I have always been asked this question – why don’t I cook? It’s not like I don’t like cooking or I cannot cook, just that I am not built for cooking. My elaborate cooking procedure usually begins with getting the menu straight for the evening. The list invariably includes potato fry and tomato rasam with [...]
This morning I was doing my daily roundups of online news sites and I came across this article on Bill Gates by rediff.com. Seems in his November 2005 visit to India, on one of the occasions he had to share the dias with Narayana Murthy. They were asked to test their mikes and Mr. Narayana [...]
Recently I was required to preside over a meeting for a committee I was chairing. I was supposed to introduce all the members of the committee and give a little pep talk to boost their morale. I was to recognize all the active members and also encourage the not so active members to start taking [...]
This morning I was listening to BBC world and guess what ? Two of my most favorite sports were being featured – Cricket and American Football. Hearing about cricket in USA was muchly cool !!!! There was a time (until Sachin beat Desmond Haynes’ record for the highest number of test centuries) when I could [...]
I have always heard my friends and sometimes myself end conversations with these three words “Keep in touch”. What does this keep in touch really mean. What do we really mean when we ask them to keep in touch. I always wondered how often should you call or talk to your friend to make sure [...]
Here is another one in the guys vs gals wars. Got this in a mail forwarded to me. Seems this is an open letter from all guys to their gals. The Guys’ Rules Please note that all the rules are numbered “1″ ON PURPOSE! 1. Men are not mind readers. 1. Learn to work the toilet seat. [...]
Now is that something really smart or utterly dumb. I would go with the latter. I would not expect a normal person with a normal or higher degree of intellectuality to read that and go ” hey, hello to u too”. BTW, just for the record, that for .. whatever it was, meant a simple [...]
