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Close Encounters Of The First Kind: Part 1
2008-05-12 03:58:00 I get back from work one day and notice that the wife is in a very good mood. She’s singing and all, and generally in a happy mood. This instinctively puts me on the defensive, I smell a trap. But even after some time, when I don’t get assigned to cut tomatoes, I’m begin to ... More About: Close , Part , Close Encounters , Encounters
Brilliant New Plan To Avoid Exercising
2008-05-04 13:38:00 You’re all probably wondering why I’ve not been posting on the blog for the last couple of weeks. Well, it was because I’ve been holed up in deep meditation, pondering one of my deepest religious principles - How to avoid exercising. As ya’ll probably know, I’ve been under tremendous pressure recently to start doing SOME ... More About: Plan , Avoid , Brilliant , Exercising
How To Avoid Cutting Tomatoes
2008-04-19 19:21:00 There comes a time in every married man’s life that he is faced with the difficult prospect of having to cut tomatoes. If you have had any experience with vegetables, you’ll know it is a painful and difficult experience. I’m sure making someone cut violates some fundamental human rights, but I’ve not been able to ... More About: Avoid , Tomatoes , Cutting
Moral Dilemma
2008-04-14 19:10:00 I’ve recently been presented with a very serious moral dilemma. At office, a new gym recently opened this week, and it is on the same floor as my desk is. But that’s not the problem. I have enough will power to resist the nudges and bribes that my team mates have been offering me to ... More About: Dilemma , Moral
Timeline of my Life!
2008-04-11 19:45:00 A friend of mine works at this cool company that’s created this new social networking thing. Its called Life Blob, and a part of it shows what’s called your “Timeline ”. Its basically a history of stuff that happened to you it uses that to link up people. Its pretty cool actually, but that’s not the point ... More About: My Life
Misc: IPL Tickets On Sale
2008-04-11 12:51:00 If you’ve been following the IPL, the tickets at several stadiums went on sale today. Check out the details of ipl tickets here. Pretty reasonably priced, in my opinion! More About: Misc , Sale , Tickets
Top 5 Wifese Statements and What They Really Mean
2008-04-07 20:07:00 It’s nearly one year since the wedding day, and it has been a very interesting learning experience for me. I have made the startling discovery that there is a secret code-language called “wifeese” that the wife speaks. It sounds and has words just like regular language, but has hidden meanings that take a lot of ...
Personality Development!
2008-04-06 14:01:00 Back when I was in school, maybe 5th standard, the teachers were always trying to “Develop My Personality ”. For some reason, they believed that everyone should be an “all-rounder”, and my complete lack of mastery in even one of their standard fields (marks-scoring, drawing and a bunch of other inconsequential fields) must have been worrying ... More About: Development
Aditya?s Advice Column - 9
2008-04-03 20:41:00 Q: My room mate is very dirty and lazy. He doesn’t do any work around the place and just contributes to making it dirtier and smellier. He’s so lazy that I don’t know what to do. How do I get him to be a little more clean? - RC A: You have the wrong idea about laziness, ... More About: Advice , Column
Excursion to the GYM
2008-03-31 18:51:00 This is part 2 of a series. First part is below Saturday morning is here, and I’ve calmed down dramatically since my mouth accidentally promised to go to the GYM on Saturday morning. I’ve managed to convince my soul, my brain and all my other schizophrenic voices in my head that it isn’t going to be ...
Yet Another Plan to avoid Movies
2008-03-29 09:35:00 Regular readers will know that I’ve been desperately trying to avoid watching movies. My several previous plans (plan 1, plan 2, plan 3) have not been very successful, and even my writing harsh reviews (Race, Saawariya, Om Shanti Om) have not done anything. Things were getting desperate for me when it seemed inevitable that we ... More About: Movies , Plan , Avoid
Chitradeep and the moment of awakening!
2008-03-26 20:24:00 I met my dear friend Chitradeep Chetty the other day at a local pub. A few of our friends and Chitradeep and I had gone out to catch up on the latest happenings, since I hadn’t met Chitradeep for a long time. Chitradeep is a lot of fun to talk to, and the amount of ... More About: Moment , Awakening
The Infinity of Shoes
2008-03-25 19:53:00 The Universe behaves in very mysterious ways, and Women even more so. There are several things I don’t understand about this world - Theoretical particle physics, Aristotle’s Philosophy and why women buy so many shoes. I’ve researched the problem extensively, and I’ve developed my own explanation to understand the freakiest of all phenomenon - Why ... More About: Shoes , Infinity
Oh Mighty SpeedBreaker!
2008-03-24 19:21:00 I drive through the silent darkness, all alone, If I don’t see you in time, I’ll surely break a bone! God knows what was in the mind of your maker, All hail thee, You are the mighty Speed Breaker! Unmoving on the road, you lay in your slumber, 10-to-1, even the mighty buffaloes you outnumber! Instead of warning us to be ... More About: Mighty
Movie Review: Race
2008-03-21 12:49:00 I’ve seen a lot of bad movies, and you can all believe me when I say I’m a bad movie expert. And this movie “Race ”, is the best of them all. In the worst possible way. Race is not one bad movie. It is many bad movies all rolled into one. This movie has so many ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Coffee and my Near Death Experience
2008-03-19 18:41:00 You folks will remember that the wife and I were hunting for sofas a while ago and it was a horrendous experience, but we finally managed to agree on one particular sofa, and we bought it. The thing is sitting in our living room now, and the wife is very fond of it, and takes ... More About: Coffee , Experience , Death
The adventures of Dabhishek!
