Owner: whether pigs have wings URL:http://mystyy.blogspot.com Join Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:19:30 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: random thoughts on life, travel, people, books and more. i write about anything i observe, experience and i love seeing the quirky in everyday life. i also love traveling (mostly solo) & i to write about that too. Site statistics:Click here
hare & thare 2008-07-14 09:24:00 ok, this one i have got to ask in all earnestness... why do people from up north say "hare" for "here"? was there a formal change in pronunciation in that region that the rest of us in india don't know about? i don't mean to be prejudiced! its an honest question! the moment someone goes, "hare it is" or "what i am trying to say hare" or "hare we have tried to", its like a bright flash of light...
girl effect! 2008-07-09 06:46:00 check out this great site by an NGO, so well done and so absorbing! honestly wish i could reach out to all the families in Punjab, UP etc that are busy killing baby girls & tell them to get rid of their lunatic notions.on another note, it seems to be girl season... 3 of my friends who have had babies in the past 2 months have had girls. and in general, over the past year, most of my friends ha Read more:effect
randomness 2008-07-07 11:20:00 it's been almost 6 weeks since my last post. a combination of writer's block (doesn't that sound grand), lack of time and a short trip to singapore. however, i do have a quote of the month - which pretty much beats 'we have no branch' as well as the great Border Roads Organisation. the photo is courtesy Google Search, the caption is from an actual sign - i am not making this up! i know they need t Read more:randomness
the visiting card 2008-05-28 08:54:00 since i spend more time at the workplace than i do at home, and since any aspect of my personal life has to live from weekend to weekend, i have been thinking lately about individual identity vs work identity. me as a person vs me at work. what's scary is how much the two are inter-linked. it all boils down to... do i have an identity without a visiting card?yes, i could get all philosophical abou
travelling alone 2008-05-24 01:01:00 last evening i attended a talk by Yossi Ghinsberg - for about an hour he spoke about his travels, his outlook on life, love for nature and of course his experience in the Bolivian Amazon where he was lost for nearly 3 weeks in completely uncharted territory. it was interesting to listen to a 'motivational speaker' - i have usually stayed away from such events previously i.e. those by motivational Read more:alone
phone stalkers 2008-04-20 01:56:00 for sometime last year, i was getting missed calls by an unknown number. the deliberate kind of missed calls where the person disconnects after a ring and a half, and if its done everyday for almost a month, its quite certainly not a mistake.this year, it happened again, with a different number. it went on for over a month and half (i never called back at anytime), until one day i finally decided Read more:phone
"we have no branch" 2008-04-20 01:48:00 a pretty ubiquitous message routinely seen in shop fronts. however has anyone seen it at the front of a baraat? i have! this baraat organiser in delhi clearly thought of a unique way to promote his services. since i was part of the "girl's side", we were standing out watching them come to the gate, and there was this guy, right at the front of the baraat holding up the sign.smart marketing or wha
solo trip to Ladakh - random thoughts 2008-04-14 12:11:00 1. the funniest signs in Ladakh are the road signs dissuading speeding. i didn't take pictures because i would have been stopping the driver every few hundred metres! but they were hilarious. i can only imagine what a job it must be for the copywriter. anyone want to apply? i did note them down though:"love thy neighbour, but not while driving" in the middle of nowhere, on a kuccha road, leading t Read more:thoughts
solo trip to Ladakh - Pangong Lake 2008-04-14 11:37:00 after the hectic trip to Nubra Valley and back to Leh, we left the next morning for Pangong Tso - a lake that's 130 kms long, 75% of which is in Tibet, just 25% within the Indian border. we were excited about this too as we had heard the entire lake was frozen. its supposed to have seven beautiful colours in summer and all the photos i have seen show the amazing blue. so seeing it frozen would be
solo trip to ladakh – Nubra Valley 2008-04-14 09:27:00 Erik, Shozeb and I set off on our 2 day trip to the Nubra Valley
early the next morning - around 7 am. Nubra means green and its a very fertile valley. it was to be a 4-5 hour drive going all the way up to Khardung La- the highest motorable road in the world - then down to the Valley. we were all excited about it. you need a permit to go to most places from Leh, there are a couple of checkpoints a
solo trip to Ladakh - Lamayuru and Alchi 2008-04-13 08:15:00 the next day, i went on a trip out - to see 2 old monasteries, lamayuru and alchi. it took around 3-4 hours to reach lamayuru, and along the way the views were spectacular. the indus river, the zanskar river, the meeting point of both, numerous mountains along the way in different hues on their rock composition... from purple to green to brown, it was amazing how the colours changed. passed numero
solo trip to Ladakh - Leh and beyond 2008-04-12 01:56:00 the flight to Leh is spectacular as the plane flies through the mountains and onto the runway. the announcement "बाहर का तापमान २ डिग्री सल्सिउस है" (it was around 930am) was enough to bring out the cap, scarf and sweatshirt. was received at the airport by Rigzin, the driver + guide for the rest of the trip. my main contact here was a person Read more:beyond
solo trip to Ladakh - the beginning 2008-04-11 13:54:00 been almost 2 months since i posted anything... was drowning in work, as always, until i took a week off and went to Ladakh on a solo trip. was the best decision i ever made! have been thinking about going there for about 4 years, and every year as i missed the 'season' of jul/ aug, i thought to myself, oh well, next year. somehow it never seemed to happen. almost didn't, even for this trip. i wan
