Posted in life, people on Sep 23rd, 2007 5 Comments »
Technically tough Amma is back and it is really nice to see her make coffee for me, clean the house which was in real mess (courtesy – Karthick Raghavan the great) and make delcious food. Two months ago, bought a 29 inch Samsung telly and opted for the Tata Sky DTH service. In the mid of last month, Sun [...]
Posted in life, people on Sep 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I met or meet a lot of people in my life and some of them have inspired or keep inspiring me. This is going to be a series of posts where in I am going to write about people who have inspired me. I am going to start off with characters at work and end [...]
Posted in Just for Jolly, blog, life, pastime on Aug 6th, 2007 3 Comments »
We miss your blog. What happened to you? Why are you not blogging regularly? One fine morning, I received tonnes of such SMS and emails. I was slowly replying to them all. That is when my dad switched off the fans and reminded me that I have slept for twelve hours straight. Yet another weekend [...]
Posted in life, people, provoking Perceptions on Jul 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
A friend of mine asked me. ” Can you think of a life without hefty pay packets (thanks to IT) , Weekend cinemas, vacations? ” Me : ” I am not pro poor and at the same time I am not pro rich. I am poor when I am really poor and I am rich when I [...]
Posted in Humor, Just for Jolly, life on Jun 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
If you are a late night or early morning TV watcher, you might be familiar with shows where people sell gem stones, change names and marriage dates, sell medicines and tips for a robust sex life, rebuild houses etc with the only goal of bringing prosperity and happiness into people’s life. People trust them all because they need instant success in [...]
Posted in life, people on May 28th, 2007 5 Comments »
March 2000, we were at the end of our school career and were ready to give our 12th board exams anytime. This, after a myriad cycle tests and revision exams. During my higher secondary, my two best buddies were Jagan and Anand. I got introduced to Thirumal through Anand and Jagan. The four of us were classmates. [...]
Posted in Just for Jolly, life, people on May 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Once I and my friend had to push a bike, which refused to start, for a mile, to a mechanic. There is a phrase in Tamil slang which tells about the spanner number 10. It goes this way “pattham number spanner”. Mr.Mechanic commanded his sub-ordinate for the spanner number 10 and he used it to fix the issue in [...]
Posted in life, management, people on Apr 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
CSC based out of California is to acquire Covansys for $34.00 per share quotes the press release. Yet another acquisition and why am I writing about it? The former is gonna be my new employer and the latter will become my old employer. As with every acquisition, lots of rumours are going around both in [...]