Is-ha Is-ha Is-ha hoiy: When you gotta go you gotta go

I finally found out how this expression "is-ha, is-ha" came about in the famous Tamizh movie song "aadaludan paadalai kettaal" where puratchi thalaivar executes swag bhangra moves. I am referring to this song: https://youtu.be/BqeX54Wmvgw .

Now some context to how this song and its picturisation came about. You see, there are times when you are busy with work, or busy with TV, mobile, etc., when your major excretory organ sends you an alert to park your rear from its current seat to a different seat.

But you are so engrossed in your present activity, or too lazy sometimes, that you choose not to heed the alert and opt to wait till you reach the stage where you have no choice but to go. The pressure starts building up and you start fidgeting around in your seat waiting for the Bat signal. And finally you get the SOS call anda you have no choice but to move.

By now there's way too much pressure built up in the intestines and you start feeling some pain in the tract. It is not an excruciating pain, but one that impairs your free movement which unfortunately is what you need at that time. Your walking muscles seem to have stiffened up and moving appears to be stifled. Added to it, you have this fear that you might soil your clothes if you take a wrong move.

So with weird contortions of your hips, postures you can never achieve otherwise, you start walking, and holding, towards your current heaven.

But every step you take is more painful than the previous one. And based on whether you are alone or with people around, you start moaning internally or externally for every step.

Recollect this moan and play it back in your mind now, or loudly if nobody's around. It is "is-ha".

Yes, "is-ha". The same term used in that song. In fact the lyrics, say more. "varum varum varum. is-ha is-ha is-ha". You can also now relate better to that bhangra steps in the song.

In conclusion, that song and dance was basically inspired by someone who delayed his need to go!

Influence of red and blue colors

I recently came across this article. I am sure you have come across reports about similar studies elsewhere too.

After I read this, I suddenly had this big urge to validate the claims made by the study. As you may remember, I changed the color of my bedroom to Red from Blue last April.

Since these were the two colors mentioned in the research, I wanted to see if I had become any less creative due to this color change from blue to red. Not that I am alluding myself to be very creative just because I blog a lot, but here are some numbers for you to munch (Please note that I am excluding April 2008 from these calculations since it is the month when the color change took place):

Time between May 2008 and January 2009 = 9 months. This is the time when my room was Red.
A similar time frame when the walls were blue would be July 2007 till March 2008, the same 9 months.

# of posts between May 2008 and January 2009: 63
# of posts between July 2007 and March 2008: 145 (Even if you discount the 20 posts of my travelogues in this period, the count is still a healthy 125).

# of posts between May 2008 and January 2009 that attracted comments: 28
# of posts between July 2007 and March 2008 that attracted comments: 63

# of Random Observation posts between May 2008 and January 2009: 8
# of Random Observation posts between July 2007 and March 2008: 24


Based on this data, it is very evident that from the time my bedroom turned Red, I have not been the same blogger that I was when the color of my bedroom was Blue.