..It’s only when u miss...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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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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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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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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(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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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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“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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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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Seen at the Chennai International Airport two nights ago…
For any inconvenience, please contact the Airport Manager.
Poor soul!
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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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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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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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[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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Created by Siddhartha Elangovan
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Created by Siddhartha Elangovan
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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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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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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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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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