tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53865059378609802572012-02-16T12:18:40.858-08:00People. What they say. What they do. And how we talk about them!MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-13478004490945057842010-07-09T10:03:00.000-07:002010-07-09T10:32:50.409-07:00

Time Magazine apologized earlier this week to Indian-Americans for publishing an article by Joel Stein that was offensive and derogatory to the community. I agree, the article IS offensive in parts. Its like Mr Stein started out writing a humor column but somewhere midway he gave in to the strands of subconcious racism that he can't deny have woven themselves into his diatribe against the Indian

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-49404368878985498862010-06-15T09:26:00.001-07:002010-06-15T09:59:08.446-07:00

And, as if that justifies everything. As if it justifies that 12-year old Rouvan Rawla was repeatedly rebuked, harrassed, humiliated and finally caned by Principal Sunirmal Chakravarthi of Le Martinere school in Kolkata. He was caned so hard that the cane snapped in two. Worse, it broke the spirit of the boy so badly that he hung himself in his room four days later. In response to the protests

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-88026415796559374922010-06-02T01:52:00.000-07:002010-06-02T02:04:44.187-07:00

There's this guy who decided to focus on a bright twinkle in a dark sky. Everyday. For a thousand weekdays. I stumbled upon an online write-up in The Huffington Post on Neil Pasricha's book The Book of Awesome. He had started it as a website 1000 Awesome Things back in 2008. In each post, he writes about "one simple, universal little joy" like "snow days, bakery air, or cashiers opening up new

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-60979904175675638772010-01-13T09:03:00.000-08:002010-01-13T09:15:23.671-08:00

How does one say "India should be more generous" and also say "I can't change anti-India sentiments", both in the same breath? Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina's statement, in a most I-am-helpless-what-can-I-do manner, puzzles me. She also implied that the anti-India sentiment in Bangladesh has been festering since the 1950s. The soundbite is here.Lunch-hour conversation over Sheikh Hasina's

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-8778347175941839622009-12-10T04:54:00.000-08:002009-12-10T05:00:41.981-08:00

If Telangana can, we will too. So says Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha (for a separate Bundelkhand) and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (for Gorkhaland). Following soon will be Saurashtra, Vidharbha, and even a Mithilanchal. Why, even Coorg region in Karnataka wants to become a state! India is sure going to see a number of high-profile fasts-unto-death on the evening news in the coming days.

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-39355663473345406832009-11-25T05:28:00.000-08:002009-11-25T05:49:57.246-08:00

President Pratibha Patil was addressing the press conference after her history-making sortie in the Sukhoi-30MKI. Without meaning any disrespect, I must say she looked real cute in that G-suit and cap. Like with her usual outfit of saree (draped over her head) and full-sleeve blouse, the suit was buttoned up to her throat. I do feel it makes her look rather uptight, though. Anyway, what she said

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-13779413903032254782009-11-19T09:28:00.000-08:002009-11-19T10:24:18.663-08:00

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is releasing. I am not a tween (haven’t been for ages now) yet am super-excited. Seems that’s the trend because, according to Slate, tweens’ moms are the biggest fan base lapping up the Twilight series. (I am not the mom of a tween either, but you know, technically old enough.) And according to USA Today, one in every 7 books sold in the United States in Q1 2009 was

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-82559712322447339612009-11-08T19:43:00.000-08:002009-11-08T22:41:23.606-08:00

This story is about how people do business.There is customer service and there is customer delight. And there is the yawning gap between the two. Since I toy around with all that market-speak for most of my professional work hours, I have a passable understanding of it. But it was enlightening to see them in action, in the space of a single evening.Okay, the story starts with me hurrying around

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-8596754842557279492009-09-16T07:29:00.000-07:002009-09-16T07:41:26.280-07:00

Shashi Tharoor got a rap for twittering. Literally and figuratively. Apparently, he was responding to a specific query on his Twitter page - 'would you travel cattle class on your next trip to Kerala?' And the suave, articulate (but obviously uninformed in the ways of politically-correct, neta speak) Junior Foreign Minister tweeted - "Absolutely. In cattle class out of solidarity with our holy

