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A Polish man married a Canadian girl after he had been in Canada a yearor so and, although his English was far from perfect, they got on verywell. Until one day he rushed into a lawyer's office and asked him if hecould  arrange a divorce for him - "very quick." The lawyer said thatthe speed  for getting a divorce would depend on the circumstances andasked him the following questions: LAWYER: Have you any grounds? POLE: JA, JA, an acre and half and a nice little home with 3 bedrooms. LAWYER "No," I mean what is the foundation of this case?" POLE: "It is made of concrete, brick and mortar," he responded. LAWYER: "Does either of you have a real grudge?" POLE: "No," he replied, "We have a two-car carport and have never really  needed one." LAWYER: "I mean, what are your relations like?" POLE: "All my relations are in Poland." LAWYER: "is there any infideli

Indian Wins Berlin Sand Sculpture Prize!!  

Global Mis-Trust Bank!!   I hope you all have heard about the latest developments @ our beloved GTB. We heard a lot of stories today and wanted to open a discussion forum regarding this. So, here's your last chance to take a dig @ GTB... Share your views here in the comments section along with your name... (how much was there in your a/c, how much you were able to take, how long you had to wait in the que, etc..etc..)     REST IN PEACE   Global Mis-Trust Bank Born: 1992 Died: Saturday, July 24, 2004.

To get that job you want and keep it, you have to become a brand in your workplace. You have to have name recognition, be consistent and reliable, and stand behind your work. Aren't those the qualities that you look for in a brand? To develop your own brand, begin with an honest assessment of what makes you unique and how you add value. Then -- advertise. Let people know how you can help them solve a problem, create a new product, achieve their goals. Don't brag, just project confidence and a readiness to help. Make certain the value you add is consistently of high quality. Become a brand that others want to "buy". Courtesy: KTJ

ISSAQUAH, Washington -- A man was coaxed out of his home by police after he pulled a gun and shot his personal computer, apparently in frustration. "We don't know if it wouldn't boot up or what," Sgt. Keith Moon said Thursday. The computer, in a home office on the second floor of the townhouse, had four bullet holes in the hard drive and one in the monitor. One bullet struck a filing cabinet, while another made it through a wall and into a neighboring unit. No one was hurt. Police evacuated the complex, contacted the 43-year-old man by telephone and got him to come out. He was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation. This ran in the Huntsville Times Sat. Jul. 12, 1997 on page A7.

Indian Prodigies!!! A boy named Bharanidharan, 13, backed by several adult disciples, declared himself a Hindu holy man and founded a monastery in Salem in Tamil Nadu state, until his parents had him abducted and brought back home. (A judge released the boy back to his ashram and will later conduct a hearing on his rights.) And Akrit Jaswal, 11, acclaimed as a genius by Indian and international organizations, recently spent two months at the Tata Cancer Institute in Mumbai, working with researchers on cancer and AIDS, and at the recommendation of doctors, Akrit's parents sold most of their belongings to finance a research lab for him in New Delhi. Source: [The Independent (London), 6-17-04] [New Indian Express/Indo-Asian News Service, 6-15-04]

Gautam Kandarajan , our beloved QRD met with an accident while coming to office from home today. He was taken to the nearby hospital and is back at work with bandages. We wish him speedy recovery....

We all will be singing this poem next week!!! Last week we came to the office Thinking there was nothing amiss Till we were plucked out of our cozy chair And plunked into the EBM lair We were put through a tough schedule In that crazy module. Our senses ruled by Pre TAT and Pub TAT And our ears by the operator from AT&T Dinner is served at the doorstep For those willing to do a hop and a step Who has time to eat? For fear of missing the beat. Alert calls to the left of us Live calls to the right of us Bullets and numbering poking holes On some company brief that is supposed to be whole Probably it is our fate That now we are 10 pounds lighter by weight Can anyone be so crazy As to type out a document that at best is really hazy. All this at the midnight hour When all sane people are asleep by far Only the weirdo of the EBM kind Can be so daft as to be alert body and mind. We hope CCBN empties its bucket Or for that matter Ashok dips his h

