IDIOT

The supreme court comes to the rescue of people like me.

It has come out with a legal definition of an idiot-
"An idiot is one who is of non-sane memory from his birth, by a perpetual infirmity, without lucid intervals:and those are said to be idiots who cannot count 20, or tell the days of the week or who do not know their fathers or mothers or the like"

Atleast now I can prove legally to all those girls who think I am an idiot, that I am not. See this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12............mmmmm 17 15 20. Leave this , how's this

Sunday Monday Tuesday Friday Saturday Thursday.......... Which is the seventh one??? Or are there eight?

No probs. Anyways all these definitions are too subjective.. They dont prove anything....


Till next time

Sarath

Malluism

My hands were itching to write another post. But could not come up with anything to write. So I started digging up my yahoo Inbox for any old mails, that I can share. Surely enough, found out this Mallu jokes mail. Though some of the jokes have become well known, still others are also too good.

Disclaimer : The jokes are not meant to hurt the sentiments of any fellow mallu, I being a Mallu too.

1. Name the wonley part of the werld where Malayalees don't werk hard?
- Kerala

2. Why is industrial productivity so low in Kerala?
- Because 86% of the shift time is spent lifting, folding and retying the lungi.

3. Why did the Malayalee buy an air-ticket?
- To go to Thoobai, to meet his Ungle in the Gellf.

4. Why do Malayalees go to the Gellf?
- To yearn menney.

5. What did the Malayalee do when the plane caught fire?
- He zimbly jembed out of the Vindow.

6. What is a Malayalee management graduate called?
- Yem Bee Yay.

7. Why did his wife divorce him?
- Because he was louwing another woman.

8. Who found that out?
- His andy.

9. What does a Malayalee do when he goes to America?
- He changes his name from Karunakaran to Kevin Curren.

10. What does a Malayalee use to commute to office everyday?
- An oto.

11. Who is Malayalee's fyamous yeactor and yaectress?
- Mohgan Lal, Mamooti, Geedha, Revadhi, Zilgsmidha, end Ambiga.

12. Why Kerala is the most literate state in India?
- It's easily giving Degree to get rid of the Peaples from Kerala.

13. Why Arab countries are looking only for Keralites?
- They are ready to do yenneything for menney.

I had decided to post a photo of a mallu at the end. So searched in Google images with the keyword Mallu. 90% of the images that appeared on the first page itself cannot be shown here for obvious reasons, u see it is a free to read for all blog. A certain industry has made the word Mallus famous among all.

Here is a video tutorial for tying lungis for the uninitiated ones. Shows how difficult it is to tie a lungi, I have not still learnt it properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R89QwrRUDM&feature=related

Any queries regarding Kerala and Mallus in general are welcome.

P.S. - P.j time

3+3=7, woh kaise

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galti se...
Till Next time

Sarath

A Mathematical Proposal

Was just watching the movie "Harold and Kumar". There is this proposal at the end of the movie, which I have never seen in any other movie. The Hero proposes the girl with a mathematical poem. Thought I would share the poem. Interesting one. Had to play, stop and rewind the clip several times to note down the poem. This is how it goes

I fear that I will always be
A lonely number like root 3,
A 3 is all that's good and right,
Why must my 3 keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square-root sign.
I wish instead that I were 9
for 9 could thwart this evil trick
with just some quick arithmetic.
I know I will never see the sun
as 1.7321.
Such is my reality,
a sad irrationality.
When hark, is what I see,
another square root of 3
is quitely convulsing by,
together now we multiply
to form a number we prefer,
rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
and with a wave of magic wands
the square root signs become unglued
and love for me has been renewed..

