On Walmart In Mexico

A nice article about Walmart. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article2236528.ece

Vanchinathan Iyer

This is an article about a freedom fighter - Vanchinathan http://m.thehindu.com/life-and-style/article2233241.ece/?maneref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fm%3Fhl%3Den%26gl%3Dus%26client%3Dms-android-fih%26source%3Dandroid-launcher-widget%26action%3Ddevloc%26q%3Dashe%2Bmurder%2Biyer%2Bhindu. 

Self Defeating Job Search Moves To Avoid From Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/management/selfdefeating-jobsearch-moves-to-avoid-07152011.html. Nice post.

Check Mate

http://www.funtoosh.com/jokes/men_women/620. Guy should have kept his mouth shut.

Gender Myths

An interesting post on gender differences. http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/men-want-cuddles-kisses-women-prefer-sex-115550590.html. Wonder how much of this study is true. And if true, how many more of what we take to be granted are myths. 

While I just made a note of this post, Guruji pointed me as usual to another blogger who has written a really funny post, http://purba-ray.blogspot.com/2011/07/not-tonight-darling.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FtrRoc+%28A-Musing%29. Have fun.

Across The World

A post on a trip to Cluj (Romania) http://m.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2211121.ece/?maneref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fm%3Fhl%3Den%26gl%3Dus%26client%3Dms-android-fih%26source%3Dandroid-launcher-widget%26action%3Ddevloc%26q%3Dbroad%2Btransylvania%2Bhindu

High speed train link from Beijing to Shanghai http://m.thehindu.com/news/international/article2216857.ece/?maneref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fm%3Fgl%3Dus%26source%3Dandroid-launcher-widget%26client%3Dms-android-fih%26hl%3Den%26aq%3Df%26oq%3D%26aqi%3D-k0d0t0%26fkt%3D578%26fsdt%3D4670%26cqt%3D%26rst%3D%26htf%3D%26his%3D%26maction%3D%26q%3Dtrains%2Bbeijing%2Bshanghai%2Bhindu%26flip%3D0. What I liked about this were:

• Indigenious engineering (or that's what I assumed)
• The safety factors built in, running unmanned trains twice a day to ensure everything is ok. Just like one does automated testing in software.

In the meanwhile in India we are still grappling with rail accidents frequently. When do we get good competent people to head railways and other functions or departments in the country?

Another Set Of Nice Jokes

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/80859098/

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/805262/

http://www.sodahead.com/fun/it-all-began-with-an-iphone/question-1886169/

Updated:
Fixed the problem now.

Nice Jokes

I loved these jokes.

http://bigadda.in/joke.php?jokeid=698

http://www.wordsfailme.in/2011/02/14/a-wife-asks-her-husband-a-software-engineer-could-you-please-go-shopping-for-me-and-buy-one-carton-of-milk-and-if-they-have-eggs-get-6a-short-time-later-the-husband-comes-back-with-6-carton/

Potty

Loved this one (http://easystreetd.posterous.com/the-potty-a-little-three-year-old-boy-is-sitt)

Should A Pregnant Woman Act In A Movie

An interesting article (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Heroine-cannot-be-pulled-off-by-a-pregnant/articleshow/9123458.cms). Well written about a contentious matter.

Where do we have such men in India

This is an interesting article on the CIA man who located Osama Bin Laden (http://in.news.yahoo.com/the-man-who-hunted-osama-bin-laden.html).

Where do we have such men in India? How do we recruit them and train them?

Bribe Paid To Get Admission

Students paid the equivalent of a quarter million dollars to get a medical seat at AIIMS 

When will we change?

Kerala Temple Suddenly Richer By $20 Billion

The Padmanabha Swamy temple in Trivandrum has been recenrly found to have $20 billion worth jewelry inside.

Wonder how people let that kind of money remain? It ought to have been stolen long time back. And next I wonder how the money will be spent. Who will get custody?

And how many other temples have such hidden treasures.

Additional reading:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/apex-court-wants-to-know-source-of-kerala-temple-treasure/story-Qhiox3AF8halj5BuReq5ZK.html

Cayman In The USA

This is an article (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/us-usa-shell-companies-idUSTRE75R20Z20110628) on a company creating shell companies on the fly. Thousands of companies are registered in a single house in a small town in Wyoming, USA.

Interesting.

Times Have Changed

A nice post on how times have changes http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/the-wasteful-older-generation/.

Pictures Of A Huge Tree That Fell Down

This is a picture of a tree (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/search/tree%20fell?mode=my&pid=5620600926354315682&oid=114451897239202019349) that came crashing down in ten seconds flat. Luckily no one was hurt..

Nice One

Here is a nice one (http://www.funtoosh.com/jokes/indian_jokes/421)

Nice Photos Of Ireland Coast

I came across these (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/17/snapshots.coastal.ireland/index.html) lovely pictures.

Nice Post On Father's Day

A friend sent me this nice post (http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2005/06/30/arre-o-sambar-pop-matters/) on father's day

Munnar

I read this post (http://in.news.yahoo.com/widescreen--a-day-out-in-munnar.html?page=1) on Munnar today. It brought back memories from a long time back when I had visited Munnar with friends.

We had gone visiting there and we planned to climb the peak there about (2000 odd meters). I was dead tired and pleaded that I would wait for my friends while they climbed and got back. As I was huffing and puffing (while sitting) I saw couple of women chatting heatedly who climbed to the peak.

I was pained, disgusted with myself, shocked and embarrassed and I crawled all the way to the peak.

Surprising how certain things can motivate a person.