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A FWD landed in my inbox this morning. The subject line said FWD: YSR Crash. I had a fair idea of what it would contain even before I opened it. The images attached were graphic and disturbingly clear. The hi-res pictures had obviously been taken by the news photographers who had access to the crash site of YSR Reddy's chopper on Rudrakonda hill. The broken, bloated and burnt bodies were clearly

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-5275462046580592672009-07-22T10:53:00.000-07:002009-07-22T11:05:24.366-07:00

Reality TV embarrasses me. Like, turn-beetroot-red, feel-prickles-behind-my-neck, search-frantically-for-someplace-to-hide, wish-the-ground-would-swallow-me-up embarrassed. And, then I take a deep breath, get a hold and ask myself why the hell am I embarrased? I am not the one publicly washing my dirty laundry in a 'moment of truth' or eating grasshoppers to score points in a makeshift 'jungle'.

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-18714521124069405092009-06-30T02:52:00.000-07:002009-06-30T03:09:55.917-07:00

Overheard in the ladies restroom this morning. From the far end of the mirror, I remained a mute eavesdropper to this conversation.Lady 1 - "Tch..Tch..I feel soooo sad for Michael Jackson, yaar." She heaved a huge sigh, plonked her handbag on the counter and turned to face her audience. Her face was a genuine mask of anguish. Lady 2 - "Oh yes, yaa..I too...he died, no."I guess, sometimes, grief

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-38330307544510949592009-06-26T09:52:00.000-07:002009-06-27T06:14:45.957-07:00

Michael Jackson was my introduction to western music. To say the truth, back then, I didnt understand a word of what he sang. But it was like a window to a whole different world than the one we lived in. So, while the parents raved and ranted about the polluting effects of western culture and the 'noise' that was called pop music, we sneaked in bits of Beat It and Black or White. A thin,

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-5982845253862838372009-05-13T10:02:00.000-07:002009-05-13T11:16:52.517-07:00

It's supposed to be the summer of double tamaashaa - the general elections and the IPL 2. But somehow, so far, I have found both unexciting and bland.Polls finally ended today (13th May). It was the last day of campaigning on Monday. Thank God for that. Because, of all the campaign coverage I managed to catch on TV or in print, I can't recall one inspiring speech by a leader (whatever party) or

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-71808894575017668162009-05-01T13:45:00.000-07:002009-05-01T14:08:15.359-07:00

Its been a long while since I last ventured on to this page. Frankly, I didnt think anybody reads this with any regularity. However, recently, a couple of friends nudged me out of blog-atrophy, so I guess a couple of people do read this. Good. Because I have a couple of questions for those people. Whats the minimum bribe one can slip into a traffic cop's hand if one is not going to be paying

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-1685969086769229532009-01-21T05:33:00.000-08:002009-01-21T05:42:59.834-08:00

What strikes me most about President Obama is his inherent honesty. At the inauguration ceremony yesterday (Jan 20), the parts of his address I liked were the parts where he said it as it is. “Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices...""..the time has come to set aside childish things. ""

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-6587472320014147312009-01-08T00:13:00.000-08:002009-01-08T00:36:45.376-08:00

The TOI headline read "Satyam: A Rs 7000 Cr Lie". The Economic Times headline read "Satyam A Big Lie". An NDTV.com graphic said "Satyam's Ugly Truth". The broadcasting media has come up with even sharper, sucker-punch headlines to describe the Satyam fiasco over the last two days. Last night, I heard a Times Now anchor, very irately, referring to Raju as "a straight-faced liar". I get the feeling

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-81773728124892288232008-12-22T10:45:00.000-08:002008-12-22T10:57:52.361-08:00

Aamir Khan is all over the place these days. Is that too much of a good thing?If I remember right, among the 3 Khan heroes, Aamir was the media 'un'friendly one. He does only about one film a year, never comes to award shows or accepts awards, definitely does not dance in them, and does not (or at least until recently) do pre-release interviews or photo-shoots claiming that he "prefers his work

