Monthly Archives: January 2008

Interview with Me!

January 18, 2008
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A fellow blogger, Sundar Rajan, made the mistake of inviting me for an interview on his blog. I said some really dense things like “Art is the side effect of someone’s passion” and other absurdities like that. Head over to his blog to read the full interview. You will not be disappointed!

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Why is everyone a “Nature Lover”?

January 16, 2008
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Have you noticed how everyone seems to “Want to get out of the city and reconnect with nature” these days? It’s almost like a fad. People keep saying how they went to this-or-that forest and how beautiful it was. I’m not really a “nature” type person. I LOVE living in the city and hate...

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New Business Model

January 15, 2008
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As all of you already know, this blog is a part of my latest get rich quick scheme. This is a part of my master plan to take over the universe. Only thing is that it has not been working very well! So, I’ve been on an overdrive in the past few weeks to...

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Pappu Pandey reporting from the Auto Expo!

January 13, 2008
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Today, we have a special interview with a special person. Meet Pappu Pandey! Pappu Pandey has been spending the week at the recently concluded Auto Expo, and has graciously agreed to do an interview for us. What follows is a transcript of this interview. Me: “So Pappu, you’ve been at the Auto Expo for...

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How to introduce yourself to Girls!

January 10, 2008
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The 1-hour torture called ‘Chemistry lab’ is finally over. I’m always glad to get out of the Chemistry lab, because it makes me feel like a witch mixing all those acids and salts and whatnot together. And a bad witch at that, because my potion never turns out quite the color it should. Anyway,...

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A Tribute to the AutoRickshaw

January 8, 2008
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A Tribute to the AutoRickshaw Look around, the roads seem strangely quite and peacefulNo noise and Pollution? Nothing running amok like a mad bull?A flash of lightning, and it jumps out from the frying pan,Here comes the AutoRickshaw, so watch out Super-Man! You glide through the roads with poise and graceSpewing poisonous smoke onto...

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How to fix Bad Umpiring

January 7, 2008
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Doesn’t it seem like whenever the Indian cricket team visits Australia, there is some controversy or the other. The latest one, this time, is the really bad umpiring. I mean, how can the umpiring be so stupid? The ICC has to get up and take notice. And as usual, the ICC is out of...

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New plan to avoid Movies!

January 6, 2008
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Earlier this year, I had resolved to see what could be done to avoid watching all the top-10 worst movies this year again. I discussed the situation with the wife, and she skillfully convinced me that it is my own fault that the movies are bad. Not only that, she also proved to me...

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My Universal Notebook

January 3, 2008
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Back in school, they had this really weird concept of maintaining a different notebook for each subject. Not just one notebook, but several per subject – Home Work, Class Work, Neat Work and whatnot. I didn’t believe in this system. Instead, I just had this one 200-pages long note book that I called the...

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Open letter to all my orkut friends

January 2, 2008
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Open letter to all my orkut friends

To all my dear “Orkut Friends”, I really appreciate all the new year’s wishes that ya’ll have left so thoughtfully. I was especially touched with how personalized each message was. In this age of mass emailing and SPAM, you all have really moved me with your thoughtful scraps. And that too on Orkut! A...

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