MY POSTS

COMMON SENSE IS THE MOST UNCOMMON Most players take long time to come out of their habits which they develop while learning the bridge. A beginner is told several things when he /she ventures into the idea of learning bridge or someone forces him to learn .These several things as listed below are definitely good guidelines to a beginner but if the common sense is not used while using the guidelines a player finds himself in the loosing position .Below are some guidelines for the beginners. The most important thing is they are only guidelines and need not be followed every time. Guidelines   Second man should play the lowest                 Third man should play  the highest   Honor must be covered              While playing trump suit , first remove the trumps of the opponents  Repeat partner’s lead           In difficulty play trump  If you are on ...

MEANING OF LAGAN I honestly don't like the idea of going to movie in the multiplex .There is strong reason for that. At our home  till I graduated  in 1975, we were allowed to see only 3 or 4 movies in the whole year . While studying in college I saw many movies in  less than a rupee with a group of college friends by bunking classes .Those movies were seen in either  second class or third class sitting in the front row !  Of course those adventures were never disclosed. The first time I saw the movie  from Balcony was with my friend  who  gave me the treat with three other friends..The movie was Johny Mera Naam  Later when I left home in 1975 and  was in Bangalore I saw more than 90 movies  in just  9 months . In those days there were 120 theaters in that Garden city.At that time the rate for balcony ticket  was Rs 4.65 per person in the best theaters like " Santosh "  and Nartaki , both near the M...

BISCUITS I think for me it is almost impossible to avoid eating biscuits particularly when I take tea or coffee. As such there is no rule that one should eat biscuit only with tea or coffee so I eat them anytime irrespective of whether I am   hungry or not.Several times I eat biscuits in the night or early morning at wee hours! I was told by my son after he returned from America that my habit of dipping biscuit in tea or coffee is bad.He insists that I must avoid  this habit infront of visitors.I still dont know what is wrong in dipping the biscuit in tea.The only problem I have faced several time is that if biscuit is dipped little longer it disappears and then I have to use a spoon much against my wishes to swallow the paste after the last sip of tea. I think that the first biscuit most of us had tasted in our childhood was  Parle G ( in fact at that time it was called Parle Glucose) .ln those days there were not many varieties of biscuits compared to what we obser...