Quirky
The Day I nearly died!
–Had written this blogpost one year back and it was lying on my desktop screen since then. Publishing it now. Exactly a year later. On the 14th of March, 2011, couple of days after a massive earthquake and a subsequent tsunami hit Japan, I decided to go surfing. I guessed that since fear-mongering would be [...]
Indian Lovers Party – It’s Revolutionary!
A question to start with – Whom are we talking about in the following sentence? – “There was no one like him, is no one like him, and will never be anyone like him” If your answer was Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar or even Rajnikanth, you couldn’t be more farther from the truth. The answer [...]
Theory of Outrageous Predictions
This is a theory which we can all use, with very limited or zero downside but unlimited upside. Let me explain. Make a prediction about anything. Just about anything. The trick lies in making an outrageous prediction and not just a normal prediction. For example, you can predict that Bangladesh is going to win this [...]
Deepak Chopra – Interpreted!
Deepak Chopra is supposedly one of the leading Indian Gurus in Spiritualism. In this blogpost, I try to interpret some of his twitter messages (interested folks can follow him @deepakchopra on twitter). These tweets (in italics) were tweeted between November and December this year. 1) Everyday reality is a waking dream where you project yourself [...]
Corporate Jargons – Video time!
I came across this recent movie making service (free) called Xtranormal very recently and I have already become a huge fan of it. In this post, I tried to experiment movie making with a topic that is so widespread that the UN is planning to list it as one of the world’s most dangerous viruses. It’s called Jargon. [...]
Welcome to Haystack Apts!
She was dialing the number for the nth time – and for the nth time, she received the same response. ‘Welcome to Haystack Apts. We appreciate your patience, please hold on till the operator comes online’ and the irritating music…ta daa tadaaa taddaadaaaa Wait! Where are you taking me? Leave me alone. I want to [...]
The Depravity of Orkut
I was shocked the other day when my 14 year old cousin scrapped me – ‘Wassup?’ on Orkut. Firstly, I didn’t have a clue that he was on Orkut. Secondly, what was this ‘wassup?’ language? Have school kids forgotten the good old English language? An age where we lamented the death of letter–writing with the [...]
Anti-thesis!
Note: Couple of short stories with no relation between them! They were sitting facing each other. It was a month before this moment that they spoke to each other for the first time. He in Mumbai, and She in Chennai. He was an industrialist, a multi-millionaire and single. He was on Yahoo chat that day, [...]
Marriage and its Audience!
One of my acquaintances recently commented ‘When people are happy in life, they have a tendency to ruin it. They do things like getting married.’ I have nothing against marriage though (I am still waiting for a man married for a long time to comment thus ). It is a wonderful institution of two people [...]
