random conversations

Context: I am taking SS out for dinner, and on the street corner, she has made me haggle with the flower-wallah for 15 minutes to get one single flower I don’t even know the name of. Later, we are in an auto-rickshaw.
SS: You know, in many ways you are an asshole, but the girl who [...]

and such shall be our bosses…

job posting seen on a prominent professional networking site:

i wonder sometimes,if i am in the right professional sphere…i mean,shouldn’t have seen less wtf had i been a hunter-gatherer somewhere or driving a taxi or something? c’est la vie

nooz

have been watching the shane warne beer affair on the news since morning and am seriously in need of a barf bag after the quantity and quality of coverage that the news media is giving to a guy who just created a new tamasha in what is already a tamasha…
i have a new theory as [...]

radio and pastimes

I have found a great new pastime…one even more entertaining than reading profound comments on issues of national import which people write on earth shaking news stories-stories of epochal significance,like sonam kapoor casting her vote.the way rediff publicise this,i am convinced that we should start a campaign to make the vote of sonam kapoor count [...]

update

no,no…i am not back to writing on Rings of Smoke just yet.but i just did a guest post on the blog of The Vagabond about The Phenomenal Red Bull. Here go a few extracts:
…and it is time now to introduce you to our very own best kept secret…peoples, here is introducing The Phenomenal Red Bull… [...]

job in the times of recession

And so, one fine day S came to my room,very gloomy,and said, “Sandy,I have got a job.”
I jumped up,it was really bright news.
“Congratulations,dude.Finally.I told you,you will get your due.Blah Blah Blah…”
And then I see that S is still looking glum,in fact his face looks likes the times when he about to cry in his vodka,complaining [...]

attitude check

“Let’s have an attitude check!”
“I hate this fucking place!”
“Let’s have a positive attitude check.”
“I positively hate this fucking place!”
“Let’s have a negative attitude check.”
“I don’t like this fucking place!”
“Let’s have a short attitude check.”
“Fuckit!”
:)

interview 2

Q:You say in your resume that you can play football.Why didn’t you make your career in football?
When this one was recounted, several totally awesome answer scenarios were proposed.The best was this:
Q:You say in your resume that you can play football.Why didn’t you make your career in football?

interview

well…crp is just around the corner. since i have to practice hard for it, leave no stone unturned i dont see myself getting any shortlists, and hence no interviews…i thought i would practice a mock interview anyways, to satisfy my curiosity about the real interviews. most the questions taken are from the indicative list the [...]

spanish

night classes till 1am for spanish are a major pain,of course,but studying a language can be very imtertaining at times.like today.
this exchange:
“donde trabajas, Monique?”   [where do you work, Monique?]