I am on the look out for somebody in the US of A, who trusts me and thus is willing to help me lay my hands on one Flip Mino. Just in case you didn’t know, Flip Mino is a revolutionary gadget that allows you to shoot videos, transfer them onto your desktop/laptop and share with your friends.

I want to buy a Flip Mino & a Flip tripod (Here are Amazon’s links to both the items: Flip Mino | Flip Tripod) and I need somebody in US of A to buy it for me. I can transfer the money to his/her Indian friend’s/relative’s account (don’t know if I will be able to transfer money to a foreign bank account!). Once bought, the buyer will be expected to courier it to me here. Let me know, if you can help or know somebody who can.

The total cost of these two items is $ 200 or Rs 8000 (approx).

What do you get:
I will credit & thank you personally in the first episode of the ‘Jammy’s Funny Video Show’ that I am planning.

Interested? Mail me at jv.rajan@gmail.com

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond
ring he had ever seen. He asked her about it.

“This is the Klopman diamond,” she said. “It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse that goes with it.”

“What’s the curse?” the man asked.

“Mr. Klopman.”

Boss says to secretary: For a week we will be going abroad, so make arrangements.

Secretary calls up Husband: “For a week my boss and I will be going abroad, you will have to look after yourself.”

Husband makes a call to his secret lover: “My wife is going abroad for a week, so let us spend the week together.”

Secret lover calls up a small boy who attends her private tution: “I have work for a week, so you need not come for class.”

Small boy calls up his grandfather: “Grandpa, for a week I don’t have tuitions ‘coz my teacher is busy. Let us spend the week together.”

Grandpa (the 1st boss) calls up his secretary: “This week I am spending my time with my grandson. We cannot attend that meeting.”

Secretary makes a call to her husband: “This week my boss has some work, we canceled our trip.”

Husband makes a call to his secret lover: “We cannot spend this week together; my wife has canceled her trip.”

Secret lover calls the small boy whom she is tutoring: “This week we will have class as usual.”

Small boy calls up his grandfather: “Grandpa, my teacher said this week I have to attend class. Sorry I can’t give you company.”

Grandpa calls up his secretary: “Don’t worry this week we will attend that meeting, so make arrangements.”
And it goes on…

After Brendon Barrie McCullum of Kolkata Knight Riders scored 158 off just 73 balls, and the team from Kolkata finished at 222 in their allotted 20 overs….I was upset.

As luck would have it, Bangalore Royal Challengers ended up being Royal losers. It was then that I sent my friend this SMS: “If I am feeling so upset, wonder what Vijay Mallya would be feeling.”

Prompt came his response: “He must be feeling the cheer leaders!!”

She then turned towards the students and asked them to punctuate the words correctly.

The boy students wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The girl students wrote: “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.”

There you go…

Jamshed V. Rajan, the product head of Ibibo.com, an Indian social networking site says, “Customising one’s status message has many implications, including those of dropping hints of things to come. A colleague of mine who had a predicament about quitting his job displayed his status message as ‘to stay or not to stay’ on his G-Talk for some time. Only after he left his job, did I figure out what he meant by it.”

Bijoy Bharathan goes on to write: Jamshed, who believes that the anonymity of the Internet is one of its key driving forces, explains the trend, “In most cases in real life, you can gauge people just by talking to them. It is not so on the Net. People take up altogether different identities online and it’s almost like an individual wearing a fake mustache or a wig in real life.”

To read the full story, Click Here - Status messages convey feelings, reflect moods, hidden thoughts

Coincidentally, a bit of Ego Googling a few days back had led me to an article that appeared in The Hindu (in 2006) where my Google earnings were also mentioned. Here, take a sneak-peak.

Quote 1: After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.

Quote 2: “I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn’t.”

Quote 3: I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

Quote 4: The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.

This post is actually a request to the blog owners of http://jokesrfunny.blogspot.com to STOP taking content from Ouchmytoe.com because it is my own. If they don’t remove the content that already exists on their blog…I might be forced to approach the class monitor called Mr Google, who happens to own Blogspot.

Cheers…from a guy who hates to be on the wrong side.

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Just because my parents weren’t as thoughtful…I enquired about the ‘result’ even before joining ibibo. I asked Santosh, the HR person, “So, what will be my Cost to the Company?”

I can.

The above sentence is powerful and is loaded with meaning. If I said that to my boss, he is bound to give me a double promotion and an Exceeds Expectations ranking.

I can deliver

The above sentence dilutes the power that I feel when I say “I can.” By adding ‘deliver’ I am adding a filter and the listener tends to think that I can only ‘deliver’. Whatever ‘deliver’ means.

I can deliver pizza

Now, the power has been further diluted by two filters - ‘deliver’ and ‘pizza’. “I can deliver” was definitely more powerful than “I can deliver pizza.”

I can deliver pizza for money

Moral of the Story: Speak less, start a blog and write more.

No…the Jammie in question isn’t the owner of this blog and the RIAA in news isn’t his daughter. Since a good, old friend called Roshan Mani (who works for an IT company that makes soaps!) sent me the link…and since the coincidence was just too much, I thought we should carry a link to this news item. Jammie is taking RIAA to court
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Update:

Sangeet who was recommended on Ouchmytoe left a ‘comment’ on the post recommending his blog. He says:

Dude, thanks for linking back to my blog. It was earlier read by a select group of my friends (~80) but now has a much wider audience (~500).

So, if you want to help a deserving, funny, blogger friend (woah! Too many adjectives) send me his/her blog url. And believe me, funny people always need help!

A week after that was written – I wondered how much fun it would be if…everything that was online…was in the real world too!

• If I hated my boss, I could just highlight him and delete him.
• If I wanted to enter a club which didn’t allow me inside, all I had to do was point my mouse on the club and click
• If I wanted to shift my job, no uploading of my resumes on Naukris of the World…I just needed to hit the Shift key
• If I knew my girl friend was dumping me, all I had to do was Right Click and Copy…when she was gone…just do a Paste. Bingo!
• If two girls were gossiping and I wanted to eavesdrop, I could just plug my earphones and increase the volume
• If I saw a pretty girl on the road, I could do a Print Screen and save her for later
• If I had a flat tire all I had to do was press F1 and get help
• If in a meeting, nobody was listening to my thoughts…I could put the CAPS Lock on and say whatever I wanted
• If I read the intensions of a girl at work wrong…I could always use the Backspace key and start afresh.

If you can think of anything better, please don’t shy from sharing it with the rest of the World.

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