Posts under ‘Rants’

The IT City, aka Bangalore, still grapples with electricity and water. While there are scheduled power cuts for almost 18 hrs in a week (thanks to Bangalore Mirror for publishing) an equal number or more hours of cut are unscheduled. Well that’s a routine now and I guess I’m not cribbing yet! After all my [...]

What happens when you put a bunch of insecure people together? Cat-fight? Rat Race? Circus? All of them? Well I guess most of us, including the ‘cats’, ‘rats’ and other ‘circus’ material, will pick Option D.
The working class is unsure of their future, their career and their lives because they work for someone for money. [...]

Well I don’t know if I’m not cool or young enough, but I can’t understand why people are using Orkut scraps/Facebook Wall as a public chat. ‘Scraps’ like “Hi” and “What’s your number” are so common on scrapbooks that it’s not funny.
I thought scrapbooks were like “Visitor Books” - a one-way communication, more often an endorsement [...]

As if the hue and cry over cheerleaders was not enough, Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth and made him cry, literally…
Now grow up dude - be a man! Either hit him back like Zidane did, or just file a silent complaint. Don’t behave like a kid, crying it out in front of the whole world!

Well that seems to be the attitude of several smokers in my office. 1 cigarette = at least 1 person asking for a light. I’ve observed that several times people just walk up to me and extend their hand without saying a word. As if I’m freakin’ obliged to give them a light. So much [...]

One of those phases when you feel inadequate. One of those phases that appear too long. Those feelings that you can’t articulate, but those still keep troubling your mind… Sounds a bit like a poem, bit like a song! Hell I don’t care, but I’m already feeling better.
And I do feel like deleting this post [...]

My experience could not have been more horrid than this. I bought a WS in June 2006 and foolishly renewed in Dec 2006 as well. The irony is that I must not have listened to it for more than 3 hrs in ~14 months because ’TDM gone’ seems to be better music to the WS [...]

A dipper is meant to signal your intention of overtaking the vehicle ahead of you. Much better than honking and thus creating noise pollution.
When do you intend to overtake though? When you think you’re in a position to. Right. However Bangalore drivers use the dipper in a very innovative manner. In fact it’s [...]

Picture this. A ‘Worldspace‘ technician comes to your house to re-install your radio. He does not clip the cable he pulls in because that is an “electrician’s job”. He does not even know how to switch on the music system attached because it is “your music station”.
Another one. An electrician needs 3 hrs to fix [...]