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Entries from June 2008

Finally

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

India won, for once we snatched victory from jaws of defeat. I thought bhajji had almost gifted the match to Pakistan. Anyway, all is well that ends well. Congratulations to all India team supporters, to other who don’t like us winning, go to hell.

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T20 cricket finals

September 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I decided to give a miss to the T20 finals. May be I will go an watch the second innings. Just now checked on rediff.com, Yuvaraj has just departed at 14 off 19 balls. I think irrespective of what happens to the match, this is good for the team in long run, otherwise the [...]

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Ulta Pulta Alliance

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Today again I heard this news item that CPI warns the UPA, so I thought there is too much warning going on now-a-days. Just to validate my doubt, I did google search for “CPI warn UPA”. See the results for yourself. All these news items are not necessarily from the same day. So I don’t [...]

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Ram Sethu

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

There seems to be a whole lot politics going around the Ram Sethu. I am not sure if it was made by vanar sena or somebody else. But I think the fact that we want to clean-it up is bizzare.
Even Archeological Survey of India which filed the affidavit that resulted in the political mess, agrees [...]

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Really bad food quality

September 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to eat in my office cafeteria after a gap of 2 years. I thought that in last two years the food quality would have at least improved little bit. But my hopes were shattered. See for yourself.

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Mclaren and F1

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

As if F1 racing was not interesting enough, now it has additional angles of espionage and deceit. So Mclaren have been stripped of their constructor points but most confounding angle to the judgment is following statement.
However, due to the exceptional circumstances in which the FIA gave the team’s drivers an immunity in return for providing [...]

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Today’s morning commute

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday night it rained all night. So morning commute was full of detours and water logged roads. See for yourself.

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How does a Tech MNC catch mice

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

The first surprise is that the MNC has its facility completely infested with MICE. The second surprise is that they seem to be using a home built mouse-trap. I would think they would be using some high-tech solution to get rid of mice.

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Bizzare traffic in Bangalore

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

You can never guess the direction of traffic.

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Mother of all traffic jams

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

I generally try to get to office very early in the morning to avoid traffic jams. But it seems the big bad world has figured out my plan. See this traffic jam at 7AM.

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