In the mirror, you can somehow see
the person you used to be
yet photos teach, eventually
to accept the truth, if grudgingly.

I "understood" while you raged at them,
it was all cut and dried.
Having now been ranted at,
I see the other side.

Me: "So as a customer, how do I benefit from having a savings account, apart from the interest rate?"

Bank representative: "Well, it's meant to encourage you to save ...."

Me: "That's not needed - I'm pretty good at saving."

BR: "Then it's mainly the interest ...."

Me: "Which is 0.05%, right? (he nods) So for 100 dollars, I get 5 cents, and for 10,000 ( Read more... )

1 week to home, 6 weeks to New York ( Read more... )

Neat packaging, and a
massive marketing drive -
lo and behold!
Mediocrity doth thrive.

A joke by a friend that the current Indian ODI team was a "CMM level 1 team, depending on heroics", got me thinking on error rates in cricket, and in particular in batting ( Read more... )

Of this there is no doubt -
comfort zones are great,
As long as you get out
before you stagnate.

Some days, you keep looking behind
some days it is hard to find

some days it is all around
some days, nowhere to be found

some days, it comes and goes
but some days, it just shows

some days, you see
happiness is me.

My friend: "Obviously Andy Murray's going to win Wimbledon this time."

Me: "No, no - Murray shall lose to Henman in the semis, and the latter shall in turn lose to John Lloyd in the grand finale :-p"

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
The halfway mark is nearly here
What did I do with half a year?
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

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Seriously though, I have done some work, and can always point to the Ph.D as something from the first half of this year :-)

But boy, there's so much more to do in the rest of 2010!