Heaven & Hell Redefined

I remember reading somewhere (possibly in RD) that heaven was living in Indonesia at American rates of pay, with an Indian wife and eating Chinese food. Hell, on the other hand, was living in China at Indian rates of pay, with an American wife and eating Indonesian food!

At the Diwan-e-khaas (the Hall of Special Occasions) at the Red Fort in Delhi, there is an inscription that reads...

Agar firdaus bur-rooe zameen ast, Hameen ast, hameen ast O hameen ast!

If there is a heaven on the face of the Earth, it is here, it is here, it is here!

Concentric Circles - The canard of relationship equivalences

My mother is a big one for drawing concentric circles in her relationships. Confused? Well, what I mean is, to her, an aunt's-motherinlaw's-sister (AMiLS) has the same value as a relative as say an uncle's-fatherinlaw's-brother (UFiLB), because they are equidistant in relationship terms. No matter that the AMiLS is an angel in human form, ever ready to drop everything to come running to help my mother when she needs it and that the UFilB is verily an avatara of Mephistopheles!

She confuses equidistance for equivalence....