Sitting Ducks

i am experiencing what might be termed as blog fatigue, basically i think i am trying to couch my laziness in a mouthful of jargon...hehe...read a couple of blogs that have commented on the blasts in mumbai.....i honestly dont understand why we are so passive about it, as a country, life goes on as normal, remember 9/11, sure you do, its a global phenomenon, we have had worse death counts, but never marketed so well..btw, the US calls it collateral when the deaths arent US citizens....they created a war based on it, and none of the world had any balls to do anything about it...

everyone and anyone can safely guess that there is a pak hand in what happened in Mumbai, now and before...for once why cant we be like an israel or the US, blast the guys and then have 'bilateral talks'.....i used to trust RAW once, not now......now , we are all sitting ducks hoping and praying that we are not in the next lot of casualties, there is another prayer along with it, that it rains fire in karachi, lahore, islamabad............

We forget

i have been reading 'where the rain is born'...its a collection , i found a lil part in a particular piece that i found very thought provoking...will give you the gist...long before man started ruling the earth, long before the giant lizards, two spores set out on an incredible journey, after some time they came to a lush green valley, the younger spore said 'lets journey on further, and see more wonders', the elder one said 'i'm too tired, i will stay here, you carry on, but promise me you will never forget me'..the younger one said, 'forget you, impossible'...the elder one replied, 'this is the loveless journey of karma, you will...'.....and so the younger one journeyed on...eons and eons later, in the lush green valley, the elder spore had spread its roots deep into the earth, and had flowered..... a lil girl, all dressed up and looking pretty came to pluck some flowers ...... the man who came with her, pulled a twig down so that she could pluck the flowers...as she was plucking the flower, the elder spore cried, 'ah, little sister, you have forgotten me'....

What dreams may come

i have a hypothesis, is it possible that god has given a quota of dreams per person, maybe as small as one dream, that can come true..this is not about the dreams you have at night, this is more the aspirational kind of dreams...... that after you have achieved that one goal, god believes you have done the work you came down here for, and now your life will be a monotony of unachieved dreams, and the rest of your existence will be spent following them.....sort of like the donkey and the carrot.......or maybe He takes the passion/drive that is required to pursue a dream and bring it to its culmination....I was also wondering about the male of the species' attraction to the T&A of the opposite gender..... another hypothesis now, could it be because it is always covered....imagine a scenario where lets say the ears were always covered and the above mentioned accessories always left open.....would the attraction be now directed towards the ears???

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a lil paki bashing, because i am peeved that the indian government is sponsoring the surgery of three paki kids.... as far as pakistan is concerned, i have no humanity left in me...An Indian is having breakfast one morning (coffee, bread, butter and jam) when a Pakistani, chewing gum, sits down next to him. The Indian ignores the Pakistani who, nevertheless, starts a conversation. Pakistani man: "You Indian folk eat the whole bread??"Indian (in a bad mood): "Of course."Pakistani: (after blowing a huge bubble) "We don't. In Pakistan, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into bread and sell them to India ." The Pakistani has a smirk on his face. The Indian listens in silence. The Pakistani persists: "Do you eat jelly with the bread??" Indian: "Of Course."Pakistani: (cracking his gum between his teeth and chuckling). "We don't. In Pakistan we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds, and leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam and sell the jam to the India."The Indian then asks: "Do you have sex in Pakistan?"Pakistani: "Why of course we do", he says with a big smirk. Indian: "And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?"Pakistani: "We throw them away, of course."Indian: "We don't. In India, we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into chewing gum and sell them to Pakistan."

Metro Spiritualism

this is gonna be a lil blog, coz i plan to leave early... the title is on an article i read about... a new concept i think.... i think at the bottom line, it would be about living a clean life, and feeling good about oneself....read about it in indiatimes...i am too lazy to write anything more today...will leave you with

