Mothers’ day has come and gone (it was last Sunday, if it escaped you completely), did you observe it? Did you give a thought to why this day was instituted in the first place? What does mother’s day mean to you?

Last Sunday was the hundredth anniversary of Mother’s day (it was instituted and first celebrated in May 1908) and while it is still celebrated, I feel it has lost much of its original significance and meaning. It was the decade long, tireless efforts of Anna Jarvis due to which the second Sunday of every May is celebrated as Mother’s day. What originally was initiated as a way to show our mothers how much we as their children value their devotion and sacrifice, and how we appreciate the “truth, purity and broad charity of mother love”, now appears to have lost some of its original significance, and has been somewhat derailed by commercialism and quick-fix gifts and greetings. While Anna Jarvis originally visualized simple gestures such as a single white carnation and a heartfelt letter, now Mother’s day has become rather different.

Mind though I am not saying it has changed in a bad way; it has merely changed in a way that reflects the times that we live it. With the internet giving you the incredible convenience of being able to simply send your mother an ecard, or finding a nice gift over the internet (perhaps at a discount) and having it shipped to your mother without having to bother to go and deliver it personally, Mother’s day has simply evolved to echo the times we live in.

Also the lives that we now lead are such that it is not possible to observe mother’s day in the spirit that it was meant to be. Ideally we should be able to take time out and perhaps visit our mothers on the day or at least write her a heartfelt, sincere letter of appreciation. However busy lives and distances do make these things difficult. If therefore I sent my mother a nice card with some lines hand-written inside along with say a book that I thought she may enjoy and spoke to her at length over the phone, I think I conveyed my appreciation of her in the best way possible for me, I think that I made her day somewhat better and I think that I celebrated Mother’s Day in the best possible manner for me. Did you celebrate Mothers’ day? If you did what was it that you did?

The “Hemline Theory”. The belief is, traditionally, hemlines rise in accordance with the economy and they fall when the economy is bad or a stock market fall. So short skirts mean a bull-market? Rising prices?

This is not all unsubstantiated you know I have some facts for you here; this economic indicator was coined by a George Taylor in the US during the late 1920’s. In the ‘20’s and 60’s the hemlines were high, so were the stock markets. In the 30’s and 40’s during the market crash the hemlines were so low that women were tripping on their long skirts. In 1929 when Wall Street crashed the hemlines dropped almost overnight. It was during the sixties along with the rise in the stock markets did the hemlines move north. The advent of Mary Quant’s brash mini-skirt marking a booming economy to only have hemlines drop to the feet during the 70’s slump.

Even in 1987 when miniskirts were all the rage, the stock markets were at a matching high. Then the market quickly crashed in October, right when designers such as Bill Blass decided that miniskirts looked ridiculous. Hemlines dropped and so did the market. Coincidence? I think not!

Quirky but yet a historically accurate tool. It could be thought that an economic slowdown could lead women towards nostalgic, conservative looks and during an economic boom: lots of color, daring, playful, unusual pairing and downright naughty. However the million-dollar question posed here, which comes first? Thigh-high or NASDAQ-high?? It is open to debate …

So does this mean you look to fashion runways for an economic outlook? Well yes, in a way. If judging by what we seen over the years if the runways are somber ensembles, sober-looking models then hoard your cash, but if its opulent, luxurious fabrics, glittery and sexy? It means quite simply pricy stuff are going to hit stores and you better get set to buy them! The economy boom can’t be far off!

I have been trying hard since quite some days that my blog gets approved at Payperpost, and today finally I received a mail from Payperpost.com regarding approval of my blog on their site. I was thrilled to receive the positive feedback form PPP. I have been lately reading and hearing a lot about the success of Payperpost. Many of my friends have been using it and have been quite happy with PPP.

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So you’re thinking, robotics, hmm… Sure it’s futuristic and all, but not really my cuppa. Think again. People in the ’60’s (or earlier about) all hyped about futuristic robots, they thought by the Millennium all computers would blow up and human life as we know it would end. Then of course to be taken over by robots. Or maybe aliens.

We’ve watched movies where the computers deem humans ‘inefficient’ and proceed to eliminate humankind. Like the mainframe computer in I, Robot. Its not too far I tell you! Look at Doc Ock from Spiderman 2, when one can have runaway robot men then it’s within imagination to have mutated spiders biting people. Go Spiderman!

You must have watched the youtube clips, notice how the robots have better coordination and can dance better than the average person? Even you possibly! Then there’s the US Army exoskeleton, which is a scary thing and the adorable Sony Rolly. The picture you see of the space-ship like thing on the floor is a robo-vacuum. You switch it on and it goes around your house vacuuming by itself… There you see that Sony robo dog. These all designed to replace your dancing partner, the security guard, a clown, maid and your pet dog!

