tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100045562012-01-17T07:13:59.670-06:00humour me, Life :-)woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-80206697748559626402010-07-15T00:32:00.000-05:002010-07-15T00:32:22.994-05:00

a recent incident at Jewel-Osco that would make mr. stein wish he had more of us around to just up the common sense ante decided that all i wanted was a body wash - one does find these things handy ever so often eh? so off i go to JO to get one. it says $5.79 but with the JO loyalty card its for $3.99. rummy. unfortunately the thingamajig at the cashier's does not know the store manager is

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-73651655158028651022010-04-12T16:42:00.001-05:002010-04-12T16:47:35.392-05:00

came across this article on NDTV.com about another fire in Bangalore. What's more interesting here is the way Madam Vasanthi recollects the Carlton Tower fire episode - "Some of them had jumped in panic from the top floors of the commercial building and did not survive the fall." Hmmm. Wonder why they didn't make it.

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-32704652220979045052010-02-01T11:09:00.002-06:002010-02-01T11:11:50.041-06:00

so it seems someone was chasing ms. nooriya and she panicked. both case and reaction bought. and one would be compelled to believe that the prospect of a police jeep presenting itself under such cases would be, at best a welcome sight? and given the plight one would also eagerly look forward to a tete`-a-tete´ with the law? she was probably told, if you run into a cop, he will help you. but did

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-45537111730519041932009-11-25T09:57:00.000-06:002009-11-25T11:16:54.556-06:00

now our prez made history today by flying a Sukhoi sortie. great. way to go gramma! this should go down as a feather in a seemingly bald cap, claiming a few firsts. but this brings me to an all important question.why?a childhood fantasy? or an item from 100-things-to-do-before-i-die? scores of able-bodied aspiring soldiers would give an arm and a leg to get into that coveted chair and gramma gets

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-72448698470861939062009-10-30T19:08:00.000-05:002009-10-30T19:15:49.416-05:00

reminds me of the doings of a disgruntled indian wedding decorator let loose on a carwell, at least it got me driving her in for a long overdue wash :)

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-8639395211406511432009-02-13T07:16:00.001-06:002009-02-13T07:20:18.476-06:00

you lookup their help for a forgotten .pst passwordHelp topic: I forgot my Personal Folders file (.pst) passwordProblem resolution: ...Try to remember...

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-77478425415655046852008-09-05T14:25:00.000-05:002008-09-05T14:31:47.278-05:00

what image would you build in your mind when you think about people like mamooty or dr. m. balamurali krishna? veterans? from the times before you made it to diapers?well, exactly my thoughts and beats me to no end when i see hoardings with them on south indian bank ads that says "experience next generation banking"is it a case of misplaced perceptions or their attempt to prove a point with

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-9071205630275738642008-07-31T13:22:00.000-05:002008-07-31T13:23:50.603-05:00

fire drill at work this evening. drill instructor cautions the crowd on gas leakages..."gas does not go up. it goes down. so if you want to smell gas, you should go to the bottom..."

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-23226651078899516112008-05-02T23:50:00.000-05:002008-05-02T23:52:28.513-05:00

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-14303644711089706052008-04-28T13:53:00.000-05:002008-04-28T14:03:57.421-05:00

those were the days when we joked about signs outside IT companies, "trespassers will be recruited", now we've taken recruitment to a whole new level. nothing could quite get as desperate as this. nothing yet. much like a huge trawler slowly making its way through the deep seas. most of what is caught are fresh fish but then also snared are unsuspecting dolphins and seals.where do we go next?

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-10752364964539409312008-02-29T09:33:00.001-06:002008-02-29T09:35:17.777-06:00

which calendar do they follow?

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-21222216565642961452008-02-11T17:07:00.001-06:002008-02-11T17:13:14.720-06:00

didnt know it was snowing outside till i saw my google homepage...

