Have you been bothered by spam calls and paper mails? I have. I keep getting calls to join some club, open a new bank account, a mutual fund account etc. I also quite regularly receive letters which ask me to sign up for some magazine subscription, enter some sort of lucky draw to win a [...]
Entries from March 30th, 2006
How to handle Junk mail and calls
March 30th, 2006 3 Comments
Tags: ads · american_express · approved_letters · blank_application · citibank · credit_cards · junk_mail · mail_help · overwhelm · pizza_coupon · return_envelope · return_envelopes · telemarketing_call
Winning in Adversity
March 29th, 2006 2 Comments
This is a very inspiring story of a Tennis Player, James Blake. Over the past couple of years, Blake has suffered a lot of advesity, personal tumults and problems. But with a spirit which is very resilient and will power which is seemingly made of iron, he has come back and achieved what many tennis [...]
Tags: adversity · ATP · blog · Comics · dilbert · dreams · fans · goals · inspiring · James-Blake · Life · problems · story · suffered · tennis · tumults · will-power
The Trek – An Epilogue
March 27th, 2006 7 Comments
(Extremely condenced and summarised) First Trek, Experience – Not entirely pleasant. So I’m back from the trek. I’ll let it suffice to say that while it was quite fun in the beginning, it turned quite sour for me on the first day, mainly due to my suffering severe leg cramps which would not allow me [...]
Tags: fun · hiking · legs · leg_cramps · limping · monotony · mountain · people · railway · river · scenery · stream · surroundings · tiers · trek · trek_experience
Why we should follow Rules
March 24th, 2006 7 Comments
Feeling: amused Listening to: Usher – YeahWell, today being the trek, I was returning home earlier than usual from office. Well on the way, just as I took a turn, a signal changed to red. So I had to stop in a hurry and just missed the stop line but I still stopped. Another guy had ideas to [...]
Tags: contrary · guess · hurry · kannada · local_language · politeness · realised · red_light · refused · rules · surprise_checks · traffic_cops · Traffic_signal · unfortunately
An upcoming trip
March 23rd, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: Anticipative Listening to: Nirvana – In BloomI’ll be going for a jungle trek over the weekend. It’ll be my first ever trek/hike and am quite excited about it. It’s to a place called Yedakumari which will be the starting point for the trek. From there we’ll be trekking for about 2 days through forests, railway tunnels, bridges, [...]
Tags: bridge · forest · hike · jungle · railway · train · trek · tunnel · weekend · yedakumari
I’m a nice Guy
March 22nd, 2006 6 Comments
Got this off ASR. A really funny read and quite true too . So how true would this be? I think it’s quite accurate and true. It’s a rant yeah but does make sense. So now, I claim to be a nice guy. Any girls out there willing to prove me wrong Ode to the [...]
Tags: funny · girls · guys-nice-guy · nice_guy · ode_to_the_nice_guys · rant
The Don’t Blame Me Generation
March 22nd, 2006 Comments Off
Feeling: anxious Listening to: Limp Bizkit – Take a Look AroundHow much is this situation prevalant? I have myself noticed this phenomen in a few of my cousins. They are rude, unconcerned with others and always ready to shift the blame. And in most cases, I feel, it happens to the filthy rich where the parents try and [...]
Tags: blame · cousins · money · parents · rude · spoilt · unconcerned
New Blog
March 20th, 2006 1 Comment
Feeling: Expectant Listening to: Nelly – Hot in HerreI’ve started a new Blog with a Chandrahasa and Musavir, my colleagues in Applibase and F1 fanatics. The blog, Formula 1 Jam will have the 3 of us as co-authors with each of us presenting our view points and thoughts on F1. It will be heavily skewed by each of [...]
Tags: authors · blog · colleagues · F1 · fanatics · fernando_alonso · Ferrari · formula1 · kimi_raikonnen · mclaren · michael_schumacher · perspectives · renault