Archive for February, 2009

Know Your Customer

A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment.
A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”
The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I [...]

February 24, 2009   Posted in: Funny Stuff, Humor, Humour, Jokes, Jokes and Humor, via email  No Comments

Slumdog - The Grand Finale!!!

When I watched Slumdog Millionaire, I didn’t think it was an extraordinary movie but what I did like about the movie was its originality, the story-telling and beautiful direction.
SM won 8 Academy Awards on the 81st Academy Awards ceremony (The Oscars). It was actually wonderful to see the accolades received by the movie on different [...]

February 23, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Movies, Oscars  No Comments

What A Rant!!!

Awesome Rant
Link via Atanu Dey
I put myself through hell. I make my body do things nature never really intended us to endure. All world-class athletes do. We do it because you love to watch us push ourselves as far as we can possibly go. Some of us get hurt. Sometimes permanently. You’re watching the Super [...]

February 23, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Rant  No Comments

Online Tourist Queries

Q:   Does it ever get windy in India ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ).
A:      We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
Q:    Will I be able to see elephants in the street? ( USA )
A:      Depends how [...]

February 19, 2009   Posted in: Funny Stuff, Humor, Humour, Jokes, Jokes and Humor, via email  No Comments

Economics 2008

February 13, 2009   Posted in: Funny Stuff, Humor, Humour, Jokes, Jokes and Humor, via email  One Comment

Liquidity - New Definition

February 13, 2009   Posted in: Funny Stuff, Humor, Humour, via email  No Comments

Walk And Charge

Few students of my alma-mater have come with an innovative idea to charge electronics gadget. And that idea is very simple and yet powerful.
All charged up: L-R Shachi Pande, Rushikesh Pande, Isha Nag, Tejas Narsimhan , Aditya Nanavaty and Sarvesh Patil
Now your regular 20-minute morning walk can also help in recharging your cellphone battery. [...]

February 13, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Education, Innovation  One Comment

Pink Chaddi Campaign - Reactions.

When the Pink Chaddi Campaign organizer started the campaign to protest the Ram Sene’s moral policing on the Valentine’s day, varied reactions were expected. Some support this, some are amused and some oppose it.
The immediate precursor to this was the Mangalore incident were Ram Sene activists beat up women in the pub to protect the [...]

February 13, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Pink Chaddi Campaign

The Pink Chaddi Campaign is an interesting way to fight the self appointed moral police a.k.a Ram Sene.
What is the Pink Chaddi Campaign?
The Pink Chaddi Campaign kicked off on 5 February 2009 to oppose the Sri Ram Sena. The campaign is growing exponentially (4,500 at this point in the life of our Consortium of Pub-going, [...]

February 10, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Blog Hacked - Old Posts Posted Again

I have re-posted some of my old entries as my blog was hacked and some posts deleted because someone didn’t like a post of mine.
Some of you may  get new ping backs because of this. Apologies for that.
The blog was hacked because of a security hole in Wordpress. I have upgraded to the latest one [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: blogging  No Comments