P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing - Love and the Male Sex

In Chapter 12, while Bertie Wooster is conversing with his aunt Dahlia Traver about his past relationships with Roberta Wickham:

"The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgment by the parties of the second part's glamour. Put it like this. The male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the male non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce."

Speech that I never gave :-|

Thank you Bob and thank you Raj. I would also like to thank the jury for selecting me as one of the recipient of the first ever Community Impact Awards 2008. As I understand that Deloitte is a truly meritocratic environment where to excel one has to continuously raise the bar, this would have not been possible without the constant support from the year round Reach Out team, whose persistent enthusiasm kept the fire burning through out the year. The dedication that the team has shown is commendable. I would like to express my special thanks to Pankaj Jalan who believed in my capabilities and handed over the charge of coordinating the thread activities when he had to go for a project onsite. Thanks again to Raj for connecting me to Pankaj who will soon be starting a new journey of life with a mate this time as he got engaged just a week back. Congratulation Pankaj! I am glad for you!

I find myself fortunate that I am associated with Deloitte which offers a strong platform and encourages employees for community service initiatives. For someone like me who is straight out of the college, Deloitte not only provided an excellent environment for professional growth but also for personal growth and building relations as well.

I enjoyed every moment of my community service. The satisfaction I could draw was tremendous. Tomorrow it is Rakhi which reminds me that last year when I was looking for someone to tie me a knot I was blessed with two sisters from 7th grad I was teaching. Not only that, at times, when I was low in life the activity gave me a purpose to extend.

Just a quick description of the activity would include: we visited an orphanage and aged elders home "Sathya Sai Vidya Mandir", an institution near BharatNagar MMTS railway station. They also run a school till 10th standard and have a few resident undergraduate students as well. Our activity involved teaching maths to class 1, 2, 3 and 7, help college students with their end semester exams, help the institution create and manage records for all the members and spend time with orphans and aged elders.

Before I am asked to loose the control over the mike, please allow me to quote Late Dr. Randy Pausch from his 2008 commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon, "Find your passion and in my experience no matter what you do at work, or what you do in official settings, that passion will be grounded in people. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes."

Thank you.

Hitting the Iron Hot

There are times when movies have had 'Hit the Iron Hot':
1. Kal Ho Na Ho
2. You've Got Mail -
Kathleen: When I'm confronted by someone I get tongue tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend the rest of the night tossing and turning over what i should have said.
Joe: ... when you eventually have the pleasure of saying the thing you want to say at the moment you’re wanting to say it, remorse inevitably follows.
3. A Walk to Remember -
Reverend Sullivan: "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful nor conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes."
3. Om Shanti Om - yet to write here
4. Jub We Met
5. Dil, Dosti etc.
6. Bachna Ae Haseeno
7. Little Manhatten
Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. It'll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you can't ever shake. The truth is, there's gonna be other girls out there. I mean, I hope. But I'm never gonna get another first love. That one is always gonna be her.

Is It Life...!

What I do for my living is not what I like the most which is as creepy as people finding themselves in a dark dungeon and on the first sight of a ray of hope coming though an orifice they would diffuse out blithely without thinking of what could be on the other side in the vacuum.

The people whom I live with I do not enjoy that much!

In pursuit of higher studies I am and I am not sure if I am ready for it yet.

What I am in pursuit of is not what I am sure of being interesting in.
Just that some of my close relatives, whom myself and my female sibling, which happen to be the only one that I have, call maa-papa, have been pushing me to be fit to catch a CAT. What makes me wonder is that even if I catch the CAT will that catch that lost mouse of enthusiasm.

So called friends have been picked up and winged out of the city, though they did buzz me an alarm well in advance, but I have already mentioned about the creepy dungeon, haven't I?

It took me a little more than 2 and a half years to realize that how, at that time, I screwed the biggest of all the times in my personal life, something that occurred to me mere 2 weeks back. (I wish YOU happen to read it)

But for all I know is that I need to 'Give Some Time to Time' and have my full faith supporting it!

