Saw this "kolam" at the mall next to my office. Imagine the attention to detail, and the painstaking effort to ensure the various coloured rice grains were arranged to depict a particular scene or picture. This was actually one of the nicer ones I have seen so far.
With the rest time available, instead of staying at home and recuperate from the various running around I have been doing lately, I met up with some friends and hit the lanes for a game or two (or three!) of tenpin bowling. Didn't bowl too well though, below my average, and lost a couple cups of coffee as a side bet. Incidentally, the best hot chocolate (rather than going for coffee) I have tried so far is at Starbucks! Yumm!Also managed to catch "Stardust", a movie along the Fantasy Genre. Quite good actually, light and humurous to boot. Somehow, got into a discussion with a friend about "stars", especially when Yvaine towards the end, said that stars shine:
Alex: What do stars do?
Friend: They glitter or twinkle.
Alex: No'lah, they shine!
Friend: They don't shine, they reflect the sun!
So? What do you reckon? Stars shine brightly or they twinkle in the night? Hmmm...
2 comments:
A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma (an ionized gas).Stars group together to form galaxies. Do you know the nearest star to Earth is the Sun? Other stars are visible in the night sky, when they are not outshone by the Sun. A star shines because nuclear fusion in its core releases energy which traverses the star's interior and then radiates into outer space.(From wikipedia)
So, Star shines??
From another source:
The Earth's atmosphere, however, is clumpy, so that different air pockets produce different images of a single point-like star. Because the atmosphere is always windy and changing, the number and position of images is always changing, with the result that stars appear to twinkle.(http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000725.html)
So, stars shine and twinkle. Both correct.
:)CS
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