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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Gtalk conversation!

A conversation went on like this in the Gtalk multiverse -
He: Hello madam! Kaise ho??!!
She: Am doing good! How are you!
He: Am doing good too!! An open question I just read somewhere – what do you think you are?
She: I am unique, I am an oxymoron!
He: Pretty ugly, eh?!
She: As always Evil!! Damnn..anyways..
He: [...]