He’s found what could be the love of his life, and lost her.
If you have any clue about who the attractive girl sitting in the second row of Chowdiah Memorial during the Landmark Quiz Bangalore finals was, please let me know immediately. This could be Wimpy’s last chance to escape the shackles of an arranged marriage.
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The last twenty-four hours have seen some brilliant blogposts going up on the web. I just love coincidences like these. Check out these posts:
Ravikiran and Jane Galt on the copper trading crisis.
Gaurav about the BPO industry’s detractors. On a related note, Business Standard Weekend lays the smack down on the VV Giri Institute of Labour report. Speaking of which, does anybody have a link to the complete report?
Marginal Revolution reports that the CME will soon start trading options and futures in real estate prices. Damn! I had this idea three weeks ago. Should have written it down then.
Also from MR, privatizing water supply improves infant mortality rates, especially for the poorest segment of the population. Analogous to mobile telephones- I know I need to stop giving allusions and have a full fledged post on that topic soon.
Finally, there’s Vikrum on how one of his students left Mumbai and returned to UP.
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As nobody has cracked the question about the government being a shopkeeper yet, I am providing a hint.
Quite some time after this person made this statement, he/ she became a member of parliament. However, while in parliament he/ she did not really bother about government being a part of all the stuff mentioned: cooperatives, corporations, airlines, et cetera. Instead, he/ she focused largely on the welfare of schoolgoing children, arguing that they were overburdened.
Try now.
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Two interesting links. First, MobilePundit links to an Economics Times piece on Bharti and Motorola entering a retail tie-up to sell Motorola handsets. As I mentioned earlier on my old blog, Motorola is selling Bharti the sub-$40 C110 series phones at discounted rates.
Now, Business Standard is reporting that Philips is looking at the bottom of the Indian pyramid, and is trying to gain a lead in mobile phones by coming up with a sub-$20 phone.
I’ll believe a twenty dollar new phone when I see it- there’s a high chance that the Philips CEO is simply putting fart- but the fact that he’s said it it does indicate that there’s going to be competition in this segment. Which is good for consumers, and even better for society in the long run.
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A quiz question for you, especially if you are an Infamous Cartel Member. Who said/ wrote the following?
Among the multitudinous avatars of our Government, the latest one is that of a shopkeeper. I wonder if the red-tapist at the counter is going to appreciate the psychology of an average shopper and treat him with the considerateness he is accustomed to at his favourite shop. People on their side have no reason to expect that multi-storeyed, multi-purpose, super markets and mighty ‘price-line’ holding establishments will ever do better than our State Banks, Telephones, Airlines, Railways, Cooperatives, Corporations or Coffee Boards, where a customer is reduced to the rank of a supplicant or petitioner, unless he proves influential or aggressive in one way or another.
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I saw Spider-man 2 last week. You might point out that I’ve seen it about a year late. You would be right. But I’m going to write about it anyway.
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Enough has been written about the deteriorating infrastructure in Bangalore that I don’t need to provide links. The fallout of this is that Infosys and Wipro are threatening to pack up and leave, and move to other cities. One of these cities is Sonapur.
And I support this. Absolutely. One hundred percent.
This is not out of any great love for Sonapur. I hate the place. Despise it. It’s nothing but row upon row of government housing filled with pretentious yuppie wannabes. Like RK Puram, but more sordid. But still, I support IT in Sonapur. And to explain this, I would like to present an exchange of emails that took place on the alumni mailing list of my beloved (not!) undergraduate institute, Thakur Institute of Technological Sciences, Parwaanoo.
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Greetings, all. After a prolonged wait during which my many (er, at least some) admirers used to ask themselves (wonder why they didn’t ask me instead) when I would start posting again, this blog is alive once again. Thanks to the inimitable MadMan, it is now running WordPress. My self-designed and hand-coded content manager, Sonali, has been retired. I put a lot into it three years ago, but it’s become rapidly outdated and I don’t have the time to maintain it.