Till Next Time

Sarath

My journey in the blog world

Though I started blogging about 6-7 months back, I have started investing some time into it only recently. It has become an outlet for frustration, happiness or any other feeling. It has become sort of an addiction. Though I realise there would not be many people reading the blog, still writing down what I feel gives a different sense of satisfaction.
Once I was comfortable with the basic blogging technique, I began to try out different applications and techniques for the blog. The Monkey with the Knotted tail, though not properly placed ( I am very poor at designing stuff), i felt represented much of what I am - confused, always talking gibberish, random stuff. I tried to enroll in the Google Ad sense account hoping to make some money out of my hobby as well.
Poor ignorant me. This is the reply I got from Uncle Google two days later

"Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into GoogleAdSense at this time.We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues:- Page type"
I think even Google rejects my blog as being not suitable. Not a good start...

Then I ventured into the blog world to find like minded individuals. I found out many interesting blogs. There is no virtually no topic under the sun which cannot be blogged- Right from "What to do at a gynaecologist's office to pass time" to conversations between lovers on the phone to blog about malayalis. It is a huge, untapped world out there waiting to be explored.
And my journey into this world will continue till I have the strength to do so..

Had a personality assessment test in one of our classes regarding one's power orientation and inclination towards politics in office. We had to answer on a scale of 1 to 5 on how much we agree with the statement. Some of the questions were quite strange. Sample

= Most people more easily forget the death of their father than the loss of their property..

= Generally speaking, people won't work hard unless they're forced to do so.

Now the second one was easy for me. Based on personal experience i.e with respect to myself, I gave the statement a full 5. But the first question made me think, Can this statement really have some truth behind it??

Till Next Time

Sarath

A Review

One of the subjects I have in my first term of MBA is OCPS(Oral Communication and Presentation Skills). The peculiarity of this subject is that it is one of the few subjects you can Faff your way to good marks. It has various exercises like group presentation, public speaking, book review etc. This particular incident happened in today's class.
We were having book review session. People were coming one by one, giving reviews for their chosen books. They were all praises for their books. Not that many negative points about their books.
Then came this guy, he usually remains quite in the class. Appeared nervous as he came to give his review, his hands shaking. No one expected anything different.

His book was "Three mistakes of my life" by Chetan Bhagat.
He started normally like others with an introduction about the author, his past books, the story in brief and some good points about the book. Then came something which was completely unexpected. I would like to quote the exact words he used.

" As far as I am concerned, the book is not at all a good read. The book does not match up to his previous books. There is very less of humour. Things get boring after sometime. The title is a misleading one. It is used primarily as a marketing ploy to attract readers. Out of the 3 mistakes the author talks about, 2 were not great mistakes as such, everyone makes such mistakes.
The third mistake he talks about - well it does not become a mistake as he does it again and again. "

All this time, he was speaking with the same poker faced nervous expression, which made it all the more funny. The whole class along with the teacher burst out into laughter. When everything settled down, the teacher remarked " That was an good way to make a review interesting. Be brutally honest and funny. Even if you are nervous the audience will not notice it."

Ha Ha Ha.

Visited the Amitabh Bachchan blog recently. The man does have large amount of free time it seems. I mean, writing about 2-3 blog daily, that too lengthy detailed blogs surely requires some time. And he has to read through all the comments. On top of this he does all these movies. Talk of stamina at old age....

Till Next Time

Sarath

Movies

One major difference between the life of a MBA student and others is the number of movies watched by each. The ratio is usually 10:1 for movie buffs like me.

2 months into an MBA course and I have lost count of the number of movies and sitcoms I have seen lately. As if it is our duty to watch atleast 6-7 movies per week. People share 200 - 250 gb of movies. Any movie is available at the click of a mouse. Once I saw the entire 3 seasons of "How I met your Mother" in 1 week flat.

Some of the movies I saw lately and what I thought about them



TAXI DRIVER - Had heard great reviews of this Robert De Niro movie from others so decided to watch it. Half an hour into the movie, I realised that this was not my kind of movie. Agreed, De Niro is awesome as Travis the lonely Taxi-driver and even young Jodie foster does a good appearance as Iris, but still it failed to click for me. Maybe, because in a movie, I like something to happen all the time. Some parts of the movie I couldn't understand at all. Like why does Travis drop the plans of killing Palantine after the first try, and what motivated him in the first place to try to assassinate him. Maybe it is something very highly complicated psychology that the director is bringing in and it is not for some dumber like me. All said and done, I would recommend this movie to only those who have a liking towards serious, arty movies. Others, see it only for De Niro. What an Actor!!!!



