Posted on June 17th, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Headlines Today should immediately be conferred with India’s silliest news channel award. While every other news channel is analysing Argentina’s rout of Serbia & Montenegro, and van Persie’s wonderstrike against Ivory Coast, HT sent one of its reporters to spend time with a tarot expert.The tarot woman was so much fun.
Reporter: “What does the World [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Practitioners of the medical profession are supposed to take an oath - the Hippocratic Oath - so named because it is believed to have been written by Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine according to the Greeks. It begins thus:
I swear by Apollo the physician, by Æsculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Miscellaneous
Posted on May 11th, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
As the counting progresses, it seems evident that the DMK alliance is going to form the next government. However, the guys at Rediff.com, definitely over-enthusiastic I’m sure, are showing a surplus number os seats for the alliance. Check this out!
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Filed under: Humour, Politics
Posted on May 7th, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
CNN-IBN’s Battle for Tamil Nadu was probably the best election show by a “northern” news channel on tomorrow’s elections. Perhaps I’m supporting the show because it was shot in the lawns of my alma mater, but really it was much better than NDTV’s show hosted by Barkha Dutt - the latter was simply too distant [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Politics
Posted on May 2nd, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
(a fictitious glance at burning election issues in future elections)
Chennai, c. 2011 AD - In a bid to garner the attention of the youth of the State, the main opposition party has announced, as part of its election manifesto, a new allowance called GilMA - Girlfriend Maintenance Allowance. When asked, party sources informed this reporter [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Politics
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Q: Describe a catch-22 situation that you were in…
A: Once, I was in Ayanavaram (a locality in Chennai), and wanted to go to Anna Square (also in Chennai). I didn’t have a bike or a car. There were no auto-rickshaws either. I thought I was stranded. I didn’t know what to do. Thankfully, bus # [...]
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Filed under: Humour
Posted on February 6th, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
“Some are born wealthy.
Some achieve wealth.
And some have wealth thrust upon them.”
I should consider myself to belong to the third variety. But this thrust-upon-me wealth might as well lead me into bigtime trouble, because I now find myself in the midst of an international conspiracy, one so big, that Robert Ludlum, if he were alive, [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Personal
Posted on February 1st, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Just back from a dinner hosted by a colleague. This happened over dessert…
I was telling a colleague what I had heard about ice-creams - “You know, Aman, someone told me this. Seems like when you eat ice-cream, it triggers some part of your brain, and you feel some sensations as you do when you are [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Miscellaneous
Posted on December 13th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Seen at the Chennai International Airport two nights ago…
For any inconvenience, please contact the Airport Manager.
Poor soul!
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Filed under: Humour, Miscellaneous
Posted on October 20th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Posted on October 3rd, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Yesterday, my uncle and I took a drive as far as Tiruninravur, a small temple town, some 20 kilometres from Chennai. On the way, we were discussing a host of issues. The topic turned to how the three primary Gods of the Hindu pantheon all had divine consorts, and how this was a distinguishing feature [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
There is so much talk about the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and how China is running mass English language programmes, so that every man (woman, child…) will be fluent in English. Naysayers in India feel that this should be end of the BPO (aka call centre) road for India, because once the Chinese master English, our [...]
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Filed under: Humour
Posted on September 16th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
My friend, Selva, has posted a set of laws that govern the staffing of project teams. Here is that Body of Knowledge!Law 1: The good looking babes always join the other projects.
Law 2a: Your project is always…
For those who seek complete enlightenment, the full list of laws is available here.
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Filed under: Humour
Posted on July 15th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
[This is a VKpedia exclusive!]
Maruti’s recently launched Swift has been topping the charts since its release. Only today did I have the good fortune to observe it from different angles and be bowled over by the beauty and aesthetic elegance of this engineering marvel. Hoping to find out more, I ventured to the car’s website, [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Miscellaneous
Posted on June 17th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Created by Siddhartha Elangovan
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Posted on June 17th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Created by Siddhartha Elangovan
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Posted on June 17th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
The following strip was created by a colleague. I liked it because I found it down-to-earth, direct and simple. If you liked it too, you may post your comments here, or mail him directly.
The Ring Series… by Siddhartha Elangovan
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Posted on June 15th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
Right out of the blue, Sun Microsystems decided to send me a mail today announcing the “opening” of Solaris. Wow, that was so nice of them do it - both the “opening” and the mail.
Such promo mails stay in my inbox only for a few seconds. They are then lost into cyberspace forever. But this [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Personal
Posted on June 15th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
This is one of the worst PJs I’ve received in quite some time. Crappy but it makes you smile anyway!
Presenting the real Bun, Tea aur Bubbly…
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Filed under: Humour
Posted on June 11th, 2005 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
A couple of days ago, my project mates and I had a rather hilarious discussion about project life cycles.
We were returning back to office after lunch when someone started cursing about the time frame he was given to complete his module. He said that the estimated time was much less compared to the actual effort. [...]
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Filed under: Humour, Tech