Just after I proposed a return to monarchy, this anarchic thing happens in Nepal that is making life difficult for monarchists. Now, Nepal is a beautiful country even though Paki terrorists do hijack planes from there and the airport security sometimes lets people with knives into aircrafts without any qualms (real experience of a Japanese friend). However, I never knew they had this thing against the powerful U.S. gun lobby led by Charlton Heston who says, " Guns don't kill people, people kill people".
Nepal has added a new meaning to the word 'automatic weapon'. If you believe the official Nepali explanation of an Automatic gun going off accidentally killing a whole bunch of people, then you'll have to rethink the meaning of Automatic weapon. If they're right, then the automatic weapon 'automatically' went off and slaughtered the people in the palace (like in a Rajani movie where Thalaivar is in one of his 'Sutti sutti adippen' mood). This should come as a handy weapon for the anti-gun lobby in U.S. as proof to counter the "guns don't kill.." claim. Charlton 'Moses' Heston who split the seas and performed lots of other miracles in his numerous biblical movies would term this also a miracle.
Speaking of miracles, Mother Teresa is on the fast track to become a Saint and for that it seems there should be evidence of at least 2 miracles in her MS-Excel spreadsheet column maintained by the Pope (whose favourite quote is "It'll be a miracle if my PC doesn't crash today"). Officially, an event would be considered a miracle if a person prayed to Mother Teresa for help after her death and was healed. The Archbishop of Calcutta is forwarding one such evidence of a miracle from the many he has received. Another one, I think, will be provided by the VHP. 'It's a miracle that she didn't convert many more to Christianity'.
Japanese technological miracles continue (though most are white elephants built using public money). The brand new stadium in Sapporo built for the world cup has its soccer ground prepared outside the stadium with grass, sunlight etc., which will then be moved in when there is a match. If the ground is used for other purposes (mainly for baseball, which is mostly in artificial turf in Japan) the grass is moved out. There is also this miraculous obsession for Ferris wheels, and big ones at that, in this country. There are at least 3 huge wheels in and around Tokyo (only competition I can think of is London with it's Big Eye wheel taking the top spot in size), and looks more of an eye sore and waste than any fun tech thing. It rotates very slowly unlike the ones that I've seen in those travelling fairs that come to towns in India. Those were real freak machines built for the stout hearted. These are for the puppy lovers (who can't afford the love hotels) to do things which otherwise might not seem miraculous.
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