Comrade Chakra

New job, new city….new circus….let’s see if it is a new act! Yes, changing jobs is pretty much turning over a new page. A fresh start may not necessariy be a good thing when it comes to one's career...as that would imply you have lost what ever distance you had covered...whatever 'edge' one may have gained in the last job. Somehow I like the parallel of a circus better! And yes, I learnt it from a one of those chain mails on funny out of office messages "I have left to join a new circus". Taking the analogy further, I guess the question really is whether the new circus is better than the old one. What makes it better ofcourse depends on which lens you chose to to scrutinise a job selection: better pay, larger scale, greater responsibility or 'work life balance'. Ofcourse all these questions have to blend in the unerlying truth...this was the circus that was willing to take you in for what you asked in return.

For a very long time I have been thinking of assembling a desktop. I never really had a home computer, did not need one. Wherever I read about assembling a desktop it seemed a really easy thing to do….mostly they would say...it is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle together. After doing some thorough research on you tube and various technology blogs I was kind of ready…the moment had come. I will have a home computer and I will assemble it. So it is said so let it be done!!! Well, continuing my research on the net I found this wonderful site of a shop in Bangalore – Binwaryworld in Indiranagar BDA complex . The shop appears pretty workman like, does not impress on looks. But their website is mind blowing and in the shop they get all the stuff you need. Reviewer’s on the net said their prices were the best…I did some prelim checks on eBay and a few other sites and found this to be true. So on 13 th April’10 (14 th April was a holiday) I went from office to purchase all the stuff…t...

When was the last time you went to the zoo? Try to remember …you go to the zoo all excited hoping to see a whole lot of wild animals running around. Imagine the disappointment when all you get to see are animals lazing away showing little signs of life …the tigers, lions, crocodiles, pythons…large intimidating animals playing dead all day. In this milieu any animal that stirs will immediately attract a huge crowd before its cage. Its 'TRP' shoots up a la Times Now's during its shamelessly biased 'coverage' of Sunanda Pushkar. Watching the proceedings in our Parliament leaves you with a similar sense of disappointment. Other than the one person speaking, all others pretty much behave like the motionless pythons and crocodiles in the zoo. You keep watching hoping to catch a rare glimpse of life. If someone shifts his weight from left bum to right, moves his chin from right palm to left, and pick his nose while still keeping his eyes half closed you pretty...

Here's a new resolution --- can't call it a New Year one in the month of May!!! Either way, I have decided going forward I will be majorly regular in my posts on this blog. There is a reason....I finally decided to get a home computer!! And on 12th Apr (remember 13th Apr'10- Wednesday was a holiday) I assembled by own desktop. Yes, I probably would have got a laptop at a similar price, and a desktop for less.....but I would have missed out on the tremendous kick of assembling a computer. In the next post I shall share some photos of this grand activity. You will see me more often these days!! And just to pick up some stray internet traffic to drive up the activity level, I have started this post with a photo of Rakhi Sawant . Yes, it is her!

End of another weekend….I dread going back to office on Mondays. I especially hate the first few hours of the week in office. No it is not the usual Monday morning blues . What I dread is the question that has become all too common among today’s working class. 'So how was the weekend? What did you do?' Here’s one that is worse: - ' How was this weekend?' (Note the accent on the article). Actually come to think of it, it can get even worse…. 'God, what a weekend!! How was yours?' Or someone scoring brownie points – ‘I may have worked all weekend but I am feeling much better having completed all the reports. Is yours done?’ Now, I do not know about you, but if there is something I am looking forward to doing on a weekend then it is nothing. Yes, that exactly is my weekend plan, every weekend of the month and year. Do nothing. While that may not make a very exciting Monday morning conversation, it does make me feel very good. And I am good at doing nothing. Rem...

Well done US of A! Change in guard notwithstanding, the spirit of George Bush & Donald Rumsfeld leaves on. “You are either with us or you are with them” In response to the gruesome killing of its operatives in Afghanistan, the CIA has come out with the rather Al Qaeda like statement:- “The CIA has sworn to avenge the killing of seven of its operatives by a suicide bomber at a forward operating base (FOB) close to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border…” Is this not the language of those who the US liberally calls terrorists? Without trying to apologies or anyway condone the terrible act, is it not true that this is the way of war. After all, how many innocents have the US killed over the decades and most recently in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan? What that the term they so love to use…”Collateral damage”