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a good fwd i got

The Old Dilapidated Boat

Joe and John were identical twins. Joe owned an old dilapidated boat and kept pretty much to himself. One day he rented out hisboat to a group of out-of-staters who ended up sinking it. He spent all day trying to salvage as much stuff as he could fromthe sunken vessel and was out of touch all that day and most of the evening. Unbeknownst to him, his brother John's wife had died suddenly in his absence.When he got back on shore he went into town to pick up a few things at the grocery. A kind old woman there mistook him forJohn and said, "I'm so sorry for your loss. You must feel terrible."Joe, thinking she was talking about his boat said, "Hell no!Fact is I'm sort of glad to be rid of her. She was a rotten old thing from the beginning. Her bottom was all shriveled up and she smelled like old dead fish. She was always holding water. She had a bad crack in the back and a pretty big hole in the front too.Every time I used her, her hole got bigger and she leaked like crazy.""I guess what finally finished her off was when I rented her to those four guys looking for a good time. I warned them that shewasn't very good and that she smelled bad. But they wanted her anyway. The damn fools tried to get in her all at one time andshe split right up the middle."The old woman fainted.

Crime and Punishment

nope, nothing to do with the book......just another curious idea that entered my head.....when we do regard animals and plants as living beings, and even thinking beings, how come people who kill them go scot free, yes, there is a hype when the odd salman shoots a buck, but otherwise , what about the chickens, cows, lambs, fishes, crabs, shrimps etc... no, i am not being ultra moral, i was just wondering about the double standards of us humans, we cry murder, (no pun intended) when there is a human killing involved, but we choose to close our eyes to the co inhabitants of our planet.....

i am non veggie , so i can only be so objective ... but even in case of veggies, plants are living too....now if we do state an argument that it is darwin's rule being practically applied here, we have to apply the same thing to happenings within the human species too, shouldnt we, just to be fair??

oh man, it helps to have an ad in the front page, hehe, my counter isnt moving...... :-), unlike our award winners, i am not going to claim that the count does not matter and i get satisfaction from my work, hehe...so thats it for the day, with the only thing left being

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a fwd i got...An elderly couple are sitting around one evening and the man says to the wife, "Marsha, we are about to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary.We've had a wonderful life together, full of contentment and blessings.But there's something I've always wondered about.Tell me the truth.Have you ever been unfaithful to me?"She hesitates a moment, then says, "Yes, 3 times,Sidney.""Three times? How could that happen?" Sidney asks.The wife begins recalling slowly, "Well, do you remember right after we were married and we were so broke, and the bank wasgoing to foreclose on our little house?""Yes, dear, that was really a terrible time" replies the man.Marsha continued, "And remember when I went to see the banker one night and the next day the bank extended our loan?""That's hard to take" the man says, "but I guess it really was for us,so I can forgive you.""What was the second time?""Well," she continued, "do you remember years later when you almost died from the heart problem because we couldn't afford theoperation?""Yes, of course" the man replies."Then you will remember that right after I went to see the doctor, he did your operation at no cost?" she explained."That's true" Sidney nodded. "That shocks me, Marsha, but I do understand that you did it out of love for me, and I forgive you.So, what was the third time?"Marsha lowers her head and says, "Sidney, do you remember when you ran for Country Club President and you needed 62 morevotes?"Sidney fainted......

The age of innocence

and the dream is finally over....yesterday i told my wife that this week i would be taken off from the main page, have almost understood the rediff cycle, will try a prediction on my second coming, soon.. :-)

since i had a 3 day weekend, lots of time for contemplation... was wondering, kids grow up very fast these days, thats only a noticed phenomenon, no practical experience.... but the things they think about and talk about, if i do a comparison to my generation's mindshare items, i guess i would be in for a massive complex.. they do grow up faster, dont they?? and so, the age of innocence is becoming smaller...at some point of time, mentally and emotionally, we wouldnt be able to differentiate between kids and adults...another thought crossed my mind, the numerical difference between ages 20 & 40 and 70 & 90, are same, but the practicalities are so different??

cola bashers, one for you, india has reasons for attacking Us and most of the world, coz they have WMD.... colas!!! ;-)

i read an article today in ToI, it seems arun nayar, would-be hubby of Liz Hurley (ooooomph!!), had poured hydrochloric acid in a public pool, no damages coz some pool attendants saw it, now the press is gonna skeleton hunting in cupboards...must be the result of the prayers of a few million heartbroken males, and i guess some females too ;-)

check out this feature that appeared on rediff....manu's team ManU has just registered its first win in the league... did u know that it beat arsenal in a pre-season friendly... red devils, thats the way to march...have finished roald dahl, the guy becomes good, in an eerie way, in his later stories, so if you are buying the book, (the best of roald dahl) start from the end....theres an especially good story on adolf hitler, have to hand it to dahl, he has a way about macabreness and eeriness..hehe

