Month: June 2006

  • HR Practices

    Yup, they’re the talk of the town now… everyone’s discussing them in the real world, and i’ve seen at least 5 blogs which talk about it in detail… am still wondering what exactly is it that makes people hate HR so much, but makes sure that his record sales are still setting records… now, wait a second, before we create any further confusion, let me set the record straight… this has nothing to do with the personnel policies of companies, its more to do with the personal quirks of him, who makes you go ‘resham, miya please stop!!’..
    so what exactly is it – the trademark cap or the ‘I support facial hair’ look or the noice (nose+voice).. that gets on so many people’s nerves? from the guys in ‘The great Indian Comedy Show’ who did a spoof by removing the cap and showing a bald head to guys all around who exhibit hitherto unknown violent tendencies, they are either making fun of him or want to cut his throat/nose…until sometime back, he was a national treasure, now he faces national censure..
    the initial songs, specially the ones featuring the serial kisser were extremely popular, in their original version, as well as the club remixes… i see a pattern with what happened to sonu nigam…all was going good with him too, until he started making appearances in his album videos,his popularity reached an abyssmal low, before (i think) he got the message… wonder if HR will understand that the public are singing ‘jhalak mat dikhlana’, and restrict himself to providing just the music…
    until next time, sayonee, if you are reading this, he loves you more than junoon..he really does..
    P.S: small update in previous bits…;)

  • Tit Bits

    According to an article in Vijay Times, bangalore (yup, you got that right.. and no, the newspaper boy dropped it on a day by mistake), 58.8% of bloggers worldwide are in the age group 13-19… and 68% of bloggers are women…oh, to be a rarity 🙂
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    I loved this one, “If you always have to think out of the box, maybe there’s a problem with the box”
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    After the weekend’s incident with Mika, Rakhi Sawant has been approached by some publisher to write a book tentatively titled ‘How Rakhi Sawant got kissed, got wild….’….. Daler Mehndi, Mika’s brother, has said that this is absolutely not part of Indian culture unlike human trafficking, which of course, is one of the cornerstones around which Indian culture is built…
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    A fairly simple Google alert with the keyword ‘books’ returns such inane stuff as ‘Spice Jet books over xyz tickets in special offer’… and therefore, i hope the title of this particular post does not land me in the search results for adult sites providing graphic information and entertainment (to some), based on certain parts of the female anatomy…
    until next time, how lazy can a post be.. 🙂

  • Times Now

    Absolutely nothing to do with the channel, but the title fitted in perfectly with the contents of the post, and so…a debate (which unfortunately i wasnt a part of) about the necessity of mobiles in our life, sparked off this post…
    Somewhere in the not too distant past, there was a phenomenon called time, which was allowed to be a consideration while we decided on things… but somewhere down the line, we decided to do battle with it… the necessity of Wi Fi connections and mobile phones is extremely arguable… we belong to a generation which grew up without the above, but are living with it now.. maybe the last of the generations to grow up that way, and so, to make it arguable…
    the ones after us are the ‘now’ generation, not just in context of the time they exist in, but in the consumption habits they have.. no, not they, we, because to survive i also have to be that way… and so i want news the time it happens – i may or may not care about the people who died or suffered in the news item… i want that pizza now, doesnt matter if the guy bringing it drives so crazily that he has a fifty percent of surviving the journey to my house… i want the work done by Monday, if you have to slog your back off during the weekend, hey, whose problem is that, or rather, is there a problem?.. amazingly i get away with all of this (hey, no hate comments, the usage of ‘I’ is only figurative) :)….
    i want it now, and there are slaves who will make sure i get it now… and that perhaps is why silly things like compassion and humanity are conceptual, not realistic… and joys and sorrows exist only fleetingly, for everything is only now and never later… some great man has said that there’s a time for everything, yup, only the time is always now…
    until next time, what now?

  • Bait and watch

    He was always fascinated by tales of fearless hunters, especially the ones who laid it all on the line for a particular kill… and the ones who extended the thrill to their loved ones, and today he would join that elite, when he would use his wife as the bait, for that one spectacular kill.. ofcourse the fact that the intended prey would not be able to wound her fatally did dilute the effect, but he was still thrilled.. especially since she didnt know about it… in fact, she was quite surprised by his insistence on her spending quite a lot of time in the same spot..
    He had been hunting in the area for quite some time, and managed to kill most of its kith and kin, but it was a wily creature and had eluded him repeatedly, and was now alone, one of its kind in the expanse around… he remembered the ease with which he had single handedly annhilated the entire clan in his previous hunting ground, and felt confident…he waited patiently from dusk, for that was the time it started its day..
    she was oblivious to the drama she was part of.. it watched from far, it saw her, and then saw him, and immediately sensed the plan, the way any living being could, when its mortality was brought to the fore…but it was thrilled too, it smelt another chance of shaming him.. it approached cautiously, hovering around the area, but never too close… it saw her trying to get up, and him asking herto wait a bit… it saw him watching and acknowledged by making a closer foray than before…it would attack only when it was sure he was getting impatient and restless, and therefore careless…
    and she was the one to give it the opportunity… after hours of being in a place, she finally had enough of his reasoning and got up to leave… he was busy trying to stop her.. it sensed the opportunity and attacked… it had no intention to kill, just a bite, and his defeat … but the bite hurt her enough and she attacked, and so did he…but it was expecting the attack, and easily escaped… to fight another day…he swore in frustration…. Cox Town’s mosquitoes were indeed superior to their koramangala counterparts…
    until next time, reality bites…