Almost new year...

Here I am... blogging... while my friends from the colony are out partying. Not that I am much of a party animal anyway.
My mind has been preoccupied the whole day about the future of my company here. FYI I work for a tech. company in Chennai which has recently been acquired by a global tech giant. Sounds good?? Not really... They may want to loose some flab that resulted from the new acquisition. My news (big) bosses may want to axe the Chennai operations in order to achieve that. Brr... that sure seems a bleak thought coz I am not in a mood to search for a job (again). I am speculating that there is some serious news awaiting me early next week. Well... we shall know anyway during the course of next week coz my manager from the US is paying us a visit and it looks like she has some serious news for us. It really is the dumps when you are pretty much at the bottom of the ladder. One really doesn't seem to know what is happening in the company (management-wise). That's one of the reasons I wanna do a business degree, so that I can dive head first into the management clique ( though I don't seem to be making much headway in this particular direction either ).
Guess I have cibbed enough for the day... Anyway, I came across this good blog today. It's is by this guy Anand Sridharan. He has got some pretty interesting posts about India and business in India. I shall be adding a link to his blog on mine later on.
Moving on to other( and the main) news... Wanna wish everybody a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Hope more people turn atheists this year making the world a much better place to live in...
Hope I get serious with life.
Hope Lalu Yadav retires from politics. Also Sonia Gandhi and all the other dynasty politicians...
Hope they throw this f****** CAS(Conditional Access System for Cable TV) out of Chennai before the FIFA World Cup.


"Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness"
--- "The Architect", Matrix Reloaded

The case of the "possessed" Remote Control

Nope. The TV remote control is not possessed by an evil spirit. It is right now possessed by my mom. You see, it is the daily soap opera time on "Sun TV". She will rather take a rampaging T-Rex head on than lose ownership of the remote. All you Tamil guys who live with your family can probably understand what I mean.
And how good are these Mega Soaps worth fighting for? Trust me... the amount of nonsense in these soaps are absolutely fatal to mere mortals like you and me.
Not even a Tsunami can make her let go of the remote control. Nice Tsunami joke...eh?
I hate it. Period.
I absolutely hate it when people use the Tsunami (That's the Dec '04 Indian Ocean Tsunami in case you aren't from India) to crack a joke. It is total callousness on the part of the people who do this. It is also an insult to the memory of the people who died ( 10000+ in India alone) due to the Tsunami. You don't hear any Americans joke about 9/11 do you? The other day I saw actor Vivek crack a joke about Tsunami in the movie "Anniyan". Will someone tell him that IT IS NOT FUNNY!!!
I have been watching heartening stuff about the Tsunami vicitims rehabilitation all day. The resilience of the human spirit is amazing. I heard that the district collector is doing a good job in Nagapattinam. Hope he keeps it that way. Nothing more to add right now.

PS: I am sorry about the Tsunami joke that I used too... but I had to drive home the point with an example

Nasty week

Oh man!!!
What a way to end the week...
Was so close to finishing the project... and BOOM the application crashes for no good reason. Now I have gotta work through the weekend. Man I hate that.
To top it, couldn't win a single game of table tennis during the evening. Lost every single game. Can you believe that?
At times wish life was a lot simpler.
But then I realize it is these complexities that make men great.
What the.... Did I just write that?
Hmm...Not bad.

My Cake!!!!!!!!

That's my cake!!!!!!
Had to eat it though I am an ethical vegetarian..... It sure was tasty. Probably because I am having one after a long time...
Thanks for the party guys!!!!!!!!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Nonsense

Yes... Watched the movie today. It was the usual load of crap packaged slickly in mindblowing special effects. But should say that JK Rowling has what it takes to keep the kids rivetted to their seats (I meant the plot).
What the hell... my mind simply ain't working now... Maybe some other time...