Comrade Chakra

Given below is a test...take it. Link to the site and a more legible format is given below: http://epworthsleepinessscale.com/1997-version-ess/ A score of 0-9 in the above test says that you are getting normal sleep. Above that it means you need more sleep. I took the test with all honesty. The result (13) said I needed more sleep. Showing tremendous agility for a sleep deprived mind, the following thoughts rushed through. I am sleep deprived My home time is optimally allocated and I cannot reduce my awake time at home In other words, I am sleeping as much as I could at home, but it is not enough I need to get some sleep while not at home i.e at work. To be healthy and productive I need to start sleeping in office And to those of you who are snickering and saying that I maybe doing that already, well….even if that were true, I am certainly not doing it enough. The above is not to trivialise a serious issue. But for many of us, even a thirty-minute shut-eye in office can do wonders...

Well …for a couple of days I was getting pretty irritated with our media competing with each other in a tail wagging competition around Sachin Tendulkar completing 20 years in International Cricket . In my own blinkered view, I find cricket a highly overrated game and other than the T20 version, a major waste of time. T20 version is good only as a form of entertainment, not sport. While Sachin has crossed several milestones in the last 20 years and done his country proud, I would like to know where Indian cricket has traveled in the last 20 years. Not much if you ask me….except for the T20 World Cup (not exactly a connoisseur’s delight). If the goal of a national player is bring accolades to the team, or make it capable to achieve such objectives, I do not think Sachin stacks up very well. So as I was trying to keep my cool with this media hoopla, even as celebrities of all hue and colour fell over each other to sing paeans to Sachin we have the sudden messianic appearance of...

For sometime there are emails going around that inform you:- 1. You won a lottery 2. You need to pretend to be a Mr So & So to help someone claim an inheritance Etc All of the above would come with promises of big money $800,000 or Pounds are Euro. Of late I have been receiving SMS' on my mobile in the same vein. Today morning I received an SMS to the effect of having won GBP 200,000 in the “2009 Coca-Cola U.K World Wide Mobile Award”. Since I have been receiving such SMS’ for sometime (Nigerian, Iraqi inheritance, Yahoo Lottery etc) I decided to actually send a mail to the id given in the text. An internet search told me pretty much what to expect. But I will not deny that somewhere in the far corners of my mind there was a lurking optimism....what if this is not fake...what if this is the real McCoy....what if this is that one magic moment in your life (as in the movies) that with change everything forever!! The reponse came within 4 hours!!! Reproduced below is the mail I ...