Imagine...

...this!

Sitting in the room below, and it rains for the whole night! :)
(Image is clickable for a large view)

(You have to wait untill Monday when I get a better picture of the room clearly showing the window view, I just had this picture somewhere already)

Spending 6 hours time doing what was procrastinated for more than a month! :D
(Spending 6 hours time doing what one wanted to do for more than a month!)

Speaking to a dear friend overseas for good 2 hours after a long 8 months! :D
Speaking to a dear friend overseas for 1 hour after 5 months! :D
(I will dwell on it in more details if I ever finish another of my semi-written blogs)

Coming back by company cab at morning 8 am that drops right at home, and it is still raining! :D
(When one have not registered for regular company transportation)

Writing this post! :)

Telling you good night now! :)

Sweet Dreams! :)

5 Steps System to Speed-Read

Combine or omit below steps to suit the material

1. Prepare:
- Why you reading, what's the purpose?
- what you already know?
- What you looking from the book to know? What you want from the book?

2. Preview:
- Read the Front and back cover and inside flaps, TOC, index, scan the bibliography
- Flip through the book, determine the structure of the content/ book - heading, subheading, picture, graph etc.
- Eliminate what you sure you not gonna need/ read

3. Passive Reading:
- Scanning of the book, spend few second on every page
- Look for the keywords, bold and italicized words
- Understand the writing style,: too techie, non-tech, jargon, difficult language, familiarity with content/ language

4. Active Reading:
- Read first para of each section/ chapter
- Read first line of each para and last line too if para is very long
- Mark out the useful stuff and/ or useless stuff

5. Selective Reading:
- You know why you are reading, you already have a brief idea of the structure, language and content of the material and a good understanding as well
- Read the earlier marked relevant stuff
- If needed, read the whole book, it will much faster with this system than otherwise


Overriding rule of the speed reading - "Always know why you are reading something."
The reason could be, "you are interested in such stuff", "someone recommended that to you", doesn't matter, but do have a reason

Based on the book: Speed Reading In A Week by Tina Konstant

...that's where my solace comes from - Late Dr. Randy Pausch, Prof. at Carnegie Mellon

Written below are the excerpts from Prof. Randy Pausch's speech at Carnegie Mellon University Commencement 2008 which is then followed by actual speech video

"We don't beat the (Grim) Reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully."

"It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not."
"Pretty much any chance I had to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from."

"Honors and words are nice things but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers and to be thought well of by other people that you think of even more highly of..."

"Find your passion and in my experience no matter what you do at work, or what you do in official settings, that passion will be grounded in people. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes."

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Late Prof. Randy Pausch, CMU Commencement 2008

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What follows is an attempt to transcribe above marvelous speech

I am glad to be here today. Hell! I am glad to be anywhere today.
President Cohon asked me to give the charge to the graduates. I assure you, it is nothing compared to the charge you have just given me.

This is an incredible places. I have seen it through so many lenses. I saw it when I was a graduate student that didn't get admitted and then somebody invited me back and said, ""Ok! We'll change our mind". I saw as a place that hired me back to be on the faculty many years later and then gave me the chance to do what anybody wants to do which is follow their passion, follow their heart and do the things they are excited about. The great thing about this University like almost other ones I know of is that nobody gets in your way when you try to do it and that's just fantastic. To the degree a human being can love an institution, I love this place and I love all the people. I am very grateful to Jared Cohon and everyone else for all the kindness that has been shown on me.

Last August, I was told that I have 3-6 months left to live. I am on month 9 now. I am not gonna get down and do any push-ups. (Pause)...but there will be a short pick-up basketball game later.
Somebody said to me in light of these numbers. "Wow! So, you are really beating the Grim Reaper." What I said without even thinking about it is we don't beat the Reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up it is too late to do all the things that you always gonna kind of get around to.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember, it's cliche, but I love cliche, it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Because I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: pretty much any chance I had to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.

