Sunday, January 25, 2009

Nothing But Official...!!!

UK is in recession, officially.

Situation now seems to be more or less the same as 1980 except that pound is becoming more weaker.

Recap of 1980 recession in UK is here.

God save the Queen...!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Welcome Mr.President...!!!

Welcome Mr.Obama...!!!

A fine speech; a bit dramatic; I felt goosebumps. I liked the speech. No wonder, the speech was in preparation for nearly three months with review by historians, speech writers & who not.

I think this economic challenges are much more tougher to handle than 'war on terror'. Lets wait and watch what he has in store.

Opinion from NY Times on Obama's speech.

View the world reactions to the swearing in here.

Click here for the inaugural speeches of presidents of the past.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Four Years & One Funeral

How would you feel losing someone who you knew for about 4 years, who spoke with you & whom you spoke with many times throughout the day, who travelled with you almost everyday, who slept with you almost every night, who woke you up almost every morning, whom you played with for hours and who was like a bridge to all your friends & family members?

I felt helpless & miserable when I lost someone like this just before New Year. I felt so lonely; I felt like an isolated island; I did not even want to celebrate the New Year; I could not talk to my friends and I could not talk to my family members.

I never thought four years would make me so attached to my Nokia 6610. I felt I lost someone very close to me. When the battery burnt and when I couldn't replace it and when I realized that that's the end of my cell phone...I can't explain in words how miserable I felt. With my poor brain memory I always depended on my cell phone memory to register the phone numbers. I lost the contacts of all the people I have maintained in my cell phone.

I even spent such an amount with which I could have bought atleast two new cell phones to replace the battery. But all in vain. I had to bury him. Let his soul rest in peace among the other souls of e-wastes.

Amen!