I had been dreaming about buying a car for quite some time.Wanted to have the latest model, with State of the art music system,Radial Dial,air -conditioned , automatic gear et al.I slogged, saved ,borrowed and bought one.
The joy of owning a car and showing it off to others was a thrilling experiece.
Time went by.
Every day I had to attend to the car to maintain it;ihad to crawl in the rush hour; find parking space, often the parts needed replacements;needed to renew insurance; has to plan loan repayment,had to avoid parking tickets.
It was too much.
I appointed a driver.
I was not sure as to when he shall report sick;nor could I anticipate when he will involve the car in an accident;nor how he would gyp me on gas.
I had to worry about loan repayments .
One fine day I decided to do away with the car.
No longer I needed to worry about the car, its maintanence, gas bills, loan repayment,no worries on finding a parking space,no fear of Police on Parking tickests,no question of managing a driver.
I am free.
Tag: diggs
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I had a car.
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Tax raid on banks planned by ministers
While the move to raid to raid banks is laudable,what is questionable is the media’s disclosure of it in advance.
The element of surprise will be lost.
Overenthusiasm for ‘scoop’ should not blind media of its responsibility of serving the public.‘Ministers are drawing up plans for a tax raid on Britain’s banks worth hundreds of millions of pounds, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.’-Telegaph Oct 17, 2009 ‘
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6360827/Tax-raid-on-banks-planned-by-ministers.html -
US- Ideal Brand.
<em>Realistic assessment, not only of Obama , but US as well.US,many of its citizens may not know, is looked upon as a modelof Democracy and Freedom,not with standing the corruption and shenanigans of Politicians.Its ideals are noble.Its execution had a few aberrations, not because the people nor because of lack of ideals or humaneness, but because of self seeking selfish politicians and double guessing the perceived opponents in the world, by seeing them through the prism of US’s ideology.Though well meaning and good at heart the way US goes about helping other Nations,has angered the people world over,even to the extent of hating US, overlooking the help it has rendered to the world.At the same time bull dozing its way with out consensus, treating other Nations as less than equals,though unintentional, has produced anti americanism.
Comes Obama, with his candour,probably after JFK,speaking from the heart and reaching out to people of the world,without preaching,seeking consensus and not confrontation.
A dream called America, can still light the world, that is what we, Non-Americans, hope.Obama seems to be the the one to light .
Story.
‘The millennium goals, for those of you who don’t know, are a persistent nag of a noble, global compact. They’re a set of commitments we all made nine years ago whose goal is to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Barack Obama wasn’t there in 2000, but he’s there now. Indeed he’s gone further — all the way, in fact. Halve it, he says, then end it.Many have spoken about the need for a rebranding of America. Rebrand, restart, reboot. In my view these 36 words, alongside the administration’s approach to fighting nuclear proliferation and climate change, improving relations in the Middle East and, by the way, creating jobs and providing health care at home, are rebranding in action.
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Pakistan launches Taliban assault !!!
This country, Pakistan, can not contorl insurgengy on its own soil-is this country bragging that it can take on India?-Also is this going to be a bulwark against China (in US peception).Sans US and China,Pakistan is Zero as a state both economically and militarily.
They keep on fighting Taliban forever!
Story:
”Fierce fighting has broken out as Pakistan’s army launched an air and ground offensive against Taliban militants in the South Waziristan area.’ BBC
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Obama-Has he brought Racism to the fore?
Racism issue has surfaced in US, subsequent to the election of Obama as President of US.
The truth is that Racism has not been eradicated from the minds of people.While trying to wish away the issue,let us not forget to question ourselves honestly-has it left US? Definitely not from the mind, not for at least a section of US population.There is nothing to worry about this for what has been in existence for quite a long period of time can not be undone in a few decades.Scars remain both on the Whites and the Blacks; as a simmering agony for the latter and as an embarassment for the other.It takes time to heal ,provided US goes about the way it has been so far.One has to be patient.The present generation does not and shall not distinquish between races(always there are some fanatic elements)That is a good sign.Carter’s statement on this issue has sparked a serious debate.’Conspiracy of silence’ on the racial issue may sound nice for short term benefit but in the long run is not good.By speaking out Carter has expressed what others have been afraid of speaking out.This will result in a catharisis for the better.
Blacks , must alo let begones be begones and integrate with the white and whites must not feel guilty for what their forefathers did, for recriminations on either side, shall bleed open the wounds.
Lumpen elements who misuse the occasion, both white and Black, should be dealt by Law to the letter.
Story.
… in Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, “Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,” and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he’s white. Newsweek magazine told us this. We know that white students are destroying civility on buses, white students destroying civility in classrooms all over America, white congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives. — Rush Limbaugh,
Sept. 15, 2009Ever the statesman, and often candid to a political fault, former President Jimmy Carter said recently that much of the animosity directed toward President Barack Obama is “based on the fact that he is a black man.”
http://www.alternet.org/story/143153/why_conservatives_are_really_afraid_of_a_black_president_
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