they say that my company policies are like fine paintings... i beg to agree... its like Picasso...
Commission: To finish things fast...
Enquiry Commission: To avoid finishing things fast...
started to read Balakumaran's 'Thulasi'... A novel on a part of Mahabharatha...
finished reading chetan bhagat's '2 states'... It was just a love marriage... My arranged marriage itself was so complicated like that in the story...
we men are attracted towards women with a raspy voice... we think "Hey! May be she's finished with all the yellings..."
Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving people good advice. They poisoned him.
I dunno, it seems like once people grow up, they have no idea of what's cool.
-Calvin (to Hobbes)
with the amount of chocolates i am eating, if some company is ready to insure my teeth, i would become super rich within a couple of years...
George Bush was lucky... The instant he became US President his school marks became classified... Our Kalam was better in this regards...
my wifey Sasi is a genius... after a long argument yesterday she declared that i have answer for everything but solution for none... yeah... thinking twice, i believe that she is right...
with vinayagar chaturdi next month, BMC is going to de-silt and clean mumbai lakes... so that we can go, immerse ganesh idols and dirty back the lakes again...
when you feel sad, to cheer up, just go to the mirror and say, 'Damn! I am really so cute.' and you will overcome your sadness...
but don't make this a habit 'coz, liars go to hell...
once when i said to my ex-boss, "sir, with the salary you pay i cant even afford to get married", he quickly retorted back, "young man, and one day you will be thankful to me for this"...
my therapist told me that the way to achieve inner peace was to finish what i started... so far today, i have finished two bags of Balaji chips and a pocket of Parle-G... i feel better already...
enrolled myself for the bus service from my home to office... another novel way to commute from office to home and vice-versa...
on discussing about Adam & Eve's happy life, my friend Lokesh clarified me the reason "Karthik! Adam & Eve were never married, but were in live-in relation. No commitments!!!"
reading the book "The power of humor at the workplace" by K. Sathyanarayana...
its not that interesting to travel to our new office these days... there is no rush / shouts / pushes / quarrels in this route... i get to seat somehow... hmmm, what a boring way to travel in a mumbai local...
Capitalism vs. Communism: In Capitalism, man exploits man! Its exactly the other way round in Communism!!!
with 5 kids in home, i am made to watch the rhymes cd... Its 3rd time now, in a row since morning... Kids! Kids! Kids!
restricting access to cafeteria and pantry will not increase productivity... for that employees need to be motivated, recognised and incentivised...
joined keyboard class today... shy to venture alone, i roped in another friend (saravana prabhu) for the class... he is going to learn guitar...
attended an hour session on 'stress management'... At end, during Q&A session, one guy promptly asked "will we get soft copy of the presentation?"... i always come across characters who fancy collecting presentations...
looking for a keyboard class... Found a 3 month course... 2 hrs every sunday... May start from this sunday...
went to Nichole's Cafeteria for lunch... Cheeze fingers, potato wedges and aloo tikki... An hour later had half bread roll and brownie... Finished with a masala tea...
(Note: Amit Sarker is not to be informed of this 'Mission Lunch')
school friend Sadha Sivan Raju had come to mumbai for a meeting yesterday... He started back today... Just sent him off from LTT, Mumbai...
started reading the book "Chariots of the Gods?", by Erich Von Daniken...
7 G Rainbow colony...
teen movie... comedy, music but very sad end... i love the theme music... yuvan shankar raja and selvaraghavan are great...
i remember hearing this song when i used to travel in highways across andhra pradesh...
He who has a 'why' to live for can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Nietzsche
That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
- Nietzsche
rain rain go away...
come again another day...
little karthik wants to reach...
to the office for the punch...
rain rain go away...
come again another day...
little karthik wants to reach...
to the office for the punch...
my id card was not working in new office... So i surrendered my id and got an interim access card... After 4 days they found that it is actually not working... Asked me to surrender my interim access card and apply in system for a new id card... Until then i am to use another interim access card... I feel like an 'intruder' in my own office...
it was exciting to use a shredder... i used it for the first time in my life, yesterday... i shredded a bunch of old documents... shredding paper seems to be an interesting job profile... let me check the possibilities of internal transfer to 'shredding and waste paper management section'... (does such a dept. exist?!!!)
today, post lunch, i ordered fruit salad topped with ice cream, jelly, honey, cashew and grapes... i think i was the first to order such a combination... he delivered it to me with a peculiar look... good that he didn't gave me a feedback form to fill...
lost sleep by 3.30 am today morning... rectified e-mail settings in my mobile and restored it back... watching news channels... they are far better entertaining and funny than any song / comedy channels...
first day at new office location... Saved 1 hour of travel to and fro...
started reading the book "Man's search for meaning", by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl... 73rd English print of the book 'Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager'...
had lunch at Cafe Samovar... inside Jahangir Art Gallery... Cutlet sandwich lunch, Sprouted beans salad, matka kulfi...
married guys, three things that you need to hide from your wife,
1.
2.
3.
(actually you don't need to hide anything from your wife... Somehow she already knows it... Its your innocence that you believe that she don't know your secrets....)
guys, three things that you can share for your girl friend(s)...
1.
2.
3.
(actually there is nothing you can share (read 'reveal') to your girl...)
having lunch at Cafe Universal... Sizzler and Ice Tea... May be last lunch at VT, before we shift to new office in Ghansoli...
i wonder why the whole world is behind my shares... whenever i sell a share from my portfolio, everybody seem to pounce over it, pushing the scrip price to an exorbitant high level...
reading a hilarious book (say, a diary) "Dork" by Sidin Vadukut... The incredible adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese...
took lift from 3 men with umbrellas and reached the station... thanks to the 3 men and also the inventor of umbrella...
forget the Met dept. or their calculations...
its raining heavily only because i dared to forget my umbrella and rain coat...
during recession:
A RIL employee: mere paas good job profile hai, boss ka bharosa hai, 5 excellents hai, ek patent hai, sectors se good relations hai... tere paas kya hai?
A MPRE: mere paas 3 saal ka bond hai...
some trouble in solar power module of INSAT-4B satellite... sun tv telecasts are hit... sun dish tv customers may miss ESPN and hence WC finals...