A day to reckon

Whats about July 21st, my best friend's birthday, mine?
No its the day which created a day in History worth remembering, coz its the day when the Legend, the person who created a wave, a story almost worth called as an epic (next to only Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bhagavat Gita) was released... Yes it is the Harry Potter final series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows release today. One of my friends was asking me, "Isn't Harry Potter last book releasing this week, or is it the next week?" C'mon any true muggle is supposed to know that its the biggest thing happening around...
I was never an ardent fan of this series until recently, and all the hype it created during its pre-release rekindled the interest in me, and made me feel like a teen, eagerly awaiting to lay my hands on the book to know the ending, the fate that decides the life of Lord Voldemort. So here I am waiting to get the book, while in line in a local Barnes and Noble bookstore, trying to click some snaps, and enjoying the final countdown to the event... Patiently waiting till I can explore it myself, unless there are no spoilers around. I've pledged to keep my silence though...

Why Fear this day?

Paraskevidekatriaphobia : - Fear of Friday the 13th!!!

In Greek, Paraskevi means friday, Dekatria means 13 and Phobia means fear of something... Obviously I dont know Greek, just read it somewhere...

I have heard about the superstitious fear of Friday the 13th, and the reasons behind it in Christianity, since Jesus Christ was crusified on Friday after the Last Supper on Thursday with 13 people. For that matter, people are afraid of the number 13, Dekatriaphobia, itself is another phobia on its own.

So here I come to work just like any other day, and start my routine checking of emails and browsing the internet, and there I see the date.. oops... Then I start wondering is it really unlucky, discussed the same with collegues, just checking the year planner for the past two years, and see it has already occured thrice since last fall, October 13, 2006, April 13 2007, July 13, 2007, and again going to appear next June, 2008.

Wonder what the frequency is, it is 688 times in about 400 years, more than any other day... Believe it or not !!!

Do you feel LUCKY?

Ask yourself this question today, because today is 777, which is one of the most luckiest days in about 100 years. Hundreds of couples would be crowding Las Vegas to tie their nuptial knot, and many other lucky places to tie the lucky knot today, atop the roller coaster, by the beach, Niagara, and many other fun destinations. Superstitious gamblers are believing that today is their lucky day, getting drinks for $7, lucky watches for $777 and even suites in Las Vegas and other casinos for $7707.

Reasons to choose this day as the wedding day,

• Adding the number 777 as a jackpot to celebrate their newly found luck in love.


• To have their life long commitment blessed with luck. As one couple iterated:"you can never have too much luck."


• Many individuals and couples consider number 7 their favorite number.


• Biblical reverence of number 7. The most common reference was to the 7 days of creation and that God blessed and rested on the 7th day, so that still today our week contains 7 days.


• Of great importance was also the fact that the 7th of July falls on a saturday so close to The 4th of July holiday allowing for a weekend long enough for guests from far away not to have to rush home. A weekend long enough for relaxing, un-hurried destination weddings.
  777 looks good on their invitations


• A date so easy to remember, so that no one forgets their anniversary, and also time to take off from work.

Anyway, just enjoy your day!!!!

Curiosity Killed the CAT !!!

iPhone seems to be the "coolest invention" ever. A phone, a PC, an MP3 player, an entertainment piece, a pride, all in one. Apple Inc reports that almost all the manufactured pieces were sold within the 1st 4 days that the product was launched, and Apple Inc, is planning to sell of about 3 million of this gadgets by the end of this year. The product launch was eagerly awaited by its fans in almost 165 stored within the country, waiting for it @ 6PM on Friday, the 29th of June...
Was it curiosity or hatred which killed the iPhone? Within hours of the release of the most awaited and anticipated iPhone, while ardent fans became the proud owners of this wonderful piece of electronics, people who detested it, tried to scramble it and bring it down to a meer junk item... Why did the fate of the new iPhone turn out to be like that, the reason, well, just curiosity; to know what made it most wanted, why was it so over-priced and what was in it? So silly that I remember an old fable about a person killing his duck which laid golden eggs. Of course, he was greedy to get everything, still the end result is the same. While the duck keeper couldn't find any golden eggs in his duck, our iPhone owner was able to see some electronic circuits and ofcourse an AT&T simcard.
Thus somebody turned out to be the 1st to get into the iPhone and has been receiving responses as another groups of enthusiasts want to find out the reason. So, maybe I should've changed the title of my blog to "The Curious Cat Killed the Rat!!!"Funny isn't it? Check this out...