Happy Ney Year everyone!
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year!
As I tried writing about 'Top 3 things of 2009' I ended up writing 4 things. I inevitably tried to think of another thing to make my blog 'Top 5 things of 2009'...but again ended by having 7 things....so i retorted to start the year's blog with a conservative yet effective(the narcissist me thinks so) way -
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The motivational factor
A normal conversation in my office cubicle -
Me: How were the rounds? Any interesting candidates?
Anish: Yeah, two of them.
Me: I hope they are well versed with jdk1.5. Did you check that out?
Anish: No
Me: What did you ask them then? Servlets, jsps?
Anish: No
Me: Arre phir poocha kya?
Anish: General aptitude questions.
Me (irritated): But that round is already done! You were there to interview candidates for our Java requirement and if you thought they weren’t fitting the bill why didn’t you send them to a different interviewer?
Anish (3 times irritated): Because they were real good looking girls and the project is in need of some dire motivation.
The male fraternity in my team stood up nodding their heads in complete agreement while the female fraternity burst out laughing.
Me: How were the rounds? Any interesting candidates?
Anish: Yeah, two of them.
Me: I hope they are well versed with jdk1.5. Did you check that out?
Anish: No
Me: What did you ask them then? Servlets, jsps?
Anish: No
Me: Arre phir poocha kya?
Anish: General aptitude questions.
Me (irritated): But that round is already done! You were there to interview candidates for our Java requirement and if you thought they weren’t fitting the bill why didn’t you send them to a different interviewer?
Anish (3 times irritated): Because they were real good looking girls and the project is in need of some dire motivation.
The male fraternity in my team stood up nodding their heads in complete agreement while the female fraternity burst out laughing.
Monday, December 21, 2009
God in small things
Another one from my bus-diary -
Travelling by bus, you should be carrying exact change lest you meet a moody conductor who gives you a sermon about his ‘change’ problem.
Another normal day when the bus conductor was abusing an elderly man 'coz he didn’t have change. He was using extremely foul language but nobody dared to interrupt him because everyone knew that it would simply complicate the matter. The old man probably thought the same, for he just stood patiently, handling the verbal assault with a calm disposition. Soon the bus passed a small temple and the conductor subconsciously became silent and religiously folded his hands and prayed. It was amazing to see how a stone elicited his respect but not a person in flesh and blood. After his revered gesture to the almighty he continued with the abusing. All this happened in a matter of seconds and was almost mechanical. The old man who had observed all this coolly said, “Aadhi disnarya mansaanshi neet vagayla shika magach tya na disnarya devapudhe haath joda” (Learn to respect people in flesh and blood before you bow before that invisible god).
The line had its effect for the conductor just went away to handle other commuters but this time, his mannerisms had mellowed down.
Travelling by bus, you should be carrying exact change lest you meet a moody conductor who gives you a sermon about his ‘change’ problem.
Another normal day when the bus conductor was abusing an elderly man 'coz he didn’t have change. He was using extremely foul language but nobody dared to interrupt him because everyone knew that it would simply complicate the matter. The old man probably thought the same, for he just stood patiently, handling the verbal assault with a calm disposition. Soon the bus passed a small temple and the conductor subconsciously became silent and religiously folded his hands and prayed. It was amazing to see how a stone elicited his respect but not a person in flesh and blood. After his revered gesture to the almighty he continued with the abusing. All this happened in a matter of seconds and was almost mechanical. The old man who had observed all this coolly said, “Aadhi disnarya mansaanshi neet vagayla shika magach tya na disnarya devapudhe haath joda” (Learn to respect people in flesh and blood before you bow before that invisible god).
The line had its effect for the conductor just went away to handle other commuters but this time, his mannerisms had mellowed down.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Sycophancy
UPCC president, Rita Bahuguna Joshi's comment on how sincere Rahul Gandhi was when he forced his pilot to land in zero visibility so that he wouldn’t miss his commitment of meeting people would have had most of the sensible people in splits. Who would override the pilot's decision about safe and unsafe landing? Not sensible folks atleast! In her attempt to (probably) appease the high command she ended up in quite an awkward position because within minutes the junior most Gandhi quickly gave a press statement saying he had done no such thing. In his own words - "I am a pilot and I am absolutely aware of the dangers of flying in low visibility conditions. I will be the last person to do it."
I have been waiting for the UPCC president's next remark but so far none have been forthcoming.
I have been waiting for the UPCC president's next remark but so far none have been forthcoming.
Movie Review: Paa
One word for the movie - Lovely!
To begin the review skeptics who are comparing it to Benjamin Button can take a back seat. The movie is refreshing and definitely an original. Balki's previous movie 'Cheeni Kum' was a nice one too. The reason I liked that movie was for its dialogues and Paa, you have a lot of satire and wit to keep you glued.
The story of Auro, a single mother's son diagnosed with progeria is a heartwarming one and far from being whining. He leads an almost normal life surrounded by amazing characters including his best friend, Vishnu. I especially liked the scene where the 11 yr old Vishnu talks about his dad explaining the similarities he shares with him......witty convo. Auro steals the scene and yeah! not for a moment you would feel that it’s a 67 year old playing a 12 year old kid. Amitabh is one lucky man! Even at this age he continues to get scripts that are written especially for him. But nobody can deny his hard work, he pulled it off amazingly too :)
Just one hiccup, but with the song that is rocking charts. The music of the song 'Gumsum Gum ' is a direct lift from a very old Malayalam melody (all I know is the singer there was S.Janaki, details later....). When I heard it I was a little disappointed that someone of the music director's caliber could also do that without a proper credit.....but you can’t help it.
Great performances by the rest of the cast, especially - Arundhati Nag as Vidya’s mother but little Auro is the child of the moment! My favourite actor has done it yet again!
To begin the review skeptics who are comparing it to Benjamin Button can take a back seat. The movie is refreshing and definitely an original. Balki's previous movie 'Cheeni Kum' was a nice one too. The reason I liked that movie was for its dialogues and Paa, you have a lot of satire and wit to keep you glued.
The story of Auro, a single mother's son diagnosed with progeria is a heartwarming one and far from being whining. He leads an almost normal life surrounded by amazing characters including his best friend, Vishnu. I especially liked the scene where the 11 yr old Vishnu talks about his dad explaining the similarities he shares with him......witty convo. Auro steals the scene and yeah! not for a moment you would feel that it’s a 67 year old playing a 12 year old kid. Amitabh is one lucky man! Even at this age he continues to get scripts that are written especially for him. But nobody can deny his hard work, he pulled it off amazingly too :)
Just one hiccup, but with the song that is rocking charts. The music of the song 'Gumsum Gum ' is a direct lift from a very old Malayalam melody (all I know is the singer there was S.Janaki, details later....). When I heard it I was a little disappointed that someone of the music director's caliber could also do that without a proper credit.....but you can’t help it.
Great performances by the rest of the cast, especially - Arundhati Nag as Vidya’s mother but little Auro is the child of the moment! My favourite actor has done it yet again!
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