What I knew then …

Remember when you were a kid and used to imagine all sorts of scenarios about people around you. I mean I used to know what people were saying about me since way back. What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was -
Twelve
Conversation at Dinner with Mom and Dad’s friends
Loud [...]

Advice ain’t free

Some snide today remark about my bull got my hackles up again today. There we were sitting peacefully at the top of my office roof at around 11 in the night watching all those Genpact girls (well we have a GE, ICICI, Verizon, HSBC call centers at my workplace) walk across and were into a [...]

Almost ….

On Chance Encounters
There you go, zipping about on your scooty. You windswept hair flying about. Just a glimpse of a pale freckled face and a pouty expression. Now I can just see your slender back draped in a casual tee and that wonderful shock of black hair. Weaving in and out of traffic with [...]

Flattened

Renting an apartment ? Well its much easier in Hyderabad you know, Bangalore / Chennai its much worse you know, no sweat, I was assured. Just pay 2 months rent as down payment and its all yours. And as soon as I started looking for an apartment all these sunny dreams disappeared like my [...]

Chicken Wings

Had an interesting problem described to me at work. Problems with modeling a Supply Chain ( as I work with ASCP, Oracle ER suite) for a company (Suguna) dealing with Chicken and poultry products. We normally deal with Items and Demands and Supplies and terms like itemsets and forecasts and coproducts etc.
Imagine my surprise [...]

Creationwiki and Conservapedia and WikiPedia

Wiki seems to have spawn off a host of similar online encyclopaedias, ( Creationwiki and Conservapedia)each claiming to present a more balanced view of the world as we see it. Conservapedia, started by christians conservatives, proclaims to be ” a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American .” In their view Wiki [...]