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After the shameful defeat of Team India, the team members were not able to show their faces to people and they chose not to go in public and rather just pack up in hotel rooms. Dravid could not resist for too long to be in the hotel room and still not be able to go out shopping. So he disguises himself as a Sardar and goes out. He meets a woman at the exit of the hotel who greets him "Hi Dravid!" Surprised for having been caught he comes back and makes himself up as a muslim woman - in Burkha etc and goes out. Yet the same woman greets him "Hi Dravid!". Dravid comes back determined to give it yet another try with the make up of a Hippie wig and shorts etc. All in vain, the same lady catches him again and greets him "Hi Dravid!". Bewildered by now, he could not help asking, "How did you recognise me?" The lady replied - "I am Sachin!" Via: Sigil

In case you missed Malinga's wonderful spell, taking 4 wickets in 4 balls when South Africa was just 4 runs away from Victory with just 5 wickets down, here's it!!

This is the old version of Gandiji's very famous 3 Monkeys!! And here's the new version!! Cannot see India losing Cannot hear the audience outburst against the team Cannot speak in front of media about the causes of defeat Via: My sis-in-law

I got a forwarded mail from Praveen John with a route map indicating the distance between DC to Miami beach, as in the famous comedy scene from the yesteryear mallu movie Mazha Peyunnu Madhalam Kottunnu... Old memories rehashed when I saw the mail and while laughing out loud reading the mail, I searched in YouTube to get a clip of this very famous comedy scene... Alas, here it is for all of you to see... even if you don't Malayalam, you will enjoy it!!

I visited the holy adobe of Lord Vishnu, the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam last weekend. The temple is a marvelous structure, which dates back to many centuries. The main gopuram of the temple is 236 feet tall and is the tallest in whole of Asia. Srirangam also is the biggest functioning hindu temple in the world. For more on the temple, check out this wikipedia article! Here's a video that I shot there... Head over here to check all the snaps I've clicked!!

Here's a sneak preview of what Indian cricketers are planning to do after their debacle in the 2007 Cricket World Cup!! A must watch!! Via: A cricket fan who wishes to remain anonymous :-)

I got an e-mail forward from a web group which had gory images from across the world where people got really really hurt in Sports, from football to weight lifting. I compiled into in a ppt and here's it for all bravehearts to see. Warning: Viewing Discretion Adviced!

I've a big problem with my signature!! The problems is, each time I sign, it comes out differently... I've even exhausted a notebook in practicing my sign, but still the result is the same... maybe it has got to do with my "bad" handwriting skills, you know, I was born in the digital era where keyboards are used extensively than pen and paper ;-) But at the end of the day, it's a serious issue when you do banking transactions... So it was a boon to read an article like this in ET which really explains the implications behind your signature problem.... So after reading it, I think the best bet to do away with identity theft or signature theft is to go for a thumb impression, even if that means people staring at you thinking you are an illiterate! At least, no one can fake my thumb impression na!

Daniel Grushkin, a New York Times travel columnist writes in detail about TamilNadu's very own daredevil sport of Jallikattu. It talks about the risks, the pain and agony that the young men and the bulls go through, but sums it up as a unique, nowhere-else in the world event. To win a Jallikattu contest, a competitor must catch and hang on to a bull as it runs past a 30-foot marker. In previous years, owners had reportedly resorted to punching their bulls, rubbing lemon juice in the bulls’ eyes and injecting them with chili powder in efforts to rile them up. And contestants (along with a few bulls) were inebriated on arrack, a homemade coconut liquor, before entering the ring. But that was before the death of the 14-year-old boy prompted a chorus of criticisms from newspaper editors, lawmakers and activists who complained that the sport was backward, dangerous, a violation of animals’ rights and detrimental to India’s modernizing image. This year, medical checkups were given to bu

These days marketers are trying all methods to spread the message around about their brands.... One new way that has emerged is Viral Videos.... Here's a very funny Viral Video from the makers of Happydent chewing gums which had me on the floor laughing out loud!! Click here to watch this must see viral video wherein they are I believe in one way mocking our Super Heroes of Indian Cinema :-) Via: Ma wife!