I have evidence to believe robo things are even finding space in the bedroom! Appalling! But chances are someone you know knows someone who might have heard of someone owning one of those! Which might be you! Ha-ha, only joking. The world’s a small place, things come around too quickly. Too quickly for comfort.

Robotics arose out of human lethargy, or as some says need for greater production and efficiency. Robots are automations. Automations we have aplenty all around us already. Majority of the urban city goer’s time is spent interacting with machines. In some kind of automation or the other. The PC without which life does move these days does control our lives to good extent already.

So barricade your doors, keep the pet in. Run up your credit card bills, who cares? The robo’s are taking over the world!!

Alternative health care: Lets look at it; these methods of today are incursive ‘alternate methods’ to the original method of time immemorial. The right method is allowing the nature to be, i.e. allowing human nature to be and understand how to approach an illness than to attempt to force the body into submission. Which is why allopathic medicines have side-effects. A correct method will have no side-effects.

Let’s look at some correct and obvious methods to good health.

Human beings are meant to be active. If you were to just sit idle while popping pills and drugs you would not get too better. Which is why majority of people are on long-term medication. Simply because the pills provide short-term relief, people refuse to do nothing more than to sit idly hence short-term becomes long term.

Try something; whatever medication you are taking compliment it with some physical activity. See the difference for yourself. That is why Yoga is so popular world over. It is essentially nothing more than to activate and energise the body. Some activity can work wonders.

The kind of medications themselves. These drugs and modern surgery are principally barbaric. Something isn’t right, cut open and remove it..! Or something is broken, stick a piece of metal in there, it should surely help!

Ridiculous! The human body needs subtle care, not such barbaric methods! How many stories have we heard of surgeries not helping even as making things worse! Take for instance the condition ‘corn people get on their feet or so. This one person I know had it operated on several times to have it removed and it kept coming back! Treat the source for crying out loud! Than to just keep cutting it out!!

Eat properly, or balance junk intake!

Try Ayurveda or Homeopathy. Ayurvedic methods are completely natural. Made from plants and herbs work perfectly well with another work of nature; the human body. I know you are probably saying at this point what of all those adverse stories you might have heard on these methods of health care. As with allopathic medication, these methods must be administered properly with correct dosage. Results are very tangible and many problems are cured for life!

I know of many people who with a combination of physical activity (Yoga) and Ayurvedic medication have recovered from very serious illnesses. Why then would massages be part of Ayurvedic treatment if the belief isn’t on physical activity?

Get out of that chair and get active! It’s the best way to build up immunity.

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Emma Watson, the pretty co star of the Harry Potter films turned 18 recently, and this apparently is big news for some gossip related news sites and blogs. Fine! But what really appalled me is an ‘article’ about her that showed photos of her see thru underwear! This is when I thought how crazy is this world that something like this masquerades as ‘news’ or ‘interesting post’ or whatever.

The world is so celebrity crazy that every move made by the beleaguered Britney Spears is reported and re-reported to death! She got married, she got divorced, she got pregnant, had a baby got married again, became a drug or alcohol addict, went into rehab, got out, whatever!!! I have simply lost track of how many times I have skimmed over news about the singer in the recent past.

And god forbids that anyone in a relationship should be suspected to call it quits. A media feeding frenzy will at once ensue, and practically ensure that even if the relationship was not at break point, the unending hounding and countless searching questions will effectively put such a stain on the relationship as to make it untenable.
The hint of a pregnancy, the whiff of a divorce and the vultures will close in for the kill. I feel that the media circus may have been responsible for more than one break up of an otherwise strong relationship.

I for one am convinced that the story hungry paparazzi, ever eager to satisfy the public’s unending lust for any crumb of celebrity information, was at least partly responsible for the tragic accident that claimed the life of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed.

What is it after all that makes people so avidly interested even riveted to all that a celebrity does? How on earth does it affect anyone else if Kanye West broke off his engagement or if Jennifer Lopez delivered twins! Is this the price that one has to pay for being a celebrity? Are you not entitled to a private life once you get into the public space?

I do occasionally read about celebrity news if it is relevant, for instance if Britney Spears makes a new album, I will probably be interested. I am not, however interested in how haggard she is looking these days or difficulties she is having in her personal life.

This kindly of celebrity hounding is just malicious, it mean and it is nasty when its principle aim is to dig out the dirt in peoples’ lives. The argument in favor of this kind of reporting is that if you get the adulation and fame, you have to take this invasion of privacy. Do you enjoy reading about celebrities? Do you think this is a valid argument?