Tag: random

  • Relativity – on a Sunday Morning

    More than a quarter of the year has passed and things seem to still stand where they are. The passing, or shall i say flying, of time makes one feel how insignificant we are. In the big huge universe, we are mere speck of dust leasing sometime to spend here.

    In entertainment parlance, what relevance does a hit movie play in context of a decade? How does it matter if about a sporting great in the context of a century. Who cares about the veracity of a town in the context of multiple centuries. From this perspective, everything becomes relative.

    To make someone understand the importance of a milli second, we refer to a person who met with an accident which could have been averted by a split second. Similarly, to make one realise the futility of a particular incident, refer to a century.

    How relevant is that Monday morning presentation in the context of a decade. Do you remember what were you presenting in 2006? No one does!

    Think, this is the best possible living example of Einstein’s theory of relativity. The importance, or lack of it, is purely determined by the frame of reference.

    lets say, Completing the task in hand is of utmost priority right now. Right then, you get a call from a friend who has just met with an accident and needs your help. Will the task still be of the same importance?

    Of course, for some, even a ping on Facebook would disrupt the priority order.

    Enough said. I am sure by now you have decided the importance to place on reading such write-ups.

    It is already 12:30 on the clock! Now with this context that i am made aware of, sorry but this write up takes a lower priority. I have a presentation to work on!

    Until next time!

  • Shower up!

    Happy Diwali folks. I know it is too late, and inspite of all the promises during the launch, I have not updated for sometime now. Well, I was on a holiday, and I strongly have a clear work life balance. Phew!

    Also have been travelling, across south india of late. Nothing close to the travel that I did during induction into my job, but more or less there. In the last one month I have been to Chennai, Cochin, back to Bangalore and then to Hubli. Then again to Bangalore, to vizag and then back to Bangalore. A recent trip to a sea, and back again to Hubli. Well, I don’t think I should  b counting Bangalore to Hubli trip as travelling. It is more like a weekly thing of late.

    Cleanliness is next to godliness and no doubt in that. But well,  while travelling randomly at places, you do tend to compromise on one thing – BATHING. There are times when you don’t be able to find a proper place to take a shower for the day. There are other days when you just don’t have the required change of clean clothes, so why bath at all. Well, most of the times plain simple you just don’t feel like bathing.

    Well, anyone who has been in a B-School campus for two years, and especially if your campus was located in the northern part of the country, has sure gone through days of this ordeal. No bath. It is plain simple damn so cold. And well, “I have come to the B-School to get a fat package, not to take a bath in the well maintained bathrooms“.

    A typical morning in a B-School.

    7:45AM: Neighbour ( if you are in good terms with him/her) wakes you up for the class at 8. You mentally calculate, and say to yourself,” chuck the bath!”, and sleep again. See the bath is the first thing to be foregone!!!

    After chucking the other important ablutions too, you finally wake up at 7:57AM for the class at 8. Pop in a ciggie into the mouth, and jog to the class. The ciggie acts like a mouth freshener early in the morning, and a good recharge too. Well, the tobacco smells better than the early morning mouth odour.

    Well, that takes care of oral odour, what about the body odour? Deodarants. AXE in fact even had an event once in campus, distributing free samples to everyone. Rightly targeted audience I would say.

    Now, I have been using these smart phones too much of late, and wondered how would it be having an IPhone app to help the same. Well, there is an app even to calculate the tip to be given after a meal in a restaurant. So, “Should you Shower?” app would be very popular am sure. What exactly would it look like?

    IPhone Shower App
    Iphone App

    Any takers???

  • >Contra Vs. Tetris

    >May 1995, i remember. I was back from my maternal grandparents place, and i had got along a TV video game from delhi. It was much in in vogue, and i remember being the cynosure of all.

    Some games that i in particular remember there – Super Mario, Contra, tetris, goonies. Well, why exactly am i raving about these right now??

    Came across a very funny pic on the internet depicting the meet of two popular games of those times, and this got me thinking about those good olden days, where the normal catridge driven video games itself was a thing of awe. Where in this age of PS, XBOS, Nintendo’s and all the high processor guzzling games do they stand?? no where!

    Remember Contra – the game with two street warriors fighting it out in the jungle. and tetris – the brick game, which very welll could qualify as the most widely played game in all forms.

    Now, look at this pic.
    contra tetris

  • >Post it

    >Well, already posted. now what??? 🙂

    i am sure we have all seen those tiny sheets of colourful paper on everybody’s desk, with some crap written on it.

    Post it notes, as we know are those yellow cute looking small pages that are stuck all around the office desk just to prove that the owner of the desk actually works very hard.

    Wiki defines it thus, “A Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces.”. Ah! Just a small iece of yellow paper, having one small side with adhesives.

    Of late, the use of post it notes has increased from its normal usage. We use it for different things, to do different activities, and we even use it online. Some of the funny things possible with the innocent loking, un suspicious post it notes :

    1. Use sticky notes to leave messages on a door – do not do this at home if you have security problems.
    2. Use them as temporary design elements that can be moved around.
    3. Add a sticky note to food items to let people know any number of things, such as date of use, who the food is for, what the ingredients are, and so on.
    4. wanna quit staring at the chic opposite desk – use these notes. no!! not for ciggarettes!
    5. Dress up in sticky notes
    6. keep a small flame going – Burn them all!!!
    7. Make a small cheap book – Are they free in office??
    8. Make clothes for your pencils and pens
    9. Put small sticky parts on your eyelids and blink your eyes – Aankh Maaro!!!
    10. and ofcourse, you can use them the way they are supposed to be used! To write reminders, dumb!!

    I was recently at a friends place, and saw the complete use of these small tiny papers. This guy has quit his job, and to top it has recently got married. His sticky note read:
    1. Make a LIST. ( ticked)
    2. cross off item number 1. ( ticked again)
    3.
    4. think of the third point to write
    5. surf the net( tick, tick tick…..)
    6. tell wifey “ sent 10 resumes!!!”

    One thing where these post it notes also help is to spy. Want to know what your colleague is upto? Have a sneak peek into his trash bin and read all the torn out notes.

    Want to appear doing, or planning to do a lot of things? Post it all, on these sticky notes and not on twitter!!!

    Well, where did I get this awesome idea of writing a post on post it notes ( pun!! Yeah yeah!!). Again, at a friends place, where she had written quite important things on this yellow paper, and left it in open for the prying eyes. Her note:
    1. Take medicine
    2. eat rusk
    3. buy a washing machine
    4. use the washing machine
    5. buy an iron box
    6. use the iron box everyday
    7. eat breakfast everyday!
    8. things I can’t talk about on this blog!!!

    Well, I just remembered something, let me write it down the notes lest I forget it.

    p.s.: note on the note: “Smoke!”