Machiavelli & the art of management

Friday, February 10, 2006

"A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore it is necessary for a ruler, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case"

Britney - a beautiful sheepdog!!!

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Pop princess Britney Spears seems to be going cuckoo these days (Recent report in some tabloids state that she has recently developed an ardent interest in Hinduism. She with her 4 month old baby, Sear Preston, visited Malibu hindu temple. Another interesting news knocking the doors of print media these days is that her new husband is not found with her. In the rituals also he was absent and it is suspected that the famous couple is on the threshold of a break-up. Well well well… the interesting part of the whole story is that Britney is taking religious lessons from the temple pandits and apparently they have enlightened her of her previous life. She seems to have believed them that she was a Sheepdog...what crap??? Heeheheeee…

Large or Medium?

Friday, February 03, 2006

When you seem to be well balanced in life and every thing seems to be going fine, usually something is awaiting that spins your omelette off the pan. Well in my case it is nothing serious just a dilemma to decide on an issue which appears to be so silly but has an overwhelmingly great importance. Now to explain the issue let me quote an example of a small child who was made to wear his big brother's shirt. To everyone's astonishment it never looked like a shirt but a frock for him. As you grow you obviously wouldn't like to fall in a similar situation where you go out wearing a big shirt and hence the prerequisite for warding off this situation is to know your correct T-shirt size. The whole point I am blabbering all this is that yesterday ZS Associates people sent me a mail asking me my T-shirt size out of S/M/L/XL/XXL. Now while my stay in IIT I am used to 3 sizes but these four sizes really baffle me. Already I twice had an experience of having big shirts, one a gift from my friend and other one I ordered (no samples were available!) @ Rs. 400 but somehow disposed it off by selling to one of my friend.

Now you only tell me: Isn't my confusion valid? How to know what they call as Large? Presently I can show 3 sizes with same L mark on them. But here my develish brain works. The ZS people are testing my forecasting skills (heheheeeee!!! ) So here I am, all ready with sword, board and ford (couldn't get better rhyming) I called for a Large size...lets see how does the answer fits... otherwise you will soon find a person strolling on IIT road like a penguin struggling hard to get out from a net!!

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