I was away to KL on work for two days. Few things that tickled the thought process:
Meetings are a waste of time. You spend much more time sending minutes of the meeting generally being nice to each other, and using all kinds of ambiguity to compensate for the lack of knowledge. The meetings were held in a small room with no windows and 20 people. I think my brain wasn't getting enough oxygen, so I "forever" had this terrible urge to yawn.
I also thought about the fact that to keep up with conversation, you have to hoard up a lot of useless trivia in your minds. It varies from the make of cars to make-up. And then there are these whole load of people from Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the très-à-la-mode Star Wars. Kill me if you want, but I didn't watch Episode I and II, (for reasons unknown). So I have no idea why Anakin Skywalker chose to become Darth Vader. Sometimes I wonder if for him, it was a simpler choice than me choosing not to keep up.
I discovered the blog of Darth Vader: It should make an interesting read for the fans of both blogging and starwars alike.
Also, during an intent tea break discussion with people in KL, I discovered that people in Malaysia are fluent in Hindi Movies, and know/like the Miss-World-lady-in-movies-very-pretty-one-ah (aka Aishwarya Rai) and of course, Shahrukh Khan (GodBless!)
PS: I am not too happy with my writing style, where i spend too much time detailing every little thing I can remember and getting back to the "original point" again and again. I am wondering where this influence comes from.
Lo and behold, no sooner than I had posted this blog, rediff came up with this one
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Now stop gettin paranoid, ok? As they say, god lies in the details.... so keep detailing and meandering and rambling...
OK iam getting defensive here, I write more or less the same way...
And somebody once mentioned to me when i delivered the aforesaid god lies... bit, that god drives a car in a fast story. So there...
I figured out the infulences: Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth, Jhumpa Lahiri and Jug Suraiya. Each one is a master of details.
On the meetings front, eXtreme Programming has this concept called a "StandUp". Basically everyone is standing and the meeting happens. So Ppl tend to speak fast, and only relevant stuff :-)
Of Course if there are those Thick Skinned ppl in the group who just dont get the idea, there is a way to get around this. We keep a talking token, a nice Watermelon. So Ppl have to hold it and talk. So U can imagine that the meeting gets over pretty Fast ;-) hehe
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