tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308495422024-03-07T20:19:58.760-08:00self-referential-thoughtsWho am I? Join me in my fascinating journey to locate my SELF!prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-45948044943826351812010-08-29T07:54:00.000-07:002010-08-29T08:14:39.884-07:0064. SMS on Personality TraitsA month ago I received an SMS from my cousin with following instruction:
Psychological test - Complete this word: K I _ _. I'll then tell u wot is ur dominant personality. I don't mind participating in such tests, if I know for sure that there is some scientific reasoning behind it. With SMS forwards, one can't be sure. Thus, in such situations, I tend to flummox the sender by reverting with an prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-62789037132920392962010-08-01T10:18:00.000-07:002010-08-01T10:18:12.644-07:0063. Perfectionism -- the dreaded attitude to haveI was mentioning to a chat friend on how difficult it was to have a perfectionist attitude, especially when it comes to restarting the blog after more than a year of hiatus. Now, more than any time in the past, I have a starting problem.
Osho's enlightening quote:
The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-91810560310075163452010-08-01T09:51:00.000-07:002010-08-01T09:51:46.502-07:0062. Why Commonwealth Games?
Shera - the Mascot
Wikipedia points out: Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event for member countries from the Commonwealth of Nations. And The Commonwealth of Nations constitute the countries carved out of the dismantled British Empire.
Now, after 60 years of dismantlement, do we need to have The Commonwealth, and with that, Her Highness' Games? Is it worthwhile to continue this legacy?
prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-88933134206955773682009-05-09T00:31:00.000-07:002009-05-09T00:39:18.564-07:0061: Any issues?This one will be a short post... but worth mentioning... I happen to manage a team which is spread across multiple locations-- Mumbai, where I am, and then in Bangalore and Kolkata.Yesterday, one of my Bangalore team members pings to inform me that he had to leave early the day before without notifying me because his spouse complained about a stomach ache, and today he has to take her to the doc prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-81738902723672636932008-08-11T10:34:00.000-07:002008-08-13T09:04:38.490-07:0060. The Aura Around AurumOn the occasion of independent India bagging it's first individual Olympic Gold, here's a countdown...An Olympic gold medal in hand is worth (much more than):10. Two boxes of champagne bottles9. Two truck loads of gifts8. Two duplex flats at Colaba7. Two phone calls from the country's premier (or Sonia Gandhi, whosoever is greater)6. Two chapters in Class IV Hindi Text Book5. Two hundred Indian prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-14662968612980155702008-08-05T09:19:00.000-07:002008-08-05T09:47:43.410-07:0059. What's In A Name?'lA-jane-dlA'... That's how I used to pronounce my name, long, long time ago, when I had barely started communicating in my mother tongue. It was my dad's assignment, late in the evening, after dinner, to bring out the 'R' in me with a proper roll of the tongue, which, thankfully, he managed successfully.I mention this so that you understand how sensitive I am regarding making fun of people who prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-19436824876962887872007-11-08T20:40:00.001-08:002007-12-07T10:51:01.486-08:0058. Achmed, the Terrorist with a Ventriloquist<!-- -->Click hereprabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-9923529962799431962007-11-02T18:56:00.000-07:002007-11-08T20:39:51.022-08:0057. Upcoming Event: Life Bliss Program, San Jose - 17-18 Nov, 2007, Sat-SunDate: 17 to 18 Nov 2007, Sat-SunEvent: Life Bliss Program, Conducted by Swami MedhanandaVenue: Mulberry School, 220 Belgatos Rd., Los Gatos, CAContact: Ma Snehamayi (Chitra) Ph: (510) 813-6474Registration Information: Click HereMore Details About Life Bliss Program: Click HereIf you haven't done this workshop earlier, then don't miss this one! Swami Medhananda is a very senior acharya, and one prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-87851984459686393302007-09-16T08:35:00.001-07:002007-09-16T08:35:51.805-07:0056. Ganapati Bappa Morya!prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-55839992741634090922007-09-12T10:12:00.000-07:002007-09-12T10:22:20.540-07:0055. 2007 Kumbh Mela at Los AngelesOn Sep 9th 2007, Kumbh Mela was held in Los Angeles, CA. Paramahamsa Nithyananda, a Kumbha Mahamandaleshwar, officiated the event along with Swamis and Monks of other orders. (A Mahamandaleshwar is a spiritual master who has been elevated by his peers to the highest level of traditional, Hindu spiritual guardianship. Today India has 80 Mahamandaleshwars who carry on the work begun by Adi prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-31610441850488860462007-08-04T00:28:00.000-07:002007-08-13T15:25:54.360-07:0054. The Dream Puzzle!The other day someone in office called for a meeting with an agenda which didn't have anything to do with me, nor my work. I, however, make it a point to attend all such meetings where I neither have to give status updates, nor have the fear of being stuck with an action item.In the middle of the meeting, I found myself asleep! Slowly the voices in the meeting room started to fade away and an prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-58897405466193392412007-08-03T16:15:00.000-07:002007-08-03T23:17:40.973-07:0053. Vijay Singh on a Mini-Golf Turf!This is a video of Vijay Singh playing on a mini-golf turf for the first time in his life! (That's me, having a bad hair day!) Enjoy the ups and downs!Please bear with the delayed audio. Actually, you will enjoy more because of the delay!Can you tell what Mr. Singh's last words were?prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-24344104360575948592007-07-16T13:48:00.000-07:002007-07-16T14:09:54.628-07:0052. Stuck on an EscalatorWhat can you