Archive for November, 2007
Operation Last Chance
This operation, an initiative of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre - a Jewish human rights group aims at catching what is left of the remaining Nazi World War II criminals before they die of natural causes, nestled comfortably in some place in South America. It literally would be the last chance for the dispensers of justice to ensure that the [...]
Jumbo King!
We pledge to make the Vada-pav world class! Thus sayeth the caption of the poor man's McDonald's, Jumbo King, which specializes in the selling of a limited menu of vada-pav and its variants. Anyone who has been to Mumbai (even in transit) and hasn't eaten vada pav deserves do die a painful death. There is enough and more info about this [...]
Dorky Guffaw’s Local ‘Training’
Dorky Guffaw was about to die a horrible death.Or so he thought. Standing there within the compartment of a slow local train bound from Thane towards CST, he was supposed to get off the train at Dadar. The train had just slowed down to a halt at the station, and the people within the crowded train were pushing and shoving each other in order to [...]
India’s Hottest
One of the crappiest things that I have come across in recent times on TV has been an ad on Channel V, about how your photographs will be featured on one of their shows if you upload it onto the site - Indiashottest.in or something. This will spur the mall rats (who don't go there for the sole purpose of visiting the bookstores) and the other [...]
Groomsman
Societal faux pas and inability to fit into a crowd notwithstanding, here is another bullet-point I can add to my set of life-experiences, a little less than two years down the line. I am being elected to be a "Groomsman" by the Groom Sankar(and the Bride,Neerada, as I later found out), though I would've preferred being the Best Man. But seeing [...]
Self Deprecation Rules
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. Words from Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" that just endorse my theory of self-deprication being better than someone else pointing fingers and berating one [...]
Mailbox Activity
Signing up for arbit job sites and random places here periodic newsletters and emails are generated is one way for my inbox to display a daily semblance of activity. Somehow, personal emailing frequency among my close friends has taken a downside due to orkut, facebook and most vitally gtalk which take care of staying in touch, but it still [...]
Philips Top 10
Just the other day, when I was headed towards Koramangala on the bike after office, I had the FM radio plugged into my ears via my mobile handsfree and was listening to Radio Indigo. Rohit Barker's Cruise Control was on air, and he was playing some decent songs such as 'We didn't start the fire' and some other songs that I liked that he [...]
