Articles Archive for July 2007
Lateral Thinking »
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Blog’s RSS Feed. Or my Comment’s RSS Feed. Your funny bone is definitely as big as your femur!These are originals and not lifted from anywhere. When somebody as intelligent as Jammy sits down and comes up with PJs, he is bound to raise some heavy questions. For example –
Do dining chairs actually dine?
(I say heavy questions because of the font size and nothing else)
Here are more –
Why does Gillette’s Mach III have three blades?
Fans have three …
Life in North India »
Entering a new house is an art in itself. Way back in 1997 when my father built a house in Madurai from his retirement funds, he made a cow enter the house first. I am serious. As if getting a shepherd and paying him Rs 100 wasn’t enough the cow was forced to stay inside till it emptied its urinary bladder. Again, I am serious.
I hadn’t known of my fathers plans and when I tried stopping him he said being Hindus, and being people who respected cows, and being …
Office »
Ibibo is looking for good Product Managers – guys & gals who are willing to own products and breast the finishing line with it.
At Ibibo, being a product manager means you own the product and are responsible for every detail on & around it. Unlike other places, you don’t need to get permissions from 17 different people and six different departments to make a small change. Some freedom?
Being the complete owner of the product means that your boss can’t steal your thunder…but then it also means that when the …
Life in North India, Office »
“A man carrying lakhs in an autorickshaw, an armed robber on a motorcycle, and a death. All on the busy road connecting Delhi and Noida around 3.30 pm on Wednesday. Minutes before his death Santosh had withdrawn Rs 8.65 lakh from a bank in Noida. The police said the accused, identified as Anil, followed Santosh from the bank, shot him and tried to flee with the booty.” (Courtesy: Hindustan Times) Full Story
I read the above news item on 4th July and asked myself: “Will the meek, 165 cms tall …
Men »
Even if you had been in Timbuktu (in Mali) for the last three months, you would have known about the contest surrounding the Seven Wonders of the World. And you can’t just blame Timbuktu’s presence in the probables list…the contest was all over the town, World & television.
My company – the new internet start-up I quit Yahoo for – MIH Internet, has its own version where they ask users to vote for Taj. Quite a timely exercise. If you had been buried in a coffin and got out only …
Ouchmytoe Recommends »
I was once in love with a girl whose second name was Punjwani. Since she already had a boy friend the affair was brief - so short that I don’t even remember her first name.
Having once loved a Punjwani…it is only right that the second blog Ouchmytoe recommends is Point Blank of Vikram Nandwani (if you still don’t get it…Punjwani and Nandwani rhyme).
Vikram is a Birmingham based cartoonist (wonder if he likes to be called that) and comes up with some intelligent, colorful cartoons. I find them more convincing …
Life in North India, Men »
I have been searching for a house in Gurgaon for the whole of last week.
While searching for my abode, I have been made to dwell and eventually believe that in Gurgaon…there are no quarters taken and no given. Perhaps that’s why in the last couple of days I have accommodated a third man (my real estate broker) in my life. I have been so accommodative that the broker has found a permanent residence in me – like a Hanuman inside Ram.
If only you had been a little alert …
Life in North India, Movies, Office »
I have spent a significant portion of my growing years in North India - Jamshedpur, Delhi, and Jalandhar to be precise. Just that this time around, I am not under the shadows of my parents. Believe me…life is really different and difficult when your parents are not around to protect you.
Life here in Gurgaon is a lot different from the life I was living in Chennai. For starters, I can’t crack my favorite Sardarji jokes as I so often used to in Chennai.
The other day I started off: …

