Jinx of the 13

I just broke my jinx of the 13 - I had to - :)

So this is it - these two lines break that jinx :)

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Thanks to Wade Meredith for this post - puts Coke in a new perspective for me :)

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Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.


*FYI: The Coke itself is not the enemy, here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Things which are found in almost all soda.

Further Reading/Sources

• What Happens To Your Body If You Stop Smoking Right Now? [internal link]
  
  


• This Is Your Life On Caffeine [internal link]


• Wikipedia - Sugar


• Wikipedia - Caffeine


• Processed Sugar Can Cause Addiction and Depression


• Counting The Many Ways Sugar Harms Your Health - Dr. Mercola


• How Caffeine Affects The Body


• I also had a practicing MD and member of The American College of Surgeons consult on this article about some blood chemistry issues. He mainly just looked over the article after I had written it and, after correcting a few time line issues, said that it was on the up and up.

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New transport!!!!

My family and I are now the proud owners of 2 new cars (that brings our cumulative total up to 4). Now I realise its a touch much but the elation equals none that we all have our own personal car.. NO MORE SHARING!!!

ok...

The cars we had so far??

1. Toyota Innova - spacious (understatement really!!!) and did i mention it is HUGE!!!!!!! 8 seater with boot space to spare.. a powerful 2.5 l diesel engine with great performance.. 10 km to the liter!!! and its HUGE!!!

2. Toyota Corolla ver 2007 :-) - This is my parents car!! Their pride joy !!! Us brothers are not allowed to touch the driver side without prior authority.. needless to say we do (most of the time at least)

Now we added two cars for our own personal use!!!

1) Hyundai Santro Xing - A beautiful car with a perfectly matched 1.1l engine. robust. and its BRIGHT RED!!!! My brother and I share the cost for our first car!!!

2) Maruti Suzuki 800 - This car is the Indian equivalent of "The Blueee Prius" (as made famous by Jeff Dunham in Sparks of Insanity - all descriptions below of the car hold true for both vehicles). It is not a car actually, it is a lunchbox!!! On the highway, if you put your hand out the window, the vehicle will turn!!!! And it is so small you can drive under a 16 wheeler, say thats dirty and drive right back out!!! and the Horn is a squeeky irritating "EEP EEP". But it has killer mileage and is the car my mother is most comfortable driving..

Anyway - now with the onset of 4 cars in our household, my brother has decided to brush up on his driving, my mother will sputter around in the 800 and I will share the Santro with my brother to go to office!!!

I thought I forgot how owning a new car feels, but last night was just ecstatic... THE SIBLINGs FIRST CAR :)

OnShack: Bollywood On Your Mind??

I just found this clip a little too hilarious!!!



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New things in my world

I have the following new things in my life:

Lenovo laptop - Y410 - 1.5 GHz C2D, 1 GB ram, 160 GB HDD, 14.1 WXGA, excellent value for India :). My brother got himself a Dell Vostro 1400. My dad got hiself an Acer Aspire!!! all three are State of the Art machines and cost between 850 - 1500 $ (bro - 1500, dad 850 and me 1250)

Bought new handsets for my folks - bought dad a Moto Razr V3i, and Mom a Nokia 2630. I got myself a Nokia 9300 communicator, my brother got himself an E61i. my girlfriend also left no stone unturned... she got herself a Sony Ericsson Z610i.

I got me a Canon digi cam (its a 3.3 but i got a nice setup)

New eye-glasses - increased number but its new all the same!!!

This last month has been very expensive for our family in toto

But it does not matter, its amazing all the stuff we have !!!!

Ever thought about this?

Ever thought about this??

Why do people die for money - even I do.... but then still why do people run after money....

Forget that for the moment - what started this entire craze for money???

In the before (goddamn Orbit ads in India) - Man stayed in caves, grew what was needed to eat and survive, lived very rudimentary lives. Then came the era of specialisation (why is specialization so important - when everyone can be self sufficient - which is what everyone aims at right now anyway - confused individuals)

Specialisation meant that every man knew how to do one thing only - which meant that (assuming, I was alive in the cave era) I would be good at only growing vegetables or hunting and that I would gather enough meat or veggies for the entire clan (yea we were a sticky lot even then) and then if someone else was good at cooking or stitching, then I would "exchange" meat for clothes and stuff. Still no money.

We were content and there was no anger or tension then...

