Here are some..:-)
This one from a footballer turner cricketer"
I thought it was a bit rude when the umpire gestured me with a finger so I showed my middle one back."
Crystal Palace midfielder Aki Riihilati shows why footballers will never be the new cricketers after he plays his first match
"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- An internal Western Union memo, 1876
Hello....Hold on am getting another call...hello ...:-)
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
Lolz, Jeenu..how much did u say ur 700m weighs, again.....:-)
"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
ah, it wasnt pringles or lays..was it...that he was talking about :-)
"Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." -- Carl Sandburg
Rite..I let my roomie peel the onions when I cook..promising a delicious dish as a result
"If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space." -- Anonymous
Now, Now...who was talking abt some space...nandya ..was that you :-)
"If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sheesh..wat was I last read.....ahem :-)
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." -- Albert Einstein
Now again, wut or who is a virgin...:-)
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
-- Shaquille O'Neal
ah Shaq, u forgot to add Burger king and that hummer, dint you...:-)
and finally one of my own..
Yes itz time to work...? 1/2 hrs are over :-)
for the day...that is..:D
October 28, 2005
Blog or work
I knw half of u ppl, dont work :-D...be it school or office...But here are the stats anyways, :-P
Blogs are a work hazard in US offices
Around 35 million workers -- one in four of the labour force in the United States – spend three-and-a-half hours, or nine per cent of their working week on blogs, the survey found.
Blogs are a work hazard in US offices
Around 35 million workers -- one in four of the labour force in the United States – spend three-and-a-half hours, or nine per cent of their working week on blogs, the survey found.
October 24, 2005
The week that was..
Well travel seems to be the flavor of the month for me, more specifically the last few weeks..
And so in keeping with the trend, it was LA this week.
And as usual, it was just a casual encounter that got it going.
Another lazy sat aft, we were looking for a place to get free food, and that usually means going to some married persons’ house .
The procedure has been well rehearsed over the years, that I can do it even when half asleep.
Just think back of any the recent coversations with some guy who has talked abt some good happenings at home or work.., call up that guy and demand a treat for that.:- )
‘Demand ‘ is prolly not the right word, maybe Gentle persuasion shd do the trick..;-)
So the guy or the girl now gets alarmed and calls you home instead.
So off we went, me and my roomie to their place..:-D
Few other guys cudnt make it to lunch, though they did join later, and that is where the trip idea started.
We were planning to go a sunset place called South mountain. A nice mini hike place with an awesome view of Phoenix from the top. Remind me to post a pic of that next time.
After a heavy meal though, the legs refuse to move, and my ‘object of terror’ the one that gives me nightmares of late, my ‘mini me’ – my tummy that is..:- ) refused to let me get off the sofa.
So plans started floating around.
I must say all of us are pretty good at floating ideas..and for one we agreed to do what we floated
One of us said we shd go to a beach, rather sarcastic when it was offered the first time, cause sitting in the middle of the desert, you can imagine what the comment was for..
So immediately, it was LA and the plan was made, knowing fully well that someone will come up with a way to cancel it. How wrong we were. To the surprise of all of us , we went ahead with the plan.
Got the rental vehicle and stuff. Getting the rental car is a story in itself.
Will probably hold it for some other time..will prolly have it for one of my flirting escapades..:-)
Any way, so we finally decided to go ahead with this and started on Sunday early morning round about, 3 AM.
We went to the temple first, understandable, cause because of all the recent happenings,. I thought it would be nice to be on the right side of God, and put in an appearance at his abode.:-)
My friend wanted to do an abhisheka’ and the priest asked him his star and other stuff. He gave me the details, and for some reason or the other, the priest suddenly asked him if was married. He replied in the negative and the priest said, lets as well pray for u to get married soon.
“No No. Anything but that. Velai ethavathu innum nallatha kedaikanunu vazhtunga.”
Translated.. -No no, anything but that, better wish me for a better job than to get married, for now.
