Reliance Money

I am new to dabbling with stocks and wish to start trading soon.

I have heard that Reliance money's Online Trading service scores over Indiabulls and other trading platforms. Especially with their customer service being top of the line.

Will keep you posted on my experience with the same.

Digital Frames

Photos need not be on paper anymore...ever seen a digital photo frame?

Digital Frames Direct of UK is a store in the UK, where you can buy Digital Photo Frames Online.

I was just browsing their collection, seems to be quite a scope for these gizmos! Especially as corporate gifts.

Check it out.

Shhh....Life might be listening!

They returned to the gates of the monastery. There, the alchemist separated the disk into four parts.

"This is for you," he said, holding one of the parts out to the monk, "It's for your generosity to the pilgrims."

"But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded.

"Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time."

What's he thinking??

I recently changed my pic in Orkut to one of me snapped while I was in a restaurant thinking and scratching my head.

The pic in reference is:

Now, many many people have been scrapping me and asking me "Dude, what are you thinking there?" and "Dude, you're thinking!!??!", etc, etc.

I thought, why not let creativity have it's way.

So here's a little game, where you have to tell me what I'm thinking in this pic. No there ain't a correct answer, and definitely no prize! Think of it like one of those 'Fill in the thought bubble' kind of games, where you write down what the guy is thinking.

I'll give you an example, how about "Hey I forgot what I ordered! Dammit!".

Let your creativity loose, write what you have to, get as insulting as you have to, just write something! (Use the comments facility to post your thoughts)

Cheers!

Murphy and his goddamn law!

"Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"

Ever since it started raining, Mr. Murphy has been having his way with me.

I usually bike it to work. In the rains this means risking gettin drenched and also risking a bike ride on slippery roads. That's why I don't always risk it. If i feel that it might rain heavily that day, I hesitate taking my bike.

But this year, everytime I think 'oh damn, it's so damn cloudy, I better not risk getting soaked, chal I'll rick it to work today', as soon as I reach work, surprise surpise, the clouds have parted and the sun god laughs down upon me! I just wasted 70 bucks to get to work, and will hereby have to waste 70 more to go home!

What also happens a lot these days is that at 9-9.30 when it's usually time to leave, it's raining in my area. Raining heavy enough to make me think twice about taking out my bike out. So I don't. But then what happens? I get to work and all through the remainder of the day, it doesn't rain! Sheesh!

The other day, I shocked a few people at work. I turned up in shorts. Everyone asked why, and here's why... If i wear pants to work while biking, and if it starts raining, my pants will inevitably get wet. I work in an air-conditioned office, and wet pants will mean i'll have to freeze myself all day! That particular day, since the sky was so overcast, I decided to wear shorts to work and change into pants when I get there (I was carrying a pair in my bag). It just so happened that the entire day, the clouds were just out there to tease. It din't rain a single drop, and my efforts were in vain. Ofcourse, I din't change into pants once I reached work, since noone really seemed to mind me turning up in shorts.

Au contraire, I have also noticed, that when I do decide to take my bike, and it isn't raining, I do get soaked. The rains alawys start when I reach the santacruz flyover. I get soaked, park the bike on the side, contemplate waiting for the rains to pass, get frustrated waiting, so continue biking...and reach office soaked!

Sheesh!

I'm waiting for the summer...when the rains will cease, the winds won't restrict me, and the roads will hold on to me!

Liquids

The 4 Liquid Stages Of Life...

All's 'Well' That Ends 'Well'

Got a forward recently about the 'Prince down in the pits' story. Hilarious! Just had to post it up here.

A five-year-old boy, Prince, fell on his birthday down a sack covered 60-feet tube bore-well hole in Haryana and was rescued after 50 hours. The CM immediately announced a 2 lakhs rupees cash award for the child plus free education. What was the child being rewarded for? His stupidity for stumbling down the hole? Or compensation for the undue delay of 50 hours to rescue him? Well, whatever that was, Prince was down but not out for nearly 50 hours.

I can see thousands of parents queuing up at bore well holes holding their brats squirming in their hands. One parent might remark, "I want to make sure that his future is all 'well'." Another might add, "Yeah! The 'whole' of it!"

The opposition will make a big issue of this issue of the issue falling down the well saying that the government is trying to cover-up and it should sack' the concerned officials.

Meanwhile, Prince might consult a numerologist, who will promptly advice him to drop the 'n' in his name to make it more apt. Newspapers also mentioned the most significant fact that Prince was an OBC. I'm sure that some caste lobbies are going to protest that even SCs and STs should be given equal opportunities to fall down holes.

New textbooks will have a nursery rhyme saying,
"Ding Dong bell,
Prince is in the well!
Who put him in?
He fell 'cause he was thin.
Who pulled him out?
Firemen without a doubt.
Politicians are scrambling with aid and cash
To help prevent their career crash!"

Reporters 'digging' for some news might ask Prince how he celebrated his sixth birthday, and he may remark, "Oh! It was very boring, in fact, it was the pits!


However, All's 'well' That Ends 'well'

Update!

2MegaPixels has been updated!

Check it out now: http://2megapixels.blogspot.com/

Blockspot

Blogspot has apparently been blocked by the Indian government. I haven't read any articles about it myself, but that's the word on the street.

