My mother has always been very organized and to some extent a cleanliness freak; my wife too has a similar trait, though I would not use the word freak for her in a public site. My concept of cleanliness more or less starts and ends with my daily showers, and as far as being organized; I am far away from what that would mean. I … Continue reading If you are not organized, get someone who can tidy you up
Here is what happened and no paper will ever report; another planned effort against the great malayalee and the state is in total shock and the high command is seriously discussing the matter (avalokanam in political malayalaee terms).
Though I am not in liberty to give you the complete details of issues, here are some of the headlines that papers were suppose to report, but some vampan karutha kaikal (big black hands in malayalam) got it removed.
Sreesanth – the only person in the indian team who enquired and cared about the girl who was suppose to run naked.
Dhoni asks sreesanth to shut up when he says “mone ini olade uduthoori ottavum koodi kandal world kup kushaalaayi” (now if we can see her run nude the world cup would have been complete)
Sreesanth tries to come out after Dhoni hits the wining sixer, but found Continue reading “Sreesanth – The untold hero of Indian Cricket”
When we have enough reality shows where celebrities face each other, the twitter paradigm has posed a new type of challenge for the celebrities. Not a competition but a dilemma that many celebrities who choose to tweet will face in the future. The power of social media has become so much ingrained into the lives of their fans and the fact that the tweeting exercise has given too much of a proximity with the stars, the fans might call the shots tomorrow.
I read an article today exploring if video games are helping lowering crime rates.
While the recession, smarter police and more people behind the bars is what many say the reason for the reduced crime rate
Lawrence Katz, a labor economist has another interesting view. He suspects that video games and Web sites may have kept the young and idle busy during this recession, thus explaining the surprising lack of an uptick in crime.
While this might be true, I was a bit uncomfortable at this observation. While giving people a reason to do things other than crime is valid playing video games as a reason might have some other drastic impacts.
Vinod Narayan 