From an year and a half back, on a Saturday afternoon, when I used to work for someone else :

bahwahwah bahawahwahah bahahwahwahahah bahahawahwahahahah...and so on and so forth in a complex arithmetric progression...
but then..hum hum ho hum hum ho hum hum hum ho hum hum ho hum... aapke hain kaun?
and ofcourse..hai hukku hai hukku hai hai..hai hukku hai hukku hai...

All of which is neatly encapsulated in the pithy "Why me?" .
I will now take a bow.[ with severe flourish ]
- Bow -
Now I will take an arrow.
And will shoot it into the throat of the guy who is responsible for my presence in office on a Saturday afternoon. Any afternoon.
But I want neat deaths. I dont want him to spill his larynx and half a litre of blood when i shoot him in the neck. I want a spotlessly clean dead body. So that i can reuse my arrow without having to clean it. Which reminds me of Mahabharatha on Tv. It was really neat that they got back clean arrows.
There is no point to this parley.

Cracking the Code again and again and again ad nauseum

From our news desk :

At the high tech ex-Meguro* facility of Kawasaki motors, performance testing is a very serious deal.
Their benchmarking process is the most well kept secret in the Motorcycle industry.

Author Dan Brown reveals the secrets in his new book ' The Kawasaki Code ' [ sidenote - the hindi version will have a different version as his last book The Da Vinci Code, did not go down well with the leprosy-averse public in the Hindi heartland. (well sorry, couldnt resist) ]
It has come to our notice that the cracking of the code and the performance testing benchmarks at Kawasaki have to do with Cows and a popular japanese alcoholic drink.

The name Kaw-a-saki has its origins in this performance testing benchmark..


* - Meguro is the company which Kawasaki took over to start their motorcycle operations. Helped by the knowledge of the Meguro company which Kawasaki had taken over (Meguro was the oldest motorcycle company in Japan) the company moved into the production of big bikes around 1966. The model was called the W1 (650cc).
This in-depth research was inspired by the highly motivating Mr. Dan Brown

Movie Review - The Rising

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to allother countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)

The very fact that I am posting an amusing perspective on patriotism a day after August 15th, would make you think that I am not a very patriotic person.
I will have you know, though, that in some moments of diffusion I do feel patriotic surges ( in the form of goose bumps usually and sometimes even an overwhelming feeling of love for the idea of our nation ) given the right stimuli.

An engaging movie with a patriotic theme is one such small trigger. On Independance day I was hoping to feel some partiotic poison.

As the clock struck 00.00 am on the 15th of August, I watched in horror some insipid and half baked scene in the movie Mangal Pandey : The Rising.

Ketan Mehta should have called this Mangal Pandey : My Failings

Terrible ! Do not watch.

Check this out to be transported back in time :

http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/

This is a service to society.