I hope my employer never sees this

Happy Monday Morning… A week into work, this is what I come across… (From here) Working from home – and rather infrequently, my msn messenger handle was ‘Say NO to deadlines’. Time to change that now…? And this is a good reminder to put up the usual disclaimer on my blog – have done so.

NH17 and road signs

Slight upheaval in life – I am joining a new job tomorrow – going to be working full time after many years – slow blogging this last one week since all my free time has been spent in getting myself out of the knots I have been tying myself into at thought of full time… Continue reading NH17 and road signs

Head geared

On flickr tags and reports of increase in race related crimes, there is nothing one can say better than this picture does (source : chutneyspears – thanks, Shivaji!) Pulitzer winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes made this following 9/11 – but it is just as true for 7/7(?!) or any other date (all that finally reduced to… Continue reading Head geared

“Make with others”

SK has blogged about Googlinglish, Google’s on-line translator tool – wherein you can translate chunks of texts or the whole contents of a web page into different languages. The translation can be done between English and French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. Additionally, it can translate between German and French too.. He… Continue reading “Make with others”

Dhooriram unmasked

I received a parcel today – intended for me – addressed to Mr. Chandrakant Dhooriram. No, it was not left in my mail box – the courier chappie rang the bell and handed it over to me. CC : Aap Mishter Chandrakant hain? Groggy and staring in disbelief Charukesi Ramadurai : duh? Persistent CC :… Continue reading Dhooriram unmasked

Professional partying

I had blogged about a job description my husband received sometime in October 2003 – My husband received a job description today on e-mail, sent by a ‘leading’ placement consultant (what are they called these days, I can’t keep track). Among the required (not even desired – required) qualifications for a Business Development Manager were… Continue reading Professional partying