Care for your eyes

I have been using contact lenses for quite a time now. Though lenses free you from glasses and make you confident, they are bad for our eyes and cornea. I am contemplating Lasik surgery now. I consulted my eye doc last weekend for an allergy. Here are some points I noted.

1) Allergies in the eye become common if lenses are worn.
2) Removing dust from the eye or rubbing eyes at night before sleep is dangerous. You must avoid it. The final result of such habits is a condition called FLOATERS. Floaters is a condition characterized by floating shadows before your eyes. This doesn't affect vision. However, it ends in detaching of the cornea from the eye and making you blind. So, avoid rubbing your eyes.
3) Blink is a blessing. Blink as much as you can, as blinks lubricate the eye and removes dirt.
4) Consult your doc before using any medication on the eye.
5) Discontinue lenses at once if you find any irritation or swelling in the eye.
6) Lasik surgery comes in different mutant versions, comparable by their surgery procedure and precision. However, the technology and skill with which this surgery is done in India is commendable. Notable best-doers are LVP(L V Prasad) and Shankar Nethralaya.
7) Lasik surgery requires pre-diagnosis of your cornea and many other parameters. All it takes is to go the eye clinic 2 days in advance, plan up with them, undergo the test and if they find it suitable to operate on you, then the next day you can walk out with black sunglasses on brand new eyes. After a week, you can attend office, sit in front of the PC. After a month, you can freely walk the streets in sunshine too.
However, I must tell you that that they will perform the Lasik on your eyes for sure is not guaranteed. They may return you empty handed and without hope and ask you to continue wearing lenses. However, this happens only rarely. Do not get disheartened, new precision techniques are there to come.
8) Your diet regimen affects how your eyes perform at every age. Fruits and vegetables are a must to nurture, lubricate and strengthen your vision. Eggs help better.
9) Wear a protective glass on your eye if you go outside wearing lenses. This may prevent all the allergies and infections.

Good Ideas need longer airing

Saul Bellow said, "The best argument is an undeniably good book."
Good ideas need longer airing- so ideas need to be compiled in a book. What we read in books remain for a longer time than those we read outside them.

-- Inspired from Business Standards' INDIA 2008.

What to watch on T.V

Reality shows are the next best thing on TV. A national daily editorial page had read last week. I see fellas around me setting reminders on mobile phones for watching the Music Reality Shows like Indian Idol or the others. They are a craze. But who asked for the NEXT best thing. We already had.

Last year we had something good on television though. Lead India. This was happening for the first time on Indian TV - with motifs set as high as finding youth leaders for India. But this dint go down well with the Indian audience - one which has been and being demolished and dilapidated and ransacked of its values,ethics,lifestyle,motives and ambitions by the K-soaps and the always bogging news entertainments.

We have a show called " We the People" on NDTV. We have a channel called Travel and Living. We have "India Questions", again on NDTV. All these things are, and were already there, since times Indian Reality Show wasnt even in the blastula stage.

I wonder one thing - why do the people I see forget, or gladly give way, to watch The Lead India Show, or The Siddharta Basu Quiz or the Barkha Dutt Show, when they do not forget the scream and be sentimental about the anchors and judges on Saregama.

My comments - Reality shows are good. They may be entertaining. But they never inspire. Television, specially in India, should be aimed to turn couch potato jelly-filled Indians to high thinking, focussed Indians.

Future is at our hands

We blog on our own, Dada n me. This blog was intended for siblings back home in Balasore n KGP. Although Didi, Bobly and Pintu can really put in their efforts to be part of the blogging community(the reasons for which I need not explain) I do not understand why do they refrain from it.

BTW, another thing that refrains from growing this year is Inflation. Amidst all hoopla around the Indian inflation calculation or rising prices, I have noted few things that me and my siblings at home should keep in mind and act now.
1) Oil is the reason why prices have been rising and will be rising. Take steps to decrease use of oil and petroleum.
2) Try best to use public transport like local trains and buses.
3) Save water at our homes. Save water for the earth.
4) Switch off lights, fans and other electrical appliances when not in use.
5) Read blogs and newspapers and try to form your opinion on things.
6) I, Dada and Baba have been unconsciously creating a library over the years. Please borrow some of my books and read.
7) Do not ask for plastic bags from the grocer or pharmacist.
8) Ask for a bill every time u go for shopping to the neighborhood.
9) LPG has gotta be costlier than gold, coz even if I can and buy gold, I can't get a legal LPG connection here. All I can get is a black marketed LPG cylinder at Rs 600, whose cost is 300 bucks.

I have been trying to be responsible for the future.
We must realize by now that the future is in our hands.
Its high time we realise this.

Videos to watch

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W3x4HvXTyGQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwcSEcfR464
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_TnmNJqao

Anand Rajendran says

When we think, plan, and try to execute….there is a sense of boredom that sets in.
When we work within the realm of limited mind, the BIG vision cannot be accomplished.

Bablis first presentation (Using Linux of course)