Travel: Hope Floats…

Just back from the most perfect holiday… well as the title says it was almost perfect… I am still unsure what was missing but I am sure that as I recount my experiences I will find it…

You know that scene when Rajnikanth finds out that he has two villains to kill but is left with only one bullet… yeah, I know life’s a bitch… so… what are you gonna do?

Something like that happened with me too… I had been planning for a vacation for a long, long, long time and nothing interesting was forthcoming… Some or the other thing always got messed up… sometimes my friends weren’t free, sometimes I wasn’t available, and sometimes the wallets did not permit… I mean going on an intergalactic ride needs a space shuttle and building a spacecraft does not exactly cost peanuts which my company pays… so… I was doomed…

But then one of the training that I went thru’ came to my rescue… the training was pretty unique too… It was about ‘around the world, without a penny’… and that is what I did… I spent rupees… lots of them… the amount would have been enough to pay for a dinner of four at Tandoor (an upscale restaurant) at Bangalore….

So I went home got out all the wedding invitations I had received and did that ‘inky-pinky-ponky’ routine and hooray! I won a chance to visit Mumbai and attend a friend’s wedding (Not my first choice but I was sure that I did not want to spend a fortune on attending a wedding in US)… it was a blessing in disguise… I could visit the glam cap of India… (glam cap means glamour capital which means spaghetti tops and micro minis, stilleto heels and lacy underthings… I am getting ahead of myself here…) So… I was excited…(I am talking about my mood here…)

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A veering post…

Disclaimer: You will not read anything meaningful in this post. There is no relevance whatsoever of any sentence with its previous counterpart and any semblance of that happening is purely a coincidence. In case you find this post interesting please reread there must be something wrong. If you are my 6th grade English teacher, “Yes, I know I am supposed to use shorter sentences. But I won’t because I don’t want to”

Random Quote: Incompetence is widespread; I just look at the guys around… I am sure my friends find that in abundance

Everybody loves to give advice… “Do this…”, “Don’t do that…” - The reason is simple and the benefit twofold:

1. You get to know the result of the ‘proposed solution’ using somebody else as a “guinea pig”, of their own free will…
2. You get a mental boost out of undermining his/her abilities to solve the problem in both of your minds, though more importantly his/hers…

 

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information technology foxed…

The foxy lady Olivia Munn is back and back with a ‘bang’! She is the new starlet hosting the viral video  for Dell Computers “IT Through The Decades…”

The clip is more of a marketing ploy that is directed at the goof-ups or poor IT-related decisions companies have made the past few decades i.e. ‘78 thru 2008. In the clip, Mike ‘the IT guy’ suggests ‘new’ technologies like databases and bar codes and gets made fun of by his colleagues. Olivia doesn’t have a million lines but then she was never hired to speak anyways, she does what she does best… adding a lot of sex appeal to the YouTube clip.

Warning: It’s a little longer than what is normal for viral clips… Olivia fans will also probably get a kick out of seeing her dressed up in retro 70’s and 80’s outfits.