Wonder what made him say that. There was no reason for him to say so. He did, and so it stands that way. ;-)
The priest that gave him a big lecture as to why he thinks marriage is imp and likened his statement to that of a kid that just denies what he actually wants hinting that he wants it , but feels shy to say so.
Anyway, we all were laughing at his expense. And so were a gp of ABCD girls. One looked cute and even tried talking to him after that, but guess, he was taken aback by the priests’ response and did not heed her.
She looked cute. What a wasted opportunity, I thought:-)
Well, I don’t or rather try not to, at the least, when in a temple..;-)
After that, we did go to the beach….to Huntington..
And then to the river walk. We had a whale of a time..
Btw, how many of you have seen a marriage ceremony happening @ the beach.
We were witness to one…and there were quite a big gp there
What with the windy conditions and lotsa mini skirts around…I did have a whale of a time..:-)
The trend seems set to continue next week as well..with a hike in the canyons that I missed last time, beconing.
Lets see if I get lucky this time..:-D
And so in keeping with the trend, it was LA this week.
And as usual, it was just a casual encounter that got it going.
Another lazy sat aft, we were looking for a place to get free food, and that usually means going to some married persons’ house .
The procedure has been well rehearsed over the years, that I can do it even when half asleep.
Just think back of any the recent coversations with some guy who has talked abt some good happenings at home or work.., call up that guy and demand a treat for that.:- )
‘Demand ‘ is prolly not the right word, maybe Gentle persuasion shd do the trick..;-)
So the guy or the girl now gets alarmed and calls you home instead.
So off we went, me and my roomie to their place..:-D
Few other guys cudnt make it to lunch, though they did join later, and that is where the trip idea started.
We were planning to go a sunset place called South mountain. A nice mini hike place with an awesome view of Phoenix from the top. Remind me to post a pic of that next time.
After a heavy meal though, the legs refuse to move, and my ‘object of terror’ the one that gives me nightmares of late, my ‘mini me’ – my tummy that is..:- ) refused to let me get off the sofa.
So plans started floating around.
I must say all of us are pretty good at floating ideas..and for one we agreed to do what we floated
One of us said we shd go to a beach, rather sarcastic when it was offered the first time, cause sitting in the middle of the desert, you can imagine what the comment was for..
So immediately, it was LA and the plan was made, knowing fully well that someone will come up with a way to cancel it. How wrong we were. To the surprise of all of us , we went ahead with the plan.
Got the rental vehicle and stuff. Getting the rental car is a story in itself.
Will probably hold it for some other time..will prolly have it for one of my flirting escapades..:-)
Any way, so we finally decided to go ahead with this and started on Sunday early morning round about, 3 AM.
We went to the temple first, understandable, cause because of all the recent happenings,. I thought it would be nice to be on the right side of God, and put in an appearance at his abode.:-)
My friend wanted to do an abhisheka’ and the priest asked him his star and other stuff. He gave me the details, and for some reason or the other, the priest suddenly asked him if was married. He replied in the negative and the priest said, lets as well pray for u to get married soon.
“No No. Anything but that. Velai ethavathu innum nallatha kedaikanunu vazhtunga.”
Translated.. -No no, anything but that, better wish me for a better job than to get married, for now.
Wonder what made him say that. There was no reason for him to say so. He did, and so it stands that way. ;-)
The priest that gave him a big lecture as to why he thinks marriage is imp and likened his statement to that of a kid that just denies what he actually wants hinting that he wants it , but feels shy to say so.
Anyway, we all were laughing at his expense. And so were a gp of ABCD girls. One looked cute and even tried talking to him after that, but guess, he was taken aback by the priests’ response and did not heed her.
She looked cute. What a wasted opportunity, I thought:-)
Well, I don’t or rather try not to, at the least, when in a temple..;-)
After that, we did go to the beach….to Huntington..
And then to the river walk. We had a whale of a time..
Btw, how many of you have seen a marriage ceremony happening @ the beach.
