The Blah Blahs and the Yada Yadas

It is my nature, and indeed the strongest of my natures, to sit at home, chew on the popcorn family, watching TV with one eye and the computer screen with the other. The closest of friends would recognize me as the ’sit-at-home’ type. Laze, it is often said, would be second nature to me ONLY [...]

“Eeeeeeeeeeeekkkkk!!!”
Alarmed Lady: “Waiter, there’s chicken in my soup!!! Eeeeeeeeeeekkkkk!!!”
(The room goes silent. Enter stage left, the hotel manager , puffing and panting….)
Manager: “Please stop shrieking, madam. This is a reputed hotel. What you are saying is quite impossible.”
A.L.: “But look at this… (she points at her soup bowl) What do you have to say [...]

I always knew my memory wasn’t what you could call sharp. Nay, mine has always been as blunt as they come. In all my life, I have never ever boasted about an infallible memory. At least, I don’t remember having boasted thus.
But [...]

It is fun to recollect the good times you’ve had. And I dare say every one of us have spent time musing over the ‘good old times’ one time or the other. As we pass through life, the highlights get embedded into our brain, ready to be triggered at the appropriate moments, the respective neurons [...]

[I wrote this article for the first time for my Btech Magazine back in 2002, i think. I edited some of it and re-wrote it to suit MBA when I came to Bangalore. This is the MBA version. I chose this version not because this is better. Actually, I think the BTech material was better. [...]

In the interest of humanity, and for the sake of a better future, a little blood must flow. Today, after some deliberation and some heavy doses of serious gulping, I decided to squirt out some of my blood, on the optimistic stand that somebody else might have better use for it. So I went to [...]