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• Quick...Now say this with all the style and attitude you got!

"Hello India.....Do you like Akon?
The crowd: yeah (loud)
Do you like the Black Eyed Peas?
Crowd: Yeah (again)
Do you know who's the Goadfather of them all?
Crowd: (muffled sounds)
Here comes WYCLEF JEAN!
Crowd: (loud cheering)"

Was at the Hard Rock cafe a couple of Weekends ago (didn't even know that one existed in Pune until then) for the VH1 initiative performance by Wyclef Jean. Had a great time. Although it was a very short performance, it packed a punch. Thoroughly entertainng. Started with his "Sweetest girl" track from the Latest album Carnival II - Memoirs of an immigrant. It was a treat for the crowd to go along with the chorus shouting "dollar dollar bill y'all....dollar dollar bill y'all". The girls got a piece of Wyclef when they joined him during his rendition of "hips don't lie". And of course there was also "gone till November" and a surprise jig with Aadesh Srivastava (Bollywod...huh?). Although it was a bit dissapointing that "maria Maria" wasn't on the charts that evening.

• Global recession, rising inflation, rising oil prices, the impending food grain shortage are all over the place nowadays. But this piece of news beats everything else hands down. Don't really know what to make out of it.

http://in.rediff.com/money/2008/may/03camel.htm

• Mumbai is cooler than most other place in Maharashtra currently. The rest of the state has been reeling under a heatwave. Pune was sizzling hot last week at a shade above 40.
  

Shame Games

Millions of Rupees have been pumped in by Celebrities and industrialists alike even before the BCCI's megashow, the IPL, has even kicked off. I know a lot has already been written about this already and a lot more flashed in the media , but there dosen't seem to be anything wrong with professional cricketers making some money, does it?
However, the question is whether we need any more cricket at all? Isn't there enough out there already? The BCCI could have rather started a drive to improve paypackets and prize money in the already existing Domestic competitons like the Ranji, Irani and Dullep trophies. (That would have been enough incentive for our 'ICON' players to play the regular league season and maybe even attract overseas players).

Just a few thoughts though.

MS Dhoni had a winning bid of USD 4 Million from the Chennai IPL team

Ironically, the winners of the 2008 edition of the Premier Hockey league took home a total prize money of around 4 Million Rs. The BAI could not afford to secure any shuttle cocks for a preparatory session before the team left for the Thomas & Uber Cup asian Zone matches.

Chak De Indian sport and Chuk De Indian Sport administrators!

Bachelorpad Paraphernalia!

Books, CDs, Glasses!, a SPICE prepaid pack with Priyanka chopra on the cover..and other useless stuff!

Fun through forwards!

Recently, I've received quite a few E-mail forwards from people I know, where there's been some 'Software Engineer Bashing'. Most of them have been projecting Software Engineers as Big Losers who live away from Home, Miss their friends, hate their job, Speak a lot of jargon etc etc (I'm sure you got the point).
Now, Since I'm neither a S/W Engineer nor did I ever Aspire to be one, Lemme share this Fwd.
It's Apparently the Profile of some S/W guy posted on Orkut (It's an Online community thing). Read on!
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About me: I think I am changing the world, but I am not. I think I am contributing to the Indian economy, but I guess I am not. I think I love my work, but I do not. I think I hate all people who made me earn my engineering degree, and I do. I think I am living, but and most importantly, I am LOOKING for someone!! Ok...I won't be funny anymore. I am a cool guy with a zeal to enjoy life (If you know me--> "Just stop laughing!!")

Relationship status: what?
Birthday: The day my PL is about to fire me
Age: 10111
Here for: web browsing in company hours
Ethnicity: Programmer
Languages I speak: Java, C/C++, 010101110101
Religion: I get holidays on all religious festivals, so I love all religions.
Political view: the guy sitting beside me is a pig!!
Humor: weekly
Fashion: Ask my company HR. Btw, I like jeans, t-shirt and a cross-bag.
Smoking: The second greatest pleasure on the earth
Drinking: The first is this.
Living: Cummon, this is a stupid one. How can this be asked to a software engineer? Believe me, I am living!!
Hometown: My company (Oh God! Please bring my appraiser to this page)
Webpage: http://naukri.com, http://jobsahead.com
Passions: searching for the cheapest pub around, cursing my company, looking for another company, remembering my good old college days, worrying about my future
Sports: quake, CS (Counter Strike), computer chess
Activities: Are you crazy?
Books: "How to lose weight in 20 days?", "How to live a happy life?", "101 ways to attract a girl", "Java Unleashed", "C++ at your footsteps", Others censored
Music: Metallica, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, ACDC, and anything depressing
Tv shows: can't afford one
Cuisines: Bread Butter, Maggi, anything available within 200 metres of home
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Signboards.

That's The Signboard of TCS going up at the Bangalore office of the erstwhile Tata Infotech Ltd. So now I'm a TCSer and not a TILian :)

strange news

The clock on the system console reads 04:10 am and the system has officially recorded 65976 transactions as yet today. Yes..I am at work tonight and at 4 in the morning I am wide awake and bored to death. I decide to look at some news on the web and here's what I found:

The King of pop has been cleared of all charges in the child sex abuse case against him. It seems, Michael Jackson dabbed at his eyes with a tissue as the verdict was read. (sob!)

A weird accident in Delhi involving 6 aid workers and 200 children,all part of a march at India Gate to mark World Day Against Child Labour. Several children were hurt when the candles they were carrying ignited some hydrogen - filled ballloons that these children carried. Police have now banned all gas-filled balloons at India Gate. (duh!)

That's it! I think i've had enough of the news now! Back to some more uninteresting work for now!

These are THE HANDS that build America ;)

SAN FRANCISCO:San Francisco's Center for Sex and Culture played host on Saturday to the city's annual "Masturbate-a-thon,". The event was organized to help raise funds for the center, and, according to its organizer, provide an outlet for safe sex for those who enjoy pleasuring themselves in a semi-public setting.

The Saturday night event also had a competitive side.

Whether The Pun in the title for this post is intended or not, that's not for me to decide. For more into this interesting and weird snippet, check out:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1125858.cms

That's where I came acroos the news.

Blink 182

I was left wondering today if the purpose of creating this weblog ( after I very conveniently got rid of my previous one) is fading away into oblivion. In fact right now, I'm not even sure why I started on this one in the first place. And why in hell's name did I call it ALL THE SMALL THINGS? I'm sure it does not have anything to do with the similarly titled song by an American teenage punk band. Why then, Why?
So....
"All the, small things
True care, truth brings"

A lot of matter...and none of it matters!

The rains have come and gone. Even the moths have undergone their cycle of metamorphsis (I know for sure that all of them didn't make it...the horrible looking gecko outside my window sill is proof of that). However i'm still left wondering whether i will ever metamorphosise into something from the lazy sloth i have turned into.

Last week I finished reading The Da Vinci code. I would seriously suggest that all ye mere mortals who still haven't laid their hands and eyes on it do so at once. (Although i wonder why you shoould be taking my word for it The book has everything; something for everyone....art, history, scientists, historians, thrill, crime busters etcetra etcetra. Good fun!

P.S: what I have above is not really much matter, but I hope you understand that this was all i could pull of given my state of near absolute laziness.

Ici je suis....this est moi!

Hello.....hello.....Site testing.....check ...1..2....4........ooops! We may have a leak here. Anyway, I think history has been made today. I have arrived on the scene with a completely new look Weblog. Good times are ahead.