God knows why Hindustan Lever put some money into my account. What does one do in such a case? Hope they are not stashing away their money in innumerable accounts and will ask me for it later :)

Coca-Cola and Pepsi, are under fire in India for colorful advertisements that were painted onto rocks in the ecologically fragile Himalayas.Read the National Geographic report.

At a time when the technology sector is in the doldrums, business-process outsourcing (BPO) is going strong. By one estimate, the global market for BPO in 2001 was $123.6 billion and it could grow to reach $178.5 billion by 2005.Is BPO indias new wave?

An Indian software engineer has been arrested for trying to illegally sell software code worth $70 million.The furore is the he is from an IIT. I personaly am saddened by the fact he tried to sell it for just $250,000:) Cant we think big!!?

Girish (my brother) updated this new blog called CatMath that i was thinking of for folks writing CAT. Its based on the Yahoo groups that discusses quantitative questions.

Fuller life.This seems to be an interesting concept. Lets see if they respond. In the course list i will like to do :
Creative arts: Photography, Sketching, Watercolors, Painting
Sports and Outdoors: Treks, Swimming
Languages: French, German
Music: Western, Guitar
Miscellaneous: Magic, Graphology, Aero-modeling

I use a India Telephone Card This prepaid card enables you to make local, STD or ISD calls even from a STD/ISD barred telephone.

I have become a trend setter with 521 ratings that i have given on the Yahoo LAUNHcast ratings. and 479 away to the next level thats a fanatic. Check my LAUNHcast station

Watched Minority Report over the weekend. It really could'nt retain my attention. The things that the guys do in the air seeing slides or whatever makes me think in the future thats how people get their excercise. Anyhow was glad i did'nt go and watch in the cinema hall.

Guess i have to look at some more blogs to decide what direction this blog is to be heading. It can be some random thoughts and experience of mine (i really can count on the fingers of my left hand the number of people who will be interested in it) or i can write about stuff of general interest with a lot of links. I think the ideal would be to mix both these like i have been doing but probably make it more funny like this Julius Sharpe . I also need to write more on the SCM and CAT blogs. Lets see how things go....

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was listening to indiafm for a change today. Though the live radio wont work("unavailable at the moment") the juke box sounds good. Also tried playing it along with yahoo launch. sounds good fun. My own mixing!!

Lotsa discussions about the sexual harassment scene in india. Business Today has run a cover on it. Guess it is rife cos of the Phaneesh murthy of infosys incident.Guess its better for infosys to be losing him this way than losing him to a direct competitor

My bike went for a major operation including a plastic surgery. Looks neat now. Was a expensive job but at least it will mean less trouble now. I also have brought my toolkit from home this time. The other things i got are some 'money'plant. some new bedsheets and lot of chips.

Was home for the weekend. Cancelled the trip home for Onam. Nothing remarkable in the trip except that i ate a lot.

Watched The Bourne Identity. Its a boiled down version of the Robert Ludlum novel.
Movies to watch(new) : XXX, Signs, Austin Power's Goldmember;
(Old) : The Shawshank Redemption and the list thats on july 24th post

Got a couple mails into the alumni mailing list with an attachment Psecure20x-cgi- install.version.6.01.bin.hx.com.

Shifted by workplace today.
Got my contact lenses.

Mukul sharmas Mindsport which was much famous in the Illustrated Weekly has a new avatar on the web: Mindsportal. Maybe i shold try to pick a few questions for my IMS classes.

Can uyou believe it? You can book tickets on the net for Indian Railways ( guess its only for delhi now). Pay by credit card and get the tickets delivered home... guess a lotta travel agents should start using this so there goes a lotta jobs and the extra income that some of the reservation clerks get.

What happens when a cold person catches cold?? He becomes supercooled. Cold Kills. achhhooooo

Saw a lot of movies yesterday night on Star Movies when i had gone to wash my clothes. Enemy of the state , Murder in the first, The Assignment..... the TV channels are showing a lotta good movies nowadays.