Vijender kumar

Read at some places Vijender kumar can now hope to make a career as a model. Never knew the bugger is already a (part -time) model. Look Below - his pic and BBC's profile on him

"A promoter like Don King, a ring inside Madison Square Garden, and millions of dollars per bout. That is my dream, that is where I want to be," says Vijender, sitting in his newly built two-storey house in Kaluwas village.

by the way did you know Bhiwani is known as "Little Cuba" of India. For boxers coming out of the place, no no, not for drugs or mafia (beware of running into a jat(t) though)!

Phelps & Spitz

did you also think the left pic is some guy (resembling Phelps) wearing a halter top? ;-) ... sorry for the bad joke...

Phelps with his 8 golds and Spitz with his 7, for you guys ...

(Ofcourse I have resized the pics so that they load easily and my comments look more authentic )

Olympics & Cricket - II

Another day of boxing bout at Barista. This bugger disappointed too. But as said the point is Barista was full capacity with all the seats facing the TV set so much so that people from two different offices were sharing a common table.
Isn't it so much like cricket when people from all walks stand in front of the TV (the TV owner then has to move the face of his TV towards the public). or does it happen with all sports? (where you expect success)

Olympics & Cricket

Watched Jeetender Kumar's boxing quarterfinal match today. We (office folk) came to Barista (yes during office hours) especially to watch the match. Asked the Barista folks to turn off the radio/music and increase the volume of the television. Soon everyone inside the coffee shop got pretty excited and was glued to the TV set. Saw a guy punch in the air!. I am sure no one knew even a single thing about boxing, myself included but everyone was like 'maar sir par' (hit the head), 'jaat buddhi saala' (pyaar se bol rahe dhe), 'knock out'. Sushil Kumar won a bronze during the day, so obviously there was added hope from the boxer. The bugger disappointed! But that's not the point.

At the same time you had the second one day cricket match between India & Sri Lanka. The match was in an exciting phase and we are all cricket fans (have our cricinfo.com open while we work!). The point is if you have heroes in other sports(Abhinav Bindra & Sushil Kumar and now Vijender as I write this), you will follow that sport too. Yeah, I know its a chicken and egg problem but am sure you get the point.

Wall Street Analyst moves to India - II

A reinforcement of what I wrote two years ago:

Wall Street’s losses are fast becoming India’s gain. After outsourcing much of their back-office work to India, banks are now exporting data-intensive jobs from higher up the food chain to cities that cost less than New York, London and Hong Kong, either at their own offices or to third parties.


In addition to moving some lower-level banking and research positions to support bankers and analysts in New York and London, firms are shipping some of their top bankers from those cities to faster-growing developing markets to handle clients there.

Here is the complete article