Whats up 2010?

Yet another one of those times that have made me a slacker at blogging. Several of my recent posts have mentioned how there haven't been many posts and that it will be different from now on, etc. etc. Yes, I do love to write and yes there are some interesting (and not-so interesting) moments that I could keep blogging about but Shakespeare never did that either so I guess I can be excused on my own blog (j).

What indeed made me add a post today of all days was when I read the eternal question in one of those forward emails (grrr) - What is your resolution for the coming year? 'Writing' was what popped out of my head and then the brain started churning out all that I 'should do' in 2010. Now, should I put that on google docs, pages or better still, make a spreadsheet of 'dos and donts'? The newspapers talk of most common resolutions - go to the gym (not going to happen), quit smoking (old habits die hard), be more spiritual (ahem!)....so what would it be then, I wonder.

While the world rings in the new year, with Sydney already in 2010, I am reminded of what C&H a lot right now and their thought-process totally echoes what I would like to do at this point.

So here's the C&H way of wishing all of you a 2010 that is filled with contentment, safety, laughter, courage and acceptance -

Crisis Well Explained

Kids say the darnedest things..and they hold sooo true especially when it comes from our very own Calvin!

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Reflections of a Comic Freak

Most of us like to read books of one sort or another; but very few are really able to resist the lure of a good comic! Comics require no understanding of the story. They can be taken up and left off whenever one pleases. After a long day, not many of us can digest ‘Types of Ethical Theory’ or ‘Zen and the art of the motorcycle maintenance’. Hence for cool dudes who want to have a good time and just keep on laughing helplessly, I recommend my all-time favourite: CALVIN and HOBBES!

Written by a genius named BILL WATTERSON, it is about a six year old boy CALVIN and his stuffed tiger (you guessed it right!) HOBBES, who comes to life only where there is no one else around. Calvin’s parents are average middle class Americans though his dad has a special streak of weird humour in him which gives the reader an idea of how Calvin will be if he ever grows up. Calvin himself an over smart precocious brat has an amazing vocabulary and an outsized imagination in which he takes on roles like fearless inter-planetary explorer or a masked super-hero. Hobbes, for his part, is a tiger who constantly ogles at the tigresses in the National Geographic, spouts stupid one- liners and claims that tigers are the epitome of creation.

Bill Watterson, through his amazing comic strip, manages to portray childhood as it really is. Unusual titles to the Calvin comics like “ Scientific Progress goes Boink”, “Attack of Deranged mutant killer”, etc. only add to the aim of sheer idiocy that surrounds the Calvin persona. One can go on and on about the myriad of unusual phenomenon which lie inside the Calvin comic books. Perhaps the one that illustrates it the best is the one where Hobbes doing Calvin’s Maths homework,puts down Alabama as the answer to the subtraction question or the one where Hobbes is all worried about tigers being endangered species and this being the reason for he is not meeting the babes.

The true way to enjoy Calvin and Hobbes is to experience the sheer magic of good humour your self. So go out, read it and have a good time!

(Pic taken from Google Images)