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The creative department at some media agencies needs change. From being creative, they've become re-creative. They re-create a story in the hopes of attracting more people. Like this one. For the first time, malaria 'caught in the act' - ( Link ) Caught in the act? WTF was malaria trying to do? If you read the story and know malaria well, you might understand better. Google shuffle: why Eric Schmidt had to be pushed from the top ( Link ) Ok! I understand the sentiment of many Google fans, but why do you need to push Eric Schmidt from the top when he was peacefully replaced by Larry Page. Without offending anybody, had Schmidt's mom not known about the replacement, she might have suffered a heart attack after reading this. I appreciate the intent of yellow journalism but I certainly question a pink elephant caught in the act while trying to eat a purple tomato. WTF are they trying to do? 

Life is short, but sometimes it seems to drag on... I watch TV, movies or randomly surf the internet reading blogs and other stuff ;) to kill boredom. The thing common in all these three activities is that I eat (rather hog) while I am doing them. Killing boredom means eating more, and more of junk like chips, pizzas, burgers and the lubricating coke. I certainly would not exercise to kill boredom.And this is how it all begins Stage 1 : We get bored. It could be because we worked faster than we thought or didn't feel like working at all. Stage 2 : We think of constructive ways to kill boredom Stage 3 : We fail at the second stage and switch on the TV and after a lot of lazy effort get the chips and coke along. Stage 4 : We succeed at stage 3 and watch a lot of TV, surf unnecessary websites and do a lot of other rubbish things. Stage 5 : The realization that its time we get out of it. Stage 6 : And when we get out of it, the realization that boredom was actually good. Stag...

A gift by Wanderer.  I humbly and proudly accept the versatile blogger award from wanderer . (All smiles) I did not expect this piece of cake and now since I've got it, let me throw some piece of shit. I'd like to thank my mentor, my internet service provider, google and blogger guys, indiblogger.in and bla bla bla... Now this is something we normally see at those award functions by big-big celebs. As the celebs get bigger and reach life time achievement awards, their thank you speeches get shorter and precise. Now if I were that big celeb getting the biggest honour of my life, whom should I thank. God, Me,My wife and ... (I'd say nobody else). So when I am standing on the podium giving the speech Me: Thank you all (In all my humility) (Things going around in my brain)TGAIMB : Thank you me, my stars. Who gives a fuak about anybody else. Now I've been asked to follow the rules before I can accept this award.  Rules: - Thank the person who gave you this award. TGAIMB:...

Thats not me :D The Phone rings,  Tring tring, tring tring… Every time the phone rings, I unfortunately pick it up and the first question that shoots down my ear is “Sushant, Where are you ?” Me: I’m at this red light stuck in a traffic jam. Will be there in a few minutes. The Phone rings again, Tring tring, tring tring… Caller: “Sushant, Where are you?” Poor Me: I’m at another traffic signal and stuck in another traffic jam. Will be there in a few minutes. Tring tring, tring tring… (And now the caller is annoyed) Caller: “Sushant, Where the F$%# are you?” Poor Me: Sorry lady, I’ll be there in a few minutes. TGAIMB (Thing Going around in my brain): I am starting to feel like a call girl. (I can empathize with them) Tring tring, tring tring… Caller: “Sushant, Where the F$%# are you. Are you bloody stuck at the same red light, or is it that your lazy A$$ started late ?” TGAIMB (Thing Going Around In My Brain): I wish, I never had this phone, or the car and I wish I nev...

The curious case of Kolkatta Knight Riders It is the most talked about and the most laughed about team of IPL 2. It did shake a few stones in IPL-1 but this year the popularity of kolkatta knight Riders has probably exceeded combined popularity of all other teams. Kolkatta Knight Riders have presented themselves like hot and spicy chicken in front of other teams of IPL, who are more than willing to have a delicious meal. So what really went wrong ? I've compiled things that happened on Kolkatta Knight Riders during the course of IPL-2, some that boosted them and quite a few that busted them. The 10 things that went wrong for Kolkatta Knight Riders in IPL-2 #1. Four Captain Theory : A four headed monster was in the mind of John Buchanan. He ended up creating a four headed behemoth eating up each other. #2. Sourav Ganguly aka Bye Bye Dada : He was simply sliced like a infected piece and removed. #3. Over demanding owner : Imagine the pressure you are under at work when your manager...

An unsettling shoe just rattled the hopes of two congress MPs in Delhi, and now a war of words has begun between Congress and BJP . Narendra Modi called congress a "Budhiya", which was responded by "Gudhiya" by Priyanka, but now its just stooped below the standard of what a national party must be doing. The recent low in the war of words (WOW) comes from AICC general secretary, B Hariprasad. He says "The man who made the statement on the old age of the Congress party must implement his statement on his own political party. First he should dump Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the oldest man who is in hurry to become Prime Minister L K Advani in the Arabian sea," Woah! The reader's reactions to this comment have been in favour of BJP rather than congress. This comes after the four pronged attack by congress on BJP's PM candidate, Mr L K Advani. Rahul,Priyanka and Sonia Gandhi lashed out at Mr Advani and surprisingly Dr Manmohan Sigh also came prepared ...