Santosh George Kulangara, the man behind one of my favorite travel shows, Sancharam , broadcast in Asianet and the direct of leading educational magazine Labour India is all set to become the first Indian space tourist. He has spent a whopping Rs. 1 crore to be on Virgin Galactic Space ship... read more . According to him: "The tour operator has agreed to allow me to shoot the trip so that I can pass it on to the rest of the world." PS: Virgin Galactic is the brainchild of Richard Branson who wants to make space travel for the common man an affordable tourist option!

Yeeeha, PS 3 is finally going to be officially launched in India by end of April 2007... According to Tech2 , 60 GB model will be be available for Rs. 39,990!! They are lining up 12 game titles including Resistance: Fall of Man, MotorStorm, Genji, Days of the Blade, Formula 1 : Championship Edition and Ridge Racer7. Other game titles include Def Jam: Icon, Fight Night Round 3, NBA Street HomeCourt, Need for Speed Carbon, The Godfather: The Don’s Edition, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 and Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom. While Xbox 360 is available in India officially for 23k, am not too sure about PS3's pricing strategy....

Just in case you were still wondering as to why India lost the final of the 2003 world cup, after playing so well in the league games, probably here lies the answer..... The teams that qualified for the super six stage... India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Zimabawe. Note there are two teams each from the continents of Asia, Australasia & Africa. The teams that have the last alphabet "a" in their names qualified for the semifinals viz. Indi'a', Australi'a', Keny'a' & Sri Lank'a'. The teams that have alphabets "ia" at the last of their name qualified for the Final i.e Ind "ia" & Austral"ia ". Now, Kisne World Cup ''lia'' - Austra"lia" Kisne World Cup "dia" - In"dia" Via: Mail fwd!

The Formula 1 season kickstarted this past Sunday at Australia, with Kimi "Ice Man" Raikkonen winning the pole to the finish... Unfortunately, I was caught napping at the early hours on a sleepy Sunday and couldn't watch the proceedings. The next GP is in April at Malaysia and hope to catch the 2007 season from then on... Until then, here's a video compilation of funny motorGP accidents!! It's a sure fun to watch!

My brother-in-law who works in Sharjah, forwarded me these snaps, purpotedly of Abu Dhabi King's Palace.... This is life man.. wish we all were born Kings & Queens :-)

I intended to make this post as a tribute to the great man who passed away at an untimely age... I am sure most of you like me have got suspicions about the manner in which he died. In the post match conference after getting banged up by Ireland, Bob Woolmer, though said, never looked like under any kind of stress... And this media report , suggests there might be something fishy going around... Pakistan team is famous for losing pretty straight forward matches and their nexus with bookies is also well known... Did they kill him to cover up anything?? No one knows for sure... But surely he will be missed greatly!! Rest In Peace Mr. Woolmer!

I watched with shock and awe the India-B'desh/Pakistan-Ireland match on Saturday night... And to top it that, one that threatens to overshadow WC itself... the most shocking of all - the untimely demise of Bob Woolmer... It's too hard to digest for a cricket fan! Cricket in India & Pakistan will never be the same again!! Time for us fans to take it as a sporting event! This write-up in Cricinfo sums it all up

It's funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered. Via: Ma Wife :-)

Go to my flickr set over here to check all the snaps I've clicked!!

All the teams were hell bent on winning each and every event at KGiSL Family Day.... When some teams seeked professional help in learning dancing, others did it by themselves... We also had a few international models who had participated in Gladrags Mr. India contest also come in and help the Fashion Show team with the basics of ramp walking... Here's this highly classified video of them giving out a demo ramp walk!! Sorry for the poor picture quality as one had to take great pains in shooting it without anyone's notice... For your reference, the models are RC, Ranjith, Gautam and JVK!!

