Archive for May, 2007
I, Sell Out
I don't like Coffee Days, Baristas or other such chain stores because the people that visit them are so cool that I get a chill. I freeze to death over there. However, I have started selling out to a small extent over the past few days by actually eating reasonably at McDonald's and KFC, because the food there is available so fast, without any [...]
Pulchritude
Who came up with the word pulchritude to describe beauty? It sounds like some the anglicised name of an exotic South Indian food dish. Imagine wanting to use it on woooman to describe how wonderful she looks. "I'm bowled over by your pulchritude!" sounds akin to "I'm bowled over by your masala dosa!" I suddenly remembered this word while [...]
Up with Us!! We’re backward!
The recent ruckus and riots in Rajasthan by the Gujjar community, over protests that ask for their inclusion into the list of Scheduled Tribes is a bit warped, to say the least. Wikipedia says thus about the Gujjars, and if the article's authenticity is to be believed, they are a Kshatriya clan (warrior class types), who are making these violent [...]
You are having the Thump
Sony Ericsson has released this new model of cellphone with 'bass reflex headphones' or something that sounds like that, with Hrithik Roshan being the brand ambassador. The ad punchline goes - "I love the thump", and is pretty catchy. Now, these ads have so severly been splashed all and sundry, that the first thing one thinks of while seeing the [...]
Religious Propaganda Demystified
Christianity, with all its flavours and different sects/branches is the most widely practised religion on the planet. They have a reasonable growth rate of followers too, courtesy of some interesting phenomenon that I shall highlight in the following lines.On a very intriguing note, the high growth rates of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism [...]
Of Rocket Science and Shampoo
Catch phrases and cliches seem to be thrown around in the air in the IT industry, very much like confetti at parades in most Australian cities, once in four years, everytime those guys win the World Cup and come back riding on a tableau.I think we should have a World Cup without the Australians, so that they understand that they need to lose a few [...]
In My Own Write
Sometimes, I get this overwhelming urge to write stuff. Usually that urge is accompanied by some vague idea in its embryonic phase, based on which I am able to pen down my thoughts and come up with a really arbit blog post.However, today, something is amiss. I have the urge, but the content aspect is still nebulous in my mind. Some ideas have [...]
Suggestions Please!
My pal Kutty got me my own domain name for my birthday, and I recently learnt how to manage it and have ensured that my URL redirects people to my blog, at least for now. The domain name was purchased before a porn site could be made out of it (though in retrospect, a good porn site bearing my name would have been a brilliant idea), and it was [...]
