Posted on January 22, 2008 by nipun
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 [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2007 by nipun
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 [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2007 by nipun
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 [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2007 by nipun
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 [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2007 by nipun
The Porcupine
A creature extraordinary
walking around covered with pricks
do you wonder though
how it ever came to bear progeny ??
Update #1: Just found out about a limericks contest organised by oxfordbookstore.com and closes by July15.
Here is the link.
PS: No pun intended !
PS2: The lines above do not a limerick make
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Posted on June 7, 2007 by nipun
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 [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2007 by nipun
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 [...]
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