2008-03-18 18:00:00 Back in college, I knew this fellow called Dabhishek. What he was doing in an engineering course was beyond me, and in many ways it was beyond him too. He was very absent minded, but equally determined to get through Engineering, even though I suspect he didn’t really care so much about computer science. The universe ... More About: Adventures , The Adventures
Aditya?s Advice Column 8
2008-03-17 17:42:00 It?s time again for Aditya?s Advice Column Q: My wife makes me go on these morning walks everyday, and it’s complete torture. I have to get up at 6:30 AM and go round and round and round, like a moth flying around in circles around a tube-light. I want to get out of this mess. What ...
Aditya?s Clothes Management Algorithm
2008-03-15 08:00:00 Have you heard all the hype about the “Wardrobe Malfunction” at the Lakme Fashion Week? A also have a malfunctioning wardrobe, but in a very different way. I don’t have a wardrobe. Let’s just say that my wardrobe territories were invaded by certain unnamed parties in the house, and my poor, innocent clothes have been ... More About: Clothes , Management
Getting Up At Dawn!
2008-03-12 17:49:00 Something very interesting happened to me today. I got up at 5:15 AM in the morning! I know what you’re thinking! You’re thinking - “Hey Aditya, What are you doing up at midnight?“. That’s a good question, but there were some unavoidable circumstances. But getting up at 5:15 was very educational for me, because I ... More About: Dawn
Bangalore Open Tennis!
2008-03-10 18:45:00 I went to see the Bangalore Open the other day. It was my first time watching a tennis match live, and it was pretty exciting at first. Then, I (predictably) started getting bored. I mean, how much can you watch 2 people hitting the same ball over and over and over again? Anyway, as I was ... More About: Tennis
Bunking School!
2008-03-09 10:14:00 I was out sick for most of this week, and it was pretty bad, and I couldn’t get to work. I don’t like to miss office because it’s a lot of fun (and the food at google ROCKS!) but this was not the case back when I was in school. I absolutely hated going to school, ... More About: School
Misc: No Blogging this week!
2008-03-06 09:47:00 Hey everyone, I’m not feeling too good this week, so there’ll be no more blog posts till Saturday. If you’re looking for something to read, check out my other blog about the IPL - The Unofficial IPL Blog More About: Misc , Blogging , Week
How to stop Global Warming
2008-03-03 16:29:00 You’ve all probably heard already that our planet is on the bring of exploding because of this phenomenon called Global Warming . Apparently we’re dumping so much CO2 into the atmosphere that our planet is getting cooked. This is really bad, and the world, if you’ve noticed, is busy fighting this global war against… hmm… I’m ... More About: Stop
Update on plan to avoid movies
2008-03-01 17:22:00 As all you already know, I’ve been working on strategies to try to avoid watching movies. The wife is a big movie buff, and she drags me along to watch ALL movies. Her theory is that watching movies together helps us “connect and rejuvenate” our relationship, but the only thing I’m connecting with while watching ... More About: Movies , Update , Plan , Avoid
How to Argue Effectively (For Entertainment)
2008-02-28 19:16:00 Some people think that arguing is pointless and it is not “constructive”, but I beg to disagree. Firstly, there is that incredible entertainment value, which I think is very under-represented. Then, if you are arguing about a sensitive topic with someone who holds their opinion dearly, there is this sheer joy of annoying, then frustrating, ... More About: Entertainment , Argue
Chitradeep and the Attendance Saga - Part 2
2008-02-26 18:58:00 [This is part 2 of a story. Part 1 is here] We spent that day very gloomy, with the prospect of a confrontation with the Principal looming large on our heads because we had lesser than the required 75% attendance in one subject. An encounter with the principal was not going to be a pleasant affair, ... More About: Saga
Chitradeep and the Attendance Saga - Part 1
2008-02-24 19:19:00 Chitradeep seemed rather tensed as he walked into class that day. He is usually a very cheerful person, to the point of being annoyingly cheerful, so if he was feeling down, it usually meant something was wrong. He came down and sat next to me. It was still the first class of the morning, ... More About: Part , Saga
How To Avoid Doing Chores
2008-02-21 19:38:00 Living in a house inevitably means that you’ll have some share of the household chores assigned to you. The situation is particularly bad if you are lazy, and even worse when you are a follower of Adityaism, which requires you to NOT do work. But fortunately, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking of the ... More About: Avoid , Chores
Aditya?s Advice Column 7
More articles from this author:2008-02-20 04:09:00 This week, we return to solve the world’s problems with Aditya’s Advice Column ! Q: How does one console a colleague who has been given a pink slip (the IT MNC is on firing spree), conveying him that this company is doing nothing but body shopping and u are lucky to get that, albeit a successful career ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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