Noon is perhaps the best time of the day. Its when a hearty meal has satiated one's appetite and every microcosm of our body is in a slumberous mood. Things around us are generally sombre and peaceful. Important thing, unlike the night blues, broad daylight gives a sense of comfort and safety to the perenially unsecure Homo Sapien.
Whether it be Shanghai or Shirdi, noon is probably no different. WHat really differentiates geographies is the people and perhaps the weather there.
Of course one of these is a commercial hub and the other is a divine abode, a confluence of religious ideologies, perhaps call it a spiritual hub.
Jackie Chan has been romancing Mallika Sherawat off-late, and she seems to doing her PR in full swing. For Mallika, the path is well chalked out, and she seems to have an impeccable roadmap to guide her all the way to Beverly Hills; she dreams big that lady, and she isn't daydreaming for sure. No wonder, her 'efforts' seem to be bearing fruits, which ripen very soon. But remember, don't ripe fruits run the risk of decaying a tad too early...Whatever.
Office-humor is the flavor of the season for me, and shamelessly, it is at the expense of a 'few good men'.
Here are excerpts of something that we managed to conjure for the 'do na' man.
His favorite Bank :- ICICI (Hum hain na)
His favorite film :- Main hun na
His Nike punch line:- Just do it na !
Looking fwd to make this a full fledged collection involving all spheres of life...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Thursday, October 13, 2005
German touch
Don't have much to say today, but I just visited blogger in the early hrs of nite.
Some cc_info seems to have hit upon my postings and seems to congratulate me for that...
Well-well, today's day wasn't exactly bad at work , but not so fruitful either.
Clusters are making me flustered and u bet, I am sick of them already. They seem to e more unreliable and capricious than women...Now isn't that some comparison ??
Have to go home and correct the Q papers too. That means work from home.
The bears r now looking strong in our stock markets. So better watch out.
Need to give them some honey to please them..
Sorry if this did not make nay sense, but that's a mirror reflection of my psyche at this moment of time..
Schus..
AUf Wierdersehen !!
Some cc_info seems to have hit upon my postings and seems to congratulate me for that...
Well-well, today's day wasn't exactly bad at work , but not so fruitful either.
Clusters are making me flustered and u bet, I am sick of them already. They seem to e more unreliable and capricious than women...Now isn't that some comparison ??
Have to go home and correct the Q papers too. That means work from home.
The bears r now looking strong in our stock markets. So better watch out.
Need to give them some honey to please them..
Sorry if this did not make nay sense, but that's a mirror reflection of my psyche at this moment of time..
Schus..
AUf Wierdersehen !!
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Work is worship !!
Getting up in the morning to rushing to the workplace is nothing unusual. Its rather too mundane, too pedestrian...But there r books on "What drives you to work ?"
And there are lots of witty answers spruced with humor, satire, like "MY wife drives me to work"..Jokes apart, for me DLE drives me to work.
Its playing , juggling with these funny structures that is making my life feel like a frying pan. Its tasty, but not without feeling the heat. And better be timely and punctual, lest you face the wrath of fire. Fire is a good slave, but a bad master they say.
But its fun feeling a part of the team and contributing my $0.02.
Getting to set question papers is another lovely thrill, without frills.
Its the best possible chance to seek sweet revenge on unmindful bunch of students, and feels good to be on the greener side of the grass , if there is a thing like that !
Of course, triumph wud have been supreme if I ever got the rare dubious distinction of making the likes of Barry, VJ (not a video-jocky, but the class of 2001 wud know for sure.) go thru the grind and enjoy the foreplay of intimidating them with syllabus. Wonder if that is the sarcastic , bad guy in me, hidden under the garb of the unsuspecting, pedantic look that my face exudes...
On hindsight, all of us are hypocrites, and its better to admit that we are, rather than project a false sense of philantrophy to this WORLD. Even the Mahatma, with due respect to him, had his share of experiences in a chequered life, before making this nation iridiscent with his non-violence mantra. My obesience to him on his recent birthday !!
From work ---> worship. Ganpati has bid adieu to us for the year, but bappa will come back next year for sure. It was a rather silent bye-bye to him this year by virtue of the honorable Supreme court judgement.
And the inauspicious period was not a trifle unlucky for the bourses, which have ringed in lots of coins and raked the yens and kroners and what not.....
Navratri is here now, and its like a series of festivities are going to follow suit now...
And there are lots of witty answers spruced with humor, satire, like "MY wife drives me to work"..Jokes apart, for me DLE drives me to work.
Its playing , juggling with these funny structures that is making my life feel like a frying pan. Its tasty, but not without feeling the heat. And better be timely and punctual, lest you face the wrath of fire. Fire is a good slave, but a bad master they say.
But its fun feeling a part of the team and contributing my $0.02.
Getting to set question papers is another lovely thrill, without frills.
Its the best possible chance to seek sweet revenge on unmindful bunch of students, and feels good to be on the greener side of the grass , if there is a thing like that !
Of course, triumph wud have been supreme if I ever got the rare dubious distinction of making the likes of Barry, VJ (not a video-jocky, but the class of 2001 wud know for sure.) go thru the grind and enjoy the foreplay of intimidating them with syllabus. Wonder if that is the sarcastic , bad guy in me, hidden under the garb of the unsuspecting, pedantic look that my face exudes...
