tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99882182024-03-12T21:40:07.105-07:00To blog or not to blogPushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-60102925420624050842010-02-15T04:40:00.000-08:002010-02-15T20:32:54.690-08:00Eulogy to an undead blog...Well, for all practical reasons, this poor blog is dead. Well, kind of living undead or some like that, actually... I update it far too infrequently for the blog to be categorized as active, and the occasional updates like this here post prevent the poor blog from quietly slipping into oblivion. So, the unfortunate blog is caught in a strange dimension between life and death. Well enough Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-18652300871575241112009-07-10T02:53:00.000-07:002009-07-10T02:58:02.885-07:00The Worst Movie of All Time... Ever...I guess there really is nothing like watching an idiot movie to motivate one to blog, if only to spew venom on the aforementioned train-wreck of celluloid misadventure. Just when it looked like Bollywood was beginning to mature and churn out movies which were not a total insult to human intelligence (or even a wall clock's intelligence, for that matter), along comes Kambakth Ishq and sets the Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-311594532860673232009-06-28T02:59:00.000-07:002009-06-29T04:51:00.520-07:00What I didn't learn at B-school...In a perfect world every product/service would deliver exactly what we expected of it. The Sun would be shining, the birds singing and there would be beer flowing out of taps. Instead, we live in a world where pretty much nothing turns out the way we expect it to. The uncertainty can be pretty irritating at times, but also makes our lives so much more interesting. So, here's a short list of all IPushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-36197107081634428902009-02-07T05:22:00.000-08:002009-02-07T05:30:30.890-08:00Winds Of ChangeSome of the most powerful influencers of human history are counter intuitive. Prior to the world war II, it was a norm for the victors of a war to impose excessively harsh and punitive measures on the vanquished. But this fuelled greater hatred, and further wars. It is now commonly acknowledged that part of what precipitated the second world war was the humiliating treatment meted out to Germany Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-70739835274108933992009-01-18T06:34:00.000-08:002009-01-18T06:41:26.153-08:00Enron Comes to India...Warren Buffett is an extraordinary investor who can spot opportunities when others can only see train wrecks and disasters. That's a well known fact and you really don't need me to tell you that. But a lesser known fact, but one much more entertaining, is that he is also a master of pithy one-liners which are both hilarious and insightful. As Joey Tribiani of Friends would have said, "They're Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-79582281916899201172009-01-10T01:35:00.000-08:002009-01-10T21:55:02.569-08:00Movies of 2008Call me Mr. Grinch, but I do believe that 2008 was a terrible movie year. If I tried, I probably could count the number of movies I liked all year on the fingers of my hands. But I think that would be a very ridiculous and totally pointless exercise. So, this post is going to continue the tirade I had started in the previous post, with a bit of a twist. Instead of raving and ranting at bad moviesPushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-10456782987915486522008-12-25T22:14:00.000-08:002008-12-25T23:56:04.202-08:00Movie Madness... really...I guess the title of my blog (To Blog or Not to Blog) says it all!! What do I blog about when there's not a whole lot interesting happening in my life. Of course, it is sometimes a good thing when life isn't all that interesting, but you do get my point, don't you? I could blog about the state of the US economy, my favorite despot Robert Mugabe or about the latest episode of corporate greed and Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-69772190095970413162008-11-24T18:02:00.000-08:002008-11-24T18:38:15.262-08:00The Citi Never Sleeps...... and neither do Citi's shareholders, debt holders, retail depositors, employees, the Wall Street, the US Govt, US taxpayers and the rest of the world. All thanks to the new "Citi-gonna-die" circus in town. That possibility, at least for the time being appears significantly diminished with the US Govt coming out with a massive bailout designed to "protect the global financial system". I would Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-80870202822676384622008-06-16T19:55:00.000-07:002008-06-16T20:03:07.175-07:00The News: What's up with it?I wonder what has happened to the time when there used to be “good news” on the News. These days it’s all doom and gloom: Oil prices rising, dollar falling, stock markets bleeding, companies going belly up, ManU winning the Champions League… Where has all the good news gone? Pretty much any person, entity, corporation, clique or any other collection of people in the news these days evokes savage Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-63011224320482022932008-06-10T20:06:00.000-07:002008-06-10T20:12:55.092-07:00Food for Thought!!A few days ago, as I contemplated an article to resurrect my nearly dead and buried blog, I was almost sure that the post would steer clear of any political/social/religious or any other contentious issues. In other words the post would be very much like most of the posts on my blog are… a light and wholly inconsequential piece. But as hard as I tried, I couldn’t get my self to write one. The Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-32343762831200564442008-05-22T16:33:00.000-07:002008-05-22T16:42:31.001-07:00Enter the Fifteen Minute PostI hate New Year resolutions... very much. Not the least because I make a New Year resolution (or two) every year, and every year it is the same story. The resolution lasts like a couple of days at best, and then I'm left heart-broken and dejected. This year was no different. The resolution was that I would post every 15 days or so... and that resolution has been broken like eons ago. I typically Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-23679244733345126352008-01-30T22:29:00.000-08:002008-01-31T00:05:02.132-08:00Who the hell is Jérôme Kerviel?For starters, definitely not one of France's better known products until just a few days back. All that has since changed and old Jerome is now almost a global celebrity, albeit not a very popular one. Amazing, isn't it? And the best part is that you can be the next Jerome Kerviel!! All you need to do is figure out a way to bring a bank down all by yourself... Well, technically Jerome has not Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-80201494128728014282008-01-09T19:29:00.000-08:002008-01-09T22:10:07.024-08:00Whose