Time Management

When exams approach, time becones a big problem. There's too little of it, and too much to do. And suddenly I am motivated to study, and almost equally suddenly the enthusiasm disappears after a few hours of vigorous studying.

I'm typing this post- this is good enough evidence to prove how bored I really am.
Can't the head honchos at the University make our syllabus a bit more interesting?

Battle of the Broadcasters

The ESPN-Zee-BCCI conflict is turning into an exciting affair. Rather like a one-day match which was progressing in a rather dull manner, till a gutsy player started hitting every delivery for six runs, not bothering that he is taking a very big risk.


ESPN seems to be this courageous player. Why else would it not accept that it has lost the contract?


I don't know who is right or wrong, and I don't think anyone will ever know. Because newspapers and TV channels will never report what exactly happened behind closed doors.


But I do know that if Zee wins the broadcast rights, we're in for some pretty lousy viewing. All the good commentators work for ESPN-Star. So the only prospective commentators they will get to choose from will be some Ranji players who can't really communicate. Or they might rope in Johnny Lever (if Shekhar Suman is on the cricket scene, then why not him?). Worse comes to worse, they might have one of their female soap stars as eye candy. Or perhaps an MTV VJ, who doesn't know how to spell cricket, but can hook the guys. You never know.


My fingers are crossed.

"You're Fired!"

This is what the ITC head honchos must have told their lawyers after their short-lived, yet much-needed elation (Rs. 803 crore is not exactly a paltry amount).


And if they didn't fire their lawyer, it's time they did. Who wants a lawyer who saves you from paying Rs. 803 crore, only to be told half an hour later that maybe you may have to pay it after all?


Now they should start circulating "dumb" lawyer jokes. An editorial could soon have its headline as: "Lawyers- The New Blondes?"

Too Busy

I'm trying to log in to Hotmail. And this is the page I'm being taken to.

It's perhaps one of the most dull, non-creative and irritating "busy" messages ever written. But then Microsoft is famous for these. How about a trademark or patent on such exciting messages?

Internet for Propaganda

First there was this mail doing the rounds that said humans had never gone to the moon. Then came an email which informed that using shampoos which contained a certain kind of chemical could cause cancer.

And after many more, there's another one doing the round since a few months which claims that Rabindranath Tagore was an unpatriotic Indian, and Jana gana mana had been written for the King.

All I can say is- how can anyone even think of such a thing about Tagore? And for those who believed it- how could you believe it without checking?