the do not hire registry! 2008-02-16 02:59:00 every company seems to be plagued with a severe shortage of good people (as is the case everywhere in the marketing/ advertising/ media industry), as is my workplace. in my personal efforts at recruitment over many years i have seen everything (at least i think so, don't really know what's left!).i firmly recommend a 'do not hire' registry given the alarming number of unprofessional people i have
manufacturing consent, the indian way 2008-01-20 07:31:00 20 years after noam chomsky & edward herman wrote manufacturing consent, the model is alive, kicking and increasingly more successful in India."If you want to understand how a particular society works, you have to understand who makes the decisions that determine the way a society functions. In the -----, the major decisions over what happens in a society (investment, production, distribution, Read more:indian
the nano effect 2008-01-20 06:57:00 the 1 lakh tata nano is finally here... but living in mumbai and dealing with traffic everyday has only made me sceptical and worried about this car. will it now take double the time than it already takes (which is already 3 times the time it should logically take), will parking spaces now be found miles away from the intended venue, will all auto drivers (who seem to drive as if under the influen Read more:effect
and then! 2008-01-12 11:40:00 its been over 3 months since i last posted something. to be honest, i just didn't feel like it. work has been a real killer and enough to do at home as well. when i did get time, i felt like vegetating. and that's pretty much what i did if i had a chance to chill. hence this blog was thoroughly neglected.however what i did gather was my own collection of the 'one tight slap' awards...1. people who
Regret 2007-09-23 10:59:00 have caught myself thinking 'i regret...' often lately... and have been wondering why it is that there are so many regrets one accumulates in life, much like prizes or scars or stamps even. what we regret actually says more about us than what we actually do. for instance, i regret...1. not being in a field related to the arts for that's actually closest to my heart2. not being adventurous enough.. Read more:Regret
The Best of SPAM 2007-09-21 00:13:00 there's no doubt that while spam email is annoying, its also probably the most entertaining time you're going to have. aside from the usual, want a longer xxxxxxxx or what are you doing tonight... there's a whole lot more that ranges from the hilarious to the bizarre.1. colon cleanse support - Flush up to 20 Excess Pounds out of your Colon! uggghhhh2. Derrick - Be Always Ready the yoda speaketh3.
you know you're from mumbai when... 2007-09-20 12:18:00 a post after a month... not doing too good at this!having lived in mumbai most of my life, and also having lived in a hostel in a neighbouring state, in a small village, which was infested with mosquitoes & every other kind of insect imaginable... it has taken me until now to get... yes... malaria. and add to that, jaundice. double whammy of a different kind. probably finally proving that i be
in the mumbai, all over india we are the bhai 2007-08-19 01:34:00 like the title of this post, from one of the latest hit songs, ganpat, have been assaulted by so many songs over the years that make me cringe, that i decided to do a post purely on inane indian film songs. all these songs have been hits, making me wonder who writes this stuff and why people listen to it!sample yet another latest hit song from a movie called aawaarapan... how and why did someone c
independence 2007-08-15 09:03:00 haven't written a post in 2 months, and considering my last post was in a way about Gandhi and Tagore, it seems fitting that this one is on India's 60th independence day. i don't think i have thought about the significance of the day much... and i feel sad about it. my parents came over during the partition and were amongst the millions affected by the events surrounding India's freedom. my father
Forgotten Poem 2007-06-17 13:44:00 was watching The Actor's Studio on Pix. had an interview with Charlie Sheen... though i didn't see the interview but did watched the Q&A session at the end. he said some remarkably touching things... like the time he was asked to cry his heart out for a scene in a TV series based on Nixon... and his father had died a few month's earlier, but he had not had a chance to mourn his death. so when he w Read more:Forgotten
keep off the grass 2008-08-10 02:37:00 just finished reading 'Keep off the grass
' by Karan Bajaj. its an interesting read, definitely worth a one time effort, though it isn't in the league of the author's personal favorite, 'English, August'.honestly, i don't read that much of 'Indian writing in english', i don't quite agree with that phrase either. why should there be such category when there isn't a 'Spanish writing in english' or a
first post of 2009 2009-01-01 11:36:00 as usual, been a while since i posted. the last time was not a happy time... and i don't think we have quite recovered yet - and i doubt we will. i got a news alert today about blasts in assam, and thought, will this ever end? it won't. i know that too. don't know in which lifetime it will, but probably not in mine or ours. living with terror. no solution in sight.as for the new year, had no plans Read more:first post
Celebrity Terrorism? 2008-11-30 08:46:00 Read this article on the BBC website:The age of 'celebrity terrorism' By Paul Cornish Chairman, Chatham House's International Security Programmeam quoting some excerpts here:But, for all the horror of the Mumbai attack, there might have been much less to it than first met the eye, and a hasty and exaggerated response might have played more of a part, and given more meaning to the attack than it sh Read more:Celebrity
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