More Comic in ME!

Disclaimer : This is a long but extremely funny post so bear with me for such a long post, but trust me its really really funny!!!

This was just unbelievable, and its not original or anything, but i had to put this up for the benefit of all the ppl who love to laugh with or at me hehe, i was in splits laughing at this!!!(im actually typing out the whole article because i thought it was worth it!

The article in the paper was called 'I understand what i misunderstand', the author goes on to state email answers he had received on various HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT QUESTIONS listed below :-

1. Beethoven wrote music even tho he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

2. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

3. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticable in the autumn where the apples are falling off the trees.

4. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

5. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays.

6. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

7. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was later canonised by Bernard Shaw.

8. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

9. Eventually, the Romans were conquered by the Greeks. History calls ppl Romans because they never stayed in one place for too long.

10. Socrates was a famous greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. Adter his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

11. Actually Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

12. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German Half Italian Half English. He was very large.

13. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. THey lived in the Sarah Desert and travelled by Camelot.

14. The greeks were highly sculptured ppl and without them we wouldnt have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

15. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying he gasped out, "Tee Hee Brutus".

16. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.

17. The nineteenth century was a time of great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing with their hands and started reproducing with machines.

18. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years.

Hehe i had to share this, i guess it was blog worth writing, i was laughing as i typed it out too!!some of them kill me everytime!


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The comic in ME

The comic in me!

Disclaimer : The Author, during this post suffered bouts of frustration and anxiety due to high levels of stress in not doing any work for the past week and therefore expresses his readers to keep an open mind and try accept that the Author was sober during the entire process of design of the layout as well as the post.

Before anyone says anything about the woman in the layout, i thought it was a super vector done by someone whom i cant credit to now, cos i dont know who the author is, so thank you anonymous-sexy-lady-vector-creating-person!!!

I have always been considered this funny person who keeps ppl under constant laughter stress (too much laughter is stress you know!) or atleast get the customary grin(actually stating please-make-this-fellow-shut-up!)..oh well, bottom line of all those hyphenated words, i guess i make ppl smile!

The more I realise this gift..(or curse), the more I try making it possible in any situation, and its fun in a way too!!even using things around you, for instance, the msot dejected ppl around town are the ones who flunk the CA(chartered accountancy) exam the first time..it hits them like a brick, so you just tell em a lil joke(probably old, but a guy whos written it for the first time has never heard it for sure!)..There is a church opposite the institute which says "JESUS NEVER FAILS" and under than in small scratches some guy actually has written "ASK HIM TO GO WRITE THE CA EXAM!"(Its actually there or was unless they repainted the wall!!)..and bingo a smile!!

The ones who have been tortured by my irritating sense of humour are not allowed to comment on this post..ok ok thats everyone, fine, but somewhere sometime, if someone who reads my post is down, just try and reach me, might make you smile or atleast want to kill someone, takes the down part away(now that sounded like a well made american ad for wrigleys chewing gum or something)!!:)

P.S. The disclaimer didnt work did it??

The aching head

My head cannot take it anymore..I wonder if this is nature's way of telling you to take a break, but considering im not the very very hard worker unless necessary, i dont know why i need one. Maybe this is because i had to re-schedule my working hours to early in the morning and still couldnt manage to sleep before all the world cup matches finished, thats at around 3 in the morning IST!!

But anyways, this post was more on the lines of the future of blogs as i have seen certain posts off late, any thing you can or do can be completely and totally misinterpreted using just a line or two of the post and then they just start a war!!

Imagine in the near future "My name is Yogi and this is my blog".."HE said YOGI, the fu**ing hindu religious bast**d, how dare you come up with a post like that", and a 150 war comments, man wouldnt that be fun, pardon the language!!

Or a telugu blog saying rape vasthaava(meaning come tomorrow), imagine his plight!!! Well, my point is ppl have forgotten the art of constructive criticism, sometimes the blogger themselves(like me in one occasion) and most often, the critic..a blog is usually only a medium of opinion and opinions need not be taken down so hard like it were a crime! I hope this post does not attract "that" kind of constructive criticism, till then..THE future of BLOGS!

