A very sedate start

This is it. This is 2009 the new year, and it got off to a very sedate start for me. A simple cold and fever, a fall on the ice with a bruised knee and sprained ankle and just a couple of minor car accidents. That's all I achieved in the first 10 days, mostly due to my own studpidity WITHOUT the help of any additives like alcohol or tobacco whatsoever! Cant wait for the year to keep rolling on ;)

Traffic fines

If you get a speeding ticket, hire a lawyer to get you out. That's what Andrew Flintoff did. Hired a lawyer who charges 10K pounds per day(yeah thats right, 10K per day) to get out of paying a 60 pound traffic fine

WTF!

Bal Thackeray: Raj Thackeray is a chicken suffering from bird flu.

Raj Thackeray: (on throwing bottles at Amitabh Bachhan's residence) My men did not do that. Had they done it, they would have thrown not a single bottle but a whole crate. Ooooh! Zero for creativity Raj. How about thinking on lines of chicken droppings? ;)

The power of thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a powerful tool. You can use it to cool beer.

Look sweetheart, I can fly a sortie

RAF trains its pilots on flying sorties and landing in gardens of their girlfriend's parents house.

Monkey Business

Amongst other things, you can also lodge an FIR against a monkey. yay!! 'tis called justice.

train and the ambassador car

Q. What is the similarity between a train and an ambassador car?
A. Both can be push started.

Read The Telegraph's report on how a train was push started by passengers. It happens only in India I guess :)

Richie rich

Forbes has published its list of rich guys of this world.

• 4 Indians make it to the 50 richest men - LN Mittal at #5, Mukesh Ambani at #14, Anil Ambani at #18 and Azim Premji at #21. (none of them, by the way, fully self-made, although Mittal and Premji can make some claims in that direction). Thats a lot, considering that the average Indian's income as such is pretty low.
• This highlights two things - Indians can make money staying in India if they work hard enough. Also, when one looks at the general poverty in the country this accentuates the huge disparities that exist between the "haves" and the "have nots" in India.
• 6 of the 10 richest, 12 of the 20 richest and 29 of the 50 richest men/women are self-made billionaires
• Of the women billionaires in the top 50, I couldnt find a single "self-made" billionaire (hmm... need to check this statement again though).

Holi cows

The Telegraph's report on holi cows of India ...
Isnt it great while all the average Indian will be working his ass off on Monday, the representatives of the average Indian will be enjoying holidays? Now, really this isnt much of an issue though. No work gets done in the Parliamentary sessions anyway with all the uncivilized yellings and quarellings; and when they do manage to stop bickering, all our politicians manage to do is to come up with messages for team India, like this one.

Face Recognition

MyHeritage.com has an interesting face recognition program for matching your face with that of celebrities. These are the results I got after uploading my pics :-)