possibly do if you are stuck on an escalator?If you have better ideas than the folks in the following video clip, please send in your comments.prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-54113207547900970282007-07-13T13:53:00.000-07:002007-07-13T13:54:21.803-07:0051. Ardha Kumbha Mela, Prayaag, 2007.prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-68059226465616597912007-07-08T08:10:00.001-07:002007-07-08T21:52:50.902-07:0050. To the Blogger in MeThank you,My dear young & bold readers.Without your encouragement, I wouldn't have realizeda BLOGGER resides in me!Hope, my blog postings in turn havehelped you fire your psychiatristand throw away your mask.It's been a fun rideto be a one year old again,to be as I am,not bothered about the whole wide worldwhich at times laughs with meand at times, laughs at me!May there be more1st B'days like t prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-41588738028228749612007-07-07T11:37:00.000-07:002007-07-07T12:04:49.722-07:0049. A Movie Trivia Question...Just in case you choose my blog as the subject for BBC's Mastermind India, I have to put up some trivia once in a while so that Quizmaster Siddhartha Basu has some good questions to test your memorizing skills! So here goes one:Q. Which is the only movie (to date) I have watched in a movie theater unaccompanied by my relatives/friends?prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-35735473226759826832007-07-07T09:36:00.000-07:002007-07-08T16:17:32.664-07:0048. In the Name of Thy God in Dog-Heaven...Mumbai, it seems, has woken up to the stray dog menace. Bruhan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Chief Jayraj Pathak has gone to the extent of saying, "Kill all stray dogs!"BMC is now planning to appeal to the Supreme Court the right to "kill" this menace, which of course is opposed by dog lovers seated in lavish homes with 10 acres of backyard enclosed by 10 feet high compound walls and who prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-24800165051788040402007-07-05T18:45:00.000-07:002007-07-05T19:08:48.795-07:0047. Behind Your Mask!Lets listen to what Franco, the Clown, has to say in this less than 3 minutes long movie clip.For some more interesting videos and other stuff from Nic Ascew, an English filmmaker, go to http://www.monday9am.tv/monday9amblogprabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-20192216267885276662007-07-03T16:07:00.000-07:002007-07-04T11:52:49.332-07:0046. The Morning RagaBeing the only child of my parents, sometimes I didn't find any other suitable candidate for my childhood pranks than, one of my parents! Luckily for them, I wasn't ordinarily mischievous. Extraordinarily mischievous? May be. You decide based on this prank.It's early morning, around 6am. I am wide awake and go to the washbasin to brush my teeth. I am in my 4th or 5th Grade. My dad is yet to rise prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-36056256738770970792007-06-28T15:18:00.000-07:002007-06-28T15:20:35.464-07:0045. Ananda GandhaTime to have a look at a new blog, and add to that blog's counter:http://anandagandha.blogspot.comNithyanandam!prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-74283571402902126212007-06-19T13:43:00.000-07:002007-06-28T09:56:50.260-07:0044. First a Veggie's Retort, Then the Aftermath!This incident happened when I was in Philadelphia. I was out for lunch with my Indian manager. During our conversations while standing in the queue to order food, he figured out that I was a vegetarian. You might by now would have realized how much I hate answering those FAQs on my vegetarianism. No wonder!My manager got perplexed about my conditioning."But you are a Prabhu, a GSB Konkani...."I prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-63433295906430082042007-06-12T16:50:00.000-07:002007-06-12T20:18:25.636-07:0043. To Prove and To Conclude!If you have solved any mathematical question of the Prove-That type, you would know that to get full marks, you are supposed to follow a set pattern while answering that question:Start with what you know and build on it by using known theorems/axioms while keeping track of whether you are getting closer to what you want to prove, and then finally, when you have achieved your destined equation prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-15269072475955022092007-06-06T17:00:00.000-07:002007-07-09T21:57:34.740-07:0042. To the Job HopperDoes job-hopping, with an eye towards making more money, really help? Of course, it might be remunerative initially, but does it really put you at a better position? Or do you constantly keep track of what you might have achieved had you stayed back, by verifying with your ex-colleagues? And then, do you either feel happy or depressed based on what your ex-colleague tells you?Here's a prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-8936892042328195642007-06-04T14:02:00.000-07:002007-06-06T17:02:10.400-07:0041. The Holy Debates - Part Two: The Double-EntendreThis has been put up just for you to enjoy the fun with English Language, and also for me to feel my ego.One asureshma from the web (can't say a 'he', or a 'she', or an 'it', but in any case, let me assume a 'she' so as to be on the safer side of gender bias) comments on one of Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda's videos posted on youtube; the numbers at the front indicate the time in the video prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30849542.post-78490483291651605342007-06-02T10:36:00.000-07:002007-06-02T19:28:47.942-07:0040. When a Veggie gets a Wedgie'm now watching Showbiz India on Channel#8 (KTSF).There is Reshma, the TV host, interviewing Neha Dhupia, some Bollywood actress. Neha is here along with a troupe to woo the desis of US with her dance, "and stuff". We learn that Neha is now vegetarian; which of course means, she used to have non-vegeterian food earlier.Reshma asks Neha, what made her decide to go veggie? Neha replies in the prabhu.i.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01779750277866157909noreply@blogger.com1