And as always, till the bottom for the complete layout..i have to stop saying this :)

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Boxed IN…

Creativity :
The experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative and idiosyncratic way which is characterized by a high degree of innovation and originality, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

Box : a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible.

Business development : The set of efforts for identifying, researching, analyzing and bringing to market new businesses and new products.

Australians have a nice accent, but it is funny. They always seem to be high..maybe because they are known for their beer consumption, but still! I called up this one guy “Hello XXXXX, Good Morning, This is Yogi from XXXXXX Systems Ltd. We are blah blah blah and I was wondering if we could arrange a meeting in the forthcoming week to discover how we can collaborate beneficially blah blah”, and then I hear an “UHHHHHHH, wellll, what do you do again?” in a totally drunk, unable to comprehend voice, BAM! Interest levels down..repeat purpose, yea yea, and then after about half hour of slow explaining talk, finally meeting fixed.

The reason why I used the above is when you realize that you have spoken coherently(considering I have researched hours on accent neutralization and all those big words) and then realize that they probably just are not willing to listen because they are either pre-occupied or they just don’t like your voice or something. Then, wham you are into the box, classified boring!! Of course, I tend to do the same with people who just don’t strike the right chord with me..either shut down my brain..or cut them off! So what do you do change your voice, do a desi accent, “HELLO , how y’alllllll DOINGU?” That has to be the best mix of southern twanged tamizhian!!

Then you realize the necessity of making yourself interesting, especially over the phone or something where you cant use appearance and facial expressions..like blow up your nostrils and its bound to attract attention or something like that, it is probably to what extent you will go to gain attention.

If you call an Indian up in a foreign land, 95 out of 100 times, there is excitement in just hearing your voice! The British – “These bastards have made a move into my bloody country and even taken over the production of my tea and cookies!”. The Australian – “UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, wellllll, what do you do again??”, The Chinese – “Velly goodh!”, The American – “Hold on, my presidents dropping a bomb again!” and so on..

In a box I am, offshore business development, especially cold calling, requires a certain amount of skill, I am getting there though, America and the UK are easy now, Australia, just figuring it out…Japan –“MEE NOOOO TLYING!”.

This post is probably out of frustration of having to talk to a few bunch of aussies who just cant seem to understand why an Indian with a base of about ten times the size of their company and their country would still call them up to see if there are avenues to expand!! So much for contentment..:)

Oh and hopefully, i will be able to keep this layout for the next couple posts atleast before i change it :), sandman was just a neccesity!! and as always scrolling till the bottom helps!!

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Enter Sandman!

I had the privilege of reading probably one of the darkest, most amazing set of comics of Neil Gaiman - The Sandman series, thank you tons! Megha(aka The Wannabe Tamil Punkster) for starting me off of these comics, I will probably have to read them a few several times to actually fathom the level of darkness in each context. This, probably stands out as his most famous work with the following list of characters, called the endless (oh, and all of them are related!) :-

Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

Despair, Desire's sister and twin. It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a many tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out on a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror.

Delirium is the youngest of the Endless. She smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, and leather. Her realm is close, and can be visited; however, human minds were not made to comprehend her domain.

Dream accumulates names for himself like others make friends; but he permits himself few friends. If he is closest to anyone, it is to his elder sister, whom he sees but rarely. He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in evert century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what the lives she takes must feel like, to taste the bitter tang of morality: that is the price she must pay for being the divider of the living from all that has gone before, all that must come after. He broods on this tale, but has never questioned her about its truth. Perhaps he fears that she would answer him. Of all the Endless, save perhaps Destiny, he is the most concious of his responsibilities, the most meticulous in there execution. Dream casts a human shadow, when it occurs to him to do so.

Death accompanies each mortal twice in life. At birth, she speaks to them, but since no one remembers what she says, it is not known why. When they die, she guides them to what lies beyond their mortal years.

Destiny is the oldest of the Endless; in the Beginning was the Word, and it was traced by his hand on the first page of his book, before ever it was spoken aloud

Destruction : Approximately 300 years ago, Destruction abandoned his realm., and he can no longer be reached.He is not dead.He simply choose not to be responsible for destruction and all other facets of his domain anymore.

