Posted by: Jolvin on: August 28, 2009
Some banner designers have a novel way of ensuring their business suffers. Look at the banner of the Congress Party above.
What do you see?
Struggling are you?
Well for one it has a welcome address in all the top 5 languages spoken in the city of Mumbai.
Two, it has the top brass of the Congress across India [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: December 6, 2008
Oh my great state what has become of thou!
Thy politicians are fighting o’er pohe and pav.
To each it’s the food of the soil
Yet it’s all a clever political foil
Oh my great state what has become of thou!
Thy politicians are fighting o’er pohe and pav.
They beef up their security
While our lives are full of anxiety
Oh my [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: December 1, 2008
Someone took moral responsibility
Someone listened to his conscience
Someone was put under pressure
They all quit
I wonder who will clean up the mess – or will that person quit too?
Posted by: Jolvin on: September 5, 2008
Best Practices are for Copy Cats
Next Practices are by Visionaries…
Posted by: Jolvin on: July 21, 2008
Just stumbled on this on Atul’s Blog. Good play on the blog. Try it.
Here’s what my category cloud says.
Posted by: Jolvin on: July 10, 2008
I asked for a room with a view – they obliged
I asked for a room on a higher floor – they obliged
I checked the room and the view in the still of the night - was happy
I checked the room and the view in the wee hours of the morning and look what I saw
The room with [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: July 4, 2008
All my bags are packed
I’m ready go…
Well what follows is almost a song of forgiveness that John Denver so fluidly renders and what made him immortal cause he died in an aircrash. This post is however not about that. This post is about traveling.
I’ve gone over the Atlantic many a time but this is the first [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: June 30, 2008
With the traffic situation in Mumbai not improving coupled with the increasing fuel prices, most people have decided to exchange their cars for a pair of Bullocks. I’m thinking to get a pair myself. Maintenance is an issue but then what the heck it still works out cheaper.
I’m soon going to have my very own Bull Wagon. [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: June 30, 2008
I keep telling myself I’ll retire by so and so age. So do most of my friends. The previous generation’s concept of retiring at 58 doesn’t seem to be the norm anymore. People want to retire early and live a life of serenity or whatever that means. Or do charity like someone is doing today.
After spending [...]
Posted by: Jolvin on: June 13, 2008
He typed from 6000 miles away, “Did you catch up with any friends?”.
College friends are fun – Instant catchup.
“Nahin Yaar”, I typed almost sadly. “Not met or spoken to anyone.”
“That’s sad, we seem to be always caught up in work, don’t we?”, “Funny in all these years we have moved from a bus to a car!”
Almost philosophically [...]
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