The second thing that I would add to that and I did not coordinate on the subject of this word but I think it is the right word that comes up. It is passion. You will need to find your passion. Many of you already done it, many of you will later, many of you may take till your 30s or 40s but don't give up on finding it. Because then all you are doing is waiting for the reaper. Find your passion and follow it. If there is anything that I have learned in life, you will not find that passion in things, and you will not find that passion in money. Because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the matrix — and there will always be someone with more. So, your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside.

Honors and words are nice things but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers and to be thought well of by other people that you think of even more highly of, is a tremendous honor that I have been granted.

Find your passion and in my experience no matter what you do at work, or what you do in official settings, that passion will be grounded in people. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes. And if you can gain the respect of those around you and the passion and true love. I have said this before. But, I waited till 39 to get married. Because I had to wait that long to find someone where her happiness is more important than mine. If nothing else I hope that all of you can find that kind of passion and that kind of love, in your life. Thank you.

(and his eyes were wet)

Random Thoughts 3 - Life is a 'Thought'...

Life is a 'Thought'...let's think through it!

A thought which can be momentarily long or as long as a saint meditating for whole of his life; a thought which can sustain large disruptions or disturbance as small as minor chemical interactions (miscarriage) can end a Thought before it would even start.

I recently escaped a small disruption while going from Pune to Mumbai. My friend whom I visited at Pune, got more impacted than me as he was sitting in the middle of the back seat of the Honda City Cab. Cutting it short, I heard a loud screech of tyres and the moment screech stopped, my head banged against the back of the driver seat. Our cab had bumped into an Indica Cab. :)

For me all above implies that I need to get back to my roots, which in turns means:
1. Live the Thought to the fullest before it seizes to exist
2. To enable above ensure that I continue to extract happiness/ thrill from small things happening around me

1. 'Live life king size'/ 'Living it to the fullest' doesn't mean, live with no tensions and have all the so called 'fun'.
Do as much as you can - putting fight/ struggling for career is also an attempt to live it to the fullest. There you ensure that you are trying to make the best out of whatever life is left by ensuring the best utilization of your capabilites with a fit to your interests.

2. Big things never excite me, few recent examples that thrilled me:
- On the way to Mumbai while crossing Vashi bridge a train entered the parallel rail-road bridge almost at the same time as our cab travelling at ~ 110 Km/Hr. I was unmoved for that quarter minute when train and the cab were pitted against each other head to head to cross the bridge. Racing at that high speed was thrilling. What really held me back was the fact that I was witnessing a rare event which also had a very small chance of witnessing (Scientifically expained it is a poisson process, with infinitely large no. of trials and very low probability of success in each trial)

- It was 7:00 pm and the train was about to reach at Ahmedabad in an hour or so. During the day I could afford to sleep for 7 hours out of 12 hours long journey, but had missed out on traveling at the gate of the coach. So, decided to utilize the remaining hour. It was drizzling and the fine drops felt like not so sharp needles piercing on face due to high relative wind, resultant of moving train. That coupled with the song going on ear-phone, "Yeh Dil Na Hota Bechara, Kadam Na Hote Aawara...To Khoobsoorat Koi Apna Humsafar Hota" created worth remembering moments.

- Everytime I go and visit the dumb tailor in the vicinity of my home, I am surprised by the desire to live he has (doesn't it come out as obvious by now). Each time I go to him and detail him the specifications of the repair that I want for a cloth, I find myself many folds challenged than him. Because he is what he is, I Need to learn a way to communicate to him. The worst thing is that I cannot even confirm if he got 'it' if I said 'it'.

To be continued...

Freakonomics Conquered

* Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them-or, often, ferreting them out-is the key to solving just about any riddle, from violent crime to sports cheating to online dating. Alternatively, every problem has a solution, all one is required to provide is the right set of incentives.

