Guys, if you want to marry, Don't fail Maths !!

Hey guys, please if you do not want your sweetheart to abandon you at the altar while trying to say I do, please check and be sure of your mathematics level.  A standard grade 1 or 2 maths should do, algebra and derivatives not required for now,  I guess.  A bride just abandoned her groom at a wedding ceremony in Indian just before they exchange marriage vows because the guy failed a first grader maths.  The girl just wanted to prove the educational standard of the guy by asking the guy 15 + 6 = ?  The guy's response, OMG, 17!!  Really?? Well, the bride got annoyed and felt cheated into the marriage and canceled the marriage there and then.

Below is the story as reported by The Canadian press, today March 13, 2015 (event actually occurred February 20, 2015 according to the photos filed taken of the event):

" An Indian bride walked out of her wedding ceremony after the groom failed to solve a simple math problem, police said Friday.  The bride tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked out. 

The question she asked: How much is 15 plus six?

His reply: 17.

The incident took place late Wednesday in Rasoolabad village near the industrial town of Kanpur in northern Uttar Pradesh state, local police officer Rakesh Kumar said Friday.  The groom's family tried persuading the bride to return, but she refused. She said the groom had misled them about his education.  

"The groom's family kept us in the dark about his poor education," said Mohar Singh, the bride's father. "Even a first grader can answer this."

Local police mediated between the families and both sides returned all the gifts and jewelry that had been exchanged before the wedding, Kumar said.

Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a wedding guest after the original groom had a seizure and collapsed at the wedding venue.

The groom's family had not revealed that the groom was epileptic. While the groom was rushed to a hospital in Rampur town, the bride asked one of the wedding guests to step in and married him.

Most marriages in India are arranged by the families of the bride and groom. Except for brief meetings, the couple rarely gets to know each other before the nuptials."

How many girls

In public places, it often appears as if there are more female persons than male around. Next time you are in a mall, shop, market, church or even School, try to check it out and assess if it appears so to you too; and do let me know your findings. As for me, I went ahead to see if this can actually be substantiated.

Here are my surprising and interesting findings (data obtained from Worldbank world development indicators):

• There are actually more male persons in the world than female.  The proportion of male to female people in the world is about 1.01463 (that is the male population is more than female population by about 1.46%). This is the 30 years average, from 1983 to 2013 . The male population remains higher within the infants, youth and active adult age groups, (that is age 0 to 64 years). The female population is however higher from 65 years old and over, which agrees perfectly with the well known fact that women have higher life expectancy than men. Why? We will visit that later here too...
• However only 34% of the 227 countries collated have more male than female population, meaning that the world population sex distribution is not neccessarily distributed evenly around the globe.

If this is the fact in figures why does it normally appears as if there are more girls around than boys, or is that merely an illusion? Well may be the location of the viewer matters.  For example while the largest proportion of male to female is recorded in Qatar, the lowest was in Latvia (using the average for the last 30 years period, 1983 - 2013).

More to come on this as you follow me on my blog.... she her fun!

Who is a lady?

What does the word "lady" means to you?  It could connote different meanings to different people. An incidence in my past still makes me ponder on what lady really means.

l had just graduated from the university then and was doing my country Community Service in an organisation. One morning, I gently and humbling addressed a girl in the office as "lady" expecting her to smile at me and see me as being very respectful to her. But instead she got very upset and warned me seriously never to refer to her as a lady again.  I was so surprised and  had to ask her why. Her response was unbelievable: she said calling her 'lady' implies that I see her as an older person than she really was (by the way she was just in her late 20's).  All my effort to calm her down by explaining to her that lady to me is a respectful way of addressing a matured girl failed.

Since that incidence some years ago, I am always very careful, if not reluctant, to address a female adult as "lady".  I perceive that besides the dictionary meaning, the word lady may actual connote different meanings to different individuals. Seriously, am I missing something? What does the word lady means to you?  Please,let me hear from you. Send in your comments. Thanks!