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So we lost again. I kind of thought that would happen so I never bothered to even watch the match. No w I believe that this is not one of those debacles that keep on happening to our cricket team, it just shows the inferiority of our cricket team compared to the team that we [...]

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As I was driving through, I saw this construction activity early morning at one site in Bangalore. If you see on the corner of the building, some workers are putting up scaffoldings. It made an interesting view because these workers were climbing up the scaffolds as they were building it up. Looked really complicated but [...]

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Since this seems to be holiday season in the west and the mail traffic is pretty low. So one is looking for anything to read and I get this interesting link from one of my friends. In his own words
Even if it is from Sun, good stuff!
Really interesting thought though. One can not help but [...]

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I went to an outbound management team building type of session this year and I saw this notice board in the resort. If you see the last conference listed, its title is very interesting. “Sex and Sexuality”.
There were lots of other residents of the resort interested in that conference.

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Forum Food Court Notice,
originally uploaded by vavasthi.
Now here is an interesting notice in the most upmarket (till today) mall’s food court. Rather than prosecuting the people who bring outside food, the mall management wants to prosecute the food itself.
I am sure food would not dare to enter after reading this notice.

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It is interesting to find news that almost makes you laugh. One needs a healthy dose of comedy everyday. If it is a real life comedy, so much the better. Now look at this news item. Natwar Singh goes on his usual rant and then he says
Pointing to the history of the Congress, he said [...]

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Here is a sane voice that I heard after a long time.
At a time when even the Prime Minister is emphasizing that Muslims need to be given greater access to modern education to remove their social backwardness, several Muslim intellectuals, religious scholars and leaders are suggesting that the Government scrap the Haj subsidy and spend [...]

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So Uttam Pradesh is proving a point again. Couple of bikers kidnapped the son of country head of Adobe. Sad story. I was reading the post from rediff. The most interesting paragraph is as follows.
Hideouts of known kidnappers are being raided in order to nab the culprits and rescue the child. “We have some leads,” [...]

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