* “Experts”—from criminologists to real-estate agents—use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda. Alternatively, information is a commodity, and if used rightly can be turned into a weapon.

* Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle, causes. Alternatively, known as 'Butterfly Effect'.

* The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing - Goofiness in the Opposite Sex

In Chapter 3, while Bertie Wooster is hunting for Bobbie (Roberta) Wickham at his aunt Dahlia Traver's house and is encountered with a sight of Phyllis Mills:

"One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye, and this exhibit had a sort of mild, Soul's Awakening kind of expression which made it abundantly clear that, while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with."

...and that's what friends and parents have to comment! :)

A junior: Mitesh! You don't have that spark in your voice anymore!
Myself: Hmmmm...

Friend: What do you want in your life? (A week back)
Myself: Nothing! (Without a thought)
.
.
.
Myself: Wait a minute! Actually, there is something that I want. I don't want my parents to know what I answered to you just now!

Few years back:
Mom: Can't you stay at home?
Myself: What do I do then?
Mom: Do something, read etc or just do nothing, sleep!

Now-a-days:
Dad: Why don't you give a break to your non-stop alternate sleeping and reading and may be, step out of home for a while?
Myself: Hmmm...

...there are many more incidences which constitute an unending list ;)

“The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination” - J.K. Rowling

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." J.K. Rowling at Harvard Commencement 2008

http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html

Mug Puts - Function Theory

!Dedicated to (p)e(o)p(l)e (-ymer) around me!
Today morning I was studying Statistics to teach BSc 2nd year students as part of the community service.
From statistic got into probability and then into random variables and functions. As I was digging deeper into the functions to develop better understanding, I realized that real functions have real applications in real life. E.g.

1. Attitude is a Function
2. Excess Attitude is inversely proportional to patience, alternatively,
Excess Attitude is directly proportional to loss of patience
3. Huge loss of patience is inversely proportion to Relation
4. Relation help real world perform function smoothly

⇒ ∀ f(x) : excess of f(x) severely affects Relation, f(x) is not a real function
Transliteration: For every f(x) such that excess of f(x) severely affects Relation, f(x) is not a real function
Translation: It is not realistic to put relations at stake for a certain function

Not only real functions help understand dynamics of Relation, but also help us ask right question, E.g. Why excess of a function to break All the Relation :O?


Fact-sheet: Number of times real used: 11 (Come on be realistic, count again)

Random Thoughts 2 - Being Realistic

"Most of the times it makes more sense to be realistic than sticking to one's principles. Actually, being realistic itself can be a principle"

Random Thoughts 1

Thoughts on Life:

"Life is more about Doing and Learning than Winning or Loosing"

"Life Gives us so much, and it does Expect a Return"

"Risk and Return should always be Attuned"

"Opportunity is for Opportunists"

Source: My Master's Thesis

Some Paradoxical Thoughts

"Our Life is Governed by the Choices that We Make We All are Victims of Circumstances"

A 5 years old thought - Three universal rules in life:

Funda learning process should never stop
Fundaes should keep changing with time, location and person, as the same funda does not work at every place, with every one and at all the times
Few fundaes always remain constant, like the first two

Life kutte billyion ka khel hai!

Note: Fastest Blog ever written by me: Following is just the first cut, please excuse me for grammer, vocab and typos; might edit it later on!

Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008: Evening

Ekdum se feel hua...mann kiya ki is per kuch likhoon. content nahi samajh aa raha tha..."aisa kyon feel ho raha hai?" per mai sochta raha, chalta raha restaurant ki taraf dinner ke liye. kuch baatein jo mere dimaag mai aayi, were some of their behavioural aspects.

