A recent article in the Economist,”Sex changes” claims that glass ceilings are giving way to glass partitions. That is, women are indeed making inroads into careers that were traditionally male dominated, but they are choosing to do so only in certain areas of these professions. And they are choosing the lower paying areas. Maybe people …
According to the World Wealth Report 2005, there are 8.3 million millionaires worldwide. So, the next time you you blow out your birthday candles and make a wish, remember ~ being a millionaire is no big deal, you will just one among the many millions! More on the world wealth distribution can be found here …
Just one of those days when the world definitely doesn’t seem to be on my side. After surviving with a scientific calculator (legacy of my engineering degree), I decided it is time I graduated to a professional financial calculator. After I decided on a particular Texas model,I discoverd its not available in Duesseldorf (or at …
In my endless moving watching spree, today I watched an exemplary movie from the sixties: Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. My favourite scene in the movie is when the Russian ambassador to the US acknowledges that they had indeed made a doomsday machine and that the announcement was …
Today morning, I woke up to the unusually loud cries of Tweety. Tweety is a fellow resident in my apartment building and has her nest just outside my bedroom. Because she reminds me of Tweety in Jamba’s ringtone ad and because I am rather unimaginative when it comes to christening birds, shes called Tweety. Tweety …
I had my doctor’s appointment today and much against my better judgement, I decided to leave the safety of my house. Srijith had repeatedly assured me that “he would kick anyone’s ass” if they stared at my rather ghastly scarred face. I needn’t have worried at all, no one we met on the way so …
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“Average managers play checkers, while great managers play chess.” – Marcus Buckingham. (“What Great Managers Do“, Harvard Business Review, Apr05) Buckingham goes on to explain that in checkers the pieces are uniform and interchangeable. While in chess, each piece is unique (more or less) and the player who wins is the one who can tap …
It had me in splits for almost the entire length of the movie – easily one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. It tells the story of two friends – a Korean and an Indian who are bent upon getting burgers at White Castle, the burger joint. The entire movie …
I am gonna be confined to the four walls of my home for 10 whole days – don’t ask, its depressing enough. Anyways, that means I don’t have an excuse anymore not to open up the skeletons in my bookshelf. Nanopolitan has book tagged me! So here goes. Total number of books I own: In …