The archives are not accessible right now from the site itself, but all your links to old articles will still work. Let me see if there’s some way to import the old blogposts. Right now, I’d rather concentrate on new posts.
Coming up over the next few days: why it’s a good idea to have IT parks in Chandigarh; the relationship between broken windows, nipples, and multimedia cellphones; the sins of the Congress party, and other stuff.
But now, I must sleep.
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Dope’s effect on other people is hilarious.
Take the case of the bloke in the room opposite mine at hostel. To protect his privacy, I shall call him Sutta. Of late, he’s been on a health kick (again), and has substituted self-rolled joints for Red and White (again).
Sutta has dinner, rolls himself a joint, and then starts to watch FRIENDS. He has Season 8 on DivX, and the Best of Season 1 on VCD.
Three or four episodes (and joints) later, Sutta is senti. And not angst-ridden, oh-look-I’m-in-such-a-pathetic-situation senti, but a goofy romantic sentiness that is actually quite endearing.
First, Sutta complains that Jennifer Aniston looks ugly. Then he says that she used to look wonderful in the first two seasons of FRIENDS. Then he expounds further on that theme with great loquacity. (I don’t normally use bigg, bigg words like loquacity, but there are people who read the W-Fillets to improve their vocabulary, so I’ve bunged it in for their benefit).
If I (or Gutri, or Jhawar) manage to divert the conversation to something else, Sutta will then talk about how wonderful it is. And if it’s something he hates, he’ll find something related and say how wonderful that is.
One night Sutta went to sleep convinced that the syllabus of our course on Microprocessors was a good thing. For Sutta to find any course enjoyable, much less something as hardcore as Microprocessors is something remarkable, but what makes this incident merit a Fillet is that he woke up still convinced that Microprocessors is nice. Believe it or not, he’s started writing his own assembly programs in the lab. He’s now expecting a B in the course- his first B in three and a half years.
This opens up whole new vistas for marijuana advocacy. It’s not just for glaucoma any more- you can also use it to develop a positive attitude towards you course, your life, the universe, and everything.
All right, this sounds as harebrained as my idea of studying in Ireland to get an education to attract employers and to get and an accent to attract members of the opposite sex. That doesn’t mean I can’t think about it.
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After many many months I have updated my blogroll. The new roll contains not just the blogs I read but the ones that are so good I’d like you to read them.
Here’s an introduction of all the new blogs, whose links you can see in the left hand column.
Mundane Musings on Mannerisms: My brother, often mentioned in the Fillets, has started his own blog. He posts often and on varied topics.
Of Life and Lurrrve…: The blog of Manav Kapur, my brother’s quiz teammate. Strongly recommended for those who need to know that there’s always someone worse off than themselves.
AnarCapLib: Stands for Anarchy, Capitalism, Libertarianism. A nice hot dose of sound reasoning, with brilliant guest posts every so often.
Dancing With Dogs: The blog of a pregnant NRI software engineer in Texas, and home of the Bharateeya Blog Mela.
Hazel’s Journal: Blog of a Lucnowan displaced to Pune. Cheery.
Kingsley Jegan’s blog: This unnamed blog is home to Kingsley, a foul-mouthed, atheist usability engineer from Chennai. Eclectic.
Pieces of the Puzzle: Home to Alpha, the funniest NRI ever.
RearViewMirror: This is Sandhya’s blog. Who is Sandhya? The organiser of the Delhi Blog Meet, which I (aaargh!) missed.
The Journal of the Bloodfist Klan: The funniest blog on the list, funnier even than Pieces of the Puzzle. The demented ravings of an eleventhie Dipsite who styles himself Azgez Bloodfist. It’s a treat.
Vantage Point: The blog of Gaurav Sabnis, a bloke at IIM Lucknow. With any luck, I’ll be going to his sister institute soon.
I’ve also provided links to Badmash and Piled Higher and Deeper- two online comic strips about NRIs and graduate students respectively. Oh, and as a nice bonus, a link to the PG Wodehouse Society.
What’re you waiting for? Go explore the Internet with Internet Explorer.
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