Billyion ke baarein mai to shayad bahut nahi pata per kutte to bahut frequently dekhta hun
- gali gali ghoomte rahte hai, ek jagah se doosri jagah, safe, comfortable jagah/ ghar/ udde ki talash mai, billyian bhi ek ghar se doosre ghar bhatakti rahti hai
- jub man kara bhonk liye, nahi to apne shaanti se kone mai pade hai; doom per paavn rakh diya to phir kaate bina chodte nahi; jub man kiya tub public display of affection kar diya
- kumjor dushman dikha to lud liye, doosre kutte ko mar kar ke happy ho gaye; takatwar dikha to door se hi bhonk liye aur vo pass aaya to doom daba kar ke bhag liye
- jaha time pass karna hai, dadagiri karni hai vaha gang mai rah liye, area mai koi naya kutta aaya to uska baaja baja diya; jaha haddi ya kutiya dikhi vaha bina kisi ko bataye akele hi kut liye gang ko chod kar ya phir usi gang se lud liye; na koi kisi ka dost na koi kisi ka dushman

!Vah bhai kutra-jaati tu dhanya hai jo hume batati hai ki hamari life style to unke liye ek khel hai!

------Supporting Facts------

hmmm...restaurant ke ander jaane se pahle mere naye blog ka content pura taiyar ho chuka tha. Had to speak to dad and a cousin over the phone while dinning. started walking back to home after dinner, don't remember what I was thinking on my way back to home

Saw 3-4 man on road side confronting a poor woman. There was a plastic bag and lots of broken/ unbroken glass bottles around the bag lying on the ground in between the men and the woman. Then two men came on a motorbike.
The driver started beating the woman. The driver was so eager to beat the woman that he was not even able to put the side stand properly. I started wondering if I could do something to stop it, "whatever the reason had been, family or otherwise, that man can not beat her openly on the road". I took few steps along my way so that I could cross them. Called up the Police '100'. Response was
- aapne hyderabad control room phone kiya hai, cyberabad (my locality) phone karo
- mai bola ki sir aap dekh lo vo (this was first time I had called to police in my life, was a little uncomfortable)
- vo bola ki itna bhala kar rahe ho to yeh bhi kar lo

Meanwhile, I continued walking towards home and noticed that that man had also picked up broken glass pieces ready to be thrown on that woman (I think he did not throw it finally)

Cyberabad phone kiya - tab tak to vo aadmi us aurat ko pata nahi kitne thappad laga chuka tha and don't know from where he had got a stick and vo use lakdi se maar raha tha. but those other bastards men did not do anything; shayad mai bhi unmai se hi ek tha kyonki maine bhi to kuch nahi kiya. maine socha ki "jub tak police aayegi tub tak shayad yeh mamla bhi khatm ho chuka hoga" because I saw another woman coming in between - 2 ghanti ke baad maine phone kaat diya. shayad mujhe phone nahi kaatna chahiye tha, in my confusion and dismal state I continued walking. after few minutes I saw that the woman had started wallking away from that place, that was satisfactory.

mai abhi un khayalo se bahar bhi nahi nikla tha ki thodi door chala aur ek billy sadak per padi tadap rahi thi, it was badly hit by some vehicle, uski aankhen nikli hui thi, khoon paani ke tarah bah raha tha...ohh god!

I was trying badly to concentrate ki kya karu, "shall I drag it on to a side", per use touch karne ki himmat nahi juta paaya, socha "sadak ke beech mai khada ho kar-ke vehicles ko billy ko further hit karne so roku ya phir vapis se police ko call karu, mere pass to animal care vaalo ka no. bhi nahi hai, shaayad police vaale de den".

police vaalo ko call kiya. bole 5 min mai gaadi bhej denge, "tab tak to us busy road per gadiyaan us billy ki chithde uda dengi".

mere sochne se lekar police vaalo se baat karne tak mai ek aur vehicle us adh-mari billy ko hit kar chuka tha. whatever, however, it was time to act

Mai jaa kar-ke billy ke aage khada ho gaya-ek dum sadak ke beecho beech, dividing the trafficing in two parts on my each side so that phir se koi vehicle use kuchal na de. bahut truck aur gadiyaa aa rahi thi. dar lag raha tha ki "agar ek bhi vehicle divert nahi hua aur mujhe utni tej speed se hit kar gaya to shayad mai bhi billy ki tarah pada ho"

kuch der ke liye gaadiyaan nahi aayi to maine peeche mud kar dekha - vo billy mar chuki thi!!

