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Thursday, August 19, 2010

It must be me :(

I feel like writing a poem now but nothing rhymes with AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!

Why is it always something dammit??? Why is my life and time wasted almost everyday with idiotic problems, the latest of which is the dratted Internet at office which happens to be in my name.

Two esteemed colleagues of mine stayed as guests for 12 days, gave me a total bill of 45000/- watching the FIFA world cup, sweetly left India after that and now I am landed with a legal notice since theres no one whos willing to pay for it...Not only that but my mailbox is flooded with nasty emails from them simply because I asked them to pay for what they used...

I cant decide who is nastier - them or the monstrous collection agents from the Internet company.

Why why why why WHYYYYYY is it me AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL the time????

Sunday, August 15, 2010

For, of and by the people?

On the eve of the Indian Independence anniversary, I would like to relate an appalling conversation I had yesterday with someone who is actually a good friend...lets call him UM by his initials...

UM: This NREGA program has to be stopped. Its just driving up the labor prices.
Me: What??? Maybe its a good thing that people have a choice now. Labour is so undervalued anyway.
UM: Excuse me?? Its like paying people to do nothing, theres very little tangible output!
Me: So??? Thousands of people in Govt departments do nothing...definitely dont produce "tangible output" but we pay them fat salaries...
UM: Thats no reason to defend a badly-designed program.
Me: Well, it provides employment, contains migration, increases the shockingly-low labour wages. Its a genuinely pro-poor intervention.
UM: But these people dont pick up any skills..
Me: They are doing unskilled work either ways..
UM: Tell me what is the use of this program. There is no construction of any public goods.
Me: Just like how a high-budget bridge that was never built tragically collapses due to rains and needs to be rebuilt?
UM: Oh come on. At the cost of 55000 crore rupees?
Me: Precisely..a fraction of our budget.
UM: Ok, we have slightly different views..
Me: Diametrically opposite you mean..

I got an sms today which said that we should be proud an Indian owns the East India Company now!!

To 63 glorious years of independence...we are so lucky we weren't born a century earlier!!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Unchained melody indeed...

Ive been watching this video all week, and Ive cracked up EVERY single time much to the disgust of my roommates :) I must be losing it no?

Sorry, cant let you answer that:)

Geek Mythology!

Last night, my colleague and I were on an overnight bus. He is a Brazilian-French guy who knows everything about everything...I always feel like a dunce when he talks, but thats a different issue...

When I say dunce, I really mean dunce because I decided to talk about Greek mythology..well, Greek philosophy actually, but we got nowhere with that.....

He: So you're interested in Greek Mythology?
Me: Well, I was when I was around 10 years old, I couldnt get enough of it back then...
He: Wow, thats more than what most 10 year-olds  do...so what do you know about it?
Me: Well, at the top of my head, theres Achilles, Agmemon and Odessyus...
He: You mean Agamemnon?
Me: Yes, thats right...
He: So what about him?
Me: He fought a war, with Paris I think..
He: And who is Paris?
Me: Paris from the judgment of Paris..he was the baby found on a hill by his parents..right?
He: Thats insane, I think you're getting confused with Hindu mythology...
Me: A bit unlikely, since I dont know Hindu mythology....anyways, I know that there were 3 goddesses...
He: There are around 5000 goddesses...
Me: No, three main goddesses that bid for the golden apple and aphrodyte got it since she promised the most beautiful woman on Earth as the guy's wife..
He: Which guy's wife?
Me: The guy who had the golden apple...
He: Not quite..
Me: Well, thats what I have read...
He: Have you even seen the movie Troy?
Me: No but I know Icarus who lost his wings and Achilles with his weak left heel and about the Trojan horse...
He: Thats just random info..
Me: Well, thats what I remember from the book I read..
He: And which book is this?
Me: I dont remember...
He: Nice...what else do you know?
Me: Umm...Menalus and pinelope, penelope?
He:You mean Me-ne-lau?
Me: Yes, and wasnt Penelope Odessyus' wife?
He: And who is Odessyus?
Me: Not sure but I know he traveled a lot...and that he had a lot of interesting but weird adventures on his travel and that the Trojan horse was his brainchild...
He: and??
Me: And I know Apollo is the sun-god..
He: So you just picked up bits and pieces..
Me: Thats more than what an average Indian knows about Greek Mythology...
He: You mean Geek Mythology?
Me: Fineeee....good night!!!

Saturday, August 07, 2010

One or many?

We read so many glowing descriptions of China's investment and interest in Africa - they're building roads, bridges, buildings, ports; what couldnt be achieved in decades is being done in months. But if you ask people whove been to Africa, theres only one response - Dude, the Chinese so rule the place. They're just ripping it off all the resources, just like what happened to India. Roads and rails to transport raw material out, ports and freight to flood the market with Chinese goods, labor intensive work to serve as employment for the Chinese...its just like a remotely controlled SEZ!

Not that I really care about the debate but statements like China is or India is doing something are a bit sketchy, with all due respect to historians...

In Prey, one of my all-time favorite science fiction books, a cloud of nano particles that are actually independent seem co-ordinated simply because they emanate each other. 

Both are just herd-mentality right? Difference in the degree of externality aside of course...

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

And thats how the cookie crumbles...

You are cutting corners..the usual...adding records to a DB manually rather than the oh-so-sophisticated front end...and after many hours into the night your sugar levels are dipping but you've done 2000 records...and then  for no reason, each subsequent record reminds you what you did....in the year 2001...in 2002.....ups and downs, in and outs and roundabouts...and 2008...2009...ouch!...you cant wait to get past it.all..and then its now 2010....you finally begin to breathe easy.....then you reach 2015...you're wondering where you will be...and soon it is 2030..it gets scary now...and finally 2050...where you actually begin to feel like crying....because you think of all those who wont be with you then..and suddenly you cant wait to get to 2075 and be done with the whole thing.....

I dont get paid enough to do this!!

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