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-11293016998114108482008-12-14T05:45:00.000-08:002008-12-14T06:08:24.356-08:00

When it comes to beauty pageants, we desi girls know exactly what to say. Parvathy Omanakuttan was crowned 1st runner up in the Miss World 2008 pageant last night. At the risk of agitating a whole community of mallus and probably the Femina Miss India folks too, who crowned her Miss India 2008 in the first place and sent her to Johannesburg, I have to say that I didn’t think she had a chance in

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-37417706932370977582008-12-12T12:22:00.000-08:002008-12-12T12:34:50.716-08:00

“It’s recession. Girls are actually marrying for love.” Then, the host of the Oye, Its Friday show (NDTV Imagine) paused a second for the canned laughter. Now why did that sound familiar? Because, not only had I read this pathetic joke earlier in some TOI weekend supplement but I had also seen this SMS joke do the rounds about a week ago. The last thing I expected of Farhan Akhtar on his new talk

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-17656475287356555602008-12-11T08:54:00.000-08:002008-12-11T09:08:33.111-08:00

I admit I have some time on my hands these days (refer to before mentioned accident that renders me temporarily immobile) and was digging around in some old papers. I found the below dry-cleaning receipt carefully preserved. Go on, read the fine print. LOL guaranteed. Ready for the back side? :))Since the esteemed cleaners are not "reasonable in case of fire or theft" and since they "sell

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-65157401368874173312008-12-01T09:10:00.000-08:002008-12-01T09:46:45.238-08:00

Ah, the age of instant communication! I received an SMS from my cousin this evening. "Step out and look at the moon tonite. Its awesome :)" He lives in far-flung Rudrapur, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, but its unlikely that the moon, in its 'smiley' arrangement with Venus and Jupiter tonight, would be looking any less beautiful here in Bangalore. Of course, in my present 'disabled'

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-46555751615177752552008-11-27T09:45:00.000-08:002008-11-27T09:50:03.617-08:00

People say the darndest things on TV. The whole of Thursday 27th Nov, the news channels have been covering the Mumbai situation almost round the clock. Early in the day, one of the channels (I forget which one) showed a snippet of foreigner responses to the attacks. A guy in New York was condemning the attack and saying this to the reporter - "We know life is cheap in India but this time they

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-71210572040285109972008-11-26T12:30:00.000-08:002008-11-26T12:54:32.513-08:00

This whole month has only reconfirmed my belief that most of the problems in this world are due to poor communication. People don’t or can’t express themselves appropriately. The right words elude them. They don’t say what they actually want to say; they blurt out what was best unsaid. And what’s worst is the torrent of words that they let loose when in a tight spot (so not the right time to say

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-60929877652412866892008-09-05T04:14:00.000-07:002008-09-05T07:23:08.889-07:00

Happy Teacher's Day! Math, science, history - all that is fine. But my teachers also taught me some critical 'life lessons' which I never realized when I was younger. It’s time to appreciate them now. For a few early formative years, I had a typical 'girls convent' education. Go on, draw all the devilish conclusions that piece of information warrants. Most are bang on. My class 2 teacher taught

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-46986918205156367102008-09-04T10:32:00.000-07:002008-09-04T10:51:04.588-07:00

Sarah Palin, the American Republican Vice Presidential candidate, is a show-stealer. I caught snatches (over Internet video clips) of her superb performance at the Republic National Convention last night. Since everyone is anyway going ga-ga over the 'well-delivered' speech, I will admit I felt like tipping my hat to her as I watched the clips. She sure knows how to draw in the various vote banks

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-42461853182460552322008-09-01T23:40:00.000-07:002008-09-02T00:10:52.216-07:00

Some time ago, Sony TV's game show Dus Ka Dum, hosted by the incorrigible Salman Khan, had Ranbir Kapoor accompanied by his girlfriend, Deepika Padukone, as guest. If I remember right, he goofed up big time. He had crossed the 10 lakh milestone and then took a chance on the 1 crore question. He guessestimated the % range wrong and promptly lost all his earnings, save one lakh. Salman Khan laughed

