tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64242882009-11-21T05:01:51.921+05:30Tam Brahm, thank you ma'amVinodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460721444178388282noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6424288.post-16690639003887961702008-07-12T10:06:00.003+05:302008-07-23T20:40:08.198+05:30

Hey everyone,I needed a fresh start, so I've moved to Wordpress. Click here to visit the new blog. Hopefully, things will get more regular from now on.Please update your blogrolls to reflect the new url.

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The Quiz Foundation of India (Chennai Chapter), in association with Indian Terrain is proud to announce 'The QFI Open Quiz 2008', the fourth edition of the annual open quiz, which has become a fixture on the Chennai quizzing calendar.The QFI Opens of the last three years have been resounding successes, attracting more than 120 teams each time, including some from Hyderabad, Bangalore, and even

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Season's Greetings, everybody!!When I first found out I was coming to London, my mind was filled with grand ideas of watching every Arsenal match played during the period I spent here, travelling to the away games and perform acts of football hooliganism, and in whatever time I had left, follow the route Bill Bryson took around the United Kingdom and then wrote about in ‘Notes from a Small Island

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I've been in London for about three weeks now on work and right from the moment I landed, there was only one thing on my mind, going to watch an Arsenal game at the Emirates stadium.Finally, thanks to an old school friend and fellow gooner, I found myself with one ticket for the Champions League game between Arsenal and the two-time defending UEFA Cup Champions Sevilla on the 19th of September,

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Nine years ago, on August 15th, I attended the Landmark Quiz ‘99 with two class mates Nandan and Abhishek. We had been winning almost all the school quizzes we went to that season and so we landed up at the Music Academy rather high on confidence. As there was a prize for the best team name, we had racked our brains and come up with the extremely creative ‘Qwizards’, little knowing that around 1/

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Apart from death by roasting, vasectomy, and a dinner date with Rakhi Sawant, I can think of very few experiences that scare me as much a visit to the barbershop. Since childhood, I have been terrified by barbers. They always seem to have some kind of wicked sneer on their faces when they go about my hair with their big, noisy garden shears. “You just wait, young man,” they'd seem to be saying, “

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After six years of untiring, dedicated service, my computer finally quit on me last week, after threatening to do so for the last few months. Now it simply refuses to turn itself on and I will be calling my computer technician soon, but not before I have ensured that the problem is not because I have the cord unplugged or something stupid like that. I cannot handle one more "B.Tech I.T-aa? You-aa

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Friends close to me know that i've actually wanted this to happen for the last year, but a few minutes back, when I read that Thierry Henry was leaving Arsenal and joining Barcelona for $32 million, I was still deavastated. It will take a few days and a few drinks, as it rightly should, for me to get over it. Henry is an Arsenal legend, and his love for the club was unquestionable and never more

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Date: 15-06-2007Time: 02:45 p.mVenue: Sathyam

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Following the immense success of the first two editions, the Quiz Foundation of India (Chennai Chapter), in association with Indian Terrain is proud to announce 'The QFI Open Quiz 2007', the third edition of the annual quiz.The QFI Opens of the last two years have been resounding successes, attracting more than 120 teams each time, including some from Hyderabad, Bangalore, and even Ahmedabad.

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Recently, I began to feel that, in my chosen line of work, I was missing out on a lot of things in life. ‘Being hip’, for example. Nobody thinks sitting in an office cubicle and tapping away on a computer keyboard all day long is anywhere near hip. Far from it, in fact. It’s somewhere below ankle. And then, I started thinking about what I did during the time I wasn’t working - quiz, watch reality

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Many of you may have heard of the phrase ‘So near, yet so far’, and some of you may have even used it, in a variety of situations. However, if you are, like me, a government certified, pure and unadulterated Tam Brahm boy, and you wish to truly understand the meaning of that phrase, then you must visit Bangkok.A couple of equally pristine Tam Brahm friends and I happened to do exactly that for