Slamming Slumdog Millionaire . Recently I've managed to read many rantings about Slumdog Millionaire, one came from Dharavi,another from Patna, a strange one from the desk of an MBA seller , and surprising ones from BIG A's and B's. But I'm just waiting for that one moment when it bags the Oscars, and all these incapable people will be Big zeroed by Danny and others. A hillarious article I read today was that Slumdog Millionaire was to be directed by Sanjay Gupta-That Sanjay Dutt Bhai Bug. If there is an iota of truth in this story then thank god he missed by a whisker. But the good thing in the Bhai Banda was that he recognized that if he would have made the movie it wouldn't have got the international recognition and the awards. Now that is atleast one down to earth person. And yes there is also a flop director who has opened up school of entertainment as he had to find an alternative career. He has not come out in open since after being a yuvraaj of crappy ci...

You might "Die another day" if the pilots don't sleep today. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued guidlines that the crew must chat with pilots every 30 minutes to keep them awake. WTF! This warning has come after a few domestic airlines deviated from the flight path and some crossed their destinations because of sleeping pilots. Imagine that during a flight from Bengaluru to Amritsar, the pilot falls asleep and the plane reaches Pakistan. That could have caused an international embarrassment for India, triggered a nuclear war or even could have caused the shooting down of the plane. Better the airlines keep a check and recruit more pilots, else another can of worms might open up like that of Mr Ramalinga Raju. If they don't mend ways an aviation disaster could be in the making.

Cacophony of a failed state ! Pakistan's PM Yousuf Raza Gilani now comes with another statement blaming the Indian intelligence for Mumbai terror. IBN live reports Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said 26/11 was India's intelligence failure and blames the international community of playing favourites. I wonder what the leader wants to suggest. Maybe he is making such statements to strengthen his foothold in the party.

The trucker's strike has created a lot of mess in Delhi. Today I was on my way to work at around 2:00 to same place in CP where I had suffered a parking problem a few days back. I was prepared to meet the same set of people and had left early in their anticipation. But today came another rude shock. My buggy was low on fuel and I thought of getting its tank filled up on my way. The first petrol pump had a barricaded entrance. Well Ok! There might be some problem. But on seeing the same barricades outside the second one, I began to realize the implications of the ganged up truckers. Now the thought of being stranded with a decade old buggy with no fuel crossed my mind. Even if I reach, how will I come back ? As these doubts came to my mind I encountered a traffic jam at a point where it was least expected. As I took my patient breaths to reduce the panic, I found the oasis of oil where people had jammed up; A petrol pump with petrol. Having no option I too joined the train of bug...

Today had another frustrating hour, one of those endless ones I spend here in Delhi. I happened to go to CP (a crowded place in Delhi) for some official work with an appointment at 3 PM. In punctuality I wouldn't be the person to look up to but I managed to reach the place at 2:50, 10 minutes well in advance in my 1999 Maruti buggy. But those minutes of advance planning proved to be too little on a road of babus and baboons. I genuinely feel most people in Delhi lack general traffic sense and making the road as their private property gives them a big ego boost. One such person was driving a zen in front of my buggy who simply left his car in the middle of the road, already narrowed by the miles of cars parked alongside, like garbage littered near the dumps. He stopped his car in the middle,gave the keys to one of his chamchas who again took his time in taking the car out of the way. Meanwhile a long line of unwanted people like me were honking and getting frustrated. To add to my w...

Another Jabber Britney Spears, the girl I had a crush on as a teen is in the Indian news media for being omnipresent. But hey where is she ? And what do you expect for an answer. Maybe she is dating another side dancer, or may be her school friend or maybe ... could be anybody... A playboy from pakistan... Lots of speculations Hmm... But the lamest of all answers was that she was recently in India (when actually she was not). When an international celebrity goes missing, where could he/she be ? On a religious trip for mental peace to India. The Indian media makes a big deal when a Hollywood star or a pop star comes to India. whats so big in that ? Can't they come without all the hype. Some written off celeb comes to India and the media swarms him as if George Bush has arrived. Will they bless us all by coming to India ? Some hangovers seem to stay forever with a few journalists hoping to make a name by cooking birbal ki khichardi with extra salt. Ok! lets move ahead with another m...

There are times when your observation ( predication ) goes thoroughly wrong and is the cause for a major public embarrassment. I have been through such situations so many times that the word "embarrassment" does not embarrass me any more. But if you multiply an embarrassment by a million, there are chances that your stay at the embarrassment villa might be longer. Simi Garewal is such a lady whose stay at the E-Villa has been long, infact much longer than I expected. I was watching the debate on NDTV hosted by an already unpopular journalist when she uttered her comments about the Pakistani flags, which "She" could see in a slum from a suburban restaurant. In reality those were not flags of Pakistan. Oops! what a Blunder and that too on National TV (When the world is watching you). There was instant reaction on that show too, when a person actually rushed towards her to punch her face. At that point I knew this would be in the news tomorrow. But the story has cont...

Saina Nehwal (The Indian teenage Badminton champ) did not get a passport issued in time and her playing finals at World Super badminton series masters final in Malaysia was in jeopardy. She gave the passport officials 8 days for the renewal of her passport. Isn't this too soon for them. I remember, when I had applied for the passport, I was told to forget about it. 3 months later a man came at my house, with a nasty smile, took bakshish (Bribe) and then handed over the passport. WTF! And she expects that she should get it within 24 hours. Whoops!! To much for them. While I was reading the article in Times of India, I got the feeling that the passport officials did not treat her properly or give her the respect or attention. Obviously, being a cricketer has its own privileges. She says "I play tournaments almost every week and so I can't wait for two weeks, they should issue the passports within a 24 hours. I never speak against any sport but I am deeply hurt by the way I...