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-61709693446707096032008-08-24T10:13:00.000-07:002008-08-24T10:22:36.776-07:00

That's it? They brought him all the way to Beijing just to stand atop that double decker bus and then kick a ball into the crowd of athletes? At least, I was disappointed. London could have come up with a more exciting 8-minute presentation during the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. They could have used David Beckham a little more innovatively. Otherwise, the rest of the ceremony

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-14871577703456101972008-08-23T11:18:00.000-07:002008-08-23T11:37:54.329-07:00

The Olympics close tomorrow and the host nation put on a great show. They top the gold medals tally comfortably ahead of the Americans though the later have the most number of total medals. I think India has also put in its best ever Olympic performance with an individual gold and two bronzes. At least our young boxers went down fighting. I loved it when Virender Kumar said after his final loss "

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-32820331665629419622008-08-22T10:48:00.000-07:002008-08-22T10:59:10.719-07:00

First there was the huge controversy over the age of the Chinese women gymnasts. Then the IOC & FIG cleared the Chinese. But the issue still simmers because many believe it was such a fake investigation. They didnt even make an effort to pass it off as a genuine one. I DO NOT condone the fact that underage gymnasts be allowed to compete (and exploit the advantage their supple bodies give them).

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-8120542733167985062008-08-21T10:41:00.000-07:002008-08-21T10:46:28.273-07:00

India has boxed and wrestled its way to another two medals. So, the gold was not really a fluke (as I mused in my last post). And, I am glad I was proved wrong. Hope the big bout for Vijender Kumar tomorrow goes the gold way.Watching the sprinting events this evening, I couldn't really believe the double blunders made by both the US men's and women's 4x100mtrs. Honestly, what are the chances that

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-64717879587112910062008-08-14T11:43:00.000-07:002008-08-14T11:53:03.275-07:00

A few random thoughts on the state of the nation this 61st Independence Day: -• A country of 1 billion and we win only one medal at the Olympics. The good news is its a gold. The bad news is we haven’t got even a single silver or bronze. God, that makes the gold sound like a fluke! Hope the situation changes before the end of the games.• On TV yesterday, a CNN-IBN survey on prevalent urban Indian

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-7452512173423413772008-08-02T01:25:00.000-07:002008-08-02T01:32:48.296-07:00

Organizational bulletin boards are often the hotbed of inconsequential chatter. Here’s a classic example.This is a FWD that has been doing the rounds, so I assume this piece is not infringing any copyright :) or divulging any proprietary information. Not any more, at least. For this particular one, I have rearranged (for reader’s convenience) the sequence of mails starting with the earliest. Just

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-36790044196645811132008-07-23T23:17:00.000-07:002008-07-23T23:22:41.939-07:00

It’s one thing to know that every trust vote in parliament inevitably involves some amount of horse trading. It’s quite another, and frankly quite disgusting, to watch national telecasts of stacks of notes spilling out of duffel bags on the floor of the house and irate MPs waving them about as proof of the scandalous (really? what's new?) bribery. The news networks didnt tire of relaying the

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-4856983131551924482008-07-21T07:52:00.000-07:002008-07-21T07:59:54.929-07:00

Is there any law against people who wittingly/unwittingly disrespect the national anthem or the national flag? Would it be outrageously impolite if one pulled up a person who is blatantly disrespectful to the flag or the anthem and asked them to either explain themselves or rectify their behaviour? How far can one go in a personal attempt to safeguard the honor of these national symbols?I am

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-51282128435100105942008-07-19T10:12:00.000-07:002008-07-19T10:18:21.978-07:00

Sign in the office pantry beside the coffee machine..Every time I walk in there and see the sign, I get visions of the fresh foods section of the grocery store. What next? Chilled Stationery. Today’s Special copier paper.

