Humor
The World of ‘Jargon’ia - Redux
My earlier post on Jargons
It is about time I update my list of jargons. I mean, its been 2 long years in the corporate world since the last jargon-ic blogpost, and you can be dead sure I have been inundated with jargons in this time. In this blogpost, I present my humble view on what I [...]
One Upmanship - Bernie Madoff vs Ramalinga Raju
Scene: Bernie Madoff and Ramalinga Raju are put in the same jail, for crimes of similar essence - defrauding shareholders/investors. Both wanted to prove that one was better than the other - in swindling. And so began the argument -
Madoff: You bloody brown fellow! How dare you steal thunder under/from me?
Raju: You racist cheater! How [...]
‘The Angrez’ on IM :)
Of all the multiple conversations on IM that I was a part of in the office till date, this conversation takes the cake. One of my very good friend, Harish was working from California on this particular day. The background essentially is that we both love the movie ‘The Angrez’ - a movie based on [...]
Festival of India
Last weekend, ‘Festival of India’ was conducted in our city. Now, ‘Festival of India’ in any city in the US necessarily attracts lots of food caterers first, along with the usual unnecessary audience which doesn’t make noise at an event. There were many interesting events, most of them with tiny-toddlers dancing away to glory [...]
The ‘in’ things!
After 2 hours of deep thought process, I am as close to framing up a short story as India were to losing to Sri Lanka in the first test (losing by an innings and 239 runs should give you some idea) - the story neither had a beginning, nor an end or anything in between. [...]
Couples working in the same company!
Heaven and Hell; Life and Near-death; Tolerable and Intolerable; Intelligence and Dumbness; Bearable and Unbearable;
The question for the day is ‘What is common among all these pairs of terms, other than opposites?’
My answer would be ‘Morons who got their better halves into the same company, or even worse, same project as theirs - did they [...]
Inflation – it’s such a mess
A man explained inflation to his wife thus:
‘When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you’re 42-42-42. There’s more of you, but you are not worth as much.’
- Lord Barnett
That my dear friends, is the essence of the devil called inflation. In more complex terms, and hence economically speaking, Inflation is a rise in general level [...]
Back after a loonngg hiatus!
1) Back after the longest gap in my blogging history of 3 years. There was really no reason nor excuse why I didn’t or couldn’t blog. I was working my back off for the past 3 weeks, including weekends; my online life of Orkut, Twitter, Gtalk and others have been dormant to say the least [...]
IPL Out, Boredom In!
Now that the seemingly-never-ending IPL tournament has ended, albeit with lot of brouhaha during the closing ceremony and a fantastic final match (by some quirky turn of fate, every IPL tournament’s final is a very close contest – IPL World Cup final, ICL final and now this!) – it is time we take stock of [...]
Converstaion with ‘They’…Err…’She’…no…’They’!
Of the many stupid moments and conversations I have been involved in over the past 25 years, some stupid moments stand out - for the sheer ingenuity and willingness to be ‘bakraofied’, some decisions I have taken to be involved in these stupid moments can be classified as stupefyingly stupid, if not downright insane. (Four [...]
