Archive for June, 2009
Random Thoughts…
1) The big news of the past week was obviously the death of ‘King of Pop’, Michael Jackson. While the real and virtual worlds were debating on the ‘greatest ever’, ‘best ever’ etc, all odes and tributes aside from millions of fans from the world over, I had this wonderful little gtalk conversation with my [...]
Random Thought…
Reading and listening to quotations and proverbs is one thing. Experiencing them is a totally different proposition. Experienced, what I think, is a very profound perspective over the past few days – - There are no good decisions or bad decisions. There are only different trade-offs for every decision you make. – For every decision [...]
Economics at the Mall
The other day, when I was browsing through some products in the Mall, the discounting mechanism/ad that they had put up made me think for a while, for it was slightly unusual. Let me explain. Usually, I have seen discounts such as Buy One, Get One FREE Buy One, Get 10% OFF, Buy Two, Get [...]
Flash Fiction: Scent of a Man
Karl lost $50000 today. He was pissed. Rob, his broker, had duped him into buying and dumping shares at a huge loss. Karl’s wife, Carolyn was vacuuming the staircase of their house. Unconscious of Karl’s descent of the stairs, Carolyn grinned from ear-to-ear, staring at the staircase. She looked radiant and beaming – something Karl [...]
AIDA in Relationships
So…lately, I have been in an overdrive of thoughts. As I was walking down one of the aisles in Wal-Mart the other day, I noticed a wide range of cornflakes – some new brands placed alongside the older ones. This led me to think about the Marketing Management course that I had studied in my [...]
Quantum Relationships
I was talking to my friend the other day when he mentioned that he was in a ‘proxy relationship’. On enquiring further on this inter-galactic phrase, he explained that he didn’t know whether ‘he was in love’ or ‘he was just friends’ with this girl [which actually meant that he is interested but is shit [...]