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-41031391762474492402008-01-23T17:26:00.000-06:002008-01-23T17:28:31.601-06:00

feral instincts anyone? this had me rather amused :) note the "culture" part

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-52211195694459404062008-01-10T20:26:00.000-06:002008-01-12T09:39:19.754-06:00

The Nano was unveiled today in India and has been creating tidal waves across the globe. reactions range from admiration to sarcasm laced jealousy. Tata Motors has received it all.a little background about this car to crank us up a bit... its been called (cliched) the 'People's Car' - VW must've let out a yawn too many already. but then, VW has come a long way now and with its customers acting

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-85872840061794983752008-01-02T21:33:00.000-06:002008-01-02T22:34:47.264-06:00

to my fellow "orkutters" who were on the receiving end of these software bots on orkut, let lose on them by friends/acquaintances/remotely distant contacts/products of forced amnesia.wishing on an occasion couldnt get any more impersonal. paper cards gave way to ecards. people said if you cant sign it how is it personal? turn in your graves purists! mass scraping is here. so you now are greeted

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-17036940889862450252007-12-14T18:58:00.000-06:002007-12-14T16:59:08.578-06:00

v ordered a GPS online. it was to reach him in 2 weeks. its close to 4 now. guess its lost its way...

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-76767658459627277022007-11-15T00:03:00.000-06:002007-11-14T10:35:20.139-06:00

yup, pretty much all of that land is considered forbidden by most of us... from straight-jacket government policies to the language and the food... very much an enigma for society at large. and anyone who's been there (and survived to tell the tale... :P - sorry couldnt resist that)... is looked at with awe and disbelief. and if you are a vegetarian, there are questions of whether you have

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-15749268993402387012007-11-05T18:34:00.000-06:002007-11-05T18:39:09.548-06:00

people. yes, interesting as ever :) and the chennai-singapore sector has presented itself with quite a few fables... was privy to couple of them this time around.lone traveller lady (A) steps in with a tiny bag i could bet fell in the check-in category. purely for weight. struggles to get it into the bin above, doesnt quite make the cut and gives me the

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-25186320296639519302007-09-26T14:17:00.000-05:002007-09-27T13:37:24.718-05:00

you see it all around you... and its not just here. people hate standing behind someone else in a queue. its a direct hit on their self-respect. they might be headed nowhere for all they care, but a queue wasnt made for them. so here is a guy supposed to be behind me in line for a train ticket but insists on standing right next to me. and thus is born the second queue... make it a point to remind

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-43079845647428556732007-08-03T23:13:00.000-05:002007-08-03T23:17:50.200-05:00

it was tax payment time again... colleague tells me "you can pay tax through the net now!"well, my worry was of paying tax through my nose...:(

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-35868701028999267742007-06-25T02:49:00.000-05:002007-06-25T03:50:26.054-05:00

tagged by archana and thought, the 8-hour deadline be damned, if i dont get myself to drum up something, i would never do it ;) here goes! 8 random facts about myself...i have the most cliched sense of dressing (formals and casuals) and hesitate to experiment with too many colourslike books a lot and cannot resist buying one everytime i step into a book store. ironically, i am an extremely slow

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-20160507580658124042007-06-13T06:52:00.000-05:002007-06-13T07:17:45.932-05:00

wonder what makes for a good news article... factual reporting, objective analysis, and something more i would guess but how about relevance to the topic? WoM tells me The Hindu is pretty good when it comes to such things. but a recent article kinda places the opinion under doubt...this is about employees of 'Indian' going on a flash strike and one of the unfortunate passengers was a gal from the

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-27529986428571344322007-06-12T01:48:00.000-05:002007-06-12T02:59:22.324-05:00

truly less travelled :) (note steps 12 thru 14)

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-64638709510046664172007-05-29T00:47:00.000-05:002007-05-29T00:51:33.014-05:00

by far, the most path breaking (literally) mode of communication one might come across. data transfer over tactile terminals, built-in encryption and authentication protocols, biometric probably?couple it with implants on the human body. a more desirable cyborg in the making? trinity would learn to fly a chopper by touching the manual. you could walk past someone and (if they forgot to secure

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-5210710480680258702007-05-28T03:30:00.000-05:002007-05-28T03:46:48.529-05:00

it was a while since i had read up on current affairs - but a glance at it over the weekend told me what i had been missing all this while.news says, cafe coffee day yes, our (un)friendly neighbourhood CCD, is going luxury. its boss wants to start a chain of high end hotels, starting off with chikmagalur, replete with swimming pools, sauna, jacuzzis, et al - some even private ones! keeping in

