tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61494978047985935352011-04-21T14:26:28.191-07:00Vidya Venkathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470789597813801500noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149497804798593535.post-79722814747836517002009-02-24T22:34:00.000-08:002009-02-25T04:38:43.846-08:00

First, some facts - My son will turn 3 in April, and no, I do not have an admission for him in a 'proper' school.Since June last year, well-meaning people 'in the know' have been asking me, telling me, advising me and scolding me on admissions for my son. I have collected quite a bit of market information on schools, their admission process (the difficulty thereof), the USPs of each school, and

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My knowledge of economics tells me that if the government borrows money, either from taxpayers or from external funds, two things should happen:1. The currency should depreciate.2. The credit rating of the government securities should worsen.Why is neither happening? I think Shyamal Roy was wrong.

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Heard on radio today that postmen in India are entrusted with a new responsibility - to track prices of items at the consumer level across the country, to gather data to assess the real impact of inflation in the country.http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?tp=on&autono=46199Innovative, I say!

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To all my loyal readers, apologies for disappearing from the blog scene without a trace. Fret not, for I have been well, alive and kicking; and Fear not, for I'm back with a vengeance, and you can expect me to be prolific with my posts.Well, this post is a fallout of yours truly being a victim of professional hairdressers in the recent past. Those of you who have seen me with my latest hairdo

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Sigappu lolakku kulungudhu kulungudhu.....He: Wow! These earrings are nice.She: Why shouldn't they be? They are a giftHe: A gift? But I didn't get you any earrings?She: When did I say you got them?He: Then who?She: As if there can't be anyone else is my life except you!He: Tell me, who? (pleads)She: Your son! (ha ha ha, fades into the background)Narrator: Now, you can buy whatever you want with

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Got into a lunch discussion about newspapers, more specifically about how we end up paying for newspapers that ultimately land up at the old-newspaper-shop (pazhaya paper kadai). I have been brought up on the ‘reading newspaper is a good habit’ thing in school, moving to the ‘reading newspapers is desirable/essential/paramount to success in CA exams/ MBA interviews/ placement interviews’, later

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Came across this page, courtesy Dhanno.http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/jul/23look.htmA follow-up article by Rediff:http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/jul/24slide1.htmInteresting!Wanted to post some analysis - blogger aint cooperative. I cannot paste tables. So retaining my original post

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1. I do not like to punch in daily attendance, or make an entry in the visitor's ledger everytime I have to visit someone on another floor, but I do expect people to follow systems2. I expect people to do their share of work (based on agreed norms), but wince everytime someone reminds me to pay my telephone bill, when I know I ought to have paid it online but have forgotten3. I do not like it if

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Read Arghya's sequel to my previous post here.Agree with him on several counts - Definitely about Clockwork Orange, one of those movies I could not proceed beyond 10 min (if I cannot get interested in the first 10 min in a movie, I cannot get much further beyond); another in that league is Memento. Agree more so on the snobs about the camera angles and obscure references - these are interesting

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Read that Midnight's Children wins 'Best of the Booker'. Don't know what to think - either I am stupid to not appreciate the ramble of Salman Rushdie, or the poll is made up, or God forbid, it is a problem with all Booker-winning books (if this one were the best, I shudder to think of the rest).I was always of the opinion that one should avoid (like the plague) award winning books and movies.

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Have you thought about how our memories of people are time-stunted (is there such a word?) at what they were when we last saw them? How many times have you had to say - S/he was not like this when s/he was in college ten years back? Or as a response to They are such a happy couple; you retort with oh come on, we know how they used to be when they were seeing each other. We tend to do this all the

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This post is not for you if you have feet that can sport dainty looking sandals with thin straps, or stillettos that show off a lot of feet skin, or for that matter, anything apart from closed shoes. For the less fortunate rest of us, here's a godsend. I picked it up from Foodworld, and I love it!Take it from me - I have a perennial problem of dirty looking feet, I mean the dry skin makes it

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Taglines of advertisements fall into many categories: many of them fall by the wayside, some of them stand the test of time, some of them go on to join their superior counterparts are age old adages. The cola wars used to create some of the best tag lines - Nothing official about it, yahi right choice baby aha!, yeh dil maange more and so on.Now it is the age of insurance companies vying with

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Yes, it's official. After several rounds of 'should I, shouldn't I', I have finally decided to take the plunge. Here I am, one of the several million people who are of the (conceited?) opinion that their thoughts are important enough for other several million people in the world to care about, and take some time off from their busy schedule (I couldn't help using that phrase) to read about them.

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