http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com Nihilism tempered with naive optimism and a dash of hope Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:14:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thought this should be my new motto. Well, remember distractio maximus? Well, some of those things have come to an end. While some others have been again postponed. So, time to take stock and make new resolutions? Next year, if things go according to plan, will be a major change for ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/11/07/whatever-it-takes/ Just cos i am not getting a promo shouldn’t mean you don’t deserve one! Btw, i do not have a data plan, so not applicable to me. Just posting in case you might find it useful. http://www.starhub.com/smartsurf.html And you can tell who the "other Telco" is right? http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/23/starhub-promo/ Remember how i said i am banker to the family? Now i have expanded my operations. Someone i hardly meet but whom my family goes back a long way with, visited me for Deepavali. That was on Sunday. Today, this family friend called to ask for a loan. I trust this ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/22/the-banker-part-ii/ Understand from my IT colleagues that the govt, as it moves to the SOEasy platform in the coming months, will be switching from Windows XP to Vista. I know very little about these IT stuff but even i can see this is a train wreck waiting to happen. Read the ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/20/train-wreck-akan-datang/ This has to be a first. The only time you see me talking about the same issue in successive posts is when i am whining about my life. However, due to a strange series of events, am blogging about this movie i had known nothing about, 3 times! I have learnt something ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/19/the-blue-mansion-review/ Oh! My! Goodness! Read this review of the Blue Mansion which reveals a lot of the character details. An umarried daughter who was not allowed to marry her indian lover? A son who was a CFO, in an unhappy marriage and had an affair? Another son who gave up a scholarship in a field ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/16/the-blue-mansion-family/ One of the reasons i have been hanging around this place is cos i learnt that i can be considered for promotion next year (unlike pte sector, ordinary govt officers only get promotions several years after the last one, hence have been waiting for this for a while). I dun ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/08/no-promo/ "For an indian, you’re not that bad." Wow. If this is what a friend thinks of me, i can imagine what others think. http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/10/06/an-honest-comment/ Banta Singh walks into a bar in London , orders 3 glasses of beer and sits in the backyard of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.When he finishes, he comes back to the bar counter and orders 3 more. The bartender asks him, "You know, ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/30/supposed-award-winning-joke/ Seriously, why? Just about everything today was bad. Apart from being forced to wake up much earlier than planned cos of renovation noise outside to wasting almost 2 hours travelling for some event i didnt want to attend to a meal which i ended up throwing away, everything has been bad. Back ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/28/shitty-day/ Check out details of the contest here. http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/25/win-tickets-to-the-blue-mansion/ Just finished Welcome to the Working Week by Paul Vlitos. Male version of Bridget Jones’s diary. The whole book is actually just a series of emails.  Story is about a loser guy - dumped by girlfriend, lost roommate and caught for misuse of office email.  But it is really really witty and ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/21/welcome-to-the-working-week/ This article has a very interesting take on homophobia and its consequences. Reminds me of one of the wives in Brokeback Mountain, whom i thought was the one who suffered the most among the lot. But seriously, a term like "mixed orientation marriages"? Enough already.  Thankful that i am not gonna put ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/14/the-unacknowledged-victims-of-homophobia/ Sweet story of romance between an old couple who share everything: Sharing in a marriageThe old man placed order for one hamburger, French fries and a drink. He un -wrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife. He then carefully ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/08/sharing-in-a-marriage/ As usual, some stuff being forwarded from my email: 5 minute – Management Course Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/08/5-minutes-management-course/ Thought you might be interested in something significant tomorrow. Sometime after 9 am tomorrow, it will be 09:09:09, 09/09/09. http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/08/nines/ Ok, so it didn’t make it to 1000 nights. But it was long by most standards. After 756 nights, i had sex. Well, still thinking about the point of it all. With someone who did not want to exchange numbers with me. Whose name i could not really catch. In a drunken ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/09/07/the-spell/ Ok, so now there is another player on the block. Stereolab at Pan Pacific Hotel has started its Sunday nights. Attendance so far is not bad cos there is free flow of champagne and mini-burgers till 12 and free flow of vodka from 12 - 3. Yup, you heard that right ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/31/stereolab-sundays/ One of those ‘take-a-step-back-and-think-about-what-life-is-really-about’ emails i received. Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/26/read-once-a-week/ Marriage of Convenience is one of the Indignation events. Chanced upon Aiman’s works and they seemed good. No knowledge of the others’. Drop by if you can. http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/20/marriage-of-convenience/ Just posting an ad i received. http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/19/japanese-film-festival/ Inaction and calculated reservation just might pay off! Read this from Mr Wang. In Jul 09, there was a promotion for a free Macbook if you signed up for this cost-more-than-usual Singet package. Was tempted cos i felt like getting a new laptop and thought Singnet should do as well as my ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/18/switch-to-singnet/ Latest scientific update on the issue of orientation. Article here. Sexual reorientation slammed   WASHINGTON - US PSYCHOLOGISTS are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed. The 150,000-member American Psychological Association said in a report, released at its convention ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/sexual-orientation-change-efforts-soce/ Sounds like something Harry Potter would say after waving his wand? Well, i certainly need magic to do what i hope to accomplish. Am trying to distract myself to the max so that i wont be in constant depression over the state of my life. Cause of depression is the ... http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/05/distractio-maximus/ "I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back sometimes." - Alicia Keys at an award ceremony http://whatsthepoint.blogsome.com/2009/08/05/quote-of-the-day/