Kerala Blog Roll
a bit of campaigning (alakananda (noreply@blogger.com)) people,i entered my blog in a contest just for a lark. well, it's been shortlisted they tell me. and now the winner is to be decided by vote.what with a massive election campaign just come to an end, and the 'superpower' having voted for a change, i thought a bit of campaigning might help me too :)please do vote for me. what's in for me?the prize of course, a two day stay in the 'indian hermitage' resort near kanyakumari. (that's the place my whole family took a trip to, without me, and taunted ...
Graduate Students in US – How to Survive Recession (Brijesh Nair (noreply@blogger.com)) The other day I was talking to a student who graduated in August from my school. He is in OPT for almost 75 days now. He is trying his best to find a job but with an economic recession he is not even getting interview calls. He was so sad and telling me “since I have some good friends I am surviving. I don’t have any money to spend nor any work”. I found him very low in confidence and cursing the...
Pratibha gets her licence (2008) (Nishant (noreply@blogger.com)) I recently came to realise what a disability it is to be a topper all your life. The problem with it is that failure destroys you. It paralyses you. life comes to a stop. you don't know what to do. Now, on the other hand, look at me. What is failure .. I ask you? I don't know what it feels like to fail. Somewhere between the time in kindergarten when I was given my first 'quiz' and the time I got...
Barack Obama – Can He Deliver Under High Expectations? (Brijesh Nair (noreply@blogger.com)) US presidential elections are just over. Barack Obama won and will be sworn in as the 44th President of United States of America on 20th of January. His election has brought a lot of euphoria around the world in general and America in particular – the first reason being that he is the first African American to be elected the President of United States and the second being “changes” he has...
The dirt (adult content) (deepdowne (deepdowne@gmail.com)) ബോംബെയിലെ ദു:ഖിപ്പിക്കുന്ന അഴുക്ക്. email-ൽ വന്ന ചില ചിത്രങ്ങൾ:...
foolish... (deepdowne (deepdowne@gmail.com)) "We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and were afraid of it; and man carried it. Surely he is sinful, very foolish."-(Discourses of Rumi)...
Gift for a two year old girl (Anna (noreply@blogger.com)) It has been a long absence from blogging, I am back now and hope to post once a week.We are going to visit our friends this week and I was searching the web for a gift for their two year old daughter.I got boys and had no clue whatsoever on what she would like. Searching the web I found some good reviews and have decided to get a play mat for our friends daughter.This is a doodle mat with a water pen and is completely mess free. But the best thing I liked about it is the pen that uses water and ...
Kerala Government and News Media – Out of Touch With Reality or Hidden Agenda? (Brijesh Nair (noreply@blogger.com)) One of the software companies in Technopark in Kerala laid 120 employees off last week. It is also reported that few other companies are doing the same. During this time when the whole world is facing a possibility of a huge economic recession laying off 120 people should not even become a news. But that is not the case in Kerala. This was widely reported in most of the newspapers. The labor...
Me and my addictions.. (Dhanya (noreply@blogger.com)) The moment I blissfully retire into my cocoon, my fellow bloggers conspire to pull me out of it :( Latest culprit is Usha who has asked me to list down my addictions. Do I really look addicted? hmmmm... 1) Internet : What else can take the No 1 position? This addiction is eating up all my time and even hindering many other creative things that I used to indulge in before. So I am fighting to...
Global Economic Meltdown – Don’t Blame it on Bad Data, Blame it on Common Sense (Brijesh Nair (noreply@blogger.com)) Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of US Federal Reserve yesterday on a hearing by the US House Committee on Oversight and Government blamed the current economic meltdown on bad data that was used to develop various computer models. According to him the data fed into developing various financial models were often “garbage-in, garbage-out”. Why blame it on bad data now? If you have something...
Kanush goes to school (July 2008) (Nishant (noreply@blogger.com)) It was with a heavy heart and leaden footsteps that I took my daughter for her first day in school. A sweet and endearing chapter in her life was over. It seemed so soon. Sona's teacher is a jolly and kind lady called Anita. Biting back tears as I rang the doorbell, I explained to Sona that her mom and I are always with her and that if she needs to speak to any of us she just needs to tell the...