have started on "where the rain is born", edited by anita nair (link on my medialist), its a compilation, stories, articles, poems about kerala.... so far, good.....i read a review on some book in ToI, the person who wrote the review (shit, i cant get her name, would love to do some mudslinging with the name ;-) ) writes that the particular book, though it is from an indian author, is not about kerala nostalgia, and stories swirling in mango curry...... hello, its not our fault if we happen to be a very literate state, and kinda expressive, and who manage to attract tourists consistently, and keep them happy, so that they write about it!! (ok, anger vented)now for some

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all those who frequent elevators, this one's for you

oh copyrights-wise, its a forward :-)

Things to do in a Lift

When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.

Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock.

Smile, and go back for more.

Ask if you can push the buttons for other people, but push the wrong ones

Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you're on.

Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "That's mine!"

Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend.

After awhile, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?"

Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.

Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.

Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.

Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on ask them if they hear something ticking.

Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exit with the passengers.

Ask, "Did you feel that?

"Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally. When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay. Don't panic, they open up again."

Swat at flies that don't exist.

Tell people that you can see their aura

Call out, "Group hug!" then enforce it.

Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"

Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"

Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.

Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.

Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.

Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope

Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

Grinning, stare at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I have new socks on."

Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers, "This is my personal space."

Independence, but..

tomorrow we start off our version of the independence day weekend, but a question still bothers me, how come we are celebrating independence day?? we were never dependent on our british conquerors at any point of time, in fact they were dependent on us for the smooth running of their economy, whether it be for cheap labour, market for the products of their industrial revolution or even as vacation spots for the sahibs...... so shouldnt we be actually calling it freedom day??

and in any case, i believe it should only be called freedom day version 1, v1 because we still havent become free of the ultra dumb bueraucracy or the ultra corrupt political system, and we are still not free from illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, only when we become totally free as a country can we ever claim to have the complete version , and yes, at athat point of time, we will still have other issues, which we cant imagine today...i was just thinking, i dont have the sufficient literary skills to write a book or even a short story....but why cant i write a bloggers anthology, history will remember us as the first generation of bloggers, and we should be doing something to chronicle it, what say????

in case u r wondering, how the blog's posted early today, boss is on vacation and as the saying goes, "when the cat's out, the mice will play"... :-)am leaving you with

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another fwd i got...We r living in 2003 where .....

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail your mate who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.

6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.

7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "0" to get an outside line.

8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

10. Your CV is on a disk in your pocket.

11. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

12. Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.

13. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

14. Contract workers outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.

15. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.

16. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience,terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.

17. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.

18. Your boss gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features, but you have time to go for lunch while yours boots up.

19. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.

20. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department desperately needs, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.

21. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".

AND THE CLINCHERS ARE.

22. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.

23. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends".

24. You got this email from a friend that never talks to you often anymore(with exceptions),except to send you jokes from the net.

25. AND YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO NOTICE THAT THERE WAS NO NUMBER 9!

Ancestral Traits

thats because, in my blog habits, i am exhibiting some ancestral traits, i visited gandalf's blog in the morning, got a link to a toon site and a copyrights site from there, so have added them, visit gandalf's site, good piece of work.....also read wonderbug's post (thats staple diet), today's is especially good..so go have a look at that... essentially, i have been scavenging, and thats what some of my ancestors did, yours too, :-)

will write my bit on the same premise that w-bug's post was, it basically says that after a certain age, you no longer feel you are 'with it'.... i have experienced that feeling too, many times, i can recall one particular instance a couple of years back, i met this girl who was in kindergarten the last time i saw her, and a couple of years back she had just completed her class 10 exams, i realised that time was indeed flying, and the kind of things that were important to her and on which she spent 'thinking time' on, were not at all what i had in my set, when i was her age.....but , do i want to f9 my life, i guess not....my perceptions have changed, as each day passes, i become more defined as a person, i understand myself more and more, and i can relate better to myself......so i will agree with w-bug on that, at 25, i am happy, the way i am....now, for

