tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36855425483282059382011-04-22T01:35:21.089+05:30This is my diary, where I think aloud.Deepak Mehrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894853693288892617noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685542548328205938.post-53071118543222852862008-06-14T11:03:00.009+05:302008-06-14T11:34:48.403+05:30

So the boss comes in on Friday and writes a mail to the new hires asking if they'll be interested in an all expenses paid overnight trip to Macau. Surprise surprise, everyone says yes :P Then he personally comes over and casually asks us to carry some identification like our local HK ID card or our passport. I'm flying out of HK for a bit on Sunday, so I decide its best not to carry my passport,

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I'm no relationship expert, though I've been in one for several years now and will soon be marrying (the same girl I was in a relationship with, for those who look for technical correctness) :) I've never been in a long-distance relationship. But I've realized a few things along the years which are now a part of my belief system, and here are a couple of them which came up during a chat with a

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Whadaap!I didn't think it could happen, but I have found a new TV series which can claim to be in the same league as Friends. No, I'm not going to compare the two, and comparisons are by and large meaningless. Suffice it to say that this is a brilliant creation, funny, slick and (to quote an oft used word from the series) "Legendary"!The plot is one where it's 2030, and Ted Moseby (the central

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It is dangerous to constantly pass judgments on people around us. It's an all pervasive phenomenon, which makes it hard for people to even realize they're even doing something wrong (the crowd effect). The way we way we compartmentalize everyone as good/bad, capable/incapable, achiever/non-achiever etc. is a brutal silent crime according to me. Even more so when the victim is a kid, who ends up

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What happens when youhave a boring paper coming upwant to sleep (but can't)like simple mathlove playing around with words andare an amateur poet?You challenge yourself to find amathematical relationship between numbers which have homonyms,create an overarching theme including all threein a poem!(I wanted to demonstrate to myself that when you force yourself to look for ways when you think none

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It's a pity,that I'm not witty,and I got no money;to buy words for a dime,then use some that rhyme,in a short poem funny! :(

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It's a dilemma I face (I'm sure not the only one facing this!) The basic premise of my blog has been - "this is my diary, where I think aloud". Problem is (and it's pretty dumb of me to not have foreseen it!), a diary is much too personal to be published online!!! It's not so much a question of letting your thoughts be known in public, but much of what I want to write would include other people I

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Partially to revive a moribund blog, and partially to make sure I get the credit for inventing it, here's a finance PJ...Q. What's the debt/equity ratio of HUL?.....A. One. It says in their name - Uni-lever ;)

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I'm the self-proclaimed Friends champ - ask me a question, and chances are that I'll be able to answer it! Even won a quiz designed by one of the best quizzers of international repute! After all, I've seen all episodes at least 30 times now and am able to lip-synch to the show! :)Watching Friends has been a tremendous experience and it has made me go through a plethora of emotions and

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When time and again, randomly chosen sets of people end up in similar situations, it just goes to show the importance of structure and systems in creating enduring excellence.An educational institute is an ideal location to study this behavior. The senior batch shares the legacy of the institute with the juniors in terms of parameters like inter-committee rivalry, how nobody really appreciates

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It took some time coming, but I finally managed to get my friends to celebrate new year's eve the way I have always dreamed of. (I started preparations really early) I've faced a peculiar predicament - I don't like to go to fancy parties, shell out a couple of grand (specially since I'm a teetotaler) and then end up not enjoying half as much as I could have; but have landed at such events

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This one is priceless - I'm preparing for my last paper tomorrow - Communications Skills, and came across this: "... With these techniques tactfully utilised the presenter has excellent chances for a successful deal. There are equal chances of failure and the presenter should be prepared for the same..."So doesn't that mean that there are excellent chances for failure as well?!? ;)The author

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...are useless. Sermons serve no purpose. The world is very different from the way most of us imagine it to be. The relationship seems very simple - if you study regularly, you'll do well. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. A penny saved is a penny earned. What is the common link between these words of wisdom and these simple yet ineffective/useless causal relationships which

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I wonder if it is just me or everyone else faces the problem of not 'getting' his music directly! The latest addition in a long list is the soundtrack of Guru... The first time I heard it, it sounded average at best. Sometime later, I found myself humming this really enchanting tune, which I later realized is from 'Tere bina' from the same soundtrack. Next up, I see the song 'Barso Re' on TV (

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... except the time right now! This realization dawned upon me quite some time back, but the inertia maintained status-quo anyway. Obviously, I started loathing myself and you can't take it beyond a point ;)I waited for so long, thinking about starting my own blog - what the title will be, what it will stand for, whether I will be able to maintain it, etc., etc. Today, finally, I decided I've had

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