Destiny ??

You wake up late in the morning, miss the office bus, run to catch a city bus and miss it by a whisker. U feel sad and disappointed !! Now u grudgingly enter the next bus and wait for what seems like eternity .. Soon by some divine intervention a fly falls into the driver's tea and he decides to chuck the tea and start the bus. Around the middle of the journey, you note a bus broken down on the way side. On looking carefully, it is the very same bus which u had missed at the terminus. U chuck mischieviously as the passengers from that bus hardly find a place to place their foot !! Life has a way of getting even - u think happily. A rude jolt awakens you out of your reverie. The next thing you know is that ur forehead is bleeding badly and you can hardly move ur leg !!! There are loud screams of pain all around. Your eyes close and drift into a dreamless sleep !!

Is the world really flat ??

Couple of recent happenings inspired this post !! The first one was the boycott of Coke in some American Universities bcoz it caused ground water pollution in kerala. The "activists" made this big news and the students unions decided to ban coke from the campuses !! The next one is Indian commerce minister pitching for Mittal's take over of Arcelor !! The honourable minister feels that Europeans are not following Free Trade in the real sense of the word and they are scuttling "Indians" oppurtunites ?? Indian - who mittal ?? I was left scraching my head till the news channels announce that Mittal has a Indian passport and the GOI is proud of it !! The french immediately pointed out that Mittal has business interests all over the Globe except India. There was Rahul Bajaj actively campaigning LNM's cause. The American editor who was also in the show pointed out India's hypocrisy with an apt example. Tommorrow if GE makes a hostile bid for TATA, will the Indians keep quiet ?? Rahul bajaj was left tongue-tied !!

THe next major turning point was the publication of cartoons by the danish newspaper. In days of yore, such a thing would have hardly drawn such "global" attention. Protests if any, would have been confined to the country or maximum Europe. Instead we have places like Pakistan, Lebanon going up in flames in protest !!It warms my heart to see that "Technology" has indeed brough down barriers and made the world a smaller place !! Has it made the world a better place ?? Hmm that's a story for some other day :) :)

PS - Am reading through "The world is Flat" by Tommy Friedman !! Amazing book.. If u not yet woken up to the power of Globalisation, this book would shake u awake and make u sleepless :) :)

Japanese Anyone ??

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Shoichi Shijo

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Wonder why i get a picture of a guy ready to eat :) :)