Archive for July, 2008

That’s one curious disease

July 31, 2008

Ramu Ramanathan writes:
And so, to flashback to a curious sequence of events in Mumbai. Raj Thackeray demands an apology from the Hindiwallahs. Abu Azmi demands an apology from Raj. Kumar Ketkar [...]

In love with Calibri

July 25, 2008

This might surprise you -but read on.
Dear Calibri,
Ever since I saw you last week, I’ve been dreaming about you. I can’t get my eyes off from you at work – literally. You were the missing element; God’s beauty etched on a white sheet of paper. And the curves and smoothing are simply excellent(!). Perfect [...]

Sly-dial : Call someone without having to talk to them.

July 23, 2008

The possibilities are endless:
“After a long beta period, Boston-based MobileSphere launched a ’straight-to-voicemail’ service yesterday called Slydial. If you call 267-SLY-DIAL and listen to a short ad, you can then be connected to the voicemail inbox of any US mobile phone subscriber, without causing their phone to ring. Sounds kinda useful — but incredibly, MobileSphere [...]

God says – ;) (wink)

July 19, 2008

Frenzy over sai idol with one eye open..TOI reports
Hundreds of people descended on a merchant’s house in Bangalore on Friday to witness what they believe is a miracle – the Shirdi Sai Baba idol is purported to have opened its left eye. ..
O.k, so when god finally decided to show his existence, he chose to [...]

Christian, the lion.

July 17, 2008

Christian, the lion who lived in my London living room..
A pet lion bought at an exotic store, that eventually  grew too big and was introduced into the wild far away in Kenya. AN year later, when the owners wanted to see him again, they were advised that it was highly impossible that the lion might [...]

About me

July 16, 2008

I’ve a story today that some of you might find – not so interesting. But I’ll tell it to you any way. DNA as you know is the building block of life, and this story is that of my DNA. Years ago, when National Geographic announced their Genographic project, I was one of the enthusiasts [...]

Man and Science

July 15, 2008

Research focusing on the unknown, and protesters claiming that a resultant blackhole ON earth will gobble it up.
Science, such fun!  Link

175 years of history

July 14, 2008

A book that was first published in 1812, and a replica of which I’m holding right now, with awe and admiration of some of the ‘greatest medical minds’ of the early 18th century, starts of with a quote in Latin that I would love to share with you…
‘Homo, Naturae minister et interpres, tantum facil et [...]

Steve Jobs’ speech

July 13, 2008

Steve jobs on Life
An excellent speech by Steve Jobs that I came across while looking for something unrelated, successes, failures, life, death, love… connecting the dots.

Please, God

July 10, 2008

Irrespective of whether you are there or not, please, help me from going insane. I promise I’ll not move again anytime soon and I won’t buy a 100 shirts or T-shirts because they are cheap/they felt good/because I am an absolute idiot.
I won’t buy 4 pairs of sneakers without throwing the old ones (once I [...]