Over the last couple of months, have probably watched more cricket (sometimes staying up all night and being all dreamy eyed at work all day) than I ever could if I were in India. I get to watch a whole One dayer when its a day game on a week day. Could I watch it if I were back home? Not a chance.
Going by the rate at which willow tv is hiking the prices, it looks like this fever is catching on. After selling the india pak series at 90 bucks for the one day series, they have the audacity to sell ind eng series at 170.
Maybe they'll next sell a SL-BAN series for 200 bucks.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Long time no blog
My blogging is in bursts. If I blog today, I very well might blog tomorrow too. But don't try to apply some theorem and say that because you blogged yesterday and you blogged today and since you generally blog tomorrow if you blog today, you blog every day. (Phew that was a long sentence)
That just doesn't work. Something or the other comes up and I forget completely about my duty towards my blog.
That just doesn't work. Something or the other comes up and I forget completely about my duty towards my blog.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
India trip!!!
Typical responses I received when I visited India late last year.
Mom - You appear to have grown taller. (No complaints about that at all).
Dad - You look like you're taking good care of your health!!! (No complaints about that either).
Neighbor 1 (Mrs. Kumar) - You look nice and healthy now. (Calls out to my mom next) I know a girl in my family (This was the general response in the later part of my trip when I’d grown healthy eating good food and doing nothing other than watching TV)
Neighbor 2 (Mrs. Rajan) - (Calling out to my mom) Nimma huduga idda haage iddane. (Your son hasn’t changed one bit) (This was the general response in the early part of my trip)
Friend 1 (the emotional guy in any group) - Maaaan, I really missed you. I had a big crisis in my life. Needed a friend to talk to during that time. ?
Friend 2 (the one we could never tolerate) - So, what is your salary man? You must be earning in dollars. (No, I receive it in Rupees. I go to the Forex counter in the bank and get it exchanged for dollars).
Friend 3 - You haven’t changed one bit? You don’t even have a hint of an accent.
Friend 4,5,6,... - So, this is your treat right? ;-) Of Course!!!
Will update this post with more as I re-collect.
No offence meant to anyone who think they are being referred to here. Believe me, each of these responses were received as they were expected to be received. :-)
Mom - You appear to have grown taller. (No complaints about that at all).
Dad - You look like you're taking good care of your health!!! (No complaints about that either).
Neighbor 1 (Mrs. Kumar) - You look nice and healthy now. (Calls out to my mom next) I know a girl in my family (This was the general response in the later part of my trip when I’d grown healthy eating good food and doing nothing other than watching TV)
Neighbor 2 (Mrs. Rajan) - (Calling out to my mom) Nimma huduga idda haage iddane. (Your son hasn’t changed one bit) (This was the general response in the early part of my trip)
Friend 1 (the emotional guy in any group) - Maaaan, I really missed you. I had a big crisis in my life. Needed a friend to talk to during that time. ?
Friend 2 (the one we could never tolerate) - So, what is your salary man? You must be earning in dollars. (No, I receive it in Rupees. I go to the Forex counter in the bank and get it exchanged for dollars).
Friend 3 - You haven’t changed one bit? You don’t even have a hint of an accent.
Friend 4,5,6,... - So, this is your treat right? ;-) Of Course!!!
Will update this post with more as I re-collect.
No offence meant to anyone who think they are being referred to here. Believe me, each of these responses were received as they were expected to be received. :-)
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Am I fat or Am I not?
In three weeks in India, I've got the multitude of opinions on whether I had put on a lot or whether I'd slimmed down based on when the person had last seen me. That's when I had this brain-wave of creating a website http://www.amifatornot.com ... Sadly someone's already thought of it and implemented it too. Am planning to post my pic and see what results I get to the question.
Another interesting site on similar lines is http://www.hotornot.com :-)
Another interesting site on similar lines is http://www.hotornot.com :-)
Nigerian Bank fraud scam
Anyone who's got some kind of spam has to have got the e-mail about the Nigerian Bank Account with lots of money and no claimants or the Lottery winner e-mail. I have to admit, I was one of those who did fall prey to this scam to an extent in that I did believe it when I first saw it. Then on doing some research, found that a million others had got it. Luckily for me, I got this mail for the first time when I was in school and didn't have Bank account details to reveal. :-))
A few years back, I got another variation of a rich Nigerian Dictator who got killed and his last name happened to Randhir (that's my first name). Because of the common name, my dear benefactor was going to produce some papers to prove that I was the next of kin of this Nigerian Dictator and so the money would get transferred to my account. I sent an innocent reply to that mail saying that I was all excited that he had found me and not some other Randhir. I told him that since I had just come into the US, I did not have a bank account. Could he please send me the money as a cheque so that I could deposit it once I opened my account. I had my share of fun and ended the mail chain by using all the swear words I could think off. :-))
Although I don't have the e-mails archived, here are some similar jobless people like me who've gone one step ahead and created a website of their experiences:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
Read at leisure.
A few years back, I got another variation of a rich Nigerian Dictator who got killed and his last name happened to Randhir (that's my first name). Because of the common name, my dear benefactor was going to produce some papers to prove that I was the next of kin of this Nigerian Dictator and so the money would get transferred to my account. I sent an innocent reply to that mail saying that I was all excited that he had found me and not some other Randhir. I told him that since I had just come into the US, I did not have a bank account. Could he please send me the money as a cheque so that I could deposit it once I opened my account. I had my share of fun and ended the mail chain by using all the swear words I could think off. :-))
Although I don't have the e-mails archived, here are some similar jobless people like me who've gone one step ahead and created a website of their experiences:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
Read at leisure.
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