The Spider Insect

The Spider Insect.  A very commonly seen spider in every house. 

Unbearable Heat of the Summer

The Summer of 2012 has arrived and already roasting everything in its path.  It has become unbearable and uncomfortable as we are trying to cool down our body heat by taking frequent showers and cooling down under a fan.  We live in India, and here not many people have the luxury of an Air-Conditioner.  Things are really going bad to worse.  Doctors on TV advised the viewers not to go out between 10 AM to 2 PM unless important.  We need to eat light foods and drink lots of water.  I searched the Internet on "How to keep cool during summer?" and found some interesting results from various websites.  I will be following some of them and hope to get fruitful results as claimed.  Meanwhile, we can do nothing best but to stay indoors during the above mentioned hours and enjoy the cool evenings instead.  The weather department has indicated that there are no signs of any rains for few days.  But I have observed that after every long gap of sunny days, we get rains with thunder & lightning.  I am eagerly waiting for it.  

A Durga Puja Pandal in West Bengal, India.

What you are looking at is a Durga Puja pandal in a city of West Bengal in India.  People here invest a lot of time and effort to build this massive structure which looks like a real monument.  The beauty is the art work that you can find in almost every pandals.  Not to mention, the artists are those people who never went to any art college, but are just individuals who came to the city in search of work.  Funding is mostly done by collecting donations from the public and businessmen.  

Why Auctions are not working on eBay India?

Do you know why the online auctions are not working out on eBay India?

When I first started selling on eBay, I selected eBay India's Auction format?  I listed one of my Tintin comics for just Rs. 1/- with free shipping.  It was indeed a very successful auction and it got sold within a week.  That was five years ago.  But now things have changed a lot.  Now, when you list your item on the auction format on eBay India, you do get some bids on your item, but once the auction is over your buyer never pays you.  So, you are stuck with the sold product for sometime.  You cannot re-list it as you may not know when will your buyer pay for it.  You just wait and wait and wait.  Worst your buyer just ignores all your e-mails and phone calls.  I am suffering with this problem long time.  So, I decided to list all my items in the fixed format called Buy It Now.  But I still miss the adventures of auctioning online.  This problem is with eBay India.  May be we Indians need to learn how to buy an item on auction.  There are lot of time-pass bidders who just bids on random items for fun and never pay for it.  

Chicken Curry

Chicken Curry.