3KM!!

Yesterday, I ran 3 KM in 20' 35'' which is pretty bad by any standards.

I would like to finish 5km in 25 minutes.

Will keep this blog updated in the progress!!

:)

Rules gone wrong

In Dubai, Getting cabs is quite difficult. Specially during the Iftaar hours.

One such evening, after waiting for around 30 minutes, I decided to use the public transport (Bus) to reach my hotel. It was rush hour and all the seats were occupied.

In the next 5 minutes , I came to know about a novel rule which specifies that the Ladies in the UAE are not allowed to stand in the travelling bus and there are reserved seating spaces for them. Quite Thoughtful !!!!

But If those 6-8 reserved places are full, That means the ladies are not even allowed to board the bus. On the other hand, Men can still enter and stand in the back (There is ample space for that in the bus).

So if you are a woman, you are not allowed to stand in a moving air-conditioned bus. However, It is perfectly ok for you to stand at the bus stop in sizzling humid 45 C !!!

The Burj

When do you know if your product/services does not need any marketing?

When your competetors start taking pride in associating themselves with your product. (In any remote way)

We came to Dubai and stayed in a hotel for the first few weeks. The hotel not a bad one at the first place. But at the reception, those guys are stressing too much about the room with the great view they are giving to us.

A room was with a view of another hotel, Burj Al Arab!! wtf!!

They wanted us to upgrade and leave? or they wanted us to feel bad at our misfortune of staying with them and not with Burj? :) Nevertheless, we kept the curtain closed...It was too bright outside :)

Accountants

My 3 years stint in consulting made me wonder that why I always end up having men as client side contacts. I used to envy friends who used to boast of going to business lunches with hot clients. While I always used to end up with obese and bearded beer-guzzling hard-laughing kinda fellas.

They do not enquire about my affair, arrange marriages, vegetarianism and other socio cultural aspects of Indian society. They never tickle my emotional quotient. Rather they talk about elephants, snakes, logic of naming long leg as a position in cricket, kamasutra and IT industry.

Then I discussed with Smita. After her 2 minute sympathy and 20 minute scolding, I got the divine enlightenment. Accounting! I interact with accountant and you hardly find women in accounting departments. Then my imagination ran wild. Somehow I could see all the accounting terms are/can be related to women. No wonder most accountants are Men. Tavajjo farmayen....


Discontinued non current assets (Ex girlfriend)
Short term debt (fling)
Other Long term debt (Mistress)
Total assets (Ahem...)
Total liability (Wink...)
misc. expenditure (self explainable)
adjustment ( you never care about me)
Goodwill account (Sending a flower)
Work in process (I am getting ready...........)
Accrued undefined benefits (No comments)
Misc Income ( A local train ride)
Warranty (faith)
Paid in capital (hehe)
Sunk cost (khilaya maine aur khaya kisi aur ne)
Intangible amortization (shaadi...lol)

And men always wonder if it is in black or red? (I am talking about balance sheets.. you perverts!!)

No wonder....

IT - Stand up comedy

Recently noted this line and couldn't resist to share....

What do information technology and standup comedy share in common? Just like a well defined project and a great punch line ….It's all in the Delivery