JUNO- Saw this simple, cool movie just today. Initially I had apprehensions about watching this movie coz it involved teenage pregnancy and I felt it would be all soapy. But I was proved wrong. What a different way to treat such a controversial subject.. A refreshing change from the usual line of movies. Ellen Page the protagonist of the movie plays Juno, a 16 year old girl who accidentally gets pregnant. She decides not to abort the baby but instead decides to give it up for adoption. The manner in which the girl and her parents take the news of pregnancy is treated in a quite funny way. They are quite cool about it and there are none of the usual tears and heartbreaks. Ellen page does a brilliant job as Juno and she deserved the Oscar Nomination she got for this movie. The songs in the beginning and end are also quite hummable. A must watch....



Bachchna Ae Haseeno: Watch it for Ranbir Kapoor's antics. Whenever he is on screen, he carries the scene on his shoulders. Some songs are good. Minissha Lamba as Mahii is very cuuuuute.

Enough for now. Will come up with some more in a future post. Have been trying to tone down this film watching habit of mine, but have not been successful as yet. Any suggestions???

Till Next time

Sarath

Problem solving worksheet

Found a problem solving worksheet on a site, which is quite relevant in the job environment. Most of the people follow variations of this model. True story. I have experienced it..

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Continuing with the things that occupy my mind sometimes.

"Somethings I don't understand about women" - Though I can't list all of them as it would be a serious waste of blogwidth, but still i would like to put forward the more common ones....


=Why do they like shopping so much? I mean if retailers were to conduct a research on the gender of the number of footfalls into their malls, 80% of the cases would be a woman followed by a harried man carrying all the packets.


=Why in an engineering or mba college, the ratio of women comes out to be drastically so less? For boys, One can’t even apply John Nash’s game theory here. Even if everyone co-operates only 1 or 2 is going to be benefited.

=Why do they feel the need to gossip, talk on the phone so much or basically talk all the time?

I asked these questions to some of my women friends and even they could not answer. Dont take these questions personally, they are just doubts... honest, simple doubts. Coz for years I have been trying to study the psychology behind the behavior of women and I am still on the first chapter.
Our Organisational Behavior teacher says that "To do business with the people of a different country, you must understand their culture first." I say this must be extended to the other gender too, we have constant dealings with them..

Till Next Time

Sarath

WEEEEEEEEEEkend

Have been creating a new losing streak. I have lost 4 pens in the last one week. For a person who doesn't write much, it is a record. What the hell, I even lost a borrowed pen and am surviving on a second borrowed one. I lost the latest one in our admissions office, where I loaned it to some girl to fill her form and forgot to take it back.
That is why I never buy costly pens. That way even if you lose a pen, u r not that affected.
You would be asking, why is this guy writing about lost pens? who cares whether he has lost 4 pens or 100.

One reason is that I have finally become free after an event filled week and am taking out my frustration by subjecting everyone to some crap. The human mind needs intelluctual as well as crappy stuff in equal ratio. Otherwise how can it differentiate what is really useful. I am trying to fill that crap portion of your mind with my incoherent ramblings.

Had many club interviews this week in our college. Gave some of them, Lets see how many make the mistake of selecting me. This last week was one of my busiest in MDI. Had interviews at 1 or 2'o clock at night almost everyday. Had 2-3 assignments to complete for which I had to be awake till 5 in the morning. At last its time to relax with a long weekend coming. The hostel has been steadily emptying as most of the students are leaving for their homes. I am still unsure about my plans for the weekend. Maybe visit Delhi if possible.

Now for some more crap...

Why do you think most women like "Panipuri" or "Golgappe"? I have been thinking about this topic for a long while now and can't find any answer. I mean most of the time it is unhygenic, it has potato which has calories, it is not branded and many other things which women hate, but still they love this item like anything.. Need to research some more on the question. Suggestions from anyone are welcome..

