Archive for 2012
 

 
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INR 1.76 Lakh Crore ($40 Billion)

(Text in blue are links to other pages like Wikipedia explaining more about the highlighted text. (Not ads, never!) You may click on them, linked pages will open in new tabs/windows. Promise :) ) The most widely quoted curre...
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The only thing that is what it is.

Nothing Is What It Seems!

“Nothing is what it seems!” – Walter Burke (Al Pacino), The Recruit In the mediocre-at-best spook movie ‘The Recruit’, CIA chief trainer Water Burke (Al Pacino) kept reminding his new recruits th...
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For Customer Care, Dial WTF – Part 2

…Continued from Part -1 Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring!! The music/loan-sale/importance reminder routine came to an abrupt end. The sound of the phone ringing at the other end, the fruit of all my hard work, rudely shook me out ...
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Yes. I was. When my call was dropped! Probably his was too. Poor bear!

For Customer Care, Dial WTF – Part 1

“Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to navigate through the ‘customer care’ innovation of a leading ‘international’ bank and get to talk to a human, make them understand a prob...
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Due Date – Bwahahahaa! But that’s it.

Director – Todd Philipps Cast - Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx Genre - Road/Comedy/Buddy Watch Because - Galifianakis, Funny lines and moments Dont Watch Because – Tries too hard, Rush...
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SKYLINE – THE ALIENS WIN!

Director – Brothers Greg & Colin Strause Cast - Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison and David Zayas Genre - Sci-Fi/Horror/Zombie?/WTF Watch Becuase - Dont watch, but Special Effects, Air battles are good. D...
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No Bubblegum here. Win!

Indian F(r)iction Part 2 – I Can Haz Bubblegum!

It is a considerable #WIN on many fronts that Indians have taken to reading in droves, again.  As I have said in Part 1, (Suggest you go through it, if you havent) a large chunk of the thanks for this has to go to Chetan Bhag...
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Really. It's not that hard.

Indian F(r)iction Part 1 – Chetan Bhagat Times

So the other day someone said: “The timeline of the history of Indian Fiction can be divided into two: Before Chetan Bhagat and After Chetan Bhagat”. Quite a statement to make, considering the fact that the only ot...
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Credit Cardology Part 3 – Use and User Lifecycle (Chart)

The Use and User of Credit Cards – Lifecycle   Click on the chart to enlarge, uh, view the chart in a larger screen. Hey, it is easy! You will be screwed any which way. This is the kind of chart you were not taught in...
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Credit Cardology Part 2 – How Credit Cards Work.

I had initially planned to include this in Part 1 (Read) but this better be treated as a separate unit. This is part 1 explained in more detail, Credit Cards explained, especially on HOW people wind up in Credit Card debt. ...
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Credit Cardology Part 1 – You are Screwed.

Be very afraid. Supervillains do exist in real life. And they are not far removed from the Mavel Comics/James Bond cartoony types like Dr.No, Goldfinger, The Joker and Megatron – They have large and pointless fa...
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Hindustan Leavers – Steined!

Mr. Joel Stein is American. Mr. Joel Stein is a writer. Mr. Joel Stein writes in CNN-TIME. Mr. Joel Stein wrote an article on how his childhood town (Edison, NJ) has been ‘invaded’ by Indians and has become unrecog...
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