure that education keeps dripping into your offspring.
Outside of educating they also want you to be extra curricular and register for walk or bike to school day to participate in tile paintings to register to feed the hungry. Then there is the registration for the Archery Camp which will also accept registration for the field trips. I mean what is there to register if you want to walk in the fields?
Ah - not so much registration as much its the disclaimer readathon - we the faithful school adminstration hereby disavow all responsibility of your child's unpredictable behavior and mysterious disappearances if they were to occur. The field must be big or some such.
Having spent a good half day reading the many ways one can absolve themselves of any responsibility we sign in three places and then promptly proceed to forget what we registered for. That has yet failed to register.
Back in the day if you misbehaved they threw the register (a thick ruled page book bound by glue strip binding and hard covers) at you so perhaps it would - register! Now schools simply ask offensive children bearing parents to come and register in the principal's office for their turn to meet him so that they can discuss what is ailing their ward.
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...
Until we get deregistered from the planet, this will be our wont, won't it?
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