Well, Well!! Finally, it's that time of the day when the real peak starts for us... Guyz & Galz -- Enjoy!!! Here's a brief report on some of the notable calls 4 2day: RR is having ECM Corp call which is a TOP 25 one... RC (ahem, the author) is having Citigroup's (TOP 25) Fixed Income Investor Review Call which usually runs to around 1.35 minutes... (yeah, I will be enjoying my tryst with Citigroup) Bala is having Novartis Pharma (the infamous call which last time ran around 2 hrs and which was done incidentally by our great Russell) Kirishnan will be doing another of today TOP 25 calls, US bancorp!! Subodh will be emerged with his Oil & Gas call, XTO... Enjoy Subodh!! And last but not the least, Gopu will be doing Texas Instruments (another TOP 25 call) while half asleep @ 3:00 in the morning... Others will be having an equally enjoyable day with everyone having a minimum of 2 calls.... So, here goes three cheers for the beginnin

Top Five Reasons Why Computers Must Be Female 5. No one but their creator understands their internal logic. 4. Even your smallest mistakes are immediately committed to emory for future reference. 3. The native language used to communicate with other omputers is incomprehensible to everyone else. 2. The message, "Bad command or filename" , is about as informative as "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you." 1. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

Teacher : "Which is more important to us, the sun or the moon?" Pupil : "The moon" Teacher : "Why?" Pupil : "The moon gives us light at night when we need it but the sun gives us light only in the day time when we don't need it". Teacher : "What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?" Pupil : "A teacher". Teacher : "Now, children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be showing?" Student : "Brotherly love". Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?" Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook". Teacher : " Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?" One Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day and at the same time." Teacher : " George Washington not only ch

Kumbakonam will now be flooded by VIPS, journalists and investigating officers. But for scores of families, the real battle will begin after the headlines fade, how to make sense of a life without your children!!!

80 children killed in TN school inferno Kumbakonam (TN), July 16. (PTI): Eighty students aged between eight and ten years were today charred to death while over 25 others received serious burns when a major fire whipped through their school in this town of Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district. While most children died on-the-spot and were charred beyond recognition, some others succumbed to injuries in hospitals. The victims were in the age group of eight to ten, District Magistrate J Radhakrishnan, said adding that no teacher was among the victims. The fire, which is believed to have started from the kitchen when the noon meal for nursery children was being prepared, soon spread to a row of thatched roof classrooms where students from class one to class five were present, police and eyewitnesses said. Five class rooms on the third floor of the Saraswati Nursery School were gutted in the fire that broke out at 11 am. Around 900 students were present in the Sri Krishn

BOY : May I hold your hand? GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy. GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me! BOY : You love me... GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring?? BOY : Sure, what's your phone number?? GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest. BOY : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever. BOY : Don't you ever want to improve?? BOY : I love you and I could die for you! GIRL : How soon?? BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you! GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there??

Bowlers from the United Arab Emirates have been offered $1,000 by their officials if they can dismiss India's star batsman Sachin Tendulkar in the Asia Cup league match on Friday.

Mark Ingebretsen writes in the Online Journal's Daily Scan, 'India, already an information-technology powerhouse, is now setting its sights on similar success in biotech.' India, which reportedly graduates 25,000 chemists annually, has already garnered the attention of major Western drug companies. Reuters reports that India's biotech leaders hope to generate one million jobs and investments of $10 billion by 2010. Meanwhile, the southern state of Karnataka is aiming to become a biotechnology hub. ''Riding on the global reputation of Bangalore as India's IT hub, we will project the state capital as the right choice for investing in biotech too,'' M.K. Shankaralinge , Karnataka's secretary for IT and biotechnology Gowda, told Indo-Asian News Service."

