“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 that in the CIA, “Nothing is what it seems!” In other words, everything is an eyewash, what you see and what you have been told is…
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 IIM (Or any other ‘B-School’). This is real-life management, baby! Infinitely more useful than…
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. This is the master plan, folks. The Blueprint for World Domination. The flawless plan of action which can tie…
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 facilities, hordes of mindless people working for them and they nurture that evergreen dream of world domination. And have a plan to achieve it. But since Hollywood has shown us that plain old terrorism, nuclear weapons and space-time-morphing…
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 unrecognizeable from how it was when he grew up there. TIME published the article and all holy hell broke…
Nope. It did not happen. The colors the World would turn into were to be Red and Gold. Not Orange. Heartbreak. Again. The Dutch with not losing a single game all along the qualification and the finals stumbled where it mattered, forgot to play football, lost against a side which actually played football and ended their campaign in tears. Defeat…
Please be noting that this is NOT a fail post, but emotional stuff. :) This one will be a ‘before and after’ affair. One part before the World Cup final and one part after it, whatever be the outcome. Octopussy be damned, I believe that the Netherlands a.k.a Holland a.k.a Oranje should bring the long-overdue cup home to…
Life is hard. No doubt about it. Especially so if you are a Football fan in India. In India, cricket rules like Hugo Chavez rules Venezuela. And just like Chavez’ political opponents, any other sport simply does not exist on a national scale or has been pushed into oblivion, including football despite it having the largest popularity and fan base across the world. The…
Please be noting: Below post does not apply to Cricket. Thank You. We Indians have this strange habit of asking the same question over and over again, especially so when we already know its answer. (Doubt? Watch some of the ‘expert panel debates’ on any news channel). Despite being well-answered, we ask these anyway and then answer…
“Dude, who won the Bangladesh – Sri Lanka match in the Asia Cup yesterday?” “Oh. There is some Cricket going on? Sorry, didn’t notice.” “What? How CAN you sit and cheer for some gora foreign country when India is playing at the Asia Cup? You don’t have any love for your country.” There we go…
We all have priorities. Material priorities. Those that we think we will solve all our problems. Like an Audi Q7 instead of the shitty Alto we drive, a suburban villa next to the woods in place of the cramped apartment in that polluted rundown neighborhood we live in, a 43 Inch Sony Bravia instead of…
Any Indian worth his travel bag will swear that traveling in India is a huge fail whale. Airports are located in areas where just getting there is a half day’s job. Trains are overbooked, chaotic, slow and of course, late. Buses run when they want to, and usually seem to all places except where you want to go to. Want to…