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-89071190754055980832007-01-25T12:52:00.000-06:002008-01-29T17:06:01.769-06:00

agreed that some people are a bit slow on the uptake even in seemingly obvious situations... but mankind as we know it, has its ways of baffling its own understanding.Britons are gradually waking up to the news that their kids are becoming obese. yes, in literal terms, its news for them (saw it on almost all the channels here). but that seems to be the least of their concerns... what seems to be

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-44835855626113872212007-01-03T16:42:00.000-06:002008-01-29T17:06:01.775-06:00

reminded of psmith at times like these... should i rate this as unusual? maybe yes. improbable? certainly not! :)v and i making our way back from office, wait for the lifts in the tube station... and i hear some chatter around us. the tone and words being repetitive in nature draw my attention to its source... am still looking for words to describe what they were. am sure v is just as much at a

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-30826306369910447502006-11-26T07:17:00.000-06:002007-06-12T02:49:22.346-05:00

this had been on my mind for quite some time now. cnn-ibn's (another of my fav channels) "southern verdict" was much like the vigorous shake of a bottle of soda.there's fm radio in chennai (yes, its time it started behaving like a city if it wants to be called one.) with more channels coming up of late. am told theres radio city as well as radio mirchi. i jumped with joy and clapped my hands with

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-52325457478249672572006-11-23T23:17:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:19:57.028-05:00

Naa Peru Bond... James Bond (My name is Bond, James Bond)yup, good 'ol double-o-seven gets the vernacular tongue :) personally i couldnt care less about the tongue he speaks... what tickles the funny bone is how these news channels target it...casino royale hits theatres in andhra dubbed in telugu (well before the english version makes its way there)... so our news reporter gets first hand

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-91474759669008290582006-11-21T17:53:00.000-06:002007-06-12T02:51:01.955-05:00

it was one of those futile attempts at traveling light. grossly futile one must say... what with one that warranted me to hail a cab to get me to the city station.well, here i was waiting for my 10:15 cab and as soon as i notice the vehicle at my doorstep, out i jump and board it. "ramesh sir? central station?" - me says, "not ramesh. central station, yes." and off we go. for a place like chennai

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-70176065233478267462006-11-02T14:49:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:07:40.129-05:00

a long overdue post. but looks like things have reduced to but monthly entries. wanted to put in something about the Diwali celebrations (if one may call it that) here in the US. got a glimpse of it in pretty much 'desi' San Jose. was rather curious to find out how junta here observe the fest of lights. would there be crackers? fireworks?well, there was nothing of that sort. v in raleigh

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-25130409558218632302006-10-01T13:38:00.000-05:002007-06-12T02:50:47.608-05:00

you try not to notice these things... but its difficult...1. no matter who you are... if you look anything close to an indian, a gujju will always talk to you in gujarati. you may respond in anything but gujarati, but it doesnt matter. you get more questions in gujarati. switch to guestures. only to realize how pathetic you are in dumb-sharades. you are now facing a barage of questions in gujju..

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-84338453560179639872006-09-14T11:53:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:16:46.325-05:00

now mom worries sick about me falling sick thanks to my reliance on company mess and the neighbourhood restaurant. it were the food bills that had me worried sick. potent reason to get down to the basics and take charge in your hands.lets start from the beginning. get yourself a gas connection. theres an energy crisis it looks like; no new connections are doled out anymore. am ready to pay i say,

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1155112988491544892006-08-09T03:39:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:09:15.439-05:00

sometimes i wonder if i just go around asking for it! it was a delayed decision to make a weekend trip to b'lore. after much dilly-dallying about taking the following monday off and make it a real nice vacation :) but decided against it and stuck to the plain-vanilla weekend trip.i certainly seem to be in a minority 'cos there was no dearth of tickets to get back here on a monday morning. the

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1153568154492014812006-07-22T06:33:00.000-05:002007-06-12T02:42:43.963-05:00

this thought was triggered by an article about chennai being a rude city. the summary said "the frenetic pace of city life" and it spoke of chennai. i couldn't read any further. i had to sit up and take notice of the "frenetic pace."it wasnt about the etiquette of the city. i fully accept and expect the average tam in chennai to be rude. fortunately all my tam friends here are above-average :-) (

