Many of you might have read the novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, which revolves around a character named Yossarian who finds himself stuck on to a battlefield without relief. And his every attempt towards his disengagement from his assignment leads to…
Category: The Funny Side
Humour all around
Nilesh….The Crazy Engineer
How mad can an engineer be? It remains an unanswered question. But how crazy can an engineer be in his childhood? Analyse yourself after reading these incidents of my life. (FYI : All the incidents in these stories are real,…
Dig and Fill….??
Few of us might have knowledge of the keynesian economics. What I understand of it in layman terms, is that it a dig and fill policy, where in the government pays someone to dig a hole and pays someone else…
Medals in Bag..and few feathers on the cap
The commenwealth shooting championship opened yesterday with flood of medals for India. While Anisa Sayed, Anurag Singh, Gagan Narang and PT Raghunath made India proud with their gold medal efforts, the organisers and the officials added some more feathers in our…
Out of ‘Tune’
Have you activated the caller tunes on your mobile? You could be wasting your money!! I see that people have picked up this habit of activating every odd service that is ‘”provided” by a cell phone service provider. And caller…
This Soap Runs Long!!
I just had my bath, but that didn’t inspire me in posting this. Its was the TV. Television has come to this world long back, and its had become somewhat an integral part of our life. I remember those days…
Taking my Chances
Well. Am taking my chances. Against all odds, namely the surveyors at the examination section of the mercantile marine departmant, India, I start my struggle to procure the Certificate of Chance. Or the CoC, as majority of mariners, know it.…
The Bravery Award 2010….
And the recommended name for this award is home minister Mr. R.R. Patil!! After a brave ride into naxal infested(the use of this word is not an indication of any disrespect towards naxalites, but an indication of my poor vocabulary),…
An Unusual Wedding
“Do you take this video game character to be your wife?” No not a wedding scene in some latest sci-fi movie. It has happened in the real world. A man named sal9000 married the love of his life in Japan. But…
A Winning Formula for Cricket
Though I am not a huge cricket fan, I manage to sit through the entire ordeal sometimes. Such was the day yesterday. I watched the match till India won, and rejoiced!! No now I wake up in the morning, and…