tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post7021196282943006067..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Rewards-r-usSriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-57354065147259686302016-09-20T06:22:02.955-07:002016-09-20T06:22:02.955-07:00Yep, I am way more at ease talking with strangers ...Yep, I am way more at ease talking with strangers than I am with my unprofessional colleagues ;) I bet the colleagues have no clue how much I do small talk with all kinds of people ... hehehe<br /><br />The cash in the book is a cool idea, right? Imagine the awesome happiness if/when a niece/nephew of yours finds that money in the book ...Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-67984412297738525482016-09-19T20:11:54.497-07:002016-09-19T20:11:54.497-07:00I find it interesting how often you talk with stra...I find it interesting how often you talk with strangers. Definitely beyond my comfort zone.<br /><br />I like the cash idea. I may try that on nieces and nephews.Anne in Salemnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-29012515490382171392016-09-19T07:05:09.883-07:002016-09-19T07:05:09.883-07:00What was the sports magazine when we were kids? I...What was the sports magazine when we were kids? I forget now ... Did we have Sports Illustrated in our childhood days? And then later, The Hindu came out with a sports magazine, right? I read 'em all, which might be hard to believe when I am constantly ranting against sports as entertainment ;)<br /><br />Even the money inserted in a gift-book idea is from a Tamil fiction/book that I read when I was young. I thought it was a brilliant idea. In that fiction, an older man gifts a young man heading to the city a copy of the Ramayana and tells him it might console him if ever the young man feels troubled. Sure enough, troubles come his way--he loses his job in the city--and one day he starts reading the Ramayana when ... tada, there are the rupees that he so dearly needs ...Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-67195848643632625612016-09-19T06:37:14.827-07:002016-09-19T06:37:14.827-07:00Alas, a book reader does have the aura of being a ...Alas, a book reader does have the aura of being a vanishing species. The irony is that books and magazines have become so easily available. Remember, in our childhood, we would have given an arm and a leg to be able to get Time or Newsweek, or for that matter a newly released book. OK, I should add in that list Sports Illustrated as well :)<br /><br />Now books and magazines are available literally at our beck and call. And affordable too. And yet reading is a declining activity. Sad.<br /><br />That's an interesting experiment you did. Slip a 20 dollar bill inside a book. Must try that !!Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com