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-30756561072869063192008-07-08T23:27:00.000-07:002008-07-08T23:33:37.284-07:00

What are the two things you just can’t do without at work? I am assuming most of you, who are reading this, work..for a living. If it’s at a formal workplace, name two things (tools, gadgets, perks, supports, people, whatever) absolutely indispensable to you. Even if you don't troop out every morning to a office and work from bed in your PJs, its still work, right? So just tell me, (post a

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The short answer to that is - be geographically challenged, meteorologically uninformed and blindly trust the autowallah. The long answer to that is below. If you manage to glean a few lessons from my misadventure, I guess, it would all be worth it.I seem to have this tempestuous affair with book launches and writers - some delightful, some disastrous (not good for me, you would say) - but I have

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It pinches to see a non-Indian captain walk away with the first IPL trophy but I can stomach that when I think how much his team deserves to win. The Rajasthan Royals were branded the underdogs when they started out gingerly at the tournament kick-off. But what a surprise the underdogs sprung - match after match. Soon, they were quite unbeatable. There is something heart-warming about watching a

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-47637915957474740122008-05-22T07:59:00.000-07:002008-05-22T08:13:09.642-07:00

Cook triumphs over Archuleta in American Idol. I can't believe this! Its so obvious that the younger David has far more talent, tone and timbre than his older rival. All three of his performances in the show finale were perfect. For once even Simon got it right when he praised the kid for a 'knockout' performance. The media agreed (for a day). But then the audience goes and votes him out by a

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-37074025809888439192008-05-19T11:02:00.000-07:002008-05-19T11:22:39.246-07:00

I have not read Chetan Bhagat's novels except for a few pages of his first one Five Point Someone. I do not intend to spend a few precious hours reading it or the two subsequent ones - One night @ the call center and The 3 mistakes of my life. I don’t think I'll come away satisfied with the reading experience, so it’s better to refrain. Though, contrary to what I think, he is being touted as the

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-66396652107681752672008-05-13T10:02:00.000-07:002008-05-13T10:09:21.920-07:00

On Mother's Day (May 11 Sunday) the media was brimming with everyone's two-bit on motherhood and mothering and parenting and all that. An article by Jug Suraiya in the Times of India Sunday supplement caught my eye. He argued for a parenting certification – some kind of basic education or degree course before people became parents. Come to think of it, we go only to certified doctors and lawyers

MMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840620752573540608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386505937860980257.post-29026935613902484212008-04-18T11:49:00.000-07:002008-04-18T12:01:49.466-07:00

The Bangalore skyline saw plenty of psychedelic hi-jinks when the IPL cricket tournament kicked off tonight. I cant help thinking this whole thing is more tamaasha than sport. Not that I am complaining. All that razzmatazz - dancers on stilts, fairies inside bubbles, trapeze artists swinging down to the field, it was one hell of a show! And the cricket-crazy Indian audiences anyway make it an

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I chanced upon this marketing insight, perhaps in last week’s newspaper, and thought it would be good to share it with the hapless visitors to my blog. Some of the brains at Wharton have researched and proven this hypothesis that ‘exposure to environmental cues can prime the consumer’s memory to favor certain products’. It seems when NASA landed the Pathfinder spacecraft on Mars in July 1997, the

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Can someone please tell me why Giancarlo Fisicella (or Fisi, as he so endearingly wants to be called) is inviting us to speed with him at 300 kmph in all his bare-chested 'Adonis' glory?I don't really follow racing but last time I checked they climb into those hot wheels fully suited up like astronauts. For all you know he is probably Adonis in his birthday suit. Leaves much to imagination!Hmmm..

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Correct me if I am wrong, but it’s so much more difficult and time-consuming for a working woman to get dressed for business than a working man. A few days ago I attended a marketing conference at one of those snobby, up-market, ultra-luxe hotels in town. My employer was a sponsor at the event, so I knew I was not to have any escape from the series of keynote speeches and presentations and panel

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Someone once asked me 'What are your principles in life? What do you believe in?' It’s a loaded question, almost burdensome. If I claimed to be ‘principled’ should I be carrying around a bag full of solid, defined, ‘value’ nuggets that I can use to weigh each situation in life? Or is it more like a bound volume of neatly-outlined instructions that I can refer to every time I am in a fix? I

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