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An Ode to Facebook

I started writing poems when I was in class eight and have some 500+ of them stored in decaying notebooks, in my attic. Unfortunately, back then one wrote in notebooks and didn’t digitalize. I will share them shortly. Last night, I dreamt of my XII English teacher Ms Rajalakshmi. When she was getting married, she … Read more

Wanted: Lady Gym Instructor

by Jamshed V Rajan

If you are only interested in the Gym Instructor’s job….skip this crap and scroll below Japanese believe in manufacturing goods that last for a certain period. I am told, they purposefully don’t manufacturer goods to last a lifetime. Unfortunately, the name of this philosophy currently evades me. This has made me believe that God is … Read more

I am an environmentalist with blood on my hands

by Jamshed V Rajan

You have probably doubted my honestly while reading one of the articles on Ouchmytoe.com and wondered…I have read this joke somewhere. Chances are you did read it or saw it somewhere! For I love to re-cycle. Did I tell you I am an environmentalist? So much so, I wanted to marry a lady who was … Read more

Drinking no longer a sought after pastime

by Jamshed V Rajan

I will never forget how I tasted liquor for the first time. The biology teacher (whom I had a crush on, and thus went on to score 87% in XII so as to impress her) informed us that the next day we will be dissecting frogs and one of us had to volunteer to bring … Read more

Cartridges, Razors & Love Marriages

by Jamshed V Rajan

This post is dedicated to Garima Sinha, who works for ibibo. Find out why. I had recently bought an HP Printer Cartridge and registered online for their “Spin & Win” contest. As luck would have it, I won a Gillette Mach 3 razor worth Rs 125…which reached my house yesterday. This triggered the aging neurons … Read more

My time with Mumbai Underworld

by Jamshed V Rajan

I have been playing ibibo`s social game Mumbai Underworld for a month now, and it is very addictive. I didn`t start playing this game by choice. One day, I noticed Siddharth Sethi, a colleague of mine, leave this status update: “I own a dance bar, 3 strippers (good earners all) and 3 rifles. Finally life’s … Read more

Conversations by Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

by Jamshed V Rajan

Dr Manmohan Singh and I go a long way. If Dr Manmohan Singh hadn`t been named Asia`s best Finance Minister in 1993 (wasn`t it that year?), I wouldn`t have wanted to become a Finance Minister and joined BA Economics at The American College, Madurai. Thanks to him, I had joined the only course in the … Read more

Thinking about my funeral

by Jamshed V Rajan

I have been reading Scott Adams` Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! for a while now. It`s a deviation from what he does best, and maybe that`s why this collection of short articles from Scott Adams were a let down for me. Anyway, one article titled ‘Planning my funeral` caught my attention. I thought I should give it a shot as well…..just that instead of ‘planning` my funeral, I am ‘thinking` of it.

Why am I dying?

I have no reason to believe that I will die. In about 20 years, when I am closer to dying (I will be 55, then), I expect the Stem Cell Technology to have improved, with scope to extend the lifetime of an adult human being to 200+ years. That`s why we have lots of potted plants in our house – we don`t want to be running short on ‘Stems` when the need arises.

But then I think, Stem Cell technology or no Stem Cell Technology….why wouldn`t I die? I mean, they say God is dead. If God can be dead….why can`t Jammy be dead? But then again, when I think that Elvis isn`t dead….I wonder, why would Jammy be dead?