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1151044421578517662006-06-23T01:32:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:10:13.037-05:00

i have gradually come to the conclusion that people in bangalore have too much money. do i hear a few "duh!"s here? no its not a long overdue divine revelation. more of an empirical observation...:pthis certainly seems true for those headed towards the IT oases. and rather striking in the traffic strongholds of k r puram, marathahalli, airport road, hosur road... find them flooded with bumper to

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1151037404938823152006-06-22T23:34:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:20:21.300-05:00

this one qualified to shake me from my innards. ad in b'lore times by VLCC for its weightloss and slimming facilities sported this tagline with a fair bit of ease... "Pay Rs. 5000 and get treatment worth Rs. 5000 for free."huh?

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1149576555888374942006-06-06T01:43:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:26:05.537-05:00

yesterday was World Environment Day. Find lotsa plants in the office - resembles a rain forest...colleague 1: is there a world animals day too?colleague 2: thats everyday.... this section is the carnivores... that one has the omnivores....

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1145729158987764022006-04-22T13:00:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:15:21.331-05:00

neighbourhood Annamma* temple devotees are demonstrating their love, respect, devoution, you know... the works. the temple it seems, isnt enough, so they bring it out onto the streets. which means closing the road for traffic, rerouting buses, etc. geez! you actually use the bus!? you can do without it for a day. awww... come on now! stop cribbing.the lanes, by-lanes and just about any path that

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1145542055909332822006-04-20T09:04:00.000-05:002007-06-12T03:15:21.331-05:00

this is not an obituary, neither a eulogy about the humble soul. its about what people made of his departure.never did one realise that someone's death could be so scary, and ironically, bring you close to your own. it was an inflamability test for just about anything they could lay their hands on. he was buried but bangalore burned.they mourned, they say. and insisted that others were ordained

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1141280109612682772006-03-28T04:45:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:26:05.538-05:00

colleague 1: you know this DJ, he scratches...me thinks: i say, he ought to visit a dermatologist!c. 2 to c. 3: i am told your cubicles are gonna be named after cartoons.... (pause).... i mean the meeting rooms are....

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1142593716231439342006-03-17T05:07:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:17:09.770-05:00

on the billboard of a restaurant (forget the name)...man giving that look of home-sickness or the sick-of-home-look.caption only underscores the confusion..."paali, it tastes like your cooking!"

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1141808350602205312006-03-08T02:56:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:24:36.308-05:00

garden city. thats what its called. but its time for a new name. something that speaks of the accidents here? it's so common, one would hardly raise a brow to it. auto companies could use these roads for their crash tests. read an article sometime back that b'lore manages the 2nd highest number of road accidents in india, following delhi.the two months that i've been here, seen 2, witnessed one

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1141461296840396892006-03-04T02:31:00.000-06:002008-01-29T17:07:58.053-06:00

its that time of the year when one frantically gives finishing touches to one's tax plans. i am a bit retarded in this approach, so the prospect of holding a ppf account hadn't struck me, until better sense was hammered into my skull.with this day assigned to getting myself one such account, i set out to befriend our friendly neighbourhood SBI. now i find following trends in the banking industry

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1141275063157436122006-03-01T22:49:00.000-06:002008-01-29T17:09:30.161-06:00

its rather simple to come up with one.write in prose & then chop of some pronouns and adverbs at your fancy...then refer the thesaurus for some bombastic words for the rest...presto! your very own poetry ready to serve....

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1140364962276578892006-02-19T09:54:00.000-06:002006-02-19T10:29:05.690-06:00

this one thing not only humours me, it sets aglow lot of thinking bulbs.yeah, its about the silver jubilee celebrations. i have nothing against the foundation or ravi shankar. i merely question the event. so if some bloke wishes to start a charade of blogspace-dirty-linen-washing, please spare me the bandwidth.firstly, i was amazed doordarshan actually changed its regular show timings for a live

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1140066283367714022006-02-15T23:01:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:25:01.380-05:00

was very impressed years back when BEST in mumbai came up with their online route search. helped a helluva lot. moving to b'lore expected the same here. haven't been much of a fan of the city, and my crib factor with BMTC only continues to grow :) yeah, BMTC does have a route search. but never realized that the "IT drenched" city of b'lore would make such a half-assed attempt at it!!i was rather

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1138206697529018582006-01-25T10:26:00.000-06:002008-03-04T17:17:01.840-06:00

it is said about oracle that they gave two computers to their employees. one in office another for home so that they never stopped working....companies today have wised up. they give laptops....

