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 [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photographs and their Value degeneration
I love photographs, especially old photographs where I was a little toddler, handled by different uncles and aunts, grandpas and grandmas and of course parents in different poses and backgrounds. As is the case with most of us, I too have a huge album of photographs consisting of the entire family – father’s side, mother’s [...]
Random Thoughts – Again
Due to so-called ‘busyness’ on the professional front, I am unable to spend much time thinking about any topic to an extent that I can dedicate a blog to it. The ‘Random Thoughts’ series of blogposts are going to be quickies, and quickies though efficient, lack finesse! Apologies.
1) The [...]
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: [...]
