Saturday, October 21, 2006

Navjot Singh Siddhu - As proud as a cat's whiskers

These are some of the best quotes by the great Navjot Singh Siddhu..
  1. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an incoming train which will run them over.
  2. Experience is like a comb that life gives U when U are bald.
  3. Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taximeter.
  4. He is like Indian three-wheeler, which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot go beyond 30!
  5. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.
  6. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.
  7. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!
  8. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United.
  9. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls & everything else falls!
  10. U cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.
  11. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.
  12. The cat with gloves catches no mice.
  13. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
  14. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.
  15. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies & for the same reason.
  16. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa.
Now these are the BEST EVER QUOTES one can think of.. [ Must Read ]
  1. Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.
  2. After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
  3. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.
  4. That ball went so high it could have got an air hostess down with it.
  5. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run & midway sent him back & Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."
  6. Wickets are like wives - U never know which way they will turn!
  7. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.
  8. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire, ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain T&T "Eddie ichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands.
  9. U got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
  10. Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
  11. The gap between the bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Festive Season Begins.

Probably one of the worst things i ever did in my life.
I went shopping 4 days from diwali. And my god, the entire population of the city seems to have gathered in the same place. Thats how crowded it was !!!
These guys who run the garments shop just enjoy this season. So, do ppl who own sweets shop. Now, i have gotta mention this. I am sure u wud have recieved loads of sweets from ur relatives and neighbors in yesteryears. The pack contains roughly half kilo of milk sweets in various colors. But i always wonder why they taste the same. And when u have 2 or 3 sweets, u kinda get bored with the taste.
Some people beg to differ and send u pack of haldiram sweets. Ya, they taste gud. And the saddest part is they get over so quickly.. I hope someone gives me a pack of Lays chips or Cadbury's celebration this time around.
One thing, that i have noticed, is the decreasing amount of crackers every year. Not long back, the cracker season sets in as early as month b4 diwali.. Over the years, it has steadily reduced, and this year the cracker season has not set in yet [ Atleast in my area ]. And it is only days away from diwali.
And unfortunately, for many ppl, diwali has fallen on a saturday this yr. Ppl wud want diwali to always fall on monday or friday.

Thats it for now, Happy Diwali !!!
Have fun.

Monday, October 16, 2006

List of Proxies

For all those ppl who are not able to access Orkut or other mailing services at their workplace, u gotta check these links. [ Word of caution. Some pages might contain explicit material ]

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www.anonycat.com
www.birdsflyfast.com
www.cooltunnel.com
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www.btunnel.com

Back Again !!!

Its been one of those days i've been waiting for a very long time. Ya, Its Vacation time. The last few months have been hectic to say the least. Its not long before these days of laziness comes to an end and the busy days start again.

Leave alone technical things that i have acquired in the last two months, there are many other things that i have become familiar with.

First, the different type of ppl here make life interesting. There are ppl from Kerala, Andhra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu (only a few ). And ppl from orissa, Delhi and West Bengal as well. As always, when u have a group of 100 ppl with u, u get all kinds of ppl in it. The highly intelligent, the absolutely lazy ( Of course datz me ), the highly disciplined, the innovative ones. A Kind of every breed.

The next thing that i have found very very interesting is the concept of Communication. [Not the technical one]. How important is it ??? They no longer call it Communication. They call it Careful Communication. Every word u speak/write is measured to a very deep extent. Info abt u are understood with every sentence u speak. Aggressive, Assertive & Acceptance. I just feel, inspite of severest of efforts, the educational system of India fails to provide a student with good communicational skills. I never get bored of telling it over and over again. We probably have the poorest form of educational system ever invented. The concept of making a student write a 3hr exam is out of sense. Somewhere down the line, this has to change.

As far as tech stuff is concerned, i just got uploaded with more and more of content. Be it Control systems or Normalization or PL/SQL or Avionics or Virtual Destructors, my tech knowledge has just grown by leaps and bounds. And i owe a lot to my trainers for that fact.

Ha. Before i forget. How much is Microsoft Office suite used in your office. My god, I never expected to use so much of Word, Excel, ppts. I seem to use a lot of Microsoft products. Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Visual Studios, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Communicator. Not to forget Windows Xp. Oooooh. Microsoft might just continue its dominance in this area forever, for i see very few ppl challenging in this area. But i DONT use Internet Explorer. That wil do abt my corporate life.

Now to the lighter side of life, Its festive time in India. Diwali comes again. Diwali, to me is, sweets, sweets & sweets. Laziness is always included..

Even as i write, the men in blue are finding answers for a seemingly very difficult question to answer. Why dont they play cricket properly ? Getting a team bowled out for 125.. Going into break with 55 runs on the board in 8 overs with 9 wickets in hand. How do u expect a team to end up scoring 126 losing 6 wickets. The pitch can be blamed to certain extent. But the performance was certainly below par.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

World's shortest horror story

"When the world's last man was alone in his room, the door was knocked..."