486. Facebook has attained Puberty
When Facebook was launched in the year 2004, I and my friends did not take it seriously. We were busy on social networking platforms like Hi5 and Orkut. The Orkut bug had bitten India in a bigger way and all of us were victims of that bug. I ate, slept and lived my life on the social networking platform Orkut. My experience with Orkut made me to write two advice columns on how to use Orkut for maximum benefits. 1) Orkut for men [ link ] 2) Orkut for women [ link ] In the year 2005, a friend of mine invited me to join Facebook. I j…
485. Poverty Eradicated from India?
The Planning commission of India has made a wonderful statement in its affidavit to the supreme court. According to the affidavit an individual income of Rs.25 per day is enough to push a person above the poverty line. This statement reminds me of my Ethics Professor who always believed in confusing us if he couldn't convince us. The Poverty line is now fixed at Rs 4284 per month in cities. If only such benchmark were adopted in the world of sports, Indian football team would qualify for football world cup, Sania Mirza would win a grand s…
484. Yo Baby
Yo Baby The other day I waiting for the red light to turn Green and my car was stuck in the middle of a jam-packed traffic.I saw an old lady knocking all the windows of cars~ begging for money. She came near my car and as I rolled down the window pane, she said "Yo Baby! Gimme some money ". She did make me smile. I was first introduced to this word "Yo-Baby" in the year 1999. I did my bachelors in engineering in a French-influenced city called Pondicherry. The first day in college- a young guy came to me , with two folde…
483. Happy Engineer's day
Today is Engineer's day. Engineers are the breed you find everywhere these days. During the days when my dad toiled hard in the IIT campus for his engineering degree, only 1% of the college going population took engineering as a course. But today only 1 % of the college going population do not take engineering as a course. Everyone is an engineer these days. What do you do after you are done with your engineering degree? "I really don't have a clue" is the answer that almost all the engineers give. Chronicwriter is also…
482. Girls and Facebook
"Dear Facebook, Every time I add a girl you ask me "Do you know her?" Is she your sister? " This was an innocent question r aised b y an innocent friend of mine recently. Facebook has asked the same question to me too. Facebook has never asked the question when I add boys. Is Facebook showing any partiality towards the fairer members of the human species? The other day, some of my girl friends were talking to me and they complained to me that they were getting too many fraansheep requests from many strangers. Were they …
481. One Fanta, 8 Girls,and a Quarter.
Number of people Involved in the adventure : 8 girls Adventure : Getting drunk How? : Mix one quarter whiskey with 500 ml of fanta and gulp them all down 1) All set for the adventure Bottle ready, Tumbler ready, fanta ready and girls are ready too. 2) The whiskey is poured into the tumbler, Pickle is also ready now. All set to gulp and get drunk 3) My head is spinning The next day, the girls went around telling their friends that they too have passed the grade and are expert drunkards. Women prove all drunk-quotes do not apply to…
480. First Words
What was the first word you spoke? Researches indicate that 99.99 % of the children utter the word "Mommy" as their first word. The word mommy is mostly uttered in their own vernacular language. The remaining 0.1 % belong to the rebellious category and this 1 % have spoken words other than the usual Mommy. Another weird truth is that these words are spoken by these nutty group of people on the very day they were born. The following pictures reveal this weird truth. The first ever words spoken by these people, the moment they were bo…
479. Corrupt people fight against Corruption
We are all back in business after Anna Hazare won freedom for our country with his three points. For one whole week, I was glued to the TV. The NDTV and Times Now gave exact contradicting versions of the same story. Barkha Dutt and Arnab Gowsami took time to interrogate, drill and rip apart many politicians. My next post is about them. Anna is out of hospital and we are back to our normal mode with the happiness of winning our battle against corruption. Have we really won the battle against corruption? Corruption starts at home. We first…
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