Gateways Drugs
Have you heard of the ‘Gateway Drug’ Theory? It basically suggests that the use of relatively Mild drugs such as Tobacco, Alcohol and Marijuana leads to the abuse of Harder drugs such as Cocaine, Heroine etc.

This is what ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM says;

The “gateway drug theory” describes the phenomenon in which an introduction to drug-using behavior through the use of tobacco, alcohol, or marijuana is related to subsequent use of other illicit drugs. The theory suggests that, all other things being equal, an adolescent who uses any one drug is more likely to use another drug. In practice, early…

I am trying to do Standup Comedy, which of course requires one to ‘perform’. So for someone like me who has no theatre experience whatsoever, performing takes some effort.

But then One of my Good friends told me that I am naturally funny and that I should ‘just be myself’ when I am doing my standup act. What she told me made a lot of sense. I tend to get some decent laughs from my friends and family, I am not trying to perform for them, I am just myself. …

I have been working out since I was 12 years old, because I was a Fat bastard. Those were the days of Commando, Rambo etc and all the boys (and some Girls too I guess), wanted arms and specially biceps like Schwarzenegger and Stallone. My body has been through many changes during the 25 years since then.

Even though I had worked out a lot and many many hours had been put into working out my biceps, it took till I was 37, for my biceps to finally start showing definition of some significance. …

I have been thinking a lot about ‘Influencers’ lately. NO, not anyone in particular and NOT in the way that I am ‘supposed to’ (fortunately or unfortunately).

I was thinking about Who influenced me when I was growing up, who is influencing me now, who influenced history, who influenced people in the last 100 years, the last 1000 years etc.

When I kept going back, I remembered the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Turns out that (among other things), this was also the #genesis of #influencermarketing

This is my Fun Insight on it. Apologies in…

Below are some thoughts that I had put down in 2019, about a month after the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka in April. I don’t know why I never published them, maybe because I felt that, as it was my personal sentiments as a mere onlooker about a very painful tragedy, I am not qualified to write about this. But given that almost Two years on, we seem to have not got any real closure on why this was done and who was responsible, I felt that I need to publish my thoughts.

There is this unspeakable and unexplainable…

There were about 50 Butterflies on the inside of my front door, they were all brown though, maybe they were Moths. Anyways, there they were. all lined up like intricately arranged flowers on a large vertical Cake, It was crazy. My rescue dog Teddy was going mad, trying to catch and play with each one of them. My Father opened the door and tried to let them out, urging them towards the front porch but they were flying everywhere. I took my phone out to record it because it was one of the most fascinating things that I had seen…

Its a Monday morning and you really want to start the week off on a high and get back into the work / write / workout routine. Given a weeks’ break and a weak body after a bout of the Flu, you figure that the best thing for a quick boost would be a rapid-fire set of pushups. 30 is the magic number in your head, just to test the waters as this was usually your warmup exercise.

But then this series of nagging thoughts of came in;

“will I be able to do 30?”
“after all, I am not as…

We have been taught from a very young age that we need to chew our food. Our ancestors used to do it, our grandparents’s did it with great conviction and purpose.

As the essential First step of digestion, chewing food well helps with;

• swallowing the food easily
• breaking food down in to smaller pieces so that the gastric juices in the stomach can break it down further
• absorbing nutrients and fluids to the gastrointestinal tract
• well digested food means that you are satiated and are less likely to consume junk food thus increase caloric intake
• maintaining a healthy weight
• its…