Doodles of a crazy man!

It was just another tuesday evening. A bit more strenuous perhaps. Yet another conf call. Tired voices. Stressed out faces. The projector looks the brightest in the room, almost too inhuman. I am just rocking in my chair and all of a sudden I am rocking more. And suddenly less. I shiver. Tense faces show unusual signs of alertness. "Hold on guys, we may be having an earthquake", tells my manager. A less tiring day, he would have screamed it. The realization had not hit me. I could not visualize the wreckage, the pile of garbage and unrecognizable dead bodies yet. Its just a little jerky boat ride. And then a slightly bigger tremor, that gives me what cricket commentators call butterflies in the tummy. "Will call later" declares my manager as he disconnects the phone. We all head towards the door. A colleague is just standing there coolly checking the message on his phone. Another colleague gets a text message within a few seconds from his brother - "You felt it

RK of RwB has tagged me to write on the kinds of people I judge and things I admire. People I judge: Myself (I am too self obsessed to ignore myself!) Who dont maintain eye contact while talking Who talk extremely loud Poor listeners Who give advice even if unasked Who cannot accept a different opinion or view Who are extremely polite or overtly nice Who watch soap operas Couples who sit side by side (and not opposite to each other) at a table in a restaurant Who dont have a passion about anything in life Who tell that they dont have time for anything Who use Internet Explorer (No, not exactly, well, yeah, may be!) Things I admire: Honesty Movies Music Cartoons Humor Exploring different things Inquisitive mind People who manage time very well People who accept their faults gracefully

No matter how strongly you love something, there are some aspects about it that will irritate you. I happen to love cricket very much. I think Manindar Singh - Yashpal Sharma - Arun Lal brigade's hindi commentary easily takes the first position among things I hate about cricket. The second place deservedly goes to Charu Sharma, "I-will-give-cute-smile-by-stretching-my-mouth-to-fit-wide-screen-tv" Mandira Bedi and the entire Sony channel who turn the game into soap opera. The next place definitely goes to the losing captain's cliched speech in the post match presentation ceremonies. Here are a few samples: "We had a bad day at the office" ( I hate the guy who invented this statement. Why not work from home for a change? ) ----- "We are playing non-stop cricket for the last few months. Its taken a toll on the players. I know we are professionals, we are proud of playing for the country, but, well, I mean, you know...(and the show me sympathy look)&q

When was the last time I had met U? (No, I am not a messaging freak. So, U does not mean "you", U means "U") U looked majestic as she walked, her Irish skin glowing in that evening sun. And there was I accompanying her. (For the uninitiated blog readers, I does not mean "me", I means "I") Both U and I offer me handshakes and we sit on a bench nearby. All of a sudden, U asks me "Can I get some pepsi for us?" I looked surprised. It surprises me too. U was the laziest person we had ever seen and completely surprised by this question. "What happened Madame Lazee?", me teases her. "Hey dumbo, I loves searching vending machine, he will get the pepsi for us. Me aint goin' nowhere no more" My guess was that she has been listening to lot of R&B nowadays. I gets up and goes searching for the vending machine. "Know what, I have never told this to anyone. But, I was in love with U since the college days", I

"Impossible!" I have now learnt to use that phrase very judiciously. I would have used it two years back, if you had told me that I would open a blog. And here I am writing my 100th post! Yaaayy! Thank you, thank you (in advance, for all the congratulating comments :) ) There are a few posts that gave me great joy while writing and I happen to like them even now as I read them. So, here are my favorites - for those who came late to my blog, for people on bench with great taste, for people whose managers are on a long vacation and those who have to read a post for the second time to get motivated to leave a comment :) American GaadegaLu - This post got published in Vijaya Karnataka (with no reference to me) as a forward from some reader (this post still amuses me, apart from teaching a lesson on copyright protection) A few funny incidents, without such, life would be so dull - Howz it goin'? A What? Reducing Prices A trip down the memory lane posts like Pens a