Archive for June, 2006

Murphy’s Law
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

When you get into the toilet in a hurry, the toilet rolls would have run out.

Blog
Monday, June 19th, 2006

There was a time last year when most part of my time went with blogs. Either reading/commenting them or writing them. Though it was very interesting and got me lot of good, new friends, I felt bad at times. I yearned to be busy, so that I didn’t have the sense of guilt any more. [...]

Advert
Friday, June 16th, 2006

One of the adverts in CITV for one of their talk shows goes on like this. A prisoner serving death sentence would be woken up and taken to the gallows. When asked about his last wish, he would want to make a call to the talk show. Not just the prisoner, every one present there [...]

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Council Communications
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Couple of weeks back we got a communication from our local council saying that the rubbish collection for our street would be made on Thursdays instead of Fridays. This change is due to staffing issues and hence would be a temporary one for about 3 weeks or so after which the normal schedule would resume. [...]

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Boys are Boys
Monday, June 5th, 2006

Today morning, I saw 2-3 ten year olds dropping rubbish into a post box on our street. On seeing someone walk towards them, they quickly dropped the litter and ran away. Few years back, in Chennai I saw a couple of boys being given a sound thrashing by some people. I learnt that they were [...]

Conversation
Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Me: What did you do during the long weekend?
He: Well.. We are building a conservatory behind my home and I had the plumbers come around to sort out some of the stuff. It was very difficult to catch the plumber as he was very busy. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be at home all the [...]

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