Rant
Cricket Commentary and Commentators
The common complaint nowadays while watching cricket, apart from India losing, is the extent to which the standards of commentating a cricket match have fallen. I agree, but only partly.
Some of the great moments in the game have been wonderfully captured by equally good, if not great commentary of those times. I still recall vividly [...]
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 [...]
Books - To read or not to read
I love reading books. I was by no means a voracious reader till my late teens. After that, I devoured every book that came my way (fiction and non-fiction alike) and enjoyed them thoroughly.
But as I realized later, over the past 4-5 years to be precise, I did not like all books. In fact, I [...]
Depravity of Orkut - Redux
My earlier rant on Orkut here.
My usage of social networking sites has dropped down to a bare minimum. I had a very brief fling with Facebook but with all the poking going around and walls being torn down by spam messages, I was forced to abandon the monster. I do have an account but am [...]
Elections 2009 - Urban India Voter Turnout - Appalling!
I) Quoting from an article in Mail Today -
“Sample this: Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country and the city that witnessed massive public mobilisation after the 26/11 terror attacks, managed a figure of only 43 per cent in the phase held on April 30 (the lowest since 1977); Bangalore, the seat of the country’s [...]
Mumbai Terror Attack - Opinions galore!
1. Our dear President, Her Excellency Pratibha Patil Thursday strongly condemned the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai and asked people to maintain calm and cooperate with authorities. Why, even Shivraj Patil strongly condemned the terror attacks and let us know the all-important information that the terrorists chose a time and place where they could cause [...]
Getting fired and the US financial crisis!
Last week, one of my colleague got fired. He got fired due to non-performance rather than the huge financial turmoil that has been happening lately in the US. He was a very good friend of mine and we spent a lot of time talking about soccer (he was from Europe) and in general were on [...]
Save the Planet – Eff you guys!
There, I said it - All you guys who claim/market to ‘Save the Planet’ - you can go eff yourselves (Eff (read it as a single letter ‘f’), of course, certainly doesn’t mean Fraternity, but means a four letter word whose usage would block my blog at the workplace!)
Isn’t it fashionable nowadays to be a [...]
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 [...]
Two weeks later…
The past two weeks were hectic, to say the least.
The most awaited movie of the year – Tashan got released. The metaphor in itself is probably the biggest awaited joke of the year. With the movie poster of Tashan looking eerily similar to Covenant, Yash Raj films indicated that this movie was not original even [...]