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a fwd i got...Three HDFC employees and three ICICI employees are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three ICICI employees each buy tickets and watch as the three HDFC employees buy only one ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a ICICI employee. "Watch and youll see", answers an HDFC employee. They all board the train. The ICICI employees take their respective seats but all three HDFC employees cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "ticket please". The door opens just a little and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The ICICI employees saw this and agreed it was a clever idea. After the conference, the ICICI employees decide to copy the HDFC employees (.....as they know how.......) on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money and all). When they get to the station,they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the HDFC employees dont buy a ticket. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks a ICICI employee. "Watch and youll see," answers the HDFC employee. When they board, the three ICICI employees cram into a restroom and the three HDFC employees cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the HDFC employee leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the ICICI employees are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please..." The door opens just a little and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand the HDFC employee grabs the ticket and runs to his restroom. MORALE OF THE STORY: DONT IMITATE---INNOVATE!!

One step at a time, still

have been wondering about the roller coaster ride called life, much like wonderbug, in her post.......yesterday was another 'gaze at the stars' night, so there was lucky ali playing in the background, a pepsi in hand and star gazing, although, being a cloudy night, there were hardly any stars, but the sky served the purpose....

i am generally cautious by nature, but what i was wondering was that there were so many defining moments in my life so far, where one moment's thought or decision has effectively set my life on a particular track.....now when i think of it, there are a 101 ( in management lingo) opportunity costs.....

for example what if i had decided that i would focus on only bio and no maths during my +2, i might have lost a year, i might have been still studying medicine or i might have become a good doctor by now......what if i decided i didnt want to go for a pg, i might have been a programmer...and so, with each action/inaction i have changed all things associated with it, and thereby created or destroyed so many manu's, and i guess, so also altered the people in my life......according to one space/time theory, they are all existing in parallel universes, leading parallel lives..... my guess, they must all be blogging.... :-)

all ye budding storywriters, ram gopal varma is on the lookout, so if you wanna get famous post, read this article

have got a humour board , thanks to wonderbug.....all u bloggers, its free and quite good.....thanks for tuning in, will leave you with

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fwdd by a guy working in tcs

One day, three consultants, one from Wipro, one from Infosys and one from TCS, went out for a walk. They were old buddies from engg college, and they were together for a college reunion..For no apparent reason, they went into this zoo and passed a monkey. Being in the same business and from the same college, there was a little bit of a peer competition going on between themselves - they couldn't resist testing themselves against each other - especially the Infosys guy. Said he to the others:"Why don't we prove who is the best among ourselves?". Why not, said the other two.The Infoscion said "Let's have a test. Whoever makes this monkey laugh, works for the best firm".By mutual agreement, the Infoscion took the first turn. Being a pure logical strategist, the Infoscion tried to make the monkey laugh by telling jokes. The monkey stayed still. As a more practical consultant, the Wipro guy tried to make funny gestures... no good, the monkey stayed put... Now, comes the TCSer... being the practical guy he was always trained to be, he whispered something into the monkey's ear, and it burst out laughing at him.The other two were astonished. How did this TCS guy manage to beat them?No way they were going to accept defeat so easily.So the Wipro guy said "OK, let's take another test. Let's make this monkey cry !!"So there they went again, applying the same methods as before. The Infosys guy narrated sad stories, the Wipro guy made sad gestures, and they failed again...Then, the TCSer again whispered something into the monkey's ear and lo! It started crying, patting the TCSer's shoulder!The other two just could not believe their eyes!So the Infoscion said "OK, you've won twice. If you can win just this one, we will bow to you. Let's make this monkey run". And he barked at the monkey and ordered him to run. Of course, it stayed where it was. The Wipro guy, true to his type, pushed and prodded the monkey - still No go. So...here comes our TCS guy, again, and whispers into the monkey's ear. The monkey just takes off! It runs and runs as fast as it can, as if it was scared to death!The other two surrendered. Said they: "OK, we give up. You're the best among us, and you work for the Best firm of the three.But please, please tell us your secret," they begged him. "Well", said the TCSer,"The first time I made it laugh, I told it I work for TCS. The next time, I told the monkey how much I get paid...so it started crying. And then I told him that I was here for recruitment!!!"

