Archive for August, 2008
Work Life Balance
Whoever invented the term work-life balance sure spared no expense in trying to highlight how the two are different. While it has been something I've heard off and on during four years of work (yes, its been that long, although - you can take harithekid out of college, but you can't take the college out of harithekid unless you want to perform [...]
Chase Away the Travel Blues
Until recently, short travel (a distance which would at most be equal to the approximate diameter of Bangalore city), if done on a continuous basis was quite a pain, especially due to traffic as well as due to the fact that if the same route was travelled upon repeatedly, there was no novelty associated with that particular route. This was [...]
Why Spoons?
I have recently switched over to eating idly and vada with hands instead of with a spoon. This has been done for some general cheap thrills, until and unless there are extreme case scenarios where I am unable to wash my hands, which case spoon usage is the only way out. But whenever I see people eat idli-vada, I notice that they always use spoons [...]
Telephone Terrorism
Live Blogging: This is happening as I type. Our workplace, which is a set of cubicles on our floor with each cubicle having a telephone extension, is under seige. Literally! Each and every telephone in my vicinity has started ringing in synchronicity at the same time, since most of them have consecutive numbers, and this time, it is not the [...]
Night Club for Moonlighters
Yet another brilliant idea from the stables of harithekid. I'm surprised at how awesome I am! Anyway, to move on to describing the idea, I was thinking of how we should start a 'night club' which will be a bar / discotheque / lounge and everything else for all those people who work at night and sleep during the day. The most obvious target [...]
Puppet President
While watching the awesome and visually splendid Olympics opening cermony, as the Indian contingent of athletes passed by, my sister casually remarked that it was ironic that on the day of the Olympics, the President of the country was at the convocation ceremony in IIT Bombay, whilst the President of the ruling coalition government was instead [...]
She’s not the Tennis Player
Another random facebook search for kicks threw funny results, just like the time when I had searched for Elisha Cuthbert and instead got all the members of the SGPC (Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee) listed. This time I searched for Sania Mirza, just to see if she might actually be on facebook and one quite funny profile I chanced upon [...]
Praise or Abuse?
Its been four months since my last birthday today, and I was just remembering the day and what transpired a couple of days before and after that. One thing that stands out in my mind is worth documenting here, for posterity. Our office has a splendid intranet portal which has all sorts of things to keep oneself preoccupied should blogging / [...]
