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interesting television scene

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Like the hibiscus plant, one can never imagine what can teach us what… sometimes even some random television scene can become a teacher! Recently was watching TV with my mother and doDDamma (mother’s elder sister) and while flipping through the channels stopped at a Hollywood movie. It seemed to be an interesting scene where people […]

this year's resolutions

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

This is just an idea that’s been in my mind for the past week or so… that what I really want to do is make some resolutions for this year – considering there’s still a bit of it left! Resolutions that have to be executed before the year gets over. Some items on my list […]

attacks in Bangalore

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Apart from some ad-hoc stray incidents of violence, Bangalore had so far seemed to be a relatively safer city so far. The call center employee’s gruesome murder was a pretty sharp shock to the illusion of security, it was like a cold water ruining everybody’s sound sleep! This news article… was definitely a tight slap… […]

free cellphones by forwarding an email

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

> —–Original Message—– > From: someone > Cc: someone@delhi.india.nokia.com [poor chap 😀 if he really exists ! I removed his name here] > Subject: NOKIA > Importance: High > Dear All > > I just want you guys to take hold of this > opportunity from NOKIA. > > NOKIA is distributing cell phones for […]

rakthadaana

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I’ve never donated blood except to mosquitoes, but though I’ve come pretty close to doing it, it somehow got avoided due to some or the other really silly reason. Anyway got a forwarded mail recently that looks useful… —– Hi Everybody, Many of you know that finding -ve (negative) blood group is very difficult. There […]

different possibilities in the software industry

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

I guess these are not really contradictions but just different possibile directions that the industry can take… Software sadness Techies, we have a problem Indian engineers good only at theory: Microsoft But on the other hand… …the Bill Gates of India India grooms next gen high-tech entrepreneurs (also the first comment for this one is […]

the problem of old age

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Consider the following situation: Put an active lively person into a 1 x 1 x height cage. Lock it. Throw away the key. Forever.

what the hibiscus said

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

“I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody – including me – has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.” ~ Ken Wilber So it was with the case of this hibiscus plant […]

a bit of nature

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Some nature pictures from over the past few years, since 2003…

ripping through the atmosphere at 800 kmph

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

That’s the speed the Boeing 737 was displaying on the monitor during the times it wasn’t making its weak attempt of entertaining its passengers with other flickering images that included among other things vague unheard of Hollywood movies. Sometimes its fun to convert kmph into meters/sec – and 800 kmph means 222 ms/sec. Its kind […]