Quenching my innate urge to document every thought, feeling, emotion, incident, et all for posterity sake!

Last night, Mumbai was attacked by a terrorist outfit calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen. They planned and executed a series of synchronized attacks and bomb attacks on Thursday evening. And the difference, this time around is the targetting of tourists’ and tourist hot-spots. They were looking to target American and British tourists in particular, according to various eye-witness accounts. The Times of India reports about 80 dead and over 900 injured as I write this post.

One of the 20-25 year old Mumbai terrorist

You can watch a live video feed here.

India has now reached an altogther heightened terror-ridden status today. It had been beseiged by attack after attack for the past few years, with most believed to have been carried out by Islamic terrorists. Although a few suspected Hindu extremists have also been arrested for being suspected to be behind the attacks.

A shocking, horrible day for Mumbai and India.

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Now what could be more apt for a “couch potato“! TV on your schedule and junk food when you get down to watch it… Sensational. I saw this story of a feature which will soon be added to TiVos in Australia. Although in all honesty, I don’t endorse the lifestyle being hinted at here. But still, being able to order pizzas while watching TV, makes it such a fascinating talking point anyway!

I had a phase, not too long ago, when I’d been an online-pizza-ordering bloke, when Meenal was in India at the beginning of this year. And I preferred it mostly because it saved me a long boring chat about the gazillion options I had with any and every order. It was, for lack of a better word, ‘convenient’. And that is where I think this TiVo feature would hit a sweet spot.

And oh, it is a massive plus too, when you don’t have much to sell about the TiVo down under.

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I’d be the first to say, I’m not much of a forward-er (umm, spammer) and not really keen on getting them. But then, once in a while you come across these gems…

Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says,

‘I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.’

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves…

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, ‘Who was that?’ … ‘It was Bob the next door neighbor,’ she replies. ‘Great!’ the husband says, ‘did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?’

Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

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