Finally...

today's post is going to be bollywood based......the title because finally i saw a good movie, 3 dewarein by nagesh k (i dont want to spoil the guy's surname)... the plot , seems to me, is based on an old short story/joke, but i am not taking away anything from the guy, because he has made one hell of a movie..... and an absolute stunning background track, and some of the best performances, everyone's good, my fave would be jackie, then naseruddin shah, nagesh k and juhi chawla, gulshan grover is also good.... you can see many actors/tresses from hyderabad blues, ones who played the best friend, the aunty who wants to get her daughter married off to nagesh....i watched the movie twice, must be the only time i watched the same movie twice in a day....

i simply loved much of the philosophy (of the characters) in the movie, like when juhi asks naseer whether he feels any guilt after killing a person, he says, what is the point? guilt means i wont do it again, theek hai, i wont...but my feeling guilty will not bring the dead person back to life.....so , watch it, watch it, watch it!!!!

also saw hungama, it is a hindi version of priyadarshan's first mallu movie, and all i can say is that akshaye khanna is not mohanlal....and the only actor who can be compared to the malayali counterpart is paresh rawal....i honestly cant see why people rave about a. khanna, he is ok, but not spectacular....

cola bashing daemons, did you see the ads given out by both pepsi and coke regarding those test finds? results in bangalore are well and truly below the specified norms, so wonderbug, Anu...stop PESTering the poor souls who treat Pepsi as staple diet :-)

and yes, i have to address this issue, i dont think i have ever claimed originality rights to the stuff i post, it is only meant for pure entertainment ..... for me as well as others who read this...be fair to me, i always quote my sources....if i find a funny or 'food for thought' message or forward, i will just go ahead and post it, coz maybe i like making people happy and seeing them smile.....so spare me lectures on CCPs and anti plagiarism ...lemme be....and like i have quoted once, "if you want to create an apple pie from scratch, you have to create the universe first", so once and for all, i am indian, i dont believe in copyrights....

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"my thoughts are mine

mine alone to keep,

and mine to hide

deep, deep, deep"

------- jaggu in 3 dewarein....

The fifth p

as the title implies, this post is going to have a lil bit of marketing in it... i read an article in economic times, so i thought i'll put it here....the four P's in marketing by kotler are famous enough, and there have been several wannabe's trying for the fifth position, like 'people', 'packaging' etc, but this one takes the cake...it is very indian, thats why i loved it...it is the 'paanwala'.....

brands are now competing with each other to make their presence felt in the small paan dukan.... from fmcg co:s like hll and nestle to telecom players like hutch, everyone wants to be in a paan shop, and in the process, the old paanwala is slowly being phased out and he is being replaced by the new paanwala dude who is himself a walking promotion, coz he is sporting reebok, levis, raybaan etc.....read more

was slightly skeptical about putting the bihar stuff yesterday, but it has got a good response, so i'm happy...and yahoooooo, its the weekend, two days of solid nothingness, only a lil shopping.... guys in bangalore and mumbai,tomorrow, watch out for WorldSpace's ad in times of india, and bombay times respectively and gimme a feedback...so happy weekend , people, enjoy yourself, take care and be back on monday for the latest edition of manuscrypts...whats left is

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just a lil dig at management... ;-)

Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Sooner enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder. One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious, but, undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder. All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly. He has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder. A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him. This includes the previous new monkey, who, grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he's attacking the new monkey. One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced. Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why. And that's how any company's policies get established.

Behind every succesful blog...

so, finally there is a comment section for each post....and its not the s/w guy in the ofice who's behind it, but my very own personal sweet wife...she has been insisting that this template has a comments option and i have been vehemently refusing...now she has another point on her side when we dicuss computers, software and all the stuff thats in the same jungle......

saw darna mana hai, good concept , but one of the worst climaxes ever.... he did it with bhoot, and now with this....wonder when he will get out of the bad climax genre... ;-)i got a thought from one of aftab's dialogues, my wife thinks i have gone loony, its an abstract question, " when a guy runs a race alone and finishes it, is he first or last"...

theres an ok article on rediff about netiquette, catch it here...there are things turning up in all the places they shouldnt be, an unmentionable in stew, pesticides in coke , and pepsi and most of the other soft drinks...and that still leaves their sales unaffected!!, read it here...the new joke on colas are that there is a whole lot of demand for them in punjab , kerala etc, farmers are stocking cans and bottles to use them as pesticides....if you have an opinion on the race last sunday, especially if you are a staunch williams fan, have your say here...and finally in

