Nation of Nerds???

''Indian culture is fundamentally cerebral. We are a nation of nerds''

Sathnam Sanghera

See Link below in Wht I read

Though shalt read the Terms and Conditions .....

Thou Shalt read the Terms and conditions and finer prints in any offer. Thats the 11th Commandment. I recently received a mailer titled ''Two Nights Break in Dubai at JW Marriot for 169$. I immediately started to rub my hands in joy and sang to myself oh what a getaway when the wife and kids are away....My joy was shortlived untill I read the terms and conditions at the very end in fine print grey coloured and a font size of 6..Ive pasted it below..read it to believe it.

Terms & Conditions
The offer includes two nights' accommodation for a couple at the JW Marriott Hotel Dubai. Flight and Travel arrangements, visas, food and other expenses, etc. are not included. Offer is subject to availability. This promotional offer is designed for married couples aged between 30 and 65 with a joint annual income in excess of $95,000. Attendance at a 90-minute presentation with your spouse about Marriott Vacation Club is mandatory to qualify for this offer. If you or your spouse or both of you choose not to attend the presentation, the full retail cost of $1000 will be payable. This offer is non transferable and is not valid in conjunction with any other promotion. This offer is not available to MVCI holiday owners, to individuals or their spouses who have previously taken advantage of this offer or to employees of Marriott International and its affiliated companies and their immediate family members. The offer price of $169 for two nights applies for travel between this dates; 01 July 2008 30 August 2008.

The Moral of the Story:
You need to be stinking rich to stay dirt cheap at the Marriot

A for Apple and I for I pod

I gotta a call from my six year old daughter who is vacationing in Chennai. She sounded excited.. she goes on ''papa u know whts an I pod, Uma acka's got it and shes got 82 songs on it'' and she goes on to belt out Chinna Chinna Vanna Kuyil.... and continues in one breath ''shes even got this song on it and u know she told me that if I cld get my Ipod she wld transfer the songs on a pendrive or on my Ipod''. The Middle class in me screams stop!!! u calling me at peak rate time but never had nerve to tell her that.
Well after that I sat down and had a glass of water, though the moment definetly warranted downing a couple of 18 Year old Chivas.. Well here I was dreaming that my daughter wld be out playing Hop Scotch blind folded and screaming in chaste tamizh 'rightaaa' 'rightaaa'. Allright I was dreaming. Well guess this will be the first of many Blogs from a Father to a Daughter. Im Still trying to figure out if my daughter has bitten the apple or the Apple has bitten her. Well whn I meet her Ill simply tell her that iam I-paadu (I sing) and belt out a few numbers myself...

Bachelor ban

Recently there was a ban on bachelors, not the most eligible ones but the underpriveleged one's from visiting the souqs in Doha on their only day off after 6 days of hard labour under ambient conditions thats in no way humane. They descend on the market place for different reasons, to meet up with friends, to do a bit of 'shopping' for everyone back home to take with on the day they dream of every night, the day they leave on vacation or for that matter even to enjoy a sense of freedom and relaxation that probably lasts a couple of hours...somebody wrote and I quote

''And though swarms of single men may not be the most aesthetically pleasing of sights understanding should prevail over unnecessary discrimination''

One should understand that these very swarms of single men go on to build the most aesthetically pleasing structures all over the Middle East.

Those of u who wanna read more check the link below in Wht I read...

I don't pot.....but makes sense.

"It's the world upside down: In other countries they look for the marijuana in the cigarette. Here they look for the cigarette in the marijuana,"
Jason den Enting, manager of coffee shop Dampkring (Holland) On the 'smoking' ban in Bars and Restaurants in Europe from the 1st of July. 2008

The link to the complete article is under What I read....