Then suddenly somebody discovered Gold and it was "awe"-some. It was perceived to be of so much value, and it became freely exchange-able with anything. Whether it is the meat I collected, or the veggies grown by my neighbour... thus started money... lazy bastards, all of them went out to go collect the gold, and then started the whole stream of I WANT MORE THAN THE GUY NEXT DOOR, I KILL YOU!!!!

Then people wanted to create a quantifiable method of measuring gold to convert into services (stitching, washing) or products (meat, veggies etc). Fast forward to 17th century

People want cars, lights, big houses, more land to grow veggies, and people to service their every need and I mean EVERY need...

The concept of Money and luxury are unknown to me. I feel that it is practically useless... and come to think of it... if some asshole did not discover gold, then we would have no pollution today... can you make the link??

Please comment....

My Favourite shows from the YesterYears!!!!

The Wonder Years

I love the running commentary and the expressions and the inane kiddish humour and the basic similarities i might have shared at some point or the other with my life in school!!!

The trailer:


Home Improvement :)


Another excellent serial that I miss :) - the idiosyncracies of a man lost in own machoism - but can bare it all to his only-eyes-will talk neighbour!!!

God I miss it

The Trailer:


Doogie Howser M.D.

16 year old boy genius delivers kid in the mall :)

young prodigy :)

great show this!!!

The trailer:


Mind Your Language

Oh the English language - anyway it is so complicated - in an effort to simplify it, Mr Brown meets people from various countries and walks of life who just go to no end to ruin it!!!! Oh the hilarity of the situation....

The trailer:


Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot
I remember running home from school... All we had was DD and this was part of Fun Time along with a few others :)

The technical expertise by the Japs was worth the wait...

We would emulate Johnny and the Robot incessantly and it was a lot of fun - I miss this serial.. I miss my childhood

The Trailer:


Fraggle Rock
My aunt, my brother and I used to catch this on the weekends at her place when we had holidays - everything else would take a back seat for this show!!! oh we knew the title track for sometime - and now its just a blur - but the show is still a rocker :)

The Trailer:


AND this is not the end of the list but it sure is the cream of my favorite oldies :)

care to share your favourites???

Lost in a Maze

Bhool Bhulaiya - What a fantastic concept. God bless Priyan for remaking it and being as truthful to the original as possible.

THE TRAILER:



The Movie:

Brilliant location - The 'haveli' was mind blowing... The setting was perfect, with great lighting and amazing weather to match (so it seemed). A few holes in the picturisation and the flow, but then otherwise good...

Musical timing: the score was decent, no holes... they cut one song from the screening, but it was not missed in the flow of the movie (so no harm done although it was one song I had hoped to watch)

Performances: Top notch performances from Vidya Balan (not just a pretty face after all) and Akshaya Kumar (appears to be loony) but great all the same... decent performance from Paresh Rawal (who took the 'I-am-so-scared' look a little too far), Amisha Patel was good, and Shiney Ahuja has bad luck being posted with leading ladies with a personality disorder in the movie. The poor chap is jinxed I feel...

But by far the best part of the movie is Vineeth (he has a nothing in terms of length role - but by far the most meaningful - and he is one graceful chap - even more than Vidya Balan). He is damn good at the role given to him, and is utmost importance for his miniscule role!!

Holes in the picturisation:

1. Why does Akshay have his sons name tattooed on his back, I mean if he is single, then why does he have a random guy's name tattoed on his back?? Is he gay?? Evidently not, since he asks for Amisha's hand in marriage at the end.

2. Scene when Akshay is talking to his 'Guru' - a spot boy in black teeshirt races across the left half of the screen in a vain attempt to get out of the frame!

Holes in the screen play:

1. The younger daughter of the big brother of the family, played by Manoj Joshi, has apparently been exposed to the spirit in the movie and has therefore lost her voice (miraculously returned at the end), yet, the movie from the second half speaks of only the leading lady having a personality disorder and no spirit, then how DID the daughter get affected???

2. The married couple were in the 'haveli' on the night before they were supposed to arrive, but then if they arrived at that time, why did they not go to the family home?? seemed kind of weird, but then who am I to assess this...

3. NO RICKSHAW WILL TRAVEL ACROSS STATES OR DISTRICTS (LEAST OF ALL FOR Rs. 13000 - even if they do why would anyone hire that??? what happened to the car service??)

Apart from that, not having seen the original Malayalam version with the National award winning performance by Shobhana, I feel the movie is spectacularly done.