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Archive for September, 2005

What??

I haven’t written anything worthwhile since a long time. But since the last two weeks, I can’t write anything. Its not that I have run out of topics, There is so much to write about and so much to explore. But when I sit to write, words fail me.
There are so many things that run [...]

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Happy Birthday

Google completes 7 years today. A company that believes to keep things simple just completed 7 years of existence. Google started with search when search engines was not a big business. The front page of Google still has one text box to find what you want. No big ads. No pop-ups and yet raking the [...]

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Ganpathi 2005

Ganpathi is a very special festival for all Mumbaikars. In fact it is very special for all of Maharahstra. I had been to Mumbai last year this time. This time I am in Netherlands but my friend, Sudha sents me these wonderful photos of Lord Ganesh from Mumbai.
Most of these photos are from [...]

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Hope?

Life is strange. One moment its going fine and the other moment it is in deep shit. It was not my fault; I think it was not my fault. But a person interpretation of a situation will be always influenced on his own version. So maybe it was my fault. The day started with a [...]

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Raindrops

Chandrakant Gokhale, a marathi poet writes
Saglich vaadala mee khidkit basun pahili
Kalchya vadalat maaji khidkich vahili

Loosely translated means
All the storms, I saw sitting by my window
Yesterdays storm just blew my window
………..It rained heavily on Thursday in Amsteradam..

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The Attack

A Short Long story…………..
It was already 11:00 PM when he reached home. It has been a long day. He switched on the lights of his one hall-kitchen House. A house in Mumbai was a luxury. And even with the so-called good-pay he got, the room’s rent was heavy for his pockets. The clock on the [...]

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Give Me A Hi 5!

Last saturday we kept a flipover near our table to keep track of the project. Last saturday, the photocopy machine was lying vacant. So I took a photocopy of my hand. The Tick you see on the flipover. - That’s what I did.

“Give me a hi 5″ was written on the photocopy. The photocopy remained [...]

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Saturday evening we were all working in our room, when Vijay’s 9 year old daughter came and sat next to me. She didn’t have anything to do so was playing with a pen. Suddenly she asked me, “Pundu uncle, can I draw a tattoo on your hand?”

I didn’t want a tattoo on my forearms so [...]

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Again???

The same security guard who we met yesterday in the evening and who asked if we had a life was present on the desk when I came to office at 7:00 AM. I guess I was the first one in the office. We both looked at each other and smiled knowingly. One of this days [...]

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Don’t you have a Life?

The biggest problem of working late in the office is that you have to make the security guard wait. In India it was ok because there was security person round the clock in the office. Here it’s different. Here the security has to wait with us. He/she has to wait till we decide enough is [...]

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