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1138076890055297872006-01-23T22:22:00.000-06:002008-03-04T17:16:13.070-06:00

was reading this piece in a daily. whale swam into the Thames and poor thing died as rescuers were trying to take it back into the sea. it seems it was the first time a whale made its way there since someone started documenting whale sightings in the Thames way back in 1913. i don't get this. is it that every year people just fill in a sheet saying "no whale sighted in the Thames this year"...!?

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1137670109300568862006-01-19T05:25:00.000-06:002007-06-12T03:25:01.381-05:00

thats kannada for BMTC. the city transport system. otherwise known until recent past as rattling tin cans. yeah, they have changed over time now. not all are rattling tin cans anymore. some have graduated to coffins on wheels. kidding. they've got some decently comfy pushpaks and some a/c buses too. have you seen them? nope. sorry! all the IT companies have leased them out!now this whole thing

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caution sign on road reads "road humps ahead".....would like to be warned about what else the road can do :-)

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seemingly rich guy / spoilt brat, whichever way one may look at... driving down the road in his swanky accent. spoiler and all for that extra effect. the auto ahead was acting as a governor on the pace of his life. tsk tsk.well, opportunity presents and he's not the one to lose it. speeds ahead into oblivion. we catch up with our man at a signal. hmm. poor chappie. not fast enough. tsk tsk again.

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December 23, 2005.it’s the hardest thing to do. much as i can the emotional self, or feel there's nothing of that sort in me, its times like these that make the heart leap and crash out of its cage. tears don't well up that easily (should i be proud of that?) but the body shivers.there was a time i used hate chennai. but how can you hate the place that gives you the best of friends? the ones that

woosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01098732764764597386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004556.post-1134569279020643912005-12-14T08:07:00.000-06:002008-03-04T17:15:08.416-06:00

ever unsubscribed from those zillions of promotional campaigns these banks throw at you? i for one, make it a point to do that with every institute i'm associated with (no matter how remotely). all of them gloat about the technology-savviness of their systems. but it still intrigues me.every one of them gives you that all important 'unsubscribe' link. eagerly you follow it. in most cases you

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this has the classic NDTV signature all over it! looks like they get trained to come out with er… ‘NDTVisms’!? :)reporter covers a train accident (did not note where). she goes something like ‘lineman has been taken up for questioning on account of negligence. lie detector tests from forensic department conclude that he’s lying. results of the test are not made public’.huh!? is a lie detector

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lovely lass on two wheeler. glances around checks traffic. a glance again and eyes meet. the world stops and pulse shoots. mom on pillion sizes me and scans id card. no pulse. lionesses also protect their cubs. it’s a feline nature. growl.heaven and hell visited. 5 seconds.

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much as i love the language, its irony stupefies me. take for e.g. ‘losing his temper’. now temper is bad. a short fuse. not good. so if i have it, am not an exciting person to be around. but if i lose it, i'm still not preferred company. weird!

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for some odd reason people ask me about the status of the india-sa cricket match happening today here in chennai. this bloke so very well knows i'm plugged into an iPod and NOT a freaking radio! and i dont even like cricket!something makes me stop short of whacking him. grr…

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at places i go by the nick ‘wooster’. or ‘bertie’ alternatively. it is my fascination with the master P G Wodehouse and his works, and more so with the character he created. but i never quite realized that the ‘wooster’ tag would fit me in more ways than one.i mean, the way i manage to comfortably plant myself into trouble is legendary. i could very well do without wooster help! but yes, it’s the

