Land of Chocolate

The other day my wife was telling my little son what and all cows can give to us. Milk, Butter, Yogurt, Cheese and the list went for a while. Looks like my son understood what cows can give to us and nodded his head. Next time, he listed all milk products, and included few more items - ice creams, chocolates...Chocolates…mmm. I have started to think like “Homer Simpson”, recalled his fantasy of “Land of Chocolate”. In one episode, Homer was attending an evaluation meeting with nuclear plant’s **new** bosses who bought the plant from M. Burns (yes, Springfield nuclear power plant was taken over by German consortium once, and returned back to Burns). The meeting was about to discuss how Homer can contribute to improve the plant efficiency. As usual, Homer comes with his typical idea for plant improvisation. The employees were not getting enough candies and more candies in the vending machine can improve employee morale. The German bosses replied “Yes, we understand, after all we are from Land of Chocolate”. And Homer says “mmm, Chocolate” and he goes into infamous “Land of Chocolate” imaginary world, where all stuff is made of Chocolate, buildings, humans, rabbits, everything is made of chocolate. Homer runs and bites whatever he could, till his German bosses wakes him up from the “Land Of Chocolate” dream. I'm not sure why Simpson folks call Germany as Land of Chocolate. To me, Belgium is the ultimate "Land of Chocolate" in this planet!

In-built Bookshops!

Ever since I left my last company, my reading has diminished or stopped to nil. The reason: the place where I was working earlier has bookshops and coffee shops within its perimeter. Often, I frequent to those “in-built” bookshops to buy books and pass time. Now, I'm at my own company and that has neither “in-built” bookshops nor coffee shops. I don't know, for some reasons, I never attempted to buy a novel or short story book, though I like novels and short stories. All the time, I look for Scott Adams books (with more Dilbert cartoons) or Kushwant Singh’s books (again, I never attempted to buy train to Pakistan or Sikh history) or some books based on author's weird theory or concept. Once I bought a book titled "Survival of the sickest".

The other time I bought "Freakonomics" by Malcolm Baldwell or Caldwell. After reading tons of positive thinking books, I had developed an aversion to “positive thinking” materials. Btw, still I'm buying and keeping those materials it in my shelves. Next time if you visit me, I will present those to you. One more thing, the same “in-built” bookshops introduced me to Richard Dawkins and his bestseller "God Delusions", "How to make money from day-trading" (that time I was strongly believed, I can make good fortune from day trading") and scientist yet mavericks books (e.g., Richard Faymen).