We were witness to one…and there were quite a big gp there
What with the windy conditions and lotsa mini skirts around…I did have a whale of a time..:-)
The trend seems set to continue next week as well..with a hike in the canyons that I missed last time, beconing.
Lets see if I get lucky this time..:-D
October 03, 2005
Houston...We have a problem!!
The weekend was spent travelling.
My roomie and a few other friends were planning a hiking trip to grandcanyon over the weekend. Their main aim was to hike all the way down to the Colorado river which was like 7.5 miles from the top of the hike..and then make it back the same day.
I wanted to go, but one part of me dint want to, as well.
My main grouse was that, ppl should stick together, and not just go on their own.
It being a very risky climb on the way up and wanted ppl to look out for each other.
A couple of guys in it were fast climbers and dont have the patience to wait for the guys tht are not able to keep up with the pace set by others.
In any case, everybody was like " If anyone cant continue, they just drop out and go back and the others can continue"
I was not ready with it, and decided against going.
I need not have worried, everyone managed to complete the full stretch, and it looks like a sunday and a monday still aint enough to recover..
But itz a very good exp, I was just feeling bad that I missed out.
Anyway, one door closed and another opened..
My colleague wanted to go to houston all of a sudden on fri evening..and we decided to drive all the way from phoenix.
Around 1200 miles, each way:-), guess it took us around 16 hrs to go there..
We went all the way to the Harbor and got a chance to look at any of 'Rita's' damages, if any.
Houston, was and is still', a maze of concrete bridges. I m not sure as to when they will put an end to the construction..
There seems to be a maze of them and it seems the construction engineers relish the site of one bridge jutting out on top of each other like a pack of cards..just like any of your Lego construction toys that you would have had., as a kid.
I sometimes get the feeling, that If you let these guys build your home.,they will have a direct walkway from your kitchen to your living room then an overbridge from he kitchen to the batroom and one more from the living room to the bathroom. As if thts not enough, your bedrooms will have individual bridges from each of these above rooms.
Boy..all those concrete structures and the effort it takes to build them.. not to mention the hardship it puts to the traveling public..is enormous.
I can seriously feel, how ppl must have felt while trying to flee from 'Rita'. It would have been better to stay put @ home during the time..
While there in Houston, got a chance to go that Balaji bhavan that everyone were
raving about as the best Vege place of late. For the first time ever, got hold of a Pav baaji Dosa..
Yessss.. dont blink..thts the name..
I was apprehensive, with good reason too..as everytime that I select a dish that I havent tasted before, it ends in disaster..and I end up getting ridiculed for my choice. But this time, it was awesome.. and more importantly the price was just about right.
Next time when you folks go to Houston, make it a point to go there..
Any way coming back to the trip, we had to stop at an immigration checkpoint on the way. You are forced to do it, even when you dont cross the US border..
Kinda stupid, because, u never get to know that such a thing is possible. Why on earth would anyone expect something on US soil, when you dont cross the border at all, is the question everyone will ask..and Rightly so.
The place in question was ElPaso,Texas and you have to pass that town to get into Texas when driving from Phoenix. that stupid jerk @ the outpost..had a look at my papers, and got hold of one line where the heading was a bit bolder than the other places.
All he asked was.." Why is it like this. Do you have any other papers"
Here was a gent questioning my valid papers given by the US govt on the pretext that one of the headings were in bold text. I was so perplexed that I did not know wat to say.
My friend luckily had a older copy and it was the same in that as well. We then managed to convince him, that this is how the US authorities do it and that we did not fudge it. He finally let us go.
Another funny incident happened right after this..a couple of hrs later..actually.
The speed limit in Texas was 75mph and I had set it to cruise at 80. I would have gone faster, if not for the fact that only recently had I exptied my wallet, at one obscure town on the way to Niagara falls, in NY.
The cop there had caught me for over speeding and had emptied $600 in just fines.
I was wary of getting another one and decided to play safe this time..as the incident was still fresh in memory..:-) and so imagine my surprise when a cop caught me this time..for being just 5 miles about the speed limit.