A hypothetical situation where 20 executives board an airplane and are told that the flight that they are about to take is the first-ever to feature pilot less technology: It is an un crewed aircraft. Each one of the CEOs is then told, privately, that their company's software is running the aircraft's automatic pilot system. Nineteen of the CEOs promptly leave the aircraft, each offering a different type of excuse. One CEO alone remains on board the jet, seeming very calm indeed. Asked why he is so confident in this first un crewed flight, he replies: "If it is the same software that runs my company's IT systems, this plane won't even take off."!!!! That is called Confidence!!!

If you want to some real fun, don't watch The Great Indian Laughter Challenge or Kalakka Povathu Yaaru.... Head straight to Doordarshan during the morning hours to catch a glimpse of the action from Parliament... The histrionics showed by the MPs, whom we've selected, will even make Charlie Chaplin laugh from his coffers!! Here's a great example!

A girl marries the corpse of his fiancee who tragically died when he fell down a well soon after their engagement.... Sounds straight out of a Karan Johar Bollywood flick?? Well, apparently it's a true incident which happened in Gujarat recently!! Link via: Caroline

Once upon a time, there was a tree... Machi, yaaruda andha maanga?? :-)

KGiSL Family Day went on great, thanks to good hard practice and preparations by the team who participated in it... So, as a curtain raiser to the whole event, here's bringing you a few videos of the practice sessions... This team won the second price in the Group Dance competition!

Google, perhaps for the first time, is showcasing cricket in its India based search engine at Google.co.in!! It has dedicated a special page for the World Cup where in you can get all the news about the World Cup in a single page. Check it out Google has also linked up with former cricket Kris Srikkanth. Kris is writing a blog called " Cricket Zone with Krish Srikkanth " in alliance with Google, focusing on this World Cup! PS: The blog is really good!

Just one day to go before the first ball is played in this year's Cricket World Cup... As everyone in India, even I'm eagerly awaiting to cheer India! In the meanwhile, click here to listen to the official song of the 2007 Cricket World Cup! The song has the voices of Jamaican-born Shaggy, Barbadian entertainer Rupee and Trinidadian Faye-Ann Lyons. India's league matches are as listed below.... Vs. Bangladesh on Sat, 17 March. Vs. Bermuda on Mon, 19 March. Vs. Sri Lanka on Fri, 23 March.

Finally, the much anticipated and eagerly awaited Family Day got over this Saturday and it sure rocked!! Over the coming days, will update all those clickies one by one!

KGiSL Family Day 2007 is just 1 day away!! Yep, on March 10 @ sharp 2 PM, the events will kick start and will tentatively end by around 10 PM. The stage is set, the participants are practicing hard, the organizers are working on the last minute details and most important of all, KGians Families are raring to visit their loved ones workplace!! Here's the cute little Event ID Card cum Dinner Coupon/Popcorn Coupon that everyone will get!! There will be a Palmist, a Mehendi Artist, a Tattoo Maker etc., making it a mini carnival of sorts!

On the eve of KGiSL Family Day 2007, here's a relook at what happend last year... Click here to see the Family Day 2006 snaps!

Economic Times has come up with a step by step guide for a college kid fresh out of college on how to bell the BPO cat! It's refreshing to see the mainstream media finally come out of the chuckles are write something possitive about the BPO/call center industry than crib about it... "Visit any call centre and the picture you get is quite different from the sweatshops that they are alleged to be. However, if the industry has boomed (and how!) in India, and is projected to be one of the largest employers of the future (6.5 million workers in less than another 10 years), it is because of the demanding nature of the job, the rigorously monitored operations, and careful employee selection. The call centre way of life has been sweeping modern business, bringing with it a whole new set of values and processes that young adults are only too glad to follow. Which modern-day business industry employs young men and women from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, exposes them to a radical, if

KGiSL Family Day preparations are in full swing around the campus, with teams from different departments taking time out after shift hours to do some practice... Here's a practice session in progress with the able assistance of Dance Guru Antz in action!