This layout simply does no justice to Gaiman’s Illustrations, and the only way someone can actually feast their eyes on his breathtaking piece of art is to go through the actual comics.

There are so many moments where you would probably relate a dream or a saying to yourself, innumberable situations where i did, and i think darkness prevails in subtlity in every corner, especially in a character like death. There is poetry in everything everyone says or does, it is quite amazing how dark, yet how subtle the emotions are, especially some of the conversations of Dream or Death.

For example Dream on a ruby which holds a part of him – “I made the stone, created it from the fabric of my being long ago. Powered by my spirit, it was made to manipulate the fabric of dreams, of the world I rule”.

Or Death in a conversation with Dream – “Most aren’t too keen to see me. They fear sunless lands. But they enter Your realm each night without fear!”

Anything more would just be me trying to type out the entire series on this itsy blog. As an afterthought, just because I had to talk about Metallica and their song :-

It's up for debate whether Metallica was channeling the comics when they sang Enter Sandman - 'Exit light/Enter night/Take my hand /We're off to never never land'. Either way, it certainly channels the spirit with which Gaiman's readers enter his worlds of forgotten gods and unforgettable dreams.

The characters/pictures in the layout:-

Top - Destiny

Left – an illustration of Dream

Right top – Destiny’s Book which he is chained to.

Right middle – Destiny again

Right Bottom (top) – Dream

Right Bottom (Below) – Death

The pictures(now taken off) are purposely small so they only intrigue, which is the essence of this blog, I guess true exhilaration will probably be found when you actually read the series! Just a couple of covers to show some terrific artwork :)

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Of Communism, Control and Cocaine

“Rahul Mahajan (right), and Bibek Moitra, personal secretary of Pramod Mahajan, in an undated file photo. Moitra died on Friday after snorting cocaine and Rahul Mahajan is in serious condition in a Delhi hospital. — Photo: AP(now taken off)”

“NEW DELHI: Rahul Mahajan, son of the murdered Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, was hospitalised in a critical condition on Friday after snorting cocaine. Pramod Mahajan's personal secretary Bibek Moitra, who also took cocaine, died.”

Communism : Communism is the abolition of power of people over people. This means abolishing "oppression," whether the oppression be of nations by nations, classes by classes, women by men or any other division in society. Communism is based on mutual cooperation, peace and justice instead of oppression.

Control : To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over

Cocaine : A colorless or white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from coca leaves, sometimes used in medicine as a local anesthetic especially for the eyes, nose, or throat and widely used as an illicit drug for its euphoric and stimulating effects.

This is quite a sorry state of affairs Indian Politics is coming to. Well, we have all been there, done something similar im sure, but somehow this seems totally unrealistic especially happening to one family, which for a change, even being part of the BJP, never followed the Hindutva ideal. Pramod Mahajan was probably the single greatest entrepreneur of the BJP and to expect his son, currently being arrested for possession as well as contaminated (for lack of a better word) with cocaine, only shows the other side of Indian Politics..or is it the same side.

The ability to procure cocaine, first of all by a politician’s secretary speaks volumes about the levels of corruption. It happens everywhere of course, not just here, I remember my American exploits with similar subject matters, but someone of the likes of BiBek Moitra, who has been quite the pioneer, brash, impulsive at the same time extremely practical, is lying dead filled with COKE!

I’m not against drugs per say, even though I probably hate the thought of something like coke, every man for himself (the communist part of this post).. but the levels at which a small drug takes us..was it pressure, happiness of his dad’s death?(the worst scenario considering he was supposed to lay the ashes to rest the next day), or was it poison like the BJP men claim it to be, just to escape from the situation that a “Hindutva” is guilty of drugs!! Atleast, it was Rahul Mahajan only now, Bibek has had a history according to most articles, but still managed to find a place in the “sinless” party..Hypocrites!!

End of day, corruption, bribery, extortion, control, arms(lets not forget bofors) and now, drugs, what else is in store for Indian Politics??

A static layout!

This is probably going to be my layout for the next few posts atleast, i like the look of this layout, alien v2.0 as i call it..i hope this will suit my needs for the time being, even though i love making new layouts!

I hope this layout is easy to the ppl who actually read my blog :), because i think i am going to freeze on this for the while, until something else strikes my attention!

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