Monthly Archives: February 2008

The art of eating!

Today, I am going to lecture you on the art of eating. Yes, eating is an art and most of you do not know how to eat. No, eating is much more than pushing morsels into your mouth and then sliding them into the oesophagus.
I will summarize the art of eating in following points – [...]

Judging the personality contest @ VNIT – Part I

Being the judge; sitting on the ‘other side’ of the table is an ‘experience’ in itself. As a professional engineer, I’ve interviewed lots of people and have met lot of interesting person(alities). Each experience was different and the latest one was not any different. I mean, it was quite a different experience, as I had [...]

The ‘Danger Zone’ in Reality Shows

In my last post, I broke the news to you - we’ve a new HDTV! I’ve been spending quite some time watching TV shows. Most of the TV shows are reality shows in which middle class boys and girls beg for the SMS votes. Anyway.
Recently, a leading channel launched yet another reality show for the [...]

Con + Insult = Consult

I’m not sure if its legal to post Dilbert strips without written permission from Scott Adams and his publishing company. But until they notice, I’ll go ahead and post one of my favorite Dilbert strips -

Dogbert’s advice:

..and here’s an explanation of why this blog continues to survive:-

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FairGlow, TataSky, Harpic & I

Okay, let me crack the news to you -
We bought a new High Definition Television - HTDV! @ home. Its a big LCD screen which shows pretty colors for few (well, ‘few’) thousand bucks. I admit, I spend at least 30 minutes everyday watching it. Not that I like the TV programs, but just [...]

Embarassing grammar mistakes in posts :(

I gotta do something about this. I found that I’ve so many typos in my posts! What could be the reason?

I type my posts between 00:00 - 01:00 , I’m in subconscious state during that time slot.
I do not read my post before publishing them.
I’m over-confident about my English usage.
I type very fast; and many [...]

My recording: Choo Kar Mere Man Ko

One of my all time favorite songs - Choo Kar Mere Man Ko from film Yarana, sung by Kishore Kumar.
Today, I found a karaoke track on the internet and recorded my vocals over it. Mixing done by yours truly
Let me know if you like it -

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Pehla Nasha - Keoraf & I

I’m a member of Indian Guitar Tabs forum (IGT). One of the IGT members, Keoraf (I guess he’s from Netherlands) liked my voice and offered to do the mixing of tracks. So we got together, he recorded the “Pehla Nasha” track and sent it over to me via email.
 
I then played the track through [...]

Sparrows & Crows - where did you go?

My Grandpa & I were discussing about how the Earth is coming to an end and the signals that mother Earth is giving to us, the lesser humans. My grandpa asked, “When was the last time you saw a sparrow or a crow?”
I was taken aback ! I haven’t spotted a single [...]

Xobni - doesn’t impress me.

The world is going ga-ga over the email once again. Ever since javascript & AJAX started powering the web pages, there’s been a flood of companies wanting to do something ‘new’ to the rich internet applications. Google launched its Gmail, Zimbra came up with Zimbra Collaboration Suite and others are following the trend. Yahoo too, [...]