Gold and Beautiful

This has to be the mother of all bad excuses.... or the mother of all "I was sick" excuses. Check out this article about a Pennsylvania teacher who was nominated three times for Teacher of the Year award and faked about having a brain tumor to "skip school" :-). Apparently she's been doing this for 16 years and people started getting suspicious because she was not showing any signs of chemo, which she claimed she was going through. I am sure her students have learned some lesson..... don't stick to one disease for too long :-)

At what age is it inappropriate to ogle at new actors (hot and younger)???

I am currently reading Sudha Murty's Wise and Otherwise. In one of the stories she talks about educated Indian girls who are harassed by their husbands and in-laws and wonders why these girls are so submissive? Why doesn't their education empower them? She does talk about building confidence among girls and I totally agree with her. From my perspective, in a poor nation like ours, education is a ticket to a better life. We slog to get the highest rank, so that we can get a good job and live a better life, which basically translates to making more money. And with a huge population like ours, even a 90% score seems insufficient to get us anywhere. Obviously in this whole struggle of survival no one has the time to talk about the basic code of life. Moreover, even though many of us might be earning more and sending our daughters to schools, in how many households are the daughters still expected to help in the kitchen, while the sons are not? (There's nothing wrong with girls...

Today's headline news... Finally after 87 days the oil spill has finally stopped. Makes me wonder.... How can a company like BP that has been doing this for decades not have a plan??? I mean how do you start drilling thousands of feet without thinking about the worst case scenario and how to handle it? Shouldn't they be required to have some kind of contingency plan that has been verified at least to some extent??? I have a backup jacket and backup shoes in my office that I haven't used in 3 years and tons of other things in my hand bag!!! Drives me crazy.... how can they start digging the well when they get thirsty?