Go-Win-Daa!!

Our blockbuster super bumper mega hit skit....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8444135621368392371

Blind is Love??

He: You know what!

She: What?

He: It's not true

She: What is not?

He: That your eyes show what you feel at heart

She: Absolutely true. Why not?

He: If you are blind in love, how does your heart's feelings shown??

She: Grrr...!!!!

Marriages And Marathons

I don't know if I would ever participate in a marathon - half or full....Its not that I lack the motivation or the dedication or lack the time to train....I just don't see the point. I would rather run a couple of miles every other day for the rest of my life than run that many miles just one day in my life....But few friends of mine did participate in marathons recently. I was really amazed by the enthusiasm and will of these rookie marathoners who did not relax even during the long-weekend breaks and successfully finished the run.

One interesting thing is that, they are just in to 12-18 months of their marriages. Of all the activities one (or even couple) can take-up on earth, I don't understand why marathons?? It makes me wonder, if it is really the enthusiasm to run or simply an excuse to run away from their new lives....I definitely don't know the answer....But definitely married-life or life is a journey not measured in miles....I have heard (just heard) or read that marriages do bring in a lot of changes in one's life or life style but marriages 'motivating' people to become marathoners is unheard-of or unread-of :) Who knows one day I might as well end up in one of these marathons.....for a good cause though.....

Tropic Blunder

Seriously...that would have been an apt title for the movie. You guessed it right - the Ben Stiller's new movie. I don't know how it is the number one for two straight weeks. I didn't like it...

I Survived

Its been almost four days since it gave up. The blue screen with messages (which btw didn't make a whole lot of sense to me) describing what possibly could have gone wrong displayed. But one thing was clear, it couldn't take it no more. Even a couple of hard restarts didn't do the trick this time, the same screen displayed over and over...With no laptop meaning- no YouTube, no Gtalk, no Economist, no Wikipedia, no Email- it appeared to me as if I was castaway from this world. Felt like I was incarcerated though I know I am free. Suddenly days seemed longer with plenty of time to do quality work and so moved things around to fill in the new found time slots and began to read this book "The Kite Runner". It is a father-son-illegal son story set in Kabul and States.

The no laptop day-1 started and ended quite differently. With zero dedicated browsing time , finished about one-third of the book in between my sleeps. Day-2 was different from day-1 too - Played tennis, phoned few friends (TG my phone was working) and completed a good portion of the story. I guess I didn't miss my lost browsing time much on day-2. I was done reading the book the following day. That day I felt like any other normal day, oblivious to the fact that my laptop is dead quite sometime.

In the last, not sure how many years, this is the longest I am with no PC. Very hard to imagine life without it. But honestly the experience was not as bad as I had imagined it would be. The one highlight is the gradual replacement of my browsing time slots with reading. I guess I got used to or may be adapted to the change. Isn't that true we, in fact all living beings must (or willing to) adapt to the changes around them in order to survive. I am no different. I think this is the fastest I have completed reading a story book thanks to my crashed laptop and also to my friend. One thing I realized for sure, laptop or no laptop- Zendagi Migzara....

Stick With It

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because ... All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Well said Mr.Cuban.....

MSM 1980

Not a single day (at work) goes by without the mention of the acronym MSM. Lately, I have been thinking, if someone like me, authors an auto-biography what could it be possibly titled:

MSM 1980

The M's stand for 'My' and 'Memoirs' but 'S', a little unsure right now. It could be 'Sweet' or 'Sour' or 'SwOur'.

The Best Part

The best part of an academic year is the break in summer.

In +2, it is after the day of entrance examination to the professional colleges and till the day the results are announced. (Well, for me it ended on results day....)

Once the semester exams are completed, life is bindaas till the night before the first exam (of next semester finals) in a professional college.

Depending on which side of the globe one is enrolled in a post-graduate college, the best part of the academic year varies. In the west, it is short- begins on the day of completion of final exam(s)/submission of project(s) for the courses enrolled and ends on the first day of next semester.

When working, undoubtedly the best part is the vacation time. It is even better if your fare is paid, as in my case...hu hu :)

No Skiing For Desi Men

The title may not be applied to all but I think applies to most. Anyway, in the last four weeks or so went to ski twice though I know I suck at it big time...As always this time hoped that by the end of the day, (at least) I'd be able to ski down the beginner's slopes. So started to ski on a bunny slope and this is how it went. Every time I go down the slope not knowing how to control, crashed on the ice...I think out of ten such trials I was upright only twice..But each time I fell, got a free class...Few people around who saw my antics with skis were kind enough to teach me the 101's of skiing- how to maneuver the skis in order to control the speed, come to a stop without crashing and not to ski straight down the slope but to go down in a 's' path. In spite of the classes my crash numbers didn't improve much: fell down six times out of ten trials after...One time when I came to a halt (of course crashing on the ice) at the end of the slope near fence, overheard a fellow skier casually telling to the other that, it is how I intended to stop and it is no accident...She was absolutely right...

Without question my ski ventures if caught on tape, would become a candidate to be aired on AFV and would be a no surprise if voted as the funniest video of the week!

Rule of Thumb

Today when my friend turned on the radio in his car, the RJs were just moving on to the Q&A part of the program from a discussion on the phrase 'Rule of Thumb'. After returning from a friend's place, out of curiosity I just did a (re)search on the same and here's something I found about it's origin:

It is believed that English law allowed man to whip his wife with a switch as long as it is no thicker than his thumb...Uh huff!!

For centuries bits of body are being used in taking measurements and I thought the phrase originated when this part of hand, the thumb is used to estimate or measure things. I was astonished; so checked few other results from the million or so returned by Google and found that such a law never existed and it is a myth...Sigh!!

BTW here's an interesting usage of the phrase[1]:

Tailors' Rule of Thumb: A simple approximation that was used by tailors to determine the wrist, neck, and waist circumferences of a person through one single measurement of the circumference of that person's thumb. The rule states, typically, that twice the circumference of a person's thumb is the circumference of their wrist, twice the circumference of the wrist is the circumference of the neck, and twice around the neck is the person's waist.

[1]. Wikipedia.org