2013

Thought for the day:

[embed]www.youtube.com/watch Thought for the day: Wish I could stay forever this young Not afraid to close my eyes

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rubeen, me & arva (photo credit: r)Your voice has played in my head non stop over the last two weeks. When I would call, invariably disturbing your studying, I’d ask if I was interrupting. Your response was always “No, no. I was just about to take a break anyway.” You didn’t fool me Rubeen, my timing can’t have been that spectacular every time. That time in January, when we all ate the chocolatiest chocolate cake while you played the guitar for us.

Close encounters

Take a minute and remember, life is fragile. I received the call June 27. A close friend had suffered a brain hemorrhage the previous day. The shock has still not left me. Her voice still rings in my ears from our last call, making plans to meet. Her family stands around her, praying for the miracle. Her brother, also a close friend, has not left her side as she fights.

Jobs, the movie

Jobs, the movie [embed]www.youtube.com/watch The trailer for Jobs just debuted ahead of its August 16 release. I’m intrigued, it looks decent, and I don’t mind Ashton Kutcher at all but I don’t think he generates the screen presence you’d expect of someone playing Steve Jobs. His dialogue delivery — particularly Apple announcements and the iconic Think Different ad — just don’t sound strong enough. I’ll watch it, but my expectations are low.

What is with the Coffee Planet ad?

It goes something like this*: W: ‘I’m not one of those people’. M: ‘One of what people?’ You know, the kind of people who wouldn’t drink coffee at a petrol station at all, let alone on a first date. Ok, so there are principles involved. M: ‘But it’s not just any coffee, it’s…’ coffee of a very specific brand. W: Hmmm, but is it organic? M: Yes, my princess, they have organic options

Don’t Yahoo! Tumblr

It hasn’t been all that long since Posterous was acquired (well, acuihired) by Twitter and I dealt with the closing of one of my favorite publishing platforms.* So my surprise — and subsequent introspection at my choices — at Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr was not surprising. Acquisitions are tricky little things. Yahoo themselves, have a huge list of them, and the track record isn’t something to write home about just yet.

You should get married soon. Or else..

Funny take on the marriage question. My favorite bit: You are putting so much drama and telling, ‘Father is getting old and his health problems are also there. What if “something happens to him” without seeing your marriage?’. Like this and all you will say means what to do? This is like saying ‘If you don’t kill yourself now, I will die. Now you choose what you want to do’ Thanks @bhuminasta for the share!

Royal disgrace indeed

Cricinfo reports: “Three Rajasthan Royals players — Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in corruption in the IPL, have been suspended by the BCCI.” Apparently it doesn’t matter if you’re already earning bucket loads of money.

BBM coming to iOS, Android

BlackBerry plans to make BBM, our wildly popular mobile messaging service, available for the first time to iOS® and Android™ users this summer… Well, well. This was rumored years ago incidentally, but since then, WhatsApp has pretty much eaten up the multi-platform market and Apple launched iMessage. I must confess I don’t think it will amount to much. Tons will download (I will), a few users will switch away from RIM, and that will be that.

What is with the superlong email signatures?

Why, why do people have signatures that are 3 times the size of their emails. Imagine receiving an email with an ‘Ok’, and how if I’m not the intended recipient of that wonderful OK, I should instantly close the email lest I spontaneously combust into flames where I sit. I think an email signature containing your name, a valid contact number suffices beautifully. Sure, your position and company with a link work, as does a Skype.

Gotta love Obama’s sense of humor

Gotta love Obama’s sense of humor [embed]www.youtube.com/watch Say what you want about Obama, this is one cool video. If I were him, I’d be mad all the time. But I’m not him, I’m Daniel Day-Lewis. Hilariously done. Thanks to Marc Blumberg for the share.

Saucy

An interview with the man behind one of my favorite sauces of all time (and something you can’t find in Dubai..yet). Love this quote: David Tran, founder of Huy Fong Foods Inc.: Hot sauce must be hot. If you don’t like it hot, use less. We don’t make mayonnaise here. Also: Revenue grows about 20% a year even with all the competition. Huy Fong Foods has never spent a dollar on advertising.

DKN

I still have my very first work ID for when I interned at AstraZeneca in 2004. When my mom first saw that ID (I used to put it up as part of a wall collage of things I had done at my apartment in Philadelphia), her first reaction was ‘You look exactly like Nanaji did when he was in college.’ I remember being supremely impressed by Nanaji when I stayed with my grandparents over the summer by myself in the 9th grade.

Sometimes.

Sometimes, Sometimes, You just make me smile, For no particular reason, But just because you’re you.

Kachori-craving pilot delays flight by an hour

Gotta love it. An Air India pilot faces suspension after she defied orders to switch her scheduled Mumbai-Jodhpur-Delhi flight for a later, direct flight from Mumbai to Delhi. Her reason for doing so? She wanted to fly via Jodhpur to pick up an order for the city’s famous onion kachoris that she had placed. All about the priorities. Credit: @dipalbhagde for the share. Kachori-craving pilot delays flight by an hour

Moments

Still waters, softly falling on the sand Birds chirping, softly circling the space around Your fingers, softly touching my arm The moon, softly shining in the sky around. The sound of your voice, melodiously reaching my ears The feel of your smile, softly permeating the air around. Incredible moments that describe the past year. Incredible feelings that move us on. Incredible experiences that excited us, this past year. Incredible things to look forward the year on.