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during one of my trips to bangalore, hailed a rick to get back home. normal affair that, but was only too pleased to find a rick-chap who agreed to go my way. got in with great gusto only to have something hit my head. hard. distinctly remember a cracking sound. looked around to find a lamp that was inches short of being called a chandelier. ‘thoda hallu chado saab! dekh ke! chot laga so?’ yeah

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looking outshaukhat ali/khan (i couldn’t care less) – he’s the prime minister of pakistan (i think, that doesn’t matter either). news channel interviews him as he surveys the earthquake hit parts of kashmir – the pakistan side. was intrigued by his choice of words. he called this side of kashmir ‘india occupied kashmir’. nothing quite wrong with that, we call the other side ‘pakistan occupied

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learnt that pouring hot water in a PET bottle distorts it irreversibly. now it looks like its been molested!NDTV still sucks. "Live" reporter bugs passenger about cancelled train. "why did you want to go to bangalore?", he asks, "any urgent work?" his luck, he didnt ask me that...weather is pleasant, the low pressure has given chennai the rains it so much deserved. chennai never looked so good.

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November 30, 2004did something different yesterday. left office a bit early - like 6.00 pm.... i know... sacrilege! :) promise not to do that again!anyways, went to see Hulchul. i suggest you guys go for it too, in case you already havnt! on the lines of Hera Pheri.... total madness! i think in all its got abt 15mins of seriousness.then hit the local restaurant for a late night dinner. we were

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much as the world hates telemarketers, i have taken a fancy to them. especially here in chennai. for one, they are quite courteous and come with no urge to push the product into your hands. their intentions are purely entertainment in nature. your entertainment.XYZ Bank: "Sir, calling from XYZ Credit Card division..."me: "Uh.. no thank you"XYZ Bank: "Ok" *click*the call lasts all of 8 seconds,

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Damn! now they tell me!!

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nothing personal against chinese goods (i am talking gadgets here) - i think they make them real good. the unsettling part is when someone lets them develop the software too. and they have to confess, their profeciency in English, or the lack of it, is nothing to write home about. but definitely to blog about :p finally got down to setting up GPRS on my moto A760. some of the messages i

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watching a movie could make you feel relaxed at times. but this was not one of those times. chanced upon "My Wife's Murder". did not have the faintest clue about the flick. that it was a hindi movie was an amusing revelation. that it was a ram gopal varma film did nothing to influence an urge to watch it. but feeling of not wanting to do anything was enough to get me going.first things first. why

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Muir Woods, CA.this in the midst of a concrete jungle!? heavenly :-)

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#1something that transpired between the tech lead & me when i just came in last week. was trying to get my m/c moved to a new location (my prev location was taken while i was away)TL: has your m/c been moved to the new place?me: nope. spoke to IMG (our office help junta) they said it would not be done till 3pm as there were no assistants aroundTL: why till 3pm!?me: 'cos its rahu kalam till 3pm.

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i prefer not looking up the canteen menu before having my lunch. more often than otherwise its a scary proposition. holds prospects of terrible damage to one's appetite! its usually more fun to scan it on the way out. you know, kind of lets you play "match-the-following". today they had something called cappathi and jaalfrazi. on other days they offer "barota". am i glad i dont read it beforehand

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always thought this city lacked sensitivity. all that concerns these people is their larger-than-the-world egos. was watching an ambulance desparately trying to wade its way thru traffic, sirens bellowing. not one wretched soul gave way. all they wanted to do was get past the signal before it turned red.

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game #1its this thing about strollers that gets to me! somehow its a stand out feature of desis in the US. like a sign of social image. bigger the image, bigger the stroller as one would like it to be. in most cases one can find the baby's stuff spilling out of it (with more underneath) and the baby itself in the parent's arms....!they no longer come on four wheels. its a complete 8 wheeler! a

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is it so difficult for us to look at pakistanis as just neighbouring countrymen!? is it a dictum somewhere that if we speak of or to a pakistani the issue of border dispute and war has to be brought up? there might be scores of examples pointing the other way (and am glad there are!!) but my eyes fell on some idotic posts and has had me peeved to the level of disgust.just sample this discussion

