Wordsworthian world

Woke up at 5.45 am. Cloudy and pleasant climate.
Took bath, dressed and ventured out.
Slight drizzle! Ah...... Cool wind fondled my face.
Drove to the temple. Prayed in peace.
All around wet, wet, wet. Sublime start of the monsoon.
Got reminded of Kerala. :-)
Came back and had hot filter coffee, with newspaper, to bolster the enjoyment.
What a start to the week!!
God is in his heaven and all's right with the world!

Melancholy

"He tries to please them all
This bitter man he is
Throughout his life the same
He's battled constantly
This fight he cannot win
A tired man they see no longer cares
The old man then prepares
To die regretfully
That old man here is me
What I've felt What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be Never see
Won't see what might have been
What I've felt What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven "
- Metallica

Sudoku! Here I come!

I have caught on Sudoku! It is a problem of a 9x9 square, where you will have to fill them up in a particular fashion by 9 sets of numbers from 1 to 9. The number in a cell should not be placed again in the row, column and 3x3 square of which the cell is a member. You can see the puzzle in a way, like, a particular number would not allow its type in the row, column and square of which it is a subset.It is pretty much like mafia family carving up territories. You have to arrange the gangsters(numbers) in a way that they reside peacefully.Almost every news paper worth its pulp, now publish Sudoku. I started with Hindu which has the easiest puzzles. Hindustan Times has a bit more tougher puzzles. Sudoku website scared me stiff! Easier puzzles bore me. I am lazy to try the tougher ones! Anyway, I end up leaving them after, say, 120 seconds!!

Manly musings!

The other day,I saw a curious article in the newspaper. It reported that actress Cameron Diaz was threatened by a model when she accidentally stepped on her dress, and how!.The model threatened that she would take away Cameron's beau Justin Timberlake!! Whoopee...! That set me thinking about the status of us men in the mind of women. Are men a commodity to be stolen? That too over a trifling thing as stepping on a dress? Men are not known to boast their abilities and intentions to steal a woman. Even if they do, they do without a matter of advertisement. No Sir! The men are publicity shy of such achievements. Hmmm.... It may also be because of the punishment that they get when it becomes known about their peccadiloes. Either they come to grievous bodily harm due to the woman's husband or they get to keep what they pilfered, the woman, I mean. Which punishment is more inhuman, I cannot say. But I can say onething. Men are more honourable in fights. They may punch, they may spout only devil knows what. They won't speak of "pickpocketing" women, like that model spoke of Justin Timberlake! Hope Justin doesn't betray manly self-respect.

Tongue tied!

You can survive in any office anywhere, even though you don't know the language of the region. But once you are outside the office, you are sunk if you don't know the lingo of the land.See my plight, here i am ensconced in heart of Hindiland without the power of communication to the natives! It gets even more pathetic when you have to deal with the servant maid, barber, shopkeeper and so forth. The servant maid comes to work like a state visit by the President! Clothes unwashed and vessels uncleaned vie for her attention for God knows how many days. No, maybe even the God doesn't know. Only she, our servant maid almighty, knows. The problem is to convey to her that she is not in a software company to visit us as she pleases and work when she deigns to.It is we who are employed in a software firm, she doesn't comprehend! And my deeply thought and planned "kyon" and "kya" gets hosed down by a barrage of her Hindi which flies past me like a Chennai bus past the waiting people. She comes once in 10 days and works for an hour during her visit. Her salary, I am not about to reveal, for software professionals may queue up our house to earn that kind of money for a 4 hour job per month. Anyway any feeble attempts to reduce her salary for her continous absence fail miserably. My room mate whose Hindi is better than mine tried to do so, this weekend. He sidled up to her and placed by her, whatever amount that we had decided would give her. She snorted at him, gave him an earful (of Hindi, of course) and didn't even touch the money which my roommate very respectfully placed in front of her ( Almost like an offering to a deity, I think). He scampered away. She after finishing her one hour work managed to inform me ( My room mate was no longer in the house) that we were to place whatever amount that was due on the kitchen shelf by the next day! I nodded meekly. Nodding, I can do in any language. A multi lingual nodder, you can say.How I manage to deal with other people like barber and vendors is altogether a different story, nay, novel in the making!

Anger Management!

There are two kinds of people in this world. One kind of people are humans. The rest are called Managers.
It is a very mysterious process by which a human being turns into a manager.
It galls me when you are measured based on your servility and not your stuff!
The signs of a manager:

1. He'll stop working as soon he becomes one.
2. He won't bother to "learn" what goes on in work.
3. He will try to bully or already be one
4. He will spawn chamchas and nurture them

The one that gets my goat is even in a knowledge management industry, managers who evaluate people by the shine they get on their ass, are to be found! :-((

Such management makes me angry. Lousy world!

Bloggers of the world unite

It's a funny world. There are thousands of bloggers out here. But still I get ridiculed when I talk about my blog! :-(
My friends view as an exercise to while away time. :-((
With a snort and a laugh,
you get fobbed off;
Without a wee bit a thought,
they put down your spot.
Their brains pickled in thyme,
make you churn a stupid rhyme!
:-(

aphorisms

aphorisms

Help me! (You gotta be a Tamilian for this)

Can anybody point out the difference between PazhangkAlam and PurAnakkAlam? One obstinate friend of mine insists that there is. But he is not able to tell what it is. :-(

As we go on...

As we go on...

I have to study for my FLMI exams. But here I am, creating a perfectly useless blog

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Blog testing 1, 2, 3!!!