world is it anyways?Just imagine for a minute that after a good night of partying hard, you returned to your house and passed out smoking a cigarette on your bed, dreaming happy dreams and woke up to find your house spectacularly on fire. What would your first concern be?a) Getting the hell out of the house.b) Salvaging your precious collection of baseball cards.c) Thinking of ways in which you could con your Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-2146046513793254282007-09-18T04:27:00.000-07:002007-09-18T07:03:21.547-07:00Northern Rock: Sinking like a rock...Lately, Northern Rock, a UK based mortgage lender (whom I hadn't even heard of until very recently) has been in news for all the wrong reasons. It has found itself in the center of a classic bank run and is threatening to go under despite the Bank of England guaranteeing depositors' deposits. For those of you think a bank run is a marathon sponsored by a bank, this is what it really is:Little Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-51675153201226053962007-08-07T03:14:00.000-07:002007-08-07T07:19:00.457-07:00Windows Vistaaaargh!!!Disclaimer: This post, if it isn't obvious from the title already, is going to be a bit of an angry rant about all that Microsoft's new Operating System, Vista, claims to be but really isn't. If angry rants aren't quite your thing then you'd probably be better served navigating to this link here, which is both informative and objective... and quite devoid of anger or other equivalent emotions.A Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-34505174227614850462007-05-10T22:00:00.000-07:002007-05-10T23:25:55.102-07:00Man of the Month...Author's note: The man of the month (MoM) award is handed out to an in-duh-vidual who, through acts of incredible and mind-numbing stupidity, has managed to "shock and awe" us... in other words, managed to both amuse and amaze us. Gender equality campaigners, Women's rights organizations and the like, please take note: The MoM award is gender agnostic and the word "man" in the award title is Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-28630026969816516612007-04-26T21:06:00.000-07:002007-04-26T21:12:46.469-07:00Quote for the day....Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. --Frederick LangbridgePushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-41773534967272514432007-04-19T22:55:00.000-07:002007-04-20T01:21:38.591-07:00The Return of the Voracious Reader...I've always been a bit of an avid reader... right from the age of ten or so when my father, tired of seeing my brother and I at each other's throats all the time, got home an Enid Blyton novel and somehow convinced me that I would find reading the book more enjoyable than showing my brother who the boss was. I must have thought his claim ludicrous at that time, but the fact is that the Enid Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-71496150462326928072007-03-27T04:49:00.000-07:002007-03-27T05:12:10.444-07:00This blog is only hibernating...It's been a long time since my last post. Such a long time, in fact, that I thought I ought to convince myself first that the blog was not dead. Hence this meaningless and inconsequential post. A more substantial, but equally meaningless and inconsequential post will soon follow... until then, ta-ta... and long live the blog. You have not been forgotten....Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-1165325865024042592006-12-05T05:01:00.000-08:002006-12-06T04:31:40.783-08:00Life's Little Surprises...Fact 1: My parents stay in Hyderabad.Fact 2: I'm put up in Bangalore.Fact 3: I visit my parents every once in a while.Fact 4: The bus is my preferred mode of transport.If from the four facts above, you've managed to conclude that I absolutely love pizza, you deserve to win a Nobel prize and have no business reading this stupid post any further, but if the facts have led you to conclude that I Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-1163053675123402762006-11-08T21:03:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:36:51.600-08:00Dammit!! This is not Don(e), I say...A few days ago, I had the opportunity.. no, privilege.. of seeing Don, a remake of the 1978 Amitabh Bachchan starrer with the same name. The movie reminded me, very painfully, of exactly why I am not big on remakes. In my opinion, remakes of classics are absolute no-brainers (and by that, I mean only someone with absolutely no brains would wander into such a venture). If the director remains Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-1160454147021231592006-10-09T20:27:00.000-07:002006-10-09T22:17:18.713-07:00The Truth About Stupidity...We live in a world in which stupidity abounds. It's all-pervasive.. like air. In fact, pollution-free air is an infinitely rarer commodity than undiluted stupidity. I doubt if we can get through five minutes of an average day without encountering stupidity in some form. This article is dedicated to stupidity and the proponents of this fine art... more precisely, it's a commentary on what I Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-1158922129778948262006-09-22T02:18:00.000-07:002006-09-22T04:27:37.150-07:00The Streets of Bangalore...The streets of Bangalore are not the place to be for the faint hearted. The street seems to have an inexplicable and very malign influence on the unsuspecting folk that accidentally stray onto it. It has the power to turn an ordinary, mild-mannered and civilized software engineer into a raving lunatic who truly believes that the sole purpose of everybody else present on the street is to cause himPushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-1158052386079503772006-09-12T01:40:00.000-07:002006-09-12T04:45:16.846-07:00You've got.... a common cold???common cold (n): a respiratory disorder characterized by sneezing, sore throat, coughing, etc., caused by an allergic reaction or by a viral, bacterial, or mixed infection.Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)In my opinion, the common cold is the stupidest and most irritating of all ailments to be suffering from. It's never debilitating enough to render you totally immobile and senseless, but at Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988218.post-1157430519249385612006-09-04T21:08:00.000-07:002006-09-04T21:28:39.270-07:00Goodbye, Crocodile Hunter...Yesterday was a sad day indeed for all wildlife lovers. Steve Irwin a.k.a the Crocodile Hunter died from a stingray barb to his heart while shooting an under water documentary. A regular on the Animal Planet, Steve never failed to entertain with his antics, his effervescence and his thick Aussie accent. It was a joy to watch him contend with the crocs, run towards creatures most of us would run Pushukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206156198313367832noreply@blogger.com2