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watching this documentary on NatGeo about hidden amazon tribes. (for once i am watching something informational!) there's this tribe zoha or something that rhymes that way who are kind of close to nature. i mean in every sense of it. naturists, every one of them. male, female included.woman making a nice headgear from a local bird's soft white feathers. now here's the commentator's interpretation

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having observed how much of attention is given to the details in the things here, it got me thinking about the people behind these ideas. must be quite smart and intelligent! yeah... sure!just a handful of incidents that were enough to shatter my illusion :-) never have i found the goofiness of the people here manifest itself in a more convincing manner!! what do you know, they actually take

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got my first dose of what an emergency meant here in the US. jolted out of bed at 7:30AM on a saturday morning thanks to a fire alarm. not a very pleasing wake up call let me tell you!a fire alarm with the sorest of throats! first i cursed myself for having forgotten to not keep an alarm only to realise it never rang that way. i had even yanked the power cord out, totally futile. it hadnt even

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of late, this thing has had me baffled to no end. i mean, whats the big deal about it!? go to the barber, get that hair cut, walk out as a creature with a semblance farther away from a primate. that was all i thought there was to getting a haircut. now with such an approach, i surely seem to identify with a primate!this time around, i did succumb to the calls of making myself look 'presentable' (

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got tagged by pranav. here goes... :)Three names I go by:1) Pradeep2) Prads (all college friends)3) Peep (Family)Three Screen Names:1) wooster2) roark3) codeThree things I like about myself:1) being practical2) determined3) sarcasmThree things I don't like about myself:1) fickle-minded2) lack of sensitivity3) lazy to the boneThree things that scare me:1) narrow passages2) metal door handles and

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i love taking jabs at the media. ample opps to catch them unaware :-)there was this news piece by NDTV the other day (i target NDTV the way hackers get at microsoft)... reporter was covering a police firing on unarmed villagers in rajasthan and goes on to implicate the villagers for creating a havoc.reporter: "it is unthinkable to even imagine..." some emphasis!this reminds me of one more of

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honest word of caution. dont watch DUS. not been able to find a reason why that movie was made in the first place. it seems the director anubhav sinha used to make music videos before this. probably he should've stuck to that. i for one would've never bothered to find out about him or his works. can they make hindi movies so predictable!? ok. its a suspense movie. a suspense where you know that

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learnt a few things about computer hardware yesterday. firstly, its important to clean your computer regularly. if not, you might end up giving a roach a free bangalore-chennai trip.just as important - if the cd drive is stuck (quite possible if its not used for a year), using a knife and a pair of scissors to jerk the tray out is a very very bad idea. it screws up the knife edge. homes hardly

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* graduating from b-school* getting a job of my liking* living on my own* doing things i liked most....hmmm sounds like fun! but relatives think otherwise. or maybe they think i've had too much of fun! i have begun to dread the weekend trips i make home. wanna give them a lowdown on my life, the office party, the long drive i went on, the new friends i made here in chennai, et al. but they beat

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had been to the Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz regional eliminations and finals today. always had bloated impressions of my quizzing skills. it is that way before every quiz and gets deflated as quickly soon after. this time it deflated with a difference. i think the quizzing standard was way under par. now i know why people like parnab mukherjee dont even raise an eyebrow at such things.the

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just about everything about mumbai gives one an adrenalin rush! stepping out of the arrival gates, mumbai fills your lungs! a deep breath 'pranayam' just extended my longevity by that much! had it not been for the distance, a walk to saki naka would've been the ultimate nectar. settled to getting drunk in its air.was glad somethings never changed. the comfort of coming back to all that was so

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feeling Mumbai in my veins 

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i think its a nexus between the airlines and the taxi operators. they keep their flights so early in the day, the cabbies rake in a rather healthy moolah! all excited, albeit grogy eyed i reach the airport saturday morning 4am. my first air deccan flight! lest i be categorised as the 'nouveau riche', i must insist that this mode of transport was enforced on me. absence of teleportation and

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prads: colleague returned from his trip to mumbai... has coloured his hair ochre... looking like fowlfrnd: i dont even know what color ochre uisfrnd: is it the orangish looking color?prads: something like the output of a bad tummyfrnd: aiyooo

