Wordplay

What happens when you

• have a boring paper coming up
• want to sleep (but can't)
• like simple math
  
• love playing around with words and
• are an amateur poet?

You challenge yourself to find a

• mathematical relationship between numbers which have homonyms,
• create an overarching theme including all three
  
• in a poem!

(I wanted to demonstrate to myself that when you force yourself to look for ways when you think none can possibly exist, you can almost always find them!)

I found it to be quite a daunting task, but eventually came up with this:-

"When I was just one,
I almost never won :-(

We became two,
and only sometimes managed to :-|

We became four,
and came new strengths to the fore :-)

And finally, while eight?
Our problems, we just ATE :-D

How could this be true?
Alone I fail, and succeed in a crew?

I thought all I could,
and then I understood.

Every time we were double,
half was our trouble!

Into reality turned all our dreams,
it's just the wonder of teams! :-) "

I'm pretty proud of this one, as I am of the earlier one, which came into existence when I had set myself up a similar challenge about including paradox and wit in a four line poem :-)

My regret...

It's a pity,
that I'm not witty,
and I got no money;
to buy words for a dime,
then use some that rhyme,
in a short poem funny! :(

My blogging dilemma

It's a dilemma I face (I'm sure not the only one facing this!) The basic premise of my blog has been - "this is my diary, where I think aloud". Problem is (and it's pretty dumb of me to not have foreseen it!), a diary is much too personal to be published online!!! It's not so much a question of letting your thoughts be known in public, but much of what I want to write would include other people I know, and I just don't want to do that :(

I do want to continue blogging though... I hope I get some inspiration sometime by which I'm able to resolve this dilemma!

Stupid finance PJ

Partially to revive a moribund blog, and partially to make sure I get the credit for inventing it, here's a finance PJ...

Q. What's the debt/equity ratio of HUL?
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A. One. It says in their name - Uni-lever ;)