10,000 Days Under the Sun & other numbers

• I will clock 10,000 days of existence on planet Earth.
  
  10,000 days; 240,000 hours; 14,400,000 minutes; 864,000,000 seconds.
  
  How quaint!
  
  
• The only other milestone existential event may be somewhere in my 32nd year (if alive), whence I will have lived for a billion seconds.
  
  
• Orkut has numerically doubled the number of scraps and my fans, in my profile header. Was this just to honour the special occasion? Has my popularity now increased? [ :D ]
  
  
• On the 3rd planet of the solar system, in the 3rd Month of the year 2008, in the 33rd post of my 3rd personal blog, on the 9,999th day of my existence, I mark this day.
  
  Numeroligically, 3 rocks!! [ ;) ]
  
  Thanks to one of my collegues, who in his celebration of the occasion, reminded me of mine!
  
  Time flies!

Bear's Heavy Tumble

• Bear & Stearn's black Monday!
  Mar 16, 2007 : $ 145.48 (Last year, about same time)
  Mar 09, 2008 : $ 70.08 (Last week)
  Mar 17, 2008 : $ 4.66 (Today)
  
  
• Indian Rupee
  1 USD : 40.46 INR
  1 EUR : 63.78 INR
  1 GBP : 80.95 INR
  
  
• Sensex
  Jan 08, 2008 : 20,800.0
  Mar 17, 2008 : 14,809.5

Second Chance

You know life is giving a second chance when:

• You are late for a meeting and the meeting gets postponed.
• The subway train door, which closed just on your face, reopens.
• Procrastination yeilds rewards instead of penalties.
• An expensive pair of shoes, which you wanted to get rid of due to shoe bites, starts feeling comfortable.
• You drop your glove absent mindedly and a stranger reminds you to pick it up.
• You find the 100 $ currency note, in one of your dress pockets, a week after you thought you had lost it.
• You drop your latte on the busy desk and the lid doesnot come off.
• You find an email from a long lost friend amongst the junk emails of an old abandoned email account.
• A taxi stopped short by a couple of inches, when lost in thoughts, you jaywalked on a busy NY street at 2:00 AM!

No thanks Mr. Franklin, Beginner's luck and $$

• Due to a superb (!?) idea of a historical personality, we are having Day Light Savings time from today. Its a no-brainer. Simply "assume" X+1 Hrs as X Hrs.
  
  
• Played my first pool today. Not only did I pocket a "solid" on my first shot, I went on to win the table 3-1 in a friendly match. Ain't it cool? Naah .... Beginner's luck!.
  
  
• I played my part in financing Uncle Sam. My hard-earned $$.
  [:'( ]
  
  

Overheard

• Punjabi She: Yes, bhai, you have hit the head on the nail!
  
  Yeah right ... more like nailed the coffin lid on English grammar!!
  
• Punjabi She (loudly on phone with her sis): When were you born? Aug 83 or Jul 84? .. What? How am I supposed to know? You you were the one who was born. Get the details, there are thousands of people waiting here for some time.
  
  Yeah right ... tax filing or taxing my nerves!!
  
• He: I was up working late. I saw my comp and realized t'was 2:30 AM !
  
  Yeah right ... Time traveller!!
  
• He 1: So you are out on a date?
  He 2: Who goes out for date on a Sunday afternoon!?
  He 1: Hey, I meant don't you just go out for lunch or something?!
  
  Yeah right .... [shaking head silently].
  
• He 1: That's Rakhi Sawant.
  He 2: No, thats Laura Dutta.
  He 1: They all look alike!
  
  Yeah right .... Equality amongst celebrities!!
  
• He 1: Ah, I ran and got the cash. Now no trouble with cards!
  
  Yeah right .... Next is barter system!!

PS:
"Punjabi She" ... nothing racial. Just fact.

Scramble

Yesterday was the fastest scramble, ever.

4:30 AM : Sleep.
8:24 AM : Wakeup.
8:37 AM : Ready and stepped out for work after completing the pre-requisites.

Recession

The history is trying to repeat itself again. Seeing the very first signs of the storm. Rough seas ahead.

Who's in for the ride?