We were just having a conversation in the car that in Tx the cops are so f**King
M*r*ns that they will catch u even if u are just 6-7 miles above the speed limit.
and voila, the lights flashed behind me..
I had no insurance on the car, as it was my friends' car and we were wondering what the heck did he catch us for. He came over and said, " you know why I caught you."
"NO, Officer"
" you were going on 85. on a 75 stretch"
I just lost it right then and there... "NO WAY. I have set it on cruise., for the past hr or so...and I've not even accelerated at any time since then."
I just stopped short of saying he was lying..:-)
He kept repeating his, and I, my lines..
He finally got tired and asked me to step out..
He must have been totally thrown of balance with the way I talked, cause I knew for a fact that this time I never speeded, and wanted to avoid another ticket at all cost, and in all that hullaboo, he forgot to look into the insurance papers., luckily :-)
So I stepped out, and he asked me where Im going.
" We are going to meet a friend of my friend."
I then told him where we are driving from and when we are going back. He was so shocked that we were driving non stop for 16 hrs just to see someone for a couple of hrs then and then head back again..
"Are you crazy. You are just going back immediately today after seeing him"
I had by now started enjoyin this. and was amused at his expression. He just could not believe it and went and asked my friend about it, who basically said the same thing except that the person we were going to meet was his brother., while I had said, friend'.
SO he came back to me and said, "so this guy you are gonna meet, is he a friend
or a family member. "
" I guess family member, a cousin probably."
" so in few minutes itz changed from friend to family member to brother"
I was cornered. All I could do was, give a shrug of the shouders and a none too convinving smile..
"Do you have anything ilegal in the car trunk."
me: " Nope. nothing at all. YOu are free to check, if you want to"
"Can I "
" Im sure you can, officer. I dont see why" I said, tongue in cheek and then biting it immediately after I said that.
I sensed I'm pushing it too far..
Guess, at that point,he just got fed up, gave my license back and said.. "Drive safe man" and pushed of.
We finally managed to meet his friend..oopz cousin...nay nay..brother..;-) who again was astonished that we drove this long to just meet him.
The drive back was eventless..and I guess thats all we wanted..:-)
My roomie and a few other friends were planning a hiking trip to grandcanyon over the weekend. Their main aim was to hike all the way down to the Colorado river which was like 7.5 miles from the top of the hike..and then make it back the same day.
I wanted to go, but one part of me dint want to, as well.
My main grouse was that, ppl should stick together, and not just go on their own.
It being a very risky climb on the way up and wanted ppl to look out for each other.
A couple of guys in it were fast climbers and dont have the patience to wait for the guys tht are not able to keep up with the pace set by others.
In any case, everybody was like " If anyone cant continue, they just drop out and go back and the others can continue"
I was not ready with it, and decided against going.
I need not have worried, everyone managed to complete the full stretch, and it looks like a sunday and a monday still aint enough to recover..
But itz a very good exp, I was just feeling bad that I missed out.
Anyway, one door closed and another opened..
My colleague wanted to go to houston all of a sudden on fri evening..and we decided to drive all the way from phoenix.
Around 1200 miles, each way:-), guess it took us around 16 hrs to go there..
We went all the way to the Harbor and got a chance to look at any of 'Rita's' damages, if any.
Houston, was and is still', a maze of concrete bridges. I m not sure as to when they will put an end to the construction..
There seems to be a maze of them and it seems the construction engineers relish the site of one bridge jutting out on top of each other like a pack of cards..just like any of your Lego construction toys that you would have had., as a kid.
I sometimes get the feeling, that If you let these guys build your home.,they will have a direct walkway from your kitchen to your living room then an overbridge from he kitchen to the batroom and one more from the living room to the bathroom. As if thts not enough, your bedrooms will have individual bridges from each of these above rooms.
Boy..all those concrete structures and the effort it takes to build them.. not to mention the hardship it puts to the traveling public..is enormous.
I can seriously feel, how ppl must have felt while trying to flee from 'Rita'. It would have been better to stay put @ home during the time..