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its from bihar....DRIVING LICENSE APPLIKASON PHARUMNOTE: If you dont know the answers, please copy from another applikasonphorum and submit. For further instructions, see bottom of applikason.Please do not shoot the person at the applikason kounter. He will giveyou the license immediately.Last name: (Yadav/Sinha/Pandey/Mishra/do not know)First name:( _ ) Ramprasad( _ ) Lakhan( _ ) Sivaprasad( _ ) Lalooprasad( _ ) Dont know(Tick in appropriate box)Age:( _ ) Less than gero( _ ) Gero( _ ) Greater than gero( _ ) Don't knowSex: ____ M _____ F _____ not sure _____ not applicableChappal Size: ____ Left ____ RightOccupation:( _ ) Politician( _ ) Doodhwala( _ ) Pehelwaan( _ ) House wife( _ ) Un-employed( _ ) GoondaSpouse's Name: __________________________Relationship with spouse :( _ ) Sister( _ ) Brother( _ ) Aunt( _ ) Uncle( _ ) Cousin( _ ) PetNumber of children living in household: ___dozNumber that are yours: ___Mother's Name: _______________________Her Husband's name: _______________________(If not sure, leave blank)Ejjucason: 1 2 3 4 (Circle highest grade completed)Do you ( _ )own or ( _ )rent( _ )or forcibly occupy your home? (Checkappropriate box)___ Total number of vehicles you own___ Number of vehicals that still crank___ Number of vehicals in front yard___ Number of vehicals in back yard___ Number of vehicals on cement blocks___ Number of vehicals on four legsFirearms you own and where you keep them:____ truck____ bedroom____ bathroom____ kitchen____ shed____ WaistModel and year of your vehical(s) _____________ 194_Do you have a gun rack? ( _ )Yes ( _ ) No; If no, please explain:Newspapers/magazines you subscribe to, though you cannot read,( _ ) Champak( _ ) Indrajal( _ ) Chacha Choudhary( _ ) The great Bihar Dairy( _ ) Blank sheets___ Number of times you've SHOT a political leader/policeman/anybody___ Number of times you've SHOT another person exactly like you ___Number of times you've SHOT yourself.(SHOOTING YOURSELF IN MIRROR ISPOOR SHOOTING)Do you bathe?( _ ) Yes( _ ) No( _ ) Not applicableIf yes, how often do you bathe?( _ ) Weekly( _ ) Monthly( _ ) YearlyColor of teeth:( _ ) Yellow( _ ) Brownish-Yellow( _ ) Paan Brown( _ ) Black( _ ) Others - Give exact color (call nearest Asian Paints dealer if Udon't know the color of your teeth) :______________( _ ) Not applicableHow far is your home from a paved road?( _ )10 miles ( _ )20miles ( _ )don't know what road is____________________Your thumb imparesson(If you are copying from another applikason pharom, please do not copythumb impresson also. Please provide your own thumb impresson.PLEASE DO NOT USE FINGERS OF YOUR LEGS.Use thumb on your left hand only. If you dont have left hand, use yourthumb on right hand. If you do not have right hand, use thumb on lefthand.NOTE : IF YOU DON'T HAVE BOTH HANDS, YOU CANNOT DRIVE

Faithfully Yours

guess what, jethrotull won out in the battle between the corrs and john denver...for those who are doubting my sanity, that was about the cd i bought yesterday..a couple of days back, i read a good article about something called 'emotional infidelity'...basically relates to people who are committed already spending a whole lot of time or devoting a lot of mindshare to others, especially of the opposite gender (if that applies, hehe)....it might be people at work, chat friends, blogpals , whatever..the author feels that if i do spend that extra amount of time with any of the above, i am exhibiting emotional infidelity.... he even says that if i happen to share a joke with someone of the opposite sex without first checking it out with my wife, i am being emotionally unfaithful..a lot of the stuff is overboard, but it does give points to ponder..what say, guys??

those monkeys at manchester united are now selling off veron to chelsea, read all about it here...and check out the actual beginnings of terminator here.....now for

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"This is an actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, USA, to his boss. His boss apparently resigned very soon afterwards!"Dear Mr Baker,As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. Afteryour consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and myself during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time,but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the .......hundredth time.You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective astelling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof ofthe Dilbert principle.Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender myresignation; however I have a few parting thoughts.1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you overthe next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favourites list", which Iconveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favourably by the administration.3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mothers b-day", you neglected to mention that you were going totake pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you thatthose have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please. I hate having to correct your mistakes.)Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f*** with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!SincerelyDarryl Brewer