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should say, it was one of those frutiful weekends. you plan so much in advance, like a week before and to have it materialse - has its own pleasures. much like a dream come true. anything you get to do beyond that, is added attraction.Saturday: the much looked forward to Wodehouse Talk happened at The Corner Bookstore (Abhiramapuram). It seems they have such talks every month on books. but it

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in a place where no other season is known, it is misleading to say 'summer'. gives an impression that another season exists. it should be simply called weather. someone asks you 'how's the weather?' and you say, 'as ever!' mind you, you cannot say 'hot' because 'cold' would then be a possibility! consistency is the key. would take a moron some effort to flunk a match-the-pairs test and miss out

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i am compelled to put this here. i would have probably left this as a frustrated customer and maybe even forgotten about it over a period of time. but companies, in their urge to remain in the high visibility range, have a way of reminding you of their stupidity, ineptitude, what have you.i am happy that the bank keeps me informed about my account balance. but could they just leave it at that? i

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Ingredients:1 wax candle1 iPod (preferrably mini or higher)collection of ghazals on the iPod e.g. jagjit singh, hariharan, etc. (add more as per taste)a power failure*a relatively good voice to sing alongDirections:on power failure, light wax candle and place at centre of the room.switch on iPod and play ghazals by the candle light.mix well and garnish with cool breeze in the midst of a moonlit

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many a time i wished for a quiet evening, where i could be all by myself; no one to disturb or bother me. well, considering my ability to have a decent conversation with any normal human being, i ought to be having lot many such moments!nevertheless, last saturday did bestow me with such a privilege. it was nearly sundown when i hit the trail towards the beach. being a weekend, it was bound to be

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in more crude terms its called hypocrisy. at times i wonder if i suffer from selective idealism. conform to my own set of standards when it suits me fine or when it feeds my ego well.was on my way back home after meeting a friend. getting a rick (auto rickshaw) in bangalore is a rather intersting fete. walmart could learn a few tricks from the ultimate logistcs arrangement quite common here. all

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per·se·ver·ance (pûrs-vîrns) n.Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or a purpose; steadfastness.this has been my picture of him from the day i've seen him. its been a year now, and my colleague has seen him for four. i call him the madhyakailash beggar. etymology will reveal that he is a destitue found near the madhyakailash temple (adyar, chennai), under a lush shadowy

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Garbology is the study of refuse and trash. It is an academic discipline (a recent one for contemporary trash) ... thus proclaims wikipedia.but can you ever imagine how much of an insight you provide the rest of the world, about yourself, with what you refuse to consume? it might provoke humour at first, but the paranoia is quite justified. read on... :-)

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heard this from an NDTV news reporter as he was covering the bus service from Srinagar-Muzaffarabad that started off."....the security as usual remained unprecedented...."now 'unprecedented' ought to imply something that has never been paralleled. something that hasnt happened before. and 'remain' implies that something hasnt changed, or rather stayed the same. so we have a security cover at a

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in continuation to Aartz's poem. droplets dance across the windowas i race down the roadcling to the leavesas they bend from the loadatop the hillssmell the earthfeel the stingspan the girthsmile at the rainbowstare at the cloudhear the banterthey laugh out aloudpardon my ramblingi'm just not the samethere's rain on my windowthere's rain in my head

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it feels really stupid. but looks like it was meant for me to do what i am learning to do best. observe. the blimp seems soaring high, but all is not hot air.recount of returning to india. a first trip to a foreign land has its merits. it has semblence to infantile nature. look at just about anything wide-eyed trying to absorb everything lest something might go amiss!day 1 attempt 1. reached the

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For the uninitiated, this was my take on a thread on Ryze.I say, considering the population of this World, and with faith in the concept of Probability; there is a soulmate for everyone. Come one, come all! Who knows, maybe more than one! Finders keepers!! But then Probability being what it is, what are one's chances of finding the above marked soulmate?There are two thoughts that emerge from

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chained and forbiddenwhen I am with youstrangled and overwhelmedas I try to be with youFreedom, when I run awaylonging for togetherness when I am away from youunder the weight of togetherness when I am with youDepressed and joylessI seek togethernesswhen I am away from youI seek an escape fromSolitudeFreedom, when I ran back to youI am everything with you, I am everything without you~~~with a

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