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This drawing was in part inspired by a joke I heard on Clive Anderson’s Chat Room – satirical talk show, on BBC Radio Two a fortnight ago.

I remember opening a bank account with Midland Bank (now HSBC) primarily because they offered me a free piggy bank. During my student days banks tried to entice me with beer mugs, Dalek key chains, rail cards, pop corn machines, bar fridges etc.

Later on, after graduation, they tried to lure me with cash offers, interest free overdrafts, higher interest rates and so on.

The current banking crisis has brought the safety of customer deposits into focus and banks have started using ‘trust’ as their selling point. To be honest, I am worried about my savings despite governments guaranteeing every penny. I must confess I even thought about keeping my savings in mattresses and shoe boxes.

From Left-handed toons

I still drink around 6-7 regular cups of coffee every day. In the evenings I usually drink around three schooners of beer in my local (except when I am on call).

My excuse: Well, it’s not much.

How do you rationalise your habits?

My friend Ian gave me the idea for the above cartoon. I liked it because I am trying hard (or hardly) to kick my habit of procrastinating. When I do that I’ll probably a write a self help book on overcoming procrastination-it won’t be soon though.

Ian and I are working on a new book. We are still struggling with its structure at the moment. Not because we both are self confessed procrastinators but be both have full time jobs and we do not have time.

Hey! Isn’t that the No.1 excuse procrastinators usually give?

I got the idea for this cartoon while watching the movie Dead Poets Society last night. I must confess that I have always (though not openly) been fascinated by existentialism and have been reading and contemplating a lot on it recently.

Death has always been a major theme for existentialism. Is death the only certainty in life (apart from taxes)? Does death makes life absurd (other than providing a healthy source of food for the worms)?

I wonder?

I came across this cartoon last evening and found it intellectually stimulating. This cartoon is open to different interpretations from both atheists and theists.

Cartoonist Dan Pirraro himself stated “However you take this cartoon, I think it’s an interesting idea. If God is only in the minds of humans, how is he looking at the sign? If He actually exists and someone did this to Him as a joke, why does it make Him mad?”

While religious moralists may find any cartoon with God off-putting, I think this cartoon can be enjoyed by everyone.

We seem to want instant answers to everything? Is modern society driving us to act out a parody of channel-hopping in real life?

Wonder what would happen if psychotherapy meets fast-food culture?

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Just came across this quote by Albert Einstein. Is indifference worst of all human qualities? What do you think?

writ·er’s block (rī’tərz)
n. A usually temporary psychological inability to begin or continue work on a piece of writing.

Got one at the moment.