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Dedicated to Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. Abhishek, it was a fair fight and I must admit that you turned out to be the better man at the end. Congrats, dude. Have fun. Aishwarya, baby, I just wanted to let you know that I’ll never forget that one hot night in 2005. Whenever you need me, just mail vinod dot g at gmail dot com. Muah.Unless you’ve been in a coma all these days, or even

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Today, we are going to talk about an issue that affects every single Indian, regardless of race, religion, age, caste or gender. Well, actually, it does take caste into account, and older Indians won’t really be affected directly but yes, it is still a highly critical issue.For a couple of years now, the Indian Government, and in particular, Arjun Singh, aged 223, has been working very hard to

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Over the last month or so, millions of people all over the world, including me, have been witness to the unbelievable feats of a unique set of people. We have watched in awe and applauded these brash, macho, courageous, gallant, superhuman and above all, yellowish creatures who seem to stop at nothing to defend the glory of their proud nation and to mercilessly massacre their enemies. I am

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Thursday, March 15thWe arrived in the West Indies a few days ago and I am very happy with the way things are progressing with the team. We have already played two warm-up games against the Netherlands and the West Indies in which I used my tactical acumen and strategic brilliance to steer India to convincing victories. It also helped that both the teams were drunk when they took the field. The

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If you’re a guy, how would you like it if someone told you that you could sit at home all day, in your pyjamas which are still wet with your drool, doing absolutely nothing, not even brushing your teeth, emitting a stench foul enough to kill nearby street dogs AND get a woman to go out with you at the same time?Right now, all the girls reading this are going, "how gross... which woman would go

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After two absolutely catastrophic years, namely 2004 and 2005, this blog has to rather reluctantly admit that 2006 was a massive improvement, but only because it was the year in which this blogger was lucky to be involved in a wanton, passionate and steamy orgy involving self, Jennifer Aniston, Eva Longoria, Lola Kutty and a large tub filled with chocolate syrup.''WHAT??'' all you guys are going,

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Since the beginning of time, Mankind has always had a tremendous fascination for balls. They just can’t seem to leave them alone, to let them be, so to speak. They feel the need to constantly play with them, scratch at them, rub them or just plain hold them. Womankind also is known to perform all of these activities, but less frequently and only during particularly intimate moments. Mankind, on

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Hey people,Been terribly busy for quite some time, with a number of things.. Now, touchwood, the phase seems to be finally over and I can hopefully get back to regular blogging soon.. All the people who've mailed, scrapped, commented.. your words meant a lot, and I'll post very soon!!In other news, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish a happy birthday to human being and entertainer supreme,

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Following the immense success of the first edition, the Quiz Foundation of India (Chennai Chapter), in association with AIMS Education is proud to announce the second edition of 'The QFI Open Quiz '.The QFI Open 2005, conducted in June last year, was a resounding success, attracting more than 150 teams including some from Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Ahmedabad. This time, the quiz promises to be

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Last night was heartbreaking to say the least. And I have so much that I want to say about it. Not just about last night but about the entire season. Anyways, I found an article from an Arsenal fan that echoes my thoughts right down to every single word. So, I'll just put it up here. Here it is, from www.arseblog.com.Well, that’s that. For another year at least. As I said once before, I get to

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Yay!! My team won the Chennai regional round of the Signature Sports Buzz Quiz conducted by Harsha Bhogle here the day before yesterday. This means that we now get to slug it out with the other regional winners from New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore on the 26th for the grand prize - a trip to South Africa to watch India play.For a more detailed story, click here.P.S: Has anyone else

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The last couple of months have been hellishly hectic for me and one of the very few sources of joy during this period has been Arsenal’s amazing run in this year’s Champions League. With a young makeshift defence and a disastrous premiership season on the side, this current Arsenal side has displayed tremendous strength of character to get this far in the tournament which has, until now, proven

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Simply Fab!!! And the King again!!!Sorry for the lack of posts, people... been really busy for the last few weeks. Will try and post something very soon.. Thanks a ton for all the mails.. really appreciate it..

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