Epiphany #113 – Hard work & success

I remember watching an interview with Jay Leno a couple of years ago. What surprised me at that time was that he did not credit his luck or his talent for the success that he has achieved. He said it was sheer hard work. He said he stuck around for many nights in a row [...]

Its the end of the world? Not really, I think

Today’s topic at our office water-cooler(or at our gigantic, old and rusty coffee-machine)  is the Large Hadron Collider(LHC). From the news articles I’ve been reading and from my costly undergrad and masters degrees in science related topics, I have come to understand that it is going to be ‘turned on’ (yes, I believe that’s the [...]

This & that

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I recently came across this quote by John Galsworthy while generally browsing and I think it perfectly sums up all thats been going on in our household for the last few weeks.
The kiddo turned 3 over the weekend. I was going over her baby pictures yesterday [...]

Rajah Paati

I was reading this article today about the Ambani brothers and Reliance I was reminded of a neighbour we once grew up with.
Rajah Paati lived next door with her daughter and son and was one of the first people I knew who owned Reliance shares. Apart from a small house that looked ready to be [...]

random epiphany – hairstyles

There are some people who look good. Such people can change their hairstyle to suit the latest trend, keep it long, cut it short or colour it any weird way and will continue to look good. The others should find a hairstyle (and hair color) they like and just go with it.

al-Bashir Bush?

I love reading Google News – more than even checking my email. So, this morning as I was looking at World news, I almost gagged on my mouthful of water (trying to cut down on caffeine at work) when I came across this headline, ‘First al-Bashir, next….Bush?’ on aljazeera.net. Yes, I know, Al Jazeera is [...]

so you think you can dance?

I am normally not a fan of reality shows. There are a few exceptions though. I love all versions of the dancing reality shows -  from Strictly Come Dancing on BBC to So you think you can dance? on Fox.
‘So you think…’ had a new category of dancing recently called ‘Bollywood’. Take a look [...]

why so many?

I was up at 4:00am this morning due to an unrelenting sore throat. Unfortunately there was no Paracetamol or Ibuprofen around at hand and finally out of sheer exhaustion, I took a big swig out of my daughters Childrens’ Motrin – it did say that for kids around 95 lbs range, you could take 3 [...]

Murphy’s law

What are your chances of getting hit in the face by a tennis ball when you are in an enclosed kiddie play area?
- 100%,  if you happen to be me.

management by guilt

A few years ago I came across a book titled ‘Management by Guilt’ at a second-hand book sale. I bought it out of sheer curiosity and because it cost only 25cents. It turned out to be a fairly unimpressive(IMHO) management book. I was looking for something that tied guilt with management or discussed the pros [...]