Monthly Archives: May 2006

Mint gum, anyone?

30 May, 2006 – 5:14 pm

At about half past one in the afternoon today, I was sitting on a bench in the campus cafeteria, half sweating, munching on crispy Lays potatoe chips and peanut biscuits. As I dumped the empty wrappers into a dustbin and was getting up to leave, a friend handed a mint bubble gum. Not [...]

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Suffering from Writer’s Block.

29 May, 2006 – 3:11 am

In an attempt to break ice and write something, I wrote a small piece on how it feels to be suffering from writer's block roughly an year ago.  Earlier this month, I dropped the article on Chowk.com, hoping it would get published there.  Yesterday afternoon, I couldn't contain my excitment when I read the e-mail [...]

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Random Musings #17

14 May, 2006 – 6:21 am

It is true the head hurts after a bout of crying.  It hurts, yes!

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John, the Network Manager! (Part II)

6 May, 2006 – 3:39 pm

The noun "expertise" defines, according to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, expert knowledge or skill in a particular subject, activity or job". It is no wonder, and for appallingly obvious reasons, that "expertise" is not considered part of vocabulary used when defining John's skills. To the contrary, John's only expertise centres around poking fingers [...]

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John, the Network Manager!

5 May, 2006 – 5:11 pm

"Sir, browsing is dead on the systems in the laboratory!", exclaims Jamie, barging into the Network Manager's office. Frantic and sweating, John replies in a deafening tone without even looking up at  Jamie, "Oh, hmmm.". As if on impulse, John slowly bends alongside a rack of servers, and pokes his  index finger into [...]

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