Q: HOW DO YOU KEEP WEBSTER BUSY ALL DAY? A: Put him in a round room and tell him to sit in the corner. Q: How do you make Webster laugh on Saturday? A: Tell him a joke on Wednesday. Q: Another way to keep Webster busy? A: Write 'Please turn over' on both sides of a piece of paper. Q: Why can't Webster make ice cubes? A: He always forget the recipe. Q: What do you call Webster when he is in an institution of higher learning? A: A visitor. Q: When Webster ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six or twelve pieces. A: "Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces." James Bond: "Have you ever read Shakespeare?" Webster: "No, who wrote it?"

Cigarette: A pinch of tobaco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool on the other. Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test. Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master. Divorce : Future tense of marriage. College : A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing. Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either". Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present. Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody beleives he got the biggest piece . Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power ... Dictionary : A place where divorce comes before marriage . Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody lis

Vijaykanth method: Bring 5 more lions. Fight with them and kill all of them except one. Then give some advice on patriotism to the remaining one. This lion will become a cow. Our Method: Give the lion 3 briefs per day continously for 1 week!!!

Praveen was made a fool by Ramesh & RR today over the yak!! Here's an excerpt of what happened... <4:26:57 AM - Media BPO- Prema to Media BPO - CCW - Praveen>: ishtamano? <4:27:26 AM - Media BPO - CCW - Praveen to Media BPO- Prema>: ??? <4:27:36 AM - Media BPO - CCW - Praveen to Media BPO- Prema>: what? <4:27:50 AM - Media BPO- Prema to Media BPO - CCW - Praveen>: nindae soothrangal istamanado <4:28:11 AM - Media BPO - CCW - Praveen to Media BPO- Prema>: gr888888 <4:28:22 AM - Media BPO- Prema to Media BPO - CCW - Praveen>: shall we go for a break? <4:28:44 AM - Media BPO - CCW - Praveen to Media BPO- Prema>: ok come here <4:29:02 AM - Media BPO- Prema to Media BPO - CCW - Praveen>: letz meet now in the extension...i ll be there seated <4:29:10 AM - Media BPO - CCW - Praveen to Media BPO- Prema>: who is this? <4:29:35 AM - Media BPO- Prema to Media BPO - CCW - Praveen>: going to extension <4:

Dealing with under-performance requires tact and sensitivity Managing demotivated, unco-operative or negative employees is what training courses euphemistically term "a challenge". To have only conscientious, motivated and talented staff is as joyful as it is rare. The ability to deal with under-performers is a critical management skill as sour, demotivated employees can quickly poison the attitude of other workers. In a demoralised or highly charged working environment, managers must have a full armoury of "people skills" and develop acute sensitivity to the situation. Some cases are simpler to deal with than others. If under-performance is simply due to laziness and the job is one where productivity can be measured, it is easier to persuade a poor performer to leave or improve. In some call centres, for example, staff are electronically monitored for the number of daily calls they handle. But other situations require careful handling. Managers sho

Here are few ideas/methods on "How to kill a lion"? 1. Rajnikanth Method: Keep warning the lion that u may come and attack anytime. The lion will live in fear and die soon in fear itself. 2. Kamal Method: Go near the lion and cry like anything.... The Lion will die of sorrow ! 3 Jayalalitha Method: Send Police commisioner Muthukaruppan around 2AM and kill it, while it's sleeping ! 10 Shahrukh Khan method: Release a film like 'ASHOKA" and make the lion watch the movie. 11 Govinda method: Continously dance before the lion for 5 or 6 days. 12 Rahul Dravid method: Ask the lion to bowl to u. U bat for 200 balls and score 1 run. 13 Maneka Gandhi method: Save the lion from danger and feed him with some vegetables continously. 14 George Bush method: Link the lion with Osama Bin Laden and shoot him.

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Useful New Words AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming,of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance. DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow remove all the germs. ELBONICS (el bon' iks) n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater. FRUST (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n. Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one h

Hello guys!! I've decided to open a blog spot exclusive for our peak days.... Here you can view daily updates about our peak days (who worked the most, who had the easiest calls, and all gossips related to our peak days)... hope this will work out fine... expecting your cooperation in all regards... Happy Peak Days!!!