Mail Sent to Batch on the 6th of October 2010
Well, since A BHATNA hasn’t said “AB HATNA”, I guess it wouldn’t be too RIGHT if I don’t WRITE….
This mail is dedicated to the couple – Bhatti and Kalyani, to all the folks who are responsible for this mail happening, and to the whole of GiMBA - DEC08 – IT & Finance….
Here we go….
(1)
There were these guys who worked for this call center…. They were used to saying “A as in Alpha, B as in Betty, C as in Charlie, …… , Z as in Zebra….” One Friday evening, they saw the movie Ghajini….
Then, they started saying “A AS IN ASIN”….
On being questioned by the call monitoring executive and by their management, they said “It’s not A SIN to say A AS IN ASIN….”
(2)
Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi once got tossed around by banana peels that Boman Irani had set as traps for them…. WELL, they have been doing quite WELL in spite of falling into that WELL….
(3)
Sid, I heard you’ve got some new clothes for yourself and you’re PROVOGUE’d as a result….
By the way, is that alarm song of yours still continuing to Wake Up Bala, Rohit and “High 10” too….?
(4)
Sid, did you get any feedback on what the MADURAI folks said to the Robot when it went insane in “Endhiran – The Robot” / “The Robot”….?
Well, I heard they said “MAD, U R Artificially Intelligent….!”
(5)
Ajay and Malcolm, why does the name of your native place (GO-A) say one thing in English and then the exact opposite thing in Hindi….? Is it like saying “Thanks for Visiting…. Do Visit Again….”?
(6)
Have you noticed what happens….
(a) when Bruce fights….?
(b) when Brett bowls….?
(c) when Kamal Kiran dances….?
In cases (a) & (b), the audience cheers ---- saying “Go, Lee…. Go, Lee….!!”
Whereas, in case (c), the audience cheers ---- saying “GOLI…. GOLI….!!”
(7)
Jonty Rhodes, while working as Advisor & Fielding Coach for the Mumbai Indians, once lost his way after travelling a distance from the Brabourne Stadium…. He was stranded at a PLUS intersection…. He called up Deepak and requested him to come to the location and bail him out…. By the time Deepak reached, Jonty was so angry that Deepak had to bump into a CROSS RHODES at the CROSSROADS….
(8)
Praveen saw new roads being laid near and around his home in Chennai.... He thought this was happening since he had started taking his bike to the workplace, but was not amused when he learnt it was happening because of the Elections coming up in a few more months…. Wanting to know whether the new roads would treat his bike better than the old ones did, Praveen went up to the road contractor…. The contractor cut off Praveen abruptly and rushed away ---- saying his immediate TARGET was to GET TAR….
(9)
One fine evening in Dubai, there was this game of Football happening from around 6 pm on the China Cluster Basketball Court…. We played and played till around 7.30 pm or so and were done and dusted, when, looking at Harish, I thought he was thinking – KAAFI ho gayaa…. Ab COFFEE ho jaaye….
(10)
HARLEEN, did you hear that HAR LEAN manufacturing company is now queuing up for a loan….?
(11)
VISHAL, WISH ALL is well with you and that WE SHALL meet sometime….
(12)
RISHI, by the way, how are the other 6 doing….?
(13)
SINGAL Bhai, send me sms’es whenever you can…. I hope there are no SIGNAL problems your side….
Best Regards,
Ram
