Sunday hair cut

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there is time for everything, time to love, time to sleep and a time to have a hair cut. And a lazy Sunday can often be the prefect to have a clean crop of hair. Before a heavy lunch I pushed myself to the my regular saloon. Nothing particular to visualize about this small hair saloon at Cambridge layout. There are four seats to and a big mirror to see ur frail face while they chop off the youth..

As usual my presence did make a small nod of recognition from the lot and luckily got to a vacant hot seat. Off he took off with his work on my hair and finished his medium chop. and then comes to the best part of it, the HEAD MASSAGE.

I wait for this part but today I couldn’t doze off in his chair and instead was wild wake while he maneuvered his hand . After a bit of kneading and thrashing I got the perfect end to my cut.

Flashed out 100 bucks and he returned 30 bucks. As a personal tip I gave the kid 10 bucks and went out to the world rushing past…

Blistering Barnacles! : Captain Haddock’s vocabulary

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Short list from Captain Haddock’s dictionary. Great usage and even great if you can use it on anyone.
Tell you , got the idea to use in my office chat to a “jellyfish co-worker” .. will see how he ‘ll react to his list ….

Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles!

Blistering Barnacles!

Blistereing blundering birdbrain!
Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash!

Fancy-dress Facist!
Fancy-dress Fatima!
Fatfaces! Filibuster(s) !
Fourlegged Cyrano!
Freshwater swabs!
Fuzzy wuzzy!

Gallows-fodder!
Gang of Theives!
Gibbering anthropoids!
Great flat-footed grizzly bear!
Gobbledgook!
Gogglers!
Goosecaps!
Guano-gatherer!

Gyroscope!
Harlequin!
Highwayman! Hydrocarbon!

Iconoclasts! Idiots!

Jellied eel! Jellyfish!

Kleptomaniacs!
Lily-livered landlubbers!
Loathsome brute! Logarithim! Lubberscum!

Macrocephalic baboon!
Duck-billed platypus!
Megacycle

Megacycle Pyromaniac!
Mameluke!
Miserable blundering barbecued blister!
Miserable earth worms!
Miserable miser!
Miserable molecule of mildew!
Misguided missles!
Mister Mule! Monopolizers!
Monster! Morons! Moujiks!
Mountebanks!
Musical morons!

Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!

So, what’s ur favorite from the above….?

Room with a view…

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this pic taken from the hotel balcony @ Kovalam beach. It’s off season time and the sea is a bit rough and the sand has turned its color from white to black. Still, it’s a place to spend a night, having good food and chilled beer.

I loved the one day stay over here. The view of the sea is by itself soothing and brings in an easy pleasantness and a lull from the traffic noises I’m used to in bangalore.

There r more places in and around Kovalam to explore and lots of private beach resorts dot this stretch. Money , time are the limiting factors to choose other secluded places…..

Next time it has to be a new place with a new experience. I bet it will offer more soothing scenes and I’ll have more tale to tell…

Obssesive parenting –

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“Most of the obsessive parents know who they are and are generally proud of the fact. Most of the non-obsessive parents know who the obsessive are, and tend to snicker at them.” Steven D. Levitt in Freakonomics

After a long gap I completed reading a book, “ Freakonomics’”. Towards the end of his book he touches on the topic of “obsessive parenting”.

I was pretty much interested in this topic as I could relate with similar sights around me. Primarily, I don’t like too much unwarranted attention going to the kids and I belong to the class who quite thinks that kids will grow up fine minus all these pampering.

Looking back on the older generation, it was norm to have five or more siblings and there was less kind of this obsessive trend. Too many kids around, too many to tend them and with no fancy diapers and lotions life went smooth for kids and parents.

Today its the day of scented nappies and high-tech rocker seats. Nuclear family parents ‘ve little time and less of family support to look for. Naturally the kids get all the attention and young parents see the entire world through them.

It doesn’t take much to see such young couples . As for me, I feel sorry for the little world they choose to live in and how they negate others feelings for their little ones.

Quote from Kahlil Gibran about Childern

Your Children are not Your Children

They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Coastline of my Mind

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Rafting through rapids is often compared to story writing; well, I can relate to my blog writing. Sometimes my pace is at its high like a wild rambling white water rafter and some times it glides as a placid backwater lagoon. It’s all a voyage of discovery, some times it hits upon untold expression and mostly its just a mediocre expression of one self.

The charm of writing takes on different levels, yes it aims to bring writing come close to my thought. But I find it hard to bring my words to the shorelines of my thought.

The pursuit goes on, and I hope at some point I can touch upon more facets and give me the liberty to express myself in the way I think and choose…

Thunderbird near E-city

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Took this pic near an open space near Ecity Bangalore. Silhouette of my Thunderbird stand out in the wide expanse. Took this snap some time by 7:00 just 4 km from my work place @ Electronic city.

These are the few remaining spots untouched by builders hand and soon to be consumed by the reckless growth of Bangalore .

Business Tips from your Neighborhood Whore

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An article with good humor sense and street smart marketing thoughts. This article takes up marketing ideas from the badly lit streets and sounds equally good from any business case study.

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Good day fellow whores friends. While most of you are probably still drooling on your pillows watching Saturday morning cartoons today, I will be wondering who the hell will actually be reading this right now.

Everyone is constantly saying that you need a business degree to understand how to do business. But I think that is outdated. Trust me when I say that you can learn everything you need to know from your neighborhood whore. So in the spirit of public service, I took it upon myself to get close and personal with some of them and then to report back to my readers. Now, I am not going to say exactly what I did during my time with them, but I think that was $200 well spent.

Well in all seriousness, this was never meant to be offensive to anyone. My goal was to explain a few dry business principles in a new and entertaining way. Like they say, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. If this method proves popular, hell I am willing to mingle with drug dealers, thieves and other degenerates just to see what we can learn from them.

  1. Price is everything. The price you charge for your product will dictate the type of customer you get. $30 might attract a drunk from a local bar, but $250 might get you a businessman.
  2. Get help when you need it. Working alone might allow you to keep more of your money, but getting professional help can get you to the next level. A pimp might be expensive, but his connections in the industry are priceless.
  3. Diversify whenever you can. Providing one product can be profitable, but being able to target different markets can attract more customers. A successful prostitute is able to satisfy all types of fantasies.
  4. Understand your clients. Your clients have different needs and wants; you must develop a sixth sense when it comes to their wishes. A good prostitute always knows which clients require which services.
  5. Anticipate the market trends. Today your business may be booming, but tomorrow everything can change. Stay on top of the market, because you never know when a local police force will issue a raid.
  6. Be forceful if necessary. Some of your clients might be undecided about the products you have to offer. In order to be successful, you must know when you have to push them and when you have to step back. Learn to be both a dominatrix and an innocent angel.
  7. Good ol’ word of mouth. No matter how great your product happens to be, you will not be successful if no one knows who you are. Tell your regular clients to spread the word, and remind them that they might get a special treat for any future business they might bring.

One last thought, always look for merger possibilities with other companies. As in sex sells, but sex and drugs are a match made in heaven.

Disclaimer: No whores were harmed during the making of this blog post. Play safe and always use a condom linkcondom!

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