Doing my part :)

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Dear All,

I have a request for you. If you have a function at home or at office,
and food gets wasted, don't hesitate to call 1098 - Child helpline.
They will come and collect the food. Do remember this number folks. Keep
circulating this mail amongst all your friends. We have to thank God for the
food that we have. But on the other hand ... ironically, we still waste
the food that we buy. Please folks, don't break this chain. "Helping
hands are better than Praying Lips."

Rgds

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blech...burp!!

see, writing is all about expressing your thought. the difference between good writers and bad ones is that the good ones do have a thought when they're trying to express it. In my case, i have no thoughts but am in a jolly good urge to express whatever shit that hits my black/blue...aha.. GREY cells. its not for nothing that i've titled my blog cereral puke..:) So what are my thoughts?

One definitely goes to the riots that happened in bangalore over saddam's execution. Note the use of the word 'saddam'. Its not common for internation/national media to refer to a world figure by his/her first name. agreed hussein is a very common surname, but had saddam been worthy of respect, he would have been invariably addressed as saddam hussein. Thus when the whole world and especially Iraq cares a rat's ass about this guy, why the hell is Bangalore burning over it? that too after a good few weeks of his execution!!

Greg Chappel lands somewhere in Orissa along with the team for India's next cricket match with the west indies. At the airport, a man physically assaults him from the back. Purportedly the guy was upset over the exclusion of some orissa player from the national squad. Guess it would make sense to amend ICC rules and have a 29 member indian cricket team!!

I happened to catch tonight's episode of KBC2 (thats Kaun Banega Crorepati 2 ...lawfully plagiarized and indianized version of Celador's Who wants to be a millionaire) The news is that the this is the second episode after SRK (shah rukh khan) took over as host from Amitabh Bachchan...err 1 sec

ok..am back!..so SRK sux big time. thats the news!. I missed the 1st episode y'day and so didn't grant it much, when people opined the same. But today i saw it and boy..oh boy!! did he suck..he's outright clueless as to what he's doing. He starts of with some 'prose' before giving out the correct answer, to add to the contestant's tension, and then loses track or motivation to finish it off smoothly. His gig with his cell phone today, at the end of the show should earn him the "not-my-scene lifetime achievement award 2007"...man!! and i thought this guy talked sense and consequently had it too...i still hope that he'll come to his self soon and rock the show. The man has charisma..He just needs to come out of the haze/maze/glaze created by Amitabh Sophisticated Bachchan...yes! the suit doesn't look SRK...i'd be darn impressed if he can turn around the show to a jeans and jacket jingbang..so much for J(pun intended)

thts all folks...am catching a movie tonight..name's Syriana..Clooney, Matt Damon and the works...hear its darn good..lets see

Of words sans actions

Early morning today, i went to the Popular Bajaj service centre to collect my bike. While waiting for it to be brought out from the parking lot, i noticed the day's activities gearing up. Bikes were trickling in for service and the staff was booking them one after the other. I'd gone through the process y'day and it was slightly painful then due to the rush. Today morning was very peaceful in comparison. Still, i found this balding,lean guy cribbing away to glory. He'd found a faithful listener in a similarly grieving soul and was voicing his displeasure pretty loudly. He wanted everyone to hear it. There were others around too, waiting for their bikes to be booked . But they were just hanging around with sad faces, mentally gritting their teeth probably.

So this angry young man goes somewhat like this,

"People are waiting since 7 o'clock. If they can't book promptly, why do they assign drop-in times to customers? Let people come whenever they want. Either way they are making us wait so long. What are they doing? Are they waiting for a Tirupati Darshan to book these bikes for service. Why don't they understand that people might have pressing needs to attend to?..hrrmmph!!"

Let me explain. A customer calls up the service centre and reserves a date and time for service. He can then drop in his bike at the said time and collect it later at a prescribed time. Now it so happens many times, that people do not bring in their bikes on time. this creates undue rush later on. I faced that y'day. It took me about half an hour to get my bike booked. But if i hadn't done what i did, it would have taken an hour easily. I simply walked up to the reception and asked to speak to the head of the service department. They guided me to him and he immediately struck me as an honest man. I softly told him that it would be nice if he could press a few more of his staff into booking the bikes considering the situation. He took it very sportingly and himself moved around speeding things up. And it did speed up. I didn't get an opportunity to thank him later, but that would have been the icing on the cake.

There are a few points noteworthy here. Firstly, our angry young man could have reacted on similar lines today morning rather than shout his anger and exacerbate the general discontentment around. His words wouldn't speed up the process as mush as they would irritate the staff and thus further adversely affect the service.

There are days when I'm in the shoes of the angry young man. Its just that y'day i happened to be more reasonable. I think we all should try to do that.

The other noteworthy point is about complimenting good work. We are all very quick to point out mistakes and mouth criticism. But rarely do we appreciate good work or a nice thought. An unexpectedly received 'thank you' or 'well done' can make the day for a person and it comes at no cost.

Thats all i had to say, thanks for being with me till here :)

tipping point

when you go to a restaurant, you go there expecting good food and good service. So when you get bad service, you naturally become angry. I,become confused! Coz good service, is a pretty straightforward thing to deal with. Everything is prim and proper and there are smiles all around. All I have to do, is place a handsome tip and i'm done. But when service is bad, lots of possible reactions fight for attention in my convoluted mind. For one, i contemplate not tipping the waiter at all, thus punishing him for his incompetence. Then i think he'd take revenge and spit/fart/(whatever) into my order the next time; well, if there be one. Another thought tells me that i should be more compassionate - "what if he's having a bad day?" or even better "what if he's serving his notice period after a pink slip" - if the latter be the case, he certainly wouldn't be too concerned about service. Then again, i presume that he might be in need of money and it would be harsh on my part to not tip him.
With all these perspectives in mind, i end up neither here nor there. I tip him a pittance and walk out with mixed emotions. The waiter mentally yells "bastard" at me and makes sure he rigs my order the next time. I thus successfully demonstrate a lose-lose situation

i make it look so easy. don't i?

CAT 2006 results out!!!

you can check your scores on the followng link

CAT2006 results

there is speculation that what you might see (website is very slow) will not be your actual percentile, but a percentage of the topper's score. So decide whether you want to believe that.

Personally, i haven't been able to get to my score yet. I'm just experimenting to see if this post will increase my site hits..he he

all the best!!!