P.S. I continued to protect her cadaver from traffic, I still did not have courage to move her to the side of the road. One truck came and stopped right in front of me to force me out of the road from his way. but I jumped back in front of her corpse after the truck crossed and finally someone moved the dead body to the side and then later police arrived!

Note: Today, after months, I had to search in my phone book for a company for dinner (Refer: 'Easier Said than Done?!? || Good Vs Bad || Departing Friends...! || Consulting Profession' post), but, I feel lucky that I could not find one!

Another Departed :-|

Note: Almost all of my friends have already left Hyderabad. Now, it was my room-mate who just left the town.

"Would YOUR 'so called' friends cry, while you would be departing?"

He responded, "I would not even want my friends to cry, while I would be departing!"

Let me reframe it, "Wouldn't you want to have friends who would want to cry, while you would be departing?"

Today's departure makes me reframe it again, "Wouldn't you want to have friends 'who would want to cry for you' or 'for whom you would want to cry', while you would be departing?"

[Yes, he cried today, while HE was departing!]

Everyone talks about moving on in life, isn't it more about "moving on in life while leaving milestones on the way", so that when one walks back through the past one can take rest at those milestones and reflect upon retrospection.

NETWORKING

How important is Networking?! I never thought it is important, hence, I never made efforts to create and expand my network. As I involve myself in various team activities a network of people keeps on generating around me.

!YESTERDAY NIGHT I LOST MY CELL PHONE!

I was running around in panic. Non-stop sweat streams were flowing out of my skin. Suddenly, I felt like asking myself the same question once again, "How important is Networking?!"
For sure it was not the cost of phone I was worried about, it was the data: B'day reminders, other reminders and most importantly the contact nos.!

Immediately after realization of the very fact that I am out of the network now, I panicked further.

Well now, with dawn, I am cool, thinking again, I don't really care; whoever wants to talk would call. So, chill! :) ;)

To answer the question asked earlier, networking is important, but not worth making an effort. Over the time with no additional effort one should be able to create a network of people around oneself which can be activated, if needed.

Valentine Anxiousnesses

Feb 14th, 2008

Today morning I woke up at 5:45 am!!!

I have absolutely no clue, why? Not sure if it has got to do anything with Saint Valentine's Cupids nor I want to attribute it to it.
Something clicked to me and I jumped out of my bed. Knowing it is cold, wore the 'Harvard' fall jacket.

45 minutes calm walk included witnessing the dark to well lit morning transition which is a rare (and dare too) sight for bachelors.
Went on to the roof of the apartment, to see the sunrise, but clouds washed away all the little luck I might have had after the early morning cupid hits. "Leavin on a jet plane, Dont know when Ill be back again...Theres so many times Ive let you down So many times Ive played around, I tell you now, they dont mean a thing"

....................aahhh! I had to leave it here, dint get any time in office to finish it on V-day itself...now I don't remember the exact context...oops!

Anti-Hatred Pills

One stop solution for all the people to get rid of the hatred

[Background: After trying to solve a problem for almost 6 months I arrived at this solution]

These are not ordinary pills....these are magical pills.
They can remove the rust in relationships in a jiffy,
no matter how old and hard the rust is.

Whereas they don't necessarily ensure any future bonding,
the very strong ones do ensure no rusting in future,
and almost everyone on earth has it.

What makes their use more difficult is that you can't use one for yourself,
you have to borrow one and then lending back one is compulsory for it to be effective.

Moral: When it breaks...all it takes...is some trying!