for the numerically challenged

......presenting 'lift-boys'!! They will press the button on the control panel that you tell them to. how brain-dead a concept is that? Add to that those 2 times out of 10 when they'll mess it up and send you in the opposite direction or zooming past u'r floor, as u look at the LCD display in despair. The worst is when you enter the lift to experience a rather unpleasant smell, crudely put namely 'fart-filled air'. They're human, after all. High time they're done away with

New Photo Album Updated!

I think I got you with that one Mohit!! ;) Pray tell me how you update a new photo album. This is in the same category as "new and improved" xxxx'l'.

Sreesanth, king of gaffes

Shantakumaran Sreesanth is all but his namesake. Where 'Shantakumaran' literally means 'silent boy', our S. Sreesanth is as depicted in the pics above. What you see are his actions on the field. What is more potent, however, is when his mouth does the talking (pun intended). Sample these

"If you are asking me, it was just an event and nothing else. I don't need to run after actresses"

this, after being linked with Priyanka Chopra post a promo event in Mumbai. Surely he should have spared a thought for the former Miss Universe. she must have been devastated!!

"Is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this imposter, moving around
nervously"

this, after beating Lara one ball. He was promptly pulled past the boundary, the very next ball. No one messes with Lara!!

"The Aussies should be worried I'm coming"

this, before the recently concluded Australia tour. Rajnikanth has competition!

There was this one time when, Sreesanth came good on a nel bowl, belting it straight over the bowler's head for six. He'd made a statement, a tremendous one at that. You're standing up to applaud when you see him perform that disgusting prolonged dance. The guy needs to develop some class!! He wasn't short of words this time either

Nel: (tapping his chest)"You need a big heart to play", I smell blood(sniffing the air)
S: (sniffing) "where, where?"
(after that memorable SIX)
S: "How was that slap and where is your tongue now?

But i still admire this guy. I think he has single handedly brought aggression into the Indian Team.

Quotable Quotes -3

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan, writer (1895-1947)

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top.
Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience.
Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

A good listener helps us overhear ourselves. Yahia Lababidi, author (b.1973)

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take
it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The knife disappears with sharpening.
James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)