ransom

this weekend was awesome.
my mate was ill and needed to see his doc. so took him to mysore and in 6 hrs, my mate is back in shape, to do 100 + kmph
left office at 1715 hrs. reached marathalli at 1740 hrs and it started to pour. this is something i always wanted. riding in the rain. got fully drenched. reached silk board junction at 1830 hrs and the place was dry as bone. passers by were staring at me, looking at my drenched sweat shirt and probably thinking - from which planet has he come ? krypton may be :p
reached ring road junction at 1930 hrs and was home at 2155 hrs.
on sunday afternoon, left my place at 1240 hrs. reached ramnagar at 1430 hrs only to see that farmers have blocked the highway and the traffic was piling. by the time i reached, it was 2 km long. fortunately, was able to do some off-roading and reach a state highway which leads to magadi via manchinabele dam. it was longer by 30 kms and i reached my room at 1730 hrs. i really felt sad that i dint have my cam to click pics of the protest. and i was called shameless for making that statement and was asked to reach room quickly. :-)

reason for protest : better price for silk worm cocoons.

what was the need for causing so much of inconvenience for us and holding us for ransom ? they have really let us down.
some time, what if we stop using what they grow, as a mark of protest ? what if we start living on canned food for a month. what will happen to all the perishables farmers have grown ?
raising voice is good. making presence felt is better. but should it be annoying to others ?

what the hell!

its today. sunday morning. love the morning rays of sun, newspaper and a hot cup of tea.
grabbed the newspaper(TOI) and the first page looked weird. there were words missing in the headlines. photographs missing. just the borders were marked to signify that some photograph should have been there.
Sammelana chief opposes renaming ______
_____ slams probe report.
CM to declare _____
it was more like filling up the news ourselves, how we like it.
how would this be ? - Sammelana chief opposes renaming his dog.
CM to declare - Am bankrupt.
down the page, it says anything incomplete can be a pain - especially when it comes to oral care. turnover for complete oral care.
and tada - a full page ad for listerene mouthwash!
a national daily and 2 pages of ad on the first page ?!!
where are we heading ???

its always said that there is only so much news that fits into a newspaper. which means that there isn't enough news.

weighty words

Organisation, Development, Skill-set, Version-Control, Complexity, Resources, Capability, Empowerment, Diversity, Bandwidth, Best-Practices, Globalization, Customer, Satisfaction ( who knows whose!), Long and Short term, Infrastructure, Logistics, Benchmarking...The list is on!

Use any conjunction or preposition between these words and the sentence always ends up meaningful.
here are some more, to add a little more weight to this post.

skilled dedication
effective communication

managerial literacy
high concentration of service-oriented skills
technical competence 
dedication
accurate peer assessment
proprietary reasoning
budgetary alignment
applications design
installation
implementation
client training
effective mediation between clients, programmers and end users
exceptional combination of technical/communication skills
expertise
skillset
programmer monitor
supervisory skills
conceptualization
consulting
consultant
project consultant
follow-through project management
focus on project management
Systems Engineer 
team player
team facilitator
team leader
project facilitator
successful project implementation
general management competence 
autonomy
independence 
entrepreneurial creativity 
entrepreneurial implementation

   

unwind-3

have always been a fan of tom and jerry. every single time tom or jerry or spike try to fall asleep, they make sure the bed is comfortable and before hitting the bed, they give out a loud phew!. every single time i see them doing that or setting up for a relaxing mood, i feel i should be doing the same.
and i did.
a bottle of coke and some potato chips and The Broker in my hand. and i read till i fell asleep at 0430 hrs
and whole day i spent lazing around like tom. no jerry to spoil my laziness.

unwind-2

my art work - H3 # 289

the song from zinda - yeh hai meri kahani, that too the K rap mix version some how goes very well with Tintin and Prisoners of Sun. when tintin and capt. haddock are walking in the snow (to reach a place where prof. calculus is imprisoned ) and the song starts with a haunting note, i get chill down the spine. its really awesome to put this song on repeat mode and enjoy the whole comic.

so is this combination : Dance of Death from Iron maiden with Tintin and Shooting stars

absolute truth

the Absolute can never be remembered because it can never be forgotten.

captions for this

drop your first line of thought on seeing this pic.