On hindsight, all of us are hypocrites, and its better to admit that we are, rather than project a false sense of philantrophy to this WORLD. Even the Mahatma, with due respect to him, had his share of experiences in a chequered life, before making this nation iridiscent with his non-violence mantra. My obesience to him on his recent birthday !!
From work ---> worship. Ganpati has bid adieu to us for the year, but bappa will come back next year for sure. It was a rather silent bye-bye to him this year by virtue of the honorable Supreme court judgement.
And the inauspicious period was not a trifle unlucky for the bourses, which have ringed in lots of coins and raked the yens and kroners and what not.....
Navratri is here now, and its like a series of festivities are going to follow suit now...
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Saturday 'Day' Out
On NTDV, we have Saturday Night-out fever. Today was Sat 'day' out for me, since I was not in the cosy confines of my lare, but in office for a change.
Spending a weekend is very unlike me, I disapprove of it , as a matter of principle.
Why call it a holiday and then expect people to come-in and slog out for the 6th day in a row ?
But that's the way things are, and i suddenly discovered and experienced a phenomenon called as peer-pressure. When too many ppl around you are frequent revellers in the office cubicles on Sat, how can I be left out ?
When I started off with the task at hand, it sounded peanuts to me, or Ok, call it cashewnuts. A rather nutty-job, so to say. I even expressed this as a concern, before shouldering te responsibility.
While I would not call it Rocket Science by any stretch of imagination, its not child's play either. The situation being aggravated by a BFS traversal of our product. Every single day I wake up, its thinking about how to cross the next hurdle. Well, let me not keep blabbering abt that..
I have become a great fan of Britney Spears . The number "Oops I did it again" keeps my WinAmp busy all the time, and sounds exhilirating to me. Probably, purists of Western music might not consider this choice numero uno, but I don't care. Its for the masses, and my conviction says "Be with the masses, if you please" After all that's what democracy is all about.
Old Mr Lincoln picked up randomly selectly prepositions and constructed this institution of democracy, which has its firm roots in America and with its desi-flavor in India.
Nowadays, I don't like the word India so much. Bharat sounds much closer to heart, and while Hindustan sounds communal to a 'select coterie', it comes from the river Sindhu, whose nomenclature was changed to Indus by the British Raj.
The empire reminds me of our own emperor in the cricket fraternity, Ganguly.
While I think he deserved accolades in the past, this is the right time for brickbats. Greggie has stirred the hornet's nest. Any guesses who the Hornet is ? One businessman, having a cornucopia of wealth, sitting in East India, Kolkata, Jaggu Dalmia.
When he's around, no need to worry since, Dal me definitely kuch mila hua hai :-)
Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar is trying hard to wrest that crown, which is like the Kohinoor of World cricket. Since the hand that rocks the BCCI, rules the ICC, stakes are too high....
Meeting friends last week provided much respite to a mundane routine that I am used to now.
We had Pizza and stuff in truly Amru style.
The middle of the week was a nadir of sorts, with not good news from office. It almost felt like betrayal; giving a whiff of what heart broken couples might be going thru. Each experience makes us richer, that way or the other. Samazhe wale ko ishara kaffi hai ..........
Spending a weekend is very unlike me, I disapprove of it , as a matter of principle.
Why call it a holiday and then expect people to come-in and slog out for the 6th day in a row ?
But that's the way things are, and i suddenly discovered and experienced a phenomenon called as peer-pressure. When too many ppl around you are frequent revellers in the office cubicles on Sat, how can I be left out ?
When I started off with the task at hand, it sounded peanuts to me, or Ok, call it cashewnuts. A rather nutty-job, so to say. I even expressed this as a concern, before shouldering te responsibility.
While I would not call it Rocket Science by any stretch of imagination, its not child's play either. The situation being aggravated by a BFS traversal of our product. Every single day I wake up, its thinking about how to cross the next hurdle. Well, let me not keep blabbering abt that..
I have become a great fan of Britney Spears . The number "Oops I did it again" keeps my WinAmp busy all the time, and sounds exhilirating to me. Probably, purists of Western music might not consider this choice numero uno, but I don't care. Its for the masses, and my conviction says "Be with the masses, if you please" After all that's what democracy is all about.
Old Mr Lincoln picked up randomly selectly prepositions and constructed this institution of democracy, which has its firm roots in America and with its desi-flavor in India.
Nowadays, I don't like the word India so much. Bharat sounds much closer to heart, and while Hindustan sounds communal to a 'select coterie', it comes from the river Sindhu, whose nomenclature was changed to Indus by the British Raj.
The empire reminds me of our own emperor in the cricket fraternity, Ganguly.
While I think he deserved accolades in the past, this is the right time for brickbats. Greggie has stirred the hornet's nest. Any guesses who the Hornet is ? One businessman, having a cornucopia of wealth, sitting in East India, Kolkata, Jaggu Dalmia.
When he's around, no need to worry since, Dal me definitely kuch mila hua hai :-)
Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar is trying hard to wrest that crown, which is like the Kohinoor of World cricket. Since the hand that rocks the BCCI, rules the ICC, stakes are too high....
Meeting friends last week provided much respite to a mundane routine that I am used to now.
We had Pizza and stuff in truly Amru style.
The middle of the week was a nadir of sorts, with not good news from office. It almost felt like betrayal; giving a whiff of what heart broken couples might be going thru. Each experience makes us richer, that way or the other. Samazhe wale ko ishara kaffi hai ..........
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