Here is something to make you all feel better. Humans (thats us, for all you non-biologists) have the same number of genes as a...... you guessed it !......a potato. Yes. THE potato. The ultimate feature-less, tasteless, lump of nothingness. Come to think of it, everything falls into place like a two piece jigsaw puzzle. The endless crusade to find out who I am, all reduced to a premarked multiple choice question by genomics.Its such a relief, really. I dont have to explain my behaviour anymore. Its all very much in character. You cant even accuse me of being full of gas.Idiots, morons, nitwits, thick heads thou shalt all serenade in full glory. Its all genetic, stupid. We finally know what we are staring at when looking inside a masala dosa.
However, we must tread with caution. We can only hope that, our cousins, the potatoes dont know this yet. We may see mass uprising, call for a revolution blah blah yadda yadda, in the future. History will truly repeat itself with the potatoes having a leader who will unashamedly appear in all possible textbooks (and will repeat himself in all languages). There will be call for reservations (to set right the thousands of years worth of oppression) and soon enough you will find yourself writing stinky code sitting next to a potato. You dont fancy that, do you ?
Monday, October 30, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The New place
My BA flight to Heathrow was rather uneventful, unlike the last time, when the flight itself was quite an event. After 9 hours of watching mind numbing in-flight entertainment, I was at Heathrow (I’m pretty sure I slept during the flight, but can’t figure out which was sleep and which was entertainment)
I’m now here at Staines. My work place is at Egham, a little place which pretends to be a village. I bet its not a village, though. Its got a Maserati-Ferrari showroom, for god sakes !!
Staines and Egham look very cosmopolitan. And rich too. You see a lot of expensive cars around. Everyone seems to have good money and were advised by Jeremy Clarkson. I see cars which I thought nobody ever bought. Audi S8, Audi RS6, Merc SL 500, Merc AMGs, BMW M5, M6, Bentley Continental GT and even Maybach too. Not to mention countless Mercedes S-Class. I have never seen so many S-Classes in my life.
Of course the downside is that everything is expensive. Average room which was around £300 a month in Norwich might cost well over £400 here.
Another thing is, Asian immigrants seem to have settled around the place rather well. There are Coffee shops, Delis etc run by Asians (Indians mostly). The interesting thing here is that these jobs require freer interaction with the locals. This certainly is an improvement over the ghetto attitude found elsewhere (like Bristol for example?). And the best part is that even Indians here think its NOT ok to buy a crap car.
I’m now here at Staines. My work place is at Egham, a little place which pretends to be a village. I bet its not a village, though. Its got a Maserati-Ferrari showroom, for god sakes !!
Staines and Egham look very cosmopolitan. And rich too. You see a lot of expensive cars around. Everyone seems to have good money and were advised by Jeremy Clarkson. I see cars which I thought nobody ever bought. Audi S8, Audi RS6, Merc SL 500, Merc AMGs, BMW M5, M6, Bentley Continental GT and even Maybach too. Not to mention countless Mercedes S-Class. I have never seen so many S-Classes in my life.
Of course the downside is that everything is expensive. Average room which was around £300 a month in Norwich might cost well over £400 here.
Another thing is, Asian immigrants seem to have settled around the place rather well. There are Coffee shops, Delis etc run by Asians (Indians mostly). The interesting thing here is that these jobs require freer interaction with the locals. This certainly is an improvement over the ghetto attitude found elsewhere (like Bristol for example?). And the best part is that even Indians here think its NOT ok to buy a crap car.
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