HNY 2019

[Siraj Syed]

Happy New Year 2019. Let us welcome it with smiles.

• "New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody, save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, friendly phone calls and humbug resolutions."
• “My drug test came back negative. My dealer sure has some explaining to do.”
• “The problem isn’t that obesity runs in your family. The problem is no one runs in your family.”
• “Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”
• “The Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.”
• “Never criticise someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, they won't be able to hear you from that far away. Plus, you'll have their shoes.”
• “I recently decided to sell my vacuum cleaner, as all it was doing was gathering dust.”
• “The best thing about good old days is that we were neither good nor old.”
• “If we shouldn’t eat at night, why do they put a light in the fridge?”
• “I think it’s pretty cool how the Chinese made a language entirely out of tattoos.”
• “How come you never see a news headline like ‘Astrologer Wins Lottery’?”
• “What should you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?”
• “I will never drive a mini-car. It’s too dangerous. I could get run over by a pedestrian.”
• “I can still remember a time when I knew more than my phone.”
• “The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to check whether the name is available.”  
• “I once bought my kid a set of batteries on his birthday, which had a sticker on it, saying

     ‘Toys not included'.”

• “When it comes to chocolate bars, the term ‘fun-sized’ is misleading. There is nothing ‘fun’ about your candy bar being ⅛ the size of a regular bar.”
• “Right now, I’m at work, using the Internet. But in my mind, I’m already at home, using the Internet.”
• “People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”
• “Whoever said “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts” probably lost.”
• “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR agents.”
• “An optimist is the guy who created the airplane. A pessimist is the guy who created the parachute.”
• “The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable.”

May the NEW YEAR spread kindness, tolerance, and, above all, love!

Prof. Siraj Syed  B.Sc., LL.B.,
Dip: Cinema, Advtg, Mktg, French, Persian; Cert: Mass Comm, Film Appreciation, Video Prodn, Urdu, Bengali, Arabic
Actor, Broadcaster, Compere, Copywriter, Critic, Editor, Feature-writer, Lecturer, Trainer, Voice-Over 

Visiting Faculty, Ramesh Sippy's Academy of Cinema and Entertainment
Advanced Communicator-Gold, Competent Leader: Toastmasters International, USA
Member, FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Critics, Germany
Former President, Freelance Media Journalists' Combine
Life-Member, Consumer Guidance Society of India
India Correspondent, Filmfestivals.com; http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/siraj_syed
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[Aditya Seth]

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[Sayani]

Dear Siraj,

 

Yes, This e-mail is being sent to congratulate you for having sent an e-mail that has : (a) The largest ( and most amusing) New Year message ever, and (b) The longest list of addressees (but strangely does not include my name !).

 

Raju must have definitely already sent you my New Year message.  But, in any case,  I'm sending it herewith. Please also pass it on to Riaz's family, with my love and best wishes,

 

My health is at a very low ebb these days, I'll feel much better if you drop in whenever you are free - but after ringing me to fix a time and date,

 

Warm regards. Ameen.

[Sayani]