Posts Tagged ‘friends’
My Cousin’s Wedding and Other Stories
Well, I made up the other stories part so you'd start reading, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you were to just close the window. So, on Saturday evening, I left Bangalore for Mangalore via train and returned on Monday morning. It had been almost two years since I had visited Mangalore, and that was in January 2007 for the wedding of a [...]
And the Lay-Offs Begin……
In case you weren't yet aware, the recession has hit the IT industry. Pretty badly. Forget all the sugar-coating fundaes that Dr.Manmohan Singh has given us about how things are bad but will get better. If global trends are any indication, lay-offs will, like every other trend perpetuated by our western civilizations, hit Indian shores [...]
What Will Our Children Think?
During one of those times when I was supposed to sit and work on something important, my mind, as usual drifted off in one of those random flights of thought that have been so characteristic of me since class two when I was thrown out of class for not answering my attendence despite occupying the first bench. Being thrown out of class was [...]
Band Photo
So, the other day, our friend Shrenik came when we were putting practise, and using his flashy remote controlled Nikon DSLR took a few pics of us. Combined with Adobe illustrator, he's done something that you can see embedded here (see up). He's taken a few other weird and funny photos of us. For more of his work on flickr check out Shrenik's [...]
Drinking Theories
I have two theories on alcohol consumption that I wanted to blag about. I know neither will make it to a research paper, but then again, what else is my awesome blag for, aye? Drinking on a Sunday Evening: Most people tend to drink on Friday or Saturday evenings, once the working week has come to an end. Thereafter, uncontrolled alcohol [...]
Counter-Intuitive Nicknames
Ever since I was able to, I have given people around me nicknames. Most of them have been funny and non-offensive, and have had a decent shelf-life. The only one, which I thought was quite funny, which almost had me killed was 'bird flu'. At the height of the virus scare, the person who was given said nickname didn't share my enthusiasm or my [...]
A Jet Airways Anecdote
The recent firing and re-hiring of the 1900 Jet Airways employees, which makes Naresh Goyal look very much like a certain Mohammed bin-Tughlaq, has brought back memories of an arbit incident that took place slightly over two years ago, involving someone from Jet Airways. It was sometime in the first week of August 2006, when I was supposed to [...]
Wanted : LOL Code Developers
It was a fateful day sometime in the early part of this year when Tharunya sent me a link to this popular internet meme called the LOLcats. I found it quite absurdly funny, and thereafter, forwarded the link from this meme to a few of my friends, who, I was certain hadn't seen it before. In turn, on receiving that link and having seen it, I was [...]
