What’s the holiday for? ‘tis not Eid today!

The moon didn’t come out last night. All Muslims are not really celebrating Eid today – obviously they can’t unless and until they see the moon the previous night, so what’s the holiday for? As if there weren’t enough holidays – not to mention the additional days off due to bandhs and what-nots – here we go with an extra day off.

So, actually speaking, for banks, there’ll be 3 days off this week. In reverse order: Ganapti on Saturday, Eid on Friday and the strike that they had earlier this week on Tuesday.

Damn!

Gotcha CAPTCHA?

Recently I was trying to open an account with Google Services and just like other web sites, Google has implemented CAPTCHA control too.

CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The controls looks like the ones below:

But I don’t know what’s wrong with Google. When I was entering my details I got a CAPTCHA like this one:

Google, can you spell it for me?

The cable is not working too

DAMN...the Cable is not working too, possibly because of the rains...... :(
Curse of the 'Holy Man' ?

Bad Sense of Humour

How some people (read wives) do not have a Sense of Humour. A few minutes back my wife was telling a bedtime story to my daughter about some Abdullah who met a Holy man (Arabian Nights?) So my daughter cutely asked 'Who is a Holy man?' without losing a chance I said 'A Man Full of Holes' & that was it! My wife yelled 'I do not want her to be like you'. I was a bit confused & asked her whether she was irritated because of religious aspects or the wrong meaning that I gave. She yelled back 'Shut-up & Go to sleep'..........so here I am..........

Going Deaf!!!!!!

Everyone is either going deaf in my house or my hearing has suddenly got superman-like qualities. If there are 3 TVs in the house, do they all have to be switched on, at the same time, on full volume?????

Am i the only one who is bothered by this??  If I’m talking to someone, i have to shout to get the message across. Maybe i should start ignoring people and pretend to be deaf already so that they start feeling guilty… hmm…

What is it with people, or is it just me?

Soon, they will all go deaf and need hearing aids. And i will go deaf by default. I guess, the smoke inhaled in a smokers company is just as bad. Well….. 

 

One tight slap across the face...!!!

I don't know if someone up there has forgotten to turn the tap off. Everytime I look out of the window its raining, drizzling or threatenning to do either of those. It's like you are working on your computer and someone is standing behind you doing nothing. Eitherways it drives me nuts.

I was riding my bike today avoiding the muddy puddles and just then an a**h**le autorick splashed dirty water all over. If only I had this slow-motion skill (that is available in some advanced video games), I would have slowed the splash and zipped past....but then welcome to reality...the only skill that was on my finger tip err tongue tip was an enraged MCBC bullet that made such a huge sound that it seemed the whole traffic stopped for a moment...

Here's the best part...I saw the autorick driver was undernourished and I had a good 10 pounds more than he had, and I saw this as a "wicked" opportunity!!! So the moment he stopped and jutted his head out to respond to my MCBC comment, I slapped him hard right across his face while I passed his vehicle (ok i dont know if that was musical at all)... BUT I HAD FUN!!!!

These Autorick guys can't do a thing with their odd shaped vehicle and a** jutting out. A tight slap across the face is the only language they understand...so guys, without fear, trust your instincts and vehicle skills and go for it...one tight slap. (Btw, if you own a bajaj bike, do not attempt this! There's a high chance that just when you need it, the bike wud refuse to budge and you might get YOUR A** kicked really hard).

Now the sadist pleasure: My adrenaline was on such a high the entire day, that I finished all my errands faster than I thought, came home and played "fetch" with my dog till he could take it no more and still have a load of energy left!!! So it is my humble request to GOD that, everyday create a situation where I see a autorick stuck in traffic and the driver jutting his "whatever" out and a slick opening for me to escape...I will do the rest!

Google doesn't know anything

Google knows everything about me.. What I search for, whom I chat with, which videos I see.. even whose mails I open first based on priority mails. This is apart from tracking my surfing habits thru Google Toolbar, Google Analytics. Google recently collected peoples data over open Wi-Fi using their street view vehicle.

Then WHY THE HELL Google news cannot remember a simple fact that I am from India and I DO NOT WANT US edition every time I visit.

Every single time I visit Google News, I dutifully select “India” from the country list. Forget tacking thru a cookie, I am even logged in into my Google account so it bloody well know who I am and where I am coming from.

IDIOTS!

The Auto / Taxi strike on 7-Sep-2010…for what?

As if, it was not enough that so many people had a harrowing time during the so called “strike”, I am even more p****d off now that I came to know what the strike was for. They were protesting against…the big “I”….I-N-F-L-A-T-I-O-N. Price rise!!! WTF!?!?

Can you believe that? What a bunch of hypocrites! And given the fact that they want to have a further hike in the auto fares.

Damn!

Nothing good to watch – TV is useless

We have so many channels now. One would think there would be no dearth of entertainment! Well think again!!
At prime time all the Hindi entertainment channels are either running ghastly family dramas or the ones that don’t are running even ghastlier reality shows. The reality shows get more and more bizarre and they are less and less about talent and more and more about – well just “show”.
Then all the news channels are busy beating some completely unimportant “story” to death! Its not news any more – they are all “stories”. Oh and channels like “Times Now” and “NDTV 24X7” and their “oh so important” news anchors are busy brow-beating their invited panel on some issue. When every day they bring new panel to discuss a new “very important” topic, we know how important each one is – or how much this “discussion” is going to make ANY difference to the complete picture (not at all).
The English entertainment channels many times are showing the originals on which our “reality” shows are based on….
Come to the movie channels – you can be sure that there would hardly be any good movies been shown when you want to watch. If by sheer cosmic co-incidence you have time to watch a movie and you are in mood for a good movie AND one of the channels is showing a good movie you feel so blessed!! You start watching the movie and get into the story and as the movie progresses the commercial breaks increase – the duration between two commercial breaks gradually decreases and the length of the commercial breaks gradually increases. To the extent that either you get fed up and give up on the movie- because thanks to all the breaks you have lost interest in the most amazing movie you were watching. Or you are almost dead by the time the movie ends.
That leaves channels like Discovery, Nat Geo, Animal Planet, etc. And its not funny how often they are showing documentaries on crashes (Nat Geo especially) or snakes & lizards (Animal Planet mostly) in the prime time. Like there is nothing more interesting than crashes or snakes in the world!!!

I HATE TV – am totally frustrated with it!!!

Chief Rotadu (CR) is frustrating me

First he says Rotadu ka identity is confidential, so one rotadu doesnt know another. Irony - CR knows all rotadus and some rotadus know some other rotadus as well. So rule 1 is anyway partially broken.
Now in the middle of the night CR tells me that someone likes your posts...now CR wants to show authority and refuses to share active feedback and refuses to tell me who that someone is who likes the posts. So in essense CR is keeping himself motivated and entertained and frustrating rotadus! Now that is being a sadist! Cribbin is an art and has to be executed with precision such that it's cotton cutting through your skin...ugh..whatever it means. And do it effectively there has to be active and positive encouragement.
Point being, CR is unfair n irritating me in the middle of the night and has the nerve to laugh. CR should be change to Sadist Rotadu :D :D :D
Ok enough...CR...mera number aayega...iska hisaab milega...barabar milega... (don't know how to get the gabbar depth and (width) in the text...but imagine gabbar said it).