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A Pessimist
Time changes things.
For the worse.
That's how you define life. -
You'll Never Walk Alone
When you walk through a storm ( Read more... ) -
Champions League
Pot 1: Bayern Munich/Juventus, Arsenal, Barcelona, Lyon, Inter Milan, AC Milan/Schalke/PSV, Villareal/Lille/Man U ( Read more... ) -
Marriage
To acknowledge the numerous posts of arwind surrounding marriages and invites, I have a question, "Why get married at 25 when you have most of your 'young' life still infront of you?". And no, replies like 'Why the question of 25? what about 26,27, .... ' do not count as answers ( Read more... ) -
Like to work?
Well, after a few discussions with a colleague about life at work, I came across this which may be interesting:
Quotes from the book PeopleWare and an interesting read by Chad Dickerson.
The jelled team is so tightly knit that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There is low turnover, a strong sense of identity, a sense of elitism, ( Read more... ) -
Caffiene rocks more than LSD/Marijuana
In 1995, NASA scientists seeking to measure toxicity relationships examined the webs of spiders dosed with various chemicals. Hmm looks like we should prefer marijuana and LSD over caffeine
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Enforced vacations
Our company used to have a thingamajig of having some casual leaves and some paid leaves. Casual leaves cannot be carried forward to the next year while some extent of paid leaves can be. A friend of mine currently in his job gets close to 40 or so paid vacation time a year (but this counts Saturdays and Sundays unless u circumvent it by taking ( Read more... ) -
And the topic of the day is .... Terrorism
The first one I came across was where you could say I was a few km. away from the incident (nowhere close to the affected areas) when the US embassy bombing happened in Nairobi. After that bombing, they shifted the embassy close to a friend's house and to get to his house, we had to pass a marine outpost with the machine guns, sandbags etc and ( Read more... )