Apart from losing pens, giving interviews, projects and conducting research on panipuri many other interesting things are happening with my life too.

We had a thanksgiving party for the senior batch. With all the dancing, booze, songs, girls and all I did not want to leave the party at all, such is the impact of an MDI party. Yet somehow managed to get back to the room by 3'o clock.

I am not forgetting my duty of watching movies regularly and am trying to catch up on some lost time. After all how can a MBA hostel life be complete without at least 3-4 movies per week. Saw Good Will Hunting, Thomas crown Affair, What happens in Vegas this last 4-5 days. Planning to see at least 3-4 this weekend.

It has started raining a little in gurgaon the last 1-2 days. Makes the atmosphere somewhat pleasant.

Will get back with another post with some more crappy stuff...

Till Next time

Sarath

I can't think of a title for this post

You know how it feels when you are loaded with work and you have no time in the world. You become senseless, you do not feel anything. You become immune to all the worries. You begin to believe the fact " Honi ko kaun taal sakta hai??"

It is happening with me right now. Have lost the count of the number of assignments i have to submit within the next 3-4 days. In MBA life, remember one main thing. In a team if everyone is a manager you will seldom get your work done. Somebody must be there to sweat it out and work. So try to be in a team with such people.

presently i am headed out to a party about which I have no idea when it will end. so probably good bye tomorrow's 8.30 lecture. I am gonna get sloshed.....

Till Next time

Sarath

Dremz unlimited

Lectures are going on at full swing. Suddenly I see a gun totting person through the slit of the class door. I get alert, stand up, tell the class to keep silent and hide behind the benches. Then I silently slip through the gap of the door and look outside. There are 3 more people with AK-47s roaming around in the acad block.
There is no time. I make a split second decision to handle them one by one. One of the class rooms had already been taken hostage by the gunmen. I finish off 3 of the gunmen each with just a jerk of my hand. The last one turns out to be more tough and resists. So I have to use his knife against him, but manage to finish him off easily. With the satisfaction of a job well done I phone the police and save the day for my college mates.

This was one of the day-dreams I had a day after seeing Bourne Ultimatum. I was in one of my day-dreaming zones, with nothing to do and just idle thoughts. I could have developed the plot further, but an emergency nature call prevented any further script development.

I regularly have such daydreams. People may say that such dreams are a manifestation of your inner desires and things which u cannot fulfill. I say, what the heck!! If I become so creative in the process what's the problem to fantasize. Maybe one day a concrete script may come out of such day dreams.

Most of the dreams are about saving the world from the evil forces at play, that too alone without any help. Sometimes some women also come into these dreams. You have to have a heroine to have a superhit!!!

Lately I am becoming addicted to engish sitcoms, particularly How I met your mother. So i sometimes get lost imagining sitting in a bar with friends, hitting at all the girls and not having to do any work. What a world!!!

You may be imagining - What a despo!!! Well you are free to have views and comment.

Till Next Time

Sarath

Friendship Day

It is Friendship Day today.
Frankly speaking I have never understood the concept of days. Isn't it strange that you are allowed to forget your friends for the rest of the year only to remember them for that one day coz everyone says its friendship day.
Don't take me wrong here. I am not against the celebration of such a day - atleast people whom u think have long forgotten you send some mushy messages atleast.
But isn't friendship such a cherished possession that it should be remembered every time. I know the role played by good friends in my life. With them I can forget all the tension of the world and just talk about trivial things. They are like my stress busters. You can turn to them anytime you want. And I am happy to have many such friends in my life.

But one thing I am poor at is continuing long distance friendships. As hard as I try, I often lose contact with my old friends as new friends come into my life. The regular contact needed to maintain such relationships sometimes is missing. One of the reasons maybe that I try to make as many friends as possible instead of sticking with a particular group: The kind of group you see in sitcoms - Always hanging out with each other with literally no one else in their lives.

Now I dont want to venture into too much of serious talk. My last 2-3 blogs have shown a serious side of mine, which I have never expressed before. Am really enjoying blogging.

Happy friendship Day

Till next time

Sarath