An Unusual Wedding
By I Said It on December 17, 2009
“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 its with a difference. The love of his life goes by the name Nene Anegasaki, […]
Posted in Changed Times, Life, The Funny Side | Tagged japan, love plus, Nene Anegasaki, nintendo, nintendo ds, sal9000, virtual marriage, virtual wedding, wedding | Leave a response
What’s Holding Us Back?
By I Said It on December 15, 2009
I completed a trip couple of days back, to the Philippines. And was expecting a less developed nation as compared to India. Now, I do not know the condition of all the interior places of the mainland or all the islands, but I was surprised to see Manila to be as developed as some of […]
Posted in Changed Times | Tagged Development, India, makati city, manila, mumbai, philippines, philippines island, philippino peso, Plannning, Rules, rupee, Traffic | 10 Responses
A Winning Formula for Cricket
By I Said It on December 13, 2009
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 on the front page of the times of India, it proclaims that the birthday boy […]
Posted in Sports, The Funny Side | Tagged Cricket, cricketer, dravid, one day cricket, sehwag, tedulker, test cricket, winning combination | 4 Responses
The Rise of Machines
By I Said It on December 12, 2009
So finally its here. The rise of machines. With too much of an advance in technology, and the help of few virus coders, we have managed bring to life, the fight in the virtual world. It seems like a scene straight out of the hollywood film, but its for real these time. According to reports bredo a […]
Posted in Changed Times | Tagged botnets, doomsday, machine wars, malware, trojan, virtual war, virus, war, war of machines, zeus | 7 Responses
Beware of these Conmen
By I Said It on December 11, 2009
A very recent incident. A person approached my aunt and informed her that a cheque has arrived in the name of her son which was of the value 25000 rs. He gave a well rehearsed explanation of what the cheque was for, and managed to convince my aunt. But the clause he put was, that […]
Posted in Changed Times | Tagged conman, fraud, online lottery scam | 1 Response
The DSI
By I Said It on December 9, 2009
It’s The Divided States of India. Yes, inline with the united states of america…..except in the opposite direction. We surely are heading for a change. First, we didn’t have any social, economical, political, international or any other issues to deal with, so various states thought of renaming their cities, heritage buildings etc. Then since there […]
Posted in Politics | Tagged andhra pradesh, chattisgarh, hijack, hunger strike, indian states, jharkhand, politicians, ramson, seperate state, seperate states, telengana, the divided states of india, uttaranchal | Leave a response
Power Troubles
By I Said It on December 5, 2009
The discovery of coal, crude oil, natural gas and the research in their refinement processes was the most important factor contributing towards the progress of the industry and civilisation in the previous century. Without these discoveries, this high speed jet age wouldn’t have been possible. So, where are we heading? Is it going to be […]
Posted in Changed Times | Tagged coal, crude oil, gas, hydro, natural gas, non conventional energy sources, non renewable energy sources, oil, solar, wind | Leave a response
In search of Water
By I Said It on December 4, 2009
It was really an unfortunate incident, in which a women died in a lathi charge during the recent protest against the water cut in Mumbai. I feel that it was bit harsh to take such action against the people demanding their rights. Mumbai has been reeling under water shortage for quite a few years now […]
Posted in Changed Times | Tagged mumbai water, rain water harvesting, water, water cut, water shortage | 2 Responses
Back to Square One
By I Said It on December 2, 2009
This incident occurred few years back. It was some days after the mumbai train serial blasts. I was travelling back home from a particular station on harbour line, and since there was enough time for the train to arrive I decided to sit down on a bench. I saw one man and a big bag […]
Posted in Life | Tagged blast, bomb, mumbai blast, terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack | Leave a response
All’s Well that Ends Well?
By I Said It on December 2, 2009
A near disaster was averted in the aviation sector some time back when a senior pilot, who was travelling in the capacity of a passenger behind the commander pulled off a circuit breaker, resulting in the disconnection of power to very critical equipments. The plane went plunging down at high speed(more than the prescribed speed), but was controlled […]
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