The Week That Was-Edition 11

The Week That Was (12/08/2010)

Many were asking me the reason for the lack of any news in last week’s column, well all credit goes to the wireless-router less-internetless service at the campus. Someone has stolen all the routers from all class rooms, so can someone please inform that gentleman that the wifi simply can’t function without a router? It’s funny when someone blames you for not checking the Moodle every day when there is no net connectivity either at campus or in hostel; it’s like blaming a blind guy for not seeing the rainbow. The fees paid for wifi is as effective as the money allocated to rent treadmills for the Commonwealth games. Apparently Indian Government has spent Rs.9.5lakhs to rent treadmills so that the players could maintain their fitness, the last time I checked, even the top of the range treadmill in the world costs just Rs. 4.5lakh to purchase it outright and I don’t understand what sort of maniac would pay 9.5 lakhs to rent a SINGLE treadmill? You could buy the entire state of Bihar with that sort of money for God’s sake.

And this happened in Toledo, Ohio. Fast food fan Melodi Dushane was clearly not 'lovin' it' after she was told she couldn't have her favourite snack (McNuggets) - because it was still breakfast. The lady leaned through the drive-thru window and punched two of the staffs; she pretended to leave in her car but hurled a bottle through the restaurant's window before speeding off. She was sentenced to 60days in prison and was ordered to pay McDonalds for the damaged windows; the staffs were left with a broken nose of course. Those guys who are planning to work part time in Toledo be careful, because Customer Romancing doesn’t work a lot of times so you might as well learn some Kung Fu. Another funny thing happened in the land of US and A, A guy took his girlfriend to a Baseball game on a date. The batter hit the ball into the crowd and our Romeo in order to impress his new date, tried catching the ball. He failed miserably and the ball hit his girlfriend on the arm and it resulted in visible bruises, well the lesson to be learned is, don’t try to do something extraordinary because often it ends up being too ordinary. I would have loved to listen to their post match conversation on their way home.

Spanish Government spent 590m Euros ($775m) in the production of electric cars aiming to have at least 250,000 cars in circulation by 2014. After the production began and the REVE cars hit the market only 16cars were sold till date (one car last year and 15this year), the manufacturer of REVE cars was a Norwegian firm ironically named as Think. I firmly believe that people at Think really need to think about the pathetic electric cars they have produced, I think the sales forecast was done by an enthusiastic MBA guy from a dodgy b-school, I am sure he would have got a 10S in Forecasting during his college days. An 18year old Nurse from Britain named Stacey Bywater won a lotto jackpot of £1million (approximately 8Crores) and my mate is glued to the yellow pages of Yorkshire County trying to get her landline number, he claims he just wants to congratulate her, but I don’t believe him.

.After India won one test match every Cricket fan was going gaga and the Indian team flipped really bad for less than 90runs against New Zealand. I don’t understand these Cricket fans, how can they spend 5days in a week watching a so-called game which results in a draw and an entire working day on a One Day match? Anyone who spends an entire day of his life for following a sport should be hanged. I think watching paint dry is more entertaining than watching Cricket. What a week it was to see Manchester United thrash Chelsea 3-1 and win the Community Shield, the red devils were simply irresistible and if they play like this for the rest of the season then I am sure the premier league title will be ours this season. Eating Pea is bad for you, Ron Sveden a resident of Massachusetts was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung, the doctors were surprised when they found a pea plant (1.25cm in size) growing on his lung in the X-ray. The Docs believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, but it "went down the wrong way" and sprouted. The plant was operated and removed and the Docs had a sense of humour by giving a plate full of peas to the patient as a post operative meal.

The US government has proved that it really has no brains yet again, it has sentenced the Chef of Osama Bin Laden for 14 years in jail. Ibrahim al-Qosi admitted running a kitchen in Bin Laden's compound while being aware that al-Qaeda was a terrorist organisation, his crimes include cooking Chicken Biriyani with Mutton Shawarma every Sunday for Mr. Bin Laden. I am trying to contact the FBI since I read the news because I know about another Chef who is still working closely with Osama, I am willing to share the whereabouts of the person so that they could arrest him and punish him. Finally, few of my mates are pursuing their Ph.d in NIT-Trichy and XIME, they informed me that there are some dodgy national journals (with ISBN numbers of course) which will publish absolutely anything you give them as long as you pay Rs.1000-1500. My mates have used this to publish more than5articles each in national level management journals. Now don’t ask me the names of those Journals because I believe in something called Professional Ethics. By the way, can anyone please lend me a non-refundable sum of Rs. 1500? I need it for some personal reasons. Well that’s it for this week; I will see you when I see you.