To all your feminists out there, Happy Women's Day! You know, I always wondered... there's Children's Day, There's Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Friendship Day, but why no Mens Day!! This is gross injustice to all us bread winners! Guys, let's all beat our hands in the chest and bring out a loud howl!!

As promised, here's the exclusive clip of an elephant taking a luxurious bath in a pond.... Obviously the tusker was angry because of the crowd around and it started coming back to the shore, before I decided to stop the shooting and run away... I'm sure even we won't like anyone intruding our privacy!!

Indians are always known to be good innovators... Here's one good invention I saw las time I visited Kerala... Usually, there's a machine run by motor to churn out the juice out of sugarcane to make fresh cane juice... But here's a novel idea of converting an auto into a sugarcane juice wending machine... One just needs to accelerate a little bit for the autombiles engine to run faster, thereby churning more juice and one can cooly ride it back home after the business is done!! Enterprising, ain't it?

Yes, Kamal Haasan's Marudanayagam... it may have got shelved, but check out my Movie Review blog "Life Is Reel" to get a sneap peak trailer to this magnum opus!

One of the side sessions during a meeting, as opposed to the keynote session. Often meetings will be broken into "tracks"-sequences of breakout sessions each following a different theme or topic. Most breakout sessions are from 4S to 90 minutes. Two or three breakouts are typically held simultaneously. Attendees may go to the ones that interest them most. Therefore, total attendance at breakouts is less than at keynotes, and breakout speakers often command a lesser fee than a keynoter.

A few techies at Technopark, Trivandrum have come up with super comedy video wherein they are mocking a client visit... The climax of this short clip is where all the fun lies!! Good creative brains behind the video which has a message asking everyone to shed inhibitions and be natural... a.k.a. no Jaada!

I, along with my colleagues in office had gone to a job fair promoted by TimesJobs.com at Sacred Hearts College, Cochin two weeks back. Here's a few snippets... The event was well organized and was over the weekend. The organizers had roped in a local event management firm and plenty of youngsters were clad in the event sponsors Tees and welcomed us. We were allotted 3 big class rooms and people started trickling in by 10... pretty soon, all the 3 classes got filled up and we were sweating out in the Cochin heat till late evening... The college was located in a picturesque location and though it didn't had a great front view, the college had a big play ground at the back and the waterfront was just behind it... It was more like a holiday resort than a college... Lucky students! For the rest of the pics, visit my flickr set

Here's another Tusker from Punnathur Kottta, who was a little naughty and expected a few bananas from me I guess while I was capturing him in the camshell... Tmrw I will post the swimming elephant video! ;-)

For the first time ever, here's the true story of what transpired on 9/11!!! Musharraf: Mr President, I would like to express my condolences to you.It is a real tragedy. So many people, such great bldgs...I would like to ensure that we had nothing in connection with that.. Bush: What buildings? What people?? Musharraf: Oh, and what time is it in America now? Bush: It's eight in the morning. Musharraf: Oops...Will call back in an hour!

I had visited the temple shrine of Guruvayoor a few weeks back with my family and on the way back also visited the elephants at Punnathur Kota... My trigger happy hands went on a rampage clicking snaps and managed to take a "kuli scene" (bathing scene) of a tusker!! I think he didn't like people watching him while taking shower and so quickly wrapped up his bathing session :-)

Rabri Devi died and went to heaven (Don't Laugh). As she stood in front of Yamaraj , she saw a huge wall of clocks behind She asked, "What are all those clocks?" Yamaraj answered, "Those are Lie Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie Clock. Every time you lie, the hands on clock will move." "Oh," said Rabri, "Who's clock is that?" That's Gautam Buddha's. The hands have never moved indicating that he Never told a lie. "And whose clock is that?" That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands Have only moved twice, telling us that Abraham only told 2 lies in his Entire life." Rabri asked, "Where's my Laloo's clock?" "Laloo's clock is in my office", replied yamraj, "I'm using it as a Ceiling fan". Via: Srijith