'Where there is a will there is a way'

And when there is a problem there is always a solution.

To visit banned sites on the internet check out this site: http://www.anonymouse.org

Pointed out by Amol, the site lets you visit almost all banned sites. It's like a proxy that loads the site on it's own server and then you access on their server.

Quite useful in these situations.

Phir Lock Stock

Went to watch a movie yesterday, after quite a long time - Phir Hera Pheri. I don't watch too many hindi movies, cause I find most of them to be pathetic and I can't sit through the song sequences. But this was Phir Hera Pheri, the sequel to Heri Pheri, the rib tickling hit.

Well, what a waste of 110 bucks (which I still ain't paid Sankalp). The movie was a complete disappointment. Disappointing, because it was a complete rip off of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Whoever directed this movie has really made a mess of the whole movie. If Guy Ritchie was to see this, we would probably sue Bollywood, not for copying, but for shaming the original movie in this ugly fashion. This movie has completely disgraced the original.

Even if it wasn't a rip off, the movie wasn't exactly great. Akshay Kumar had the major role, Paresh Rawal made a complete fool of himself, and Sunil Shetty - I still don't know what he did in the movie! Bipasha can't act, and Rimi is quite hot! No more comments.

Watch the movie, cause I know you will even if I tell you not to.

It's movies like these that keep me away from hindi flicks.

22 years and many more to go

Don't ask me what it means. I just felt like writing it down here.

Infer from it, what you must.

Xquar

Friend n colleague, Amol Naik just launched his site xquar.com today.
The site will currently is just a search engine, and towards the future will have a directory of websites.
He was so elated that he gave me a chocolate. The least I could do to repay him was write about it in my blog and possibly get him some traffic :)
So guys, visit his site and bookmark it!
(Amol Naik blogs at http://amol-v-naik.blogspot.com/)

My Day in INGs

Snoozing (the alarm) | Waking | Brushing | Reading (the paper - while) Shitting | Eating (b'fast) | Bathing | Changing | Leaving (for work) | Hailing (a rick) | Arriving (at bandra) | Buying (few smokes) | Calling (the lift) | Entering (the office) | Greeting (colleagues) | Switching (on the comp) | Checking (mail) | Drinking (coffee) | Pretending (to work) | Working (incase there is some work) | Smoking (at the balcony) | Joking (with colleagues) | Chilling (at the comp) | Leaving (for lunch) | Eating (lunch) | Joking (while lunching) | Paying (the bill) | Smoking (need one after lunch!) | Going (back to work) | Pretending (to work) | Playing (yahoo pool) | Attending (meetings if any) | Brainstorming (if needed) | Writing (few ads) | Falling (asleep) | Drinking (that important cuppa coffee) | Coming (back to life) | Roaming (around, killing time) | Joking (around) | Looking (at the time) | Killing ( a lot of time!) | Leaving (for the day) | Hailing (a rick) | Arriving (home) | Throwing (bag, if was carrying it) | Dying (for that cuppa tea) | Getting (utterly bored) | Finding (stuff to do) | Killing (time) | Chatting (online) | Eating (dinner) | Killing (some more time) | (finally) Falling (asleep)

So you see, my day can be summed up with a fair amount of 'ings'. I'm sure yours can too.


Edit: Just realised this post could have been named "One Day Innings". Hehehehe

New Post

Time for a new post?

What do I write about?

I know, I'll write about my bike scandal.

No wait, but that's too much to write about.

I've already narrated the incident to tons of people. I think I should carry transcripts of the incident to distribute to people. Sick of talking about that!

Ok can't think of much to write right now, suggestions most welcome: vivekhegde@gmail.com

Fow now I have a message for anyone whose vehicle gets stolen in Mumbai:

If your vehicle gets stolen, just pray that it isn't returned!
The Indian judicial system will make you cry if it is found.
You would much rather have the insurance pay you even 1/3rd of your vehicle's value.
Mark my words, for they are words of experience.
If your vehicle is returned, darn I pity you!

That's all folks!

Relics

I came across a post i had written on 19th September when I was in the whole CAT mood, slogging my ass off! Never published the post. Was still a draft when I found it. Wanted to post it here.

An estimated 1,50,000 students gave the Common Admission Test (CAT) last year in 2004. Its estimated that almost 1,95,000 students will be giving the test this year. Out of these, I think about the top 1000 students might stand a chance to get a call from either of the IIMs. Mind you, when i say chance to get a call, I really don't mean admission. I suppose only the top 500-700 students will get into either of the IIMs.
This year, i'm going to be among one of those hopefuls who will be trying my luck on November 20th. I don't know if I stand a chance or not. I really don't. And its quite scary to think of it. If I sit and think that I don't stand a chance, I'll probably never work towards it. But how hard am i supposed to work? People start preparing for the CAT even a year before the actual examination! I don't know if they made it or not but would 4 months of preparation be any kind of match for 12 months of similar hard work? I hope so!

I din't make it.

But I'm not really complaining. Life's good. Got a job. A great one too!
I'm a copywriter @ Pinstorm. Really cool place to work!

More on that later.