While there in Houston, got a chance to go that Balaji bhavan that everyone were
raving about as the best Vege place of late. For the first time ever, got hold of a Pav baaji Dosa..
Yessss.. dont blink..thts the name..
I was apprehensive, with good reason too..as everytime that I select a dish that I havent tasted before, it ends in disaster..and I end up getting ridiculed for my choice. But this time, it was awesome.. and more importantly the price was just about right.
Next time when you folks go to Houston, make it a point to go there..
Any way coming back to the trip, we had to stop at an immigration checkpoint on the way. You are forced to do it, even when you dont cross the US border..
Kinda stupid, because, u never get to know that such a thing is possible. Why on earth would anyone expect something on US soil, when you dont cross the border at all, is the question everyone will ask..and Rightly so.
The place in question was ElPaso,Texas and you have to pass that town to get into Texas when driving from Phoenix. that stupid jerk @ the outpost..had a look at my papers, and got hold of one line where the heading was a bit bolder than the other places.
All he asked was.." Why is it like this. Do you have any other papers"
Here was a gent questioning my valid papers given by the US govt on the pretext that one of the headings were in bold text. I was so perplexed that I did not know wat to say.
My friend luckily had a older copy and it was the same in that as well. We then managed to convince him, that this is how the US authorities do it and that we did not fudge it. He finally let us go.
Another funny incident happened right after this..a couple of hrs later..actually.
The speed limit in Texas was 75mph and I had set it to cruise at 80. I would have gone faster, if not for the fact that only recently had I exptied my wallet, at one obscure town on the way to Niagara falls, in NY.
The cop there had caught me for over speeding and had emptied $600 in just fines.
I was wary of getting another one and decided to play safe this time..as the incident was still fresh in memory..:-) and so imagine my surprise when a cop caught me this time..for being just 5 miles about the speed limit.
We were just having a conversation in the car that in Tx the cops are so f**King
M*r*ns that they will catch u even if u are just 6-7 miles above the speed limit.
and voila, the lights flashed behind me..
I had no insurance on the car, as it was my friends' car and we were wondering what the heck did he catch us for. He came over and said, " you know why I caught you."
"NO, Officer"
" you were going on 85. on a 75 stretch"
I just lost it right then and there... "NO WAY. I have set it on cruise., for the past hr or so...and I've not even accelerated at any time since then."
I just stopped short of saying he was lying..:-)
He kept repeating his, and I, my lines..
He finally got tired and asked me to step out..
He must have been totally thrown of balance with the way I talked, cause I knew for a fact that this time I never speeded, and wanted to avoid another ticket at all cost, and in all that hullaboo, he forgot to look into the insurance papers., luckily :-)
So I stepped out, and he asked me where Im going.
" We are going to meet a friend of my friend."
I then told him where we are driving from and when we are going back. He was so shocked that we were driving non stop for 16 hrs just to see someone for a couple of hrs then and then head back again..
"Are you crazy. You are just going back immediately today after seeing him"
I had by now started enjoyin this. and was amused at his expression. He just could not believe it and went and asked my friend about it, who basically said the same thing except that the person we were going to meet was his brother., while I had said, friend'.
SO he came back to me and said, "so this guy you are gonna meet, is he a friend
or a family member. "
" I guess family member, a cousin probably."
" so in few minutes itz changed from friend to family member to brother"
I was cornered. All I could do was, give a shrug of the shouders and a none too convinving smile..
"Do you have anything ilegal in the car trunk."
me: " Nope. nothing at all. YOu are free to check, if you want to"
"Can I "
" Im sure you can, officer. I dont see why" I said, tongue in cheek and then biting it immediately after I said that.
I sensed I'm pushing it too far..
Guess, at that point,he just got fed up, gave my license back and said.. "Drive safe man" and pushed of.
We finally managed to meet his friend..oopz cousin...nay nay..brother..;-) who again was astonished that we drove this long to just meet him.
The drive back was eventless..and I guess thats all we wanted..:-)
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