Boxes Of Love, Peace, Courage …

As usual I was going through some news and other articles and something literally Wowed me! It was this article on Treehugger. To cut a long story short it was something about receiving a free box containing peace through post. The pics looked good and I at once clicked on to that site and registered for my box. Do I sound too confusing? Ok let me explain.

This is the PRIORITY BOX PROJECT begun by artist Franck de Las Mercedes (pictured below) in which he sends out a box to anyone who requests for them anywhere in the world. Totally free! He’s been sending it out for the last two years, since May 2006 and still sending!

The boxes come with a label saying, “Handle with care, Fragile, Contains: *****” where **** could be anything – Love, Peace, Courage, Freedom, Humanity, anything that could seek to provoke thought, to make people reconsider their ability to influence change, communicate through art and make art accessible to people from all walks of life.

See some boxes below and HERE for more.

On his website, Franck de Las Mercedes says, “What would you do if you suddenly received a box via mail, labeled “FRAGILE: Contains Peace”? How would you use it? Would you give it to someone else? Would you sell it? Would you just throw it away?” Oh my God, I’d treasure it! And I’d only give it to a person If only he/she means a LOT to me. But then I don’t think I’d give too.. Afterall one person gets just one box . I’m gonna ask everybody I know to register!

The series is funded by the artist, art sales, commissions, contributions and sales from their Online Art Shop and sale of “Handle with Care” T-shirts. From May 1st 2008, all the paint used for the project is donated by Pebeo Inc.

The website also states that due to the huge number of requests on this project, there is currently about a 4-8 week wait, and a one box per person limit for receiving a box. Boxes are sent out in the order the e-mails are received.

Anyone who requests for a box will definitely get one, so what are you waiting for? Request for your priority box Now!

I can’t wait to get my own box and put up its pic here, wonder what It’ll contain?

LASIK

Doesn’t it always happen that when we have less of something and theres a bad need for it you end up accidentally wasting the stuff you actually had? Happens to me almost all the time! When having a shower I notice that am out of shampoo.. “Well OK, theres atleast one squirt there”, I think “Enough to foam n clean my hair”. Next minute that squirt is either on the wall or on the floor. I am careful but at such times its as if some unknown and unseen forces are making me clumsy. As though they are having a fit doing their bit of mischief and see me not reach my goal.

The same when preparing a cup of tea. Oh there’s enough sugar for one cup. Next thing? The jar is on the floor. GRRR.. And all this happens when your in such a rush. Well this time its nothing different. My very last pair of contact lenses got infected within a week of using them. I use monthly contact lenses and I say last pair as am planning to get LASIK done by early next month, Insha Allah. It is recommended that the use of soft contact lenses be avoided a week before the surgery. And here I am still more than a week away from my LASIK and my contact lenses are already infected. Its a good thing I know, but I was planning on wearing it atleast upto 4 days before my LASIK. So difficult to let go!

Few years back when i used to wear glasses I found it very difficult to shift to contact lenses. It was only when my glasses broke (the frame) and when the nearest optician was far away, that I had no other option than to switch to my contact lenses which I had bought 2 years before the glasses breaking incident but had never used. Now the very last pair is infected. A good sign maybe. Like one of the principles of Feng Shui, you need to throw it out . No holding on. Yes I have finally let go off my contact lenses just like I let go of my glasses.

Though I had no problem with contact lenses in the earlier years except when it reached expiry, from the last few months I have been using contact lenses more than I should be using. Once it went upto three pairs a month. My eyes are totally prone to contact lens infection now though I do maintain them well. Any explanations?

I am so used to contact lenses that I simply hate wearing my glasses now. I guess I can give my eyes a few extra days to prepare for the treatment. Never thought I’d be preparing this early. I had planned to discard my lens 3-4 days prior to the treatment. But as they say everything happens for our own good. Back to my magnifying glasses, oops glasses. i guess I have to invest in another pair soon just for a few days. Atleast the lenses. They look totally obsolete. And to think I was looking forward to buying another pair of glares. How am I gonna wear glares along with my glasses! Well a few more days and I can be rid of these glasses. And what shall I do to it after my LASIK? Sell on ebay? Any takers for a Minus x point x?

Note: For those of you planning to get LASIK done or those interested in knowing about it, I found the FAQ’s on this site really informative. Click Here.

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Time..

I’ve saved lots of time in the last two weeks, but was I upto anything productive? Maybe and maybe not.

The first week at office I spent WEAKLY in front of the comp ( I was infront of it but too weak to chat/browse/work). But luckily had added all the websites I visit to Google Reader and saved from a lot of clicks, new tabs, and pressing ctrl-enter after each website name. Bless my ignorance that I was aware of what RSS is and bookmarking sites but not of reader! Anyways I was enlightened to it 2 weeks ago accidentally. Yes serendipity, but ofcourse discovery of someone else’s discovery by chance

I had this strong urge to get something (Confidential Info) done, but thanks to few obstacles I couldnt go for it. But then the urge to get it done then and there was so large that I thought of doing it online. Half heartedly I did it online without expecting any outcome but thank god I was wrong!! Yippee.. So there again a Lot of my time that I would have spent by travelling and waiting were minimised. God Bless the Internet

Who is that who told me not to waste away my youth sleeping? I thought of taking your statement into consideration and thought of giving some exercise to my spine rather than sleeping. Now I feel so active, that I have trouble falling asleep at night and am too sleepy in the mornin.. grrr.. Conclusion: Laziness = Good Sleep

April was a real good month with Trashionista giving away 1 book daily, though I dint win any it was fun competing! Sad May is not April, but I seem to be liking May too. Feels like a new year and some of my resolutions (minor ones) have ticked off in this month. More to go but Masha Allah, so far so good .

Oh the Perfume festival here! The 16th Heritage festival Of Traditional Perfumery and Incence held for 6 days here.. UMMM (Inhaling D-E-E-P) was lovely! All the arab flavours of Perfumes and incence just took my breath away and yeah a little bit of my wallet too.. But who cares.. UMMM! (Inhaling DEEP again!)

After a gap of two weeks I was back to Henna’ing my hair which implies a) End of my Flu b) Its S-U-MM-E-R! Speaking of Summer, I LUUURVE Lemon Juice with Mint, and lots of Mint at that. Havent come across the recipe of the taste I’m looking for, maybe I should just experiment and if it turns out well will put up the recipe here!

My daaarrling A.R.Rahman’s music will be out soon in another movie. Can’t wait for its music release to get hold of the tracks. Am talking about Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na people (yeah Aamir Khan’s nephew debut) and am in love with the song ADITI of that movie. Hope other songs are equally good

And before I wind up to give some rest to my eyes, WordPress allows you to password protect your posts and keep some posts private to oneself. So in the near future if you see a password protected post feel free to ask me for the password (Applies only to my friends, not open to public.. Heheh Sorryy).