Corruption.......a self examination.

If you usually put more sugar in your tea when in a hotel than you do at home, you're most likely to be corrupt.

If you use more tissue in a public washroom than you do at home, you are a potential thief; if given the opportunity you would take what's not yours.

If you serve yourself more food that you can finish just because someone else is footing the bill; proves the greedy streak in you.

If you usually jump queues; shows that, if given a powerful position, you have the potential to abuse your office.

If you usually overlap while in a traffic jam or have no regards for the traffic lights; then you are one who would easily embezzle public funds, if you're given a position at a public office, since you have contempt for any form of regulation.

If you channel waste or dirty water from your compound to a neighbour's compound rather than manage it, you're ill-mannered and selfish.

If you look at this post and wonder whether it was really necessary to talk about these issues; then you are dishonest. You would not hesitate to cover up ills in the society, for your own benefit.

Let us try to be people of character wherever we find ourselves.

A country is as good, or bad, as its citizens make it.

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Tree at my window

Tree at my window, window tree,

My sash is lowered when night comes on;

But let there never be curtain drawn

Between you and me.

Vague dream head lifted out of the ground,

And thing next most diffuse to cloud,

Not all your light tongues talking aloud

Could be profound.

But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,

And if you have seen me when I slept,

You have seen me when I was taken and swept

And all but lost.

That day she put our heads together,

Fate had her imagination about her,

Your head so much concerned with outer,

Mine with inner, weather.

- Robert Frost

Tailpiece

Got up at 6, the chores and was ready by 10. Finished quite a few pending work and spoke to friends with whom I haven't been in touch for a long time.

The panchayat rep had come home to collect the house tax but did not collect mine as she said that she had to cross check at her office, yet again.

Pidavoor amma has been admitted in the NS Hospital at Kollam for chest congestion and Aji is her attendant. Everything is under control reports Padmakumar. 

A quiet day otherwise!