Exact vs Abstract

i will most prob buy a cd today, but am finding it difficult to choose between john denver and the corrs.. i know, the genres are different, i have listened to a couple of songs of both, so....will share the other point that is inspired by a 'spark' from 'india unbound'..unfortunately the author does not give a great deal of space to it in the book...it is to do with exact vs abstract....we pursue the study of exact (science) more than the study of abstract (art)...maybe because it is more difficult to make our mark in the latter, and only when we make a mark do we get some monetary returns on it....but in the former, we dont need to be extra special to make money...but i envy americans coz they somehow manage to pursue their dreams, i am speaking in generalities, but if i sing reasonably well here, i wouldnt try all my best to do that, it is subjective but i am speaking more or less for a majority of indians .... i think it is do with a lot of factors - culture, attitude, conditions.....i hope we can reach that stage one day, coz if our work is based on our passion, we will be successful and happy, right??thats it for today, heres

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just a forward i got...TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion? Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one. Question 2: It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates. Candidate A - Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day. Candidate B - He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening. Candidate C He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife. Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer. ANSWERS Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Candidate B is Winston Churchill. Candidate C is Adolph Hitler. And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said "YES", you just killed Beethoven. Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Our kinda modern

first up, a very happy friendship (yester) day to all of you...though to be honest, there shouldnt be a day for this, friends are forever... oh, well, those poor archies guys have to find ways to make money, dont they..hehei have finally finished 'india unbound', and am now reading roald dahl's supposedly best stories, and to be very honest, after 110 pages out of 360 odd, it still hasnt delivered the kind of stuff it promises on the back cover, so it is not on my medialist...!!

there are some guys outside my office protesting against the government for something, regular stuff in india, but the difference today is that they have stripped down to their undies...hehe, gives a whole new meaning to 'india unbound'..yeah, speaking of that book, stll a couple of good points to share...one, about our concept of modern....our modern is mostly 'western'... whatever is accepted there gets accepted here too.... from pizzas to music videos, oit is ironic that there is a jam packed crowd for every performance of indian maestros in the west, but here, its is only a niche audience....i dont think quality is the chief criterion we employ when we choose goods, services or whatever, there is basically a bias towards whatever is western, and thus we tend to kill whatever is homegrown, yes there are brands that survive, but i believe they entered the indian consumer's brain before the concept of 'western-modern' came about......the other point, tomorrow's post....meanwhile

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"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

If its ok with them...

it seems the quest for happiness is dogging everyone, (read wonderbug's post today)...like i wrote a couple of days back, 'true happiness' is so dynamic, that we only have just enough time to experience it, so defining it is way way off....Carrying on from yesterday, with most 'sparks' from the book i am reading now.....i doubt if our generation can produce a bhagat singh.....who would die for a cause.... just a thought, who knows what his intentions were, maybe he measured his happiness by his martyr status, and made a gamble....but i doubt.. i am still a fan, and believe in the nobility of his intentions...we have produced individuals who would endure for a cause they believe in, the cause is usually money...the college dropout who is the richest guy in the world, the petro giants whose dad started out as a petrol pump attendant in yemen... only stating the rule, not the exceptions.... not taking anything away from their achievements,but the motive..and so it is that most heroes today are industrial giants, and not gandhis and nehrus...again the rule, not the exception....so , society has changed in terms of aspirations and therefore motives...i am not talking of sailors who went in search of treasures, i am talking of commonfolk...where did it all start, hmm, not here, though we had our tatas and birlas, the industrial revolution really happened in europe and america...is that why we always look for endorsements from there...why we compare our quality of life with them, love the coke, mtv lifestyle...dont mistake me, i am not talking swadeshi here, just wondering....prof. amartya sen lauded kerala yesterday for its high life expectancy, low infant mortality rate etc..but with all that, kerala is on a downhill now, the attitude hasnt undergone much change...kerala does have all the indeces of quality of life in a position, where it compares favorably, even with the west...but.....to be continuedmeanwhile, all you guys interested in a kind of lateral thinking, check out this have a great weekend, everyone, not before you check out

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"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."~ Albert Einstein